At this time, Li Xian did not seem to care about the concerns of Xue Rengui and others. Instead, he led the army all the way east. First, he looted the wealthy households in several villages, forced them to hand over their grain and grass, and robbed some horses by the way.
Massacres were carried out against the civilians who did not dare to resist. After they had rested and prepared enough food and fodder, Tan Ma, who had gone to the front to investigate the news, had also returned.
"Your Majesty, there is a military camp twenty miles ahead. It looks like there should be more than 2,000 people. Looking from a distance, I can see that the camp there is high and wide. It seems that it should be a place where the Goguryeo army stores supplies and food.
Department." Yang Mingyuan, the team leader responsible for investigating the news, came to Li Xian, bowed respectfully, and then said.
"Thank you for your hard work, let's eat something first." Li Xian ordered the soldiers to give Yang Mingyuan and his Tanma soldiers some food, then came to Cheng Yaojin and told Cheng Yaojin the news.
"I wonder what your Majesty's plan is?" Cheng Yaojin asked when he saw that Li Xian was not just telling the news, but seemed to be somewhat moved.
"I'm going to destroy this enemy camp. If it's just a garrison, why not kill it? If it's really a place where supplies and food are stored, burn it down. This will definitely help the main force of our army in the battle.
"The king's plan is very clever, but we need to be cautious in our actions. We must check in advance whether there are any enemy troops stationed nearby? How many people are stationed? Where are they? So that we can evacuate smoothly before reinforcements arrive, and
Make sure that our army will not be surrounded by superior enemy forces during the retreat." Cheng Yaojin twirled his white beard and said with a serious face.
"Old General Cheng is thoughtful and thoughtful, and I admire him." Li Xian bowed his hand to Cheng Yaojin, then stood up, gave Yang Mingyuan a few instructions, and ordered the army to set up camp by the river five miles away.
Two hours later, Li Xian got the exact news from Yang Ming. There was a military camp not far away twenty miles away from the camp. There seemed to be tens of thousands of troops in the camp. They should have been recruited by Goguryeo to fight on the front line.
Troops, and this military camp should be used to store food and grass for the large camp with tens of thousands of horses. However, the tens of thousands of horses and horses have not yet arrived at the supply camp, which leads to such strange phenomena.
"In this case, we will launch an operation tonight to burn down this heavy supply camp, so that the ten thousand soldiers and horses will have no food and grass, and delay the dispatch of troops. Maybe we can help our army." Li Xian finished listening to Yang Mingyuan's words.
After the report, I thought about it for a while and then made up my mind.
So he ordered the army to immediately bury the pots to make rice, take a good rest, and bring fire in the evening to prepare to burn the supply camp.
At the second watch that night, these two hundred people finished their preparations early, wearing helmets and armor, holding weapons, carrying fire, horses bound in hooves, and people with titles. Under the leadership of Li Xian, they marched all the way. It was just a meal.
During the meal, we arrived in front of the enemy camp. We could see through the night that the camp was extremely wide, and through the light of the fire, we could still vaguely see the piles of hay piled high.
"Everyone, please listen to my order next. With the signal of raising fire, General Cheng will be the left army and Lin Dianjun will be the right army. I will lead the middle army into the camp. General Zhang Lang (Zhang Deyu) will lead thirty people behind.
The formation beats the drums. Remember, we are mainly burning the enemy's baggage this time, not for killing. Therefore, as long as we complete the task, we can exit calmly. Don't delay the military plane. After all, the enemy's main force is only twenty miles away.
As soon as the fire breaks out, the army will arrive immediately, and by then we will have other important tasks that you all need to do together."
Outside the enemy's transport camp, Li Xian announced the battle plans to the generals with a serious face. These plans were finalized after careful consideration and slight modifications by Cheng Yaojin. It can be said that they included him.
With the wisdom and experience of Cheng Yaojin and the two men, he believed that as long as the generals strictly followed the plan, this fire attack would be absolutely certain. But now that he had penetrated hundreds of miles into the enemy territory, he believed that all the generals, even with himself,
Lin Cheng, who was not of one mind, could only hope to survive if he fully cooperated with Li Xian at this time.
And the facts are indeed as Li Xian predicted. Now that the matter has come to this, not to mention those loyal palace guards and Zhang Deyu who deeply felt Li Xian's life-saving grace and swore allegiance to him to the death. Even Lin Cheng can only do anything now.
Only by making up his mind and temporarily surrendering himself completely to Li Xian can he gain a chance of survival. In the face of hope, whether he is loyal to the Queen or loyal to the King of Zhou, everything no longer seems so important.
So these two hundred people were divided into three armies, the left, middle and right armies, and came to the gates of the west, south and north camps respectively. Each side had more than ten drummers and drummers, who were responsible for creating momentum and confusing the enemy. The east gate was specially vacated so that
The enemy had no intention of fighting and fled from here. This is also a famous tactic in siege warfare, called "encircling three and missing one".
"Your Majesty, both the left and right armies are ready. We are just waiting for your Majesty's order." The herald, Lu Xicheng, came to Li Xian and slowly raised his hands.
Li Xian nodded when he heard this and said softly: "Raise the fire."
"No, raise the fire."
Following Lu Xicheng's order, a ball of fire lit up at the west gate of the Chinese army. Then Li Xian led the Chinese army, Cheng Yaojin led the left army, and Lin Cheng led the right army all rushed into the camp.
There were only shouts of death and the sound of war drums sounded like thunder. This sudden sound caused all the soldiers guarding the camp to fall into panic.
"General, general, it's bad, the Tang army is attacking the camp."
"Hey, what are you talking about? This is not a battlefield, where did the Tang army come from?" Qiqi Zhongman, the commander of the camp, was shocked when he heard this and asked with a look of disbelief.
But how did the captain of the soldiers know all this? He had no choice but to say: "I don't know where the general came from, but the opponent is indeed flying the flag of the Tang Army. Now the enemy has broken into the camp, and he is ready to attack anyone he sees."
Kill, according to the analysis of the drumbeat, there are at least three to four thousand people on the other side. Our army is not familiar with battle formations and is not an opponent at all. Fortunately, there are no enemy troops at the east gate. The general thinks that we should withdraw first and Xu Tu can protect himself.
After that, I will report it to Master Zhongxiang and ask him to mobilize troops to suppress it. I wonder what the general’s intention is?”
"How can this be so?" Qiqi Zhongman listened to the words of the captain of the soldiers and sighed softly: "I was entrusted by Lord Qiqi Zhongxiang to guard this heavy supply camp. I have a heavy responsibility and must not be careless. How can I do it now?
You escaped without seeing any trace of the enemy? What should you do if you meet Lord Beggar Zhongxiang in the future?"
But I heard the soldier captain say: "But this is also a helpless matter. After all, our army's generals are all old and weak, and now we are outnumbered. If we fight with the enemy, it will be useless to die. It is better to preserve our strength first.
What's more, Master Qiqi Zhongxiang is the uncle of the general. Even if he is accused after the war, he will not die. But if the general insists on staying here, even if Master Qiqi Zhongxiang wants to rescue him, he may be beyond his reach. Qiqi Zhongxiang
Lord Xiang now only has one nephew, the General. If something happens to the General, our tribe will be leaderless in the future, and won’t we be bullied even more?"
"It seems that this is the only way." Qiqi Zhongman couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and then reluctantly waved his hand and gave the order, and a team of personal soldiers escorted him to escape from the east gate of the camp.
The soldiers in the camp were suddenly attacked by the Tang Army. They were originally in chaos. The soldiers and generals had no fighting spirit. However, some soldiers were afraid of military discipline and still persisted in resisting. Although this resistance was actually very weak for the Tang Army.
From the beginning to the end, only a dozen Tang soldiers were slightly injured, but they still resisted after all. However, later, the general Qiqi Zhongman led his troops to escape first, which made all the soldiers no longer have any intention of resisting and immediately fled in all directions.
, if you really can’t escape, abandon your weapons and surrender.
Li Xian led his soldiers on a rampage in the camp. Although many people were able to escape with their lives, three to four hundred people were killed, and more than two hundred people surrendered.
Li Xian ordered to collect the surrendered troops, and ordered Lin Cheng to lead the army. Except for leaving necessary supplies, the rest were burned. At the same time, he ordered Lin Cheng to kill all the prisoners and throw them into the fire to destroy their corpses.
After destroying all traces, he led the army to slowly withdraw.
Shortly after Li Xian's army left, he was shocked when he saw the Qiqi Zhongxiang on fire in the west, and immediately sent people to investigate the news. Tan Ma came back before he left the military camp, saying that Qiqi Zhongman had important military information to report.
, Qiqi Zhongxiang was even more worried when he saw Qiqi Zhongman coming back at this time, and quickly ordered Qiqi Zhongman to come and see him immediately.
"Uncle, something bad has happened. Our army, our army was attacked by an army of Tang thieves. Tens of thousands of troops surrounded my nephew's camp. My nephew fought hard and managed to escape. However, our army's baggage was
They were all robbed by Tang thieves. I hope my uncle will make the decision for my nephew and snatch the baggage back from the thieves..."
"Hmph! How dare you talk nonsense?" Before Qiqi Zhongman could finish speaking, Qiqi Zhongxiang interrupted him with a cold snort and said coldly.
"Nephew, nephew doesn't dare to talk nonsense, uncle knows it well."
"Okay, today I will let you see if you are talking nonsense." Qiqi Zhongxiang sneered, dragged Qiqi Zhongman out of the tent, pointed to the sky to the west and said: "Can you see? The sky to the west?
The fire broke out in the direction of your camp. If the enemy was robbing the supplies and simply taking them away, why would they set fire to it again? From this point of view, the enemy must be small in number. They can't use the supplies and they don't want to use them again.
We were ordered to snatch it back and then set it on fire. You said that you bravely fought your way out of the enemy group. This is even more nonsense. There is no trace of blood on your shirt, only sweat stains, which shows that you did not fight the enemy at all. You were attacked.
When the enemy attacked, not only did they not organize a defense, but they ran away. As a result, several years of our savings were destroyed. How can we come back today? Come here, push out with me and kill! The soldiers under Qiqi Zhongman are as fearful of the enemy as tigers.
Anyone who flees during a fight will be dealt with according to military law."
"Ah? Uncle, please forgive me. My nephew is your only nephew and your only heir in the tribe. If my nephew dies, who else will inherit my uncle's ambition and make our tribe stronger?" Qi Qi Zhong
When Man saw that his uncle had murderous intentions, he was immediately frightened and quickly begged for mercy.
Unexpectedly, Qiqi Zhongxiang ignored him at all, and allowed the soldiers on the left and right to cut off Qiqi Zhongman's head and send it to the Chinese army. Then he slowly said: "I received a letter from my wife yesterday, and I, Qiqi Zhongxiang, got a good son."
, I have named him Zuorong, so you don’t have to worry about my tribe being left without a leader.”