Chapter 50: The Good Digger

Soon, the Liangzhou camp had already received a report from Li Su. In the commander's account, the military advisor Jia Xu and Gao Shun read Li Su's letter together, "The time has finally come." After reading the letter, Jia Xu said to Gao Shun seriously, "General Gao Shun, the next thing is to see the performance of you and the generals of the trapped camp." ”

"Obey the order, the military advisor can rest assured, and he will do his best to complete the battle plan."

Gao Shun went down to arrange specific combat preparations, and Jia Xu walked out of the tent, followed by a person next to him. Jia Xu knew that this was Zhang Liao, the company commander of the guard company.

Before Lu Bu set off, he left Zhang Liao to Jia Xu and told Zhang Liao that he must protect the safety of the military advisor. Jia Xu also had to be humble, and Lu Bu said that he still had Dian Wei by his side, and it was foolproof.

Yes, Lu Bu is not in the Liangcheng camp, and the plan he made personally insists on carrying it out in person, because the most difficult thing about this plan is to grasp the timing, and he is not at ease with others. The whereabouts of Lü Bu and the troops he took away were known only to Jia Xu, Fu Zhu and Gao Shun, and they were kept strictly secret.

Jia Xu stood on the high platform in the camp, the high platform was more than ten zhang, and he could see the whole picture of the entire camp. I saw a wooden wall that stretched for more than ten miles and was two feet high appeared on this hill. Every fifteen to twenty zhang there is an arrow tower, on which are garrisoned by archers and crossbowmen.

And under the hillside beyond the walled walls of the camp is the endless prairie. Within a few days, 200,000 Xianbei iron horsemen will be overwhelming like a flood. Their camp should have chosen the riverside twenty miles away, the river is not deep, and they can wade across the river on foot. I hope that my big camp can be as solid as Gao Shun said.

On the hillside beyond the wall, countless Han troops were desperately busy. They are mining and digging trenches, all kinds of pitfalls of different sizes, all over the hillside, between the trap and the wall, there are three trenches, the trenches are one to two people deep, two to three zhang wide, the bottom of the ditch and the bottom of the pit have sharpened wooden piles, the ditch wall and the pit wall are polished relatively flat, difficult to climb.

There are many people in the army who dig the pit professionally and quickly, and there are many people who are clumsy and more responsible for the work of picking up soil and discharging slag. Although Jia Xu has been following Lu Bu for a long time, it is the second time that he has seen the skill of digging holes in the camp.

The last time it was a military exercise, but today it's bigger, it's closer, and it's easier to see. The speed at which a soldier in the camp dug a pit was equal to that of three people from the Youzhou Army and the Jizhou Army, and each of them had a sapper shovel, which was really well-trained.

Usually watching the trapping camp training, Jia Xu does not have a deep understanding of the earthwork industry, and feels that Gao Shun takes this as a key subject to practice, which is a bit of a waste of time. When I saw it today, it really came in handy.

Xu Huang and others were also in the labor army, and they did not forget to encourage the soldiers while digging, "The general said that he sweats more in peacetime and sheds less blood in wartime." Dig a little deeper, and when the war starts, we will pit one more Xianbei soil dog, and we will die one less brother, brothers work harder. ”

Jia Xu looked at the pits and trenches all over the place, and couldn't help but fantasize about the scene of the Xianbei cavalry falling into the pit, and he couldn't help but be excited, this pit is really a sharp weapon to defend against cavalry.

Thinking of the sharp weapon, he thought of the secret weapon that Lu Bu left for him before leaving, hehe, these secret weapons are enough for Xianbei people to drink a few pots, if they drink it, there will be no problem with their own defense, and then it depends on Lu Bu's actions.

In the afternoon of the next day, the scout cavalry who had gone out to reconnoiter for hundreds of miles came with the news that the scouts of the Xianbei people had been discovered. According to the plan, the reconnaissance platoon was making contact with the enemy scout squad, directing them in the direction of the main battalion. The guests are coming, so naturally they should be greeted and don't let the guests go the wrong way.

This time, it was a platoon of the Dangkou Cavalry Reconnaissance Company that went out to reconnoitre, and the Dangkou Cavalry Reconnaissance Company had four platoons, and Lu Bu took two platoons away, leaving two platoons for Jia Xu. Jia Xu knew that the Xianbei people were coming, and good steel was used on the blade, so he didn't send these two platoons to reconnoiter until today, and sure enough, he received the Xianbei people.

Soon, Jia Xu, Gao Shun, Xu Huang, Fu Zhu and others all came to the high platform and saw the Swing Kou cavalry team galloping back from the north, with more than 30 riders in a platoon. However, although they retreated, they did not panic, and after them were closely pursued by fifty or sixty Xianbei men.

These Xianbei cavalrymen felt that they had grown up on horseback, and their archery and riding skills should be far superior to the Han people, but they never caught up with this group of Han troops. Moreover, these Han soldiers did not wear crimson military uniforms, but they were dressed in yellow and green.

caused them, who were scouts, to get close to each other and be suddenly attacked, only to find out that the other party was not angry. And these Han troops are not simple, until now, seven or eight people have died on their side, but the Han army is unscathed. So although he was about to catch up with the Han army camp, he still refused to give up.

Of course, the Swingers were playing a game of cat and mouse, deliberately luring them to the camp just to show their hands beautifully in front of their brothers. Seeing that it was almost over, the platoon commander whistled, and the more than 30 horsemen who were running forward all dispersed, and they actually surrounded the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people were chasing happily, but when they saw the Han army returning to fight against them, they couldn't ask for it. One by one, the horses were urged to speed up to meet them.

When there were still sixty zhang between the two sides, the soldiers of the Dangkou cavalry reined in their horses one after another, and held up a crossbow with a novel shape in both hands, and a box half a foot high on the back of the crossbow bow, and a set of connecting rods behind it, pushing and pulling the connecting rods, and the crossbow arrows were fired, and then another arrow was shot without seeing the action of loading the arrows.

The Xianbei people could only be beaten passively, because their horn bows had a limited range, and they could not effectively kill and injure the Han army at this distance.

By the time the soldiers of the Dangkou cavalry had finished shooting ten arrows, put away their crossbows, and regrouped together, the Xianbei pursuers had fallen more than twenty horsemen. This is also because the soldiers of the Han army are not yet proficient in operating the crossbow.

When the platoon commander saw that his subordinates had returned to him, he said again, "Rush into battle." More than thirty people followed, charging at the Xianbei people on the opposite side. There are still more than 30 Xianbei people who have been beaten, but more than 10 are injured, but this stimulates their blood even more. When they saw that the Han army, which was almost the same number as themselves, rushed over, they naturally couldn't be intimidated.

But before the Han army rushed out of about ten zhang, the platoon commander shouted again, "Throw guns and prepare." More than 30 Han cavalrymen took out a throwing gun from the holster behind their backs. It's a pity that Gongsun Chan is not here, otherwise he will be able to solve the puzzle, of course, in the near future, he will still appreciate the power of throwing guns.

The cavalry of the Han army pulled the reins with his left hand, grabbed the spear with his right hand and raised it backwards, and his body stretched back as much as possible, showing a beautiful arc, and then with a sound of "release", they threw forward one after another, and more than 30 throwing spears fell from the sky and pierced the oncoming Xianbei people.

The scouts of the Xianbei people are light cavalry, not wearing iron armor, just now when they were shot by a crossbow, they have suffered a big loss, and now they have encountered the spear, and it is a hedge between the two sides, they seem to get together, the spear is with the help of the horse's forward power, the power is greater, all those who are pierced by the spear, basically the front in, the back out, through the heart.