Chapter 179: Night Attack on Luo Yu
Nine days later, Gao Shun led the main force to the northernmost part of the Qinling Mountains, and three miles further was Luoyukou.
After a long march, the soldiers were already very tired, and the intelligence also showed that the defenders of Luoyu Pass did not notice that Liu Zhang's army had sneaked to their feet unconsciously, so Gao Shun decided to repair the whole army, leaving only a small number of troops on guard, strictly prohibiting anyone from passing, and attacking Luoyu Pass after night according to the first set of plans discussed before departure. The soldiers, given the order to rest, fell to sleep on the ground, ignoring the earth, stones, branches, and bites of moths.
Gao Shun looked at the tired soldier and didn't say anything, and climbed onto a big bare rock alone, looking through the dense branches and leaves at the Luoyu Pass, which was three miles away.
The Luoyu Pass was built by Dong Zhuo in two years, in order to prevent Liu Zhang, who occupied Yizhou, from advancing north. The pass is built in the foothills of Qinling Mountains at the exit of Fu Luo Road North Road, adhering to the principle of controlling the congestion due to danger, the left side of the pass is a river valley more than ten zhang high, the right side is a huge pile of rocks, it is said that it is the rock that was chiseled out when digging the Fu Luo Road, the pile of rocks covers an area of several miles, rugged, it is difficult for people and horses to pass, the pass between the two just chokes the road from Fu Luo Road to enter the Guanzhong, there is a big man when the pass, ten thousand people do not open the trend. If you want to enter the pass from Luoyu Road, Luoyu Pass is a pass that cannot be bypassed, even if it must be overcome.
As a pure military pass, Luoyu Pass except for the occasional merchant in the lodge, there is no common people settled, the pass is only two miles in radius, the wall is four zhang high, three zhang thick, there are 4,000 elite soldiers stationed in the pass. As one of the passes to resist Yizhou's northward advance, the southern city wall is dotted with 54 arrow stacks, 130 bed crossbows, 20 large catapults, as for the rolling wood stones, arrows, fire oil and other things to defend the city, not counting its buildings, the entire pass 4,000 garrisons, of which 3,000 are also deployed in the south of the pass. It is not easy to break through such a fortress armed to the teeth.
Gao Shun frowned and looked at it for a long time, his heart was slightly cold, he sighed secretly, and thought to himself: "Fortunately, the lord has equipped us with a secret weapon, otherwise if you want to break through this fortress, I don't know how many soldiers and soldiers of our army will have to sacrifice......"
The night soon came, and the soldiers, who had rested for most of the day, were awakened by hunger, and because they could not make a fire, they could only wave their arms to drive away the moths while waving their arms to drive away the moths, and at the same time bringing cold dry food to their mouths.
Gao Shun looked at the sky, ordered someone to go down, and everyone continued to sleep. Although the soldiers did not understand why, as one of Liu Zhang's most elite troops, the word obedience had penetrated deep into their bone marrow, and after eating and drinking, they continued to sleep against the trees and rocks, and some would enjoy some to find a piece of soft grass and lie down, and after a while, there was a sound in the open-air camp.
Two hours later, Gao Shun led 500 soldiers to use the night as a cover to sneak close to the pass.
The distance of three miles was less than a quarter of an hour for the soldiers of the 1st Independent Infantry Brigade, but in order to conceal the enemy, this time it took them more than half an hour.
On the pass, several windproof lamps revealed a miserable white light, the faint light obviously could not penetrate the thick night, under the light faintly visible a few enemy soldiers sleeping with spears in the incense, even the soldiers who barely performed their duties were yawning, alertness was greatly reduced, the light pulled out their long shadows sprinkled under the pass, and the faint figure was almost the same color as the night. Perhaps they thought that the plank path was covered with eyeliner and that the enemy could not have come here without knowing unless they had wings...... They will soon have to pay dearly for their carelessness.
Gao Shun, who approached the city wall, chose a place where the lights were difficult to reach as a breakthrough. After quietly observing for half an hour, there was no movement above the city wall, Gao Shun waved his hand lightly, and a military Sima who was waiting beside him immediately nodded and left.
When he was young, the three soldiers took out the flying claws from their waists, and after estimating the height of the city wall, these soldiers quickly rotated the flying claws in their hands, and when the flying claws rotated coherently, their right hands were raised, and the flying claws suddenly flew towards the city wall with ropes.
"Ding ......" the sound of the gentle gold and stone is particularly harsh in the dark night, everyone understands that success or failure is in this move, if the defenders perceive, then they only have one way to attack, if the defenders do not find out, then this Luoyu Pass is almost a foregone conclusion. At this tense moment, everyone stared with bated breath, waiting for God's decision.
After a while, there was still silence up and down the city wall, and everyone, including Gao Shun, breathed a sigh of relief.
The soldier holding the rope connecting the flying claw in one hand gently pulled the rope in his hand, and directly grabbed the city wall with the flying claw, and the three of them increased their strength, and nodded at Gao Shun after confirming that the flying claw was firm.
"On the ......" With Gao Shun's order, the three tun commanders took the lead, biting the sword in their hands, built a rope bridge, and slowly climbed up to the city wall.
Under the city walls, five hundred soldiers raised their heads and looked at their rising comrades without blinking, secretly praying for them.
Soon, the three of them merged with the pitch-black city wall, and their eyes widened to see three blurred figures slowly squirming.
After a while, several ropes were thrown down from the city wall, and Gao Shun and the soldiers around him couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
A few more soldiers climbed up the ropes, and when they reached the wall, there were more than twenty more ropes connecting the top and bottom of the wall......
This is the method that Gao Shun thought, if many soldiers use the flying claws together, in the silent night, the sound of the flying claws falling to the ground will inevitably be detected by the enemy, what is the effect of such a surprise attack? In order to reduce the probability of being discovered, Gao Shun greatly reduced the number of people who landed in the city for the first time, leaving only three people, and the first soldiers to climb the city wall were pinned with a flying claw, once they climbed the city wall, they took the flying claw to fix it on the city wall, and then threw down the rope, so that there would be no big movement and be detected by the enemy. The second and third batches followed...... They all brought at least two claws, and when they climbed the city wall, they would arrange their claws to meet their comrades below.
In the blink of an eye, there were more than 100 ropes, and nearly 200 people gathered on the city wall.
The third group of Gao Shun who climbed the city wall called several tun chiefs and military marquis who had ascended the city and whispered: "Now that the plan is half successful, the next thing is to see if we can unknowingly eliminate the enemy observation posts on the city wall, so as to meet the approach of the army." I have only one order, kill the enemy silently! Clear all enemy forces within at least thirty feet to the left and right of the city gates, and remember, don't make a sound! ”
After the two military marquis received the order, they each led twenty elite soldiers to the east and west respectively.
Soon after these people and others left, all the 500 soldiers brought by Gao Shun climbed the city wall. Gao Shun ordered a tun commander and ordered him to take about 30 soldiers to guard this section of the city wall, while the others were led by Gao Shun to the city gate building.
Xu Qin is a military Sima of the First Independent Infantry Brigade, and there are two hundred Yizhou elite soldiers under his command, but this time he only brought twenty people, don't underestimate these twenty people, this is the elite of the elite, everyone's combat effectiveness is almost equal to three ordinary soldiers, if they are not in the first brigade, they may already be captains, even captains, and even team leaders, but they are in the first brigade, they can only be ordinary soldiers! Xu Qin is full of confidence in this mission, not pride, but confidence in himself, especially the elite under his command, if there are twenty, no, including himself, there are twenty-one people in total, if he can't touch a few enemy observation posts that are sleeping, or about to fall asleep, then he might as well jump off the city wall directly, saving shame!
Soon, Xu Qin found his first prey, he handed the long sword in his hand to a soldier, took out a dagger more than two feet long from his waist, and three more soldiers did the same. Under the leadership of Xu Qin, the four of them quietly approached the two enemy soldiers who were supposed to be on duty under the wind lamp, but were sleeping soundly at the moment.
Xu Qin waved his hand, and when the three of them noticed his gesture, they saw him strike like lightning, covering the mouth of an enemy soldier, and the dagger in his right hand slashed through the throat of the enemy without hesitation, allowing blood to splash all over his body, but he was unmoved.
The intense pain made the enemy soldier wake up immediately, he opened his eyes, his eyes widened, he looked at Xu Qin in surprise, fear, and pain, he reached out and wanted to pull Xu Qin's hand away, he wanted to ask why, but his life was flying away after his throat was cut, and soon, his hand was no longer strong, his eyes lost their brightness, and his body twitched twice and then remained motionless.
Xu Qin didn't feel guilty, this was a war, if he swapped places, he believed that the other party would not be a little uneasy because he killed himself. Xu Qin gently put down the corpse, glanced at the other brother who had let go of the enemy almost at the same time, and the four of them continued to move forward.
Another wind lamp, and two enemies, obviously these two enemies were more dedicated, yawning and crawling on the arrow stacks, looking at the deep night below the city walls.
Xu Qin and the four of them moved over again, this time the enemy still maintained a few sobriety, in order to avoid accidents, Xu Qin decided to shoot at the same time, two against one, that is not nine out of ten?
Sure enough, the enemy army, which had greatly reduced its alertness, turned into a puff of green smoke again.
Xu Qin and others got rid of more than a dozen enemy soldiers along the way.
Subsequently, 500 soldiers led by Gao Shun occupied a section of the city wall of 34 zhang to the left and right of the city gate tower.