"Yes, it is a night attack. According to His Majesty's instructions, the food our soldiers eat is nutritionally balanced and there is no problem with night blindness. But the enemy is different, especially the slave soldiers. They don't even have enough to eat. Their physical fitness is not very good either. Their sight will be greatly affected by Heitian. Therefore, Heitian's attack should have miraculous effects. Besides, the South Vietnamese army arrived today. After a day of rest, it is likely that tomorrow They will launch an attack, and we only have this chance tonight, otherwise no one can say where the war situation will develop once they launch an attack."
Lei Ming's explanation once again attracted many nods in agreement after everyone heard it.
Wei Chao also raised his head and exchanged glances with Zhou Qian and First Field Brigade Commander Shen Ping'an. After seeing that neither of them objected, he said: "Okay, Commander Lei's suggestion is very good. That's it. Let's continue. Let's take a vote. Those who agree to initiate the night attack please raise your hands."
Swish, swish, swish...
In the big tent, more than half of the people raised their hands first, and then everyone raised their hands.
"Very good, the vote passed unanimously. That being said, let's discuss the night attack together. By the way, we also need to take out all the mines we planted and open up a safe passage..." Wei Chao The words resounded in the big tent, and then everyone continued to come up with ideas.
...
It's a dark and windy night, when people are killing people and setting fires.
It was getting dark. In ancient times when there was no entertainment, people here went to bed early.
Tang Cong also returned to his big tent after a feast of fish and meat, hugging the two beauties donated by the people below.
They had held a military meeting in the afternoon, and Tang Cong also made a series of arrangements for tomorrow's attack. However, no one in the meeting mentioned what to do if the Great Chinese Army takes the initiative to attack?
Perhaps in everyone's eyes, they have a huge military advantage, but if they don't take the initiative to cause trouble for the Great Chinese Army, the other side will burn incense, so how can they still have the energy to cause trouble for themselves?
Isn't that the old man who hangs himself because he doesn't want to live too long?
It doesn't matter whether they underestimated the enemy or they were arrogant. In short, there was no defense in the entire South Vietnamese army camp.
As for the Western Shu Army, there is no need to worry. When they only had 30,000 people before, the Chinese Army had never taken the initiative to attack. Now there are an additional 150,000 troops around them. If they want to come, they may be lent to the Chinese Army. They wouldn't dare to take the initiative to attack.
So the result is that neither army sent any scouts to the outside, just some patrols patrolling the camp as usual. This is because they are still afraid that some slave troops will escape before the battle, and the main function is to keep an eye on their own people.
The opponent's lack of defense gave the Chinese army a better chance. When a gap was dug out of the buried mines and a large number of the Chinese army rushed out of the gap, the opponent still didn't notice it at all. Still soundly asleep.
There are birds in the sky to help. During the night, their sight is not affected in the slightest, ensuring that any enemy sentries and scouts ahead cannot escape.
Facts also proved that this was simply unnecessary. The army advanced eight miles and when it was only two miles away from the outer edge of the enemy camp, it still did not see a single enemy figure.
All the generals and officers who came with the troops admired Lei Ming even more in their hearts at this moment. The fact that they marched so smoothly can already explain a lot of problems.
After all the troops arrived at their respective locations earlier than expected, this gave everyone more time to prepare. For a while, those who prepared bows and arrows prepared their bows and arrows, and those who prepared grenades also took them in their hands.
In order to cooperate with this night attack, the 1st Firearms Brigade dispatched a total of two thousand bombardiers. With them here, the grenades will be put into better use in the future.
As time passed, it was almost midnight. Then countless black shadows started to move. Like a pack of wolves in the night, they quickly started to move towards the goal. And behind them, two field troops
The 10,000 cavalry also took off the leggings on their horses, and the sound of horse hooves on the ground caused the earth to tremble.
"What's the sound?" The soldiers who were patrolling in the camp stayed awake and heard the sound of galloping horses at the first moment.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then the experienced veteran immediately thought of something, and suddenly shouted something bad: "It's broken, it's the sound of a war horse. Listening to its movement, the number of people is at least tens of thousands. It's an enemy attack.
It’s an enemy attack!”
When the veteran shouted like this, his voice immediately spread far away, but then stopped abruptly. Because an arrow was passing through his chest, and while he was still opening his mouth, he felt all over his body.
His strength was passing away, and he finally fell to the ground with a plop without making any sound.
The death of this patrolling veteran was like a signal to launch a general attack. Then countless arrows fell from all directions into the camp. The patrolling soldiers were soon filled with arrows, and each one
One fell to the ground and died.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
Noisy sounds were heard everywhere. After hearing the sound, the sleeping soldiers ran out of their respective tents in a hurry. Some were walking in such a hurry that they did not even hold their weapons in their hands.
"It's almost time to drop the bomb!" The two thousand bombardiers who had lurked less than thirty steps around the camp saw that the enemy camp was in chaos, and when there were figures walking around, they knew it was them showing off their power.
It's time.
If I didn't throw it before, I didn't know where there were more enemies. Now that I saw the target, I couldn't be polite. Suddenly, each grenade drew a beautiful arc in the air and then flew towards various locations where the enemies gathered.
passed.
Boom, boom boom, boom boom boom...
Just like the dense thunder when heavy rain comes, it instantly envelopes the entire camp. There are explosions everywhere, or in other words, explosions everywhere, bringing up pieces of dust.
Harvesting lives one by one.
In such dense explosions, no matter whether you are a soldier from Xishu, a slave soldier, or a South Vietnamese soldier, your life is equally fragile. A shrapnel from a grenade will injure you, or even kill you.
your life.
The camp, which was already a bit chaotic, became even more chaotic after two thousand explosions. Then, another batch of grenades were thrown. In order for this operation to be successful, each bombardier brought five
pieces, plus three muskets and countless musket bullets.
When the second batch of grenades exploded again, the generals who tried to assemble their troops to launch an outward attack gave up their thoughts. When they discovered that the more troops gathered, the more they would become the center point of the explosion, but
No one with any sense would dare to gather people, whether they want to explode or something.
Without generals gathering troops, the more people there are, the more chaotic the camp becomes. Everyone is running around and bumping into each other. Often you rush to the east and I rush to the west. There are many people who collide with each other.
Yes, I don’t know how many people died just from killing each other.
"What's going on? Why don't you assemble the army?" Tang Cong also rushed out of the tent. Under the protection of a group of soldiers, he looked at the several tens of thousands of men around him and shouted angrily.
"General, we can't assemble, we are all in a mess, and once we assemble, explosions will follow. Several of our captains have been killed in this explosion." The two captains looked aggrieved.
Said.
"Fart!" Tang Cong was very angry after hearing this. He pointed around and said: "Don't you have eyes? Don't you know how to see? Those explosions were all heard from the periphery, which is enough to prove that the enemy's thunder attack range is limited.
Aren't you going to gather your troops in the inner camp and rush outside?"
Yes, grenades are indeed easy to carry, and their power was not small at the time. But they also have a fatal flaw, that is, the distance they can be thrown is limited, only twenty or thirty steps. (One step is equal to today's
Two steps, about one and a half meters)
Even if you can advance while dropping bombs, the attack range is still limited. Otherwise, the first batch of bombardiers will drop directly into the enemy's main tent, and they will be able to kill some important people anyway.
"Oh." After being reprimanded, the two captains of ten thousand nodded repeatedly, and then went to prepare to assemble the army. But before they could turn around and leave, there were waves of killing shouts from the outside.
The sound was mixed with the sound of galloping war horses trampling the ground.
Obviously, the Dahua Army also knew that the killing range of grenades was limited, so after severely damaging the enemy camp and causing enough chaos, they quickly launched a cavalry attack.
Regarding this point, when the military meeting was held, it was almost unanimously approved to use cavalry to attack the enemy camp. Now that we have decided to take action first, of course we must find ways to expand the results, if only to eliminate the enemy's peripheral forces.
, it is not worth sending out the army this time.
The important thing is that there may only be one chance for a sneak attack. If the enemy cannot be severely damaged tonight, they will be more alert tomorrow, and it will be very difficult to attack at night. Since the opportunity is limited, of course, you must give the opponent enough at one time
The lesson is.
"The Great Chinese Army has launched a charge. General, for your safety, let's withdraw first." The two captains immediately turned their heads and looked at Tang Cong for instructions.
"This... withdraw." Tang Cong was a little unwilling. But thinking that the army was now in chaos, it would take time to regroup. But the problem was that the Chinese army would give him this time.