Chapter 36: Sneak Attack on the Back Mountain

At the foot of the ancient city of Yunshan, Long Wenguang, a political officer in northern Sichuan, commanded General Wang Chaoyang to lead his troops to occupy several small hills around, constantly firing artillery at the top of the mountain, or sending troops to attack.

Although there are 2,000 infantry and 200 cavalry in the ancient city of Yunshan, it is Ma Chao's more than 100 cavalry and his own 200 personal soldiers who are really worthy of a battle, and most of the others are exiles who have been taken captive.

After successive defeats, the morale of the whole army was extremely low, not to mention those homeless people, even the morale of the two hundred pro-soldiers around him was extremely low.

But the strict orders of the big boss came first, Wang Gao and Ma Chao did not dare to openly disobey the order, and they were forced to helplessly, and now even Ma Chao's two hundred cavalry have dismounted to defend the city, even so the officers and soldiers are still killing in a steady stream, and the situation has become increasingly serious.

The local tyrants who defended the mountain were like this, and so was Wang Chaoyang, who attacked the mountain, and sent two messengers to visit Long Wenguang, a political officer in northern Sichuan, who was supervising the war in the future, and declared that the losses of the various departments were very large, and whether they could withdraw and postpone the attack on the mountain.

But Long Wenguang's face was full of murderous energy, and he ordered the whole army from the general to the ordinary soldiers, and those who dared to retreat were all killed, and in the end, he even came to the front of the battle with a sword to personally supervise the battle.

Forced to be helpless, Wang Chaoyang did not dare to retain his strength anymore, so he had to lead his troops to attack the mountain desperately.

The mountain fog gradually dispersed, and the two sides fought back and forth on the mountainside for half an hour, and many of the displaced people were already physically exhausted due to malnutrition, and many of them were panting on the mountain, and then under the force of the local rioters, they either waved their flags and shouted, or threw the rocks down the mountain mechanically.

At this moment, there was a shout of killing from the back mountain, and everyone turned their heads in shock, not knowing when a group of flames actually ignited on the back mountain.

The morale of the local rioters plummeted, first those displaced people who were coerced threw away the banners and weapons in their hands and scattered in all directions, Wang Gao and Ma Chao heard that the sneak attack of the official army had been lost, and they did not dare to fight again and led their troops to flee.

It turned out that a few days ago, when the two sides were holding each other in the ancient city of Yunshan, thinking of the various battles of attacking the mountain in his previous life, Yang Lin asked Yang Cheng, a clan brother from Orion, to take a few soldiers from Orion to the surrounding cottages to find a hiking path in the name of informing the Lijia Chief.

Although he did not find a hiking trail for two days, Orion Tang San claimed that although there was a trail that could go straight to the halfway point of the mountain, to climb to the top of the mountain, he needed to climb over a large rock more than ten zhang high.

Yang Cheng was overjoyed, and took two hunters to reconnoiter on the spot, looking at this rock, everyone also gasped, the rock is about ten zhang high, not only very dangerous, but also extremely difficult to climb.

And although it was tricky to receive the news, I finally found a shortcut that might defeat the Tyrant.

At this time, Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, rushed to the front line to supervise the various departments, so he offered a plan to use a horse gun to slightly demoralize the local tyrants.

Then concentrate the superior forces to capture the Longmen Ferry, cut the Jiangnan and Jiangbei local tyrants in half, and finally attack the ancient city of Yunshan and Longjiao Mountain with all their might.

In order to break through the ancient city of Yunshan, Yang Lin has been leading local soldiers to conduct climbing training in the past two days to complete tactical preparations.

Long Wenguang was quite surprised, according to past experience, to complete this kind of raid mission, you can choose more agile warriors, and now the battlefield drill is probably a bit of a taste of grinding guns.

Although I don't understand it, the key to this battle is whether the sneak attack can be successful.

After three days of preparation, this night Yang Lin led the soldiers of the three bureaus to walk the mountain road overnight, someone in front of the mountain to open the road, someone in the back to collect the team, under the leadership of Orion Tang San to the halfway up the mountain, far away to see the row of boulders in front of about ten meters high.

With the help of the cover of the fog, Yang Lin led the main force to approach the mountain gate of the back mountain, and Yang Cheng came to the bottom of the big rock with more than 30 thousands of thin men.

Aiming at a big tree ten meters away, he threw out a hook and sickle, and after tying it firmly, a thin man with a glove pulled a rope and climbed up the cliff, so that the third finally climbed to the top of the mountain.

Put down the rope and gloves, the personnel climbed up along the opened road, because they could firmly grasp the rope with gloves, plus these were selected to be good at climbing, so it took only two pillars of incense to climb more than 30 people to climb the cliff.

Now the front mountain is in a hurry, most of the local rioters have been transferred to the front mountain, and the number of people who stay in the back mountain is not only very small, but also most of them are some old, weak, sick and disabled, and have escaped a few patrols.

Seeing dozens of fierce and vicious soldiers suddenly killed from behind, more than a dozen homeless people guarding the back mountain did not dare to fight and fled one after another.

Opening the mountain gate, Yang Lin led the soldiers into the ancient city.

Seeing the shouting of the entire ancient city, Yang Cheng led more than 30 soldiers to pretend to be homeless people or shout loudly or set fire to increase the chaos, while he commanded the main force to fight into the mountains.

The fierce battle in the front mountain is in full swing, and many of the people in the back mountain are homeless people who have come to see that before the soldiers are killed, everyone is still running back and forth with the flag, and from time to time they make a look of preparing to fight back.

Seeing that there were about forty or fifty people on the other side, Yang Lin was also quite panicked, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to stop and line up in three rows, and even released birds to the homeless people who were pretending to rush over.

A strange scene appeared, the local thugs who initially looked like they were in high morale collapsed as soon as the guns rang out, and everyone scattered in all directions like frightened sheep.

These exiles who had been taken from captivity had no training at all, and they were only waving their flags and shouting on the battlefield to make a strong noise.

Unlike the modern army, the modern army mostly uses rifles, and everyone only needs to practice shooting a simple shot, and only need a simple practice of shooting targets to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

In ancient times, it was different, whether it was a bow and crossbow, or a short knife and spear, it was necessary to practice all year round, although there was no shortage of brave and ruthless people like the Soil Tyrants, most of them were homeless people who had lost their vitality and fled the famine.

On weekdays, everyone transports grain and grass for the army to ensure military supplies, and pretends to be suspicious soldiers on the battlefield and waving flags and shouting.

In order to confuse the officers and soldiers, they often let a young and strong person run in front of him with a banner, while the others were dressed in colorful clothes, wielding hoes, steel drills, axes, shovels, and so on.

Help clean up the battlefield when you win, and be withdrawn as a scapegoat to cover the main retreat when you lose.

Now Yang Lin led the soldiers to sneak attack the back mountain and kill the mountain, although everyone was frightened, they still waved their flags and shouted beside them under the leadership of the big and small leaders, delaying the march of the soldiers.

If he was quite cautious at first, now that he understands this truth, Yang Lin let go of his hands and feet, and personally led the Divine Spear Bureau in the middle, Yang Wei and Long Zhijiao each led a killer bureau on both sides, constantly rushing back and forth, most of the displaced people along the way were defeated with one blow, and those who could not retreat were quickly defeated.

In a big house, I found more than a dozen people desperately moving things out, and when I inquired, it turned out to be a meeting place for local thugs.

The six teams of Ma Chao and the Chaotian Star Wang Gao hid some valuable things in the hall, and now they saw that the soldiers broke through the back mountain and killed them, these homeless people were shocked, and they were carrying things outside under the leadership of a pro-soldier commander

Yang Lin was overjoyed, and ordered Yang Wei to lead a general banner to control the lobby to transfer the wealth of the local tyrants, and personally led the rest of the troops to kill the front mountain.