Chapter 73: Raid

Unlike the lively Khitans, except for the necessary left-behind personnel, the rest of the Zhou army remained silent. After dinner, they checked their weapons and saw that there was nothing wrong with it. They fell asleep. It is very important to accumulate energy now. On the battlefield, if their reaction is a little faster, the ending will be completely different.

The weather in October was already very cold in the north at night, and it started to snow in some places, but it was not too cold here in Yingzhou. All the soldiers were lying in their clothes, and the dry cowhide under them blocked the attack of the cold air. Soon, a loud sleep sound came from the Zhouying.

Wutu glanced at his tribe and finally saw the gap. He whispered to keep all tribes quiet. The entire camp finally calmed down, but most of the Khitans looked at the stars with their eyes open. Since Gao Baoning became the governor of Qiyingzhou, the Khitans have always responded to Gao Baoning. Now, ten years have passed, and they finally have the opportunity to defeat the former noble people, so how can they sleep?

At the middle of the ugly moment (two o'clock in the morning), all the Zhou army had woken up. Instead, the Khitans began to snore like the sky. Zhou army kicked them with their feet without hesitation. Many Khitans were sleeping in a daze. The first reaction was to touch the knife and slash at the Zhou army who kicked them. Fortunately, most of them woke up quickly and couldn't help but feel scared. Those who swung the knife naturally couldn't help but be awakened by several slaps.

This place is still twenty miles away from Gao Baoning's camp. You have to walk in the dark for at least an hour in the dark. The horse's hooves were wrapped in cloth before nightfall. Except for the old Khitans and children who stayed in place, all the Khitan young men and strong men also led horses with the Zhou army. The horsepower should be used during combat. In order to prevent all the horses here from being taken away by the army.

It was the darkest time at this time. More than a thousand troops were advancing with the faint starlight. Although the grassland was generally flat, there were inevitably ditches and obstacles. Some people fell down from time to time and got up silently, and even the herdsmen did not dare to make loud noises.

After more than an hour of difficult marching, he finally saw the bonfires in Gaobaoning Camp ahead. Yang Yong didn't care how many people would see it, and Yang Qishou said: "Stop moving forward."

"Stop moving forward! Stop moving forward!"

One by one, they were whispering backwards, and the squirming team stopped.

"Luo Yi, Yang Shi."

"have."

"You two each bring one army and release their battalion."

"yes."

Gao Baoning's camp is different from other ethnic groups on the grassland, but it is just a narrow camp. It is a deep ditch barrier. It not only has a village wall, but also a trap. Gao Baoning regards this place as a fixed location. If you want to attack, you can only open the village gate quietly. There are two tall Liaowang Towers in front of the village gate, and you can see the figures on the Liaowang Tower from a distance.

Yang Shi and Luo Yi quietly led four people to advance. Yang Shi first came to the tower and looked at the figures on the whistle. Yang Shi was stunned. The figure on the whistle was shrunk into a ball, motionless, obviously sleeping.

This is difficult for Yang Shi. If the other party is walking, many fatal parts will be easily exposed. It is impossible to start by shrinking into a ball. It is just not enough to ignore it. If the team advances, it is easy to wake up the checkpoint.

Yang Shi glanced at Yang Xiaotian, who was the best archery technique in Wuzhong, and Yang Xiaotian shook his head. It was difficult to tell in the dark night. It was easy to hit the card, but it was not fatal to hit one blow, but instead alarmed the snake.

There were two "swish, swish" sounds in the darkness. Luo Yi had already succeeded. Luo Yi personally pierced the necks of the two wards on the tower. The wards did not even hum, and fell on the wards, as if they were snuggling each other and went to sleep soundly.

After removing the checkpoint, Luo Yi's men had already touched the gate of the village and fell into the snail at the door. Eight sentries fell into snails. According to Gao Baoning's instructions, there were two sentries in the camp tonight, but they had been living a long life and were okay in the first half of the night. In the second half of the night, they could not bear the whistle and faced the whistle and cold wind. They leaned together to keep each other cold. As a result, they fell asleep alone and immediately infected, and everyone slept like a dead pig.

Luo Yi waved his hand, and the five of them rushed forward together, covering the mouth of the sentry in front of the village gate, and the dagger passed by the neck. There were only five Zhou troops and eight sentrymen, so they could only act in two sessions. When one of the Zhou troops cut the sentry's neck, the sentry was reacting too much, and his feet were kicking violently, and he was kicking against the other sentrymen.

The sentry woke up in a daze, muttered in his mouth, and then turned over and lay down. Everyone was shocked by this scene and sweated coldly. Luo Yi quickly stepped forward and cut his neck with a knife. The sentry's struggle became even more intense, but the people around him who could reach became dead bodies.

The village gate had been gently opened, but Yang Shi had not yet dealt with the soldiers on the other sentry tower. Yang Shi was immediately anxious. He took off all the weapons and longbows on his body, took off his heavy coat, and carried only a dagger around his waist. He hugged his waist to the bottom of the tower and climbed up along the wooden frame. Everyone else looked at it with their eyes wide open, fearing that it would make a little noise.

When Yang Shi climbed down the tower, the checkpoint above was still unable to sleep, and there was a slight snoring. Yang Shi turned over and went up the tower. Seeing the two checkpoints snuggled together, he was secretly shocked, but fortunately he didn't shoot an arrow.

The mouth of a sleeping ward was covered, and a sharp dagger slashed the neck of the ward. A stream of blood immediately gushed out from the ward. The ward hind his legs and died in the sleep. Then the other person was treated the same.

Yang Shi wiped a cold sweat, turned over and slipped down the tower, met with Luo Yi, and the ten people dragged the body away, took out a torch next to the village gate and shook it three times in the distance. After putting it down, the ten people temporarily acted as the opponent's temporary sentry.

Seeing the torch shaking, Wei Chong was overjoyed: "General, they succeeded."

Yang Yong nodded reservedly, attacking without preparation with good preparation, attacking ordinary with elite strength, and succeeding is natural: "Forward!"

"Forward! Forward..." The orders were still passed one by one, and each of them took their mounts and took steps again. If they could see the soldiers touching their weapons during the day, and the veins on their hands burst out, it was caused by the excitement before the war.

Wutu and the Khitans were stuck in the middle. After watching the short stay, the Zhou army swaggered and led their horses directly towards Gao Baoning's camp. They opened their mouths one by one, and were speechless in shock. It was not that none of them had visited this camp, but every time they arrived here, they could only humbly lower their heads and offer their own tribes.

The guards with a tiger-backed and bear-backed waist in front of the door, and the tightly barriered camp fighting all reminded the Khitans that the owners here are very powerful. Although this kind of power hit a wall two years ago, the Khitans still did not eliminate the feeling of being established before. Otherwise, how could Gao Baoning occupy this grassland with only more than 3,000 subordinates? He still ordered all races to offer cattle and sheep every year.

Now, this Baole that seemed impossible to conquer in the past was wade against them. Many Khitans wanted to scream, but the rustling sounds around them reminded them that they had not stopped their mouths yet before they could scream.

The entire military camp was still quiet, with only the torches lit around it making sounds of beating and peeling from time to time, and occasionally mixed with soldiers snoring. At this moment, it was so quiet and peaceful, making people feel unbearable to destroy.

Seeing that more than half of the people had entered the camp, Yang Yong's order was passed down: "Get on the horse and kill!"

There was no secret assassination. One thousand soldiers armed to the teeth seemed too stingy to the assassination of more than 3,000 people who were still dreaming and naked.

"kill!"

"kill!"

...

The rumbling sound of horse hooves sounded, and even if the horse hooves were wrapped in soft cloth, they could not cover up the sound. Zhou Jun directly carried his horse and stepped towards the surrounding camp tents.

"Ah." Screams kept coming from all around. Many Gao Jun were directly trampled into meat paste by horse hooves in their sleep, and could only scream before death.

"Ho! Ho! Ho..." The Khitans finally stopped to endure hardship, shouting and shouting, even more excited than the Zhou army. They raised the scimitar in their hands and ran towards the surrounding camp tents. The scimitar slashed hard at the pillars of the camp tent. Many camp tents collapsed suddenly, and the soldiers inside suddenly woke up, but were pressed by the camp tent and could only squirm.

"Bo, Bow, Bow..." These wriggling bodies were stepped on by the horse, and the white camp tent was immediately stained with blood, making a sound like a broken bag.

"Swish! Swish! Swish..." Countless sharp arrows came through the air. Some Gao Jun, who was awakened, had just run out of the camp and welcomed the Zhou army's arrow rain. Many people fell to the ground like hedgehogs. Their terrified eyes were wide open. They had always attacked various border towns in the Great Zhou. Unexpectedly, it would be their turn today.

Gao Baoning woke up from his sleep. He had just dreamed that Zhou Jun was coming to him with thousands of troops, and there were only dozens of guards left by him. After rushing left and right, he saw that there were fewer and fewer people around him, but he could not escape the Zhou Jun's encirclement no matter what.

He wiped a cold sweat, but fortunately it was just a dream, but he soon realized that it was not a dream. The crowds of people in front of him, the whistling of arrows, the roar of war horses, and the screams of his own soldiers... came into his ears one by one. The sound was getting closer and closer, and it was almost approaching his Central Military Camp.

Gao Baoning was a clever man who pushed away the woman who was still sleeping around him, grabbed a piece of clothing and put it on his body, held the weapon in his hand, and rushed out of the camp. A gust of cold wind blew, and Gao Baoning shivered. In an instant, his body and his heart fell to freezing point.

The scene outside was even more terrifying than in his nightmare. Countless black-clad Zhou soldiers were like devils emerging from hell and rushed to all directions of the camp. Most of the camp was already in chaos, and the other half was quickly swept by the Zhou army and then swallowed it up. He saw with his own eyes that the camp tents collapsed under the flames. Before the people inside could rush out, they were stepped into meat paste by the Zhou army.

"Don't leave Gao Baoning."

"Catch Gao Baoning."

The shouts in front came faintly, and it was obvious that Zhou Jun did not understand his location. Dozens of personal soldiers who were still in disheveled rushed over: "Prime Minister, what should I do, what should I do?"

What else can I do? Escape, a voice flashed out of my mind, leaving the green mountains there, not afraid of burning firewood: "Hurry up, Houzhai, Houzhai."

The personal soldiers suddenly realized that there was a secret passage in the back village, and only a few people knew that there was no need to use it at this time. They hurriedly surrounded Gao Baoning and ran backwards. A woman rushed out behind her and looked at Gao Baoning's back and screamed at the top of her lungs. Gao Baoning staggered, but she still walked forward without looking back. She was his favorite concubine, but now she was in trouble but she couldn't care about it.

Yang Yong rode on Chi Ying, watching the firelight in front of him remained motionless, and he did not participate in the killing. Zheng Xiong stood beside Yang Yong with more than ten personal soldiers, as if he had become a statue.

The Zhou army slaughtered all the way, and the other party had almost no resistance. These thousands of people were all loyal to Gao Baoning. He usually burned, killed and looted the borders, and did everything he could do, but there were still some women and even children in the camp that Gao Jun snatched him from him, but he could only die in this round of cruel killing.

Although Yang Yong couldn't bear it, he knew that he could not order his subordinates to stop and carefully identify which tent had women and which tent had children. Even if he lost the opportunity on the battlefield, if he did that, it would be equivalent to murdering his subordinates.

A woman rushed out of the camp in the firelight in the distance, and a Khitan followed her on a horse, grabbed the woman's arm and pulled it on the horse's back, then burst into laughter, and teared the woman's clothes on the horse's back.

Yang Yong's face changed: "The order is sent to the battlefield, those who rape and molest women will die."

This is not pedantic. If you kill it, you will naturally be eliminated. Openly robbing a woman in this way on the battlefield will not only ruin the military discipline, but also easily cause a disintegration of the morale of the army. If someone fights back, it may turn defeat into victory.

"The general has orders to rape or molest a woman and die!" The messenger kept repeating in Khitan and Chinese.

The Khitan man had no idea what to do and had stripped the woman's top of the horse. Both sides were still touching and pinching the woman's body. Yang Yong was furious when he saw it: "Get the bow."
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