Chapter 138: The Decisive Battle of the Tiger Prison Pass (11)

Perhaps Sima Shu's prayer was really heard by the Great Heavenly Venerable, and three days later, a cold hurricane suddenly blew in the sky. The heavens and the earth changed color, the clouds rolled, and instantly became dim, and the goose feathers and snow were raised and covered the heavens and the earth. Everyone was surprised by this sudden late winter snowfall.

It was about to enter spring, but after a heavy snowfall, the climate was like the middle of winter, the cold wind was howling, the sky and the earth were white, and even the two sides that were fighting in the tiger prison had to stop fighting and collect their troops and go back to their camps.

Within a few hours, the inside and outside of the Tiger Prison Pass were already boundless and white with snow.

After a night of north winds, Sima Shu got up to watch and found that some of the remnants of snow had frozen into solid ice. He knew that with the protection of this layer of ice, the Tiger Prison Pass would be even more difficult to break through than a few days ago. And the time is ripe for the army to attack, and I can't help but let out a long howl.

The rebel camp under the Tiger Prison is no longer as lively as before, and the huge barracks seems to have become an eerie dead city, silent. A personal soldier stepped forward to ask for instructions on the siege plan, and the king of the East China Sea shook his head with a gloomy face, and said: "The weather is very cold, the ice is thick and the weather is cold, and the road is difficult. ”

The defenders in the Tiger Prison Pass were overjoyed, especially Zu Yue breathed a sigh of relief, the tense situation a few days ago made him a little restless, and now he could finally put his mind at ease.

God may really be on Sima Shu's side this time, and the goose feathers and heavy snow have drifted for a whole day. By evening, the sky was still overcast and showed no signs of clearing. Huge clouds pressed the sky low, like a broken wall about to collapse.

The lonely graves and dead trees in the wilderness are particularly eye-catching, and gusts of cold wind sweep in. Pulled out a handful of frozen grass and threw it mercilessly into the air. The branches of the cypress trees creaked with the wind. Dancing wildly, the sky and the earth seem even darker.

Day 3. The goose feather snow is still tight, even if it is a short pause, it is just the passage of a new round of snow. In short, flying snowflakes covered the sky and the earth, and the whole field was lost.

After three days and nights, a thick snow of more than one meter deep accumulated outside the Tiger Prison Pass. It also made Sima Shu and others look forward to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and when the snow was still flying, Sima Shu gathered all the generals and began to deploy the attack plan.

Sima Shu looked at the generals around him and said loudly: "The time is ripe for you to send troops. Once the snow melts, we will strike a fatal blow at the rebels, and we hope that everyone will work together to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop! ”

"No!"

"Your Highness is willing to take the lead!"

"Xuan Xiu is not in a hurry, before the attack, in order to enhance the suddenness of the battle, why don't we come to a hidden truth and show the false, let the soldiers all change into ordinary people's clothes and dress up as ordinary people. went to charge in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, making Sima Yue and other traitors mistakenly think that these thousands of reinforcements were just a rabble. But we hid the elite in the middle, and then suddenly came out of the cover, and killed him by surprise! ”

Leet was justified when he heard it. Nodding in goodness, "Your Highness is high, and we can also wear the rebels' uniforms inside." Cover the clothes of the people. When we suddenly took off our coats before rushing into the enemy line, the rebels could not distinguish between friend and foe. The enemy line must be in chaos! ”

"Good! That's a good idea! ”

Sima Shu was very happy that Li Teh could perfect his strategy, as the saying goes, one person counts short, and everyone counts long. With everyone's shortcomings, the surprise attack plan was quickly decided. As for the rebel clothes, Sima Shu had already prepared them and was waiting to play a role.

Soon everyone changed into the prepared clothes, and Sima Shu inspected the camp, and it turned out that the battalion was full of soldiers, wearing strange clothes, as if they had become a group of ordinary people. Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

A snowflake fell down Sima Shu's collar, and he himself was trembled by the cold feeling, so he quickly shook the snowflakes on his body and wrapped his clothes tightly. Li Te, who was beside him, looked up at the fluttering blizzard, "I don't know what happened to the Tiger Prison, and I don't know if I can hold out until we attack the rebels?" ”

"Don't worry, the ancestral agreement will not let us down!"

There was hardly a single figure on the field, and Sima Shu suddenly realized: "Since it has fallen in the sky, the brigade cannot move forward, and most of the rebels can only retreat into the camp, so it is easier for the spies to approach the enemy camp in concealment." Why don't we take the opportunity to send more scouts to get into the rebel camp? ”

It turned out that in order to prevent being detected by the rebels, Sima Shu and others did not dare to send people to the rebel camp to investigate, but just watched from afar. And today, Sima Shu sent out to the scouts really got a lot of information, especially after a few days of heavy snowfall, coupled with the previous series of bloody battles, the army was exhausted, so the rebels' vigilance has been relaxed a lot.

Even the wooden walls of the camp were demolished for firewood, and Sima Shu and them could launch a surprise attack on the camp from any angle, and the best direction was to the north, because the Yellow River north of the Tiger Prison Pass had been frozen, and the rebel center could be smashed directly from the river. These news made Sima Shu excited, and he felt that the fighter plane had quietly arrived.

Sima Shu secretly consulted with Li Teh and others, prepared more than 3,000 elite soldiers, and decided that once the ice and snow melted and the rebel camp was in a muddy area and it was difficult to move, he would take advantage of the cover of night to take the opportunity to change the river and break into the rebel camp from the water in the early morning.

In fact, from the very beginning, Sima Shu understood that although the rebel army was numerous, it was not a formidable enemy. Moreover, these teams are disorganized, poorly directed, paralyzed with pride, and only think about the siege of the city, with few decent defenses. More than 100,000 troops are camped for dozens of miles, and there are gaps everywhere to drill.

The more Sima Shu thought about it, the more confident he became, and his original sense of fear was swept away. As long as the center of the rebels is disrupted, coupled with the sudden attack on the Tiger Pass, the rebel army will definitely collapse, and even the Xianbei cavalry may not be able to save the end of the army's rout.

In the Tiger Prison Pass, Zu Yue and others stood at the head of the city together with the generals defending the city. Zu Yue stared at the Songshan Mountain Range in the south, and said to Fu Hong and the others: "I don't know what happened to the prince, alas! It has been snowing heavily in the past few days, and the prince and they have no supplies, so they don't know how to spend it! ”

"Don't worry, Lord Lieutenant, the prince and they left with enough supplies, and there will be no shortage for a while. And they are in the Songshan Mountains, so they can hunt and survive if they can't do it. The only thing that worries His Highness is when they will attack! Li Xiong smiled slightly.

"Do you think the prince will attack on a snowy day?"

"Probably not! Don't forget, everyone. Xianbei Tieqi came from Liaodong, where the climate was much colder than the Central Plains. This kind of weather is more conducive to the performance of the Xianbei cavalry. With the wisdom of the crown prince, he will never attack again at this time. The prince may wait until the snow melts before acting! ”

"Until that time. The muddy land will greatly limit the mobility of the Xianbei cavalry, and without the mobility of the Xianbei cavalry, there is nothing to worry about. The combat effectiveness of the Xianbei cavalry has been weakened, and the prince's attack can have the greatest effect! ”

After three consecutive days of heavy snowfall, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the East China Sea King's camp suffered countless frostbites. Unexpectedly, the weather took a sharp turn then, the sun was like fire, the ice and snow melted rapidly, the weather changed suddenly, and countless soldiers fell ill.

The king of the East China Sea led 150,000 troops, and the company camped for nearly dozens of miles. The camp was set up on the high ground by the river, facing the wide river. In particular, the headquarters of the East Sea King is stationed on higher ground. This was done just in case, after all, this place is close to the Yellow River, and if the defenders use manpower and cause floods, I am afraid that his tens of thousands of troops will not be protected.

In ancient times, people feared the flood like a beast, and thousands of troops and horses faced the flood like withered grass and fallen leaves, and sooner or later they had to be swept away by the flood without a trace.

Zu Yue, supported by the guards, stood on the tower of the Tiger Prison Pass.

Ever since the heavy snow stopped. The enemy's offensive was becoming more and more fierce, and the defenders were gradually unable to resist. He was anxious and anxious for reinforcements. It has been more than ten days since the prince left with the army, and the prince has not been seen yet.

Zuyo looked at the fewer and fewer defenders on the city wall, and his heart sank. From the morning onwards, the eastern wall became the focus of enemy attacks. The rebel soldiers did not care about the heavy casualties. Under the strict orders of the King of the East Sea, he attacked tenaciously and stubbornly.

Again and again, they organized assault detachments of 100 men, tirelessly attacking in turn, using all means to climb the city walls and fight to the death with the defenders.

The rebels traded a few lives for the life of a soldier on the defender. Dealt a heavy blow to the defenders. There were several dangerous situations on the east city wall, but fortunately, under the command of Li Xiong and others. barely managed to keep the situation alive.

The soldiers on both sides opened their blood-red eyes, slashed axes, chopped spears, picked spears, and stabbed at all costs, even biting their mouths and pinching their hands, anyway, they used all the means that could make each other die.

Again and again, the defenders' reserves plugged bullet holes and pulled nails. Wherever there was danger, they rushed to it, and they engaged in brutal hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the battle on the walls was unprecedentedly fierce.

In the afternoon, the Xianbei people suddenly joined the attack. Under the low and loud sound of the bull's horn, the Xianbei people began to speed past the soldiers who had retreated from under the city and re-slaughtered the city walls. Under the leadership of the Xianbei people, the rebels launched an even more fierce attack. The city walls were densely packed with corpses, blood overflowed, and the strong smell of blood floated in the air and filled the sky over the entire Tiger Prison.

Seeing the heavy losses of the soldiers and horses in his headquarters, the King of the East Sea was naturally anxious. At this time, he suddenly received an urgent report from the soldiers, saying that a group of troops had appeared on the water north of the camp. Sima Yue was taken aback, he didn't expect that at this time, reinforcements would dare to fly over the defense line, swim across the river, and attack directly at the Chinese army camp!

Sima Yue forced his composure and asked, "How many reinforcements are there?" ”

The soldier said: "There don't seem to be many reinforcements and horses, there are only more than 100 boats on the waterway, and there is a group of people who look like people standing on the bow of the boats!" They were armed with shovels, hoes, sticks, sticks, etc., and some of them were carrying knives in their hands, and there were about thousands of them! ”

When Sima Yue heard this, he calmed down and wondered, "Is this a war?" Isn't it working in the fields? Could it be that the prince is really at the end of the mountain, and he actually cobbled together these mountain village wild men to send them to death? …… Or is there some trickery involved? ”

Sima Shu hesitated for a moment, but then thought about it, since he was coming at the big tent of our Chinese army, how could he not fight back! Besides, no matter what, the Han army only has a few thousand people, even if all the battalions are not moving, 10,000 elite soldiers in their own battalion are enough to fight!

Sima Yue thought about it and ordered: "The widow personally leads the troops and horses of the headquarters to meet the enemy, and the other battalions seize the time to continue to attack the city, and the generals strictly control their troops, and they are not allowed to withdraw their troops without orders!" ”

After speaking, Sima Yue personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to meet the enemy! (To be continued......)