Chapter Ninety-Seven: Night Attack, Heading North
"Report!!"
"Your Majesty, the Qin Dynasty army is coming, and it is less than ten miles away from the camp, and the number of people... There are no less than 200,000 people!! ”
The report to the law army was anxious and frightened to clarify the situation, and did not dare to look at the face of the first Chi Yan Gu Liuru with hidden thunder.
The generals of the law dynasty who had not yet dispersed back to the various ministries in the tent also changed their faces greatly, and they all showed shocked faces.
"Father, sons, please send sentry cavalry to meet the attack and probe the enemy."
Seeing this situation, Chi Yan Gu Qiheng stepped forward and spoke.
The generals, scouts, and sentinels of each army have the ability to quickly estimate the number of people they have seen, and judge them by means of marching smoke and dust, movement, the amount of cooking smoke when garrisoning, and the number of camps.
Although today's first battle was lost, it was also a withdrawal, not a real rout, and it was true that the morale had dropped slightly, but it would never shake the foundation of their army.
Except for the Leliao Festival Division, which was placed in a corner of the Chinese army, ready to be temporarily repaired and treated for wounded soldiers, the rest of the peripheral armies and the vigil were all the elite of the legal army, and it stands to reason that there will be no fallacy.
But thinking of the previous things, Chi Yan Gu Qiheng felt that Meng Lian was really an unpredictable person, and he had to guard against it, and there was a possibility that he would show the truth with fiction.
Therefore, I asked to send a sentry to the battle, and I came close to check the details of the Qin army, instead of scaring myself without clarifying the actual enemy situation here.
Chi Yan Gu Liuru gave the eldest son an approving and satisfied look, and said: "What King Changding said is not bad, accurate!" Qing Enning, lead your troops to meet the enemy army, and find out the truth for me. ”
A sturdy general walked out, glanced at Chi Yan Gu Qi Heng, nodded his head, and faced Chi Yan Gu Liuru to receive the order.
He is a rare 'young man' in the middle of the law army, only forty and a half years old, ten years and eight years younger than most of the law generals here.
But Chi Yan Gu Liu went to battle as he was ordered, not because he was 'young and strong', but because he was a person who was Chi Yan Gu Qi Heng.
His youngest sister is the wife of Chi Yan Gu Qiheng, the princess of the law chief, and there is a ninety percent chance that she will soon be the princess of the law.
At this time, if there are indeed 200,000 people who have killed the Qin army, then if you go on this trip, you will go into the tiger's den with you, and it is extremely dangerous.
Chi Yan Gu Liuru is not afraid, but Chi Yan Gu Qiheng, as the proposer, will inevitably be resented and resented.
At this time, his own family is the best choice.
Moreover, great danger and great benefits are often closely related, and if he finds out the situation of the enemy army in detail, he can't run away with this skill, whether it is for himself or his sister and sister-in-law, it is good.
He glanced at Chi Yan Gu Qiheng, not because he wanted the other party to refuse for him, or anything else, but as an entrustment.
I hope that if there is a case, the other party will be kind to his sister and family.
And Chi Yan Gu Qiheng also nodded solemnly to him, which can be regarded as a promise.
is also the same, after Qing Enning received the order, he did not hesitate at all, and left the tent quickly, took the long lance in his hand, took the five thousand light horses of the Qing En's department, and ran to the outside of the southern camp.
In the big tent, Jin Yeming said to Emperor Chi Yan Gu Liuru again: "Your Majesty, no matter how many enemies the Qin army comes, the ministers think that they should not be taken lightly, and they should dispatch the troops in the front camp as soon as possible to prepare for war." ”
"Hmm." Chi Yan Gu Liuru agreed with his jaw head, and waved his big hand, "At this time, it will be properly arranged by King Daqin." ”
Although Jin Ye Ming is not a military general, he is not unfamiliar with the army, but he does not have the ability to personally go into battle to kill the enemy, but Chi Yan Gu Liuru still has a lot of trust in Jin Ye Ming's talent in transferring troops, especially when he is on the defensive.
Jin Yeming also responded to the order at the moment, and after retreating, he took a group of generals assigned to him, and made arrangements while walking out quickly.
When they came out of the big tent, they saw that in the distance of the rear camp, there were already flames shining in the sky, shouting and killing calls, and it was extremely chaotic.
Half an hour ago.
Two miles outside the wooden wall of the camp in the rear of the legal army.
The captain of the pro-military camp of the Longwu general Xiang An, Xiang Ze, personally took the elite cavalry of the pro-military battalion with 300 pro-soldiers, turned into scouts, and came over to touch the sentry first.
Outside the camp of the law, every quarter of an hour, there were three sentry groups of twenty men each, marching to the right and left, and ten miles ahead, patrolling back and forth.
Not only that, but outside the wooden walls of the camp, nearly a thousand dark sentinels were scattered irregularly, and a team of five people was hidden everywhere, feeding the situation in all directions.
Xiang Ze and they knew the reason for the speed of the soldiers, and they slaughtered all the way, competing for time with the sentinels who sensed that something was wrong with the legal army.
And their combat power is also the elite cavalry in the Zhenbei Army, second only to the Wushuang Battalion, with one pole and three glaive swords, and their combat power is brilliant.
All the way to the south, the legal army sentry and rangers on the road were slaughtered.
It was said that it was a sentinel, but it was better to say that it was a vanguard to open the way, and it was pushed all the way to less than three hundred steps outside the camp of the legal army.
The law army was not without sentry cavalry to escape back to the report, and the one who was guarding the rear camp was the great nobleman of the Liao Department of Lu Yong, the Zuo Kuo special service, and the 50,000 foot cavalry under the command of his father Yu Liantan.
Father Yu Lian Tan is also in the king's tent, and he is not in the rear army.
In fact, even if there was no royal tent, his own camp was not near his own command, but like other great nobles, he gathered around the new emperor, with 50,000 horsemen under his command, and was taken care of by several of his henchmen on weekdays, and he would personally command it when the battle came.
It was the 50,000 foot cavalry of the Yong Liao Department, not that the main general was lost, and the troops that were undispatched directly fell into chaos.
On the contrary, he was soon prepared by a general of the Yongliao Department who had big shoulders and a round waist, a bearded face, and a black iron tower.
Although the time left for him was not sufficient, he was still quickly transferred by him to bring in two thousand light horsemen, and he left them on the main road, facing the camp gate, to be left to attack later, or to prepare to pursue the enemy.
The rest of the troops who came quickly, and the army of 2,000 foot soldiers and archers was sent to fortifications such as wooden walls and arrow towers to increase the number of defenders.
More than 3,000 spearmen were transferred behind the camp gate, ready to set up several layers of cold guns.
At the same time, on both sides of the spearmen, a thousand archers were also deployed, blocking the main road into the camp on the left and right, forming a coordination with the gun array.
This assembly speed can also be described as quite fast.
But the speed of the wolf ride was even more unexpected.
As soon as its array was arranged, Xiang Ze and the others appeared outside the camp, followed by a tremor on the ground, and the wolf rode two thousand five hundred light horsemen of the Youyu Marquis, one person and two horses, and rushed to the vicinity, followed by one thousand five hundred heavy cavalry led by Xiang An.
After the Youyu Hou army rushed to the back, even if the offensive was launched, five hundred war horses dressed in horse armor were pulled to the front of the formation by them, blindfolded, and connected into a phalanx with iron locks, and dragged chain balls and spur hammers behind them, dragging them to the ground.
"Put!"
The wolf rode the right Yu Hou Junlang general He Qiong, shouted loudly, bags of fire oil were poured on the horse's vest, and more than a dozen torches were thrown on the horse's back, burning raging flames.
Under the pain, the war horse neighed wildly, but was imprisoned by the wooden beams connected to the back, and could not get rid of it left and right, so he had to rush forward.
In the darkness of the night, a flame flared up, like a narrow wave of fire, and rushed towards the camp of the legal army.
The legal army at the head of the wall, without giving an order, rushed at the rushing horses.
But these heavily armored horses, which were so easy to shoot, still rampaged.
And this momentum also came to an abrupt end fifty paces away from the camp.
Three consecutive zhang wide horse pits, burying the horses in it, and the sporadic survivors also scattered and ran away, and ended up being burned in vain.
"Go on."
However, the wolf horseman's offensive did not stop there.
They didn't have siege engines, but the law did.
Now if they don't take advantage of the gap between them being caught off guard and unprepared, they will attack and enter, and all their efforts will be wasted.
Now is not the time to be sympathetic and save, although it is heart-wrenching to see these war horses die so tragically, but there is no ambiguity in their hands.
The front and rear four wheels, the closely connected fire horses rushed into battle, and finally cleared the way ahead.
Large and small horse traps, and the thistles scattered all over the place, were discovered, filled, and cleaned, and even the layers of horse-repelling piles in front of the camp gate were washed down more than a dozen.
Seeing this, Xiang An didn't say a word, and led people to attack the camp gate.
The broadsword stabbed up, blocked some of the arrows that fell on him, stuck it on a horse-wide one, swirled it around, and smashed it directly at the wooden wall.
The horses that were splashed apart, sawdust and blades were scattered and splashed, and the law soldiers behind the female wall were pierced and killed on the spot.
Xiang Ze and other generals with superb martial arts also followed, doing the same, rejecting the remaining horses, picking them off one by one, and under the leadership of Xiang An, they rushed to the front of the camp gate.
The solid and heavy gate, under the knife of Xiang An, a high-grade realm general, only lasted three times, as if it was easier than hitting with a battering ram, and it was cut open.
Then there was a dense rain of arrows, facing Xiang Anfeng, and for a while the entire camp gate seemed to be covered with feather arrows.
But the high-grade realm is already like the land immortals, and it is not groundless, I saw Xiang An slash out with a sword, and the raging sword qi cut open an empty portal with the rain of arrows in front of him, and the arrows encountered fell into debris.
Then he buried himself on horseback, and slammed forward, ignoring the rain of arrows on both sides, protruding through the gap and smashing into the line of French guns.
Xiang Ze led people to delay for a while, and waited for the arrows to fall at the camp gate, and then followed the attack, followed behind Xiang An, who had already entered the enemy formation, and quickly broke the formation with the power of heavy cavalry.
At the same time, Meng Wei also led all the soldiers of the First Army in the north of the town, and the soldiers of the newly formed First and Second Armies, totaling more than 40,000, assembled in the south of the town.
Outside the two towns on the left and right, 150,000 people also gathered at night.
"General!"
Before the battle, Liu Yu and the others looked at the general of Zhenbei with ugly faces, and their shouting voices trembled faintly.
Meng Wei smiled brightly, and the generals who fought bravely during the day were patted on the shoulders by him one by one.
"I'm old, and I can't be in the Northland for many more years without this. In the future, this town of Beiguan will be handed over to you, don't let the old man down, and don't let Daqin down. ”
With that, Meng Wei turned over and got on his horse, held a simple spear in his hand, and beat the horse north.
In this battle, he never thought of defending it, nor would he defend it, let alone wait in place, just hoping for reinforcements to arrive.
Therefore, when Qing Enning led the troops out of the camp, he saw the torches all over the sky, shining like stars, innumerable, and boundless.
Any idea at the moment is superfluous, and it is faster to return than to rush.
Then he came and climbed the camp gate, Jin Yeming, looking at the Qin Dynasty army that was almost close at hand, his expression was also stunned, and his expression was extremely solemn.