Chapter 290: Ambush

That is, directly opposite Huashi Town on the east bank of the river, with the help of the moat from west to east one mile away in the north, set up a pocket formation with a radius of three miles, and the three battalions of men and horses guarded the south, east and north, once the attack began, the south camp and the east camp first launched an attack, forcing the enemy to the river bay at the confluence of the two rivers in the north, and then the three battalions converged, where the enemy army across the river was completely annihilated.

The other battalion of men and horses lay in ambush on the south side of Huashi Town on the west bank of the river, and when the ambush began, they waited for an opportunity to sneak up on the remaining enemy forces, suppress them by the river, and if all went well, force them to the north of the river, and then flank them from the east and west, and completely destroy them.

After the plan, each battalion received the task, Pan Cheng took the east camp, Su Zhong took the south camp, these two directions of the task bear a heavy responsibility, they must drive the enemy to the northwest with strong lethality, Yao Chang led the north camp to assist the east camp to ambush the enemy in the east direction, and then let go of the northern gap, and after the enemy fled north, and then went north to seal the east of the riverbank, and Yang Congyi led a hundred people alone, guarding between the south camp and the east camp, Luo Cong took a battalion to ambush the west bank of the river.

After receiving the task, in the following time, the whole army took advantage of the enemy's arrival to find their own ambush places, and walked the specific attack route on the spot, where to use bows and crossbows, where to use gun formations, observed one by one, and rehearsed clearly.

Within a five-mile radius, familiar with the terrain, after a full day of drills, all battalions and units withdrew to the jungle to the south, hiding their tracks, recuperating their strength, and preparing for an ambush at any time.

While waiting for the spies to bring back the news of the enemy, Yang Congyi summoned the four generals to deduce the battle from beginning to end, and considered and discussed the unexpected situations that may arise when facing the enemy.

This battle is related to the morale of this Xuanwei army, if it can win a complete victory, it can quickly move west to ambush again, if this battle is lost, it is impossible to continue to advance westward, and can only retreat to Qinzhou City, which is unacceptable to Yang Congyi, and it is impossible for Su Zhong and others to accept, for them this battle can only win, and if it is a big victory, so they have to be cautious.

In the evening of the whole army hiding in the jungle to rest, the spies in front reported that the vanguard of the enemy army on the northern route had arrived at Nasuo Town, and it was expected that they would rest in Nasuo Town this evening, and they would arrive at Huashi Town early tomorrow morning, and with their marching speed, they would be able to reach Huashi Town at noon tomorrow, and the enemy troops in the south were rushing to Nasuo Town, and the large army was marching slowly, and it was expected that they would arrive in two days.

This is good news, tomorrow at noon, when the enemy army arrives in Huashi Town, they will definitely not waste half a day to rest in Huashi Town, they will immediately cross the river and rush to Anyuan County. After marching for half a day, it was the time of exhaustion, and the Xuanwei army was waiting for work, and this battle was sure to be won.

The spies took a break and continued to monitor the way west.

That night, Luo Cong led a battalion of Xuanwei troops across the river and ambushed them in the southern jungle five miles away from Huashi Town, while the other three battalions of Xuanwei troops remained unchanged.

Early the next morning, everyone checked their bows, crossbows, weapons, and arrows, put on their armor, and made their final preparations.

When the sun was on the three-pole, the Huotou army buried the pot to make rice, and the Xuanwei army of each battalion had a full meal.

Before noon, spies monitoring the enemy along the road came to report, and the enemy's vanguard was expected to be outside Huashi Town in half an hour, and their spies were about three miles ahead.

Upon learning of the enemy's situation, Yang Congyi immediately ordered all battalions to enter the ambush position as planned.

Su Zhongying's camp did not move in the jungle for the time being, Yao Changying's camp went four miles to the east, Pan Chengying's camp went three miles to the east, and Yang Congyi personally led a hundred people to go forward two miles, all of which were ambushed one mile away from the main road from west to east. And Zhang Liu is strong in martial arts, fast in action, and without military armor, he has to get close to observe the movement of the enemy army crossing the river.

From three o'clock in the afternoon, all the Xuanwei troops entered a state of silence, just waiting for the order to attack.

After Zhang Liu lay in ambush less than half a mile from the river bank for half an hour, he saw several people on the other side of the river, looking at the other bank, and soon after, someone went downhill into the water, and knew that he wanted the boat to row over on the other side of the river.

There were more than a dozen boats in Huashi Town, except for five that were taken away by Luo Cong and hid on the south bank of the river, and the other boats were docked opposite Huashi Town, and the enemy would know at a glance that all the disappeared population in the town had fled to the east.

Sure enough, not long after, I saw a boat rowed back to the west bank of the river, and then the remaining people all got on the boat, and came to the east bank, rowing all the remaining boats back to the west bank to dock, and at the same time, on the main road on the east bank of the river, which was not very wide, three figures appeared, along the road to the east, it seems that they should be the spies of the enemy army.

Now that the spies have appeared, it is estimated that a large army of the enemy army will appear in Huashi Town in about a quarter of an hour.

Zhang Liu lay in the grass, staring at the other side of the river, unmoved by the distant spies.

Sure enough, about a quarter of an hour later, another group of people appeared at the ferry crossing on the other side of the river, but they did not immediately get on the boat to cross the river, as if waiting for orders.

Half an hour passed, and then Zhang Liu saw puffs of smoke rising from the direction of Huashi Town, and at a cursory glance, there were dozens of them.

After waiting for another half an hour, Zhang Liu looked happy.

As soon as the spies who had been exploring the way on the east bank returned to the port, a large group of people appeared at the ferry on the other side of the river, and people began to board the boats one after another.

The river is more than six zhang wide, four trips back and forth, about a stick of incense time, a boat can carry dozens of enemy soldiers, six boats cross the river at the same time. When they came to the east bank, they did not move immediately, but gathered on the bank of the river, and after five trips by small boat, nearly three hundred marched east along the main road.

After observing these conditions, Zhang Liu quietly withdrew from the grass in ambush, and after staying away from the enemy's sight, he rushed two miles away and told Yang Congyi what he saw.

Yang Congyi, who learned the news, thought for a moment and gave an order to the herald: "Tell Yao Chang and Pan Cheng to implement the third plan and be sure to annihilate the enemy within a quarter of an hour!" ”

The herald was given the order to go.

"My lord, do you want me to help?" Zhang Liu's hands were a little itchy.

"You rest first, there are few of us, and there will be a time for you to contribute later." Yang Congyi smiled slightly, the enemy marched like this, which was in line with the intention of the Xuanwei army, just enough to be surrounded by detachments, and annihilated by detachments, this was defeated!

After Pan Cheng, who was one mile away from Yang Congyi, received the military order from the herald, he immediately led his battalion of Xuanwei Army to continue three miles eastward.

After receiving the military order conveyed by the herald, Yao Chang quickly led the army forward for two miles, and then crossed the main road to the north and ambushed a hundred steps away on the north side of the main road.

Just after the two battalions of men and horses in the front of the Xuanwei Army were ambushed on both sides of the main road to Anyuan County, in less than two quarters of an hour, Yao Chang, who was slightly higher in the ambush position, saw a group of men and horses walking slowly a mile to the west.

"Pass the order, no one is allowed to release arrows without my order!" As soon as he spotted the enemy army, Yao Chang immediately gave an order to the herald.

This battle was about the success or failure of the whole ambush battle, and he did not dare to be careless, so he ambushed the west side of the entire team, and was the first to contact the enemy army.

Pan Cheng, who was lying in ambush on the opposite side of the main road, also received the news of the discovery of the enemy army soon after, and his order to the herald was different from Yao Chang: "Send the order down, and after two rounds of attacks are launched on the opposite side, we will attack again!" ”

The herald received the order and immediately sneaked to the west team to convey Pan Cheng's orders along the road.

Pan Cheng was ambushed in the easternmost part of his battalion of Xuanwei Army, he was going to attack the enemy's vanguard, if the enemy's marching line was too long, he could only let a part of the enemy pass, once he began to attack, he had to bear the enemy's internal and external attacks, and his pressure was also very great.

The entire ambush team headquarters has a battalion commander at the end and the end of the formation, which is also a decision they made when discussing the ambush plan, and they should be more sure of such an ambush.

Yao Chang lay on his stomach in the grass, watching the enemies a hundred steps away pass in front of him one by one, his heart was extremely excited, but the hand holding the bow did not tremble at all.

The enemy walked very slowly, with short knives in their hands, some wearing cloth clothes, some wearing linen clothes, without neat armor, but everyone had a short knife. Judging from the way they walked lazily, they seemed to be in poor spirits, but the distance was a little far away, and it was difficult to see their expressions.

Yao Chang calmly counted the enemies passing in front of him one by one, and when he counted to two hundred and ninety-seven, the last enemy happened to pass in front of him.

After taking five steps at the last man, he drew his bow sharply and shot an arrow at the man, and the long arrow went into the man's back in an instant.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Yao Chang gave an order, and a rain of arrows flew towards the enemy army a hundred paces away, and dozens of people fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.

After months of marching eastward, the enemy had never encountered resistance, and suddenly under attack, he did not know how to dodge or remember how to fight back.

After the second round of arrow rain of the Xuanwei army, dozens of people fell, and the enemy reacted under the order of "kill", and rushed to the north with a knife to stand up and shoot arrows.

But as soon as they rushed out a few steps, they were attacked by two rounds of arrows from the north and south at the same time, and nearly 100 people fell in an instant.

After the enemy reacted, he faced the rain of arrows at a very fast speed, and desperately attacked the Xuanwei army a hundred paces away, but there were no horses, no matter how fast the speed was, within a hundred steps, it was enough for the Xuanwei army to shoot two arrows without aim.

One person with two arrows, the sum of the north and the south is four rounds of arrow rain, and there are only a few people who can survive under the four rounds of arrow rain and rush to the front of the Xuanwei army.

The remaining few people were also hit by sharp arrows, and although they looked fierce when they rushed over, they were pierced by the spear of the Xuanwei Army before they could get close, and the spear was drawn out, and they died in the end.

300 enemy troops, under the attack of 1,000 Xuanwei troops from the north and south, in a moment, the whole army was annihilated.

The Xuanwei army didn't have time to reminisce about this battle, which was not a battle, so they received an order: "Retreat one mile and continue to ambush!" ”

With an order, Yao Chang took the lead, and quickly moved to the west with his waist bent, and the Xuanwei army wanted to ambush again in half a pillar of incense.