Chapter 628: Attacking Chenggao Pass
Seeing that the generals were eager to fight, Hua An was very happy, not far from Chenggao Pass, although it was an easy to defend and difficult to attack Xiongguan, but there were only 3,000 men and horses under the command of Cao Fu, the former general of Zhao State, which was not enough to resist his main army.
For this reason, Hua An looked at Zhuge Xiong and immediately ordered: "Zhuge Xiong, you go ashore immediately and lead 10,000 cavalry to attack Chenggao Pass, remember, besiege Chenggao Pass, but don't attack the city rashly, and only after the general leads the guards to arrive by water, can they attack together." ā
"Yes, General, the Admiral remembers." Zhuge Xiong clenched his fists in response, and then left the warship and went to the land to lead the 10,000 Wudang Flying Army under his command.
Seeing Zhuge Xiong leading the Wudang Flying Army to leave, Hua An continued to order: "Wang San, order the fleet to speed up, and we must arrive at Chenggao Pass before midnight." ā
"Yes, big brother." Wang San answered, turned around and went to give the order.
The speed of the cavalry is naturally faster than the boats, and not long after nightfall, the 10,000 Wudang Flying Army led by Zhuge Xiong arrived at the Chenggao Pass, and blocked the road leading to the south of the Chenggao Pass, so as to block the way for the enemy troops in the city to flee south, and trapped them in the Chenggao Pass.
Zhuge Xiong's Wudang Flying Army, like a divine soldier descending from the sky, approached Chenggao Pass, and cut off the land retreat of the enemy army guarding the pass, which surprised the enemy generals who defended the pass, their strength was limited, and they naturally did not dare to go out of the pass to challenge, but the retreat was sealed so that they were like thorns in the back, after all, the material reserves in the pass are insufficient, once they are surrounded for many days, there may be a crisis of food shortage.
The guards naturally understood that since the Jin army had already arrived in the city. Then, it must not be far from the time for the Jin army to attack the pass, for this reason, the guard general of Chenggao Pass immediately sent several henchmen to Xingyang secretly by water, reported the situation to Cao Fu who was sitting in Xingyang, and begged Cao Fu to send troops to rescue.
In order to delay time, the Chenggao guard will send his henchmen to go down the rope on the city wall to the outside of the city. And went to Zhuge Xiong's camp. Intended to question the Jin soldiers and horses who violated the border for no reason.
Seeing that the Chenggao guards would send henchmen to come, Zhuge Xiong hurriedly ordered the generals to go to the big tent to discuss matters, and met with the henchmen sent by the Chenggao guards in the big tent of the Chinese army.
"See the generals." I saw that Zhuge Xiong's big tent was full of generals. Xiao Xiao was slightly surprised. And hurriedly greeted the Tao.
Zhuge Xiong nodded. Whispered, "Say it!" What are you doing here? ā
The enemy colonel paused for a moment, and said: "Since ancient times, the crusade against the enemy must be famous. Chenggao Pass is the jurisdiction of my family General Cao, General Cao has never offended the Great Jin Dynasty, why do you want to lead the army to invade the territory today. After speaking, he looked at Zhuge Xiong.
The words of the enemy colonel were full of questions and provocations, and the generals under Zhuge Xiong's command were all furious and glared at the enemy colonel angrily.
"Hahaha!" When Zhuge Xiong heard this, he laughed twice, and retorted: "Don't talk about the small Chenggao Pass, the entire Central Plains, Hebei, and Liaodong are all the land of my Great Jin, and this general will lead the army to regain the lost territory, how can it be said that the division is unknown?" You say, "Oh yes!" After speaking, he looked at the subordinates under the account.
"The Great Jin Dynasty has recovered the lost territory, if you want to live, it is better to surrender as soon as possible." A Jin army general said.
"The whole world is the land of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Great Jin Dynasty has regained the lost territory, which is justifiable." Another Jin army general said.
"What, the whole world belongs to your Jin Kingdom, how is this possible, Chenggao has always been the territory of the Great Zhao Kingdom, and my General Cao is responsible for guarding here." The enemy colonel, arguing with reason.
In fact, this can't be blamed for the ignorance of the enemy colonel, after all, it has been decades since the Great Jin royal family crossed to the south, and this junior colonel is not very old, that is to say, from the moment he was born, Chenggao Pass is the territory of Zhao State, and it has never changed.
And if a court has done great good deeds, it will definitely do its best to publicize it, wanting the world to know about it, and once it has done something such as invading others, it will keep its mouth shut and hope that the world will forget these things as soon as possible, so as to completely eliminate the traces of this shame.
Zhao's occupation of the ten states of the Great Jin Dynasty was a naked act of aggression, but after the regime was stabilized, he was naturally reluctant to mention this history of bandits, and for this reason, the Chinese people were not allowed to carry out propaganda and education in this regard, so that many young Chinese people did not know this history at all, thus causing the ignorance of the enemy colonel.
"It's really ridiculous, forty years ago, this is still the land of the Great Jin, there is a slave named Shile, after becoming a general, he led the army to occupy here, and occupied it for more than 40 years, now, forty years have passed, my Great Jin Dynasty has recovered the Central Plains, it is in accordance with the will of heaven, in response to the people's will, you wait, it is better to surrender quickly, otherwise, the day of the breakthrough, no one will be left." Zhuge Xiong said loudly.
When the enemy colonel heard this, he was suddenly a little surprised, and saw that the Jin army attacked Chenggao Pass, which was a sure thing, so he hugged his fists and said: "Since the words are not speculative, I will say goodbye." After speaking, he turned around and left the big tent of the Chinese army.
"General, this man is too presumptuous." Seeing that the enemy colonel was very rude, Zhuge Xiong's subordinates were a little angry.
Zhuge Xiong waved his hand and said softly: "Forget it, it's just a nameless junior, what do you have to do with him." ā
The enemy colonel quickly returned to Chenggao Pass and went to the defender's tent.
"How is it, what is the attitude of Jin Jun." Cheng Gao, the guard, saw that his henchman junior colonel was back, and hurriedly asked.
The junior colonel immediately hugged his fists and said: "General, the Jin army has made up its mind to take Chenggao Pass, and said that it is to recover the lost territory of the Great Jin, and also said that the whole world was once the land of the Great Jin, is this really the case?" After speaking, he looked at his boss.
Although the guard general of Chenggao was not more than forty years old, he heard some things about the previous dynasty from his father's mouth, and he still understood the grievances between the Great Jin court and the Zhao State very well.
But these questions, after all, are sensitive issues, and he doesn't know how to answer them to his subordinates, so he can only hint at his subordinates with a silent attitude.
Subsequently, in order to deal with the siege of the Jin army, the Chenggao Pass guard immediately issued an order to let the army under his command strictly arrange defensive forces to hold Chenggao Pass.
In the middle of the night, the fleet led by Hua An himself arrived at the ferry near Chenggao Pass and prepared to go ashore.
"Big brother, less than ten miles ashore is Chenggao Pass, and our army can set off." Wang San opened his mouth and said.
Hua An nodded and ordered softly: "Go ashore, and the whole army will land immediately." ā
Under Hua'an's order, 10,000 soldiers of the personal guards led their horses to the shore one after another, and began to assemble in an orderly manner, ready to kill Chenggao Pass at any time.
It took more than half an hour for the 10,000 soldiers of the Pro-Guard Army to assemble the team and get in touch with the Zhuge Xiongbu in the south.
Hua'an sent his own troops to tell Zhuge Xiong that as soon as the Kong Ming lantern was raised, he would immediately launch an attack on Chenggao Pass.
"Big brother, our personal guards have been assembled and can attack the city." Wang San said softly.
"Chenggao Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it's better to reconnoiter first." Hua An said softly.
"Big brother, there are 3,000 enemy troops in Chenggao Pass, and our army has a secret weapon, so the chance of victory is very great, why be so careful." Wang San had some thoughts of underestimating the enemy.
When Hua An heard this, he smiled, and felt that what Wang San said made sense, he had enough soldiers and horses, and he had secret weapons, so why should he be afraid of the enemy army in Chenggao Pass.
"Order, beat the drums to march, and immediately attack the city." Hua'an gave the order to attack Chenggao Pass.
"Knock knock knock ......" The fierce sound of war drums sounded from the military formation.
"Kill ......" 10,000 soldiers of the pro-guard army, and immediately rode their horses to the north gate of Chenggao Pass to kill.
Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen Kong Ming lanterns floated into the air, transmitting the signal of siege to Zhuge Xiong in the south.
"General, look, Kong Ming lantern." The ministry general reminded loudly.
Zhuge Xiong looked up and saw that there were indeed more than a dozen Kong Ming lanterns, which was a signal for the siege, so he immediately led his army to attack Chenggao Pass.
Hua'an and Zhuge Xiong attacked Chenggao Pass at the same time, putting great pressure on the enemy army guarding Chenggao Pass, in order to hold this Xiongguan, the enemy soldiers were also desperately defending, dense arrow rain, continuous shooting towards the Jin army besieging the city, and caused some casualties to the Jin army.
The Jin army had many soldiers and horses, and there was a powerful black powder, so they were full of confidence, and in a very short time, they blew open the city gate of Chenggao Pass, and hundreds of soldiers rushed into the city gate.
Seeing that the north gate of Chenggao Pass had been blown open, Hua An was very excited, and personally led a team of men and horses to kill in the pass.
"Ah......h
Hua'an was frightened, and hurriedly ran over, only to see that there was an urn city inside the north gate, and a number of huge deep pits were dug in the center of the urn city, and sharpened wooden stakes were buried at the bottom of the pits, which were obviously traps designed by the defending enemy army.
At the same time, arrows were shot from the top of the urn city from time to time, and large and small rolling wood and stones also poured downward, which caused heavy losses to the pro-guards who attacked the urn city.
"General, the enemy army is well defended, let's retreat!" A small colonel of the pro-guard army, built yƬ road.
Hua An saw that the entire urn city was covered by traps, and there were too many rolling logs and stones on the top of the urn city, and the situation in the city was not clear, so he immediately made a decision and ordered: "Soldiers, take the wounded soldiers and retreat immediately." With that, he helped a wounded soldier and retreated outside the city gate.
"Bell bell bell ......" Soon, the order to retreat was officially given.
"Soldiers, shield bearers, come forward to cover." A general of the pro-guard army, seeing that the siege was not going well, immediately gave the order to cover.
Suddenly, many soldiers of the personal guards, armed with bows and crossbows, shot at the city wall, while others held shields to meet the retreating soldiers from the city gates.
Soon, the retreating men and horses withdrew from the urn city and stopped at a distance of five hundred paces from the city gate. (To be continued......)