Chapter 694： The night attack begins

After lunch, Marin found that the surrounding soldiers looked at themselves with respect and gratitude. Moreover, everyone's morale is high, as if blessed with aura of war.

"Well, military minds are available!" Marin nodded in satisfaction.

No matter which era of war, as long as the difference in equipment level between the two sides is not particularly large, then morale is a very important part of it. The party with high morale, even if it is at a disadvantage, has a great chance of defeating the stronger party. Conversely, if a strong army is disintegrated, it may be defeated by weak enemies.

Seeing himself as a small means to boost morale, Marin was very happy. Moreover, it also makes it more likely to win.

By more than four o'clock in the afternoon, the army had reached a wood 5 kilometers north of Newcastle. After arriving here, Marin ordered the army to stop and rest in the north of the woods.

It is very close to the Scottish army, and if you go further, you will be discovered. Before it was dark, Marin took everyone to sit down and rest.

Because of the night attack, it is best to sleep in advance. After eating dry bread, Marin asked everyone to rest for a few hours. It's just that those tents weren't brought, and everyone had no place to sleep. In desperation, Marin had to let the soldiers sit back to back and rest on the ground. Wait until midnight, then get up and attack.

But, without the tent's shelter, the mosquitoes in summer seem to be particularly annoying ...

This is the beginning of August, the hottest time in summer. Although Scotland has a high latitude, there are many mosquitoes in summer. Therefore, everyone is suffering.

Marin was a little ashamed at this time because he did not let everyone bring a tent, which led to the current bad situation. So, disregarding his dissuasion, he came to the middle of the soldiers and sat back to back with Kahn who had always been with him. Of course, they were also attacked by mosquitoes ...

In the middle of the night, Marin was asleep, and suddenly there was a sudden pain in his face. So he waved his hands without thinking ...

There was a snap, especially loud in the silent night. Kahn, who was back to back with Marin, immediately awakened. He stood up violently, his eyes scanning in all directions:

"There are assassins?"

Marin was suffering this time, and he and Kahn were resting back to back. As a result, Kahn stood up suddenly, and Marin was decisively tragic-his back was empty, the whole person fell to the ground, and there was an intimate contact with the ground in the back of his head ...

"Ouch--" Marin touched the back of the aching head. Fortunately, this is a dirt floor, not a concrete floor or a masonry floor. Otherwise, such a bump must see blood.

"Ah, Master, I'm sorry, I forgot that you are behind me!" Kahn suddenly embarrassed-he forgot to rest with Marin back to back ...

Marin was too lazy to blame him. He used the moonlight to look at a "pocket watch" about the size of an alarm clock-it was exactly 12 midnight ...

So he simply didn't sleep. Anyway, when the Scottish army is won, everyone can enter Newcastle City and sleep well.

Marin simply asked Kahn to find the reconnaissance cavalry and asked them to contact the 3000 thieves brought by Maric and inform them to prepare for the joint operation.

However, Marin made adjustments to their actions. Originally, Maric's mission was to take 3,000 thieves to sneak attack on the Scotsman's Camp, which is separate from the war battalion, when the main force sneaked into the enemy war battalion. However, Marin later felt that those strong people did not need to attack them. Anyway, they have little combat power. Therefore, it is better to surround instead. As long as the exits of the Minzhuang camps are blocked, those Minzhuangs do not have the courage to charge outwards.

In this way, there is no need to use 3,000 people. To this end, Marin intends to allow Maric to send 2,000 people to encircle the civilian camp. Another 1,000 people took advantage of the night to lay ambush on the north road of Newcastle, and set up some trips to the horses and the like to specifically intercept the Scottish army ’s leaky fish.

After all, this time Marin hit, but the real night attack, inevitably there will be a fish that escapes in the chaos. And those who can escape are definitely riding horses. But in the dark, they must not dare to take the path when they fled, and they would choose to race from the road. To the best of Marin's knowledge, north of Newcastle, there is only one Roman avenue. Therefore, Marin asked Maric to arrange a thousand people to set up a few trips on the north avenue, to intercept the Scottish soldiers who escaped from the Lou King.

You know, those who can qualify to ride horses are nobles and big fish. And even infantry without horses, Marin was too lazy to intercept. Moreover, sooner or later people who run away will be recovered by scout cavalry ...

The three thousand thieves of Maric are actually in a forest 4 kilometers west of Marin's location. The Scout cavalry under Marin contacted them before. Therefore, this communication is very fast.

After the Scout cavalry came back, Marin simply let his men wake up all the soldiers and began to prepare for the night attack ...

At about two o'clock in the morning, the 20,000 soldiers under the command of Marin were all ready, and the teams were lined up, ready to go at any time ...

After marrying the army for another two kilometers, Marin ordered everyone to stop. Then, Marin asked the blasting team to step forward and burrow gunpowder barrels by the fence of the Scottish military camp ...

Around 3:30 in the morning, news came from the blasting team ahead-5 gunpowder barrels and 3 in place ...

"What's the matter? Why are there only three buried?" Marin frowned and asked the blast captain Donizry who came back.

Donizri said with a sad face:

"Duke, it's not that we didn't try our best, but that the defense of the Scottish military camp seemed to be very strict tonight. We tried our best to find three hidden locations where the gunpowder barrels were buried. We wanted to find the fourth point, which I couldn't find. what……"

"The other party is guarded?" Marin frowned, but it suddenly became clear-his scout cavalry and Koster's 900 horseman had eaten more than three hundred Scottish scout cavalry. It would be strange if the other party was indifferent.

In fact, as Marin had expected, James IV was full of uneasiness when he saw that more than three hundred scout cavalry sent out during the day did not return at night.

Although sometimes the scout cavalry goes out for a few days without returning, there is no reason not to send someone to report ...

To this end, the disturbed James IV ordered to be vigilant at night. This also caused a lot of trouble for Donizri's blasting team. After a lot of effort, the blasting team found the three visual dead ends of the camp and began to bury gunpowder barrels ...

May be prepared for opponents ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin began to hesitate, whether to give up the night raid. However, Marin quickly reacted-I don't have 20,000 people, even if I play regularly, I can win, not to mention night attack? So, the original plan continued to execute ...

In fact, although James IV was prepared, the level of defense was not high. Because James IV would not have thought that a large army would attack them from the north.

Therefore, the midnight alert of the Scottish army is more directed towards the direction of Newcastle City and the south bank of the Tyne. Because, in the understanding of James IV, only these two directions will have a large army of enemies. As for the messenger in the North Side, James IV thinks more of the harassment of the enemy troops in the past, which will not have much impact on the camp ... Then, this judgment hurts the whole of Scotland ...

Of course, he should not be blamed. Who would have thought that someone would lead the army to sea maneuver and go behind the Scottish army? In the view of James IV, Marin's army should have gone south to London long ago ...

At 4 o'clock, Marin's army finally approached the Scottish camp. By this time, the East had become slightly whitish. After all, it's summer, and the day gets early.

Seeing the time was running out, Marin no longer hesitated. He ignited the torch and shook it. The blaster in front of the camp immediately took out a lit fire rope blocked by valuable cloth and lit the fuze. Then, the three ignited blasters ran back in despair ...

It did n’t take long for three loud noises to erupt from the camp on the north side of the Scottish camp. The wooden fence of the Scottish camp was directly bombed into the sky ...

And 500 meters away, Marin pulled out the knight's sword and ordered loudly:

"attack!"

"Rush!" The 20,000-strong army, which had already been ready to go, suddenly rushed towards the Scottish camp like a tide, rushing in from three gaps ...