Chapter 468: Raiding the Camp and Destroying the Courage, Elite Cavalry Destroying the Heart
Duyang City faces Yingchuan and is only three hundred miles away from Xudu, so of course it has always been the target of Cao's army's strict defense.
Wuyin City is backed by Shangjie Mountain and adjacent to Fuyu Mountain. The road between the two mountains is narrow, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Wei Yan was ordered to garrison here, making it impregnable.
Comparatively speaking, it is easier to defend and harder to attack than Yangcheng, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Moreover, this place faces the boundary of Runan, Yuzhou. If Cao Jun attacked Jingzhou from now on, he would have to go south from Yingchuan, pass Yichun to Anyang, and then turn west. Only in Yang or Langling can you get to Biyang City.
The defensive pressure was not great, so in the end Guan Yu ordered Fu Xu to temporarily replace Biyang Prefect and defend with Liao Li and Xiang Lang.
Such a configuration could be used to deal with Cao Jun's attack in an orderly manner, but after seeing that Cao Jun left some troops to besiege the city and the rest of the army marched south without hesitation, Fu Wei and the other three people suddenly didn't know what to do.
He wanted to go out of the city to stop him, but neither Fu Wei nor Liao Li could be called good talents in battle.
The moonlight was bright and clear. Fu Wei stood on the city wall and looked at Cao Jun's troops preparing for battle below, feeling a little anxious in his heart:
"The current plan is to hope that Xiangfan can defend Cao's army with its high city and deep pool, and wait until General Guan pacifies Jingbei before supporting him!"
Although he now sees the vast enemy army, Fu Wei still firmly believes that General Guan will win!
This confidence was not only due to General Guan's performance, but also because Fu Shu had personally seen the ordnance sent from Hanzhong to Jingbei when he was stationed in Fangling. If he could succeed, he would be considered invincible in battle!
Liao Li didn't have much emotion. He carefully looked at Cao Jun's camp defense outside the city with his eyes, hoping to find a loophole through which he could attack, but he still found nothing until his eyes became sore.
Rubbing his eyes, Liao Li said a little doubtfully:
"The Ping clan... seems to have military connections?"
It is actually higher than Yangcheng near the mountains. When the weather is good, you can vaguely see the outline of Pingshi County from the city wall.
Fu Xu quickly climbed to the watchtower of the city wall, squinted his eyes and looked southward, and indeed saw the dancing firelight in the darkness.
"I wonder who can lead the army and support them so quickly?" Fu Wei was filled with surprise.
Outside Pingshi County, Han Hao, who was ordered by Prime Minister Cao to fight against the thieves, had his eyes about to split.
The neat tents were trampled to pieces by horse hooves and burned into torches, making Pingshi County as bright as day.
The orderly soldiers were no longer in order due to the roar of the camp. They cried and howled as they ran, and their bodies were trampled to pieces by war horses.
Han Hao couldn't understand. Obviously all the troops came out of Jingbei this time. Guan Yunchang had always been arrogant and would definitely gather heavy troops for the decisive battle in Jingbei.
Why can two elite cavalry be killed here?
For Zhao Yun, tonight it was as if he had returned to Changban Slope where he could rush and kill as much as he wanted.
The difference is that tonight there are no more constraints. There are brave and brave people as the vanguard, and the soldiers as wings as swift as arms. Thousands of people march on ten thousand camps. We will win tonight!
"How brave!"
Outside the battlefield, Gan Ning's face was still stained with blood and black ash, but he didn't care at all at this moment. He found a high place on horseback and stared at Zhao Yun's heroic figure on the battlefield with ease, and sighed from the bottom of his heart.
"Hey, our general is not bad either. With eight hundred cavalry in the Roaring Camp, who can compare?"
The 800 old men who returned to Gan Ning's command immediately quit their job, and even praised their generals noisily.
Normally, Gan Ning would have recognized it immediately due to Gan Ning's character. But now, seeing his son show off his power on the Yangtze River, General Zhao in front of him led more than 3,000 cavalry to attack Cao's army of 20,000 to 30,000 men. The mess——
Compared with these, his performance tonight seems to be nothing, and Gan Ning also knows how lucky this battle is:
"Tonight's success also depends on the smoke elixir given by General Zhao."
Shaking his head, Gan Ning had an undisguised yearning on his face:
"Uncle Liu Huang always produces all kinds of good things here, which is really enviable."
So the eight hundred relatives immediately laughed:
"The general must have missed General Xiao Gan's giant ship again!"
"Who says it's not the case? I remember that after General Xiao Gan sailed out again, the general was talking about the giant ship in his sleep!"
"General, why don't you join us and vote for Uncle Liu Huang!"
Gan Ning smiled broadly and looked unshakably:
"Hey, Mr. Xuande certainly wants to vote, but I have to wait until I become famous in Jingbei. Then I can ask Mr. Xuande if I can, am I a hero?"
The followers cheered loudly, this is the General Gan they respect!
For Gan Ning, tonight's experience was too exciting.
When Gan Ning proposed a dangerous surprise attack with surprise troops, he never thought that General Zhao would agree so readily.
Not only did he decide to lead the fine cavalry to support his attempt to rob the camp, General Zhao even handed a box of cigarette pellets into his hands.
This thing is also clearly explained: Zhuge Military Advisor made it for the Battle of Jingxiang, and it passed through the hands of two military advisors. It was finally given to General Zhao by Grand Administrator Jiang, and now it is given to General Gan, hoping to rob the camp and show his power!
After trying the effect of the smoke pill, Gan Ning laughed loudly. With the help of this pill, why worry about not being able to rob the camp?
So after nightfall, Gan Ning led his troops, with all the men and horses restrained, and marched in a meandering way to the east of Ping County.
The strong ones dismounted and pulled away the antlers, while the rest, together with Gan Ning, tried their best to make noise and rode into the camp, charging left and right.
The eight hundred men under his command raised fire like stars to burn the enemy's tent, and then threw smoke pellets into the fire to fill the smoke as a barrier.
Cao's army rose up in panic, and each battalion was confused and making noises, not knowing the number of enemy soldiers.
Everything that enters your eyes is a smoke barrier, and your shouts are not answered, so you trample on yourself.
There were many people wailing, and with the sound of shouting for death shaking the sky, I heard many rumors saying that Guan Yu had arrived.
Zhao Yun led the elite cavalry to ambush in the west, and when the drums and fireworks rose in the east of Cao's camp, they all shouted and charged, so that Cao's camp was completely confused.
The east and west were connected, and no one could stop them, and no one dared to stop them.
After Zhao Yun entered the battlefield, Gan Ning led his troops to retreat, and found a high place to overlook the battlefield, admiring the heroic figure of this fierce general who was said to have a heroic reputation at Changbanpo.
At the same time, the happier Gan Ning was, the more painful Han Hao was.
This Cao army was the soldiers he personally selected and trained after the Red Cliff. They should have joined him in attacking Xiangfan and cutting off the north and south of Jingzhou, besieging Guan Yu to relieve the prime minister's heartache, and being made a marquis and a prime minister to go down in history.
But things are often not as expected. Seeing that the good soldiers who obeyed orders have now become panic-stricken fleeing soldiers, Han Hao can only remain silent. The only thing he can do is to order the soldiers to shout loudly on the top of the city and order the fleeing soldiers to flee north.
Biyang is only thirty miles to the north, where Wen Pin set up camp to besiege the bandit army.
Now that the army is in a state of collapse, it is just empty talk to talk about plotting against Fancheng and Xiangyang. The only hope is that Wen Pin can know about the incident here and send troops to support in time, so as to minimize the losses.
Hundreds of people raiding the camp is just a courage to destroy the army, but the more than 3,000 elite cavalry that came later were a knife in the heart, making Han Hao's mouth bitter.
And thinking about the fact that Prime Minister Cao had difficulty in winning a big victory since the Red Cliff, Han Hao actually sighed in his heart:
Could it be that God favors Liu?