Chapter 875: Sneak Attack on the City Gate
Duyo's plan, in fact, was quite risky.
Sima Yi had already had his own prediction, coupled with the confirmation of the captured Shu thief captives, he knew that the "Xizuo" army that infiltrated the city might launch a sneak attack on the city gate.
Therefore, Sima Yi had already ordered all city gates to strengthen their defenses, and at the same time sent additional manpower to each city gate cave.
The south gate side was the most threatening, so Sima Yi asked to keep five tithes on duty in the city gate cave, and they were not allowed to leave without permission.
On the West Gate side, because there is a group of Shu thieves who are good at climbing walls outside the city, they cannot be underestimated, and they are also guarded by five shes.
The other two gates were also slightly strengthened. After all, the two gates were in the rear, and no real threat was found.
As for why there are only five tithes, the size of fifty people . The city gate hole is so big, no matter how many people there are, it will become crowded, and if there is really a battle, it will affect your own people to fight.
As for the Tibetan Cave. Of course, there are caves in the cave, and hundreds of people can be stuffed into it, but normally, the city gate is not in danger of being breached, who will arrange troops into the cave in advance?!
Sima Yi originally thought that the troops were not enough, how could there be a surplus of troops to send hundreds of people to hide in the hidden soldier cave, just to prevent the Shu thieves from knowing if there would be a plan to seize the city gate? !
In Sima Yi's mind, the number of "fine work" troops who infiltrated the city was not large, and it looked like no more than 300 people would be killed, even if they were all assembled to attack the city gate, the troops of 50 people might not be able to retreat from the enemy, but it was enough to block it for a while.
And it doesn't even take half an hour from the discovery of the attack to the time when the soldiers on the tower of the city gather to support the city gate. A force of fifty people can't hold up even half an hour.
Therefore, it seems that there are not many defenders in the city gate cave, but Sima Yi has already considered a complete defense plan, and theoretically speaking, this plan is still very complete.
Well, only theoretically.
When it comes to actual operation, it's not the same thing.
First of all, it was Sima Zhao who misjudged the situation and ordered the whole army to be on guard against the Shu thieves outside the city to attack the city. At this time, not only the defenders on the city tower focused their attention on the outside of the city, but the soldiers in the city gate cave were also busy installing top wood on the city gate to prevent the enemy from rushing to the city gate.
The soldiers in the city gate cave also focused their attention on the side of the city gate, and they didn't have much defense against the situation behind them.
Secondly, it was early in the morning, and the sky was only cloudy, and his vision was somewhat affected, and Duyo was also very patient, and it was almost a quarter of an hour that the fire was burning in the northwest corner, and Duyo still stood still and continued to wait for the opportunity.
It wasn't until the soldiers guarding the city gate cave focused their attention on strengthening the city gate that Du Yo led his troops to suddenly kill and kill the guards in the city gate cave by surprise.
Of course, if you really want to talk about it, it is also Duyo's luck.
Du Yo suddenly killed, although it was said that he killed a surprise, but it did not mean that the Wei army in the city gate cave did not have time to react.
The captain of the Wei army guarding the city gate cave found that there were enemy troops behind him, although he was frightened and hesitated, but it did not last too long, he immediately ordered the Wei army in the city gate cave to assemble and wait for the enemy.
If the Wei army is really allowed to form an array, it is very difficult for a hundred soldiers to defeat the fifty Wei army in a short period of time with the combat effectiveness of the Wudangfei army.
After all, it's not a game, the Wei army won't stand where you can cut, and after the formation, use the military formation to assist in defense, and it's not the same thing as fighting with individual soldiers.
The most important thing is that because it is a surprise attack, the Wudang Fei army has no time to line up, so they can only use the method of scattered soldiers, striving to enter the city gate as soon as possible and fight with the Wei army.
Therefore, it is definitely not possible to let the Wei army smoothly line up and wait for the enemy.
This was Du Yo's first reaction at this time, and fortunately - Du Yo rushed to the front of the line, and the captain in charge of the Wei army was now standing at the exit of the city gate.
Then what else is there to say, Du Yo directly carried the short blade specially made by the Wudang Flying Army, and rushed towards the captain.
At this time, it is a duel of personal martial arts.
Obviously, Du You, as Wang Ping's adopted son, under Wang Ping's teaching, his personal martial arts and courage are definitely not comparable to a Wei military captain.
Du Yo dodged, dodging the ring-head knife slashed by the Wei military captain, and then quickly approached and stabbed the Wei military academy captain in the chest with a short blade.
One blow and second kill, Du Yo's personal bravery, at this moment, is vividly embodied.
The Wudang Feijun around Du Yo saw Du Yo so fierce, and they immediately felt like they were encouraged, while the Wei army, seeing that the captain was killed by one blow, inevitably fell into chaos.
Obviously, he has the strength to be tough with the Wudang Flying Army, and the ring head knife in the Wei army's hand is also twice as long as the short blade specially made by the Wudang Flying Army, and it has an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, but the soldiers of this year are like this, once the commander encounters a surprise attack, no one will command him, and he will fall into a situation of unowned chaos.
Not to mention a large-scale military formation, even three or five people can't cooperate with each other.
And in the face of this kind of chaotic war, it is the Wudang Feijun that is best at it, after all, when it comes to personal martial arts, the Wudang Feijun is obviously much stronger than the ordinary county soldiers of the Wei army.
Soon, the Wei army began to fall into separate battles, and was seized by the Wudang Fei army, killing more than a dozen people at once, and forcing the remaining Wei army to disperse, leaving a passage to the city gate.
After seeing this situation, Du Yao immediately calmly commanded, divided thirty people to stay at the entrance of the city gate with him, fifty people were responsible for encircling and suppressing the remaining remnants of the Wei army, and the remaining ten or so people, let them move the top wood and the city gate latch, open the city gate, and notify Wang Ping's main force outside the city to enter the city.
Things have come to this point, the task of seizing the city gate is half successful, and there is still half of it, so it depends on whether it can hold this city gate hole and hold on until Wang Ping leads the army.
According to Du You's estimate, Wang Ping saw the change in the West Gate, and the time it took to lead the troops to rush into the city gate could not help it, and there was no notice in advance, Wang Ping should not have such preparations in advance, it always takes time to gather troops to attack, two quarters of an hour, is already Du You's most optimistic estimate.
However, according to Du Yo's observation in the past few days, from the attack on the city gate cave to the time when the defenders on the city tower learned the news and came to help, there is a high probability that it will not take more than half an hour.
Therefore, next, how to hold on to this city gate hole and prevent the Wei army from retaking and closing the city gate is the most critical.
In fact, when the Feijun had just demolished the top wood and had not had time to dismantle the city gate latch, the Wei soldiers who found a strange thing on the city tower had already come down to the rescue under the leadership of the captain.
The only good news is that there are not many troops coming this time, it should be an emergency force, only about a hundred people.
But even so, the defense line of the city gate cave composed of thirty people, at the beginning, faced the challenge of tripling the strength of the force.
At this time, most of the Wudang Fei Army was still fighting with the participating Wei army, and seeing that the Wei army with someone to help broke out a desire to survive, it was impossible to immediately end the battle for a while, and Du Yo could only rely on these thirty people to fight.
Although the Wudang Fei Army is an elite, its personal combat quality is not necessarily weaker than that of the elite of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, but they are more trained in infiltration warfare, rush warfare, and chaotic warfare.
It's not that the soldiers are not strong enough to fight, it's just that they lack the experience of forming a formation against the enemy.
With a one-to-two story, perhaps the Wudang Flying Army can still resist it, but with a one-to-three military power comparison, Du Yo really has no confidence that he can block these Wei troops.
So, I have to think of other ways.
Then, Duyo took aim at the captain who was leading the team.
It's no wonder that Duyo only has this trick, but in the current situation, this trick is very useful.
The captain who led the 100-man team was a low-level officer in the army, and they relied more on personal bravery to lead the team, rather than shrinking back to command the battle.
Therefore, in the raid of the hundred-man team, the captain must be the first to run at the front.
And Duyo here. Because he was infiltrating the battle, Duyo's current dress was actually the same as that of an ordinary non-commissioned soldier, and there was no obvious identification mark.
In other words, in the eyes of Captain Wei, Du Yo was just an ordinary enemy soldier.
This gave Duyo a chance.
And the most terrible thing is that Du You's personality and temper are not quite the same as Wang Ping's temperament, he doesn't like this kind of face-to-face hard fighting, when the Wei military captain led the army to rush over, Du Yao did not think about fighting directly with the Wei military captain, but gave up his position and let his colleagues take the top.
Du Yo himself, pretending to be an ordinary soldier, moved to the side of the captain, and then spotted the captain of the Wei military slashing at his companion, and when he didn't have time to put away the knife, he flashed out directly and slashed the head of the captain of the Wei military with a knife.
And this Wei military captain is obviously stronger in terms of battlefield experience than the captain guarding the city gate in front, and in the face of Du Yo's sneak attack, he shrank his head by relying on experience and dodged the fatal blow.
But the problem is that Du Yo's knife is not a horizontal slash, but an oblique slash to the Wei military captain to avoid the fate of the head in a different place, but he can't avoid the end of being slashed on the back by a knife.
Although he was not killed on the spot, he was seriously injured and lost his combat capability.
Du Yo still wanted to mend the knife, but if he could become a captain, there must be a few brothers in the army who had been friends with each other, and under the concerted obstruction, this Wei military captain was still snatched back.
It's a little bit of a pity, but it doesn't matter anymore.
The second lieutenant was seriously injured by Du Yo and fell to the ground, unable to command, and the Wei army that came to help once again fell into the situation of being leaderless, and the combat effectiveness of a hundred people could not be brought into full play, so that the pressure on the thirty Wudang Fei troops who were responsible for intercepting them was much less.
And as the fighting in the city gate cave slowly ended, more and more Wudang Fei troops could come over to support the interception troops, and gradually, the Wei army, which had come to support the hundreds, was beaten by the inferior Wudang Fei Army, and there was some meaning of defeat and retreat.
Du Yo's pressure suddenly decreased a lot.
At this moment, the ten Wudang Flying Army sent to dismantle the latches finally demolished six top logs and three latches, and began to slowly open the city gates.
Duyo was in ecstasy.
But then, Duyo couldn't laugh again.
The second batch of reinforcements to support the city gate cave has arrived.
This time, instead of a hundred people who came, two phalanx soldiers of five hundred people, a total of a thousand people, rushed in the direction of the city gate.
Even, Sima Zhao, who realized that he had been deceived, personally led the troops to rescue.
(End of chapter)