King's Landing in France

Chapter 136 Night Attack
At night, at the guard post on the outskirts of Lafayette's [-]st Brigade's camp, the sentries were yawning.

"Cheer up!" the sergeant at the checkpoint scolded angrily, "Keep your eyes open, the enemy is ahead!"

The sentinel quickly stood to attention, and then couldn't help but yawned.

The sergeant directly slammed the back of the sentry's head with his hands: "Damn it! I can wake you up!"

"Don't! Don't do it! Sergeant, I know I'm wrong!" The sentinel immediately begged for mercy, "It's so dark at night, no one will come to attack us! If I were the enemy, I would have been so scared that I ran away all night!"

The sergeant curled his lips: "What you said is indeed the truth. We have a great advantage, and tomorrow's battle should end in our victory. But because of this, we have to cheer up and prevent the enemy from using their brains!"

The sentinel shouted: "Yes!"

The sergeant nodded and started to check the next post.

As soon as he left, the sentinel yawned, then leaned back against the big tree, his eyes blurred.

At this moment, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the darkness, and before the sentry could make a sound, his throat was slit open by a dagger.

The face of Jean Lana, who led the sneak attack force, emerged from the darkness. He gently put down the body of the sentinel, and then whistled into the darkness behind him.

So the soldiers of the raiding force came out of the darkness one by one.

A staff sergeant reported to Rana: "There are a lot of people left behind, and there are only so many with us."

"Don't worry about it," Lana waved his hand, "The enemy's camp is ahead! The torch is ready-made, use it on the spot, let's go!"

After speaking, Jean Lana took the lead and rushed to the enemy camp.

Everyone followed closely behind!

**
Lafayette had just finished dinner served by orderlies, and was about to write a battlefield diary by the candlelight in the tent, when suddenly there was a shout outside: "Fire!"

As soon as Lafayette raised his head, there was a loud noise outside.

Lafayette immediately stood up and shouted: "Come on!"

Immediately, the orderly opened the curtain and came in: "General!"

"what happened?"

"I don't know, there is a fire in the distance, and there is the sound of an explosion."

As soon as the words fell, Berthier, Chief of Staff, broke into the tent: "It's not good, Your Excellency General, I think this is a night attack by the enemy!"

Lafayette frowned: "Night attack? Immediately stabilize the troops. The night attack can only be a small group of troops, and chaos cannot be allowed to spread in the army!"

Just as the voice fell, there was another explosion outside.

Berthier: "It may be that the artillery powder has exploded."

At this time, someone broke into the tent again, and it was the battalion commanders of several battalions stationed around the tent of the commander in chief Lafayette: "Your Excellency, Frost is calling! We will..."

"Bastard! Stop panic!" Lafayette raged, "I don't believe that Frost's army can march at night, and march without lighting torches at night! This is absolutely impossible! The enemy must be a small army, maybe There are only hundreds of people. Hold on!"

At this moment, Lafayette heard someone shouting outside: "Lafayette was killed! Our army is defeated! Run!"

Lafayette was furious: "Catch the person who shouted this, he is disturbing the morale of the army! Catch and kill!"

As he said that, he rushed out of the tent angrily, shouting: "I am Lafayette! I am right here! Calm down!"

**
At the same time, Davout's residence.

An Ning was still standing under the beech on the top of the mountain, watching the night with a telescope.

Davout stood beside him: "General, there is still a big battle tomorrow, you should go back and rest. Even if the night attack team has no results, we can defeat Lafayette tomorrow."

An Ning was about to reply when suddenly a fire appeared in the distance.

It was just a little bit of fire at first, but it soon became a whole.

An Ning: "Look! Firelight! Lana and the others succeeded!"

Davu also looked at the flames: "It seems that several battalions of tents were burnt down, so there shouldn't be many."

An Ning: "You don't understand, even if only a few casualties were caused, their attack can still make the enemy's camp fly wild, which will be of great benefit to tomorrow's battle!"

Davout: "Yes, that's for sure. Now that the fire has started, General, you should go back to the camp of the Chinese army to rest."

An Ning shook her head: "No, I want to stay here and take a look at the flames. You said it would be great if we took this opportunity to hide and kill them!"

Davout frowned: "It's unrealistic. Let alone attacking at night, even ordinary marching is difficult to maintain, even lighting torches is useless."

An Ning could only sigh.

Davout said so, so it should be true.The organization of the troops in this era, as well as the subjective initiative of the soldiers, cannot support the establishment of night combat.

Therefore, An Ning often felt that the comparison between the modern army and the ancient army, which was very popular on the Internet before the time travel, was very meaningless.

An Ning: "I hope Lana can return safely."

Davout: "Do you need me to send some troops to meet them?"

"No, no need, I don't want to take another group of well-trained troops. I need you to guard this important area tomorrow." An Ning yawned, "I'm a little sleepy too, I'm going back .”

Davout: "Good night, Your Excellency the General."

**
At this time, Lana had just lighted a gunpowder truck, and the violent explosion almost threw him out.

He was unconscious for a while before he opened his eyes and got up.

Looking around, the non-commissioned officers are organizing to put out the fire, and the comrades who came to attack with Lana are nowhere to be seen.

Lana raised his eyebrows and muttered, "My mission is almost over."

He moved his hands and feet quietly and crawled on the ground.

Fortunately, the situation was chaotic at this time, and no one noticed him.

Even a group of firefighting soldiers ran past Lana without even looking at him wriggling on the ground.

He just struggled to climb into the bushes next to the camp.

After hiding in the bushes, Lana observed the situation again, and decided to hide here to sleep tonight, until General Frost defeated the enemy tomorrow.

Yes, Lana had no doubt that Mr. Frost could win, because Mr. Frost looked so confident when they set off.

At that time, Mr. Frost said this: "Lana, don't put too much pressure on you. Even if your sneak attack fails, we can defeat Lafayette tomorrow. Just do your best and try to keep yourself alive." That's it!"

Lana hid himself among the roots of the bushes, and fell asleep carelessly to the sound of the enemies rushing and howling.

**
The next morning, when the first ray of dawn appeared from the east, Lafayette looked at his subordinates who were in a mess.

"Fuck," he cursed.

At this time, Berthier ran from a distance and saluted Lafayette: "Your Excellency, after counting the losses last night, about 500 people were injured and more than 200 people died, but we lost quite a lot of luggage.

"The other thing is, the troops of the First Division fought the fire all night and were very tired."

Lafayette cursed again: "Fuck! Send out cavalry, I want news of the enemy's formation."

Berthier: "I sent out reconnaissance at dawn, and the first wave of cavalry has returned. The enemy has formed an array on the unnamed hill in front of us, occupying the defensive mill and barn, as well as the low stone wall next to it. "

Lafayette stood up: "Very well, it seems that Frost is going to fight us here. The first division serves as the general reserve and recovers in place first. The second and third divisions have a total of [-] troops. Line up immediately!"

(End of this chapter)