Chapter 25: The War to Destroy Chu (2)
In the city of Yuezhou.
The regimental training envoy is the residence of Uncle Pan.
Uncle Pan was discussing with Zhou Xingfeng how to deal with the open map.
The generals of the forbidden army under Zhou Xingfeng extorted rewards from their uncles, and they were insatiable, but they were still not satisfied, and they also robbed and extorted the people in Yuezhou City, which can be described as all evil.
But at this time, these two people have put aside their previous suspicions and faced foreign enemies together.
Uncle Pan is the heir of his person, Jingjiang soldier was born in the army, decisive and brave in battle, defeated the Jingnan army many times in the battle with Jingnan in the past few years, and accumulated military merits and was promoted to the regimental training envoy.
Zhou Xingfeng was the most famous wise general in the Chu State, and he was also born in the Jingjiang Army, and became a military academy with meritorious service, and was later promoted to the deputy commander of Jingjiang.
"Now that Gyeongju is attacking, 20,000 Black Flag troops have reached thirty miles outside the city, and they are camping instead of attacking the city, I don't know how Pan Envoy Jun will deal with it?"
Zhou Xingfeng asked.
"General Zhou is known for his resourcefulness, so let's listen to General Zhou's opinion."
Zhou Xingfeng thought about it: "The Black Flag Army is coming, but it is very suspicious to set up camp, I am afraid that I am waiting for something, I think that this time Gyeongju is coming, through Jiangling, there will be more than one enemy army outside the city, it is very likely that the second road will go south, Pan Envoy Jun please see, if there is another road from Lizhou, Langzhou, Yiyang to attack Tanzhou, then Tanzhou will be in danger, according to the speed of the Black Flag Army out of Jiangling, Lizhou has been lost, a certain thought, Pan Envoy Jun should immediately summon Tanzhou, send additional troops to Xielangzhou. As for the Black Flag Army outside Yuezhou City, ...... some thought that they must be waiting for the battle situation in Langzhou, and if Langzhou falls, the Black Flag Army outside the city will definitely attack the city. Then, I thought it was better to control the static with movement, strike first, and attack the Black Flag Army at night. ”
Uncle Pan looked at the map along Zhou Xingfeng's hand and nodded: "General Zhou is really wise, so he will send someone to summon Tanzhou." If the matter of the night attack is not completed, since the Black Flag Army has set up camp, it must have taken precautions, I don't know what proper plan General Lu Daozhou has? ”
"The Black Flag Army is powerful, especially when attacking the city, the damage to the city gate is indestructible, although the Chu State has been defended, but the power is much worse than it, and the number is scarce, and there is no forbidden army in Tanzhou, so the best way to deal with the Black Flag Army is still field warfare. They did send scouts, but it was likely that because they were not familiar with the terrain of Yuezhou, the scouts were not spread wide enough, and only placed scouts in the shape of a fan in front of them. Yuezhou is bordered by the river on the left, but there is a roundabout place on the right, a certain plan to lead all the forbidden troops under its jurisdiction from the right side of the Black Flag Army to attack at night, if it is discovered, the night attack fails, then it will turn into a field battle, and then it will be broken with a fish and a dead net. ”
"General Zhou saw that when you sent troops, a certain person watched from the city tower, and if it turned into a field battle, a certain person must lead his troops to support the general."
"No, Pan Envoy Jun is not allowed to go out of the city, regardless of whether this night attack or field battle is successful, Pan Envoy Jun cannot send troops to support, if a certain is not defeated, it proves that a certain judgment is wrong, the weakness of the Black Flag Army is not in the field, then the Chu State is in danger. The king must hold the city wall to defend Yuezhou and wait for Tanzhou to come to help. Don't take one or the other for granted. ”
Uncle Pan was moved to tears by Zhou Xingfeng's words at this time, and all the little cups in the past were thrown out of the clouds.
Both soldiers, when they were about to fight, they fought together against the enemy, and at this moment, Uncle Pan and Zhou Xing cherished each other.
Tonight the moon is dark and the wind is high.
The time has just passed.
Zhou Xingfeng ordered the whole army to rank grass and horses, 2,000 forbidden troops as the vanguard, 3,000 soldiers as the rear formation, and he led 5,000 forbidden troops as the Chinese army.
10,000 men left the city from the south gate and quietly detoured to the east, heading to the Jingnan military camp in the north of Yuezhou.
Baili Wuji expected that the defenders of the city might attack at night, but he didn't expect that the defenders in Yuezhou City would make a detour from the north gate, so he was careless. Fortunately, the scouts who went out ten miles ahead were alert, and the Chu army that attacked at night was discovered as soon as they approached the ambush of the first scout observation post.
Zhou Xingfeng's layout was indeed correct, but he didn't know that the rule that he had set for the scouts of the Black Flag Army was to be vigilant on three sides. With the main camp as the center, in addition to the direction you came from, the front, left, and right directions are all warning areas. He also didn't know that the Black Flag Army had never used a firearm, called a mine.
Of course, in the case of the river on the left side of Xiangyue Prefecture, it is a two-sided alert.
Since the Black Flag Army was equipped with grenades and mines, Baili Wuji stipulated that scouts must be equipped with trip mines or wire mines when they are on guard.
The scout's vigilance was due to the slight sound of the Chu army's advance quietly advancing. Darkness can drown out the action, but it can't drown out the sound. And in the dead of night, the sound is crystal clear.
The forward of the Chu army is advancing in the night when he can't see his fingers, how can he not make a little noise? Stepping on a dry branch, tearing the sleeve of your clothes or something? The scouts of the Black Flag Army were alarmed.
But the scouts only heard the sound, but they couldn't see people. To be on the safe side, one of the scouts wisely pulled a pre-planted mine. Later, it was also said that the scout was nervous at that time, and it was the shaking of his hands that triggered the rope that was already tense because of nervousness, and it was impossible to tell horizontally and vertically. But there was only one result, and that was the landmines.
The ...... and muffled sound of the explosion completely aroused the vigilance of the scouts on the three outposts, so they sounded their own mines according to the military regulations of the scouts.
After a series of explosions, even those who slept like pigs had already woken up.
At this time, many people in the vanguard of the Chu army had already entered the minefield, and the sudden explosion, although there were not many casualties, but it also completely shocked the advance of the Chu army, and the Chu army had a short period of chaos.
And the scouts of the three sentinels, who were brave and could not be braver, threw all the grenades they wore with the brief and faint light of the mine explosion, and they were just so aimless, with the residual impression just now, they threw them forward.
The serial explosions of grenades once again shocked the attacking Chu army. The Chu army's forwards, who had not yet recovered from the mine explosion, began to panic again.
In a few minutes, the chaos in the dark night was difficult to quell, and the forbidden army of the Chu army was elite after all.
The general who commanded the vanguard of the Chu army was also a veteran of a hundred battles, and in just a few minutes, he used the Mo knife in his hand to cut off the heads of eight rioting soldiers in a row, and the chaos was suppressed.
This Chu army will be very good at adapting, seeing that the night attack has been exposed, he immediately asked people to report back to Zhou Xingfeng who followed behind, while ordering to immediately charge, at this time the Chu army forward is less than seven or eight miles away from the Black Flag Army.
Under normal circumstances, this distance can be entered into hand-to-hand combat in a quarter of an hour, and the Chu army will make up their minds to gamble, betting that the Black Flag Army's response speed is not as fast as the Chu army's charge.
In fact, if it weren't for the lucky scout who decisively sounded the mines, if it weren't for the military regulations of those scouts who were well versed in military regulations to strictly abide by the military regulations of entering the enemy country and pulling all the mines when they heard a single thunder, if it weren't for the Black Flag Army holding a wheel cannon that the Chu army had never seen.