Chapter 266: Attacking Penkou Pass

Since Kui'an gave the order to dismantle the house and build the ship, the city of Chaisang fell into chaos, tens of thousands of soldiers armed with tools, arbitrarily demolished the houses in the city, for the people in the house, they carried out a savage drive, the slightest disobedience to the knife and axe.

There are tens of thousands of Jin people in Chaisang City, in order to protect their own property, many people organized and resisted the atrocities of the Zhao soldiers with improvised weapons, but these resistances not only failed to prevent the Zhao soldiers from demolishing the houses, but angered the other party, a Zhao general shouted, and the soldiers under his command immediately rushed forward and carried out a bloody massacre of the Jin people, and for a while, the sound of wailing spread throughout the city.

Under the bloody massacre of the soldiers of the Zhao State, the people of the Jin State suffered heavy casualties, and the surviving people desperately took refuge in all directions, and all kinds of ruins, ponds, and ditches became their last refuge.

On the night of the second day, the soldiers of Zhao State had temporarily built more than 300 small wooden boats in the city, and there were no less than 40,000 planks and tree trunks for floating, enough for one person.

In order to conceal their true intentions, the Zhao soldiers set up more torches on the walls of Chaisang City and Penkou Pass to create a well-guarded formation.

At the same time, in order to divert the Jin naval division that blocked the ferry, Kui'an used the remaining dozen warships and more than thirty small wooden boats to form a 'death squad', and a large number of torches were lit on these warships and small wooden boats to attract the attention of the Jin naval division.

Before the army crosses the river, the death squad will take the initiative to attack, and after engaging with the Jin army's naval division, they will flee downstream to attract the Jin naval division to pursue, so as to ensure the safety of the main army crossing the river.

In the direction of Penkou Pass, the guard general Zhang Raccoon saw that the night was approaching, leaving 500 soldiers to defend the city wall and lead the main force to run towards Chaisang City.

In order to prevent the Jin army from attacking the pass at this time, the 500 defenders of the basin pass all went into battle to hold the first line, and at the same time, the torches on the city wall were twice as many as usual.

This abnormal situation naturally attracted the attention of the scouts of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the scouts did not dare to slack off and immediately rushed to the direction of the camp.

At this time, in the big tent of the Chinese army in the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Hua An was discussing with Li Yang, the visiting Jingling Taishou, about a plan to break the pass.

"General, there is an abnormality in the basin pass." Just as Hua'an and Li Yang were discussing how to attack the basin pass, the scout broke in.

"Oh, what's unusual, tell me quickly." Hua An hurriedly asked.

The scout immediately replied: "General Hui, the guards at Penkou Pass are several times stricter than usual, there are five hundred soldiers on the city wall, and there are more than twice as many torches as in previous days. ”

"Oh, that's it." Hua An and Li Yang, as well as the generals in the tent, were all surprised.

"Our army did not attack, why the enemy increased the guards, there must be something strange in this." Wang San interjected.

Hua An pondered for a moment, and then he knew it in his heart, so he smiled slightly, looked at Li Yang, and said, "Master Li is well-informed, and he can know the mystery. ”

Li Yang saw Hua An's face smiling, returned a smile, and said: "The enemy army has no silver three hundred taels here, presumably General Hua has already guessed it, and if he doesn't attack immediately at this time, let alone when." ”

"Haha! What Master Li said was extremely true. Hua An laughed twice, looked sideways at the generals under the tent, and ordered: "The generals immediately return to the camp to prepare, and a moment later, the whole army will attack the basin pass." ”

"General Qin, return to the camp to give the order, and a moment later, attack with the Northern Expeditionary Army and capture the basin pass." Li Yang also gave an order to the generals beside him.

Most of the generals in the tent were a little confused, but the military orders were like a mountain, and the generals did not dare to hesitate, and immediately took the order and went to their respective camps to prepare.

After the generals left, Hua An looked at Li Yang beside him and said with emotion: "Although Kui An is a famous general of Zhao State, he was also panicked when the military rations ran out. ”

"Kui An did this to prevent our army from taking advantage of the weakness, but I didn't know that it just gave our army a wake-up call, which is extremely stupid!" Li Yang also sighed loudly.

A moment later, the main forces of the Northern Expeditionary Army were assembled one after another, and Li Yang's 5,000 men and horses had also come closer, and the 35,000 Jin army was ready, just waiting for the main general to give an order, and the city could be attacked immediately.

Hua An and Li Yang walked out of the big tent, stepped on their horses, and commanded the army to kill in the direction of Penkou Pass.

The defenders of Penkou Pass were dumbfounded when they saw the main force of the Jin army attacking, and most of the soldiers had the idea of retreating, after all, the main force had withdrawn, and it was impossible for them, the five hundred people, to hold the pass no matter what.

"Camp master, the main force of the Jin army is coming, let's retreat!" A Zhao army was retreating.

"No, the general has an order, our army must defend the Penkou Pass to the death, and we can retreat after dawn." The battalion owner uses his boss's to suppress his subordinates.

"However, the main force of the Jin army has 30,000 or 40,000 horses, and our army is afraid that it will not be able to hold on for even half an hour!" Another team is complaining.

"Bastard, as a soldier, the horse leather shroud is lucky, give me to hold the city." The camp owner reprimanded loudly.

Under the vigorous reprimand of the battalion master, the five hundred defenders were ready to defend to the death.

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Under the Penkou Pass, the 35,000 soldiers and horses of the Jin army had already set up an offensive posture and were ready to fight at any time.

Hua'an rode his horse to stand in front of the formation, carefully observed the movement of the enemy army on the basin pass, after a long time, the enemy army did not have reinforcements poured into the city, which is enough to show that the main enemy army of the basin pass has withdrawn, and the defenders in the pass only have 500 soldiers and horses in front of them.

After glancing at Li Yang, Hua An stretched out his hand and waved lightly, and said softly: "Beat the drum, the whole army will attack." ”

"Knock knock knock ......" dozens of war drums suddenly emitted a deafening drum sound.

"Attack with the whole army and kill ......"

"The whole army is attacking, soldiers, kill!"

Tie Niu, Zhao Wu and other generals roared and led their soldiers to rush towards Penkou Pass.

Due to the haste of preparation, the Thunderbolt did not have time to use, and the soldiers raised their shields and set up ladders to launch a strong attack on the pass.

The crossbowmen of the Jin army under the city continuously fired arrows on the city wall, which pressed the few enemy troops so that they could not raise their heads, and the sword and shield soldiers took advantage of this kung fu to climb up quickly along the ladder.

"Die!" Iron Bull was the first to climb the city, raised his axe, and slashed an enemy soldier defending the battlement, and then, leaping onto the wall, wielding the big axe in his hand, slashing the enemy soldier to his heart's content.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Wu and Wang San successively climbed the city wall, slashed and killed the enemy soldiers together with the iron bull, and the follow-up soldiers continued to climb the city wall.

Seeing the three of them killing Zheng Huan at the head of the city, Hua An couldn't help but feel a little itchy, so he took off the hard bow on his waist, drew an arrow, and aimed at the enemy camp owner on the city gate.

With a 'whoosh', the enemy battalion owner was shot in the left eye, and the whole person took a few steps backwards, leaning on the pillar of the city gate tower, unable to move again.