Chapter 56: Night Attack
"General, do you think we can win? They barely stop these days, and they outnumber us by a lot! Someone else asked with some concern.
"Whether you can win or not, that's the question! But it is not for me to answer, but for you! Because this line of defense depends on everyone, without your heroic battles, we naturally cannot win! If I really won, it will be because of the efforts of many brothers in Huashan Army, not because of my own efforts! Hearing this question, Li Xin pondered for a moment, and then said slowly.
Li Xin's words made everyone feel a sense of pride in their hearts. After all, with far fewer troops than the enemy, it is not something that everyone can do.
"General, the Qin people are really here again!" Just as everyone was being motivated, someone suddenly shouted. Hearing this, everyone's hearts couldn't help but froze, and the next moment they looked out of the wall. Sure enough, the figure of the enemy in the distance was rapidly approaching.
"The enemy is coming, everyone is on the defensive!" Li Xin said in a deep voice, standing at the front with a knife and shield.
"Xiu Xiu Xiu", the attack was still led by bows and arrows at the beginning, especially the soldiers of Di Qin. After all, they have always been more adept at mounted archery, and using bows and arrows against enemies is their most common method.
The row of soldiers standing at the front raised their shields and blocked bows and arrows for everyone. And between each shield, the archers of the Huashan Army also began to fight back. Use the cover of the shield to strike at the enemy. In this way, the two sides have already fought for a while before the official engagement.
"The enemy is coming! Kill! "After a few rounds of bows and arrows, both sides were injured by each other. Soon, the enemy rushed to the front of the formation, Li Xin stood up, shouted, and slashed down at the enemy in front of him. The soldiers behind them jumped up and engaged the enemy.
In this attack, the other side barely left much time for the Huashan army. The battle had just gone through a few days and nights, and it had started again in less than an hour. The shouts of killing on the south bank of Weishui shook the sky, and the two sides once again fought for this short low wall. No one knows when they will kill again this time, but fortunately, everyone is used to this kind of attack from the enemy.
On the mound, at this time, Li Erhei stood in the position where Li Xin was always there, watching the battle below as he did.
"General, it seems that something is not quite right!" After looking at it for a while, a soldier next to him suddenly said.
"Oh? What's wrong? As soon as he heard this, Li Erhei asked with some confusion.
"I don't know, I just think that today's enemy attack seems to be much more powerful than usual." The soldier thought for a moment, then shook his head, unable to come up with a reason.
Hearing this, Li Erhei was stunned for a moment, listened carefully for a while, and then thought about it carefully, and felt that this was indeed the case. Thinking of this question, he couldn't help but feel a sudden in his heart, as if he thought of something bad.
Without saying a word, he immediately called Hu Tian next to him and ordered: "You hurry up and take your brothers to patrol all the way south along this water, be sure to check it out, and see if there is an enemy who wants to take the opportunity to touch it!" ”
"Yes, General!" When Hu Tian heard this, his expression immediately became nervous, after all, he himself understood how dangerous it was. As soon as he thought of this, he immediately hurried away with his soldiers.
Li Erhei's heart was quite uneasy, and he was very worried that something would go wrong.
Just when the battle by the river had just begun, there was a team of several hundred people in the Diqin camp, which quietly left the camp at night, and then plunged into the valley of the Lishui River. The group was mysterious and quiet, and as they progressed, there was hardly much noise as they went, and they went south along the water by moonlight.
"King, some distance further on, it should be there. There is a ravine that can be climbed up to the top of the mound, although it is a bit steep, but if you are careful, it should not be too much of a problem. However, after going up, it is the place where the Huashan Army defends, so we have to prepare first! After walking for more than half an hour, the group finally stopped at the bottom of a cliff, and one of the generals in front of them ran back to report to Fu Fayu.
"Very good, tell the soldiers, if this time I take the east bank of the river and break through the enemy's defensive line, I will personally ask for credit for everyone, and ask the court to reward everyone!" Hearing the news, Fu Fa, who had always kept his face tight, finally showed a smile and said.
Hearing this, the Qin soldiers around him were all overjoyed, and if they didn't know what kind of place this was, they were afraid that they would cheer loudly.
"You go and tell General Zhao that you will increase the intensity of the attack, and you must attract the attention of the Huashan army to that place." After a pause, Fu Fa commanded the soldiers beside him again.
After a short rest, he continued to walk forward with the people, and at this time it was dark, only the moonlight. The cliffs on both sides of the river are steep and towering, and the valley is even darker, and the speed of the group is naturally not much faster.
After walking for a while, I finally came to the front of another ravine, which intersected almost perpendicular to the rushing water. The bottom was wide, a few hundred meters wide, and at the top near the mound, only a few meters remained, and the ravines were bare, with only a few weeds, shrubs, and thorns, and no tall trees.
"Sure enough, it's a steep place! It's a lot of work to climb up from here. However, it can't be so much! Raising his head and looking at the rising ravine by the moonlight, Fu Fa couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"Everyone move forward carefully, and we must not let the enemy troops above discover our tracks." After watching it for a while, he gave an order, and everyone began to quietly climb up the ravine.
At night, the whole valley seemed quite quiet, and the sound of beasts roaring and birdsong echoed in the valley from time to time.
"Captain, come and see, I seem to hear something!" Just as Hu Tian led people to inspect a place seven or eight miles away from where Li Erhei and the others were, a soldier who was walking in front suddenly ran back and said in a low voice.
"Are you sure you heard me right?" When Hu Tian heard this, he hurriedly asked.
"I'm not sure, but when I passed through there, I did hear voices from the valley below, as if someone was talking." The soldier said uncertainly.
"Well, be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, let's go over and take a closer look!" Hu Tian pondered for a moment, and then said.
The group soon crept into the deep ravine, where some soldiers were already guarding. After Hu Tian came over, he lay on the ground and looked down. However, it was pitch black below, and it was impossible to see clearly, and it was far away, let alone heard anything.
"You guys, push me a few big rocks down and have a look!" Looking left and right, he couldn't see it, Hu Tian frowned and thought for a while, and waved his hand to the soldiers behind him.
Hearing this, the people behind him hurriedly moved their hands and got a few big stones from the woods next to them, and then pushed them down in turn. Hu Tian listened intently on the side, and the stone rumbled down, but after a while, a miserable scream came from below. Hearing this voice, Hu Tianluo jumped up from the ground.
"Hurry up, hurry up and report to Lord Lieutenant, just say that there is a sneak attack by the enemy, and the others, follow me to lift the stones and beat them down!" Hu Tian hurriedly commanded.
With that, he first picked up a stone next to him and threw it down, and the other soldiers around him immediately took action. For a while, there was an endless rumbling sound in the entire ravine, and pieces of stones and wood rolled down the ravine, mixed with a lot of screams.
In the ravine, Fufa was about to reach the top of the cliff with the people, just as he was slightly relieved that he had not been discovered. Unexpectedly, a few boulders suddenly rolled down from it, and he found that he had already dodged, but the soldiers behind him were not so lucky. There were a few unlucky soldiers, and when they were swept down the mountain by stones, the screams echoed in the ravine for a long time.
"Oh no, the enemy has discovered our traces!" Everyone was shocked, and immediately panicked.
"Don't panic, maybe it's just a stone that has tumbled down by chance from the mountain. This is a steep cliff, and it's normal for some rocks to roll down! Seeing that the army's morale was unstable, Fu Fa immediately said, hoping to stabilize the army's morale.
Hearing this, the people behind him were somewhat relieved, after all, this statement was quite reasonable. Unfortunately, as soon as he finished speaking, the stones above rolled down like hailstones. This time, everyone understands that what occasionally rolls down, it is clear that he has been discovered by the Huashan Army, and he wants to completely eliminate these people!
"Don't run, rush up for me, it's a death to go down, it's closer to go up, we might as well rush up." If we can defeat the Huashan Army, we will win! Seeing this scene, Fu Fa was furious.
His words were actually quite right, after all, the ravine had only been climbed with great difficulty, and there was only a little distance left from the top. If you go up, you may not die so quickly, but if you go down, who can outrun the stones that roll down from above! But at this moment, the Di Qin soldiers below didn't think so, their instinct told them that there were stones on it that would kill them, and they had to run down quickly.
As a result, hundreds of Diqin soldiers ran down in a chaotic manner. In order to avoid the falling stones, many people slipped down regardless of the stones, and as a result, they either fell into the deep valley or were directly hit by the stones. Fu Fa's sneak attack plan was a complete failure.