The night was gloomy, the moon was dark, and the wind was strong.
Hearing that the second prince was going to fight in person, the guards and advisors around him felt like their heads were going to explode.
"Your Highness, your body is precious. Swords have no eyes on the battlefield. If you are accidentally hurt, we won't be able to answer to the King."
His personal guards tried to dissuade him, and his advisors also echoed him. However, the second prince had a headstrong temperament and felt very good about himself.
He said, "I studied hard with the martial arts master. Even my father praised me as a warrior of the Northern Borderline. How can I be afraid of death?"
Before he was an adult, he had defeated his martial arts master, defeated several guards who were his sparring partners, and killed the enemy bravely on the battlefield. He always brought back a lot of trophies … He was the brave and powerful man of the Northern Borderline. How could the weak soldiers of the Central Plains hurt him?
The Northern Borderline was not peaceful. There were many voices within.
If a small tribe developed too fast or did not obey the orders of the imperial court, it would inevitably lead to an expedition by the imperial court.
However, such small fights were usually used for the second generation of the nobles of the Northern Borderline.
The second prince had led troops on several expeditions and won every time. This made him arrogant and complacent, and he could not even see his own abilities clearly.
As a prince, it was enough to stay in the rear and wait for military achievements. Why did he have to go to the front to cause trouble and make things difficult for his teammates?
Did he not know what his own abilities were?
The advisors and guards repeatedly tried to persuade the second prince, but not only did they not persuade him, they even caused him to reprimand and insult.
In the end, he stubbornly said, "No need to persuade me anymore. I have made up my mind!"
The more the people around him tried to persuade him, the angrier he got, and the more he wanted to prove himself.
Liu Xi, a woman, could kill the enemy on the battlefield. He, a brave man of the Northern Borderline, was inferior to a woman?
"Wait until I catch Liu Xi myself …" The second prince looked around and snorted, as if he was mocking.
Although he was headstrong, the second prince also knew that his life was precious, and he would still listen to the advisors' arrangements in some areas.
He asked the vanguard troops to change into the uniforms of the Han soldiers and raise Jiang Pengji's flag.
It was best if they did not encounter the enemy, but if they encountered the enemy's patrol troops, they could use it to get away with it.
The night was dark and windy, and it was suitable for robbery.
The Second Prince ordered everyone to hold wooden chopsticks in their mouths and cover their mouths with cloth. They were not allowed to make any noise.
The twelve thousand soldiers split into several groups and advanced towards Chao Wu along the small paths on the map.
Because of the detailed map in his hand, the second prince led his troops to avoid several waves of sentries, and the journey was more daunting than dangerous.
As they approached Chao Wu's granary, the number of patrols increased. Even with the cover of night, they were still caught red-handed.
"Who is it?"
The second prince panicked. The vanguard officer beside him replied in fluent Mandarin of the Central Plains.
"We were sent by Liu Prefecture Overseer to reinforce the granary! The prefecture magistrate is worried that the barbarians of the Northern Borderline will attack the granary. "
This vanguard official was also a talent. When he lied, his face didn't turn red, and he didn't even pant. He even revealed a look of awe-inspiring righteousness.
The night was too dark, and there was some distance between them, so the guards couldn't see how many people were with the Second Prince. They asked a few questions and let them pass.
The second prince was relieved, but then he felt a little disdainful. "That's all —"
Perhaps the luck of the first half of the night had run out. The second prince encountered several patrols in a row, and they were getting more and more adept at dealing with them.
Unknowingly, he had been delayed for an hour.
At that moment, they were less than a quarter of an hour away from Chao Wu's granary.
Compared to the smooth journey on the second prince's side, the other two routes did not have such preferential treatment.
Along the way, they only encountered three waves of patrols, and they used the same method of lying to fool them. Little did they know that the patrols under Jiang Pengji were different from other patrols. Before dealing with each other, they had to match the secret signal. If the secret signal didn't match, they would be killed!
Of course, it was different today.
The patrols had received instructions from their superiors that if they met someone they couldn't match the secret signal with, they should not make a sound and cooperate with the other party's performance.
The North borderline thought that their operation was smooth, but they didn't know that their every move was within the enemy's expectations.
Lijiang's granary —
Liyun chewed on some hay in his mouth. He held his spear with one hand and wiped the tip of the spear with the other. His sharp eyes were surging with the desire to fight.
"Wan 'er, Nuannuan, wait for me to return!"
Liyun threw the wiping cloth aside. The hurried footsteps of his subordinates were getting closer.
"Commander Liyun, the enemy has formed a formation and surrounded the granary!"
"Just in time!"
Liyun straightened his body. He grabbed the white reins of his warhorse with one hand and nimbly flipped himself onto the horse. He held his spear high in the air.
"Deploy the troops to meet the enemy!"
At that moment, the sound of fighting could be heard from outside the granary. Two thousand cavalrymen rushed towards Lijiang's granary.
"Charge!"
Based on past experiences, the granary's defensive line would not be able to withstand a single wave of their charge. It would collapse a thousand miles away.
Not to mention that they had appeared suddenly. Chongzhou should not have been prepared.
If they met the enemy without any preparation, it would be even more impossible to block the iron hooves of their cavalrymen.
It was different this time.
When the cavalrymen in rattan armor formed a formation and accelerated their charge, the front hooves of the horses suddenly missed their footing and they fell forward with great inertia.
A group of human heads emerged from the ground. They held unknown sickle-like weapons in their hands and ruthlessly slashed at the legs of the horses, causing them to fall forward in pain. After doing that, they immediately retracted their heads into the ground and used the same trick on the second echelon who could not react in time.
Dozens of circular trenches were dug around the Lijiang granary in a radius of two hundred feet. This was to deal with the first wave of the North borderline's cavalrymen.
The distance between the trenches did not follow any pattern. There were even circular waves.
To conceal the existence of the trenches, the empty space was covered with grass. Coupled with the cover of the night, no one could see any clues.
Near the center of the granary, there were densely packed caltrops scattered between the trenches.
Seeing this, the troops from the North borderline also realized that they had fallen into an ambush.
Lijiang's granary was not a piece of fatty meat. It was clearly a trap with fatty meat!
However, the cavalry's speed was too fast. A distance of two hundred feet was nothing at all.
When they realized that it was an ambush and attempted to retreat, the first batch of cavalrymen had already rushed to the granary.
"You want to retreat? Have you asked for the permission of the spear in my hand? "
To make it easier to face the enemy, a small path about five feet wide was left in all directions of the granary.
At the same time, a similar scene was happening in Sang Mo's granary.
Jiang Pengji was someone who could not sit still. She did not like to mark documents and was passionate about personally fighting in battle.
The North borderline was there to attack the granary and steal the grain. Apart from bringing weapons and troops, their troops also brought along a large number of carriages used to transport the grain. The troops at the front lost and their morale plummeted. The troops at the back tried to retreat.
The carriages became an obstacle for their cavalrymen. They were stuck in one place and could not break through in all directions.
The quality of the North borderline's cavalrymen was not bad. Although the performance at the back was embarrassing, the remaining cavalrymen began to organize a charge to break through.
"Horse Slaying Battalion, go forward and form a formation!"
The order was given. A whistling arrow soared into the sky.
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