Chapter 276: The Night Attack of the Battle of Moxi
On the evening of October 30, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the partial general Gong Xun was in the Gong family's mansion in Moxi City, and hosted a banquet for Liu Ji and many generals of the Jue'an Army, and at this time, the city defense of Moxi City had been taken over by the four infantry battalions under Liu Ji, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the guard battalion also entered Moxi City with Liu Ji. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As for the sixteen cavalry battalions and 16,000 Uighur cavalry under Liu Ji's command, they set up camp in the east outside Moxi City, after all, Moxi City was not too large to garrison more than 100,000 troops at once.
After the end of the day's battle, Liu Ji found an excuse to go around the battlefield in the east of the entire Moxi City, and immediately increased his soul value to 27850 points, originally Liu Ji's soul value was only 4864 points after successfully summoning Gan Ning, which means that in today's battle between the Ju'an army and the Khitan army, more than 20,000 people on both sides died on the battlefield.
According to preliminary statistics, nearly 10,000 cavalry under Liu Ji were killed, and the number of infantry killed was very small, only more than 300 people, so that today's Khitan cavalry killed almost 13,000 people, and the total strength under Liu Ji's command is less than 200,000.
During the banquet, Liu Ji picked up the wine glass and said to Gong Xun: "General Gong, this cup of wine is too shou to borrow flowers to offer Buddha, welcome General Gong to join the Ju'an army, from now on we will be a family!" ā
Gong Xun hurriedly gathered his wine glass and said: "Thank you, Lord Taishou, for accepting our Gong family regardless of previous suspicions, in the future, the old man and the children of the Gong family are willing to smear the liver and brain for Taishou, Lord Taishou, please!" ā
Then Liu Ji and Gong Xun toasted a glass of wine together, and then Liu Ji toasted a glass of wine with Gong Yi, Gong Zhong and Gong Wu, and then asked Gong Xun: "Now that the Khitan army has all gathered in the north outside Moxi City, it seems that it will not be easy to give up, what strategy does General Gong think we should adopt next to repel this Khitan army!" ā
Gong Xun pondered for a while and said: "Lord Taishou, the real target of the Khitan army this time is Lord Taishou and the Juan army, now you and the main force of the Juan army have come to Moxi City, and the old man also thinks that the Khitans will definitely not retreat easily, but the Khitans come from afar and will not carry too much food, as long as we rely on Moxi City to defend to the death, this Khitan army will eventually withdraw because of the exhaustion of food, and then we can even bite off a large piece of meat of the Khitans." ā
As soon as Gong Xun's words fell, a marquis of the guard battalion hurriedly walked in, "Lord Taishou, the Khitans have dispatched a large number of cavalry, and they are launching a night attack on the cavalry units and Uighur cavalry outside the city of our Hawks! ā
At this time, Gong Xun hurriedly stood up and said anxiously to Liu Ji: "Lord Taishou, you must hurry up to rescue the cavalry outside the city, if there is no cavalry outside the city, the Khitans can surround Moxi City without any scruples, and if there is a food crisis at that time, it will become our Jing'an army!" ā
When Liu Ji heard the news that the Khitan cavalry attacked his cavalry camp outside the city at night, his face was very calm, as if he had known that the Khitan cavalry would attack at night, Gong Xun saw that Liu Ji was not in a hurry, and couldn't help but suddenly realize: "Could it be that Lord Taishou has expected that the Khitans will sneak attack at night, and he has already prepared for it?" ā
Liu Ji said with a smile: "General Gong, didn't you find that the generals of the various cavalry battalions of the Jue'an Army are not here?" If the Khitans want to defeat the main force of our tortoise army here in Moxi City, the first thing they need to clear is the cavalry troops of the Ju'an army and the Uighurs, with the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the Ju'an army and the Uighurs, the Khitans not only cannot form an encirclement of Moxi City, but also cannot even invest many troops in the siege of the city, and the Khitans need to be on guard at all times against the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of our Yu'an army and the Uighurs! ā
After a pause, Liu Ji continued: "And because Moxi City is not big, more than 100,000 cavalry can only be stationed outside the city, which creates an excellent opportunity for the Khitans to attack our cavalry camp outside the city at night, how can Yeluqi, the Khitan god of war, let go of such an opportunity!" Of course, it is impossible for Ben Taishou to let the Khitan people succeed in the night attack, and the arrangements have been made a long time ago, if you are lucky, you can still bite a large piece of Khitan meat tonight! ā
In fact, these were not expected by Liu Ji at all, but what Su Lie thought of, so Liu Ji asked the 16th cavalry battalion and the 16,000 cavalry of the Uighurs under his command to prepare for the night attack of the Khitans, and in order to guard against the fierce generals of the Khitans, Liu Ji sent Gao Zhong, Xu Chu, Wen Chou, Yan Liang, Du Ning and Xiao Feng in the guard camp, these six top generals, to the temporary cavalry camp in the east outside Moxi City.
Knowing that the Khitan cavalry attacked the temporary camp of their own cavalry outside the city at night, Liu Ji and others had no intention of continuing to eat and drink in the Gong family's mansion, and then Liu Ji came to the east wall of Moxi City with many generals.
From the top of the city wall, you can see the temporary cavalry camp outside the city blazing, but because of the darkness, you can't see the specific situation.
At this time, it was not suitable to send reinforcements to support the temporary cavalry camp outside the city, because if the light was blind, it would cause chaos to the cavalry troops of the Juan army and the Uighurs, so Liu Ji and the others could only wait for news outside the city on the city wall.
The shouts of the temporary battalion of the Uighur cavalry outside the city lasted for nearly half an hour before the drums stopped, and although Liu Ji's face had been very calm, it could be known from his constant slight frowning brows that he was also very worried about this night battle outside the city.
Finally, about another stick of incense, only two cavalrymen came to the east gate of Moxi City with torches, and by the light of the fire, Liu Ji recognized these two cavalrymen as Captain Candidate and Cheng Yin, they are both one of Ma Chao's eight strong generals, and they are both captains of Su Lie's cavalry battalion.
Then Liu Ji immediately asked people to open the city gate, let Hou Xuan and Cheng Yin enter the city, and brought Hou Xuan and Cheng Yin to the city wall.
Hou Xuan and Cheng Yin came to the city wall, and made a general report to Liu Ji about the situation of the night battle outside the city, and tonight the Khitans really sent a large force of cavalry to attack the temporary cavalry camp of the Ju'an army and the Uighurs outside the city at night, with a strength of at least 30,000 Khitan cavalry.
The cavalry of the Ju'an army and the Uighurs had already prepared tonight, directly arranged a large number of traps in the camp, and ambushed heavy troops, and as a result, more than 30,000 cavalry of the Khitans happened to crash in.
However, the Khitan cavalry is really powerful, in the case of an ambush, it is hard to kill a bloody way, and in the end of this night battle, the Khitans lost almost half of the cavalry, of which hundreds of people were captured alive, and even Denggeril, one of the four King Kongs under the command of Yeluqi, fell into the trap of horses, was injured and captured alive.