Chapter 1022: Night Raid

"Have all machine gunners prepare; they will likely launch a night raid tonight." Standing on a raised mound, Guan Tong observed for a while with a telescope.

Seeing that the Piaoman main force had no further movements, he made his judgment.

The last time the Piaoman attacked Yunzhou, they had already suffered at the hands of the Vermilion Bird Army and understood the Vermilion Bird Army's prowess.

Attacking during the day, they would not only fail to achieve their plan of forcing the Vermilion Bird Army into the Great Swamp, but would also suffer heavy losses.

By utilizing the night to weaken the accuracy of the Vermilion Bird Army's firearms and artillery, only then would an attack have a possibility of success.

On this point, he believed the Piaoman would certainly be able to figure it out.

"Yes, General." Three commanders stood before Guan Tong.

Their names were Yan Heng, Nieyun, and Xueyuan, commanding the First Army, Second Army, and Third Army of the Vermilion Bird Army, respectively.

After giving a military salute, they turned and left to arrange troops against the Piaoman main force.

As the two armies stood in a standoff, the sun gradually sank into the western mountains.

The mountains changed from green to red, and were finally submerged by darkness.

Just at this moment, the location where the Piaoman main force was stationed lit up; it turned out the Piaoman soldiers had lit torches.

Under the light of the torches, the Piaoman army began to move, and the Elephant Cavalry, composed of five hundred elephants, was arranged in the front row.

Other Piaoman soldiers followed behind the Elephant Cavalry, preparing to launch a charge against the Great Song army.

"Hahaha, the Great Song people will surely be scared out of their wits; our Elephant Cavalry will trample them into meat paste," said a Piaoman commander beside Yongya.

Yongya looked toward the place where the Great Song army was stationed; campfires had also lit up there, faintly visible.

Hearing this, he revealed a cruel smile.

When he led troops to fight the Great Song army in Yunzhou, he realized that his side's firearms and artillery were far inferior to those of the Great Song army.

Apart from the rifled muskets that could exert some effect, the flintlocks and matchlocks were as good as useless.

Under such circumstances, he naturally had to take advantage of the night to launch a sneak attack.

Moreover, he had also ordered the soldiers participating in the sneak attack to all carry swords and blades.

Darkness was unfavorable for the Great Song army's firing of firearms and artillery, and naturally, it was also unfavorable for their own firing of firearms and artillery.

Therefore, it was better to engage in direct hand-to-hand combat and use numbers to annihilate this Great Song army.

Thinking of this, he became even more smug, as if he could see victory right before his eyes.

Once the Elephant Cavalry and others had finished forming their ranks, Yongya issued the order to attack.

The Piaoman soldiers steered the elephants into the darkness.

Although there were torches everywhere in the camp, the Piaoman soldiers responsible for the sneak attack were moving in the dark.

They spread out along a five-mile-long battle line, with one Elephant Cavalry unit every five meters, and advanced forward.

Before the Piaoman launched their attack, the Vermilion Bird Army had already sent out scouts to move ahead and tie bells two hundred meters in front of the camp.

The bell is a small and convenient object, a sharp weapon against night raids, so the scouts naturally carried them on their persons.

After nightfall, the Vermilion Bird Army deployed its main forces on the south side, while the east, west, and north sides were only placed with a small amount of troops, and no machine guns were arranged there.

Because although the Great Swamp was a dead end, it had now also become their city wall.

Except for the ten thousand Piaoman soldiers who might be lured over to kill them once the battle started, there would be no more enemy forces.

And the east and west sides belonged to the edge areas of the Great Swamp.

This was also the reason why Guan Tong chose to station here.

It was to utilize the edge of the swamp to construct a geographical advantage.

Thus, they only needed to focus on defending against the Piaoman main force in the North Territory.

At this moment, one hundred and eighty machine guns were distributed along the front battle line.

Soldiers were deployed between the machine guns.

The soldiers untied the hand grenades from their waists and placed them in front of them for easy access during the battle.

The artillerymen were also fully prepared, waiting for the illumination flares to be fired to bombard the sneaking Piaoman army.

For a time, the battlefield was terrifyingly quiet, with only the sound of insects chirping.

Guan Tong did not sleep.

Instead, he paced back and forth in the camp; he was also a bit nervous.

He was afraid that the Piaoman would see through his intentions and not fall into his trap.

In that case, he would have to go through a lot of trouble to annihilate the Piaoman army.

The commanders stared at Guan Tong, their gazes following his figure as he moved.

After about half an hour, intense bell ringing suddenly came.

Hearing the sound, Guan Tong immediately shouted, "Illumination flares!"

With a "Poof!" sound, an illumination flare soared into the sky, and the world instantly became as bright as day.

Under the light, the Piaoman's Elephant Cavalry and infantry were exposed before the Vermilion Bird Army.

"They've taken the bait!" Zhou Yi was invigorated and clenched his fists tightly.

He had used this method of using bells to guard against sneak attacks on the Northern Di people a long time ago.

Now that it had succeeded again, it was clear that the Piaoman had no relevant experience and had fallen for the trick.

Following the launch of the first illumination flare, more and more illumination flares rose along the battle line, and the width of the entire Piaoman army's attack formation was exposed.

"Fire!"

Just at this moment, Guan Tong let out a loud shout and issued the order.

"Da-da-da..."

At almost the exact same time, the machine guns spat out tongues of fire.

One hundred and eight machine guns instantly poured out a massive amount of bullets.

The soldiers also fired at the Piaoman army in various postures.

The Artillerymen pulled the lanyards, and cannonballs flew out of the muzzles one by one, landing in the midst of the great Piaoman army.

In order to attack the Vermilion Bird Army, Yongya committed a massive amount of troops.

The open ground between the Vermilion Bird Army camp and the Piaoman camp was filled with Piaoman soldiers.

Facing the strafing of the Machine Guns and the bombardment of the Artillery, they had nowhere to hide.

As the Illumination Flare rose into the sky, the Piaoman army was startled by the suddenly appearing light.

The elephants ridden by the Elephant Cavalry were even somewhat uneasy, taking a few steps forward and then a few steps back.

After the Vermilion Bird Army's Machine Guns, rifles, and Artillery opened fire simultaneously.

The elephants, being the largest targets, were immediately wounded.

And the suddenly appearing loud noises also terrified the elephants; they no longer obeyed the commands of the Elephant Cavalry, screaming as they fled in all directions.

This brought disaster to the Piaoman soldiers around the Elephant Cavalry, who were immediately trampled to death by the elephants.

The soldiers who were not trampled to death by the elephants were also shot and fell into pools of blood because they no longer had the elephants as cover.

"Da-da-da..."

"Bang-bang-bang..."

Due to being fully prepared, the Machine Guns and soldiers fired frantically.

Under the dense rain of bullets, the Piaoman soldiers fell in swathes.

"Charge!"

"Do not retreat, charge!"

"..."

The front row of Piaoman soldiers suddenly suffered an attack and heavy casualties, and being frightened by the suddenly appearing light, some Piaoman soldiers fled in terror.

Seeing this, the Piaoman general immediately tried to stop the soldiers from fleeing.

For this night raid, their Emperor Yongya had made up his mind.

As long as they could intimidate the Great Song army through a fearless night raid and force them to flee south, they would win.

Therefore, even though they had been discovered by the Great Song army at this moment, they had to carry the night raid through to the end.

After all, they had already reached a position two hundred meters away from the Great Song army.

Under the urging and coercion of the general, some Piaoman soldiers turned back, rejoined the charging ranks, and howling, rushed toward the Vermilion Bird Army formation.

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