Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 225 Sneak attack, then sneak attack!

That night, Shi Congyun arrived at the Qianning army garrison overnight, and then organized all the troops to set up camp. He slept in a small stone house in the garrison until midnight, with a layer of Korean tiger skins prepared for him by his wives, and fell asleep. not bad.

I woke up the next day, ate some grain cakes and jerky, and finally had time to take a closer look at the Liaoqian Ningjun garrison.

This place is located in the north of Cangzhou. It is surrounded by brick and stone walls. There are sentry towers every fifty steps or so. After that, there are many houses with earthen walls. There are hundreds of them. The school grounds, stables, warehouses, and twenty wells all look like standard military fortresses.

Shi Congyun turned around, and someone outside was busy burying the remains of the corpses left after yesterday's battle. He found that the place was bigger than he imagined. Perhaps the Liao Kingdom's announcement of the 1 Qianning Army garrison was not a bragging. There are more than enough to station [-] people in this place.

It may be that when this place was first occupied, the Liao Kingdom did store up heavy troops here to guard against the Central Plains.

But 13 years ago, the army of the Liao Kingdom entered Kaifeng, and the king of Khitan ascended the throne in Daliang and proclaimed himself emperor. After that, the Central Plains did not rise up, and the dynasty changed every few years. The internal strife continued, which made the confidence of the Liao Kingdom soar. The defense of the southern border was not paid as much attention at the beginning. This kind of place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away will soon decline if it is not paid attention to.

Afterwards, the commander Wang Shenqi left behind came to see him with the prisoners, and told him the general process of the battle. Yesterday Shao Ji was the vanguard and led a thousand elite cavalry to directly raid the Qianning army garrison.

At that time, the Liao army was not prepared at all, the front gates were all wide open, and many soldiers went out to let their horses out of the city, and the horses were not saddled. Two on each side for a total of four, and three more asleep.

Shao Ji led the army to enter, and there was chaos in the city. There was no resistance at all. After that, all the soldiers rushed into the control gate in an instant. After killing more than 90 people, the rest surrendered one after another.

Of the 800 captured and beheaded who reported back, more than [-] of them surrendered.

Shi Congyun was overjoyed after hearing this, not only because he took down the base of the Qianning Army of the Liao Kingdom and opened the border gate to the north, but also because the situation here shows that the Liao Kingdom has not yet discovered their intention to attack in an all-out way!
After understanding this, Shi Congyun immediately made arrangements without any delay.

He ordered the prisoners of war to detain only a dozen Khitan generals, and released all the others. Then he speeded up his horse and circled back to the stone house where the handsome flag was erected, and immediately summoned the soldiers.

"Pass me an order to leave two battalions of the Sixth Army of Controlling Crane to garrison here, and let the head army quickly bury the pot and cook food. The whole army will go north immediately after lunch, and the whole army will go north to Duliukou!"

"Promise!" A few messengers immediately went to issue orders, and Shi Congyun also had a decision in his heart, and the speed of the soldiers was extremely high.

Duliukou is located in the north of Cangzhou, about [-] miles north from the Qianning Army. From Cangzhou to the north, you can go directly to the canal. This canal was dug for the expedition of Goguryeo to ensure the army's grain road during the Sui Dynasty.

After several months of dredging by the people of Hebei brought by Hantong, the large navy ships can move unimpeded in it.

Shao Ji and the others were riding north along the avenue beside the canal. This big river was not wide, and Zhou Jun's large ships passed through it very tightly. They had to be arranged one by one as long snakes, unlike on the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River. .

Most of the canals in the south were dug to communicate with water systems, while most of the canals in the north were dug manually because there were no navigable rivers at all, and water transportation was used instead of human and animal power.

Watching the sun rise gradually, Shao Ji was a little anxious, and he valued the task entrusted to him by the commander more than his life.

Shao Ji was originally from Hebei, and his grandfather died in a war. His father didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, so he just farmed the land and lived in peace. But one day, the Khitan cavalry went south to attack the grass valley. Khitan under the knife.

At that time, the young Shao Ji knew that he could do anything, but he couldn't live a good life.

He grew up eating a lot of food and received too many stares and neglect. In order not to let him "eat for nothing", his relatives and villagers did their best to assign him all kinds of dirty and heavy work. At a young age, he only He can work hard and dare not even talk back, because he has no parents, no grandparents, and he has nothing to eat when he talks back. He has suffered such losses several times, and then he learned to be good.

Because he worked tirelessly since he was a child, he had a lot of strength. Later, when the army passed by, he resolutely joined the army.

He was very tall and strong, so he was gradually selected by Shi Yanchao and became the historian's personal soldier.

A few years ago when the Khitans attacked Jinzhou in the middle of the river, Wang Jun and Shi Yanchao rushed to help, and he was among them. At that time, he followed General Shi and charged into the battle, repelling the Khitans, and became the historian's confidant.

However, his loyalty to the historian is more out of self-preservation. Only by closely following a big man like General Shi can he guarantee his own safety. That's what he thought at the time.

So he actually wanted to please the young master to protect himself, but he was stupid and not as eloquent as Wang Zhong. Fortunately, Brother Yun didn't dislike him, and instead kept him by his side all the time.

But since the Battle of Gaoping, his thinking has been completely different.

On the day of the Gaoping War, he was very unlucky. His horse was shot by random arrows. When he fell off the horse, he lost all hope. There is only one dead end in front of the opposing team.

Just when he was desperate, Brother Yun went back to rescue him regardless of his own safety, but was also shot off his horse by the bandits.

He has suffered a lot since he was a child, and he has been treated coldly. No one has ever treated him like this, and he even gave his life for him. Since then, Brother Yun has been more important to him.

The commander-in-chief always said that he saved him, but Shao Ji knew in his heart that Brother Yun had always saved him. If he had beaten Brother Yun and hadn't turned back to take care of him, he wouldn't have been in danger.

However, he is not good at words, since he was a child, talking too much may make him lose his food, so he has always been taciturn, until now he is not as good at talking as Wang Zhong.

Shao Ji buried many things in his heart, and only repaid him in action, even if he risked his life to complete what he told Brother Yun.

His current life, wealth, status and power are all given by Brother Yun.

He's not stupid. If he wasn't smart, he wouldn't be able to survive as a child.

When they defeated the Qianning army, they basically encountered no obstacles. They rushed in first and the hundred riders drove the unprepared enemies away, and the people behind basically had nothing to do.

At that time, Shao Ji understood why the commander-in-chief stopped the army eighty miles south of Cangzhou, and let them go northward to attack lightly, for this effect!
After understanding, he also knew that he had to fight alone, and he had to rush to the north before the enemy got the news.

The commander-in-chief asked Si Chao and Wang Huan to assist him in the water army. He originally wanted to speed up their new army and let him march without any worries, but slowly Shao Ji discovered that this arrangement had become a burden to the army.

The commander-in-chief may not have thought that the canal in the north and the canal in the south are not the same thing. The big boats can only line up in a long line in the river, and the waterway is not wide and travels slowly.

If this continues, it is possible that the defenders of Duliukou will receive the news of the attack on the Qianning army first, and get ready.

After much deliberation, Shao Ji decided to disobey the command of the commander in chief, and summoned soldiers from around him: "Go and tell General Si Chao and General Wang Huan, let's go first, let them take their time."

"Ah." The messenger hesitated, "But the commander told us to advance by land and water."

"It's too late, I can't control that much!

Winning Du Liukou is the top priority, and if you go with them so slowly, maybe you have already prepared for it, so go! "

The messenger nodded, immediately turned his horse's head, and went to find Si Chao and Wang Huan.

"Send the order, speed up, the whole army is heading north, and must go to Duliukou before dark, don't save horsepower."

The two messengers received the order and began to convey the order backwards. The brigade began to speed up to the north. The sound of horseshoes on the avenue rumbled, and the sky was filled with dust.

Gao Huaide's troops separated from him at a place called Liuhe Town to the north of the Qianning Army.

Liuhe Town is on the west side of the main road. It is a small town located on the bank of a river bend. You can reach Pingshu County by crossing the dirt road in front of the town and going east. From Pingshu County, go east and then turn north to reach Wen'an County.

From Wen'an County, crossing a small river to the north, you can reach a small village about fifteen miles east of Yukou Pass.

Yukou Pass is an important pass between Duliukou and Yijin Pass.

Shao Ji and Gao Huaide agreed that he would go northward, capture Duliukou, turn east and attack Yukou Pass from the west, Gao Huaide would attack Pingshu County and Wen'an County from the east, and then attack Yukou Pass from the east, forming two fronts. The pincer situation.

The large group of cavalry galloped along the avenue to the north. Many people who were busy in the fields on the road saw them and ran away in fear.

Shao Ji didn't care about it at all, and ordered the army to continue to go north. It was too late to care about whether to report the letter to the other side, and there was no way to control it, as long as they were faster than the one who reported the letter!

Galloping all the way, until the horses were tired, everyone came down and walked for a while, and continued to drive north. In the afternoon, most of them were sweating profusely. On the big boat, he only had light leather armor on his body, but even these leather armor felt heavy at this time.

Shao Ji simply ordered that the entire army take off their leather armor and throw it on the road, just to speed up the march.

Everyone complied, and then continued to go northward. A long line of people and horses lined up on the avenue and galloped northward, rolling up dust in the sky, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes could be heard a mile away.

From noon to afternoon, there were more and more trees on both sides of the avenue, and the shade made them breathe a sigh of relief.

As the sun gradually set to the west, when everyone was exhausted, they came to a small creek, and the guide told them that it was only six miles away from Duliukou to the north.

Shao Ji took a look at the sky, and at this time the sky had begun to dim, so he immediately ordered everyone to go to the woods by the river to rest as soon as possible, and sent time to guard the intersection of the road.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, rested in the woods, ate some dried meat and grain cakes with the clear water in the water belt, and then recuperated.

"We must attack before dark. This time we went north with nothing and no fuel for torches. If it is completely dark, we will be in big trouble." Shao Ji chewed the jerky to recover his strength, and called everyone to sit around by his side.

"Rush in, first arrest people and ask where the Qing Liao military camp is, and then occupy the military camp."

"Duliukou is at the end of the canal. I don't know how many troops the Liao Kingdom has, but it is estimated to be at least a thousand, which is comparable to ours. We must be prepared to fight tough battles."

"Don't worry, general, who are we afraid of when we fight this way!" Everyone said one after another.

Shao Ji also instructed: "Now that we have entered the territory of the Liao Kingdom, we must be more careful than in the south."

The sun was setting to the west, and from the woods, smoke was rising from the villages on the other side of the river, and it was almost time for dinner.

Shao Ji's years of fighting experience told him that the time has come!
Immediately ordered: "Everyone get on their horses and kill them!"

The people led the horses that had eaten grass for a while, and immediately started to walk north along the avenue, and they arrived at Liulidi in a short time. When they arrived, the sun was setting and every family was eating.

After arriving about a mile outside the village, the soldiers divided into three groups, all the way to fight directly north from Zhengzhong Avenue, all the way to the east trail, and all the way to rush through the large flat wheat fields in the west.

With an order, all the horses galloped immediately, and the black crowd rushed to the distant Duliukou in three ways.

The avenue in the middle is a full foot wide, with a row of woods on both sides, and a wide wheat field outside.

Shao Ji led the [-] soldiers in the army and headed straight for the front, along the boulevard, and quickly rushed to the front door.

In the setting sun, in the distance is the wooden gate of Duliu Town, with thatched roofs on both sides, guardrails covered with sheepskin to protect against arrows, and a few flags on the top swaying slightly in the evening wind.

From a distance, there were few people on the sentry tower, only a few panicked people. The thick wooden door below was wide open, and several farmers were walking in, and some people were driving ox carts.

Facing the large group of cavalry descending from the sky, everyone at the door was dumbfounded. The sentinel on the left wanted to climb up to the upper floor in a panic to ring the copper bell the size of a pot lid hanging under the top plate to sound the alarm.

But Zhou Jun is a veteran of hundreds of battles, and the more than ten riders in front of the side immediately reined in their horses to both sides, made way for the people behind, and at the same time stopped firmly on the side of the road. He shot the sentinel on the tower into a sieve from a distance of twenty steps, and it was too late to ring the warning bell.

The rest of the sentries jumped down from the sentry tower screaming in fright, unable to get up, the people hid on both sides one after another, and the rest of the cavalry filed in without stopping.

The people who stopped immediately got off their horses, rushed to the sentry tower with knives and captured a few sentries, forced them to leave the Liao army's garrison, and then rode their horses to catch up with the group of people ahead.

After Shao Ji heard that the Liao Army's garrison camp was in the northwest of the town, he immediately led his troops to that direction, and the sound of horseshoes came from other directions, and the remaining two teams must have entered the town.

For a time, Duliukou was full of soldiers and horses, people were in panic, and people could be heard screaming in panic. Every house closed their doors, and many people were eating and it was too late.

Shao Ji ignored their intentions, and led hundreds of cavalry to gallop through the rammed loess road in the town, then passed westward, passing through the gaps between several low thatched houses and seeing the flag behind the earth wall in the distance, he knew it The destination has arrived!

There is an earthen wall around the Liao army garrison, and a curved arch at the gate. The earthen wall is about ten feet high, which is far inferior to the Qianning army garrison.

At this time, two other groups of men and horses also came from various directions, stopped their horses in the east and west, and surrounded the small Liao army garrison.

Soon the Zhou army tacitly began to attack from three sides. First, they shot a large number of arrows towards the back of the wall. A dozen sentries on the outside died and fled. They were quickly emptied. The Liao army inside was probably eating and did nothing. Respond quickly and reinforce the door.

Shao Ji took the opportunity and immediately dispatched more than a dozen warriors, stepping on horseback and biting the back of their knives, climbed into the earthen wall, opened the main door, and then rushed in first with a spear in hand.

A large number of Liao soldiers in the camp gathered in the direction of the main entrance in a hurry, before they even had time to put on their armor, Shao Ji rushed in and immediately killed one man with a spear more than ten feet long.

Then a large number of Zhou troops flooded in. The Liao army tried to counterattack with bows and crossbows to stop them, which slowed down the Zhou army's attack. The people who came in afterward shot arrows on horseback one after another. Zhou Junhao's two war horses screamed and were shot to death. The man on the horse immediately rolled behind the horse and shot more arrows.

But soon people also rushed in from the east and west of the camp, rushing into the attacking army from the side and rear.

The screams from the rear and the appearance of the enemy's flag quickly caused the Liao army in the front to collapse and retreat one after another. But facing the cavalry, everything is fine and you must not run, because if you run, it will become a one-sided chase.

Shao Ji immediately led people to chase from the front, and stabbed another person to death. The Liao army was caught off guard by the sudden attack, and ran to the back of the camp in a disorderly manner, trying to escape to the stables on horseback, but soon they were also attacked by the west. The hundreds of rides that come in are truncated.
Shouts of killing and screams mingled in the camp. Many people looked around tremblingly in the distance, but they didn't dare to approach. Some people hurriedly packed their things and prepared to run away.

Until the sky was completely dark, a large number of Liao troops were forced to the northeast corner of the camp. The soldiers in front retreated desperately because of fear, and the people behind were so crowded that they could not breathe and cried loudly.

I can’t go to the stables. There is an earthen wall of more than two meters behind, and the front is surrounded by three sides. Zhou’s army keeps shooting arrows. Many people began to cry and beg, kneel down and surrender, and some desperately stepped on other people’s heads trying to escape over the wall He was shot into a sieve by Zhou Jun's riders, and his body fell on top of the dense crowd and couldn't fall to the ground.

Shao Ji asked the guide to shout at these people in Chinese and Khitan, telling them to hand over their weapons above their heads.

The Liao soldiers who had been crying bitterly for a long time did so one after another.
Half an hour later, Zhou Jun found a large number of torches, turpentine, fish oil ointment, etc. from the warehouse in the camp and lit the fire to illuminate the surroundings, and the prisoners of war were guarded.

Shao Ji immediately gave orders to the messengers around him: "One of you, go and tell Si Chao and Wang Huan that Duliukou has been captured and the waterway is cleared, so that they can go north without worry.

One is to tell the commander that I have taken Duliukou, and then I will turn west and attack Yukou Pass. "

The two messengers took the order and immediately set off overnight with torches and dry food. Shao Ji was very excited. This raid was a great success. They ran for more than a hundred miles a day, and Duliukou didn't even know that the Qianning Army fell. information.

After interrogating the generals of the garrison, it was known that there were originally two battalions of 1000 people in the garrison, but there were actually only more than 600 people.

In this battle, the Zhou army beheaded 89 enemies and captured more than 400 people. More than 20 of them were squeezed to death by their own people in a corner. Hundreds of people were crowded in a corner. It's miserable for those who live there, and the ground is ineffective every day, and they are squeezed to death by hundreds of people in the corner.

Then Shao Ji immediately ordered to leave 500 people to take over the place, waiting for the follow-up of Si Chao, Wang Huan's water army, and Wang Shenqi's [-]-step cavalry army. The rest will rest tonight and continue to raid west with him tomorrow morning. Yukou Pass, if the surprise attack is successful, it will be another great achievement.

Everyone agreed one after another, and they were very excited. They successively raided the Qianning Army and Duliukou succeeded, allowing them to taste the sweetness, and they became more and more convinced of the commander's arrangement and deployment.

So everyone rested in the camp for one night, and at dawn the next day, they rushed west without stopping, heading straight for Yukou Pass west of Duliukou.

On the road, a messenger came chasing from behind, bringing another piece of good news to Shao Ji.

It turned out that while they were fighting like this, Gao Huaide followed the commander's arrangement to launch a sneak attack along the way.

Three days ago, the defenders of Pingshu County were defeated in the first battle, Pingshu County was conquered, and then they rushed northward. Yesterday at noon, the army arrived in Wen'an County, and Wen'an County directly surrendered. Go to the gate!
Shao Ji was excited: "According to the schedule, we will arrive at Yukou Pass at about the same time."

After taking Yukou Pass, you can open the passage for the army to Yijin Pass.

And Yijin Pass is the biggest obstacle for them to go north to Youzhou, and it is also the last dangerous pass for Youzhou to face the Great Zhou Dynasty. Taking it can not only encircle Waqiao Pass in the south with Shi Yanchao and Murong Yanzhao from the north and south, The army will go north unimpeded!
(End of this chapter)