Chapter 479: Burning Yin Mountain
"One to the east, one to the west?" After a little thought, Yelu Dashi understood, "The one to the west is probably going to the Huhu tent to ask for help, and the one to the east must have gone to the servant bones to cut off our grain route." Jeretzai, I will give you five thousand, and I will catch up with the five thousand who are going west. Yeluchu, I will give you 20,000 people, catch up with the 10,000 people to the east, killing people is second, and the most important thing is to ensure the safety of the grain route. ”
"General, I only need five thousand men. It doesn't take 20,000 men to deal with a group of stragglers. Jeruchu cried out in dissatisfaction.
"Confused! Easily kill our five hundred kings, do you think our opponents are good? With such equipment, do you think they are easy to deal with? Yelu Dashi angrily threw the crossbow arrow in his hand into Yelu Chu's arms, "This crossbow arrow is always on my body, remember that the opponent is not easy to deal with!" If there is any failure in the grain road, I will be the first to cut you! ”
Seeing Yelu Dashi so angry, Yelu Chu didn't dare to speak, so he hurriedly went down and ordered people to chase after him.
"Cheng Xishan, bring someone to kill me in." Yelu Dashi pointed to the mountain pass and ordered to the Han general Cheng Xishan.
Cheng Xishan received the order and immediately arranged for two thousand servants of various clans to enter Daqingshan.
Yelu Dashi stared at the swarthy mountain pass, waiting patiently. The first attack he only sent 3,000 men in was completely a tentative attack, he wanted to see how the enemy's combat strength was. It would be better to use these 3,000 men to figure out who the enemy really is.
A quarter of an hour later, Jerodashi sensed that something was wrong. It was quiet, it was too quiet in the mountain, and a whole 3,000 people sprinkled into it, and there was no sound at all. Not even the slightest sound of a fight came out. It's not normal, it's really, really abnormal.
After waiting another quarter of an hour, Yelu Dashi felt that he could not wait any longer.
"Cheng Xishan, send another thousand people in to see what the situation is inside. After a quarter of an hour, it was necessary to withdraw. Yelu Dashi ordered again.
Cheng Xishan didn't dare to say more, and sent another thousand people into the mountain.
Two quarters of an hour later, no news came, and not a single soldier came out. Yelu Dashi's brows furrowed into a big pimple, his heart was swishing cold, and the huge Daqing Mountain made him feel very evil.
"Cheng Xishan, send another thousand people!" He gritted his teeth and ordered again.
"Dashuai, or forget it today. This Daqingshan is too evil, like a man-eating monster, it swallows people in one bite, and not a single full burp is buried. Lost 4,000 people silently all of a sudden, Cheng Xishan's face was already pale, he had never encountered such an evil thing when he was so old, and he had the courage to admonish Yelu Dashi.
This time, Yelu Dashi was not angry, he also felt that Cheng Xishan was reasonable, and he couldn't fill it in like this anyway.
"Collect the troops for the time being, come here, and send three hundred elite scouts in. Find out what's going on inside. "Jerod
Oishi ordered.
As soon as he said this, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief, and the three hundred elite scouts took the order and rushed to Daqing Mountain one after another.
As soon as he stepped into Daqing Mountain, the scout captain sensed that something was wrong, and he wiped his hands on the ground, and a trace of blood appeared on his fingers. He put his finger under his nose and sniffed, "Fresh, brothers, be careful." He whispered to his brothers around him.
The scouts were cautious and cautiously approached.
"Captain, look!" One of the scouts next to the leader of the scouts spoke to him in a trembling voice.
The scout captain followed the sound, his eyes suddenly widened, and his face instantly turned pale without a trace of blood.
I saw that on the hillside not far away, the trees were unusually lush, and there were many corpses among the trees. There were hundreds of corpses, and the blood stained the woods red. The state of death is even more bizarre, some have been nailed to trees with sharpened wood, some have been hanged alive by ropes, some have been hit by large logs, and more have fallen into traps and been stuck in hidden stakes to death. These people looked like they had fallen into the trap, but without exception, they were shot with a bow or two on their bodies, which was obviously made up.
"What a ruthless tactic." The scout captain's face became extremely heavy, the Khitans are not good at such trap hunting, and they are really helpless against this, "Brothers, go on, be careful." ”
After walking into the mountain again, all the scouts' eyes were wide open, and their mouths were wide open.
In a mountain col, countless corpses of Khitan servants almost filled the entire mountain col, and the dense corpses made everyone tremble. The blood flowed into a small stream, slowly flowing out of the col.
"Oh my mother, how the hell did they die?" The Khitan captain muttered to himself.
It was destined that no one would be able to answer him, and suddenly there was a "buzzing" sound like a swarm of bees in the sky. The scout captain looked up, only to see a sudden rain of arrows flashing with cold light suddenly appeared in the sky, covering them directly.
"Withdraw!" The scout captain's eyes widened in horror and he shouted with all his strength.
After shouting, he didn't have time to get up and roll down the hill.
It's a pity that he is the only one who can react in time, except for him, the other scouts were shot into porcupines by the rain of arrows before they could react, and no one escaped the net.
The captain of the scout strode towards the mountain pass, without even looking back. He knew that all 300 of his brothers were dead, and he was powerless to do anything, and he would only die in vain if he stayed. What he has to do now is tell the manager what is going on here. This Daqing Mountain must not be trespassed.
Seeing that he was about to rush out of the mountain pass, three feathered arrows rushed straight to his back.
The scout captain screamed and slashed behind him, successfully stopping two of the three feathered arrows, but the other was still deep into his back
The arrow caused the scout captain to stumble, and the pain was so painful that he almost fainted to the ground. He gritted his teeth and snapped the shaft of the arrow on his back, and ran out of the pass with unsteady steps.
Yelu Dashi's army once again marched in front of Daqingshan, and this time Yelu Dashi's face looked much better, because he had already figured out a way to deal with the enemy. After listening to the scout captain's report, he knew that it was definitely not a wise choice to storm Daqingshan. Seeing that the snow on the top of the trees on the mountain was almost melting, he came up with a clever plan, fire attack.
"Dashuai, you're all ready." A general came over to report to him.
"Okay, burn it for me!" Yelu Dashi ordered.
Tens of thousands of troops were ordered, all of them drew bows and arrows to launch rockets into the mountain, Cheng Xishan and these servant troops, and also made a few simple trebuchets, constantly firing large fireballs on the mountainside.
Although the snow on the mountain is not all melted, it is not very easy to burn. But under such an attack by the Khitans, it still burned out. The mountains are full of pine trees, and pine resin is very easy to burn, and once there is a spark, it will not be long before the whole pine tree will burn. Then one tree ignited another, and it didn't take long for it to become overwhelming, and half of the hillside was instantly engulfed in the thick of smoke.
The fire and water are ruthless, and when the mountain fire comes, wolves rush out of the woods and countless wild things of all sizes. However, there were still many wild animals that did not escape the fire, and the smell of roasted meat soon came through the air.
"It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, if the wind is favorable, it can burn faster." Seeing that the fire was rising, Yelu Dashi said with a little regret, "I want to see where those people in the mountains are hiding this time?" ”
Shen Kuo was the chief general of the Yinshan defenders, and when he saw Yelu Dashi come up with the trick of burning the mountain, he sneered slightly, "Can you burn the mountain against the wind?" Come on, go to the mountainside and set fire to me, let's go with the wind, let our fire crush theirs. ”
His subordinates were ordered to immediately go to the mountainside and set fire.
After the fire broke out, as Shen Kuo expected, the fire swept away under the mountainside by the wind. Because it was downwind, the fire above was much larger than the fire below, and as soon as the fire from the two directions came into contact, the fire on the mountain instantly overwhelmed the fire that came up from the mountain. And the trend continued unabated, continuing to burn the unburned trees at the foot of the mountain, rushing towards the Jelu Stone.
The mountains are full of fires, and the faces of everyone on the mountain and under the mountain are red, obviously it is still a cold winter, but it gives people a feeling of being in the scorching heat.
"Dashuai, the fire is coming, let's withdraw quickly, otherwise we won't be able to escape." An adjutant general admonished Yelu Dashi.
Forcefully pacifying the war horse that was frantic because of the fire, Yelu Dashi's face did not show any disappointment at all, "It's really smart to fight fire with fire, but this mountain has been burned to the ground, I see what you do to defend the mountain." Come on, Mingjin collects the troops! ”