Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 514
The officer respectfully said yes, then quickly turned around and ran in, and he did not forget to ask Huang Louping to enter the city before leaving, but Huang Louping ignored him, and took people to carefully look at the situation in Ten Mile Fort. After any abnormal situation, he left directly.Considering that Li Guangrui in Xiazhou might have a change, he wanted to go to the several military camps that the chief envoy went to today in advance, to make sure that they were still in the hands of the Song Dynasty or that there was nothing unusual about them.

Balipo is the first station on the outskirts of the Song Dynasty facing Hengshan. Although the Song Dynasty often fought with the Dangxiang ministries in the past few years, since the Dangxiang Eight Departments surrendered to the Song Dynasty in name, except for the Dangxiang people who occasionally fight grass valleys in a small area every year In addition, there has been no fighting on this line for a long time, so that although the Northwest Frontier Army is elite, the vigilance of the guards will drop significantly after the past two years.Even though it was a bold move to enter the city under a false name, it was still impossible to deceive the city gate and march straight into the city.However, it is still very easy to infiltrate spies to destroy the communication of the Beacon Tower at a critical moment.After all, once the beacon tower sends out a signal, it not only quickly transmits the situation to the surrounding military towns and military villages, but also transmits them one by one, plus some fast horses, and even in less than half a day, it can be transmitted directly to Qingzhou City, Northwest The camp of the frontier army was stationed, which made the army dispatched.

If this is the case, the plan of the party members has basically failed this time, because the person they want to kill can know the situation here on the road, take precautions, or turn around and go back to Gyeongju, and their work will be in vain.

In addition, the seven cavalry of the Dangxiang came here on light cavalry. They had neither luggage nor siege equipment. The only choice was to make a quick decision. The Northwest Frontier Army of the Great Song Dynasty would not give them time to forcibly attack the military stations. .

Therefore, it is an extremely crucial link for the church to arrange a black crow to directly stop the burning of the beacon fire in Balipo.But the black crow can only temporarily stop the beacon transmission. Although the black crow is powerful, it is not an opponent of the army, so there is another team of more than ten temple masters sneaking in ahead of time in Balipo.

In fact, according to the plan given to them by the Holy Church, the Holy Church is responsible for preventing the transmission of military information from the Song Dynasty, which includes the burning of the beacon fire in Balipo and sending urgent messengers to Balipo and another military village called Shipingzhai to intercept.At the same time, the holy hall will also keep track of Ye Chen's whereabouts in time, and then lead the party's nearly 1 cavalry to catch up with the time difference. Just when Ye Chen is on the way to a certain military village, surround him and directly carry out field battles .

Whether this plan can be carried out smoothly depends on two points. One is that the Dangxiang cavalry must be fast; the other is that the Holy Church must stop all information so that Ye Chen does not know that the Dangxiang has arrived. By the time he knows, it is too late to enter any military camp Or flee back.

There is naturally no problem with the first key point, so although the second key point is a small number of people fighting in a small area, it is extremely important.

Therefore, regarding Balipo, the Holy Church has put in a lot of effort. To be on the safe side, the Holy Church first sent a black crow to Balipo a few days in advance, looking for opportunities to approach the beacon tower. More than a dozen masters sneaked into Balipo in advance, and the first targets were beacon towers.With this pair of insurances, it is to ensure that no smoke will be ignited on the beacon tower.

The dozen or so masters sent by the holy church to infiltrate the Balipo military stronghold first occupied the teahouses around the beacon tower and the tables near the windows of the wine shop these days, and the others were lingering outside the fence of the camp, as if looking for a place to relieve themselves. .If it wasn't for the black crow with the appearance of a beautiful young woman who had entered the barracks, they would launch a surprise attack from all directions at the same time, kill all the guards on the beacon tower, and then approach quickly to prevent anyone from climbing up again, and at the same time send a signal Notify the [-] party cavalry who were pretending to attack Caogu nearby to break through the city.

Now that the black crow with the appearance of a beautiful young woman has successfully infiltrated, how many guards are there on the beacon tower? If the black crow can get accurate information, it is safer for her to do it. More than a dozen other temple masters have already done it before the black crow. He had already disguised himself in various identities before, and hid at the gate of the city.

And when the urgent siren sounded from the city gate of Balipo, the black crow had already succeeded and sent out the signal, the dozen or so temple masters also suddenly moved, sitting on the nearby tea stalls and wine shops, squatting. Beggars on the ground, or just passing by, especially if half of them just go out of the city or enter the city.In short, no matter what these dozen or so temple masters were doing before, they suddenly jumped up like a spring under their buttocks, dropped all the "props" in their hands or on their bodies, pulled out their waist knives, and silently charged at the city guard. A dozen Song soldiers at the door rushed over frantically.

The screams sounded suddenly, and a dozen Song soldiers guarding the city gate were caught off guard, and nearly half were killed. The rest were far from being the opponents of these temple masters, and they were all killed soon.

However, the officers and soldiers of the Song army also reacted quickly. No matter what they were doing in the nearby barracks, they rushed over immediately after being shocked.But among the dozens of temple masters, there are only three first-rate masters, and the worst of the others are second-rate masters. It is still possible to desperately guard the city gate for half an incense stick.However, half a stick of incense was enough time for the Dangxiang cavalry who were pretending to be a grass valley several miles outside the city to rush over.

The more than 500 party cavalry who rushed into the city first swept along the avenue like a torrent, and went straight to the barracks of the guards.

There were originally 500 troops stationed at Shilipo, but a small group of party members who pretended to be Da Caogu led 500 people out of the army camp. At this time, they all ran more than ten miles away. Only a small part of the 1000 people were cavalry, most of them were infantry, but they were not the opponents of another wave of [-] party cavalry who suddenly appeared nearby pretending to be a grass valley.

The owner of a noodle restaurant was stunned. After the group of party cavalrymen on fast horses passed by the front of his noodle restaurant like the wind, he pondered over the language of those big men shouting, and then he suddenly came to his senses, turned around and turned to the shop assistants. He yelled frantically: "They are the party members, they are the party members, God, it is fine for the party members to attack grass valleys in the villages outside the city, but they dare to attack Balipo! Get on the door, get on the door, you fucking Still staring blankly to death"

The whole Balipo has fallen into chaos, the people are running all over the street, the doors and windows of the vendors are closed, and there are party fighters who rushed into the city on tall horses everywhere, rampaging in the small Balipo, killing people, setting fire, and steel knives. They chopped people down, spears stabbed them when they saw them, and arrows flew everywhere. The remaining [-] defenders in Balipo organized a counterattack. , There have been heavy casualties in a short period of time.

Even because the Song army was disrupted by the people in the army camp, nearly half of the Song army lost its command and was swallowed up by the Dangxiang cavalry who rushed into the city.

At this time, even before all the more than 2000 party cavalry rushed in, a large cloud of smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the Song Army on the head of Balipo City in the billowing smoke didn't know how many people and horses were rolling in, covering the sky and covering the earth , boundless.The guard who was blowing the horn at the top of the city was puffing out his cheeks and was blowing blood in his facial features, and the veins on his forehead were tense. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but lose his mind, and was so shocked that the horn in his hand fell to the bottom of the city: It's over, Bali Poe is really over!

The one who stayed at Balipo was Li Dongjun, the second-in-command of the army who commanded Duyu Hou. After fighting for a while, he realized that it was difficult to defend Balipo, and if he continued to fight, the whole army would be wiped out, so he led some people to start Anti breakout.

Li Dongjun rode a war horse that was too late to be saddled, and led about [-] Song soldiers to break through the city gate. The party members did not close the city gate, and finally let them go out. They just followed for a while and then retreated. go back.

Li Dongjun ran for more than ten miles in one breath. When he looked back, there were less than 200 people following behind him. Injured and embarrassed.Faintly, he felt that farther away, in the direction of Ten Mile Fort, there was the army of the party that descended from the sky like locusts, billowing in dust and smoke, and the momentum was frightening.

It suddenly occurred to him that he had just received a notice from Qingzhou this morning that the big man from Kaifeng, the young imperial envoy, the world-renowned Chief Minister of the Huaxia Weifu, would come to several military camps here today to comfort the army.

"The party members suddenly went crazy, and they dared to dispatch so many cavalry. Could it be that they were going towards the imperial envoy?" Li Dongjun suddenly thought of this possibility, and his expression changed drastically.If this person had an accident near these military strongholds, the generals in these military strongholds would be severely punished by the court from top to bottom.Moreover, Huaxia Weifu will definitely be offended to death, and it will be difficult to have any success in the future.

"Hurry up, hurry up... hurry up, let's bypass the party members and go to Shilibao quickly." Li Dongjun gritted his teeth and said, he raised his hand and whipped the whip, and when he whipped it down, he suddenly felt his chest tighten, his breathing suddenly suffocated, and he turned his head around. Look, several sharp arrows have shot through his leather armor at the same time.Li Dongjun raised his head in astonishment, and saw many archers slowly standing up from the bushes on the slope ahead. Those archers were expressionless, and when the bowstring rang, a row of feathered arrows struck. Died instantly in the rain.

"Ah!" Mei Luo buried an arrow in front of his chest, pulled it out vigorously, then let go of the horse's rein, opened his hands and fell off the horse on his back.Before the horse behind could stop, an iron hoof the size of a bowl stomped hard on his face, his eyes were still wide open, and he was out of breath when he fell off the horse

(End of this chapter)