Chapter 861: Night Attack on Xindu
Wang Wuhong is a small farmer in Zhaozhou, originally had a simple personality and a little cunning, but after ten years with his cousin, his cunning is still the same, but the simplicity is gone, and he has become very greedy.
He led hundreds of people to ride horses to the Youzhou military camp, a good cowhide tent made his eyes hot, this kind of camp tent is warm in winter and cool in summer, can shelter from the wind and rain, and a room is no different, a big tent at least a hundred.
He quickly calculated in his heart that there were at least 2,000 big tents in it, and one big tent was worth 200,000 yuan!
His eyes were immediately red and his heart was hot, and he pointed with a horsewhip: "These big tents must all be dismantled and transported back!" ”
"General, these big tents are going to be transported by carts, why don't we go and get them first?"
"What's the hurry?"
Wang Wuhong glared at his subordinates, "I haven't finished reading it yet!" ”
He came to the barn tent area again, where there were hundreds of extra-large tents, each covering at least two acres, but they were not leather tents, but ordinary wool tents, but this kind of two-acre tent was more expensive, and was usually used by wealthy families when they went out to play or hunt.
Wang Wuhong was more concerned about the materials in the tent, when he saw the piles of grain like a hill, and saw bundles of leather armor and bundles of spears, especially when he saw boxes full of copper coins, he could no longer bear it, and turned around and ordered: "Go back to the city!" ”
Wang Wuhong led his men back to the city, and immediately ordered 5,000 soldiers to dispatch, and requisitioned 1,000 civilian carts to carry supplies to the Youzhou military camp.
It will take at least three or four days to complete the transportation of the materials left behind by the Youzhou army, and it will take two days to carry only 200,000 stone grain and more than 100,000 loads of forage.
A thousand wagons and 5,000 soldiers began to roam back and forth between the camp and the city, and Li Wujun, fearing that the Jin army would return to the city, ordered Wang Wuhong to complete the transportation within two days.
In this way, there was no rest at night, and the soldiers carried torches to guard the carriages, and the official roads of twenty miles were lit with fires, which seemed to be extremely busy.
At this moment, the general Xu Yun had already led 10,000 cavalry to quietly approach Xindu City and stopped two miles away from the city.
This was Yao Jinliu's hand, and he actually brought 40,000 troops to Xindu, of which 30,000 were stationed in the camp, and the other 10,000 cavalry were stationed in Nangong County.
When Yao Jin led 25,000 cavalry to pursue north, and these 10,000 cavalry quietly came to the south of Xindu City twenty miles away under the leadership of Xu Yun, waiting for news of the scouts.
Xu Yun is the general of the Longyou Army, stationed in Hezhou all the year round, about forty years old, he originally joined the Hexi Army as a general, and started from the captain again, followed Guo Song to fight in the south, and now has accumulated merit and promoted to the general of Yingyang Lang, the county earl, he is not only brave and good at fighting, but also very strategic, using the materials left over by the Youzhou Army as bait, which is the plan he proposed.
The time had reached two watches, and Xu Yun was still patiently waiting for the news of the pioneer soldiers.
The north gate of Xindu was wide open, and the lights were bright in front of the gate, and dozens of soldiers stood in front of the gate, watching the ox carts full of supplies enter the city and go out from the city.
A thousand ox carts, of course, did not go together, but came intermittently, usually fifty ox carts and a hundred soldiers in a group.
At this time, there was another group of ox carts in the distance, and a coachman drove the carts, and each cart was followed by a cavalryman on both sides, or fifty carts, and a lantern was hung on the wheel of the cart, and on it were written the two ink characters of 'Wang Ji', which should be the carriage of Wang Ji's mules and horses in the city.
Fifty ox carts slowly approached the city gate, unlike other big carts, these fifty ox carts were actually covered with thick tarpaulin, obviously not wanting people to see what was covered below, the soldiers at the head of the city were guessing that the following must be Wang Wuhong's things, it was estimated that it was a money box, that bastard was greedy for money.
"Password?" A brigade commander in front of the city gate asked.
Of course, you need a password, what if the enemy takes advantage of the opportunity to sneak in?
"Horses have no night grass and no fertilizer!" The leading cavalry replied.
This is Wang Wuhong's mantra, which he used as a password.
With a wave of his hand, the ox cart slowly continued to move forward, this ox cart was indeed recruited from the city, and it was indeed said that it was taken to join, the shopkeeper Yue of the Gaosheng Inn spent a hundred yuan to rent it from Wang Ji Mule and Horse Company, and the guys who drove the car were all his subordinates, of course, there were not so many of his subordinates, and they were all replaced halfway, so he knew that the password was also normal.
The ox carts entered the city one by one, and when they reached the thirty-second car, the commander of the city guard inadvertently noticed that the things on the cart moved.
'There's a living creature in it!' ’
The commander of the garrison was puzzled, and when he looked closely, he found a pair of feet through a gap.
There were people inside, and the commander of the garrison immediately shouted: "Stop, lift the tarpaulin, we have to check!" ”
When the cavalry leader saw that the other party had found out, he immediately shouted: "Do it!" ”
The tarpaulin snorted, and all of them were lifted, and it was full of soldiers, who jumped down from the ox cart one after another, and the cavalry next to them waved their hands, and the spears in their hands stabbed fiercely at the brigade commander who guarded the gate, and the brigade commander was caught off guard, and was stabbed in the shoulder by a spear, screamed, and fell off the moat.
There was a great chaos at the city gate, and fifty ox carts carried twenty people each, plus coachmen and guards, a total of 1,150 Jin army scouts, led by Zhou Zhi, the scout general.
"Seize the gates!"
Zhou Zhi shouted, and everyone immediately divided their troops into two ways, 500 people with spears and shields blocked the city gate, and Zhou Zhi personally led 500 people to kill the city.
At the same time, three rockets shot into the sky, and the flames streaked across the sky, and in the air, 'pop!' It exploded.
Xu Yun, who was two miles away, was waiting for this signal, and when the gunpowder arrow exploded in the air, he immediately shouted: "Kill into the city!" ”
Ten thousand cavalry were launched, and suddenly ten thousand horses galloped, dust flew up, and the earth began to tremble.
Two miles of land was only a matter of moments for the cavalry, and in a moment, the vanguard of 10,000 cavalry had already killed hundreds of miles away from the city gate.
At the head of the city, 3,000 soldiers were rushing to support the north gate, and they suddenly saw the cavalry under the city, and they were all stupid, and they all shouted, "Flee quickly!" It's not worth working hard for Li Wujun. ”
This soldier shouted out everyone's hearts, they were still for the duty of a soldier before, but in the face of life and death, duty was not important in an instant, but became worth dying for Li Wujun?
The answer is undoubted, Li Wujun is unkind, selfish, and has a very bad reputation, if it weren't for the sake of the army, who would want to be his soldier?
The three thousand soldiers turned around and fled to the city, and at this time, Xu Yun took the lead and took the lead in the city of Xindu..........
The city of Xindu was in chaos, and the people in the city heard that it was the Jin army that entered the city, and the families were closed, and the soldiers were no longer willing to work for Li Wujun, so they took off their armor, threw away their weapons, and scattered to hide.
The only ones who worked for Li Wujun were the 3,000 Zhiwei army, who were stationed next to Li Wujun's palace, and the 3,000 Zhiwei army occupied the palace, and they squatted on the high walls and rooftops to fire arrows at the besieging Jin army.
The Jin army did not rush to attack the palace of King Zhao, but sent 3,000 troops to shoot arrows at the enemy, while the rest of the army cleared the remnants of resistance at the city gates.
At the fourth watch, the Jin army had cleared all the resisters in the city, and the troops began to gather in the Zhao Palace.
In the darkness, arrows whizzed in, Xu Yun looked at the Zhao Wangfu shrouded in darkness from afar, and a general whispered: "General, you can use iron fire and thunder to blow up the wall!" ”
Xu Yun shook his head, after the wall was blown up, the soldiers rushed in and still fought with the enemy, the enemy's three thousand direct guards are all selected strong soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and their own cavalry advantage cannot be brought into play, since they rely on the advantage of troops to defeat the other party, the casualties will be great.
Xu Yun asked calmly, "Are there any houses around?" ”
"General Huiyu, there is no residence!"
Xu Yun immediately ordered: "Shoot the gunpowder arrow!" ”
Eight thousand soldiers fired burning gunpowder arrows at the same time, the overwhelming gunpowder arrows rose into the air, shot into the palace with flames, and began to burn rapidly, the gunpowder arrows used by the Jin army were specially used for combustion, the calorific value was large, the burning was rapid, and it could quickly ignite all kinds of flammable materials, wheat straw, window paper, mosquito nets, curtains, etc.
After three rounds of gunpowder arrows, hundreds of fire points appeared in the entire palace, and the fire began to spread, connecting into one, and half an hour later, Zhao's palace became a sea of fire.
Countless soldiers screamed and fled from the mansion, all of them were mercilessly shot by the Jin soldiers, and an hour later, the entire Zhao Wangfu was completely engulfed in flames