Xiaoguangong

Chapter 276 Iron Wall and Copper Wall
Guo Huai was full of confidence, and the speed of advancement suddenly accelerated.

It's not that he didn't know that he left a lot of gaps behind him in the process of advancing, but when he thought of the bet with Yunshan, he felt even more dissatisfied.

Huo Jun, Huo Jun, I want to see what you are capable of, how a group of bandits can compete with our Xudu iron soldiers.

In the past few days, they have killed the heart of the Funiu Mountain base.

Huo Jun's fierce general Zhou Tai began to command the soldiers to meet Guo Huai's elite soldiers from the front. Guo Huai was not afraid. He put on his armor and went into battle himself.

"The thief's base area has a large amount of food, fodder and financial reports. After breaking through Funiu Mountain, I will not take any money, but distribute it all to my brothers.

There are also many widows hiding in the mountains. After the city is broken, all of them will be distributed to you as wives! "

Xu Du Zhongjun laughed, all with a hunting mentality, and they had already begun to imagine the good times when they would share the spoils in the future.

"I heard that this thief has hidden a lot of good women. He really has a lot of good luck."

"Hey, it just so happens that they are fighting against the imperial court. When they take Huo Jun, they will definitely regret it!"

"I also heard that Huo Jun has some abilities, but I didn't expect it to be nothing more than that. With Guo Sima's method of attack and suppression, these thieves really have nothing to do."

No matter how powerful Huo Jun is, their scale is small after all, and their weapons are even more crude. Most of them have no armor. As long as Xu Du's army is not mobilized by them, they will not be afraid of the attacks of these bandits at all. Victory is almost in sight.

Even if Huo Jun can escape alone, this time it will definitely shock those rioters. After the war, they will definitely be rewarded by King Wei, which is a great honor.

With such an excited thought in mind, the soldiers of the Xudu Chinese Army rushed to the first place and quickly defeated Zhoutai, and passed another day smoothly.

It’s just that they never expected that a shocking change would happen suddenly that night——that night, a few soldiers of Cao’s army who were watching the night saw a large number of soldiers walking outside by the faint light of the fire. They immediately thought it was the enemy’s attack at night and immediately Gongs were sounded everywhere to wake up the sleeping soldiers.

Huo Jun's soldiers did not light torches, and walked through the boundless night with the faint moonlight. This terrifying scene was so real that everyone was speechless.

In this era when night blindness is very common, there are people who walk without a torch. Isn't this...isn't it death?
Someone in the army saw it and immediately suggested to Guo Huai:
"General, I might as well leave the camp immediately and kill them all!"

Guo Huai, who hastily put on his armor, looked at the figure slowly passing through the darkness, and felt a wave of turmoil in his heart, but he still couldn't believe that such a thing would happen.

"Don't be afraid, this is just a tactic to lure the enemy! Don't fight, beware of an ambush in your heart."

"But if the thieves really plan to kill our army, wouldn't it be... wouldn't it be dangerous?"

"Don't be afraid. They are so scattered and difficult to get together, and after a while they are difficult to gather and they will naturally disperse."

Even if it was the Xudu Central Army, if they were given a chance to travel at night, most of them would definitely lose most of them. At least there were quite a few people who pretended to get lost to avoid fighting.Moreover, the camp behind Guo Huai was also guarded by hundreds of people. The deployment had been made before to prevent Huo Jun from interspersing.

Huo Jun left Zhoutai to guard the base, and he personally led 2000 people to attack at night.

These 2000 people are all the capital he can afford now. Based on his original Jingzhou Yuancong, he has selected a large number of elite soldiers from among the refugees.

These strong soldiers may not all have big arms and round waists, but everyone has suffered a lot and has an unforgettable hatred for Cao Jun.

Many of them were forced to farm by Cao Jun, and they were bullied and insulted by low-level officials. They dedicate almost all of their annual output to Cao Jun like slaves, and they were forced to serve in corvée during the slack season. Even so, Their women will also be taken away as widows, and it is unknown where they will be sent.

This strong hatred made everyone have a strong sense of revenge. When they heard that Cao Jun's army was attacking, all of them were high-spirited, and they would rather die than compete with Cao Jun.

They don't know how to fight, but they can still understand how dangerous it is to go behind the enemy in the dark. But when Huo Jun asked them to go, none of them refused.

These 2000 people were like one person, braved the dark night, and with the help of the faint moonlight, they trekked hard until dawn, and there were less than ten people left behind.

Guo Huai built a military stronghold every five miles, and he was confident that there would be no mistake in advancing slowly. However, with their simultaneous tactics, the further back the military strongholds were, the weaker their guards would be.

Huo Jun led the army to rush for forty miles in one breath, and at dawn they had already circled to the deep rear of Guo Huai. Guo Huai's army who stayed behind had received the news before to be careful to prevent Huo Jun from destroying the grain road, so hundreds of soldiers followed each time the grain was transported.

Huo Jun saw a large amount of military rations from a distance, and immediately ordered his men to attack.

The more than 2000 soldiers who had almost stayed up all night were not tired from the long-distance attack at all, and immediately launched an attack after Huo Jun gave an order.

Xu Du's army is well-fed and well-equipped. Seeing that the enemy is numerous, he doesn't take them seriously at all. He thinks that no matter how strong they are, they are only at the level of the Yellow Turban Army back then. Disorderly.

Cao Jun sent people to ask for help from a distance, while forming an formation to protect himself, without the slightest panic.

But they still greatly underestimated the fighting will of Huo Jun's army. Amidst the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the soldiers who had been running all night raised their wooden shields. They did not need rewards, encouragement, or threats from the supervisory team. Everyone followed the previous deployment and went forward to fight among.

The food delivery team quickly ran out of arrows, and was forced to bite the bullet and enter the bloody hand-to-hand combat. These soldiers in iron armor had an absolute advantage in the hand-to-hand combat, and the soldiers under Huo Jun recognized their Xudu accent. , the already strong will to fight is burning like a bucket of hot oil.

A soldier was stabbed by Cao Jun's iron spear and fell to the ground in pain, but his first reaction was not to hold his wound and ask for help, but to hug the Cao Jun who stabbed him at the risk of being trampled to death. With both legs, Cao Jun's soldiers in iron armor were surrounded by a group of people, and iron spears and steel knives kept falling. Even if he had iron armor to protect him, he was killed quickly.

Seeing that this trick was extremely effective, more soldiers began to hug the enemy's body with all their strength, using their lives to fight for the opportunity for their comrades to kill the enemy.

Cao Jun's soldiers were able to barely resist at first, so it can be seen that the enemy is actually a group of lunatics who are not afraid of death. Their originally rather orderly resistance collapsed in an instant. In a hurry, he even forgot where he was going to escape, and immediately became meat on the chopping board, and the heads of people who were killed in an instant were rolling!
After an hour of fierce fighting, Huo Jun wiped out Cao Jun's grain transport team and captured a nearby military village.

He didn't stop for a moment, except for leaving a small number of people to take care of the wounded soldiers, the others followed him and quickly moved eastward, continuing to sweep the military strongholds further back and destroying the food roads of Guo Huai's army.

Cao Jun's soldiers were unprepared, and they were killed by this lunatic-like strong soldier. Huo Jun took a large amount of weapons, food and grass.

When Guo Huai reacted, the food road behind him had been cut off!
Cao Jun was in an uproar, unable to believe this terrifying fact.

Didn't Cao's army attack Wuchao happen to sneak into the rear of the enemy army? How brave is Huo Jun? Isn't he afraid that Guo Huai will attack him and surround him and his men directly?
"It's really unreasonable! Please divide your troops and refuse, the general, and you will definitely kill this thief!"

Subconsciously, Guo Huai wanted to divide his troops into two thousand divisions to surround Huo Jun.

But Huo Jun was able to command a group of infantry to go deep behind his own side at night. This high level of command and dispatch ability may not be able to withstand it by dividing his troops.

Although he was extremely unwilling, Guo Huai still made the wisest judgment.

"You can't divide the troops! The whole army retreats!"

The retreat of the whole army means that Cao Jun's civil engineering work for the past month has been in vain, and they have to return to the place where they started in order to ensure the safety of the whole army.

Cao Jun mourned from top to bottom, unwilling to admit that his efforts had been in vain, but now that the situation was like this, he had no choice but to obey Guo Huai's order and prepare to abandon the camp and leave.

But at this moment, Guo Huai witnessed a terrifying scene that will never be forgotten in his life——

In the distance, Zhou Tai led a group of soldiers and horses running quickly.

Seeing that Cao Jun was already showing signs of retreating, Zhou Tai knew that Huo Jun's penetration had been successful, of course he couldn't cause trouble for Huo Jun, and he wanted to keep the enemy here as much as possible.

Zhoutai has only one or two thousand people at most, so it stands to reason that Guo Huai would not be too shocked anyway.

But as their soldiers moved out, teams of civilians popped out behind them.

Guo Huai originally thought that this was a common method used by bandits to drive people away and attack the city, but he never expected that there were more and more people around. At first, there were only one or two thousand people, but later they increased to ten thousand or twenty thousand.

Gradually, countless people flocked from all directions.

These people include young children, old and weak women and children, some are tall, some are short, and some are so sick that it is extremely difficult to take every step.

But all of their faces were full of deep hatred. Following Zhou Tai's order, these people waved their hoes, wooden sticks, or simply dug with their hands, and actually began to dig holes beyond the range of Cao Jun's bow and arrow. Digging, look at this...

It was actually going to trap Guo Huai to death!

Back then, Bai Qi besieged Zhao Kuo. In order to prevent Zhao Kuo's elite from escaping, King Qin personally mobilized the people and recruited the people to build fortifications on the condition that everyone be a nobleman.

What kind of benefits did Huo Jun give these people, and let them come here with the old and the young, just to dig a deep pit and trap Guo Huai to death here?

"How bold!" At this moment, Guo Huai, who was born in a wealthy family, truly felt the humiliation he had never experienced before.

With his long sword in his hand, he wished he could go out and fight Zhoutai immediately, and kill everyone in front of him face to face.

But the black heads in all directions made him calm down.

After thinking for a long time, he finally let out a long and helpless cry, and said dejectedly:
"Withdraw, quickly withdraw"

(End of this chapter)