Chapter 366 Preparing for a Night Attack
"Yuan Cai, let's start strengthening the defense of the night shift tomorrow. It's freezing cold now, and the enemy is slowly approaching. It's very possible to launch a surprise attack." Yuan Tan touched the mustache he had grown since he was young.
He said to the deputy commander-in-chief Gao Gan.
"Cousin, don't worry. Starting tomorrow, I will lead my troops to defend the camp. I will definitely discover the enemy troops as soon as possible and repel them so that my cousin can make a great contribution!" Gao Gan is a loyal subordinate of Yuan Tan.
In Yuan Shao's eyes, he did not realize that his nephews had divided their forces, so he asked his eldest son and nephew to lead the army to carry out this not dangerous mission.
Yuan Shao believed that firstly, Gongsun Zan would not launch an attack in such cold weather. Both the battle front and the supply of food and grass were very disadvantageous to Gongsun Zan. Secondly, the frontline was very close to the plain where Yuan Shao made his fortune, and there were more than 100,000 soldiers stationed in Pingyuan City.
A large army is very convenient to support the front line.
"Haha, Yuan Cai, let's have a drink! This time we must make great achievements and impress my father!" Yuan Tan was of course very happy when he heard this. He raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. While the two of them were still warming up,
While they were drinking wine and eating delicious food in their big tent, an army was already marching quietly in the river next to their big tent.
"Everyone, prepare!" Gongsun Zan personally led his most elite white horse followers to the frozen river, preparing to flank Yuan Tan's camp.
Because the main force of Gongsun Zan's army advanced ten miles every day in the past few days, some of Yuan Shao's army's vanguard scouts were either killed or forced to retreat, leaving Yuan Shao's minions to retreat to the other side of the river, thus blocking Yuan Shao's army.
His vision enabled Gongsun Zan to implement his plan, and Gongsun Zan found another five hundred spirits.
The living dead soldiers laid haystacks on the route of the followers in the first half of the night, which could increase the success rate of their night attack in the second half of the night. After all, it would be very difficult for the cavalry to conduct operations on the ice without haystacks to pave the way and they would be easily exposed.
.For the success of the plan, more or less some of the five hundred dead soldiers suffered frostbite or even died of frostbite.
Gongsun Zan and his elite cavalry had their horses muzzled and iron-shod, and they were able to reach the flank without Yuan Shaojun noticing at all. Yuan Tan's defense of the river bank with 10,000 men was quite limited, not to mention their
The camp was built on a larger sandbank, which dispersed the limited troops.
"Kill!" Gongsun Zan and the white horse followers seemed not to feel the extremely cold weather around them at all. In order to move flexibly, they only wore a thin coat and armor. Some knights' cold sweat flowed down and instantly turned into frost.
"Yuan Cai, did you hear anything?" Yuan Tan was already drunk, hiccuping and asking Gao Gan with hazy eyes. Gao Gan was also almost drunk at this time, and he just shook his head.
, and there was no answer.
At this time, the power of the camp had been handed over to the general Lu Weihuang and the supervisor Xin Ping. Originally, Xin Ping tried his best to dissuade Yuan Tan from asking Yuan Shao to send troops to support, but the senior officials supported Yuan Tan, and Lu Weiheng did not want to offend.
The eldest son turned a blind eye, so Xin Ping had no choice but to stay in the army and continue to help manage the army. This situation was somewhat similar to Guan Jing's.
While Lu Weiheng was still warming up in the camp, and Yuan Tan and Gao Gan were still enjoying themselves, Xin Ping, whose eyelids had been twitching all the time, came to patrol around in a mink fur coat. The soldiers on guard who were already extremely cold saw it.
Chapter completed!