Chapter 849 The East is defeated and the West is successful
Two days later, soldiers from the Tang Army sent carts and rope nets.
That night, the Tang army began to take action. One hundred scout soldiers with high martial arts skills began to drive piles and lay nets on the cliff. By the fourth watch, the nets gradually reached the top.
The net-laying operation was quickly discovered by the soldiers of the Yan Army above. The two sides launched a fierce crossbow attack above the mountain road, and people kept tumbling down the hillside.
At this moment, the rope net above the mountain road suddenly burned. The soldiers of the Tang Army on the rope net retreated one after another. After a while, the entire cliff was a sea of fire. Li Ye could see it clearly from a distance, and his heart sank. The fire meant
The net rope plan failed.
At this time, a general behind Li Ye said bitterly: "I don't believe it, a fire can burn down the mountain road?"
Li Ye's eyes lit up, and an idea popped into his mind. He had a strategy to defeat the enemy.
In the camp, Li Ye stared at the sand table on the mountain road for a long time. He used small pieces of wood to line up a line on the mountain road. A narrow passage appeared behind the small wood pieces. Li Ye narrowed his eyes to a slit. He already had the ability to defeat the enemy.
Policy.
Li Ye turned back to Lei Wanchun and said: "Hurry up and make three raft ladders immediately, and install iron hooks on the front ends!"
"I humbly obey orders!"
Li Ye said slowly: "Let everyone cheer up, we will break through Niangzi Pass tomorrow night!"
At three o'clock the next day, a rumbling sound came from the mountain road, which alerted the soldiers guarding the city. They looked up the mountain road one after another, and saw countless figures appearing on the mountain road, thousands of them, lining up to march towards Guancheng.
Come slowly.
"There is an enemy situation!" the Yan army soldiers shouted.
When the soldiers above the mountain path saw the densely packed soldiers on the mountain path below, they immediately threw hundreds of jars of kerosene onto the mountain path below, and threw down dozens of torches.
Fire suddenly rose into the sky on the mountain road, thick smoke billowed, and screams were heard on the mountain road. Looking at the blazing fire on the mountain road, the Yan army soldiers couldn't help laughing.
But that’s not the case if you look at it from below, because it’s nighttime and you can’t see clearly. In fact, there are more than twenty flatbed trucks lined up on the mountain road. Each flatbed truck is about one foot wide and two feet long, with fifty people inserted on it.
A scarecrow wearing an old leather armor, there were more than a thousand scarecrows on a dozen flatbed trucks, and there were also hundreds of bundles of wheat straw on the flatbed trucks.
Each flatbed truck was pushed forward by ten soldiers. They were all heavy shield soldiers. When the altar of kerosene was dropped from above, they quickly leaned their backs on the cliff, squatted on the ground, raised their shields and lined up to form a shield wall to resist the attack.
The fire was raging, and every soldier wore a wet blanket, blocked his mouth and nose with a wet towel, and shouted loudly and violently.
This is a very clever strategy. The mountain road seems to be blazing with flames, but the flames are concentrated on the flatbed truck. The straw man, wheat straw and other fuel are all on the truck, but there are not many flames next to it, just covered with smoke.
Yan Jun could not see this loophole.
The shield wall withstood the flames, allowing a fire-free passage to appear on the edge of the cliff. Soon, dozens of soldiers carried two long rafts and ran through the narrow passage. They covered them with wet towels.
They ran with their heads down, and behind them were fifty heavy armored infantry. The smoke on the mountain road was filled with smoke, blocking the sight of the soldiers on Guancheng.
This is called fierce fire for success and fierce fire for failure. The fierce fire defeated the Tang army's intention to attack the city, but the smoke also obscured the sight of the soldiers on the city top, allowing the Tang army to open a passage in the fierce fire.
Two siege rafts suddenly appeared in the smoke, just twenty steps away. Before the defenders could react, the rafts rushed to the foot of Guancheng and hung on the top of the city. The iron hooks at the top were firmly hooked.
At the top of the city.
"The Tang army is coming to kill!"
The Yan army on Guancheng suddenly shouted in fright. Fifty heavy armored infantrymen rushed onto the raft with Mo Dao in their hands. The soldiers on the top of the city also rushed up with spears, but they were rivals from the Mo Dao army.
His body was cut to pieces in an instant, and blood spurted out.
Three hundred heavy armored infantrymen also came running in formation from behind. The fire was still raging on the mountain road, but the Tang army kept rushing out from the side passage, catching the Yan army by surprise.
Fifty heavy-armored infantrymen had already rushed to the top of the city and started killing each other, leaving the Yan soldiers with their heads rolling and their flesh and blood flying everywhere.
More than a hundred soldiers of the Yan army were bloody and killed, and other soldiers were so frightened that they rolled and crawled down the city to escape. The soldiers of the Tang army opened the gate, and the first batch of 300 heavy armored infantry rushed into the gate.
Within the city.
Most of the three thousand Yan troops were stationed at the foot of the mountain. Niangzi Pass could accommodate up to five hundred people. When the survivors of the fall of Guancheng fled in panic, the Yan troops retreated one after another.
At dawn, the fire on the mountain road had been extinguished, the Tang army had cleared the mountain road, and Li Ye led the generals into Niangzi Pass.
Lei Wanchun and other generals were completely convinced, and it was up to His Highness King Qi to take the Niangzi Pass without losing a single soldier. The key was the cleverness of the plan, which made people marvel.
Li Ye ordered the army to rest for a day, and the army continued to set off the next day to fight towards Tumen Pass.
After passing Niangzi Pass, we continued eastward. Although there were some small dangerous passes along the way, the Tang army captured them all effortlessly. Two days later, the army arrived at Tumen Pass.
Tumen Pass is the east gate of Jingxing and the exit of Jingxing. After leaving Tumen Pass and going down the mountain, you will see the vast North China Plain.
Tumen Pass is also built at the highest point of a mountain gap. It is very similar to Niangzi Pass, but the difference is that Niangzi Pass is surrounded by cliffs on one side, while Tumen Pass is surrounded by steep hillsides on both sides.
It was already autumn, and there were shrubs and dead grass on both sides of the hillside. Li Ye looked at the mountain for a moment and immediately ordered: "Light the mountain on fire!"
Hundreds of soldiers rushed forward with torches and lit the dead branches and grass. For a moment, thick smoke billowed from the mountains on both sides. Wildfires spread rapidly upwards and became charred after burning. No enemy soldiers were found to escape.
"Your Highness, there should be no enemy ambushes on the mountain!" Lei Wanchun whispered.
Li Ye nodded, "According to the established plan, block the car and press forward!"
They made a total of fifteen block carts. Each block cart was about two feet wide and one foot high. The shape of the front was not a flat plate, which would be easily smashed by stones, but a pyramid shape. It was covered with rawhide and was not afraid of rolling wood or stones.
Not afraid of fire, a total of three wheels were installed on the sides and front end. There were thirty soldiers behind each block truck, pushing the block truck slowly up the hillside.
This is actually a giant shield, running up a 40-degree slope. Five thousand siege soldiers hide behind the blocking vehicles. The five in front are fire-extinguishing soldiers. They carry a large number of wet and heavy beddings, which are placed on the blocking vehicles and pushed in front of them.
OK.
Behind them are the siege soldiers, carrying large rafts, and then there are heavy armored infantry and heavy crossbowmen.
About a hundred steps away from the pass, the rolling logs and stones in Tumen Pass fell like hailstones.