Chapter 293: Wen Dou
The battle strategy has been decided, and the next step is the time to make preparations.
Tao Ji himself personally transferred a group of skilled soldiers who were good at carpentry in the army, and let them carry out the construction of the giant shield, and the soldiers and horses of the White Tiger Village were 5,000 people, and there were more personnel, so it was not difficult to build, and almost only in a day or so to complete the construction of three huge wooden shields.
However, the strategy originally provided by Tao Ying was to build a shield car, and the big shield was a little unsatisfactory.
However, due to the limited number of manpower and tools, it will take a lot of effort just to get the wheels, so the car will definitely not be able to make it, so it can only be made into a huge wooden shield, and then carried by people to rush forward.
However, in practical terms, such a thing should actually be enough, and the only drawback is the number and weight of the lift.
Next, it is to select the candidate who will rush into battle to burn the opponent's wooden gate.
In fact, logically speaking, it should be safer to set rockets on fire to the enemy's wooden gate, but one is that when the pottery merchant army enters the mountain, it is light and simple, and the number of arrows carried by the bow and crossbow is extremely limited, and the second is that the wooden fence is made of thick tree trunks, and the fire on the arrow is only on the wooden door, and the burning area is not enough, so it may not be able to ignite the wooden door.
Therefore, use the giant shield as a cover, first get close to the opponent's wooden gate, let the soldiers pour the lamp oil they carry on the wooden door, and then quickly ignite the fire at close range, so that there is a chance to fully burn the opponent's wooden gate.
After the wooden gate was built, Tao Ji selected the soldiers who could ignite the wooden gate among the elite soldiers of Danyang, and he selected the strongest 100 soldiers from the two thousand Danyang soldiers, and only these people were physically strong enough to be able to lift these three huge wooden shields to attack the wooden gate.
It's not so much a big shield as a huge wooden board made of wooden stakes, and there is probably a long handle nailed under the wooden board, which can be enough for a dozen or so people to carry it forward, but because the wooden shield is very heavy, ten people can't carry it forward for a long distance, and then replace it with more than a dozen people in shifts.
However, although these three large wooden shields can block the enemy's arrows, if the Yan White Tiger Army throws stones or giant trees when approaching the White Tiger Village, those huge wooden shields will not be able to protect the safety of the soldiers.
Therefore, to a certain extent, Tao Ying's strategy is still risky.
But fortunately, it is just to light the wooden gate, and the time required by the pottery merchant army should not be much, they do not need to climb over the wall, nor do they need to rush into the cars, nor do they need to fight hard with each other, they are just naughty and put a big flower in front of the house.
As long as you can hurry up, rush up and throw out oil and torches, and cause a fire on the door, it will be considered a win for the Jinling army.
Of course, if before setting fire, the Yan Baihu Army can't sit still, and can lure the thieves in the opponent's army to confront it head-on, then it would be better, and everything would be simpler.
Xu Chu's Tiger Guards are not far from the rear keeping an eye on the movement of the White Tiger Village, two thousand strong men are waiting for the day under the leadership of the Tiger Idiot General, if Yan Baihu dares to lead the crowd to take the initiative to attack and fight head-on during the time period of burning the door, then Xu Chu will take the lead in the past to resist the gate of the village, and then the Tiger Guards will quickly rush into the enemy village!
With the combat power of the Jinling Army, if you want to deal with Yan Baihu's thief army, it should be no problem.
In addition to the large shield soldiers, Li Tong led and commanded the crossbowmen to guard the rear, and they used arrows and crossbows as cover to protect the soldiers carrying the three large shields to reach the opponent's gate smoothly.
Three huge wooden shields, lifted by the sturdy soldiers, walked towards the gate of the White Tiger Village little by little.
The journey was not very long, and it would take a minute at most for an ordinary soldier to walk at a normal speed, but with these three large and heavy wooden shields, the time was stretched tenfold upwards.
Stop-and-go, stop-and-go, and it looks like you're about to arrive at the gate of the White Tiger Village.
The White Tiger Village has sent crossbowmen to shoot at the big shield, but the strength of the arrow crossbow is completely unable to penetrate the big shield, at most it is just tied to the wooden shield.
After a while, three huge wooden shields have arrived under the door of the White Tiger Village, the soldiers of Jinling City did not hesitate, hurriedly splashed the oil in their hands on the wooden door, and then threw torches on it, the huge wooden door was ignited by fire in many places, and the smoke began to roll up for a while.
The two brothers, the potter merchant and Tao Ying, were standing in the distance, and when they saw smoke on each other's wooden doors, Tao Ying's face suddenly showed an excited expression.
"Big brother! Look! The enemy's gate has been set on fire! I've got it done......"
Before Tao Yingxian finished displaying, he saw that on the wooden fence, Yan Baihu's soldiers put down their bows and arrows in unison.
They began to change their identities from soldiers to firefighters in an instant, pouring water with wooden barrels.
Buckets of water were splashed on the burning point, which immediately suppressed and extinguished the fire.
Tao Ying's eyes suddenly widened.
What to play?
The potter frowned, turned to Tao Ji and commanded, "Mingjiao! Burn again! ”
A short horn sounded, and the soldier with the shield once again poured oil on the fence, then lit the torch with the fire letter again, and threw the torch against the wooden door.
The wooden door was lit again.
But obviously, the actions of the people in the White Tiger Village to fetch water did not stop one by one.
The moment the wooden fence was ignited, buckets of water were once again poured head-on from the fence gate, suppressing the momentum of the flames below.
Not to mention the potters at this moment, even the Danyang elite soldiers who lit the fire in front of them were angry!
Yan Baihujun ...... Isn't this a clear contest?
For a time, the gate of the White Tiger Village was full of people, the smoke was endless, and the shouts were continuous, the fire was sometimes ignited, sometimes extinguished, and the thick smoke was also extinguished from time to time.
You come and go, you don't give in, you light a cigarette to extinguish it, you spit fire and I spit water, tossing for most of the afternoon, both sides were stunned that there were no casualties, all focused on igniting and extinguishing the fire.
Proper Wendou.
The archers on both sides didn't know when to start, and they didn't continue to release arrows, but they just watched in a daze as the soldiers on both sides of the front line played with fire and water, although the gate of the White Tiger Village has not been opened, and the two sides have not been hand-to-hand, but the intensity of ignition and watering is obviously not lower than the degree of head-to-head confrontation.
On the one hand, some soldiers felt that the speed of delivering water in the rear was too slow, so they jumped on the sentry post on the top of the gate and peed directly down to extinguish the fire.
The urine was poured on the heads of the Danyang soldiers who were lighting the fire below......
Salty silk.
I don't know when it started, Xu Chu and Li Tong, who were guarding the rear, looked at the two soldiers in front of them who set fire to fire and played hide and seek, and the two sides were as interesting as tired silly boys, and the two generals couldn't help laughing, and they were almost happy to tears.
It's really rare to hear of a war to this extent.
The potter behind looked at the "dire" battle between the two sides in front of him, and reluctantly buried his face deep in the palm of his hand.
"Yan Baihu, this bastard! What is he playing with me? How about playing with the buddies! …… And the two of you, Xu Chu and Li Tong! Give me a serious face, I'm going to fight! ”
When Xu Chu and Li Tong heard this, they had no choice but to hold back their laughter.
This battle is really too unprofessional.
Just like that, you play me, I play your back and forth for a long time, and the Danyang elite soldiers who stepped forward to light the fire basically used the fire letter and fire oil in their hands.
And the soldiers of Baihuzhai who poured water above were also tired and panting, not only water, but also almost clean urine, and this tug-of-war between the two sides could be regarded as barely stopped.
The Danyang soldiers in front of them withdrew with big shields, and the competition came to an end for the time being.
A battle that lasted almost a noon, under the wear and tear of the two sides, finally ended with the tired hands and arms of the soldiers and generals participating in the battle, and the legs and backsache.
Tao Shangjun - zero killed and zero wounded.
Yan Baihu Army - zero casualties, urine dehydration is not counted.
Tao Ying looked embarrassed, looked at the Yan Baihu military village in the distance, stomped his feet, and said angrily: "I have such a powerful plan, I can't imagine that I will let him break it!" Yan Baihu is really my opponent! It's the first time I've met such a strong player! ”
Xu Chu and Tao Ji held back their strength, they wanted to be happy but didn't dare to be happy, they held their breath in their mouths, and almost didn't break their teeth out.
The potter was silent for a long time, shook his head helplessly, and said, "I didn't expect Yan Baihu to be so difficult, there is no way, it seems that it can only be a strong attack!" Xu Chu, we can use the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and then prepare the fire oil and ignition materials for a while, attack the gate all the way, and forcibly climb all the way, although there will be a lot of casualties, but until now, we can only act like this......"
Tao Ying once again recommended himself: "Big brother, the younger brother proposes to use the upper plan again, and I will use my three-inch tongue to lower the ......."
Before he could finish speaking, he heard the potter reprimand two words heavily: "Reject!" ”
Just when everyone began to plan for a while to attack the village and how to send troops, they saw that the gate of the White Tiger Village suddenly opened.
Everyone was stunned at first, and then couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Yan Baihu finally couldn't hold it back, and he couldn't take the initiative to come out and confront him?
In this way, it saves you the effort of being at a loss here.
The potter glanced at Xu Chu and Tao Ji, and said in a low voice: "Prepare to fight!" ”
"No!"
Xu Chu and Tao Ji summoned the Tiger Guards and Danyang elite soldiers respectively, lined up in formation, and prepared to meet the enemy.
But after seeing that the opponent's door was slowly pushed open, there were no soldiers who went out to fight.
I saw a burly man, holding a foot of white silk in his hand, followed by two retinues, slowly walking down.
When everyone saw this, they all froze.
After a while, I heard Xu Chu ask unconfidently:
"Fu Jun, Yan Baihu...... Does this mean surrender? ”