Chapter 596: The Lion Fights the Rabbit
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It's late, and the night is cold...
The evening breeze was gentle, and the Khitan soldiers who had drunk some wine were drunk. When the cool evening breeze blew, their eyelids drooped. Although they didn't drink much wine, they marched on the road for two days, and they were bumping on the hot day and were already exhausted. If you drink some wine, you would feel sleepy.
The half-drunk Khitan soldiers were lying casually in the military camp, and some even lay directly outside the tent, all of them took off their armor and had only a pair of shorts, and they slept soundly.
A black shadow penetrated into Gao Zhaokang's tent. Gao Zhaokang was sitting in the tent with his eyes, holding a whetstone in his hand, and polishing the horizontal knife in his hand.
"Young Master, the time is almost over. The Khitan soldiers are sleeping soundly, so you can do it." Gao Bing said in a low voice.
Gao Zhaokang stopped, put the light whetstone aside, picked up a wet cloth, and gently wiped the horizontal knife clean.
"Then let's do it!"
A team of men wearing ordinary people's clothes quietly emerged from the streets and alleys in the city, then gathered together and quietly rushed to the city gate. The city gate guarded the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers were all cavalry, all brave soldiers. They charged in battle, and the rest were handed over to the auxiliary soldiers. Each combat soldier had two auxiliary soldiers, one was the auxiliary soldiers who specialized in the Caogu, who were responsible for collecting food and grass, and even helping them rob property. The other's main job was to guard the camp so that the soldiers could get enough time to rest.
There were 100 Khitan auxiliary soldiers guarding the gate in front of the Shancheng City gate. These people were 14 or 15 years old and 50 or 60 years old. They were not as brave as the soldiers, but they were also quite fierce. The Khitans were a nation on horseback and received riding and shooting training since childhood. Therefore, these young men, compared with the elderly, were actually much stronger than ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty. Even the Khitan auxiliary soldiers were stronger than the ordinary Tang army soldiers.
In the darkness, those who sneaked to the city gate made tactical arrangements with gestures using weak moonlight, and they were already arranged.
"Swish!" A crossbow machine was first activated, and the black crossbow nail shot directly at a Khitan officer on the top of the city. Before the man could react, the crossbow nail had already hit his forehead, making him be shot and killed without even humming.
After the first arrow was shot, the person behind them pulled the string swords of the crossbow machine and shot the locked targets one by one. The Khitan guards were shocked and screamed, but at this time they had already fallen twenty or thirty people. Moreover, the raiders had rushed to the front. Although the Khitan soldiers had good archery skills in the dark night, in a short distance, the crossbow arrows were completely powerful and fast. One by one, the Khitan guards fell to the ground, and they had already seized the city gate.
There could be a noise in the city, but the raiders had successfully opened the city gate.
As the city gate opened, the suspension bridge was also knocked down, and the Tang army lying ambushed outside the city rushed into the city like a tide.
The two cities in the East and West were opened almost at the same time.
"beep!"
A feather arrow passed through the house and shot into the house. The arrow was nailed to the table beside the bed, and the arrow hair was still vibrating buzzing.
Yelu Dachi suddenly woke up, looking at the arrow that was only a few inches away from him, his forehead couldn't help but sweat. He listened with his ears, as if there were shouting for killing everywhere.
"Damn it!" Yelu Dachi's first thought was that the damn Tang army came into the city, and the second thought was that Gao Zhaokang was pretending to surrender.
Gao Zhaokang stood on the city gate tower and could clearly see the city full of fire and shouts of killing. Not far from the other side, another mountain city was also in chaos. He knew very well that Li Jing's plan had succeeded.
Without waiting until dawn, all the six thousand soldiers and horses of Khitan Yelu Dachi will be destroyed here.
Yelu Dachi may never have thought that he would actually give the man who hated him to take his wife and surrender to the Khitans.
Yelu Daguang was proud last night, but now he has become a turtle in the jar. Li Jing will not let these people who have fallen into Luo. Among the people in the city are hundreds of special combat soldiers arranged by Li Jing. On the south bank of the Fudu River, there were 20,000 soldiers and horses arranged by Li Jing here. At present, 20,000 Tang troops have poured into the two cities, and Yelu Dachi will not have any chance to escape.
Gao Zhaokang had to admit that Li Jing was indeed cunning and good at planning. Even though Li Jing clearly had an army with an extremely advantageous number, he did not advance all the way. Instead, he asked him to surrender to the Khitans, lure them to come, and then set up this trap, surrounding the six thousand Khitans in two cities at once.
Although the Khitans were very powerful in war, they were equipped with war horses and double horses. They fought several battles with the Tang army, and their best skills were ambushing the Tang army, and then setting up ambush in some dangerous places. After one blow, they immediately used their mobile surnames to leave. But now, they were deceived by Li Jing and left Jian'anzhou, came here, and were eventually deceived into the city and closed down to beat the dog.
No matter how hard it is to run, and if it is paired with a double horse, the Khitan light cavalry can escape at this time. A total of 6,000 cavalry accounted for one-third of the troops and horses of the Khitan Reika in Jian'an, and even one who could not escape was about to be destroyed.
Last year, the Gao family took all the troops in Jili Prefecture and reinforcements borrowed from other cities, and their troops were still above the Khitans, but in the end they were beaten by the Khitans, only a mountain city was left.
This is the gap between them and Li Jing, the gap is too big.
The closer he got to Li Jing, the more he felt that the distance was far away from Li Jing. Is he really going to take revenge after enduring humiliation?
Yelu Dachi still had a trace of luck in his heart, thinking that the person who was raiding might be Gao Zhaokang's people. If so, he would still have a chance to turn the tables.
"Get closer, get closer to me!" Yelu Dachi shouted.
However, what responded to him was the rows of bows and arrows of Tang Army.
"Arrowman, shoot the arrow!"
Zhao Yun was responsible for commanding the attack on Xicheng, holding his long sword in his hand and shouting loudly. All the Khitan soldiers who were trying to get closer to the gathering would immediately be attacked by the archers of the Tang army. The closer they got, the more they gathered, the more they died.
The Khitans wanted to escape, but they could escape.
At the first time of the raid, the Tang army had occupied the Khitan horse hangar. The Khitan cavalry without horses were actually just ordinary infantry. Even the cavalry who were raided were a little dizzy, and some of them rushed out naked before they even had time to put on their armor.
Facing the Tang army, whose formation was neat, armor was strong, and commanded in an orderly manner, they could only retreat step by step and leave one corpse after another.
Gao Bing stood beside Gao Zhaokang, looked at the defeated Khitan soldiers under the Tang army's attack, and sighed.
"The town [***] is even more powerful than expected. No wonder it captured Langu Mountain City in just half an hour. With such a strong general, Li Jing could actually defeat Yelu Dala's Jian'an Prefecture without using a trick to surrender. The 100,000 troops would not be surprised if they attacked Liaodong Prefecture in one breath."
Gao Zhaokang also sighed, "Li Jing is like this. Even if he beats a rabbit, he will use all his strength. A lion fights a rabbit and uses all his strength. Such a person is terrible. He lets us surrender and lure the enemy, which will allow him to annihilate a viable force in Jian'anzhou at the lowest cost. Moreover, how can we surrender to the Khitans again?"
"Who is this Zhao Hun?" Gao Zhaokang asked. It was Zhao Hun who attacked Lanjun City, and it was Zhao Hun who attacked Xicheng now. He had no impression of Zhao Hun and Gao Zhaokang. He had never heard of such a person in Li Jing's army before. But this man was too strong. He attacked Lanjun Mountain City and took the mountain city in half an hour at the cost of fifty casualties. Now, it has only been about half an hour since he entered the city. The three thousand Khitans in the city have been killed and cannot gather. It is estimated that in another half an hour, the battle will be over.
Gao Bing also sighed, "I heard that it was the general that Li Jing had just asked for from other military governors in the Central Plains. It turned out to be a general. He was in his fifties, but he didn't expect that he was so powerful."
When dawn was about to begin, the battle between the East and West cities finally ended, leaving only the Tang army searching for and clearing out the scattered Khitan fleeing soldiers in the city.
Because this was a raid, and the Tang army controlled the encirclement and suppression battle, one of the six thousand Khitan soldiers escaped from the city.
At noon, the commander of the Feixiong Army, Zhao Feng, the commander of the Shenjie Army, Zeng Yuanyu, the commander of the Yingyang Army, Liu Shouqian, the commander of the Leopard Cavalry Army, Zhang Chengzong and Gao Zhaokang, and Gao Bing cleaned the battlefield. Li Jing had already led the Golden Armor to win the Jie Army, and the Silver Gun Jiajie Army crossed the Fudu River and reached the city.
"Report to the commander, six thousand Khitan soldiers, two thousand combat soldiers, and four thousand auxiliary soldiers were leaked from Yelu Dachi. In this battle, more than 2,300 Khitan soldiers were annihilated, more than 3,600 prisoners were captured, four thousand top-level war horses, eight thousand ordinary war horses, more than 4,000 sets of armor and armor, and many sets of flags and golden drums were seized!" Zeng Yuanyu reported excitedly to Li Jing. Last night, he commanded the attack on the three thousand Khitan soldiers in the East City, and the results were also amazing. Finally, he saved the face he had lost in Langu Mountain City.
Li Jing nodded to them, turned to Gao Zhaokang and smiled, "General Gao did a good job and should remember one of the first merits. In addition, General Zeng and General Zhao have good commands and should also remember one of the second merits. General Liu and General Zhang also performed outstandingly, and should also remember one of the third merits. Feixiong, Shenjie, Leopard Cavalry, Yingyang, and the Korean Army who participated last night all recorded the merits they received in the battle."
Li Jing was not stingy with praise to the generals, especially Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong, the two earliest servants, who were Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong, who kindly patted their shoulders and praised them. These two were Li Jing's confidants. They were unable to participate in the battles between Youzhou, Daibei, Songzhou and Jeju because they went south. However, they also performed very well when they went south. During the previous reorganization, Li Jing re-argued and finally promoted the two to the commanders of the Pinglu Army Yingyang and the Leopard Cavalry Army, and became the senior generals under Li Jing.
Chapter completed!