Chapter 110: Night Attack
After Bai Zhong separated Li Xin, he continued to follow Wang Jian south.
After a few days, I finally came to the outside of Handan City.
The guards on the city tower saw the Qin army approaching the city, and hurriedly asked people to report, and then gathered the whole army, ready to defend at any time.
Wang Jian did not attack the city immediately, the army came from afar, and the men and horses were tired, so it was not suitable to attack now.
During this period, news of Yecheng came again, but Meng Wu still failed to take Yecheng, and was still in a stalemate with Sima Shang.
Although Sima Shang did not have Li Mu's strength, he implemented Li Mu's strategy perfectly, and with the strong and tall city wall, he was able to drag Meng Wu to the death in Yecheng and not let Meng Wu go north, which greatly reduced the pressure on Handan.
"If General Meng can go north, we can join forces and break Handan within three days."
After reading the military information he had just gotten, Wang Jian felt very sorry in his heart, and continued: "The city wall of Handan is also high and thick, which is a bit difficult to fight. ”
Wang Ben said: "From the current point of view, the only way to attack Handan is to attack the city, first surround the city, and then consume the food in the city, and wait until the Zhao army is hungry, which is the best time for us to attack the city." ”
Wang Jian agreed: "That's right! Take Handan, and then help General Meng get Yecheng, and the other cities in Zhao will surrender one after another, and Zhao will be destroyed! ”
"I have a way to help General Meng take Yecheng and go north as soon as possible to join us in besieging Handan."
Bai Zhong suddenly said: "I plan to lead the Iron Eagle Warriors to attack Handan at night. ”
Wang Ben asked, "How to attack at night?" ”
Wang Jian quickly thought of Bai Zhong's method, and first said: "At present, General Meng is attacking the city from the south of Yecheng, and the defense in the north will be relatively weak, General Bai wants to break through from the north gate, first go to the city to disturb the enemy, and then cooperate with General Meng to kill Sima Shang and open the city gate?" ”
Bai Zhong nodded and said, "That's right! ”
Wang Jian pondered for a while, and asked solemnly: "Can General Bai have confidence?" There are only more than 4,000 of you, and if you are discovered, it is dangerous! ”
"I'm not going to do things that I don't have confidence in."
Bai Zhong said with confidence: "When I attacked South Korea, I used 5,000 people to attack the Korean border camp, containing 100,000 Korean soldiers, and I was able to retreat with my whole body, and General Wang Ben also knew about this. ”
Wang Ben remembered that incident and said, "That's right, but the city tower is different from the flat land, and the situation is different. ”
Bai Zhong thought for a while and said: "If I let people inform General Meng to attack the city before the night attack, then most of the main forces of the guards of Yecheng will be placed in the south, and the north will be even more empty, even if it is discovered, it will not be a big problem, what do the two generals think?" ”
"Feasible!"
Wang Jian thought for a moment and agreed: "When is General Bai going to leave?" ”
Bai Zhong saw that it was not early, and thought about the distance from Handan to Yecheng again: "Set off early tomorrow morning, you can arrive at Yecheng before evening, rest for an hour or two during the period, and contact General Meng by the way, just in time for the night attack." ”
Wang Jian advised: "You are all about safety, and in case of danger, retreat to General Meng's side as much as possible." ”
After all, his grandson Wang Li is also in the Iron Eagle Ruishi.
Of course, they didn't want to see Wang Li take risks.
"I will, two generals waiting for my good news!"
Bai Zhong got their consent, and first went back to tell the news to his Ruishi, and tomorrow he only brought one day's dry food, and hurried as fast as possible, striving to break the city overnight.
If you can't do it, you can only go to Mengwu's side and assist Mengwu to continue to attack Yecheng.
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The next morning.
Bai Zhong set off according to the plan, and in the afternoon, he came to the vicinity of Yecheng.
They didn't show up right away, so as not to be discovered by the guards of Yecheng, they hid in the woods outside.
"Meng Tian, you go to see General Meng, tell him my plan briefly, and all the others stay to rest and prepare for a night attack tonight."
He quickly arranged it, and then took over Meng Tian's thousand people.
Meng Tian only took his own short soldiers and bypassed Yecheng to the south.
The Ruishi who stayed behind did not make a fire to cook, but just took out the dry food he carried with him to eat, had a full meal, replenished his strength, recuperated his energy, and waited for the arrival of night.
Unconsciously, it has reached the second watch, and it is about to enter the third watch.
"General, there's movement!"
At this time, the soldier in front walked back and reminded.
Bai Zhong and the others walked to the vicinity of the city tower first, although they were far away, they could still vaguely hear the movement of the fighting in the south, it seemed that Meng Tian had sent the news to Meng Wu's military camp.
"General, how do you get up?"
Wang Li asked, looking at the tall tower.
They didn't make ladders, they were worried that the movement outside the city would be discovered by the soldiers defending the city to the north, they had always kept a low profile, and now facing the tall city walls, it was difficult to climb unless they could fly.
There are also dozens of guards on it, constantly patrolling and walking around.
"Bring me the rope I prepared."
Bai Zhong didn't make a ladder, but he had a way to deal with it.
Tian Zhen first came over with a few ropes.
They did not light the torches, but relied only on the lights on the towers.
Bai Zhong's eyes could already ignore the night, fasten the rope to the arrow, and then take out the strengthened bow, observe the pattern of the soldiers patrolling and walking on the city tower, and wait until those soldiers temporarily leave this section of the city wall, and shoot an arrow.
The tips of the arrows penetrated deep into the walls of the wall, and the ropes were held in place above.
He tugged hard, but it was firm enough to climb, and he continued to shoot arrows.
Five ropes, which were quickly fastened to the top.
"Wang Li, Luo Qing, Zhang Han and Tian Zhen, you go up with me first."
"Once we've dealt with the enemy on it and secured the other ropes, you'll quickly follow."
"Do it!"
With that, Bai Zhong grabbed the rope first.
He ran his immortal true qi, and climbed up very quickly, and after a while he reached the top of the city wall, but he did not climb up immediately, and continued to observe the patrol soldiers walking, and at the moment they turned around, he turned over and landed on the city tower, easily eliminating these patrolling people.
The others quickly noticed the commotion.
"Qin ...... The Qin army is here! ”
They exclaimed.
Seeing that only one person had climbed the tower, they hurriedly killed him.
After Bai Zhong quickly killed several people with his knife, Wang Li and Zhang Han all turned over.
"Kill them all!"
Bai Zhong gave an order and continued to kill the enemy.
Dozens of guards on the castle tower were killed in a short time.
At this time, the guards below the castle tower also noticed the movement above, and knew that there was an enemy coming to sneak attack, and immediately hundreds of people came up with weapons to kill.
"Fix the rope first and let them come up!"
Bai Zhong threw the rope on his body to them, hurriedly fixed it on the city tower, and said, "I'll stop the enemy!" ”
Seeing that the other Zhao army guards had already walked up to the city tower and were about to kill, he drew his sword and killed him.
"Tian Zhen, Luo Qing, you continue to tie the rope."
Wang Li looked back and said eagerly: "Zhang Han, let's help the general block the enemy." ”
"Kill!"
Zhang Han shouted, followed Bai Zhong's side, and killed the hundreds of enemies.