0516 Destroy the enemy camp
The sound of the commotion from Sakahara outside the city had already woken up the defenders in Jiuqu City, and Li Yuan, who had already been disarmed and asleep, hurriedly got up and put on his armor again, climbed to the top of the city, and stared at the direction from which the commotion outside the city came from.
Hearing the sounds of various battles from far and near, becoming clearer and clearer, Li Yuan was also shocked in his heart.
Looking at this posture, it seems that reinforcements are arriving and are attacking the enemy line. However, the armies of the Western Wei Dynasty had their own methods and signals for communicating with each other and transmitting information, and although there were constant riots in the south, there was no corresponding signal of flag and beacon fire, which made it impossible for people to judge friend or foe.
But if it's not the arrival of reinforcements, is it just the enemy's self-directed and self-acting? So what is their purpose? Could it be that he faked a false impression of self-disordered formation to induce the defenders to attack and break through?
If that's the case, then the enemy commander is really smart. War is inherently a high-intensity, dangerous act, and the soldiers themselves are under great pressure, so they must be controlled and restrained by strict discipline.
Especially at night, the ban is enforced even more strictly. Even if there is any plan for night battles, it will only be concentrated in the elite troops. However, the unrest has spread to the entire Jiuqu area, and the severity of the chaos in each place is different, and it is obviously not a premeditated and organized action.
Li Yuan racked his brains and couldn't determine what the situation was, Yi Feng, who was injured, also climbed to the top of the city at this time, and he was also a little dumbfounded when he saw this scene. Could it be that they have encountered some kind of heroes who have seen uneven roads, and they are not used to seeing the enemy army bullying the weak, so they attack to help the war?
But whatever the real situation, what is certain for now is that the enemy unrest is gradually expanding, especially in the area west of Jiuqu City, and the fierce or passionate roars do not look like camouflage at all.
In stark contrast, the east of Jiuqu Castle is relatively quiet, especially in the base camp between the enemy's offensive front on the first Ququ Castle in the east and the Jiuqu Ancient City in the rear, which is still brightly lit, and the enemy troops are still assembled and arranged in a certain degree as far as they can see, and the impact of the riots is very limited.
"In any case, the rout of the enemy formation is a rare opportunity, if you don't take advantage of this to attack for a while, and wait until the enemy camp is self-consolidated, I'm afraid it will be too late to regret it!"
After some thought and weighing, Li Yuan still decided that he could not miss this opportunity, and planned to send elite troops to attack for a while.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the enemy camp on the west and no time to pay attention to the movements of the defenders in the city, Li Yuan selected 500 elite troops and ordered them to change into the robes of the eastern army and order all kinds of things, and fought with each other for many years, and there was naturally no shortage of such captures.
When these elite soldiers changed into the robes and camouflages of the Eastern Army, they went out of the city along the side walls with rope ladders, preparing to take advantage of the chaos and night to cut down the enemy camp, of course, not the small camps scattered between Sakahara, but the large camp of the enemy's central army. Li Yuan even agreed with these troops that once the camp was effective, he would immediately set fire to it, and he would lead all the soldiers in the city out of the city to fight the enemy.
Not to mention that Li Yuan and the others in the city were unaware of this situation, but Zhu Hunyuan in the camp outside the city was also a little puzzled by this: "Which part of the thief army is this? If his Kansai rear division came to help, why did he sneak downstream to confuse the enemy? If it's Yin Chuan's men, why are they attacking from upstream?"
Of course, he didn't think about the possibility of Yin Chuan's enemy army crossing Bear's Ears Mountain to rescue Jiuqu City. However, this route is winding and rugged, and it is difficult for most people to pass through, and even if they come to help, it must be a small number of light and sharp people.
However, the news of the rout of the various defensive lines and camps on the west side came one after another, and the soldiers who had retreated after returning to the camp described the might and courage of the enemy army, although it was inevitable that they were deliberately exaggerated in order to relieve their guilt, but the fact that they were pulled out of camp one after another also showed that this enemy army was really amazing in battle, and did not behave like a light and sharp army.
However, Zhu Hunyuan used his troops steadily and carefully, and the battalions in the west were guarding important places, in order to create pressure on the defenders in the city and resist the enemy reinforcements that might appear in the west, although thousands of soldiers were arranged, but the real core was still the tens of thousands of soldiers in his own battalion. As long as the front is not defeated here, the offensive against the enemy will still not be greatly affected.
Therefore, he ordered all the soldiers to stick to the camp here, and the soldiers who fled back from the defeat in front were temporarily led to other camps to settle down, so as not to mix with the Chinese army camp. At the same time, he also sent 1,000 elite horsemen to cruise the Luoshui River
between the valleys to ensure that once the enemy army takes advantage of the chaos to break through and escape, it can also detect and attack in time, and kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible.
On the Xiqu Sakahara, when he learned from Wei Fabao that they had killed Jiuqu City in one go, Li Tai's mood was both happy and surprised for a while. Sometimes it's really hard to predict how much potential people have, and when you concentrate on doing something without distractions, you will be surprised by the burst of energy and the effect you achieve!
"Quick, light the beacon and tell the news of the city!"
At first, he was trying to hide people's eyes, and then he completely forgot about this stubble, and then he remembered that he should notify the city, so he hurriedly ordered.
As the beacon fire rose, a series of cheers suddenly resounded in the city, and Li Yuan and other soldiers defending the city finally confirmed that it was really reinforcements arriving. Knowing that he and the others were not alone soldiers who had been abandoned and trapped in the city, the people in the city were excited, and soon sent messengers to communicate with the reinforcements.
The movement in Jiuqu City naturally aroused the alarm of Ke Zhu Hunyuan, and he personally led a team of elite soldiers to the top front of Dongqu Plateau to monitor the movement of the enemy army.
In the other camp on the south side of the main camp, the soldiers who had been defeated from the front line were placed here. These people saw with their own eyes the amazing combat effectiveness of the enemy army, and those who ran slower had been ruthlessly killed by the enemy, and they fled in a panic, and they were still a little frightened.
"Why aren't we allowed to enter the camp? The enemy army is strong, and we are fighting bravely at night, but we want to accept you and other idle soldiers who are hiding behind and oppress them, how can this be justified?"
Suddenly, a group of defeated soldiers in a corner of this camp shouted angrily, and directly drew their knives and slashed the soldiers who were patrolling the camp.
Several soldiers were caught off guard and were slashed on the spot, and the other soldiers in the camp avoided for fear of being affected, and those who killed people still refused to give up, and rushed straight to the barracks, and shouted loudly: "Although a certain group is defeated, he is not guilty of facing a strong enemy! The governor is in disobedience, and he wants to kill all the defeated soldiers, and he who wants to live with us rushes into the camp and looks for the general to complain about injustice!"
The defeated soldiers of these battalions were already in shock, their own organization was completely dispersed, and they had not been effectively pacified and reorganized after retreating, and when they heard that they were going to be punished by death, they were all terrified for a while.
When the fear reached the extreme, it was natural to instinctively want to save themselves, so these soldiers were immediately fanned up, followed in a noisy manner, and destroyed all the barriers between the two camps, and poured into the camp one after another, shouting and cheering again and again to strengthen their own courage, and wandering around the camp wantonly to find the main general to complain about grievances.
Under the disturbance of these routs, the Chinese army camp, which was originally not affected much, suddenly became a little chaotic.
When a team that had already assembled for battle rushed forward to try to stop these defeated soldiers and control the order, it only increased the fear in the hearts of these people, and when they rushed forward with the swords, guns and weapons in their hands, the two sides immediately got together.
"The enemy has entered the camp, and our army has been defeated!"
The chaotic shouts rang out in the barracks, and with the shouts of fighting, it was as if a fire had fallen into a haystack, and panic and chaos suddenly spread rapidly.
"What happened in the camp?"
But Zhu Hunyuan soon noticed the chaos in the rear camp, and no longer cared about watching the movements of the enemy troops in the city, he quickly led his troops back to the camp and entered the camp through the relatively quiet west camp.
At this time, the chaos had spread between the camps, and even the other camps that had not yet been affected by the chaos were panicked, and under the repeated shouts of the commanders of the battalion, they barely rushed out of the camp.
But Zhu Hunyuan patrolled around the surrounding camps, pacified the surrounding camps a little, and at the same time locked on the soldiers who were making trouble in the camp, so he ordered the surrounding camps to drum and order, and instantly suppressed the sound of fighting and chaos in the Chinese camp.
However, before he had time to lead his troops into the camp to settle the chaos, the gate of Jiuqu City on the opposite side was already wide open, and Li Yuanzi led more than 2,000 defenders in the city to rush out of the city and go straight to the enemy
The chaotic camp was killed.
At the same time, Li Tai was also leading his subordinates to quickly bypass the valley and climb the plateau, first guarding the Jiuqu City with the city gate wide open, and then sounding the drums and horns inside and outside the city.
It is difficult to convey any accurate military orders with such a noisy and chaotic sound of drums, but the powerful sound that hits the eardrums can double the panic in people's hearts, and can also make the morale of the attacking side even higher.
"Gather to me, ...... quickly"
But Zhu Hunyuan was still trying to restore order, and constantly ordered the guards around him to pass the assembly order to the surroundings, but at this moment, the camps had completely fallen into chaos, and even if someone wanted to lead his troops into this assembly, they would soon be dispersed by the soldiers of other departments.
Seeing that the situation was already like this, Zhu Hun Yuan could only reluctantly order a retreat, leave the front line of the battle, and then establish a stronghold to gather people and horses on the back road, in order to gather the rout as efficiently as possible.
With the withdrawal of Ke Zhu Hunyuan from Jiuqu, the enemy forces here had no effective command at all, and each of them reacted according to their instincts, and the combat effectiveness they could exert was pitiful.
The rebels rushed to retreat, and even some of the troops had never seen any trace of the enemy from beginning to end, but they were terrified, and even if they were out of breath, they still did not dare to stop.
When Li Tai took a short rest and then led his troops to the enemy's camp, Li Yuan had already personally led hundreds of cavalry to continue to pursue the enemy's rout, leaving thousands of soldiers to collect prisoners and clean up the battlefield.
Looking at the many tools and materials left by the enemy on the battlefield, although Li Tai was also quite greedy, he also understood that rashly stepping forward to collect them was very likely to cause a conflict between the two troops, so he led his troops to walk down the hill from the edge of the battlefield, and when he reached the middle of the plateau, he heard the neighing of many war horses in front of him.
Li Tai was overjoyed when he heard this, and he walked a little further, and sure enough, a vast horse camp appeared at the bottom of the slope, extending from the front of the slope to the shore of Luoshui, and there were at least two or three thousand war horses gathered in it.
"Quickly find the left near the riding gear warehouse, get on your horse, and continue to kill the enemy!"
This huge harvest suddenly made Li Tai tired, and he shouted loudly.