Yang Zaixing's five thousand cavalry are ready. They are hiding in the woods one mile north of the military camp. According to the map provided by Liu Heng, the north gate of the military camp is the logistics area, and the north gate is a logistics passage, filled with various idle personnel.
The entrance and exit are always locked, there are no watchtowers, and there are no sentries.
Just after the third watch, several soldiers stepped forward, smashed the iron lock, and opened the door of the logistics passage. A soldier took out a fire stick, flicked it into the wind, lit it, and waved it twice.
Yang Zaixing gave the order, "Kill in!"
The cavalry launched, and Yang Zaixing took the lead. Five thousand cavalrymen urged their horses to follow, gradually forming a raging torrent and rushing into the enemy camp.
The ground was shaking, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder. The southern rebels had never come into contact with cavalry. They didn't know what was causing this shaking and noise. The general on duty patrolling the military camp even sent people to check the situation.
The sentries at the west gate were the first to react. They realized that this was an enemy attack and hurriedly sounded the alarm, 'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
Everything was too late. Five thousand cavalry rushed into the military camp. Fires broke out everywhere they passed. Shouting, crying, and screams continued. The sleeping soldiers woke up one after another. They fled out of the tent in panic, but were killed by the cavalry.
Kill mercilessly.
The night wind was strong and the fire was fierce. At this time, the boats parked on the lake also started to catch fire. It was obvious that the Song army set fire on the boat. On land, the fires on the lake gradually connected into one piece, and the fire was so fierce that it swept through the entire military camp.
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The Song Army's cavalry had already broken out of the camp and beheaded the escaping rebels on the outskirts. There were only 5,000 of them. They could not accept prisoners of war and would not accept surrender. Apart from escaping hastily into the night, the robbers had no other way to survive.
road.
The left-behind general Yang Qin was caught by the Song army and tied up. At this time, Liu Heng came riding with more than a dozen of his men. Liu Heng's horse also brought a woman in white, who was his concubine Li Qingluo.
Liu Heng snatched the concubine out of Yang Qin's tent, but did not find Yang Qin.
"General Yang Zaixing, can you please capture Yang Qin?" Liu Heng asked loudly.
Yang Zaixing pointed his spear, and his soldiers threw an enemy general with his hands tied to the ground. It was Yang Qin who looked frightened.
Liu Heng jumped off the horse, grabbed Yang Qin's hair, his eyes filled with anger, "Yang Laoer, do you have this day too?"
"Liu Heng, what are you going to do?" Yang Qin yelled angrily.
"You bastard took over my woman, what do you think I will do?"
"Thief, I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost!",
"Then you go become a ghost first!"
Liu Heng turned around and asked the concubine to close her eyes. He raised the knife and cut off Yang Qin's neck immediately. Liu Heng grabbed the head and raised his head to the sky and screamed. The humiliation of several years was finally washed away at this moment.
He threw the head to the Song soldiers, got on his horse, and saluted Yang Zaixing with clasped fists, "General Yang, Huang Cheng went to Wuling County in the afternoon. There were 5,000 thieves guarding the county, and 1,000 of them were Yang Yao's confidants.
, I’ll forgive you for being incompetent.”
Yang Zaixing nodded, "Go ahead!"
Liu Heng rushed to the southwest with a dozen of his men. His parents, wife and children were no longer in Wuling County and had long since moved to Taoyuan County, forty miles to the southwest.
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Overnight, Yang Yao's tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of warships were wiped out. 30% of the tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in the fire, 30% were killed by Song cavalry, and 30% fled home. In the end, only 5,000 troops in Wuling County were left.
, this army was stationed in the county town to protect the family members. There were a thousand people in it specifically to protect Yang Yao's wife and children.
Unexpectedly, these five thousand people became Yang Yao's last army.
In order to prevent the rebels from fleeing to the mountains, Yang Zaixing's cavalry did not evacuate Wuling County. They did not have siege weapons, so they monitored the enemy outside the city.
Yang Yao fled back to Wuling County at night two days later. He climbed up to the top of the city with a rope and was sent back to the government office by soldiers.
Yang Yao was tired and hungry, so he ate two large bowls of rice and drank a cup of tea before slowly regaining his strength. He grabbed a small boat on the north shore of Dongting Lake and rowed back alone, only to see Dingkou Dangshui Village being burned down.
It turned into a piece of white land, and only the dark wreckage of the ship was left. He was so frightened that he did not dare to stay and fled all the way back to Wuling County.
"what is going on?"
Yang Yao gritted his teeth and stared at the military advisor Huang Cheng and asked: "There was an ambush in Baling River, and the Song army also attacked this place at night. Is my strength at the end?"
Huang Cheng said shamefully: "We encountered Chen Qing's serial poisonous scheme. Li Shun must have been seen through by him, and Chen Qing took advantage of the scheme and set up a series of traps. But I didn't expect the power of the cavalry to be so powerful. No wonder the Song Dynasty was almost destroyed by the Jurchen cavalry."
The country is over."
"Is it just the cavalry?"
Yang Yao sneered, "The warships were also burned by the cavalry?"
"Reporting to your Majesty, our defenses are very tight. If there were no insiders, it would be impossible for the Song Army to succeed. Judging from the current situation, it should be related to Liu Heng!"
"Is that wimp Liu Heng a mole?" Yang Yao couldn't believe it.
"Your Majesty, someone saw Liu Heng rushing out of the camp with his former concubine. If he didn't have a rebellious heart, how could he dare to fight for that woman?"
Yang Yao suddenly understood that he had made a mistake. Liu Heng, who had always been called a coward, turned out to be a poisonous snake.
"Bang!" Yang Yao punched the table hard. The foundation he had worked so hard to build was ruined by Liu Heng, a poisonous snake.
Huang Cheng sighed secretly in his heart. When Liu Heng repeatedly begged to return his concubine to him, he persuaded Yang Yao not to anger Liu Heng, but Yang Yao refused to listen and rewarded the woman to his brother.
Lay the root of today's disaster.
But Huang Cheng couldn't say anything else and had to say: "Our top priority now is to strengthen the city's defense. It is estimated that the Song army will attack the city soon."
Yang Yao sighed, "I want to lead the army to retreat to Taoyuan Mountain."
"Impossible!" Huang Cheng rejected it outright.
"Why?" Yang Yao was stunned.
Huang Cheng sighed and said: "Thousands of Song Army cavalry are staring at us outside! As soon as we leave the city, we will be chased and killed by Song Army cavalry."
Yang Yao couldn't say a word for a long time, so he sighed and asked: "How much food, grass and soldiers are there in the city?"
"Most of our money, food and supplies are in the county. Only a small part of the water village was burned down. The food is sufficient. The key is that we only have 5,000 troops. I am worried that I will not be able to defend Wuling County."
"Then we will forcibly recruit civilian husbands. All men over the age of fourteen must go to the city to participate in the defense!"
Yang Yao straightened his back and said: "Now we can only hope that the Qi army will go south and force Chen Qing to go north to join the war. Then we will have hope."
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Three days later, Chen Qing led 5,000 cavalry to Changde Mansion. At the same time, hundreds of large ships transporting 10,000 soldiers and a large amount of supplies also arrived at Changde Mansion.
This night battle really made Chen Qing highly praised. It was well prepared and well commanded, and the result was brilliant. He actually wiped out the main force of Yang Yao's army in one battle.
Yang Zaixing said modestly: "The main reason for this battle was that Yang Yaojun's soldiers had no experience in dealing with cavalry. Thanks to Liu Heng's internal efforts, we were lucky enough to win this battle."
"No need to be modest. There are not many lucky things in the world. Being able to lead five thousand cavalry to rush in and fight out at the same time without being scattered in the military camp is a very strong leadership ability. This time, Yang Yao's bandit army was wiped out.
The first achievement belongs to none other than General Yang!"
“Thank you for your kindness!”
Chen Qing asked again: "How is the situation in Wuling County?"
"Reporting to the capital, based on our multiple interrogations of prisoners of war and verification of their confessions, we have initially determined that the number of troops in Wuling County is about 5,000. The leader is Yang Yaojun's second-in-command Huang Cheng. There is a lot of food and supplies in the city, and we have been holding out for more than half a year.
question."
Chen Qing said slowly: "We also wiped out Yang Yao's sneak attack army, but Yang Yao escaped. It is likely that he has fled back to Wuling County. We must capture Wuling County as soon as possible."
Zheng Ping on the side said with some annoyance: "But we don't carry siege weapons!"
Chen Qing smiled and said: "Go and take a look first. In many cases, you may not need to attack the city wall!"
Chen Qing immediately rode towards Wuling County, surrounded by people.