Chapter 580: Catching a Turtle in an Urn
Bai Jinguang soon received Zhao Junsheng's order, he brought a thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry this time, and a thousand infantry also marched on horseback, each with three horses, much faster than a combined march of infantry cavalry.
Soon after nightfall, a fleet of sailors with more than 200 ships quietly came to the mouth of the sea from the open sea, and what was surprising was that after the sailor fleet entered the estuary, a light appeared on the shore on both sides of the strait every few miles, which provided a navigation role for the sailor fleet to sail along the upper reaches of the Yalu River.
The general of the naval division, Yi Xian, stood at the bow of the flagship ship with the hilt of his sword, let the river breeze blow on his face, his long beard fluttered, and the other generals around him had beads of sweat on their cheeks, one was because of the hot weather, and the other was because of nervousness, but Yi Xian had a calm face, and there was not a drop of sweat on his face and forehead, which showed that his qi cultivation kung fu was very good.
"How far is it from Anping?" B asked first.
The lieutenant general Fu Nuyin replied: "You can reach the waters of Anping in two hours, and it is midnight!" ”
B nodded first: "Pass the order, order the soldiers to sleep and rest on the spot, and wake them up to fight at midnight!" ”
"Yes!"
After the order was delivered, the Goguryi sailors on hundreds of ships lay down on the deck one by one and went to sleep, and the officers with military rank had cabin bedrooms below the deck and went to sleep.
In the middle of the night, the Gauguryi sailors entered the waters of Anping silently, and the sailors were woken up one by one to eat and drink, and prepare weapons and arrows.
"Someone, send a signal!" B gave the order first.
"Yes, General!"
The signalman agreed, lighting two torches and waving them non-stop.
Soon, I saw two torches waving on the riverbank.
"General, there's a response on the riverbank, everything is normal!" The Signalman immediately reported to B-first.
Yi Xian no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered: "Landing on the shore and attacking!" ”
So, the small boats in front and the big boats in the back, one by one, slowly approached the riverbank.
After the boat docked, the Goguryi soldiers above would quickly jump ashore and begin to line up in a defensive position, defending a beachhead for the soldiers who would board the ship later.
When Osa-sen landed under the escort of his own soldiers, a Goguryeo was brought to him by three soldiers.
"The villain Uyan meets the general!"
B first asked, "You are the leader of the northern fine work?" ”
"Yes, General!"
"How's Anping doing? How many defenders were there? ”
Uyan replied: "There are only three hundred defenders, and in addition to the one hundred and eighty who patrol the city and deal with emergencies, only one hundred and twenty are used for the defense of the city, and on average there are less than thirty men at each city gate, and they have to arrange patrols on the city walls, and only ten men are used to stand guard!" ”
As soon as Yi Xian heard this, he immediately ordered: "Since this is the case, we will adopt a strong attack strategy, order people to prepare ropes and other climbing tools, and the whole army will assemble and set off!" ”
"Yes, General!" The deputy general Fu Nu Yin clenched his fists and agreed.
Taking advantage of the dark night, more than 3,000 soldiers and horses of Goguryi marched towards Anping City.
In less than half an hour, he touched the city of Anping, and Yi first asked the soldiers and horses of the army to stop advancing, and sent a few teams with ropes and other climbing tools to quietly touch under the city wall.
At this moment, Yi Xian, the deputy general Fu Nu Yin and the three thousand Gao Gu Li soldiers and generals are nervously waiting, if they can break the city in one fell swoop, they will succeed, and the next thing will be much easier, if they can't break the city in one fell swoop, then they must attack, and the strong attack will inevitably cause great casualties.
At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling sound.
"Did you fight?"
"Is it going to rain?"
Yi Xian's face changed: "It's not good, this is the sound of horses' hooves, a large number of horses' hooves, there must be a large number of cavalry!" There is an ambush among us, retreat, retreat—"
As Osaen's mournful shouts spread, the Goguryi soldiers were all frightened and panicked, and they turned around one by one and ran back.
It's just that they found out too late, and Bai Jinguang and the three thousand men and horses he brought were hiding near here, just waiting for this fatal blow.
"Boom, boom, boom-" As rows of cavalry crashed over, one by one Gao Guli soldiers were knocked to death.
In the dark night, no one can tell who is who, in order to avoid his own people from hitting his own people, Bai Jinguang has given an order before the attack, once the charge is launched, everyone is not allowed to stay, can only rush forward, once stopped, they will definitely be killed by their own people.
Therefore, when the cavalry of the Youzhou Army rushed through, like plowing the fields, combing through the fleeing Goguryi generals, there were very few Goguryi people who could escape.
After the 2,000 cavalry charged, it was the turn of the 1,000 infantry to clean up the brutality and clean up the battlefield.
The war horse slowly stopped, and Bai Jinguang pulled the reins and hit the horse and ran to the river: "Chase after the river!" ”
The Youzhou cavalry followed Bai Jinguang to the riverside one after another, and at this time, Yi Xian and Funu Yin were running towards the river with the remnants of the defeated army.
The Goguryi officers with horses ran the fastest, and the horseless infantry could only watch themselves being overtaken, but fortunately, now that the lights were blind, many of the Goguryi soldiers knew that they could not escape, so they turned the road and ran to the sides and hid.
After a wild run, Yi Xian and Fu Nu Yin ran back to the river with more than 100 cavalrymen, jumped on the boat and shouted: "Start the boat, start the boat quickly!" ”
There were still more than 1,000 sailors left in the fleet, and when the sailors saw Yi Xian and Fu Nu Yin fleeing back with only more than 100 cavalry, they knew that something was wrong, and immediately rowed their oars to get the ship off the shore.
But they soon found out that they couldn't move at all, and the flagship and a dozen large ships near the center of the river were blocked by thick chains, unable to turn around, unable to turn, and these large ships blocked the retreat of all small ships, so that the entire fleet could not leave.
Yi Xian, Fu Nu Yin, and more than a thousand sailors could only watch as the pursuers rushed to the shore with a large number of torches and rushed to the boat.
"General, what should I do?" Fu Nu Yin's voice trembled and asked Yi Xian.
Yi Xian sighed, "I thought that the Wei army was planning to forcibly cross the river from the bank of the city river in China to attack, but I didn't expect that they deliberately transferred the soldiers and horses here to lead our sailors to surrender, we were calculated!" Surrender, we have no choice! ”
Fu Nu Yin said anxiously: "General, we can escape by jumping into the water, there is no need to follow the fleet to accompany the funeral!" ”
B asked without looking back, "Do you think we can survive if we go back?" We have buried the entire fleet, can the king spare us? We're going back to die! ”
"But······ If we surrender, the king will order our family to be killed!" Fu Nu Yin retorted loudly.
Yi Xian turned his head to look at Funu Yin and shouted: "You are wrong, not only will we die when we go back, but the king will not let our family go." If we surrender to the Wei army, the king is afraid of our revenge and will definitely not attack our family easily! ”
Funu Eun was speechless, and he was convinced, as Otosen said, that King Goguryi was such a person.
"Order, everyone put down their weapons and follow me to surrender to the general of the Wei army!"
A moment later, Yi Xian and Funu Yin came to Bai Jinguang with more than 1,000 sailors and more than 100 personal guards, took off the sword at his waist and put it on his hands, and bowed down on one knee.
"The general of the Goguryi Water Division, Otoxian (deputy general Funu Gin), led the army to surrender to the general!"
Bai Jinguang stepped forward and stretched out his hand to take the sword, and nodded: "Okay!" Come on, please General Yixian and General Funu Yin to go into the city to rest, and the others will hand over their weapons and take care of them on the spot, waiting for the prince's disposal order! ”
The messenger took Bai Jinguang's good news and galloped away as fast as he could.
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Junsheng, who was in the domestic city, received a good news from the messenger.
"Hahaha······" Zhao Junsheng laughed out loud after reading the good news.
Mao Xiuzhi couldn't help but ask: "I don't know why the prince is so happy?" Isn't it General Bai's side that succeeded? ”
Everyone looked at Zhao Junsheng, Zhao Junsheng put down the good news and handed it to Cui Hao, and said to everyone: "In the early hours of the morning, Bai Jinguang led the army to ambush the Gao Juli army that came to attack outside Anping City, killing more than 1,500 people, capturing 1,500 people, and trapping the Gao Gu Li Shui Division on the river with thick iron cables, so that they could not advance or retreat!" More than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Naval Division led by General Yi Xian and Deputy General Fu Nu Yin of the Goguryi Naval Division surrendered."
"This is a great event, subordinates and others congratulate the prince!"
"Congratulations to the prince!" The generals and officials said hello one after another.
After solving the Goguryi Water Division, Zhao Junsheng no longer has to worry about being outflanked by the Gao Juyi Water Division, which can be said to have solved a big trouble.
Zhao Junsheng smiled and hugged his fists in return: "Rejoice and rejoice!" ”
The good news reached Kou Qianzhi's hands, he calculated, a smile appeared on the old man's face, and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Lord Wang, since Gao Guli has attacked us with a water division, why can't our army attack them with a water division?" The prince did not give an order to let Bai Jinguang lead the army to cross the river on the surrendered sailor ship, and then agreed with him that when our army crossed the river from the front to attack the army of the Goguryi general Jiang Heng, he would quietly touch the flank and rear of Jiang Heng's army and carry out a fierce attack, and he would definitely be able to defeat Jiang Heng's army in one fell swoop! ”
Li Yuande stood up and arched his hand and said: "Lord Wang, my subordinates think that Kou's plan to join the army is very good, the key is to seize the time, and launch an attack before Gao Guli receives the news of the defeat of the sailor in order to succeed in one fell swoop!" ”
"Seconded!"
"Seconded!"
Generals and officials have come forward to agree.
"Good! The order was given to Bai Jinguang, and he asked him to lead 2,000 cavalry to cross the river on the ship of the Descending Army, and quietly sneaked into the rear of Jiang Heng's army by day and night, and cooperated with my main army to cross the river on time at dawn two days later! ”
"Yes, Lord Wang!"
Two days was not enough time to build enough ships for tens of thousands of troops to cross the river, but this time to cross the river from the front, Zhao Junsheng was not prepared to lead the cavalry, and all the infantry crossed the river to attack, and the cavalry did not play much role, and could only transport the cavalry after the battle.