Chapter 18 Night Attack
Author: Magic Prince
It's not yet dawn, Xiang Yu has woken up from his dream. For him, ever since his soul took over this body, he has been troubled by various dreams. It was not that he never dreamed in his previous life, but at that time he
He often travels between battlefields, and most of his dreams at night are related to killing enemies on the battlefield.
But his dream in this life mainly has two aspects. One is that the experiences and memories of the previous life are turned into dreams. No matter how brave and skillful he was in the previous life, how invincible he was, even if he was not defeated before the last battle, but this is the last one.
The defeat in the First World War was something he would never forget. His suicide on the bank of the Wujiang River that day not only did not free him from the humiliation of defeat forever, but instead continued this humiliation to this day.
For a period of time, he would dream about the bleak scene of Farewell My Concubine day and night. Obviously he had so many glorious and magnificent peak moments in his life, but only this last battle was unforgettable for him, and he had won the victory before.
The more he did, the greater the damage caused by the failure of this battle to him, so much so that even now it seems that this psychological imprint cannot be erased, and he has no way to escape.
Later, he dreamed of the many pains that the owner of this body experienced during his lifetime, the real pains of an ordinary person, a powerless and insignificant ordinary person. But it was obvious that no matter how much Xiang Yu dreamed of these pains,
Deep in his heart, he was unable to truly understand the pain and despair of the owner of this body at that time. Perhaps it was because there was a more painful thing occupying him deep in his heart, making other people feel uncomfortable.
The pain could hardly touch the depths of his soul.
It was still dark, but he could no longer sleep. He walked out of the camp alone and saw the stars filling the sky. Even a hero like him in his previous life could not turn into a bright star in the sky after his death.
He can only become a lonely ghost wandering in the world.
An unprecedented sense of loneliness swept over him, so what if he won the world? His old rival Liu Bang had won the world, and with the nearly four hundred years of Han Dynasty, he would now embark on a road of no return. The so-called hero
It's just temporary, so what's the point of striving for world hegemony?
If anyone who knew Xiang Yu in his previous life knew that Xiang Yu had such thoughts in his mind at this time, he would definitely be stunned. Xiang Yu himself couldn't help but laugh at the bright moon and starry sky. He obviously didn't sleep well, but he was like this at this time.
Be sober and realize that compared with the vast sky and the sun, moon and stars, this life and all living beings on the earth are nothing but ants.
He once regarded everyone else as ants, but in the end he finally understood that he himself was just an ant.
"Come and drink with me!"
Xiang Yu called the soldiers standing guard around him and asked them to boil several cans of sake, cut some dried mutton, and sit in a circle.
The soldiers neither dared to speak nor drink or eat meat.
"What are you doing standing around? Drink quickly, eat quickly, I will take you to do big things later!" Without saying a word, Xiang Yu picked up the wine can and started drinking.
"Doing big things? General Xiang"
"Is it enough for just us?"
"That's enough. It's enough for the ten or so of you. You drink and eat quickly. We will return with a great victory before dawn."
The soldiers looked at each other and looked at each other, not knowing what to do. It seemed that what Xiang Yu said to them was just drunken nonsense, but they did not dare to contradict Xiang Yu head-on.
In the military, one thing is always true.
In addition to leaving three or five soldiers to continue to stand guard in the camp, the remaining nine soldiers, including Xiang Yu, a total of ten cavalry set off from the camp in the dark.
At this time, most of the soldiers in the camp were still in deep sleep. They had been marching north for several days in a row. Both the soldiers and the horses were actually a little tired. The rebels of the Southern Huns were very cunning. When they saw Xiang Yu with his
A cavalry team of two hundred people came. They did not choose to fight head-on. Instead, they separated their troops and wandered around in the grassland, leaving Xiang Yu's troops unsure of where their main force was.
The number of the rebel Southern Xiongnu troops is relatively small, and they will not exceed a thousand in total. Most of them are herdsmen. Most of the herdsmen are good at riding horses. When they pick up weapons, they are rebels. When they put down their weapons, they are herdsmen. In many cases, they are also herdsmen.
They are all quite confusing, making it difficult for Xiang Yu's troops to make correct judgments.
So when Xiang Yu gathered all his troops and went north to look for the Southern Huns rebels, they hid from Xiang Yu. When Xiang Yu divided his troops into several groups to look for the rebels separately, these rebels could always find opportunities to carry out sneak attacks. As the saying goes,
The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. The Huns are on the grassland. In addition, the soldiers led by Xiang Yu lacked actual combat experience, so they suffered a lot of hidden losses.
Even though Xiang Yu's ability and experience in leading the war are very strong, when faced with the guerrilla warfare tactics of these small groups of nomads, he still has a feeling that he is too powerful to use. No matter how much it continues, it will definitely destroy the morale of the entire army.
It continues to decline, and may even eventually collapse.
Just as Xiang Yu knew in his previous life, sometimes on the battlefield, numerical superiority is an advantage, but sometimes it is a disadvantage.
At this time, Xiang Yu's ten cavalrymen were rapidly approaching a camp of the Southern Huns.
In fact, Xiang Yu didn't know that there was a Southern Xiongnu camp here before. He judged based on his own experience and intuition that there might be a Southern Xiongnu camp nearby. During the day, these nomads might be able to run around on horseback as a group.
, but at night, you still have to find a place to rest.
If there were too many people, it would be easy for them to be discovered by these Huns who had extremely rich experience in wild survival. However, Xiang Yu only took a few horses with him and tied rags on the horses' hooves to reduce the sound of their running as much as possible.
In addition, it was already late at night and not far from sunrise, and most of the Huns' sentry soldiers were close to falling asleep.
At this time, Xiang Yu and his party rushed out of the darkness and rushed directly into the Huns' camp. Each of them held a torch and lit the tent conveniently. Many Huns were engulfed in the flames while they were sleeping.
Those Huns who rushed out of the camp in panic were about to encounter the thunder gun held by Xiang Yu before they had time to equip themselves with armor and weapons. One of the unlucky guys was directly penetrated by the thunder gun through the neck, and he was immediately killed.
Blood spurted out, and he couldn't die anymore.
Although the Huns' camp was not big, there were at least a hundred or so people. However, Xiang Yu and his ten horsemen were killed and their armor was thrown away. However, a strong man emerged from the middle tent.
, a man with a ferocious appearance. He had no hair on his head, opened his mouth to reveal a mouth of yellow teeth, and roared loudly at Xiang Yu who was not far away. The good horse under Xiang Yu's crotch actually lost its balance under this roar, and Xiang Yu was stunned.
Fell off the horse.
Xiang Yu rolled to his feet, only to see the strong Xiongnu man open his arms and charge towards Xiang Yu shirtless without any armor or weapons. When he got closer, he picked up a two-handed ax from the ground, but he used it with only one hand.
Being able to swing it easily shows how powerful it is.
Xiang Yu thrust his spear forward and stabbed the opponent's head, but was blocked by the strong Xiongnu man with a big ax. The tip of the thundering spear collided with the big axe, making a sharp sound, and then the big ax pushed the muzzle of the gun away upwards.
Xiang Yu withdrew his gun. He could feel that his body was far behind the opponent in terms of absolute strength. If he fought head-on, he would not have any advantage or certainty. To defeat the opponent, he would need some combat skills.
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The opponent's movements emerged in Xiang Yu's mind, and he quickly found the weakness of this strong Xiongnu man, which was that his turning speed was very slow, and he had a large blind area for attack and defense.
It would be okay if we could only deal with this strong Xiongnu man alone. However, at this time, there were other Xiongnu soldiers wearing armor and weapons, and they were besieging Xiang Yu and the others. Their advantage was to catch the other side by surprise, but when the other side waited
After blocking the early offensive, after all, we have an absolute advantage in numbers, and we are on their territory. Once we are surrounded by them, we may be in danger.
Xiang Yu is keenly aware of this. Showing off his courage for a moment is not what he should do now. In fact, they have achieved quite a lot of results this time. It is better to give up when things are good and go back to look for better ones.
The opportunity is not too late.
Facing the Xiongnu soldiers who were constantly besieging him, Xiang Yu waved the thunder gun in his hand and directed a sweep of thousands of troops around him. Several Xiongnu soldiers had no time to avoid and were knocked to the ground by the spears. Xiang Yu was not reluctant to fight either.
He took the opportunity to find a flaw and rushed out of the encirclement, mounted his good horse, and then led a large number of riders to charge and kill again, and finally ran towards the direction where the sun was about to rise.
Xiang Yu turned around and counted briefly. There were five riders following him, that is, a total of nine people followed him, divided into four.
Chapter completed!