Chapter 404: Sneak Attack and Assassination
Later, King Hong personally supported the North Gate, and Guo Zidi lost thousands of soldiers. Guo Zidi was worried about the front and rear attacks, so he retreated the army, and ran into Sima Hongyan's army in ambush halfway.
Guo Zidi lost a lot of elite soldiers, and as soon as he heard that reinforcements would pass by, he grabbed this errand so that his subordinate soldiers could spread fire. As a result, the 30,000 elite soldiers sent out by King Hong were eaten clean by Guo Zidi.
The trap on the road was set up by Sima Hongyan, and the soldiers who destroyed the enemy were Guo Zidi's team, and Guo Zidi was in a better mood after destroying the 30,000 cavalry in Dongning without spending a single soldier.
Sima Hongyan asked Guo Zidi to lead his troops back to camp outside the North City Gate to recuperate for a while, and wait for her order when to attack again.
Since King Hong personally went to the north gate to support, Sima Hongyan immediately sent people to order Ban Lingruo and Zhong Liying to attack the west gate immediately.
Yanling's elite army was not blown out, once the attack was launched with great momentum and tacit tactical cooperation, the Dongning soldiers, who had always been arrogant, were frightened and fearful, and there was no way except to ask King Hong for help.
Sure enough, according to King Hong's temperament, he personally led the troops to rescue. If Ban Lingruo got Sima Hongyan's prompt, as long as he saw that King Hong's rescue had arrived, no matter how far he fought, he must retreat immediately and return to the camp without moving.
When he knew that King Hong had gone to the West City Gate again, Sima Hongyan immediately sent an order to Nan Guying and Guo Zidi, asking them to attack the South City Gate and the North City Gate at the same time. As a result, the heavy soldiers at the east gate were transferred around by King Hong little by little to rescue, and even King Hong himself was involved in running around and was busy.
And at this time, King Hong hadn't figured out where Sima Hongyan was!
After arranging for Xiao Hongying to lead troops to ambush along the road, the female soldiers who were monitoring the east city gate soon came to report that about 80,000 cavalry had left the city, 30,000 went south, and 50,000 went north.
The corners of Sima Hongyan's mouth curled slightly after hearing this, and he said in his heart: "A big gift is cheap Hongying, this girl!" King Hong, King Hong, this time you have to lose your army again for your self-righteousness! ”
On the same day, the 50,000 Dongning cavalry heading north suffered a fatal blow again, this time it was more ruthless than the last time, and countless small pits appeared on the ground inexplicably, and countless horse legs were trapped in the pit and broken. This was followed by a rain of arrows that shot the panicked cavalry like hedgehogs. Some of the cavalry turned to run, but there were countless stumbling ropes in the circuit, and then a rain of arrows shot them into hedgehogs.
The bows and arrows of an army of 100,000 shot 50,000 people, and the arrows sent out were like black clouds pressing on the top, covering the sky and the sun, so that people had nowhere to hide. 50,000 horses were wiped out by Xiao Hongying, and there was really no survivor. Not to mention people, not even the war horse can stand up again.
After Xiao Hongying finished cleaning the battlefield, he looked at the Dongning soldiers who fell to the ground and each of them had at least dozens of arrow holes, and after sighing with emotion, he collected his troops and returned to the camp to return to Sima Hongyan.
These two ambushes have wiped out 80,000 of Dongning's elite cavalry, and Dongning's self-proclaimed invincible iron cavalry has damaged more than half of its own blood, and it has not even seen the enemy's face.
King Hong was resting at the West City Gate, and he now understood that Yan Ling's continuous attacks were deliberately tricking him, that is, to exhaust him. And these days, he is indeed choking enough, he can't eat well and sleep well, and people are a lot of grievances. It's not a way to go on like this, and if he goes back and forth like this a few times, the city gate will be broken first, and he will be exhausted to death first. So this time, King Hong had to think of a way to resist Yanling's attack without having to personally supervise the battle.
After thinking about it all night, King Hong thought that the best way was to find the main force of the Yanling Army and then take the initiative to attack. Now that the Yanling army is divided into troops to attack the city, there will definitely not be many soldiers and horses around Sima Hongyan, if she can find her position and break it in one fell swoop, then the danger of the city gate can naturally be lifted.
But where is Sima Hongyan? This is the most difficult problem, the spies sent out batch after batch, but they couldn't find any trace of Sima Hongyan, King Hong guessed that Sima Hongyan must be ambushed outside one of the city gates, but he had no clue where to go.
Just when King Hong was worried, suddenly his guards came to report. King Hong called in, and the guards said a few words in King Hong's ear, and King Hong, who was originally full of sadness, instantly smiled, and swept away the gloom.
That night, Sima Hongyan received news that a large number of reinforcements appeared at the north and south city gates, and the combat effectiveness was not weak, and Nan Guying and Guo Zidi temporarily retreated in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers.
At this time, the reinforcements that can be transferred over must be the elite soldiers of the East City Gate, so it seems that the current defense force in the East City Gate must be the weakest, and it seems that it is time to storm the East City Gate.
Sima Hongyan secretly planned how to directly enter Dongning in the near future, she ordered people to transfer back Ban Lingruo's troops, only to set up suspicious soldiers outside the west city gate to involve King Hong, and at the same time transfer half of the troops from the north and south gates, she wanted to ensure that there were enough troops to attack the east city gate.
The next day, Sima Hongyan convened everyone to discuss the general attack. Before everyone arrived, Xiao Hongying first said to Sima Hongyan that the female soldiers had come to report, and it seemed that they had found an abnormality near the camp in the past two days, but after the investigation, they found nothing, and the female soldiers did not dare to be careless, so they reported it.
Sima Hongyan's heart moved, and asked, "When did this happen?" ”
Xiao Hongying thought about it and replied: "It's these two days!" But I think the female soldiers and sisters should be right, there must be a master hiding near us, and the ability to hide from our female soldiers is definitely not small. ”
Sima Hongyan also said: "That's right! The martial arts of people who can avoid the ears of the red-faced female soldiers are naturally not weak, and it seems that the minions raised by Emperor Dongning have finally come out. I expected that we would be able to hide our whereabouts from King Hong, but I couldn't hide from these eunuchs. I was worried that I couldn't find them, but they dared to send them to the door! ”
Xiao Hongying said: "Sister, they must have come to assassinate you, you have to be more careful!" ”
Sima Hongyan said: "Don't worry! As long as we go according to the plan, we will let them come and go, just in time to avenge the chivalrous people who died at their hands. ”
Xiao Hongying sighed and said, "Alas! Don't offend women if you offend anyone in this world, even if you offend women, don't offend women like you, sister, you will die! ”
That night, the east gate opened, and a group of men and horses quietly left the city, and everyone in this army was silent, even the horses' hooves were tied with cloth, and the sound was covered like a ghost and went straight to Sima Hongyan's camp.
Leading the way was a long-bearded general, followed by a man and a woman, all three of whom were fully armored and neatly armed.
As he approached Sima Hongyan's camp, the long-bearded general ordered the army to stop and led the man and woman to a mess of rocks.
There was already a person waiting here, and when he saw the long-bearded general, he bowed his hand and said, "I have seen General Wen, the sixth princess, and the commander of Zhou." ”
The first man with a long beard was Wen Haizheng, the general of Dongning, and the man and woman behind him were the sixth princess Lan Aoxin and Zhou Fanqi, the son of Zhou Hongde, the Taishi of Dongning.
Wen Haizheng has an only son, who is Wen Haoxing who was beaten into a waste by Ban Lingruo in the Five Nations Competition. Because of his son's affairs, Wen Hai regarded Yanling as a mortal enemy, and he always wanted to lead troops to level Yanling. However, he is an important minister under the Dongning Emperor, and the safety of the capital is on him, so he wants to take revenge but never gets the opportunity.
The confrontation with the Yanling army was originally entrusted to King Hong, but King Hong fell into a bitter battle and asked for help from the capital. Emperor Dongning didn't expect that the always invincible King Hong would also ask for help, he realized the seriousness of the problem, and immediately sent the general Wen Haizheng with 200,000 troops to support.
And Lan Aoxin and Zhou Fanqi will come with because Lan Aoxin made a statement to her father, saying that she and Zhou Fanqi had dealt with Yanling many times before and knew the people of Yanling. Especially Sima Hongyan, the master of Yanling Feng, was still their subordinate prisoner at the beginning, and she could help General Wen.
Lan Shengwen already knew about Lan Aoxin's kidnapping of Sima Hongyan privately, and he felt that Lan Aoxin's words made some sense, so he asked her to take Zhou Fanqi to come with Wen Haizheng and become Wen Haizheng's deputy general.
Wen Haizheng was quite dissatisfied with the emperor's arrangement, he knew that the sixth princess was an imperious, domineering and arbitrary woman, although she was his own adjutant, but she would point fingers at the use of soldiers, and her status was noble, and she was inconvenient to control, so she was very mindful.
The person who came to see Wen Haizheng was dressed in black and wearing a mysterious mask, and it was one of the six Dao Hades under Lan Shengwen, the Heavenly Dao Hades. He took the other three Hades out of the palace to find Sima Hongyan's traces, they were strong in martial arts, and they escaped the secret sentry of the female soldiers, and soon discovered the location of the Lord of Yanling Feng, and then notified Wen Haizheng to come to sneak attack.
The Heavenly Dao Yama King explained the location of the Yanling Army and the layout of the army to Wen Haizheng in detail, and drew the corresponding figures on the ground. Wen Haizheng silently pondered, looking for the other party's omissions.
The Heavenly Dao Hades lowered his voice and said, "Our family was ordered by the emperor to come to take Sima Hongyan's life. As long as General Wen makes a move, our brothers will take advantage of the chaos to kill the Chinese army. As long as Sima Hongyan is dead, the rest of the people will not have to worry, and General Wen will be able to make a great contribution! ”
Wen Haizheng usually didn't look down on these eunuchs with a weird yin and yang spirit, and he didn't think much of the flattery of the Heavenly Dao Hades, and he didn't speak with an expressionless face. The Heavenly Dao Hades was bored, but he was not angry, and waited quietly to the side and stopped talking.
After a while, Wen Haizheng raised his head and said: "In another half an hour, I will attack from the west, south, and north, and Zhou Shizi is responsible for the south. The sixth princess is in charge of the north, but don't go deep into the enemy camp, just involve the enemy's forces on the periphery. ”
Zhou Fanqi agreed, but Lan Aoxin refused: "The effect of attracting troops on the periphery will not be too good, our sneak attack on the enemy late at night will definitely cause chaos, take the opportunity to rush into the enemy camp and take them by surprise in order to kill the enemy and win, General Wen's method is inevitably a little constrained." ”
The most taboo in the army is that subordinates do not respect the general's orders, Wen Haizheng's face changed slightly, but because of the identity of the other party's princess, he had to explain patiently: "The enemy's strength and equipment are superior to ours, once the whole army attacks the core of the enemy camp, the other party will soon find out our strength, and the peripheral virtual soldiers are just to confuse the other party, so as to have the effect of a surprise attack." No matter how many soldiers you kill, it is not as effective as directly killing Sima Hongyan, this time we and the Ouchi killer must cooperate with each other to win by surprise. ”
Lan Aoxin didn't think so, and said arrogantly: "What is there to worry about with hundreds of thousands of Yanling weak soldiers, as long as our Dongning army kills in, they will inevitably be frightened to pieces. If they weren't afraid of us, they wouldn't be hiding everywhere like they are today. ”