Chapter 435: Black Wind Village
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Not long after Wang Bodang left, Song Jingang led the leading troops to the mountain road less than ten miles away from Heifeng Village, and was marching forward.
At the forefront were the shield soldiers, who walked cautiously forward with large wooden shields nearly a man tall in their hands. This is the mountain leading to the front of the Black Wind Village, there is only one weed lodging, as if it has been stepped on, only four people are allowed to pass side by side, if the Zhou army platoons such a long snake formation to attack the cottage, it will be vulnerable.
As a result, Song Jingang had to order to stop advancing and carefully inspect the terrain in front of him.
Song Jingang looked at the surrounding terrain and saw a bubbling stream meandering out of the top of the mountain, although the stream was also lined with dense weeds and bushes, but the stream was wider. Moreover, if the army marched through this shallow stream, they would have avoided the obstacles they had encountered before, such as pits, nails, sleeves, and thorns in the weeds.
Song Jingang learned from Wei Haoliang's mouth that there were a large number of traps outside the Black Wind Village, far more than the sum of the previous six passes. He didn't believe it at first, but from the current march, he found that Wei Haoliang was not exaggerating the situation. Although they had already walked very cautiously, they still lost a lot of careless soldiers.
So, Song Jingang shouted: "Everyone go down to the stream and march along this stream to the mountain!" We're going to go up the stream. ”
This stream is called Baishui Creek, the stream is very shallow, the deepest place is not more than the knee, the width is not more than four or five zhang, it is said that it flows down from the main peak where Wagangzhai is located, the water source of Baishuizhai and Heifeng Village is dependent on it, among which Baishuizhai is named after this stream.
Although the stream was winding and winding, and there were boulders in the stream from time to time, because there was no need for traps in the grass along the way, the Zhou army traveled much faster than the narrow one.
It's just that the Wei army can lay a lot of traps in the grass, and there is no reason why they would let go of this stream that can be traced upstream, and the road is wide, leading to the Black Wind Village.
Song Jingang didn't dare to be careless at all, and kept telling his soldiers to be on full alert.
All the soldiers of the Zhou army looked at the air with vigilant eyes, the grass on both sides of the stream, and even the stream underwater. I'm afraid that an enemy ambush will suddenly emerge from inside, or step on some trap or something.
The Zhou army walked forward for more than an hour, and then saw two peaks standing side by side in front of them, and in the middle was a deep canyon, and the mountains in the valley were extremely dangerous. And on the mountain peaks, there are jungles all over the place, lush, and there seems to be human beings surging on the cliffs, and it seems that the Wei army has laid an ambush here.
Song Jingang was shocked when he saw this, and immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and he was about to send some probes to the front to see the enemy's situation, so as not to fall into an ambush for his own army.
But what he didn't expect was that among the trees in front of him, the branches suddenly trembled, and a sharp whistle sounded, and then countless poisonous arrows and boulders fell straight down from the cliff.
The officers and soldiers of Zhou, who were caught off guard, fell down with screams, some were shot like hedgehogs, and some were smashed by boulders, and their brains burst out, and their deaths were miserable.
The shield bearers in the Zhou army immediately rushed to the front and raised their shields high to resist. But the stone was so big, the size of a pumpkin. Its momentum is very fast, and often the shield bearer is smashed by a boulder and overturns with a person with a shield, and he can't resist it at all.
Song Jingang raised his eyes and found that Wei Jun had made hands and feet on the trees, and a thick leather band was tied to every two trees, and a concave leather disc was tied in the middle of the band, and a stone the size of a watermelon was placed in it. Then, using these two big trees as a fulcrum, he used a rubber band to catapult the boulder to attack the Zhou army.
At the same time, on both sides of the trees, the archers of the Wei army also began to shoot at the Zhou army with homemade poisoned arrows, although the poisoned arrows they used were cut from wood and did not penetrate strongly, but the arrows had severe pain, and as long as they were punctured in the skin, they would be poisoned to death. The lethality to the Zhou army is great.
Although the Zhou army also began to pick up the Lianzhu crossbow and return fire at the enemy. But the Wei army hid in the woods, covered with leaves and green grass, and it seemed that it was very indistinguishable from the woods and meadows. Most of the arrows failed to hit the enemy.
At this time, the Zhou army could no longer resist the enemy's poisonous arrows and boulder attacks, and standing in the stream, it was really the enemy's best target, and there was nowhere to hide. So, after a blind burst of arrows, they ran to the grass and woods on both sides to avoid the boulders and poisoned arrows.
However, the Zhou army did not expect that the Wei army had already laid all kinds of pits, bamboo nails, sets, thorns, wooden thorns and other objects in the grass. They were supposed to send scouts and sappers to investigate in detail, but now they were attacked and could only break in blindly, so many people stepped on the trap.
Bursts of screams immediately sounded in the crowd of the Zhou army, and there were many dead and wounded. However, the Wei army took this opportunity to strengthen its attack power, throwing boulders and poisonous arrows into the crowd of the Zhou army, like a devastating and decaying force, no one was invincible.
Although Song Jingang tried his best to restrain his subordinates and wanted to insist on resisting, the Zhou army was already broken, and many soldiers began to retreat outside the mountain in fear.
Song Jingang saw that his army's formation had been greatly disorganized, and the soldiers' sharpness had also been seriously frustrated, and it was indeed difficult to rush through here for a while. Especially just now, a stone the size of a watermelon flew past his ear, almost hitting his face, making him shudder in his heart.
One of the pro-soldiers behind him was not so lucky. He was smashed into the chest by the stone, his ribs were broken, and he fell to the ground only convulsing, blood spurting from his mouth and nose.
Song Jingang was actually the leader of the peasant rebel army in Yizhou, Hebei Province in the past, and he had experienced battles in the mountains, but when he saw such a situation, he was also a little frightened, so he had to order someone to help up the wounded soldiers, and the rear team changed to the front team, and fled to the sixth pass......
Seeing that their own army had repelled the Zhou army, several Wei generals wanted to pursue it, but Jia Xiong grabbed them and said: "You don't hurry to chase for the time being, although the Zhou army is defeated, but it is defeated but not chaotic, if our army catches up in a hurry, it will lose its geographical advantage and form a melee with the enemy." And now that our army is at a disadvantage, it will seriously damage the already small number of troops. In Jia's opinion, let's go back to defend first! ”
The generals of the Wei army admired Jia Xiong even more, and secretly thought that General Wang had the foresight to appoint General Jia to guard the village as an agent, and General Jia was really wise and brave, and thought carefully.
Soon after, the general of the Zhou army, Cheng Yanjin, also led a force to attack, this time they came prepared, all of them were hoplites, and they brought a huge iron shield about one man high, which required two people to carry it. With this heavy shield in hand, it can be well protected against boulders and poison arrows.
Jia Xiong had no choice but to temporarily abandon this dangerous place in front of him, and the whole army retreated to the Black Wind Village.
About two hours later, seeing that it was already afternoon, the Wei soldiers guarding the wall of the Black Wind Village were shocked, because they heard a sudden sound of heavy footsteps in the distance.
The officer on the wall raised his eyes and looked forward, and his face couldn't help but change greatly.
I saw a large group of Zhou army's men and horses rushing from the bottom of the hillside. All of them were neatly armored and well-equipped, and their numbers were very large, and they rushed over like dark clouds, covering the original green of the mountains and forests. These Zhou officers and soldiers were armed with broadswords and spears, or shields, bows and arrows. Of course, there are even people who carry ladders.
They are all burly and stout, and at a glance you can tell that they are elite people after some selection. Due to the narrowness of the mountain, the line dragged on for a long time, and the black pressure could not see the tail, so that the Wei soldiers could not judge how many enemies there were.
Although the troops of the Zhou army were lined up in a long serpentine shape, they did not have the surging force of the tide on the plain, but they marched neatly and calmly. And the first one was holding a Xuanhua axe, needless to say, it was Cheng Yanjin, a famous general of the Zhou army.
The sound of heavy footsteps made Wagang Mountain change color, and made the Wei army feel irresistible.
The generals around Jia Xiong couldn't help but feel a little numb when they saw such an elite Zhou army, and many of the Wei soldiers standing on the wall of the wall were so frightened that their legs trembled.
"Afraid of what? We've got a trick up our sleeve that doesn't work! Jia Xiong said with a disdainful face.
Immediately, he shouted, "Open the gates!" Let the prepared goats out! ”
After a while, I only heard a gong sound of "dong dong dong" suddenly sounded, and then the gate of Heifeng Village opened with a bang.
Zhou Jun thought that the enemy army had been killed, and he couldn't help but be surprised. Cheng Yanjin immediately ordered the shield bearers to put the big shield on the ground, and the spears stood behind the shield. The archers were also ready to meet the enemy.
However, they were surprised to find that it was not the Wei soldiers who rushed out of the gate, but a large number of goats, four or five of them.
Moreover, the goats were "dressed" up with two sharp daggers tied to their horns, and their tails were wound around strips of cloth stained with fire oil, and then set on fire. A red flame of "poof, poof" was ignited.
The goats, in pain from being burned by the fire, rushed frantically towards the crowd of Zhou troops in front of them with red eyes.
Although there are only four or five of these goats, which is not much, they can be regarded as a very considerable number of powerful attack weapons on such a narrow mountain road of Wagang Mountain.
The soldiers of the two armies looked up, only to see the crazy goats, like a tiger descending the mountain, rushing towards the mountain road outside the Black Wind Village, and the whole field of wild grass was trampled down by the goats in unison, that strange scene can be said to be spectacular, unforgettable.
Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but exclaim: "These Wei troops actually used the Fire Ox Array? No, it's supposed to be called the Fire Sheep Formation...... Block them! Hurry up and release the arrows......"
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