Chapter Eighty-Seven: Li Xian's Tunnel Battle
"Patriarch Qiyu, our army has completely completed the encirclement of the Tang thieves, in addition to this pass, the beggar General Meng Liang also personally led two thousand people to arrange crossbowmen opposite the Baihe Ditch, all the Tang thieves who tried to pass through the Baihe Ditch in vain will be killed by our army's crossbow arrows, hehe, this time unless the Tang thieves move this Erlang Mountain to the level, otherwise it will be difficult to escape from the patriarch's grasp."
In the evening, the captain of the guard beside the beggar Zhongxiang, Wuyan Chamu, reported the news to him, and at the same time quietly patted the beggar Zhongxiang's ass.
The beggar Zhongxiang was really very satisfied with his cronie, and said with a smile: "If I can catch Li Xian this time, I will have the capital to strengthen my Jinya tribes, and at that time, we will exchange food and women from the Southern Dynasty, and we will definitely not be disadvantaged to Yuer." Wu Yan Chamu, Er said that our army suddenly appeared at the pass early tomorrow morning to block the retreat of the Tang thief, how should the Tang thief be flustered at that time? Hehe, the Tang thief has no food or water, and I believe that in a few days, someone will capture Li Xian and come to see me. ”
In fact, it is not to blame that the beggar is full of confidence, because if it is analyzed according to common sense, the final outcome will indeed be like this. However, with Li Xian's wisdom, if he hadn't made a perfect plan in advance, how could he make such a decision that seemed to be self-defeating?
In the Tang Army, Li Xian's army quietly launched an operation under the cover of night, and under the nose of the beggar Zhongxiang army, a load of soil was dug up by the sergeants, and then quietly filled into the nearby river...
"My lord, there are stones ahead, and we can't pass through." A sturdy man came to Li Xian and said with a little shame on his face.
"That's all you have to do, you can get around the boulder and continue to pass." Li Xian gently patted the sergeant's shoulder, and then said with a faint smile.
"No." Although the sergeant didn't know how King Zhou was sure, after such a bypass, the direction of the tunnel was still straight towards the center of the enemy camp, but he still did it, because after all these days, the blind trust in Zhou Wangxian had completely filled his heart, so that he would not have any doubts about it at all.
And Xue Ne and Li Duozuo's trust in Li Xian now is almost the same as that sergeant, because only they understand that only after a patrol when they first came during the day, this King of Zhou was able to accurately judge the direction of the tunnel underground, and avoided obstacles such as rivers and rocks, such a magical judgment ability was definitely inferior to them.
At about the fourth watch, the tunnel has been dug through, and after the local crossing is revealed, Xue Ne and Li Duozuo tried to expose their heads to the ground, but found that it was exactly the same as Li Xian's prediction, and the exit was indeed in the enemy's baggage camp, which was really deeply shocked by Li Xian's amazing judgment, and at this moment they felt that even in this life, they may not be able to achieve such accurate judgment!
In fact, Xue Ne, Li Duozuo and others are either familiar with military books, or extremely experienced in combat, according to the local terrain is not difficult to judge, in the garrison of the Yan Ya army is the only place that is spacious and flat, dry and ventilated, the most suitable for building a baggage camp, and also know that this place is in the general direction of their army, but if they want to dig the tunnel here accurately, it is absolutely difficult for them to do.
But how do these people know? This kind of difficulty is simply easy for Li Xian, in the previous life, in the huge tomb like a hill, the difficulty of accurately finding the coffin of the tomb is not worth mentioning compared to this, Li Xian can even do such things nine times out of ten, let alone such a trivial matter?
"General Li, take your soldiers down to rest first, and then it's up to us to wait." Li Xian saw that the soldiers who were in charge of digging the tunnels were exhausted, and hurriedly ordered Li Duozuo to go down.
But I heard Li Duozuo say: "The king, the last general is not tired, it is better for the king to allow the last general to go with the king to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. ”
In fact, the meaning of Li Duozuo's words Li Xian is also very clear, it is nothing more than that he doesn't want his clan to suffer too many casualties, so he is ready to take this opportunity to surrender to him, and he can surrender as much as he can, and at the same time, he also has the meaning of testing his attitude, for fear that he will doubt his loyalty to Datang and himself.
For such a request, how could Li Xian refuse? I had to agree: "In this case, the general will lead his cronies and soldiers to go with this king, in fact, the general also knows that it is not that this king can't believe the newly surrendered troops, but he can't bear to let them kill each other with his own soldiers and horses, not to mention, the headquarters camp also needs to be guarded, General Zhang will definitely suffer from the desperate counterattack of the Yan army this time, and the pressure will not be small." ”
"The king's good intentions will be clear to the end, and the last will be grateful to the king for his compassion on behalf of these people, but before leaving today, the last general has already explained to them, and they are not confused, and the situation has developed to this day, and the trend of victory and defeat has been clear, and after several days of fighting, they have already been deeply intimidated by the king's bravery, and it is their parents who have come to make them surrender and never dare to surrender. Oh, the king, rest assured. ”
Li Duozuo naturally knew that Li Xian did not doubt his loyalty, but he also needed to show his loyalty for those soldiers of his own clan who had just joined him, and when he saw Li Xian nodding again and again after hearing this, he was slightly relieved.
Of course, Li Duozuo didn't expect to completely put Li Xian at ease with just a few words of his own, although he knew that Li Xian still had a certain amount of vigilance against those soldiers of his own clan who had just been annexed, but he also pretended not to know, after all, this is also human nature, not to mention that he also believed that as long as after this battle, Li Xian would no longer doubt the loyalty of these soldiers after some investigation.
Half an hour later, at the darkest time before dawn, Li Xian led Xue Ne and Li Duozuo and more than 300 soldiers to quietly go out of the tunnel and came to the baggage camp, and then broke out of the baggage camp first and assassinated the nearby sentry posts.
Although he was wearing soft armor, this did not prevent Li Xian's light movements, just a stick of incense, and more than ten sentries around the baggage camp were all killed by him.
After this, Li Xianfang gave the signal, and all 300 soldiers stood out from the baggage camp, and then began to set fires everywhere.
"No, it's not good, it's a fire." The patrol post not far away was sleeping soundly, and was suddenly awakened by a strong light, and when he broke open his sleepy eyes, he found that it was a fire in the baggage camp, and he was immediately shocked and shouted loudly.
The soldiers nearby were awakened by the shouting, and they were all shocked, and hurriedly rushed towards the direction of the fire, although most of the soldiers did not have fire extinguishing tools in their hands, but they could not let the fire swallow up the little food they had worked so hard to accumulate.
Little did they know that death was quietly waiting for them in front of them.
"There is a fire in the baggage camp, and you can't wait to put out the fire, but what are you doing here?" Seeing that about two or three hundred clansmen had gathered near the baggage camp, the commander of the Thousand Commanders, who was in charge of the night vigil in the beggar army, couldn't help but roar angrily.
Because he was in a fit of rage, he swung his horsewhip and whipped it towards a nearby sergeant, but when he saw the sergeant jump and dodge his horsewhip, he stretched out his palm to his arm, and he immediately felt pain in his bones, and involuntarily let go of the horsewhip.
And at this moment, I saw that the man's other hand suddenly reached over and pinched his throat directly, and I didn't see how hard he worked, and he heard a "click" sound, and then felt a sharp pain that hurt his bone marrow.
"Although this person is wearing the clothes of my clan, he is not from my clan, it seems that he is a Tang thief who has mixed in......" Balito no longer realized when he thought of this, and fell to the ground softly.
And at the moment when Balito died, all 300 members of the Tang army went out and immediately slaughtered the enemy troops who came one after another.
Because the enemy army came in a hurry, and even most of the soldiers of the Jing tribe just wanted to extinguish the fire, and did not bring weapons at all, in front of the wolf-like Tang army, they were naturally like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and could only passively accept the judgment of death.
"My lord, the enemy army is gathering more and more, and it is not advisable for us to stay here, but we should go straight to the core and capture and kill the beggar elephant, as for here, it is enough to create chaos with the military horses of the nearby stable." Seeing that more and more people were being killed, Li Duozuo couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, and hurriedly persuaded Li Xian.
Li Xian naturally knew what Li Duozuo was thinking, but he had the same plan, and he could also take the opportunity to sell the other party's favor, so he happily agreed, and immediately led the soldiers to kill directly to the Chinese army tent where the beggar Zhongxiang was, and at the same time ordered a fire to be set near the horse shed.
This fire is like what Li Duozuo said, creating a big enough chaos, because all the war horses scattered and fled, running around in the barracks, and finally the whole barracks was completely chaotic, and many soldiers of the Tatar tribe were lucky to survive in the sea of fire, but unfortunately they were knocked to the ground by the frightened horses, and then trampled by the horses' hooves and injured or even killed.
In such a chaotic state, the beggar Zhongxiang had already been awakened, and when he heard the commotion outside the tent, he knew that there was an accident.
After a while, when the beggar Zhongxiang finally understood what was going on, he still did not understand how the Tang army came to his baggage camp, and he always refused to believe the Tang army's statement that the tunnel was dug, because in his opinion, it was impossible for the Tang army to dig the tunnel here so accurately.
"There are all soldiers on duty around, as long as there is a little mistake, it will be discovered, and Tang Jun is not a god, how can he dig tunnels so accurately? This must be a traitor within our army. The beggar Zhongxiang was a little distracted even from directing the battle, and kept repeating such a sentence in his mouth.
At this moment, he saw the captain of the guard, Wu Yancha, coming over, dragged him out, and shouted loudly: "Patriarch, now that the Tang thief is approaching, our army can't resist, it's better to leave quickly, as for whether there are traitors, it's not too late to track him down afterwards." ”