Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 413
"Don't sharpen it so sharply, it will break easily." Dang Jin instructed the recruits on the side of the road to make a horse.

"General, these thieves will never be beaten." The soldier said indifferently.

"You can't be careless without being beaten, this is a good place, do you understand?" Dang Jin stroked the sharp knife in his hand, "When I left, the officials repeatedly told me to tell me not to be impulsive and not to do bad things, as if I was that person Just like a human being, if something bad happens to you, I will beat him to death."

Everyone didn't dare to speak at once, only dared to laugh.

He raised his head boldly, "Doesn't that mean that the official is close to the general, just like an old man is close to his son. If he is not close, he will not confess himself."

For this statement, Dang Jin was very helpful: "Well, what you said makes sense, so I can't let the officials down!"

Although Dang Jin didn't know the Chinese characters, he fought a lot of battles, and he also knew that Baixia was definitely a good place. If you walk sixty miles west along the main road, you will arrive at the important town of Hezhou. Wan Dajun is not a problem.

This means that the follow-up army can set up the camp of the Chinese army here, and use this as the rear to attack Hezhou.

Dang Jin repeatedly urged everyone to act swiftly. He was most afraid of the enemy's counterattack. After all, they only had 1000 people.

Speaking of which, it was outrageous to fight all the way. Many things were beyond his expectation. They fought and walked south that day, not to mention breaking the camp. They fought for more than 100 miles, and even he himself didn't believe it.

But in retrospect, there was nothing unreasonable at all, and they couldn't think of the enemy's tricks to lure the enemy in, because what they saw and heard along the way made them so sure.

After the army left the Daozhou border that day, the first thing they faced was the enemy's Baiguchong camp. According to intelligence, there were at least a thousand enemy troops stationed here.

So what Dang Jin thought at the beginning was to take Baigu Chong Dazhai and open the way for the rear army. If they do this, their surprise attack will be considered a success.

But what he didn't expect was that when they rushed all the way to Baigu Chongchong, the gate of the enemy's village was actually open, and there were people letting horses outside. There were no horses or trenches by the river. It didn't look like a military village at all. , Ordinary people don't open their doors wide open in broad daylight.

At first he was really taken aback, thinking that the bandits had some kind of ambushes or tricks, but who was he? , Suddenly like a tiger into a flock, they killed more than 100 people in an instant, and the rest were so frightened that they cried for their fathers and mothers, and many people knelt down and surrendered.

Later, when he took over the camp, the commander was arrested and asked, how could there be thousands of people in the camp, but there were less than three hundred in total, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

During the spring plowing, many people ran back to help their families plant the land. Later, when they heard that the Qin army was coming, many people found various reasons and ran away. Except for the elderly, there was no one in the camp. When the local officials heard that there was going to be a war, they did not dare to come.

As for defending their home and country, they were all at a loss, because the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty acted perversely, no one wanted to fight for the ruler at all, and many people even cried and said that they hoped that the Qin army would come over, please do not kill them.

Their rhetoric was outrageous, and it was the first time that a murderous general like Dang Jin had the illusion that he had killed too much in the first place.

At that time, the thought was just a flash, the war in the north was very cruel, either you die or I live, a little kindness will harm yourself.

But soon he changed his mind.

After that, he only left 50 people to guard Baiguchong and wait for the rear army. He took a few Southern Han officers and the rest of the army to continue southward. If it is safe, it will be unimpeded immediately.

He fought another battle with more than 100 bridgehead guards at a river beach. He put on three layers of armor and took the lead in the charge.

After that, the road was unimpeded, passing through eight or nine camps one after another, more than half of them were unguarded, or there were only a few horses and cattle guarding the barracks.

They went to the Laolingshu camp and fought the last battle, but when they put on iron armor and a big shield and braved the arrows to advance to the gate of the camp, the opponent was already frightened and offered to surrender.

Dang Jin was taken aback at the time, even though he was simple-minded, he thought that the other party might be cheating him?

But after he nodded his promise, the other party opened the gate of the camp by himself, and hundreds of people came out to surrender together.

Only then did he realize that these soldiers were so poor that except for a few officers, almost no one was wearing armor. The best weapons were those bows and crossbows, and most of them were hunting bows, and there were not many good crossbows.

Dang Jin realized it at the time, no wonder they were afraid of surrendering. If they were to cut open the camp gate and rush in, it would be a one-sided massacre, and they would have no chance of resisting.

Dang Jin was very puzzled and asked them why hundreds of people couldn't make a few sets of armor, even the officer was wearing cowhide armor.

The officer also answered truthfully, the higher-ups have always said that they will be matched, but several years have passed, and they have never seen where the armor is. They were either eaten by the king or by Hezhou officials.

In this way, they hit Baixia non-stop. As a town, Baixia's defensive ability is far inferior to those camps in the north. Moreover, there are more than ten military camps along the way to the north. The people in the town never thought that they would suddenly kill them. When the men and horses arrived, the gates of the town were wide open and were quickly attacked.

There was chaos in the town, and the people and the defenders fled separately. They quickly controlled the north and south gates and took down the town.

The battle along this road was a bit dreamy, and there were basically no tough battles. They fought south for more than 100 miles a day, and they were almost at Hezhou.

Dang Jin himself felt that it was a bit too smooth, but he felt that it was impossible for the enemy's treachery to occupy Baixia immediately, so that people could repair horses, dig trenches, organize defenses, and prevent counterattacks.

It extends in all directions, the terrain is flat, and it is close to the river, with sufficient water sources. It is only fifty or sixty miles away from the important town of Hezhou in the southeast. If the officials of the Southern Han Dynasty in Hezhou are sober-minded, they will definitely send a large army to take it back.

Because if Bai Xia couldn't take it back, it would be equivalent to letting their army of the Qin State garrison troops in the city in a very safe place.

So Dang Jin asked everyone to take turns to rest, and kept preparing for a moment to prevent the counterattack of the enemy on the other side.

That night, the night was silent, the night wind howled, and unknown birds croaked and croaked, which annoyed him. He had never thought that birds at night could be so noisy. Send scouts around the clock.

But the tense night was calmer than he had imagined, and he stayed in a daze until the middle of the night. He heard footsteps vaguely under the tree, saw the fire, jumped up, and asked the guards next to him: "The bandits are here." !"

"No, it's the reinforcements!" The soldiers said happily: "General, you didn't go to bed until the second watch. We didn't call you. It was General Yin Chongke from Daozhou who led the troops to reinforce us. They came from the north, and more than 5000 people came. , still entering the town from the north gate."

"Yin Chongke," Dang Jin muttered.

"Well, General Yin came here just now, but he just fell asleep and said that he was too tired during the day, so let me wait so as not to wake you up."

Dang Jin heaved a sigh of relief, "Damn, Lao Yin still knows how to fight. Once his 5000 people come, it's really done!"

The next day, due to the joining of Yin Chongke's army, a temporary city wall was repaired outside Baixia, and a large camp and sentry post were built, and the army completely gained a foothold.

By noon on the third day, more than [-] counterattack troops sent by Hezhou finally arrived in the valley south of Baixia, but it was too late. Seeing the large number of Qin soldiers, they lingered and began to retreat.

Dangjin wanted to pursue him, but Yin Chongke was right, and in the end he did not send troops to pursue him.

Hezhou is [-] or [-] miles away from Baixia, but the Southern Han army did not arrive until the afternoon of the third day, but the Daozhou Qin army, which was nearly [-] miles away from Baixia, rushed to help overnight. There are more than five thousand soldiers, completely controlling Baixia.

The difference in the organization ability and action ability of the two armies suddenly made the result completely different. In many cases, the victory or defeat on the battlefield is not about fighting with swords and guns, but more about the level of organization and the competition of action ability.

Thanks to Dang Jin's bravery and Yin Chongke's determination, Qin Jun quickly gained a foothold in Baixia.

This means that the space of the Hezhou defenders continues to be compressed, and they are completely trapped in Hezhou. There are many buffer spaces in the north, and more than ten large and small camps. The space that could have blocked the enemy army was lost within a few days. In an instant, the soldiers came to the city.

The [-]-mile defense line from Daozhou to Hezhou in the Southern Han Dynasty seemed to be pierced suddenly. It was inexplicable, and many people even woke up like a dream.

(End of this chapter)