Chapter 462: Fire Attacks the Fang's Camp
Wang San stretched out his hand and tried it in the river, and then suddenly realized, and said softly: "The water here is really cold!" The eldest brother must have built a pontoon bridge so that the soldiers could pass through the pontoon bridge. โ
Hua An nodded, and said softly: "That's natural, the water here is melted by the snow in the mountains, it is cold and abnormal, it is night at the moment, the temperature is very low, if the soldiers are allowed to cross the river, there may be soldiers who fall ill because of the cold, which will greatly affect the combat effectiveness of our army, and it will not be like this with pontoon bridges, besides, it is very simple to build a few pontoon bridges three zhang wide, and it will not delay too much effort." โ
"Well, the eldest brother loves soldiers like sons, and the soldiers will definitely follow the eldest brother to the death." Wang San opened his mouth to compliment.
About an hour later, Tie Niu and Li Liang led more than 10,000 troops to reinforcements, and brought a thousand planks and a thousand ropes according to Hua'an's requirements.
"Big brother, our army has been ordered to arrive, and the planks and ropes have also been brought." The thunderstorm rushed to Hua'an and first carried the planks and ropes to the river.
Hua An nodded and said softly: "Okay, you came at the right time, immediately tie up the planks and build two pontoon bridges to the cave opposite, quickly, within half an hour, it must be built." โ
"Big brother, don't worry, you will complete the task." Tie Niu answered, and hurriedly looked back at his subordinates, asking them to immediately tie up the planks and spread them to the opposite bank one by one.
Three moments later, two sturdy and wide pontoon bridges were erected, and more than 20,000 troops were assembled, ready to receive Hua'an's orders.
Hua'an according to the characteristics of the camp described by the soldiers. Began to formulate a battle plan, in order to annihilate a large number of fangs, while preserving its own strength, Hua'an decided to attack a large number of enemies with fire, and then, using superior forces to launch a three-sided attack on the fangs, deliberately leaving the direction of the cave entrance to the fangs to escape, and on the periphery of the cave, near the two pontoon bridges, ambushed thousands of men and horses, so as to shoot the fangs who escaped from the valley. So as to completely annihilate the more than 10,000 fangs and soldiers entrenched in the valley.
For Hua'an's strategy of annihilating the enemy. The generals expressed their full support and were ready to listen to Hua'an's orders.
Hua'an thought about it repeatedly, thought about it again and again, and finally decided to let the 4,000 cavalry under the command of Thunderstorm follow his own personal barracks. A total of five thousand cavalry. Ambushed around the pontoon. Ready to ambush and defeat the fleeing fangs, the remaining less than 20,000 soldiers and horses all quietly entered the valley. Then, they ambushed around the camp of the Fangs and launched an attack.
"Thunderstorm, you must guard the two pontoon bridges, and you must not let the fangs escape from the pontoon bridges." Hua An looked at the thunderstorm and admonished.
"Big brother, don't worry, as long as I'm here, none of the fangs will be able to escape." Thunderstorm answered confidently.
"Okay, then I'll be relieved." Hua An affirmed and ordered: "Soldiers, follow the general across the pontoon bridge and march towards the valley." As he spoke, he strode onto the pontoon.
"Soldiers, hurry, keep up." The generals each led their subordinates to quickly pass the pontoon bridge and run towards the valley.
The cave is very dark, and the road cannot be seen clearly, but at this time, it is night, as long as there is fire in the cave, it will definitely be discovered by the fangs, so in order to cause the suddenness of the attack, the men and horses under the command of Hua An can only touch the darkness and move towards the valley by feeling.
Fortunately, the cave is not very long, and the inside is very open, the road is relatively flat, and there is no stumbling gravel, so a large number of soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an can enter the valley very smoothly through the guรฒ cave.
Because the sky is relatively gloomy at the moment, there are neither stars nor moon, so the valley is pitch black, and there are only a few dozen torches on the fangren arrow tower, and the distance of illumination is limited, and it can only illuminate the position of dozens of steps nearby.
In this way, the Jin army that entered the valley could clearly see the layout of their camp, but the action of the Jin army entering the valley was completely undetectable to the fangren.
The shrubs on both sides of the valley were thick, Hua An carefully observed for a moment, and ordered his men and horses to divide into two routes, detour to the rear of the fangs from the east and west sides, and lay in ambush, waiting for the order to attack.
Nearly 20,000 troops quietly surrounded the camp of the fangs on three sides, but the careless fangs were unaware, except for the dozens of fangs sentries standing on the arrow tower, the rest of the fangs were all hiding in the thatched huts to rest, unaware of the impending death.
"Big brother, the fangs are really careless, they only set up dozens of sentries in the big camp, especially in the direction of the cave, there is not a single sentry, otherwise, we wouldn't have mixed in so lightly." Wang San sighed softly.
Hua An smiled and said, "The fangs are indeed too careless, but maybe this is the will of heaven!" It was providence that gave us such a good chance to destroy the fangs. โ
"General, it's already midnight, and the main force of the fangs must be asleep and ready to attack." A subordinate reminded softly.
Hua An nodded and ordered: "The whole army is immediately ready for battle, and the forward battalion immediately goes to set fire." โ
"Yes, General." The general responded, and then asked the forward battalion of 1,000 men and horses to quietly go to the direction of the fang's camp, preparing to set a big fire, create chaos first, and burn a large number of fangmen, so as to clear the way for the main force to charge and kill.
A thousand men and horses of the forward battalion were scattered, all bent down, and in the way closest to the ground, they touched the thatched huts of the camp of the fangs.
One hundred, fifty, thirty, ten, five steps, and soon, a thousand forward battalions of men and horses touched the thatched hut of the fang, but the fangman sentry standing on the arrow tower still did not find it.
......When the 1,000 soldiers of the forward battalion heard the code, they immediately began to rub the flint and ignite the flammable material they were carrying, and then threw the flammable material that had been detonated to the thatched hut of the fangman, and then quickly evacuated backwards.
"Woo woo woo ......" The fangman sentinels who were standing guard on the arrow tower naturally discovered these explosive fireballs, and they immediately let out a loud warning sound.
But at this time, it was too late to discover the anomaly, the thatched hut was already particularly flammable, and under the baking of a large number of flammable materials, it soon ignited a fierce flame, illuminating the entire valley.
The fangren who was sleeping never thought that the seemingly extremely hidden valley was so easily discovered by the Jin army, and the Jin army also quietly touched the valley.
The fire carried thick smoke, and some of the fangs who had not woken up were directly roasted or smoked to death, while those who responded sensitively and had woken up ran out of the thatched hut in a panic.
Seeing that the camp of the fangs had been completely chaotic, Hua An smiled lightly at the corner of his mouth and said loudly: "Order, all the horses will attack immediately to eliminate this group of fangs." โ
"Knock knock knock ......" There were only a dozen big drums, and the sound of attack sounded.
"Soldiers, kill ......" The generals of all armies shouted loudly and led the soldiers under their command to kill in the direction of the Fangda camp.
Since the Fangren camp had been wrapped in fire, the attacking Jin army could only use bows and arrows to shoot long-range shots to kill and injure a large number of Fangmen.
Fang people were already very panicked when they saw the fire in the camp everywhere, and at this time, when they saw more than 10,000 Jin soldiers and horses killing from the east, west and south, they were even more frightened.
They looked around in a panic and suddenly found that there was no Jin army in the direction of the cave entrance in the north, so they fled in the direction of the cave entrance.
"Kill...... Hunt down the fangs. Seeing the fangs fleeing in the direction of the cave, the various units of the Jin army immediately pursued and killed in the direction of the fangs.
In order to save their lives, most of the fangs did not carry weapons on their bodies when they fled, and they did not even wear all their clothes, so in the face of the pursuit of the Jin army, they had no strength to resist except to flee and only send them to death.
Fortunately, the entrance of the cave was ahead, and this was the only hope of escape for the fangs, and they all fled in the direction of the cave entrance like crazy.
But after all, the entrance of the cave was too small, and the thousands of people and horses who escaped from the sea of fire could not enter the cave at the same time, so they could only enter the dark cave entrance one by one, and the remaining large number of people and horses were all exposed to the attack of the Jin army.
"Soldiers, release the arrows." Hua An shouted and ordered the main army of the pursuing army to fire arrows at the fleeing fangs.
"Whoosh ......" a rain of arrows fell, and the fangs who were not the slightest defenseless suddenly suffered heavy losses and fell a large area, while the remaining fangs ran desperately in the direction of the cave entrance, and the two not very wide holes gathered thousands of fangs at once.
"Soldiers, charge me, destroy the fangs, and leave no one behind." Hua An felt very angry at the thought of the fangs killing the people everywhere, so he issued an order to annihilate all the fangs.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......" more than 10,000 Jin army soldiers roared and killed the fangs.
Seeing that more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Jin army had been killed in front of them, and the entrance of the cave could not be entered for a while, the collapsed fangs had no choice but to turn around and fight with the main force of the Jin army.
The Jin army is well-equipped, with many men and horses, and is well prepared, while the fangs are poorly prepared, and even the wolf bรจi is not even ready with weapons, so disparity, it is conceivable that the Jin army killed all the fangs in the direction of the cave at the cost of dozens of soldiers' casualties, and did not leave a single living mouth.
In the direction of the pontoon bridge outside the entrance of the cave, the fangs who rushed out of the entrance of the cave suddenly found that there was a smooth pontoon bridge in front of them, and they couldn't help but be surprised.
At this moment, a pontoon bridge suddenly appeared here, which was obviously built by the Jin army, which also shows that the Jin army entered the valley from this hole, but why did the Jin army not deploy a soldier and horse at the entrance of the cave? At this point, the fangman was a little puzzled.
But at this time, the Jin army had already occupied the valley and killed it, and they didn't have much time to think about it, and it was their top priority to escape as much as possible through the pontoon bridge. (To be continued......)