Chapter Forty-Nine: Bow down to your brother

This round of arrows was fired, and it was the enemy who suffered the most losses. The reason is very simple, these goodwill troops have no fine armor and no sharp blades, they are the dogs of the Jin army, and the Jin army will naturally not give them good equipment, not to mention that in order to prevent them from defecting, even if they have good equipment, they will not be used. Now the Jin army has to pull this army up to make up the number because of the lack of strength for a while, and how can there be time to change their equipment in a hurry, and the result is such a simple arrow, which makes them suffer a big loss.

The Han soldiers have no way back, the path has been cut off, they can only rush forward, originally the two sides squeezed together, but the arrows rained, both sides had casualties, the Han soldiers were wearing armor, risking death to move forward, the goodwill army was already lacking in fighting spirit, this time can no longer support it, and they have fled backwards.

The enemy soldiers who came to help were halfway through the run, and found that they could not save the situation, so they had to turn and retreat. The Han soldiers in the back cheered loudly and moved forward along the path to support the assault troops in front.

Huang An danced happily, and the orders issued were vague, but fortunately, several of his subordinates had been killed for a long time, and they promised loudly to carry out the orders that should be done, as for whether it was the original intention of the order issued by Huang An, it is unknown.

As soon as this choke point was broken through, the numerical superiority of the Han army was immediately apparent, and five or six hundred people took turns to attack, and there were still one thousand or hundreds of people who were idle and had nothing to do. The two stone-walled defenses behind the Goodwill Army were quickly breached, and the remnants of the enemy desperately ran up the hill.

After crossing the path, Huang An and Wu Ming both looked up at the situation above. The above section of the road is extremely long, with a height of about 100 zhang, and further up is the enemy camp on the mountainside. But this part of the road is extremely steep, and the mountain shape shrinks sharply here, like an axe, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and the mountain road is the edge of the axe.

Wu Ming took a few steps forward, leaned forward, and tried, as long as he bent down slightly, his hand could touch the ground.

"It's a precipitous place." Wu Ming muttered to himself.

Huang An was also frightened. On the slope ahead, five low walls of wood and stone were laid one after another, and the enemy soldiers defended behind them. Judging from the number of figures, there should be as many as one or two thousand people behind these five fortifications!

The total number of attack troops of the Han army in this wave is only 2,000 people, and now the number of opponents is about the same as their own when they attack such a steep fortification, how can this battle be fought! But it is unrealistic to add more troops, which is not to say that there are no troops to add, but in such a small space, even if there are 100,000 troops, they can only be sent out one by one.

"Queue up, prepare to attack!" Huang An couldn't think about it for a while, so he could only grit his teeth and order, ready to fight to the end.

Wu Ming sighed: "Forget it, General Huang Shen, don't fight to the death, we can't fight, let's withdraw." ”

"We can at least build a line of defense here!" Although Huang An knew that what Wu Ming said was reasonable, he was reluctant in his heart. finally had a chance to let his boss see his performance, but he couldn't do anything, and he was really depressed.

"Then retreat to the small road to establish a defensive line", Wu Ming knew that this Huang Shen general's ability was limited, so he didn't point to him to command too much, and simply became the commander himself, "The enemy is condescending here, and we are in a very disadvantageous position." Once they launch a surprise attack, it is difficult to resist. ”

Huang An had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Wu Ming left Huang An to establish a defensive line at the side of the path, and strictly ordered him not to attack without orders, and then went down the mountain.

It no longer makes sense for him to stay in the mountains. He had already seen everything he should see, the situation of the mountain, the situation of the enemy, and the situation of our army, he knew very well, and now he was worried about the troops who launched an attack on another mountain, and he didn't know what happened to them.

As soon as he got off the mountain, Wu Ming saw another army. The remnants of another army, to be exact.

Two thousand went up and two hundred went down, and most of them were wounded.

"Bastard!" The commander of the left team, General Chang Du Yongzheng's face was red and his neck was thick, and he pointed to a general who was covered in blood and his arm was hung from his neck with a cloth and scolded: "Why do you still have the face to go down the mountain!" ”

The general's face was pale, and he was unsteady on his feet due to excessive blood loss, and he replied in a deep voice: "The last general must go down the mountain, otherwise no one can tell how dangerous this mountain is, and such a mountain cannot be attacked at all!" ”

Du Yong was about to scold again, but Wu Ming stopped him and said to the general: "Tell me, what does this mountain look like?" Why are the losses so heavy? ”

The general smiled miserably: "It's almost a straight up and down mountain road, and there are paths everywhere that communicate with each other, I don't know which path will appear enemy, I can't go up, I can't prevent it, once I am attacked by the enemy, I can't retreat!" ”

Wu Ming gasped. If it weren't for the fact that he followed another team up the mountain just now to conduct an on-the-spot investigation, he was only afraid that he would be skeptical of the general's statement, but he had just come down from the mountain, and if he hadn't saved the troops twice in time, he was afraid that General Huang would have ended up with the same ending. From the words of this general, it can be seen that the other half of the mountain is more dangerous.

"I don't blame you for this," Wu Ming comforted the general, "the mountain is too treacherous. You go to rest. ”

Du Yong's face turned red, and he said hatefully: "General Wu, the last general will personally lead the troops to go and will definitely capture this mountain!" ”

Wu Mingyi waved his hand: "People can't fight against the sky." Such a natural danger is beyond the reach of man. He turned around and ordered: "Tell Huang Shen to retreat the whole army back down the mountain and stop guarding it." He was afraid that the two thousand men would also be copied by the enemy.

After giving the order, Wu Ming saw that the general was still standing there blankly, and said strangely: "Why don't you go to wrap up your wounds?" ”

Tears suddenly welled up in the general's eyes, and he replied in a choked voice: "The last general took 2,000 people up the mountain, and only 200 people returned with the last general. General, the last general is goodbye! He had already grasped the hilt of his sword when he spoke, and before he could finish speaking, the blade of the sword was horizontal, blood spurted from his throat, and his body fell to the ground.

Wu Ming's hand was only about three inches away from the general's sword, and he finally failed to catch it in time. His hands were sprayed with the blood of the general.

Wu Ming slowly knelt down, took off his helmet, and bowed deeply to the corpse of the defeated general.

In all directions, the armor leaf slammed lightly, and rows and patches of officers and soldiers slowly fell to their knees.

Suppressed sobs rang out from the crowd.

The wind blew through the grass and made a rattling sound. Suddenly, there was a long neighing of a war horse in the distance, and the sound seemed to be full of exhaustion and helplessness.

Wu Ming gently wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand, slowly stood up, and said a word: "Call Wei Qing over!" ”

Wei Qing didn't come over. Although Wu Ming waited patiently for a long time, he was finally unable to call Wei Qing in front of him.

Wei Qing is missing!

After Wu Ming finished assigning the task, he went up the mountain with the army, and Wei Qing followed the third team on the left to start arranging. This time, he no longer had to be the main force of the attack, they were now the safest troops, because they were to be the general reserve of the entire Left Army, in order to prevent the enemy from coming from the rear. It should be said that this mission was the most leisurely in the entire Left Route Army.

Wei Qing originally planned to command his 100-man team to deploy the defense, but the talented people will never be forgotten, first Bai Buxin came to ask Wei Qing to be responsible for the deployment of the entire 3,000 people, Wei Qing had just finished his work, and his breath was not even even, Liu Anbang sent someone to give an order, asking Wei Qing to discuss the deployment of the entire left third team.

said that it was "discussion", but in fact, everyone understood in their hearts that Liu Anbang wanted Wei Qing to be directly responsible for the deployment of the entire left third team.

Wei Qing hurried all the way to the big tent.

Liu Anbang was waiting for him in the tent. As soon as Wei Qing entered the tent, he saw Liu Anbang's back and gray hair at first glance.

Wei Qing felt sad in his heart. If there was no war, Liu Anbang should have drunk and played chess with his father, and he Wei Qing was afraid that he was also trying to take the test.

"Uncle Liu!" Seeing that Liu Anbang was the only one in the account, Wei Qing didn't want to call the official name anymore, so he blurted out a sentence of "uncle".

Liu Anbang looked up and saw that it was Wei Qing, and greeted with a smile: "Nephew Wei Xian, I haven't been here for a while, come here." ”

Wei Qing did not come for a while, although he was still a member of the third team from the left, but more often he was either dealing with his own affairs, or he was recruited by Wu Ming, and he didn't have time to see Liu Anbang at all. He walked quickly to Liu Anbang's side and said softly: "It's a pity that the little nephew can't help but come to see Uncle Liu often." ”

Liu Anbang laughed: "What did you say, it's a great thing that you can get the favor of General Dingyuan now." He didn't seem to want to talk too much about it, so he pulled the big map on the table and pointed to the map: "Nephew Wei Xian, come and see your uncle's defense, and say anything if there is a problem." ”

Wei Qing smiled, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed in his heart.

How could he bear to point out Liu Anbang's mistakes? Looking at the map, he thought to himself that as long as it was not a very important mistake, he should not have seen it, and the probability of Liu Anbang making a very important mistake was really not high. So while he looked at the map, his mouth was already complimenting: "Uncle Liu's words are serious, how can Uncle Liu have any problems with the deployment?" The little nephew still wants to learn Uncle Liu's 。。。。。。 Wei Qing didn't finish this sentence, and the word "experience" was stuck in his throat.

Because he really found the problem, which was not a trivial matter, he had to bring it up.

Liu Anbang stopped when he saw Wei Qing halfway through his words, and immediately realized this, he smiled heartily: "Virtuous nephew, no one is perfect, why be so polite?" ”

Wei Qing saw that Liu Anbang had already said this, so he stopped supporting it and pointed to the map: "There seems to be a problem here." ”

Liu Anbang looked at where Wei Qing was pointing. There was a mountain, and a river ran around it. He looked at it for a long time, but he really couldn't see the problem, so he had to ask Wei Qing: "There is a hundred-man team here, a combination of fixed posts and guerrilla posts, and there are mountains and rivers here, which is not conducive to the movement of the enemy's large troops, so I have not arranged too many personnel." What is the problem that Wei Xian's nephew is talking about? ”