Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 539: Unjust and Unable to Help
"I don't like night battles."

Three or four miles away, Black Bear said to Lu Bu beside him: "Especially fighting a night battle with an unfamiliar enemy, it is very tiring. I don't know if you will get tired of killing people."

Lu Bu showed no emotional response, and Black Bear continued, "I still like Liu Bao and the Xiongnu. It will be easy to fight them at night."

As they were talking, there was a sudden sound of dog barking in the bushes.

Immediately afterwards, there were sporadic responses from all directions in the north, including the barking of dogs.

Black Bear thought for a moment, and a Taoist knight rode forward and stabbed a dog to death with a spear several dozen steps away.

When he got closer, he saw that there was a wooden stake nailed to the ground to tie the dog up, and a hole had been dug considerately. The surface was camouflaged with bundles of grass, and hay was spread inside the hole.

The dog should be quite comfortable living in there, more comfortable than most of the soldiers who are fighting and confronting each other now.

Because of the previous rain in Hao, many soldiers do not have a dry living environment and now have more or less gastrointestinal discomfort.

Amid the barking of dogs, Black Bear took out the cowhide map that he had marked on the mountain wall during the day.

Before he could take a closer look, the large and small camps in the north also lit spare campfires amid the barking of dogs, which made Black Bear pick up the cowhide map and start checking the locations.

A few minutes later, he said to his men, "The Xianbei are not honest and have hidden five camps. Since they don't turn on the lights, we will attack them in the dark."

No one answered. He turned to look at Dian Wei and Gao Shun. Under his control, the two men bowed and mounted their horses.

Seven or eight miles away, on a steep hillside.

Kebineng sat openly on a broken rock in the mountains, with a circle of Xianbei warriors behind him holding torches at an angle. The mountain wind blew, and the flames on the torches jumped rapidly.

The cloaks of these Xianbei people were blown by the wind from behind, so that they stuck tightly to their backs and legs.

Kebineng said to Xianyu Fu, who was wearing a helmet decorated with leopard spots: "That great Sima loves adventure the most in his life. I am not Kuitou or Qianman. I want to see if he can come here and chop off my head."

"Chief, please don't say such unlucky words. We have the advantage of people, location, and time. He will definitely be defeated in this battle."

Xian Yufu said calmly, "All this is because he is too overbearing. The world is so big, how much can he eat? How much can he wear?"

Hearing this, Ke Bineng turned around and squinted at Xian Yufu's profile: "You are right, good things should be shared with friends. People like him are destined to have no friends. So if he dies here, everything he has will be buried. But my good friend will never come back, I want to avenge him."

"So, when we counterattack Guanzhong, I will be the vanguard general."

Ke Bineng raised his chin towards the northwest and said: "From now on, this place will belong to me. I won't learn from him, and I don't have his abilities."

The central Xianbei had been torn apart and there was discord between the upper and lower parts. As long as he chopped off the black bear's head here, he would be the recognized king of all the tribes outside the Great Wall. This was something that no one could stop, unless they killed him.

This was true for the Xianbei people and the Xiongnu people as well. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of young and strong people in the tribe created a hatred that the Xiongnu people could pass down from generation to generation.

Xianyu Fu remained silent. If the plan succeeded, only Ke Bi would be suitable to chop off the head.

It is estimated that in the future outside the border, that head will become the proof of the recognized kingship and a token of inheritance of each tribe.

Even though Ke Bineng didn't see Xian Yu Fu's response, he couldn't help but sigh. He and Yan Rou were good friends, and he also respected Yan Rou very much.

The two people almost helped each other to reach their current status.

But Yan Rou was careless for a moment and died on the battlefield.

This kind of death is also a blessing for myself, a nomadic noble.

It is much more honorable to die on the battlefield than to die of illness in bed or to be murdered by a son's conspiracy.

But Yan Rou shouldn't have died like this, he should have quietly lay on the bed, accompanied by his family. They stopped chatting and watched the changes in the campfires in various camps.

Suddenly, he saw a fire in one place, and then the spare campfires were ignited. He frowned and said, "It seems that he has already scouted our camp. It's no problem. Let him kill him."

Xian Yu Fu was not surprised and felt that this was normal.

After the flood receded, Tian Yu sent him a detailed battle report. Xian Yu Fu was well aware of how passive he was during night battles.

But as long as we guard the pass, the opponent will have to grow wings.

Five miles away, this camp was built in a depression on a hill. Although it is called a depression, it is higher than the surrounding area, but it looks lower when compared with the height of the hill ridge. In fact, it is a small platform, which has a height advantage when defending.

But teams of puppet Taoist soldiers came charging from the ridge on which their camp was built, and their height advantage was completely wiped out.

Black Bear stationed on Maliang. Except for a dozen Taoist soldiers who were wandering around and keeping watch, all the other Taoist soldiers were deployed.

He was not going to leave anyone alive, so Lu Bu and Dian Wei opened fire in the camp.

As long as they are within their attack range, not to mention people and horses, even wooden pillars used in construction will be cut off with one blow instead of being deflected or knocked away.

Almost immediately after the battle began, all the spare campfires in the camp were lit, which actually accelerated the collapse of the Xianbei people in the camp.

More than a hundred low-level Taoist soldiers who had been training during this period did not wear face masks, but just mixed in the team and charged with spears and halberds.

They are of low level and have less black magic to drive their bodies, so their movements are relatively slow, like corpse ghosts. They can cause more fright and terror effects than Lu Bu and Dian Wei.

No matter how brave Lu Bu and Dian Wei were, they were still in human form. The worst that could happen to them was that they would chop off their heads and break their bodies into pieces.

However, faced with these slow-moving, withered-faced low-level Taoist soldiers, the fear of the unknown spread quickly and was difficult to contain.

There was no need to kill generals and seize flags. Although there seemed to be a melee in the camp, in fact, there were pursuits, encirclements and annihilations everywhere.

Without waiting for reinforcements from the surrounding camps, the battle in the camp...the killing ended quickly.

In order to avoid leakage, the Taoist soldiers began to behead people, then piled the bodies together, demolished the camp and piled up the wood together, and then mixed it with the sundries and moved the campfire over to create a huge pile waiting to be burned.

As long as it is burned, this method, similar to lighting a sky lantern, can burn for a long time.

As the campfire burned more and more, he began to gather the horses in the camp and drove them to evacuate south.

On the northern hillside, no shouting or screaming could be heard, and one could only make judgments based on the light of the fire.

In order to avoid unnecessary losses and chaos, each camp defended itself and did not go out to reinforce each other.

But the scouts sent back and forth, and soon the first battle report came in: "The enemy troops bypassed the camp and broke into the camp from the ridge behind the camp. The defenders were unable to respond!"

Xian Yufu listened to his scout's report and asked, "Where is the enemy's reinforcement team?"

“Failed to find out clearly!”

The scouts didn't think twice, as they really hadn't found the enemy's support troops and they didn't dare to go too deep.

Those who dared to investigate too deeply have not returned yet.

His answer sounded like another explanation to Xianyu Fu: all the scouts who had conducted reconnaissance in the past had died, so they had not been able to find out clearly.

This kind of thing is very normal, this is how Yan Rou died.

(End of this chapter)