Lu Tong was preparing for a strong attack. After hearing the order, his generals immediately understood.
"I take your orders." Dou Bing clasped his hands and immediately retreated, returning to his headquarters very quickly along with Jiao Ming.
"Wang Jiuling." After calling Jiao Ming's name, Lu Tong did not leave Wang Jiuling idle. "Immediately lead your troops to the forest at the right back to collect firewood. You need to use bark and straw to tie up the dry firewood."
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Wang Jiuling was stunned when she heard this, and reflexively measured the wind direction. It was a standard north-south wind tonight. However, the prince's barracks was heading northwest, so it seemed that it couldn't be attacked with fire!
Wang Jiuling's actions were noticed by Lu Tong, but he did not explain anything, because he did not convey the joy of being a teacher and a teacher. Wang Jiuling's identity did not reach the point where he was asked to explain. "Two quarters of an hour.
Turn back inside." After saying that, he waved to Wang Jiuling.
"The last general takes orders."
Seeing that Lu Tong was determined to pay attention, how could Wang Jiuling dare to disobey, so she immediately accepted the military order and left.
But Wang Jiuling didn't dare to ask, but Lu Tong's Army Sima had the courage, "General, the wind is in the wrong direction? What are you collecting firewood for?" But he asked, only after seeing Wang Jiuling leave.
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Lu Tong smiled, "Of course the fire attack will not be successful, but it is enough to burn down the enemy's camp gate." It turned out that his idea was not to attack by fire, but to use fire to burn down the gate of the prince's camp.
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The night is getting darker, but the prince's army camp in Qingpo is brightly lit, especially the camp gate.
As Dou Bing's shouts rang out, the more than a thousand prince's troops in front of the camp gate knew that their "good days" were coming to an end. Should they continue to work for Yao Fangqiong, who locked his people outside the camp gate, or should they abandon their weapons?
Live your life honestly and honestly——
It’s time to make up your mind and make a decision as soon as possible.
In just half a quarter of an hour, hundreds of Prince's Army soldiers threw away their weapons, raised their hands in surrender, and surrendered to the Song Army in front of the formation.
"General——" Wang Yue, who was guarding the camp gate, was so anxious that he couldn't help but turn to Yao Fangqiong's Chinese army tent again.
The Song army 'forced' people to surrender like this, in full view of everyone, which greatly damaged morale.
Yao Fangqiong actually knew about the noise at the camp gate, but what could he do? Open the door?
As soon as he opens the door, he is sure that the Song army will pour in and cannot be stopped. And if the defense of the camp is lost, what will happen if there are more than a thousand defeated soldiers who have no fighting spirit?
Can these stop the Song army's attack?
When he opened the door, not only his own people but also the Song army who wanted his life came in, so Yao Fangqiong made up his mind not to open the door. He was prepared to use this camp to fight the Song army.
Two quarters of an hour, only half an hour. This time passed in the blink of an eye. Before that, the more than a thousand defeated troops of the Prince's Army at the gate had all surrendered, making the number of prisoners in Lu Tong's department exceed the 2,300 mark in one fell swoop.
Under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers, Wang Yue returned to the camp gate again. The army commander who guarded the gate had already come forward to greet him and said: "Brother Wang, the brothers outside the gate are all——"
"Hmm -" Wang Yue hummed in a low voice, with a gloomy look on his face.
He is not just an ordinary general under Yao Fangqiong. If he is willing to lead the troops with his qualifications and connections, one of the three lieutenants under Yao Fangqiong will definitely move. Therefore, the Army Sima also led him when he saw him.
Small.
Wang Yue looked at the Song army standing 200 steps outside the camp, his eyes full of angry cold light. "Is there any other movement from the Song army?"
"Brother Wang, there is no other movement." The Army Sima had been in high spirits during Wang Yue's departure, and he really didn't notice anything.
Wang Yue stopped talking and continued to have a calm face, staring at the starry sky outside the camp with sharp eyes.
"Huh?" Perhaps half an hour had passed, Wang Yue's eyes suddenly condensed, "The whole army is on alert -" A loud shout came from his mouth, but there seemed to be something around the torch 200 steps away.
All movement.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack——"
Burning grease fires were thrown out from the top of the camp gate by the prince's soldiers. The torches rolled across the night sky and fell dozens of steps away, illuminating the darkness in the distance. Everyone could clearly see it.
, outside the camp gate there were countless black shadows approaching quickly across Song Jun's own torches.
"Instigating and abetting----"
The next moment, a rain of arrows as dense as locusts in the darkness came from outside the camp. Although the prince's soldiers stationed at the gate were shielded by shields and shafts, dozens of them fell in this wave of arrows.
"Follow me-"
In the rear formation, Dou Bing shouted loudly, and the cavalry team behind them ran. But the difference from before was that this time they were no longer holding swords and guns, but bundles of dry firewood——
The raging flames reflected half of the dark night, and even illuminated the entire Prince's Army camp.
"It's over." Wang Yue seemed to have lost his soul at this moment, staring blankly at the gate that turned into a pile of blazing fire.
The fate that awaits them is already decided!
Behind Wang Yue, at the moment the fire ignited, the four thousand princes in the camp screamed in unison, and chaos ensued. The Song army's strength was twice theirs. Without a strong camp, why did they come?
Against the Song army's offensive?
No one is a fool, and no one wants to die. At this moment, the desire to survive surges from the bottom of their hearts like an erupting volcano, especially those local soldiers in Dongcheng County. After all, Dongcheng County belongs to Kaizhou, and their centripetal force towards the prince
But it is far from comparable to where other soldiers come from.
"Brother Wang, Brother Wang——" Several guards pulled the lost Wang Yue.
"Alas -" a heartfelt lament came from his mouth, what is this? Eight thousand soldiers and horses will be wiped out in the blink of an eye.
The camp that was built with so much hard work can even be said to have been built at the cost of half of the military strength. Although this cost was something Yao Fangqiong had never expected before. It was just to make money from his opponent's pile of dry materials and burn them on fire.
What?
"Follow me." Wang Yue roared, and a muffled voice came out of his throat. He was like a wounded lion. With the guards around him, Wang Yue turned and ran towards the Chinese army tent. Since the general situation was
It is irreversible, so the only way is to escape with your life first.
"General——" Far away, Wang Yue saw Yao Fangqiong standing in front of the Chinese army tent. He left the camp the moment the sound of fighting rang out at the camp gate, and saw with his own eyes the little torches ignited and piled up at the camp gate.
The dry firewood everywhere, and the little sparks finally engulfed the entire camp gate, turning it into a blazing fire.
"Let's go north." Yao Fangqiong said calmly as he looked at Wang Yue who was rushing towards him. All the unwillingness he had felt before had been deeply buried in his heart, and his resentment, annoyance... and other fluctuating emotions had also been revived by him.
Soothing. Therefore, Yao Fangqiong is as calm as before.
"Going north?" Wang Yue reflexively looked to the west of the camp. It was a hilly area that was neither too big nor too high but neither too small nor too short. After passing these hills, another thirty or forty miles further south was Yugu.
The position of the Tao. "General, that Yugu Tao——"
Before Wang Yue could say anything else, Yao Fangqiong raised his hand to interrupt him, "There must be an ambush by the Song Army in the west. The terrain there is so good that it is suitable for concealment. It must be the focus of the Song Army's encirclement. Let's move towards the area that protrudes from there."
The possibility is too small.
Only the left and right (north and south) wings can really break through. The south is a plain, which is not conducive to hiding, so the defeated troops will not flee there, and the Song army's defensive interception will be looser. To the north is the river and the direction of Lanmei Mountain.
The territory is almost controlled by the Song Army. To escape there is to seek death. The sergeants will never wade there, so the Song Army's defense will become more relaxed and sparse.
This is our glimmer of hope.
Swim to the north bank and run directly to Baicang County!"
Yao Fangqiong calmly analyzed Wang Yue, and also told the hundreds of personal guards around the two of them. These people are Yao Fangqiong's most credible force and will never give up.
There are plains to the south and east of Qingpo, and it is also plain to the north after crossing the river. "Swim across the river and you will see a flat plain. We can reach the county seat by walking straight north."
"Kill, kill—" Before the fire at the camp gate was extinguished, countless soldiers of the Prince's Army had already fled westward.
Night is night. During the day, Yao Fangqiong can successfully gather the army. Even if there is no camp, he can still fight against the trapped beast with his four thousand soldiers. But now, the morale of the army is in chaos, and he just wants to gather his soldiers and fight with Song.
It is impossible for the army to fight to the death.
Jiao Ming, who was ambushing in the west, sent his troops to kill him. In this situation, he did not find it difficult at all. When the chaotic Prince's Army soldiers faced the equally chaotic but high-morale Song Army, they did not have the slightest advantage. They were not killed by the sword.
The ghost just obeyed and was captured.
Less than two-quarters of an hour after the battle, Jiao Ming had already sent his troops into the Prince's Army stronghold. At this time, some of the Prince's Army soldiers fled towards the east and south roads.
The four hooves were flying and the horses were galloping. As Yao Fangqiong said, Lu Tong put his only cavalry on the east and south roads of the camp, and also arranged two to three thousand infantry to patrol in the southeast of the camp.
The two paths formed a large network that was not without loopholes——
However, there was not much movement on the north road of the camp, and the west side of the camp was tightly blocked by Jiao Ming. The soldiers and horses of Lu Tong's headquarters who came up together with the attack were killed and captured just in the camp.
There are two to three thousand soldiers in the Prince's Army.
On the north bank of the river, Yao Fangqiong looked back to the south, his eyes full of reluctance, helplessness and pain. His family and five members of the Yao family, more than a hundred people, old and young, all live in Baoding County, south of Yugu Road.
Yes. After the Song army's victory, if they immediately attacked Yugu Road, would Pang Zigong be able to withstand it?
If he couldn't withstand it, wouldn't Baoding County be at the forefront of the Song army?
A trace of confusion arose in Yao Fangqiong's heart, and his infatuated eyes gradually turned into memories of the past, "Do you really want to bury your entire family for the sake of the imperial court? Is it worth it?"
If the Song army broke through the Yugu Road, captured Baoding County, and held their family members in front of the battle, would I really want to sacrifice my relatives for loyalty?
"Let's go to Baicang City." Yao Fangqiong was so confused for a while that he couldn't figure it out, so he simply put it aside and let's talk about it when things come up in the future. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, Novels Better updates faster!)
