Chapter 983: Earning the City Gate into Youzhou
Thundered!
The thunder that was still far away in the sky suddenly roared over the city of Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom with a lightning bolt that split the sky, and the defenders who were sparsely blown up at the head of the city were all shocked, revealing a look of fear.
Before they could react, the thunder was followed by raindrops the size of soybeans, crackling and smashing down, and in a moment it had turned into a rain curtain in the sky, not only drenching the defenders of the city into chickens, but even those flags were lowered and drooped down because of it, and there was no longer the majesty of before.
Seeing this, the defenders at the head of the city immediately shouted and drilled into the watchtower arrow tower in the rear, they were not elite soldiers, and because of the relationship between the Han or the Bohai people, they were oppressed by the government bosses, and the military salary in hand was pitiful, so it was naturally impossible to do their best to ignore themselves.
So on this thunderstorm afternoon, there were almost no defenders in the head of Youzhou City, and the city gates on all sides were closed early, making this big city with a population of two or three hundred thousand look extremely silent and deserted.
But on this rainy afternoon, a vast cavalry team galloped to the south gate of Youzhou City in the rain, and after seeing the empty and undefended appearance of the city, Sun Tu and the others couldn't believe their eyes. Even if they have accepted the reality that the garrison of Youzhou is empty, after seeing such a lax defense in the city, they still feel a little illusory.
But even so, Sun Tu didn't think that he would be able to take this opportunity to enter Youzhou City in one go. Because the high walls of this Youzhou city are thick and deep, even worse than Zhuozhou, with their light riding costumes, it is impossible to break the door or climb the city with their bare hands, so everything can only be done according to the established strategy.
As Sun Tu waved his hand, several knights quickly stepped forward, leaned to the moat in front of the city gate, and shouted loudly in Khitan dialect: "Is there anyone in the city? Hurry up and open the door and let us in, there's an urgent military report! ”
Naturally, there were no people in the Shandong army who could speak Khitan, but these people were prisoners in the Changsheng army. As the former bottom of the Liao army, although they are not Khitans, they speak Khitan fluently. It's just that the current heavy rain is not so real, but their cries are not so real when they reach the city.
After they screamed for a while, a few guards reluctantly came out from above, and one of them replied in a slightly lame Khitan dialect: "Which soldiers and horses are you, and why did you suddenly come to Nanjing?" ”
"We are Xi Wang Xiao's cadres, we were defeated by the Song army in Zhuozhou, and even King Xi was captured by the Song army. We have received a letter that the Song army will soon send troops to Nanjing, with an army of 100,000. The generals below hurriedly replied in a loud voice according to what Sun Tu had pointed out before.
The soldiers at the head of the city were silent for a moment, and then exclaimed: "This is impossible! King Xi led my Daliao elite south, how could he be defeated by the Song army? ”
"It's true, what happened is not something that can be explained in a few words, please open the city gate quickly, let me and others in, we still have many brothers who are injured, but they can't stand the rain."
Obviously, this statement completely confused the defenders at the head of the city, and after another moment of silence, they heard them shout: "Wait, the city gate is open, and we have to report it before we can open the door." After saying this, they all shrank back.
All the soldiers under the city showed a hint of suspicion on their faces, and several of them quickly stepped forward and came to the soldier who was talking to the defenders at the head of the city, and said in a low voice: "What did you say to him?" Why won't the gates be opened? ”
"A few generals, please be calm, they just did some checks, and besides, the city gate will be opened and you will have to ask the boss, so let's wait for a while." This person immediately felt the suspicion of the people around him, and hurriedly accompanied him to explain carefully.
Sun Tu in the rear seemed quite calm, thought for a while, and said: "This is also reasonable, you don't have to be so nervous." I don't think the Liao people would have thought that we would have such a trick, and now it's just a routine interrogation. After a pause, he said with a straight face: "But once we enter the city, we have to act as soon as possible, and we must not give the Liao people any chance to react!" ”
All the soldiers immediately whispered yes, and everyone bowed slightly, ready to rush out as soon as the city gate was opened.
There was silence for a long time, and finally, when everyone felt uneasy and wondered if there was any flaw exposed, the closed south gate of Youzhou slowly opened, and the suspension bridge slowly fell and landed on the moat with the same piercing creak.
At the same time, a voice sounded at the head of the city: "You wait to enter the city quickly, what happened in Zhuozhou, why did King Xi be defeated, you must explain it to us clearly!" This Khitan dialect is extremely fluent, and it is obvious that a certain Liao general heard the news.
Sun Tu immediately made a gesture, and the cavalry team of thousands of people began to move forward slowly, stepping on the suspension bridge steadily, and then someone began to accelerate, Lin Chong and Dong Ping were two arrows on the left and right, and they had crossed the bridge and rushed into the city gate hole. And the other soldiers, under their leadership, suddenly accelerated, and in the shouting and cheering, like a long dragon, they broke through the rain curtain in the sky and went straight into Youzhou.
Originally, when I saw this cavalry team running to the city gate in such a hurry, the defenders at the head of the city were still giggling and laughing at the jokes, after all, thinking that they had fled back in defeat, it would be much more comfortable for them to wait and defend Nanjing. But soon, someone saw that something was wrong, because the first few people actually raised their spears one after another, and the swords were suddenly unsheathed.
"Stop, who the hell are you!" It was only at this moment that the general realized that something was wrong, and while shouting loudly, he waved his hand to the guards below to hurry forward to stop him, and closed the city gate.
However, the heavy rain at this time is too dense, not only affects hearing, but also obstructs people's vision, and when the dozens of soldiers at the city gate understand the intention of the boss, Dong Ping and Lin Chong in front of the city have rushed out of the city gate almost at the same time, and then three cold lights flashed out, and several soldiers who just wanted to step forward to stop them had fallen in a pool of blood, and then they were trampled by the galloping horses' hooves, and they didn't even have time to scream, and their lives were lost.
Sun Tu came with 5,000 elite light horsemen this time, which can be called a rare battle of attack in the Great Song Dynasty in a hundred years. Each of them can do one person two or three horses, so that although everyone is in a hurry, but the crotch of the horse has not been greatly affected, especially when they are close to Youzhou, there has been a change of horses, which makes their mounts maintain more than eighty percent of the physical strength, at this time sprint, naturally the speed is amazing.
The Liao army did not expect that they would be raided by the cavalry of the Song army one day, and they had just preconceived that the other party was their own, so their reaction was even slower by two or three beats. Such a gap is placed on the battlefield of life and death, and it is enough to determine the victory or defeat.
There was almost no resistance, and the Liao army guards in front of the city gate had all been killed, and at this time, the people at the head of the city had not had time to run down from above. Sun Tu of course they could not give the enemy a chance to react, immediately a whistle, 5,000 cavalry has quickly divided into several units, along the front of the cross street, rushed to all parts of the city, leaving only more than 100 people under the leadership of Shi Xiu and other generals who are not good at horse warfare, counterattack towards these already panicked Liao army.
There is almost no suspense in this battle, and the dozens of Liao soldiers who are already lacking in combat power are lost in their hearts, how can they resist the elite of the Shandong army who are as fierce as tigers and wolves? As soon as one saw them, half of them fell, and the rest had no resistance at all, and they scattered in all directions screaming.
In this regard, the south gate of Youzhou City has been completely lost and fell into the hands of the Song army who had just entered the city.
And when the killing sound at the city gate subsided, the screams and exclamations in the city had already sounded, and the cavalry slashed the tranquility of Youzhou City like a sharp knife out of the sheath, startling the few pedestrians on the street to scream and jump around, and the whole city began to be chaotic in a short moment.
As Sun Tu, who had lived in Youzhou City for a period of time and knew something about the military camp officials here, he naturally became the leader again this time, and with his several orders, there was a team that went straight to several important garrison yamen and military camps in the city, and he himself took Dong Ping's elite and went straight to the mansion of the most important king of the Southern Courtyard.
Although he knew that Yelu Xiongge, the king of the Southern Courtyard, was fighting the Song army in the front, he also believed that the person in charge of the city must be there at this moment, so as long as the Great King's Mansion of the Southern Courtyard was defeated and the main general inside was killed or captured, the defenders in the city would be scattered and Youzhou would be completely taken down.
At this time, it shows how timely and wise his decision to take the city by surprise was done, because of the heavy rain, the commotion in the city had just reached the door of this mansion, causing the guards to be a little stunned. When they saw a cavalry rushing along the long empty street, they knew that something was wrong, and they quickly turned around and closed the palace gate.
However, how could their speed be compared to the horses that ran too early, only to see that they had only arrived at the back of the door, and before they had time to push the heavy portal, a horse had already neighed and jumped up to the door, and the two huge hooves stepped on the door so fiercely, so that the guards who just wanted to exert themselves behind them were turned on their backs, and the gate that should have been closed was quickly and completely opened, exposing all the scenes inside to Lin Chong's eyes on horseback.
I saw him lift the reins again, let out a low shout, and then took the lead and rushed into the palace of the king of the southern courtyard......
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