Chapter 70: Sending a messenger at night makes another meritorious service
When Sha Bi received the news, he was surprised and happy!
General Sha Bi was surprised that Ye Jingqiu actually dared to disobey his orders, and attacked the enemy who had taken advantage of the territory without waiting for him to arrive, and attacked the crowd with outnumbered;
Happily, Ye Jingqiu attacked the enemy village of 3,000 people with a force of 500 people, lured the snake out of the hole, and won a complete victory in less than half an hour, captured 2,000 enemy soldiers alive, and captured the enemy general Harle alive!
Ye Jingqiu's report arrived, which made the 3,000 soldiers of the vanguard army all ready to try, and their morale was high.
General Sha Bi immediately prepared a good news, reported it to Marshal Hua Qingping, and asked the marshal to cut Ye Jingqiu on how to reward and punish him.
"Chinese officer, go and ask the former army guide, how far is it from Yucheng? Also, when you go, you will call the commander of the former army Ye to this commander. β
Later, the Chinese officer reported that it was less than one hundred and fifty miles.
"Well, the order was given to the front army, and the vanguard army went to Yucheng thirty miles to the village. Hmm, is Commander Ye here?"
Ye Jingqiu has already come to the rear army suddenly, see the generalissimo Hua Qingping: "The last general, Ye Jingqiu, has seen the marshal!"
"Hmm. Let me ask you, how dare you disobey General Sha's orders and go to war without authorization? If you can't give a reason, this commander will never spare you!"
"Back to Marshal! Ever since he was ordered to lead the vanguard front army, the last general has been pondering a strategy to break the enemy.
In today's battle, I saw that the enemy village was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was in the way of our army's advance, so the last general thought of a way to lure the snake out of the holeββ"
"Well, how do you lure the snake out of the hole?"
"Back to the marshal's words, the last general preceded the enemy's unpreparedness, arranged an ambush, and then acted as bait alone, challenged with horses, and led the enemy general Harle to lead 500 men out of the village to capture me.
Then the last general lures the enemy into an ambush, but does not kill them all, in order to lure the enemy to come to his rescue. When the enemy comes to the rescue, I will kill the enemy and capture one alive. At the same time, 200 soldiers were ambushed and set fire to the village, and by this time, the last general forced Harle to surrender, forcing him to surrender the remnants, so there was this small victory. β
"You are lucky to win, although it is gratifying, but if you do this, you will lose your head!
If the army arrives, this method of luring the snake out of the hole can also be carried out, and it is safer, this is the second;
Today, if you don't achieve this first feat, it will be difficult for you to make the merit for your guilt, and this is the third; do you know these three points that this commander said?"
"The last general knows that he is wrong. Ye Jingqiu said: "The second point that the marshal said, the last general still has a different opinion. β
"Well, what's the difference?"
"Marshal, if the army arrives, I am afraid that the enemy general Harle will not fight, and this will not be carried out to lure the snake out of the hole. β
"Well, it makes sense!" Hua Qingping nodded in agreement, and then shouted:
"Someone! Passing on my order, Ye Jingqiu disobeyed the order of the vanguard officer, went to war without authorization, removed him from the post of deputy vanguard, and dismissed this month's monthly salary as a punishment. β
"Yes!" the Chinese military herald replied, and Ye Jingqiu was depressed.
Ben Shuai also has an order: the vanguard army won the first battle, and all were rewarded. Ye Jingqiu, who made the first contribution, served as a pioneer officer, and was promoted to the capital, and was rewarded with three times the monthly salary. Marching into the army, Sima Yangjian followed the vanguard army and joined the army. In addition, General Sha, the former pioneer officer, returned to the vanguard battalion to command the troops, and he was also rewarded with three times the monthly salary!"
The herald said in his heart whether this was a reward or a punishment, but he didn't dare to say it.
At this point, Ye Jingqiu, as the capital manager and the vanguard officer, can be regarded as a middle-level senior general, and he has the qualifications to participate in the Great Tent Battle.
On the second day, that is, on the 14th day of August in the autumn of this year, the reinforcements of the Second Route set up three large camps twenty miles from Yucheng. The sentinel reported that he had entered the city, and the commander of the Zhenbei army, Pingbei Wang, and the commanders of the reinforcements all the way were very happy.
It turned out that the Imperial Reinforcements were the Imperial Capital Guards outside the sequence of the Four Towns of the Empire, and their main task was to escort the defenders with food, grass and equipment and stabilize the hearts of the defenders.
However, it was said that in the tent of the commander of the Zhendong Army of the Second Route Reinforcement Army, the generals discussed the military situation. Because Ye Jingqiu was promoted to the position of capital manager and led the position of pioneer, he was naturally able to participate in the military aircraft.
The first thing to be discussed in the tent was to contact the city, so that the inside could be reconciled with the outside.
The agreed outcome was:
The general of the charge was selected two people, of which the main general was Lu Yi, the general of the guard army in front of the tent, as the messenger into the city, and the vanguard officer Ye Jingqiu led the vanguard army of 1,000 people to escort him. Then Ye Jingqiu returned to his own army and was picked up by the avant-garde battalion led by General Sha Biao. This is going to happen tonight.
The second thing is how to prevent the enemy from stealing the camp tonight, as well as pretending to rob the camp to cover Ye Jingqiu's rush to escort Lu Yi.
The third thing is to engage the enemy tomorrow, the arrangement of each battalion and its own standard, its own formation, its own battle and garrison, and so on.
Not to mention that the Zhendong Army is discussing military aircraft, and talking about the Geling soldiers, Yuan Haogu, the commander of the Geling Empire's southern expedition, also gathered to discuss.
Yuan Haogu acted steadily, thought precisely, and knew the art of war, and Emperor Geling often praised him as "a brave and warlike general".
Yuan Haogu was able to trap the main force of the northern line of the Xiding Empire in Yucheng, because he first frequently transferred troops, secretly gathered troops, and used the method of concealing the sky and crossing the sea;
At this moment, Yuan Haogu said to the generals: "Generals, this Marshal of the Zhendong Army, Pingdong Wang Hua, is also a person who is extremely capable of using soldiers. He must have expected that our army would rob the camp tonight, but the camp robbery tonight is in line with the method of waiting for work, think about it, if I am the king of Pingdong, how should I prevent the enemy army from robbing the camp?"
"According to the general, the king of Pingdong will inevitably ambush his troops outside, and when I rob the camp, he will join forces to attack our army. β
General Huahu is right. But there is one point, if the king of Pingdong divides his troops into two ways, one way ambushes my camp troops, and the other way comes to steal my camp, how can he solve it?"
"If this is the case, our army can divide another army outside, and we can cover up and kill its raiders. β
"In that case, who dares to ambush with me, and who dares to go with me to rob the enemy's prepared camp?"
"I'm willing to rob the enemy's prepared camps. General Nahua said excitedly.
"The last general is willing to be an ambush, waiting for the enemy to come and steal the camp. Another general said.
"Very good! This commander will send General Qiu Qing and General Sazimo with 3,000 soldiers each to meet you two. The rest of the generals, guard the camp with Ben Shuai!"
This Yuan Haogu arrangement is very detailed.
However, he said that the Zhendong Army, at the second watch, Ye Jingqiu escorted Lu Yi to set off, and in the moonlight, he saw the shadow of the Geling Army marching along the left side of the mountain to his side! Lu Yi said softly to Ye Jingqiu:
"The marshal is very insightful, and as he expected, we can only rush into battle when the enemy army steals the camp. β
However, it was said that the Greening army Huahu led 5,000 men and horses to march quietly, and on the way, he saw the Xiding army coming along the left side of the mountain, so he ordered to hide, and when the enemy army was finished, he led 5,000 men to attack the enemy's camp. Hua Hu said to the adjutant general: According to the marshal's order, we must not go deep into the camp, and only arrange dozens of people to set fire, and only after the enemy army has set up a trumpet cannon and covered up each other, our army can attack. Then there will be someone who will take care of us.
But he said that the soldiers of the Zhendong Army here were stealing the camp, and the general was General Sha Bi, and he also said to his deputy: "I saw that there should be an ambush in the forest, and this army must not ambush us, but go to steal the camp, he is really stealing the camp, and we are pretending to steal the camp, and when the time comes, as long as your subordinates shout and shout, and attract the enemy to ambush the army, we will retreat immediately!"
General Sha Bi led the troops forward, and after a short time, the camp of the Greening Army was in sight. The soldiers of the vanguard battalion shouted in unison, pounced on the Greening army camp, and after a while, the whole army retreated.
When the Greening ambush heard the clamour, they immediately slaughtered the camp, and rushed to the front, but they did not see the fire in the camp, and were hesitating.
"The marshal has an order! This enemy army is a fake raider, and now it has returned to the army, and it is to ambush our raiders. All the armies should move forward together to rescue General Hua. β
However, it was said that the 5,000 soldiers led by Huahu of the Geling Army here, and dozens of people rushed straight into the camp of the Zhendong Army, so they set fire to it, and then quickly withdrew-they had to explain and knew that the camp of the Zhendong Army was empty at this time.
When Hua Hu saw the arsonists retreating, he ordered his troops to prepare for battle. Sure enough, the Eastern Army of the Xiding Empire put up a trumpet cannon!
Suddenly, he heard the shouts of killing behind the mountain and the shouts of killing in the depths of the enemy's camp quickly converged in one place, so Hua Hu ordered "Kill!" and rushed out first and led the army to cover the kill.
Hua Hu rushed to the front of the enemy camp, only to find that the enemy's shouts of killing had disappeared. When Huahu hesitated, the shouts of killing on both sides sounded again!
Hua Hu was shocked - but it was the enemy who surrounded his own troops.
When Hua Hu was at a loss, the shouting of killing came again, and Hua Hu couldn't help sighing: "I was able to do it in front of the marshal, but I didn't expect the enemy to be so cunning, I am finished today!"
Unexpectedly, the sentinel came, but this time it was his own marshal Yuan Haogu who led the troops to come to the rescue, Huahu was overjoyed, so he hurried to meet the marshal.
Next, the two armies fought in the darkness of the night.
When the two armies were fighting, Ye Jingqiu had already escorted Lu Yi to the Yucheng Gate and called for opening the city gate, so Lu Yi entered the city.
Ye Jingqiu did not stop, and led the team back, and on the way it coincided with a receiving army arranged by Yuan Haogu, which was in the direction of Yuan Haogu's camp.
Ye Jingqiu led the troops to kill, and the commander of the receiving army, Sazmo, never imagined that an enemy army would be able to arrive here! Sa Zmo was about to ask a question, when Ye Jingqiu's horse came to him, and the gun was like a dragon, and he stabbed Sazmo under the horse with a shot!
Ye Jingqiu led the troops to eliminate this receiving army, and continued to rush back to kill, but there was no obstacle along the way, and only a few enemy stragglers who had found the wrong way were killed along the way.
But it was said that Yuan Haogu found that the enemy was feinting to deceive himself, and after a little thought, he immediately woke up, and Hua Qingping, the eastern army of the town, was going to eat his own camping people!
Yuan Haogu exclaimed: "Not good! General Huahu is in danger!"
So Yuan Haogu led the troops to rescue Huahu, and when he rushed to the vicinity of the camp of the Zhendong Army, he could hear the sound of killing in front of him!
There has already been a report from the Malays: "Report to the marshal! General Huahu is surrounded by enemy troops!"
Yuan Haogu gave an order, and his subordinates stepped forward to engage in the battle, wanting to take back Huahu's troops!
Yuan Haogu responded in time, and Huahu's army was not wiped out. However, the two armies also entered a state of chaos.
The sky is dark.
The two armies had been fighting since midnight, each with some damage, and by this time both sides had withdrawn their troops. Ye Jingqiu also returned to the base camp, and there was no loss of a thousand people and horses!
However, it was said that Yuan Haogu returned to the camp to count the men and horses, lost more than 4,000 people, and folded the general Sa Zimo, according to the report of the defeated soldiers, it was expected that the enemy army sent a messenger into the city to contact, Yuan Haogu was depressed.
The Zhendong Army also folded 2,000 men and horses.
Seeing that the sky was already bright, Yuan Haogu immediately sent a messenger to fight at noon on the day of Huaqing.
Here, Hua Qingping replied: See you before the battle!