Gui Zi Scroll Chapter 622: Pre-dinner order, small battle
After passing Dingxing, the group speeded up and soon arrived at Qingyuan County, Baoding Prefecture.
This can be regarded as the base camp of the Xuanfu Army on the expedition, while the main force of the Jizhen Army is mainly concentrated on the Gu'an and Yongqing lines.
As soon as the Governor's Yamen was established and all personnel were in place, Feng Ziying began to get busy.
It is already late August, and this battle will probably continue one after another without any room for rest.
Feng Ziying also recuperated her strength and began to actively plan how to win this battle.
In fact, in Feng Ziying's opinion, Qingyuan is not a good place for a base camp because it is too far from the front line.
According to his idea, it is best for the base camp to advance directly to Zhending City, but it is too dangerous there. The surrounding Huolu, Gaocheng, and Wuji are all filled with white lotus rebels. Once Zhending is surrounded, how will the battle be fought?
?The whole situation will become passive.
In addition, Zhending was too far away from the White Lotus Rebellion in the east, making it inconvenient, so it was ultimately left in Qingyuan City.
"We need to fight the first battle first, but before that, we need to have a snack." Feng Ziying glanced at Ma Kongying, "Although the rebels around Yizhou are not large in number, they are very difficult to deal with and directly endanger them.
The grain road must be resolutely resolved, what's going on at the Zijin Pass?"
Ma Kongying said with a bitter face: "For the time being, Shilu has been asked to act as the garrison at Zijingguan. I have arranged a battalion of troops to march from east to west. At present, this rebel army seems to have noticed that something is moving northward.
There is news from the side that there is a small group of rebels, probably their vanguard, and they want to flee north..."
"Don't worry, Laishui can be defended for a few days with three to five hundred people. Let Laishui become a bait and let it bite the hook. We will advance from east to west and completely wipe out them. How to fight, Kong Ying, I don't know.
Do you need me to teach you?" Feng Ziying said with a smile: "I will give you five days to resolve the battle, is that okay?"
Ma Kongying puffed up his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir. If we can't win this battle, then Kong Ying, the deputy commander-in-chief, will be finished."
August twenty-two.
Hou Shilu stood at the head of Laishui County City, looking at the dark swarm of rebel troops coming from the west. He glanced calmly at the earth-colored guard officer next to him, "Why are you panicking? I'm still here. I have three hundred people."
, they can’t get in.”
In order to attract this rebel army to attack, as soon as Hou Shilu arrived in Laishui, he took the initiative to send more than a thousand civilians and guards from Laishui County to search northward, heading straight for the suspicious formation set up by the Laishui rebel army.
The rebels had many informants in Laishui City, and they all saw and confirmed with their own eyes that the Laishui Guards and Minzhuang swarmed out of the city and headed towards the Juma River in the north of the city.
It is said that a Laishui rebel army was found there. Of course, this must be a rebel army, but it was done deliberately.
When the news spread back to the main force of the Laishui rebel army in the mountainous area to the west, it immediately aroused great joy.
"Old Fox Head, can we fight this battle?" A bearded man stood up with a copper hammer in his hand, with black hair on his chest and belly, and his eyes widened with anger, "News came from the three ministries, and the defenders in the city were
There were only about 400 people strong, and the other 300 people came from Dingxing to transport grain. I saw it with my own eyes, and they were extremely lazy. When a group of people entered the city, they found a tavern to drink, and they were all caught in one fell swoop. Moreover, there were tens of thousands of people in Laishui City.
The stone grain is enough for us for a while..."
"Why are you panicking? King Kong slave, the person in charge of presiding over this time is none other than Governor Xiao Feng, who is now the governor of Hebei. Do you know how many people he killed in Shaanxi? How many women he beheaded in Liaodong?
Are you really a barbarian?" The middle-aged man with a skinny face but strong muscles on his body subconsciously stroked his whiskers, "Logically speaking, he should pay attention to the food route. Maybe the situation in the south was too urgent, so he went down in a hurry?"
"Old Fox Head, you have already said that Commander Feng would take thousands of us people seriously. He often leads an army of 100,000 people, or a frontier army. How can he take a fancy to us? You just
Stop being suspicious, and there are internal agents in Laishui City, so we can break into the city and grab enough." The bearded man said solemnly: "We have to be quick, we can't let the officers and soldiers at Zijin Pass react, and there are also people in Yizhou City.
It’s too late. If we break the city and rob it, we’ll run to the southwest and hide in Wuhui Mountain.”
Everyone in the underground was talking about it.
According to the detailed information, Feng Ziying has already passed Qingyuan City and went straight to Zhending City in the southwest. It seems that Zhending is in a tight situation, which is why Feng Ziying is so anxious. In any case, this battle is worth fighting.
"Okay, we will set off this afternoon. We should discuss it with the city in the evening and raise a fire as a signal. We will seize Laishui City and evacuate within a day. We cannot stay for a long time." The man with thin cheeks finally made up his mind.
The night is dark.
When the torches were raised at the top of the city, thousands of rebel troops finally rushed toward Laishui City from all directions.
Hou Shilu took a deep breath. In order to paralyze the rebels outside the city as much as possible, only 400 guards and minzhuang remained in the city, while the other guards and minzhuang had already gone to the Juma River fifty miles away.
Because there are too many detailed white lotus works in Laishui City, if you don't do this, it will be difficult to cover people's eyes and ears.
This also means that the four hundred guards and minzhuang, plus his own Xuanfu army disguised as a grain transporter, must withstand the siege of the rebel army that night and hold back these rebels in order to follow Zijin Guan and Yizhou.
The reinforcements arriving at Dingxing felt they had gained time.
This is more than 4,000 rebel troops, five times as many as our own. More importantly, the fighting power of these 400 guardsmen and minzhuang is difficult to trust.
Laishui only has two east and west gates, and the west gate will become the focus of the rebel army's siege.
"One hundred people will be left behind to assist us in guarding the west gate. In addition, some people will be organized to help patrol the city wall. The remaining three hundred people will guard the east gate. Although we expect them to focus on the west gate, we must guard against it."
Hou Shilu also knew that he could only take this gamble.
Ma Kongying gave him this task, which meant that he had no choice. Governor Xiao Feng was very dissatisfied with the situation of the war. He had to deal with the Yizhou Laishui group of rebels within five days. If he could not adopt this dangerous strategy, how could he attract the attention of others?
Are these rebels coming out of the mountains to fight?
Except for one thousand self-generated fire musketeers among the three hundred elite troops brought by Hou Shilu, the other two hundred were all sword and shield soldiers.
Considering that there are too many rebels, if all 300 people use fire cannons, although a wave of strikes can cause a lot of damage to the opponent, once the rebels rely on their numerical advantage to break through and overwhelm them, they will easily be defeated by the enemy with a wave of fierce attacks.
The fierce offensive collapsed.
Use one hundred fire gun soldiers to snipe from a distance to block the momentum of its offensive as much as possible, and then use two hundred elite soldiers on the city wall to compress it within a relatively narrow range by virtue of the terrain advantage on the city wall. The fire gun soldiers can fully
Use the power of accumulated shooting, and then the sword and shield soldiers can continuously launch counterattacks to completely defeat the opponent's momentum.
This is the only feasible strategy arrived at after several rounds of arguments and deductions.
But these are all theoretical deductions. After all, everything is based on deductions, and you can only know it after playing it.
Laishui City has the Juma River flowing nearby. Considering the location and importance of Laishui City, it is located at the center of the three cities of Yizhou, Dingxing, and Zhuozhou. It is also the key pass from Zijin Pass to Shuntian Prefecture, so the county seat is
The water of the Juma River was specially diverted to surround the city, thus forming a moat.
It's just that the moat is not wide, nor is it deep. If we have to build a wooden bridge or fill it hard with soil bags, it can be achieved in a relatively short time. Of course, this requires sufficient manpower.
Hou Shilu was a little nervous. The news came from the scouts outside that the rebel army had all swarmed in and would arrive at the city within two-quarters of an hour.
"Who is he? Don't come near him!"
"Master Jun, we are from the county government. We have been working hard at night. The county magistrate asked us to bring you some wine and meat cooking cakes. Look, they are all freshly steamed and hot out of the pot. It is just right for the brothers to eat them first.
With,..."
"From the county government?" The sentry officer's eyes were cold and stern, but Hou Shilu looked at him suspiciously.
I have already said hello, and I am not allowed to give military orders. Even if someone comes from the county government, they must be notified first. How could so many people bring food and drinks come all at once?
But the leader was a team leader from the county government. Hou Shilu had met him several times and had dealings with him. He was a very humble and shrewd character, but he always felt that he didn't speak much.
This is too suspicious and impossible.
"Let them stop, we have to check and they are not allowed to get closer, otherwise..." Hou Shilu ordered subconsciously.
The thought just came to him, and before he could react, dozens of people swarmed from the edge of the city wall, shouting and holding torches, and rushed up.
Hou Shilu's heart sank. The enemies outside had not yet arrived, but the enemies inside the city had arrived first.
Fortunately, he was well prepared. Thirty gunmen had already been ambushing both sides of the stairs to the upper city. From the moment he entered the city, he had issued an order. Anyone who dared to approach the city stairs without his order would be shot.
It was obvious that this group of people had premeditated and had been hiding in a large house near the city ladder. They were not exposed even when the officials at the Laishui County Yamen were cleaning up.
When Hou Shilu came to Laishui, Feng Ziying specifically reminded him not to trust the officials of the local government offices in these places. Many of these local snakes were in cahoots with the White Lotus Sect and might betray their intelligence to the other party at any time.
Therefore, he just watched with a cold eye on the clean-up and raids carried out by the Laishui County government officials, but remained highly vigilant.
As expected.
Hou Shilu took two steps back and waved his hand violently.
During the dialogue between the two parties, thirty heavy fire gunmen were already in place.
With Hou Shilu's wave of his hand, the rebels who had just had time to rush to the city ladder saw a cluster of bright red sparks suddenly blooming in the darkness, followed by "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" like firecrackers frying beans.