Chapter 202: Dead End

Hearing Ding Yuan say this, Huangfu Song was silent for a while and said, "The Xiliang Army is completely different from last year. ”

Ding Yuan also felt the same way, those thieves on the opposite side not only increased their combat effectiveness, but more importantly, they became a lot tougher. If it had been so difficult in the past, and if it wasn't to defend the countryside, they would have retreated a long time ago. Today, those Xiliang thieves are extremely tenacious, killing from morning to afternoon, and countless casualties are still fighting.

However, he was only a little touched, and he didn't feel that the Xiliang Army was invincible. In Ding Yuan's opinion, he was unwilling to suffer too many casualties because he had already sent troops to copy the back road of the Xiliang army, so he left a little leeway, which allowed the Xiliang army to come back. Otherwise, the Xiliang thief would have been unable to bear it for a long time!

He smiled and said, "It's a little harder to deal with than before, but it's still not our opponent!" ”

Lu Bu, whose left shoulder was tightly tied, was standing beside Ding Yuan, and when he heard this, he said loudly: "Today, Gao Shun has broken through four rebel camps one after another, please order a reward!" ”

The smile on Ding Yuan's face suddenly disappeared, and he said perfunctorily: "I know, there will be a reward later." ”

Lu Bu's thick eyebrows were raised, and the anger on his face flashed. Ding Yuan didn't see the dissatisfied look of Lu Bu behind him, and said to Huangfu Song with great interest: "If the thieves surrender tomorrow, I will give me some prisoners of war." Although the Xiliang Army was rebellious, it was still good to fight. It will be useful to deal with Dong Zhuo in the future. ”

Huangfu Song's expression was still serious, and he said in a deep voice: "General Zhengxi must not be careless, the trapped beast is still fighting, let alone the current Xiliang Army?" Don't let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes. ”

Ding Yuan laughed and said, "They are about to be blocked by us between the mountains, how else can they take advantage of the loopholes?" Tomorrow when they get the news that the back road is cut off, they will immediately lose their morale, and if we push forward again, the enemy will surrender without a fight! ”

The Han army did not withdraw to Chencang, but set up camp at the ridge that pierced the plain and stationed the army. Huangfu Song led the troops rigorously, arranged many sentry spies in the field, and placed an infantry of more than 1,000 people on the mountain beam. There are not too many elites in his hands now, but with Sanfu on his back, he can continuously recruit young and strong people. There are more than 30,000 soldiers and horses who can go forward to fight, plus the rear transfer, as well as the people who accompany the army, they can almost be called 100,000 troops.

In the camp of Chen Cheng's army under the long slope, the soldiers shuttled back and forth, no longer in the previous orderly situation, in the daytime battle, they caused several times the death of the Han army, but their own losses were also very serious. Although the morale is still there, the organization has lost a lot.

Half of the original camp was burned down, and the flames in the direction of the front gate were not completely extinguished by night. Chen Cheng ordered people to collect the wounded and bury the dead, and on the other hand, he had the trench re-dug fifty paces behind the original camp wall, and the excavated soil built a low defense line on the spot.

Because they carried a large amount of equipment such as shovels, axes and hacksaws, the new line of defense was quickly established. The wounded soldiers who were thrown here by the princes were all shocked when they saw today's fierce battle. There were many people who planned to take advantage of the darkness to slip away, but they were caught by Yang Qiu, who was patrolling behind. All the officers of the group were beheaded, and the rest were sent to dig pits.

After the bloody head hung up, everyone else could only hold back other thoughts. Because they were afraid that the Han army would attack again tomorrow, those who were slightly less injured would take the initiative to ask to participate in the task of digging trenches. The deeper the pit is dug, the more guaranteed your life will be!

There are mountains all around, and there is only one way to retreat, unlike in other places, as long as you get a horse and run into the wild, it is really a fish into the sea. If there were only one or two people, they could have escaped from the mountain path, but I heard that the north side had been blocked by officers and soldiers, so I was afraid that it would be bad to run over.

In addition, if the water is good enough, you can also try to jump into the Liuchuan River, then swim into Weishui, and then swim upstream for dozens of miles, and you can climb ashore. However, in Chen Cheng's mind, no matter where such fierce people were, there were very few.

Li Kan looked at the repaired section of the defense line, went up to try it, and said to Chen Cheng with some disappointment: "Lord, this earthen wall is no more than chest-high, and it can be climbed over casually, but I'm afraid it's useless." ”

Chen Cheng said: "I can provide some protection. Besides, you are guarding very well today, and the officers and soldiers have been killed and wounded so many elites, I am afraid that they will not dare to come again tomorrow. ”

Li Kan shook his head and said: "Huangfu Song didn't even take out half of his strength, if it wasn't for the lord cruising with cavalry, why would he have let more than half of his soldiers and horses guard the back road?" Today, they have lost only a few thousand men, but they have already burned down the camp of our army, and now the officers and men are down at the ridge of the mountain, clearly preparing to continue the attack tomorrow. ”

He patted the earthen wall in front of him and said, "This kind of thing is really useless!" ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said: "It's okay, I'll let Ding Yuan take someone to assemble a few more catapults later, and aim at the distance of fifty steps ahead, if Huangfu Song dares to come again tomorrow, I will definitely give them some color to see." ”

While he was talking, a herald rushed over and said, "My lord, the people from Changpo Plateau said that some of their soldiers were seriously injured, but they couldn't send them down, so I asked my lord for guidance." ”

Chen Cheng turned his head and glanced at the long slope standing in the middle of a large piece of flat land, and knew that it was indeed not easy to go up, nor was it easy to come down. If you are not injured, you can still climb up and down with a rope, but you can't do that with a seriously injured person. Except for him, others are really difficult to deal with.

So he said to Li Kan: "I'll leave the things here to you, and repair them according to this model, leave some passages in the middle, and I'll go over there to have a look." ”

Li Kan said: "Don't worry, my lord, I will take care of myself." ”

Chen Cheng rushed to the edge of the long slope and pulled the rope that was put down on it three or two times before he was afraid to go up. In fact, he can go up without a rope, otherwise, where did those big yellow crossbows come from? Not all of them he brought with him.

After climbing up, Chen Cheng first assembled a hanging basket, and then put the wounded soldiers down one by one. It is very scary to put the hanging basket from a height of more than ten zhang, but those wounded soldiers are all seriously injured, and they have already fallen into a coma because of bleeding, and now they are just hanging for a breath, and they can't care about anything else.

After Chen Cheng put down all the wounded above, he went to inspect the camps for wounded soldiers that had been built temporarily. Prioritize the seriously wounded to join your command and add a "buff" to them, saving their lives first. Unlike other princes of this era, Chen Cheng always attached great importance to the treatment of the wounded. The study he had seen also said that wounded veterans had much higher zhandouli than recruits.

Maximizing the treatment of the wounded and reducing the casualty rate can also bring a series of benefits such as improving morale and increasing cohesion. It is for these reasons that Chen Cheng spends two valuable skill points on "medical treatment". After having two levels of "medical treatment", with the professional medical team, as long as there is no death on the spot, they can be saved.

But if there is a broken limb, then there is no way. Maybe if you stay in the team long enough, you can grow back the lost limbs. If there is really such an effect, then some groups who often enter the palace will be saved.

After the new defensive line was constructed and the wounded and dead were treated and buried, Chen Cheng hurriedly ate a few bites of food and then went to Ding Yuan's engineer battalion to instruct the craftsmen to assemble the catapult. Without his personal command, the efficiency of the craftsmen would be slow, and the success rate would be much lower.

It was not until the fifth watch that the two counterweight catapults were assembled. A tall catapult stood at the rear of the camp, and on the side were more than twenty stone bullets left from before, each weighing one hundred and twenty or thirty pounds. Chen Cheng stretched his body, looked at Dongfang Bai, and gave up his intention to rest.

He put his double armor back on, returned to his tent and nibbled two baked dough cakes, and then took more than a dozen of his own soldiers to patrol the camp. Walking in the camp that was gradually getting noisy, Chen Cheng understood how Zhuge Liang was exhausted to death, even if he had "unlimited physical strength", but the mental exhaustion was not so easy to eliminate.

If the other people in the city are here, I am afraid that they will already be tired and want to die.

While he was inspecting the camp, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the west. Two cavalrymen dressed as Qiang people passed through the checkpoints and came to Chen Cheng's face. After rolling the saddle and dismounting, before he could straighten out his qi, one of them gasped and said: "Chen Yuanjun, the Han army occupies the line from Huangbei Mountain to Jinshili, and our army's back road is extinct!" ”

The soldiers on the side were stunned when they heard this, where is Huangbei Mountain? What is the place in the stone? However, although they don't know what these place names represent, they still understand the meaning of "cut off from the back road". After understanding, everyone was shocked and looked at Chen Cheng together.

Chen Cheng's face was the same, and he said lightly: "Drink saliva first, and then go into the big tent to talk." ”

Everywhere he walked, mountains, rivers, geography, and rivers would be shown on the minimap. Huangbei Mountain is close to the position between Shangtai and Chencang. Because there is a large area of yellow soil on the northern slope, it is called Huangbei Mountain. Weishui made a turn there, and the current was very fast.

Although it is a road to rush, the terrain there is not particularly dangerous. To be able to block tens of thousands of Xiliang troops, the strength of the Han army is at least a few thousand, and it is not impossible to have tens of thousands.

Chen Cheng walked into the big tent, and while looking at the terrain near Huangbei Mountain on the small map, he thought: The enemy's partial division has obviously stopped at the three-way intersection in the north, how can there be any enemy to kill Huangbei Mountain?

But then he realized that the "Scouting" skill showed that the enemy army within a radius of forty miles was good, but what if the enemy army spared a large circle and passed through a place forty miles away?

What a beautiful intersperse! Chen Cheng really wanted to say this to the enemy. I made a detour to Huangbei Mountain, and traveled at least two hundred miles in the mountain. To dare to go deep in such a lonely army requires not only extraordinary strategy, but also the courage to fight against the odds.

He thought again: This is really very similar to the Battle of Changping, the enemy is the same as Bai Qi, and he has sent two partial divisions. It is also a lone army, and if it can't succeed, the partial division will be wiped out. Commanders separated by hundreds of years, the tactics used are almost the same as withdrawing.