Chapter 328: Meng Jin is lost

Reluctantly approached from the tiger's den temporarily, saying that the hero was shocked and killed. -----------Bright. Luo Guanzhong "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"

It is said that the favor is full of Berning, and the use of soldiers is actually an eight-line risk. Xu Huang and Man Chong fully realized that the loss of Juancheng was only a matter of time, and they must not be blindly rescued. Xu Huang leaned towards defense, while Man Chong's plan was much bolder. Man Zhong proposed, and the Montenegrin army poured out of the nest, the target was Yanzhou Rencheng, the lord's nest, and it seemed that his Puyang was hanging alone and would only defend it. If he takes himself by surprise, sends troops to harass the supply lines of the Montenegrin army, or even directly attacks Shangdang or Mengjin, he may be able to succeed in one fell swoop.

Xu Huang is steady, but he is not willing to stick to Puyang and do nothing. After Man Zhong put forward the plan, Xu Huang looked at the map for a long time and said: "Boning, if you make a surprise attack on the party, you will have to go to Anyang by land." Anyang has always been Jizhou, Bingzhou and Yanzhou, the terrain is hilly, the road is tortuous, there are too many unknown factors, not to mention that there are still 50,000 Montenegrin troops in Huguan, and how many guards there are in Shangdang, I am not sure, I am not in favor of sending troops to attack Shangdang. ”

"But I agree with what you said about sending troops to harass the supply lines, and their biggest supply transshipment port is Mengjin. It is better to sail on the Yellow River, go out day and night, go directly to Mengjin, and burn all the supply ships and port facilities, so that they will not be able to transport supplies across the Yellow River in the short term. How long can the army last without food? This season has just been seedling, and there is no way to grab grain, how much food can Lu Bu supply to the Montenegrin army? In this way, the Montenegrin army is chaotic without a fight, and Xun Wenruo has time to calmly arrange and deal with the unscrupulous Lu Bu first. ”

Man Zhong listened to Xu Huang's reasoning, nodded in approval, and the strategy of attacking Meng Jin was thus decided. Next, Xu Huang led 20,000 soldiers to put the ferry under martial law, and began to secretly organize the expeditionary force to board the ship, bringing more saltpeter rockets and a lot of oil, and secretly prepared properly.

Two weeks later, on a sunny morning, the news of the loss of Juancheng came, and Wang Cai resisted for less than a week before the city was broken, and Wang Cai surrendered, and most of the 5,000 defenders surrendered. At the same time, Tai Shici led 50,000 military horses to cross the southern suburbs of Juancheng, and the soldiers pointed directly at Dong'e County, which also confirmed the conjecture of Man Chong and Xu Huang about the Black Mountain army entering Rencheng.

At the same time, Ding Tao Lejin, Li Dian and Lu Bujun have been strangled together, when Che Zhou led the army to rescue, he was ambushed by Zang Ba, Che Zhou fought to the death, and the leading troops fled back to Cao County, surrounded and attacked by Zang Ba, and I don't know how many days it can be supported.

That night, Xu Huang, who received the battle report, thought that the military operation of the Black Mountain Army had made clear the goal of attacking Rencheng, and Xu Huang, who was ready for everything, quietly sailed away from the ferry with 25,000 Puyang Water and Army, taking advantage of the dark night, the ship was not lit, and with the familiarity of the water situation, he slowly went upriver and went straight to Mengjin.

Before leaving, Xu Huang had already chosen a harbor to hide the warships during the day, and on the fourth night, he finally approached Meng Jin unconsciously. Xu Huang came to the top of the big ship, looking at the brightly lit Mengjin north bank ferry by the Yellow River, it seemed that several ships were nervously loading, which should be the supplies of the Montenegrin army that would be shipped at dawn.

Xu Huang gave an order, and all the soldiers got on the side of the ship, prepared rockets, wrapped them in straw and other fire-starting things, and then dipped them in fire oil. Xu Huang ordered all the ships to be divided into two parts,

They formed several teams and slid in the direction of the ferry. Xu Huang was on the first warship of the first squad, waited for the predetermined place, and gave the order to beat the drum.

The drum beat suddenly exploded on the dark river, and the first team of five warships ignited countless rockets at the same time, only to hear a neat bowstring sound, and then countless rockets flew towards the ferry warehouse and docked ships, like a fire dragon, instantly swept the north bank of the Yellow River.

All kinds of grain and grass on the ferry were caught on fire in an instant, and the soldiers in charge of loading and unloading were caught off guard and fled one after another, and then the docked transport ships and military ships also caught fire, and the fire gradually became fierce, reflecting the dark sky.

The first team poured rockets and drove away, and the second team had another round of rocket rain, and after two rounds, the fire was out of control, and a docked ship was about to set sail away, but the fire on the deck was too fierce, and the sail broke and smashed on the deck, causing a bigger fire in an instant.

After Xu Huang's warship shot the rocket, it took turns to launch saltpeter and other flammable materials, and the fire in Mengjin was completely uncontrollable. Xu Huang ordered a rocket to be fired at the ferry on the south bank of Mengjin, which also ignited a fire. General Meng Jin was a partial general of the Bingzhou army, with only a few thousand men under his command, and he suffered heavy losses at this time, and he could not organize a counterattack at all, so he had to lead the remnants of the army to retreat to the party.

The fire continued to burn, and even Luoyang City faintly saw that the night sky north of Bishan was dyed red by the fire. When the fire subsided, Xu Huangjun finally went ashore, and the Mengjin ferry had been burned to ashes, and the soldiers and porters were burned to curly charcoal, and they died in a very miserable state. Xu Huang felt sorry in his heart, but on the surface he was calm and unwavering, this battle burned Meng Jin, the Montenegrin army suffered heavy losses, and the pressure on Wen Ruozhen's guard should be eased a lot. The loss of food, grass and logistical supply bases for the Montenegrin army will certainly deal an extremely serious blow to his military morale.

What Xu Huang didn't know was that at the same time as he attacked the Mengjin ferry, the forward of Chen Long's troops crossing the Yellow River had already reached the outskirts of Puyang. The entire battle situation was actually designed for Puyang, and all of Chen Long's troop arrangements were aimed at Puyang. Tai Shici's posture of attacking Dong'e and Lü Bu's battle in Dingtao were all Chen Long's tricks to take Puyang.

What Chen Long didn't expect was that there was a very heavy risk-taking factor in the favored human nature, and he actually divided half of his troops to fight Meng Jin in the rear. Man Chong did not send troops to rescue Juancheng, nor did he send troops back to rescue Rencheng, so the Guan Yu ambush arranged on the south bank did not come in handy at all. As soon as Chen Long and Juancheng were captured, he immediately ordered Guan Yu's army to choose a place to cross the river and secretly lurk to the east of Puyang. Guan Yu crossed the river during the day, and Xu Huang's boat passed by Guan Yu's crossing site at night, and the two troops ran to their targets by mistake, but neither of them found each other.

Almost at the same time as the fire at Mengjin Ferry was burned, Chen Long's troops arrived at the outskirts of Puyang, no longer concealed their hiding, and an army of 70,000 began to attack Puyang City at full speed. The full pet army was completely caught off guard, although the full pet carefully arranged the defense every day, but after all, he didn't expect that there would really be a large army worried about Puyang City, so the troops were still a little slack. Now that Xicheng was suddenly surrounded by a large army, Man Chong hurriedly transferred troops from other city defenses and personally went to the head of Xicheng City to command the battle.

Chen Long knew that he had to take Puyang City in one go, so he divided his troops into seven teams, each with 10,000 people, regardless of any losses, or day and night, seven teams rotated to capture Puyang City with all their might. Chen Long personally risked arrows and stones, supervised the army to fight, and sent arrows in the city, almost no arrows were missed, and even the full pet was almost shot to death by Chen Long, but fortunately, his subordinates held iron shields to protect them desperately, so they did not die. This is because Chen Long didn't want to expose himself too thoroughly, and he didn't want to really shoot Man Chong, so he spared Man Chong's life. If Xu Huang's 25,000 people were still in Puyang, the soldiers would have a rotation, the enemy's army was so numerous, it was obviously well prepared, and he was determined to capture the city.

Puyang Xicheng fought to the death for a long time, even full of pets, the whole army was exhausted, and the enemy's offensive, wave after wave seems to be endless, full of wisdom and ingenuity, before dark to repel many rounds of attacks, just leaning on the battlements to prepare to rest, suddenly a young general panicked to the top of the tower, squatting and reported: "General Man, the big thing is not good, I don't know how many troops outside the east city, the leader is a green-robed general, has broken the east city, the general quickly follow me out of the north city on the boat to escape!" ”

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