Mi Han

Chapter 50 Night Attack
At the beginning of November in the 20th year of Jian'an, in the school grounds of Xu Huang's camp.

It was late at night, and there was not much light in the entire sky.

In the school grounds in the camp, Xu Huanggao stood on the high platform in the school grounds,
To ensure the secrecy of their actions, there were not many torches burning in the school grounds, so as not to be detected by Guan Yu's scouts.

Although Xu Huang who was standing on a high place had excellent eyesight, under the condition of insufficient light, Xu Huang still couldn't fully see how many soldiers were standing under his feet.

But from the low and heavy panting sounds that kept coming from the school grounds,

Xu Huang can roughly judge that most of the [-] soldiers under his command have come now.

After Xu Huang saw that his subordinates had almost gathered, he turned around and said to Zhao Yan who was behind him,
"Boran, after I leave, the camp will be handed over to you."

This time Xu Huang was going to attack the Sizuka camp at night. In order to ensure the success rate of the night attack, he wanted to take away most of the troops in the camp.
He only left more than [-] soldiers with the lowest combat capabilities to guard Zhao Yan's camp.

This kind of left-behind force is undoubtedly weak, so Xu Huang is a little worried.

Zhao Yan heard Xu Huang's worried tone, and he replied calmly,

"Gongming, you can go forward with peace of mind. With me here, even if the bandits attack, you can survive until Gongming leads the army back to help."

Xu Huang believed in Zhao Yan's ability. After receiving such a guarantee from Zhao Yan, Xu Huang nodded, and then he gave the order to send troops with peace of mind.

The reason why Xu Huang took the initiative to attack Guan Yu this time, apart from the biggest reason that Fancheng was about to be lost,

And because of months of practice,

Although the [-] soldiers under his command could not be regarded as elite troops, they were still enough for a battle.

In addition, after many days of planning, Xu Huang finally came up with a strategy to defeat Guan Yu.

That strategy is a tactic to attack the west.

Xu Huang knew that the current initiative on the battlefield was in the hands of Guan Yu. If he wanted to defeat Guan Yu, he had to give full play to his strengths.

In terms of generals, Guan Yu is a famous general in the world. Even though Xu Huang himself is a veteran general who has been famous for a long time, he dare not say that he can definitely surpass Guan Yu.

But in terms of soldiers, although Guan Yu's subordinates are all veterans, most of them are infantry!

The soldiers and horses under Xu Huang's command were all mobilized by Cao Cao from the north, and most of them were cavalry.

Xu Huang's plan was that if he could lure Guan Yu's army to the plain for a decisive battle, then he would still be able to fight.

But Guan Yu's Wentao and Wushu strategy, under normal circumstances, he would not make such a low-level mistake and let Xu Huang's army lead him to the decisive battle in the plain.

So Xu Huang came up with a plan to strike east and west.

A few days ago Xu Huang deliberately released the news that he was going to send troops to attack Weitoutun in order to paralyze Guan Yu.

What Xu Huang thought was that when Guan Yu knew that his trick to lure the enemy had worked, he would definitely lower his vigilance and wait for himself to fall into the trap.

And in order to deal with the attack of his own army, Guan Yu will definitely concentrate his troops in Weitoutun in order to fight a decisive battle with him.

And Xu Huang just wanted to take advantage of Guan Yu's mentality. He nominally wanted to raid Weitoutun, but in fact he wanted to attack Sizhongtun, which was farther away from him.

The reason why he chose to attack Sizhongtun was because Sizhongtun was farther away from his army, so Guan Yu would lower his defense against that side.
In this way, he can play a surprise attack effect.

The second is that after Guan Yu mobilized the army to Weitou Tunzhong, the troops in Sizhong Tunzhong would be empty.

The existence of Sizhongtun is related to the gains and losses of Fancheng, which Xu Huang believes is Guan Yu's life gate.

When Guan Yu learned that he was leading an army to attack Sizhongtun, he would definitely lead troops to help.

And the outside of Sizhongtun happens to be a wide plain area!

At that time, he can lead the cavalry under his command to wait for work and attack them halfway.

Xu Huang thought that his plan was intertwined, flawless and had a great success rate.

And if you want to ensure the success of your strategy of attacking the west, you must first ensure the secrecy of your surprise attack on Sizhongtun.
So Xu Huang chose the most difficult night attack in this era.

During the daytime today, Xu Huang ordered people to close the gate of the camp tightly, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

In order to ensure that no spies will inform Guan Yu in the future,
In addition, Xu Huang ordered the soldiers under his command to rest well during the day.
When it was just dark, Xu Huang ordered the army to gather in the school grounds.

In order to ensure the success rate of the night attack, Xu Huang ordered the soldiers who went out tonight to have a horse bit and a person bit a piece.
In addition, Xu Huang also ordered the groom to cover the horseshoe of the war horse with a cloth.

Xu Huang even considered that most of the soldiers had poor eyesight at night, so he deliberately sent the soldiers who had experienced night raids in his headquarters,

Scattered to each battalion to serve as guides.

He also asked the guides to smear the weapons with foul-smelling gold juice, and as usual, use the smell to guide the soldiers behind them to march.

In today's world, few generals can lead their soldiers to successfully carry out night raids.

But there is no doubt that Xu Huang is one of the few people in the world.

After all the preparations were done, Xu Huang officially issued the order to send troops.

There is no sound of loud drums for a night attack, only countless messengers shuttled through the army in the school grounds, secretly issuing orders for Xu Huang to go out,
After receiving Xu Huang's order to go out, more than [-] cavalry in the school field stepped on their horses one after another, and Xu Huang also got off the high platform to lead the troops to go out after paying homage to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan watched that under Xu Huang's arrangement, even at night, Wei Jun's boys in the school field got on their horses and set off in an orderly manner.
He couldn't help feeling that Xu Huang is really a famous general in the world,
Among the five good generals under King Wei's tent, Yu Jin was famous for his perseverance and good training of soldiers.
And Xu Huang was highly valued by Cao Cao for his superb command of troops.

Now that he saw Xu Huang's superhuman commanding skills with his own eyes, Zhao Yan couldn't help arousing great expectations for Xu Huang's night attack tonight.

He bowed deeply to Xu Huang's back,
"I wish General Pingkou a great defeat of Guan Yu, and come home triumphant!"

Xu Huang led more than [-] cavalry under his command, and after leaving the camp from the north gate,
In the first few miles, he strictly ordered the cavalry under his command to slow down their horses to minimize the noise caused by the march of the army.

This can prevent their actions from being detected by Guan Yu's scouts not far away.

And when the army traveled a certain distance, Xu Huang immediately ordered the army behind him to advance rapidly.

The elements of night attack, one is to be secretive, the other is to be fast,

Only in this way can the opponent be caught off guard.

Xu Huang knew that no matter what preparations he made, Guan Yu would know about his night attack on Sizuka sooner or later.

But as long as he can delay Guan Yu's awareness of this matter for a moment, then his chances of winning will increase by one point.

(End of this chapter)