Chapter 228 Raid behind the enemy
The next morning, Li Jiyu's army, after a meal, left the barracks and prepared to attack Yancheng.
Yancheng is located south of Dashui. Luo Rucai's troops want to cross the river and enter the eastern plain of Henan. They need to pull out Yancheng, otherwise the army is crossing the river, and the enemy troops in Yancheng suddenly come out and will definitely suffer a great defeat.
At this time, the 50,000 army pushed the equipment out of the city and set up a formation. Li Jiyu rode a horse and stood in front of the camp gate, watching the army moving forward in a mighty manner.
Gao Huan attacked his Jiulong Village, and then he was out of control. In a year, he became a powerful tyrant who occupied Dengfeng, Yuzhou and Xuzhou.
All of this was originally his, and today he will take back all this with his army.
Although Jiulong Village is just a small mountain village, it is no big deal to lose it, but Li Jiyu is a freshman and bullied by a child. He can't overcome this hurdle and cannot afford to lose this person.
During this siege, Li Jiyu created a large number of siege equipment. The soldiers carried siege equipment such as cloud ladders. Everyone was ready to fight, just waiting to enter Yancheng, loot and humiliate, and do whatever they wanted.
At this time, the sky was gloomy, the clouds were dark and low, and the army was moving slowly, and towering equipment made deep wheel marks on the ground.
Li Jiyu rode high on his horse and followed the army to the bottom of Yancheng.
In order to facilitate the attack, Luo Rucai lined up the elite troops along the direction of Yancheng, showing off his strength.
At this time, as Li Jiyu came out of the camp, the elite soldiers of each battalion also came out of the camp one after another, pressing the formation for Li Jiyu, shaking flags and shouting to boost his momentum.
In the camp, as a large number of elite soldiers emerged, the troops and horses in the camp became sparse, and in the back camp, only the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, relatives and women were left.
The bandits have no stable territory, the army is moving in battle, and their families are also with them.
At this time, on a hill to the west of the camp, several scouts from the autonomous army watched the movements of Luo Rucai's camp.
"The enemy is going to attack the city!" The leader immediately said: "Go and report to the governor!"
Gao Huan always wanted to equip scouts with glasses, but the military government could not make glass, so it bought from the Portuguese in the south, but there was no channel and it was expensive, so there was only one in the entire army.
When a scout heard the words, he quickly clasped his fists, turned around and went down the hill, and then rode his horse away.
Soon, the scout entered a forest and was taken to Gao Huan.
The scout knelt on one knee, "Reported to the governor, Luo Rucai began to attack Yancheng."
Without the need for a scout to report, Gao Huan could already hear the faint sound of cannons coming from the direction of Yancheng.
When a large army fights outside, scouts are usually sent ten to twenty miles away. For special purposes, scouts may be sent to hundreds of miles.
Gao Huan's army was twenty miles southwest of Luo Rucai's camp, which was equivalent to going around Luo Rucai's rear, and was moving outside the scope of the enemy's scouts' investigation.
Because it was on the back, Luo Rucai didn't pay any attention at all, and he didn't know that Gao Huan had been hiding for a day.
At this time, Gao Huan heard that Luo Ru had just begun to attack Yancheng, so he said in a deep voice: "Send the order, the scouts clear the enemy's secret sentry, and the army follows the governor and rushes straight to the enemy's rear camp."
"Yes!" The generals stood up and clasped their fists.
Gao Huan stood up and told everyone: "This battle aims to burn Luo Rucai's baggage and storm the enemy's camps. You should not fight in love or go deeper. Do you understand?"
Li Pingyuan and Xu Heihu both nodded and said, "Come!"
At that moment, the scouts and vanguards came first, clearing out the enemy scouts and secret whistles along the way. Gao Huan turned over the horses and put on the ghost face. The 1,500 red horse teams behind him also put on the iron beast faces and turned over the horses.
Gao Huan raised his horse's spear and said loudly: "Go away!"
At the moment, a thousand red horses were in front, and an arbitrary red infantry camp followed closely. More ordinary autonomous anti-thief troops emerged from the mountains and forests behind.
At this time, when Gao Huan led 20,000 people to detour behind Luo Rucai's camp, the attack and defense of Yancheng had entered a state of intense heat.
In order to attract Luo Rucai's troops to the direction of Yancheng in front, Yuan Zongdi deliberately reduced the defense on the city and left enough reserve teams. Whenever there was danger on the city, he sent the reserve team to the city.
This made Li Jiyu, who was commanding under the city, feel excited and dying.
He was excited and happy for a team of soldiers to attack the city. Soon after, the soldiers who climbed up were left behind by the defenders. Just when he was upset, another pair of men rushed to the city. But before he could grin, he was driven down again.
At this time, near the big flag, Luo Rucai climbed the tall looking car and looked at the soldiers commanded by Li Jiyu, who climbed the city and was driven down again, and he couldn't help but frown.
He Yilong couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Luo, why hasn't this Xiao Li been so weak? Do you want my people to help him?"
Luo Rucai rolled his eyes to He Yilong, "Hmph, my men can't kill you, let alone the fifth camp of Zuoge!"
He Yilong just smiled and said nothing. Luo Rucai turned his head and ordered: "Tell the battalions to shake flags and shout, and let Li Jiyu strengthen the attack for me!"
In the wilderness outside Yancheng, tens of thousands of thieves were shaking flags and shouting, and the sounds soared into the sky, inspiring the thieves to attack the city.
When Li Jiyu heard the cry of Zhentian, he knew that this was the prospective father-in-law and urged him again, so he drew his sword and roared, "Brothers, rush in and play with my mother!"
Just as the bandit army launched a surging attack on Yancheng, a cavalry rushed into the rear camp in a hurry. He was running and shouting anxiously, but his voice was covered by the sound of shouting.
The cavalry rushed past, shocking the female family and soldiers in the back camp, and dodged away in panic.
"Why are you still shot?"
"What did he shout?"
"I didn't hear it clearly!"
Everyone was talking in the camp, but some soldiers in the back camp hurriedly took their weapons and ran towards the fence.
A general vaguely shouted loudly, "A government army attacked from behind, hurry up and set up defense!"
At this time, the cavalry passed through the camp and finally ran to the vicinity of the big flag and came to the rear of the car.
Luo Rucai and He Yilong were staring at the battlefield. When they saw the soldiers climbing the city wall, they smiled, but at this moment, they suddenly exclaimed behind them.
Everyone looked back and saw a scout climbing the viewing tower and slamming behind him!
Luo Rucai was shocked, and He Yilong rushed forward to support the scout and shouted, "What's going on?"
There was a broken arrow behind the scout, and the blood had solidified on his robe. Behind his fingers, he said breathlessly: "Master, there are a large number of official troops, come from the side and behind!"
After the words came out, everyone was shocked. Luo Rucai suddenly looked back and saw that a fiery red army suddenly appeared in the southwest direction of the Houying camp.
On the vast field, more than a thousand cavalry wearing red armor and red flags were galloping in front, and behind were densely packed with enemy troops, like a torrent, rushing towards his camp.
Luo Rucai changed color and exclaimed immediately, "No! The back camp is over! Arrange the defense quickly!"
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