Chapter Seventy-Four: Burning the Company Camp

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The peaks are stacked, the mountains and forests are dense, stepping into the boundary of the pavilion, Wei Yan did not dare to be careless, but this natural environment is not conducive to the army, looking at twenty miles away, is the military camp built by the mountains in Jiangdong, Wei Yan saw that it was too late, and ordered to camp on the spot. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info// updated quickly //i

Because the Taiping Army is 700 miles away, Wei Yan, as the vanguard force, does not know anything about the rear at all, and the scouts of the Jiangdong Army's ground forces can't see the reason from a distance, but to understand the Taiping Army's barracks from both ends all the way, the round-trip time will be very long, from the beginning, Guo Jia wants this time difference.

The warships of the Taiping army on the Yangtze River sailed to the mouth of the gorge at the boundary of Yiling, which would definitely alarm Jiangdong, but before that, Wei Yan's vanguard troops would induce Jiangdong to launch a decisive battle, and the time calculation would be meticulous to this point, thanks to the joint planning of Pang Tong, Jia Xu, Fa Zheng, Xu Shu, Xi Zhicai, and Qin Mi.

The sky was dark, in the Jiangdong army camp, the whole army was on standby, Zhou Yu as the commander listened to the report, the scout came to report, Wei Yan led the army to camp in the village, and the camp was built with local materials, using trees in the mountains and forests, instead of using soil and stones, which was simply self-defeating.

In the handsome tent, all the generals were in high spirits, waiting for Zhou Yu's order, and they were like beasts out of the cage to devour the Taiping army.

Zhou Yu arranged the troops, calmly, and then drew his sword out of the sheath and encouraged the soldiers: "The generals will listen to the order, this battle, to kill the Taiping army!" ”

The generals clenched their fists and took orders, turned around and rushed out.

Lü Meng and Lu Fan led 10,000 troops, Ding Fengling led 10,000 troops, 20,000 soldiers and horses set off from both wings with fire oil and archers, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, and Han Dang, three veterans, led 50,000 troops from the front, and Zhou Yu led the last 30,000 Jiangdong Army as backup to adapt to the situation.

In the quiet night, only the sound of swaying branches in the forest crossed his ears, Wei Yan was thinking about what to do next in the tent, and there was no doubt that he would enter a tragic battle, but he had a hunch that the new army that Guo Jia asked him to train was actually a bait, but he didn't know exactly how to lure the enemy.

Just as he was pondering, someone came in, it was Meng Shu.

"What are you doing here?"

Wei Yan didn't understand how Meng Shu, who was supposed to be stationed in Hanzhong to guard Dingjun Mountain, appeared here, and Meng Shu didn't explain to him, and threw a piece of white silk in front of Wei Yan.

Immediately out of the account, Wei Yan called all the captains appointed by his subordinates to his eyes and gave them an order: the whole army will raid the Jiangdong Army overnight!

These newly promoted captains immediately turned around and set off with the whole army, while Wei Yan turned around and returned to the big tent, and fled at night under the cover of a hundred Wudang Fei troops led by Meng Xu.

Just as the vanguard battalion of the Taiping Army was hurriedly preparing to go to battle, countless sparks suddenly crossed the sky, from far to near, flashing parabolas in the dark sky and falling like rain.

Rocket!

The camp suddenly caught fire everywhere, and the Taiping army was in a mess, but because of the military order in advance, in a hurry, the whole army was dispatched and rushed straight to the front.

Lü Meng, Lü Fan, Ding Fengling, and the archers used rockets to fire the Taiping army's camp from both wings, and then set fire to the trees in the mountains and forests.

The dense little flames connected after a short time, and the sparks instantly soared into the sky.

Thick smoke billowed and flames raged, and the burned trees in the mountains and forests fell with the flames, and the vanguard of the Taiping army was completely plunged into a sea of fire.

The four generals of Lü Meng and Lu Fan and Ding Feng and Ling led the army like two poisonous snakes in the dark night from both wings, and the mountains and forests behind them were ignited, and they continued to the west, all the way to the west, all the nearby mountains and forests were set on fire, and it was essential that the barracks of the Taiping Army were also burned.

Behind them, Huang Gai Cheng Puhan and the three veterans led the army to be invincible, running all the way and defeating the enemy head-on.

The fire alone will not burn the enemy army, the fire will make the enemy army chaotic, unable to gather combat strength, and let the prepared Jiangdong army easily break it.

The task of Lü Meng and Ling Tong was very simple, ignite the mountains and forests on both sides, cut off the retreat of the Taiping army, and at the same time pass by the Taiping army camp and use fire to create chaos like the opponent's military camp, and the remaining task of killing the enemy was handed over to Huang Gai's main force.

They attacked from afar, and when they saw the enemy patrolling outside the Taiping army camp from a distance, they did not think much about it, but set rockets to attack it, and the military camp was set on fire, so they immediately advanced without stopping.

Huang Gai, Han Dang, Cheng Pu three veterans led the army to kill the enemy, brave and fearless, the vanguard of 20,000 Taiping troops has all become their swords, continue to move forward, Jiangdong wants to annihilate 200,000 Taiping troops in one go, but after coming to the Taiping army camp a hundred miles away, Huang Gai, who is still charging ahead, led the army into the enemy camp, but he was shocked physically and mentally.

In the barracks, there were raging fires everywhere, but Huang Gai couldn't see many enemy troops, or this did not match the intelligence of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.

The tent was already on fire, and there could not have been any enemy troops in it still waiting to be burned.

However, there were only a few hundred Taiping troops fighting with the Jiangdong Army with weapons in the camp, and at a glance, they were like a little ant, vulnerable to attack.

"Where have the enemy gone?"

Cheng Pu frowned and asked, and Han Dang, who was panting, was confused.

Huang Gai looked at the mountains and forests on both sides, there was also a scene of fire covering the sky, the Taiping army wanted to withdraw, it was impossible to withdraw so quickly, to escape, it was impossible to jump into the sea of fire, listen attentively, there was no movement of soldiers and horses in the distance, only unique, only the crackling sound of the fire burning.

Shocked, Huang Gai blurted out: "Oops, it's a trick!" ”

What kind of plan did he fall into, or where did the Taiping army go, Huang Gai didn't know, but there must be demons when things go wrong, and now this abnormal scene made him have to wave his army back first, for fear of changes in the rear.

Sending people to hurry up and stop Lu Meng and Ling Tong, Huang Gai must make a decision immediately, whether to continue to kill or wave his army back.

When the soldiers and horses sent by Huang Gai caught up with Lu Meng and Ling Tong, the two of them heard what was happening behind them and felt incredible.

In order to seek the truth, Lü Meng and Lü Fan personally led the army to approach when facing the next Taiping army camp.

"Shoot the arrows."

At Lü Meng's order, the rockets pierced the sky and fell into the camp of the Taiping army.

Seeing that there was a commotion in the military camp in front, there was not much noise, and then some Taiping troops rushed out of the military camp and killed Lu Meng's side.

With a wave of his hand, Lü Meng ordered the soldiers to rush and kill, and in just a moment, hundreds of Taiping troops were killed on the spot, and then, Lü Meng saw that the enemy camp was in flames, and there was no other movement.

Empty camp!

"Withdraw quickly, the Metropolitan Governor is in trouble!"

Lü Meng gritted his teeth, and after getting the confirmation, he immediately led the army to retreat.

And when the fire dragon that stretched for hundreds of miles in Yidao Pavilion was raging, on the Yangtze River on the other side of the Yueshan Forest, the warships of the Taiping Army slowly approached the mouth of the gorge at the boundary of the Pavilion Pavilion.

Guo Jia, who was wearing armor, stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the night of the Yiling fire and the scenery of thick smoke covering the sky like black clouds.

Jia Xu, who was over sixty years old, stayed in the cabin, and Pang Tong, who had been timid since he was a child, still accompanied Guo Jia with wide clothes and wide sleeves, not worried about his life in case of war.

"Shiyuan."

Guo Jia called softly, Pang Tong laughed a few times, moved behind Xiao Ren, and said, "Xiaguan knows, hide, hide." ”

The river in front of us is the mouth of the Yangtze River Gorge at the boundary of the Tingting Territory, where there are warships in Jiangdong and the water village on the shore.

Since the Taiping army abandoned the warships and landed in Zigui, Jiangdong confirmed this news and also abandoned the battlefield on the Yangtze River, because they had few troops and had to concentrate their forces to fight this counterattack.

Guo Jia looked at the defense line of Shuizhai Jiangdong in front of him, and immediately ordered: "Smash all the warships in Jiangdong." ”

There were less than 2,000 people in Jiangdong's water village, and if it weren't for Yiling's sky-covering fire to light up the night, they probably wouldn't have been able to find the Taiping army's dense warships coming.

But even if it did, it was too late.

The warships of the Taiping army rushed straight to the water village, and the roar resounded in the sky.

The sharp cone on the bow of the ship broke through the Jiangdong warship with sailing momentum, and the Taiping army took over the battle, and in less than a moment destroyed all the Jiangdong warships, and then swept away the obstacles and prepared to land.

Guo Jia called Guo Ye in front of him and ordered: "You lead 80,000 soldiers and horses down the river, and within two months, sweep Jiangdong." ”

Guo Ye clenched his fists and took orders, then boarded another warship, and led a team of warships full of Taiping troops through the gorge, riding the wind and waves down the river.

Let Guo Ye take 80,000 soldiers and horses to take Jianye first, and then level the six counties of Jiangdong in one go, Guo Jia only asked Guo Ye to bring Wei Yan and Dian Man and other young generals, after all, all the soldiers and horses in Jiangdong are in Yiling, and Jianye, where Sun Quan is located, is already empty.

The soldiers gradually landed on the shore, and the calm and orderly army was quickly adjusted, and according to Guo Jia's prior arrangement, the various armies rushed away one after another.

Zhou Yu, who was in the Qianting military camp to prevent changes, waited for the information ahead, and the 20,000 enemy vanguard had already made him seem to see victory in sight, but then, a blood-stained soldier rushed into the tent, knelt down on one knee and wailed: "Dadudu, the water village at the mouth of the gorge has been attacked, and the enemy army is coming ashore. ”

Zhou Yu and Lu Xun got up in shock, and Zhou Yu rushed to the soldier in an arrow step, and asked, "Enemy army? How many came? ”

The soldier couldn't tell at all, Zhou Yu didn't care about anything else, and immediately rushed out of the tent and went to the shore with 30,000 soldiers and horses to investigate.

The suspicious Lu Xun led the fast horse and galloped eastward, the galloping Lu Xun gritted his teeth, he already felt that it was not good, if there was an enemy army on the river, then this could be the real killing of the Taiping army.

The battle situation in Yiling has entered a stage of getting out of control, and it is the same whether he is there or not.

But now, if the Yangtze River is lost, then Jiangdong is in danger, and he must go back to warn Sun Quan, and more or less mobilize some defensive forces.

When Zhou Yu led the army to the shore, he was shocked, the shore was brightly lit, the Taiping army was in full array, the torches illuminated the sight, and Zhou Yu had already seen Guo Jia who was riding on a horse looking at him.

"Gong Jin, don't come to harm?"

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