Chapter 679 Night Attack and Siege

On June 16th, 300,000 Daliang troops came to the outside of Baoding Prefecture.

The army camped for thirty miles, and the solemn aura surged into the sky.

Baoding Prefecture City is also a big city, but it is definitely not as good as Kyoto City, and it is even not at the same level as Kyoto City.

Baoding Prefecture City is four meters high and has six city gates on all sides, but there are no urn city buildings such as the Arrow Tower, and there are not so many crossbows.

Since the Chongshan Town army occupied Baoding Prefecture City for too short, the city guarding supplies were not sufficient.

Therefore, although Chongshan Town is guarded by the city, the city they occupy is not very advantageous.

On the city wall, Yang Zhengshan looked at the camps connected outside the city, and a sneer appeared on his face.

"What do you think?" Yang Zhengshan looked at Yang Chengye beside him.

Yang Chengye knew that Yang Zhengshan was competing for him, so he thought about it before saying, "My grandson felt that he should take the initiative!"

Yang Zhengshan laughed, "That's right, what you fear most when fighting is to fight stupid wars, set up a formation, soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, that is to fight stupid wars."

"We cannot stay ourselves, nor can we let the enemy be stunned. We must move, and we must move the enemy. Only in this way can we find the enemy's flaws and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"Now we have successfully moved the enemy. They have left Kyoto and appeared here. It's our turn to take the initiative!"

Yang Chengye's eyes shining and he looked at Yang Zhengshan with admiration.

Although he is in his forties now, he still admires and respects Yang Zhengshan as before.

Yang Zhengshan reached out and patted his shoulder, saying, "Send the order and go out of the city tonight to attack the camp!"

The Daliang Army had just arrived outside Baoding Prefecture today and was setting up camp at this time. Generally, it was not suitable to attack the camp at this time, because the Daliang Army would inevitably be prepared.

But Yang Zhengshan felt that this was a good opportunity. The camp of the Daliang Army had not been fully built, and there were not many defensive measures, such as trenches, village walls, traps, etc.

This means they can rush into enemy camps more quickly.

"Who will send to attack the camp?" Yang Chengye asked.

Yang Zhengshan looked at him and smiled strangely, "The whole army attacked, our camp was not for harassment, but for completely defeating them!"

"This, we have less than 80,000 soldiers?" Yang Chengye was a little puzzled.

Yang Zhengshan asked with a smile: "So what?"

Yang Chengye was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Sun's understanding!"

Yes, if there are many enemies, we are few, so what?

When did Chongshan Town care about the number of enemies and we are few when we go to battle?

"Well, you go and prepare! Let grandpa see your command ability!" Yang Zhengshan looked at Yang Chengye with encouragement.

Although his eldest grandson has a little poor experience, his ability is very excellent, and Yang Zhengshan is still optimistic about him.

In fact, what Yang Chengye is best at is the management of military and political affairs. In recent years, he has been in Chongqing Town. All things inside and outside, all things must be handled by him. Chongqing Town has been able to continue to develop stably over the years. It is Yang Chengye's contribution.

Feeling Yang Zhengshan’s encouragement, Yang Chengye nodded vigorously with confidence, "Don’t worry, grandpa, grandson will definitely not disappoint you!"

After saying that, Yang Chengye walked down the city wall with great strides, while Yang Zhengshan continued to look at the Daliang military camp outside the city.

The black tents are connected in pieces, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

However, for Yang Zhengshan, this sense of oppression is not worth mentioning at all.

Yang Chengye went to assign tasks to the army, and Yang Zhengshan also came to An Yuxing and the others.

In the camp tonight, the innate warriors must also follow, and in this battle, the innate warriors are the protagonists.

The sky gradually dimmed, and in the camp of the Daliang Army, Emperor Tianwu was also discussing the siege of the city.

What they were considering was naturally how to capture Baoding City as soon as possible.

Unlike attacking Kyoto, when attacking Kyoto, they have enough time to build siege equipment and can put pressure on the defenders in the city without hesitation.

At this time, they were in a hurry to return to Hanzhong Prefecture, and they had to launch an attack in a short time and defeat the Chongshan army in the city as soon as possible.

"But in just half a month, the Beiyuan Army and the Western Route Army of Chongshan Town have already captured the four prefectures. At this speed, they will be able to fight to Longnan in another half a month!"

Emperor Tianwu's face looked very bad.

Although they went to Kyoto this time and drew most of the elite troops from Daliang, they also deployed a lot of troops in the southern part of Longyuan.

At the beginning, they arranged tens of thousands of troops in Longyuan to prevent Zhou Lan from leading the Beiyuan army to the south. As a result, these tens of thousands of troops were vulnerable to the Beiyuan army.

Even if you are defending the city, you cannot stop the Beiyuan Army from moving south.

What made Emperor Tianwu even more angry was that many prefectures and counties actually opened the city and surrendered after meeting the Beiyuan Army.

Just as their Daliang army was unstoppable, capturing cities, now the Beiyuan Army and the Chongshan West Route Army are unstoppable.

In fact, this is normal, because the officials who are defending the city now are the officials who are defending the city back then.

The same group of officials will naturally make the same choice.

If you want to blame this, you can only blame Daliang for not having enough available officials, and you can only appoint those officials you have defected to before.

"Your Majesty, I think you should launch an attack as soon as possible and start attacking the city early tomorrow morning!"

Song Chenxing, the first counselor under Emperor Tianwu, spoke.

Daliang also has some wise ministers, such as Song Chenxing and Niu Sude. Although they were born in humble families and were once just scholars, they showed extraordinary abilities under the command of their Emperor Tianwu.

As for Song Chenxing, it was he who proposed that the King of Daliang occupy Hanzhong Prefecture. It was also because of his proposal that the King of Daliang got a chance to breathe and recuperate.

With his help, the King of Daliang laid a solid foundation in Hanzhong Prefecture and became the Tianwu Emperor of Daliang today.

Therefore, the person the Emperor Tianwu trusted the most was Song Chenxing, and even Zhang Luan had to rank behind Song Chenxing.

"Sir Song, this is not appropriate. Although time is urgent, we must not act rashly. The Chongshan Army is not the Sixteenth Battalion of the imperial army of the court, and the commander on the opposite side is Yang Zhengshan, not those mediocre people in the court of Darong!" Zhang Luan immediately persuaded.

Song Chenxing looked at Zhang Luan and said in a deep voice: "So what? Whether it's Yang Zhengshan or Chongshan Army, do you want us to be afraid of the enemy and not move forward?"

"Senior Zhang, I know you are familiar with the important civil and military officials in the court of Darong, but haven't we defeated enough civil and military officials in these years? Have we defeated few elites?"

"We have fought with the officers and soldiers of Suzhou Town and Longbei Town, and they are just so-so."

"Although Beiyuan Town is stronger, it lacks troops!"

"There are also the emperor's personal army and the Kyoto Imperial Guards, which are even inferior to our Daliang Army!"

"Senior Zhang, it's not that we are arrogant, it's really that we don't have time to waste here!"

Song Chenxing's words made Zhang Luan have no reason to refute, because Song Chenxing was right. Their Daliang Army was also a strong army that had experienced hundreds of battles, especially the elites in the Daliang Army, which were definitely soldiers who had crawled out of the pile of dead bodies.

Those veterans may have experienced more wars than Zhang Luan, the veteran.

You have to know that when the King of Daliang was still a bandit, they really fought every day, either fighting or running away.

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Zhang Luan is not unaware of this, but he always has a kind of awe for Yang Zhengshan.

Maybe even he himself did not realize this, anyway, he was a little in awe of Yang Zhengshan, which also made him have a little awe for Chongshan Town.

Zhang Luan hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and could only say: "I think it is better to be cautious!"

Song Chenxing frowned slightly. He respected Zhang Luan, but he was a little displeased with Zhang Luan's caution.

No, to be precise, he was a little displeased with the current Zhang Luan.

Before attacking Kyoto, he felt that Zhang Luan was still very powerful and had planned everything in Kyoto clearly.

But now facing Chongshan Town, he felt that Zhang Luan was a little too cautious.

In fact, this is not Zhang Luan's problem, but Song Chenxing's problem.

Empiricism is at work.

What kind of enemies did Daliang face before?

The local guards, the bandits in Longbei Town and Suzhou Town, and the low-morale imperial guards are no longer the elite imperial guards.

They have won victory after victory, defeating one powerful enemy after another, and even the imperial guards and the imperial guards, which are rumored to be extremely powerful, have been defeated by them.

Now if you tell them to be cautious, they will naturally think you are overly cautious.

Song Chenxing did not say more because of Zhang Luan's strength and status, but just looked up at Emperor Tianwu.

Emperor Tianwu thought for a while and said, "Then start the siege tomorrow!"

The wall of Baoding City is not very high, and the equipment needed for the siege is not much, as long as there are enough ladders.

As for the others, it is nothing more than using more lives to fill them.

At this time, they can't care about casualties, so they can only attack the city as soon as possible.

Therefore, under the decision of Emperor Tianwu, the 300,000-man army began to prepare for the siege the next day as soon as they arrived at Baoding City.

They did not consider that the Zhongshan Army in the city would come out to attack the camp, let alone that Yang Zhengshan actually planned to have a decisive battle at night.

Not to mention others, even Zhang Luan did not expect it.

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The starry sky tonight is particularly bright, and the bright moon is like a glass lamp, scattering the cold moonlight, reflecting the city and the outside of the city exceptionally bright.

You can see the surrounding scenery clearly without even lighting a torch.

At three o'clock in the night, the west gate of Baoding City was opened first, and 20,000 armored light cavalrymen and horses were orderly pouring out of the city gate, and then divided into two teams to go around the city from the north and south.

Then the south gate was opened again, and another 2,000 armored heavy cavalry and 3,000 armored cavalry slowly walked out of the city gate.

The camps of the Daliang Army were mainly arranged in the east and north of Baoding City. Since they had just arrived in Baoding City today, they had not yet completed the arrangement of encircling three sides and missing one side, which just gave the Chongshan Army an opportunity.

Of course, the Daliang Army also scattered many scouts around the city. The Chongshan Army was discovered not long after it left the city.

With the sound of horns, the news of the Chongshan Army's unusual movements quickly spread to the Daliang Army camp.

But this is no longer important, because the East Gate and the North Gate were also opened.

Dong Dong Dong~~~

The rumbling sound of war drums suddenly exploded in the quiet night, followed by the sound of horses' hooves.

Attacking the camp does not mean a sneak attack, and Yang Zhengshan has no way to let the 60,000 troops approach the enemy camp quietly.

So this time the attack on the camp is to launch an attack openly, of course, it would be better if the enemy could discover it later.

The camp of the Daliang Army is not far from the city, only more than 20 miles away.

But don't forget that the camp of the Daliang Army is 30 miles long.

It is basically impossible to defend such a large camp and such a long camp tightly.

However, the Daliang Army reacted quickly. As soon as they received the news of the unusual movement of the Chongshan Army, the soldiers in charge of night watch in the camp had already strengthened their defense.

In the tent of the commander.

Emperor Tianwu hurriedly put on his clothes and crawled out of the bed.

"Report, the scout sent a message that the enemy troops are leaving the city!"

"Report, the scout sent a message that a large number of enemy cavalry are rushing towards our camp!"

"Report, a large number of troops are approaching in the south, west and north!"