The night was very quiet. The Qiupu River northwest of Chizhou City entered the river mouth. More than a thousand officers and soldiers quietly landed from the river and dragged the boats and rafts to the nearby woods. Everything was so quiet.
But it was not so quiet. Cicadas chirped and insects chirped in the woods and grass at the mouth of the river, and gunfire continued in the distance due east. Hao Yaoqi and Ji Jike stood by the river and looked at Chizhou City. They saw only a few fires at the top of the city and heard the sound. The roar of cannons revealed that the city was empty at this time, and the bandit army should be in the east of the city to respond to the enemy. As for the sound of cannons, it came from Shenji Camp: "It seems that the little governor has launched an attack."
"There are only a hundred thieves in the city. Let's capture the city first..." Hao Yaoqi looked at Ji Jike hesitantly. He was not inferior to Ji Jike in terms of bravery, but there was a far cry from him in terms of brains. This was also what Li Yan asked. The reason why Ji Jike came with him.
"What's the use of seizing this small broken city?" Ji Jike shook his head slightly: "Listen to the close sound of cannons. At that time, when the Lord Governor's attack was fierce, we should go to rescue immediately. As long as we defeat the rebel army, this small broken city is not easy to come here. Don’t waste your energy on this.”
"Okay, I'll do it as you say." Hao Yaoqi nodded vigorously. The two of them sent several small teams to open the way ahead according to the plan. After all, this is a thief war zone, and there are many bright and dark sentries. Although their attention has been distracted by this time The battlefield to the east is attractive, but if they are discovered in advance, there are still big variables. Ji Ji doesn't want to cause trouble, so he acts more and more cautiously.
This time the two of them came to lead more than a thousand troops. Some of them were Ji Jike's men, some were Hao Yaoqi's men, and some were surrendered troops of Li Yan's men. Although they came from different origins, they had two things in common, the essence of water. Strong pawn!
The several teams leading the way were all Li Yan's old troops. They were all former rebels. Their words and deeds were the same as those of thieves. They were also familiar with the habits and speech patterns of the rebels. They alerted the enemy and led the rebels to conduct interrogations outside the city at light and covert sentry posts. First he deliberately messed around and then suddenly attacked, and he was easily forced to the city gate.
"It's really a small broken city." Hao Yaoqi looked up and muttered with disdain from more than a hundred meters outside the city. At this time, he had no intention of seizing the city, but hurriedly bypassed Chizhou City and headed straight to the main road. Go east.
"Hey, Wang Laosan, I really want to see a lot of people outside the city going east." A patrolling thief in Chizhou City raised his head and squinted his eyes to look into the distance, but the night was too dark and the distance was too far to see the shadows. It is not clear whether it is a person or a tree.
"Yes, there are thousands of officers and soldiers here. I'm so scared." Wang Laosan said exaggeratedly, covering his heart, causing the people next to him to laugh, but his attention was quickly attracted by the firelight on the battlefield to the east.
According to intelligence, there is a large river in the east of the city. Crossing the river is the rear line of the rebel army. As long as they can cross the river without anyone noticing, the rebel army will definitely be defeated!
But they were afraid that there would be no one who could easily cross the river, so everyone was mentally prepared to chew a hard nut. They first sneaked to the river to find a remote place to swim across the river, and if they were discovered by the rebels, they would attack by force.
Unexpectedly, Ji Jike and Hao Yaoqi were stunned as soon as they walked around the city.
Due east, there were flames blazing into the sky and the sound of cannons. It looked like a fierce battle was going on. Of course, these did not shock them, but there was a pontoon bridge on the river! !
bridge! pontoon! The pontoon bridge built by the bandits!
It turned out that Bai Wang built a simple pontoon on the water for the convenience of quickly transporting manpower and materials from the city. This was definitely an unexpected surprise.
Since there is a bridge, who bothers to swim so hard? Hao Yaoqi and Ji Jike looked at each other and smiled, then ordered them to quickly cross the bridge and cross the river. There were more than ten bandit troops guarding both sides of the pontoon bridge, but they were all focused at this time. On the battlefield in the east, they had no idea of the danger behind them and had already been shot when they realized it. Ji Jike and his party quickly crossed the river with almost no effort, and then moved towards the rebel rear formation. They encountered some rebels on the way, many of them They were all shot in a dazed state.
The sound of artillery was still fierce, and hundreds of artillery pieces from Shenji Battalion all opened fire, blasting the rebel army's earth wall position into a mess, and the rebel army hiding behind retreated in confusion.
Bai Wang's face on the high platform was ashen and frightening, not because of the fierce firepower of the officers and soldiers, but because he couldn't understand what the little eunuch was trying to do.
Because the thunder was loud and the raindrops were light, the officers and soldiers suddenly increased the firepower to suppress them, but it was only firepower suppression and no attack was seen. Even the raft put into the water on the other side of the lake remained in place.
If something goes wrong, there must be a monster. What does the little eunuch mean by this? Is he waiting for something by keeping tight and not attacking, or is he deliberately making such a big noise to cover up something?
Big news? cover up?
Could it be that he was deliberately attracting my attention? Bai Wang suddenly felt his scalp numb. Yes, he was attracting my attention. This was just a feint. He must have started somewhere else.
Where will it be?
Bai Wang was a little panicked. Could he enter the mountain from the south and go around behind him? It's impossible. There is no road in the mountain and he has already deployed several light and dark sentries. Once a large army enters, they will immediately use fire as a signal. At this time, there is no movement.
Is it possible to take a detour from the river again? It's even more impossible. Firstly, he has no boats, and secondly, he has more than a hundred boats on standby in the river. Not to mention the roundabout way, it is not bad to be able to cross the sailors in the river. Bai Wang's doubts are raised thousands of miles away. The mirror looked towards the river, it was pitch black... Hey, no, there were fires on the other side of the river, one, two, three, there were three fires, about tens of meters apart...
This is a code!
No wonder the firepower of the officers and soldiers suddenly increased. It turned out that they had received a secret signal.
Why do you need to give a secret signal? And it’s on the other side! Bai Wang panicked all of a sudden. Could it be that reinforcements were drawn from the other side? But think about it, it's impossible. There is no intelligence showing that there are officers and men on the other side, and he has eyes and ears in the middle of the river and on the riverside. There is no movement there at this time, which means it is a false alarm.
This is strange. There is no attack from the front, and there is no movement on the two wings. Could it be that he flew behind without anyone noticing? Bai Wang was confused and subconsciously turned his head to look behind him. It was nothing... No, we could vaguely see a group of people rushing towards us in the distance, and they were at the rear in a blink of an eye!
Oh my god! Bai Wang suddenly glared, shuddered, frightened and angry, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Enemy attack! Behind, behind!"
The rebels below the high platform heard their coach shouting hysterically from above and couldn't figure out the situation for a while. When they heard the sound of killing coming from behind, they immediately panicked as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.
At this moment, the bandits on the watchtower shouted loudly: "The officers and soldiers are attacking, the officers and soldiers are attacking!"
As expected, the officers and soldiers attacked, with more powerful artillery from the front, and the sound of killing was everywhere. Hundreds of rafts on the lakeside began to advance together... Bai Wang on the high platform looked around, clapped his head with both hands: "I will die too!"
Everything went according to plan and in an orderly manner. Perhaps this was the so-called strategizing. Chang Yu was sure that a surprise attack would arrive tonight, so he used a feint attack to attract the attention of the rebels. Hao Yaoqi immediately sent people to the other side after taking down Jiang Xinzhou's secret sentry. Light a fire to release the signal as agreed.
Seeing the light of the fire, he was sure that the strange soldiers had arrived, so Chang Yu ordered to increase the momentum and at the same time sent orders to all the ministries to prepare for an attack. As soon as the strange soldiers entered the rebel formation, they immediately started to make dumplings from front to back.
This is the most important part, and it is also the time when Chang Yu is the most nervous, because at this time he does not know who Li Yan sent, how many people he sent, whether the rebel army has any defenses in the rear, and whether the Qi soldiers can successfully kill him. Get behind the bandits... If you can't kill them behind the formation, the best you can do is startle the enemy, and you will have to work hard to defeat them.
There are too many uncertain factors in this, so everyone's hearts are tense.
It wasn't until the soldiers at the lookout noticed the unusual movement behind the rebel formation that they shouted that it would be done. Everyone was overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief, and then Chang Yu ordered an attack!
Bai Wang originally thought that the frontal fracture was the main point of attack for the officers and soldiers. In fact, he was completely wrong. Not to mention that the fracture was wide and long, the water flow was fast, and there were earthen walls and other fortifications on the other side. Chang Yu was not willing to risk his life to fill the hole. The main point of attack was moved to the lake!
That’s right, take the water route!
The artillery was mounted on the front to make the rebels think that the officers and soldiers were going to attack from the gap. In fact, they used rafts to cross the lake and fight to the other side. The rafts were far larger than what the rebels found. The rafts were nearly a thousand in size. At this time, the company marched in parallel for more than ten miles and headed toward the enemy under the cover of night. Advancing to the other side, the small fishing boats of the pirate army are really not enough to see.
The pedal crossbow on the other side?
This is indeed tricky, but the premise is that it can exert its power when it has no worries. At this time, it is surrounded by enemies from both sides. How many people are coming in the dark night, and they can only hear the sound of killing everywhere. How can the thieves still have the heart to fight again? You know At this time, the real bandit army was only about three thousand, and the rest were cannon fodder and forcibly recruited civilians.
