Liu Yu discussed with everyone the time and plan for a sneak attack on Xiami County.
The refugees outside Xiami City now make a living by doing day labor, collecting and selling firewood. During the day, subordinate officials from Xiami County will lead people to monitor the surrounding area. This situation has been going on for nearly a year.
Because in the past six months or so, there have been no riots or other abnormalities among these refugees, and these subordinate officials have been unable to squeeze much money from the refugees recently, and the current surveillance is basically very lax.
So Liu Yu's plan is that tomorrow all the refugees will be young and strong, and they will still go out to collect firewood as usual, and then Liu Yu will send people to pick them up at the Donglai Army's camp.
After arriving there, they met up with Liu Yu's soldiers and had a good meal and drink. Then they dispersed into small groups and returned to the camp to spend the night. They took advantage of the night to build a batch of ladders and shield vehicles for climbing the city.
It was planned that in the early morning of the next day, Liu Yu gave an order, and all the young and strong refugees followed the Donglai army to launch a surprise attack on Xiami City.
By the time everything was arranged in an orderly manner and Liu Yu led his guards to leave, it was already completely dark.
Liu Yu looked back at the blurry Xiami city wall in the night, and secretly took a deep breath. Now he was on the verge of breaking through, even if it was a dragon's pool or a tiger's den, he had to break into it.
Just as Liu Yu and his party left, a sneaky figure clung to the simple camp wall, slipped out of a wall hole in the refugee camp, and then ran quickly towards Xia Mi City. Soon the figure disappeared into the dark night.
The next day, everything went according to Liu Yu's plan.
By Chen time, most of the young and strong refugees had arrived at the camp of the Donglai Army. Guan Tao and other refugee commanders were responsible for counting the personnel, while the other refugee commanders stayed in the camp. Otherwise, all the leading refugee commanders would If you don't see it, it may arouse the suspicion of those watching.
After having a hearty meal, everyone began to receive weapons one after another, and then were assigned to formations and joined various brigades of the Donglai Army.
At the front of the queue, rangers scouted and blocked the enemy's sight and hearing. This team of nearly 5,000 people moved towards Xiami City as quickly as possible.
Around noon, the entire team had marched to the woods about three miles away from Xia Mi City and was resting.
Liu Yu's original plan was to break the army into pieces here, and sneak into the refugee camp only a few hundred steps away from the Xiami city wall in batches from afternoon to night.
At this moment, billowing smoke suddenly appeared in the direction of Xiami City, three miles away.
"what happened?"
"Is there a fire in Xia Mi City?"
"It can't be our camp, right!?"
Everyone was extremely nervous due to the sudden appearance of thick smoke, especially the young and strong refugees, whose parents and wife Xiaoke were all staying in the camp.
"Come here, let the scouts from the front army rush forward for reconnaissance." Liu Yu immediately loudly ordered, "Everyone forms a formation!"
The two cavalrymen took the order and galloped forward. The five thousand people behind Liu Yu began to form formation under the command of the brigade commander who was waiting for the officer.
All of a sudden, noisy voices and the clash of weapons were heard. Liu Yu frowned and looked at this chaotic crowd. The Donglai Army, which could have quickly completed the formation, was already mixed in at this time. The refugees are involved in a chaotic mess.
Liu Yu was furious. He rode on horseback to the most crowded and noisy group of people. He raised his carbine high and hit several refugees hard with the butt of the rifle. Then he shouted with all his strength: "No pushing." ! Send an order to the entire army, anyone below the corps commander who dares to make noise will be killed!"
Soon Liu Yu's bodyguard cavalry began to run in all directions, shouting loudly, "Commander of the team, anyone who dares to make noise will be killed."
Finally, under the rectification of the officers, Guan Tao and other refugee commanders, the entire army finally formed a hasty formation.
A burst of rapid horse hoofbeats came from the front, and several Donglai Army scouts rushed over.
"Where did the fire start?" Liu Yu asked eagerly without waiting for the scout to speak.
"Back to the general, the refugee camp in front is on fire. There are about a thousand secret soldiers besieging the refugee camp." One of the scouts gasped.
After listening to the scout's words, the expressions of Guan Tao and other refugee commanders beside Liu Yu changed drastically, full of worry and panic for the safety of their relatives.
"Li Feng! Guan Tao!" Liu Yu shouted loudly.
"Yes!" Li Feng and Guan Tao responded at the same time.
"Li Feng, our Donglai infantry is under your command. Except for weapons and armor, throw away all the baggage and march forward in formation. The target is Mi City." Liu Yu ordered in an unquestionable tone, "Guan Tao, all the young and strong men are under your command." Commander-in-Chief, follow as the rear army."
After Li Feng and Guan Tao took the order, Liu Yu leaped forward on his horse and shouted to the surrounding guards, "All cavalry, follow me to kill the enemy!"
In just the blink of an eye, Liu Yu led 20 cavalrymen and rushed towards Xia Mi City.
On the city wall of Xiami County, on the gate tower of the north gate, Song Xian, who had issued a secret order, looked at the billowing smoke rising from the refugee camp not far away, and his originally proud face showed some displeasure.
"These veteran thieves asked them to set fire to the camp long ago. Why are they setting fire to it now?"
Song Xian cursed, he knew in his heart that these soldiers from Xiami County did not want to set fire to the refugee camp early, just to rob more property and women, otherwise they would burn it all with one fire, so what would they rob?
However, more than a thousand officers and soldiers faced the camp defended by thousands of old, weak, women and children, but it took more than half an hour to capture it. In the end, they set fire to it in anger, and only broke through a few gaps.
"Ming Gong, please stop sending some reinforcements from the city, otherwise the longer you delay, the easier it will be to change." A staff member advised.
Song Xian thought for a while and agreed. He sent someone to give the order and sent some reinforcements to attack the refugee camp.
Last night, a refugee slipped to the gate of Xiami City and shouted that he wanted to see the county magistrate to report rebellion. As a result, Song Xiancai, the magistrate of Xiami County, learned that a group of Donglai thieves had sneaked near Xiami and had colluded with the refugees outside the city to attack Xiami City.
Song Xian originally wanted to send troops overnight to attack the refugee camp, but his generals all said that the soldiers were not well prepared and that night battles and sneak attacks were impossible. He was afraid that he might get into trouble without fighting.
I had no choice but to give the secret order, and finally waited until dawn. By this time, most of the refugees had woken up, and there was no possibility of launching a sneak attack.
Song Xian changed his mind again and decided to wait until all the young men and women were gone, then send troops to capture the camp and capture the remaining families, wives and children of the refugees as hostages. By then, not only would the young men and women of the refugees not follow the Donglai thieves in rebellion, but they would also Maybe they can also use the lives of their relatives to threaten the refugees, so that the refugees can turn against them and bite the Donglai bandit army.
It's a pity that these incompetent soldiers and slaves failed to implement the county magistrate's plan. A refugee camp composed mostly of old, weak, women and children actually attacked for such a long time.
Song Xian and a group of staff and entourage were condescending on the gate tower, commanding the city to send reinforcements to speed up the attack.
This is a staff member with good eyesight. He suddenly saw a thin plume of smoke rising in the distance, and soon a small cavalry team rushed towards the burning refugee camp.
"They are Donglai thieves!" the aide shouted. There were no horses among the refugees, so this group of cavalry must be Donglai thieves.
"Asshole! Why didn't the scouts come to report back?" Song Xian was even more furious when he saw the thief suddenly appear without receiving the scouting report.
"Waving flags and beating drums, let Li Sheng send people to capture this group of arrogant thieves." Song Xian saw that there was no follow-up troops behind this cavalry, and knew that these were mostly forward scouts.
He couldn't help but sneer in his heart. A mere twenty cavalrymen dared to rush to death in front of thousands of troops. You thieves will never come back!
