Duyo had no intention of attacking the granary. Really, he was not stupid.
Although Wang Ping doesn't know a single word, he relies solely on experience and his own talent and understanding to fight. But Wang Ping has always been very concerned about the training of the next generation.
Today's Wang Ping is not the humble military general in history who was a general until the first Northern Expedition. He was a pro-army general valued by Emperor Zhaolie as early as ten years ago, leading the only two men of the Han Dynasty. Wudang Feijun, one of the special operations forces.
After the death of Emperor Zhaolie, the Bai Jie soldiers were incorporated into the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, but the Wudang Fei army was retained by Zhuge Liang, who also promoted Wang Ping to the general of fighting against invaders.
It is true that this is a miscellaneous general, but to a Han people, this already means that Wang Ping has entered the ruling class of the Han people.
Therefore, Wang Ping is even more concerned about the education of his children.
In Wang Ping's eyes, Du Yue was almost the same as Wang Xun. Therefore, Wang Xun's teacher was Du Yue's teacher, and the two of them took classes together.
How else could Duyo have read "Historical Records"?
Wang Ping did not have any selfish motives in training Du Yue. He not only taught him knowledge, but also often taught the two young ones some battle experience.
After all, Wang Ping built his family business with his martial arts. Future generations may not use it, but they must not understand the way of military formation.
Therefore, Duyo was somewhat strategic and could not make the most basic mistakes.
Now that the Wei army has stepped up patrols in the city and conducted strict searches for Wudangfei soldiers lurking into the city, there must be several places that must be tightly guarded.
The Granary is certainly one of them.
Du Yue still understands the principle of food and grass going first before the troops and horses are moved.
Duyo also had his own ideas as to why he chose to gather near the granary.
First of all, although the granary is in the northwest corner of Wancheng, this place is actually closer to the west gate.
This is where the Wudang Feijun originally climbed over the city wall and entered Wancheng. At the same time, it is also the place where the most Wudang Feijun are lurking. After all, it is lurking. It is not easy to move places for large-scale operations, so the closer to the west gate, the more lurking. The more useless flying troops there are.
It is more convenient to gather here.
Secondly, although the patrols on the West Gate Tower are strict, the main direction of defense is the Wudang Feijun camp outside the city. The main observation is whether there is a climb up the city wall from outside the city. The security of the inner city is not that strict.
It's dark under the lights. If they gather here, they won't be discovered easily.
The third granary is indeed here.
Duyo does not intend to attack the granary, but that does not mean that he will not do something to the granary.
After gathering about two hundred Wudang Feijun, and seeing that the sky was slowly getting brighter and the early morning was approaching, Duyo decided that he could not wait any longer.
Once it's dawn and two hundred people gather together, a fool won't notice it.
Maybe there are other Wudangfei soldiers in the city who have not received the assembly order, or who have received the assembly order and have not arrived yet, but now, time is not enough, and Duyo must act immediately.
Duyo ordered a hundred people to be separated and start setting fires near the northwest corner to create chaos, and at the same time began to move towards the granary.
The attack speed is not required along the way. It is only required to create the greatest momentum, expand the area of the fire, create the illusion of a large-scale attack on the granary, and attract the attention of the Wei army.
Du Yue himself led the remaining one hundred people and lurked secretly near the inner gate of the West City.
After the granary in the northwest corner attracts the Wei army's attention and increases troops there, Duyo will lead a hundred men to raid the inner gate of the west city, try to kill the guards here, open the gate, and welcome Wang Ping into the city.
This strategy was one of those that would result in immediate death in front of Zhang Xi, and would also result in a scolding in front of Wang Ping.
Let’s not talk about whether it was possible to capture the west gate of Wancheng with only a hundred men, and to hold on until Wang Ping led his troops into the city despite the enemy’s counterattack. The hundred useless flying troops who set fire to the granary and pretended to attack the granary were surrounded by the superior force of the Wei army. , the only outcome is death in battle.
In other words, Duyo cruelly abandoned the life and death of half of his soldiers, and then took the other half of the soldiers to perform a mission where the entire army might be annihilated if something went wrong.
But Duyo had no choice.
Just like what he said, "Waiting to die is a good thing." They would die sooner or later anyway, so it was better to take a big chance.
Failure would mean death, but success would mean that if Wang Ping could lead troops into the city in time to come to the rescue, some of them might still have hope of survival.
Besides, most of the work that Wudang Feijun does is this kind of work. From the first day on the battlefield, Wudang Feijun should have such an awareness.
To a certain extent, Duyo's decision-making ability is quite outstanding, and he can be ruthless when he should be ruthless. He already has the basic qualities of a general.
And judging from the effect of the action, it was actually a bit of a hit-and-miss. It happened that Sima Zhao, who was guarding the west gate of Wancheng, made some mistakes in judgment.
The time when the strategy was launched was still in the early morning.
Although after experiencing a night attack, Sima Yi repeatedly emphasized the need to be more vigilant and strengthen precautions in the early morning hours, but human physiological functions cannot be changed by one or two verbal commands.
There is no three-shift duty system these days. Soldiers on duty at night are already very hard, and the biological clock cannot be adjusted in a day or two. After barely holding on until the early morning, you are already very tired, and you will naturally relax. There is no point in stressing it enough.
Therefore, when the defenders on the west tower and the patrol soldiers in the city noticed that the houses near the granary in the northwest corner were on fire, the fire on the northwest side was already showing signs of spreading.
At this time, Sima Yi had been awakened by someone and was standing in the mansion, listening to the reports of his soldiers. Sima Zhao, who was on duty at the west city gate, had also been awakened by someone at this time and was standing on the tower, thinking about something.
The question Sima Zhao was considering was whether to send the soldiers guarding the west city gate to go down to the tower to put out the fire.
Originally, this issue did not need to be considered. The fire started in the direction of the granary. In addition to the defenders of the granary, he was the closest rescue team to the granary. It was impossible for Sima Zhao not to know the importance of preserving the granary.
However, the fire it started was too strange.
How could it be such a coincidence that such a big fire broke out right under my nose in the early morning? !
Is it possible that someone is deliberately creating chaos, hoping to let himself lead troops to put out the fire, thereby relaxing the defense of Ximen? !
I have to say that up to this point, Sima Zhao's analysis and judgment were correct. This was just Du Yue's plan to seize the opportunity to attack the east and attack the west.
But then, Sima Zhao's judgment turned completely wrong.
Sima Zhao never expected that Du Yue would take advantage of the chaos to attack the inner gate of the West City. His judgment was that the Shu thieves inside the city took the initiative to create chaos in order to respond to the attack of the Shu thieves outside the city.
In other words, this is a signal. Maybe it won't be long before the Shu thieves outside the west city gate will take the initiative to attack the city.
Therefore, Sima Zhao immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert and no one was allowed to go down the city wall to put out the fire.
The defense force at the granary has been strengthened, and there are also arrangements from the father's play. There is not much difference between whether he goes or not.
The most important thing for him now is to prepare with all his strength to deal with the possible invasion of Shu thieves.
After all, the Shu thieves outside the west city gate have learned from the experience of attacking the city in the early morning. It is not yet completely bright, and the field of vision and visibility are very poor. Bows and arrows are not of much use. In the end, they may have to use close-range weapons. Fight hand-to-hand to stop the siege of Shu thieves.
With Sima Zhao's thinking, Wang Ping should have finished forming his team by now and started heading towards the west city wall.
But in fact, Wang Ping had just been woken up by his subordinates at this moment. He was thinking calmly as he looked at the fire coming out of the northwest corner of Wancheng.
Wang Ping had not been stationed at Ximen for a long time, and the craftsmen in Wancheng had not yet found a way to send Wang Ping the information he needed on the city's defenses. Therefore, Wang Ping did not know that the northwest direction was actually where the Wei army's grain garrison was.
But Wang Ping definitely knew one thing - such a huge fire was definitely not just for fun because Wei Jun found it boring to defend the city.
This must be the chaos caused by the Wudang flying army who sneaked into Wancheng City.
But the problem is that the chaos occurred around early in the morning, and judging from the size of the fire, it does not seem like a movement that a small-scale Wudang Fei Army could make. Someone must have assembled a part of the Wudang Fei Army to actively create The momentum came out.
This seemed to be different from the strategy he had deployed before, to disperse and create chaos and cooperate with the Jingzhou Army at the South Gate to attack the city.
Obviously, something happened in the city that he didn't know about, which caused some soldiers of the Wudang Feijun to take risks and set fire to attack.
There is a saying that although Wang Ping himself has never read a book, let alone the art of war, his sense of the battlefield and on-the-spot judgment are indeed top-notch.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to reach his current position in the Han army as a man.
Soon, Wang Ping made his own response decision.
Wake up the whole army, organize armaments, and be ready for war at any time.
Wang Ping thought for a while and felt that it was not safe to do so. He decided to personally take three hundred Wudang flying troops and take advantage of the cover of night to get as close as possible to the west gate wall for observation.
As a lot of noises came from the Wudang Feijun camp outside the city, this reaction further confirmed Sima Zhao's judgment on himself - the Shu thieves were indeed going to attack the city in the early morning.
Sima Zhao was relieved now and asked his soldiers to be more alert and stick to their positions, but the target was Wang Ping's army outside the city.
At this time, Bet and the hundred useless flying troops who had been lurking near the inner gate of the West City for a long time finally took action.
Without hesitation, kill towards the inner gate of the West City and seize the opportunity to seize the West Gate! ! !
(End of chapter)
