Chapter 84: Zi Shi Raid
On March 20th, this was a critical moment when later historical studies of the Quanzhou War closed the book, because the changes on several battlefields were all inspired by this moment.
Qian Hongwei, the governor of Huzhou, who confronted the Southern Tangning Army at the border, took the lead in the attack. He sent 500 dead soldiers to the left camp of Ningguo Army at night and launched a raid at any time on the 20th day. The Ningguo Army's left army was caught off guard, and Qian Hongwei ordered another 3,000 elite troops to carry out a second wave of attacks. The left side of the Southern Tangning Army, with a total of 5,000, had no resistance at all in the chaos. The Ningguo Army's central army, which was heard of the chaos, was bitten by the main force of the Wuyue Huzhou Army and fell into chaos. The Ningguo Army's right side was stopped by a few Wuyue elite troops, and even failed to arrive at the middle battlefield. The two sides fought until dawn. The soldiers on the left side of the Ningguo Army were almost completely lost, and the central army also suffered a lot.
The Grand Secretary of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xu Zhizheng, the governor of Ningguo Army and the governor of Xuanzhou, had no choice but to order all the soldiers to retreat twenty miles and temporarily avoid the enemy's front.
At the same time, the three thousand soldiers of the Beidaying in Quanzhou who were traveling overnight, led by Chen Wenshan, began to raid the temporary Muzhai at the intersection of the Dehua-to-Nan'an. They defeated one thousand defenders at the cost of 800 casualties and drove their butts to Nan'an City to the east.
At this time, a fierce siege was taking place in Nan'an City. Under the on-site command of the Jianzhou Jiedushi Chen Hui, the 10,000 Jianzhou troops were like crazy. They let go of the other three gates, and the army divided into five groups, aiming at one place on the right side of the Xicheng Gate to launch a fierce attack. One quarter of an hour before midnight, they finally attacked the city wall, occupied the head of the Xicheng City, and were struggling to resist the Qingyuan defenders attacking from both sides of the city wall and inside the city.
The extremely strong Chen Hui rode on the horse, staring at the battle on the city wall with a cold expression, without saying a word, and the deputy generals of the Jianzhou Army, Chen Decheng, Zheng Yanhua and others stood behind him, and remained silent.
Suddenly, a panic scream came from behind the battle formation. Several people looked back in surprise and found that many torches appeared to the west, rushing to the rear formation of our army. Basically, the rear formation played by the civilians was immediately in chaos. The civilians were shouting and desperately fleeing from the people who raided.
"The enemy attacks, father, let me stop them." Chen Decheng shouted loudly.
"Don't be nervous. These enemy soldiers can only come from Dehua, and there will not be too many people. If you take a thousand-fang army to rush up, don't intercept them." Chen Hui ordered softly.
Yats, namely personal soldiers or guards, have been in personal troops in our country since ancient times, while Yats from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were private soldiers of the Jiedushi after the Middle Tang Dynasty. The reason why the personal guards were called Yats was derived from the word "Yaqi". "Ya" was connected to "Yaqi". In ancient times, generals came out of towns and built Yats and went on a regular basis, so their official office was called Yats and later they were built Yats.
The governor of the Tang Dynasty was the general of the Duzhen area. When they left the town, they gave them two flags and two halberds. When they went out, they built their festivals and built six flags. In ancient times, they called the official offices as Ya, called the flags they were tits, called the city they were tits, called the city they lived in as Yacheng, called the houses they lived in as Yaguan, called the commander of the court and the commander of Yaguan, called the generals they were close to Yajiang, and the guards were called Yagang, and the personal soldiers were called Yajiang. The Jianzhou army had a total of two thousand Yajun troops, all of which were loyal elites selected from 30,000 soldiers.
Chen Decheng led the crowd to whistle and whistle away.
Chen Hui turned to Zheng Yanhua and whispered: "Yanhua, you have been following Lin Feng for so long, and you should be more familiar with how to raid. You will lead the fifty most elite tooth soldiers to attack from the city wall stairway, and open the city gate as soon as possible. Can you do it?"
Zheng Yanhua jumped off the horse, pounded his chest three times, and shouted wildly: "Master, please rest assured, I can't take the city gate, I'll come to see you."
Chen Hui also jumped off the horse and helped Zheng Yanhua tidy up his military uniform, saying solemnly: "I believe you, this battle cannot be missed, otherwise the reputation of our Jianzhou army will be completely destroyed."
Zheng Yanhua roared twice, pulled off his military uniform, and ran to the wooden ladder leaning against the city wall first. Fifty fangs also pulled off their military uniforms and followed closely behind with their upper bodies naked.
Chen Hui looked at the situation where the back formation had slowly stabilized, turned to look at the direction of Quanzhou, and murmured: "Brother Lin, I have done my best to do it, and it's up to you."
Lin Feng, who was muttered, sneezed twice, suppressed the sudden intense palpitations in his heart, and shouted at Zhao Zanting who entered the door: "Hurry up several troops."
Zhao Zanting replied loudly: "Seven have arrived, and there are still four of them in Zhangzhou that have not arrived. Two are harassed and attacking under the Xicheng."
"Let's go." Lin Feng quickly walked out of the small temple and came to the foot of the mountain. He called the deputy generals of the seven teams, Zhao Zanting and Zhao Tianba, and after giving orders one by one, the deputy generals went all out.
Lin Feng called out a group of the guards of the Zhengwang Mansion, as well as Cheng Yuehai and others, and said solemnly: "No further ado, we must start in advance. The victory and defeat of Quanzhou is here. I hope that you will lead the special soldiers to rush into the Quanzhou defenders camp at the Xicheng as quickly as possible, and ensure that everyone is mingling with the Quanzhou army, and then lead the battlefield to attack directly under the city wall, and strive to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city wall and raid in to echo the brothers in the city. Come, let us cheer for the victory in advance."
Lin Feng walked forward and placed his palm in front of him first. Other guards and Cheng Yuehai also came forward, put his palm on him, and pressed him down, shouting: "I will win."
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Cheng Yuehai and Zhao Chengyu led the special forces to the defenders at the west city first, contacted the soldiers who were harassed troops in the rear, and closed them forward at the same time.
Due to continuous harassment and attacks, the military camps above the Xichengmen and below the city wall were everywhere, and two large fires were lit in the camp, following the soldiers of the two armies fighting in the situation.
"Xiaohai." Cheng Yuehai roared.
A short Zhuang man jumped over, holding a long bow with a strange shape in his hand, and his bow body was almost as tall as his body.
"Bring your brother and shoot me all the torches in this camp." Cheng Yuehai ordered softly.
The special warrior who called Xiaohai nodded, whistled, stretched his hands on both sides at the same time, and then stole the bow and sneaked forward to the right.
After a moment, three more and more shorter bird calls sounded, and more than a dozen arrows shot out at the same time, shooting the torch into the air without bias.
Taking advantage of the sudden dark moment, Cheng Yuehai took the lead and rushed towards the camp wall. While the screams of the guards in the nearby camp wall were still continuing, Cheng Yuehai and others had already jumped over the wooden camp wall and rushed in.
"Scattered attacks, torches, archers." Cheng Yuehai shouted, and rushed towards the soldiers holding torches, extinguishing the torches first, and then injuring people. The other special soldiers naturally followed suit and gave priority to those soldiers holding torches and soldiers wearing bows and arrows.
The assault of nearly 200 special forces soldiers was very terrifying. Half of the camp quickly lost its lights. With the cover of darkness, five elite legions of 500 people were wearing black uniforms to attack and quickly swept the defenders in the western half of the camp wall and fought with the remaining defenders.
There were shouts of killing and screams, and amid the screams, there were urgent and short bird calls from time to time, and more torches became dark.
The Quanzhou defenders holding bows and arrows on the city wall were so anxious that they jumped straight away, but they were afraid to shoot the arrows, for fear of accidentally hurting their own people. When they were hesitating, they kept shooting arrows from the melee crowd and shot the torch inserted into the pheasant sacrificial sacrificial slashing down every now and then.
"Get back and light the fire." A guardian roared and took the lead in moving his body away from the city. The other soldiers hurriedly retreated.
At this moment, several black ropes and grippers quietly mounted the battlements next to them. Cheng Yuehai and several special soldiers from Guiguan area grabbed the rope and climbed up quickly.
"Someone climbed the city." A Quanzhou soldier in the Quanzhou military camp below accidentally looked up and saw several figures who were going up the city and shouted wildly.
Before he finished speaking, he was stabbed by a knife that suddenly pierced from his side. Amid the noise at the scene, the shout did not attract much attention.
Between a few ups and downs, Cheng Yuehai had already taken the lead on the city wall. When he flipped over the battlements, he had already taken out a can, which was slightly larger than his fist, threw it into a fire inside the city surface, and then turned around and fell down under the pheasant.
"Boom", a loud bang exploded, and the wooden sticks of Mars flew everywhere with fire, which surprised the soldiers of Quanzhou up and down the city wall and looked at this side together.
Chapter completed!