Chapter 149: Advance and Retreat
Chenglu Hui returned to the Chu army camp without any danger, and calculated the time it took to come and go, almost exactly an hour. The winter solstice took him to the festival tent, Xu You summoned the generals, and the Chenglu Association gave a detailed report on the military information found this time.
As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, the content was so detailed, the scope of the involvement, and the depth of the promotion were all called textbooks for spy personnel!
Tan Zhuo boasted: "Be brave and strategic, not chaotic in the face of danger, the master of the winter solstice, your secret mansion has made a great contribution this time!" ”
Cao Qing heard it unbelievable, so he pretended to be an enemy general and mixed in, and whipped the enemy a few times, and then came back in a hurry? Out of old consideration, he asked, "Do you have any credentials?" ”
Tan Xiaozu frowned and said: "General Cao, the secret mansion has always acted rigorously, and I dare to guarantee this!" "He is actually for Cao Qing's good, I am afraid that he will offend the secret mansion by being careless in his words, after all, people sacrifice their lives and forget their lives to go deep into the enemy camp, but you are here to question the truth or falsehood, it is really unreasonable. Zhan Wenjun is far away in Jinling, and the power in the hands of the winter solstice is amazing, which annoys the master, and the future troubles are endless.
Dong Zhi smiled: "General Cao asked!" Chenglu Club, what about your credentials? ”
Chenglu will offer something and say, "This is a jade cup stolen from Wei Chixin's big tent, which is enough to rely on!" ”
Identifying antiques is the specialty of a family like Yu Teng, he took it and took a look, and said with a smile: "It's a good thing, warm and bright, Jinghua is introverted, it should be played with in your hand all day long, but I don't know if it's Wei Chixin's ......."
In fact, everyone has already believed that in this era when jade is more scarce than gold, who else can have such a beautiful jade cup except for Xianbei nobles like Wei Chixin and the general of the unified army?
"Go and get Lou to get rid of the disease!"
Xu You naturally supports and trusts 100% of the work of the Secret Mansion and the Winter Solstice, but if someone raises questions, it is better to figure it out thoroughly.
After being captured, Lou Diji enjoyed a very good prisoner of war treatment, he was not tortured, nor was he abused, Xu You ate and drank whatever he wanted, sometimes he missed the taste of his hometown, and he had to ask the cook to give him a little bit of the local characteristics of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The only thing that may not be comfortable is that his position must move with Xu You, from Yuzhou to Luozhou to Guanzhong for most of the year, and then back to Luozhou, bumpy and erratic.
Took the jade cup, just glanced at it, Lou dispelled the disease and said: "This is Wei Chixin's baby, when he defeated the Yuanxing rebels, the lord was happy, and specially rewarded him, it is said that Cao Zhi used to drink wine when he was Luo Shenfu on the bank of Luoshui, and he bragged all day long, and he was reluctant to put it down when he went to the toilet......"
The antique industry is deep, and it turns out that storytelling has been popular since then, and even the emperor is not exempt from vulgarity. Xu You smiled and said, "Since the information has been confirmed, let's discuss, how to destroy the enemy?" ”
Lou was very sensible, he lowered his head and wanted to leave, but Xu You stopped him and said, "Brother Lou stay, and help with ideas." ”
Lou Diji didn't have the courage to refuse, his butt was next to the chair, sitting on the top of Xu You's left side, and he made up his mind never to say a word.
Mi Po Touch is the most good at guarding, proficient in various styles of camp maps throughout the ages, and took the lead in saying: "Judging from the camp map found in the secret mansion, the method of camping is extremely superb, with the Qianding Heavenly Gate, with the Kun Dingren Gate, with the Xun Dingdi Household, with the Gen Dingghost Road, open the four Zhong, close the four dimensions, and build the Taibai Array." This array is the main killing, the change is unprovoked, the white star is out and the sky is autumn, the grass and trees are withering, just as the military might, who can compete? ”
Tan Xiaozu thought for a moment and said: "What General Mi means, the Wei army is not to defend to the death, but to deliberately lure me to attack!" ”
Mi Po touched the humble and said: "I don't dare to speak falsely under the festival, but looking at it from the perspective of the battalion, within the eight gates, the sharp edges are splashing everywhere, such a sharp spirit is contained without spitting, it should be ready to deal with the strong attack of our army......"
Tan Zhuo stroked his beard and said: "Wei Chixin and Li Chong have few soldiers, and they should be the best defenders, but they are all leading cavalry, and they are not willing to sit and defend a corner, the so-called attack is the best defense, and the ether white array is camped, both offensive and defensive, and General Mi's inference is reasonable." ”
Zuo Yan took over and said: "The enemy situation has become clear, the Wei army's Luzhuang battalion has a total of 7,000 to 8,000 troops, and the layout of the camp has also been clarified, but Yuan Mulan's main force has arrived in Zhongmu, and he can go to Luzhuang to support and respond at any time." General, time is running out, even if it is a strong attack, it is better to take Luzhuang as soon as possible at all costs. ”
He Wei and other generals also have the same opinion, the two armies are facing each other, in the final analysis, they still have to compete in strength, the other party is a veteran of the battle formation, and it is easy not to fall into the scheme, then only the sword and the soldier meet, and use the strength to decide the victory!
Xu You followed the admonition, immediately raised the platform, proclaimed the whole army, he slowly drew his sword, the afternoon dusk cast a long shadow from behind, the handsome side face carved as an axe in the flickering of light and shadow revealed an indescribable unique charm, resolute, calm and clear voice as if the divine creator in the ear; "The Lord gave me a scepter, ruling China and foreign countries, having the honor of entering death, no shame of retreat, rewarding ancestors with life, not killing in the society, there are no two orders for the army, there will be no two words, I hope that the kings will have the heart of iron and stone, the spirit of wind and frost, this battle, I am invincible, and Dachu will win!"
The flags are fluttering, the mountains are shouting and the tsunami is blowing, everyone is excited, and the thunderous roar is swinging out for dozens of miles, saying: "Da Chu will win!" ”
An hour later, Ming Jing led 20,000 men to approach Luzhuang, and launched a frantic attack from the southeast and northwest directions with an extremely fierce and one-day attitude.
He Wei knows that it is easy to reason, and if he wants to break this Taibai camp formation, the southeast and northwest are the best entry points!
The first thing the Chu army faced was rows of deer and rejected horses, and five hundred axe soldiers stepped forward in heavy armor, relying on the long-range fire of their own crossbowmen to suppress them, split the deer bars with axes, and then lassoed the rejected horses with ropes, pulled them to the side and discarded in piles, and soon opened up enough roads for the follow-up troops to pass.
Due to the exhaustive military information investigated in advance, Ming Jing was well prepared, and only suffered more than 30 casualties, which was a good start.
The ditch, which was one and five feet wide and one foot deep, constituted the second line of defense, and I saw the banner waving, and the two thousand foot soldiers carrying round wooden shields, carrying bags full of earth, braving the enemy's incomparably accurate arrows, and paying more than 200 lives, finally filled the ravine, and put it in order.
Two thousand people stepped forward in batches, and they had to fill the earth, and the shield could not completely cover the body, not to mention that most of the Wei people practiced bows and arrows since childhood, and the arrows were always very tricky from the fleeting gaps through their eyes and chests and abdomen, like a gorgeous and cruel witchcraft, there was no rain of arrows scattered at will, but a point shot that would be rewarded when the bow was opened, and the casualties caused could not be avoided at all.
The third line of defense is a high walled wall surrounded by knife carts and fences, and the bright blades come out of the wall, dense and irregular, like a hedgehog with an open back, making people have nowhere to start.
The wall is divided into three layers, each layer stands knife soldiers, spearmen, crossbow soldiers, knife soldiers are at the bottom, used to cut off the bamboo ladder and flying claws that climb the bottom, the spearmen are in the middle, through the gaps in the fence to pierce the enemy's various vital points, the crossbowmen are on top, shoot arrows and crossbows first, and wait for the enemy to climb the wall, immediately replace it with a huge lethal iron bone, desperately smash and smash, you can knock down a piece at once, and fall like dandruff.
In addition, every fifty paces in the battalion is to build a war tower, or five floors, or seven floors, on which twenty to one hundred archers can be stationed, which can not only keep an eye on the enemy's situation at any time, provide reference for the main general's decision-making, but also provide strong fire support for the robe in front of the army - they are condescending, but also at an angle, this three-dimensional defense, can pose a great and extreme pressure on the enemy.
At this point, there is no way but to fill it with human lives. The brave and fearless Chu army deserves any reputation, in just half an hour, the blood stained the fence red for several miles, slowly dipping into the soil along the wooden pole, the blade sticking out of the wall also became obtuse in the cutting again and again, the spear pierced into the chest through the fence was stuck in the crack of the hard bones, and before it could be pulled out, the young man with a smudge on his face sneered and cut off the barrel of the gun, and then pounced hard, and the knife in his hand also pierced into the enemy's heart.
The person who was alive a little earlier became a corpse under his feet the next moment, but the unyielding and blazing red eyes burned the blood of all the combatants from the captain to the marquis to the soldier.
Kill!
Their wills are as hard as bones!
Victory belongs to Da Chu!
"Commander, the camp gate is broken!"
Ming Jing was waiting for this moment, Wan Jun's crossbow opened the distance, and after many rounds of shooting, he cleared the archers on both sides of the camp gate in the southeast, and then used heavy infantry to protect both sides, and smashed the camp gate open by rushing cars.
However, the Taibai camp formation was mainly composed of the Chinese army, surrounded by a total of 17 battalions, arranged in the shape of six flowers, each battalion was surrounded by baggage carts and wooden fences, and the middle road was curved and narrow, and the five people could not stand side by side.
"Ordered Bao Bao to break through to the left, break one or two of the enemy's inner camp, stand still, and have five hundred people in the department, and must not take a step back!"
The order flag waved, three on the left, four on the left, pointed forward, unmistakably conveyed Ming Jing's military order, and Bao Zuo, who had just knocked open the camp gate, immediately shouted loudly: "Break the cool capital, follow me!" ”
Immediately behind him was the capital eunuch Lu Zheng, the two of them got acquainted from the original battle of Xuzhou, and in the past three years, they have gone through many major battles with the Cuiyu army, all relying on beheading and meritorious service, from an ordinary nobody to a captain of five hundred heavily armed spearmen. And because he withstood the charge of nearly 1,000 cavalry of Xiliang Horse outside Chang'an City, he was awarded the banner of breaking the Liangdu after the war.
This is a great honor, including the left and below, and they are willing to defend with their lives!
As soon as he entered the camp, hundreds of spears stabbed at the heights on both sides of the road, but they were only heavily armored and guarded, and the results were not significant. Bao Zuo didn't dodge at all, he was a veteran of a hundred battles, his eyes were vicious, and he let the tip of the gun stab him in the shoulder, whether it was the hardness of the gun or the sharpness of the tip of the gun, it was far from comparable to the equipment of the Chu army.
In this way, braving the forest of guns, steadily advancing, about to reach the end of the road, the two bed crossbows were impressive, Bao Zuo was shocked, the order to retreat had not yet reached his mouth, and the sound of the bowstring was heard in his ears, and the two huge crossbow arrows swept the hole like a plough, quickly and brutally penetrated more than fifty people, completely disrupting the formation of the Chu army.
This kind of old-fashioned bed crossbow that has been widely used in the battlefield since the Han Dynasty due to the unreliability of accuracy, in addition to being placed at the head of the city to strengthen the courage, in fact, there is not much use, and the Chu army's three-bow bed crossbow is simply the starlight of the moon, but at this moment, the terrain and distance constraints, let it rejuvenate the power of death.
Invincible!
The spears on both sides took the opportunity to stab indiscriminately, and more than 30 people were killed and wounded in an instant, Bao Zuo luckily escaped the baptism of the bed crossbow, and was just about to take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy to replace the arrows, leading everyone to rush over, and the hurried footsteps accompanied by a hundred Wei troops holding crossbows appeared at Yongdaokou, standing left and right, into five rows before and after, the cold arrow tips shone with the light of Xiao killing, and instantly came like locusts.
"Raise your shield, raise your shield!"
The multi-faceted leather shield was erected, and the aggressive impact sound seemed to hit Bao Zuo's heart, his eyes were full of unwillingness and anger, the crossbow machine was not strong enough, not to kill people, but to stop them from charging, to buy time for the two bed crossbows to reload, once fired again, these good men under his command were afraid that none of them would be able to escape.
Ming Jing's military order made Po Liang not take a step back, and if he disobeyed, the end would be self-evident.
He is not afraid of death, but Po Liang is wearing the most expensive heavy armor, undertaking the most important tasks, facing the greatest danger, and dying here meaninglessly, is really irresponsible!
"Retreat! Exit and go! ”
Bao Zuo resolutely decided to retreat.
Lu Zheng was beside him, with a shield in his left hand, and a spear in his right hand pierced into the neck of an enemy, and was shot in the chest at the same time, and the tip of the gun was three inches inside, not fatal, but it was not lightly injured, but he didn't take it seriously, and said in a deep voice: "I second!" ”
The Metropolitan Supervisor seconded the proposal, indicating that the Supervision Department and the military generals stood together, and the responsibility was divided afterwards, and the two were guilty of the same crime!
In the end, more than 150 people were killed and wounded in Po Liangdu, and he had no choice but to withdraw from the camp. The two sides fought from the afternoon to dusk, just when the battle was stalemate, the two thousand cavalry of the Wei army suddenly bypassed the promised rear, appeared on the left flank of the Chu army, hundreds of horses were specially hung with branches, galloping vertically and horizontally, within a radius of ten miles, smoke and dust everywhere, only heard the horse's hooves like thunder, but could not see the specific movement.
This is a common trick used by the Wei army when attacking with light cavalry, which can create serious panic and psychological pressure on the warring enemy, and then quietly look for fighters, as long as the opponent's formation has a moment of chaos, it can take advantage of the situation to rush in, and then chisel through, divide, surround, and eat bite by bite!
Ming Jing had been waiting for them in the morning, the spear and shield soldiers on the left flank had not moved the defensive line, and the Wei cavalry had approached and galloped away twice in succession, but they could not find a flaw, so they had to shoot two rounds with the archers behind the defensive line, and the range could not take advantage of it, so they rode their horses to the west.
To the west, it's Xu You's Chinese army!
Ming Jing sneered, he knew that the Wei army was wishful thinking, but he still ordered the reserves located in the rear to go over and block it. The reserve of 3,000 men was dispatched urgently, some fast, some slow, and some collided together, and there was the only great confusion since the beginning of the war.
Wei Cai suddenly turned around and killed a horse pistol, the leader of the army, Wei Chixin's eyes glowed with excitement, this is really a godsend, as long as he rushes into the formation from the rear, he can cut off the enemy's front and rear troops, and then take advantage of the chaos to directly insert the commander's flag, behead Ming Jing, this battle will be a complete victory.
He licked his chapped lips, it wasn't a lack of water, it was the taste of longing for blood!