Chapter 774: Striking the West

Wang Yuan and the others walked through the edge of the woods to the battlefield to the north, and several women chattered excitedly along the way. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Wang Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, other women were scared when they saw a dead person, these women around him were good, they killed people and set fire without blinking, and they almost couldn't even drag it back, which was really speechless.

"It's really enjoyable, it turns out that going to the battlefield to kill the enemy is so enjoyable. I have a sword for these thieves, and they are far less dangerous than Jiro said. No, I'm going to participate next time, and I haven't killed it yet. Li Xin'er's voice came from behind.

"Sister Xin'er, if this is the case, we will also recruit some soldiers and horses, and we can also help fight when we are fighting. When I was in Nanzhao, I had hundreds of guards under my command, and when I was fighting, they all obeyed my command, and my brother couldn't command them. Princess Aluo also coaxed.

"Ah, didn't you become a female general? I'm so envious. Ziyun'er said.

"Why should they be generals, but we can't? Sister Aluo is right, let's also recruit troops, form a soldier and horse to kill the enemy, and the province will follow some people and beg behind. We're all female generals. Anyway, I have been a female emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how can a female general not have it? Li Xin'er shouted.

Wang Yuan was speechless, turned around and teased: "You just set up a women's army, and bring the cook who cooks in the house, the maid who sprinkles the sweeping, and the mother-in-law who plants flowers." Each man was given a sword to go into battle and kill the enemy. ”

"Huh? Good idea, Girl Scout, that's a good idea. Ah Luo, let's set up the Women's Army when we go back. The peasant women in the countryside have great strength, and putting on armor and holding a sword may not be defeated by the men. Erlang is so awake. ”

"Yes, that's it. Building a women's army will surely amaze the people of the world, and it will be exciting to think about it. Ah Luo also said happily.

Wang Yuan was stunned, Gongsun Lan turned his head and said in a low voice: "It's okay now, they will say that they are on your orders, and so are you, why do you want to intervene." ”

Wang Yuan smiled bitterly: "I also owe it." ”

A moment later, Wang Yuan and the others arrived at the battlefield in full swing. It is said that it is in full swing, but in fact, it is just a lively scene. There was no real hand-to-hand combat at all, only two sides firing arrows at each other. The rebels in the battalion did not dare to come out, and the Don army, of course, could not attack it. The real buzz was the fires that burned everywhere, illuminating the whole place in a fiery red, as if it had experienced a catastrophe.

Seeing Wang Yuan coming back, Liu Jun and the others hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Wang Yuan looked at the fire in the camp and nodded: "Good job, continue to pressurize." ”

Zhao Qing said: "The rocket is running out. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Then they will feint and pretend to rush down, in short, they will not be able to live in peace." ”

While talking, Tan Ping pointed to the distance of the camp and shouted, "It seems that reinforcements have arrived." ”

Everyone squinted their eyes and looked into the enemy camp through the firelight, and sure enough, they saw that the long dragon of torches outside Li Xu was moving densely towards this side, and there were really a lot of them, and it seemed that there were reinforcements from the middle camp.

Wang Yuan immediately made a decision, and ordered in a deep voice: "Prepare to evacuate, since you have increased your troops, you are going to attack, let's not give them this opportunity." When they broke out of the camp, we all retreated into the mountains and forests and returned to the city. With such a big movement, I think it should be enough for Liu Dehai to do something. ”

20,000 Chinese cavalry quickly arrived, and Shi Siming ordered to go out of the camp to meet the enemy. The soldiers extinguished several fires, opened several passages, and more than 40,000 soldiers and horses rushed out of the camp and attacked the hillside.

At Wang Yuan's order, all the Tang troops immediately began to evacuate, and after the rebels attacked the hillside, the Tang army had all disappeared into the woodland. Shi Siming stopped the generals who intended to enter the mountains and forests to chase after them, and he knew that it was unwise to enter the mountains and forests. Since the Tang army has run away, it has relieved the worries of the rear camp, but there is no need to entangle with these Tang troops. Besides, when he rushed out of the camp just now, he could see clearly that the Tang army on the hillside was at most four or five thousand people, and there were tens of thousands there. For the sake of these thousands of Tang troops, it is obviously not worth mobilizing the people.

Although there were some losses in the camp, Shi Siming felt that it was acceptable. More than 20 grain stacks were burned. Hundreds of tent barracks were burned, and a lot of other supplies were also lost, and dozens of wooden barracks near the hillside were burned, but these losses were not enough to make Shi Siming feel distressed. The loss of grain and grass was less than 5,000 stones, and Shi Siming brought 100,000 stones of grain with the army, which could be used by his soldiers and horses for 20 days, and the loss of 5,000 stones was not to be worried. Moreover, after taking the state capital of Jiannan, the grain and grass materials can be replenished, but the matter of a few days has nothing to do with the overall situation.

The fire was quickly extinguished, and Shi Siming also planned to go back to the Chinese army to make up for sleep, after all, the city will be attacked tomorrow morning, and he must be energetic to give the soldiers encouragement. Before leaving, he ordered 20,000 reinforcements of soldiers and horses to be stationed in place to prevent the Tang army from making trouble again. After dawn, there is no need for these guys to be a nuisance.

After explaining a few more words to Shi Chaoyi and comforting his unkempt son, Shi Siming was about to return to the camp with his guards. However, suddenly, out of nowhere, there was an earth-shattering explosion, and the sound was like a muffled thunder, which frightened several war horses and jumped up and down. Shi Siming thought that the spring thunder had rolled in the sky, and he hurriedly looked up at the sky, but found that the sky was full of stars and twinkling, and a semicircular moon hung obliquely in the western sky.

"What's going on? Where the sound sounds. Shi Siming asked loudly.

"Boom, boom, boom!" As soon as Shi Siming's words fell, a continuous roar sounded, shaking the ground as if it was trembling. This time, Shi Siming identified the direction, which was the direction of the front camp in the west. The roar was continuous, and seemed to have a faint flash, and it was miles away, and I didn't know what was happening.

"It seems to be the direction of the front battalion. The voice seems to be ...... It seems to be the sound of a thunder bullet. One of the guards shouted.

Shi Siming's body shook, how did he not know the thunder bullets, in the battle of Tongguan, the rebels accidentally captured dozens of Shenwei cannons and thousands of thunder bullets. And these things are all things made by Jiannan Jiedu Wang Yuan, and they are said to be very fierce. When attacking Chang'an, Shi Siming saw with his own eyes the power of the thunder bullet bursting on the city wall, and now after being reminded by the guards, he immediately remembered that this seemed to be the explosion of the thunder bullet.

"Could it be that the Tang army took advantage of the chaos to attack my front camp? Do they have the audacity? Shi Siming frowned and thought. Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and shouted in shock: "It's amazing, rush to the front camp immediately, I'm afraid that we will fall into the way of Wang Yuan." ”

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The rear camp was attacked, and Marshal Shi Siming transferred troops to the rescue, and it is said that tens of thousands of Tang troops were attacking the grain and grass materials of the rear camp. The news spread throughout the rebel camp shortly after the attack on the rear camp. Even if they were not attacked, the generals of the front battalion had to keep their eyes open and strengthen their guard.

The former commander of the battalion was Gao Xiuyan, who was named the general of the Flying Tiger and the envoy of Hedong Jiedu by An Lushan, who was originally the general of the Hedong Jiedu envoy under Wang Zhonghei, and later Hedong was assigned to An Lushan, and An Lushan did everything possible to win over Gao Xiuyan, and Gao Xiuyan fell into the arms of An Lushan. After An Lushan rebelled, Gao Xiuyan became his right-hand man, and he had his share in attacking Taiyuan, Tongguan and Chang'an. This time, he led an army of 50,000 as Shi Siming's vanguard general, and Gao Xiuyan was also ready to make a big contribution.

However, Shi Siming was nepotistic, and yesterday's move of letting his son lead the army to attack Tongzhou at night made Gao Xiuyan very dissatisfied. When Shi Chaoyi returned, Shi Siming's punishment of degrading Shi Chaoyi as the commander of the rear army was also unsatisfactory. If the others were defeated, Shi Siming was afraid that he would have cut off his head a long time ago.

When he learned that the rear camp was attacked again and that tens of thousands of Tang troops attacked the rear camp, Gao Xiuyan was very puzzled. How could Tang Jun be so bold? Tens of thousands of Tang troops were stationed in Tongzhou in front of them, and they dared to send so many troops out of the camp to sneak attack? This Wang Yuan is really unreasonable to fight. But now that the rear battalion has been attacked, the front battalion should no longer be in danger of attacking. The Tang army had no troops to attack the camp before and after, wouldn't it be crazy. However, the whereabouts of the Tang army are haunted, and the three thousand soldiers and horses who are in charge of guarding the night outside the camp are not safe, Gao Xiuyan doesn't want them to be attacked by the Tang army that suddenly appears, that will give Shi Siming a reason to punish himself, he is not his son, and Shi Siming will not spare himself if something happens.

So Gao Xiuyan ordered the 3,000 soldiers and horses outside the camp who were responsible for guarding the siege equipment and monitoring the movements of the Tang army in Tongzhou to withdraw. Let all the soldiers and horses on duty on the periphery of the camp shrink to the left of the camp to defend, and never give the Tang army a chance to sneak attack. At the same time as the order was issued, he also received a military order from Shi Siming, asking the soldiers and horses in the front battalion to shrink and strengthen the vigilance. Gao Xiuyan sneered and thought: Do you still need to say this? I've done this a long time ago.

Under the city of Tongzhou, the retreating figure of 3,000 rebels fell into the eyes of the Tang army scouts. They hid in the bushes after dark, and waited for this moment. When the 3,000 rebels gave up monitoring the gates of Tongzhou and retreated, the news was quickly sent to the city of Tongzhou.

Inside the east gate of Tongzhou, Liu Dehai, who was waiting anxiously, breathed a sigh of relief when he got the news, and finally the marshal said that the rebels would definitely retreat from defense, and this was fulfilled. Liu Dehai immediately gave an order, and after a while, the gate of Tongzhou was opened silently, the suspension bridge was gently lowered, and dozens of cars waiting in the city gate quietly left the city under the moonlight.

They moved very slowly, trying not to make a sound. Two thousand crossbowmen approached the rebel camp in a skirmish formation, monitoring the rebels' movements in case they could give them bows and arrows to stop them if they were spotted by them. All the carts slowly arrived a thousand paces away from the rebel camp and finally stopped.

Liu Dehai ordered in a low voice: "Cast immediately, move quickly, and speak softly." ”

Hundreds of gunners from the artillery battalion who came with the vehicles immediately moved into action, and in order to avoid making a sound, they all took off their boots and stepped barefoot on the ground. In order to mask the sound of assembly, all the parts that need to be rammed are padded with leather, and all the hammers are wrapped with cotton cloth, so that the sound is dull and dull, and the sound is not harsh.

The rebels outside the rebel camp didn't know anything, they didn't know that hundreds of Tang soldiers were busy assembling the Shenwei cannon in the dark thousand-step distance, and they didn't realize that the Tang army was so bold. The noise of the camp, the chatter of the attack on the rear camp obscured their ears, and they turned a deaf ear to some strange noises from the wind, thinking that they were from the camp.

In the process, some people heard the sound of mortise and tenon ramming, but they didn't realize that it was the sound of the Tang army not far away, and their attention was still focused on the battle in the rear camp.

In this way, a thousand steps in front of the rebel camp, under the noses of a large number of rebels, thirty Shenwei cannons were assembled and formed, and soon stood on the ground one by one.

Then, the nightmare begins.