Chapter 162: Victory in the First Battle

In the night without any starlight, Lu Cheng had no choice but to light a torch.

One, only one, one sergeant with the front and the others behind followed; Once there is a cliff or a boulder or other terrain, whisper it to the person behind you, and then pass it on in turn. With this torch, the army walked slowly, but there were no problems.

Rounding the foot of a mountain, several torches suddenly appeared in front of them, burning alone in the clearing.

"General, ahead is the camp of the Song army!"

A scout whispered to Lu Chengdao.

"Why are there only torches? What about Song Jun? ”

"The Song army is watching from a distance, not under the firelight, so as not to be attacked by others!"

"It's stingy! Even a sentry sergeant is reluctant to die! ”

Lu Cheng scolded in a low voice, let people extinguish the torch, and took out the bow and arrow from behind his back.

Whoosh –

Shoot an arrow to ......

Didn't hit!

One more arrow...... Missed again!

After five or six arrows in a row, Lu Cheng was so angry that he slapped his mouth, took a deep breath, and shot another arrow.

Poof-

The torches in the clearing fell to the ground and were extinguished in an instant.

"Hey, hey! A few more shots, a hundred paces away, this general can still wear Yang! ”

Lu Cheng chuckled proudly, pulled his bow again, and then put it down with a frown.

"You guys! If you're good at archery, give me a few more, and shoot me when you see someone later! ”

"Yes!"

"Huh? How did it go out? ”

A voice sounded in the darkness, and then someone went up to the extinguished torch and lit it with a torch, but when he saw a long arrow stuck in the torch, he was astonished, and he got up and ran.

Puff puff –

A series of muffled sounds sounded, and the man instantly had more than a dozen arrows on his body, and he fell to the ground and died without firing.

"It's done!"

Lu Cheng was overjoyed, and led people through the cordon belt of the Song army, and touched the side of the Song army camp, where bundles of dry firewood were piled up under the wooden wall of the camp, and bags of sulfur saltpeter were sprinkled into the firewood and grass, and then someone lit a torch......

"Who? Hit the gong! ”

There was a loud roar in the darkness, and Zhang Qing, who was in charge of patrolling the camp, saw the figures in the firelight reflection under the camp wall, and immediately became alert; Looking closely, the firewood and grass under the camp wall were piled up, and he couldn't help but be surprised, and immediately ordered someone to ring the gong, and in an instant, the alarm was everywhere, and the sergeants in the camp quickly got out of the camp tent.

"Set it on fire! Run! ”

Lu Cheng was in a hurry, Song Jun came out so quickly, it was obvious that he had been prepared for a long time, and today I am afraid that he will fall into someone's plan in turn.

But at this point, it is useless to regret it, and if you set a fire, you may be able to take advantage of the chaos to escape.

He snatched a torch and threw it into the pyre, then turned and ran, and the other sergeants followed suit, and in an instant the fire burst into flames, burning along the northwest wind towards the Song army's camp.

"Where will the thief go!"

Zhang Qing rode over, saw the truth, raised his hand and hit the thief general led by a stone, snapped Lu Cheng's neck, and beat Lu Cheng to the point of blood and fell off the horse.

"Kill them, don't let a thief go!"

Zhang Qing shouted, and led his subordinates to kill a thousand patrol battalion sergeants; The thief army was leaderless, and it was immediately rushed into chaos, and most of the 3,000 people became the souls of the Song army.

……

Besides, the big tent of the Chinese army of the Song army, hearing the sound of gongs outside, Zong Ze and Xu Guanzhong immediately lifted the sheepskin blanket and walked out, and saw from a distance that the fire on the northwest corner had started.

"The thieves have come to set fire!"

The two of them were in good spirits.

"Immediately call the shots, let Li Yanxian and Yang Cunzhong kill Wancheng; Then order the generals to prepare to meet the next sneak attack! ”

"Yes!"

A trumpet cannon exploded in the air, and the fiery red fireworks formed a huge flower tree.

The Song army's cannon is a firework improved by Ling Zhen, which can fly dozens of feet into the air and be clearly visible more than ten miles away.

"Kill! Burn all the grain and grass of the Song army! ”

The Song army was on fire together, and after a while, Zheng Jie's 5,000 men and horses also came in with torches, and saw that the Song army's Dazhai was really loosely guarded, and his heart was overjoyed, thinking that Lu Cheng's fire attack had worked, and the Song army was scared away by the fire or went to fight the fire, and the Chinese army camp was empty.

Five thousand men and horses, each with a torch, lit a pile of grain and grass when he saw it.

"General! Why can't you order it? ”

Soon, many sergeants shouted nervously.

"How can the grain and grass pile not be lit?"

Zheng Jie was furious and personally went to a pile of grain and grass to light a fire, and found that it really couldn't be lit.

"Isn't this grain and grass?"

Zheng Jie was so frightened that he stabbed it in, bringing out a lot of grain and soil.

The grain and grass pile is real, but there is a thick layer of wet mud on the outside, and then a thin layer of firewood and grass is glued to the wet mud, which looks the same as an ordinary grain and grass pile.

But if you can light it, you'll see hell!

"Fooled! The Song army is prepared! Come on! ”

Zheng Jie wanted to cry, and he was about to run back as soon as the horse's head turned, but he found that two generals with tens of thousands of horses were coldly blocking the gate of the camp and looking at him.

"Thief! Xu Ning and Yang Zhi have been waiting for you for a long time, you are late! Kill! ”

The screams of the night were long and long.

……

At dawn, none of the six generals and 38,000 men sent out by Liu Min returned, because Li Yanxian and Yang Cunzhong immediately surrounded Wancheng with 30,000 troops.

Liu Min's heart has sunk to the bottom.

The Song army besieged the city, no need to ask, last night's routine was reversed, and he fell into the Song army's routine instead, and Lu Cheng and others must be more auspicious.

And in Wancheng, the general is only left with himself, and the sergeants only have 20,000 recruits, what kind of enemy to block?

Wanzhou is closed!

And the fact is just as Liu Min expected, the six generals of Wanzhou are now in front of Zong Ze and Xu Guanzhong.

Lu Cheng was killed by Zhang Qing, and Zheng Jie was cut off by Yang Zhi; Kou Meng and Gu Cen, who were ambushed in the east and prepared to pick up the leak, were not picked up but were killed by Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, and Hua Rong with 40,000 horses, leaving no piece of armor, Kou Meng was captured alive by Lu Junyi, and Gu Cen was cut off by Guan Sheng.

Han Zhe and Ban Ze each led 5,000 men and horses to the Song army camp, Ban Ze was killed by Yang Xiong, and Han Zhe did not know where to go in the chaotic army.

In other words, of Liu Min's six generals, only one escaped Han Zhe.

As the only general to be captured alive, Kou Meng looked at the corpses of his four comrades with a cold heart.

Zong Ze sighed and commanded:

"Bury the four of them properly, first erect a tombstone with wood, write their names on each of them, and wait until the war is over so that their families can come to worship!"

"Other sergeants who died in battle, record the roster and bury them, let the wounded be bandaged by the military doctor, don't embarrass him if you surrender, and lock up those who don't want to surrender first!"

Zong Ze turned his head to look at Kou Meng again.

"The enemy general, are you willing to surrender?"

When Kou Meng heard this, his neck stiffened: "If you want to kill, kill it!" I'd rather die than surrender! ”

Zong Ze shook his head, "Since that's the case, then kill it, with his loyalty!" By the way, buried with these four people! ”

"I understand!"

Li Kui held an axe in one hand and grabbed Kou Meng's collar in the other and walked out, Kou Meng was not afraid at all.

"Wait! Bring it back! ”