Chapter Seventy-Three: Joint Raid
Lin Feng's guess was right, it was Cheng Yuehai who led the two hundred elite soldiers of the Wuchang Army to arrive!
As early as seven days ago, Wei San and Cheng Yuehai and two deputy generals of the Wuchang Army, Chu Tianshu and Ma Jiwei, took 200 elite soldiers from Wuchang to the west by boat. They used Liu Renzhen's warrant to protect themselves, and in the name of sending the will of the Tang Dynasty to the Shuntian general Ma Xixu, they successfully crossed the Chu-Tang border. However, when they entered the territory of Yuezhou, they had trouble and saw the patrol boat sent by Wang Zan, the assassin of Yuezhou, in the distance on the river.
Wei San and Cheng Yuehai of course knew about Ma Xicao's failure to go down to Yuezhou City on the fifth day, and knew that the reason that Lu Dao had made up before could no longer be used, so they discussed with Chu Tianshu and Ma Jiwei, two deputy generals, and everyone hid to pass the customs alone, and met under Yiyang City four days later at the latest. As a result, what made Wei San and Cheng Yuehai very headache was that four days had passed, but there were still many elite soldiers from Wuchang who had not arrived. At noon on October 6, when he heard that the Tanzhou front line had begun, Wei San, who was so anxious, couldn't wait any longer, so he took the first step and ordered Cheng Yuehai to set off at the latest (five o'clock)!
Nearly nine o'clock (nine o'clock), Cheng Yuehai, who led the way in front of the head, met Zhao Xiaosan, who was riding a fast horse and holding a torch, and was immediately shocked when he heard the news, urging all the soldiers to speed up, and ran to the west bank of the Xiangjiang River under Tanzhou City in half an hour, after crossing the river smoothly, Zhao Xiaosan and Cheng Yuehai quickly found the rope that was still tied to the battlements, and after climbing first, they put down more ropes, and more than 200 elites soon all dived into the city.
According to the previous intelligence that Huang Zongwang's Mansion was located in the northeast of Tanzhou City, the more Cheng Yuehai and the others sneaked in that direction, the more surprised they became, and there were more and more tribal soldiers advancing in the same direction as them. In order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, Cheng Yuehai ordered all the soldiers to extinguish the torches, took the lead in attacking a few lone tribal soldiers, and asked several Tujia soldiers in the Wuchang army to change them and open the way in front of the head, all the way to the northwest corner of Huangfu without any danger.
Just when Cheng Yuehai held the torch to convey the information that the reinforcements had arrived, and Lin Feng also raised the torch to respond accordingly, on a high rockery on the southwest side of the Huangfu, a pair of eyes also saw the information that the reinforcements had arrived, and quickly retracted his head into the shadows, it was Wei San, who was anxious.
Wei San, Li Congqian and other five children had already rushed to the Huang Mansion, but because the manpower was really thin, they didn't dare to attack without authorization, so they could only hide in this rockery all the time.
As soon as the news that the reinforcements from Wuchang had arrived, the five children were all excited, and Li Congqian patted his head and suddenly mentioned something: "Brother Wei, when we came in from the west side of the Yellow Mansion, I seemed to have heard the neighing of horses. This Huang Zongwang seems to have started by selling horses in the first place, right? ”
"That's it, I remember Brother Lin once said that." Xiao Duanrui immediately picked up.
Wei San's eyes lit up, and he immediately gave Li Congqian a thumbs up and praised: "Sure enough, he is worthy of the extremely smart Ninth Highness!" Chen Fei, you go and contact Cheng Yuehai and lead him to the location where the horses are, where we meet! ”
"Great!" Chen Fei roared excitedly, turned around and ran. It's been a long time since I've been here, but I can only sit here and watch my eldest brother being besieged, but I can't help at all, and Chen Fei's children are about to go crazy.
"Be careful!" Wei San was angry and anxious, and shouted softly behind his back.
"I know it!" Chen Fei replied lightly, and the person was gone.
At this time, in front of the Huangfu Fort, all the vehicle remnants that were in the way had been cleaned up, and the tribal soldiers who arrived later finally brought the siege ladder and a large number of arrows.
Looking at the fort that did not have the slightest light in front of him but kept shooting sharp arrows, Zhao Ye suddenly felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and said to Pan Long: "Brother Pan, if we retreat now, it will be a pure misunderstanding, can we let Lin Feng settle his old suspicions?" ”
Pan Long and the three leaders looked at Zhao Ye in unison, as if looking at a mentally deranged person, seeing that the fort was about to be taken, but you retreated at this time?
Zhao Ye looked at the fort again, and then looked at the dark night sky around him, his heart became more and more uneasy, and he said in a deep voice: "Lin Feng is thoughtful, I have been observing for a long time, and I have not found the figures of his most proud subordinates, could this be a conspiracy?" ”
Panlong scoffed and sneered, "When have we Tujia warriors ever been afraid?" Zhao Ye, don't talk nonsense, grow the prestige of others! ”
Zhao Ye immediately asked, "Then why did Lin Feng set up a trap and prepare to deal with it before we raided?" Why did they know that Lin Feng and they were going to be trapped in the dead place of the fort, but there were still reinforcements rushing into the fort desperately? I can't figure out a lot of things, and I'm really worried! ”
Pan Long sneered again, and was about to speak, but his ears were pricked up, and Zhao Ye also seemed to hear something and froze his body.
"There is the sound of horses' hooves!" Pu Guishan, the leader of the Dong tribe, who was listening attentively, suddenly shouted.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves getting louder and louder, Panlong shouted: "Get out of here!" "Be the first to run back.
As soon as these people and their guards left their position, the sound of hurried horses' hooves rolled by, and a platoon of six horsemen suddenly burst out from the west side, directly killing the scattered tribal ranks, and every five meters apart, there was a row of cavalry with six horses in parallel.
The tall horses, all blindfolded, were beaten desperately by the soldiers on their horses, and rushed forward in a frenzy. Never expecting to encounter the cavalry, the tribal soldiers suddenly blew up their nests, desperately trying to avoid the onslaught of the cavalry.
The whole seven rows of cavalry rushed over at full speed, and just when some of the tribal soldiers who had dodged the horses were in shock and were about to return to their positions, a group of big men suddenly broke out of the darkness and rushed along the route that the cavalry had just rushed, slashing with steel knives in their hands, and immediately there was another burst of chickens and dogs.
"Hurry up and protect the siege equipment!" Seeing the direction in which these people were killing, Panlong reacted and roared.
It's late! When the group of masked men was about to attack the siege equipment, the gate of the fort suddenly opened, and a group of people shouted wildly, and the target of the two groups of people was exactly the same. They chopped down a few tribal soldiers who were stunned in place, quickly cut off a dozen siege ladders one by one, and then picked up the arrow bags on the ground and ran back to the fort quickly.
At this time, those cavalry had already sprinted around the fort, driving the tribal soldiers to pieces, and without slowing down at all, they began to attack in the second circle.
Zhao Ye grabbed Panlong and said loudly: "It's impossible to do anything, stop it quickly!" "There is no siege equipment, and the other party has a fort, and the other party has a large number of arrows, if you wait until dawn, the tribal soldiers find that it is not the Tanzhou army but the Tang envoy who is besieging it, and then it will be really difficult to do!
Panlong's eyes were blood-red, glaring at Zhao Ye angrily, panting in his nose, and he wanted to pull out his knife and cut him down.
Although Panlong and Zhao Ye are both Tujia people, they belong to Chen and Lizhou, and Panlong is respected as the "leading brother" of the tribal army every day, but he has the light of the largest number of Tujia soldiers in Chenzhou, and Zhao Ye has no affiliation with him, so if Zhao Ye insists on picking a pick, Panlong is also in vain.
At this moment, two panicked tribal soldiers ran over from the direction of the Huangfu Mansion Gate and reported loudly: "General Pan, there is a siege of the city by the infantry of the King of Chu outside the northern city wall, and it is required to open the city gate immediately, otherwise the city will be attacked!" ”
Zhao Ye sighed, no longer paid attention to the stunned coiling dragon, and ordered his personal guards to gather the soldiers of his clan to evacuate, he was not going to make this trip again.
Panlong looked at Zhao Ye, who left in a hurry, and the group of Tujia soldiers who went with him, his heart was furious, he drew his sword in his hand, and shouted: "Whoever dares to open the city gate, I will chop whom!" Come on, come with me, kill these cavalrymen! ”
After speaking, the coiling dragon was like a madness, and ran in the direction where the cavalry was running. His guards glanced at each other, and had to step along. However, their voices shouted loudly, as if to scare away the helplessness and fear in their hearts.