425 mourning soldiers to death
The next day, early in the morning, Su You went out of the north gate of Lincang City under the guard of more than 100 soldiers, arrived at the camp of Fu Guozhao, paraded the troops, and swore to defeat Duan Ruqi.
Subsequently, the three thousand pioneers of the commander of the country Zhao set off first and passed through the city.
Su You sat in the Chinese army, and divided the 10,000 soldiers of Xijiao into ten thousand-man teams, and after getting all the soldiers of Guozhao out of the Burmese Ning Pass, he ordered to set off.
10,000 soldiers were killed, and two cavalry corps, and the rest were all infantry.
After the cavalry team left the city, it was followed by four hundred elephant soldiers and an artillery battalion, followed by Su You's infantry led by Xi Jiao to suppress the formation, and Li Mi's logistics troops fell to the end.
Su You had only left Lincang City for less than an hour, and the good news came from the previous convenience that Jian Guozhao had quickly won the first level.
Su You didn't feel any surprise at this, in fact, the four checkpoints between Lincang City and Funing City had long been useless, especially after Su You withdrew the soldiers guarding the pass back to Lincang City, the functions of these four checkpoints were more like sentry towers.
A few days ago, after Su You learned the news that Duan Ruqi was going to attack Lincang City from the scout in front of him, he withdrew all the guards of the four checkpoints.
When Duan Ruqi won these checkpoints a few days ago, he was as powerful as Jian Guozhao, and he did it effortlessly.
These four levels were originally a buffer for Xijiao and the Duan clan, but now they are useless. - After Duan Ruqi retreated the day before yesterday, he didn't send many people to guard these checkpoints.
When the first level was breached, Duan Ruqi's sentry left here was extinguished before they even had time to light the beacon fire.
Two hours later, the second level collapsed under the impact of the Emperor Guozhao, and just as he rushed to the third level, a beacon fire finally ignited there.
In the end, Jian Guozhao saw that the beacon fire was raging, and the door was wide open, and there was not even a single person in this level.
Although Su You had already seen the sudden flames, although he scolded Guo Zhao in his heart, "I don't do things well", he still ordered, "General Ji is stationed at Sanshan Pass." ”
After receiving the order, Jian Guozhao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
According to the original plan, Fu Guozhao's task today is to take the four gates between Lincang City and Funing City, which was not too difficult, but the difficult thing is that Fu Guozhao did not dare to bear the Duan Ruqi troops that he would face after taking the fourth gate.
The vanguard army of Fu Guozhao was only 3,000 people, and it ran for a day, but Duan Ruqi and Pu Bu had 50,000 people; What's more, beyond the fourth gate, there is an open field.
When the time comes, regardless of the time of day, just the location and people, the country will not occupy the slightest.
Because of this, Jian Guozhao's last steps slowed down, and he accidentally let go of Duan Ruqi's scout.
If you follow the normal script, Jian Guozhao is already camped and buried in a pot to cook at this time, the problem is that their food was eaten up last night; If they want to eat the next meal, they have to look at Wang Bodang's face.
Of course, Jian Guozhao didn't have to worry too much that Duan Ruqi's troops would come here from the fourth pass, because beyond the Sanshan Pass, it was still a narrow area; If Duan Ruqi chooses to fight with Jian Guozhao here, the advantage of being outnumbered and overwhelming will not be reflected at all.
After sending scouts to the north and south, he walked up to the city, surrounded by several guards, and after seeing that there was no movement in the south, he turned back and looked to the north.
From a distance, I saw the two thousand troops of the Chinese army hurrying forward, and behind them were four hundred elephant soldiers, followed by an artillery team more than a mile long.
The artillery configuration consisted of a unit of four horses, two of which were drawn by the guns and the main gunner on wheels, and the remaining two horses each carried a van with one person in each of the carts, and dozens of shells.
"Su You is really imaginative, I originally thought that these cannons could only be fixed on warships or at the head of the city, but I didn't think that if there were enough cannonballs, who would be the opponent of these artillery?"
Ji Guozhao was envious and jealous for a while, and he also made up his mind that when the time came, he must ask Su You to give him dozens of such weapons of mass destruction.
After Su You arrived at Sanshan Pass, Li Mi, who had received the order to be stationed, led the logistics troops to cross the eight infantry teams of the Chinese army and came to the pass first.
Seeing Li Mi's early arrival, Jian Guozhao silently gave thirty-two likes to Su You's improvisation, and took the initiative to find Su You, wanting to ask about camping and burying the pot to cook.
According to the idea of the plan, after the soldiers have finished distributing the food and then burying the pot to make rice, the sun is afraid that it will turn west, so the next problem to consider is obviously to spend the night here.
After listening to Jian Guozhao's question, Su You shook his head, "You want to come and get food?" There's no need for that, just go straight to get the food with your people later, remember to line up as for where to set up camp, this question will be considered when the next door is closed! ”
Jian Guozhao was a little dazed, "Did Su You ask me to get lunch or dinner?" According to the habits of the people of Lincang, this should be lunchtime, the question is, did Li Mi prepare 15,000 soldiers last night for today's food? That's too hard, isn't it? ”
With some doubts, Fu Guozhao moved to the place where Li Mi was stationed.
When Li Mi saw Ji Guozhao, he immediately asked, "I just received an order from the lord, saying that it was to let your pioneer camp eat first, and then send someone to look for you, but I didn't find when you would come to eat?" ”
Jian Guozhao was even more strange, and hurriedly asked, "Is the meal ready?" ”
"No problem." Li Mi nodded, and then walked in with a few Jiao Guozhao.
From a distance, he saw dozens of carriages in a row, and behind each carriage stood people in white coats and hats; These hats were even taller than those of Fu Guozhao, who had known that they were chefs since he had eaten in Lincang City.
After getting closer, he found that the carriages of these carriages were very low, and there were two stoves fixed in each carriage, and steamers and other things were placed on the stoves.
From the blue eyes that rose, it can be concluded that the furnace is burning at this time, a specialty of Lincang City, briquettes.
"The chefs have made thousands of meat buns while waiting for the soldiers to leave, and there is no problem in supplying your vanguard." As Li Mi spoke, he uncovered one of the steamers.
The aroma of the fist-sized meat buns in the steamer suddenly hooked out the gluttonous worms in the stomachs of several entourages around Jian Guozhao.
"Is the army of the Great Sui so strong? How much time can be saved in a war by making food while marching! He had something to say, but he just nodded slightly, and then ordered one of the guards to order all the vanguard troops to line up to receive the meal.
Compared with the breakfast that grass had eaten, the meat bun and egg soup at noon had raised the morale of the three thousand vanguard troops, and as soon as they put down the bowl, they screamed that they were going to take the fourth gate.
At this time, he also forgot about the danger he might face, gathered the team in advance, and after boosting the morale that did not need to be boosted, he rushed to the next gate.
When the beacon fire ignited at Sanshan Pass, Duan Ruqi didn't realize that the soldiers who came to knock on the pass turned out to be Gu Guozhao's people, not Su You's soldiers.
Regarding the surrender of nearly 20,000 people to Su You's more than 2,000 people, Duan Ruqi didn't dare to imagine it anyway.
When he saw the beacon fire burning, Duan Ruqi still felt that the sentry soldiers were making a fuss.
As for Su You's possibility of attacking Funing City, this had long been expected by Duan Ruqi, he had long known that there would inevitably be a battle between him and Su You, but he never thought that this day would come so suddenly.
Duan Ruqi had already formulated a way to deal with Su You, that is, to use the tactics of deception and surrender, slowly lead Su You's army to his hinterland, and then take the opportunity to send a cavalry to attack Lincang City
Not to mention whether Duan Ruqi's strategy has practical value, at least now he miscalculated the flag.
When Duan Ruqi learned that the troops who won the three checkpoints in one go were the army of Jian Guozhao, he couldn't help but feel envious and hateful, the equipment of these soldiers of Jian Guozhao is really too rebellious!
Despite this, Duan Ruqi was still not afraid of difficulties and dangers, and immediately gathered the team and killed the last Guancheng.
When the sun set the last rays of afterglow, when the 30,000 army led by Duan Ruqi arrived at the destination, it was still a step late for Guo Zhao because of various factors such as misjudgment and natural distance.
Seeing the soldiers around Showa from afar standing at the head of the city like gods, Duan Ruqi decisively ordered, "Set up camp first, and launch a general attack on the checkpoint tomorrow!" ”
With the open terrain, Duan Ruqi believed that it would not be difficult for his 30,000 soldiers to win the level and kill Guozhao.
Then, Su You's Chinese troops arrived one after another and began to set up camp.
After dinner, Duan Ruqi made all the plans for the sneak attack of the troops of Jian Guozhao, but unfortunately it was so quiet that people couldn't sleep this night.
Su You also had plans to sneak attack out of the city, but the city head of this small level was too unsound; Not to mention that the artillery can't be transported, even if it is, the broken bricks at the head of the city can't withstand the recoil of the artillery.
Moreover, even if Su You could find a place to set up artillery, the terrain outside was still too open; Unless the cannonball kills people directly, it takes too much luck to blow people up.
In other words, at this time, artillery really can't play its proper combat effectiveness.
And the first rays of the morning gradually hit the misty sky.
Duan Ruqi officially swore to the sleepy-eyed soldiers, "Kill the city and destroy this dynasty!" ”
The soldiers don't understand too many Chinese allusions, but they still have a deep understanding of "extinguishing this dynasty food"; When they heard Duan Ruqi say such things again, after a short silence, they finally burst out with an incomparable murderous aura.
A whimpering song sounded from Duan Ruqi's camp, this kind of singing was like Chu Ge, which was unique to the Duan clan.
This song is sung repeatedly in a tone like ashes, and each time it is sung, the more people are harmonized.
Gradually, the 30,000 soldiers of the Duan clan, including the Duan Ruqi brothers, were all singing in a low voice, singing in a trance and being intoxicated.