I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

At night, a total of 5,000 Ming troops left the city.

Night raids focus on surprises, but the number of troops is second.

At night, the more troops there are, the more difficult it is to command and control. After a melee, it is even possible for one's own troops to fight with one's own troops.

Therefore, the night raiding troops are more expensive than they are.

Five thousand people were led by Fang Guoan's general Xu Wenwei, and the risk factor of night attack was too great, so Fang Guoan naturally wouldn't go out in person.

After leaving the city, they did not set off torches, but moved forward by night.

This kind of march has a high risk factor. If you accidentally trip over a stone, the spear in your hand will pierce Pao Ze.

Therefore, the speed of the Ming army's advance was very slow, and it took half an hour to walk a few miles.

Walking in the forefront is a group of elite teams, who are responsible for solving Wu Jun's outposts and dark posts to prevent the army from being discovered.

There are 20 people in the elite team. Among them, there are also some talented people. For example, some people's ears are very useful, and they can hear the slightest disturbance.

There is also a particularly good eye, which can see farther and clearer than others at night.

His mission was to specifically find the sentinels who discovered Wu Jun.

"There are two on the mound on the left, and two under the big tree over there."

The heretics soon discovered four sentinels on the vigil.

"Only four? And what about the dark whistle?"

The head of Hundred Households who led the team asked. He felt that the four sentinels were a little less, and there should be dark sentries that had not been discovered.

"No, just these four."

Issei said.

"Can you guarantee it? If you ruin the general's affairs, you can't afford it."

The head of Hundred Households gave a warning, and Yi Shi reluctantly observed it again, and finally determined that there were only four.

"Action, you must kill them all, you can't let one go."

The head of Hundred Households gave the order to act, and the team was divided into two teams and touched the two sentries.

These people are worthy of being carefully selected elites. They all touched the side of the guard posts a few meters away, but the guard posts were still not found.

Afterwards, they stormed towards the four sentries, slashing with their knives.

No other movement was heard, and the head of Baihu was in a very good mood, which meant that there was indeed no secret whistle.

"Report to the army behind that the post has been cleared and the attack can be launched."

After he finished speaking, he promised the alien who had made a contribution to the war and would receive a great reward after the war.

But at this time, they didn't find out that one person in the Wu Jun sentry, who was chopped down by random knives, was only seriously injured and did not die immediately.

Maybe the Ming army was too careless, thinking that it would be safe to cut a dozen knives.

Unexpectedly, the soldier had better luck and was not cut to the core.

At this time, he heard that the enemy was about to attack, and he was also shocked.

He knew that he had suffered a lot of knives and would definitely not survive. In the past, he might just wait to die silently, and the life and death of the army had nothing to do with him.

But now, he remembered Wu Changqing's care and love for their soldiers at the bottom, and a thought came up in his heart to be loyal to Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing not only personally paid him military salaries, but also promised to give soldiers free land when the war was over, which moved him very much.

So, he struggled to take out the fire book and lit the fireworks beside him.

This is a fireworks specially used as a flare, with a loud sound and a long duration.

"Beep-pop."

A strange sound startled the head of a hundred households in the Ming army. Then, the sound continued, and bright fireworks began to bloom in the sky.

The head of the hundred households did not have the idea of ​​'so beautiful' like those young scholars.

He knew it was bad. Although he didn't know what the fireworks were, the sound was enough to alarm the Wu army camp a hundred meters away.

Even worse, he had already sent someone to inform the troops in the rear that the post had been cleared, and it would be too late to inform him at this time.

Not all the soldiers in the Wu Jun camp have rested, and there are still teams in charge of patrolling the battalion.

As soon as they saw the fireworks in the distance, they immediately knew that there was an enemy attack at night, and immediately dispersed to wake up the other soldiers.

They have been trained on weekdays, so they are not particularly panic when they encounter this kind of thing.

Soon, a large number of soldiers and generals were awakened, and a large number of torches in the battalion were lit.

Wang Dayong and several senior generals also came to the army at this time, appeared in front of the soldiers, and reassured the soldiers in time.

As long as the general is there, the soldiers feel more at ease.

The biggest reason why Wang Dayong and the others acted so quickly was that they did not wear armor.

Unlike the generals of other cold weapon troops who like to wear bulky armor, the senior generals of the Wu army generally don't like to wear armor, because they have almost no chance to fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

Those cumbersome armors are actually very troublesome to wear, and they can't be done by one person, and they must be assisted by personal soldiers. This process takes at least ten minutes.

As for Wang Dayong and the others, they got up and put on a coat and left the camp to take over the command.

This habit worked wonders when dealing with emergencies, and Wu Jun quickly completed the formation.

Night raids, the enemy was caught off guard.

But now Wu Jun is already ready to go, and has formed a formation in front of the camp.

When the Ming army arrived, everyone was dumbfounded.

Some people even thought that they were ambushed by Wu Jun.

"shooting."

Wang Dayong ordered.

Long-range attack soldiers have a greater advantage in this dark night. They don't have to run around in the dark, they just need to shoot in the direction of the enemy.

As the gunshots rang out, various screams followed.

Obviously, someone in the Ming army was shot. The distance between the two sides is less than 100 meters, and many people can be hit by luck without aiming.

At this time, Xu Wenwei had sweat on his forehead, and he no longer knew what to do.

Continuing to carry out the night attack plan, the success rate is not high, or there is no doubt that it will fail.

But just escaping in such a dismal manner was a huge blow to morale. More importantly, in the dark night, once there is panic, the team will be in chaos, and the chaos will be over.

As long as the Wu army catches up, they may not be able to reach 30% of the soldiers who can escape back to the city.

Retreat is always harder than attack.

This situation is very difficult for any general to handle.

Xu Wenwei is not a famous general, and he has no extraordinary talent. He hesitated for a moment at this time, and until his subordinates urged him, he ordered to give up the night attack and return the same way.

You can escape as much as you can, it's better than continuing to attack and wipe out the entire army.

Unsurprisingly, Xu Wenwei's order to retreat caused panic among the Ming army.

This order is equivalent to telling all the soldiers that the night attack failed.

And in the end of failure, needless to say, there will definitely be heavy losses.

This kind of panic made the soldiers hate themselves to escape in front, and the dead Taoist friends will not die. The formation of the army immediately became chaotic.

This kind of chaos is relatively easy to adjust and recover during the day, but at night, the chaos will only get more and more chaotic.

Even the junior military attachés at the bottom knew that this situation could not be saved, so they were too lazy to command, and they all scrambled to escape.