Chapter 212—A Feast for Crows (8)

Following Yanghu's order, the Jin soldiers shouted in unison. Then they lined up neatly and began to move slowly towards the wooden walls of the Wu army.

The spear and shield soldiers raised their shields in front, forming several rows of shield formations that were not too well concealed, but were still dense. Behind this shield array were seven or eight rows of archers with a large number of feathered arrows on their backs. The archers were followed by the swordsmen and shieldmen and hatchemen of the brigade. This was the basic offensive mode of the Jin infantry.

Looking at the steady advance of the Jin soldiers, Lu Mu took a deep breath: "Archers prepare!" Ready~~~ put! ”

Countless feathered arrows rose into the air, and then formed a rain of arrows that fell rapidly. Most of the arrows in this first round did not hit the enemy. However, the white feathered arrows landed on the black mudflats, providing a good reference for the defenders.

"Three hundred steps!" "Trebuchet, shoot!"

"Two hundred and fifty steps!" "Archer, shoot!"

"Two hundred steps!" "Archer, three rounds of rapid fire!"

"One hundred and fifty steps!" "Archer, shoot two rounds and retreat!" "Spear and shield soldiers!" "Wow!"

In the end, it is the origin of family learning, although this is Lu Mu's first battle, he still commands in an orderly manner. The Jin army over there is steadily advancing, and his orders here are also fast and accurate. On the short three-mile road, due to the proper command of the Wu army, the Jin army left a lot of corpses along the way.

But how can you fight a war without dying? Although the enemy's stone bullets and feather arrows were very high along the way, they caused a lot of casualties to their own side. But there was no confusion in the array of the Jin army. After walking to a place only fifty steps away from the wooden wall, the commander of the Jin army drew his command knife and pressed forward fiercely, and then the soldiers shouted in unison and launched a charge against the Wu army's position!

The wooden wall of less than three meters could not cause much trouble to the soldiers of the Jin army, and the spear was propped up. Or a lift from a fellow comrade, you can easily jump over. But once you jump over the wooden wall, or just when you're still in mid-air. They are often greeted by the opponent's spear.

"Poof!" As countless spears plunged into the flesh, a muffled sound rang out over the position. Then there was blood spurting wildly, and wailing everywhere. This is the normal sound and scenery that should be there on the battlefield.

Relying on the large number of soldiers who climbed the wall to die, when the ambush of the Wu army was temporarily slowed down, the second row of soldiers of the Jin army crossed the wooden wall relatively smoothly and began to fight head-on with the Wu army.

"Excellent! Attack! The archers lined up and shot at a distance of about thirty paces behind Wu Gou's wooden wall, blocking Wu Gou's reinforcements to the wooden wall! ”

"Wow!"

"It's really elite!" Swinging a knife to cut off a spear and shield soldier of the Jin army, Lu Mu stepped onto the wooden wall and hurriedly skimmed outside: "Trebuchet, prepare to shoot another round!" knock out the enemy archers thirty paces outside the wall"

It's a pity that the command is quite right, but it is really difficult to execute - a lever trebuchet, due to the fact that the length of the lever is fixed, lacks a pulley to adjust. Therefore, its attack range is often fixed. At this time, the attack range should be readjusted......

"Hey!" From a distance, I saw that the trebuchet team behind me was still panicked and busy, pushing the heavy trebuchet behind. Lu Mu shook his head, jumped down from the wooden wall again, and after swinging his knife and slashing at a Jin soldier, he shouted again: Lu Jiajun, form a shield array!

The Lu family's private soldiers are the elite trained by Lu Meng himself. After a few decades, the older generation of soldiers withdrew, but the new generation of soldiers still accepted the method of battle formation left by Lü Meng. With Lu Mu's order, more than a thousand private soldiers of the Lu family near the battlefield quickly approached, and then the iron round shields were stacked together, and the combination of the shield array was quickly completed.

In front, there were soldiers of the Central Army of Eastern Wu who relied on this wooden wall to intercept and kill the soldiers of the Jin army. And after the shield array was in the middle section, those Jin soldiers who crossed the wooden wall were also strongly blocked. Moreover, with the protection of the shield array, the support troops in the rear of Soochow also quickly came up, and for a while, the thickness of the defender's strength reached a fairly objective level.

Gradually, the Jin soldiers were pressed to the inside of the wooden wall, and then slowly pushed out of the wooden wall. And as the trebuchets on the Soochow side adjusted their positions and began to fire stone projectiles again, the archers of the Jin Kingdom, who could still provide long-range support for their infantry at the beginning, were also completely suppressed.

"Hey, you can't fight like this!" Yanghu, who was supervising the battle in the rear, shook his head: "The archers retreated a hundred paces and shot their positions. Then Mingjin retreated! ”

"No!"

……

It was late at night, and the big tent of the Jin army was brightly lit, headed by Wang Hun, and all the senior officers of the Jin State who went out this time gathered together.

"General Yang Lie, this is the situation of today's battle. In general, our army was separated from the Wu army by a tidal flat as wide as three miles. Therefore, heavy siege equipment such as trebuchets and siege towers could not be put into service. Our army had no choice but to adopt the method of attacking the city with ants. It is not difficult to cross the wooden wall, but the Wu army behind the wall should be the private soldiers of various families in Eastern Wu this time. As long as the head of the family does not retreat, he will fight to the death. It's very difficult. In addition, due to the limitation of the tidal flats, our army is not enough to attack at one time, so once the Wu army withstands the first wave of our army's attack, our army's follow-up attack will be very weak...... In short, today is the last general's defeat, and the general is asked to punish him. ”

"Well, uncle has worked hard, it's not your problem. The art of war is cloudy, five are attacked, and ten are encircled. Our army's strength is already insufficient for the other side, and it is normal that it will not be able to attack for a while and a half. ”

"Thank you for your understanding."

"Then next, Ben is going to adjust the deployment. I would like to ask you to take a closer look. ”

"I'll ask the general to show me."

"Yes, everybody. In fact, our army does not have an advantage in strength, and there is such a nasty tidal flat on the opposite side. Therefore, the general means that the force is divided into four parts. The first part, 20,000 troops, was commanded by the general. The main task is to concentrate superior forces and attack one point of the enemy. The second part, led by Ziyu (Xu Cong), is mainly 5,000 reinforcements from Luoyang. Your mission is to move to the north bank of Yidao City, fifteen miles southeast of Xiling. In the third part, led by Xuanwu, with 10,000 troops, your task is to bluff and lay planks on the tidal flats everywhere, forcing those Wu dogs to spread the defensive forces thinner. In the fourth part, the uncle led the army, and the strength was also 10,000. Your mission is to lead your army south and attack the enemy Gangneung Fortress! ”

"Wonderful! Checkmate. According to Jin Cao's report, now the entire division of Wu Gou's Jingzhou Legion is gathered under this Xiling City, and this Jiangling City is almost empty. If we put on the posture of going south to Gangneung now, the enemy army will inevitably divide our troops to save us! ”

"That's not all. The general first sent Ziyu to ambush on the north bank of Yidao, if the enemy army went to save Jiangling, it would be the only way to go! ”

"Good! General Xuan Chong is really a famous general in the world! ”

"Hehehe, hey, uncle, you are worried there, but what do you think?"

"Well, the general forgives the sins. Yang Hu is wondering if the enemy army will ......"

Yanghu's original intention was to say that the enemy would not completely ignore Jiangling and just attack Xiling. But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a guard who hurriedly ran into the big tent: "Generals, the big thing is not good, Wu Dog is attacking at night!" ”

"Huh? How can it be? How could they possibly cross that tidal flat in the middle of the night? ”

He said goodbye, and the generals immediately returned to their headquarters. The commanding soldiers must not panic, rely on the camp on the spot, and if the enemy retreats, they must not pursue! The important thing is to be optimistic about the grain and grass in the rear of our army! ”

"Yes!"

The night attack that night was launched by the Lu family's private soldiers led by Lu Kang.

Compared with the private soldiers of the Huaisi faction generals who were proficient in the way of battle in battle, the soldiers of the Jiangdong family were obviously more proficient in water warfare. In the tidal terrain outside of water warfare, the private soldiers of the Lu family also have their own unique weapons - mud sleds.

Although the Chinese of this era are not very clear about the relationship between pressure and pressure. But the ancients didn't have a low IQ - stuck in the mud, right? Wouldn't I be able to sink under my feet with a wooden plank?

But this only solves the problem of getting stuck in the foot. So how do you move quickly in the mud? It is easy to use this plank as a base and add an upright wooden handle to the plank as a handle. Then the man holds the handle with both hands, puts one foot on the plank, and the other foot pushes hard towards the diagonal back of the mud - this is the ancient mud skateboard.

It was with such a tool that the Lu family's private soldiers quickly crossed a tidal flat and went around to the rear of the Jin army's camp. A successful sneak attack was launched.

Fortunately, Wang Hun, as a general who has been in Jingzhou for a long time, still has basic military literacy. He quickly issued the right instructions. After a short period of panic, the Jin army camp quickly stabilized. Then he began to rely on his own camp and launched a powerful counterattack against the sneak attack of the Wu army.

"Hey, the enemy general is not an ordinary person." Seeing that the Jin army's counterattack was becoming more and more powerful, Lu Kang was also in no mood to fight: "How many enemy camps has our army set on fire now?" ”

"If you go home, we have set fire to more than seventy tents on the southernmost side of the Jin army. But the head of the house, it was a northwest wind tonight, so the fire couldn't get up at all. ”

"Hehehe, Ben will not have the ability to control the weather like Zhuge Kongming. Let's withdraw our troops. ”

"No!"