Chapter Eighty-Four: The Raid of the Hour
On the 20th of March, it was a crucial moment in the later historiography of the Quanzhou War, because the changes on several battlefields were all inspired by this moment.
Qian Hongwei, the assassin of Huzhou who confronted the Ningguo army in southern Tangtang on the border, was the first to attack, and he sent 500 dead soldiers to the left camp of the Ningguo army at night, and launched a surprise attack on the 20th. The left army of the Ning State Army, which was caught off guard, was in chaos, and Qian Hongwei ordered 3,000 elites to carry out the second wave of impact, and the left side of the Southern Tang Ning Army with a total of 5,000 had no resistance at all in the chaos; The Chinese army of the Ning State Army, which heard the chaos and raised troops to rescue, was bitten by the main force of the Wuyue Huzhou Army halfway and fell into a chaotic battle; The right side of Ning Guo was stopped by a few Wu Yue elites, and he couldn't even reach the middle battlefield. The two sides fought until dawn, and the soldiers on the left side of the Ning Army were almost completely lost, and the Chinese army also suffered a lot of losses.
Xu Zhizheng, the lieutenant of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the envoy of the Ningguo Army and the assassin of Xuanzhou, had no choice but to order all the soldiers to retreat twenty miles to temporarily avoid the enemy.
Also in the sub-hour, the 3,000 soldiers of the Quanzhou Beida Battalion, under the leadership of Chen Wenshan, began to raid the temporary wooden village at the fork of the Southern Tang Jianzhou Army's advance from Dehua to Nan'an, and defeated a thousand defenders at the cost of 800 casualties, driving their butts to Nan'an City in the east.
At this time, Nan'an City was taking out a tragic siege battle, under the on-site command of Chen Xu, the envoy of Jianzhou Jiedu, 10,000 Jianzhou troops were like crazy, let go of the other three gates, the army was divided into five groups, and only aimed at a place on the right side of the West City Gate to carry out a fierce attack, and finally attacked the city wall a quarter of an hour ago, occupied the head of the West City, and was struggling to resist the Qingyuan defenders who attacked from both sides of the city wall and the city.
The unusually strong Chen Yu rode on his horse, staring at the battle on the city wall with a cold face, without saying a word. Chen Decheng, Zheng Yanhua, and others, deputy generals of the Jianzhou Army, stood behind him and remained silent as well.
Suddenly, a panicked shout came from the rear of the battle formation, and several people looked back in surprise to find that many torches appeared due west, which were attacking the rear of their own army. The rear formation, which was basically played by the minfu, was immediately in chaos, and the minfu were all shouting and desperately trying to escape from those who were raiding.
"Enemy sneak attack! Father, let me stop them! Chen Decheng shouted loudly.
"Don't be nervous! These enemy soldiers can only come from Dehua, and the number will not be too many! Rush forward with a thousand fangs, and do not kill them! Chen Zhi commanded softly.
Tooth soldiers, i.e., pro-soldiers or guards. The pro-army China has had since ancient times, and the tooth soldiers of the five dynasties and ten countries were the private soldiers of the envoys of the Middle and Tang Dynasty. The reason why the guards are called tooth soldiers is derived from the word "tooth flag", "tooth" through "ya", the ancient generals went out of the town, built tooth flags, and marched in festivals, so their official office was called ya, and then made ya.
The Tang Dynasty festival envoy is the general of the single town side, they go out of the town, give double double festivals, the line is to build a festival, tree six Xu. The ancient examples call the official office a tooth, call the flag of the tree a tooth flag, call the city where you live a tooth city, call the house you live in a tooth house, call the court commander a tooth ginseng, say that the person who is close to you will be a tooth general, the guard is a tooth team, and the pro-soldiers are called tooth soldiers. The Jianzhou Army had a total of 2,000 tooth troops, all of whom were loyal elite soldiers selected from 30,000 soldiers.
Chen Decheng led the crowd to beat the horses and roared away.
Chen Yu turned to Zheng Yanhua and commanded softly, "Yanhua, you have been following Lin Feng for so long, you should be more familiar with how to raid. You take fifty of the most elite tooth soldiers, attack from the city wall ladder, and open the city gate as soon as possible, can you do it? ”
Zheng Yanhua jumped off the horse, slammed his chest three times, and roared: "Don't worry, big handsome, I can't take the city gate, I'll come to see you!" ”
Chen Yu also jumped off the horse, helped Zheng Yanhua straighten his military uniform, and said solemnly: "I believe in you!" There is no room for loss in this battle, otherwise the reputation of our Jianzhou Army will be completely ruined! ”
Zheng Yanhua roared twice, tore off the military uniform on his body, and took the lead in running towards the wooden ladder leaning against the city wall, and the fifty tooth soldiers also ripped off their military uniforms and followed closely behind with their naked bodies.
Chen Yu looked at the situation that had slowly stabilized in the back, turned his head to look in the direction of Quanzhou, and muttered: "Lin boy, I did my best to do it, and it's up to you next!" ”
Lin Feng, who was being talked about, sneezed twice, forced himself to suppress the heart palpitations that suddenly became strong, and shouted at Zhao Zanting, who entered the door: "How many troops have arrived?" ”
Zhao Zanting replied loudly: "It's up to seven!" There are still four teams in the direction of Zhangzhou that have not arrived, and two of them are harassing and attacking under Xicheng. ”
"Don't wait! Let's go! Lin Feng walked out of the small temple quickly, came to the foot of the mountain, called the deputy generals of the seven teams, Zhao Zanting and Zhao Tianba, and ordered them one by one, and the deputy generals went as a team.
Lin Feng called a group of guards from King Zheng's Mansion, as well as Cheng Yuehai and others, and said solemnly: "Without further ado, we must launch it in advance!" The victory and defeat of Quanzhou is in this move, I hope you will lead the special soldiers to rush into the Quanzhou defender camp under the west city as soon as possible, and ensure that after everyone is mixed with the Quanzhou army, drive the battlefield to attack directly below the city wall, and strive to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city wall, and raid in to echo the brothers in the city! Come, let's cheer for victory in advance! ”
Lin Feng stepped forward and put his palm in front of him, and the other guards and Cheng Yuehai also stepped forward, put their palms up, and at the same time pressed down on Lu, shouting: "Victory!" ”
At about three o'clock, Cheng Yuehai and Zhao Chengyu took the lead with special soldiers to rush to the defenders under Xicheng, contacted the soldiers of the two harassment forces in the rear, and covered the front at the same time.
Because of the continuous harassment and attack, the barracks at the head of the West City Gate and under the city wall were full of torches, and two large fires were lit in the camp, according to the soldiers of the two armies who were fighting in the situation.
"Xiaohai!" Cheng Yuehai let out a low roar.
A small Zhuang young man jumped up, carrying a strangely shaped longbow almost as tall as his body.
"Take your brother and shoot all the torches on this side of the camp!" Cheng Yuehai commanded softly.
The special soldier called Xiaohai nodded, whistled, stretched out both hands at the same time, and then tiptoed to the right front of the bow and feet.
A moment later, three increasingly shorter bird calls rang out, and a dozen arrows were fired at the same time, impartially sending the torches into the air.
Taking advantage of the sudden darkness, Cheng Yuehai took the lead and rushed towards the camp wall. When the exclamations of the guards in the nearby camp wall continued, Cheng Yuehai and the others had already jumped over the wooden camp wall and rushed in.
"Scatter and attack! Torches, archers! Cheng Yuehai shouted while pounced on the soldiers holding torches, first extinguishing the torches and then injuring people. Naturally, the other special soldiers followed suit, giving priority to those with torches and those with bows and arrows.
The assault of nearly 200 special fighters was very terrifying, and half of the camp soon lost its light. Under the cover of darkness, five elite legions of 500 people dressed in black uniforms followed up and quickly swept away the defenders in the western half of the camp wall, and mixed up with the remaining defenders.
Amid the shouts and screams of slaughter and screams, there were urgent and short bird calls from time to time, and more torches were dimmed.
The defenders of Quanzhou, who were holding bows and arrows on the city wall, were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, but they did not dare to shoot the arrows for fear of injuring their own people by mistake. While they hesitated, they shot arrows from the crowd, knocking down the torches on the pheasants.
"Stand back and light the fire!" One of the city guards roared and took the lead in moving his body away from the city. The other soldiers also hurriedly pulled their bodies back.
At this moment, several black ropes and grippers silently set up the battlements next to them, and Cheng Yuehai and several special soldiers from the Guiguan region grabbed the ropes and quickly climbed up.
"Someone is in town!" A Quanzhou soldier in the Quanzhou military camp below inadvertently looked up and saw several figures who were going to the city, and opened his mouth to shout.
Before he could finish speaking, he was stabbed down by a knife that stabbed from the side. Amid the noise of the scene, this shout did not attract much attention.
Between a few ups and downs, Cheng Yuehai had already taken the lead in climbing the city wall. As he turned over the battlements, he had taken out a jar slightly larger than his fist from his bosom and threw it into a fire on the inner side of the city, before turning and lying down under the pheasant.
"Boom", a loud bang exploded, and the wooden sticks with fire and sparks were blown up and flew around, so that the Quanzhou soldiers above and below the city wall were startled and looked at this side in unison.
An explosion is the signal to launch the most rear-end attack!