Chapter 139: Pingcheng Cave Breaks the Enemy
With the blood of the black dog, Zheng Mian's soldiers and horses advanced towards Ning Ze's army formation.
Ning Ze ordered a retreat and did not confront Zheng Mian's soldiers and horses.
Jin Rong, the commander of the army, said to the left and right: "Ning Ze knows that our army is coming with black dog blood, and he is afraid of retreating!"
The whole army was immediately ordered to advance.
Ningze's army retreated all the way to Pyeongseong-dong, setting up defenses on both sides of high mountains and narrow valley roads.
Jin Rong led his troops over, and when he saw Ning Ze condescending to defend Pingchengdong, he ordered an attack.
Rushing to the front, Ning Ze gave an order, and a large number of ballistae were launched in the rear, dozens of times larger than bamboo crossbows, and it took several people to operate, using sharpened wood as cannonballs, which was amazingly powerful.
Before the opposing cavalry could rush to the front of the formation, countless ballistas shot at each other, and in an instant, people turned on their backs.
The ballista is so powerful that it can easily penetrate armor and warhorses, and its lethality is amazing. Even if you don't shoot, such a big piece of wood flies over and hits it enough to choke.
At the same time, tens of thousands of crossbowmen used bamboo crossbows to shoot a dense rain of arrows.
Charging several times, there is simply no way to penetrate the crossbowmen and fire alternately, let alone the powerful ballistas.
The opponent was condescending, and it was difficult for Jin Rong's archers to shoot at the opponent.
Faced with such a disadvantage, Jin Rong could only temporarily stop the offensive, lead the army to retreat and open the distance, and first set up camp to think about countermeasures.
Jin Rong's subordinate Liang Qiusui (sui) suggested: "Our army has obtained the blood of a black dog, but it can break the demon law of Ningze, and the other party can only use the terrain of Pingseongdong to confront our army." Although the terrain of Pingcheng Cave is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the vegetation is luxuriant, and Ning Ze is killing himself! The general can order the soldiers to repair during the day, bring wood and tung oil at night, and attack it with fire!
Jin Rong was overjoyed, listened to Liang Qiusui's strategy, sent people to prepare wood tung oil, and did not enter the army for the time being.
At night, he ordered the deputy general Ran Cao to lead the troops to bypass the Jinzhou soldier checkpoint and prepare to burn the Pingcheng Cave.
Ran Chao led two thousand soldiers, picked up the bell with horses, and secretly went around to the mountain road on the side of Pingcheng Cave, preparing to set fire to the mountain.
However, as soon as he arrived, he suddenly heard cries all over the place, and countless white shadows shook in the darkness.
Everywhere the white shadow went, ghosts and fires filled the sky.
By the light of the fire, I saw all the blue-faced fangs, extremely hideous.
The ancients were the most superstitious, including Ran Cao, all of them were scared, where did they dare to set fire, turn around and run.
Halfway through the escape, suddenly Jinzhou soldiers and horses were killed on both sides, led by Pei Gong.
Ran Cao's soldiers and horses were defeated and were directly captured.
After grabbing Ran Cao, those white shadows rushed down and came to Pei Gong.
The person at the head is none other than the ghost-faced general Wang Wei: "General Pei, let Sun Yan escort them back to the camp, and we will attack the enemy camp at night!"
"Okay!" handed over the captured Ran Cao and his subordinates to Sun Yan, and Pei Gong and Wang Wei quickly dispatched troops and quietly rushed to the enemy camp.
Sun Yan sent the prisoners back to the camp and escorted Ran Cao into the commander's tent.
After Ran Cao came in, he took the initiative to kneel down and call for mercy.
【General】Ran Cao, male, 34 years old
[Affiliation] Zheng Mianjun [Loyalty] 59 [Official Position] Captain
[Stamina] 80 [Brawn] 65
[Intelligence] 61 [Politics] 21
[Command] 38 [Rende] 35
Class: Infantry A, Cavalry C, Spearman C
【Stunt】Farming Lv2
This guy's strength and attributes are above 60, and he is a relatively mediocre general. Loyalty doesn't seem to be high, and it can be seen from his attitude that he should be able to persuade him to surrender.
Although he didn't look down on his attributes, after all, there was no one available in his hands, so Ning Ze opened his mouth and asked, "Are you willing to surrender?"
"Ran Cao is willing to surrender!" Ran Cao was very decisive and kowtowed quickly.
Ning Ze clearly saw that his subordinate force had changed to Liu Yuanxiang's army, and it was not good to surrender by fraud.
After changing factions, Ran Cao's loyalty was only 35 points, which was very low, and it was easy to defect.
But think about it, he was captured and had to surrender in order to save his life, how high can his loyalty be?
For Ning Ze, this is not a problem.
Immediately got up and walked in front of Ran Cao, and personally relieved him with a gentle smile: "It's an honor to have the general join! I have Huajun's specialty peach blossom wine, and I am willing to drink it with the general!"
Ran Cao was flattered and thanked him again and again.
Ning Ze took out a jar of peach blossom wine and ordered the wine and food to be served.
Ran Cao didn't expect such a good treatment, but he was too nervous and hungry, so he gobbled it up.
Seeing that his loyalty increased rapidly, reaching 59 points, Ning Zexin said that there was a system, and there was no need to worry about low loyalty. Peach Blossom Wine is also classified as a famous product, and after rewarding, it can increase a lot of loyalty. And there are so many of these things, it belongs to the cheapest but most practical loyalty promotion brand.
When Ran Cao had eaten about the same, Ning Ze said: "General Ran is still a captain in our army. To be meritorious, there will be a reward. When the time comes, it is natural to get the position of general. ”
Ran Cao was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately hugged his fists: "The military advisor treats each other like this, Cao is grateful!"
Loyalty increased by a few more points to 62.
Ning Ze nodded: "Is the general willing to persuade those 2,000 soldiers to join our army? ”
Ran Cao immediately agreed, accompanied by Sun Yan, to the prisoner camp to persuade the two thousand soldiers to surrender.
The two thousand soldiers were pulled up by himself, so there was no difficulty. It's all a soldier to eat food, who is the difference between giving his life?
So 2,000 captives were successfully recruited.
came back to report that Ning Ze rewarded Ran Cao with ten gold.
Ran Cao's loyalty increased again, reaching 67 points.
On the other side, Pei Gong and Wang Wei led their troops to quietly approach the enemy camp.
Pei Gongxian hid in place, and Wang Wei quietly approached with a team dressed in white robes and ghost masks, and suddenly let out a strange cry at a safe distance that the archers couldn't shoot, while swaying the phosphorus powder that Ning Ze handed over to them.
The ignition point of phosphorus powder is very low, and when it comes into contact with air, it burns and spreads in the air like a ghost fire.
In addition, Wang Wei and his subordinates pretended to be ghosts and screamed and jumped, and in the enemy camp, the patrol soldiers were all frightened and hurriedly reported to the commander.
Jin Rong didn't believe that there were ghosts, so he led the civil and military officials out, and saw the ghost fire fluttering in the sky, and countless ghosts and monsters "fluttering" not far from the camp, and he was also frightened.
The goblins soon vanished, including the ghostly fires.
It was only after a while that I found ghost fire and ghosts in other directions, and hurriedly went to check them, and they quickly disappeared.
Several times in a row, Jin Rong's heart was furious.
At this time, some of the ghosts that reappeared shouted that they had died unjustly.
Countless white-clad "ghosts" howled wolf and scurried around the camp.
"Could it be that Ran Cao is dead?" Jin Rong had goosebumps all over his body, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat.
When the army turned around and withdrew in the direction of Gaoli, Pei Gong suddenly rushed out with his troops and ordered all the soldiers to shout: "Jin Rong died here!"
The cry was shocking, and it was not clear how many soldiers and horses the other party had in the dark night, and there were still "ghosts" wandering around, Jin Rong led the army to panic and ran faster than a rabbit.
Pei Gong and Wang Wei led the troops to chase and kill for a while, captured more than 3,000 enemy troops, captured weapons and ordnance, sheng banner armor, military rations and horses, and returned with a great victory.
Ning Ze rewarded Pei Gong and Wang Wei and arranged Ran Cao to be by Pei Gong's side.
Jin Rong retreated fifty miles, calmed down and thought about it carefully, and found that something was wrong.
Only then did he realize that he was in the middle of the plan, and he was very angry.
Gather your subordinates to discuss how to fight back.
At this moment, someone outside reported: "Captain Ran is back!"
Jin Rong was stunned, he thought Ran Cao was dead. Hearing that he was still alive and rushing back with his troops, he immediately said, "Tell him to come to me quickly!"
Captain Ran said that he was really ashamed that he failed to complete the task on this trip. Hearing that the general had suddenly withdrawn his troops, he hurried after him. On the way, he accidentally encountered an enemy army, attacked and captured the rebel general Pei Gong, and captured countless military rations. At this moment, the grain and grass are outside the camp, please collect it. ”
Jin Rong was overjoyed when he heard this, and originally wanted to hold Ran Cao responsible, but when he heard that he captured the rebel general Pei Gong and captured a large amount of military rations, he might be able to make up for the loss in the panic. He was very satisfied with his atonement for his crimes, and personally took the civil and military officials out of the camp.
Ran Cao appeared with military rations, and it was the rebel general Pei Gong who was tied up beside him.
Being able to catch the rebel Pei Gong to avenge Zheng Fu is already a great achievement.
Jin Rong stepped forward happily: "Captain Ran has made a miraculous achievement, and there will be a heavy reward! Someone is coming, quickly escort the rebel general Pei Gong into the camp to take care of the good students!"
"General!" Ran Cao clenched his fists and said, "This person is the enemy of the lord, and his subordinates ask for orders to escort him back to the city and hand him over to the lord as soon as possible, so that he can be cut with a thousand knives to comfort the spirit of the king in the sky." This merit is all owned by the general, and if it were not for the general's order, his subordinates would not have caught the traitorous general. ”
"It's okay!" Jin Rong nodded, "Then you will escort the rebel general Pei Gong back to the city to restore his life, and as for these military rations, they will all be pulled to the warehouse." ”
Ran Cao immediately handed over the military rations to others.
After the grain officer inspected it, Jin Rong ordered the soldiers in the battalion to pull the car away.
Ran Cao led the troops to escort Pei Gong through the camp and marched forward.
When all the military rations entered the camp, a white-robed ghost-faced army suddenly appeared behind them, using bamboo crossbows to shoot countless lit arrows.
The arrows landed where the grain cart passed, and suddenly the flames spread rapidly.
"Boom!!" suddenly exploded as the flames quickly extended to the grain cart.
After an explosion, all the grain trucks escorted in were detonated, and the entire camp instantly became a sea of fire.
Before Jin Rong could react, countless white-robed ghost-faced troops appeared, taking advantage of the chaos to rush and shoot waves of rockets in front of the camp.
And Ran Cao, who had just passed through the camp, suddenly cooperated with Pei Gong to lead the soldiers and horses to light fires everywhere, and at the same time shouted in unison: "The heavenly soldiers are here!
The camp was in a mess, and I didn't know how many enemy troops there were, only that the flames were raging, and the enemy was coming, and if I didn't run, I would die.
Jin Rong shouted desperately, wanting to recover the army from the chaos and hurry up to meet the enemy.
But no matter how much they shouted, it was too late to stop the chaotic army.
Facing the constant influx of Jinzhou soldiers and horses from all directions, Jin Rong hurriedly mounted his war horse and led his subordinates to flee for their lives.
fled all the way back to Gaoli County, only half of the 150,000 army remained, and everyone was disgraced and embarrassed.
It turned out that Ning Ze planned to let Ran Cao transport a grain cart loaded with gunpowder into the enemy camp. The gunpowder was contained underneath, and there was only a layer of rations above to cover people's eyes and ears. When Ran Cao handed over to the other party, his subordinates secretly cut the bag containing gunpowder, so the rocket would ignite quickly when it was fired.
Making gunpowder was not too difficult for Ning Ze.
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