Chapter 536: Take Wudu City
In the early morning of the second day, before dawn, the thunderstorm and Yang An's troops and horses that rushed to Wudu City had already arrived under Wudu City and were ready to attack the city.
Looking at the torches dotted on the city wall in front of him, the corner of Lei Storm's mouth sneered, looked at Yang An, and said loudly: "General Yang, judging from the torches on the city wall, there are not many soldiers and horses in Wudu City, do we still need to outwit?" ”
Yang An hurriedly replied: "General Lei, our army has already outwitted the city once, if the old trick is repeated, the enemy army will definitely not be fooled, the enemy's strength is like this, or directly attack the city, it is convenient to come." After speaking, he looked at the thunderstorm and waited for the thunderstorm to make a decision.
Thunderstorm nodded, and said: "Okay, General Yang, you and I will attack together, our cavalry will attack the south side of the city gate, and your cavalry will attack the north side of the city gate, within half an hour, you must break the city." ”
"Okay, that's a deal." Yang An responded loudly, turned around and ordered: "Soldiers, attack with me and kill ......"
"Soldiers, attack, take Wudu City, and rush ......" Thunderstorm also gave a loud order.
"Kill ......" 18,000 troops, shouting and launching a powerful attack on Wudu City, which has less than 1,000 defending troops.
At this time, the remnants of Yang Jun in Wudu City only had a few hundred, and they had completely lost their fighting spirit, and in the face of Yang An and Thunderstorm's all-out attack, they naturally had no power to fight back.
The moment he heard the shouts outside the city, Vice General Yang Jun urgently gathered his men and prepared to escape.
"General, the soldiers and horses of the Jin army and Yang An are here again, what should I do?" A lieutenant asked anxiously.
"What else can I do. Evacuate immediately, or you'll be dead. Yang Junbu will reply immediately.
"General, Qiu Chi is only a hundred miles in radius, and most of them have been controlled by Yang An and the Jin army at the moment, we have to evacuate, we must escape from Qiu Chi, otherwise, there is no place to stand at all." Xiao Xiao said with his fists clenched.
General Yang Junbu frowned and thought about it, Yang An chased after him so quickly, so he didn't even have time to prepare. Wudu City is their base camp. It is also their last foothold, as long as they leave Wudu City, they will lose their support, except for completely fleeing from the Qiu Chi. There is no better way.
Presently. There are only three forces they can rely on. They are Tuyuhun in the west, Liangguo in the northwest, and Zhao in the north.
The Liang Kingdom was a vassal state of the Great Jin Dynasty, and although it was actually independent, it still respected the Great Jin Dynasty. Naturally there is a great risk in attaching to the Liang State, the Tuyuhun in the west is strong, but Tuyuhun is in the bitter cold land in the west, and it is not a good destination, only the Zhao State in the north is the strongest, and there are eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in the Guan, and the Qin River is rich and oily, and the Zhao State can have a better future.
"The order is that all soldiers with horses should immediately go to the direction of the north gate and prepare to retreat to the Guanzhong land of Zhao State, quickly." General Yang Jun issued the decision to withdraw to the north gate.
"Soldiers, mount and retreat." The congregation will give the order loudly.
Soon, the soldiers gathered in the city stepped on their horses and ran in the direction of the north gate, preparing to flee to the Zhao State, most of these people were Yang Jun's henchmen and his personal guards.
There were only a few dozen soldiers guarding the city at the east gate, and they had no resistance in the face of the attack of Thunderstorm and Yang An's nearly 20,000 troops, so after Thunderstorm and Yang An attacked, they immediately fled.
Yang An and Thunderstorm led the army to rush to the city, and the city wall was empty, but the city gate was closed, and the soldiers went out of the city to surrender.
"Set up the ladder and go up." Yang An looked behind him and gave a loud order.
Soon, more than a dozen simple ladders were erected on the walls of Wudu City, and without enemy resistance, hundreds of soldiers soon climbed the city walls.
"General, the enemy is fleeing in the direction of the North Gate." The soldiers standing on the city walls spotted the fleeing enemy troops.
Thunderstorm looked at Yang An, and said: "The enemy army fled in the direction of the north gate, it must be to flee to Zhao State, and our army must immediately pursue." ”
Yang An nodded and ordered loudly: "Open the city gate immediately, be quick." ”
When the soldiers heard the order, they immediately ran down the city wall and slowly opened the heavy city wall.
After the east gate of Wudu City was opened, Yang An and Thunderstorm glanced at each other, led his army into the city, and pursued them in the direction of the north gate with all their might.
At this moment, Vice General Yang Jun led five hundred cavalry, which had already rushed out of the north gate of Wudu City, and fled due north with all his might, and the remaining infantry could not keep up with the speed of the cavalry, so they had to flee to the left and right.
By the time Yang An and the cavalry of the Thunderstorm Division chased to the north gate, the five hundred cavalry of Adjutant General Yang Jun had already run away.
"General Yang, you stay in Wudu City, and I will lead three thousand light cavalry to pursue the enemy." Thunderstorm said loudly.
Yang An waved his hand and persuaded softly: "General Lei, don't chase after the poor, forgive them for hundreds of people, and they can't set off any big waves." ”
"Alright! Then let them live a few more days. Thunderstorm nodded in agreement, paused, and ordered, "Set up camp immediately." ”
Subsequently, Thunderstorm and Yang An's main army set up camp in Wudu City and patrolled the city in batches to maintain law and order in the city.
Since Wudu City has been run by Yang Jun's father and son for more than ten years, it can be said that the foundation is extremely deep, and it is really hard to say how many of Yang Jun's henchmen are hidden in the city.
In order to protect the safety of the commander and prevent the assassins loyal to Yang Jun from assassinating, Yang An and the thunderstorm around the Chinese army tent arranged for fifty personal soldiers to be armed and responsible for guarding.
After being stationed in Wudu City for a day, according to Hua'an's prior arrangement, Lei Storm led his 10,000 cavalry to return to Xiabian City, while Yang An's 8,000 soldiers stayed in Wudu City and were responsible for garrisoning here.
The cavalry of the Thunderstorm Division set out in the morning and arrived at Xiafen City in the evening, and the officers and men of the Thunderstorm Division immediately went to the garrison to set up camp, and the Thunderstorm himself went to the Chinese army tent in Hua'an to report to Hua'an.
At this moment, in Hua'an's Chinese army tent, Congshi Hu Hou is using sign language to return to Hua'an, for Hu Hou and other six Cong Shi to complete the task of assassinating Yang Shi excellently, Hua'an gave affirmation and encouragement, and asked them to make persistent efforts to better complete the next tasks.
According to Hua'an's assumption, at this moment, the city has just stabilized, although the scholars in the city have expressed their absolute support for themselves, but whether they must be sincere, Hua'an is not completely sure, and whether there are still remnants of Yang Songnu and Yang Jun's forces in the city, whether they will maliciously sabotage, provoke their relationship with the Qiu Chi scholars, and even assassinate, these problems are not small problems, and they must be treated seriously and strictly.
Although Hua'an has deployed many patrolling soldiers in the city and sent a large number of scouts to maintain stability in the city, the enemy's saboteurs will definitely not be presumptuous in front of the patrolling soldiers, and they will also be wary of scouts with unfamiliar faces, making it difficult for soldiers and ordinary scouts to complete their tasks well.
At this time, Hua An thought of the deaf and dumb people waiting for the tiger, who dressed as dirty beggars and begged along the streets, which was difficult to arouse the suspicion of others.
Normal people have a disregard for beggars, especially those who are born with disabilities, thinking that they are dirty, stunned and stupid, who do not understand anything or know anything except asking for food, and their contempt is overflowing.
In this way, they will not deliberately disguise themselves in front of beggars, so as to expose their true colors, and these will be collected by smart people dressed as beggars, so as to report to Hua'an, so that Hua'an can be prepared.
According to his own plan, Hua'an gave Hu Hou and other six smart people the key groups of people and directions to monitor, and told them to be cautious and not to show any horses' feet, so as not to be detected by the enemy.
Seeing that Hua'an valued Congshi so much, Hu Hou was very excited, and expressed his absolute loyalty to Hua'an in sign language, and vowed to complete the task excellently.
To have such an outstanding smart man as Hu Hou to be loyal to him, Hua An'an was also very satisfied, he patted Hu Hou on the shoulder, let him let go of his hands and feet, and do a great job.
"Big brother, big brother, I'm back." At this moment, the sound of a thunderstorm appeared outside the Chinese army's tent.
Hua An looked at the tiger and motioned for him to hide in the back tent, and the tiger met and quickly ran into the back tent and hid.
The reason why Hu Hou hid, Hua An naturally had his own considerations, after all, at this time, the shape of Xia Cheng could not be said to be very stable, Hu Hou was carrying out a secret scout mission in Xia Cheng City, and absolute safety must be guaranteed, the more people who know, the less safe Hu Hou and others will be, and the lower the probability of completing the task.
In order to ensure the privacy of the Congshi's execution of this mission, Hua'an only had a one-way contact with Huhou, and in the city, except for Hua'an, no one knew about Huhou's and other Congshi's existence.
"Big brother, I'm back, and Wudu City was taken without a single soldier." Thunderstorm said excitedly.
Hua An smiled and praised: "Very good, in this way, the entire Wudu County will be under the control of our army, and the Yinping garrison is only three thousand, I believe that the surrender table will be submitted soon, we can wait patiently." ”
"Yes, the eldest brother is right, in just a few days, Nuoda's Qiu Chi has been taken down by our army, and if Yin Ping is too guarded, he will definitely surrender immediately." Thunderstorm said happily, then looked at the two cups of hot water on the case, and said softly: "Big brother, is there anyone in the big tent?" Are these two glasses of water still steaming? After saying that, he looked around.
When Hua An heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and said softly and perfunctorily: "Thunderstorm, you must be thirsty all the way to the march!" This is the tea specially prepared for you by the eldest brother, and you haven't drunk it yet. ”
"I'm really thirsty, thank you big brother." When the thunderstorm heard this, he believed it, and hurriedly picked up a cup of hot water, raised his head and drank it.
Seeing that the thunderstorm finished drinking a cup of hot water, Hua An nodded and said softly: "I'm tired for a day, go back and rest!" ”
"Yes, big brother, Thunderstorm farewell." Thunderstorm clenched his fists and turned to leave the Chinese army's tent. (To be continued......)