Chapter Eighty-Three: Scattering Beans into Soldiers Rather than Crushing Jade
Tips: Starting from Chapter 83, the sub-volume is titled: ["Becoming a Demon for Love": Bu Jiang Shan]
Dai Mao was taken aback, turned his head to look at the Fuyun Guan Tower, and saw a wolf smoke billowing up, quickly filling the sky.
This is a sign that the enemy is coming!
Dai Ma hurriedly threw down the agricultural equipment, led the officers and soldiers to leave the farmland in a hurry, and went up to the Fuyun Pass Tower, condescendingly, observing the enemy's situation, but saw the axe and the valley on the southern side of the pass, the flag fluttering, and the murderous spirit.
"The enemy is fierce. Dai Mao couldn't help but gasp.
"General Yu: The enemy is the Tati people, with more than 10,000 soldiers, and they are under the banner of the Beiji country. Uncle Wu on the left said as he handed a letter of persuasion to Dai Mao.
Dai Mao took the arrow book, unfolded it, and read it carefully.
The content of the arrow book turned out to be that the Tati chieftain was in charge of the order of the Beiji country to leave Botuo at night, and came here to collect gold and take advantage of the Fuyun Pass.
After seeing it, Dai Mao scolded: "The small clan of the Southern Wilderness is so rampant, this is obviously a violation of my territory, and what do you want to mention by using Fuyun Pass!"
That's exactly what he said. Wei Dao on the right said, "My Fuyunguan troops are less than 2,000, and the army is 100,000 urgent, General Jin Ming didn't have time to ask the general for his life, so he went to Linjiang County to ask for reinforcements first." ”
"Okay! Everyone, listen up: Soldiers, it is their duty to defend the homeland and defend the country! Although our army is less than 2,000 at present, how can we allow these small tribes in the southern wilderness to run rampant! Everyone must treat one as ten, bravely kill the enemy, and never let the enemy step close to the pass and invade our territory! As long as we hold out for two or three days, General Jin Ming will invite reinforcements. At that time, if you go out of the pass, you will definitely be able to annihilate those small clans in the Southern Wilderness in one fell swoop!" Dai Mao spoke boldly and encouraged all the soldiers, and casually tore the arrow book to shreds and threw it down.
But it happened that there was a Tati soldier under the pass, who was sitting on a horse, and he was very proud, and he had come to write a book.
Dai Mao looked down and couldn't help but be furious, snatched the bow and arrow of the soldier next to him, buckled the arrow, pulled the full moon in his arms, and shot it with a bang.
The soldier was waiting for a reply, but without paying attention, he was shot by an arrow, and he fell headlong to the ground, and hung upside down on his saddle with his left foot.
Frightened, the horses neighed, turned around, and dragged the corpses towards the base camp.
A burst of yellow dust suddenly rose on the pass, filling the sky.
The soldiers were so hot that their eyes and hands were itching, their blood was boiling, they brandished knives and guns, and cheered.
After returning to Tatibao and discussing with the ministers, it was decided that he would personally lead 15,000 elite soldiers, with Yan Qiwu as the vanguard of the main department and Ankuro as the deputy vanguard, to attack Fuyun Pass, occupy the Wusha River Valley, and then collect gold and transport it to the Tiandu Sacred Palace of Beiji Kingdom.
The Tati army marched for three days, and now that the troops had come to the Fuyun Pass, they set up a large camp along the valley, and then sent soldiers to send a letter of persuasion to surrender.
But he didn't wait long, and the Malay newspaper said: Fuyun Pass shot and killed the soldiers under the book.
Bloody Wuyan was furious when he heard the report, and immediately ordered Yan Qiwu to lead the vanguard troops to attack Fuyun Pass.
In an instant, the squash sounded, the war drums beat, and the Tati army launched the first wave of attacks on Fuyun Pass.
Bursts of wood feather arrows, willow leaf arrows, mugwort arrows, and fire arrows came like a torrential rain, breaking through the sky and clouds, and flying towards the head of the floating cloud pass.
After the arrow attack, a thousand death squad soldiers with three flowers painted on their faces, bare-armed, bare-chested, rushed straight to the pass, some holding arrows and shields, some carrying siege weapons on their shoulders, and some wielding swords, guns and axes...... One by one, they were extremely vicious, shouting and shouting wildly.
After a short time, he had broken through the arrow array, killed under the Fuyun Pass, set up a cloud climbing ladder, threw out the flying tiger rope, raised the ram of the city, and began to attack the Fuyun Pass fiercely.
Dai Mao personally led the soldiers to respond to the battle calmly, and rolled the stones and logs down to the gate, and everywhere they passed, there was a scream. Whoever came near the foot of the city was slain with a bow and arrow, and those who came near the head of the city were slain with a sword or spear. Tati's 1,000 death squads were annihilated in less than an hour, and most of them were crushed.
Seeing that he had suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight again, he led the remnants to withdraw in panic. When he entered the camp, he saw that there was no blood and told him in detail about the battle situation.
Because the roads leading to Fuyun Pass are built between the mountains and mountains, many siege equipment such as rushing carts and trebuchets cannot be transported, which greatly reduces the bloody siege.
When he heard Yan Qiwu's report, Xue Wuyan was very angry, and immediately ordered Ankuro to quickly organize the second echelon to attack the city again, leaving no respite for the defenders of Fuyun Pass.
The Tati army soon launched a second attack, and Dai Mai led his soldiers to defend desperately.
The two armies fought from morning to evening, but the Tati still did not conquer the pass, and finally left more than 1,000 corpses in defeat.
After Dai Mao led the army to repel the frenzied attack of the Tati, he counted all the soldiers, but also lost more than 300 people, and the wounded were not counted. He was very miserable and worried, and while instructing the soldiers to beware of the enemy's night attack, he thought about how to respond to the battle tomorrow.
After dinner, Dai Mao and Uncle Wu went to the basement to inspect and comfort the disabled soldiers.
Inadvertently, Dai Mao suddenly caught a glimpse of many sacks piled up in the corner, layer by layer, row by row, just like a hill. He walked briskly, touched and touched, pinched and pinched, and was instantly overjoyed, and immediately ordered the sacks to be carried to the shut, and ordered a sergeant to take advantage of the darkness to push the corpses of the enemy down the cliff.
The sergeants were inexplicable, and Uncle Wu was also confused, so he carried all those sacks up and stacked them beside the battlements. At the same time, a group of soldiers quietly went out of the pass, pushed the enemy's corpses to the bottom of the cliff, and vacated the 50 or 60 meters long water mill pass in front of the pass.
The soldiers were always confused, and Uncle Wu Wei didn't know the clues, and when everything was done, they all came to ask why.
Dai Mao explained the reason in detail.
When everyone heard about it, they all feasted happily, amazed and exclaimed, and they were all happy and waiting for the day.
In the early morning of the next day, the weather was fine, the eastern sky showed some fish belly white, and the mountains were still immersed in the fog of last night.
Ankuro had already led the Tati army to sneak under the Fuyun Pass and launched a new round of attack with lightning speed.
In an instant, the shouts of killing rose one after another, shocking the earth.
Dai Mao had long been observing carefully, and as soon as the Tati army arrived at the pass, he suddenly gave an order, and all the soldiers pierced the sack with their guns, and dumped the contents of the bag as much as possible under the pass. But I heard a burst of tumbling sounds, which happened to pierce the heavenly river, sending down a big water, some cyan-like, some yellow-like, jade beads jumping wildly, surging endlessly.
Hey, what do you think those sacks are in?
If you look closely, it's all soybeans and green beans!
It turned out that Dai Mao knew the art of war very well, and was familiar with the history of the wilderness, so he had a flash of inspiration that these beans were of great use: they could block the enemy's attack.
Sure enough, before the Tati soldiers could see anything, they were all rolled down the city, but before they could get up, they fell to the ground again.
The beans were hard and round, and they were scattered on the road of the water mill under the pass, and the Tati soldiers stepped on them as if they were stepping on ice, and they slipped and slipped and stood unsteadily. You see those Tati soldiers panicking one by one, you grab me, I drag you, staggering, trembling, one moment falling on the back, one moment falling a dog snatching, and the next moment a large piece of ...... He fell straight to the point where his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he was dizzy.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bows and crossbows were fired at the juncture, only to see featherless arrows, wooden arrows, sheep's head arrows, fast arrows, bamboo arrows, and pole-head arrows, flying like rain, dense like locusts, shooting towards Guanxia.
In an instant, the Tati soldiers were shot with arrows, and countless casualties were inflicted, and the dead were pulled down, and it would not hurt to add a few more arrows;
In this battle, Fuyun Pass only suffered 100 casualties, while the Tati army suffered more than 1,000 casualties.
When Xue Wuyan learned that Fuyun Guan had defeated his elite division with beans, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. Annoyed and angry, he sternly reprimanded Ankuro, and then personally commanded the 3,000 Tati army to attack Fuyun Pass.
In front of the Floating Cloud Pass, another tragic life-and-death struggle began.
Under the bloody battle, the Tati army marched forward bravely, one after another, and used countless corpses to pile up a bloody road to the head of the city of Fuyun Pass, and rushed to the head of the city, and launched a white-handed hand-to-hand battle with Dai Mao and other soldiers.
The two sides fought fiercely for a long time, and the victory and defeat were inseparable, and it was as if night fell, the sky and the earth were dark, and the five fingers could not be seen.
The Tati army panicked and retreated one after another, this time it was God who helped the soldiers guarding the pass.
Seeing that the army was disheartened, he had no choice but to lead the Tati army back to the camp, and the whole set of elites was ready to conquer Fuyun Pass in one fell swoop tomorrow.
Although the soldiers of Fuyun Pass repelled the Tati army, they had also suffered most of the casualties.
Dai Mao was stabbed in the left shoulder, blood leaked out, and the sleeves of his robe were stained red. Uncle Wu and Wei Dao were also injured, but fortunately, the injuries were relatively minor and they were able to fight.
Dai Mao counted the soldiers, only more than 300 people remained, and Jin Ming still did not reply, let alone where the reinforcements are now, obviously the situation is very critical, so he convened the generals to discuss countermeasures.
Everyone deliberated for a long time, but there was no good plan but to wait for help, and they were silent for a while.
After a long time, Uncle Wu suddenly said: "General, the last general has a plan." ”
"What's the matter? Dai Mao's eyes flashed eagerly.
Uncle Wu said: "As the saying goes: 'A bird can't fly without wings, and a snake can't fly without a head'. The last general is willing to cut off the head of the snake tonight. ”
Wei Daowen said, he slapped his thigh with joy: "Okay, this plan is good! If you can cut off the head of the snake, the enemy army will definitely be chaotic without a fight." ”
Although this plan is feasible, if it is discovered by the enemy, it will be deeply encircled, and it will be the next resort. Dai Mao lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
"General, don't hesitate, tomorrow the enemy will launch a fierce attack, and our reinforcements have not yet arrived, and resisting with the remaining strength is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and it will only be a matter of a few hours before the city is broken and killed. Uncle Wu said eagerly, "Just ask the general to let the last general go!"
"General, I think this is the only way to go, if there are not enough people, the last general is willing to go with him!" Wei Dao got up and asked.
Dai Mao was silent for a long time, and then suddenly raised his head and said: "Okay! Just do it according to this plan! But this assassination matter, the fewer people the better, so as not to startle the snake, let General Wu carry it out." General Wei still accompanied me to assist in the defense of the pass. ”
"Yes! General!" Uncle Wu was very pleased.
"You hurry up and get ready to come and see you, and General Wei and I will do it for you. Dai Ma commanded.
Uncle Wu responded, so he went to change into a night coat and came to meet him with a sharp saber on his back.
Dai Mao and Wei Dao saluted Uncle Wu's Zhuangxing wine, and smashed the wine bowl on the ground together, which means "rather for broken jade than for tile whole".
Uncle Wu bowed slightly, walked out of the gate, and stepped on the mountain of corpses of Tati soldiers, and disappeared into the night like eagles and falcons.
Dai Mao and Wei Dao stood at the juncture, anxiously waiting for Uncle Wu's triumphant return, but when they passed the ugly time, they still didn't see any movement under the pass, and the two were already very tired, and they snored and fell asleep unconsciously. The soldiers couldn't bear to disturb them, so they let the two of them fall asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but in a daze, I heard someone calling: "Wake up, general, wake up, wake up...... General, take a look at the ......"
Dai Mao vaguely heard the call, and suddenly opened his eyes, and intuitively felt that the light of the white flowers was dazzling, and it turned out that the sky was getting brighter.
He got up in a hurry, crouched down on the battlements, and looked down at the gate. This is not tight, I can't help but see the blood in my eyes, my heart is like a knife, and my hands are hard to break a few pieces of bricks.
But when he saw the pass, Uncle Wu was disheveled, his flesh and blood were blurred, and he was strangled with a chew in his mouth, and he was tied to a grain and grass cart that was erected with five flowers. The blood next to him waved his whip and whipped himself, only to see the flesh flying sideways and blood splashing. - Needless to say, Uncle Wu couldn't be assassinated, but was captured.
Seeing this scene, Dai Mao trembled with anger. He roared: "The two armies are fighting, don't torture the prisoners! If you really have the ability, let him go, and we will fight to the death before the pass!"
"Hahahaha...... Well said: When the two armies are fighting, they don't torture the prisoners? If he assassinates this chief, there is only one way to die! If you want to save him, you should quickly open the gate and surrender! Otherwise, this chief will chop him up with an axe!" ”
"Phew, dream!" Uncle Wu spat a mouthful of bloody phlegm on his bloody face, and then held his head high, looking at death as if he were home.
"Okay! I'll see how hard you can be!" Blood Wuyan gritted his teeth, wiped the blood, threw the whip, took the bronze axe from Ankuro beside him, and chopped it off when he saw Uncle Wu's left hand, only to see a blood light flying, so he chopped off one hand.
Uncle Wu's upper and lower teeth rattled, but he never groaned/groaned.
Bloody Wuyan picked up the stumpled hand that had fallen on it, held it high in the air, and shouted, "If you don't open the gate and surrender again, Chief Ben will chop off his right hand again!"