Chapter 20: Sneak Attack on Yang'an Pass (4)
It was night, under the towering wall in the north of Yang'an Pass, more than ten black-clothed and black-armored figures suddenly appeared, the first big man was more than eight feet tall, with a leopard head and eyes, and a black beard.
At this time, it was already silent, and there was no other sound on Yang'an, except for the two dead wind lamps on the city tower swaying left and right in the cold wind. Ehu listened for a long time, and after confirming that there was no Wei Jun moving around the close, he immediately took off a hook made of stainless steel from his shoulder, picked it up and turned it for more than ten turns, and then suddenly threw it to the close, and only heard a soft sound of the "bell" above his head in the quiet night, and the hook had already grabbed the arrow buttress at the pass.
This kind of hook is a regular equipment designed by Guan Yi for the blood guard, and it is mainly used to climb the city and climb the house during a sneak attack. Ehu pulled the rope a few times, and after confirming that it was safe, he immediately climbed up. Although he was in a strong physique, he moved with great dexterity on the steep wall, as swift as an ape climbing a tree, and in the blink of an eye he climbed silently to the top of the pass.
Ehu crouched on the edge of the arrow battlement and looked around, confirming that there was no one around, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, Yang'an Pass was the key place for the Wei army to store grain, but he didn't expect the Wei army's defense to be so lax, it seems that he will be able to achieve great success tonight. Thinking in his heart, he let out three owl roars from his mouth to inform the blood guards who were closed. In a moment, a few more hooks were thrown under the gate, and more than a dozen blood guards fished up along the hook ropes, and soon they converged with the tiger at the juncture.
Under the Yang'an Pass, Fu Yan and the others saw that the blood guard easily climbed the five-zhang high wall, and couldn't help but admire it, thinking that if it was his own people, although they could barely climb it, it was definitely not so easy.
Ehu divided more than ten blood guards into two teams, and then pointed to the pier platform under the Dengcheng Road, signaling both sides to outflank and solve the Wei soldiers in the pier platform first. The blood guard received the order, and then quietly approached the pier, and sure enough, he saw a faint light coming from the earthen wall, and there was a faint sound of someone talking.
The dagger leaned up silently, and the light that came out of the crack in the wooden door caught a glimpse of the two Wei soldiers on duty in the pier platform sitting around a pot of fire and whispering about the cold weather.
Ehu once heard Fu Tong say that the sentry force of the pier under the Dengcheng Road is generally two troops during the day and three troops at night, and it seems that the sentry manpower of the Wei army is almost the same as that of the Han army. However, the Wei army's precautions were so careless, it seems that the Wei army should be defeated tonight.
It is no wonder that at this time it is the middle of winter, Yang'an Pass is located in the hinterland of the mountainous area, the wet and cold air is heavier, the Wei army is mostly northerners, and they come to Hanzhong from afar to the mountains and rivers, and it will be naturally difficult to get used to it for a while and a half. What's more, most of the realm of Hanzhong has been occupied by the Wei army, and the remaining passes such as Han, Le and Gold have also been surrounded.
Ehu looked carefully, stretched out his hand and gently pushed the wooden door, and immediately realized that the wooden door was just hidden. Immediately, he no longer hesitated, pushed open the wooden door, and rushed into the pier.
A Wei soldier who was close to the wooden door felt a cold wind blowing in his face, and then his neck stabbed slightly, and before he could react, he was cut in the throat by Ehu's dagger. Another Wei soldier was taken aback, and just stood up, a crossbow arrow flew from the wooden door at the right time, nailed to his neck accurately, blocking the warning that he had just reached his mouth, and the poor Wei soldier covered his throat with both hands, stared at his eyes and wanted to scream but couldn't scream, "Hehe" fell to the ground and writhed a few times after two sounds, and gradually stopped moving.
At this moment, more than ten blood guards with daggers in their hands had rushed to the corner of the pier platform like lightning, one of them held down a Wei soldier, and the dagger fell, and more than ten Wei soldiers were confused in their sleep.
Ehu nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his thumb and made a complimenting motion, then turned around and went straight to the closing door, turning the winch and lowering the closing door.
Guan Yi saw that Ehu had succeeded outside the pass, smiled faintly, and then beckoned to order the Blood Guard Brigade to enter the pass, and Fu Yi led his subordinates to stay outside the pass to respond.
Guan Yi has already learned from Fu Yi's mouth that Yang'an Pass is constructed according to the geographical location, north of Yinping Mountain, west of Langshui, only east and south two exits, respectively connecting Shu and Hanzhong, in the past, the Han army's grain and grass military supplies are tuned in the warehouse built by the mountain in the north of the pass, when the Wei army broke the pass, the granary was not destroyed, and the grain and grass of the Wei army must also be stationed here, and the west is the garrison barracks. Therefore, after entering the pass, Zhuge Shang and Chen Lie did not hesitate and led a team of men and horses to the north, while Guan Yi and Ehu led a team of blood guards to the west.
In the middle of the night in the mountains, Guan Yi and his entourage had already approached the Wei army's barracks after avoiding the two teams of patrolling Wei troops. It is said that it is a barracks, but in fact, it is dozens of rows of wooden structure houses built by the Han army, which are specially used for the army. Ehu did not wait for Guan Yi's order, and immediately instructed the blood guards to pile up the firewood and grass prepared in advance in front of and behind the door.
Hundreds of bundles of firewood and grass were piled up in front of and behind dozens of rows of barracks, and then I saw the fire rising from the north, reflecting half of the sky in red, followed by a tsunami-like shouting of killing from the mountains, which shook the valley. Guan Yi knew that Chen Lie and Zhuge Shang's team had succeeded, and immediately ordered the blood guard to ignite firewood and grass. The firewood and grass had been poured with pine oil, and once it encountered an open flame, it immediately burst into flames, and the cold wind in the middle of the night in the mountains blew very urgently, and in a moment it ignited the wooden houses of the barracks.
Guan Yi saw that the fire was raging and the overall situation had been decided, so he immediately ordered the blood guard to return to the pass along the road from which he came. At this time, the Wei soldiers who were sleeping in the barracks had been awakened by the skyrocketing fire, and they didn't have time to put on their clothes and pants, so they ran out of the room with screams, and for a while there was a lot of noise and chaos.
Guan Yi originally hoped that the more chaotic the Wei soldiers were, the better, and it would be more conducive to breaking through in the dark. The purpose of this sneak attack was not to kill the enemy in the first place, so in the process of the evacuation of the blood guards, they just blindly used torches to ignite the board houses and buildings on both sides of the passage in the pass. Along the way, I didn't encounter any decent resistance.
Seeing that it was close to the gate, I saw a team of men and horses in the east rushing quickly with torches, blocking the way of Guan Yi and his party, and a Wei general in his forties pointed to Guan Yi and his party and shouted: "Stop, who is coming, how dare you sneak attack my Yang'an Pass?" Get your name now! ”
"Brothers, kill me ......" time is pressing, a slight delay will be a long night dream, Guan Yi is willing to talk to the other party, and rushed over with a horse chopping knife in the sound of drinking, the personal eighteen cavalry blood guards have always been responsible for Guan Yi's safety, and when Guan Yi drank violently, he was automatically divided into two columns, surrounded him in the middle and rushed to the Wei army, Ehu and a group of blood guards also launched at the same time, like a whirlwind towards the Wei soldiers.
"Kill ......" Seeing that the Han army was attacking, the Wei soldiers were not to be outdone, and burst out loud, waving their halberds and rushing over. In just a moment, the two sides were wrapped together, and suddenly the sky was dark, and the people turned on their backs.
Once hand-to-hand combat, the advantages and disadvantages of the soldiers of the Han and Wei sides were immediately apparent. Although the Wei army is tall, most of Guan Yi's blood guards are selected from the Guan family's martial arts who are not afraid of death for the rest of their lives, after Guan Yi's hard work for several years, the combat effectiveness is far from being comparable to that of ordinary soldiers, and the weapons in the hands of Wei soldiers are mostly spears and halberds, once they are close to the blood guard, they completely lose their original power, but become a fatal burden.
At the beginning of the blood guard's chopping knife, Wei Bing suddenly flew flesh and blood, screaming again and again, and a large piece of hot tea was knocked down.
At this moment, the shouts behind the blood guard shouted, Zhuge Shang and Chen Lie shouted and killed, although Zhuge Shang was on the battlefield for the first time, but there was no stage fright, in the melee, he took the lead, shouting and slashing with knives, and the Wei soldiers were either killed or injured when they bumped into him, and there was no one under him. Chen Lie was not far behind, a long knife flew up and down, whirring, it was really a tiger out of the door, extremely brave.
But it was said that Fu Yi ambushed the soldiers in front of the pass, saw the fire in the pass from afar, and heard people shouting horses neighing, and the sound of fighting shook the sky, knowing that the blood guard had succeeded, and admired Guan Yi in his heart, and secretly thought that in just a few years, Guan Yi had trained such a good team, and tonight's battle seemed to be just a small test of the blood guard's knife. The trilogy is already so good, so what kind of character should the main general be?
While he was thinking wildly, the shouting of killing was already close to closing, and from a distance, the blood guard and the Wei army had already been slaughtered together in the firelight. An adjutant general leaned up and whispered, "General, are we going to go for reinforcements?" ”
Fu Tong pressed the handle of the knife, the deputy general's mind he knew very well, just half a year ago, Yang'an Pass was still his own town guard, but now the master who gave orders in the pass was replaced by the Wei people, although the loss of Yang'an Pass was mainly due to the collusion between the deputy general Jiang Shu and the Wei army, but this is a great shame in his life, this bad breath can not be swallowed anyway, since he was driven out of Yang'an Pass by the Wei army, he and his subordinates were forced to hide in Yinping Mountain, eat and sleep in the open, and suffered a lot, But he never thought of giving up, just looking forward to the day when he could have the opportunity to lead his troops back to Yang'an Pass, and he was ashamed.
At this moment, the door of Yang'an Pass was wide open, although the deputy general was asking for instructions, but the implication was that he hoped that Fu Tong would take them into the pass, as long as Fu Tong gave an order, dozens of subordinates behind him would definitely rush into the pass without hesitation, even if they died on the battlefield, they would never take half a step back.
When there was an earth-shattering shout of killing in the pass, Fu Yan couldn't help but be the first to rush into the pass with a knife. However, in this way, it violated the task assigned to him by Guan Yi, after all, the purpose of tonight's attack was to burn the grain and grass ordnance of the Wei army, not to fight a decisive battle with the Wei army.
"Don't act rashly, everything goes according to plan!"
The deputy general of the "General ......" was obviously a little unwilling and tried to make Fu Yi change his mind.
Fu Yi didn't wait for him to finish, he resolutely raised his hand to stop his unfinished words, and said in a deep voice: "Hugh has to say it again, pass on my orders, let the brothers calm down and stay put." ”
"No!" Fu He has always said the same, and the order is like a mountain, and the deputy general saw that Fu He had made up his mind, although he was still unwilling in his heart, he did not dare to disobey again.
Over there, Guan Yi saw that the two teams had converged, and he was even more bold, and his shots were even more fierce. Wei Bing originally never dreamed that there would be a Han army falling from the sky, but now he sees this group of Han soldiers so fierce and vicious, and I don't know how many people and horses there are in the dark night, after being killed by the blood guards, they are a little frightened, and their morale is suddenly half discharged, and some timid Wei soldiers beat drums in their hearts, turn around and run back, so they are impulsive to their own positions, and many Wei soldiers in the rear team see this, and they also retreat when they are not clear, and their morale is greatly lost for a while, and they can't stop it.
Guan Yi held a sabre in his hand and slashed the Wei soldiers closely, almost one by one, and only heard someone in the Wei army in the Wei army persuade the Wei general who asked the question to avoid the edge of the Han army for the time being, but the Wei general was furious, raised his sword and shouted: "Du pre-ordered the general Zhenxi to urge the grain and grass, how can there be a reason to retreat when encountering the enemy?" Yang'an Pass is a grain land, there is no room for loss, all the armies should work hard to move forward, dare to have those who are cowardly and retreat, and they will not be forgiven! ”
Guan Yi heard that the Wei general called himself Du Yu, and somehow, he thought of a person like lightning in his mind, and rushed towards him with a knife without thinking about it, while shouting: "Brothers, follow me, be sure to kill this general!" ”
Guan Yi gave an order, and Hu and the blood guards didn't have to think about why, they immediately gave up the other Wei soldiers and killed them in the direction of Du Xuan.
But the Wei army stationed in Yang'an Pass was originally the elite soldiers under the account of Zhong Hui, in the early stage of the battle because the enemy situation was unknown, so the army was confused, it was difficult to organize an effective offensive, at this time under the supervision and command of Du Pre, although the situation was at a disadvantage, but it has gradually stabilized, gathered around Du Pre to fight back desperately against the Han army, although the blood guard is super combative, but the Wei army depends on the number of people, under Du Pre's cheer and encouragement, it is a desperate battle and does not retreat, after the fall of a batch, there is another group of men and horses to fill the vacancy, the blood guard is invincible, Seeing that Du Yu was three or five feet away, he couldn't get close.
Chen Lie saw that the blood guard had repelled the interception of the Wei army, and just took advantage of the situation to withdraw from the pass, but he didn't expect Guan Yi to issue such an order, and he didn't know what was special about this Wei general named Du Pre, so that Guan Yi had to get rid of it?
I was puzzled, but I didn't have time to ask more questions during the scuffle. Due to the disparity in the strength of the two sides, the battle situation has gradually become stalemate at this time. During the dogfight, some of the Blood Guards were already injured in the scuffle. Chen Lie knew that if he continued to consume like this, once the Wei army was surrounded from east and west, the blood guard would definitely fall into a desperate situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy.
As the saying goes, two fists are invincible to four hands, although everyone in the blood guard is a hundred people, but after all, there are only five hundred people. When I was thinking about it, I heard the people behind me shouting horses, and the Wei army of the brigade was led by several Wei generals to kill from behind, and a big banner with the word "war" was waving in the wind under the cover of the firelight, and it was clear that the main general of the Wei army stationed in Yang'an Pass, Zhan Qinggang, had arrived.
Chen Lie's heart turned, leaned towards Guan Yi in the chaotic army, and shouted: "General, the Wei soldiers have become surrounded on both sides, the enemy is outnumbered, and it will be too late if you don't evacuate!" ”
Guan Yi had already seen the Wei army that was gradually surrounding, and it was impossible to kill Du Yu at this moment, so he couldn't help but secretly scream in his heart that it was a pity, and turned sideways to avoid a long halberd that pierced the lower abdomen, and went straight up, cutting off half of the head of the sneak attacking Wei soldier with a horizontal knife, and said in a deep voice: "Order, after the Ehu Palace, the rear team will become the front team, withdraw!" ”
Guan Yi has always paid attention to military appearance and military discipline, and after giving the order, the blood guards quickly eliminated the entangled Wei soldiers, and then covered each other to retreat outside the pass. Ehu led a hundred blood guards to cover the rear team, although the Wei army had many troops, but was killed by the blood guards for a while, and the casualties were extremely heavy, at this time, seeing the retreat of the Han army, he didn't dare to get too close, but shouted behind him. It was a momentary delay that the Blood Guard had withdrawn from the gate and melted into the night.