At this time, the sky was still a little dark and it was not bright yet, so the Yan army's rangers also relaxed their vigilance. The soldiers in the camp were still sleeping soundly.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan had already led the army to the enemy camp sneakily. Looking at the Yan Army cavalry wandering around, Xiao Jingxuan began to issue military orders.
"Wait a minute, I will lead Ye Xiong's headquarters and guard battalion to launch an attack on the enemy to attract the enemy's attention. Gongsun Sheng, you will lead a fire attack on the enemy with your troops and horses until all the arrows in the quiver are shot.
until."
"The general will obey his orders."
"attack."
After saying that, Xiao Jingxuan led the army and began to attack the Yan Army's cavalry.
It has to be said that the Yan army did not expect that the Wei army would make a surprise attack. However, even if Xiao Jingxuan caught the Yan army by surprise, it still had no effect.
After the Yan Army Rangers recovered, they began to assemble and launched a counterattack against Xiao Jingxuan.
Xiao Jingxuan's purpose was not to fight with the Yan army's cavalry. At this time, Gongsun Sheng was already organizing his cavalry to shoot showers of rockets towards the Yan army's camp.
All the Wei cavalry were trying their best to shoot out all the bows and arrows from their bags.
After fighting for a while, when Xiao Jingxuan saw that Gongsun Sheng's bows and arrows were about to be shot, he immediately shouted to his subordinates who were still fighting, "Retreat, retreat immediately."
While Xiao Jingxuan was fighting hard, he slowly retreated.
After seeing that the army under his command had almost retreated, he led the guard battalion and retreated quickly.
Although I don't know what the casualties of Yan's army were, when I left, I looked at the fire in the opponent's camp and thought that it would be impossible to break camp today.
After Xiao Jingxuan led everyone out of the battlefield, he turned his horse's head and separated his troops from Gongsun Sheng.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan only had more than 4,000 cavalry under his command. With the army, Xiao Jingxuan began to march towards Yingzhou.
Since he had to wait for the infantry from Fengzhou, Xiao Jingxuan was not in a hurry.
As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. When Xiao Jingxuan arrived about fifty miles away from Yingzhou, he sent a large number of spies and scouts to Yingzhou.
At this time, Xiao Jingxuan was hiding in a mountain forest. In order to keep it secret, he even controlled the surrounding mountain hunters.
Xiao Jingxuan still treats these people quite favorably. After all, these people are likely to become the people under his rule in the future.
Xiao Jingxuan's army waited in this mountain forest for seven days. Seven days later, Lei Ben led 20,000 infantrymen to travel day and night, and finally came to the mountain forest and joined Xiao Jingxuan.
Looking at the dusty Lei Ben and Niu Gai, Xiao Jingxuan was not happy, but frowned at Lei Ben.
"Lei Ben, you are responsible for defending the city, how dare you lead your troops to leave without permission?"
Lei Ben was also stunned, hesitating and speechless for a long time.
Seeing Lei Ben like this, Xiao Jingxuan was really speechless.
"Without you in Pingzhou, the King of Jin would definitely intervene in Pingzhou affairs and take over the military power of the defenders. After you left, who did you entrust the military power to?"
Lei Ben quickly knelt on the ground and said in a panic: "Report to the commander, Xu Ce has returned to Pingzhou. There are enough guards in Jizhou and no help is needed, so..."
After hearing what Lei Ben said, Xiao Jingxuan pondered for a moment and then continued to ask: "Did you take the initiative to ask for the job, or was it appointed by the King of Jin?"
"Well, originally the general didn't want to come. After all, the general had military orders, but King Jin took the strength of the trapped camp as the leader of the armies and insisted on sending the general here. So..."
Sure enough, I still underestimated King Jin. Now that I have no other choice, it seems that I can only do this for now.
Next, Xiao Jingxuan said to the bodyguards beside him: "Go to a few people and pass on my command. Pan Hu, Wang Xuan, and Liu Xiu will immediately go to Yingzhou to listen to the order. On the day the order is received, we can start the fight.
Order, shoot without mercy."
Two of the guards around him immediately came out and saluted with their hands raised.
"The last general honors his order."
"Be careful with everything."
After the personal guards retired, Xiao Jingxuan looked at Niu Gai and Lei Ben. He walked over and patted their shoulders.
"You should arrange for the troops to rest immediately. We will study the strategy again tomorrow morning."
After everyone retreated, Xiao Jingxuan paced back and forth in the military tent, thinking.
Although Xu Ce has been working closely with Xiao Jingxuan in recent years, he has never been honest with him since he came from Zuo Xiaowei.
It can be said that Xiao Jingxuan tried every means to win over him, even entrusting him with the position of commander of the personal guard camp, but he still failed to accept it.
Later, after he was assassinated in Beijing, Xiao Jingxuan became alarmed and transferred him out of the guard camp. During this expedition, he was sent away and did not let him take charge of Pingzhou.
Unexpectedly, he still missed the first move, and he didn't know if King Jin was planning to quarrel with him this time. If he did, even if he captured Yingzhou and defeated the Yan army, he would still lose more than he gained.
Let’s not mention Xiao Jingxuan for now. At this time, in Pingzhou City, King Jin was sitting majestically on the commander’s seat, with the generals of the battalions sitting on both sides. The atmosphere was solemn.
Tang Wanyi, Pan Hu and others looked quite dissatisfied. However, now that Xiao Jingxuan is not here, they are also worried about ruining Xiao Jingxuan's affairs, so they all hold back.
King Jin was well aware of the situation in the audience, but he did not know the situation ahead. Naturally, King Jin had not yet made up his mind.
After all, Xiao Jingxuan holds the main force of Fan Yang's army in his hands. There are only 60,000 infantry in the city, which is much worse than what he expected.
However, as long as Xiao Jingxuan's war is unfavorable, he can seize his military power. For this, he must prepare in advance.
Today's meeting is for King Jin to place the people he brought with him into each camp.
When they heard that King Jin was going to deploy men to each camp, the commanders of each camp showed dissatisfaction.
"Your Highness, it is spring plowing now, and most of the men in each battalion are working in various places. It is better to wait until the spring plowing ends..."
The person who spoke was Qi Biao from the Tianhuo Camp. This person was also regarded as Xiao Jingxuan’s core supporter. He was born as a hunter in Fengzhou. Because of his repeated military exploits, Xiao Jingxuan was transferred to the Guards Camp for training.
Later, he was promoted to the chief general of Tianhuo Camp, a fourth-grade strong general. It can be said that Xiao Jingxuan is his boss. Therefore, he is loyal to Xiao Jingxuan.
The other generals also agreed.
At this time, the sound of drawing swords could be heard in the meeting hall. The generals were all frightened. Is this planning to have a Hongmen Banquet?
"Your Highness, please calm down. In fact, it would be good to let these people go to various battalions for training. What General Qi said is right. Otherwise, the Fenghuo Camp stationed in Pingzhou did not participate in the farming. It is better to send people to the Fenghuo Camp for training first and wait for the spring plowing."
After it’s over, we’re making arrangements. What do you think, Your Highness?”
"Okay, let's do it like this."
All the generals stared at Xu Ce who was speaking, thinking deeply in their hearts.
Early the next morning, Xiao Jingxuan met with the generals in the camp.
"The spies reported that there are currently 20,000 soldiers in Yingzhou City, and the city's defenses are relatively tight. It is difficult to attack by force.
I plan to make a sneak attack. The army besieging Shunzhou will basically transport food and grass once every five days. I plan to attack the auxiliary soldiers who come to transport food, and then take the opportunity to steal the city. What do you think?"
When everyone heard this, they also felt that this plan was good, so they all agreed.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Xiao Jingxuan began to issue military orders.
"Everyone, here is my command, where is Ye Xiong?"
"The end will be here."
"I command you to lead two thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry of our headquarters to wait for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy's grain transport team without letting anyone go."
"The last general takes orders."
"The remaining departments continue to rest."
Xiao Jingxuan is too close to Yingzhou now, so the interception will naturally be a little further away.
Xiao Jingxuan is relatively relieved when Ye Xiong is doing things.
After Ye Xiong received the military order, he led seven thousand soldiers and began to march toward Shunzhou along the official road.
Generally, the number of grain transport teams is not large, only about a thousand people, so it is easy to ambush.
After finding a mountain forest, Ye Xiong began to ambush, with the cavalry still hiding on both sides and the infantry hiding in the forest.
After setting up the ambush, Ye Xiong began to wait anxiously. Finally, Huangtian paid off, and the next morning, Ye Xiong saw the Yan Army's grain transport team.
The number of people in the grain transport team was not large, and there were only about two thousand people including the peasants. There were also a large number of mule carts accompanying them.
It's not difficult to defeat these people. It's rare to not leave any one behind.
When the Yan army entered the ambush range, Ye Xiong shot the sounding arrow in his hand, and a Yan general on horseback fell to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the five thousand infantry ambushed in the mountains and forests also fired their bows and arrows, and the cavalry on both sides also began to charge.
There was no suspense in this battle. A complete victory. Regarding the civilian husbands and prisoners, Ye Xiong did not dare to make the decision without authorization. Instead, he tied everyone up and escorted them to the army station.
After returning to the station, Xiao Jingxuan began to make arrangements. After interrogation, Xiao Jingxuan obtained Yan Jun’s command arrows and passwords.
So Xiao Jingxuan began to ask Ye Xiong to select a thousand people from his subordinates to serve as auxiliary soldiers to transport food, while he took the guards battalion and some soldiers trapped in the camp to pretend to be civilians transporting food.
After some pretense, Xiao Jingxuan felt a bit like it, and then announced his departure.
Before leaving, Xiao Jingxuan warned the generals that once a battle broke out at the gate of Yingzhou City, each battalion would immediately launch an attack without delay.
When Xiao Jingxuan's grain transport team arrived in Yingzhou, it was already dark and the gates of Yingzhou were closed.
Immediately afterwards, Ye Xiong pointed a knife at a captured Yan Army soldier and began to call the city.
After some questions and answers, a hanging basket was thrown down from the tower, and Ye Xiong quickly put the order talisman into the hanging basket.
After confirming the authenticity of the document, the guard on the tower asked a few more questions. Ye Xiong was also well prepared and answered fluently.
After several twists and turns, the Yan army guard on the city tower finally ordered the city gate to be opened and the grain transport team was released into the city.
Seeing the Yan army on the city tower retracting their bows and arrows, Xiao Jingxuan was relieved. As the city gate opened, Ye Xiong and Xiao Jingxuan looked at each other, each knowing something in their mind.
The corridor of the city gate is very long, about twenty or thirty meters. Previously, Xiao Jingxuan knew from the spies that there was a Wengcheng in Yingzhou City.
Now, the grain transport team is entering Weng City, which means that it has just passed the first level of test. Only when the second city gate is opened can it successfully seize the gate.