Chapter 839: Money, it's all money
When the time came to dawn, the sky was still gray, and the moon hung on the horizon, crooked, but very bright, and the stars were rare.
"Squeak squeak......" This is the sound of the gate of the walled door opening.
An infantry army of about 1,000 men quietly sneaked out of the camp. This should be thanks to the patrol posts on the periphery of the camp, which completely isolated the direct monitoring of the camp by the soldiers and horses of the Bai tribe in Jiulian Mountain.
The so-called soldiers and horses of the Bai clan in Jiulian Mountain, and its leader, Yang Dingnan, is a small feudal lord of the Bai clan attached to Gao Ming and Qing Dynasties. Gao Liangcheng's policy of "cutting the land and sealing it" is very tempting, and in order to win the loyalty of the Bai nobles in the jurisdiction, Gao Mingqing can only go to the city and deal with the Bai nobles under his jurisdiction.
To a certain extent, this policy has a lot of similarities with the fiefdom aristocracy in the West, and it can be regarded as an independent small kingdom by the Bai nobles of different sizes, which largely stabilized the overall situation of Gao Liangcheng. In the end, that guy grabbed the big sect with a small sect and grabbed the position of the prime minister of Dali, and the bad influence was still very great, so he used this method to curry favor with the tribal nobles of the Bai tribe, and won over the tribes to the greatest extent. But the disadvantage is that the Gao family can only control the overall situation of Dali from now on, but cannot really rule the entire Dali.
Yang Dingnan is such a nobleman, his city is not far from Shanxian Mansion, in the northeast corner of the alluvial plain on the east bank of Dianchi Lake, and the continuous mountains are clustered with a small basin in the center, which is Yang Dingnan's territory.
Hearing that there was a police in the Shanyan Mansion, several small nobles joined together and gathered troops to reinforce the Shanyan Mansion. But they only saw the array of the Qi army from afar, so they didn't dare to act without permission, and with their little strength, reinforcements to Shanshu Mansion were not just here to send them to death. A group of people retreated to Jiulian Mountain, but they had not yet entered the plain area east of Dianchi Lake. Zhang Qingben didn't take them seriously, but he didn't want to let more and more Bai feudal nobles gather here in the northeast of Shanyan Mansion as time passed.
If it is when the Shanyan Mansion is taken, it will become another target for Zhang Qing.
If he asks someone to bring Gao Mingqing's handwritten letter, I believe that Yang Dingnan and others will definitely retreat from the army and return home. But Zhang Qing didn't, he chose to eat these Bai soldiers and horses in front of him.
A hundred horsemen could quickly cross a distance of five miles in the daylight, but now it took them half an hour like the infantry behind them.
Be careful, and under the cover of the howling wind, Zhang Qing and his party were not discovered by the night sentry of the Bai army.
Half a month ago, they set up a camp at the foot of Jiulian Mountain. At the beginning, the aligned army was closely monitored day and night, and a large number of combat forces were always ready, and they did not dare to slack off. But now, the necessary defensive camp has been built by the Bai soldiers themselves, and the enemy on the opposite side has not come to show their heads for a long time, and it will be a big fuss to wait for the battle day and night.
The watchmen and garrisons at night are more than a notch lower than they were at the beginning. The vigilance is only getting worse.
These people are like the tribal armies and tribal leaders of the Khitan and the party, and in the war, not only the quality and quality of the high-level soldiers, but also the quality and quality of the small soldiers below are very different from the Qi army.
"Get on the horse, jog ......"
The nearest Bai army camp under the mountain is less than three miles, and it has not been discovered at such a close distance, Zhang Qing is going to laugh, and they no longer need to hide their traces.
Zhang Qing turned over and got on his horse and grabbed the spear hanging from the victory hook. I know very well that my time for meritorious service is running out, and now the desire for merit in my heart is even more urgent.
Lu Qian's military order had been sent to the front of the army, and he believed that Wang Qing and Zhong Xiang would soon lead the troops into Dali. The rest are the 37 departments of eastern Yunnan, as well as the Bai people in this place, how much credit can this have?
Yang Anfu held a spear in his arms, shrunk into his arms and fell asleep under the fence in a daze. He was originally the master of Yang Dingnan, and now he has become a Bai soldier Ding Yong, which is logical.
Of course, as an ordinary person, he can only be an ordinary soldier at the moment, but he can finally fill his stomach!
Dali's military strength cannot be considered strong, but it is not weak. It is roughly similar to Nanzhao, both in terms of scale and military system. The 30,000 standing army directly belonged to Buxie and was the backbone of the Dali army. In the rest of the places, the township soldiers, that is, the prefecture and county soldiers, belonged to the auxiliary forces, and the size was seventy or eighty thousand, but now they must have exceeded 100,000. Because the princes of the Gao clan want to strengthen their own strength, the soldiers and horses directly under their hands, that is, the guards of the various departments, although they are also classified as township soldiers, but the weapons and armor and training are not weaker than the standing army. Then there is the tribal army, just like the Bai soldiers in Jiulian Mountain!
Dali's military forces are mobilized, 300,000 are not, and 200,000 are afraid that it is only a lot more.
It is Gao Mingqing, who plays Dianchi, if he is given enough time to prepare, it will not be a problem to pull out an army of twenty or thirty thousand people. It's a pity that he didn't have time to prepare, and there were less than 5,000 troops in the entire Shanyan Mansion City. It can be said that it was miserable.
Tonight's camp was Yang Anfu's turn to be on duty, and he was lined up until the second half of the night. Don't blame him for sleeping in a daze, when he came to change the guard in the middle of the night, the man in front of him slept much more soundly than him.
Whether it is a township soldier or a tribal army, they all have 500 people as one general, and the four generals in the southeast, northwest, and northwest are placed in one army to be in charge, and then the four armies are placed in another army to be in charge, which is called the capital commander, and the main army general above it is called the commander of the three armies.
Yang Anfu is an ordinary soldier.
And the combat effectiveness of these people, just looking at the current vigilance and the performance of a novice like Yang Anfu, you can know that they are not much stronger than the Khitan and the tribal armies of the party.
The commander of his command was stronger than three hundred. And his team is only seventy-five people.
Seventy-five men were also divided into two shifts, that is, there were less than forty night guards in the entire camp. Many people are still sleepy like Yang Anfu, and it is strange to find Zhang Qing's movements.
Yang Anfu, who was asleep, leaned his head against the fence, and suddenly he felt that the fence was shaking. What's going on? Sleepy-eyed, he craned his neck, his head groggy, still unaware of the meaning of the boom.
Finally, Yang Anfu woke up, and the sound of horses' hooves had clearly appeared in his ears at this moment.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack......" Heart-rending howls rang out one after another, and Yang Anfu frantically kicked his comrades around him, "Get up, get up!" The Han army is here—"
The outside of the camp was full of shadows, and Zhang Qing's team was only five or six hundred meters away from the camp. It's a very close distance, and it can take you a maximum of thirty seconds to hit the horse with all your might.
"Kill......"
The horse team's jogging turned into a sprint while the torches were lit. The torch that had just been lit was blown away by the oncoming wind, as if only the blue fire was still attached to the torch, but it would never be extinguished. These greased-soaked torches can be lit even in the light rain.
The stars and sparks joined together into a cloud of fire.
As soon as the hundred horsemen and horses shouted, thousands of troops and horses seemed to appear outside the camp. This movement woke up the Bai soldiers in the whole battalion.
The Lord hurriedly rushed out of the tent with his knife in hand, saw the stars outside, and gasped.
He didn't have much knowledge, but he knew that the camp was going to be bad. I was stolen home by the stolen camp!
However, "Why didn't the night watchman notice it?" ”
The horse team is attacking at night! How loud is this?
At this moment, the general of the Bai army was not ashamed of being stolen from the camp, but just wanted to grab the head of the officer who had been on duty at night and yell: How did you do the night?
But the sound of the galloping horses' hooves told him that this was an unchangeable fact. The enemy is about to attack the camp gate with fine cavalry, and the main brain is clouded, and for a while he can't judge how many people the enemy has come, and he only thinks of one sentence, "On the wall, all on the wall......
But the fence made of wood is as fragile as paper in the face of gunpowder, and even if they resist it on the wall, they will still be finished!
"Kill—"
Controlling the horse with both legs, Zhang Qing held a gun in one hand and roared loudly.
The interest of the hundred and ten cavalry behind him was also extremely excited, galloping and sweeping, isn't this exactly the pursuit of cavalry?
Seeing that the team had broken into the camp of the Bai army, as long as the torches and oil canisters and earth-shaking thunder in their hands were thrown, a victory would be in hand.
A fire rose in the hearts of every rider of the caravan, they felt a premonition of victory, and they longed for merit and glory.
"Kill, kill......" Everyone was wielding knives and guns, and they all roared excitedly. Honor and merit are just around the corner, who can resist such a temptation?
Hundreds of horsemen marched through the camp, entering from the south and exiting from the east, and the fragile fence and camp gate were shattered into pieces by the roaring explosion. There were only a dozen or so fires left, which spread rapidly under the howling south wind and swept through the entire camp.
The general did not die, nor did the general above him, and the two of them had long since abandoned the messy camp and climbed up the hill one by one.
At the same time as the hundred horsemen broke into the camp, a large number of Qi army armor soldiers also swarmed in.
Countless Yang Anfu only wanted to save their lives at this moment, they either squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands and did not move, or climbed up the mountain without their lives.
The entire Jiulian Mountain was dyed red by the fire. The Bai army on the mountain was frightened and clamoured, and Yang Dingnan ran out disheveled, looking at the bottom of the mountain, and his conscious heart was like a knife. Nearly half of the troops in the camp at the foot of the mountain were his men, and I don't know how many people will be killed or injured in this catastrophe.
"General Zhang, why don't we take advantage of this time to attack the mountain?" The white flag is full of red light, and the whole body is rippling with happiness. It was as if what had just been experienced was not a war, but a delicious meal.
Zhang Qing looked at the chaotic Jiulian Mountain, and also felt that it was a pity not to make persistent efforts at this time, to take down the Bai army on the top of the mountain, how many prisoners of war should be caught. Even if it is necessary for three families to share the profits, it is still a good income.
But the frontal attack on the mountain is a big problem, so let's put up with it for the time being, "Obey orders, your department only does feints." ”
It is strange that the mountain was attacked before dawn, or it was attacked head-on, and there were no casualties. It's better to bluff on the front to attract the attention of the enemy troops on the top of the mountain, so that Xie Zhen can take the troops by surprise by taking a detour behind the mountain.
Jiulian Mountain, if there is no road behind the mountain, how can it be called "Jiulian"? ()
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