Chapter 18: The Battle for Binh Duong City
At the end of the ugly period, 6,000 new troops hurried out of Pingyang City with great fanfare and candles, and hurried to the direction of Luoliang Mountain.
The cement official road is convenient for the new army to rush forward.
A stick of incense, the new army in the distance turned around, and could no longer see the lights on the city.
The new army was huge, and it looked like it was scattered and disorganized.
The black oppressive crowd went away from the official road, and a mile away from Pingyang City, the mound where Han Yi had once stopped, after the new army was far away, one by one heads popped up.
A dozen or so people stood on the hill, looking in the direction of the new army in the distance, looking at it for a long time.
Behind the hill were thousands of officers and men in well-disciplined and well-formed formations.
"Lord Cao, the bandits have sent troops to rescue the lair, and the thieves in the city must have found out that something was wrong." is also a caravan steward, standing beside Cao Wenzhao, slightly anxious.
"No hurry, wait." Cao Wenzhao stretched out his hand to stroke his beard and replied calmly.
In March last year, the thieves in Shaanxi were in turmoil, and the imperial court issued an order for Cao Wenzhao to lead the Guanning army into the customs to suppress the thieves.
At the beginning of May this year, Cao Wenzhao pursued Zhao Sheng into Shanxi, after a big victory, Cao Wenzhao was just about to lead the troops back to Shaanxi, and suddenly someone asked to see, that person was the Kang family steward around him, when the steward received the Pingyang Prefecture Governor Cen Huayan's handwritten letter, the letter will be a detailed statement of the Pingyang City incident, of course, which can not be said to be the inside story of the natural to be whitewashed.
A provincial government was captured by thieves, compared with the tens of thousands of anti-army in Shaanxi to shock the imperial court, Shaanxi anti-army riot for several years, tens of thousands of bandits have never captured the city.
Cao Wenzhao, who felt that it was a big matter, was preparing to recapture Pingyang City while writing to the imperial court.
In the days that followed, Cao Wenzhao and Cen Huayan exchanged letters frequently, and the Kang family steward used the caravan to deliver the letters back and forth.
In the end, he decided on a plan to eliminate the bandits today.
Through the caravan, a large number of Jinyi Guard, Dongchang spies, and Cao Wenzhao's Guan Ning Army scouts were quietly sent into the city.
And tonight, after the overall arrangement, Cao Wenzhao led his 5,000 Guanning troops to ambush one mile outside the city.
first put down false information to mislead the other party, and then let Zuo Guang first lead the army to attack Luoliang Mountain, and then let the thieves ask for help to divert the tiger from the mountain, and finally it was he Cao Wenzhao who came to Ming to repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang! Cooperate with a thousand spies in the city, attack each other inside and outside, everything is under control, Cao Wenzhao believes that waiting for the dawn will definitely be able to bring Pingyang City back into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
And the 5,000 new troops who had just hurriedly left the city had already made arrangements to deal with it, and there were still 2,000 elite Guanning troops in ambush in the middle of the road, with 5,000 rabble with unorganized armaments and loose discipline, where was the opponent of the 2,000 soldiers under Cao Wenzhao, these Guanning soldiers were brave warriors who could resist the Manchurian Tatars in Liaodong.
After 100 wars of all sizes, it has long been the elite of 100 battles.
Things have developed to this point, and Cao Wenzhao already has an eighty percent chance of winning, just waiting for civil strife in the city to break out.
Just when Cao Wenzhao was waiting with peace of mind, a sky-drilling cannon suddenly rose in the city, and Cao Wenzhao looked up, showing a hint of pride in his eyes.
Now, everything is under control.
"General, a signal has come from the city, and the sons can't wait." Lu Zifeng, the general behind him, can't wait to ask for his life!
Cao Wenzhao watched for a moment and shook his head: "Let the chaos happen for a while." ”
After a stick of incense, looking at the fire in the city, Cao Wenzhao stretched out his hand and pointed: "Kill it!" ”
The 5,000 Guan Ning army, which had long been ready to go, quietly rushed towards Pingyang City in the dark.
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Yinshi, the official road leading to Luoliang Mountain.
The ambushed Ming army and the hurried new army are about to meet.
The scouts in the dense forest sent a report to the general Bai Ying that thousands of new troops were coming, and the dense forest was 2,000 Ming troops, preparing for the final attack.
A mile away, the 6,000 new troops who were in a hurry when they were out of the city were now marching slowly on the official road, but they didn't look in a hurry.
Not far away, a group of five scouts emerged from the dense forest next to them.
"Report to the general, there is indeed a large army of men and horses in ambush a mile away." Scout returns.
Li Shangquan raised his eyes, and under the darkness, the official road that extended to Luoliang Mountain was like a tongue leading to the abyss.
Unexpectedly, it was really guessed by the military advisor, and the Ming army was really ready to ambush halfway.
Stretching out his hand to signal the garrison in place, beating the horse and turning around, Li Shangquan and Liu Liangzi, the old man of the cottage behind him, glanced at each other with deep meaning.
Liu Liangzi was speechless, and nodded in silence.
"Let's go!" With an order, Liu Liangzi rushed towards the official road with a hundred people.
Li Shangquan's eyes showed a hint of worry, hoping that it would be as expected by the military advisor.
Liu Liangzi galloped on the official road with a hundred horses, and the sound of galloping horses' hooves sounded in the originally quiet night.
Listening to the footsteps in the dense forest, the two thousand Ming troops showed their murderous intentions.
Waiting for General Bai Ying to give an order.
Hundreds of horsemen galloped from the official road, and finally rushed through the dense forest unharmed.
Liu Liangzi kept holding it tightly in his heart, and a cold sweat broke out on his back in the cold wind, and he kept holding back from turning his head to look at the dense forest.
Knowing that the dense forest was ambushing the enemy's heavy troops, and still taking such risks, these hundred horsemen would be buried here if they were not careful.
But fortunately, everything was expected by the military advisor, and after this adventure, Liu Liangzi became more and more determined in his heart to obey the military advisor's instructions in the future, even if it was to let him attack the city alone.
Hundreds of horsemen galloped away into the distance under the cover of night.
Bai Yingfa, the general in the dense forest, did not give the order to stop the attack, and the Du Si on the side was surprised: "General? ”
"Don't worry, this hundred horses are just thieves beating the head scout, and if you move a hundred horses, you will disturb the fat behind you, and the gains outweigh the losses, wait a minute, let everyone cheer up, and the fat behind will come."
Du Si nodded in admiration.
And one mile away from the dense forest, Li Shangquan kept his heart on his mind, until a long time later, when there was no sound of fighting and shouting in front of him, he let go of his heart.
I admire the genius of the military advisor in my heart.
Hundreds of horses went away, Li Shangquan glanced at the dense forest of the official road and sneered.
Directly ordered the whole army to turn around and return to Binh Duong City.
Li Shangquan led his troops out of the city just to make a show, firstly, in order to paralyze the Ming army that might be ambushed outside the city, and to make the illusion of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and secondly, to escort the hundred horsemen to avoid the ambush and successfully arrive at Luoliang Mountain.
At this moment, the task was completed, and Li Shangquan directly ordered to rush back to Pingyang City in a hurry.
Tang Xidong knew that there had always been his own killer weapon on Luoliang Mountain, so when he learned that Luoliang Mountain was attacked, in addition to the initial surprise and shock, he always believed in his heart that with the advanced artillery and grenades of this era on Luoliang Mountain, nothing was lost.
Otherwise, it will be useless to take everyone to the rescue by yourself.
There is a guarantee in Luoliang Mountain, but not in Binh Duong City.
He Tang Xidong still needs to stay in Pingyang City, waiting for the Ming army that is very likely to appear.
Luoliang Mountain and Pingyang City have spent a lot of his efforts, and neither of them can afford to be lost.
At this moment, the internal and external troubles in Pingyang City are responding to each other, forcing Tang Xidong to work hard.
The burning of the city is not a big deal, he Tang Xidong has always hoped to abandon the old city and rebuild a strong new city, but the Ming army is in chaos in the city at the moment, but it has helped him a lot.
Therefore, the new army in the city is only responsible for arresting secret agents, regardless of fighting fires, even if they burn their own homes, military law is ruthless, and if they disobey military orders, the supervision team will enforce the law in public.
The two thousand members of the Luoliangshan Company on the city wall, Tang Xidong's most trusted and honorable men, were responsible for the Ming army that might arrive at any time.
The new army has always been under the banner of Pingyang Wei, and it is impossible for Tang Xidong to rely on these people to resist the Ming army.
The premise of everything is to be able to hold Pingyang City and defeat the Ming army that may be lurking outside the city.