Chapter 308: The Great King Spends His Life (A Chapter for Oda Kamisuke Nobunaga)
In the rolling cold wind and snowflakes in the sky, Meng Huo, who was as strong as a bull, was wearing a heavy sheepskin and looked majestic.
He held a long knife in his hand and shouted in the mountains, and his voice rumbled in the valley,
But because of the strong wind, Sima Yi didn't hear what was going on.
But when he saw the banner beside Meng Shu, he also knew that he had been tricked......
When did the Shu army go up the mountain?
Ding Feng and Wang Ping saw the big banner on the mountain, and then they remembered that Ma Jian had specially ordered Meng Shu to lead the people on the mountain in order to prevent the so-called surprise soldiers on the mountain.
Meng Shu had the heart to kill Ma Jian at that time.
He was also too careful, how could anyone have a way to jump from the top of the mountain to the city to launch an attack.
Meng Huo was very speechless these days, and he could only lead everyone to find caves to lurk in the mountains.
Fortunately, the mountain is steep and is a place to hide soldiers.
Meng Huojun was not short of grain and grass for the time being, and he also found some mountain springs to supplement the water source in time.
In addition to being colder, I really stayed in the mountains.
The Wei army attacked in a big way, and Meng Huo originally wanted to lead the army down the mountain to fight.
But his subordinates stopped him one after another, saying that going down the mountain rashly like this was clearly sending him to death.
"General, you can't go down the mountain, they ...... There are tens of thousands of them.
Let's stay in the mountains for a while! β
"Yes, to rush down the mountain is to send you to death,
Didn't Ma join the army and let me wait to guard the mountain, just obey the order. β
"We are not afraid of the thief army going up the mountain, but how can we defeat these thieves when we go down the mountain?"
Thinking of Ma Yan's guarding the mountain, Meng Shu could only sigh helplessly.
Okay, you told us to guard the mountain, so we'll hide it here.
It's a big deal to blow a cold wind for a few more days, hopefully...... Hopefully it will be held.
When Zhang He and Sima Yi arrived at Jieting, they saw that the Han army in Jieting was clearly like a turtle and the whole army was huddled in the city, and they didn't think that there would be an enemy ambush nearby.
(Don't talk about them, in the Battle of Menglianggu a thousand years later, our army finished counting the number of people before pushing out the enemy army, and there were thousands of people "ambushed" in the mountains)
At the beginning, in order to be careful of the sneak attack of the Han army, Sima Yi also scattered a lot of soldiers to protect him.
Seeing that the Shu army was unmoved, he simply left only a dozen people to protect the craftsmen from being attacked by hungry wolves, and the others also withdrew down the mountain to prepare for the attack.
The movements of the Wei army naturally could not be concealed from Meng Shu, who was proficient in mountain warfare.
Although this is not Nanzhong, as long as Lord Meng is willing, it is impossible for these Wei soldiers to find his traces.
He clearly watched as the Wei army secretly poked and poked the trebuchet to build the trebuchet, and one of the somewhat stammering men occasionally made some designs and improvements to some key parts of the trebuchet, and instructed everyone to choose the right stones.
Meng Shu's heart was secretly cool.
He felt that his opportunity to make meritorious contributions had come.
If you can't beat the large army of the Wei army, can't you still beat these craftsmen?
Not to mention that although Ma Yan's arrangement is stupid, it really has a lot of benefits.
It turns out that fighting a war is like this, as long as all aspects are taken into account, there is nothing anyone else can do.
Is this the god of war?
Meng Huo did not move, and personally led more than 100 Nanzhong warriors to quietly outflank, while the rest of the people held the mountain road to ambush.
He quietly watched Wei Jun go to great lengths to cut down trees and make siege equipment, and he couldn't help but laugh wildly in his heart.
He was forced to defect to Liu Chan, and he has never had much room to play.
I didn't expect it......
This time, I actually won the first credit!
When the first round of Wei attacks began, Meng Xu immediately ordered his soldiers to start approaching the mountain.
Ma Jun excitedly watched the scene of the boulder wreaking havoc at the bottom of the mountain, stroked his beard proudly, and ordered his subordinates to continue to load the stone bullets, and fired two more waves.
"Okay, all the thieves in Shu will die in the city this time!"
Ma Jun was very satisfied with his improved trebuchet, but his face immediately darkened.
He's racked his brains to make improvements to the trebuchet, but his small changes still don't make a huge difference.
According to the intelligence of the Xinye front, the trebuchet of the Shu army can shoot hundreds of catties of boulders, and it can also have a range of about 250 steps, and the most terrifying thing is that there are only a few gunners in operation......
How is this possible?
Ma Jun's trebuchet took advantage of the weakness of the street pavilion standing next to the city, and it was already very difficult to throw a dozen catties of boulders.
No matter how heavy it is, you have to increase the number of people who pull the trebuchet, and it is difficult for so many people to unify their pace.
If it's on flat ground, it's hard to cast a beautiful arc, and you might not fly into the city.
What kind of magic did the Shu army use to do this......
Sima Yi said that the Shu army even did not hesitate to burn this trebuchet when they retreated, and it seems that this thing is not difficult to learn.
If I had the opportunity to see it, I would definitely be able to produce a comparable divine weapon.
Hmph, after this battle, you will be able to ......
He was still thinking nonsense, and suddenly a muffled snort sounded in his ears.
He looked back in amazement, and found that the craftsman beside him had fallen limply to the groundβ
A group of strong men covered in heavy fur appeared out of nowhere, ghostly rushing to the trebuchet.
Each of these men stretched out his hand to be strong,
They took advantage of the craftsmen's intense operation of the trebuchets, and pressed the mouths of the craftsmen from behind, and the sharp steel knives had already cut their necks.
The Wei soldiers who were in charge of protecting the craftsmen were all looking curiously at the street pavilion with their hands in their hands, completely unaware that death was approaching.
Meng Shu and his subordinates raised the cooked copper rods high, and in an instant, they burst all the brains they smashed and died.
"Rao, spare, spare life......"
Ma Jun was born in a wealthy family, and he still has the ability to judge.
He saw that Meng Huo had a sideways face, killing people like killing chickens, and blood was splashed all over his face, but he didn't blink his eyes.
He knew that no matter how much he resisted, it would be useless, so he simply knelt down and begged Meng to spare his life.
"The king spares my life, I, I am...... Fufeng Majia ......"
"Get out!"
Meng Shu kicked Ma Jun in the face head-on, almost kicking him straight down the mountain.
"The king?
This general is a big man who has no time to be the governor of the front of the flying army, Meng Shu is also, what are you, dare to talk nonsense in front of this general! β
"What is thou hast abusive, is it unfaithful;
It is considered unkind to create this thing to kill the heavenly soldiers;
And also...... Anyway, you must have done something unfilial!
This is disloyal, unrighteous, unkind, and unfilial...... Oh yes, yes, forgot to say you were unjust!
You're not a thing anyway!
I'm a good man, and today I'm going to cut the sin on behalf of the heavens and chop it into meat sauce! β
In an instant, the pleasure of pretending to be forced rushed from the soles of his feet to the door.
The children of the Fufeng Ma family knelt at their feet and begged bitterly, and they angrily denounced their disloyalty, injustice, benevolence and filial piety as a soldier of the Han Dynasty, which felt really cool.
Although Meng Shu himself doesn't know where Ma Jun is unfilial and unjust, he is now a Han Chinese.
Of course, we Han people have to quote scriptures when scolding,
For this, Meng Shu had been holding back words in his stomach for the past few days, and he was quite proficient, but he forgot most of it when he was excited, and he could only scold and scold again.
Ma Jun was already stammering, and he was even more frightened by Meng Yu's snatching.
He saw Meng Shu smiling and walking over with a knife, and quickly got up and begged incessantly:
"Heavenly soldiers spare their lives, heavenly soldiers spare their lives, heaven, heavenly soldiers...... I, I was also forced, I wished, I wished to serve anyway, and begged the heavenly soldiers to spare their lives! β
Ma Jun forcibly restrained his stuttering at a critical moment, and finally made his words clear.
Meng Shu pondered for a while, then waved his hand and said:
"Come on, throw those sergeants down the mountain, and don't kill the other craftsmen first!"
Looking at the hideous faces of Meng Shu's subordinates, killing people as calmly as pinching an ant to death, Ma Jun was even more frightened like he was sifting chaff, how dare he resist.
Meng Shu strangled several captured Wei soldiers and threw them into the valley, and forced the craftsmen to operate trebuchets and throw boulders at the Wei camp.
Only then did Zhang He and Sima Yi react that it turned out that the Han army had seized the top of the mountain and controlled the trebuchet.
Sima Yi's head kept sweating, and he thought that Ma Ke was a talent that he had borrowed with great difficulty, and it was the hope of creating a new trebuchet like Xinye.
If you die here, how can you deal with it in the future?
He immediately ordered his men to attack the mountain and be sure to rescue Ma Jun.
But as we all know, there is a cloud in the art of war: condescending and powerful.
The Wei soldiers braved the heavier and heavier snow and began to attack the mountain, and the Han soldiers who had been preparing for a long time rushed out halfway up the mountain, and they killed these soldiers who attacked the mountain in an instant.
Although the soldiers in Nanzhong are afraid of the cold, they are wrapped in heavy fur these days and have become accustomed to the cold wind blowing directly.
They had an absolute advantage in mountain warfare, and easily drove down the Wei army that was constantly attacking the mountains one after another.
And the Wei soldiers, who were accustomed to fighting on horseback and on the plains, did not know how to parry on the steep mountain road, and were driven down the hillside like ducks, and if they fled a little slower, they would be stabbed head-on, and the screams and wails were mixed with the arrogant laughter of the Meng Huo soldiers.
Zhang He and Sima Yi suddenly exploded.
Even more of their mentality is still to come.
In order to survive, Ma Jun took the initiative to suggest that Meng Shu replace the large stones with smaller ones, and kept throwing them at the Wei army's military camp.
Everyone knows how to throw objects in the air.
Although this stone weighed only ten catties, it could be thrown down at such a high speed at such a high speed, and it still smashed the Wei army screaming again and again.
In particular, the lime bombs specially prepared for the Han army bloomed on the Wei army's position, choking Zhang He and scolding, but there was nothing to be done.
It is impossible for the Han army to go up the mountain after the arrival of the Wei army......
That is, they have long been ambushed.
Is this also Ma Tan's calculation?
Sima Yi felt a chill in his heart.
Also, there is only this explanation.
Why didn't Ma Tan concentrate his forces to defend the city, and it didn't make much sense to put an extra partial division on this side of the mountain.
"I still want to do this!
Hurry, go, go! β
Zhang He angrily grabbed Sima Yi, who was still in a daze, and dragged him to run away.
I had to leave this place quickly......
Trebuchets don't follow,
I can only retreat to Dongcheng and find a way.
Although the antler array in Dongcheng will be difficult to crack for a while and a half,
But Zhang He would rather move the antlers with his own hands than endure this humiliation.
"Hahahaha, what Zhang He, but that's it! Hahahaha! β
Meng Shu smiled very proudly, and admired Ma Jian a little more in his heart.
Learned, learned,
It turns out that this is what the war is all about.
The reason why I lost to the crown prince was that I was too cautious before.
As long as I am extra cautious in the future, I can also become a general who will go down in history.
He looked at Wei Jun's hasty escape for his life, and was very proud in his heart, and glanced at Ma Jun with a sneer.
Ma Jun was stared at by Meng Huo and was furious, for fear that Meng Huo would throw him down the valley as well.
"King, king, I have done what the king said, don't kill me."
"Hehe, why don't you stutter now?
Don't worry, I'm a Han Heavenly Soldier, and I won't kill people indiscriminately-
Come on, bring those Wei dogs! β
Just now, a few slow Wei soldiers slipped under their feet, and were captured by Meng Huo's soldiers and dragged to Meng Huo.
Most of the Wei soldiers hurriedly begged to surrender, and only a few would rather die than give in, still scolding Meng Shu.
Meng Shu smiled and handed a steel knife in his hand to Ma Jun's hand, and made a gesture of invitation to him.
"Come on, come on, here's ...... There were five people,
In this way, you can pick three kills. β
"So, what about the rest?"
"The rest is their dog luck, so I'm naturally going to put them back."
Ma Jun held the steel knife in his hand, trembling incessantly, and forcibly squeezed out a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying.
"Heavenly soldiers, heavenly soldiers can't do this kind of thing, how can they, how can they kill ......"
"Hey, I'm a barbarian, I've not been educated by the prince for a long time, and I occasionally commit some brute strength, what's the big deal?"
He patted Ma Jun's shoulder vigorously and said with a cruel smile:
"Hurry up, kill them, we'll be brothers."