webnovelfull Chapter 606 Scout Battle
Chapter 606 Scout Battle
Early morning, 5:15 AM.
Cao Xiang's army was only ten miles away from the Yan army camp.
The scouts ahead kept sending in intelligence, and Cao Xiang had long known that Zhang De'an had led his men to surrender and that the Yan army had occupied the camp on the river bank.
While he was marching, he sent someone to report the matter to Cao De.
Cao De had just laid down and had not yet fallen asleep when he received the military report.
After thinking about it, he sent a message to Cao Xiang, asking him to launch a surprise attack at night and try his best to recapture the camp on the river bank. However, if he failed, there was no need to force it, and he could just lead the army to withdraw. He could make the decision on his own.
Cao Xiang had no choice but to continue moving forward and attack the Yan army camp at night.
The riverside camp was too important. If it could not be captured, the main force of the Yan army would be able to cross the river smoothly and then capture Luoyang City, and the Wei State would be destroyed.
He had already made up his mind that if he failed to capture the city this time, he would immediately withdraw his army to Luoyang, and then persuade Cao De to take advantage of the time when the Yan army was still crossing the river to immediately lead the army and the entire court to move the capital (escape), go south to the border to find the Chu army, and join forces with the Chu and Qian armies to fight against the Yan army together.
Everyone knew that once Dayan's powerful army crossed the river, it would be impossible to defend Luoyang with just 300,000 troops and the city.
The Yan people were too brutal and too good at fighting.
A general suddenly said to Cao Xiang,
"General, there seems to be no movement from the Yan army camp. They probably don't know we are coming for a night attack. If we launch a surprise attack, we might be able to achieve a complete victory."
Cao Xiang looked at him as if he were an idiot and said,
"You mean to say that our 150,000-man army assembled north of Luoyang for an hour and a half, then marched all evening and midnight in a long line with torches, and the Yan army didn't see it?
Is that what you mean?
Do you think Yanren is blind? Do you think Yanren is as blind as that idiot Zhang De'an?
The general was scolded and dared not say a word.
Cao Xiang said,
“I heard that the Yan people have spaceships and clairvoyance, so no one can sneak attack or ambush the Yan army.
However, no one here is researching and developing this kind of weapon to strengthen the army. Even if someone wants to do it, it will be criticized by others as a gimmick and eventually abandoned halfway.
Now think about it, if we, the Great Wei, had been the first to develop artillery, divine thunder, spaceships, and clairvoyance, we would have been the ones sweeping across the world right now."
"Alas, there is nothing we can do. All the talented people have gone to the State of Yan."
"It's not that all the talented people are in Yan State, but that Yan State values talents."
After saying that, Cao Xiang looked up at the sky.
In the sky, a few spots of light floated in the sky, which seemed to be different from the starlight.
It's too far away and I can't see it clearly.
He couldn't see the spots of light clearly, but the spots of light made them visible clearly.
Two hot air balloons were watching them with telescopes, as well as the Yan army's scouts.
Before the two armies engaged in battle, their scouts had already started fighting.
The battle of scouts is more like a hunting game.
A Yan army scout, lying in ambush in the darkness, observed that the distance to the Wei army was only ten miles. He immediately jumped on his horse and ran quickly towards the brazier in the watchtower in the north.
He had just run a mile when a team of five Wei army scouts came up.
The Wei army scouts, holding torches, heard the sound of approaching horses' hooves and immediately shouted,
"Password!"
The Yan army scout naturally didn't know what the Wei army's secret signal was. He quietly picked up the crossbow, pulled the reins with one hand, and shot the crossbow at the captain of the scout team with the other hand.
Whoosh!
There was a sound of arrow breaking through the air, and the captain thought that something was wrong. He immediately turned his head to avoid it, but it was too late. The arrow flew at an extremely fast speed in the darkness and instantly pierced through the scarf on his neck and went deep into his neck.
"Uh...uh..."
The captain, holding his neck, fell to the ground with a thud. He couldn't breathe and his whole body was convulsing.
"Oh no, it's an enemy scout!"
The four Wei scouts immediately drew their bows and arrows and rushed towards the Yan scouts on horseback.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, four arrows flew straight towards the Yan army scouts.
Scouts are the elite among the elite. They are basically used to scout the enemy and fight alone. They are all special forces and very powerful.
When the Yan army scout heard the sound of breaking air, he immediately reined in his horse and ran eastward, with the four arrows stuck in front of him.
That was an arrow shot by the enemy based on his movement speed.
The Yan army scout changed direction and rushed in front of the four Wei army scouts, repeatedly pulling the trigger of the crossbow.
For a moment, the crossbow arrows whizzed towards the enemy.
Two Wei army scouts were shot by arrows on the spot. One of them was shot in the throat and fell off his horse, and the other was shot in the arm.
"Damn, isn't this Yan thief alone? How can he shoot the arrow so fast?"
The man with the injured arm had just cursed when two arrows came towards him again and hit him right between the eyebrows.
Now, he is dead too.
In less than a minute, the Yan army scout shot and killed three people, but his crossbow was empty. He had no time to load arrows, so he hung the crossbow on the saddle, picked up a flintlock rifle that had already been loaded, and rushed straight towards the enemy.
There were two people facing him, and he was alone. Both of them drew their bows and arrows and shot at him.
He didn't dodge or evade, but just bent down, aimed his gun at the man on the right, and then shot.
boom!
A shot was fired, and the bullet instantly entered the chest of the man on the right.
But the arrow from the man on the left also shot over and hit the Yan army scout's left shoulder.
The standard equipment of the Yan army scouts: a knife, a flintlock rifle, and a crossbow.
His crossbow and flintlock rifle had both emptied their weapons, and as close combat was imminent, he had no time to change to a knife.
The Yan army scout was furious. He grabbed the gun handle and used the flintlock as a club, smashing it towards the face of the last Wei army scout.
The Wei army scout had just pulled out an arrow and had no time to string it when the spear arrived.
The iron barrel, coupled with the charging speed of a warhorse, is as powerful as a hammer.
boom!
There was another loud bang, and the Wei army scout's face was hit so hard that it caved in, and his brains spurted out.
The Yan army scout didn't even look back, and immediately ran towards the north without stopping. On the way, in the moonlight, he saw that his gun was bent and cracked, and he felt very distressed.
He hung his gun on the saddle, pulled the reins with his uninjured hand, and finally returned to the Yan army camp.
"The enemy has entered the ten-mile range. Beat the drums and assemble!"
The scout shouted loudly, and the messenger on the platform of the Yan army immediately beat the drum hard.
The sound of drums was heard, and other legions also beat drums.
The Yan army camp became brightly lit, and one by one the Yan army soldiers rushed out of the tents and quickly took their positions!