Chapter 329: Capture the county seat
Xiao Ding sent all the troops in Jishui County, some of them to support Tingzhou Pass in Yuezhou, and the rest were sent outside Qianling County to prepare to attack Qianling County.
That night, Xiao Ding summoned all the generals to the big tent of the Chinese army, and then said a tired strategy he came up with.
After all the generals heard this, they all felt that there were some monks who were confused.
Immediately, a military general asked: "What is the strategy of exhausting the army?" ”
Xiao Ding smiled and said, "Don't worry, when I finish the distribution, you will all know!" ”
The generals nodded in acquiescence and stopped talking.
So Xiao Ding picked up an arrow and ordered: "Gao Hongxiu listens to the order!" I order you to lead a thousand soldiers, take war drums and a hundred crossbow carts, and go to the city of Qianling County outside the range of the opponent, only drumming, not attacking the city! If the enemy is ready to defend the city, then continue to beat the drums, and if the enemy does not pay attention to you, you will use the crossbow cart to fire some crossbow arrows at the city, feign siege, and force them into a state of defense, do you understand? ”
"The last general commands!" Gao Hongxiu said as he got up and clenched his fists, took the arrow, and then withdrew from the tent and prepared to go.
Xiao Ding then picked up the second arrow and said, "Luo Sikou obeys orders!" I order you to lead a thousand soldiers on the second watch, bring war drums and a hundred crossbow carts, and go to the city of Qianling County outside the range of the opponent, only beating drums, not attacking the city! Only make a feint, and if the enemy is not on guard, you will use the ballista to fire crossbow arrows and force them to come and defend the city! ”
"The last general understands!" Luo Sikou took the arrow after giving the salute and withdrew as well.
Xiao Ding picked up the three arrows again, and said to Lu Changping: "Lu Changping obeys orders!" I also order you to lead a thousand soldiers, at the third watch, with war drums and a hundred crossbow carts, to the city of Qianling County, outside the range of the opponent's fire, only drumming, not attacking the city! Fake a feint to force the enemy to defend the city, and if they don't do it properly, you will fire crossbow arrows at the head of the city with a crossbow cart. ”
"The last will be ordered!" Lu Changping got up and clenched his fists, took the arrow, and also turned around and went out of the tent to prepare.
Xiao Ding then sent two commanders to lead a thousand soldiers, respectively in the fourth watch and the fifth watch, to make a feint in front of the city, forcing the enemy to come out to defend the city, if the enemy army did not come out, he used a crossbow cart to fire crossbow arrows to force them out.
Next, Xiao Ding picked up an arrow again and said, "Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze brothers obey orders!" ”
Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze hurriedly got up and saluted: "The end will be!" ”
"I order the two of you, lead 3,000 soldiers, and ambush them on the road leading to Qianling County in Bin County, Qu County, and Yongcheng County, if these three counties send people to rescue Qianling County tonight or tomorrow, you are responsible for intercepting and killing halfway, first ambush with bows and arrows, and then rush to kill, and do not let the reinforcements from these three counties come to Qianling County to rescue." Xiao Ding commanded.
"The last general commands!" Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze clenched their fists and took the arrow, and they were about to leave the account.
Xiao Ding suddenly stopped the two of them and continued to instruct: "Two generals, slow down, after you arrive at the ambush point, you only need to send scouts to investigate the news, and the other soldiers can rest in place, you don't have to squat all the time, if the scouts have news, it's not too late for you to get up and intercept and kill." ”
"Obey the commander's orders!" After Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze hugged their fists again, they withdrew from the tent.
After seeing the Yang family brothers withdraw, Xiao Ding picked up another arrow and said, "Yang Yueling obeys orders!" ”
Yang Yueling hurriedly stood up, clenched her fists and said, "It's finally my turn, I can't wait!" ”
Xiao Ding looked at Yang Yueling and said: "General Yang, I ordered you to lead the three commanders, lead three thousand soldiers, and go to the ambush point with Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze, and then send a detective to investigate, see which county will send troops to support Qianling County, and you will lead the troops to quietly bypass and attack which county." It's best if you can beat them, and if you can't beat them, you don't have to hit them hard, just scare and scare them. ”
Yang Yueling was overjoyed when she heard this, and asked her to attack the city, in her opinion, this is the boss who handed over the heavy responsibility to her! She hurriedly said: "The last general is ordered!" "I'm going to get out of the bill.
"General Yang, wait! You are the same, go out tonight to ambush with your two younger brothers, just send out the scout horses, the other soldiers can rest in place, if you get the news that there are soldiers out of the three cities, it is not too late for you to make a detour! ”
"The last general understands!" After speaking, Yang Yueling also strode out of the account with a "knock knock".
At this time, there were only two brothers Han Qi and Han Qi left in the tent, and the two of them saw that the other generals Xiao Ding had all arranged errands, but in the end, Xiao Ding no longer sent generals, so he hurriedly got up and hugged his fists and said: "Deputy Marshal Tian, why don't you arrange tasks for my two brothers?" ”
When Xiao Ding saw it, he laughed and said, "The task of the two of you tonight is to have a good rest, nourish your spirits, and strive to win Qianling County in one fell swoop tomorrow!" ”
Listening to Xiao Ding's words, the Han brothers have also understood that the heavy responsibility of attacking the city tomorrow has fallen on their brothers, and the two are very happy, it seems that the boss did not ignore our two brothers, but put the siege task on my two brothers. Naturally, they were overjoyed.
The two were just about to turn around and leave the account. Xiao Ding hurriedly stopped and said, "You go down and inform the soldiers of the whole battalion that when the generals and soldiers I arranged are beating drums and feints outside the city, the other soldiers must have a good rest." Raise your spirits and attack the city tomorrow! ”
The Han brothers walked out of the tent in response and informed the soldiers to go according to Xiao Ding's instructions.
At this time, in the big tent, only Song Yinzi and Yue Yurou beside Xiao Ding were left.
Song Yinzi did not participate in Xiao Ding's arrangement from beginning to end. He knew that he didn't know how to fight, and he still had to rely on Xiao Ding to command the war.
After he saw Xiao Ding arrange them one by one in an orderly manner, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this Pingxi general really deserves his reputation, he is indeed a general, and all the arrangements are leaky. The strategy of exhaustion is also very wonderful. Our army only needs to send troops out in turn to pretend to attack the enemy city, but the enemy army has to guard against our army's attack on the city all the time, and the enemy army will definitely be tired after a night's tossing. However, our army is taking turns to rest, recuperate enough spirits, and attack the city early tomorrow morning, so naturally the chances of victory are very great.
In fact, this strategy for exhausting the army was not thought up by Xiao Ding himself, but he had read one of the four famous books before crossing over, and Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang in this book had used similar tricks.
As a traverser, Xiao Ding used the strategies he learned before the crossing to today's siege battle, which made Yue Yurou, who was sitting next to him, also impressed.
When Yue Yurou first met Xiao Ding, Xiao Ding didn't even know martial arts, and at that time, he only relied on Tang Yunzhi to borrow his secret weapon to be able to defend himself. However, even so, he saved his life in Luoxia Mountain and brought himself down the mountain safely.
Later, when I saw Xiao Ding again, Xiao Ding had already gone to the battlefield to kill a circle and came back to be a general. Martial arts are also unconsciously much more powerful.
Today, she saw Xiao Ding sitting in the tent and commanding Ruoding, and the appearance of the commander of the three armies, which made her admire it even more. This is the perfect man in every girl's dream! A heart in her chest was beating wildly, and the eyes that secretly looked at Xiao Ding were a little more soft.
Xiao Ding didn't notice Yue Yurou's expression. After chatting with Song Yinzi for a few words and helping him solve some details in today's planning and arrangement, he went back to the dormitory with a few people to rest.
This night is not destined to be a clean night.
Outside Qianling County, every time there is a change, there will be soldiers beating drums and shouting to kill. Song Yinbei couldn't tell whether the other party's siege was true or false, so he had no choice but to line up the defenders in the city to defend the city.
When the soldiers went to the city, they found that the other side was just beating drums outside their range, and there was no large army ready to attack.
However, when Song Yinbei had just asked his soldiers to rest, the soldiers who were beating the drums under the city fired crossbow arrows at the head of the city with their crossbow carts.
As soon as Song Yinbei walked to the city tower, someone came to report that the enemy had begun to attack the city, so he had to gather soldiers again to defend the city.
So repeatedly, tossed all night. Not only did the defenders in the city not rest well, but Song Yinbei also wore two panda eyes and looked tired.
In the second half of the night, Song Yinbei had already guessed that this was a ploy by Xiao Ding. But he still didn't dare to be careless, who knows which siege was real? If there is a slight negligence on his side and the enemy army attacks the city, won't it be a waste of all the previous achievements?
When the day was about to dawn, Song Yin saw that all the soldiers in the city were exhausted, and he had guessed that after dawn, Xiao Ding's side would definitely attack the city in a big way.
At present, the troops sent by the Jiaozhou side will not be able to reach it for a while and a half because of the long distance. He had no choice but to send people out of the city to the three county towns of Bin County, Qu County, and Yongcheng County to move rescue troops. At present, only these three counties are relatively close to Qianling County. And in each of the three counties, there were 10,000 defenders.
As Song Yinbei expected. After dawn, Xiao Ding had breakfast here, and did not continue to send people to the front of the city to beat the drums, but directly sent Han Qi and Han Qi, two generals, to lead the 10,000 forbidden troops, with medium-sized and large crossbow carts, to the front of the city and attack the city with all their might.
Although there were war drums outside the camp gate all night, the soldiers on Xiaoding's side also got enough rest, and when they heard that the city was going to be attacked, they were even more demoralized.
Medium-sized and large-sized Lianzhu crossbows have a long range and great power. The defenders at the head of Qianling County couldn't resist at all, they were already exhausted, and the shields they held in their hands couldn't resist the firing of those powerful crossbow arrows.
Especially the ballista, the ballista fired a spear with a wooden rod and an iron head, and the ordinary shield shot through directly, even if it couldn't shoot through, the huge force would shoot to the ground along with the shield and the person.
In just over an hour, half of the defenders on the city had already been lost. Song Yinbei was very anxious, waiting for the rescue army from the other three cities to arrive, but he didn't know that the rescue army sent by the three cities had already been blocked by the Yang brothers on the road.
As Xiao Ding arranged, after the Yang brothers arrived at the ambush point at night with their troops, they sent scouts to take turns to investigate the situation in the three cities, and reported immediately if there was news. Other soldiers rested and slept in place.
That night, the scouts did not hear that there were soldiers from the three cities who came out of the city to come to the rescue, and in the morning, a scout finally came back to report that there were generals in Bin County who led about 5,000 soldiers in the direction of Qianling County.
The Yang brothers immediately ordered the soldiers to lay in ambush and prepare bows and arrows.
After the 5,000 soldiers and horses came to the front, the Yang family brothers gave an order, and suddenly the arrows rained down, and the 5,000 soldiers cried and shouted for their mother, how could they have expected that there would be an ambush on the way!
By the time the general reacted, more than 1,000 people had been killed or wounded under the rain of arrows.
At this time, the rain of arrows continued, and there were still soldiers who were constantly killed and wounded.
The general hurriedly commanded the troops to retreat, this was Yang Jingtian and Yang Jingze also gave an order, and everyone went out to chase and kill.
With the power of life, the defeated army is naturally without suspense, and it is still a one-sided slaughter.
When the guard led the remaining less than 2,000 remnants to retreat to the city of Binxian, he found that the banner of the Great Song Kingdom had been replaced on the city, not the banner of the previous King of Jiaozhou.
While he was in doubt, suddenly a cannon rang out, the city gate was opened, and a team of people was killed inside, and the first person was the sturdy Yang Yueling. She slapped her horse and speared, stabbed at the guard, and in less than ten rounds, she picked the guard off the horse with one shot.
The rest of the remnants of the soldiers, all of whom did not dare to resist, laid down their weapons one after another, raised their hands and surrendered.
It turned out that when the guard left Bin County, the scout horse sent by Yang Yueling had also received the news, so she took the troops to quietly detour to the city of Bin County, and just lined up to prepare to start attacking the city, but saw that above the city, a white flag was hung, and then the city gate was opened, and the defenders inside surrendered automatically.
The leader of the defenders of Bin County is the county commander of the original Bin County, and he surrendered to the king of Jiaozhou just to survive.
Therefore, Yang Yueling took Bin County without spending a single soldier. It also incorporated 5,000 defenders in the city.
Song Yinbei insisted on Qianling County, but he was miserable. The power of the Lianzhu crossbow is huge, and the lethality is too strong, so it can be fired from a distance, but the bow and crossbow on his side can't shoot the troops on Xiao Ding's side at all.
Seeing that the defenders in the city were being eaten away little by little. Song Yinbei couldn't wait for reinforcements, and his psychology was about to collapse.
At this time, Xiao Ding once again sent someone to transfer the rushing car used for the siege, and under the cover of the crossbow of the beads, came to the city gate, and began to hit the city gate with the rushing car.
Song Yinzi saw that his side could not stop Xiao Ding's siege at all, and at this time, there were only seven or eight thousand soldiers left in the city, and now there were only seven or eight thousand left, and he knew in his heart that this city could not be defended today, so he called Wu Gui and Wang Ba over, ordered the two of them, protected themselves, led the remnants of the army, opened the south gate, and retreated towards Jiaozhou.
Wang Ba's buttocks injury was not healed at this time, and he didn't dare to do it on horseback. Hearing Song Yinbei's order to retreat, Wu Gui and Wang Ba did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly organized the remaining defenders, opened the southern city gate, protected Song Yinbei, and abandoned the city and fled.
Xiao Ding didn't expect that it didn't take a morning to knock down Qianling County. It's too easy, isn't it?
After leading the troops into the city, he found that Song Yinbei had abandoned the city and fled.
Xiao Ding did not send troops to chase after him. Because if you go out of the city to the south, you have already entered the valley of the Great Yu Ridge, and if there is an ambush inside, you may suffer.
At this time, since he has captured the county seat of Qianling, his strategic goal has been partially achieved, and there is no need to take any more risks.
Looking at the valley leading to the depths of the Da Yu Ridge in the south of the city, Xiao Ding couldn't help but think in his heart, King of Jiaozhou, King of Jiaozhou, next, see how I go to clean you up!