Chapter 19: The Battle of Midnight
Liu Fan's initial idea was that after the Khitans found themselves surrounded by the Great Qi army on three sides, they would definitely retreat at the slightest touch and break through from the West Gate, and then the Qi army would be overwhelming, making the Khitans powerless to fight back.
But the end result was far from what he had originally expected. This war can be described as full of twists and turns.
The temporary military village is about ten miles away from the east gate of Ganzhou, the Shenwu Army A Brigade set off at the beginning of Hai, and slowly arrived two miles away from Ganzhou City, the time is estimated to be a little past two moments in Haizheng, and when all the soldiers are hidden, the scout came with the news that the Shenwu Army B Brigade, the Shenwu Army C Brigade, the Jincheng Army A Brigade and the headquarters garrison have all arrived.
The fifteenth moon is sixteenth round, tonight is a full moon night, the sky is covered with white clouds, the hazy and subtle full moon continues to pass through the transparent clouds like cicada wings, the faint moonlight sprinkles a clear light between the heaven and the earth, the misty earth is illuminated by the fairyland-like light, and the majestic Qilian Mountain is shrouded in a mysterious and silent aura.
And in such a fairyland, it is not poetry and painting that bathes, but knives and killing, yes, bloodthirsty killing.
Liu Fan, Li Min and others are now lying in the grass two miles away from the East City Gate, with thousands of Daqi soldiers behind them, quietly waiting for the moment when the fire breaks out in the city.
Li Min asked in a low voice next to him: "Liu Fan......, are you nervous?" ”
Liu Fan turned his head, and under the moonlight, he saw Li Min's face pale, holding the sword in his hand with both hands, his lips tightly pursed together, his expression was serious, his expression was nervous, and he was a little cute.
Liu Fan suddenly remembered to take off his armor and let go of the hard shell in his heart, this is an eighteen-year-old girl, in the era before the crossing, it was the age of the third year of high school or the day of the big day, it was my mother's baby and my father's little padded jacket.
There was a place in her heart that suddenly softened, and the ghost made a fool of her hand and said, "Don't be afraid, I've been next to you all the time!" ”
And Li Min magically didn't say anything more, just nodded lightly.
Sometimes time is like a lightning speed, sometimes it is like a snail's step, and a short moment of time feels extremely slow in the hearts of Liu Fan and others.
When the first spark bloomed in the city, the suffocating wait was over, just a moment, a large area of fire in the city rose to the sky, with the loud horn sound in the three directions of the southeast and north, accompanied by the roar of the charging troops, the first active attack of the Great Qi towards the Khitan army began.
Perhaps the inertial thinking made the Khitan army not expect this to happen at all, so the initial attack was extremely smooth, and the Ganzhou army lurking inside not only set fire to a large area in the city, but also opened the three gates of Ganzhou at the same time.
Report - Our army and the Ganzhou army have cleared all the remnants of the enemy at the East City Gate, and the two battalions of Zichou have all entered the city!
Newspaper - The sub-battalion has attacked due west, and the ugly battalion is attacking along the inner side of the city wall in the direction of the northeast corner, intending to seize the east wall!
But this initial success did not last long, the Khitan army did not abandon the city from the west gate when the city was broken as Liu Fan imagined, after the initial panic, the attacking troops in the southeast and north of Daqi ushered in the Khitan army's crazy counterattack.
Liu Fan wondered in his heart: "It shouldn't be this version, there have rarely been large-scale street battles in history!" Unless the defenders already have the will to die or still have a backhand, it is impossible to have a will, and there is a backhand? ”
This conjecture scared Liu Fan out of a cold sweat all of a sudden.
After calming down a little, Liu Fan immediately shouted to the back: "Dong Zi, you go and report to Commander-in-Chief Guo in person, the enemy army may have a backhand." ”
Li Min asked next to him, "What's wrong, there's a new situation?" ”
"It's not certain yet, but the reaction of the Khitan army is unreasonable, and I estimate that the enemy still has a backhand. Alas, I thought about it, but I didn't expect that the enemy still had a back hand, so the back hand? Don't bury the tens of thousands of troops of the Right Route Army because of the loopholes in my proposal! After saying that, he suddenly squatted down with his head in his hands.
Li Min gently patted Liu Fan's shoulder next to him and said: "Don't worry, I think we will be surrounded on three sides, there will be no big problems, and there is also the general headquarters, although it is the strategy you proposed, but the strategy is also finally studied and agreed by the headquarters, if there is a real problem, don't take all the fault on yourself." ”
Liu Fan thought about it, this was not the time to regret, stood up and said, "Listen to what you said, wait first, let's see the situation of the attack in the city!" Maybe it's because I'm worried. ”
Report - the sub-battalion was blocked in the vicinity of the Laojun Temple to the west!
Newspaper - The ugly camp was blocked by the enemy at the steps of the inner city wall in the northeast corner, and has not yet taken the head of the city!
After receiving the scout's rapid news about the progress of the street battle in the city, Liu Fan didn't have time to talk to Li Min, only to see Dong Zi riding a horse like a whirlwind rolling over from behind, and said hurriedly from the horse: "Brother, Commander-in-Chief Guo said that he knew, Brigade Marshal Li, brother, Commander-in-Chief Guo asked me to tell you that because of the fierce counterattack of the enemy, Wei Wenyuan Sima of the Ganzhou Army led a battalion of soldiers to all retreat to the secret passage, and the enemy army in the city put the main force in the north and south directions to focus on resisting the pressure from the north and south gates, and the defensive force to the east is relatively weak, Ordered our troops to immediately attack due west with all their might, to relieve the pressure on the attacking troops on both the north and south, in order to break the enemy's all-round resistance, and to attack the steps of the northeast corner at all costs to take the east wall. ”
"Brother, I still have to go to the C Brigade of the Shenwu Army to convey the command order." After saying that, another gust of wind flew away.
Liu Fan thought: "That's right, as long as you quickly defeat the resistance of the enemy army in the city, whether you have a backhand or not is basically a result." ”
I just wanted to turn around and suggest to Li Min that the whole army press it, but suddenly I thought that Li Min, who Uncle Chen had repeatedly entrusted, couldn't afford to make a mistake, so I had to swallow the words that were about to blurt out and be pressed by the whole army into my stomach.
Rubbing his hands, he said to Li Min, who was just about to issue an order: "This, Brigade Marshal Li, can you have a discussion, I will lead the troops into the city to attack, you lead the team of personal soldiers here to command, and I will let the scouts report to you at any time?" ”
Li Minleng paused for a moment, then understood the meaning of his words, and said with a smile: "Here I am the brigade commander or you are the brigade commander." ”
"Of course you're a brigade commander!" As soon as the words came out, I knew that I had been fooled.
Sure enough, Li Min didn't give him a chance at all, and ordered loudly: "The Jincheng army obeys the order, and your troops are commanding in the center outside the city under the leadership of Liu Lushuai, there must be no mistake!" ”
After speaking, he pursed his lips and smiled at Liu Fan, and ordered the remaining two Shenwu military camps: "The whole army will enter the city immediately." ”
Liu Fan and Zhang Ting stared at each other with wide eyes.
I thought to myself: "What the hell is this for a little girl to give shabu, what can I do?" ”
Zhang Ting said anxiously: "Liu Lu, this ...... This general is not subject to the king's order, let's go into the city! ”
Liu Fan thought in his heart: "Alas, if you disobey the order, disobey the order, it is important to enter the city, otherwise once this girl has a problem, Commander Guo and Old Man Chen will not cook me and eat it." ”
said to Zhang Ting and Dong Zi, who had just returned: "Let's go, let's go in and talk about it!" ”
When Liu Fan and his entourage entered the city, they saw that the entire city was already a Shura hell, neither of us nor the enemy could care about extinguishing the fire, the fire was still burning in many places, the area north of the east city wall was the area attacked by the A Brigade of the Shenwu Army, and the area south of the east city wall was the area attacked by the C Brigade of the Shenwu Army, but at present, it seems that the two brigades in the east were resisting by the Khitan Army at all costs in the attack on the steps due west, the northeast corner, and the southeast corner, except for the death and wounding of a large number of soldiers, no results have been achieved.
Li Min had already asked the two battalions that had just entered the city to join the attack in two directions.
Seeing Liu Fan coming, Li Min smiled and said: "Brigade Marshal Liu, I seem to have heard that the Jincheng Army A Brigade is brave in battle in the past two days, and Brigade Marshal Liu has a good command, but I didn't expect this Jincheng Army to have a little problem in army discipline and execution of orders!" ”
Liu Fan looked at Zhang Ting, who was standing next to him, with an indifferent look, so he had to look at him left and right, and said: "Brigade Marshal, you see that although the war is in full swing today, tonight is full of white clouds and moonlight is like water, it is really a beautiful night!" ”
Don't talk about Li Min now, even Zhang Ting couldn't control his laughter all of a sudden, only Dong Zili ignored it, he still looked ignorant, fortunately Liu Fan was Guan Gong farting - I don't know how to blush.