Northern Dynasties

Chapter 517
The sound of commotion from Sakahara outside the city woke up the defenders in Jiuqu City. Li Yuan, who had been disarmed and asleep, quickly got up again, put on his armor, climbed to the top of the city, and stared at the direction of the commotion outside the city. .

Hearing all kinds of battle sounds from far to near, becoming clearer and clearer, Li Yuan was also puzzled.

Judging from this posture, it seems that reinforcements have arrived and are attacking the enemy's defense line.However, the armies of the Western Wei Dynasty had their own methods and signals to communicate with each other and transmit information. Although there were constant disturbances in the south, there were no corresponding flags and drums and beacon signals, which made it impossible for people to judge the enemy.

But if it wasn't for the arrival of reinforcements, could it be that the enemy army directed and acted on their own?Then what is their purpose?Could it be that they faked an illusion of self-disruption to lure the defenders to attack and break through?

If this is the case, then the enemy general is really clever.War is inherently a high-intensity and dangerous act, and the soldiers involved in it are under tremendous pressure, so they must be controlled and restrained by strict discipline.

Especially at night, no matter how strict the camp ban is enforced, it is even more frightening.Even if there is any night battle plan, it will only be concentrated among the elite troops.However, today's riots have almost spread to the entire Jiuqu area, and the severity of the chaos in different places is different. It is obviously not a premeditated and organized action.

Li Yuan racked his brains and couldn't figure out what was going on. Yifeng, who was injured, also went up to the top of the wall at this moment, and he was also a little dumbfounded seeing this scene.Could it be that they have encountered some kind of hero who sees injustice, and they can't understand the enemy's bullying, so they attack to help?
But no matter what the real situation is, what is certain at the moment is that the enemy's riots are gradually expanding, especially in the area west of Jiuqu City. The tragic or passionate roars are not at all fake.

In sharp contrast to this, the east of Jiuqu City is relatively quiet, especially in the base camp between the enemy's offensive line on the first Quban in the east and the Jiuqu Old City in the rear. It is seen that the enemy troops are still assembled and dispatched to a certain extent, and the impact of the riots is very limited.

"In any case, the enemy's disarray is a rare opportunity. If you don't take advantage of this opportunity to attack for a while, and wait until dawn for the enemy to consolidate itself, it will be too late to regret it!"

After some consideration and weighing, Li Yuan decided not to miss this opportunity, and planned to send an elite team to attack for a while.

Taking advantage of the turmoil in the enemy camp in Xiqu and no time to pay attention to the movements of the defenders in the city, Li Yuan selected [-] elite troops from the trilogy and ordered them to put on the uniforms of the Eastern Army and order them to fight with each other for many years. Of course there is no shortage of seizures.

After these elite soldiers changed into Eastern Army robes and camouflage, they went out of the city along the side city wall with rope ladders, preparing to take advantage of the chaotic night to attack the enemy's camp. Of course, it was not the small camps scattered among the Sakahara, but the enemy's central camp.Li Yuan even made an agreement with these tribes that once the camp was effective, he would set fire to it immediately, and he would lead all the soldiers in the city out of the city to fight the enemy.

Not to mention that Li Yuan and others in the city were not clear about this situation, Zhu Hunyuan in the camp outside the city was also a little puzzled by this: "Which part of the bandit army is this? If the rear division from Kansai comes to help, Why sneak into the downstream to confuse the enemy? If there are Yichuan troops, why attack from the upstream?"

Of course, it's not that he didn't think about the possibility that Yichuan's enemy army would cross Xiong'er Mountain to rescue Jiuqu City.But this route is rugged and winding, and it is difficult for most people to pass through. Even if they come to help, they will inevitably be a small number of light and sharp people.

However, news of the defeat came from various defensive camps in the west one after another. After the retreating soldiers returned to the camp, they each described the might and bravery of the enemy army. An enemy army is really powerful, and it doesn't behave like a light and sharp soldier.

However, Zhu Hunyuan's military deployment was prudent and careful. The battalions in the west were guarding important areas, and the purpose was to create pressure on the defenders in the city and resist possible enemy reinforcements from the west. Although thousands of soldiers were deployed, The real core is the tens of thousands of soldiers in his headquarters camp.As long as the front here is not defeated, the enemy's offensive will still not be greatly affected.

So he ordered all the soldiers to stick to the camp here, and the soldiers who were defeated and fled back were temporarily led to a separate camp to settle down, not to mix with the Chinese camp.At the same time, he also dispatched [-] fine cavalry to patrol the Luoshui River Valley to ensure that once the enemy broke through the encirclement and escaped, they would be able to detect and attack in time and kill as many enemy troops as possible.

On Xiqu Sakahara, when he learned from Wei Fabao that they had rushed to the city of Jiuqu in one go, Li Tai was both happy and surprised.Sometimes it is really difficult to predict the potential of a person. When you concentrate on doing something without distraction, the energy and effect you will burst out will surprise even yourself!
"Quick, light the beacon and tell the news in the city!"

At the beginning, he was trying to deceive people, and then he was so excited that he completely forgot about it. Only now did he realize that he should notify the city, so he hurriedly gave the order.

As the beacon fire rose, a series of cheers erupted in the city, and Li Yuan and other city guards finally confirmed that the reinforcements had arrived.Knowing that he and the others were not the lone army who had been abandoned tragically and sat in the city of sorrow, the people in the city were excited, and soon sent envoys to communicate with the reinforcements.

The movement in Jiuqu City naturally aroused Ke Zhu Hunyuan's vigilance, and he personally led a group of elite soldiers to the top line of Dongquyuan to monitor the enemy's movements.

In the other camp on the south side of the big camp, the soldiers who were defeated from the front line were all placed here.These people saw the astonishing fighting power of the enemy army with their own eyes. Those who ran slower had been mercilessly beheaded by the enemy army. They fled here in a panic, still a little bit in shock, and reluctantly under the order of the soldiers who stayed here. Although he was somewhat restrained, he was still terrified because he was isolated from the camp.

"Why are you not allowed to enter the camp? The enemy army is strong, and we fought bravely while we were fighting the camp at night, but we want you to hide behind and bully the idle pawns. How is that reasonable?"

Suddenly, in a corner of the other camp, a group of defeated soldiers shouted angrily, and directly slashed and killed the domineering soldiers in the patrol camp.

A few soldiers were caught off guard and were hacked to death on the spot. The other soldiers in the camp avoided one after another for fear of being involved, while the defeated soldiers still refused to give up and rushed straight to the barracks, roaring loudly. : "Although I was defeated, I still faced a strong enemy, and I did not commit any crimes! The superintendent violated the law and wanted to kill all the defeated soldiers. Those who wanted to survive rushed into the camp with us, looking for the general and accusing them of injustice!"

The defeated soldiers of the battalions were still in shock, their own organizations were completely dismantled, and they had not been effectively appeased and reorganized after retreating. At this time, when they heard that they were going to be sentenced to death, they were extremely panicked for a while.

When the fear reached its peak, it was natural that they instinctively wanted to save themselves, so these soldiers were immediately instigated, and followed them noisily, destroying and clearing all the barriers between the two battalions, and pouring into the In the big camp, each of them yelled again and again to embolden himself, and wandered wantonly in the big camp to find the master and general to complain about their grievances.

Under the disturbance of these rout soldiers, the camp of the Chinese army, which was not affected much, suddenly became a little chaotic.

When a team that was already assembled for battle rushed forward to try to stop these defeated soldiers and control the order, it aggravated the fear in these people's hearts. Immediately they scuffled together.

"The enemy army has entered the camp, and our army has been defeated!"

The chaotic shouts rang out in the barracks, coupled with the shouts of fighting, it was as if a fire had fallen into the haystack, and panic and chaos spread rapidly.

"What happened in the camp?"

But Zhu Hunyuan soon noticed the chaos in the camp at the rear, and no longer cared about watching the enemy's movements in the city, he quickly led his troops back to the camp and entered the camp through the relatively quiet west camp.

At this time, the chaos had spread between the camps, and even the soldiers in the other camps that had not been affected by the chaos panicked, and they barely rushed out of the camp under the orders of the commanders and generals in the camp. scope.

But Zhu Hunyuan went around the surrounding camps to appease the surrounding camps, and at the same time locked the soldiers who were making trouble in the camps, so he ordered the surrounding camps to make a big fuss, and instantly moved the Chinese camp The fighting and commotion in the middle was suppressed.

However, before he could lead his troops into the camp to calm the chaos, the gates of Jiuqu City were already wide open. Li Yuan led more than 2000 defenders in the city to rush out of the city and head straight for the enemy camp that was still in chaos. .

At the same time, Li Tai is also leading his subordinates to quickly bypass the valley and climb up the plateau, first guard the Jiuqu City with its gates wide open, and then drum horns inside and outside the city.

Such a noisy and chaotic sound of flags and drums has made it difficult to convey any accurate military orders, but the powerful sound waves hitting the eardrums can double the panic in people's hearts, and can also increase the morale of the attacking side.

"Gather to me, hurry to me..."

But Zhu Hunyuan was still working hard to restore order, and kept ordering the soldiers around him to send assembly orders to the surrounding areas, but at this moment the camps were completely in chaos, and even if someone wanted to lead his troops into this assembly, he would not be able to It will soon be dispersed by other officers.

Seeing that the situation was already like this, Zhu Hunyuan could only order a retreat helplessly, leave the front line of the battle, and then build a stronghold to gather troops in the back road, in order to gather the defeated crowd as efficiently as possible.

As Ke Zhu Hunyuan withdrew from Jiuqu, the enemy troops here had no effective command at all, and each followed their instincts to respond to stress, and the combat effectiveness they could display was pitifully small.

The soldiers of all the tribes fought to retreat, and some troops even never saw the enemy's trace from the beginning to the end, but they were so frightened that they didn't dare to stop even though they were out of breath. Step down.

When Li Tai rested for a while and led his troops to the enemy camp, Li Yuan had already personally led hundreds of cavalry to continue chasing the defeated enemy, leaving thousands of soldiers to collect prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

Looking at the many weapons and supplies left by the enemy on the battlefield, although Li Tai was quite greedy, he also understood that rushing forward to collect them would very likely cause conflict between the two sides, so he led his troops from the edge of the battlefield to Walk down the plateau, and when you reach the middle of the plateau, you can hear the neighing of many war horses in front of you.

Li Tai was overjoyed when he heard the sound, he walked forward for a certain distance, and sure enough, there was a vast horse camp at the bottom of the slope, extending from the front of the slope to the bank of Luoshui River, where at least two or three thousand war horses gathered.

"Quickly look for the riding gear warehouse on the left, get on the horse, and continue to kill the enemy!"

This huge harvest immediately made Li Tai feel exhausted, and immediately shouted orders.

(End of this chapter)