Chapter 11: The Battle of Yangzhou (2)
In the grove outside the city of Yangzhou
Liu Xia and his entourage had arrived here in advance, it was already three o'clock at this time, the sky was still so dark, in this place Liu Xia was no longer worried about being discovered by the Qing army because of the sound, but he still didn't let the lights be lit, after all, in the wilderness, it is easy to suspect that there are lights.
In order to let the others who came know where they were, Liu Xia surrounded him with scouts, and whenever anyone approached, he would investigate, and if it was his own team, he would guide them over.
After another stick of incense, Liu Dazhuang retreated from Yangzhou City with the Tiger Ben Battalion, and then passed through the guidance of the scout, and finally joined Liu Xia and the army. Slowly, the wolf howling camp and the lion roaring camp also came out, and this retreat was considered very successful, and it did not disturb the Qing army in the city.
When everyone came to Liu Xia's side, Liu Xia began to say to the generals: "Everyone is out now, then I will tell you my plan, although there are not many of us, but now we still have an advantage, now the 100,000 army of the Tartars is basically full of people in the city to enjoy, and those generals, whether they are Manchus or traitors, are also in the city."
That is to say, the army now stationed outside the city are all some grassroots soldiers, although there are many people, but they are leaderless, so there is nothing to worry about. And since the Tartars have broken through the city of Yangzhou, and now the north of the Yangtze River is occupied by the Qing army, the Qing army would not have thought that an army would attack them now."
"The grain and grass of the Tartars and the cannons are now in the barracks outside the city, this is giving us a good opportunity, Zhang Yuan listens to the order!"
Zhang Yuan saw his name, so he stepped forward to bow down, and then replied, "The last will be."
"I will give you the clothes of the captured Tartar Baturu, you choose dozens of soldiers with large bodies and strong bodies to wear these clothes, and find a few who understand the Tartar language, and follow them, you pretend to be Tartars to go to the place where the Tartar grain and grass are, go in and set fire in the name of inspection, and take the opportunity to come out when the Qing army is in chaos, and finally you take care." Liu Xia knew that this task was very arduous, and if he didn't do it well, he would probably be wiped out, and no one would survive.
Zhang Yuan was not intimidated by this bold plan, but his eyes were slightly excited, so he replied and went down to prepare.
"Yu Mingjun, listen to the order!"
"You find fifteen people, find a few Tartar clothes, and then pretend to be Tartars, go to the place where the Qing army defends the horses and cannons, just wait for the distant general to light the grain and grass, and see the fire, you go to the barracks to ask the Qing army guarding there for help, let them hurry up and put out the fire, as far as possible, as for how to let them go as many as possible, it's up to you, and then after you have lured the Tartars away, you will enter the barracks of the magnifying cannon and select a few cannons. Destroy the rest".
Yu Mingjun also replied, and went down to prepare. The reason why Yu Mingjun was chosen to do this was because Yu Mingjun was the most clever of these generals, and Liu Xia could only rely on him.
"General, general, what am I going to do" As Ma Peng, who had the same idea as Liu Xia, he was a little anxious when he saw that everyone else had a task, so he hurriedly said to Liu Xia.
Liu Xia said: "Wang En, there are still the remaining scouts in your logistics team, hide them first." The rest of the rest of the people will follow me towards the stable of the Qing army, and when Ming Jun has led the Qing army there, we will rush in."
"Yes, General". The crowd responded.
After Liu Xia finished the errand, the generals looked at Ma Peng differently, but they didn't expect this kid to have the function of an unpredictable prophet, and they really underestimated him. Ma Peng felt a little embarrassed, but it made Ma Peng more loyal, and Liu Xia's style was too much for him to admire.
Wang En followed Liu Xia's order, commanded the logistics team and that part of the scout team to continue to find a hidden place to hide, Liu Xia led more than 1,000 people to the Qing army's camp outside, Zhang Yuan had already changed with the people he selected to change the clothes of the Qing army Tartar Baturu, these people are all fierce and vicious, fierce and abnormal, Liu Xia also gave Zhang Yuan the captured Baturu's horses, which shows how important Liu Xia attaches to this mission.
Yu Mingjun was also ready, they didn't have horses to ride, but their task was less difficult than Zhang Yuan's, the two teams were all together, and then under Liu Xia's order, they all started their work.
Liu Xia brought the remaining more than 1,000 people, and followed closely towards the place where the Qing army had placed their horses, and everything was so silent in the night......
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In the camp of the Qing army, there are basically Han troops now, and there are only a few very few Tartar guards here to prevent the Han people from making chaos. The whole camp except for those who stood guard basically slept in tents, and everything was so peaceful.
And outside a castle not far from Yangzhou City, there came a group of tall and large, with excellent weapons, riding horses Tartar Baturu, these people are Zhang Yuan and his party, and inside this fortress is the place where the Tartars put grain and grass, here can be regarded as a strong defense, if it is a strong attack, it is estimated that it will take a long time.
Just as Zhang Yuan and the others continued to advance towards the gate of the fortress, a voice suddenly came from the tower of the fortress, saying: "Who are you, this is a military important place, you are not allowed to go forward, otherwise you will be killed."
Zhang Yuan immediately nodded to a man next to him, this man came from Liaodong back then, and he knew some Tatar words, so he spoke with a thick northeast accent and shouted at the people on the city wall in Tatar words. However, the soldiers on the city wall are Han Chinese, and they don't understand what this man says, although they don't understand what they mean, but he understands one thing, these people are Tartars.
Getting this conclusion, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, the Tartars killed people without blinking, they offended them just now, then they would definitely not let themselves go, even if the Tartars killed themselves, his head would not come out for himself, this soldier kept counting in his heart.
But Zhang Yuan and his party downstairs in this city were impatient to wait, so the man continued to shout to the top in the words of the Tartar. In fact, there are Tartars in this castle, but these Tartars are all uncle-level characters here, like now in the middle of the night, they have long been in their own room with Meijiao, and their mother has slept.
The soldier thought to himself, he had already offended this tartar just now, and now he couldn't offend it anymore, so he had better hurry up and show them goodwill, maybe he could pick up a small life. So more than a dozen soldiers on the upper floor of the city hurriedly ran to the city gate, opened the city gate, and welcomed Zhang Yuan and others in.
Zhang Yuan and the others walked into the city with a proud look, but the soldier was frightened and didn't dare to raise his head, one of the leaders looked like a person, endured the fear in his heart, and then asked Zhang Yuan: "I don't know how many adults have arrived, what's the matter?" ”
Zhang Yuan glared at the soldier leader fiercely, the soldier leader was immediately covered with cold sweat, and his head shrank vigorously to his neck, lest the Tartar cut off his head without saying a word, and finally a person behind Zhang Yuan, with a northeastern-style accent, said in Chinese: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, how can you sluts know such secrets?" Hurry up and guard the tower, do your duty, if you let in a few unknown people, you will all lose your heads."
As soon as these soldiers heard this, they let them go, they immediately rushed to feel relieved, bowed to Zhang Yuan and the others, and then hurriedly left, they didn't have any doubts at this time, after all, no one dared to pretend to be this Tartar in their opinion.
Zhang Yuan glanced at everyone, meaning that everyone was acting, and everyone understood the meaning, and they all set up their horses and marched towards the place where the grain and grass were.
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On the other hand, Yu Mingjun was already lurking outside the Qing army camp at this time, just waiting for Zhang Yuan to light the grain and grass, and then he started to do it, everyone was anxiously waiting for Zhang Yuan, if Zhang Yuan's action failed, it would mean that this plan was all in vain, and at the same time attracted the attention of the Qing army, Zhang Yuan and others may have no way to live, and I am afraid that there will be no such opportunity in the future.
A quarter of an hour passed......
There was no fire
Two quarters of an hour passed......
There was still no fire
Just when everyone thought that the mission might fail, and Zhang Yuan and the others were afraid that they had been killed, a red light suddenly appeared in the sky, and if you looked closely, it was caused by the burning of many things.
Yu Mingjun saw that Zhang Yuan succeeded, so he started his own action, the Qing army camp was very large, and he had to disperse his own people to notify, but in this way, his own danger factor was greater, if he was recognized by the Qing army, it would be a dead end. But now Yu Mingjun didn't think about these things at all.
Yu Mingjun turned his head and said solemnly to everyone: "Brothers, our task this time is very important, maybe many brothers will die here this time, but for the sake of the general, for the sake of our compatriots, we must do this, we all dispersed into the camp of the Qing army, and then began to beat gongs and drums, wake up all those Qing troops, let them go to rescue grain and grass, do you understand?" ”
"My lord, don't worry, we may be able to do this."
"Yes, my lord, the small life was saved by the general, and now he should go to the soup for the general"
Yu Mingjun looked at everyone with satisfaction, then waved his hand to make them stop talking, and then he began to say: "Now everyone starts to act."
After Yu Mingjun finished speaking, he took the lead to run to the Qing army camp, and then ran and shouted, their faces were all smeared with soot, and there were traces of fire on their bodies, and the people in the Qing army camp looked at a lot of people running to their own military camp, and hurriedly stood on guard, but when they saw that Yu Mingjun and others were dressed in Tartar, and they also shouted to fight the fire or something, the people guarding the door let them in.