First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 394 Night Attack
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The successful capture of Liangshan Town is not surprising. The Tang army was twice as large as the rebel army, not to mention attacking the heavy soldiers with elites. The result was as expected.

As for Zhang Yeyi and Tian Yangming, one is an experienced brave general who once defeated Luo City with an army of [-] sailors. This is also an aspect of famous players coming forth in large numbers.One was the later famous governor of central Guizhou.

With such a two-person army, the small Liangshan Town is nothing to worry about.

What happened next was as expected by the two of them. The unsuspecting rebel food transport team went down the river and stopped at the river bank as usual. Zhang Yeyi personally led the surrendered rebels to greet them in person.

After all the rebels landed on the shore, they launched an attack. The unknown rebel food transport team panicked and were wiped out in a short time.

Faced with such a huge amount of food and grass, Zhang Yeyi and Zhang Yeyi were a little bit in trouble. Tian Yangming suggested that they should be set on fire, or pushed into the river to feed the fish.

In the end, the two together transported the grain and grass to a remote place and hid it, as long as it did not fall into the hands of the rebels, it would be fine to take it out after the war.

Then, under Tian Yangming's deliberate publicity, the news that the food and grass of the Jianghuai rebels had been robbed spread quickly, and the two sides naturally behaved differently when they received the news.

Gao Chong led the army to the opposite bank and ordered the soldiers with loud voices to shout in Jianghuai dialect.

"You have run out of food."

"The heavenly soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have broken through Danyang, and you have no way out."

Shouting half-truths and half-false words made the rebels in Liangshan dubious, and their morale suddenly fell to the bottom.

After going back and forth like this for three days, the rebels fled every day, and Gao Chong crossed the river every day to launch a heart attack.

Shocked and angry, Feng Huiliang finally couldn't bear it anymore, and sent troops to drive away. Gao Chong had few soldiers, and they fought and retreated.

After boarding the warship, Gao Chong looked thoughtfully at the rebels jumping and scolding on the bank, and went to the Chinese army's tent as soon as he landed.

"My lord, the time is almost here." Gao Chong's first words when meeting him were: "It's time to prepare."

Li Xiaogong's eyes lit up, "Youzhi thinks it's time to launch a general attack?"

Unexpectedly, Gao Chong shook his head, "It's not time for the general offensive, I mean it's almost time for the enemy to act."

Seeing that Li Xiaogong was puzzled, Gao Chong recounted what happened just now, "The enemy's morale has been shaken, and their food and grass are running low. I guess the enemy will definitely make some moves in the next two days, and will never sit still."

After Li Xiaogong heard it, he was deeply convinced, and immediately summoned all the generals to discuss, everyone said something to each other, and finally decided that the greatest possibility was a night attack.

Crossing the river at night, and then attacking the camp, the boats sailed silently on the river, and then docked to launch an attack. Now the enemy's morale is shaken and food and grass are not enough, this is very likely.

Li Xiaogong immediately decided to divide the troops, allocated [-] troops to Gao Chong, and stationed in the mountain on the left. Li Xiaogong personally led the army to stay by the river, tight inside and loose outside, waiting for the enemy to attack.

Bowang Mountain was originally a small hill by the river, and literati often climbed the mountain to look at the river view, until Feng Huiliang stationed troops here, and it became a river bank fortress.

There used to be a small temple on the top of the mountain, which has now become the location of Feng Huiliang's Chinese army.

"Food and grass are not enough for three days, we can't continue to sit and wait for death," Feng Huiliang, the white-haired veteran, gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

There was a tall and strong general under his seat, who was Chen Dangshi who had suffered a disastrous defeat in Nanling, and asked in a buzzing voice, "What is Old General Feng going to do?"

"Attack the camp!" Feng Huiliang said decisively: "Now the Tang army thinks that I am short of food and grass, and the morale of the army is not shaken. They sit back and watch our army collapse. If they launch an attack at this moment, they may win."

Chen Dangshi's eyes lit up when he heard this, but thinking of the disastrous defeat in Nanling, he couldn't help hesitating, "What if we fall into the trap, what should we do? The sage only asked me to stick to the river bank defense line, but didn't let us take the initiative to attack."

"Pedantic", Feng Huiliang is a veteran in the Jianghuai army. Hearing this, he immediately reprimanded: "Sooner or later, there will be omissions in the blind defense. Besides, the food and grass are not sustainable, how can we stick to it?"

Hearing the grain and grass, Chen Dangshi had no choice but to agree, once the grain ran out, let alone stick to it, he didn't know if he would be able to get away with it.

After all, Feng Huiliang is a veteran of the Jianghuai River. He has been fighting for many years and has rich experience. It is unavoidable that he was surprised. He notified Qinglin Mountain several miles away in advance, so that the defender Chen Zhengtong was ready for the battle at any time.

That night, Feng Huiliang ordered Chen Dangshi to lead half of the troops of Bowang Mountain, and more than 1 people crossed the river overnight to attack the Tang camp, while Feng Huiliang personally sat in Bowang Mountain.

It's not that Feng Huiliang is afraid of death, it's just that Feng Huiliang is older and not good at force, while Chen Dangshi is brave and capable, and he has a lot of force. Such things as night raids on enemy camps must be led by bravery. He is over [-] years old. The old man doesn't have the ability to go to the battle.

The Tang army had been prepared for a long time, and deployed a large number of hidden sentries along the coast. Before Chen Dangshi landed, Li Xiaogong and Gao Chong got the news that the traps had been set up, just waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Chen Dangshi was famous for his bravery in Jianghuai, and he always took the lead. After going ashore, he prepared a little bit and went straight to the Tang army's camp.

When Chen Dangshi easily broke through the gate of the camp, he had no time to be overjoyed, only heard a few loud arrows, and then saw the murderous Tang army rushing out from all directions.

Chen Dangshi immediately realized, "Zhiniang thief, you have been tricked, withdraw."

It's just that the fish has already taken the bait, so how can it be easy to break free? Tang Jun has been stalemate here for more than half a month, and he has long been angry in his heart, struggling to kill.

The fighting was very tragic, and the fire broke out everywhere.

However, Chen Dangshi was brave after all, the scale of thousands of people rushing to kill is so huge, and the Tang army's camp is only about [-]. In such a large-scale battle, it will be difficult to tell the winner in a short while, and it is almost impossible to wipe out Chen Dangshi's troops.

Under Chen Dangshi's strenuous charge, the Jianghuai army actually tore a gap and successfully broke through the Tang camp.

Chen Dangshi did not retreat to the riverside. Although he was brave, he was not a pure reckless man. He crossed the river to attack the camp. It was a good thing that he won, and he could take the boat back to the other side calmly. It was impossible to give him time to board a boat and cross the river.

While the two sides were fighting, Gao Chong led his army to arrive, charging from the side.

A night attack turned into a river bank battle. It was late at night. Although the flames were burning, Gao Chong could only vaguely distinguish the military uniforms, let alone the soldiers.

Considering the particularity of night raids, Feng Huiliang specially ordered people to tie cloth strips on their foreheads to distinguish between the enemy and us, but after all, he overestimated the ability of soldiers to fight at night.

In the dark night, the shouts resounded, and the Jianghuai army crossed the river to attack. I was already worried, but when I heard the shouts, I looked around and couldn't find my respective superiors.

In one night's melee, the Jianghuai army was defeated, but the Tang army also suffered a lot of losses. Many of them were casualties at the hands of the same robes. This is the disadvantage of fighting at night.

(End of this chapter)