Chapter 198 - Counter-ambush
Wuling Canyon has a team of more than ten miles long and tens of thousands of people, the front team has walked out of the canyon, and the rear team has not yet entered the canyon. Seeing that more than half of the troops walked out of the canyon, and Qianduyu and Yinzhen, who were the middle and rear army, were walking in the middle of the canyon, the two of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But at this time, rolling stones fell from the sky on the peaks on both sides, and smashed into the unsuspecting Chinese troops at once.
Hearing the screams of the team, the two of them secretly shouted "not good", and several huge rocks flew towards the chariot that the two of them were riding, and Qianduha felt the whistling sound of the rocks.
He jerked the silver town, flew diagonally out of the side door of the chariot, and landed steadily on a large tree on the edge of the cliff, and looked back at his chariot, which had been smashed by several boulders and crushed under the stones, and seven driving horses were smashed to the ground at once.
"It's so hanging", seeing the chariot that has become powder, Yinzhen snorted softly.
"It seems that they came prepared, specifically to us", Qianduha said with deep feeling, looking at the chariot that was also smashed not far away, because he saw that the infantry army was sparsely attacked by the boulders, and where there were chariots, the boulders were more dense.
"It must be a small group of harassing troops, holding the tactic of capturing the thief and capturing the king first", Yinzhen also saw such a formation.
Due to the rocks blocking the road, the troops with too many vehicles could neither advance nor retreat at this time. I had to order the soldiers to push the rocks that rolled down the road to the side of the road.
But the enemy seemed to have eyes, and when the soldiers finally pushed the rocks away with great effort, the stones on the mountain fell again, and this was repeated several times, and the sky gradually became dark.
"The enemy must be waiting for reinforcements to delay us", due to the steepness of the mountain, it is really difficult to climb under the enemy's nose during the day, Chiwiwa and Ginjin discussed, and after dark, organize a group of teams to climb the mountain and make a surprise attack.
4,000 elite soldiers were selected, 2,000 on the left mountain were led by Qianduyu, 2,000 on the right mountain were led by Li Ying, the commander of the left army, and Yinzhen commanded the archers, feints on the mountains on both sides to attract the attention of the other party.
Thousand Twilight Feather's martial arts are strong, and climbing the mountain is naturally not a problem, and these carefully selected soldiers, although not as high as Thousand Twilight Feather's martial arts, but they are all southerners, and their climbing and moving skills are not weak, seeing dozens of ropes floating down from the top of the mountain, I saw these soldiers with big swords on their backs like apes, moving and jumping, extremely agile, and a team of thousands of people climbed to the top of the mountain in less than two hours.
Twilight led the team up the left hill and touched towards the bright place, there were not many enemy soldiers on this mountain, about 1,000 people, and Zhengzun was eating dinner on the ground, most of the bows and arrows and broadswords were placed aside.
Twilight Feather rushed up with a roar. These enemy soldiers who were eating panicked for a while, and slashed and slashed, killing more than 500 people, but some of the enemy soldiers still fled towards the left hill and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.
Due to the unfamiliarity of the terrain, they stopped the pursuit. After cleaning the battlefield, they were about to withdraw down the mountain, but suddenly they saw rows of torches on the mountain beams in the distance, like a long snake formation, rushing towards here.
"Oh no, the enemy's reinforcements are coming", Chiwi Yu thought about it, quickly commanded the signal soldiers, and sent a string of arrows down the mountain, which was a signal for enemy reinforcements.
Yinzhen saw that the top of the mountain on the left needed assistance, and quickly commanded the follow-up troops to climb up continuously. Most of these reinforcements were archers and thunderbolts.
The enemy is getting closer and closer, and they can hear each other's voices.
Twilight Feather commanded the 2,000 troops that had climbed up in advance, and lay in ambush halfway up the mountainside.
"Shoot", Twilight Feather gave an order, and the bow and arrows flew towards the enemy camp with a roar, and the enemies were shot by this random array of arrows and retreated.
"Boom, boom", about half an hour of effort, the fire bombs whistled from the enemy camp and exploded in the ambush zone, and dozens of soldiers fell.
The enemy brought in artillery. Twilight Feather knew that the firepower was inferior in comparison.
"Boom, boom", another series of shells whistled, and their own camp retreated in fear when they saw their comrades who were blown into the sky.
After the artillery fire, the local archers rushed forward, followed by a team of bright broadswords.
It was at this time that the second batch of reinforcements sent by Silver Town climbed to the top of the mountain.
Looking at the influx of enemies, Twilight commands the Thunderbolt Thrower and throws it at the enemy line. Although this thunderbolt does not have the power of artillery, it is adapted to hand-to-hand combat, and the fire burns in the enemy group. Groups of soldiers who rushed up were repulsed.
A rain of arrows flew into the retreating enemy formation, lest they pull away and use artillery again, and Chiwi took advantage of the opponent's defeat to cover the past with her soldiers.
The enemy camp retreated in a panic until it reached a mountain ridge, where an earthen cannon was captured, and because the road was narrow, the enemy occupied the power of the terrain, so a stalemate was formed in this place.
At this time, on the road under the mountain stream, Yinzhen commanded the soldiers, who had already removed the stones, cleared the obstacles on the road, and took advantage of the night to quickly move forward.
When the sky was about to dawn, all the troops walked out of the Wuling Canyon, and Li Ying on the right mountain cleared a small number of enemies on the mountain, and had already followed the troops out of the canyon, only the nearly 4,000 soldiers led by Qian Duyu were stuck with the place.
The sky was bright, and you could clearly see the other side's stronghold. A "soup" flag, waving in the wind. Looking at the other party's outfit, which was no different from his own troops, Qian Duyu thought that it must be Tang Sheng, the governor of Ya'an, who had escaped.
After escaping on the battlefield in the early morning, Tang Sheng collected the rout, and the troops grew rapidly, just in time to meet the troops of the marshal Wu Yinglin and the governor of Luzhou, Zheng Tianli. According to Wu Yinglin's tactics, he set up ambushes in the mountains and rivers of Sichuan, Xiang, and wiped out the Sichuan army going to Hunan Province in layers of defense lines. And the 5,000 troops led by Tang Sheng are sticking to the first line of defense.
Suddenly, in the rear of the Tang Army, a standard unit appeared, and a "Li Ziqi" was extremely eye-catching, which surprised the Tang Army, and the Tang Army, which was in the middle of the attack, quickly collapsed.
In less than an hour, Tang was completely annihilated and Tang Sheng was captured.
It turned out that according to the discussion between Qianduyu and Yinzhen, after the troops left the valley, they sent a team of strange soldiers to outflank them from the back mountain and form a flanking attack on the enemy. In this battle, the Sichuan army lost 5,000 people, most of whom were stoned to death, and 5,000 enemies were annihilated, and the battle loss ratio of the two sides reached 1:1.
The Wuling Gorge, through which the large army passed, stopped for a while, carried out rectification, and continued to march towards Hunan territory.
This day came to Miao Village. This Miao village is close to the mountains and rivers, the terrain is dangerous, a valley near the water below the Miao village is the only way to the interior, and it has always been called the "throat of the west" of Hunan Province.