Chapter 1008 Night Fighting Attack
Although Yan Qing was about the same age as them, he was very mature and had the calmness of the commander. Otherwise, Li Yanqing would not have allowed him to be the commander who went to the expedition this time.
"Think about it, why do you guys send you here? What are your common ground? I don't refer to age, but to combat advantages."
Everyone looked at each other, and Zhao Wu suddenly blurted out, "Night battle!"
Then everyone realized that they were all night battle masters, including 10,000 troops, and the most outstanding army in night battle training.
"For the Qi army, our current identity is a bandit in Liangshanbo. Only night attacks can help conceal our identity. And night battles are also our expertise, so why not make good use of them?"
Yan Qing simply found a flat big stone and called on the few people. He took a few stones and placed them on the big stone, "This is Liangshanpo, this is Wuzhanghe, this is Juye County, this is the northbound Guandao."
Yan Qing used soil to draw lakes, rivers, cities and official roads on large stones. He placed a large stone next to the river, "This is the enemy's grain transport fleet. Let's talk about why Liu Yi did not bring the grain ashore?"
Zhao Wu thought for a while and said, "It should be that the people cannot collect big cars, and the big cars followed Zhang Rong and the others to the north."
"This is on one hand, and on the other hand, Liu Yi actually wanted to transport grain by water. He was still holding his troops now, but in fact he wanted to see if there were any naval troops in Liangshanpo attacking the grain ship."
"This is a bit too risky. Not attacking the grain ship does not mean there are no naval troops in the lake."
Yan Qing nodded, "So Du Shuai will send me as the chief general. Everyone knows that I am the commander of the intelligence army. Collecting intelligence is my strength. Before going to the battle, I had already sent someone to carefully touch Liu Yi's bottom line.
Liu Yi was a farmer in Fucheng, Hebei two years ago. Jin soldiers came to kill him. He didn't even have the courage to flee south. He obediently became a Shunmin. This person was not so cautious, but rather timid. When Chenzhou wiped out the rebel Zhang Santotuo last year, a horse was frightened at night in the military camp. He thought it was the enemy's stealing camp, so he immediately put on makeup and fled as a small soldier. He was the first to run out of the camp, and later became a laughing stock of the entire army."
Zhong Lie frowned, "Liu Yu actually let him be the head coach of such a timid and cowardly person?"
"This is the key. He is obviously a timid and incompetent person. Why did Liu Yu let him be the head coach? Are you not afraid that he will die and send 30,000 troops?"
Yan Qing glanced at the people who were thinking, and smiled and said, "I analyzed the reasons for this. First of all, Liu Yu despised Zhang Rong's rebel army in his bones, thinking that like other rebel army, they were all mobs and were defeated in one battle. This is actually Liu Yu underestimated the enemy."
"The second reason is that Liu Yi is Liu Yu's younger brother. Liu Yu is not trusted by other generals, especially this time he sent his most elite Yun Congjun. Yun Congjun either was commanded by him or his son. This time, he asked his younger brother to command 10,000 Yun Congjun, which is the same."
Zhao Wu suddenly said: "Actually, our goal to come to Liangshanpo this time is not Liu Yu at all, right!"
Yan Qing gave a thumbs up, "General Zhao can see through it!"
He straightened his waist and said to everyone: "I might as well tell you that our mission this time is to seize the Daming Mansion and lay the foundation for the future recovery of Hebei."
"But Daming Mansion has Jin soldiers to guard it!"
Yan Qing smiled and said, "This is why Dushang used the chess piece Liangshanbo. When Liu Yu couldn't handle Liangshanbo and needed foreign aid in urgent need, the Jin soldiers in Xuzhou could not move. If the Jin soldiers in Yanjing were not familiar with the situation, naturally they could only be the Jin soldiers of Daming Prefecture heading south."
As night fell, Yan Qing led 10,000 soldiers to the north of Juye County and ran towards the Qi army camp.
Although Yan Qing thought that Liu Yi still had the idea of letting the fleet go to Liangshanpo, he would not really wait for the enemy transport fleet to come to his door. That would be too passive, not his Yan Qing's style of doing things.
Yan Qing's purpose was to completely annihilate the 30,000 Qi troops who went north this time. In order to successfully implement strategic deception, Yan Qing did his homework and wiped out all the traces of the Song army. Each soldier tied a blue cloth on his left arm, which, like Zhang Rong's soldiers, means the "Blue Turban Army". In addition, the word "Zhang" is written on the big flag, and the word "Stone" is written on the flag of the main general.
All the evidence shows that they are Zhang Rong's army, led by deputy general Shi Xiu.
Of course, there is another premise that soldiers cannot be captured, and no soldier can do it. Yan Qing is not absolutely sure about this, so he can only do his best.
The Song army was ambushed in a forest a mile away from the enemy camp. Of course, there was a Qi army patrol here, but it was killed by the Song army and could not send a call in time, causing a gap to appear in the northeast corner of the camp.
"Master, the other party actually has a tent!"
Zhong Lie couldn't resist the excitement in his heart and whispered to Yan Qing.
"It's normal. Yun Congjun has temporary marching tents."
"Then can we attack with fire?" Zhong Lie suggested again.
Yan Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Fire attack is OK, but gunpowder arrows cannot be used, only ordinary rockets."
"I understand!" Zhong Lie quickly retreated.
Yan Qing thought of fire attack. Generally speaking, if you use a large tent to camp, then all kinds of prevention measures must be done very well, such as the periphery patrols, mail towers, and tall camps. Although these measures have been done by the Qi army, they are not in place and are just a mere appearance.
For example, the interactive mechanism between patrols is to prevent the patrols from being killed by the enemy, so in a short period of time, patrols must exchange patrol seats, or sentries come back to report to the post. Once the sentry does not appear in time, they will immediately arouse alertness.
The patrol here has become a fixed sentry, and the sentry will not confirm it at night after they are released. It is just a form. After all, it is the other party's despise of the Liangshanbo rebels in their hearts and does not take the rebels to heart, which creates an opportunity for Fire Attack.
At the first update of the time, Zhong Lie led 300 soldiers to start the action. They quickly moved closer to the northeast corner. There was a sentry tower here. The sentry inside had been killed by the Song army scouts and replaced by the Song army soldiers. Instead, the sentry tower became the eyes and ears of the Song army.
A flash of flame flashed on the mail tower, indicating that there was no one around. Zhong Lie led 300 soldiers to quickly approach the barracks, but the soldiers did not enter the barracks, but put six large barrels on the ground, filled with tinder oil.
The soldiers were carrying traditional rockets and wrapped the dry oil cloth around the arrows. They first soaked the turtle oil in the turtle barrel and prepared to ignite it. At the same time, ten torches also appeared.
The appearance of torches means that the army will be exposed to the eyes of the enemy sentries. The Song soldiers lit the fire on the torch and immediately set off bows and arrows into the barracks. Rockets rose into the air and shot into the barracks.
‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’ Another post tower not far away found a fire and the alarm bell was urgently sounded.
At the same time, another army led by Zhao Wu also shot rockets into the barracks in the southwest corner. The rockets all over the sky shot into the barracks from both the northeast and the southwest directions.
Liu Yi has the habit of going to bed early and getting up early. This is a habit developed by years of farming. He went to bed shortly after dark and would get up at the fourth hour.
At the first update, the entire camp was sleeping. When the alarm bell rang, dozens of large tents had been lit, and the fire spread rapidly. With the help of the river wind blowing from Liangshanpo, the fire burned even more rapidly.
The soldiers were awakened one after another, shouting and running out of the tent. Many soldiers were still barefoot, and they ran towards the gate in horror.
Liu Yi was also awakened by his personal soldiers, "Go up quickly, something is wrong, the camp is on fire!"
Liu Yi sat up in fear and asked in a trembling voice: "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" The camp was full of fire and was in chaos.
At this time, Liu Yi heard the crying outside. His handsome tent was located in the middle of the camp. The crying outside meant that the fire had burned. He was so scared that he got out of bed and looked for shoes everywhere, "Where are my shoes?"
Several personal soldiers rushed in and shouted: "The fire is coming, General, go quickly!"
Liu Yi didn't bother to find shoes, and was carried out of the camp by several personal soldiers. He saw that the fire was everywhere and the whole sky was red with fire. Groups of soldiers were rushing towards this side. They all fled east, and there was the military camp gate there, and there was no fire.
Liu Yi was helped by his personal soldiers onto the war horse and urged him to escape. "Do away, the people in front dodge!" Their personal soldiers shouted loudly, and the way in front was made, and the war horses kept knocking the soldiers over.
Suddenly, a soldier who was knocked up from the ground, raised his spear angrily, threw it hard, and stabbed Liu Yi's vest.
At this time, ten thousand Song soldiers had surrounded the camp, especially three thousand soldiers gathered outside the east gate. They were arrows like rain and shot densely at the escaped Qi soldiers. Outside the gate were full of corpses of Qi soldiers, which had accumulated like a hill.
But the fire still made countless soldiers run out of the camp one after another. Countless soldiers even cried out and begged for mercy, but it was useless. They were still dead under the ruthless arrows of the Song army.
Chapter completed!