Chapter 526: Clever Capture of the Black Bone City (2)
At the end of June 28, the 21st year of Zhenguan, the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Tang army Li Daliang set out from Beisha City conquered several military villages and small cities all the way, and chased the rout army of Jiang Wangshu in Ningnan City to the bottom of the black bone city, but was forced to retreat by the Goguryeo defenders at the head of the city with random arrows, and had to set up a camp three miles away from the city, cutting wood and cutting wages to prepare for the offensive equipment, although all the people came out, but the cloud ladder was easy to build, but the ballista, the car and other things could not be achieved in a day, so the huge Tang army camp became a king-size carpenter field, All day long, there was the sound of shouting trumpets and the noise of sawing wood, and the defenders who looked at the city were very indignant, but they could only gather at the head of the city and shout and curse at the Tang camp without any orders. (.. com)
"What's the noise, is it against the sky?" Just when the defenders at the head of the city gathered together and scolded the Tang army camp not far away, the three brothers of Yuan Nan Ming led a group of generals to the city, and when they saw the chaos in the city, Yuan Mingnan's brows immediately wrinkled, but he was reserved and did not get angry, but the old three Yuan Nancheng of the Yuan family who had a hot temper roared, and the defenders retreated to the side in a panic.
"Major General, it's not that the brothers are presumptuous, it's really Tang Kou who is bullying people too much, you see, Tang Kou is so unpopular that the brothers can't swallow this breath!" As soon as he saw that Yuan Nancheng was angry, an officer who looked like a hundred households hurriedly came out, pointed to the city, and reported loudly.
As soon as the head of the hundred households said this, the generals found that the Tang army under the city was really arrogant - the logging was more than 500 steps away from the Black Bone City, not to mention, even a lot of siege equipment began to be built at the gate of the camp in such a big way, and there were no guards and horses, and there were bare-chested soldiers everywhere who were busy in a hurry, laughter and laughter were endless, and the sound of chatting resounded in the sky. "It's too much, big brother, and let the younger brother lead the army out of the city to him!" As soon as he saw Tang Jun's behavior, the faces of all the generals changed, and Yuan Nancheng was even more angry, and he jumped to his feet and shouted.
"No! The young general is not impulsive, the Tang people are cunning, and they must guard against ambushes! As soon as he heard Yuan Nancheng say this, Jiang Wangshu, the city guard of Ningnan who was standing on the side, immediately spoke out against it.
"I'm afraid! Even if there is an ambush, what can be done, Lao Tzu kills it seven in and seven out, it is not as embarrassed as someone......" Yuan Nancheng looked down on Jiang Wangshu who had lost the battle at all, and as soon as he heard his words to refute himself, he immediately turned his face, blushing and shouting thickly.
"Third brother, don't be rude." Yuan Nan saw that his brother was disrespectful, so he hurriedly spoke out to persuade him, and then no matter how ugly Yuan Nancheng's face was, he bowed to Jiang Wangshu and said: "Jiang Chengshou, my third brother is young and ignorant, and there is rudeness, please do a lot of Haihan." ”
Jiang Wangshu is a general of Goguryeo, and the official residence of the city guard, although it is nominally under the jurisdiction of Yuan Taihua, but after all, he is a general who sits on one side, and he has his own temper, how can he tolerate Yuan Nancheng to be so insulted in public, he was already so angry that he trembled, and when he was about to have a seizure, he saw that Yuan Nanming apologized so sincerely, and it was not good to dwell on this matter anymore, so he had to smile bitterly and shook his head and said: "It's okay, young general, according to the old man's eyes, my black bone city is dangerous and steep, and it is not something that this group of Tang troops can do now, even if it is fully equipped, It is also difficult for me to do anything, if it wants to trap the city, only to transfer our army out of the city to fight a decisive battle to have a line of possibility, this time the Tang army is so impetuous to act, it is against common sense, there must be deception, we must not act recklessly, just hold on to the city, do not fight with, over time, the Tang army will retreat. ”
"Big brother, what Jiang Chengshou said is very true, but the younger brother has a plan, maybe he can defeat Tang Jun once." As soon as Jiang Wangshu's voice fell, without waiting for Yuan Nanming to make a statement, Yuan Nanye, who was standing on the side, said something wrong.
"Oh? The second brother has any ideas, and let's listen to them. Although Yuan Nanming agreed with Jiang Wangshu's analysis, after all, he was a young man, and he was really unwilling to watch Tang Jun show off his might.
Yuan Nanye smiled and said: "Big brother, you see, there is chaos in front of the Tang military camp, if there is an ambush, it must be ambushed in the back camp, if we send a cavalry army to suddenly kill out of the city, it is not difficult to burn all the facilities in front of the camp, and when the fire starts, our army will not kill into the camp, and go back to the city, the Tang army is angry, and it is only necessary to send troops to chase after it, but it dares to chase and lure it into the urn city, and our army has ambushed the archers in the city in advance, and it is not difficult to annihilate the enemy, if it does not chase, then our army has burned all its equipment, It can also frustrate its sharpness. ”
"Clever plan, big brother, little brother please lead his troops out of the city to lure the enemy!" Yuan Nanming has not yet expressed his position, and Yuan Nancheng can't wait to shout good.
"Jiang Chengshou, in your opinion, is this plan feasible?" Yuan Nanming groaned for a while, and his mind was moved, but he didn't immediately express his position, but looked at Jiang Wangshu, who was frowning and contemplative, and asked tentatively.
Jiang Wangshu didn't rush to answer, but pondered for a while before he said thoughtfully: "It should be feasible, if you don't rush to Tang Ying, it should be fine." ”
Seeing that Jiang Wangshu did not raise any objections, Yuan Nan made up his mind to start a war, waved his hand, and issued a combat order with a serious face: "That's good, that's the case, second brother, immediately order two thousand cavalry, prepare more things to ignite the fire, and when the horn sounds, kill out of the city immediately, be careful, and don't rush into the camp recklessly; Third brother, immediately order all 3,000 archers to ambush at the head of the city, if the Tang army enters the urn city, immediately drop the jack gate, and annihilate the enemy, do you understand? ”
"Big brother, let's let the younger brother lead the army to fight, it's better that the younger brother's martial arts are higher than the second brother......" As soon as he heard that he wanted to stay behind, Yuan Nan was not happy to set up a horse, and shouted loudly before the generals agreed, with a face full of grievances.
"No, you're in the city, and you're not allowed to go anywhere!" Yuan Nanming knew that his third brother was a rough man, and he was afraid that he would rise up and forget to advance and retreat, so he didn't wait for Yuan Nancheng to finish speaking, he immediately put on a straight face, vetoed Yuan Nancheng's proposal categorically, and didn't look at Yuan Nancheng's black face, and waved his hand to the generals and said, "Wait and prepare immediately, there must be no mistake!" ”
"No!" Seeing that Yuan Nanming's face was not good, the generals didn't dare to say more, so they each bowed down and saluted, and all of them retreated to prepare for the battle.
There is no place next to the black bone city, that is, there are many mountains and dense trees, for the Tang army who urgently needs wood to construct siege equipment, it is really a good place - a few days earlier, the Tang army was also cautious only to cut down trees after their own camp, it can be seen that the defenders in the black bone city have never dared to come out to challenge, and the nervous heart has slowly dispersed, and the trees are cut down at this time, and there is no distinction between the front and rear camps, and even more, a platform was set up in front of the camp, ballistas, rushing cars, and large trebuchets were made of local materials and built on the spot. The posture was clearly not in the eyes of the defenders in the city, and when they were enjoying themselves, they suddenly heard a terrible cry from the city, and all the Tang officers and soldiers stopped their work, looked at the towering black bone city head suspiciously, and suddenly saw the closed city gate burst open, and the high hanging suspension bridge was suddenly flattened by the defenders at the head of the city, and suddenly, all the Tang officers and soldiers realized that something was wrong, and they didn't know who shouted "Enemy attack!" The Tang officers and soldiers who were standing alone woke up in shock, and each of them dropped their belongings and ran to their own camp desperately, and the whole scene could be described as extremely chaotic.
"Rush, hurry, kill!" Yuan Nanye led his troops to rush out of the city gate, as soon as he saw the Tang officers and soldiers so confused, the heart that was originally carried immediately put back in his stomach, waved the horse lance in his hand, shouted and rushed towards the Tang army camp, followed by the two thousand Goguryeo cavalry was not far behind, each of them roared and galloped wildly, rolling forward like an angry tornado, and in the sound of rumbling horse hooves, the murderous spirit rose into the air.
The Tang army camp is only three miles away from the city, and the place where many siege equipment is piled up is much closer to the city, for the cavalry in the crazy sprint, such a distance can be rushed in a moment, the scattered Tang officers and soldiers have not yet fully returned to the camp, the Goguryeo cavalry has been killed, although more than a dozen slow Tang soldiers desperately resisted, but soon like a bubble by the surging Goguryeo cavalry was drowned, and was cut into a piece of flesh by the random knife, which was extremely miserable.
"Ignite, burn, burn!" After defeating the resistance of the rebels, Yuan Nanye did not take advantage of the situation to attack the Tang army camp, but reined in the war horse not far from the Tang army camp, and commanded a group of subordinates to burn the various equipment built by the Tang army to half of the fire with the fire they brought.
Of course, the Tang army is not careless to be unprepared, in fact, not only today, in the past few days, there have always been 3,000 elite cavalry lurking in the rear camp of the Tang army, not only the cavalry commander Ran Rende and the army are lying in the dark, even the commander of the army, Li Daliang, is also personally sitting in the back camp, waiting for the attack of the defenders in the city - as early as the time when the defenders of the Black Bone City attacked, the three thousand Tang army iron cavalry were already on horseback, ready to attack the enemy at any time, but Li Daliang did not give the order to counterattack for a long time, Let the Goguryeo cavalry show off their might in front of their own camp.
"The thieves deceive people too much, they dare to burn my equipment, Liang Gong, you will give the order, and the general will definitely make this gang of thieves come and go!" Ran Rende waited for a long time, and saw that the fire in front of the camp had already been raised, but Li Daliang had not yet given the order to attack, so he couldn't help but be anxious, and galloped to Li Daliang and shouted angrily.
Li Daliang did this, he had his own reasons, he didn't care about the loss of those siege equipment, and he didn't care much about the arrogance of the Goguryeo cavalry, the reason why he arranged this ambush was not to annihilate the enemy, but just to prevent the enemy army from taking advantage of the chaos to attack his own camp, at this time, seeing that the Goguryeo cavalry seemed to have no intention of rushing to the camp, he was guilty of muttering in his heart, and when he heard Ran Rende asking for battle, Li Daliang frowned, and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, General Ran can lead his troops to disperse the incoming enemy, remember not to chase endlessly, Don't take advantage of the situation to rush to the city, go! ”
"No, the last general will obey!" As soon as Ran Rende heard that he could attack, he immediately became excited, replied loudly, turned his horse's head and rushed back to the main formation, and ordered in a loud voice: "The whole army listens to the order, kill all the thieves with Ben, rush!" As soon as the words fell, the horses rushed out of the back camp gate, and the soldiers divided into two ways, and went around the camp to cover the place where the fire started.
On the occasion of the heat of midsummer, the fire head together, immediately is an incorrigible situation, in the heat of the sky, a group of Goguryeo cavalry cheered thunderously, not in a hurry to return to the city, but in the Tang army camp will gallop, try their best to provoke the ability, is from the excitement, suddenly heard a rush of horses' hooves on the left and right sides, two groups of Tang troops left and right high-speed killing. Seeing that the cavalry of the Tang Army had already been dispatched, Yuan Nanye, who was full of desire to complete the task of luring the enemy, had no intention of responding to the battle, twisted his horse's head, and shouted "Withdraw!" He led a group of Goguryeo cavalry to quickly beat their horses and scurried towards the city gate.
Ran Rende is the general of the border pass of Jiuzhen, experienced in a hundred battles, he has always looked down on the Goguryeo cavalry, at this time seeing that the Goguryeo cavalry was about to escape, how could he let it go, completely forgot the previous Li Daliang's confession, and yelled, "Catch up, kill them, kill!" Turning the horse and chasing down, relying on the advantage of the Tang army's fast horses, desperately covering the Goguryeo cavalry, the three thousand elite cavalry of the Tang army followed behind them also shouted and chased towards the open city gate.
The war horses of the Tang army are carefully bred horses, not the inferior horses under the crotch of the Goguryeo cavalry, this rush is about to rise, the speed is faster than the fleeing Goguryeo cavalry, and in an instant it has been chased head to end, seeing that it will definitely be able to bite the tail of the Goguryeo cavalry and kill into the black bone city, Ran Rende roared excitedly, and the long horse lance in his hand was held up flatly, ready to kill once, but at this moment, a terrible horn sound suddenly sounded in the Tang army camp - the order to collect the troops has arrived!
"Damn it, damn it!" Li Daliang was quite strict, although Ran Rende was reluctant to lose the fat in his mouth, but he didn't dare to disobey the military order, so he had to restrain the galloping war horse, cursed at the city, and led the army to withdraw to his own camp.
"Hey, what a fucking pity!" At the moment when Ran Rende was scolding, Yuan Nancheng, who was behind the cat, saw that the Tang army was already about to take the bait, but he retreated at the end, and he was so angry that he slammed the city saucer, and there was nowhere to vent the evil fire, and his face was as red as blood, and then he saw that the retreat speed of the Tang cavalry was not fast, and he was not reconciled, so he rushed to Yuan Nanming's side in three steps and two steps, and hurriedly shouted: "Big brother, Tang Kou wants to escape, and let the younger brother lead the army to chase and kill, a big victory can be expected!" ”
Seeing that Tang Jun was so unhooked, Yuan Nan Mingzi was also extremely unwilling, but his mind was still sober, he didn't want to fight a field battle with Tang Jun senselessly, at this time, seeing that his third brother was so impulsive, he immediately lowered his face and scolded: "Don't mess around!" The order went down, the gates of the city were closed, and the departments were immediately rebuilt. ”
"Big brother ......" Yuan Nan Cheng Wu refused to give up, opened his mouth to say more, but was glared at by Yuan Nan Ming fiercely, and the words behind him were immediately unable to speak, he stomped his feet angrily, and ran to the side to sulk.
"Big brother, little brother is ashamed of failing to lead Tang Kou into an ambush, please punish Big Brother Long Invincible." In a commotion, Yuan Nanye led a group of cavalry officers to the city, and when he saw Yuan Nanming's face, he immediately bowed down and asked for guilt.
"The second brother doesn't have to be like this, this time the attack burned the enemy's baggage a lot, and the morale of our army was great, and there was no fault, today our army won a small victory, and the three armies should be rewarded to celebrate!" Yuan Nanming stepped forward with a smile, stretched out his hand to hold Yuan Nanye's arm, comforted him warmly, and ordered to reward the soldiers of the three armies......
Morale is a thing that disappears one after another, this Goguryeo defender cheered, the Tang officers and soldiers were angry, the atmosphere in the barracks was extremely depressing, and the Tang cavalry who failed to pursue the enemy were all pale, all of them were frustrated, and Ran Rende, who was at the head, blew his beard and glared at him and scolded non-stop, that is, when he saw Li Daliang's face, he just gave a perfunctory and casual salute, and then hid aside and complained.
Although Li Daliang is old, his eyes are not spent, and his ears are even better, how can he not see Ran Rende's small movements, but Li Daliang did not pay much attention to it, nor did he say anything to reprimand, but sat on the back of the horse with a smile, stared at the direction of the city wall for a long time, and then turned the horse into the camp gate, and ordered without looking back: "Come here, beat the drum and gather the generals!" ”
The sound of the drum is an order, and the invincible generals of the dragon scattered all over the camp heard the drums, and immediately stopped the work in their hands, and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, and stood in two columns in the big tent of the Chinese army according to their grades, but they waited for a while, but they never saw Li Daliang show up, just when the generals were talking in a low voice in confusion, they saw Li Daliang leading Jin Jiu out of the back tent, most of the generals didn't know who Jin Jiu was, but no one dared to ask casually at this moment, so they could only bow down and ask each other.
"The last general and the other will see the general." Maybe it was just a small defeat, and the generals' voices asking for peace were much lower than in the past, but Li Daliang didn't care at all, walked up to the big seat with a smile and sat down, raised his hand and said: "Excuse me, the old man invites you to come here, just for one thing - to take the Black Bone City tonight, can you have confidence?" ”
Li Daliang's words can be described as amazing, and the generals who are full of big tents are all dumbfounded when they hear it - not to mention that in the previous battle, nearly half of the siege equipment prepared by the Tang Army has been burned, even if it is not burned, it is impossible to prepare all the siege equipment today, without equipment, how can we talk about siege? What's more, the Black Bone City is very tightly guarded, and there is almost no chance to attack and break the enemy at night, at this time, Leng Buding heard Li Daliang say that he could break the enemy tonight, and the generals in the tent didn't dare to believe this, and they didn't dare to respond, so the big tent was so strangely quiet......
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