Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 498 Night Attack
I saw noises coming from the north direction, and looking into the distance, dust was flying.Anyone with a little experience will know that a large group of people is coming.

"It seems that the slave chieftain is here!" Li Guo saw it, said with a smile, and strode towards the northern part of the city wall.Li Dingguo followed behind him and also headed north.

As expected, after arriving at the northern city wall, they saw a large group of people in the distance, stopping at the foot of a short hill about five miles away from Yaozhou Station.The infantry was busy setting up camp there, while a cavalry army came towards Yaozhou Station.Judging from the banner, it was a slave chieftain, that is, Prince Yu Aixinjueluo Duoduo came over.

Jianlu is still experienced with the firearms of the Ming army, and dare not get too close.Otherwise, he might be injured by shelling like his old man, and that would be a big injustice!

Duoduo didn't just stay in one place, but first looked at the Yaozhou Station, and then slowly drove his horse around to observe the Yaozhou Station.

Through the binoculars, Li Guo also observed the actions of this slave chief, and then asked Li Dingguo beside him, "Did you see anything?"

"The slave chief is looking for the weak point of our army's defense, so that we can focus on attacking in the future." Li Dingguo listened and replied seriously, "Looking at the general, he seems to be more interested in the line of defense built with vans." Concern. If we attack our army tomorrow, we should focus on the defense line formed by vans on the west side!"

The western defense line he was referring to, although the Ming army built low walls, trenches, and repelling horses, etc., the terrain was flat and conducive to cavalry raids.The ground was also dug with potholes before, but because local materials can be obtained, it is easy to flatten those potholes with soil.On the east side of the van defense line, there are more rocks, which is not conducive to the cavalry assault.

Li Guo nodded when he heard this, and then asked: "Then what do you think our army should do?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo did not answer right away. Instead, he held up his binoculars to confirm again before answering Li Guo: "The general feels that we can take the initiative to make a surprise attack tonight and harass Jianlu once. It can damage their morale and facilitate tomorrow’s defensive operations!”

"Oh?" When Li Guo heard this, he couldn't help turning his head to look at him, and asked with a serious look: "Stealing the camp tonight? But these Jianlu are not incompetent people, and they are used to fighting. Do you think they won’t be prepared and can successfully attack by surprise?”

He wants to criticize the words on paper, and it depends on Li Dingguo's answer.

Li Dingguo didn't seem to notice that Li Guo's expression became serious, and he maintained his serious attitude as always and replied: "Please look, Commander, you can see that the Jianlu infantry is very tired. This point is definitely not fake. Yaozhou Station It is [-] miles away from Haizhou. The infantry's one-day journey is about [-] miles, which is a normal march. From Gaizhou to Yaozhou Station, it is also [-] miles away. Our army has a car camp as a support, which can reduce a lot The weight of the march, when we arrived at Yaozhou Station in the evening, the last general remembered clearly, and he could already feel the exhaustion of some soldiers..."

The honorific title of Marshal was originally used to refer to the commander-in-chief.But at this time, the deputy general, also commonly known as the deputy commander in chief, has already generally used the honorific title of marshal.

At this time, listening to Li Dingguo talking about the details, Li Guo couldn't help but relax with his serious expression just now, obviously quite satisfied.But he didn't make a sound, and continued to listen to Li Dingguo talking about his judgment.

"... Judging from the time when the Jianlu army arrived, they should have marched for a while before arriving at Yaozhou Post before evening. Comparing this with our army, we can see that the Jianlu infantry must be very tired..."

Hearing this, Li Guo was very satisfied, it was exactly what he thought, when he was about to affirm, Li Dingguo didn't come to a conclusion, he still said seriously: "...Besides, Jianlu is short of food, usually When there is no battle, you should not be able to eat enough. This sudden march, even if you have eaten before departure, there must be a gap in physical strength and our army. In this way, you will definitely be more exhausted..."

When Li Guo heard this, he couldn't help admiring it, even he didn't think about it just now, he didn't expect Li Dingguo to be considerate.Yes, yes, he is a general!
Thinking this way, he opened his mouth, and when he was about to give a compliment, he saw that Li Dingguo was still explaining his reasons: "... Judging from the recent period, there is very little food in Jianlu, let alone Talk about eating meat. As a result, a considerable number of people in the Jianlu army will definitely become blind after nightfall. And this is conducive to our army's sneak attacks at night. Today is the beginning of the month again, and the moonlight is not bright enough, which is also conducive to our army Sneak attack.”

Speaking of this, Li Dingguo finally concluded: "In all these ways, the general thought that even if the Jianlu had strict night-time precautionary measures, the effect would not be very good. There is a great possibility that the sneak attack tonight will achieve results! The general is willing to issue a military order, and if you win, you will never return!"

Hearing this, Li Guo had nothing to say.After staring blankly at Li Dingguo for a while, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said seriously, "Yes, you are allowed to fight!"

After receiving the military order, Li Dingguo went down to the top of the city to select soldiers to fight at night.However, Li Guo still stood on the top of the city wall and did not leave. He observed the slave chieftain until the slave chieftain returned to the camp. .

Time passed slowly, the sun set, and night finally fell.

The moon, like a crooked eyebrow, hangs in the sky and seems to be getting brighter before it wakes up.

The vicinity of Yaozhou Station is very quiet, except for the night wind blowing, urging the flags to hunt, there are only the occasional cry of night owls, and the neighing of war horses.Both the Ming army and the Jianlu outside the city seemed to have fallen asleep.

The night gradually deepened, and the only sound left between the sky and the earth was the wind blowing the flags, and no other sounds were heard.

But at this moment, Li Dingguo led two hundred Ming troops, slipped down the south wall of Yaozhou Station, and disappeared into the night.On the top of the wall, Li Guo didn't sleep, watching Li Dingguo leave.

In the city, there are [-] cavalry troops who have quietly risen up, eating and waiting silently for something.

As the saying goes, there is no absolute victory in the war.Although there is indeed a high probability of winning this night attack, I am not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.Li Guo was afraid that there would be problems in Li Dingguo's night attack. It would be a pity to lose such a general, so if he found something wrong, he was ready to send cavalry to respond.

"Huhuhu..."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

Except for the wind blowing against Lin Dong, there was no other sound. About an hour later, Li Dingguo led the two hundred selected Ming army soldiers to the outside of the Jianlu camp.

Build a big camp for prisoners, covering a very large area.Although the construction time was short, it was already dusk when we arrived.But the layout of the camp is very organized.

The entire camp is divided into multiple camps, and there is a large open space between each camp to separate each other.Between the camps, there are soldiers holding torches patrolling.

Outside the camp, there is a hastily erected fence. On the outside of the fence, all the weeds and trees have been cleared by the builders, leaving an open space without any obstruction.

On the inner side of the fence, there is a fixed guard post five or six feet away. It should be standing on something, standing relatively high, and looking far.And under each fixed sentry post, that is, along the inside of the fence, there are teams of mobile sentries patrolling.

It has to be said that the defense of the Jianlu camp is still in place.

Li Dingguo hid in the distance, but after seeing these situations, he was not depressed at all.I saw him looking up at the sky, and after making a calculation in his mind, he patted the guards around him three times to signal, and then his guards patted the people behind him lightly three times, and it went on like this shoot.Everyone who was photographed curled up and began to close their eyes to rest their minds.

The night was getting darker and darker, and when the soldiers of the Ming Army seemed to be about to fall asleep, the other soldiers around him would immediately pull their battle robes to wake them up.Unlike these soldiers, Li Dingguo didn't feel sleepy from the beginning to the end, and kept looking at the Jianlu camp with his eyes wide open.

It has to be said that even the soldiers of the Ming army who came to attack were sleepy, let alone the guard posts in the Jianlu camp.

Li Dingguo could clearly see that the fixed sentry posts in the Jianlu camp had begun to yawn and then dozed off.But they should also know that they are responsible, and they opened their eyes to take a look after their eyelids fight for a while.

At the beginning, after these guards opened their eyes, they were looking at the movement outside the camp.However, at the end, they opened their eyes and saw for the first time, not outside the camp, but to see where the mobile patrolling Jianlu had gone?If you see that you are still far away, you will quickly squint for a while; if you are close, you will cheer up and pretend to be very dedicated.

After observing for a while, Li Dingguo suddenly patted the bodyguard beside him twice.Immediately, his personal guard became energetic and immediately patted his comrades behind him twice. In this way, all the Ming army officers and soldiers became very energetic.Because they knew that Li Dingguo had already sent a signal and was about to take action.

In the Jianlu camp, after the mobile sentry passed by again, the Jianlu on the fixed sentry immediately seized the opportunity to squint for a while, but outside the camp, Li Dingguo suddenly waved his hand and issued an order.

Those soldiers of the Ming army who were waiting in full battle and staring at Li Dingguo's movements immediately started to move when they saw it.There is really that feeling of being quiet like a virgin and moving like a rabbit.

The first few soldiers of the Ming Army who touched it had already drawn their bows and nocked arrows, and moved forward to get closer. After reaching the open space, they felt confident, so they aimed at the fixed sentries and shot them with arrows.

"Bang bang bang..."

In the silence of the night, the sound of the bowstring vibrating was indeed a bit loud.It stands to reason that veterans who have been in the army for a long time will be very sensitive to this.However, those few Jianlu fixed sentry posts, they were confused, and their reactions were slower than usual.

The off-string arrows at close range arrived in an instant, almost one arrow at a time, all of which were hit in the head.

Immediately behind the first archer, a Ming army soldier used the fire sickle and fire knife he took out, and immediately made a fire and lit the torch.Surrounding each torch were fellow archers. The arrow on the bowstring stretched out and lit the fire starter tied to the arrow. Then, with a ground-supporting rocket, it shot towards Jianlu Shot inside the camp tent.

At this time, the movement was a little louder.The Jianlu sentry in the distance next door woke up. They were also dozing off. The first time they opened their eyes, they saw brilliant meteors streaking across the night sky.After a closer look, I realized that it was a rocket!
I watched the tents in the camp being ignited by rockets, but the people inside were obviously in a deep sleep and didn't respond at all.Immediately, these guard posts were frightened out of their wits, and the alarm gong sounded immediately.

"Clang clang clang..."

The sound of the police gong was extraordinarily loud under the darkness of night.Jianlu, who was originally on duty to guard against camp theft, immediately woke up and rushed out of the tent immediately.Some of them immediately ran to the fence to prevent the Ming army from attacking; others immediately began to patrol the military camp. If any soldiers dared to leave the camp without military orders, they would be killed without mercy.

Being attacked suddenly, there was panic, but it didn't have the effect of bombing the camp.Even if the Ming army outside the camp yelled loudly to make a large-scale surprise attack by the Ming army, it did not cause much panic in the Jianlu camp.This made Li Dingguo, who had been watching to see if he could take the opportunity to expand the results, to see him. He had to admire that Jianlu was indeed elite, but also regretted that the effect of this night attack was not as good as expected.

He is also a decisive person. After seeing that there will be no further opportunities, he immediately ordered to retreat without any hesitation.

In fact, Li Dingguo also overestimated the elite of Jianlu.

Yes, Jianlu did have many elites, but there were many Mongolians in this army.What they are good at is riding and shooting, not offensive and defensive battles with strict military discipline.The reason why the situation that Li Dingguo expected did not happen was not that these Mongols were not afraid, but that their daily conditions were too poor. After marching for sixty miles, they were too tired and slept too much. They didn't even know that there was a night attack by the Ming army.

But no matter what, Li Dingguo's night attack still caused the loss of one of Jianlu's camps, which was burned by rockets. It was only because of the isolation zone between the camps and Jianlu's timely measures that it had no effect. to other camps.

Duduo was awakened by this movement. Looking at the burned camp, the charred dead people, and the smell of meat, for the first time, he felt that the war in Yaozhouyi was not going to be easy!However, this did not make him retreat, but instead aroused his fighting spirit.

The attacking Ming army had disappeared into the night, and Duoduo did not order to pursue them.Because he didn't know if this was the Ming army's strategy to lure snakes out of their holes in the dark night.He clearly remembered that Dorgon's original Battle of Tashan was because of breaking through overnight.If you send troops to chase them out, what if you fall into an ambush by the Ming army?
When the enemy is in the dark, we still have to be cautious.

At this time, Duduo was seen staring at Yaozhouyi fiercely, his heart became fierce, and he secretly said: Wait and see, Minggou!

　According to the hospital diagnosis, the lumbar disc herniated.Remind everyone with personal experience: If you sit for a long time, you must exercise!

　　
　
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