What Ye Fanqing didn't know was that while the Taiping army on the mountainside was shouting and beating drums, and the momentum was making an earth-shattering sound, on the back mountain, where no one paid attention, the little Taoist priest who was lucky enough to survive the massacre was climbing hard in the dark, leading a group of Taiping soldiers on the rugged and difficult path.

In order to prevent them from getting separated at night, or even falling through the air on the mountain road, all the Taiping soldiers lined up in a row and tied a long rope around their waists. Because the trail in the back mountain is really difficult, they didn't bring much with them. Some people only carried a knife, some carried a crossbow arrow, but the only thing that remained unchanged was that all of them carried two packets of black oil in their skins.

From the foot of the mountain, Pingling Mountain is not very high, but it is particularly difficult to walk at night.

It took a long time for this group of Taiping soldiers to finally approach the top of the mountain when they were already out of breath. In addition to the increasingly clear shouts of the Taiping army, even the voices of the Omani defenders in the ancient Qing Temple faintly came into the ears.

"These Omanis!"

The little Taoist priest's eyes couldn't help but emit a light of hatred.

After reluctantly pronouncing a trumpet and calming down, he motioned to the Taiping soldiers who followed behind him to stop on the spot, untied the rope around his waist, quietly parted the grass, and walked more than a dozen steps to the top of the mountain. With the help of the dim moonlight and the light of the torches, the huge scale of Gu Qingguan came into his eyes, familiar and strange.

Separated by a layer of firebreaks where the trees were cut down, he didn't dare to enter the backyard of Gu Qingguan rashly, but one thing was certain, no Omanis noticed this!

Obviously, the Taiping army's feints on the front were extremely successful.

"You can hide here first, and then you can go and bring in a team of people."

After tiptoeing back, the little Taoist priest bowed and followed the mountain road familiarly. Without the Taiping army accompanying him, he seemed to be walking on the rough road. In an instant, the figure disappeared into the darkness.

Throughout the night, the Taiping army made at least four or five feints. Later, on the mountain, this Taoist priest who was familiar with the terrain of Pingling Mountain led the way, and the Taiping army also infiltrated 2780 people little by little. Although there are not as many as originally expected, as long as you can unexpectedly enter from the back mountain, it is enough to decide the entire battle.

After all, Chen Wu wanted to burn the grain and grass, not annihilate the Omani army!

Little by little, the hazy night dissipated.

In September, it was a long ordeal to spend the night in the dark in the lush mountains without making a sound. However, the Omani defenders outside the ancient Qingguan on the top of the hill were also not having a good time. After being tired by the Taiping army's tactics and not resting much all night, many soldiers' eyes were a little dark, and their hearts were even more angry.

On the other hand, on the side of the Taiping army on the front, except for the 4,000 recruits who were specially responsible for the feint, the rest of the main force was basically unaffected after plugging their ears with cotton stoppers. It wasn't until the day was about to light up that I ate some dry food at random and gathered again.

The drums of war sounded again overnight on and off.

But this time, the Taiping army did not feint reads();!

With the rigorous combat training that has been carried out, although one night is not enough time for these soldiers to rest, it has given them the strength to strengthen their bodies to fight. Buoyed by the beating of blood-pumping war drums, the soldiers rushed past the last few hundred paces and approached the Omani defenders at the top of the hill.

"The Imperials have attacked!"

When the drums sounded again, because the sky had not yet fully brightened, many Omanis consciously thought that this was still harassment, and they were very irritated and disapproving. However, the lookout in charge of the guard quickly told them in a panicked voice: The Taiping army is really coming this time!

This situation reflects the wisdom of Ye Fanqing, the general of the defending army.

If it weren't for his order last night, all the defenders gave up going back to the camp to sleep, but sat on the spot to rest, and with the situation last night, the Omanis are now afraid that it will be difficult to assemble quickly. Thanks to his plan, after realizing that the Taiping army was really attacking, these Omani soldiers only needed to quickly get up from the ground and line up, saving a lot of time.

Although his body was still a little stiff, and the moisture on the mountain made his clothes and armor a little damp, when the Taiping army attacked, he encountered the Omani soldiers who had already completed the whole team.

This undoubtedly surprised the Taiping army a little.

But the offensive that has been launched will not stop because of this.

It was still the soldiers of the 1st Garrison Brigade of Dengzhou who rushed to the front, and because after approaching the top of the mountain, the terrain began to become gentler and more open, and the Taiping army was able to invest a lot more troops at the same time. Soon, a large number of heavily armed soldiers collided with the Omanis in a thirst for victory.

Shouts of killing, the clashing of gold and iron, the screams of slashing, the rain of arrows, the sharp roar of arrows breaking through the air, and the click of shooting onto the shield......

In order to attract the attention of the Omani army as much as possible, the Taiping army invested double its strength this time, with the intention of defeating the defenders in a wave of offensives. Normally, such an overly dense projection of troops will have a very limited increase in the efficiency of the operation, and it is difficult for the soldiers to carry out it. But it has the advantage of forcing the defenders to put in more forces to resist, even if it is not proportional.

In Ye Fanqing's relatively cautious movement, the Omanis had at least two wings of soldiers and set up a double-layer front in front of the ancient Qingguan, relying on the terrain to resist the attack of the Taiping army.

In the Taiqing Dojo in front of the Guqing Guanmen, there is also a assembled team, which can be rotated at any time.

In addition, Ye Fanqing also held the reserves of two brigades in his hands.

Only six or seven hundred soldiers remained in the Gu Qing Temple—including some who had been wounded in the battle before dark yesterday.

As early as after attacking the ancient Qingguan, Ye Fanqing had checked the situation of Pingling Mountain and confirmed that there was only one road up the mountain in front of him. Because of this, as long as he held the front, he didn't worry at all that someone would be able to sneak into the mountains and destroy the granary. This situation still retains the strength of most of the wing, which is already a rather cautious strategy.

This strategy brought a little trouble to the Taiping ambush soldiers who climbed up the mountain behind Tongguò, but it was only a little.

The reason is very simple, in the fierce battle on the front, even if the defenders who stayed in the Gu Qingguan, few of them had the heart to inspect the back mountain, and all their attention was on the front. On weekdays, there may be officers who lead the team to reprimand them, but even the officers are absent-minded. More importantly, the defenders who remained in the ancient Qingguan were scattered everywhere.

This undoubtedly gave the Taiping army a chance to break through one by onereads();.

A few days ago, Xiao Lao Wu and Wang Zhong sneaked into their adventures and had roughly figured out the storage points of some Omani military rations. Moreover, even if there is no observation, with the help of Taoist priests who are familiar with the architecture and spatial distribution of the ancient Qing Temple, the military intelligence department can deduce the approximation. At this moment, according to the analysis of this little Taoist priest, nearly 300 Taiping troops who had secretly climbed the mountain, with the help of the faint fog on the mountain, began to move in two ways.

The first way, break directly into the backyard of Gu Qingguan and go west into the wing.

It was originally a place where the Taoist priests of the ancient Qing Dynasty stored things for some visiting monks to live. Due to the wide space, Gu Qingguan himself stored tens of thousands of stones of grain, and when there were occasional natural disasters, he would open a warehouse to release grain for relief.

In front of Gu Qingguan, the shouting and killing was in full swing, and the 180 Taiping soldiers on the first road rushed out silently under Wang Zhong's guidance. At the front, the man was armed with a wound crossbow arrow. To their relief, it was not until they broke into the backyard and walked more than 100 steps that they encountered a squad of Omani sentinels for the first time.

A click-

In an instant, more than a dozen arrows were fired like a storm. Before the Omani sentinels could figure out what was happening, most of them were shot down in the blink of an eye.

"Enemy attack!"

When the follow-up Taiping army rushed out and the second round of crossbow arrows were fired one after another, the only remaining three or four Omani soldiers realized what was going on and shouted out in shock.

However, it was too late.

The follow-up Taiping army quickly killed a few people, and then without looking, the whirlwind continued to rush forward.

Due to the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound on the front, especially when the Taiping army got Chen Wu's order, they deliberately made a noise to cover up the action of the back mountain, so the shouting here failed to attract the attention of the nearby Omanis for the first time. It was only when they saw a large number of Taiping troops rushing out from the direction of the back mountain like wolves that the second group of Omani soldiers at the fixed outpost realized that something was wrong.

"The Imperials have blended in!"

Eight Omani soldiers shouted as they rushed up to them in an attempt to hold them back. The other two immediately turned around and called for reinforcements as they ran out.

This tacit understanding and the spirit of daring to sacrifice have to be admired - many times, everyone wants to be the two people who call for reinforcements, rather than the victims who take the initiative to rush up and delay.

However, no matter how brave the eight people were, they were still too insignificant in the face of an enemy more than twenty times their size.

The Taiping army only left two brigades of people to surround them, and the rest of them did not stop at all, and went straight to the wing area. After killing the Omanis who came to stop them again after hearing the news, the Taiping soldiers on the western road saw the mountains of grain and grass in front of them. Because there is too much food hoarded here, the entire building of the ancient Qingguan can not be placed, and many grain bags are simply stored in the open air on a wooden frame, and only a layer of felt to protect them from the rain is draped on them.

Seeing these grains and grasses, the eyes of the intruding Taiping soldiers showed a mixture of excitement and regret.

The excitement is that the more grain and grass there is, the greater the blow to the Omani army after it is burned. It is a pity that if Gu Qingguan could be farther away from Tianlong City, and the strength of the defenders was weaker, the Taiping army could have taken this place and then managed to transport the grain and grass away, instead of burning it so wastefully.

I don't know who sighed first, and then, bags of black fire oil were resolutely poured on the grain bags.

In an instant, a pungent smell filled the air.