Eight hundred and fiftieth eight chapters night attack Jingdong
The cavalry general Liu Guanghui led an army of 15,000 people to Tumen Pass at the agreed time, and another army of 15,000 people, also led by the scout commander Zhang Yun, also arrived in Yizhou, a distance from Feihuxing
The exit is not far away.
These two armies set out from Taiyuan to cooperate with Guo Song in attacking Jingxing and Feihuxing.
On the surface, the Jin army's attack target is Jizhou, and it seems that they are still participating in the battle for Jizhou. But in fact, the Jin army's real target is Zhu Tao's hometown, Youzhou. Yao Jin's army is used to hold Zhu Tao back, while Guo Song leads the army northward.
, solve the Jingxing entrance, as long as Jingxing is breached, Feihuxing will have no defensive significance.
Youzhou Army Commander Li Wanquan has rushed to the top of Tumenguan City. He is lying on the battlements, staring nervously into the distance. From Tumenguan, he can see seven or eight miles ahead, but he cannot see anything further forward.
The view is blocked by a large mountain.
The Meishan beacons in Jingxing have been pulled out by the enemy. Li Wanquan can no longer understand how many troops have appeared in Jingxing. The opponent just wants to test Tumen Pass and attack Tumen Pass? Or does he want to seize Tumen Pass on a large scale?
This state of neither getting better nor getting worse made him extremely uncomfortable. He didn't know whether he should report it to his lord?
But what Li Wanquan never expected was that he was worried about the safety of Tumen Pass, but the real danger had quietly approached the camp more than ten miles away.
The Jingxing area has undulating mountains and numerous ravines. The 35,000-strong army led by Guo Song himself is hiding in a ravine several miles deep. Ten miles ahead of them is the Youzhou Army camp.
Guo Song was waiting for the opportunity. At this time, night had quietly fallen, there were many clouds in the sky, and the moon was bright and dark. Guo Song sent troops to form a formation. He left 10,000 cavalry to kick the camp, and the remaining 25,000 were like cloth bags.
Spread out in all directions, preparing to round up the fleeing enemy troops.
Guo Song handed over the task of kicking the camp to Yang Meng. As his name suggests, Yang Meng is indeed a fierce general who dares to attack and fight, and is full of murderous intent. He was originally a famous general under Li Huai'en. When Guo Song's army attacked Shangdang
He surrendered to the Jin army and went to Taiyuan to study martial arts for a year. After returning, he was named General Ying Yanglang and commanded five thousand cavalry.
This time he followed Wu Zhiyuan to attack Zhaozhou. Although he allowed the enemy to escape, the responsibility did not lie with him. It was Wu Zhiyuan who made a mistake in deploying troops. However, he still defeated the enemy's camp in Xiangcheng County and seized a large amount of food and supplies.
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While Guo Song demoted Wu Zhiyuan, he decisively re-appointed Yang Meng.
At the third watch, Yang Meng led 10,000 cavalry troops and quietly approached the enemy camp. At this time, the camp was dark, and 8,000 soldiers were sleeping soundly. There were guard towers on both sides of the camp gate, and there were soldiers on guard.
They kept pacing on the tower, but the sight range was limited and they could only see dozens of steps away. For the cavalry, this distance was meaningless.
Although Yang Meng was brave and brave, he was also very sophisticated and experienced. When he saw that the enemy's camp fence was low and there were no perimeter patrols, he was worried that the enemy had deployed iron caltrops around the outside. In this case, it was better to start from the main entrance.
The attack is more reliable, and even if it is discovered by enemy sentries, it will not be a big problem.
The cavalry walked slowly, and when they were still a hundred steps away from the camp, the sentry suddenly spotted the outline of an army and was focusing on distinguishing it.
At this moment, YangMeng raised his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill--"
"Kill--"
Ten thousand cavalry shouted in unison and suddenly launched into action. Thousands of cavalry started running. They were like a torrent that burst its embankment, heading towards the enemy camp unstoppably.
‘Dang! Dang! Dang!’ The sentry suddenly realized that the enemy was attacking and hurriedly sounded the alarm.
But it was too late. Amidst the clear sound of the alarm bell, the cavalry rushed into the enemy camp, dispersed instantly, and killed in all directions.
The soldiers of the Youzhou Army were awakened from their sleep, while the general Li Wanquan was still observing the enemy's situation at Tumen Pass. The soldiers were crying and running for their lives. Many of them were barefoot and wearing only a single piece of clothing. They watched the Jin army being slaughtered with blood.
Flying, corpses litter the ground.
Yang Meng shouted: "Those who surrender do not need to be killed!"
The cavalrymen shouted: "Those who surrender will not be killed!"
This undoubtedly gave the soldiers of the Youzhou Army who could not escape a way out, and they knelt down and surrendered. However, thousands of soldiers who escaped from the camp found that they were also surrounded, and the road halfway to Tumenguan was also cut off. In addition to surrendering,
Outside, they have no way to escape.
In this sneak attack on the enemy camp, more than a thousand people of the Youzhou army were killed, nearly 7,000 people surrendered, and only a dozen people managed to escape.
However, since the road leading to Tumen Pass had been cut off by the Jin army in advance, no enemy troops could escape to Tumen Pass to report the news, and there was no fire in the camp. As a result, the camp had been destroyed without Tumen Pass knowing anything about it.
Three thousand Jin troops, led by Zhonglang General Ye Hongqing, silently approached the small military camp. There were 1,500 Youzhou Army soldiers stationed in the small military camp. When the situation at Tumen Pass was critical, they would support the pass in time.
It was almost the fourth watch at this time, and there was silence in the small military camp. The main camp was more than ten miles away. Unless there was a huge fire or an earth-shattering explosion, ordinary people shouting and neighing would not affect this place, and the soldiers were also sleeping soundly.
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The mountain wind was strong, blowing from the east, which was very suitable for attacking with fire. The small military camp was only about 40 steps away. Dozens of soldiers stretched their bows and nocked arrows, and fired dozens of gunpowder arrows at the other side's military camp at the same time.
Gunpowder arrows ignited the tents. Driven by the strong mountain wind, the fire spread rapidly. In just a moment, more than 30 large tents were set alight, and soldiers began to flee in panic from the tents.
The Jin army did not launch an attack. The road halfway up the mountain was too narrow and it was easy to slip and fall off the cliff during the melee at night.
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and more than half of the tent was already on fire. More than a thousand soldiers of the Youzhou Army fled from the camp in panic and ran towards Tumen Pass a mile away. Many soldiers were in chaos.
He fell off the cliff and let out a shrill scream.
At this time, Li Wanquan, who was monitoring the enemy's situation at Tumen Pass, was also alerted. He put on his clothes and ran up the city wall to check. The scene in front of him stunned Li Wanquan. There was a blazing fire on the mountain road not far away, and the entire military camp was burned.
The flames engulfed him.
He suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the camp, feeling an unprecedented fear in his heart. Could it be that there was also... over there in the camp?
"General, enemy troops have appeared in Jingxing!" a soldier shouted behind him.
Li Wanquan hurriedly turned around and ran to the other side, only to see a fire dragon appear on the mountain road. They were all soldiers holding torches, at least tens of thousands of them.
Li Wanquan finally understood that the Jin army was attacking from both inside and outside, and Jingxing was completely destroyed.
At this moment, Li Wanquan suddenly remembered something. He had to inform his lord immediately about this important matter.
Zhu Tao established a complete messaging system in Youzhou area, which was composed of Fengsui, Flying Eagle and Flying Cavalry messaging systems, and Jingxing was no exception.
It's just that the Eagle Tower is at the camp, so Li Wanquan can't use the flying eagle to send messages, and the flying cavalry can't get out. The only way is to light the beacon. When the beacon at Tumen Pass is lit, the message will be sent from station to station.
When they arrive in Youzhou, there will naturally be cavalry rushing to deliver the letter to Zhu Tao.
Li Wanquan urgently ordered: "Go and light the beacon immediately!"
Some soldiers ran to light the beacon on the pass. Li Wanquan looked up to the top of the mountain. There was a main beacon on the top of the mountain. After the beacon on the pass was lit, the main beacon on the mountain would quickly follow.
But Li Wanquan's neck felt sore, but there was no movement from the main beacon on the top of the mountain.
"General, I'm afraid the beacons on the mountain are also..." The soldier next to him didn't dare to say any more.
Li Wanquan's heart completely fell into the abyss. Of course he knew that the beacon on the mountain had also been cut off by the enemy, and his last glimmer of hope was shattered.
The same is true of surprise troops, but Guo Song's surprise troops are different from Wu Zhiyuan's surprise troops. Guo Song's surprise troops attack immediately after deployment, without giving the enemy a chance to choose, and they move after planning.
What does it mean to plan before taking action? Guo Song had formulated this plan a few years ago. All the details were taken into consideration, including cutting off the beacon on the top of the mountain first, not giving the enemy a chance to report the news, and not allowing Zhu Tao to realize his true strategy.
It's to raid his lair.
These details are based on a large amount of intelligence. You must know the existence of the beacon, the location of the Eagle Tower, etc. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle.
As the day dawned, more than 1,800 soldiers gathered at Tumen Pass. More than a thousand soldiers in the small military camp fled into Tumen Pass, making Tumen Pass, which could only accommodate 500 soldiers, become overcrowded.
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The soldiers were all panic-stricken, wondering what their next fate would be.
The small military camp that was burned to a mess on the mountain road had been quickly cleaned up. On the mountain road, a black mass of Jin soldiers appeared, at least tens of thousands of people. A large trebuchet appeared in the team, one foot and five feet high, throwing poles.
Reaching three feet, it can throw a large iron fire thunder weighing two hundred kilograms seventy steps away. It stands like a black tower among the army.