Chapter 1121: Returning the Favor
The knight galloped to the sentry post and fell his horse with a thud. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The sentries watched for a moment, and the sentry commander ordered, "Go and bring him in!" Little Liu, you give me a careful look around! ”
"No!"
A moment later, the knight was carried into the flail, dressed exactly like the soldiers of the Xianbei Legion, covered in blood and dying, apparently after a fierce battle.
"Brother, what's going on?" The sentry asked urgently.
The knight opened his chapped mouth to say something, but suddenly coughed violently, and the sentry commander hurriedly asked people to fetch water and poured it down for the knight.
The knight took a breath and said intermittently: "Baggage, baggage team, attacked, the whole army is annihilated!" ”
The sentry commander was startled and hurriedly ordered someone to summon the general in the city.
The baggage team in the mouth of the knight should have been the one who left that morning, escorting the grain to the camp on Luqiao Mountain, with 300,000 loads of grain and grass and a batch of catapult ammunition, and the escort army was 5,000 Xianbei soldiers.
In the middle of the night of the same day, Zhao Yun, who was in the camp of Luqiao Mountain, received an urgent flying pigeon message about this.
Zhao Yun was shocked, and the generals couldn't help but be surprised when they saw this, Cao Hong asked urgently: "General, what's the matter?" ”
Zhao Yun said in a deep voice: "A baggage team of our army was suddenly attacked by the Jin army, and the whole army was annihilated!" ”
The generals were taken aback, and Zhao Tuo said in disbelief: "How is this possible? We are stuck here, how did the Jin army pass? ”
Zhao Yun pressed the book and thought: "There is only one possibility, the other party has found a road through Luqi Mountain!" ”
Cao Hong said urgently: "General, if this is the case, then Dulles is worried!" ”
Zhao Yun came to the sand table, looked at the terrain of Luqu Mountain and pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "There should not be many Jin troops passing through Luqu Mountain, and there is no heavy equipment!" Otherwise they would have attacked Dulles directly, and not just a volley! This trail shouldn't be easy to walk! ”
The generals couldn't help but nod.
Zhao Yun pondered: "The top priority now should be to find this path!" Plug him up! ”
Zhao Yun raised his head and ordered the Xiongnu general: "Immediately lead the 60,000 cavalry under his command to search along the southern foot of the Lushan Mountain!" An army passing through the mountains will surely leave a trail! ”
The Hun general clenched his fists and promised.
"Zhao Tuo!"
"General!"
"How long can we grow the grain and grass in the current camp?" Zhao Yun asked.
Zhao Tuo thought for a moment and replied: "Ten days!" If you save it, you can last for half a month! ”
"General, it's better to exterminate this group of Jin troops first!" Cao Hong suggested.
Zhao Yun shook his head and frowned: "The task of this army is to intercept the logistics of our army, and it will never go head-to-head with the main force of our army!" ”
Seeing that the generals had a depressed look on their faces, they smiled and said, "You don't have to worry too much! Although it has caused a lot of trouble to our army, they will not be easy! ”
The generals were stunned, and Cao Hong couldn't help asking, "General, what do you mean?" ”
Zhao Yun raised his head and glanced outside the big tent, and said, "Meng Qi, they should be almost there!" ”
At about the same time, the 50,000 Wuhuan iron cavalry led by Ma Chao quietly came to a forest more than thirty miles west of the Durant fortress, and the army was temporarily hidden.
"General, do you want to send scouts?" General Ma Tie asked.
"Nope! This will startle the snake! Ma Chao said categorically, Ma Chao jumped off the war horse, and all the generals also jumped off the war horse.
"Map!" Ma Chaodao.
A personal soldier was about to spread out a tactical map in front of Ma Chao, and Duan Gang, a general on the side, immediately lit a fire and pressed a candle on a corner of the map.
Ma Tiedao: "According to the early information, there are 150,000 soldiers of the Jin people here, of which 50,000 are the main army, and the grain and grass are mainly stored in three places, of which the city is the main storage place for grain and grass, and the other two grain and grass storage places are located on the west and east sides of the fortress respectively!" The walls of the fortress have been demolished, and it is impossible for the people of the Jin Kingdom to rebuild the walls in such a short time! The guard is a cadre under Tokhtobuhua, named Jerold! Be cautious and quick-witted! ”
The generals looked at Ma Chao together, waiting for his order.
Ma Chao thought for a moment, and took the obstacle knife on the west and east sides of the fortress, "Divide the troops into two ways and attack the grain and grass storage areas on the east and west sides at the same time!" ”
Immediately, the barrier knife was at the position of the fortress, "Then concentrate your forces to capture the fortress of Durent!" ”
"No!"
"Czechs, what do you say is going on at the front?" A sentry asked, leaning against a pillar with a worried expression.
The sentry known as the Czechman shook his head, "I don't know! But I know it's not going to be easy to win! ”
The companion nodded, and said with emotion: "I think back then, how powerful our Dajin was!" I can't imagine that I can't breathe anymore by the Wei people! What do you say is going on? ”
The Czechman sighed and said with a look of remembrance: "Who said it wasn't! At that time, every battle won untold huge fortunes, and everyone sharpened their heads and wanted to become soldiers! ”
glanced around, lowered his voice and said, "But now, we all have to be soldiers!" ”
His companion nodded approvingly.
Just as he was about to say something more, he suddenly felt the ground tremble slightly, and he was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you feel it?" ”
The Czechman nodded blankly and shook his head.
The companion looked up into the night ahead, and suddenly saw countless black shadows rushing out of the black curtain and roaring, like a group of demons who suddenly appeared in the world.
The sentinels were taken aback and instinctively wanted to scream, when a rain of arrows roared, and the sentinels fell in a pool of blood in an instant, and the sentry of the Kingdom of Jin, named Czech, leaned against a pillar with a wolf's tooth arrow nailed to his neck, and his eyes were full of dazed fear.
20,000 Wuhuan cavalry roared in, slaughtering the unsuspecting 30,000 defenders, and when they left, the entire western tun was surrounded by raging flames, and the ground was covered with the corpses of the Jin soldiers, and the Wuhuan cavalry did not leave a single prisoner.
A surviving Jin soldier poked his head out of the pile of corpses and glanced around, his face a mixture of fear and hatred looming in the firelight.
Just when the 20,000 Wuhuan iron cavalry raided the grain field on the west side, the Wuhuan battalion iron cavalry that raided the grain field on the east side also broke through the thin defense line of the Jin army, ran through the camp of the Jin people, and burned more than 500,000 quintals of grain and grass.
A routed army of more than 2,000 men rushed towards the fortress of Durent from the grain fields on the west side.
At this time, the fortress of Durent was already in full swing, the fortress was brightly lit, and the core catapult positions were ready to go: the entrances to the city were full of obstacles such as stones and horses, in fact, these obstacles had already been prepared, tens of thousands of archers were on the buildings near the entrance, and countless sword and shield soldiers and pikemen were waiting in the streets and alleys. (To be continued.) )