MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 993 Take the initiative

  Chapter 993 Take the initiative to attack

After Miao Fu reported the battle plan to the imperial court, he changed the deployment of troops again, canceling the deployment of the third line, and concentrated 70,000 troops on the east line, that is, the west bank of the canal, and built a big camp with slab walls, which was similar to Li Yanqing's barracks. About thirty-five miles apart.

   At this time, the two armies had been confronting each other for seven days. At this moment, news began to circulate among the army that Li Yanqing's 50,000 troops had landed in Shaoxing Mansion. This news made the army panic.

  In particular, there are many Shaoxing soldiers in the army, which has a greater impact on them. The rear area, which was thought to be the safest, is no longer safe.

   At dusk, Miao Fu received a gold medal order from Zhao Ji, ordering him to attack immediately, defeat Li Yanqing's main force and retreat.

  This order drove Miao Fu a little crazy. Who said that Li Yanqing's army could be defeated by taking the initiative?

  In the big tent, Miao Fu paced back and forth restlessly. He wanted to resist Zhao Ji's order, but he couldn't resist. He could only try his best to convince himself that perhaps the Supreme Emperor's order was a political balance that he could not understand.

yes! He really couldn't understand, from a military point of view, since Li Yanqing had already landed from Shaoxing Mansion, the best way was to withdraw the whole army to Lin'an City and stick to Lin'an City, thus easily deciphering the meaning of Shaoxing Mansion's landing.

   "General, maybe the Supreme Emperor thinks that Lin'an City can't be defended! Especially on the side of the palace, a big fire can burn the mountain." Lieutenant General Zhang Quan said cautiously on the side.

Miao Fu didn't say a word, Zhang Quan's words reminded him that of course Li Yanqing didn't dare to set fire to the mountain, but Fenghuang Mountain really couldn't be defended. There are only walls around Fenghuang Mountain and there is no city wall. Li Yanqing can easily attack Fenghuang Mountain , occupied the imperial palace, and the Yinlong Villa could not hold it. Once Li Yanqing's fleet broke into the West Lake, Lin'an City would basically fall.

  Fu Miao sighed for a long time. Now he finally admits that the Supreme Emperor's order is also a kind of helplessness. He hopes that he can defeat Li Yanqing.

   Miao Fu immediately ordered that all the commanders gather in the central army tent immediately, and he was going to deploy a battle plan.

  Li Yanqing's barracks were also built in a plank-wall style. The plank-wall barracks have many advantages. Of course, being strong is the main aspect, and another advantage is that it increases the defensive surface.

  In the past, there were mainly two layers of defense on the front barracks. One was for soldiers to stand in front of the barracks and shoot arrows, and the second was for soldiers to stand behind and cross the barracks to shoot arrows.

  The board-wall barracks allow soldiers to stand on the top of the wall and defend condescendingly. There are shooting holes below for defense, and there are arrow arrays shooting arrows outwards at the back, thus forming three defensive surfaces.

  Just as night fell, Li Yanqing also began to deploy his troops. Cao Meng's 30,000 cavalry had already dispatched to the camp. At the same time, he deployed 30,000 crossbowmen and 50 small trebuchets on the plank wall.

  Since the news of Cao Sheng's army landing in Shaoxing Mansion has reached Lin'an Mansion, then Miao Fu's main force will inevitably take action, either to attack him at night, or withdraw to Lin'an City overnight.

  Time passed little by little, and gradually came to the first watch. At this time, the scouts reported that the main force of the enemy army appeared ten miles away, about 40,000 people, and they were rushing towards the camp.

  Li Yanqing sneered, and said to the surrounding generals: "I thought Miao Fu would put the whole army on it! In the end, I left some capital at home."

  Gao Chong smiled and said: "If the sneak attack succeeds, 30,000 people will be enough to wipe us out."

Li Yanqing nodded. This is true. A sneak attack is an adventure with a small investment and a big profit. Once the sneak attack succeeds, even 10,000 cavalry can wipe out an army of 100,000 by using fire and kicking the camp. But once the sneak attack fails , will lose everything.

   "Since the enemy army has come, everyone is ready to fight!"

   "Follow the order!"

   After saluting, everyone walked out of the big tent and rushed to their respective combat positions.

  Li Yanqing also stepped out of the tent of the Chinese army and climbed onto the viewing platform.

The viewing platform is located in the south of the camp. It is a three-foot-high wooden platform. It was originally a high platform for generals to command the army to train. Once a war breaks out, standing on the viewing platform can also observe the situation outside the camp and command the army to fight. .

Commanding night battles is mainly based on the sound of war drums, and the battle flags are useless, so a hundred drums are deployed under the viewing platform, ready to send orders through the sound of drums at any time. It is the order of archery.

   A quarter of an hour later, Miao Fu led an army of 45,000 to 500 steps away from the camp.

  At this time, the patrols on the periphery discovered the incoming enemy troops, and fired gunpowder arrows into the air one after another, burning in the sky one by one.

  Miao Fu knew that he couldn't delay any longer at this time, so he could only fight desperately. When the enemy was caught off guard, he immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Kill!"

   "Kill!"

  The 40,000 army roared like the tide of the Hangzhou Bay, and rushed towards the enemy camp hundreds of steps away. The 3,000 cavalry rushed in the front, holding long ropes and swords, and galloped on horseback.

  Li Yanqing did not expect that all the enemy troops would charge towards the South Camp, which disrupted his deployment. He immediately shouted: "Let the crossbowmen on the east and west rush to the South Camp immediately!"

Fifteen thousand crossbowmen were deployed in the high wall of the South Day Camp, including 10,000 god-arm crossbows and 5,000 pairs of ordinary army crossbows. Fifteen thousand people were deployed on the wall, before shooting under the wall, and lined up behind and fifty small trebuchets with a range of eighty paces.

  At this time, the enemy cavalry had already charged within a hundred paces, and the infantry behind them also entered within a hundred and fifty paces. Li Yanqing issued the firing order, "Fire the arrows!"

The sound of clappers suddenly sounded, and 15,000 soldiers shot arrows out of the camp at the same time. The 15,000 arrows were like a black cloud, and they shot at the soldiers who were rushing forward. Into the infantry group, there was a loud scream, and the soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the offensive momentum was suddenly frustrated.

   But Li Yanqing didn't care about the 3,000 cavalry in front. The crossbowmen aimed at the infantry group behind. The 3,000 cavalry were not affected by the arrow rain at all. They continued to run wildly, and they were less than 30 steps away from the camp.

At this moment, several torches were thrown and fell into the ditch. With a bang, the flames soared into the sky, and a sea of ​​flames burst into the ditch, forming a wall of fire with a width of one foot. The horses were terrified and raised their hooves to stop. At this moment, fifty black thunderbolts flew out of the camp, passed over the heads of the cavalry, and fell into the formation of the cavalry. A series of explosions exploded, and the cavalry fell on their backs, and the cavalry fell one by one. The sound of the explosion made the war horses neigh, and the war horses were severely frightened, and turned around and ran wildly.

  The black arrows shot out again, shooting towards the enemy army like a storm.

   At the same moment when Miao Fu's army's sneak attack was blocked, 10,000 cavalry quietly appeared two miles south of the New Forbidden Army's camp. They were not in a hurry to attack, but patiently waited for the signal.

Although Miao Fu led an army of 45,000 to attack Li Yanqing's camp, the 20,000 or so soldiers he left in the camp were not sleeping. They were packing their bags nervously. The 25,000 troops immediately withdrew to Lin'an City.

At this moment, a strange army suddenly appeared in the north of the camp. There were about 3,000 of them in a row of 30, holding a horse-killing sword, and they walked neatly towards the 500 paces away. Camp to go.

   A patrol had spotted them earlier, and they rushed back to the barracks to report to the left-behind general Zhang Quan.

  Zhang Quan became nervous, and immediately mobilized 10,000 crossbowmen to the north camp wall to block this strange infantry phalanx.

  The 3,000 heavy armored infantry lined up neatly and had already walked more than a hundred paces away. Zhang Quan shouted, "Ready the bows and arrows, let them go!"

With one order, 10,000 arrows soared into the sky and shot at the heavy armored infantry. The array moved on.

  Zhang Quan panicked and ordered again, "Shoot again!"

   At this moment, there were continuous explosions in the distance, and Zhang Quan's heart suddenly turned cold. They were not equipped with thunderbolts, so they must have met resistance when they sneaked into the enemy camp.

  Seeing that the arrows could not destroy this strange infantry, Zhang Quan shouted: "Spearmen attack!"

  The gate of the barracks opened wide, and ten thousand spearmen came out. At the same time, someone blew a horn in the distance, "Woo—"

The sound of the horn was an order. The 10,000 cavalry in the south mobilized and charged towards the camp two miles away like lightning. After a while, they rushed to the front. There were no soldiers guarding the south camp, and the cavalry rushed into the camp like a flood. Kill the more than 15,000 crossbowmen who stayed in the camp.

  Zhang Quan suddenly realized that he had been fooled. He transferred the spearmen out of the camp, and the remaining crossbowmen could only be slaughtered by the cavalry.

  He felt extremely remorseful, and shouted: "Quickly report to General Miao, our camp has been attacked, let him withdraw immediately!"

  (end of this chapter)