Chapter 412: Rushing to Yuannina Temple
When they heard that Yang Guang wanted to personally lead the hussar battalion to attack the Yuannina Temple tonight, they mistakenly thought that Yang Guang was young and vigorous, and he had been unable to endure loneliness, and wanted to personally lead the men and horses to go out to the battle, and he was addicted, but instead of dissuading, he instigated Yang Guang to bring all the men and horses of the hussar camp with him, and had a good fight with the Turkic army guarding the Yuannina Temple, and killed him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, the reason why Yang Guang improvised and insisted on personally leading the army to the expedition was that in addition to wanting to test back with this behavior, there was another reason: he personally led the army out of the customs, and once it was confirmed that Yuwen Yue was really in the Yuannina Temple, he could send an order to try to capture him alive, instead of killing him on the spot, and send him back to Chang'an in the future, and sent a letter to his eldest brother Yang Yong to save his life.
Since the two countries opened a mutual market in Mayi, on the outskirts of Bingzhou, Yang Guang ordered Duan Da to secretly buy hundreds of war horses from the mutual market one after another, and equip them with every soldier in the hussar battalion, so when Duan Da and Yu Juluo suggested that he bring all the hussar battalion soldiers tonight, Yang Guang readily agreed.
Because Li Che of the Jin Palace, the commander-in-chief, inspected the Great Wall and did not return, and Yang Guang is currently temporarily serving as the marshal of the Hebei Road march on behalf of Yang Shuang, Yang Guang and Duan Da, Yu Juluo and others led the hussar battalion of 300 light horsemen out of Bingzhou, all the way to the east, straight to the sand city, no need to shoot the situation to the two servants of the platform, a group of more than 300 war horses spread their four hooves, like the wind and lightning, it only took two hours, and they arrived at the sand city when the day was just handed over to the third watch.
Shacheng belongs to the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, is a small town with less than 100 residents in the city, because it is located in the fortress of the Great Wall, Wang Shao, the right servant who is in charge of the Hebei Road Xingtai Military Department, after his arrival, specially transferred a battalion of sergeants stationed in Shacheng, in order to prepare for the need of war.
Yang Guangchun suddenly led the hussar battalion to Sand City at night, but he frightened the Sui army governor who led the army to garrison Sand City. When he heard that Yang Guang was going to lead the army out of the customs and attack the Yuannina Temple dozens of miles away overnight, because of his humble status, he couldn't persuade him, and after sending Yang Guang and his party out of the customs, he hurriedly ordered someone to send a letter to Li Zhen, the governor of Youzhou who was inspecting the local defense situation in Dingzhou (Dingzhou was under the jurisdiction of the governor of Youzhou at that time), asking him to lead the army to reinforce Shacheng in case of emergency.
Before Yang Guang led the army out of Shacheng, he specially ordered Duan Da to tell the three armies that each war horse should take off the luan bell and wrap the horse's paw with hay, so as not to be discovered in advance by the Turkic soldiers guarding the Yuannina Temple and take Yuwenyue away from the temple.
Although he did not dare to persuade Yang Guang to go out of the customs in person, before leaving the customs from Shacheng, he proposed to Yang Guang that he was willing to lead a battalion of men and horses to act as a pioneer, and go out of the customs first, so as to find out the details of the Yuannina Temple for the other two battalions led by Yang Guang.
For this reason, after Yang Guang agreed to Yu Juluo's request, he specially called him aside and secretly confessed that if the vanguard led by him entered the Yuannina Temple in one go, he must not hurt Yu Wenyue's life, and must try to capture him alive.
Yuannina Temple is located in the middle of Yuannina Mountain, although Yuannina Mountain is not high, but it is surrounded by grasslands that cannot be seen at a glance, this hill is also particularly eye-catching.
Because Yu Xiaoren's scouts had already found out in advance that there were hundreds of Turkic soldiers stationed in the Yuannina Temple, Yu Juluo led more than 100 soldiers from the first battalion of the hussar battalion under Yu Xiaoren to a distance of five or six miles from Yuannina Mountain, so he ordered the whole army to stop and sent scouts to sneak into Yuannina Mountain again to find out the truth.
About half an hour later, the scouts returned to report that there was indeed a Turkic guard at the Yuannina Pass, and that the Yuannya Monastery located in the valley was seen from afar from the Yuannya Pass, but it was dark in the temple, and there was no light in sight, so it was expected that the defenders in the temple had fallen asleep.
Yu Juluo ordered Yu Xiaoren to lead a dozen agile soldiers, abandon their horses and walk, first touch the mountain pass to try to kill the Turkic sentinels set up at the mountain pass, with three bird calls as a signal, send a letter to himself, and then lead the army to gallop in, so as to take advantage of the fact that the Turkic army guarding the Yuannina Temple has not yet woken up from the dream, take the Yuannina Temple, and grab the first credit for this exit.
When Yu Xiaoren said goodbye to the crown prince Yang Yong in the East Palace of Chang'an, he received a message from Yang Yong to Yang Guang, and when he cleared the mission of Yuwenyue, he secretly made up his mind that he would live up to the prince's trust, and strive to sword Yuwenyue, so that he could ask Yang Yong for merit and reward, so when he heard that Yujuluo ordered him to lead a small group of men and horses to sneak to the mountain pass to clear the sentries, he couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, so he selected more than a dozen sergeants who were proficient in archery from the camp, and secretly ordered them to bring strong bows and crossbows, bid farewell to Yujuluo, and rushed to Yuannina Pass on foot.
After Yu Xiaoren led more than a dozen soldiers to sneak to the mountain pass, carefully observed the Turkic sentry set up at the mountain pass, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: as long as the sentry at the mountain pass was cleared, he could drive straight into the mountain pass and directly kill the Yuannina Temple, which was only two or three miles away from the mountain pass.
He turned around and made a gesture of outflanking the dozen or so sergeants behind him, and then personally led the sergeants to quietly touch the mountain pass from the left.
Because at this time, the Turks and the Sui Dynasty were still in a state of resignation, although the part of the Turkic army that was ordered to be stationed on Yuannina Mountain received a secret envoy from Kehe Dun Yuwen Prajna, and came to guard the Northern Zhou clan Yuwen Yue, who had been taken captive here more than half a year ago, but they could not help but be slack, and did not add 12 points of vigilance as when the two countries were at war.
Therefore, Yu Xiaoren led a dozen elite soldiers to outflank them in two ways, and without much effort, he killed the four Turkic sentinels on the hills on the left and right sides of the mountain pass.
"You stay here and send a message to General Yu. Everyone else, follow me to immediately enter the Yuannina Temple, get rid of Yuwen Yue, and grab the first credit. After successfully clearing the sentries at the mountain pass, Yu Xiaoren immediately gave the order to attack the Yuannina Temple.
"General, with our manpower alone, if the Turkic soldiers in the temple find out that someone has broken into the temple and killed people, will we be able to succeed smoothly?" The sergeant under his command reminded Yu Xiaoren with concern.
"Shut up, you know what! Yu Juluo volunteered to be a pioneer before leaving the customs, not to snatch the first credit, this errand was originally what we have been doing, how can he rob the first credit in the end? Needless to say, as long as we take the lead in the temple and slash Yuwen Yue with one sword, there will be a hundred light horsemen behind us to meet you, what are you afraid of? Yu Xiaoren was also in a state of complete excitement at this time, and he couldn't listen to the kind words and persuasions of others at all, and reprimanded the sergeant with a loud voice.