Chapter 900: The Soldier's Trickery
Li Tong led the Han army to evacuate Zhouzhiguan, which made Luo Ying overjoyed, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack.
With the withdrawal of the Han army, the Zhou Zhi Pass was already empty, and the Shu army did not move a knife or a gun, and successfully captured Zhou Zhi Pass.
Then, the Shu army led by Luo Ying did not stay in the pass for long, and immediately went north out of the pass to pursue the fleeing Li Tongbu.
Zhouzhiguan is located in a ravine, out of Zhouzhiguan, the road to the north is still in the ravine, with steep slopes on both sides.
Not long after leaving the customs, the spies in front reported that the Han army's team was only about five miles away from their own army.
Luo Ying was overjoyed when he heard the news, the Han army was cowering in Zhou Zhi Pass, with natural danger, it was indeed helpless for his side to take the Han army, but now that the Han army has gone out of the pass, he can confront it head-on, and this time he will kill the Han army without leaving a piece of armor.
He ordered his soldiers to advance at full speed, and had caught up with the Han army as fast as possible, not giving the Han army a chance to escape.
The 50,000 Shu army, led by Luo Ying, began a rapid march and chased after the Han army's buttocks.
Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, the Shu army in front of the sudden advance could already see the banner of the Han army in front, but at this moment, a series of long whistles sounded on the top of the mountains on both sides of the road.
Before the Shu army could figure out what was going on, they heard a rumbling sound. The roar was like a muffled thunder from the sky, dull at first, and gradually, the sound became louder and louder, and finally it reached the point of deafening.
People are looking for prestige, it's better not to look at it, this look, the faces of the soldiers of the Shu army have changed greatly.
I saw that on the top of the mountain on both sides of the road, countless rolling logs and stones rolled down. The slope of the mountain is steep, and the principle of gravitational acceleration of the rolling wood and stone is faster and faster, and the more and more urgent, and the number is so large that it is overwhelming, and the dust rolled up covers the sky and the sun.
In this situation, not only the soldiers of the Shu army were stupid, but Luo Ying, as the chief general of the whole army, was also dumbfounded.
When did the Han army do the ambush on the top of the mountain? And when did you hoard so much rolling wood and stone on the top of the mountain? Didn't the Han army just evacuate Zhou Zhiguan, they didn't have time to prepare for this at all!
Luo Ying's head was buzzing, and he couldn't understand what was going on at all.
After the Han army arrived at Zhouzhi Pass, it has been collecting rolling wood and stones in full swing, but the number of rolling wood stones in Zhouzhi Pass is not much, so what are the Han troops busy with?
In fact, most of the rolling wood and stones collected by the Han army were not transported to Zhouzhi Pass, but were hoarded on the top of the mountain on both sides of the road outside Zhouzhi Pass.
This was Li Tong's secret arrangement.
Zhu Fu is not very good at using troops, Zhu Fu is indeed very cautious in fighting, but no matter how timid he is, no matter how afraid of Yancen, it is impossible to throw Li Tong in Shudi, he led his troops to flee back to Chang'an alone.
As the saying goes, if you don't look at the monk's face, you have to look at the Buddha's face, Li Tong is Liu Xiu's brother-in-law, if Zhu Fu dares to harm Li Tong like this, when he returns to Chang'an, Liu Xiu can't spare him.
The reason why he abandoned Li Tong and led the army to flee back to Chang'an was completely a plan arranged by him and Li Tong in advance.
According to Li Tong's calculations, after Zhu Fu led the Western Expeditionary Army to withdraw to Chang'an, Yan Cen would definitely lead his troops to Zhou Zhiguan and join forces with Luo Ying to besiege his own side.
The ambush he set up on the top of the mountain outside Zhou Zhiguan was prepared for Yan Cen.
As long as Yan Cen led his troops to Zhou Zhiguan, the ambush he set up could make Yan Cen have no place to return and die without a place to be buried. This is the reason why Li Tong was overjoyed when he heard the news of Zhu Fu's smooth withdrawal.
Li Tong thought that Yan Cen, a big fish, was about to be hooked, but he didn't expect that Yan Cen was greedy for merit, and he didn't lead his troops south to Zhou Zhiguan at all, but led his army north to pursue Zhu Fu.
According to Li Tong's strategy, it can be said that everything is ready now, and it is even time for Yancen to throw himself into the net, but Yancen's selfishness just allowed him to avoid this catastrophe.
Yan Cen didn't get into the trap designed by Li Tong, so that all the arrangements made by Li Tong in advance were useless, can Li Tong not be disheartened?
This is the reason why he heard that Yan Cen led his troops to the north and did not come to Zhou Zhiguan, and he showed that he was devastated.
During this time, Li Tong's mood and the emotions of the soldiers under his command were all reversed. Zhu Fu withdrew his troops, and the officers and soldiers of the Han army all felt that a great disaster was coming, only Li Tong was overjoyed, Yancen did not go south, but chose to go north, the soldiers of the Han army were ecstatic, and Li Tong was in a mood that fell to the bottom.
However, Li Tong didn't lose heart for long, and soon he thought of another unlucky guy, Luo Ying!
Li Tong made a quick decision, ordered the withdrawal of troops, abandoned Zhou Zhiguan, and marched north. On the surface, it seemed that he wanted to take advantage of the gap when Yancen was chasing Zhu Fu, and led the Han army to evacuate Hanzhong and get out of danger.
In fact, Li Tong's plan is that since he failed to let Yan Cen take the bait, then bring in Luo Ying!
Sure enough. After Luo Ying heard that the Han army had evacuated Zhouzhiguan, he couldn't wait to lead the army to pursue, and as a result, the Shu army led by Luo Ying fell into the trap designed by Li Tong for Yancen without defense.
That's the cause and effect of the incident.
In fact, Li Tong did not have many ambushes on the top of the mountain, 1,000 people on the top of the mountain on the left, and 1,000 people on the top of the mountain on the right, a total of only 2,000, but the number of hoarded logs and stones was extremely large.
The Han army on the top of the mountain, the rolling wood and gravel continued to retreat down the hillside, the speed was very slow at first, but after half the mountainside, its momentum was like a thunderbolt, rolling down the hillside, the rolling wood and gravel seemed to be about to fly, accompanied by a dull thunder, even the ground was constantly trembling.
A boulder rolled down the hillside first, and rolled into the crowd of the Shu army. This boulder, almost one and a half people high, rolled into the crowd of the Shu army, screaming, and the soldiers who couldn't dodge were crushed by the boulder on the spot, and only a puddle of flesh in the shape of a human was left on the ground.
Overwhelmed a person, the resistance caused by the boulder was minimal, the boulder rolled into the crowd, up to more than ten meters away, and then looked at the place where the boulder passed, leaving a long red blood stain on the ground, some Shu soldiers were crushed to death on the spot, some Shu soldiers were knocked away, or were crushed legs, lying on the ground, wailing for death.
This is just a stone, and the rolling wood stones that fall from the top of the mountain are not just one or two, ten, hundreds, but thousands.
The 50,000 Shu army at the bottom of the ravine was in chaos in an instant, people had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, facing the rolling wood and gravel that rumbled over, and they could only close their eyes and wait for death.
Even Luo Ying in the team was not spared. On the hillside beside him, a rolling log more than two feet thick rolled towards him, and the thrilling roar made the war horses under his crotch chirp uneasily.
Luo Ying took a deep breath and raised the Mo Yuan lance in his hand high, and when the rolling log rolled to his approach, he broke off and thrust the Mo Yuan lance into the ground.
There was a click, and the whole lance, along with a part of the lance, went into the ground.
Immediately afterwards, there was another loud bang, and the tumbling log hit Mo Yuan's lance hard, and the powerful impact force made the war horse under Luo Ying's crotch unable to bear it, and took a few steps backwards.
Luo Ying jumped off the war horse, stood on the ground, threw his hands and held the lance pole tightly, and carried the thick rolling log.
Luo Ying pulled Mo Yuan's lance out of the ground with his arms, raised his eyes to the top of the mountain, and shouted loudly: "There are not many enemies on the mountain, everyone rush to the top of the mountain with me and kill all the enemy troops!"
As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed up the hill to the top.
Seeing this, the surrounding Shu troops followed suit, followed Luo Ying, and climbed to the top of the mountain with their hands and feet.
The Shu army wants to climb from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, how easy it is to say, the slope of the mountain is steep, even if there is no one to defend it, it is very difficult to climb up, not to mention that now, rolling wood and stones are constantly falling on the top of the mountain.
In the process of the Shu soldiers climbing to the mountain, from time to time someone was hit by rolling logs and gravels, screaming and rolling down from the hillside, and then looking at the bottom of the mountain, it has simply become a purgatory on earth, there are corpses everywhere, blood everywhere, and bloodstained rolling wood and gravel everywhere.
Luo Ying was climbing up, when he heard a rumbling sound above his head, he looked up, and saw a stone more than a person tall rolling towards him.
With Luo Ying's skills, it is not difficult for him to dodge this boulder, but the key thing is that if he dodges, a series of Shu soldiers and Shu generals behind him will suffer.
He squinted his eyes, clenched his teeth, and used his strength to suck, and when the boulder rolled in front of him and was about to hit him, he used his sucking strength to thrust Mo Yuan's lance into the ground.
The hillside was full of stones, and as soon as he stabbed down, the sparks splashed up, and Mo Yuan forced the mountain stones out of a big hole and sank into it. Bang! The tumbling boulder hit the mallet with a loud bang.
At that moment, Luo Ying felt a powerful force flow along Mo Yuan's hammer, to his palm, and then from his palm to his arm, and finally collided with his chest.
He felt tightness in his chest, his throat and eyes were sweet, and with a grunt, a mouthful of old blood came back from his chest.
He gritted his teeth and swallowed the old blood back alive.
Luo Ying is really brave enough, and his strength is really amazing, such a big boulder, tumbling down the steep hillside, the inertia is so great that it can be imagined, but he just blocked the boulder with a long lance.
He can block the rocks on the top of the mountain, but unfortunately, there is only one Luo Ying in the Shu army, he looked to his left and right, countless Shu soldiers who climbed to the mountain, were crushed by the rolling wood and stones that kept rolling down, and the screams of the people were endless, and on the hillside, there were blood stains everywhere, and even the corpses that were crushed into meat pies.
This battle is already a big deal! Luo Ying, who was so brave, completely collapsed his fighting spirit after seeing the tragic situation of his own soldiers. He gritted his teeth and rattled, and finally squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Withdraw troops!"
Now he wants to withdraw his troops, how can it be so easy!
The rolling wood and stones that continue to fall on the top of the mountain have caused heavy casualties to the Shu army, and the way back has been greatly blocked.
The mixed wood and stones caused heavy casualties to the Shu army, and the whole army was in a mess, with no formation at all.
Seeing that his soldiers were killed by the Han army, the corpses of the soldiers were all over the mountains, Luo Ying grabbed and rubbed his intestines, he was not convinced, and he was not willing to be defeated, but unfortunately, he really lacked skills.
He snapped and pulled out the Moyuan lance from the hillside, and then, his body jumped to the side, and the boulder that was unobstructed rumbled down.
He quickly retreated down the hillside, mounted his war horse, and then shouted to the surrounding Shu army soldiers: "Withdraw your troops!" Withdraw your troops now! ”
In this battle, the Shu army was also miserable enough, Luo Ying took 50,000 soldiers to chase and kill Li Tongbu, but when they fled back to Zhou Zhiguan, Luo Ying only had 20,000 people left, and after the first battle, nearly 30,000 brothers were defeated.
Luo Ying was already injured internally, and he was anxious and angry, and not long after returning to Zhou Zhiguan, he fell ill.
The trap designed by Li Tong for Yancen was not used on Yancen, but it was used on Luo Ying.
In the valley outside Zhouzhi Pass, the Han army won a great victory, and then, Li Tong led the Han army and went straight to Sanfu, wanting to help Zhu Fu.