The arrow was as fast as lightning. The two sentries on the sentry tower were not prepared at all. They all screamed softly and collapsed softly, and handled neatly. Xiao Yannian looked at another crossbowman and made an excited gesture at the same time.
Turning back, the twenty Sui soldiers hiding in the gully jumped up and ran towards the camp on the top of the mountain with heavy turbulent oil bags on their backs.
The black tincture oil was sprayed on the outer fence of the enemy camp and sprayed into the camp through the gaps in the fence. Twenty Sui soldiers were busy. At this moment, several Tang army sentries were alarmed and quickly walked
After rushing over to check, I saw a bunch of black shadows outside the camp at a glance.
"There is an enemy!"
The Tang army sentry immediately shouted, "There is an enemy!" A sentry ran wildly and shouted, and the shouting was particularly harsh in the night sky.[
Seeing that there were still more than forty bags of turmeric oil, Xiao Yannian shouted: "Open the plug and throw it in!"
The soldiers pulled out the plugs and threw the turbulent oil into the military camp. At this time, hundreds of Tang soldiers in the camp rushed out of the tent and rushed towards the camp bars to the west. Arrows were fired at once, and the two Sui army scouts could not escape.
, shot by an arrow, screamed and rolled down the hillside.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Xiao Yannian shouted, "Get out quickly!"
The remaining Sui soldiers stumbled down the mountain, but Xiao Yannian took two steps at a time, jumped into the gully, and took out a few turbulent oil bats from his carry-on skin. In fact, it was on a thin wooden stick.
, wrap it in circles with turquoise cloth into a ball, ignite it and throw it out to cause fire. It is more practical than a rocket at a short distance.
When a Sui soldier saw him jumping, he immediately lit a fire. Xiao Yannian lit the turbulent oil bat and threw it towards the camp gate. He threw five or six in a row. Then the two of them rolled down the mountain with their heads in their arms.
The tincture oil was quickly lit, the red flames were boiling, and the smoke was rolling. The camp bars and dozens of tents on the top of the mountain were lit. The fire was rapid, and the entire camp was engulfed in a moment. Five hundred Tang soldiers were burned and screamed.
Across the crowd, many people rushed out of the camp and fled in scattered ways. Many people were panicked and rolled down the cliffs in the east. Dozens of people ran down from the hillside to the west, and were killed or captured by the Sui army scouts waiting here.
At this time, Cheng Yaojin appeared as the credit was about to be settled. He brought three thousand Sui soldiers to come, ignored Xiao Yannian, and shouted loudly: "Roar up the mountain and occupy the mountain!"
Three thousand Sui soldiers rushed to the top of the mountain without any interruption, and successfully occupied the top of the mountain. At this time, dozens of large tents had been burned to ashes, leaving only the camp bars burning, but the fire was significantly weakened.
Except for more than a hundred people on the top of the mountain, all the others escaped. Some fell down the cliff in the east, and some went down the mountain from the west and were captured by the Sui army. Most of the Tang soldiers fled south along the Centipede Ridge.
Centipede Ridge is about twenty miles long, and I will never come back after running.
Cheng Yaojin stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the Jinsuo Pass at the foot of the mountain. He couldn't help laughing. Not to mention that thousands of arrows on the top of the mountain were fired at once, even if one person urinated, he could even urinate on the Jinsuo Pass.
Yin Kaishan, the chief general of Jinsuo Pass, was woken up by his personal soldiers at night. An incident occurred on Centipede Ridge. He ran to the top of the city and looked up at the raging fire on the top of the mountain. However, his heart gradually became cold. Yin Kaishan knew very well that Centipede Ridge
What does losing mean?
Yin Kaishan was in a very complicated mood at this time. He knew that Jinsuo Pass would definitely not be able to defend it. So what should he do? Will Li Yuan spare him if he gave up Jinsuo Pass and retreated to Guanzhong in the south? But if he surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, he would be
What should I do with my wife and daughter in Chang'an?
"General, what should I do?" Several generals surrounded him and asked nervously.
Yin Kaishan pondered for a moment, sighed, and asked everyone, "Do you want to withdraw or surrender?"
Several generals looked at each other and an elderly man said, "Actually, we are willing to surrender, but our family is in Chang'an, and we are afraid that surrender will harm our family. It's better to wait and say it."
Yin Kaishan understood what everyone meant, and surrendering first would inevitably be punished by the court. He nodded, "Okay! Tell your brothers to evacuate Jinsuo Pass overnight."
That night, Yin Kaishan led more than 2,500 Tang troops to evacuate Jinsuo Pass overnight and retreated to Guanzhong. The next morning, when Cheng Yaojin was about to order the mountain to shoot arrows, he received the news that Jinsuo Pass was already an empty city.
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"These bastards are running away!"[
Cheng Yaojin urged his horse to enter the city. Looking at the empty Jinsuo Pass, he couldn't help laughing. He felt much more happy and immediately ordered someone to report to Yang Yuanqing. Cheng Yaojin attacked Centipede Ridge at night and took the Jinsuo Pass, no
One wounded soldier and one soldier took down the Jinsuo Pass.
Cheng Yaojin now knows Yang Yuanqing very well. Not hurting one soldier and one soldier is Yang Yuanqing's favorite thing to hear. It is more effective than him taking the Golden Lock Pass. In fact, the Sui army still had two injured scouts, so he could only
He has concealed it. Now he can get promoted to a title and he doesn't want his old face.
Cheng Yaojin immediately ordered, "Raste this pass to the ground and all the city walls and gates are down!"
"General, there is no need for this!" someone next to him persuaded.
Cheng Yaojin glared at his eyes, "Why is there no need? What if I retreated from Guanzhong and was cut off from the back? All of them are gone!"
Thousands of soldiers fought together, and soon they demolished the city wall of Jinsuoguan. At this time, another general advised Cheng Yaojin, "General Cheng, why not kill directly to Guanzhong now to shake the morale of the Tang army, and we can also grab it.
First efforts.”
The general's suggestion said that Cheng Yaojin had gone up to his heart. He was exactly this plan. It seemed that some bird man once said that those who advanced to Guanzhong were kings, and Cheng Yaojin didn't want any kings, just be granted the title of Duke.
, I was satisfied.
"Everyone brings dry food and follow me to Guanzhong."
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The main logistics business of the Sui army is still south of Luojiao County, Shangjun. A large amount of grain and material were stored here. The continuous stream of grain and grass was transported to the main force of the Sui army every day. The Sui army mobilized a total of 30,000 grain-carts.
Nearly 50,000 civilians traveled on the hundreds of miles of logistics support line.
Jia Runfu was the chief logistics general of the Sui army. He led 10,000 troops to protect the safety of logistics transportation. Of course, relying only 10,000 troops is the law to ensure the safety of the camp and transportation routes. Especially in the final battle of the Sui and Tang Wars, the important thing is to support the logistics.
, it goes without saying that once food and grass are lost, it may lead to the defeat of the entire army.
There are many such battles in history, and Yang Yuanqing also deeply understands that when the Turkic army was launched, the entire army was defeated because of the logistical attack by the Sui army. Yang Yuanqing has experienced many battles and will never be at this critical point.
The Tang army has an opportunity to take advantage of the issue.
On the second day after Yang Yuanqing led 80,000 troops south to Qianshuiyuan, the General of the Left Wu Guard came to Hu'er and led 30,000 Hebei Sui Army to the Sui Army camp in Shangjun.
In this way, the army protecting the logistics has reached 40,000. Lai Hu'er and Jia Runfu each performed their duties and distributed 10,000 troops to Jia Runfu. Jia Runfu led 20,000 troops to guard the logistics camp, while Hu'er was still strong.
, led 20,000 troops to be responsible for transportation safety along the way.
It takes about 300 miles from the Sui Army camp in Luojiao County to the Sui Army camp in Qianshuiyuan, and it spans Shangjun and Beidi County. The journey is not smooth and open, but hills and ravines.
It takes three days to get to the destination.
Due to the long journey and the undulating mountains, the grain trucks were easily attacked by the Tang army. Jia Runfu divided the 20,000 troops into ten teams, two thousand people in one team, and followed the grain trucks west along the way.
At noon that day, a grain transport team composed of three thousand grain trucks arrived at the junction of Beidi County and Shangjun. This area is called Ziwu Mountain, which is under the jurisdiction of Xiangle County, Beidi County, and is the same as other areas along the way.
The loess is deep, the mountains are heavy, and huge gullies are like torn apart the ground.
In a huge gully about twenty miles long, three thousand ox carts were crowded together, thousands of civilians hid in a shaded forest to rest and eat dry food, and more than a thousand Sui army guards were also resting on the other side of the gully.
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At this moment, a patrolman ran to the distance and shouted from afar: "Escape quickly, the Tang cavalry are coming!"
The chief general who guarded the Sui army was a Lang general named Lou Chong. He heard the shouts and stood up and shouted: "Everything is on the horse!"
More than a thousand Sui cavalrymen were on their horses one after another. At this time, dust was flying at the entrance of the ravines in the distance, and the sound of horse hooves was as fierce as thunder. Lang General Lou Chong's face turned pale. Judging from this momentum, the size of the Tang cavalry was at least five or six thousand.
And they only have one thousand two hundred people.
Lou Chong made a decision immediately and turned around and shouted, "So tell the civilians to go up the mountain to escape quickly, don't worry about the ox cart!"[
In fact, before he could order, thousands of civilians in the woods ran out of the woods like bombing a nest, and were in great horror. Some people went to drive ox carts, but most of them didn't care about ox carts and ran towards the future.
More than a dozen Sui army cavalry rushed over and shouted to the civilian who was still driving the ox cart: "Don't worry, go up the mountain and run for life!"
They caught up with the villagers and shouted, "Run up the mountain!"
Thousands of civil servants rushed to the mountain as if they were dreaming. At this time, five thousand Tang army's black armored light cavalry had arrived. The chief general Liu Hongji saw that there were only more than one thousand Sui army and shouted, "Kill!"
The two cavalry collided with each other and fought fiercely in the valley. The Tang cavalry rushed up layer by layer. Lou Chong led more than a thousand Sui cavalry to fight to the death, creating time for the civilians to escape.
"General Lou!"
A captain shouted, "Brothers can't stand it."
Seeing that the left wing was about to be broken through by the Tang army, Lou Chong saw that the Tang army was about to break through. Once the Tang cavalry broke through, their retreat would be cut off, and they faced a siege and attack from the front and back, and eventually the entire army was wiped out. Lou Chong no longer cared about the civilians and shouted loudly: "Retreat."
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More than a thousand Sui cavalrymen evacuated eastward and ran to the other side of the valley. Thousands of Tang troops followed closely, shooting from time to time, and Sui soldiers kept screaming and falling off the horse, but three thousand ox carts saved the Sui army.
With the life of the cavalry, the Sui army cavalry rushed by at a speed, and the arrows behind were shot at the ox cart. The ox pulled the ox immediately became chaotic, running left and right, filling the road, blocking the Tang army's pursuit.