Text 215.The Battle of Yunnan (12)
At this moment, Yelu Liang stood at the head of the city, looking at the boundless Ming army under the black pressure, and was also very frightened in his heart, now that his father is no longer there, he wants him to take the lead alone, but he has no bottom in his heart, he has never independently commanded such a big battle, Yelu Liang knows that these three stone forts and 20,000 horses, in front of the 300,000 troops of the Ming army, are simply mantis arms as a car, if they stick to it, they and 20,000 horses will end up like people on the stake.
The large array of the Ming army stopped from afar, and as soon as it stopped, I saw that the phalanx in the front row flashed out more than 20 wide openings, and from the openings, slowly pushed out more than 20 cannons. Yelu Liang sighed in his heart, if these two dozen cannons continue to bombard the city wall, it won't take more than one morning, and the city wall that was temporarily repaired will be blown down.
The gunners of the Ming army have undergone strict training, the movements are quick and skillful, and they quickly loaded the gunpowder, and a Ming army in the front row watched for a while, and then commanded the other runners to adjust the angle, and with the first cannon sound, all of them, a series of more than 20 cannon sounds sounded, and the huge cannon sound has been heard several miles away. Some of the timid defenders crouched down with their heads in fright.
However, although the sound of the cannon was shocking, the hit rate of this first shot was too low, only two projectiles successfully smashed into the city wall, and there were no casualties, and the rest of the projectiles fell on the open ground. The defenders couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
After a cannon was fired, the Ming army runners began to quickly load gunpowder, but a strange thing happened, all the defenders on the city noticed that after loading gunpowder and projectiles, although the cannon was also ignited, but there was no cannon sound, and then, the Ming soldiers began to nervously replace the projectiles and gunpowder, opened a new barrel of gunpowder to fill, the new reload still did not work, and replaced another barrel of gunpowder, after repeating several times, the cannon never sounded.
"I see, I understand," Yelu saw the doorway, he smiled and slapped the wall, and couldn't help shouting: "The weather is humid, their gunpowder is not wrapped properly, it must be soaked in the rain and damp, and it can't sound." Yelu Liang let out a long sigh, without this cannon, the Ming army will have to spend some strength to attack, after all, their three stone forts can support each other, and the distance between the three stone forts is deliberately set to only one arrow away, and it is basically impossible for the Ming army to encircle and annihilate each other, and they are safe for the time being.
The follow-up actions of the Ming army did make Yelu Liang feel a lot more at ease, without artillery, the Ming army did not choose to forcibly attack the city, but retreated and camped, but Yelu Liang did not take it easy for long, and soon he found that the Ming army not only camped in his north, but also appeared in the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest. In other words, he was completely surrounded, and Yeluliang's heart was chilled. Although it is no problem to survive today. But what about tomorrow? This practical question immediately surfaced in Yeluliang's mind.
From this moment on, Yelu Liang made up his mind to break through, and after repeated thinking and deduction, he formulated a set of plans that he thought were complete to break through. Yelu Liangye was not a stunned young man who had just entered the battlefield, he decided to adopt the tactics of attacking the east and the west.
First of all, the sneak attack time he set was at night, and the men and horses in the three stone forts went out of the city at the same time at night at the second watch, and divided the troops into three routes, the first road of men and horses raided the camp of the Ming army, creating chaos in the Ming army, attracting the attention of the Ming army, and at the same time, the second road of men and horses sneak attacked the ferry, do
Out of the gesture of snatching back the ferry.
In fact, in Yeluliang's plan, these two roads are cannon fodder, of course, Yeluliang will not tell the main generals of these two roads his true intentions, but only explain that he wants to divide his troops to break through, and he will also lead the third road of men and horses to carry out a sneak attack in the opposite direction of the first road, and the three people and horses will break through in three directions at the same time, true and false, false and real, so that the Ming army can not understand their true intentions, it is possible to succeed, and Yelu Liang promised in public is to highlight and then converge.
However, Yeluliang's real plan is not like this, he will not take the initiative to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, he will wait until the other two roads have launched an attack on the Ming army, when the Ming army is in chaos, interspersed with the gap between the large camps along the river in the east and south of the Ming army, and goes straight to the downstream of the Bai Yan River, he knows that there is a section of the riverbed downstream, and he can directly wade across the river without a boat. He's going to go back to the south shore there.
Leading the first way of men and horses to sneak attack the main general of the camp is Yeluliang's younger brother, called Yelushi, he knows his cousin too well, Yelushi has already expected that he must be used by Yeluliang as a backing, but Yeluliang is his main general after all, and he can't disobey the military order, but although Yelushi obeyed on the surface and said that he wanted to break through according to the plan, he secretly made another calculation in his heart.
The general in charge of the sneak attack on the ferry is called Jiang Le, this person is Yeluliang's henchman, pulled up by Yeluliang, very loyal to Yeluliang, in the evening, Jiang Le took the initiative to find Yeluliang, Yeluliang just finished eating, Jiang Le came to Yeluliang with a smile, and diligently took Yeluliang's rice bowl aside, and then wiped the table with his sleeve to Yeluliang, in fact, Yeluliang only had a bowl of rice in front of him, and he did not drop the food and oil on the table when eating, but Jiang Le's behavior still made Yeluliang very comfortable.
"You are now the main general of one side, why are you here if you don't prepare well in the army?" Yelu Liang leaned back and asked lazily.
Jiang Leren was as his name suggested, always smiling when he spoke, only to see him smile and lean forward, and asked with a flattering face: "You sent me to lead troops to attack the ferry, which is cheap for me, but if I really take the ferry, should I cross the river directly and return to the south bank, or wait for you to come to meet?" ”
Yelu Liang smiled slightly, "If you succeed, just send a signal for us to know, I will naturally turn to your side after seeing the signal, but you don't have to wait for me, lead the army to cross the river and return to the south bank first." ”
"Okay! Sure enough, you take the most care of me. Jiang Le's face bloomed, and he happily agreed to go out. But as soon as he walked out of Yeluliang's big tent, Jiang Le immediately changed his face, turned his head and pouted, and scolded in his heart: "Let me go back from the ferry, go to your grandma's, where is there a boat at the ferry, let me jump into the river?" Didn't you just let me be your back? Cover you? Your grandpa's ......"
Nighttime. Due to the long march, then the siege of the city, and then the encampment, the Ming army was also tired for a day, so at night, the vigilance was still relaxed. As a result, Jelush left the city completely undiscovered by the Ming army. According to the agreement, Yelushi, who came out of the second watch, should immediately launch a sneak attack on the main camp of the Ming army in the north, but Yelushi did not sneak attack at the second watch as agreed, and after leading his troops out of the city, he led the whole army to stop near the outside of the city.
His soldiers were wondering why they didn't go out of the city
Moved? If you don't move like this, why don't you stay in the city, and lie on your stomach outside the city in fear. Yelushi didn't tell anyone, he was actually waiting, waiting for Jiang Le, who attacked the ferry, to make the first move.
But Jelush was doomed to be disappointed, waiting left and right, and there was no movement in the direction of the ferry, and Jelush lost patience, and he decided to send someone to investigate.
Like Yelushi, Yeluliang was also waiting anxiously, but his patience was not as good as Yelushi, and his mind did not allow him to be patient.
The sentinel sent out and did not come back for a long time, Yelu Liang looked forward to it, and became even more anxious, but he did not wait for the return of the sentinel in the end, but waited for a rain of arrows.
The sudden rain of arrows completely extinguished Yelu Liang's thoughts, fuck, there was an ambush, Yelu Liang panicked, "Get on the horse and retreat." Yelu Liang panicked for a while, he couldn't find his war horse at all, the main general was like this, and the people below were even more scattered, all his subordinates, including his cronies on weekdays, did not cover Yelu Liang, and before he saw the enemy, he all shouted and fled in all directions, and some directly threw their weapons aside, curled up on the ground and shouted surrender and spare, a team of thousands of people, not even a little effective resistance, from a distance, it was all a head and a rat, the Ming army didn't even need a decent charge, and the ambush raid became a game to capture prisoners.
Like Yelu Liang, who lost his dog, and his subordinates who had no backbone, ran aimlessly like headless flies, and finally Yelu Liang was really cornered, so he simply raised his hands and shouted: "I am the main general Yelu Liang, I surrender, I want to see the commander of the Ming army." ”
The soldiers of the Ming army didn't know who he was, they only regarded him as an ordinary soldier, a Ming soldier came up with a kick, kicked Yeluliang to the ground, held him down, grabbed Yeluliang's arm stiffly, and said in his mouth: "Damn, I finally caught one." This time I can repay the credit. ”
At the same time, Yelushi's side was also attacked by the same surprise, the rain of arrows and the sound of shouting and killing came almost at the same time, in the face of the sneak attack of the Ming army, Yelushi's department was also in chaos, but Yelushi's reaction was quite astute, he grabbed a horse casually, did not look at the direction, and ran away from the horse.
But after running a few steps, I heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in front of me, not good, the Ming cavalry of the brigade. Yelushi was just about to turn the horse's head, but an arrow flew head-on, hitting Yelushi's chest, Yelushi didn't even have time to shout, and fell off the horse in anger. The Yelushi tribe also did not put up any decent resistance, and all of them became prisoners of the Ming army.
Yelushi didn't know until he died, whether Jiang Le had attacked the ferry or not.
Jiang Le, who made Yelushi and Yeluliang anxiously wait, disappointed both of them, because Jiang Le did not sneak attack the ferry, but he really led his troops in the direction of the ferry. In front of the camp outside the ferry, Jiang Le ordered the whole army to rest, and then, Jiang Le took out the big burden that had been prepared for an afternoon, and ran to the camp alone, just when the soldiers under him looked at Jiang Le in puzzlement, Jiang Le suddenly shook out a piece of white cloth from the burden, picked it on the tip of the long spear, and shouted at the camp: "Ming army soldiers, I am here to surrender to Cheng, I am here to surrender to Cheng!" ”
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