Chapter Forty-Eight: Storming Suzaku Mountain
"Up!" The centurion, who was in charge of the attack, saw that the time had come and immediately led his soldiers to climb up. The archers continued to fire arrows behind the platform to prevent reinforcements from attacking.
The figures on the platform were staggered, and the screams continued, and the soldiers of the Han army and the soldiers of the goodwill army fought hand-to-hand in this square inch. After a while, the banner of the Friendship Army on the platform was put down, and the banner of the Han Army was erected! The centurion appeared at the edge of the platform, holding his banner aloft, and the soldiers around him cheered.
General Huang Shen also smiled, peeking at Wu Ming.
There was only a hint of a smile on Wu Ming's face, and he was not moved by the current cheers.
Because he understands that this is just an outpost. There are only a few dozen enemy troops guarding this place, and now they have only won a skirmish, and the bigger battle is yet to come.
"All march!" Seeing that Wu Ming was unmoved, General Huang knew that he was happy too early, so he immediately ordered to advance.
The long-awaited soldiers cheered loudly and rushed towards the cliff. They set up ladders and climbed up the cliffs.
Wu Ming stood on the cliff and looked ahead, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised. The enemy chose this mountain to fortify is really smart enough, in front of a section of mountain road is not too steep, but in the middle is a very thin path, this path can only accommodate two people at most, the left and right are cliffs, the height of the cliff is enough to be a hundred feet, once it falls, it must be broken bones.
This path is about seventeen or eighteen zhang long, and three stone walls have been erected on the opposite side of the road, and the figures behind the walls are shaking, and there are about two or three hundred people guarding there. Further back, more figures faintly appeared in the distance. It seems that here is the main point of the enemy's defense.
The centurion in front of him was in a hurry to make meritorious service, and without waiting for the order from his superiors to pass down, he directly ordered several soldiers to advance towards the path with large shields in their hands.
A dense rain of arrows immediately shot from the opposite side, and the arrows clanged on the shields. But this shield is specially used to protect against arrows, like a small iron door to protect the soldier's body, the arrow can not penetrate the shield, and can not hit the soldier, it can be said to be ineffective.
General Huang Shen was about to angrily scold this centurion who did not obey military discipline, but when he saw that this method was effective, he swallowed his words in his stomach.
The soldier held the shield and walked slowly forward. The path sloped slightly upward, and the shields were heavy, making it difficult for the soldiers to walk. But the enemy on the opposite side didn't seem to have any other way but to shoot with arrows.
In a short time, the first soldier was already on the opposite side, and the soldier behind put an extremely long iron spear on the shoulder of the soldier in front of him to prevent the opponent from attacking. Although this large shield is effective against arrows, it is of course impossible to use it in hand-to-hand combat, so when it is actually used, the soldiers behind protect the soldiers in front in this way.
Suddenly, an order came from the other side, and several soldiers of the Goodwill Army rushed straight towards with a large tree trunk in their arms!
"Not good!" The centurion and the yellow ginseng called out in unison. But it was too late, the big trunk hit the shield at once, the trunk was very long, much longer than the iron spear exposed on the shoulder of the soldier with the shield, the protection of the iron spear was useless, and the trunk in the case of several people combined force impact, the strength was extremely great, a soldier could not resist at all, the soldier with the shield could not support it, and fell backwards after being hit, this path is so narrow, how can it allow people to fall? The soldier fell backwards and slammed into the soldier with the iron gun behind him, and both of them lost their stability and fell off the cliff screaming loudly.
They were followed by several soldiers, just waiting to attack the opposite side, the soldiers behind immediately hit the other party's fortifications, but the soldiers with shields fell, the soldiers behind immediately lost cover, the rain of arrows hit, they had no defense, in the blink of an eye three soldiers were shot down, the soldiers behind hurriedly turned around and ran back, but the path is too narrow, if one by one slowly retreated, now the front first ran back, the back did not have time to retreat, for a while huddled together, several soldiers screamed loudly and fell off the cliff, none of them survived.
The first attack failed.
General Huang Shen felt a slight redness on his face, snorted angrily, and ordered: "Don't rush in!" Don't attack without my orders! ”
He watched left and right for a moment, and then called a commander to give a low order.
They all nodded their heads and took the order.
After a while, seeing that Nadu Tong signaled that preparations had been completed, Huang Shen would order another attack.
The centurion knew that he had privately ordered the attack, and that his sin was unforgivable, and he was determined to die to make meritorious deeds. He immediately took a large shield, took the lead, and walked towards the path. The soldiers of the Good Friendship Army on the opposite side laughed loudly, waiting to slaughter these Han soldiers on the path again.
The centurion walked all the way to see that he was not far from the opposite intersection, only to see several enemy soldiers pick up the trunk of the tree again, ready to strike again.
"Shoot the arrows!" With the unified voice of Nadu, more than 100 Han soldiers and arrows rained down, shooting forward from the left and right respectively. The soldiers stood in a semicircle, and all the arrows were concentrated at the top of the path, which just covered the centurion's attack.
The centurion was overjoyed, threw his big shield, drew his defensive short sword from his waist and rushed up the stone wall with a roar, and the soldiers behind him rushed across the path and threw themselves into the enemy fortress on the opposite side to fight each other hand-to-hand.
"Rush!" General Huang Shen knew that time was pressing at this time, and if he didn't immediately organize follow-up troops to keep up, once the death squad in front of him was killed, this attack would be in vain, and he gave orders almost at the same time as most of the capitals in front. The soldiers rushed along the path and rushed into the fortress. Due to running too fast, several soldiers stumbled and fell off the cliff, but no one had time to pay attention to these tragic soldiers, one fell down and the other immediately followed, and in a blink of an eye, more than 100 soldiers had rushed to the opposite side. The soldiers in the back kept up.
Of course, the enemy soldiers in the fortress also knew the importance of this place, and let the Han soldiers rush up on top of each other, but they did not retreat one by one. Enemy soldiers on the distant hill also spotted the breakthrough, and a group of soldiers rushed all the way to the area, trying to plug the gap before the Han army could occupy it.
Huang Shen will be long, jump on the path, and shout: "Follow me!" ”
A group of soldiers immediately followed, and rushed across the path with Huang Shen. On the other side of the path, within a radius of only a few feet, hundreds of people were crowded here, and the soldiers of the goodwill army and the Han army intersected with swords at the beginning, but later they were no longer fighting, but pushing each other. If the Goodwill Army pushes the Han Army back, the Han Army can only fall to the bottom of the cliff, and if the Han Army pushes the Goodwill Army, the Han Army will be able to break through. For a while, you pushed me and grabbed me, and the two sergeants at the front punched and kicked each other, just like a group of hooligans fighting, not like two armies fighting.
Yellow ginseng will be crowded in the crowd, and sweat will be profuse on his forehead. He clearly saw that a group of enemy soldiers on the mountain were rushing down, but the soldiers behind the Han army had already crowded to the intersection of the road, and they could no longer increase their manpower, so they could only hope that the Han soldiers in front of him would open the situation as soon as possible, otherwise once the other party's reinforcements rushed over, the Han army would be defeated.
"Rush forward, rush forward!" Huang Shen will yell again and again, but now this situation is not something that he can urge to move forward. His shouts not only did not have an effect, but instead caused trouble.
The soldiers of the Goodwill Army behind the second and third stone walls originally received the order that no matter what the first line of defense was, they should not go to reinforcements, in case the enemy army broke through all three lines of defense at once, but now the two sides are pushing each other on the edge of the cliff, and the situation is very obvious, the commander of the Goodwill Army behind the second stone wall could not bear it anymore, and with an order, all the soldiers rushed out of the fortress and rushed straight into the crowd, pushing harder.
This time, the Han army could no longer support it, and retreated step by step for a while, and the Han soldiers at the end had no way to retreat, and were squeezed a little bit towards the cliff, with a scream, a Han soldier could not move forward, and was finally squeezed off the cliff.
Wu Ming stood on this side of the path, looking at the situation opposite, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
General Huang Shen is indeed a hard-working general, but whether he works hard or not is not equal to the level. As the commander of this attack, he rushed to the forefront so easily, but now it is good, the front has suddenly become so embarrassing, but this commander can't get out of command to command. He couldn't help but think of Wei Qinglai, thousands of troops are easy to get, and one general is hard to find, the words of the ancestor are really incisive.
Seeing that the Han army was retreating step by step, a few soldiers fell off the cliff, and more than 2,000 Han soldiers gathered on this side of the road, all of them stomped their feet in a hurry, but no matter how many troops you have, there is only one road, and no matter how many troops you have, you can't use it.
"General Wu, please give an order!" A large commander saw that the Han army on the opposite side was in danger, but General Huang Shen couldn't get out, so he had to go out of the crowd and ask Wu Ming to command.
Wu Ming nodded. Even if he didn't ask for it, he would have to command, he couldn't just watch this attack fail, right?
"Send someone to cut off the path, but there are those who retreat, and there will be no mercy!" Wu Ming gave the first order.
Several people opened their mouths wide at once.
"What a daze!" Wu Ming drank vigorously.
A few Han soldiers walked into the middle of the path and moved forward with their guns, and it was obvious that whoever wanted to retreat had to wear their guns into meat skewers.
Seeing that the path had been cut off, Wu Ming then gave a second order: "Release the arrows and shoot the enemy!" ”
"General!" Most of the people couldn't hold back any longer, and plucked up the courage to prompt: "There are still our people on the other side!" ”
With a swipe, Wu Ming drew his sword in his hand, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at the throat of this commander: "Do you want to disobey?" ”
Nadu Tong's face turned pale in shock, and he hurriedly turned around and ordered: "Release the arrow, release the arrow quickly!" ”
Arrows fluttered, and rows of arrows burst into the air. Although the archers had tried their best to lift their arrows upward, the Han army and the friendly army were huddled together, and they could not avoid injuring the Han army.
"Go on, don't stop!" Wu Mingsheng was afraid that the archers couldn't bear to stop releasing arrows, so he held the sword in his hand and stood behind the archers to supervise the army.