More than a thousand captives arrived at Liulingou Village in the north of Qizi Mountain for reinforcements. Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao, Yang Qiye and others also noticed it immediately at the Qizi Mountain camp.
Taiyuan's 100,000 soldiers and civilians are weak and most of them are civilians. If they want to retreat into the Lingjinggou Canyon safely and orderly, they must ensure that their flanks are not disturbed by enemy cavalry.
The Chushan Cavalry marched eastward to Taiyuan and established defenses at Qizi Mountain in the north of Tianmen Mountain to block Xinzhou and the Red Husband Cavalry who might be reinforced in the future. This was the fundamental guarantee for the final victory of the raid on Taiyuan.
Chushan rode out of Tianmen Pass to attack south on a snowy night. Chen Zixiao immediately captured more than 500 Tianxiong soldiers and marched north to the chessboard. The next day, Yang Qiye also led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield in the south. Today, the first person to contact him was from
Several small groups of rebels who had withdrawn from the Luliang Army also came to the Qizi Mountain camp.
Because of the importance of this defense line, Xu Wuqi rushed over to take charge of the generals.
"A small number of enemy scouts have climbed over the mountains to the east to monitor the movements in the northern city of Taiyuan. We have no way to intercept them all. Facing the Han army camp in Yunzhou in the south, a night battle is organized. The movement will not be small. The news spreads to the north of Qizi Mountain
Next, it is very likely that this group of enemy cavalry will organize themselves immediately and launch an assault on our side."
Chen Zixiao stood on a simple watchtower made of a few fir trees, crossed a sparse forest, looked at the enemy troops in the north, then looked up at the sky, and said to Xu Wuqi and Yang Qiye,
"We must also be prepared for night fighting and interception. We must not allow large groups of enemies to ride to the south!"
"These cavalry came from Datong to help. Counting from the earliest time they could get the news in Datong, they traveled 450 miles in three days and two nights. If you include the hesitation and delay they may have had, this amount of time
The time it takes for more than a thousand cavalry to make this journey may be shorter than we imagined, and the soldiers and horses are also more tired. It is hard to imagine that they would rashly attack us at night before they have a clear understanding of the situation..." Yang Qiye felt that the night attack
The Han army camp in Yunzhou should be more prepared for Yin Chao to send troops from the south of Taiyuan City to launch an offensive from the northeast corner and northwest corner of Taiyuan City, instead of worrying about the tired cavalry in the north launching a night attack at the same time.
Judging from the current reconnaissance situation, the cavalry team reinforced by the Chihu people is also rushing into Liulingou Village to rest. On such a fast journey, most of the people probably lie down and cannot be woken up, right?
"There are not many cavalry left in Datong, but most of them are elite warriors who have followed the Red Husbands in their conquests for many years. Their soldiers are hard-working and tough, and are not inferior to Chushan's cavalry. The Yan Dynasty suffered too much for its fall.
"Chen Zixiao sighed.
More than 1,500 troops were stationed at the eastern foot of Chess Mountain, but the composition was complicated and they were not elite Tongbai soldiers.
Once a night battle broke out in the south, the enemy troops from Liulingou Village were out in force. They would not only defend the camp at the eastern foot of the chess piece, but more importantly, block the passage for the enemy troops in Liulingou Village to reinforce the Han army camp in Yunzhou.
This battle is much more difficult and arduous.
Chen Zixiao is now more fortunate that the enemy troops did not go south directly from Liulingou. Otherwise, they would have had to fight tooth and nail to intercept them from the flanks. They must not be allowed to approach the Han army camp in Yunzhou, let alone
Entering the Han army camp in Yunzhou.
If the more than a thousand soldiers who had been reinforced from Datong were to enter the Han army camp in Yunzhou, Chen Zixiao could not imagine how much more difficult it would be for the Chushan soldiers to attack the Han army camp in Yunzhou.
Chen Zixiao is one of the culprits who caused the banditry in Tongbai Mountain. There are still many people in Tongbai Mountain who still have opinions about him. However, Xu Wuqi, who has witnessed and understood all the details of the banditry, knows more about Chen Zixiao's His knowledge and talents are far above those of ordinary generals.
He nodded solemnly and said decisively:
"The enemy cavalry who have come for reinforcements should understand the importance of the Han army's camp in Yunzhou. We cannot be careless. Immediately pass on the order. No generals are allowed to disarm tonight. We must dig as many horse traps as possible on both sides of the camp. Don't stop the work of burying some horse tripping stakes until dark. Prepare more bonfires in the camp and prepare for night battles. After dark, move 200 men and horses into the small ridge and woods to the east to garrison. Even if you work in vain, it will be useless. It's better than being caught off guard..."
"Soldiers and horses are coming from the south!" Wang Hua, who led the guards and was responsible for protecting Xu Wuqi's personal safety, stood looking downstairs and said.
The Qizi Mountain camp was on a higher ground than the area east of Tianmen Mountain in the south. Everyone turned their heads and saw more than two hundred cavalry coming from the east of Tianmen Mountain to the north.
"It seems that the military lord was also worried that the enemy cavalry would attack Qizi Mountain at night, so he sent troops and horses to reinforce us." Chen Zixiao said with certainty.
Compared to Chen Zixiao, Yang Qiye certainly trusted Xu Huai's judgment more. Seeing that Xu Huai had sent troops and horses for reinforcements, there was no room for further discussion at the moment, so he went down to the watchtower to make arrangements.
After a stick of incense, Shen Zhenwu, Yuan Lei led two hundred cavalry into the camp, found Xu Wuqi, Chen Zixiao, Yang Qiye and they said:
"There are more than a thousand horsemen coming to support the soldiers. The military leader is worried that the night battle will start in the south and the enemy cavalry may attack Qizi Mountain. I have been specially ordered to lead my troops to come for reinforcements!"
"It's just the right time for you to come here, Mr. Xu. Let's calm down the evil. After dark, Yuan Lei will lead his troops to ambush in the woods on the east side!" Chen Zixiao suggested.
Only the Chushan cavalry can truly intercept and even severely damage enemy reinforcements from the flanks while waiting for work; the garrison at Qizi Mountain Camp can only form formations to intercept the enemy cavalry from the frontal battlefield...
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The red sunset gradually dispersed on the top of the Western Mountain. The sky had not yet completely darkened, and the lead-blue sky looked like a bottomless pool.
At the trebuchet position on the south side of the Han army's camp in Yunzhou, piles of bonfires were lit for lighting so that the trebuchets could continue firing in an orderly manner.
Of course, the enemy had cut down a large amount of wood at the Han army camp in Yunzhou. In addition to urgently reinforcing the roof, they also built a section of wall next to the south wall of the barracks to prevent the barracks from being directly hit by stone bullets. Hit; use long bamboo poles to pull up curtains in mid-air, which can also buffer the stone bullets thrown at you.
After a day of hard work, the threat posed by trebuchets to the Han army camp in Yunzhou was not that serious.
These deployments also have great limitations on the power of the bed crossbow.
The enemy troops, who had been disturbed last night and had been in panic all day long, saw no other movement from the Chushan Army in front of the camp before nightfall, and most of the troops went into the camp to rest.
Of course, a large number of people were still gathered under the wall to keep vigil, but they did not dare to stand directly on the wall.
Although city bricks weighing twenty or thirty kilograms have not been polished and can rarely hit the low wall of the village accurately, after the Chushan Army blocked the South Gate of the Han Army Camp in Yunzhou, they destroyed eight bricks.
The simple archery tower and the city-climbing cart were pushed to the front. A hundred steps away, the elite archers of the Chushan Army stood on the four- to five-foot-high archery tower. The city-climbing cart had an absolute commanding view of the enemy's camp wall, which was only more than one foot high.
The advantages.
The enemy army in the camp cannot erect an arrow tower of the same height to fight, which will become a living target for the trebuchets.
The sky soon became completely dark, thin clouds covered the sky, and three or five stars could be vaguely seen.
At this time, groups of people withdrew from the front line, and groups of people entered the front line holding torches. It seemed to be a normal rotation and change of defense.
Xu Huai held the sword at his waist, walked up to the generals, and said:
"Most of the Taiyuan defenders are still very tired. The Chushan Army and the Tianxiong Army have been attacking for a long distance. They have been fighting for days, and their physical exhaustion has reached a limit. Therefore, I did not organize and mobilize all the generals who participated in the night battle today, so that everyone can fight for it.
Get more rest and build up more energy for killing the enemy. However, when you return to each department, in addition to repeated instructions on passwords and other details, you also need to have more heart-to-heart conversations with the generals. There is only one truth: everyone is destined to die, or it may be easier than death.
A feather may be heavier than Mount Tai. A man from Vietnam is willing to kneel down and survive under the butcher's knife of a captive soldier, and bear to see his wife and children being invaded and robbed by the captives, or is he willing to fight to the death... These words may have been said repeatedly before, but don't take it too seriously.
It's troublesome. Everyone should go back to their respective positions. After two more sticks of incense, I will give the signal and everyone will attack the camp together. Only then will the follow-up troops gradually enter the front line. We must prepare for the follow-up troops to attack the enemy.
Go deep into the camp and tear open the door!"
Xu Huai's original plan was to wait until early in the morning, when most of the enemy troops had fallen asleep and the enemy soldiers on guard were the most tired, so he would launch an attack at a slack time, but enemy reinforcements arrived earlier than he expected.
Although the reinforcements from Datong were only over a thousand enemy troops, these troops were even more impressive than the six thousand defenders in the Han army's camp in Yunzhou.
He could not give these prisoners a chance to rest and recuperate, so he advanced the general attack time by two hours and tried to capture the Han army camp in Yunzhou before dawn.
Because they want to block the enemy's reinforcements from the flanks, Yin Peng and Tang Pan each have to lead an elite force to guard the two wings. There are only a thousand Chushan elites who are actually used to launch a strong attack on the Han army camp in Yunzhou.
He will also be responsible for breaking into the enemy camp from the center and near Nanyuan Gate. The left and right routes are occupied by 3,000 Taiyuan defenders who can barely enter the battlefield to fight.
Xu Xin'an and others were worried about how much fighting power the three thousand generals selected by the Taiyuan garrison had, but Xu Huai was not worried.
The mourning soldiers are available. These three thousand generals know better than anyone else that they bear the hope of the livelihood of one hundred thousand Taiyuan troops and people. As long as an opportunity is created for them to rush into the enemy camp, they will burst out with unimaginable strong will.
Of course, if you want to minimize the casualties on the left and right sides, the troops in the center need to rush to the enemy's tent as quickly as possible and completely destroy their weak command system at night...
