Chapter 26: The Bridge Bombing Mission
Sunset City saw that Dawn City was still tough, so it did not collect troops, but continued to attack, this time it had crossed the West River to attack Dongling City, and surrounded Dongling City tightly, the city lord of the city was Marshal Zhao, Marshal Zhao ordered to hold on to it on the one hand, on the other hand, he ordered his son Zhao Jie to lead a team of scouts from the city to dig a secret passage straight to the outside of the city, Zhao Jie led the order to bring a team of scouts, from a house in the city to start digging tunnels, in order to prevent being discovered by the enemy, the depth of the digging was quite deep, And it is to dig a slope by digging a vertical shaft, digging all the way to the outside of the city, and it is estimated that it is already far away, and then slowly digging to the surface. As a result, such a group of scouts went directly from the city to the outside of the city, Zhao Jie and they immediately moved to the bank of the Xihe River after they arrived outside the city, and at the same time, Pei Yuqing did not flee in a hurry after the fortress they built was breached, but they did not have enough time to blow up the bridge built before, so they left a passage for the former legion.
But Pei Yuqing did not flee too far, on the contrary, he went around in a big circle and lurked back near the two bridges, it was good to meet Zhao Jie's team who came to cut off the other party's supply line, and the two teams merged into one place, Pei Yuqing said his thoughts.
"Let's blow up one of these two bridges first, leave one for them to pass, and then we will find an opportunity to intercept their supplies and transport them back to our own city, or burn them directly, on the one hand, we can chill the morale of their troops, and on the other hand, we can greatly deplete the other party's inventory, isn't this killing two birds with one stone?"
But Zhao Jie didn't agree to do this, "The idea is good, but there is a problem that needs attention, that is, the combat effectiveness of the grain transportation team, such an important thing, if I were the boss, I would not put the average combat effectiveness of the team in this important position, we only have a team of scouts I brought out, and some soldiers in your hands, if you attack a fully established army with such a force, what do you think the victory rate will be?" ”
"But if we blow up all the two bridges at the beginning, there will definitely be a lot of movement, so if the enemy's previous troops can't attack for a long time and turn back to deal with us, do you think it's better to deal with a small army or a large army?"
The two of them argued for a long time and didn't come up with any results, and finally listened to Pei Yuqing's opinion, but Zhao Jie changed the second half, if a problem is found, or if it can't be defeated quickly, then blow up the second bridge. Pei Yuqing also agreed with this statement, and the two teams gathered together and lurked near the two bridges to observe the situation.
Not to mention, the corps still had some strength in the past, and of course a team with good combat effectiveness would be put here in such an important position, but the commander of this team was not very good? This army is led by a general surnamed Zhao, this General Zhao is a famous war maniac, but he belongs to the kind of reckless character, straight to the point, let him go into battle to kill the enemy, let him outwit the victory, then it is better not to have him, but now he has just finished a hard battle, was replaced to rest, and let him come here on duty.
This General Zhao also has a hobby of drinking, and he has to get drunk when he drinks, and if he is not drunk, he is not called drinking, so he has a nickname called the drunkard, this nickname is not to satirize him, but because this person is like a different person after drinking. The mind is not only very flexible, but also has a lot of ghost ideas, and it belongs to the category of wise generals, and the higher he drinks, the higher his intelligence, but the combat effectiveness has directly declined, and it can be said that it belongs to the kind of powerless chicken, and this state does not last much time to sleep, so generally he will not be banned from drinking in the military camp, but he will not let him drink high, and he has to master a balance.
But today is an exception, he was replaced for rest, so he was not strictly controlled, and there was nothing to do around here, so now General Zhao, who had become a wise general after drinking, had fallen asleep with his arms in his arms in the wine vat.
When Pei Yuqing and Zhao Jie saw that there was a team of people guarding these two bridges, they slowly approached the camp where they were stationed, although there were many people here, but there was no discipline at all, and they were basically in a very relaxed state. But there were many people, so Pei Yuqing did not rush to attack the camp, on the contrary, signaled Zhao Jie to withdraw first.
The two met in a small dense forest. "This guard seems to be a bit of a drunkard." Zhao Jie said softly.
"Well, but this person is a little strange, according to the general rule, it is forbidden to drink alcohol in the military camp in the war, especially drunkenness, which is taboo, but this general not only drank, but also drunk, and the prison army didn't say anything? If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, so I asked you to withdraw and not attack directly, which is a trap if it is not good, just to prevent troops like us from sneaking up. Pei Yuqing simply sat on the ground, holding his chin with one hand and thinking.
This Jiang is still old and spicy, Zhao Jie is still young after all, he doesn't have much battlefield experience, and his analysis of things is still shallow. Hearing Pei Yuqing say this, he also thinks that it is reasonable, in fact, they just don't know this drunken man, if they do, they will definitely not be so difficult.
However, no matter how much these two people were combined, it was useless, and in the end, these two people discussed it and decided to go directly after feeling the situation tomorrow night, and divided all the teams into three teams, two infiltration teams with scouts as the main force, and one receiving team, composed of the rest of Pei Yuqing's subordinate troops, ready to respond and attract the enemy's attention. Zhao Jie led a team of infiltrators to infiltrate the bridge they were going to keep to make traps and set up long-distance starting devices, because these two bridges were built by Pei Yuqing with people, and the need to blow them up at any time had been taken into account when they were built, so the explosion trap had been buried in advance, and what Zhao Jie needed to do was to extend the starting device of this trap, which was not difficult.
And the infiltration team led by Pei Yuqing is more demanding, because they need to touch the general first, and then the receiving team will create chaos, and then they are taking advantage of the chaos to destroy the target bridge, the difficulty of this requirement is a bit high, because the opponent's ability is unknown, only know that it is a drunken general, and the rest are not known.
After drawing up the battle plan, they began to divide their units and asked the troops to rest in place for a day and wait until it was dark before starting the operation. After having a goal, time passed very quickly, and soon it was dark, and the troops guarding the bridge began to rest in shifts, Pei Yuqing saw that the time was almost up, so he nodded at Zhao Jie, and the two teams began to act at the same time.