My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 118 Night Attack
Zhu Di and Xu Huizu each led a sniper battalion of a hundred men, galloping on the road at full speed.

Although we arrived at Songting Pass and had no time to rest, we set off immediately.

But the crowd did not feel tired. Instead, they were full of energy and strength, and they couldn't wait to rush to Daning and wipe out the Yuan army!

In order to reach Daning as quickly as possible, each person brought three horses and took turns riding them along the way, and finally arrived at the destination at 11 p.m.

Half an hour later, Tang He also met Li Wenzhong with 5,000 light cavalry.

This place is about thirty miles away from Daning City. In order to avoid being discovered by the Yuan army's scouts, Li Wenzhong and Tang He decided to hide the army in the woods first, and then send out the sniper battalion and musket battalion for a surprise night attack after figuring out the enemy's deployment at night.

Finally, Tang He led 5,000 cavalrymen to reap the rewards.

In addition to the cavalry-specific swords, Tang He's light cavalry also had a thousand cavalrymen carrying needle-lock rifles, which meant they were armed to the teeth!
Although Li Wenzhong and Tang He did not need to lead the troops into battle personally due to their status, they should have stayed in the central military tent and used the walkie-talkie with Xu Da in the base camp to plan the strategy.

But this was the first time that the Ming Dynasty Sniper Battalion and the Musket Battalion had attacked. The two men did not dare to be rash and also wanted to personally test the results of the training.

As for who should be sent to lead the team to investigate the enemy's movements, Zhu Di and Xu Huizu both volunteered. Li Wenzhong and Tang He discussed it and agreed.

Although Zhu Di and Xu Huizu were of extremely noble status, they had been training with the sniper battalion since its formation and could be considered veterans of the sniper battalion. Their experience was even richer than that of some of the elites who were not on duty at night.

Moreover, the two were equipped with night vision binoculars, which allowed them to spot the enemy from a hundred feet away, while the enemy could not spot them at all.

There are also radio transmitters and wireless headsets, which can be used to report reconnaissance situations or request support at any time.

With the help of these equipments, as long as the two of them don't seek death, there is almost no danger of being discovered.

Zhu Di and Xu Huizu, both wearing camouflage uniforms, led ten elite night warriors, also wearing camouflage uniforms, and soon disappeared into the night.

It was a moonless night with only a few scattered stars in the sky and the earth was shrouded in darkness. No one could have imagined that in this darkness, a group of elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were moving forward rapidly!
Twenty elite night warriors were all equipped with night vision binoculars. Although the field of vision was not as wide as in the daytime, the scene ahead was clearly visible in the slightly blue light of the night vision goggles.

In previous training, they had already practiced with each other countless times using night vision goggles according to the manual. Now, they were just repeating the training.

Suddenly, Zhu Di's voice came from everyone's earphones.

"Everyone, take cover. There is movement a hundred meters to the northeast ahead!"

Everyone stopped instantly, then lay down and hid in the grass. Everything was quiet, as if no one had ever been here.

Zhu Di used night vision goggles to observe the movements ahead, and saw two Yuan soldiers talking about something in the dense forest ahead.

"They are Yuan army sentries. It seems we are not far from the Yuan army camp. These two are visible sentries, and there should be hidden sentries as well!"

Zhu Di whispered an order into the headset, "Zhang Da and Li Qi, the two of you follow me to investigate, the rest of you stay where you are and wait for the next order!"

Although this was his first time to go on a mission on the battlefield, Zhu Di did not feel nervous at all. Besides his anger towards the Mongolian Tartars, he also felt a little excited and expectant.

He has always hoped to establish immortal achievements like his father. However, due to his elder brother Zhu Biao, he has no interest in the throne. He just wants to be a vassal in Yan and guard the border for the Ming Dynasty, and he can also make achievements on the battlefield.

He had no objection to Zhu Yuanzhang's reduction of the power of the princes, but he felt as if he had lost his goal and was empty. He could only stay in the training ground every day and train hard.

It was not until Zhu Yuanzhang decided to lift the maritime ban and use trade to control overseas countries that he found his goal.

Because in the plan formulated by his elder brother Zhu Biao, overseas trade requires military support, which gave him hope again.

Overseas, we can also expand the territory for the Ming Dynasty!
In the night, only two dark shadows were seen moving forward silently along with Zhu Di.

The three of them came into the dense forest and dispersed like ghosts.

The Yuan army's secret sentries thought they were well hidden, but in the field of vision of the night vision goggles, they were nowhere to be found. There were ten secret sentries in total, and after marking their positions, three of them retreated.

"Brother-in-law, there are ten secret sentries and two visible sentries in the dense forest. I have marked all the positions and routes. What do you think we should do now?"

"Get rid of them all!" Xu Huizu said briefly, with a cold light in his eyes!

"Brother-in-law, I've been waiting for you to say this!"

"Everyone, crawl forward quietly. Remember not to alert the enemy and alarm the main force of the Yuan army!"

In the dense forest, two Yuan army soldiers were leaning against a big tree bored, with an indignant look on their faces.

One of them said, "We brothers have contributed a lot to the capture of Daning City. Why should we be on guard? They are just living a life of luxury in the city, robbing the Han people's money and having sex with Han women!"

"Who made our Master Wuerer so alert? Don't worry, we will go play with Han women after dawn!"

Another Yuan army soldier answered with an expression of disapproval on his face.

"When it's our turn, we won't know what kind of ugly things we are!"

The Yuan soldier spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm and continued, "How could the Ming army come at this late hour? Besides, how could our 30,000 elite cavalrymen be a match for those despicable and lowly Han people?"

"That's true, but the Han women are fair and tender, much more beautiful than those rough women on the grassland.

Now that I think about it, I was too quick to kill the Han woman I captured when I first entered the city. What a pity. Otherwise, I would have kept her as a slave. That would have been so cool! "

As he spoke, the Yuan army soldier stood up and walked to the side.

"Why are you going?"

"I'm so angry, I need to pee!"

The Yuan army soldier walked to a big tree, untied his belt and was about to release him, but unexpectedly, a ghostly figure appeared behind him!
Then, he felt a chill on his neck. He wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound. He could only hear a hissing sound coming from his neck.

After quietly getting rid of one Yuan soldier, Zhu Di tiptoed towards another one.

Then he suddenly jumped up, covered his mouth, and slashed his neck with the sharp dagger again!
He had practiced this set of movements countless times, and now he performed it smoothly and skillfully.

The first time he killed someone, when he smelled the blood, he felt only excitement!
At the same time, Xu Huizu, with other elite Yebushou soldiers, was ruthlessly reaping the lives of the Yuan army like the god of death!
After a while, all the Yuan army's outposts were cleared, and everything was silent, as if no one had ever been in this dense forest!
Daning, a former important frontier town, is now in ruins and devastated.

Although it was already midnight, the sounds of the Yuan army's killing and the wailing of the people could still be heard from the city.

Thousands of Yuan soldiers held axes and sabers that shone with cold light, with ferocious faces and greedy and cruel eyes. They were like yakshas and evil spirits from hell, or hyenas that smelled blood, and they kept plundering in Daning City.

They broke into any houses they saw and searched, dragging out the civilians who had not yet escaped from the city. Regardless of their cries for mercy, they cruelly raised their butcher knives!

Outside the city, the tents of the Yuan army were piled up one after another. On one side of the tents, there were piles of gold, silver and jewelry looted from Daning City, like a small mountain.

There were many Han women lying in a mess nearby, their clothes had long been torn into rags, revealing their snow-white thighs and breasts.

Their faces were all pale, some were covered with tear marks, some had lifeless eyes that were extremely empty.

In the middle of the tent, a blazing bonfire lit up half the sky. Many strong Mongolian men gathered around the bonfire, some were drinking and eating meat, while others were singing and dancing. They looked so arrogant and domineering!
However, what they didn't know was that in the dense forest not far away, pairs of eyes like the god of death were staring at them!

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