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The infantry in the front row of Liu Song Army couldn't react for a while, and a large number of people were shot by arrows, causing screams and wailing from the side.

"Shooting arrows—" a loud roar came from the Liu Song Army's infantry formation.

"Swoosh..." The rain of arrows shot from the formation, but they all landed on the sides of the cavalrymen. More than a dozen cavalrymen were hit by arrows, and as many as six people fell from their horses. , Others received injuries, most of the arrows are still some distance from the dry army cavalry, but if they are more than ten steps forward, the dry army cavalry will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.

When Chang Kun saw it, he immediately turned his horse and turned back to the way he came. The more than 2000 cavalry behind him also turned, and soon disappeared from the sight of the Liu Song Army cavalry.

Gao Jinzhi was drenched in blood and out of breath, and ran back with the rest of the troops. He turned around and saw that there were 3000 troops, but now there are less than 700 left.

Tan Daoji came over, and immediately bowed down: "Commander, the last general is incompetent. Although he blocked the cavalry of the army, he suffered heavy losses... Please punish the commander!"

Tan Daoji watched the battle scene from beginning to end, and he had to admit in his heart that Liu Songjun's cavalry was far behind the Qianjun cavalry.

The most important thing is the gap in riding skills. Riding skills are the basis of all cavalry tactics and tactics. Without good riding skills, riding skills and tactics cannot be trained to a high level.

He sighed: "The cavalry of this army is really powerful. Let's not talk about riding skills, but in terms of riding skills and tactics, they are much better than other Wei army cavalry. I'm afraid it will be very difficult for us to fight this battle." If you are not careful, you may be defeated here! Maybe the superiority in military strength is not an advantage, but will become a weakness! But you don’t have to worry, it is always good to have an advantage in military strength!”

Speaking of this, Tan Daoji said: "Zhao Junsheng only sent [-] cavalry to explore our bottom, and his brigade must have camped in the rear. This battle cannot be finished in a day or two. He is not in a hurry, my commander. Don’t worry! Xue Tong, take some people to the woods behind you to set up more traps, and arrange some soldiers to guard them to prevent the army from sneaking out of the woods and attacking our backs!”

"Yes, handsome!"

"Come on, send spies over to investigate the movement of the main force of the army, and report as soon as you have news!"

Tan Daoji was setting up camp in an orderly manner. Chang Kun returned to Zhao Junsheng after returning to the camp under the hill with his troops.

"Your Majesty, the last general brought 3000 people there. It happened that Liu Song's army was setting up a camp against a large forest. General, there was a battle between the two sides. After more than [-]% of the cavalry casualties of the Liu Song Army fled into the army formation, the last general led the soldiers to walk around in front of their formation and then returned. Our army suffered more than [-] casualties! "

"Good job!" Zhao Junsheng praised, "It seems that we have no chance to take advantage today. Send an order to the scout battalion to take more pictures of the scouts to watch Liu Songjun's every move, and report any changes immediately!"

"Obey, Your Majesty!"

Chapter 642 Harassment Borrowing Arrows

Tens of thousands of people set up a camp is not a simple matter. Camping is not just a matter of finding a piece of land and setting up a tent. The camp must use the terrain to have a certain degree of defense.

In order to prevent surprise attacks by Liu Song’s army, Zhao Jun’s soldiers built the camp in the shape of a character, with the back against the hill. Because of the terrain, the entire camp in the shape of a character is not connected together, but divided into three parts, which can support each other , the entire pin-shaped camp covers an area of ​​ten square kilometers.

The strength of Liu Song's army is twice that of the Qian army, and the camp area is larger. The entire camp is divided into five parts, covering an area of ​​[-] square kilometers.

At night, the lights in the Qianjun camp were dim, and only the tents of the Chinese army commanders were brightly lit.

In the middle of a huge wooden frame, white snow was used instead of sand to make a sand table. Mountains, rivers, plains, and woods were outlined on the sand table, and stones were used to replace tents. The camps of the two armies appeared impressively on the sand table.

Dong Min, the general of the scout battalion, pointed to the sand table and said to Zhao Junsheng and the generals and officials: "Your Majesty, generals, please look, this is our army camp, and this is Liu Song's army camp. The camp of the Song army is located in five directions, southeast, northwest, central, and because there are ditches, ponds, farmland and woods, so this camp is not connected, but the two nearest camps can support each other!"

Wang Huilong asked: "How is the patrol situation of the guards in Liu Songjun's camp?"

Dong Min said: "The security is tight, there are many sentries, and all the camps are brightly lit inside and outside!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Bright lights?"

"Yes, the lights are brightly lit. All the places are lit with fires, torches, and oil lamps in the tents!"

Zhao Junsheng said to the generals: "It seems that Liu Songjun's night blindness is a common phenomenon, otherwise they would not be able to light up the entire camp, isn't this exposing the situation inside and outside the camp to our scouts? So, think about whether you can take advantage of Liu Songjun's general weakness of night blindness to attack them?"

Dong Min shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the general thought it was impossible. If you want to take advantage of their weakness of night blindness to sneak attack, you must first put out the fires and torches, but there are arrow towers near these positions. Once someone approaches They will be found and shot. In addition, there are braziers in the camp, and from time to time, patrols will add wood to them when they pass by, so that they can be illuminated until dawn!"

The brazier in the camp is to use a wooden frame to support the iron basin, which is as high as one person, and burn wood in the iron basin. The ancient army used this to illuminate when camping.

Veteran Guo Sheng said: "The old minister thought we could try it out. The guards have bows and arrows, and we have shields. Find some clever soldiers with shields in groups of three or five and carry water pots to touch them. A few pots of water can extinguish a pile of firewood! When Liu Song's army sent troops out of the camp, our soldiers had already put out the fire, since they have night blindness, how can they be our opponents in the dark?"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said to Guo Sheng: "Old General, let's make a big fuss today, so that Liu Songjun can't rest, how about it?"

Guo Sheng asked, "What is your majesty going to do?"

"First put out the fire outside Liu Song's camp, shoot and kill the sentries and observation posts on their walls, making them lose their eyes and ears. As long as there is a commotion, Liu Song's army will definitely stand ready. If there is a chance, our army will kill it. If there is no chance to harass outside the camp, as long as they relax, we will hit them hard!"

Guo Sheng stroked his snow-white long beard and nodded, "This method should work. If it lasts all night, Liu Songjun will lose energy tomorrow! But... if Liu Songjun also harassed our army Woolen cloth?"

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said, "They don't have this condition. First of all, their soldiers generally suffer from night blindness. Secondly, they have too few cavalry. They can easily be chased and defeated by our army if they use infantry to harass them!"

"Okay, this battle is over!"

Zhao Junsheng immediately ordered Chang Kun to be Guo Sheng's deputy general and gave them three thousand cavalry.

In the night of howling cold wind, the flames on the fire outside the camp were blown loudly.

Suddenly, some black shadows approached the fires quickly and lightly. An archer on an archery tower spotted these black shadows and shouted: "Who are you?"

an arrow

With a whoosh, it shot at some black shadows, and a black shadow blocked the shield in front of him, and with a "boom", the arrow nailed to the shield.

The archers on the watchtower immediately shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack—"

The archers on the walls of the village and on the archery towers shot arrows at the approaching shadows one after another, and the shadows put their shields together and quickly approached the fire.

The lid of the kettle was unscrewed, and a pot of ice water was poured on the fire. "Chi Chi Chi..." The burning fire made a sound after being drenched in water, and soon smoked and extinguished.

After the burning fires outside the camp were extinguished, it was pitch black outside. The archers and sentries on the walls and watchtowers could no longer see the situation outside, so they could only keep looking at the place where the fires were extinguished based on their impressions. When you shoot an arrow, you can hear the sound of the arrow hitting the shield from time to time.

At this time, some archers quietly appeared outside the dark camp. They opened their bows and shot arrows at the Liu Song Army sentry posts on the wall of the village and on the watchtower. Liu Song Army sentry posts and sentries were shot and killed one by one.

The camp had already become noisy, and the soldiers were assembled and lined up under the command of the commanders and generals, ready to fight the army at any time.

Tan Daoji had already heard the movement, he came down to the wall of the stronghold wearing a cloak and escorted by his own soldiers and generals, and asked, "What happened?"

One of the generals clasped his fists and replied: "Commander, the Qianjun extinguished all the fires outside our camp, and shot many of our sentry posts and archers!"

Tan Daoji frowned: "What is the purpose of the army? Night raids can't be done unless they come in all at once. It's not a night raid. What's the use of extinguishing the fire and killing a few sentry posts?"

Xue Tong clasped his fists and said: "Commander, Gan Jun is much more cunning than other Wei Jun, so it's hard to deal with. The general thinks we should be more careful!"

As soon as the voice fell, the sound of horseshoes came from outside the camp, a lot of horseshoes, there was no shout of killing, only countless "whoosh, whoosh..." sounds.

"Quickly retreat, quickly protect the commander and retreat!" Xue Tong's face changed drastically, and he turned around and yelled.

The rain of arrows came faster than Liu Songjun had imagined. As soon as Xue Tong finished shouting, the rain of arrows from the cavalrymen of the dry army fell, and the generals of Liu Song soldiers near the wall of the village were massacred by the rain of arrows.

Some of Liu Song’s generals protected Tan Daoji and evacuated from the vicinity of the wall, while the other hid under the wall with shields on them.

The Qianjun cavalry ran back and forth twice in front of the wall, fired six waves of arrows, and then sped away, the sound of horseshoes gradually disappearing.

Liu Songjun's camp was in a mess, with noises and wailing coming out all the time.

Tan Daoji walked over with a livid face and looked at the wounded and corpses all over his body. Some soldiers were helping the wounded, and some soldiers were carrying away the corpses and packing up the weapons and arrows on the ground.

"How many people were injured?" Tan Daoji and Xue Tong called over and asked, "Back to Commander, more than 200 people were injured, 16 people died!"