Chapter 858: Night Attack on Jingdong
The cavalry general Liu Guanghui led an army of 15,000 to arrive at Tumen Pass at the appointed time, while another army of 15,000 people, also led by the scout commander Zhang Yun, had also arrived in Yizhou, not far from the exit of the Flying Fox.
Both armies set out from Taiyuan and cooperated with Guo Song to attack Jingcheng and Feihucheng.
On the surface, the Jin army's offensive target was Jizhou, and it seemed that it would also participate in the battle for Jizhou, but in fact, the real goal of the Jin army was Zhu Tao's old nest Youzhou, using Yao Jin's army to drag Zhu Tao, and Guo Song led the army north to solve the entrance of Jingcheng.
Li Wanquan, the commander of the Youzhou army, had already rushed to the head of Tumen Pass, he lay on the battlements, staring nervously into the distance, from Tumen Pass, he could see seven or eight miles ahead, and he couldn't see it any further, and there was a big mountain blocking his vision.
The Meishan Fengsui in Jingcheng has been pulled out by the enemy, and Li Wanquan can no longer understand how many troops have appeared in Jingcheng, and the other party just wants to test the sneak attack on Tumen Pass? Or do you want to seize Tumen Pass in a big way?
This state of not being up or down made him extremely uncomfortable, and he didn't know if he should report to his lord?
But what Li Wanquan never expected was that he was worried about the safety of Tumen Pass, but the real danger was quietly approaching the camp more than ten miles away.
The 35,000 troops led by Guo Song himself were hiding in a ravine several miles deep, and ten miles away in front of them was the Youzhou army camp.
Guo Song was waiting for the opportunity, at this time the night had quietly fallen, there were more clouds in the sky, the moonlight was bright and dark, Guo Song sent troops to set up the formation, he left 10,000 cavalry to kick the camp, and the remaining 25,000 people spread out like cloth pockets, ready to round up the fleeing enemy army.
Guo Song handed over the task of kicking the camp to Yang Meng, Yang Mengren is indeed a fierce general, dare to fight, full of murderous spirit, he was originally a famous general under Li Huaien, surrendered to the Jin army when the Guo Song army attacked the party, and went to Taiyuan Yanwutang to study for a year, and came back as the general of Yingyanglang, commanding 5,000 cavalry.
This time he followed Wu Zhiyuan to attack Zhaozhou, although he let the enemy escape, but the responsibility was not his, it was Wu Zhiyuan's mistake in deploying troops, but he still kicked the enemy's camp in Xiangcheng County and captured a large amount of food and supplies.
While deposing Wu Zhiyuan, Guo Song decisively reused Yang Meng.
At the time of the third watch, Yang Meng led 10,000 cavalry troops to quietly approach the enemy camp, at this time, the camp was dark, 8,000 soldiers were sleeping soundly, there was a guard tower on both sides of the camp gate, there were soldiers pacing on the guard tower, but the sight distance was limited, only dozens of steps away, for the cavalry, this distance was meaningless.
Although Yang Meng is brave, but at the same time very fine, experienced, he saw that the enemy camp fence is low, there is no outer patrol, he is worried that the enemy army has laid down thistle terrestris outside, in this case, it is more secure to attack from the main gate, even if it is discovered by the enemy sentry, it is not a big problem.
The cavalry walked slowly, and a hundred paces from the main camp was still a hundred paces, when the sentry suddenly faintly spotted the outline of an army, and was engrossed in discerning it.
At this moment, Yang Meng raised his big knife and shouted, "Kill—"
"Kill—"
Ten thousand cavalry shouted in unison, and suddenly they started, and thousands of cavalry ran, and they were like a torrent of broken embankments, and they were unstoppable and slaughtered the enemy camp.
'When! While! When!' The sentry suddenly realized that it was an enemy attack and hurriedly sounded the alarm.
But it was too late, and in the crisp sound of alarm bells, the cavalry slaughtered into the enemy camp, instantly dispersed, and killed in all directions.
The soldiers of the Youzhou Army who were asleep woke up, and the main general Li Wanquan was still observing the enemy situation at Tumen Pass, the soldiers cried and ran for their lives, many people were barefoot, wearing only a single coat, watching the Jin army kill flesh and blood, and corpses were all over the ground.
Yang Meng shouted: "Those who surrender can not be killed!" ”
The cavalry 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 one after another. The thousands of soldiers who escaped from the camp found that the perimeter was also surrounded, and the half-mountain road to Tumen Pass was also cut off, and they had no way to escape except to surrender.
In this sneak attack on the enemy camp, more than 1,000 people were killed in the Youzhou army, nearly 7,000 surrendered, and only a dozen people escaped by luck.
However, because the road to Tumen Pass had been cut off by the Jin army in advance, none of the enemy troops could flee to Tumen Pass to report the news, and the camp did not catch fire, so that the camp had been destroyed, and Tumen Pass did not know anything about it.
The 3,000 Jin army, under the leadership of Zhonglang General Ye Hongqing, silently approached the small military camp, which had 1,500 Youzhou Army soldiers stationed, and when the situation at Tumen Pass was critical, they would support the pass in time.
At this time, it was almost the fourth watch, and there was silence in the small barracks, and the large camps were more than ten miles away.
The mountain wind is strong, blowing the east wind, which is very suitable for attacking with fire, only more than forty steps away from the small military camp, dozens of soldiers stretch their bows and set up arrows, and dozens of gunpowder arrows are fired at the opponent's military camp at the same time.
Gunpowder arrows set fire to the tent, and under the strong impetus of the mountain wind, the fire spread rapidly, and in just a moment, more than 30 large tents were set on fire, and soldiers began to flee in terror from the tents.
The Jin army did not attack, the road in the middle of the mountain was too narrow, and it was easy to stumble and fall off the cliff during the night melee.
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and more than half of the big tent was already lit, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Youzhou Army fled from the camp in panic and rushed towards Tumen Pass, a mile away.
At this time, Li Wanquan, who was monitoring the enemy's situation at Tumen Pass, was also alarmed, he put on his clothes, ran to the city wall to check, the scene in front of him made Li Wanquan stunned, not far from the half-mountain road on the flames, the entire military camp was engulfed in flames.
He suddenly looked up in the direction of the camp, and an unprecedented fear surged in his heart, could it be that the camp was also ......
"General, the enemy army in Jingcheng has appeared!" Soldiers 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, all of them were soldiers with torches in their hands, at least tens of thousands of people.
Li Wanquan finally understood that the Jin army was attacked inside and outside, and Jingcheng was completely finished.
At this time, Li Wanquan suddenly remembered that he had to inform the lord of this important matter immediately.
Zhu Tao established a perfect transmission system in the Youzhou area, which was a combination of Fengsui, Flying Eagle and Flying Horse, and Jing Cheng was no exception.
It's just that the Eagle Tower is on the side of the camp, Li Wanquan can't use the flying eagle to send a message, and the flying horse can't send a message, the only way is to light the beacon fire, when the beacon of Tumen Pass is lit, it will be transmitted to Youzhou one station at a time, and naturally there will be cavalry rushing to send a letter to Zhu Tao.
Li Wanquan hurriedly ordered: "Go and light the beacon immediately!" ”
Some soldiers ran to light the beacon on the pass, Li Wanquan looked up at 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 was sour, but the main beacon on the top of the mountain did not move.
"General, I'm afraid the beacons on the mountain are also ......" The soldier next to him didn't dare to continue.
Li Wanquan's heart completely fell into the abyss, of course he knew that the beacon on the mountain was also cut off by the enemy, and his last glimmer of hope was also shattered.
is also a surprise soldier, Guo Song's surprise soldiers and Wu Zhiyuan's strange soldiers are different, Guo Song's surprise soldiers are deployed to attack, will not give the enemy a chance to choose, and is to plan and then move.
What does it mean to plan and then act, this plan Guo Song formulated a few years ago, and all the details were exhaustive, including cutting off the beacon on the top of the mountain first, not giving the enemy a chance to report the news, and not letting Zhu Tao realize that his real strategy was to copy his lair.
And these details are based on a lot of intelligence, you must know the existence of the beacon, the position of the eagle tower, etc., only by knowing oneself and knowing the other can we win all battles.
As the day began to dawn, more than 1,800 soldiers gathered at Tumen Pass, and more than 1,000 soldiers in the small barracks fled into Tumen Pass, making Tumen Pass, which could only accommodate 500 soldiers, crowded.
The soldiers were in a state of panic, wondering what their fate would be.
The small military camp burned in a mess on the half-mountain road has been quickly cleaned up, and there are black pressure Jin army soldiers on the half-mountain road, at least tens of thousands of people, and a large trebuchet has appeared in the team, one foot and five feet high, and the throwing rod is up to three zhang, which can throw a large iron fire thunder weighing two hundred pounds seventy steps away, and it stands like a black tower in the army.