Chapter 19 Disaster and Snow
Chapter 19 Disaster Zhou Xue
As mentioned last time, Zhou Xue also came to the scene and quietly persuaded Ding Feng to escape quickly.
Ding Feng glanced at this niece who was like a resentful woman, chattering all night to either surrender or let herself escape, and wanted to slap her to death like a fly.
He said hatefully: "Don't you see that these clowns who jump off the beam are about to die on the spot?" β
"Alas, you really don't know the prince of Xishu, he never wants to do things that suffer losses, do you think he will get a few people to come over and kill you?"
When Ding Feng heard this, he sighed in his heart, yes, with his understanding of this prince, he has always been a master who refuses to suffer, and he is not a simple-minded person, how could he make such a low-level mistake and send a team of elites to come and kill him?
He must have a purpose and a conspiracy in doing this, Ding Feng couldn't help but think hard, he must find out what the idea of this prince is, otherwise it will be difficult to feel at ease.
Just when the people of Eastern Wu thought that victory was in sight, a sudden change occurred, and several black iron bumps flew out of the blocking position. Ding Feng was knowledgeable and immediately recognized that this was a thunderbolt, and he knew from Buqi's letter that the best way to deal with this kind of situation was to lie down.
"Lie down!" He shouted, but the sergeants had no training and didn't understand the meaning of this command, which they had never heard before. It was the first time they had heard that there was a command to "lie down" during war.
Doesn't everyone usually make everyone rather die than give in, and would rather die than fall? So what does it mean to be called lying down now? Everyone thought they had heard it wrong, so no one reacted correctly at all.
Several thunderbolts leaped over the shield wall in the front row and fell into the group of swords and shields behind them. A rumbling explosion sounded, and several blood flowers bloomed among the Eastern Wu soldiers.
A large part of the sword and shield soldiers were blown down, and the shield wall in the front row was also blown apart. The shield wall is extremely strong in its defense against the front, but the thunderbolt explodes behind them, and the backs of the Eastern Wu soldiers carrying the shields are not covered or blocked, which is no different from the naked lambs.
The shield wall was dismantled in an instant, and the shield soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest were shaken by the waves and sounds.
The airborne troops were willing to let go of such an opportunity, and they took advantage of the collapse of the shield wall to reveal the Eastern Wu soldiers behind them, and used crossbow arrows to name the Eastern Wu soldiers who were still standing. Of course, in order to save crossbow arrows, they did not shoot indiscriminately, but specifically selected those Eastern Wu soldiers who did not seem to have suffered any damage and still had the strength to fight.
Ding Feng's eyes were cracked, and he hurriedly called someone to go up to the rescue, and the deputy generals and soldiers standing on his left and right looked at each other, how to save this situation? The crossbow arrows of the Shu army are sharp, and now how many people are fighting dogs with meat buns, there is a situation where there is no return.
It's okay to carry the tower shield, but the movement speed of the tower shield is too slow, and when you get there, I'm afraid that people will already die.
Someone questioned this command, and naturally someone would raise it. After all, Ding Feng is not an arbitrary person, and the correct opinions of his subordinates are generally listened to. One of the soldiers bravely objected at this time:
"General, please think twice, I'm afraid that it will be impossible to save them now, and now sending people up will only increase the casualties."
Ding Feng was originally a smart person, he would not understand this truth, if it was in normal times, he would never give such an irrational order, this time he was really angry, and he lost his sense of proportion for a while. Now after being reminded by joining the army, Deng Shi reacted.
So he was ready to cancel this military order, knowing that mistakes can be corrected, and being good is great, Ding Feng is not the kind of person who refuses to change his mistakes for the sake of his own face. It's good to die, Zhou Xue's voice sounded again at this time: "I said that the prince won't be so easy to get along with, Uncle Ding, you better hurry up and lead the troops to escape, it's really too late to be late." β
"Fart!" Ding Feng, who was angry, seemed to be a bucket of oil poured on a pile of firewood, and a "poof" was lit, "I think of me Ding, who has been fighting in the south and north with the lord for so many years, when has he been a turtle with a shrunken head, and when has he been cowardly, you go and inquire, Ding was not at the forefront of that battle."
Miss Zhou, please don't mention the matter of escaping again, how can I be the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and escapes from the battle. Besides, these jumping clowns are just relying on the sharp crossbow arrows in their hands to temporarily suppress our attack.
Do you think we can't do anything about them? You are too naΓ―ve, as long as I give an order, within a quarter of an hour, I will be able to conquer this position and devour these Xishu people alive. β
Ding Feng was originally persuaded to join the army, calmed down, and wanted to change the previous order, but was interrupted by Zhou Xue, and a while of time had passed, and a team of sword and shield soldiers was sent out as a rescue team. Ding Feng didn't have time to stop their sortie.
At this moment, when Ding Feng issued the second order for the rescue team to return to their camp immediately, the rescue team fell to the ground as expected.
The airborne troops had already shot the original tower shield soldiers and sword shield soldiers to the ground, and only a few people escaped from the range of the Shu army's crossbow arrows and fled back to their own formation.
The airborne troops, who had freed their hands, saw a group of sword and shield soldiers rushing towards them, and they were sword and shield soldiers without the protection of the tower shield. They are like seeing a flock of frogs jumping in the street, and they will be polite to them, and they will raise their crossbows and continue to shoot. As a result, this team of Dongwu soldiers, who originally wanted to rescue others, immediately faced the situation of needing to be rescued by others.
Soon, they didn't need to be rescued, because most of them had already been shot. The airborne troops are very good at archery, not to mention the use of horse crossbows with sights, and shooting these people is like playing.
They specifically shot at the throat, heart, eyes, lower abdomen and other vital points of the Eastern Wu soldiers, so the crossbow arrows they shot not only had a very high hit rate, but also had a frighteningly high fatality rate.
Ding Feng's hatred, it's all this Zhou Xue, who came to interrupt at a critical time, causing himself to miss the opportunity to correct his mistakes, and causing a team of soldiers to die in vain.
"Come on, send Miss Zhou to rest." The so-called rest is certainly not a simple rest, who is in the mood to rest at this time? Ding Feng directly ordered Zhou Xue to be put under house arrest, so that she would no longer make noise in her ears, and she would also be saved from saying bad things to disturb the morale of the army.
Who knows, what are you afraid of, before being escorted away by the two soldiers, Zhou Xue still shouted out the words that disturbed the morale of the army: "Uncle Ding, since you don't want to escape, then there is only one way left to surrender, you can't beat him, in order to save your life, you might as well surrender." β
When Ding Feng heard her words, he couldn't help but stumble, and he really wanted to run over and tear her mouth apart. Not only did she say in public that the Wu army could not defeat the Shu army, but the key was that the reason why she persuaded Ding Feng to surrender was "to save her own life", doesn't this make it clear that Ding Feng is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
After saying this, even if Ding Feng really wanted to surrender, he was embarrassed to surrender cheekily. If it weren't for Zhou Yu's face, he would have beheaded Zhou Xue a long time ago, and she would still be allowed to say such things.
However, along the way Zhou Xue was escorted away, she kept shouting loudly to persuade Ding Feng to surrender, but Ding Feng was helpless.
After watching Zhou Xue being escorted away, Ding Feng forcibly settled down and began to concentrate on directing the battle in front of him.
The battle has been temporarily stopped, falling into a short cold field, but the Shu army airborne troops have not been idle, loading the arrow boxes with arrow boxes, cleaning up the arrowheads that are inserted everywhere, digging trenches and digging trenches and earth walls, everyone is very busy.
When Ding Feng saw the posture of the Shu army, he no longer had any luck, knowing that this matter would definitely not be good, and there was no other solution except for spending a lot of money to attack.
So, he ordered that all the bed crossbows be dismantled and moved here to be reassembled; At the same time, all archers were replaced with rockets and fire oil arrows; In the end, all the tower shields and sword shield soldiers in the * army were mobilized.
His idea was to suppress these Shu troops with bed crossbows and rockets, and then let the tower shield and sword shield men storm the Shu army's position.
All the troops involved in the attack added up to more than 3,000 people, and he planned to use the number to kill these hateful Shu troops. No matter how powerful a person is, no matter how powerful a weapon is, there is a limit in the end, and the most direct limit is the limit of quantity and speed.
He thought to himself, as long as he was willing to spend the money, he was not afraid that he would not be able to consume their crossbow arrows and thunderbolts, as long as his troops charged fast enough, they would definitely be able to surpass their speed of shooting arrows and thunderbolts, and when the time came, he would definitely be able to rush to the position of the Shu army and kill them one by one.
When the preparations of the Eastern Wu army were completed, the trenches and earthen walls of the Shu army were also constructed. In front was a half-man-deep trench, and behind was a half-man-high low wall. The Shu airborne troops all hid behind the low wall, revealing only one eye and a crossbow arrow.
Why an eye and a crossbow arrow? It turned out that these hateful Shu troops even opened a shooting hole in the low wall, which was an inverted T-shaped structure, or a "convex" structure, with a smaller upper part, which was used for the eyes to aim from here.
The lower part is larger, and is used to extend the end of the bolt. The Shu army hid behind a low wall and used this kind of shooting hole to shoot crossbow arrows, how many chances did the Eastern Wu people have to shoot them?
Bows and arrows are not good, unless it is a peerless marksman like Huang Zhong and Huang Xu's father and son, who can shoot through the shooting hole and accurately hit the eye, otherwise, don't think about hurting the airborne troops in the slightest.
The bed crossbow is not good, although the bed crossbow is amazingly powerful, but for the thickened low wall of the Shu army, although they can shoot through, but after shooting through, there is not much strength left, and it has become a strong crossbow in "The end of the strong crossbow, you can't wear Lu Min".
Don't forget that the Shu army still has rattan armor on its body, and the end of the strong crossbow at this time can't even wear through paper, let alone rattan armor.
The rocket is useless, or because of the protection of the low wall, the rocket cannot be shot directly on the body of the vine armor soldier, even if the projectile method is used, it is difficult to land on the low wall so accurately.
A few rockets with particularly good luck fell near the rattan armor soldiers, and there was no threat to them, because the vine armor soldiers of the Shu army were no longer the original flammable products, but tall products that had been fireproofed.
There is a certain danger of fire oil arrows, this kind of arrow is tied to a small butter paper bag near the arrow, the paper bag contains fire oil, and there is a strip of cloth wrapped in front of it, and the cloth strip is full of fire oil.
Ignite this strip of cloth before launching, and once the arrow is nailed to an object, the butter paper bag will break, and the oil will splash out, leaving small flames that will continue to burn, threatening flammable targets.