PDLP Chapter 518 The Counterattack Begins
Chapter 518 The Counterattack Begins
"Brother, should we attack this camp first?"
"Yes, the North Camp is the farthest from their main camp. There are only about 12,000 troops in the camp. What do you think is the best way to fight?"
Lin Qiaomei's small, white fingers moved on the map.
"They are so arrogant that they have set up camp less than three miles from the city. We will use bows and arrows and slingstones to catch them off guard."
As he spoke, he glanced at Xi Niang.
Xi Niang quickly nodded in agreement, saying that her catapult was very suitable for this job.
Although the catapult is bulky, the enemy camp is very close and it is very easy to operate.
Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "Okay, let Li Donglai's light cavalry battalion cooperate with you to destroy them."
Stationed at the north gate of Tianzhi Prefecture City were 10,000 Black Turban Army troops.
Therefore, Lin Feng showed no mercy and completely handed over the command of the battle to Lin Qiaomei, striving to wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.
Lin Qiaomei and Xi Niang left together, returned to their own military camp, and began to mobilize the troops.
Li Donglai also received the order and immediately ordered 5,000 light cavalry to prepare for battle.
The Black Scarf Army's North City Camp was stationed here for nearly ten days, and every day was calm.
All the soldiers were used to it. Every day, apart from meditating and chanting, they would eat and sleep. They were very leisurely.
Tonight was just like the previous few days. Everyone slept soundly until late at night.
Except for the soldiers on guard duty, everyone else was leaning against the camp fence, bored.
By the second half of the night, even the soldiers on duty were drowsy.
Suddenly, a soldier with a black scarf leaning against the camp gate heard a strange noise in the sky.
He looked up in confusion.
Under the bright moon, it seemed as if there were large dark clouds moving quickly.
Before the black-scarfed soldier could react, he discovered that the dark cloud was pressing down on their camp.
They just watched helplessly as a torrential downpour fell into the military camp.
As he heard the crackling sound, he realized that there were feather arrows all over the ground.
A feathered arrow was stuck in the wooden fence beside him, and the tail of the arrow was shaking, making a series of hair-raising trembling sounds.
"Enemy attack!"
The black-turbaned soldier shouted out a high-pitched voice heartbreakingly.
As the feather arrows fell, huge rocks followed. After smashing to the ground, they rolled and knocked over many military tents along the way.
The camp was in chaos in an instant. Many soldiers rushed out of their tents, looking for the enemy in panic.
Feather arrows continued to fall from all around the camp, piercing the bodies of countless soldiers.
The huge rocks have incredible destructive power, and every rolling rock will leave behind a pile of corpses.
The commander of the Black Scarf Army tried his best to shout at his soldiers and organize a counterattack team.
Before the team could form, there was a loud bang and the fence of the camp was hit by a huge rock and collapsed.
As more and more gaps appeared in the camp fence, the arrows and falling rocks stopped attacking.
The next moment, groups of war cavalry rushed in through the gap in the fence.
There was no shouting, only the roar of horses' hooves hitting the ground.
Under the moonlight, a large group of cavalry, waving shining steel swords, quickly rushed into the newly formed Black Turban Army.
Although the black scarf soldiers tried their best to resist, the infantry were facing cavalry and had no power to resist at all.
Li Donglai's five thousand cavalry plus Lin Qiaomei's long-range attack battalion's five thousand war cavalry.
Unstoppable and unstoppable.
In the entire Black Scarf Army camp, not a single soldier was able to escape from the camp.
Even if there were soldiers who managed to escape from the camp, they would be chased by their war horses and would be chopped to the ground by steel swords before they could run far.
The battle lasted no more than half an hour, and the howling and the sound of horses stamping on the ground gradually became sparse.
The Zhenxi Army is doing the final battlefield cleanup.
There were also some Black Scarf Army soldiers who squatted on the ground to surrender, but it was rare.
Tianzhifu City is very large, with a radius of dozens of miles, so the rebels on the other three sides cannot hear any movement.
The next morning, the rebels in several camps followed the usual practice.
Those who are on duty will take over the guard duty, and those who are on patrol will take over.
The other soldiers began to cook, and everything went on as usual.
No one knew that there were four camps in total, and one of them disappeared overnight.
The characteristics of the Black Scarf Army are that they fight tenaciously, have firm beliefs, and are not good at running away.
Therefore, in the entire Black Scarf Army's Northern Camp, not a single soldier escaped.
The camp was renovated and the Zhenxi Army was stationed there.
From the outside, the flag of the Black Scarf Army was still maintained, but no soldiers appeared outside the camp.
The main camps of Su Zhongwang and Niu Xiangqian were in the south of the city. They routinely sent several teams to inspect and patrol between the four camps every day.
Arriving at the North Camp early in the morning was a team of fifty cavalrymen.
They rode to the North Camp and frowned at the situation outside the camp. There was not even a guard to be seen.
The leader of the patrol team frowned and reined in his horse. He was about thirty to fifty steps away from the camp, looking at the quiet camp fence vigilantly.
"What's going on? You even skipped the guard duty?"
A knight on one side said viciously, "This must be severely punished. This is lawlessness."
"Something's wrong, General. Why isn't there anyone coming out to greet us?"
The other inspector knight looked puzzled.
This does not correspond to every inspection.
The leader also noticed something was wrong and immediately waved his hand.
"Let's go, retreat quickly."
The team of fifty riders quickly turned around and prepared to leave.
But it was too late. The gate of the camp suddenly opened, and a team of cavalry rushed out with the sound of horse hooves.
Moreover, a group of cavalry also rushed out from the city gate three miles away.
The two sides formed an angle, trapping the rebel inspection cavalry in the middle.
The leader of the inspection cavalry shouted loudly to the troops, and without running back, turned and rushed into the fields.
Unfortunately, their riding skills could not compare with those of the Zhenxi Army, as they were only fifty or sixty steps away from each other.
The Zhenxi Army cavalry behind him accelerated slightly.
The rebel inspector knight who was running behind was shot off his horse by a volley of crossbow arrows.
The war horses ran faster and faster, and the number of inspecting cavalry continued to decrease.
When the last rider was shot off his horse, the two sides had only run less than 500 steps apart.
After two inspection teams were wiped out in succession, the two generals Su Zhongwang and Niu Xiangqian in the main camp realized that something was wrong.
Because the North Camp was the camp of the Black Turban Army, Niu Xiangqian immediately ordered to give up the camp located in the west of the city and send more troops to check it out.
The West Camp was also the Black Turban Army camp, with more than 11,000 troops, and 8,000 of them were transferred out.
They marched towards Beiying, which was more than 30 miles away.
The leader of these eight thousand people was a lieutenant commander of the Black Turban Army named Orenchi. He was in his forties and was an old veteran with considerable combat experience.
When the team reached three miles away from the north camp, Orenqi ordered them to stop and sent a team of cavalry to the camp to check the situation.
They circled around Tianzhi City, and their every move was clearly seen by the soldiers on the city wall.
When the Black Scarf Army of the West City Camp was twenty miles away from the camp, the West City Gate opened, and 5,000 cavalrymen of the Zhenxi Army poured out of the city gate.
Hu Jincai's light cavalry battalion, followed by catapults pulled by horse-drawn carriages.
It was still the old tactic, the catapults used huge stones to bombard the fence of the west camp.