Chapter Fourteen: Huangfu's Army Prepares for Battle, Liu Jing's Rocket Attack
Xu County, later Xuchang.
On that day, Liu Jing ordered people to monitor the situation of Bocai's camp day and night and draw pictures of the situation of Bocai's camp. When the map was sent back, the result was unexpected. Bocai did not do much inspection of the place where the camp was stationed, and directly chose to camp on the spot, just close to the vegetation.
Then the fire attack strategy was formulated, just waiting for the wind direction to be suitable.
The next day, God seemed to know Liu Jing's plan, and the north wind blew up without warning. Liu Jing noticed it immediately and couldn't help but secretly exclaimed: "God is really helping me!"
Immediately afterwards, a group of iron cavalry was sent to gallop towards Changshe County, looking for any gaps in the encirclement of Bo Cai's troops, and shooting arrows at the top of the city tower.
After doing all this, the cavalry did not dare to stop at all, turned around, reined in the horse and galloped away. The Bocai troops were infantry and they would definitely not be able to catch up with the Dawan horses, so they did not pay too much attention to this small episode.
But what they didn't know was that it was this messenger arrow that would kill them!
"Your Majesty, the cavalry has returned, and the letter arrow has been successfully delivered to Changsha."
The cavalry had just returned to Xu County. Liu Da did not dare to delay at all and reported the situation to Liu Jing. He knew the big plan tonight. This was the prince's first heroic battle. It cannot be because something went wrong with him!
"Okay! General Huangfu is a very meticulous person. He must be able to sense my intention. The two armies will attack together tonight, so there is no need to worry about victory!" Liu Jing patted Zhuo and said with a smile: "Liu Da, quickly reorganize the army and make food now. Everyone
Get some rest and attack under cover of darkness tonight."
"Here!"
Chen Ming was originally a child of a wealthy merchant family in Yingchuan. After Yingchuan was destroyed by the Yellow Turbans, his family became one of the important targets for looting.
There were dozens of people in the family, but only he and his younger brother fled to Zhongmou. They were separated from his younger brother on the way. He hated the Yellow Turbans more than anyone else.
It happened that Liu Jing went to Zhongmou to recruit troops, so he joined the army without hesitation. On the day when his family was destroyed and everyone was killed, he vowed that he would avenge his family.
Many refugees in Zhongmou County joined Liu Jing's army. Some naturally wanted revenge, while others had no other choice. They were just refugees and were not locals.
There was no land or house in Zhongmou. The magistrate of Zhongmou County set aside an area for them to live in and gave them some food relief. However, the government did not have much food surplus. Later, they had to raise military rations for the troops along the way, so they were unable to assist the refugees.
At this moment, Chen Ming was on guard duty when he saw Liu striding towards him.
"General Liu!" Chen Ming took the lead in greeting.
Liu Da was also quite impressed by Chen Ming, because when he was recruiting soldiers that day, he found that Chen Ming was very different from the others. He didn't speak and behave like a lower-class person, and his physical strength was much stronger than that of ordinary refugees.
"Chen Ming, please send orders to all departments for me. Everyone must gather in the school grounds now."
"yes!"
Chen Ming's figure quickly shuttled between the various camps, conveying the order in a short time.
Liu Jing was the first to recruit troops, and he was waiting to join Huangfu Song's army in Zhongmou, so his army took the longest to train and was very good in all aspects of the army.
Soon the troops gathered and were waiting for the review at the school grounds. It was obvious that Liu Jingjun's morale was very high. The majority of them were composed of refugees who had been persecuted by the Yellow Turbans, and they were real people who wanted to defend their homeland and country.
For example, Huangfu Song's current army was recruited from the Yinxiangxi area of Henan Province. It basically has no Yellow Turban poison and is a very pure mercenary army.
Don't think it's weird to call them mercenaries. The Eastern Han Dynasty opened up the recruitment system. In fact, the people who formed the army were mercenaries. They were recruited with money and food, formed temporarily, and were likely to be disbanded after the war.
Earlier, the military system was implemented, which divided military households into military households. They served as soldiers for a lifetime. After death, they were replaced by their sons and passed down from generation to generation.
Sun Tzu's Art of War says: "Tao, heaven, earth, generals, and methods."
Look at Liu Jing's army, the truth has been established, the general will attack the Yellow Turbans, his subordinates share the same hatred of the enemy, and they are united as one!
The sky has already set, the night is coming, and the wind is blowing to my advantage!
The ground is already there, and the enemy troops have camped among the grass and trees, annihilating their own way out!
Three of the five will win this battle!
As the commander of the first army, Liu Jing also came to the school grounds. He wanted to make the final mobilization and boost the morale of the entire army.
"Soldiers, it has been half a month since we arrived in Xu County. Everyone has gathered here because of the Yellow Turban disaster. I know that everyone is very anxious and eager to take revenge."
Having said this, Liu Jing paused for a moment and glanced at the sergeants in the school field. He found that everyone's eyes were ignited with the light of battle, and no one showed any cowardice.
"Tonight is when we defeat the enemy. This is our first battlefield test. It is also our fight for our family, ourselves, and the world. Everyone, eat enough food and rest enough, and the whole army will set off after dark!"
"Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!" the sergeants shouted deafeningly!
Naturally, they did not have to worry about being overheard by thieves. Xu County was a full forty miles away from Changsha, and Liu Jing had taken over the entire county after entering Xu County. No one could enter or leave without his permission.
The sky gradually darkened.
The army of more than 3,000 people had eaten enough and had enough rest. The army appeared neatly outside the gate of Xu County in five square formations.
Liu Jing, who was in the central square, signaled to the flag and drum officials on both sides. The drums sounded "dong dong dong" three times, and the khaki flags on both sides waved back and forth.
Liu Jing's phalanx did not move at all. The other four phalanxes heard the sound of drums and the waving flags and quickly moved closer to the central phalanx. Soon the army transformed into a large phalanx.
"Dong-dong-dong-" After the formation change was completed, three long drums sounded, but no flags were waved.
No one in the army spoke. After hearing the sound of drums, everyone marched towards the north in an orderly manner.
In Changshe City, the army has also been assembled early. The doors in the entire Changshe City are closed. Someone has already ordered everyone to go back to their houses when it gets dark tonight and not to go out or open the windows.
It was extremely quiet in Changshe City at this moment, with only the breathing of the sergeants.
"General, why don't we make the first attack?" Fu Xie was a little confused.
They had been waiting here after reorganizing the army. Huangfu Song insisted on seeing the fire and then the army went out of the city to attack.
"Bocai surrounded Changshe. As our first attack, we will send people to charge into the enemy's formation and set fire to it. If we are not careful, our plan will be exposed." Huangfu Song said in detail, "But Bocai's troops in Xu County are not aware of it yet.
When Xu County comes and takes the opportunity to set fire, it will be like a surprise attack from heaven, which will definitely scare the thieves!"
Fu Xie nodded, indicating that he was taught.
In fact, the battlefield is like this, and success or failure often lies in the details. After Huangfusong knew the fire attack plan, he could completely attack by himself, and it would be successful with a high probability, but it was not as reliable as Liu Jing's first attack.
Moreover, there is a sudden appearance of an additional army on the battlefield, which cannot be seen clearly in the dark, and the effect it can have is very different.
Time passed slowly, and in Bocai's camp, Bocai himself had gone to bed, and half of his soldiers had also rested. The rest surrounded Changshe to prevent the enemy from breaking out at night.
Liu Jing's army has arrived about 500 meters south of Bocai's army. The distance between the two armies is quite close, and the line of sight is unclear at night. In addition, Bocai has not fortified the south, which allows Liu Jing's army to reach this position easily.
"Send orders from front to back and stop the troops in front."
Since the distance between the two armies was not very far, Liu Jing did not dare to use flags and drums to convey military orders in order to achieve the effect of a surprise attack.
The army was stationed more than 400 meters away from the camp of Bocai's army. Liu called out twenty Wanma cavalry brought from the state of Chen.
"Leave the horse to others to look after, and everyone will follow me with the prepared rockets."
These twenty people are all elite, and like Liu Jing, they can shoot at extremely long distances.
"Liu Da, when you see the fire, lead your troops to attack Bo Cai's camp!"
"Here!"
After the explanation, Liu Jing and his team of 20 people approached quietly in the night and stopped 150 meters away from Bo Cai's army. The light of the torches could not be concealed any closer.
Everyone lit their arrows on fire and prepared to shoot at Bo Cai's camp. What he didn't know was that the [Fire Attack] and [Far Arrow] characteristics on his energy panel were beating at the moment.
At this moment, two people from Bo Cai's army came out to relieve themselves.
"Li Si, do you see any fire somewhere?" said a yellow scarf with a sallow face and thin muscles, and the lines of his ribs were clearly visible.
"Are you asleep? There's no firelight." Li Si didn't even raise his head, concentrating on peeing.
"Really! Look there, eh! How come the fire has changed into two groups, four groups, countless." As he spoke, he found that the fire light split, and he suspected that he had seen it wrong and rubbed his eyes.
Li Si listened to his companion's words getting more and more outrageous. He looked up and saw it. He was instantly panicked when he saw it. There was really a fire, and he couldn't count how many groups there were.
In an instant, Li Si woke up. This was an enemy attack! "The officers and soldiers are coming! The officers and soldiers are coming!"
Immediately, Li Si didn't care about peeing and shouted loudly.
The Bocai camp was suddenly alarmed. The yellow scarves who were still on alert looked towards the source of the sound, and saw more than twenty groups of fire appearing in the sky, flying towards them like meteors.
Before the fire even touched the ground, another fire was ignited further away and flew towards the tent again.
The rockets fired in succession, some falling on the tent, and some falling on the vegetation next to the tent. In an instant, the entire camp was filled with flames, and the flames spread very quickly under the north wind.
"The water is breaking out! The water is breaking out! Come and put out the fire!" Some people reacted quickly and shouted loudly.
Bo Cai was also woken up by the noise outside and found light coming from outside the tent. He thought to himself: Didn't he just sleep for a while? Why was it so bright?
After leaving the camp, I caught a soldier who was running in a panic and asked, "Why are you running? What happened?"
When the soldier saw that it was Bo Cai, he hurriedly said: "Commander Qu, there is a flood. All the tents in the south are on fire. They will be burned soon!"
"It's so good, how could it be leaked!" Bo Cai thought it was really ridiculous, then he let go of the soldier and walked towards the south camp.
Along the way, everyone was seen running away like crazy, even him, the commander-in-chief, was ignoring them.
Liu Da also saw the raging fire burning in the north, and ordered the drums to be beaten, and the dull drum sound spread in the night.
Liu Jingjun's crowd was furious, and everyone rushed forward with fighting spirit, shouting continuously: "Revenge! Kill!"