Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Empty City Plan
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It was dawning soon.
But there was fog in the mountains!
The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and the two Tongguan cities are hidden in it, and the peaks of Huashan Mountain are also looming in the fog, which is extremely beautiful.
But the foggy beauty of Huashan is almost ignored by anyone in the neighborhood, especially when who has the heart to enjoy the beautiful scenery!
The rebel Cui Qianyou, who retreated two miles, began to prepare when the sky was just shining, wanting to launch an attack on Hantong Pass before the sun rose and the weather was not very hot, and must make every effort to take Hantong Pass, enter under Suitong Pass, and gather all his forces to launch a continuous attack on Suitong Pass, and strive to take Suitong Pass within one day and open the last gateway to Chang'an.
In the midst of the noise and shouting, Cui Qianyou ordered Li Qian and Cheng Wei, two lieutenant generals, to lead 4,000 men and horses to attack the vanguard, and launched a continuous attack on the south gate and the east gate of Hantong Pass respectively.
On this past night, although Cui Qianyou did not order the sergeants to attack the city overnight, he still sent many sergeants to lurk near the Hantong Pass City to observe the situation on the city. Whether the Tang army has increased its troops and whether it has attacked at night are all situations that Cui Qianyou must grasp.
According to the report of the sergeants lurking around, in the first half of the night, the head of Tongguan City was quite lively, and the patrolling sergeants were continuous, as if reinforcements had arrived, and the guards and sergeants at the head of the city seemed to be denser. In the second half of the night, the sound calmed down a little, and the torches and lanterns were gone, but the city was still full of people, and the number of sergeants increased and decreased, and from time to time arrows were fired to inquire about the situation outside the city.
Based on the report of the latent sergeant, Cui Qianyou believed that the Tang army had sent reinforcements at night, but the number of reinforcements was not clear, and the Tang army did not dare to attack out of the city at night, which can show that the number of reinforcements of the Tang army was not much.
According to yesterday's observations, Cui Qianyou judged that the defenders of Hantong Pass were only more than 2,000 people, and with the reinforcements, it should be less than 4,000.
There were only about 4,000 defenders in the city of Hantong Pass, and Cui Qianyou believed that with the more than 50,000 men and horses of the front army he led, he would definitely be able to capture the dilapidated city by attacking the city in turn with wheel tactics.
Therefore, he ordered Li Qian and Cheng Wei to attack with all their might, no matter what the cost was
Li Qian and Cheng Wei, who were sent to take the lead, were terrified, of course they knew that this task was not easy to complete, maybe they would fill in their own lives, they still vividly remembered the tragic scene during the siege of the city yesterday, and the same tragic situation would be staged in the queue of men and horses they led today. But they did not dare to disobey the order, so they could only take the order and leave.
The Hantong Pass City is still hidden in the fog, and even the sergeants lurking nearby can only see a general outline of the city, but they can't see the defenders on the head of the city. Li Qian and Cheng Wei commanded the men and horses to move cautiously to the city of Hantong Pass, and they also planned to take advantage of the fog before the fog dissipated and the defenders at the head of the city could not see the situation under the city clearly, so as to launch an attack first, and the defenders at the head of the city were caught off guard.
Therefore, the sergeants were repeatedly ordered to be careful and try not to make loud noises, which alarmed the defenders at the head of the city.
The fog started in the early hours of the morning, and at first it was just a light fog, but as dawn came, the fog became thicker. This is a common scene in the area of Huashan in summer, almost every morning there is fog, but the light and thin degree of fog is different, the humidity is heavier, such as the day before the rain, the next day the fog will not be very big. But this is not absolute, just as the fog is much higher today than yesterday morning.
Yesterday morning, before the sun even rose, the thin light mist completely dissipated, and it won't be so easy today.
The two men and horses groped their way forward slowly, and it took nearly half an hour on the mountain road for two or three miles, and finally under the guidance of the lurking sergeant, they sneaked to the foot of the Hantong Pass, and at this time the defenders on the head of the city did not find them, there was no movement, and no arrows were shot down.
Li Qian and Cheng Wei, who were in command of the battle, were overjoyed and immediately ordered the sergeants to speed up their march and set up the ladder on the city wall as soon as possible.
Yesterday there were so many casualties, and not a single sergeant climbed to the top of the city, and not even a few ladders were raised to the top of the city.
Today, I was able to easily dive under the city wall and set up the ladder, and I was really grateful for this fog, which made the Tang army at the head of the city lose their judgment and the ability to react first. A number of ladders were erected, and after an order, the sergeant with the shield climbed first, and the sergeant with the sword behind quickly climbed up in the direction of the city under the cover of the sergeant with the shield.
But just as the ladder was erected, a pile of stones and sassal wood quickly rolled down from several places where the ladder was erected, and smashed on the head of the sergeant who was ascending the city, and the sergeant who was hit in the first step screamed and planted his body, and fell on the sergeant who was climbing behind, causing a chain reaction to occur, and the sergeant on the same ladder fell down in a row, and the screams continued to come.
"The Don Army has attacked!" There were sergeants shouting there.
It's just strange that this time the Tang army attacked with stones and sassags, and did not use arrows, could it be that the arrows in the city were used up yesterday?
I didn't hear the shouts of the Tang army, and not all the ladders were attacked by the Tang army, several ladders did not encounter any attacks, and the rebel sergeants on the ladders successfully climbed to the top of the very dilapidated city.
After the ladders that had been hit by stones or sassalwoods fell, they were helped up by the sergeants who followed, and the other sergeants who followed continued to ascend the city.
The attack on the city soon weakened, until it was gone, much to the surprise of the besieging rebels.
After quickly ascending to the top of the city, the rebel sergeant immediately shouted and slashed at the Tang sergeant who was holding a knife at the head of the city, but after the knife slashed at the Tang sergeant, the situation surprised them even more.
The sergeants of the defending army at the head of the city turned out to be wooden or straw men, but they were just wearing the armor of the Tang army.
Did the Tang army abandon the city and flee? This is a question that any rebel sergeant who charges the head of the city is on his toes.
It's just that the city is still foggy and confused, and the rebels who rushed to the city can't see the situation clearly.
The rebels, who could not see the situation clearly, rushed and collided there, and even fought each other in a hurry, and were accidentally killed and injured.
"The Tang army abandoned the city and fled!" Finally someone shouted out the inference, and then more people accepted the idea and shouted loudly.
"Rush down there and open the gates!"
I don't know who gave the order loudly.
"Yes!" His own sergeant answered the order loudly and quickly rushed down the city.
But immediately there was a scream!
It came from the mouth of the sergeant who wanted to rush down the stairs.
In the foggy weather, it was not clear to see the specific situation, and in a hurry, those sergeants who rushed to the top of the city, full of excitement, subconsciously rushed down along the slope of the stairs, but they did not expect that no matter which stairs or horse roads went down to the city, they were broken or poured oil, and the unprepared sergeants rushed to fall down in this way, and rolled directly to the bottom of the city several feet high, and many people died.