Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Use gunpowder to blast the fence around the camp, and then drive straight in, which has been tried and tested.

The night is the best cover, but also the biggest obstacle. Once it gets deep into the night, it will soon become a self-adaptive battle, whether it is the enemy or us.

Pulling both sides into the most unfavorable situation becomes a duel that simply considers courage and experience.

Dressed in the night, Dang Jin skillfully walked through the enemy camp, and the cavalry around him followed tacitly. Amidst the noise, with the faint light on him, his spear easily pierced the back of an unsuspecting Tang soldier, and his hand With a flick of the spear, a scream flooded the night.

The sound of the wrapped horseshoes was still there, but it was not so obvious in the noise of firefighting. A large number of black shadows passed over the tents, flagpoles, and bonfires. Tang Jun who had no time to react was stabbed to the ground, screams began to spread, and many died directly. In sleep.

The fire thunder made of gunpowder mixed with turpentine is hung on the waist. After the fire is lit, it is thrown into the tent, and it can spread into a raging fire that swallows sleep in an instant, like a fire cooking oil, and it intensifies.

A large number of Tang soldiers were ignited in their sleep, and rushed out of the tent screaming and wailing. The invisible air was full of stench mixed with the strange smell of meat, which made people sick to their stomachs.

Dang Jin led the soldiers who could keep up with him, galloped all the way to the south and stabbed down four or five people one after another. He couldn't judge the life or death of the other party, so he could only keep moving forward.

A large number of men and horses were attracted by the fire in the southeast corner. After they broke in, the north was either still asleep or empty.

After raiding all the way in the night, the news of the attack on the camp gradually spread, and the Qin army gradually arrived in the dark, and the scene became even more chaotic.

Dang Jin shouted and shouted, and led the army to rush into the night and chaos. The fierce and experienced Qin army entered the herd like tigers, attacking everywhere, and the camp was in chaos. , even a small number of people who were determined to resist did not know what to do, and were defeated one by one in the chaos.

In the chaos, shouts of killing and screams were echoed against the flames, in the south of Wuchang City, all night long.

The attack continued until the east gradually turned white, and the real Wuchang camp was almost completely controlled. Originally, there were more than 5000 garrisons here, but they were completely defeated by an attacking force of more than 800 in the night battle.

Most of the luggage, ordnance, and tents were burned down, black smoke rose into the sky, and the fire that burned Yiye continued, which could be seen clearly from several miles away.

Dang Jin's face was bloodstained, his nose was full of thick smoke, his beard and hair were covered with ashes, and he couldn't remember how many people he had killed in a surprise attack overnight, so he was so excited that he called someone to call for troops to come over.

After a while, more than 600 riders gathered, and some of them either got separated, or chased too far, and couldn't find anyone for a while.

Looking at the devastated battlefield, everyone laughed triumphantly: "The Tang army is vulnerable, and they will be able to reach Jinling in a few days!"

After relaxing, everyone felt a little tired, after all, they ran all night.

They are preparing to rest for a while, relax, and wait for the rear army to take over and take the troops to the north to Wuchang. At this time, people in the city should already be in panic, and it is very likely that they will surrender without a fight.

Everyone found some meat and a lot of rice, and started cooking with the unburnt remains.

After this, people will come one after another, gathering to report to the party.

This is the rule in the army, everyone fought all night, they were starving, and smelling the smell of rice, they couldn't walk anymore.

However, Dangjin still arranged outlying guard posts, and sent people to watch on the high point in the south, in case the rear army arrived, it would be good to report.

Soon the rice was cooked, and everyone was very happy to eat some barbecue meat. This is undoubtedly the greatest contribution they made along the way. Although they broke down the eight villages before, those villages were not big places.

The largest defender was only four or five hundred. After they fought, it felt like there were only one hundred people fighting. Along the way, the Tang army either prepared hastily and was caught off guard, or had no fighting spirit at all, and would collapse at the first touch.

Now this is the big camp outside Wuchang City. The Tang army captives said that 5000 troops are stationed here!It is one of the most important towns on the western front of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Although they don't fight like 800 people, it is a great credit that more than [-] people can attack such a big camp.

Everyone rejoiced, thinking about the generous rewards after returning.

I also felt that it was too painful to follow the party to fight the war. As the commander said, they marched slowly by land and water, how could they get such a splash of credit.

When everyone was happily eating, drinking and resting, the sentry on the southern high ground suddenly came down and ran towards this side.

Dang Jin scolded: "Did you motherfucker be reincarnated from starvation? You're still short of starving all night, go back!"

But the sentinel ran closer and said: "People are coming from the south, a team of people is coming from the south!"

Dang Jin frowned, and everyone was quite surprised: "They still dare to come back? It's impossible to come and die."

Having said that, no one dared to be negligent, and immediately began to put on their armor and prepare for battle. Many people endured the heat and sprinkled a handful of rice in their mouths, and immediately began to prepare their horses and put on their armor.

Soon, a large group of people came from the south, the number was only comparable to them, and they came towards them without fear.

Dang Jin immediately got on his horse, and many cavalrymen rolled up the dust, went out of the camp gate to the south that had been mostly burned, and bumped into the troops on the opposite side.

The two sides handed over at once, Dang Jin and his cavalry rushed up immediately, Qingqi crossed a weeds on a hill from the right wing, and prepared to turn around from the other side.

There is no need to explain tactics, everyone has already skillfully set up a posture, ready to fight.

The opponent came aggressively and had no intention of backing down. The two sides confronted each other on the side of the main road outside the camp. The horses passed by, the horses neighed, and people's wailing was mixed. Some people fell from both sides, but the Tang army obviously had a lot more.

Qin Jun's Qingqi on the flank also crossed the ridge, climbed up the road, and shot a large number of arrows at Tang Jun's side and back.

From the corner of his eye, Dang Jin saw at least a dozen people shot off their horses.

Then Qin Jun Qingqi threw a fire thunder, mixed with a large amount of gunpowder, and the fire thunder of iron beads and turpentine exploded among the Tang army horses, instantly making the opponent into a mess. Panicked, and instantly became a mess.

Dang Jin took the opportunity to wave his spear: "Brothers, the opportunity has come, kill it!"

The Qin army took advantage of the chaos to charge head-on, and in an instant, dozens of Tang troops fell from their horses in the chaos. They lost their positions and began to be unable to hold on.

Crowds crowded the avenue, shouting to kill and shaking the sky. Dang Jin stabbed the two men off their horses one after another on the right side of the avenue. The soldiers around him bravely moved forward, and soon retreated after beating the Tang army on the right, revealing the left and right wings, and was outflanked by the Qin army , Squeeze off the avenue, people turn their backs on their backs.

In about a quarter of an hour, the left-wing Tang army was completely wiped out, and most of them were driven off the road. Many people fled across the ridge to the woods in the distance. Begging for mercy, keep kowtowing.

The party came in and had no time to deal with them, and led the men and horses to chase the remaining hundreds of people along the avenue, rolling up the dust. The right-wing light cavalry also got rid of the mud and followed them, and lost a few horses.

After chasing for a quarter of an hour, he shot down three people one after another. When he quickly passed a forest, he heard the sound of trumpets in the forest on the left, and Dang Jin suddenly felt something was wrong.

Between lightning and flint, arrows howled, and the brothers on the left wing were instantly thrown off the horse.

Ambushed!

Dang Jin was terrified, and immediately reined in his horse and turned to the woods. They were all veterans, and they knew that it was useless to run at this time.

Soon the shouts of killing penetrated the woods, and many cavalrymen of the Tang army covered with branches rushed towards them through the low bushes, and there were figures everywhere as far as the eye could see.

"Run!" Dang Jin didn't want to give the order, but Sen Leng's several-foot-long spear was in front of him, and he dodged it dangerously, but the horse under his crotch wailed and threw him to the ground, and rolled out two times in an upheaval. It was ten feet away before he raised his head, and the brothers Dahua were caught off guard and fell off the horse.

The person on the right side of the avenue reacted, turned his horse's head and immediately ran out of the road, turning his head and shooting arrows from time to time.

Dang Jin felt grief and indignation, but in front of his eyes he saw a strong man charging towards him with a long spear pointed at him. He remained motionless until the man suddenly turned sideways within a foot away, and the end of the spear in his right hand stood on the ground. open.

With a bang, sawdust splashed everywhere, and the horse howled, the opponent fell heavily to the side of the road, and his spear was broken into seven or eight pieces of varying sizes, but the horse couldn't die anymore.

He drew out the horizontal knife at his waist and slashed at him like a strong man who had fallen to the ground, but the opponent was more flexible than he expected. An ugly donkey rolled to the side of the road, and he drew out the horizontal knife with his backhand and slashed at him.

Dang Jin was furious in his heart, and swung his knife viciously one after another. He didn't expect that the other party would not be outdone, and responded fiercely, which was not at all like the Tang Jun he met before.

Under the shade of the forest, the screams of metal intersecting were endless. Dang Jin swung his knife with all his strength, and the opponent did not hesitate to fight back. He lost his tricks, and the fire flashed from time to time. The big man on the other side didn't give in at all.

drink!

Dang Jin let out a roar and tried his best to strike at him. He thought that the opponent would continue to fight head-on, but he didn't expect him to back away suddenly...

It was too late for Dang Jin to stop, he swung in the air, and with all his strength, his body staggered instantly. The opponent raised his foot and kicked hard behind his head. Even through the heavy helmet, he could only feel his head buzzing, his whole body He was out of control, and when he came to his senses, three or five people had pinned him to the ground, held his hands and feet, and was unable to move.

"Huh, I thought how powerful the Qin army's elite forwards are, but this little ability?" The strong man who had just grabbed him looked down on him.

Over there, about 80 to [-] people from the Qin army were captured, and hundreds of corpses were left behind, all of which were gathered on the side of the road.

"Damn it, how dare you leave your name!" Dang Jin was furious and shouted at the officer in front of him.

The other party ignored him and didn't answer the question, just said: "Prisoner under the rank, you'd better not be stubborn, or I will kill you to sacrifice the flag."

"Hahaha..." Dang Jin laughed out loud instead, he looked around Tang Jun, "You better think about what will happen if you dare to kill me in the future, so what if you guys can fight.

Your Wuchang camp was destroyed with 800 people.There are still 10,000+ soldiers of the Qin Dynasty like Lao Tzu, how long the little Jiangnan can last, let's think about the future.

If you want to kill grandpa, you can kill him, but if you kill you, you can also sell yourself a coffin!

At the beginning, the Liao army killed more than a hundred soldiers and civilians in the frontier areas of our country, and the officials killed tens of thousands of them in Guanbei, and captured their Nanyuan king.

Later, the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty uttered wild words that half of their hundreds of thousands of troops died, as well as himself, all his princes and generals were executed on the streets of Daliang!

I am not afraid of death, I have my own emperor to avenge me, but you should think about the way out. "

After Dang Jin finished speaking, he straightened his neck, not afraid at all.

The leading man was furious, "Kill him to sacrifice the flag!"

"Commander..."

"I can't make it!"

"This can't be killed!"

"..."

But the soldiers and officers next to him tried to dissuade him one after another, and they didn't dare to kill him. Obviously, they were all frightened by Dang Jin's words.

This is an indisputable fact. Although they won and achieved a small victory, the battle reports elsewhere show that the Qin army is advancing triumphantly, and the strength of the Qin army is no longer a matter of a day or two, and everyone knows it.

Seeing everyone's persuasion, the leading general was also angry: "You cowards, do you have two ambitions? I, Lin Renzhao, do things the other way. If the emperor asks me in the future, I will say that I arrest people and I kill them!" Speaking of raising a knife, he was about to chop Dang Jin down.

But the officer next to him knelt down and directly protected Dang Jin: "General, we have been with you for so many years, how can we have two hearts.

We fought bravely, and killed so many brothers. Those cowards in the Wuchang camp could not withstand it overnight. We fought for so long and tried our best.

But general, think about how the imperial court treats you and your brothers. If they had listened to the general, would they end up today! "

The adjutant said emotionally, "The imperial court is ruthless and ungrateful, please general at least give the brothers a way to survive."

Lin Renzhao looked over and saw that in the first battle just now, they lured the enemy deep and set up an ambush to kill more than a hundred elite Qin soldiers and captured seven to eighty people, but they themselves lost even more.

The troops that lured the enemy were defeated too quickly, thinking about luring the enemy, they were almost surrounded and wiped out, losing more than a hundred people.

And the Qin army deserves to be the Qin army, the master of a hundred battles. Even if they were ambushed, they reacted quickly. Instead of running away immediately, they turned their heads and fought back desperately. And killed more than a hundred of them.

There are more corpses of brothers on the side of the road than those of Qin Jun...

Seeing this situation, Lin Renzhao finally put away the horizontal knife powerlessly, and let go of the captive he had captured with great effort. They won this little battle, but after the fight, he already felt powerless The feeling of decadence, on the big picture, he no longer dared to think about it.

Chapter 471, The Gap between the Two Armies

"Finally something decent to eat." Under an old tree on the shore, Guo Ting said that he was eating hot rice rolled into rice balls, which were steamed and made from rice seized in military camps near Wuchang.

Before that, what they ate were military rations, rice that was boiled and dried and cooked and dried several times. The advantage is that it can be eaten directly with water to fill their stomachs. The disadvantage is that it is not too much different from eating soil. The difference is nothing but filling the stomach.

"That's thanks to Tang Jun for his generosity." The clerk next to him said that everyone laughed.

"Don't look at it, come over here and do it." Cao Bin called the officials and soldiers around to come over. Everyone was not particular about people, and quickly grabbed a big pot of hot rice.

Just eating rice fills my stomach.

After a while, the old general Wang Huan also came back with someone, saluted Cao Bin and said: "Commander, the Wuchang Water Fortress has been captured, and the landing troops have arrived in the west of Wuchang City, and sent envoys to persuade them to surrender. I think tomorrow will be able to Into the city."

"How about the casualties? Will Wuchang City surrender?" Cao Bin asked two questions one after another. In the distance on the river, hundreds of warships from the Chinese fleet were docked by the river and were resting.

They marched very smoothly in the past few days. Water villages, army villages, and checkpoints were taken down one after another along the way. The march was very fast, and the Tang army could hardly resist.

"Casualties were very small, 40 people were injured, and two brothers died. Their water fortress could not withstand a few shots. If Wuchang's location was not important, and for our own fleet to supply, no one would have fired a few more shots. die."

Wang Huan took a sip of the water bag that Cao Bin handed him, "I have never fought such an easy battle in my life, and the craftsmen of the secret department are too good.

I'm afraid that if they are given another ten years, the role of soldiers and horses as the vanguard will become less and less. Such a thing was unthinkable ten years ago. "

Wang Huan shook his head with a smile, and handed the water bag back to Cao Bin.

"Yeah, these years have really changed with each passing day. If I didn't learn from the officials of the confidentiality department, I would feel that I would not be able to fight."

Wang Huan stroked his gray beard: "Now that I think about it, it was 15 years ago that I was captured by the officials in Qinling Mountains. Time flies. Now that I'm over sixty, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to go into battle after this time.

On the contrary, the commander-in-chief has a promising future, he is young and promising, so let the commander-in-chief worry about these things, hahaha..."

Looking at the veteran general who was laughing cheerfully in front of him, Cao Bin bowed his hands respectfully. He naturally admired Wang Huan in his heart. He knew that Wang Huan was originally from Zhending, Hebei Province, a general of Hou Shu, and was later captured by the officials during the Battle of Guanzhong. Do not surrender.

However, the official's Aicai still didn't kill him, and he was activated a few years later. Afterwards, he fought many battles with the official, and even guarded Jiangling. He is indeed a veteran with great military exploits.

However, there are still many such veterans in the army, but the officials let him command these veterans, which also made Cao Bin very nervous and dared not make any mistakes.

Wang Huan seemed to see through his mind: "You don't need to think too much, Marshal, we are not those literati who are so big, and we are not the kind of seniority in the court, and we always speak with our ability when it comes to war.

Back then, the champion Hou swept Hexi in his early twenties, and flattened Mobei in his early twenties. He grew up as a Sima and a general.

More than ten years ago, the officials commanded more than [-] troops to capture Huainan in less than [-] years, and defeated the Tang Dynasty. From then on, let alone other things, even the Supreme Emperor was at the disposal of the officials.

There are no fathers and sons in the army, let alone other things. If seniority is used to lead the army, then the battle will be impossible. The commander-in-chief can command at ease. It is to prevent the situation where the generals are not killed, so there is no need to worry too much, and the matter of fighting is the first. "

After hearing what the old general Wang Huan said, Cao Bin felt enlightened, and then solemnly cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, General, for teaching me."

Wang Huan nodded, and then led his soldiers to eat at the stove.

Cao Bin thought for a while, "Order all the forwards to command Dang Jin to call back."

He hesitated before saying nothing to stop Dang Jin because Dang Jin had senior qualifications and high military exploits.

But in fact, Dangjin's use of troops is contrary to his overall strategic plan, but due to Dangjin's prestige and previous achievements, it is difficult for him to speak.

He also agreed to make a rapid advance and go straight to Jiangning. In this regard, he agrees with Dangjin, but his rapid advance is not a sudden advance all the way, but a land and water advance.

The navy's naval guns can provide powerful artillery support, while the army's can open up landing sites for the navy. The two armies complement each other and continue to take down the water villages and camps along the river. If you want to go deep, you need cavalry to wait for the infantry's field artillery. Attack again, rather than cavalry alone raiding.