Chapter seven hundred and forty-eight attack out of the city at night, cluster burning camp
Li Xiao said this with a bright look and a firm expression: "As long as the Qing army outside this city is destroyed, the Shun army that came to rescue will be very likely to disperse itself in extreme horror. Our army will take advantage of the victory to pursue the victory and chase the north and eliminate all these mobs, and then the siege of Jintang City will be lifted and the entire Xuanfu North Road will be revitalized!"
When Li Xiao said this, his face was full of pleasure and said, "In order to cooperate with Jintangcheng's siege breaking, I will also order Xichuan's tenth town troops to make a feint attack to the west, thereby aggravating the enemy's misjudgment. Li Zicheng was panicked and sent all the besiege troops of Jintangcheng to Hanzhong as soon as possible so that our Jintangcheng troops could break through as soon as possible."
Chen Zilong and Jiang Yueguang stood up and said together: "Tang Wang Yingming, we all follow the arrangements of the Tang King."
Three days later, Duan Shiqi, the chief general in Jintang City, received a letter from the King of Tang Li Xiao. He was overjoyed when he received the news and immediately began to act as Li Xiao's instructions.
In Jintang City, the newly formed 12th town troops were established, personnel allocation, organizational construction, recruitment of new soldiers, recruitment of previous surrendered troops, and clearing tunnels were all carried out in an orderly manner, and the entire city was busy.
At the same time, Duan Shiqi secretly ordered the defenders at the top of the city to closely observe the movements of the enemy outside the city, and report them immediately if there is any change.
Twenty days later, a guard at the city came to report that the enemy soldiers outside the city are now mostly unfamiliar, and the formations they train every day are also uneven, and they do not have the fierce aura of the previous long-term battle journey.
The Lord of Jintang City was Duan Shiqi, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Li Xiao's accurate grasp of the current situation. However, he still followed Li Xiao's instructions and waited patiently for more than a month.
At this time, the 12th Tang Army Town, which was composed of the fourth town of the Tang Army, the surrendered troops of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui's troops on that day, as well as a few newly recruited new recruits in the city, had also been initially trained and completed.
Duan Shishi, the mayor of the fourth town of Tang Jun, who was guarding the city lord, knew that he had been patient and silent until now, and the opportunity finally came.
He quickly ordered the entire army to prepare to attack the city according to the plan set by the King of Tang that day.
The entire plan was that at midnight, the soldiers and horses of the two towns left the city together. Among them, the fourth town of the Tang army, who was the main attack, sneaked out of the city from the tunnel and rushed to the sleeping Qing army, striving to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop.
As an auxiliary attack, the soldiers of the Tang army, the 12th Town, opened the north gate, and the entire army protruded from the north gate, and as a reserve team, they entered the battle. Their main task was not to directly fight with the Qing army, but to guard against the soldiers of the Shun army who were able to block the surrounding soldiers from behind when the soldiers of the Tang army, the fourth Town, attacked the Qing army outside the city with all their strength.
After the plan was set, the Tang army immediately began to prepare secretly and quickly. By midnight, the three underground tunnels leading to the north gate were densely filled with Tang army soldiers. Many people held torches in their hands, illuminating the entire tunnel red.
Duan Shishi, who was full of armor and serious faces, said a lot of motivational words to all the soldiers of the Tang Army's Fourth Town, and saw that the time had arrived, he immediately ordered the whole army to stand out and fight out of the city from the tunnel.
When the fourth town of the Tang army attacked from the tunnel, the 12th town of the Army was also ready at the same time. The mayor Liu Wenxiu and deputy mayor Wu Gui gathered at the north gate. As soon as they arrived outside the city, they opened the city gate and attacked the entire Qing army in the dark.
It’s a coincidence that in early autumn, the weather in the north is a time when the weather is dry and the weather is getting colder. Now in the middle of the night, it’s a rare drizzle.
The beauty of the times made the Tang army's attack more sudden. The Qing army camp in the distance was even more silent.
The Qing army outside the city was divided into three camps, which were supported by each other and formed a horn, forming a font shape, and was considered to be a mutual support. Among the three camps, the central camp had the largest number of troops, about 20,000, and the other two camps had more than 10,000 people respectively. Among them, the central camp that broke forward was guarded by the commander Abatai. The left camp was the head general of his son Gushan Ezhen Yuele, and the right camp general was the first-class veteran Jiala Ezhen Turge.
The Qing army outside the city originally had 50,000 people, but because the Qing court saw such a siege battle, it was far away, so it decided to withdraw the most elite Manchu soldiers from the country. It only left a message about 5,000 Manchu soldiers, more than 5,000 Mongolian soldiers, more than 20,000 Han soldiers, and a total of more than 40,000 people continued to siege the city and maintain a high-pressure situation against Jintang City.
The Qing army quietly cut off the siege troops, which seemed to be a little advantage, but they would never have thought that the immeasurable impact would have been brought to the upcoming battle. If the regent Dorgon, the supreme ruler of the Qing court, knew that the Tang army would suddenly leave the city without warning, and would have regretted it so much that his intestines were blue.
Although this long-term siege that lasted more than half a year was fine, for the sake of safety, Abatai sent orders, such as weapons, grains and other important logistics materials, were stationed in the Zuo and Right camps behind, and the Central camps were pure combat troops, with each battalion being about two miles apart to maintain sufficient space for activity.
The commander of the Qing army, Aba Taiman, thought that in the following days, he would be safe and sound as long as he stayed in a siege in this way. As long as he had finished his food, he would work with the Shun Army to siege Jintang City on three sides.
Abatai never wanted to know that his plan was safe and sound, but in such a time that he could not have imagined, the Tang army actually went out of the city to attack, which was completely beyond his expectations.
The alopecia areata grass wet by the rain suddenly changed, and pieces of turf were quietly lifted up, and groups of ghostly auxiliary soldiers of Tang army were the first to drill out from the exit of the tunnel.
After leaving the tunnel, they used the faint luminous light as lighting. With the period of time, they had practiced many disassembly and assembly training to quickly and accurately assembled small trenchers into loose parts. Similarly, the individual thunder that they brought with them had already been grouped in groups of ten, tied into bundles, ready to be thrown.
More than twenty small trenchers were arranged between the dizzy night distances, and then they squeaked the strings until the tightest point was ready to be put.
Then, immediately, an auxiliary soldier rushed forward and placed bundles of thunder and thunder on the pull-down box.
"ignition!"
There was a sizzling sound, and more than twenty fire-induced inkling ropes were immediately ignited. Then, these auxiliary soldiers used the fire-induced inkling ropes and lit the fire-induced inkling line that was twisted into a bunch of thunder.
The burning leads were shining with dark blue flames and tiny sparks, like the fangs of the devil flashing.
"put!"
With the auxiliary leader shouting angrily, the winchs of more than twenty catapults that were strangled to the extreme were released almost at the same time. Only a sound of loose strings could be heard. The pole that pressed down to the horizontal level bounced violently. The cluster thunder that was half burning in the lead, with a faint roar, drew a long arc in the air, and rushed straight toward the Abatai Central Camp in the distance.
In the dark night, the blue fire that appeared out of thin air in the distance was not clear in the drizzle, but it had quickly attracted the attention of the Dashun cavalry who were parading in the distance. However, they were extremely surprised and had time to make a shrill whistle. The more than twenty clusters of thunders were already thrown out together.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
The clusters of thunderstorms were like birds of death falling from the sky, roaring straight into the Qing army camp. This round of volley was unable to aim well in the dark night and was hindered by misty rain. Less than half of the thunderstorms hit the enemy camp.
Even so, the explosion power of each ten cluster thunders tied into bundles was still extremely impressive, causing huge damage and shock to the unprepared Qing army camp.
The dazzling golden flames, the deafening explosion, the blood-flying Qing army soldiers, the continuous screams of burning tents and the warehouses in the camp made Abatai's Central Army camp instantly turn into a chaotic and terrible hell on earth.
Coincidentally, one of the clusters of thunderstorms hit the mast of the central army's tent. With a click, it interrupted the high-flying Dashun Army flag on the central army's tent.
Fortunately, it hit the flagpole, and the cluster of shocking thunder did not just hit the tent and explode, allowing Abatai, who was sleeping soundly, to save his life by chance.
Finally, the thunderous thunder rolled over and fell not far from the tent before it exploded suddenly. The dense iron marbles in the warhead created a very wide death area, and the thick cowhide tent shot out terrible bullet holes. The remaining flames and high temperatures produced by the explosion immediately ignited Xun's large tent where Abatai lived.
Even such a thick cowhide tent could not stop the power of the Tang army's cluster thunder explosion. There were still many iron bombs, stubbornly whistling into the tent through the thick cowhide tent, and immediately killed the guards blocking Abatai.
Abatai, who had just been awakened by the huge explosion and had not yet gotten up, was splashed with blood on his face by the howling guard. He jumped up from the bed and immediately shouted loudly: "What's going on? What's going on outside?! So many parade whistleblowers don't come to report, are they all damn ate shit?!"
Abatai wiped a handful of blood and roared loudly at the terrifying guard closest to him in the tent.
The guard was bloodless and frightened. He faced Abatai's fierce eyes and stammered: "Bai, Beile, the Tang army was out of the city to attack the camp. They threw thunder and attacked our army at a long range outside the north gate of Jintang City. Our army was caught off guard and was so passive..."
"Damn it! Are you dead? Why are you still standing there? Put out the fire immediately and organize troops to kill all these damn Tang troops who threw the thunderous thunder!"
Abatai looked furious, and while quickly putting on his armor, he yelled loudly with gritted teeth.
Before the guard could speak, Abatai, who had quickly put on his armor, picked up his sword with him and quickly left the tent with an increasingly large fire, and rushed out of the tent.
At this moment, more than twenty clusters of thunderstorms fell from the sky, roaring from the sky.
In the second round of shooting, the Tang army adjusted the projection direction in time based on the first round of test shooting effects. Therefore, in the second round of volleys, the whistling cluster thunder, was like eyes, and basically all hit the central camp of Abatai.
The continuous explosions almost burst Abatae's eardrums, and the dazzling fire and the flames soaring into the sky were like the devil's flowers, blooming throughout the camp.
The terrifying scene in front of him immediately stunned him.
He was frightened to see the corpses of the soldiers on the ground that were blown to pieces, and there were many injured soldiers rolling and wailing on the ground with incomplete limbs. Some soldiers were even seen by Abatai. They were hit by thunder and instantly, with blood and flesh flying everywhere, leaving only broken limbs and bones, and they were not human-shaped. They were burning like charcoal all over their bodies. At first glance, they were terrible.
Looking further away, the rows of tents next to each other were burned by the blazing fire, like a fire dragon. A large number of soldiers were like headless flies, and rushed to put out the fire, but it was useless at all.
Seeing the winner Abatai standing outside the burning central army tent with a stunned face, Niu Luezhen, whose beard was burning on his face, rushed forward and knelt down to ask for his order.
"Rao Yubeile! The enemy's fire attacked the battalion one after another, and our camp suffered heavy losses. How our army will do next? I hope the commander will give the order!"
When Abatai heard his sorrow and urgently asked, his heart felt like he was fried. He tried to calm himself down and shouted loudly: "Transfer our military orders, and all the combat troops in the camp were dispatched immediately. With the power of lions fighting against rabbits, he would rush the Tang soldiers who dared to attack our army with all their might. They must cut them into pieces!"
"Get orders!"
"The rest of the auxiliary servants and others should be prepared immediately. They should try their best to extinguish the burning tents, put away all the unburned tents, disperse the soldiers and retreat, dodge in time, and avoid the attack range of the fire bombs as much as possible."
"Get orders!"
"In addition, urgently send people to inform the left and right battalions, so that they can come to help as soon as possible, and be prepared to prevent the Tang army from attacking in a sneak attack!"
"Get orders!"
The Qing army was on a long journey of war. After such a blazing camp, after the early panic, they had begun to come back to their senses. All the soldiers of the army began to gather in a neat manner and roared out of the camp.
Among the Qing army, more than 2,000 cavalrymen took the lead and took the lead from the military camp that had already moved away from the rushing horse and took away the spikes. They rushed out and immediately rushed towards the Tang army auxiliary soldiers who had thrown the thunder.
At this moment, more than twenty other thunderstormed thunders roared from the sky, accurately hitting Abatai's central camp.
There was also a thunderclap that happened to explode at the entrance of the camp, killing dozens of cavalry who finally rushed out of the camp gate and had no time to hide, as well as a cavalryman Bashku who was traveling behind Oshio.
The Tang army was rear-ended and bombed, and many cavalry were broken before leaving the camp, causing the originally energetic Qing army to fall into a small chaos.
Chapter completed!