Chapter 218: The Battle of Yanmen Pass (2)
Wang Jing smiled and said: "Be prepared! After repelling this wave, the other party should rest for a while." During the day, they return in vain, and at night they may take advantage of the darkness to sneak up and jump, take turns to guard, and they can't relax!"
General Zhang said with a smile: "This is natural, everyone cooperates seamlessly, and the Khitan people are not allowed to enter!"
At night, the guards suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and each of them raised torches to look out of the pass. But it was hundreds of horsemen who roamed outside the pass, and they did not attack, but only stood far away from the range of bows and arrows to provoke.
On the two peaks of Yanmen Pass, there are a large number of Khitan warriors, each holding a scimitar, and climbing up in the night.
When General Zhang saw this, he asked, "What do the Khitans mean by this? Could it be that they want to lure us out of the customs?"
Wang Jing said with a smile: "There is a saying that the sound of the east strikes the west, these people are in the open, there must be someone secretly climbing the mountain! With the Khitan people still can't think of this kind of scheme, it must be the idea of Murong Fu, the scum!"
General Zhang said: "We don't have cavalry, it seems that we can only hold on!"
Wang Jing shook his head and said: "The other party is plotting, and it just so happens that we will plan it." ”
General Zhang asked, "Will Ji come out?"
Wang Jing said with a smile: "This group of cavalry must be cooperating with those who are secretly climbing the mountain, and when those people slip in, they will cooperate to seize the door." In this way, let's calculate the time, make the illusion of a fight at the gate, and at the same time raise fire as a signal, those cavalry will inevitably come to attack, and then let the archers release their arrows together, and destroy these cavalry first. ”
General Zhang smiled and said: "Good strategy! Clever and clever! These cavalry are enough for them to suffer for a while!"
Wang Jing sighed: "Stratagem is just a small way, if you can defeat them in a dignified manner, you will not fall into the prestige of my Han people!"
General Zhang smiled bitterly and said: "The people in the north are fierce, this is something we can't compare!"
Wang Jing said: "Not necessarily, the Jiangdong disciples of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, are extremely brave!"
While the two were talking, the spies reported that there were Khitan warriors secretly climbing on the mountain peak, and they had been annihilated by the heroes guarding the mountain.
Wang Jing said: "Come and don't be rude, and tell the brothers who are good at helping to go down from the mountain peak, and when they see the fire at the gate, they will go to harass the other party's camp." General Zhang, let's act according to the plan and annihilate these cavalry!"
The guards and heroes were all impressed and took their orders to go.
After a while, the fire at the closing place was on fire, as if it was slowly opening...... When the Khitan cavalry saw the situation, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing, and they all thought that those Khitan warriors had succeeded, and they rode back to the camp to report the news, and the rest rushed to the closed place together. When he got closer, he closed the door again, and the shouting stopped. Someone reacted and hurriedly retreated. But when the archers were already ready to shoot with arrows, how could they allow these cavalry to retreat calmly, and at the moment ten thousand arrows were fired at the same time, but these cavalry were so dense that they rushed together, and they were too late to dodge, and they were annihilated without resistance.
Seeing that a cavalry had reported that it had succeeded, Yelu Hongji, the lord of Liao, urged the army to attack the gate. From a distance, I saw hundreds of cavalry killed under the rain of arrows, and I didn't understand the plan. In the darkness, the order was urgently suspended, causing some chaos.
When Yelu Hongji left the camp, the beggars saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, rushed into the camp and slashed and killed them, and set fire to them on the spot. For a time, the fire was soaring.
Yeluhongji's camp was attacked, but he was also a wise man, and ordered the vanguard troops to stay in place to prevent the pursuit of the personnel in the pass, and he rushed back to the camp with the middle and rear troops to rescue him. The beggars saw the army returning, and quickly dispersed. Yeluhongji was furious, but in the dark night, it was difficult to pursue, so he could only stop.
Wang Jing looked carefully in the pass and said with a smile: "Yelu Hongji's camp was attacked, and the soldiers had no heart to fight, and this moment is a good opportunity to annihilate its vanguard team." Come with me to meet the enemy. ”
A group of heroes and guards won again and again, and their morale was bursting, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
Wang Jing led the crowd, opened the gate, and fought with Yelu Hongji's vanguard troops. The morale gap between the two sides is obviously too large, and there are many masters on Wang Jing's side, and they cooperate with the guards to kill Yelu Hongji's vanguard and suffer heavy losses.
Yelu Hongji rushed back to the camp, counted the losses of the camp, and found that it was not big, the other party was originally harassing, but he saw the opportunity to move and set a fire, and in the dark night, the fire was conspicuous, thinking it was very serious.
At this time, the vanguard came to report that the other party actually went out to meet the attack, although Yelu Hongji was furious, but he was very measured, leaving some people to garrison the camp and rushing to the rescue.
Wang Jing's ears were outstanding, and when he heard the large group of people coming, he shouted loudly and ordered everyone to retreat. Everyone was convinced of Wang Jing, and when they heard the words, they stopped fighting and quickly retreated into the pass. Yeluhongji's vanguard suffered heavy losses, how dare they pursue. By the time Yelu Hongji arrived, all the heroes and soldiers guarding the pass had already retreated into the pass and refused to defend the danger.
Yelu Hongji had no choice but to retreat twenty miles and camp to beware of the enemy's sneak attack again. Yelu Hongji had never been defeated like this, and scolded Murong Fu, blaming Murong Fu for being too bad at his plan and being used by the other party, so that he lost his troops and lost his generals. Murong Fu didn't dare to refute, he secretly despised it in his heart, it was clear that your troops had no brains, and they dared to attack when they saw the fire, and they were not afraid of being a trap.
In Yanmen Pass, the guards and heroes cheered in unison, and this victory was thanks to Wang Jing's work.
General Zhang said: "When Tianming counts the battlefield, your achievements will be reported to the imperial court." ”
Wang Jing said with a smile: "The merits of the war are useless to us, why don't you give it to General Zhang and all the soldiers, I hope you will protect the territory and the people, and promote my great Song Guowei!"
General Zhang thanked and said: "The leader of the Wang League and all the heroes are high-spirited and bright, Zhang admires!
The rest of the people stayed part of the defense, and the rest went back to the camp to rest.
Wang Jing said secretly: "Although Yelu Hongji has lost a lot, he is still outnumbered and has an advantage, do you want to follow Qiao Feng's method in the original book, take him hostage, and force him to promise in public that he will not attack the Song Dynasty again." ”
At dawn the next day, Yelu Hongji led a large army to the gate of Yanmen Pass, but did not attack immediately.
The guards and heroes did not know what they meant, and suddenly heard the sound of drums and horns in the Liao army's formation, thousands of troops and horses parted to both sides like waves, eight golden-colored dog flags were waving in the wind, and eight knights galloped out of the formation. Behind the eight yellow flags, a group of captains spearmen, axemen, archers, and shield-bearers rushed forward, lined up on both sides, and then ten generals in brocade robes and iron armor surrounded Yelu Hongji.
The Liao army shouted: "Long live, long live, long live!" The sound shook the four fields, and the valley resounded.
Seeing that the Liao army was so prestigious, although they were amazed, they were not afraid. Even so, last night was not defeat after defeat.
Yelu Hongji came out and shouted, "Who defeated me last night? )