Chapter Ninety-Eight: Night Attack
With Song Jiang's escape, Song Jiang's army was defeated, and no Song Jiang's army resisted, and the Liangshan rebels pursued closely behind, cleaning the battlefield and surrendering prisoners.
Soon, the first head-to-head confrontation between Song Jiang and Wang Yue ended with Song Jiang's escape, and after cleaning up the battlefield, the Liangshan army withdrew to the barracks, killing Deng Yun, Zhu Da Niang, Kong Ming, Deng Long, Li Zhong killed Zheng Tianshou, Pang Wanchun killed Wang Meng with an arrow, and the remaining army that eliminated Song Jiang was nearly 3,000 people, captured more than 4,500 Song Jiang's army, captured 500 horses, and countless other ordnance and armor.
Song Jiang led the remnants of the defeated army back to Linqu City, and ordered people to count, after this battle, they directly lost more than 8,000 people, and now there are less than 5,000 people left, and some of them are generally injured, and the momentum is sluggish, the most distressing thing for Song Jiang is that in this battle, his apprentice Maotou Xing Kong Ming and several of his brothers white-faced Langjun Zheng Tianshou, the golden-eyed tiger Deng Long, the mountain patrol tiger Wang Meng and Deng Yun and his wife were all killed on the battlefield outside the city; Kong Liang of the Duxing Mars, Cui Daocheng of the Pig Iron Buddha, Sha Mohai, the General of the Soul Dementor, Yan Shun of the Jinmao Tiger, Wang Ying of the Bantam Tiger and Li Ying of the Sky Eagle are all injured, which can be said to be a great injury to the vitality.
Song Jiang's army here morale is low, on the other hand, the Liangshan Righteous Army camp is also happy, Wang Yue let Liu Tang Camp escort more than 4,000 captives back to Dulonggang for labor reform, now Dulonggang is in ruins, construction is everywhere, the most lacking is labor, with the addition of these 4,000 people can alleviate a lot, and also let them wash away their crimes, most of these people are following Song Jiang down in Qingfeng Mountain, when they were in Qingfeng Mountain, they robbed their homes and houses, and did evil, and it was time for them to repay.
After arranging the follow-up things, everyone returned to the camp one after another, Wang Yue sat behind the handsome case, behind him was Zhang San, a mouse crossing the street, and Li Si, a grass snake, stood and guarded left and right, next to him was the military division Lu General, and Yang Zhi, Shi Bao, Hua monk Lu Zhishen, Baoguang Rulai Deng Yuanjue, Tiger Taibao Yutai, Tiger Mi Sheng, Drunken Tiger Wu Song, Pang Wanchun, Bian Xiang and others, as well as the drums on the flea who were in charge of intelligence, Zhu Fu, the smiling tiger who was responsible for logistics, and the newly recruited Flying Tiger Hu Cheng, One zhang and three mothers, it can be said that there are many talents.
After a long while, Wang Yue said: "Inform me to go down, and order the gang to kill sheep and cattle, and have a big feast, and ask for credit for my great victory in Liangshan." ”
"Okay, I'll go." was also happy, nodded at the moment, turned around and ran out.
Everyone chatted for a while, the banquet had been placed, Wang Yue interrupted everyone's chat, sat down one after another, drank wine and ate meat, staggered, during the period Mi Sheng was also bold, Wang Yue drank three bowls in a row, and also liked Mi Sheng's temper, and also drank three bowls of wine with Mi Sheng at the moment, which was extremely lively and enviable.
It was lively all night, and then went back to sleep and rest in the middle of the night, and there was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, these people were all good men who practiced martial arts.
Since that day Song Jiang's army was defeated and returned, after the vitality was greatly injured, he began to close his door, hung up the battle exemption card, and let the Liangshan army and horses insult and shout how to come out to meet the battle, Wang Yue simply let the army rest for two days, recuperate, in fact, with the combat effectiveness of the Liangshan Righteous Army, it is not a problem to storm Linqu City, but the enemy is injured by 1,000 self-losses and 800, and the price of capturing Linqu City is that the Liangshan Righteous Army has suffered heavy losses, and the gains outweigh the losses.
At that moment, he called everyone to the tent of Shuai, and discussed countermeasures together, and Song Jiang spent a long time here It is not good for Liangshan, one is the pressure of grain and grass, and the other is that if the time is too long, Song Jiang's reinforcements will be killed, so the Liangshan Righteous Army will be in danger, so Linqu must fight quickly.
General Lu was the first to speak: "A few days ago, Song Jiang's army was defeated, and now the morale is low, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, and the combat effectiveness will not be too high. ”
After General Lu finished speaking, Wang Yue nodded, smiled, and said, "The words of the military advisor are exactly what I want, what do the other brothers think?" ”
"Brother, this night attack on Linqu, the work of opening the city gate, our wolf fangs and shadow camp should be done." At this time, Xuanhe walked out, hugged his fist towards Wang Yue, and said confidently.
Wang Yue laughed, and said at the moment: "Hahaha, it seems that the Xuanhe brothers have seen my thoughts, yes, I still mean to attack the routine of Zhujiazhuang, let the Xuanhe brothers' wolf tooth camp enter Linqu at night, and then control the city gate, let the army outside rush in, capture Linqu in one fell swoop, and strive to capture Song Jiang Xiao'er alive." ”
"Since you have thought of a plan, brother, then hurry up and give an order, I haven't moved my muscles and bones for the past two days, and my hands have long been itchy." Mi Sheng urged impatiently beside him.
Wang Yue looked at Mi Sheng's eagerness to try, smiled, and then his face changed, and he said with a serious face: "Xuanhe listens to the order, sneaks into the city at the second watch tonight, controls the city gate, lights the fire, opens the gate for our army, and pays attention to controlling the yamen and warehouses in the city." ”
"Order." Xuan He's face was excited, and he clenched his fists and said, now he likes this feeling more and more, and completing the arduous task with a small number of people is difficult, but it is indeed thrilling.
"Nanli Taibao Shibao, the brother led the headquarters to block the other three city gates, and once someone left the city, he would be arrested directly." Wang Yue said again.
"Order." Shi Bao came out of the queue and responded with his fists clenched.
Wang Yue nodded, and then issued an order: "The flower monk Lu Zhishen, drunk and ambushed the tiger Wu Song, hated the sky and had no control Bian Xiang, and the four brothers Yang Zhi led the headquarters to wait outside the city with me, and waited until the second watch in the middle of the night, when the fire broke out at the city gate, they would kill into the city, remember to restrain their subordinates not to disturb the people, not to burn and kill, and those who violate the order will not be forgiven." ”
"Order." The four of them responded in unison.
"The rest of the people guarding the camp perform their duties, and they must take strict precautions and make no mistakes." Wang Yue finally said.
As soon as the task was assigned, Hu Sanniang, who was next to him, raised his eyebrows, looked unhappy, and also said: "These days, I always escort grain and grass, and I don't have anything to do with the war, this time I will no longer stay in the camp anyway, and I will also go out with the army." ”
Wang Yue saw the perseverance on her face, and had no choice but to nod and agree, agreeing that she would go with the army, Hu Sanniang's cold face thawed and melted all of a sudden, and she suddenly smiled like a flower, even with a smile on her face.
Everyone waited for the order and then went back to prepare, this does not need to be mentioned, the book said to cut short, in the middle of the night at the second watch, Linqu City was as quiet as before, the people in the city rested early, only the city wall on the night patrol still with torches.
"Alas, this time our brother Song Jiang is miserable, listen to my fellow who is a guard by Brother Song Jiang's side, that Murong Yanda sent a letter and told Brother Song Jiang fiercely, after losing the battle, it is even more difficult to recruit an now, and now there are less than five thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people in our city, this Linqu can't hold it." Soldier A, who was standing guard on the city wall, yawned and said.
Soldier B, who was a little younger than him, looked at the wall and yawned and said: "Who said it wasn't, I was also present in the battle that day, it's really dangerous, several of my brothers and fellow villagers died there, those ironclad troops in Liangshan are really powerful, like a god, they don't avoid knives and guns, like a demon king, and now they are all terrified when they think about it." ”
The two people yawned and chatted without a word, and did not find two figures crawling up behind them, the two figures climbed up cautiously, came behind the two people, and clenched the dagger quenched by the poison in their hands, suddenly, the two people moved like a poisonous snake, a fatal blow, directly cut the throats of the two people, the poison on the dagger is also extremely powerful, seeing the blood sealing the throat, the two soldiers didn't even have time to scream, and they died and couldn't die anymore.
Killed the sentries, a group of people climbed up under the city wall one after another, the number of almost a hundred people, these people are the wolf teeth and shadow battalions of Liangshan, the members of the wolf teeth and shadow battalions successfully and quietly climbed the city wall, and quickly disappeared into the vast night.
In less than half an hour, Song Jiang's army guarding the city gate and patrolling the city wall was wiped out by the members of the Wolf Tooth and Shadow Battalion, and after confirming that there were no fish exposed to the net, Xuanhe immediately ordered someone to find something to start the fire, and set fire at the city gate to send a signal to the army outside the city.