Chapter Forty-Six: Burning the Company Camp Zhuang Biochemical Butterfly
A month later, in the spring of 234, Zhuang Sheng's general Zhang Youming led 80,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry to conquer the Tiger Prison. And Hu Qiang, led the capital forbidden army of 10,000 to guard the capital. Qicheng led the garrison of 40,000 to defend the southern Confucian Prefecture and Huaizhou.
Yue Feng knew that Zhuang Sheng was basically desperate to recruit troops, make up for the troops, and then gather the strength of the whole country and vowed to capture the tiger prison. Yue Fengxian had already brought Guo Jia, Qing Zhi, Zhang Zhicheng, Zhang Liao, Zhang Feiyun, and Tuoba Gui to wait in the Tiger Prison. Pang Tong, Ma Chao led 40,000 cavalry, and 5,000 construction cavalry have already begun to move. Dian Wei Green Butterfly also gathered 10,000 soldiers to prepare to occupy the north pass of the Great Wall, and Yu Bin's troops were reportedly transferred to half of them, leaving only 5,000 remaining.
Yue Feng was worried, but everything was developing on his own good side, as long as Dian Wei took over the north of the Great Wall, within ten days, Ma Chao would send the scouts who arrived first to pass on Ma Chao's progress, at that time, as long as the night sky weather cooperated, and the gliders attacked with fire, they could defeat Zhuang Sheng's army.
On a moonless and windy night after ten days of siege, Yue Feng knew that Ma Chao had crossed the Great Wall, and he couldn't see the scene of thousands of troops flying across the road, but he could imagine how exciting it was. Ma Chao's scout has been summoned yesterday, and Ma Chao will raid here in the second half of the night. Yue Feng knew that as long as there was no accident in the fire attack, he would be able to disrupt the enemy formation and kill the enemy limitedly, but Zhuang Sheng was a god alive, and he could not organize an effective counterattack in the case of fire everywhere.
And because of the amazing power of the siege equipment in the past few days, Zhuang Sheng's soldiers suffered nearly 10,000 injuries, and they also withdrew from a distance of nearly two miles.
The gliders of the wind had already prepared to ambush on the surrounding peaks, and at two o'clock in the middle of the night, it was time to act. These gliders were only 500 zhang away from Zhuang Sheng's army. personally led an army of 30,000, Zhang Liao, Zhang Feiyun, and Zhang Zhicheng led an army of 10,000. Tuoba Gui, Guo Jia led 10,000 sergeants to garrison the tiger prison.
Yue Feng is waiting for the time of fire, as long as the fire starts, Ma Chao will attack. But arson is also a matter of luck, if it is discovered by Zhuang Sheng one minute earlier, it will be five hundred sergeants being shot into a sieve, if it is found one minute late, it will be a sea of fire.
Yue Feng waited for a long time, and finally what he hoped for happened, and the fire ignited in the Zhuang Sheng camp. Yue Feng immediately made a decision and attacked immediately. The army quickly left the city, and after a short rest, quickly attacked Zhuang Sheng's army. Zhuang Shengjun, under the leadership of Zhang Youming, put out the fire on the one hand, and organized 50,000 people to defend Yuefeng on the other hand. After Yue Feng brought out part of the siege troops to make a little preparation, he quickly launched with people as a burden, and Zhang Youming forcibly endured casualties and quickly attacked, wanting to mix with Yue Feng's army to reduce casualties.
Yue Feng ordered the sergeant to attack with all his strength, and ordered Zhang Feiyun and Zhang Zhicheng to begin to encircle and attack from the north and south, and be sure to annihilate the enemy as much as possible when Ma Chao's army arrived. Seeing the fierce battle, Tuoba Gui ordered 3,000 soldiers to lead siege equipment and earth and stones to support Yuefeng. After Yue Feng led the army to fight for half an hour, the fire in Zhuangsheng's camp gradually extinguished, and Zhang Youming gradually gained a firm foothold, although he lost nearly 20,000 soldiers, he still led the remaining 60,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the Yue Feng army under the fire of slinging artillery. Yue Feng also lost more than 10,000 soldiers, but he knew that with such a development, the power of his siege equipment would become more and more important, and once Ma Chao arrived, it would be a nirvana.
After another moment, Ma Chao finally led the army to arrive and directly attacked Zhuang Sheng's rear army. Zhuang Sheng's army was in chaos, and Ma Chao divided his troops to surround it first, and then attacked, presumably absorbing the lesson of being ambushed by Yuefeng digging a pit.
Zhang Youming saw that this was already the case, and he was bound to be defeated, so he broke out and led 20,000 soldiers to resist the 50,000 soldiers of Yue Feng alone. Zhuang Sheng was not hiding in the army, and directly led the remaining 40,000 troops to attack Ma Chao to seek a breakthrough, of which more than 10,000 cavalry brought great pressure to Ma Chao. Ma Chao did not resist hard, 30,000 cavalry blocked the infantry from retreating and fighting, and another 10,000 cavalry kept intercepting and supporting, preventing Zhuang Sheng from breaking through with cavalry. Originally, on the flat ground, the cavalry had an absolute advantage over the infantry, but now that Zhuang Sheng's soldiers were surrounded, it was even more demoralized.
Yue Feng led the army and became more and more courageous, but Zhang Youming's soldiers would rather die than take half a step back. Zhang Youming is really a fierce general, not only outstanding in response, but also brave and good at fighting. In less than half an hour, Zhang Youming's soldiers were all killed, Yue Feng didn't care so much, and directly marched to attack Zhuang Sheng, Zhuang Sheng's soldiers had broken into Erli, but they still did not get out of the encirclement, and the wind was full of dead and wounded.
Yue Feng gathered his mind and directly ordered the three generals to annihilate the Zhuang Sheng army. After a hard fight, the enemy army was finally wiped out at dawn. Yue Feng knew that the losses would be heavy, but he could only lead the crowd back to the Tiger Prison to repair first, after all, people are not iron, and no one can continue to fight.
Yue Feng rested for two hours. Guo Jialai reported that after the number of sergeants, the loss of about 60,000 soldiers, the original Tiger Prison infantry was insufficient of 80,000, and now except for the siege troops are basically intact, other casualties are heavy, a total of about 40,000. Ma Chao's cavalry, with more than half of the loss, should be able to gather 20,000 cavalry. Except for a few who escaped, Zhuang Sheng's army was all destroyed, and 100,000 soldiers were lost.