Chapter 68: Incredible Victory
After hearing Dai Quan's message, Emperor Longxing was naturally overjoyed! Of course, what made him happiest was the change in the attitude of the retired emperor towards him .
As long as the retired emperor supports him, he can gradually take control of the military power, and all other rights will naturally be taken back.
As expected, from the end of February, scouts from the Rakshasa Kingdom began to appear outside the Jingyu Pass. By mid-March, spies from Daqian discovered that the Rakshasa Kingdom had gathered troops! In early April, nearly 100,000 Rakshasa troops arrived outside the Jingyu Pass!
The troops in the Lanzhou camp, including the reinforcements, totaled no more than 80,000. For a moment, the military situation was urgent!
To make matters worse, at almost the same time, the Lanzhou camp received news that troops from the Rakshasa Kingdom had also appeared in the area of the ancient Xiaoguan Pass in Jingyuan, north of the Jingyu Pass.
There are only a few thousand soldiers stationed in the ancient Xiaoguan Pass, but once the pass is breached, the Rakshasa troops can directly attack the rear of the Lanzhou camp!
Jia Cong volunteered to fight, and then led 7,000 soldiers to rescue Gu Xiaoguan!
The battle in the Jingyu Pass area was in full swing. The Rakshasa Kingdom relied on its large number of soldiers and generals to attack the pass day and night. For a while, both sides suffered heavy losses!
Fortunately, Daqian's side is on the defensive and can hold out for a while.
However, at the end of April, an elite force of 2,000 enemy troops appeared in the Lintao area. Niu Jizong and Qi Ming only got the news after a grain transporting team was directly intercepted and killed. This sudden situation shocked Niu Jizong and Qi Ming. If the grain supply was cut off, then their tens of thousands of soldiers would be like birds in a cage. And most importantly, the battle report from Guxiaoguan did not say that Guxiaoguan had been lost, which meant that Luosha State had secretly entered the rear from other directions.
Jia Cong of Guxiao Pass also got the news. Originally, his mission was not dangerous. Guxiao Pass was easy to defend but difficult to attack. With the troops he brought, it was almost easy for 10,000 people to defend Guxiao Pass. However, he could not sit idly by and watch the incident happen in Lanzhou Camp.
Therefore, Jia Cong decided to take the risk and make an exchange with the other party! As long as he could defeat the troops outside Guxiao Pass, he could also kill to the rear of the Luosha army. In this way, as long as Niu Jizong and others could hold on, the Luosha country would have no choice but to retreat.
As for the two thousand soldiers, now is not the time to deal with them. Lintao is adjacent to the Longshan area. The Longshan Mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles are the best hiding place for these troops. Unless a large army surrounds them, it would be like looking for an oasis in the desert, and they can only rely on luck.
Jia Cong reorganized his troops. He left all 4,000 infantrymen at Guxiao Pass to guard it, and sent the remaining 6,000 cavalrymen out of the pass at night and then attacked the Rakshasa camp at night.
There were more than 20,000 soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom outside Guxiaoguan. How could they not have expected that the Daqian soldiers would have the courage to come out and attack!
In the dark night, Jia Cong led his personal guards to charge the camp first. After pushing aside the barricades, thousands of cavalrymen charged directly into the enemy camp! The enemy army was in chaos. In addition to those killed by Jia Cong's troops, countless people were trampled to death in the chaos. Only 4,000 to 5,000 of the 20,000 soldiers fled at night, and the rest were all killed by Jia Cong's troops.
Afterwards , Jia Cong led the remaining 4,000 cavalrymen westward along Lingbo Mountain into the barren land of Luosha State! Wherever they passed, all the tribes were defeated by Jia Cong and his men. At the same time, the food and grass in the rear of Luosha State were completely cut off by Jia Cong and his men!
In mid-May, in the Lanzhou camp which still had not received any food replenishment, Niu Jizong and Qi Ming sat opposite each other with ugly expressions.
"The food and fodder can last for a few more days!"
"We have changed , but even so, we can only maintain this for ten days at most!"
" It's better to go out and lead the troops to attack!" Niu Jizong shouted.
Qi Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head. "The Luosha Kingdom has many cavalrymen, so it will be useless for us to go out. Moreover, without the barrier of the pass, we have few soldiers to begin with, and we are no match for the Luosha Kingdom. Now we can only hope that the rear can transport food and grass as soon as possible. However, we don't know where the troops are hiding, and the troops we sent out can't find them at all."
"However, their origins should be clear. They crossed the river in the Datong City area using bamboo rafts! We just thought that they would not send troops to test the river because of the natural barrier. After all, you and I missed it. Fortunately, we have sent more scouts, otherwise, they might have gathered enough troops and killed us from behind..."
"This won't work, that won't work, are we going to wait for death?"
"Report!"
"General Niu, General Qi, the Luosha troops outside the pass have retreated!"
"What!"
The two stood up in surprise, then mounted their horses and headed for the pass. As expected, when they reached the pass, they saw that the Luosha soldiers who had been attacking the pass had actually withdrawn their camp and were slowly retreating.
"Could this be a trick?" Niu Jizong said.
Qi Ming shook his head, obviously not knowing the truth!
"The soldiers guarding the pass should not move rashly. Send out the scouts and show me what tricks they are playing!"
Five days later, a team of fast horses rushed in from outside the pass. After being inspected by the guards, they entered the pass directly and galloped towards the camp.
"Great victory! Great victory outside the Great Wall!"
When the troops arrived at the central army tent, Niu Jizong and the other two were still confused. There were no Daqian troops outside the pass, so how did the victory news come?
"My two great generals, in early May, General Jia Cong of Guxiaoguan secretly left the pass at night and attacked the Luosha camp! The Luosha army was caught off guard, and all 20,000 soldiers were defeated by General Jia Cong. General Jia Cong knew the plight of the camp, so he went straight into the heart of Luosha. In more than ten days, he wiped out twelve tribes of the enemy, and the enemy's food supply was also cut off. Therefore, the Luosha army had to withdraw."
"General Jia Cong had long anticipated that Luosha would withdraw its troops, so he set up an ambush at Shanniu Ridge, fifty miles southeast of Zhuolao City!"
When the Rakshasa army passed by, after letting the front army go, countless stones and logs rolled down from the mountains. The Rakshasa army was in chaos! Countless people were crushed to death or trampled to death!
"Then, General Jia Cong divided his 4,000 troops into teams of 500 and charged the enemy from different directions! Some soldiers also set up a momentum in the mountains and forests, making it difficult for the enemy to know the exact number of troops. After charging into the enemy's center, General Jia Cong killed the enemy's main general Tuoba Ye in battle!"
"In this battle, Luosha's soldiers suffered nearly 30,000 casualties and nearly 10,000 prisoners. However, General Jia was also seriously injured, and more than half of his soldiers were killed, leaving only a thousand soldiers."
"I have already met with General Jia. Because we have nearly 10,000 prisoners, the march is very slow. We can reach the outside of Jingyu Pass before sunset!"
Niu Jizong and Qi Ming were stunned for a full quarter of an hour, then they looked at each other, only to see horror in each other's eyes!
With only a few thousand people, he first defeated an army of 20,000, then attacked more than ten tribes, and finally set up an ambush and killed tens of thousands of enemies. This is simply a myth!
