The Richest Man in the Heavens Starts from Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 104 Night Attack
Du Yu's army came and surrounded Waqiaoguan, and immediately began to build counterweight trebuchets.

In fact, the core components of the trebuchet were all custom-made by him in the modern time and space from a local processing company in Haicheng, without considering the low productivity of the Water Margin World.

Moreover, the blueprints are all ready-made, as long as the military craftsmen are not stupid, they can be assembled and put into use quickly, and then dismantled after use, only the core steel parts can be taken.

Even though he was attacking the territory of the Liao Kingdom, Yan Yun belonged to the Han land after all, and the Han people were still the main population. Of course, even against the Khitan people, he did not consider using such an inhuman black technology as the 'Motorov Cocktail'.

However, Waqiaoguan is an important military town and is a stone city, and it will take some time to conquer it.

Of course, Du Yu could use the life of the cannon fodder battalion to pile up at all costs, but considering that Wei's biggest opponent, Jin Guoren, had not yet met, he didn't want to spend too much troops.

And as they got deeper and deeper into the territory of the Liao Kingdom, the small-scale harassment they encountered became more and more day by day. It was not the regular army of the Liao Kingdom, but the private armed forces of the Khitan landlords and nobles.In fact, it has no effect on the army, except that occasionally a small group of people shoot sniper arrows in hidden places.

Du Yu was very annoyed by this kind of harassment, so he transferred Liang Shanbo's generals Xie Zhen and Xie Bao over and asked them to lead an army to clean up these rats.

The two-headed snake Jie Zhen and the two-tailed scorpion Jie Bao were born as hunters in Dengzhou, and they are very good at hunting in the mountains and forests to deal with those people.

At the same time, he also asked Niu Wenzhong to lead Fang Qiong, An Shirong, Chu Heng, and Yu Yulin to lead thousands of troops to suppress the surrounding Khitan nobles.

By doing both, the rats quickly disappeared.

But after a lot of delay, Yelu Dashi finally arrived late, but the original [-] cavalry had expanded to [-] in number.

He collected Khitan soldiers along the way, which has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the concentrated forces may be able to fight the Wei army head-on. The disadvantage is that the main force of the state capitals behind will be taken away, and the combat effectiveness will drop by more than one level.

If Waqiao Pass fails, I am afraid that the Wei army will push all the way to Xijin Mansion.

But military operations are like this, after all, it is not the norm to fight more with less, so Yelu Dashi wanted to concentrate the superior cavalry to raid the Wei army. This tactic was at least very useful for the Song army in previous wars.

It's a pity that he didn't know that Yeluping fled in a hurry without seeing the Xinjing Sai army, so he missed the important information that there were a large number of cavalry in the Wei army.

When he reached the outskirts of Waqiaoguan, he could see the invisible company battalion of the Wei army from a distance.

Going to the front line to investigate in person, Yelu Dashi couldn't help but gasped. Looking at the layout of the barracks, he knew that the opponent's generals were well versed in warfare.

There are trenches in front of the camp and rear of the camp, there are many horses, and watchtowers are everywhere. It is almost impossible to attack the camp.

In desperation, Yelu Dashi could only observe the current situation of Waqiao Pass first, and he couldn't calm down anymore after he didn't look at it.

Waqiaoguan is not a city, but a military fortress. It is relatively small in size, but as an important military town, its defense function is more powerful. The city wall is taller and thicker than the state capital.

However, nearly a hundred trebuchets took turns to bombard Waqiao Pass with stones, and the city wall suffered huge damage visible to the naked eye, and it might collapse at any time.

And what worries Yelu Dashi is that the defenders of the Liao Kingdom can no longer be seen on the top of the city, how long can this situation last.After returning to the temporary station of the army, he convened a meeting with the generals in the army to discuss launching an offensive as soon as possible to break the siege of Waqiaoguan.

Yelu Dashi didn't know that his cavalry was scouted by Dawei's scouts as soon as they arrived, and he was allowed to go to the front line to scout smoothly out of consideration not to startle the snake.

While he was having a meeting, Du Yu was discussing with Han Bolong and others how to deal with this Khitan cavalry.

"Your Majesty, the general thinks that Yelu Dashi's army should take advantage of the fact that Yelu Dashi's army has just arrived and is not firmly established, and when they don't see the current situation clearly," Han Bolong said.

In such a formal occasion, they will not be called brothers.

"General Han wants to go to war tomorrow?" Du Yu asked.

"No, I plan to attack tonight." Han Bolong said.

"Night attack! Is it too risky? You must know that the cavalry rushes too fast in battle, and there is a great risk of losing vision at night." Du Yu said.

"My lord, since the army provided liver and canned fish, none of the cavalry has suffered from night blindness. I don't believe that the Liao people have the same condition. I have the advantage in night combat. The Jingsai cavalry will definitely defeat those Khitans." Han Bolong Said.

Du Yu frowned and thought about it carefully. He checked the information. In the real history, Yelu Dashi had only [-] cavalry when Tong Guan attacked Liao, and only [-] reinforcements came after the victory.

Now that he is leading troops to attack Liao, the cavalry brought by Yelu Dashi is at least seven or eight thousand. Presumably they should be the defenders of the capital transferred from Xijin Mansion.

If this army is defeated, there is a high probability that Beiliao will never be able to produce an equivalent cavalry team to fight against the Jingsai army, so it seems worth taking a little risk.

"Well, there is some truth. But General Han, you know how important this cavalry is in my heart, so don't make too much loss." Du Yu said.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I know this matter well. We have practiced night raids many times during our daily training, and there will be no problems." Han Bolong said.

Du Yu nodded and finally agreed.

In order to ensure the success of the night attack, he also specially ordered Han Bolong to bring Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, Guan Sheng, Suo Chao, Hu Yanzhuo and other generals from Liangshan.

They may not be good at commanding battles, but few of them, including Han Bolong, are stronger than their own personal force.

In this way, after the night fell, the Jingsai soldier Ma Lianmei quietly left the camp to prepare for a night attack on Yelu Dashi's barracks.

Although Du Yu was worried, as the leader of the Great Wei and the commander of the army, he would not charge in front of the battle. On the contrary, he learned a certain drama, so Jiao Ting made a cup of coffee and sipped it leisurely.

Well, of course, I don’t forget to say “too much sugar”.

Besides, Han Bolong only took five thousand horses to attack the camp.The reason for taking the risk was also based on intelligence. When Yelu Dashi was investigating during the day, their camp was also being observed by Shi Qian and others.

The difference is that Shi Qian and the others have a telescope in their hands, which can easily see the Liao army's camp from a distance.

In fact, Yelu Dashi came in a hurry this time, and even the food and grass that he brought was only ten days old, let alone other equipment.

Therefore, the camp that he set up was shabby and full of loopholes, which was why he was eager to hold a meeting to discuss the battle when he first arrived at Waqiao Pass.

Moreover, the Khitan people are nomads after all, and they are not as sophisticated as the Han people in camping, which is also related to the way of fighting.

In any case, their sloppy way of camping did give the Great Wei cavalry a chance.

Han Bolong led the army to stop two miles before the barracks, and took out the night vision binoculars to observe the enemy's situation for the last time.

Sure enough, there were only a few lights in Yelu Dashi's barracks, and less than a hundred people were patrolling outside the barracks.

Seeing this, Han Bolong immediately gave an order.

The cavalry of the Serenity Army took out their visors and put them on, and began to urge their mounts to accelerate slowly. At the same time, they took out the arrows they had prepared in advance from their quiver, ignited the oil-soaked cotton wool wrapped around the arrowheads, and were ready to shoot at any time. Rocket.

Besides, Yelu Dashi was exhausted from traveling for days, and was even more worried after seeing the battle situation. He read the map and thought about things in the Chinese army tent, and fell asleep unconsciously.

But in his sleep, he suddenly felt the ground tremble under his feet, and there was a rumbling sound in the distance.

As a Khitan who grew up on horseback, he understood the meaning of this sound very well, and it was absolutely impossible to run out of this momentum without a large number of cavalry.

Thinking that he was just outside Waqiao Pass, Yelu Dashi woke up suddenly, and shouted loudly: "No, the enemy army attacked at night, wake up all the troops quickly."

His entourage immediately reacted and ran to the stable to lead the horse.

But it was too late at this time, and the speed of the Jingsai cavalry had already increased, rushing to the vicinity of the Liao army camp.

Following Han Bolong's order, they all launched a round of rockets.

The arrow shot down the tent and immediately ignited the tarpaulins, and the blazing flames illuminated the entire barracks.

At this time, Yang Zhi and Suo Chao, who were rushing to the front, had already opened the gate of the barracks, and rushed in first to activate the unparalleled mode to kill and kill.

(End of this chapter)