Chapter 50: The Great War
Looking back at the dark and dreary camp, imagining that his comrades were sleeping soundly, Bao Yong, a sergeant under Jing Si, couldn't help but yawn, and said to Zhang Feng, a soldier beside him: "From Kaifeng all the way to the edge of the river, I ran thousands of miles overnight to this southern barbarian land, and when will it be a head?"
Zhang Feng was happy, leaned over and smiled: "My brother misses his sister-in-law at home, to be honest, my sister-in-law is such a charming beauty, no one in our family is at ease." ”
Bao Yong's eyes widened, and he shouted: "She dares, if she hadn't seen her still a little bit of beauty in the Reverse Shu Palace, Lao Tzu would have snatched it with the people of the Hujie Army on the spot, and she wouldn't know how to be abused by those guys." ”
Zhang Feng said with a smile: "The younger brother only hates to be in the army for a few years, and seeing that the brothers are snatching back such a beautiful girl in Bashu, I can only envy it." ”
Bao Yong patted him on the shoulder and laughed roughly: "It's not easy," he pointed in the direction of Jinling, "When this city is conquered, it will be better to play and rob, and finally bring a sight to go back." He approached Zhang Feng and said mysteriously: "I heard the adults say, when Jinling is defeated, we should go to attack the damn Taiyuan, then the lady of Jinbei is so brutal and not good-looking, if the brother wants to find a woman, just watch the battle." ”
Zhang Feng smiled and said, "Brother Xie Bao reminds." With that, he turned around and leaned against the low wall of the fortress, dodging the cold wind of the night, and the two eyelids fought unconsciously.
Guo Nian, the former captain of the Shenwei Army, quietly climbed to the front of the Song army camp with his five hundred elites, he looked back, Jinling City was like a huge beast squatting behind him, solving more than a dozen Song army scouts along the way, and in front of him was a camp of tens of thousands of people, Guo Nian knew in his heart that if the command made a slight mistake in his calculations, his five hundred people rushed into the Song army camp I am afraid that they would only be divided into corpses by random blades, he swallowed a bitter saliva, and the straw stalk in his mouth carried a smell of earth.
This is the year of Yihai, that is, the night of March 20 in the eighth year of Kaibao of the Song Kingdom, tomorrow is the spring equinox of the lunar solar terms, but the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River cannot work in the fields in order to avoid the war, and it is conceivable that after this war, the second half of the year must be a great famine. Before leaving, Wu Yingying specially called him to an attic in the middle of the house, pointed to the people of Jinling on the street and said that if the Song army had been besieging the city like this, it would not be long before the people starved to death tens of thousands of people, and if he did not take this risk, then there would be no chance to destroy the Song army's sailors and pontoon bridges. Guo Nian thought of his elderly parents and two unmarried sisters, who now only had one liter of rations per day, and he secretly saved the five liters of rice distributed in the army every day, and when he found an opportunity to secretly take them home, the family was as happy as the Chinese New Year. Thinking of this, Guo Nian couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart, and the commander promised that he would always support the families of the soldiers who died in the battle, and he should be a person who believes in his word.
Guo Nian lay on his stomach outside the trench of the Song army camp and shook his head vigorously, trying to throw out all these messy ideas. On the top of the trench is the fence of the Song army camp, holding the lantern high in front of the illumination, Guo Nian saw that some Song soldiers were dozing off against the fence, and some were looking out vigilantly with sleepiness, Guo Nian carefully found a place where there was a little darkness between the two lanterns, and the guards were also dozing in the place, quietly lying down and waiting for the Jinling City to issue the order to attack the camp. Poured Chunhan made his hands a little stiff and frozen, and his wrist had been firmly tied to the handle of the knife with a strip of cloth, he moved his fingers slightly, turned around and looked, the guys who brought it out were really angry, worthy of being the first battalion of the former army, he turned around, and under careful observation, he saw a large piece of black paste, and he really didn't see that there was any random movement, in order to prevent reflection, the clothes and armor and blades of the people who came out this time were painted with black mud.
Three strings of lanterns suddenly rose high on the tower of Jinling City, Guo Nian's heart jumped suddenly, it was time, he turned around to confirm that he was not dazzled, and then took his soldiers to gently push the four or five wooden ladders dragged up to the other side of the trench, when the first crawled to the opposite side, God and Buddha blessed, more than 50 people climbed through the trench before being discovered by the Song army in the distance, at this time Guo Nian They were already very close to the fence of the Song army's camp, accompanied by the Song army's "thief army attack camp" The alarm, Guo Nian did not hesitate to stand up with the soldiers around him, regardless of the sporadic shooting of the arrows crackling and nailing beside him, and even shot down a few soldiers immediately, just to put more than a dozen in Guo Nian into the Song army camp at the same time, around the huge Song army camp, several places were attacked by the Shenwei army, this era of people due to unbalanced nutrition, most of them suffer from different degrees of night blindness called bird blindness, and the corresponding military science of the means of night attack is not very fully used. Since Wu Yingying took over the helm of the Divine Guard, in addition to increasing the salary of a soldier, it is to let these guys who are training well to eat and drink well, so most of the non-commissioned officers of the Divine Guard have been suffering from blindness, and since then, Wu Hero has added many modern night attack tactics to the training, so this time he sent five battalions of troops to attack the Song Army camp at night, and only then did he receive miraculous results. The soldiers who entered the Song camp were shouting and slashing, and at the same time threw the fierce fire oil bottles and other things they carried with them everywhere and set them on fire.
Jing Si of the Crane Military Academy desperately took a few soldiers to try to entangle the Tang army that rushed into the camp, who knew that when most of the Song soldiers were still in the confusion of armor looking for knives, the Tang army that broke into the sentry actually formed a local advantage over the sentry guards led by Jing Si in an instant, and had been a forbidden army for ten years. Zhang Feng, who was so frightened that he followed behind, immediately shouted "Mom", pulled out his legs and fled. Jing Si himself was also slashed in the right leg by a Tang soldier and fell to the ground, already waiting to die with his eyes closed, who knew that those Tang soldiers didn't care about him, and after throwing out a few fierce oil bottles, they went deeper into the camp to kill.
In the past few days, Cao Bin has always been unable to sleep at night, Cai Jixun has been teased by the Tang Army several times to lure the enemy, although he did not directly question his general order, but his prestige in the army, which is not very high, has been shaken, and even Cao Bin himself has some doubts about whether he has fallen into Jinling's suspicious plan to delay the army's attack on the city, but he is afraid of Wang Yu's power to perform secret affairs, and he does not dare to directly ask Wang Yu to verify his doubts, and he is more and more worried. When the killing sound on the periphery of the camp first started, Cao Bin was almost the first of the Song generals to jump up from the couch. He hurriedly put on his armor and rushed out of the camp, picked up the waist knife handed by his own soldiers, looked around the left and right, and intuitively felt that there were fires and shouts of killing in all directions, east, west, north and south, and secretly called in his heart that the Tang army general was so cunning that he could not judge the direction of his real surprise attack by night attacks from all sides. Thinking of this, Cao Bin's heart moved, and he said in a deep voice: "Quickly pass on my general order, Cai Huaizhong, the commander of the east and west classes, Zhao Tinghan, the commander of the palace, and Dai Xing, the deputy commander of the royal dragon, gather the elite of the class, and the vanguard will command Cao Han to listen to my camp, and the rest of the departments will not move without permission, and the soldiers will be beheaded if they make noise for no reason." ”
Because of the importance of covering the cross-river pontoon bridge, Tian Qinzuo, the supervisor of the left wing of the camp, stayed on the boat of the sailor building at night, and he also heard the sound of killing around the camp on the shore, and the soldiers beside him asked: "Tian Dujian, the camp has been attacked at night, do you want the sailor to get close to the south bank and fire bows and arrows to help the battalion repel the attacking enemy?"
Tian Qinzuo glared at the soldier and said, "What do you know, what if it is a plan for the southern thieves to attack the west, so that all the soldiers will rise up and defend their positions, and those who do not get the order of the general will be beheaded immediately." ”
The shouts and fires from all sides became louder and louder, but Cao Bin stood firmly in front of his camp, he believed in his judgment, the Tang army would never have the strength to raid the entire Song army camp, so where was the purpose of the Tang army's night attack, it depended on their next move. Suddenly, the subordinate sentry came to report, rushed out from the direction of Jinling City, advanced by land and water, and about 20,000 horses went straight to the quarry rock pagoda that was tied to the pontoon bridge across the river. This pagoda is Nantang finely made, now Shuzhou military magistrate Fan Ruoshui pretended to build in the name of the Buddha, imagine the wind and waves on the river, if there is not this stone tower tied up, the pontoon bridge has long been washed by the water flow. If the Tang army wanted to destroy the pontoon bridge, it would either rush with huge boats from the upper reaches or try to destroy the buildings tied to the pontoon bridges on both sides of the Yangtze River.
The thick rope was firmly hung on the fence, and dozens of people behind it worked together to pull the fence together. Guo Nian shouted, commanded Wu Yingying to hand over his iron sword, and jumped over the wall of the Song army camp first.