Chapter Forty-Seven: Unexpected Collapse of the Camp
The messenger was taken to the city and handed over the arrow to Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanjun took the arrow and took a look, it turned out to be Luo Yi's golden arrow, Luo Yi has three golden arrows, he once said that he will only use the golden arrow when it is most critical, this matter is only known to a very small number of high-level officials in Youzhou, since Luo Yi began to use it, it means that the situation is really critical.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Back to the general, Dou Jiande's army broke through Zhuo County, but the Sui army stood by and watched, the prince led the army and Dou Jiande's army fought a bloody battle, although the city was recaptured, but the losses were heavy, and now the general is in urgent need of rescue."
Xue Wanjun was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "How is General Xue Wanche's situation?" ”
"Xue Wanche took the lead and led the army to fight a bloody battle with Dou Jiande's army, but unfortunately he was injured by arrows, and he was hit by three arrows and was in danger."
Hearing that his brother was in danger, Xue Wanjun clenched his teeth violently, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he clenched his fists and shouted: "Pass my order, the whole army urgently assembles!" ”
He said to the soldiers around him: "You go and tell Hou Mo Chen Yi, just say that the situation in Zhuo County is critical, and the prince ordered me to go to the rescue quickly, and Youzhou City will be handed over to him." ”
Xue Wanjun didn't have any doubts about Hou Mo Chen Yi, because before he came back from the military capital, Youzhou City was originally guarded by Hou Mo Chen Yi, if Hou Mo Chen Yi had any different intentions, he would have sacrificed the city a long time ago, and he would not wait until now.
'When! While! While! The bell rang at the head of the city, and groups of soldiers came from all directions to gather, Xue Wanjun turned over and got on his horse and shouted, "Go to Zhuoxian!" ”
Xue Wanjun led 10,000 troops to rush out of the city and rushed in the direction of Zhuoxian.
At the head of the city, Hou Mo Chen Yi watched Xue Wanjun go away, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and Dong Xi next to him praised him sincerely: "Big brother is really smart!" ”
Hou Mo Chen Yi smiled, "Know yourself and know your opponent." in order to survive a hundred battles. The strategy is the same, it varies from person to person, and Xue Wanjun doesn't care about Luo Yi's life or death. But he cares about his brother's life or death, not so much that Luo Yi is in danger, but that Xue Wanche was dying of an arrow. Even if he didn't have Jin Ling's arrow, he would still rush away. ”
Speaking of this, Hou Mo Chen Yi immediately ordered: "Close all the city gates, and the army will go up to the city to defend!" ”
He turned to Dong Xi and ordered: "You immediately lead your headquarters back to Beiping County, occupy Lulong City, and prevent the Youzhou army from retreating westward." ”
In a moment, Dong Xi led his three thousand soldiers out of Youzhou City and galloped in the direction of Beiping County, which was empty of defense due to Gao Kaidao's retreat to the north......
Under the cover of night. The Youzhou military camp was quiet, the soldiers had already fallen asleep, and no one was moving outside the camp tent. Exceptionally quiet. There is no camp fence around, and this time Luo Yi is a light soldier. He used 200,000 spears to insert a circle of dense outside the camp, and surrounded the cart in the inner circle, forming a simple defensive array, such a defensive array has a certain effect on the impact of the enemy, but it has no meaning for the inside of the barracks.
When the time came, there were black shadows in the dozens of big tents on the west side of the tent that began to drill out of the tent, the black shadows gradually gathered together, there were thousands of people, they moved very quickly, got into the bottom of the car, climbed into the gun array, one by one the spears were pulled out, and soon formed a passage to escape, a group of people took advantage of the cover of darkness, through the spear array, rushed and fled, although it was an escape, but each was wearing armor, carrying weapons, and even pulling out a few spears to take away, more and more soldiers poured out from the big tent, Flee with the other soldiers.
The general on duty today is called Sun Jian'an, who is also one of Luo Yi's henchmen, and he patrols the barracks with more than 300 soldiers as usual.
At this time, a sentry stumbled and came to report: "General Sun, there is a large-scale escape of soldiers in the western camp. ”
Sun Jian'an was taken aback, turned his horse's head and ran towards the west camp, and rushed to the west camp in a moment, the escape of the west camp has affected hundreds of camp tents, Sun Jian'an galloped all the way, and saw a huge gap in the spear array more than ten zhang wide from a distance, and hundreds of soldiers were running out.
"Stop!"
Sun Jian'an shouted, instead of standing still, hundreds of soldiers sped up and fled, Sun Jian'an was furious, urged the horse to rush up, waved his spear, and knocked over a dozen soldiers behind, and the rest of the soldiers ran out of the spear formation and disappeared into the darkness.
"Tie them up!"
The soldiers rushed up and tied up a dozen deserters, who shouted: "General, everyone is running for their lives, not just us!" ”
Sun Jian'an turned his head suddenly, only to see countless black shadows tiptoeing out of many big tents, there were thousands of people, he realized that the matter was serious, and ordered the soldiers: "Watch the gap, no one is allowed to escape, and those who dare to escape will be killed!" ”
He took a dozen of his men and captured two deserters and rushed towards the big tent of the Chinese army......
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Luo Yi is thinking about a joint attack with the Sui army tomorrow, this morning, the Sui envoy Shi Rong came again, contacted some specific details, the Youzhou army mainly attacked the east flank, the front and west flanks were attacked by the Sui army, Luo Yi is now the top priority is to relieve the siege of Zhuo County, although Dou Jiande's army has withdrawn to the south of the city, but there are still tens of thousands of enemy troops outside the north and south gates, so that Zhuo County does not dare to open the city gate.
"The prince is thinking about military affairs, so you can't disturb anything!"
The scolding of the soldiers outside the tent interrupted Luo Yi's train of thought, and then came the anxious voice of his confidant general Sun Jian'an, "You guys let me in quickly, if you delay it any longer, something big will happen!" ”
Luo Yi was surprised, walked out of the big tent quickly, and asked dissatisfiedly, "What's wrong?" ”
"Report to the prince, General Sun wants to break into the big tent of the Chinese army."
"Go away!"
Sun Jian'an pushed away his own soldiers, stepped forward and said urgently: "Lord Qiqi, there has been a large-scale flight of soldiers in Xiying. ”
Luo Yi was also taken aback, "What's going on?" ”
Sun Jian'an turned around and picked up the two bound deserters, "Lord Wang, these two deserters have been caught by humble duties, you can ask them." ”
Luo Yi pulled out his sword and pointed at a soldier's throat, "Say!" Don't say I killed you. ”
The deserter knelt on the ground and cried: "Lord Qiqi, there is news from my hometown of Hejian County, all the brothers who are in the army in Youzhou, their wives and children, and their parents have been arrested, and they will be beheaded in a few days, and it has spread throughout the barracks, and the brothers are panicking. ”
Luo Yi took a step back in shock, most of his 30,000 reinforcements were recruits who had just been recruited two months ago, if so, the problem was serious, he saw that this personal soldier was still wearing heavy armor, and asked: "Since you want to escape, why do you still bring armor?" ”
"Lord Wang, everyone says that as long as you bring a pair of armor back, you will make meritorious service to atone for your sins and save your family."
Luo Yi suddenly came to his senses, this was obviously a deliberate arrangement of Dou Jiande's army, they wanted to earn their own armor, at this moment, there was a shout from the west camp and the east camp, and the fire was ignited, and in the dark, a soldier left by Sun Jian'an stumbled and ran to report, "Oh no, thousands of soldiers mutinied and fled, and the chaos in the camp is extreme." ”
Luo Yi's mind was 'buzzing!' With one voice, the flight of a few thousand people will collapse the entire army, whether they want to flee or not, they will be driven by the wave of flight, which is the most terrible situation that an army will face - the collapse of the camp.
Without waiting for Luo Yi to order, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded from the guard tower in the north.
'When! While! While! This is the alarm of the enemy killing, Luo Yi was so shocked that his heart was about to burst, at this time the enemy army was killed, what did he resist?
Luo Yi turned back slowly, he had already heard the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, which was at least tens of thousands of cavalry.
"Lord Wang, the Dongying camp has also begun to collapse, and all the soldiers are fleeing."
One by one, a terrifying story came, Luo Yi was anxious, and shouted loudly: "Order all the soldiers to rise up and resist." ”
"Lord Wang!" A sentry with two arrows rushed to report, "Dou Jiande's cavalry has broken through the gate of Dongying. ”
Luo Yi only heard the sound of shouting and killing coming from the east gate, and the flames were soaring into the sky. In the firelight, he clearly saw Dou Jiande's large group of cavalry, only more than a hundred steps away from him, and his soldiers were running in all directions, the chaos was extreme, Luo Yi's heart seemed to sink into the abyss, he knew that the general trend had gone.
"Lord Wang, let's go!"
Their own soldiers realized that their danger had reached a critical moment, so they hugged Luo Yi and got on their horses, leading more than 1,000 soldiers to rush out of the north camp and flee to Liangxiang County in the northeast......
At this time, the Sui army camp was full of murderous spirit, 50,000 troops had been lined up neatly, 30,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry, armor, swords and guns, and the momentum was huge.
Yang Yuanqing wore a golden helmet, wore iron armor, held a sky-breaking lance, rode on a strong horse, and looked at Dou Jiande's camp coldly, he had just gotten scout information, Dou Jiande's 10,000 cavalry left the camp and went to the Youzhou army camp, with Luo Yi's ability to lead the troops, it was difficult for 10,000 cavalry to seize the Youzhou army camp at night, there was only one possibility, something big must have happened in the Youzhou army.
Although he didn't know what was going on in the Youzhou Army, Yang Yuanqing knew one thing in his heart that Dou Jiande was not willing to sit back, he took the lead tonight and launched an attack on the Youzhou Army, which also cracked the union of the Sui Army and the Youzhou Army.
This unexpected news made Yang Yuanqing immediately make a decision, preparing to launch a general attack tonight one day ahead of the attack that would be launched tomorrow night.
At this time, Qin Qiong stepped forward to report: "Chief Qiqi, the army has finished its combat readiness and can attack at any time!" ”
Yang Yuanqing nodded, and said to Qin Qiong: "You can lead 10,000 infantry to guard the camp, no matter what happens outside, you just have to stick to the camp and not come out." ”
"Obey the order!" Qin Qiong bowed and went down.
Yang Yuanqing took a deep look at the county seat of Zhuoxian, pulled out his sword and raised it high, and resolutely ordered: "The army is attacking!" ”
30,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry poured out from the camp, the infantry was commanded by the general Niu Jinda, followed later, Yang Yuanqing took Xie Yingdeng and Wang Junkuo, two lieutenants, led 30,000 cavalry to Dou Jiande's camp and swooped down.