Chapter 616: Night attack
Chapter 616 Attack in the dark night
Chapter 614: Night attack
Zhongping three years (AD 186), November 20th.
The peaceful land reform in Nanyang was still in full swing, but Qin Hao, the governor of Nanyang, was preparing to leave Wancheng at this time and go to Chang'an to marry Princess Liu Mu of Wannian.
Qin Hao also wanted to wait until Nanyang was completely stable before leaving, but Chang'an had issued three consecutive edicts to recruit him to the court for marriage, so he could only put aside everything at hand for the time being and get the marriage done first.
“After I leave, Nanyang’s political affairs will be dominated by Wang Meng and Xun Yu, with Han Fei, Liu Ji, and Liu Ye as assistants.”
Qin Hao looked at the ministers with a serious face and continued: "The military is dominated by Qin Zheng, Bai Qi, Zhang Liao, and Yue Fei."
“We obey your orders.” Everyone responded.
“Li Cunxiao, I hope that when I come back, the Flying Tiger Army will have been formed.”
“I will live up to my lord’s expectations.”
…
After explaining everything, Qin Hao could finally leave with peace of mind. In fact, even if he didn't say anything, Nanyang would never be in chaos.
With so many good ministers and fierce generals guarding the city, and among them there are many famous commanders and talented ministers, the current problems in Nanyang are not a problem at all to the ministers.
Wancheng is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, but there are only two ways to go.
First, go north to Luoyang, then go west via Hangu Pass to Chang'an.
The second is to take Wuguan in the northwest direction, and then go directly to Chang'an after passing more than ten counties.
Qin Hao chose the Wuguan Road, which is relatively short but very rugged.
Although the scale of bandits and rogues along the way was not large, Qin Hao still brought 500 guards just in case.
After several days of traveling, the group finally arrived at Wuguan, and Wuguan guard Yuan Yi also entertained Qin Hao grandly.
Yuan Yi, courtesy name Boye, was born in Ruyang, Runan, and was the cousin of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.
Yuan Yi in the original history was once the governor of Shanyang, and also participated in the conquest of the Dong Zhuo Alliance. He was one of the eighteen princes.
Yuan Yi in this life also made great contributions in the Yellow Turban War, but he was not enough to be named a prefect, so he was named a general of Wuguan.
Early the next morning, Qin Hao led the army away without stopping, but Yuan Yi, who was standing on the tower, showed a strange smile.
“Qin Hao, you are destined not to reach Chang’an.”
Yuan Yi's eyes showed murderous intent and he said coldly: "Nanyang belongs to my Yuan family!"
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From Wuguan to Chang'an, the mountains and rivers stretch along the way, and the roads are rugged. They are all dangerous places that are easy to defend but difficult to attack.
So even if Wuguan is captured, if you want to reach Chang'an directly, you still need to conquer several more dangerous cities. This fully shows how dangerous the place in Guanzhong is.
Late at night, Qin Hao’s troops did not reach the next county, so they set up camp directly on the mountain. This was also very common in daily marches.
But just a few miles away from the camp, several groups of bandits dressed in bandit attire were quietly attacking Qin Hao's camp.
After solving several hidden sentries, the bandits finally successfully met outside the Qin camp, and their number was probably not less than 3,000.
Seeing that the defense of the Qin camp was not tight, the 'bandit leader' smiled ferociously and said: "Qin Hao, today is the day you die. Brothers, kill!"
"kill…"
Taking advantage of the darkness, nearly three thousand thieves launched a night attack on the Qin camp, and the "unprepared" Qin army fled in terror.
Without much resistance, the 'thief leader' rushed to Qin Hao's camp. After breaking in, he found that there was no one inside. He immediately roared angrily: "Where are the people? Chase me quickly, don't let Qin Hao." Hao ran away."
The leader did not notice anything was wrong, but the people around him noticed it first.
"Master, something is wrong, this is an empty camp!" "Empty camp?"
The leader of the bandit army, who was called the head of the family, reacted at this moment and shouted in horror: "No, get out of the camp quickly, there is an ambush among us."
Before he finished speaking, countless fire arrows were thrown into the camp from all sides. In an instant, the Qin camp turned into a fire camp, and the rebels in the camp were naturally filled with mourning.
"To deal with you bunch of bastards, there is no need for fifth brother to personally come forward. I, Qin Wu, am enough."
Outside the camp, Qin Wu looked at the fire camp in front of him and said coldly: "The military advisor is really good at predicting events. My fifth brother has been generous enough to you, but these worms are still evil-minded, so don't blame me, Qin Wu." Cruel."
The big camp could not trap the poisonous people. Soon hundreds of bandits escaped from the fire camp, but what awaited them was the rain of arrows from the Qin army.
Looking at the enemy in front of him, Qin Wu resisted the urge to take action himself and ordered: "The whole army listens to the order, shoot in three stages, and release arrows."
咻…咻…咻…
The rebel army was already completely demoralized. Faced with this torrential rain of arrows, how could they escape? In a short time, there were countless casualties and screams.
This was a one-sided massacre. Qin Wu could easily wipe out the bandit army, but was stopped by Jiang Juan on the side.
“Leave a few alive and quietly send them back to Wancheng to the military advisor, so that those shady guys will be convinced to die.”
Qin Wu was stunned for a moment, and then a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his lips.
"good idea!"
A massacre is about to begin in Nanyang!
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Wuguan.
“Report, report to the general, the plan failed, and…”
Yuan Yi stood up suddenly and said with a shocked look on his face: "What? How is this possible? Qin Hao only has 500 guards in his hands? Did the three-way ambush fail?"
“The Qin army is far more than 500 people. Qin Hao has made preparations in advance. The caravans that have recently passed the border are all Qin soldiers pretending to be. And..."
Seeing that the man was hesitant, Yuan Yi shouted impatiently: "And what? Say it quickly!"
“And Qin Hao didn’t go through Wuguan Pass at all, Qin Hao really went all the way to Hangu Pass.”
"What?"
Yuan Yi's eyes widened with disbelief on his face, and he asked, "Is the news reliable?"
“This is news that has come from Hanoi. It is absolutely reliable.”
"How is it possible? That person obviously has double pupils? Is there a third person in the world who has double pupils besides Qin Hao and Xiang Yu?"
Yuan Yi couldn't help but feel a panic when he thought that Qin Hao not only did not die, but actually planned an ambush to wipe out all the troops, Qin Hao would never let anyone involved.
"It's over. All arrangements made by my Yuan family in Nanyang are over."
Yuan Yi muttered to himself dully, knowing that this failure would definitely deal a fatal blow to the Yuan family's power in Nanyang.
In order to ambush Qin Hao this time, the Yuan family not only united with the aristocratic families that resisted Qin Hao, but also used their family background, which can be said to have laid a dragnet.
Yuan Yi has absolute confidence that as long as Qin Hao passes through Wuguan, there is absolutely no possibility of reaching Chang'an alive.
It is logical that this time it would be impossible to fail, but Yuan Yi would never have imagined that all the small actions of the Yuan family and some hostile families were actually under the surveillance of the Jin Yiwei.
What Yuan Yi didn't expect was that in later generations there was something called "cosmetic contact lenses", which looked no different from double eye contact lenses after wearing them, and Qin Hao happened to have the "channel" to get them.
(End of this chapter)
