Chapter 284: Encirclement and Counter-Encirclement
"Tell the young master, I'm waiting for the scouts in the north to report, and now an unknown number of Taoqiu troops have launched an attack on us on the periphery!" As soon as Fang received this kind of news, Yueqing thought it was a joke. However, when he realized that this was a conclusive fact, his face began to appear a little panicked.
However, this mood was fleeting, and he quickly adjusted his mood and said to the scout in return: "Immediately stop attacking the camp gate from the north, and send scouts to check the number of enemy troops. If there is news, it will be reported immediately, without delay! ”
"No!" The scout immediately responded, turning back!
However, the scouts had only been gone for a while, and from the direction of the east and west camps that surrounded the camp, there was also a report: they were all attacked by the unknown army of Taoqiu, and the attack was extremely fast!
This kind of return made De Yueqing a little frightened, and he quickly ordered the same way as the northern camp gate.
And before his order could be sent to the large army of the east and west camp gates, he soon saw an army in the distance, carrying torches, coming from the north towards his position!
The enemy soldiers were attacking very quickly, but in a short time, the army was already approaching. When they came to the nearby location, they immediately began to attack the soldiers of the Le clan!
The biggest reason why the soldiers of the Le clan were able to fight with the Crane Army at the camp gate was that there were plenty of torches near the Crane Army camp, which were as bright as day, so that the soldiers on both sides could fight to their heart's content! However, once they reached their destination, they immediately threw away their torches, plunged themselves into complete darkness and attacked the Le clan soldiers! Immediately after the attack, the soldiers retreated, like slippery loaches, and it was impossible to catch them!
Such an attack made Dele Qing worried! He knew very well that most of the soldiers of the Le clan were peasants, and they had some problems with not being able to see clearly at night, but they were fine under the bright torches, but once they fell into darkness, they couldn't see clearly most of the time, and their actions would be more difficult.
However, such an attacking army does not have this problem at all! They hid in the darkness and didn't seem to be at all blind to their opponents' problems. And their own fighting quality is also extremely superb, and the soldiers of the Youle clan wanted to fight back, but they were also quickly killed by them!
Such an incoming army is like a wolf hiding in the dark. Attacking the Le clan soldiers again and again, slowly tearing this group apart, and plunging the entire army into fear! Even an army commander like Yueqing began to feel terrified of an army, let alone other ordinary soldiers!
Yueqing couldn't find out the number of soldiers in this team, and he didn't know what kind of army it was, and why it had such a strong combat effectiveness?
He could only ask the Le clan soldiers who were following him to stop attacking the camp gate, let all the soldiers surround themselves and start to guard them tightly. As a result, the Le clan soldiers launched an attack at night, and the plan of intending to completely eat the entire Crane Control Army was bankrupt under the containment of the Crane Control Army's reinforcements!
And the one who attacked Le's army was actually not the main force of the Taoqiu army, in fact, it was still the Crane Control Army! This army was the one who personally broke through the more than 5,000 Le's army that came to provoke during the day, and the first division of the Crane Control Army that completely ate the main force of the opponent's melee combat!
Such an army is different from the other armies of the Crane Army, which are mostly composed of new soldiers. It itself is Taoqiu's standing army, and the training intensity of these standing armies is very high in peacetime, so Dai Yan naturally will not embarrass them on the issue of eating. Taoqiu's overseas fleet will bring back whales and all kinds of seafood from time to time, plus Taoqiu has a Fuli grassland to develop animal husbandry, so naturally there is no shortage of meat. There are very few people in the standing army who have night blindness, and with their own strong qualities, night combat is one of the best ways to fight!
After this army ate the soldiers of the Le clan during the day, it quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and after a short rest to clear the tiredness of the soldiers, the division commander Shan Kang immediately led the entire army to follow the main force of the Crane Control Army!
At night, when they were finally about to catch up with the large army, Shan Kang immediately saw the abnormality from the fluttering flames in the Gonghe military camp. He cautiously touched it, only to find that the main force of the army had been completely surrounded by Le's army and began to attack. He immediately dispersed his army, divided each army into brigades, and went to the camp to attack the enemy in all directions, so as to contain the other party!
In Shan Kang's view, if the other side has concentrated more than 10,000 soldiers to participate in the battle in just one aspect, then the total strength of the other side should be quite strong. With such a small number of troops, if you really fight head-on, no matter how strong your combat strength is, in the face of the huge number of people on the other side, I am afraid that you will definitely lose!
Therefore, he sent out the brigades, and the only thing he could do was to launch a sneak attack on the other party in secret and contain the opponent, so as to share the pressure on the crane army and his commander! However, he didn't expect that the first division did too well, just as soon as he attacked, he completely frightened the opponent, and stopped his movements to defend!
This made Shan Kang overjoyed, and he soon got in touch with his own Shangguan Xiao Xiang in the camp gate. Xiao Xiang was also a little surprised when he saw the other party's army of tens of thousands of people, and he was actually frightened by the 2,500 people of the first division. However, he didn't have time to be surprised, so he immediately gave Shan Kang a closer task: immediately send someone to Taoqiu, let the lord mobilize a large army to come, and fight a big war of annihilation here!
For Xiao Xiang, didn't the other party provoke Tao Qiu through bait, lure himself out, and intend to dispatch an army of absolute superiority to surround himself and eat himself? Then follow the other party's intentions and let Leshi surround him! When the other party surrounds himself, his own reinforcements also arrive, and then he can form a counter-encirclement of the other party and eat the other party's people here!
At the same time, Xiao Xiang knew very well that once the dawn came, the Le clan soldiers on the opposite side saw that the reinforcements that scared them last night were so scarce, then they would inevitably launch a more fierce attack on the entire Crane Control Army, intending to quickly eat the entire Crane Control Army! In this way, he must immediately strengthen the defense of the camp in order to deal with the next swift attack of the other party!
His order was immediately carried out, and although it took him about a day to chase him here during the day, it was still very close to Taoqiu, but it was only a few tens of miles. A cavalryman who acted as a messenger spared no horsepower, and the news was transmitted back to Taoqiu in half an hour!
Dai Yan, who was in Taoqiu, was very happy after knowing that Xiao Xiang had completely repelled the Suiyang army that had come to provoke and sent a large army to pursue him. Such a smooth start made him extremely excited, and he began to gather the counselors together again to analyze the next actions of the Taoqiu army!
The counselors were also very pleased with such a smooth start. Some people, there were immediately bold people who suggested: The lord should immediately send a large army to escort it, and the whole army should attack and follow the control crane army, directly attack the territory of the Le family, and after laying down the territory of the Le family, directly point the sword at Suiyang, and push all the way to end the civil war!
Some counselors were cautious and conservative about the defeat and retreat of the Suiyang army. It is believed that the Taoqiu army should immediately wait and see what the other party will do next, and respond with static braking!
Before the two sides could reach an agreement and reach a compromise, the envoy of the Crane Army had already returned to Taoqiu and reported the current situation of the battle.
The counselors present only judged the intentions of the Le's army after a little analysis! I didn't expect them to come to the vicinity of Taoqiu to provoke before, and they still hid such a deep move! If the Crane Control Army is not outside, and with its excellent night combat ability, they are scared, I am afraid that the Crane Control Army will also fall into an extremely disadvantageous situation now!
Now that the main force of the Crane Control Army has fallen into a dead place, he just wants to use himself as a bait to drag the Le army and create a fighter for the Taoqiu Army!
Now that such a good fighter is now, Dai Yan naturally will not miss it. After discussing with the counselors, everyone also thought that this was an excellent opportunity, and they should immediately send troops to advance and form a counter-encirclement of the Le clan soldiers!
Therefore, Dai Yan didn't care that it was night, and immediately summoned all the generals who had finished the nightlife of Taoqiu and were about to sleep, and issued an order: except for the Weisheng Army and the Barbarian Bear Army who stayed in Taoqiu, all the other troops should immediately get ready, and everyone must march quickly at night and rush to the location of the Konghe Army camp as soon as possible!
The generals were amazed at the lord's plan to march at night. But they didn't dare to oppose at all, so everyone rushed back to the barracks, gathered their subordinates, and then gathered the soldiers, and prepared to go!
Under Dai Yan's severe oppression, the execution of the entire Taoqiu army was extremely efficient, and in just half an hour, all the soldiers who were about to set off had already assembled outside Taoqiu City, and they headed towards the south at night under Dai Yan's personal leadership!