Chapter 650: Unexpected Gain
The night gradually departed in tranquility, and when the first rays of sunlight shone on the earth, Chen Jisheng and ten of his remaining subordinates came to the wall and stomped to look. I saw a dense army coming slowly a few miles away, and it was obvious that this was the army that Huang Taiji had reassembled.
The 10,000 cavalry subordinates led by Chen Jisheng failed to arrive at Jiayuguan last night, and only Chen Jisheng and ten subordinates were left in Jiayuguan. In the face of such an army, it is clear that there is only one way to escape.
"Is the escape route ready?" Chen Jisheng asked in a low voice to the lieutenant general beside him.
"General, everything is ready, we can leave calmly at any time." The adjutant replied respectfully.
"Is it okay to have explosives buried outside the city and inside the city?" Chen Jisheng asked again with a gloomy face.
"General, everything is fine!" The lieutenant general responded again.
Chen Jisheng did not rest last night after seeing off all the wounded and Xu Fuzuo. Instead, he and the ten men who stayed behind buried the remaining explosives bags inside and outside the city.
"Even if Lao Tzu wants to leave, it will definitely not be cheap." Chen Jisheng laughed hideously.
Huang Taiji led the army back again, but he did not dare to get too close to Jiayu Pass, but ordered the army to stop nearly five miles away. Then he took the binoculars and began to look for traces of those hot air balloons in the air.
However, after some searching, Huang Taiji found that none of those hot air balloons were missing yesterday?
"It's gone...... Huang Taiji has a confused look on his face.
"Amma, could it be that they haven't taken off yet?" After a night of probing last night, Logg is no stranger to hot air balloons.
"Quite possibly, after all, that thing won't be flying in the sky all night." Huang Taiji was relieved when he heard this.
"So what shall we do now?" Logge asked more suspiciously.
"This time, we will send 5,000 soldiers and horses to test it, and if there are no more hot air balloons, we can take the opportunity to continue attacking Jiayuguan." Huang Taiji's tone was quite heavy, yesterday nine hot air balloons made him ugly in front of the generals, and Huang Taiji was still worried about it at this moment.
Luo Ge didn't say more, today's deployment, he discussed with Huang Taiji last night for most of the night, and there is no need to discuss anything more today.
According to the plan he thought of last night, Huang Taiji soon sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to slowly advance towards Jiayu Pass. The 5,000 soldiers and horses marching were still in a scattered formation to prevent another surprise attack by the hot air balloon.
Moreover, this time Huang Taiji had already issued a death order, even if he was attacked by the hot oil on the way, no one was allowed to retreat without his order.
In the face of five thousand gold soldiers, several phalanxes strode over, but Chen Jisheng and his ten subordinates did not panic at all. Chen Jisheng even smiled and said: "Very good, this time we actually sent some more people, just to let them taste the power of our explosives bag." ”
The five subordinates had already left Chen Jisheng first, returned to their posts, and then lurked down, quietly waiting for Chen Jisheng's order to light the fire.
The five thousand golden soldiers soon marched less than a mile away from the city of Jiayuguan, and the golden soldiers still did not see the hot ball that appeared yesterday. At this point, they began to be afraid, and when they looked at the already empty city walls, they were even more majestic.
The pace of the Jin soldiers' offensive began to take greater and greater strides, and the speed of their advance began to increase continuously. After a mile of distance, they still didn't see any hot air balloons in the air, and many people were even more relieved.
Compared with the Jin Bing, who was getting more and more happy, Chen Jisheng was also calm and abnormal, and silently counted the distance between the Jin Bing and Jiayu Pass City with a cold face. After most of the Jin soldiers finally entered the area where the explosives were buried, Chen Jisheng nodded ruthlessly.
The fuse was lit, and the spark quickly disappeared into the eyes of the crowd along the fuse. After a long time, Mao Wenlong heard a huge explosion, and many golden soldiers who happened to be relatively close to the explosive bag were immediately blown apart.
Since the gunpowder was buried very close to the city walls, and the Jin soldiers realized that there was no air threat, they naturally regrouped at the last moment of attack. It happened that they were all gathered in the place where the gunpowder was buried, so the explosion of more than a dozen gunpowder packs immediately caused great casualties and panic to the Jin soldiers.
At the time of the explosion, even Chen Jisheng and the others who were standing on the city wall clearly felt a great shock, which shows how powerful this is. There was a sudden wail under the city wall, and some of the golden soldiers who had not died wailed in pain after the explosion, while those who were lucky enough not to be affected no longer had the courage to take a step forward.
Chen Jisheng saw very clearly on the city wall that nearly half of the fallen Jin soldiers had fallen, that is to say, this ambush alone directly caused more than half of the casualties to the five thousand Jin soldiers. Such a result far exceeded Chen Jisheng's expectations, and he didn't expect that just by tying up the original dozen explosive packets together, the power would increase so much after the explosion.
The Jin soldiers who were lucky enough to survive retreated like a tide again, and the powerful explosion just now directly frightened them into disarray, and they didn't have the heart to fight again. Huang Taiji in the distance could see it clearly, he frowned, and sighed in his heart!
Obviously, after a night, the hateful Dongjiang Army seems to have other tactics, and after the hot air balloon is gone, there is a firearm with such a great explosion power? Faced with such a situation, Huang Taiji also began to hesitate for a while, not knowing whether he should continue to test the attack.
Yesterday's chaos has already caused more than 3,000 casualties among his subordinates, and the explosion just now definitely killed and injured more than 2,000 people. There were also the casualties of the previous attack, and in less than three days, with a disparity of more than ten times the military strength, his men had already suffered almost 20,000 casualties.
Such huge casualties have never happened except for the first battle of the Beijing Division. Originally, Huang Taiji's position in the country was already unstable, if it continued to be consumed like this, there would be casualties of one or two thousand soldiers and horses, and after he went back, he would definitely be criticized by the elders of those big tribes!
But if he goes back like this, he doesn't seem to be able to give an explanation to the rest of the country. Neither is it a retreat, and Huang Taiji is in a dilemma for a while and hesitates!
The Jin soldiers, who fled back in a panic, quickly returned to the team, looking at the still terrified faces, Huang Taiji felt that he could not take any more risks. It is better to return without success than to break your muscles and bones, as long as the army is still in the future, there will always be a chance to retaliate against Mao Wenlong.
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji had already made a decision in his heart, and he snorted coldly: "Pass the order, and the whole army will evacuate!" ”