Chapter 402: Counting is Counting! (b)
"Kill—"
Suddenly, in the already silent city, a slogan on behalf of the Kunyang side to launch a counterattack sounded again.
Immediately afterwards, in the streets and alleys of the city, the Black Tiger Thieves, the county army, the Brotherhood militia, and a small number of Nanyang pawns all launched a counterattack.
Among them, the most fierce offensive is the 'West City Wall Guard' led by Chen Mo, and the 'East City Wall Guard' led by Wang Qing, these two Kunyang soldiers outflanked along the city walls on both sides, and quickly attacked the southwest and southeast urban areas, even if the rebel soldiers in the defensive position have been ordered by Guan Shuo to strengthen the defense, they can't stop the offensive of Chen and Wang.
And Chen Mo and Wang Qing, as if they were afraid that they would not recognize them on the other side, shouted 'Chen Mo is here' and 'Wang Qing is here', and led the army to kill the rebels one after another, which made many rebels tremble.
Under the circumstance that Chen Mo and Wang Qing were 'self-violent', the rebel soldiers who resisted them immediately realized that these two forces came from the west and east city walls, so they immediately sent people to report to Guan Shuo and Chen Miao in the south city gatehouse.
"Report! The southwest city lane was attacked by Kunyang soldiers, suspected of being the guards of the west city wall, and the leader was Chen Mo! ”
"Report! The southeast city lane was attacked by Kunyang soldiers, it seems to be the guards of the east city wall, and the leader is that Wang Qing! ”
To be precise, at the moment when the Kunyang side launched a ferocious counterattack, there was an endless stream of heralds who came to the southern city wall to report to Guan Shuo and Chen Miao, and reported the battle reports from all over the city, but only these two battle reports made Guan Shuo feel the most excited.
Guan Shuo laughed and said, "That Zhou Hu, after all, he couldn't hold it back. …… It's ridiculous that he wanted to use a feint to trick us and others, telling me to relax my vigilance, does he think I am a three-year-old child? ”
He said excitedly to Chen Miao: "That Zhou Hu, the donkey skills are also poor!" ”
After saying that, he immediately gave a solemn order: "Immediately send an order to Huang Kang and Liu De, and order him to immediately lead his soldiers to seize the west and east city walls!" ”
"Yes!" The herald quickly left.
Looking at Guan Shuo's hand brushing his beard, with an excited face, Chen Miao frowned and looked at the city.
That Zhou Hu, is it really as Guan Shuo said, and the donkey skills are exhausted?
Chen Miao was a little incredulous.
After thinking for a while, he reminded Guan Shuo: "Don't be careless. There must be a demon when things go wrong, with Zhou Hu's cunning, didn't he know that the transfer of the east and west city wall guards to counterattack the city would leave a huge flaw? Yesterday he used this trick for the first time, and I am not surprised, after all, you and I didn't expect it at the time. But today, he still has to repeat his old tricks, and he is not afraid that we have made targeted arrangements...... Don't you think there's something strange about it? ”
"Maybe he has nothing to do."
Guan Shuo thought for a while and said: "Fang Cai's feint, in my opinion, may not be just Zhou Hu trying to deceive you and me to take it lightly, at the same time, he may also be testing the defensive situation of our army tonight." Seeing that our army was heavily defended, he was forced to have no choice but to use the guards of the east and west city walls. …… As I said before, Kunyang did not dare to confront our army in the daytime, and his defeat was doomed, and the only question was when he was defeated. And for now, Zhou Hu obviously has to fight again...... Ignorant people, who can't see the situation clearly, are like fighting trapped beasts! ”
“……”
Chen Miao glanced at Guan Shuo, who suddenly burst with self-confidence for some reason, and didn't say anything more with interest.
But in his heart, he didn't think that Zhou Hu was just like Guan Shuo said, 'like a battle of trapped beasts'.
In Chen Miao's opinion, although Zhou Hu was born as a bandit, whether it was strategy or control over his subordinates, he was first-class, much better than several generals under his command.
Would such a figure order tonight's counterattack at the cost of casualties just to 'delay defeat'?
Obviously, Zhou Hu must have had other purposes.
But what Zhou Hu's purpose was, Chen Miao couldn't guess for the time being, and naturally, he couldn't persuade Guan Shuo to be vigilant.
After about a stick of incense, when the counterattack in Kunyang City was in full swing, one of the heralds sent by Guan Shuo was the first to arrive at the military camp in the west of the city and came to the camp of the rebel general Huang Kang.
After seeing Huang Kang, the herald immediately said: "General Huang, the Kunyang people in the city have made a counterattack, and the guards of the east and west city walls have been transferred to the city. ”
"It's finally here!"
Huang Kang exhaled viciously.
If you want to say who hates Kunyang the most among the righteous teachers in Changsha, then it should be this general Huang Kang, after all, when he was originally ordered to attack Kunyang, he was defeated by Kunyang and Ye County, 10,000 soldiers and thousands of green forest thieves were killed and wounded, fortunately, Guan Shuo did not punish him heavily, so he had the opportunity to make meritorious service and lead the army to attack Kunyang again.
However, so far, he has not had a chance to wash away his shame, because of the western city wall of Kunyang, he can't fight it alive or dead.
Until tonight......
With hatred for Kunyang, Huang Kang immediately summoned several generals under his command, such as Song Zan, Chen Lang, and Ji Wu.
I saw that he explained the current situation in Kunyang City, and immediately ordered: "When Song Zan, Chen Lang and I attack the west city wall, Ji Wu, you go to support the friendly forces in the city, and if possible, contain the guards of the west city wall!" ”
"Understood!"
The generals clenched their fists and received their orders.
Or one person asked, "What about the green forest thieves in the camp?" Do you want them to join in this battle? ”
Huang Kang thought for a while and said: "In tonight's battle, the elite we need to take Kunyang in one go, with that group of rabble, it may be bad." …… Tell them to stay in the camp, and the rest of our soldiers will all attack Kunyang! ”
"Obey!"
After just a stick of incense, the camp gate of the rebel camp in the western suburbs slowly opened, and Huang Kang personally led the remaining thousands of soldiers under his command to Kunyang, leaving only some seriously injured soldiers in the camp, as well as a group of green forest thieves who were despised by him.
Due to the fear of being discovered in advance by the Kunyang people, the army under Huang Kang did not dare to hold torches, but moved forward in the dark, but even so, the movement of thousands of soldiers rushing towards Kunyang could not be concealed, and was clearly heard by a group of people on Zhushan Mountain in the west.
I saw that on the top of Zhushan Mountain in the west, there were two people climbing up and looking at the brightly lit Huangkang military camp.
With the help of the light of the moonlight in the sky, you can vaguely see the faces of these two people, it is Huang Ben, the county governor of Runan, and Zou Bu, the county governor of Xiangcheng.
"There's movement over there...... Did Huang Kang attack Kunyang? ”
Pointing to the distance, Zou Bu said with some hesitation.
"Probably so."
Huang Ben replied lightly: "Didn't the person sent by Zhou Hu say it? He'll find a way to distract the rebels here. …… If Zhou Hu's expectations were correct, at this moment, there would only be a group of wounded soldiers and a few green forest thieves left in the camp. ”
Although he was stating calmly, his mood at the moment was extremely complicated.
The reason is very simple, he used to be one of the staunch executors of the 'encirclement and suppression of the Black Tiger Thieves', but now, he has to join forces with the Black Tiger Thieves to deal with the rebels.
At this time, a county official beside Huang Ben asked in a low voice: "County Lieutenant, do we really want to help the Black Tiger Thief in Kunyang?" ”
Huang Ben took a breath and said lightly: "I'm waiting to help Kunyang, not to help the Black Tiger Thief." ”
In fact, he didn't believe it himself.
Who doesn't know that Kunyang has fallen into Zhou Hu's control?
With a long breath, Huang Ben ordered: "Pass the order and prepare to attack the rebel camp." …… How to succeed or not, immediately evacuate north afterwards. ”
"Yes!"
On the other hand, Zou Bu also issued the same order to his county guards.
This is Zhou Hu's promise to Runan and Xiangcheng counties, that is, the promise that the county troops of the two counties can withdraw to their respective county seats immediately after the sneak attack on Huang Kang's military camp, and at the same time, it is also the request of Liu Yi of Runan County and Wang Yong of Xiangcheng County to Huang Ben and Zou Bu.
It's not that Liu Yi and Wang Yong don't want to help Kunyang more, but these two county commanders are just afraid in their hearts, afraid that if the county army in their county suffers more casualties, they will not be able to defend the county seat.
After all, these two are not sure that they can defend the ground like Kunyang.
After another stick of incense, Huang Ben and Zou Bu vaguely heard the shouting of killing coming from the west city wall of Kunyang, and they decisively led the county army down Zhushan and quietly approached Huang Kang's military camp.
At this time, Huang Kang's military camp had been handed over to the Green Forest Thieves to guard, but unfortunately, the Green Forest Thieves in the camp were not aware of the imminent threat at all, and were still sleeping in the camp.
What's more, there weren't even many green forest thieves guarding the entire barracks.
Rao is Huang Ben has a grudge against Zhou Hu and the black tiger thief, and he can't help but sigh at this moment: Zhou Hu explained their affairs, it was too simple.
"Up!"
With Huang Ben's order, the thousands of county troops from Runan and Xiangcheng counties attacked the rebel camp like a bamboo, wantonly slaughtered the green forest thieves who were still sleeping in the camp, and set fire to the camp at the same time.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
"Enemy forces are coming!"
The green forest thieves who had discovered the danger ran and shouted, alarming the leaders of the green forest thieves, Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu, who were resting in a grass hut.
Zhang Tai rushed out first, looked at the fire in the camp and scolded in shock: "What's the matter?!" ”
Or a green forest thief mistakenly recognized the county guards under the command of Huang Ben and Zou Bu, and replied: "Kunyang people, it is Kunyang people who sneak attack the camp!" ”
“…… Fart! ”
Zhang Tai was immediately furious.
You must know that before Huang Kang led the army to leave the camp, he had explained to him and Xiang Hu, saying that the righteous division was going to besiege Kunyang tonight and take Kunyang in one fell swoop.
Thinking about it, you also know that at this moment, Kunyang County is facing the attack of tens of thousands of rebels, how can there be troops to sneak attack them?
It's not Kunyang, so who is it?
When they were panicked, Zhang Tai and Xiang Hu naturally didn't think that it was Zhao Yu who borrowed reinforcements from Runan and Xiangcheng counties to attack them.
It's no wonder, after all, when the battle of Kunyang was so fierce, the two counties of Xiangcheng and Runan in the north were too low-key and inconspicuous.
At the same time, on the southern city wall of Kunyang, Jiangxia Yishi Chen Miao was paying attention to the battle situation in the city and on the east and west sides of the city wall.
Suddenly, a soldier beside him said softly, "Huh? How can there be a fire in the west? ”
"Huh?"
Chen Miao turned his head to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a faint firelight coming from the west, illuminating the night sky.
"I remember it was ...... over there."
Chen Miao was slightly stunned, frowning and thinking for a moment.
Suddenly, his face changed suddenly, and his eyes were full of shock.
"It's broken!"
At this time, he finally understood the intention of Zhou Hu on the other side.
Just when Guan Shuo wanted to plan and take the opportunity to seize the east and west city walls of Kunyang, Zhou Hu also planned and attacked Huang Kang's military camp, causing a huge gap in the encirclement of Kunyang by his righteous division.