Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 530 The Battle Behind the Mountain

"Why don't you see them going south? Could it be that you heard something?" The soldiers around Li Jilong were puzzled.

"It's unlikely." Li Jilong denied, "There are still a majority of Han people here. The brothers in Hedong said that they didn't fight much when they took Yanzhou. It is impossible for the Liao army to have a better eye than us."

Then he said, "It's a big deal to wait a few more days."

At this time, they were lying in ambush on a mountain ridge. This place is more than ten miles south of Yanzhou. It is a small mountain. The local people call it Nishan. From here to the southwest, you will reach the mountain pass. Here is Juyongguan.

Looking north from the mountain, the mountain ends three or four miles away, and then a large piece of flat land spreads to the north until it reaches a sparkling river, where there are many houses and tall city walls. It is Yanzhou.

Yanzhou is the closest to Juyongguan. The big river outside the city is Guishui, and to the west is Guizhou (Huailai), Xinzhou (Zhuolu), and Wuzhou (Xuanhua).

Yanzhou has been taken by them, but when they left Juyongguan and stationed in Yanzhou to look for the Liao army, there was no trace of the Liao army near Yanzhou.

The people in the north of Yanzhou clearly told them that they saw the traces of the Liao army.

An old man said that one day when he was weeding in the field, he saw with his own eyes at least a hundred horses on the road at the foot of the mountain in the east, looking at him from a distance, and he was too scared to pick a hoe If you want to run home.

There were many similar reports. On the eighth day of April, a supply team of 120 people set off from Yanzhou to Juyongguan. Shortly after leaving the city, they were attacked by the cavalry of the Liao army. Of the 120 people, only more than 50 people fled back. All supply trucks were burned.

Both Yang Jiye and Li Jilong realized that the Liao army had reached the north of Yanzhou.

At the same time, he became vigilant. The Liao army commander was very sophisticated. He neither exposed the position of his main force first nor chose to fight them head-on. Instead, he chose to attack the grain road.

Sure enough, in the next few days, the Liao army successively launched three attacks on the grain road outside Yanzhou City. Two of them were repulsed by the Qin army. , More than 30 carts of food and grass that could be escorted were all burned.

The commander of the Liao army really has the ability. He has brought the characteristics of the Liao army to the extreme, and the golden age of the Liao army seems to be back.

Attacking from multiple sides, attacking the enemy's grain roads, breaking through the enemy's surface, and being able to beat them, but not to walk away, are what they are good at.

However, the tactics of the Liao army have been studied countless times by the Privy Council of the Qin State, so how could they not know that they are good at this style of play and not respond?

In fact, since the last time the official wrote back and suggested that they use grain roads as bait to lure the enemy, both Yang Jiye and Li Jilong felt that this plan was feasible!
First, the Great Wall around Juyongguan was all over the place, and the Liao army could not cross it. If they wanted to attack the grain road, they could only go north to Yanzhou, narrowing their scope of activities.

The second reason is that the Juyongguan garrison now actually relies mostly on supplies from Youzhou, because the Qin army's navy is too strong, and their supplies are endless from the Bohai Sea to the Sanggan River, all the way unimpeded.In this case, if the Liao army is made to think that their grain road is from Yanzhou to Juyongguan, then there is a high probability that it will mislead and lure the Liao army.

After that, the supply convoys they sent south were all to give the Liao army the illusion that their logistics base was in Guizhou.

It's just that the first team to go out is the imperial army of the Qin army. The successive victories made them proud and underestimate the enemy, self-righteous, whether they should run or not, resulting in heavy losses.

However, the overall purpose was basically achieved. Judging from the frequency of cavalry troops sent by the Liao army to attack the vicinity of Guizhou, they were convinced that this was the rear of the Juyongguan garrison.

The food sent to the Liao army to burn was also genuine. Although it hurts, I still gritted my teeth and endured it if I wanted to catch big fish.

Li Jilong and Yang Jiye, who had never left the city to set up an ambush before, were afraid after discussing that the commander of the Liao army on the other side was obviously not a fool, and knew how to use his strengths to avoid weaknesses. The strength of the Liao army on the battlefield behind the mountain was unknown, and the location of the main force was unknown, so he did not dare to attack rashly.

The officials told them that the main force is at Beikou, so they predicted that the Liao army's soldiers behind the mountain should not be the main force, with no more than 3 people, and they can take the initiative to fight.

Two days ago, they received a letter from the east saying that Xiang Xun, the coach of the West Route Army, had led the main force to Guizhou, [-] miles west of them, after taking Yunzhou, and was ready to support them at any time.

With such a guarantee, Li Jilong and Yang Jiye immediately discussed their strategy.

Li Jilong led two battalions of artillery and [-] elite cavalry, including two battalions of imperial cavalry and fourth battalion of elite Hedong cavalry, as ambush soldiers on the mud hill beside the road from Guizhou to Juyongguan.

On the other hand, Yang Jiye assembled a team in Guizhou, collected cattle and horses, and prepared chariots and horses outside the city.

Li Jilong stood on the top of the mountain. All the cavalry were lurking behind the mountain at this time, and only the artillery was set up in front of the mountain, which was also covered by a large number of branches.

In the distance, he could already see Yang Jiye's huge convoy moving slowly.

Their convoy assembled [-] elite soldiers on the outskirts, and [-] soldiers disguised as civilian husbands were responsible for driving the vehicles. They moved very slowly, slowly heading south along the Weizhou Outer Avenue, and pulled back and forth for more than half a mile.

Except for the disguised civilian husbands in this convoy, most of the grain transported was disguised as military vehicles, and most of the bags of grain on it were sandbags. Guizhou couldn't make up so much grain at all, and their grain road was in the south.

As the sun rose little by little, the huge convoy gradually moved away from the city of Guizhou in the distance, and approached the mountain pass little by little.

As the convoy continued to approach the mud mountain, Li Jilong's eyes were fixed on the northeast, looking at the avenue and the foothills in that direction, hoping for any changes.

But nothing but the wind.

The sun gradually rose until it passed above their heads. At this time, the convoy moving hurriedly below stopped, buried pots and cooked food on the side of the road, prepared to have a meal, and spent the scorching noon under the sparse shade of trees on the side of the road.

The Huotou army began to bury pots and make food, and the smoke and dust rose high, which could be clearly seen from more than ten miles away on the open ground.

At this time, the artillery commander came over and reported to him in a low voice: "It's already within the shooting range, it's easy to hit high and low, and it can hit a few more miles."

Li Jilong nodded, and when he was about to speak, he found smoke and dust billowing behind the southeast hillside, and even lying on the ground, he heard the rumbling sound of horseshoes in the distance.

"I said why don't you come! It turns out that they are waiting to cook, this Khitan thief has some brains." Li Jilong couldn't help but said.

"Do you want to notify the people down the mountain?" The guards around him asked nervously.

"No, they know, we can't expose this."

About a quarter of an hour later, a black line of dust billowed up appeared on the horizon in the northeast. They crossed the fields and low slopes along the avenue, and galloped towards Yang Jiye's convoy.

They were very fast, and more and more people and horses covered all the low slopes and flat ground on both sides of the avenue. With the sound of horseshoes, thousands of troops attacked from the southeast, and rushed straight at Yang Jiye's army who was cooking.

The Liao army moved very quickly. In just about two quarters of an hour, they had already approached the east of the mud mountain. The scale was very large, and there were people and horses everywhere. The artillery commander who counted last around took a look, and then said to Li Jilong seriously, " At least eight thousand riders."

Li Jilong nodded. This is one of the advantages of the Liao army. From finding out where their main force was based on the cooking smoke, to catching up with the Qin army, and galloping from the mountains in the northeast, it took only half an hour for about forty miles.

They must have had scouts on the outskirts of Guizhou long ago.

If the ordinary army suddenly encountered such a surprise attack while cooking, they would not be able to react in all likelihood, but the Qin army had already prepared, and they were waiting for the Liao army to make a surprise attack.

When the troops of the Liao army turned around the mud hill and rushed out, they immediately launched their camouflaged chariots, forming a huge chariot formation. The soldiers in armor were outside, and the civilian husbands' camouflaged crossbowmen stopped pretending, and picked up the chariots one after another. The bow and crossbow retreated to the center and began to defend.

The Liao army rushed to the front of the formation and immediately launched a fierce attack, but the people in the front had already realized that something was wrong, but the people behind didn't know it. He was directly hacked to death by the densely packed Qin army formation on his back.

Bows and crossbows were fired at the rear, and all the Liao troops who were unable to react were shot off their horses.

However, the Liao army quickly adjusted their deployment and began to retreat immediately. They really didn't expect the Qin army to react so quickly. Such a surprise attack, even when they were provoking them to cook, they actually asked them to form a formation.

There were a lot of them, and they immediately distanced themselves from each other, not touching the chariot, and then prepared to use their usual tactics to kill the Qin army, which was smaller than them.

"General, are we still going up?" On the mud hill, Li Jilong's soldiers said anxiously, and the artillery commander beside the board was also anxious: "Should we support them with artillery fire first?"

The Liao army at the foot of the mountain discovered that after the formation of the Qin army, they had already begun to surround Yang Jiye's Hedong army regiment, constantly sending out cavalry to challenge, and at the same time throwing arrows into the formation.

"Don't worry, I'll take another look. The surprise attack at the beginning is the most effective, and you can't fight randomly." Li Jilong stared nervously at the Liao army below, his eyes kept scanning, as if he was looking for something.

At this time, the fight below became more and more intense.
(End of this chapter)