The sky was covered with clouds, the stars were dark, and a firework burst out, scattering the night sky with dazzling brilliance.

The city is majestic, and the two large camps of Yidu stand between the rivers. Between the two, they are separated by a wilderness plain. The city is silent; Black smoke billowed from the camp outside the city, and the noise shook the ground. Seeing the fireworks rising into the sky, He Zongzhe, who had never left the city, was first overjoyed, and then groaned. The general said: "The fireworks are in the air, and it is true that the thief army is in chaos. Why is the general's joy fleeting? If you don't go out to attack, why do you groan? ”

"Red thieves are cunning, and they have been through a lot. Since the Jining War, the history of its use of troops, first take Ningyang, and then set up Fuwen. In all battles, it is necessary to be wise first. Now although they are 'camping' and frightened, but the reason is just a green cow? What Ben will think, how he feels a little uneasy. ”

Most of the generals under his command are the generals of the "Mao Hulu Army", and one of them named Huang Youren said sharply: "In the face of the enemy's decisive battle, how can you be afraid and indecisive? Now the thief army is in chaos, and the general is struggling to attack, and he is ashamed! 'When the interruption continues, it will be disturbed. 'Besides, now that the fireworks have been lifted into the sky, if the general does not send troops to attack quickly, what will the young master of Nai? What is the military law of the general? The enemy misses the plane, this beheading is a felony! ”

The sentence "beheading a felony" deeply hit the fear in He Zongzhe's heart.

He gritted his teeth, and after repeated hesitation, he finally made a decision, sighed secretly, and thought, "'Catch the ducks on the shelves.'" If this is really the trick of the red thief, Qing Qianxing is really not to be underestimated! It seems that this battle will have to be fought even if I am fighting, and I will have to fight if I don't fight. He said, "What you have said is very true." That is, the general's order was passed on, and the whole army went out of the city. In order to prevent the thieves from cheating, don't go out all at once. It was divided into two teams, with 500 men as strikers and 1,000 as rear teams. If the striker is unharmed, the back team will serve. Ben will personally lead the team. ”

His idea was "not to seek merit, but to be without fault."

After the explanation, I still feel unsafe.

Of the 3,000 men in his city, 2,000 were sent out at once, and only a thousand were left to defend the city. I am worried that if this "camp roar" is really a plan of Yidu, I am afraid that it will be difficult to protect the city. I have the intention to send fewer people and horses out, but although the "camp is roaring", there are more than 10,000 troops and horses in the Yidu camp, and there are more than 2,000 people from Yang Wanhu on the other side of the river.

After thinking about it for a while, he added: "Jeju is less than sixty miles away from my Yanju, and it can be reached in the middle of the night by light horse. Immediately send a messenger to Jeju as soon as possible. Let's just say that the thief army is in civil strife, and our army is going to go out of the city to attack at night, and we are worried about the shortage of military horses, so we ask them to send some reinforcements over. "At the time of the third watch, the garrison of Jeju received a military report and sent troops out of the city, and at the latest, they could arrive in Yanju by noon tomorrow. If this "camp roar" is really a plan for Yidu, with Jeju reinforcements behind, at least He Zongzhe feels safe.

The assignment has been determined. The messenger went out of the city.

The army and horses in the city were divided into three parts: a thousand men guarded the city; 500 men attacked first, and met the 500 cavalry who set off the fireworks; He Zongzhe personally led thousands of people to gather behind the north city gate, ready to go.

The clouds are dense and the wind is gradually rising. In the open field outside the city, there was not half a human figure. I saw a group of people lighting torches and hurrying out of the city. Although the April wind was warm, the sound of the clash of weapons on their armor added a bit of solemnity to this warm early summer night.

The night attack is most suitable for using the Nine Locks Chain Array. A team of five people, a team of nine echoes.

The commander of the five hundred military horses out of the city is Huang Youren, and he can be regarded as a soldier. The five hundred men were arranged in nine small nine-lock chains; The nine small nine-lock chain arrays echo each other again, vaguely becoming a large nine-lock chain array. The remaining ninety-five people were brought with them as a reception for the queen of the palace. Moreover, in each small nine-lock chain formation, forty-five people were arranged in a sharp shape, which was the most suitable offensive formation.

The "Mao Hulu Army" is a foot soldier, and there are not many cavalry, and they have all been taken away by the general who set off the fireworks. Although Huang Youren brought all the foot soldiers, he was ten miles away, and he arrived very quickly. I saw the Yidu camp from afar, and the smoke and dust were billowing. Bursts of shouts and killings, screams, and running sounds were chaotic.

But the five hundred cavalry from before had already rushed into the camp.

Huang Youren waved his hand to stop his subordinates, watched for a moment, laughed, and said: "General He is also careful, now it seems that the thief army's 'camp roar' is true!" "Command left and right," set off fireworks again, urging General He to get out of the city! The soldier asked, "Then our department is waiting for General He to come?" Or do you want to take the 500 cavalry first? ”

Huang Youren's eyes widened and he said angrily: "The thief army is in chaos, and our army is breaking the thief's opportunity." The great credit is in front of you, is it difficult to give it to others? Didn't you see that Batu had already rushed in? ”

Batu, that is, He Zongzhe's cronies, the man with five hundred cavalry. Huang Youren raised his hammer and shouted: "The miracle of breaking the thief is now!" Sons, don't you fight hard? Five hundred people echoed in unison, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and they rushed straight to the camp. Because the Yidu camp caught fire earlier, the biggest fire was in Beiying, and the fences, camp gates, etc. were all burned down, so Huang Youren and Ba both coincided and rushed to Beiying.

In the middle of the night, the smoke was heavy, and the embers were not extinguished. Five hundred men rushed into the camp with their heads covered.

Everyone mentions the spirit, the pieces of steel knives are bright, the formation is not chaotic, the front and back are compact, just wait for the Yidu soldiers, they will be killed. When they went deeper into the camp, they were astonished to see that it was not good. They saw a lot of corpses in the Beiying Gate from a distance just now, and now when they were close to the front, they were suddenly shocked, and the corpses that fell to the ground were clearly dummies tied up with hemp grass! And the so-called "blood flowing everywhere" is only a red water stain.

Huang Youren shouted: "Ouch! Hurriedly raised their heads and looked around, in addition to the horizontal corpses, they also saw a lot of burned figures, and at this time, they could also see clearly, where was the "figure"? It's also the same as the horizontal corpse, it's all a straw man in clothes! His brain was not slow to react, and he blurted out and shouted: "Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows from the grass boat!" What a thief who is a good capital, he tricked me into the camp. ”

Knowing that it was not good, he hurriedly gave an order, told the rear formation to retreat quickly, and went to inform He Zongzhe of his plan. At the same time, restrain the front team, wanting to turn around and fight back into the city.

I saw a red flag waving, the flag was not big, two feet square, silently revealed from the camp tents that had not been burned on the left and right. There were about hundreds of Yidu soldiers, all dressed in black, and their swords and guns were all painted with black paint, like a group of evil spirits killed from the night, and they did not shout, but only pounced. Two or three hundred archers shot arrows in the rear, and the arrows rained down like rain and hit the human body, making a muffled sound of "poof, poof". Five hundred Yanzhou soldiers couldn't dodge and were hit by arrows repeatedly.

In the end, the "Mao Hulu Army" is extremely brave. Although the plan was in the middle of the plan, under the rain of arrows, the formation could not be placed, but everyone shouted and no one was afraid. The front team became the back team, the back team became the front team, and the "brave forward" of the appropriate talent suddenly changed to "brave and backward", regardless of the arrows, crashed into the peripheral Yidu army.

Huang Youren is a well-known fierce general in the "Mao Hulu Army", with two hammers swinging out, and there is almost no enemy under his command. In the blink of an eye, blood and brains were smeared with the twin hammers, and he was even splattered all over his body. Casually wiped off the flesh and blood on his face, he was hoarse and shouted: "'Mao gourd', invincible!" ”

Hundreds of people shouted: "'Mao Hulu', invincible!" ”

In the entire North Camp, a strange phenomenon appeared. Hundreds of Yanzhou soldiers shouted constantly, but none of the thousands of Yidu soldiers made a sound.

The Yidu military horses responsible for killing the enemy in the ambush camp are all descendants of Qing Qianxing, and they are all Goryeo veterans. Qing Qianxing has the intention to show his face, and all the people sent out are elites. These thousands of people did not shout or shout, on the one hand, they were ambushing and killing the enemy, for fear of alarming the city of Yanzhou; On the other hand, it is also the result of Qingqianxing's military governance.

The soldiers went into battle to kill the enemy, which was divided into two types, one was shouting; The other is just slashing and killing, and refuses to say more than half a sentence. The former shouted to boost morale; The latter is silent, it is to gather spirit. Qing Qianxing believes that if he keeps shouting, his strength will soon be gone, and his murderous spirit will soon be discharged. Therefore, the elite he brought out had one thing in common, he never made a sound when he went into battle to kill the enemy.

The night battle is in full swing.

A flying arrow shot diagonally and hit Huang Youren's stock. Huang Youren put the hammer in his left hand and put it in his right hand, raised the hammer at the same time, hammered down a Goryeo soldier who was killed by the bow, drew the knife with his backhand, and cut off the flying arrow. Although he was wounded, his face did not change, and when he saw a hundred enemy generals dressed in clothes, he threw his saber and slashed him in the shoulder.

Although the hundred households wore armor, it was difficult to defeat his strength, the saber went deep into the shoulder blades, screamed, retreated a few steps, three or four "gourd army" soldiers did not care about their bodies, rubbed their bodies and pounced, with knives, spears, and short swords, all slashed and pierced into his body. Blood splattered.

Before dying, these 100 elite subordinates worthy of Qing Qianxing swung their knives to fight back, from bottom to top, and opened the chin of an enemy soldier, and the blade went up along the cheeks and straight to the brain. The enemy soldier abandoned his sword and retreated, hiding his face with both hands, and screaming miserably. After screaming twice, he was surrounded by two Goryeo soldiers, and he was hacked to death with swords and guns.

War is tragic.

Like this hundred households and the soldiers of this "Mao Hulu Army", they died on the battlefield, but it was not too miserable. The most miserable ones are injured, especially those who are not injured in a place. Take Qing Qianxing's subordinates as an example, in the more than a year of fighting in Liaodong, almost no one was injured, and broken legs and hands were common. What's more, there are those who are unrecognizable, those who fall into diseases, and even those who are injured and inhumane. Life is better than death.

Why is it said that "mercy is not in charge of soldiers"? If it is too merciful, let alone urging the soldiers to go into battle to kill the enemy, even these injured people will not be able to bear to see them.

On one side is the Goryeo soldiers, and on the other side is the "Mao Hulu Army". Elite to elite, night battle in the north camp.

During the fighting, Huang Youren heard a few neighing sounds, which sounded deeper in the camp. In his busy schedule, he turned his head to look, but the night was too deep to see. Only the sound was discerned, and it was probably coming from the vicinity of Nanying. Five or six miles away. His heart moved, and he thought, "Maybe it's the five hundred cavalry brought by Batu?" ”

The guess was right. It was the five hundred men of Batu. It turned out that Batu entered the camp in advance, and Qing Qianxing, in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, alarmed Yanzhou, and no longer sent troops to attack, so he used a strategy to introduce him into the depths of the south and handed him over to Fu Youde. Then he arranged the North Camp again, which attracted Huang Youren's department.

Speaking of which, in order to lure the enemy to attack, Qing Qianxing actually dared to burn down the North Camp, and his courage and sincerity are not insignificant. With such a large amount of capital, how could Batu and Huang Youren not be fooled in the end? The green bull was nothing more than an introduction, and the highlight of this lure of the enemy out of the city was undoubtedly his self-destruction camp.

Huang Youren's fierce military horses were out of Qing Qianxing's expectations. In the case of fighting at home, with more strikes and fewer blows, and an ambush design, the bloody battle lasted for half an hour, and it was not able to be completely annihilated. A sentinel drove his horse to run, but he didn't have time to dismount, so he hurriedly said: "He Zongzhe personally led a thousand people and has already left the city. ”

Qing Qianxing looked up at the night, and it was almost the fourth watch. He stood on the top of a watchtower, and then condescended, looking down on the battlefield in the camp, and saw that there were more than 200 people in Huang Youren's department, and he was fighting bitterly. Knowing that it was impossible to destroy all the enemies before He Zongzhe arrived, fortunately, he had already laid out a rear hand, so he was not in a hurry and ordered to go: "Wait for He Zongzhe to go out of the city, teach General Li to rise and fall the army, and cut off his way back." ”

"Yes."

"General Fu, have you already annihilated the enemy?"

"The Tartar cavalry is fierce, although they have to dismount and fight because General Fu has cut off their gallop benefits because of General Fu's rejection of horses and other things, and they have suffered more than eighty percent casualties, and there are less than 100 people left, but they still refuse to surrender, and they still resist stubbornly."

Qing Qianxing praised and said, "What a strong enemy!" "Because the Batu Department is all cavalry, there are more military horses allocated to Fu Youde, with 3,000 people. The cavalry with 3,000 men fighting 500 dismounted cavalry is still in fierce battle, and it has not been able to annihilate all of them. The toughness of the "Mao Hulu Army" can be seen from this.

"But it's hard for General Yang to be able to quickly overcome Ningyang." Qing Qianxing changed the topic, mentioned Yang Wanhu's capture of Ningyang, praised him again, and thought, "No wonder I met a few days ago, I inspected Yang Wanhu's camp, and saw that many of his soldiers were injured. Although he can quickly overcome Ningyang, it seems that he has gnawed a hard bone. ”

In the Haidong Army, although Guo Conglong is outstanding, he has to fight tough battles, and at present, Yang Wanhu is the first.

Qing Qianxing pondered slightly, and ordered: "Tell Fu Youde, there are only more than 100 Tartar cavalry left, which is not a big problem, just leave a partial general to surround it." Ordered him to lead the main force out of the camp immediately, intercept He Zongzhe's army out of the city, and fight with it! ”

If He Zongzhe is released into the camp again, it may not be possible to steal chickens and rice, and it is really possible that the camp will be completely disrupted by the "Mao Hulu Army". Anyway, the predetermined strategy was to urge the enemy to fight in the field, and since one part of the enemy had been trapped in the camp, it was simply not put into the camp by He Zongzhe's thousand men, and they would be annihilated outside the camp.

The herald takes the order.

Qing Qianxing turned his head, looked at the other side of the river, and said: "Quickly send a quick ride, cross the river to inform General Yang, and teach him to be cautious." If Jeju has help, be sure to stop it, and never let a single soldier come over. ”

"Yes!"

"Since General Li wants to change to cut off He Zongzhe's way back, another important task that was originally assigned to him ,—— waiting for the opportunity to take the city, it seems that Ben will only do it. Spread my military order, leave a thousand people to surround the Beiying Tartars, point Qi Li's army, go out from the Xiying, avoid He Zongzhe, insert behind the enemy, and see if there is a chance to take the city. ”

Because of the fire in the North Camp, the troops originally stationed in the North Camp are now temporarily crowded into the East and West Second Battalions. The main force of the Goryeo army, more than 2,000 people, was in the western camp. He Zongzhe gave an order, and the three armies moved. The two large camps on both sides of the river, totaling more than 10,000 people, were gearing up and vowing to take the city tonight.

"The two armies are fighting against each other, and the heart is the first."

At this point in this battle, Qing Qianxing's strategy of "urging the enemy to fight in the field and taking advantage of the gap to take the city" was half realized, and he successfully led out He Zongzhe with the courage of burning the camp. And the reason why his first half of the plan was realized was because it was placed on the basis of "attacking the heart". As for whether he can win the city or not, whether the second half of the plan can be realized, it has nothing to do with "attacking the heart", but only "taking by force".