Chapter 373: The Bai Zhan Army led by Nie Ze stood still after occupying Changdu. First, it firmly controlled the center of Zeping County, allowing the Feng Army to take the initiative in Zeping County. Second, it also made the entire army
The supply of the army has been guaranteed, the county is often in the city, and the granary is fully stocked. Even if it cannot support the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Hundred War Army, with the plundering ability of the Zhen people, they will not starve to death. It will be a hardship at best.
The people of Mo State inside and outside the capital.
The Bai Zhan Army stopped for repairs, and the main force of the Mo Army stationed in Panling could only be left to the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army. Originally, according to Tang Yin's intention, the Bai Zhan Army was the vanguard army and was the enemy of the main force of the Mo Army.
The task naturally falls on the Bai Zhan Army. In this way, the main force of the Mo Army in Zeping County can be eliminated, and the strength of the Bai Zhan Army can be greatly weakened. It kills two birds with one stone. But by chance, the main force of the Bai Zhan Army and the Mo Army
Passing by each other, the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army had to crack this hard nut.
Although it was easy for the Bai Zhan Army to open Panling, now it is the turn of the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army. The situation is no longer the same. When the Bai Zhan Army attacked Panling, Mo Jun deliberately let the enemy go and did not put up any decent resistance at all, but now
, Panling has become the only life-saving straw for the Mo army. Only by guarding Panling can they block the reinforcements of the Baizhan Army and still have hope of victory. Once Panling is lost, their operations in Zeping County will be completely over.
If they fail, then they will only have a dead end.
Therefore, for the Mo army at this time, the Battle of Panling can only be won, not failed. It is a last-ditch effort.
Before the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army launched their attack on Panling, Xiao Muqing and Zuo Shuang, the coaches of both armies, already had a premonition that this battle would be very difficult.
Zuo Shuangyou made a detailed analysis of the current situation of the Mok army and concluded that the 400,000 Mok troops stationed in Panling will definitely defend Panling, and each of the sixteen camps located in Panling will
It is uniquely blessed with an excellent location and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as the Mo army has a strong fighting spirit, it will be difficult to break through even if the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army join forces to attack.
Xiao Muqing disagreed with Zuo Shuang's conclusion. He also admitted that Panling was difficult to fight, but just because Panling was difficult to fight, we couldn't stop fighting, right?
He said to Zuo Shuang: "It's better to put yourself in someone's shoes and take a look."
Zuo Shuang smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid that after seeing this, General Xiao will lose even those he attacked."
"That's not necessarily the case!" Xiao Muqing smiled, and Zuo Shuang led a group of generals out of camp to the first camp set up by the Mo army in Panling.
This camp is built on a gentle slope. To attack, you have to attack from bottom to top. The terrain alone puts the attacker at a three-point disadvantage.
Xiao Muqing, Zuo Shuang and others did not dare to get too close. They looked at the enemy camp a hundred meters away. After watching for a while, Zuo Shuang turned to look at Xiao Muqing and asked, "What do you think, General Xiao?"
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"It's not easy to attack by force!" Xiao Muqing held back for a long time before saying this. He frowned, put up the awning with his hands, looked up at the sky, and muttered: "Why is it so hot!"
It was midsummer now, and there was no shade around. In addition, the temperature in Mo Country was already higher than that in Feng Country. Xiao Muqing was extremely uncomfortable with it. After standing in the direct sunlight for such a while, a ray of light appeared on his forehead.
A thin layer of sweat.
Zuo Shuang glanced at him and said nothing. It was September, how could it not be hot? At this time, the wind generals behind him urged the horses forward and whispered: "General, the sun is too hot at this time, we should go back to the camp first.
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"Don't be in a hurry!" Xiao Muqing waved his hand and looked around again, trying to find a place where he could get some shade and coolness. He suddenly discovered that the trees on the hillside to the left and right were tall and thick, reaching straight into the sky. He asked Zuo Shuang:
"General Zuo, what kind of trees are growing on the mountain?"
What tree? Zuo Shuang looked at him strangely, and couldn't help but underestimate it: Could it be that Xiao Muqing was so confused that he didn't even recognize pine trees? He took a deep breath and said, "They are all pine trees."
"Pine tree!" Xiao Muqing nodded, turned his horse's head, and walked towards the shade of a nearby tree. When he got to the tree, he turned over and dismounted, touched the trunk of the tree, raised his eyes and looked at the Mo Jun camp opposite, the corner of his mouth raised,
He laughed loudly and said to the people behind him: "Tonight, we will sneak attack on the enemy's stronghold!"
A sneak attack at night? All the generals on the left and right had a look of astonishment on their faces. The enemy stronghold was heavily defended and it would be difficult to attack during the day. But a sneak attack at night could defeat it? The left eyes rolled around and asked: "General Xiao, did you think of defeating the enemy?"
A clever idea?"
Xiao Muqing smiled calmly and said: "I dare not tell you the clever plan, but if it goes well, it will be no problem to capture three or four camps in a row tonight."
Hearing this, Zuo Shuang had doubts in his mind. Just now, he was still frowning and had no confidence in whether he could break through the enemy stronghold. How could he become so confident in the blink of an eye? He still had to capture three or four enemy strongholds in a row.
How is this possible? Zuo Shuang was puzzled, but he didn't ask further questions. Anyway, when he made tactical arrangements after returning to the camp, Xiao Muqing would naturally tell him the 'clever plan' he had thought of.
After inspecting the Mo army's camp, on the way back to his own camp, Xiao Muqing asked the generals around him as he walked: "How many Mo troops do we still have in our army?"
A general of the Pingyuan Army replied: "Not many, I just captured some when capturing Mozhi prisoners, no more than 10,000 sets."
Wherever the Baizhan Army passed, they basically killed all the Mo people. The prisoners captured by the Pingyuan Army and the Feilong Army were just some stragglers, which were pitifully few.
Xiao Muqing thought about it for a while and said, "Although it's a little less, it's almost enough."
The weather in the mountains is unpredictable. During the day, the sky is clear and cloudless, but at night, it is so cloudy that it is so dark that you cannot see your fingers.
Such weather is of course very favorable for the party that wants to attack at night, but Xiao Muqing's face is gloomy and frowning, and he is a little undecided about whether to attack tonight.
After careful consideration, he decided to take action tonight to try his luck.
Using the cover of night, the Feng Army quietly pushed out all the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows in the army, and quietly transported them to the front of the Mo Army camp.
The range of the trebuchet and the city-breaking crossbow was two to three hundred steps away, but the Feng army kept pushing the trebuchet and the city-breaking crossbow until they were only 150 steps away from the Mo army camp and stopped.
At such a close distance, the Feng soldiers transporting the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows could clearly see the swaying torches on the walls of the enemy camp. People subconsciously held their breath, squatted on the ground, and did not dare to move.
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In fact, if Mo Jun could really see them, it would be useless even if they remained motionless. After all, the trebuchet and the city-breaking crossbow were too huge to hide even if they wanted to, but the visibility tonight was too low, and the villagers could not hide.
Sergeant Mo on the wall could see about twenty steps away at best, but could not see them at all.
Just when Soldier Feng's soldiers had their hearts in their throats, a direct order from Xiao Muqing suddenly came from behind, telling them to launch an attack immediately.
Several Feng soldiers walked out of the crowd carrying oil barrels and poured the kerosene inside into the ditch that had been dug in advance. Then, they blew on fire sticks to ignite the kerosene in the ditch.
In an instant, it seemed as if a fiery snake emerged from the ground, and the long ditch burst into flames. The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time used the fire in the ditch to light torches, and then used the torches to burn the stone bullets of the trebuchet.
and the crossbow bolts of the city-breaking crossbow.
The stone bullets and crossbow arrows have been specially treated by Feng Jun. The crossbow arrows are directly soaked in kerosene, while the stone bullets are composed of several pieces of gravel. These gravels are also soaked in kerosene and then tied together with hemp rope.
The bullets and crossbow bolts caught fire, and for a moment, the Fengjun trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows were blazing with fire, and the flames were shining brightly.
If there was no fire on their side, Sergeant Mo on the wall would not be able to see here. Now that there was a fire on their side, how could Sergeant Mo not notice it?
"What's going on over there? Why did the fire suddenly break out?" A sharp-eyed Mo soldier was the first to notice the abnormality outside the camp and screamed loudly.
The other Mo soldiers also looked at each other and said in confusion: "Is it a mountain fire?" "No, there was no thunder or lightning just now, where did the mountain fire come from!" "Could it be... a night attack by the enemy?
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Just when Sergeant Mo was still guessing what the fire outside the camp was about, suddenly, the little bit of fire in the black screen quickly flew into the air, and then drew semicircular lines.
In an arc, it fell towards their heads.
"No! It's an enemy attack! It's the enemy who stole the camp at night -" Only then did Sergeant Mo realize that the fire outside the camp was not a mountain fire, but was ignited by the Feng Army.
But at this time, it was too late to react. The flaming stone bullets falling from the sky seemed like fire from heaven, hitting the wall of the village, making a crisp sound. While the impact damaged the wall, it also destroyed the village wall.
The hemp rope binding the stone bullets broke, and scattered stones flew everywhere. What was terrible was that the stones were all covered with flames, but the walls of the village were stuck to the fire and could not be extinguished even if they were tried.
The camps set up by the Mo army in Panling were all built with local materials and pine trees from Panling. In doing so, firstly, they had enough energy left over, and secondly, the pinewood was hard, tall and strong, reaching a height of thirty meters.
Pine wood is very common, and it is just right to use it to build defenses. But it has a fatal weakness, which is that it is afraid of fire. Especially in the hot summer, the pine wood will produce pine oil under the scorching sun, and the pine wood will produce pine oil under the scorching sun.
Once oil catches fire, it is difficult to extinguish.
During the day, when Xiao Muqing came to inspect, it was when he saw the pine trees all over Panling that he suddenly realized that Mo Jun's camp was probably made of pine wood. In addition, it was midsummer and the temperature was hot, so it was best to attack with fire.
Chance.
In fact, his prediction was correct. The only thing that worries him is that it will be cloudy tonight. Once it rains, the fire attack strategy will undoubtedly fail, and it will also arouse the vigilance of the Mo army. It will be difficult to succeed in the future, but the soldiers are very quick.
, he can only take a gamble and gamble on his luck.@!!