These two thousand people didn't need to fight with knives like they usually did in battles, they just needed to create chaos and panic.
For people in this era, the dark night is really terrifying, like hell.
Especially during a war when the mental state is highly tense for a long time, the fear and unknown in the hearts of the soldiers will be infinitely magnified, and any movement will soon cause riots.
Ma Xianglin didn't do anything. He just asked people to carry a few firecrackers and shoot into the air in a safe area outside the military camp. He also fired rockets and burned their military tents.
When he went to a relatively empty and echoey place, he yelled at the top of his lungs and made all kinds of weird noises.
Who would have thought that the rebels were like frightened birds when they heard the familiar sound of firecrackers and the shouts of killing all over the mountains and plains.
The sentry shouted in the camp that the officers and soldiers were coming. The officers and soldiers were coming. How could the sleeping people know the situation outside? They only heard the words "the officers and soldiers are coming."
But with this short sentence, the entire military camp exploded completely. Everyone from the generals to the cooks hurriedly packed their bags and prepared to escape.
Ma Xianglin didn't expect the effect to be so strong, so he struck while the iron was hot, organized hundreds of crossbowmen under his command, and fired wave after wave of rockets into the rebel camp.
After reporting the situation to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao knew that a good opportunity had come to defeat the enemy. Whether he could put down An Bangyan's rebellion in one fell swoop was tonight.
But to fight at night, he honestly had no confidence. Qin Liangyu's chieftain soldiers would definitely be useless. If he suddenly ordered the entire army to assemble at this time, he would also run the risk of blowing up the camp.
Although my own Habayashi Army is good in terms of physical fitness and military quality, and there are not many people with night blindness, they are still not good after all. This is the limitation and inevitability of the times.
In the end, he only had a small adventure. Chen Guang and Liu Song took two thousand veterans from the Shenji Battalion, armed with artillery and tens of thousands of weapons, to the front line to help Ma Xianglin.
Although Liu Song and Chen Guang were bold and generous people, it was their first time to send troops to fight late at night. Therefore, they both received military orders extremely seriously and carefully led two thousand troops out of the camp gate with torches.
In order to prevent anyone from falling behind or causing riots, Liu Song and Chen Guang worked one behind the other, leading their own guards to watch them closely.
He kept shouting loudly, asking them to pay attention to the soles of their feet, look at the firelight of the person in front, and follow the pace of the person in front closely, so as not to fall behind.
After successfully completing the first step of the mission assigned by the emperor and successfully arriving at the front line, the second general immediately found Ma Xianglin and asked about the situation at this time.
Under the guidance of Ma Xianglin, the artillery of the Shenji Battalion quickly launched a bombardment towards An Bangyan's military camp.
Just as An Bangyan stabilized the situation, he was beaten to pieces by the army again.
The military camp was in complete chaos. No matter how much he and the other generals shouted, it had no effect. Now these soldiers just wanted to escape from this place of right and wrong, this place full of the smell of gunpowder and gunpowder smoke.
After two rounds of bombardment, Ma Xianglin organized 300 people from his 2,000 night warriors, led by himself, to attack the An army's camp in order to defeat them in one fell swoop.
The government troops and the rebels braved the raging fire and launched a desperate struggle in the military camp.
Although the rebels were in chaos, they still had some combat effectiveness and resistance capabilities, and Ma Xianglin's troops only numbered a few hundred people, even though they had artillery and arrows to help them fight.
However, with such a small number of soldiers attacking a large camp with tens of thousands of people, it was difficult to break through for a while, so it fell into a bitter battle.
But An Bangyan, who was outside the Chinese army's tent, knew nothing about everything and was in complete chaos. People were everywhere fearing to flee. They were trampling on each other. An Bangyan's military orders could no longer be transmitted, and he could not
Receive feedback from peripherals in a timely manner.
In the end, there was really no other way out. An Bangyan let his own soldiers enter the scene and arbitrarily killed those defeated soldiers who had lost their courage and just ran away.
He originally wanted to use killing to stop the uncontrollable situation, but he never imagined that it was his military order that caused even greater trouble.
Seeing these soldiers who were usually showing off their power now treating them like pigs and dogs and killing them at will, many people picked up the weapons on the ground and started to resist in order to survive.
In this way, the situation intensified. A civil war broke out between An Bangyan's personal soldiers and his direct troops, as well as the soldiers of the Ming army and other chieftains who had been recruited, in the Chinese army's tent.
A young man riding on a horse, surrounded by soldiers and armor, said angrily:
"We have been defeated again. It is impossible for An Bangyan to stand up. Now we can only fly away when the disaster comes. You follow me to break out of the siege of the army and go to Yunnan to find a way out!"
This young man was none other than Sheyin, who had recently been defeated in Luzhou. After breaking through the official blockade and getting rid of his pursuers, he immediately entered Guizhou to seek cooperation from An Bangyan.
At that time, An Bangyan was struggling to attack Guiyang. When he heard that Sheyin was coming, he felt bitter and immediately lost the intention to continue attacking Guiyang.
Because he knew that She Yin could come here because either they were wiped out by the army or they needed reinforcements. In short, She Chongming's situation was definitely not good and he needed help urgently.
Sure enough, as soon as She Yin saw him, he brought him extremely bad news. His father was sentenced to death in Chongqing, the entire army of 100,000 was destroyed, and Yongning, which had been rooted for hundreds of years, was also captured.
In the entire Yongning Xuanwei Division, he and his hundreds of defeated generals were the only ones to escape, so they had no choice but to come to join his Uncle An.
An Bangyan was extremely shocked. You must know that a few days ago, She Chongming was so powerful in the southwest and had unlimited scenery. He was able to establish himself as a king and establish a national title.
He was really envious of him and secretly swore in his heart that after Guiyang was captured, he would also establish himself as king and separate his own country.
But he didn't expect that they would be wiped out so quickly. How powerful were Sichuan's officers and soldiers? There were so many elite soldiers and generals? This made him very puzzled.
She Yin gave him the answer, saying that a border army came from Sichuan, and they fought very fiercely, no worse than their army. They also carried firearms and the firepower was also very fierce. His father was defeated by firearms.
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An Bangyan suddenly realized it and asked in detail about the firearms of the officers and soldiers, but Sheyin didn't know anything about it. He had never seen it. He also heard from the defeated soldiers who ran out of Chongqing.
The reason why An Bangyan was able to retreat in such a timely manner was thanks to the arrival of She Yin. Although She Yin was running for his life along the way, he was also extremely concerned about the movements of the officers and soldiers.
After all, since She Chongming was executed and Yongning was defeated, he and the army had a bloody feud. It was absolutely impossible for him to surrender. He wanted to take this information to An Bangyan and trick him into sending troops to confront the army.
He wanted to take this opportunity to take revenge.
But he didn't expect that he guessed it right at the beginning. The process and results were completely beyond his imagination. An Bangyan was no match for the army.