Chapter 282: The Battle of Guanzhong (7)
"Boom~~~" As time passed, the trebuchets of the Han army got closer and closer to the Jin army's Dazhai and entered the firing range, and then began an indiscriminate attack towards the Jin army's central army camp.
The attack continued for a whole day, with hundreds of trebuchets dropping thousands of stone bullets, large and small, at the enemy's entrenchment. The offensive of the entire battlefield looked very shocking and spectacular. As the stone bullets continued to hit the ground, and there were occasional screams or two from the opponent's camp. The morale of the Han soldiers on the periphery was also rising.
However, from Guan Yi downwards, one of the many Han army officers was counted as one, and everyone's faces became more and more ugly.
On the one hand, now that the time is August 3, I think that the battle has already started in Huaili, which is the main battlefield that determines the outcome of this battle. However, such a large army of our own side was pinned down here and could not advance. On the other hand, the other party is too calm.
You said that you are a clever commander and a resolute general, and no matter how I bombard you, you can calm down, I believe it. But you have tens of thousands of people in your entire camp, right? It was actually bombarded like this for a day, and it was just that there was no surrender, and there was not even a team that couldn't help but be bombarded for a long time and rushed out on their own. What does this mean? Disciplined elite! And it's the elite that the Lord will be able to completely control!
And at the end of the day, all I threw were lit stone bullets. smashed into so many places, but it was never possible to form a fire that swept the entire camp...... The enemy's perseverance and advance preparations are extremely sufficient. At this time, I ordered my own infantry to go in, hey, I don't like this kind of battle the most.
Looking at the sun on August 3, the sun has slowly risen into the sky, and then look at the enemy's Chinese army camp where all the towers and arrow towers with a height of more than two meters have been completely destroyed. Guan Yi let out a long sigh: Attack!
With his order, the war drums of the Han army rang out in unison, Zhang Zun, Huo Zai and Jiang Bin shouted in unison, and led their respective troops into the camp of the Jin army in three directions.
"General, the Shu thief has finally come in!"
"Good, herald. The whole army rises from the trenches and kills the enemy! ”
"Whoa!"
It can be said that Zhou Zhi is really not a simple general. He actually creatively took out the trench here in this era to defend the weapon. The 30,000 Jin troops hid in the trenches in the dense camp to avoid large casualties.
With Zhou Zhi's order, the war drums were also roaring in the big tent of the Jin army, and the more than 20,000 Jin soldiers who were still alive got up together and collided with the surging Han soldiers.
It was Zhang Zun's troops who attacked north from the south of Dazhai of the Jin army. According to Guan Yi's deployment, the first of his actions was the Mandarin Duck Formation troops from Fuling County. And the people at the forefront of this army were the Bizkas from Panlong Village. And Pan Dazhuang, who was a force in Fuling County back then, was the captain of this mandarin duck array - the shield player who rushed to the front.
A brave Jin soldier shouted and pounced with a ring-headed knife in his hand, Pan Dazhuang raised his eyebrows slightly, and then raised his big shield with both hands, and blocked it head-on with the opponent's broadsword. The view was largely obscured by the big shield, but Pan Dazhuang was not flustered at all, because he expected that the sound of the fierce collision between the big knife and the big shield had reached his ears as promised. Then the next sound, of course, was the scream of the other party: the spearman behind him had accurately stabbed the enemy.
Putting down the big shield, he quickly pulled out the Pu knife hanging on the left side of his body, and slashed accurately at the neck of the enemy who had fallen to the ground, and a head left the master's body. Pan Dazhuang didn't look at the fountain at the fracture, quickly collected his thoughts, and turned his attention to the next enemy.
While he and the pikemen behind him were working together to kill an enemy, his left hand side, another shieldbearer, also teamed up with the pikemen on the left, killing an enemy. Then, when they regrouped their formation again, they heard a voice they didn't like the most: "Armor and shields!" B soldiers block the bamboo! Kill the enemy! ”
This was during the war in the new capital in the past, and Wang Qi temporarily came up with a way to crack the mandarin duck array. It's bloody, but it works. Although Wang Qi himself has now become a Hanchen, the method he came up with was widely known in the Jin army as Cao sacrificed a large number of intelligence officers and successfully visited the survivors of the Xindu War that year (the surrendered troops who were pre-placed in the pavilions to farm by Zong), and it was widely known throughout the Jin army.
Soon, Pan Dazhuang felt a huge thrust coming from the front of the shield, and there was no doubt that his big shield was hugged by a soldier of the enemy army.
But as soon as this thrust was generated, Pan Dazhuang heard a scream from the other side. The corners of his mouth unconsciously tugged: "As long as you find a way to crack it, don't we have the preparation to prevent cracking?" In the past, General Guan was relatively poor, and the shields given to us were all wooden shields and rattan shields. It's all iron shields now. Not to mention the iron shield, the front and edge of the shield are full of spikes! ”
But this soldier on the other side was indeed brave, although his hands and chest were stabbed with blood from the spikes on the shield, he still pushed forward without fear of death, trying to knock down Pan Dazhuang.
Moreover, this soldier was obviously trained to break formations, and when he threw himself on the large shield, his head was very consciously hidden under the edge of the shield. In this way, the pikemen in the rear of the pan will not be able to attack it.
"Huh!? Why is there a slit in the middle of this shield? ”
The Jin soldier, who had buried his head very low, had just noticed that there was a crack in the middle of the shield he was clinging to. Before he could figure out what was going on. A sharp blade stabbed through the crack so quickly that his hard skull was broken in just a moment.
"Humph! After so many years, our Mandarin Duck Array soldiers also want to improve the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers. The old ways against us won't work. ”
He skillfully drew the knife from the other man's head, his eyes flashing over the red and white brains stained on the blade. Pan Dazhuang quickly looked at his left side, and found that his comrades-in-arms had also eliminated the other party's soldiers holding shields. Nodding in tacit understanding with the other party, the two sides approached again, and then took the spearmen, wolf warriors and other comrades behind them to continue to kill in the depths of the enemy formation.
As he entered the enemy's camp deeper and deeper, Pan Dazhuang's relaxed mood just now was completely gone. Instead, there was a bout of anxiety and powerlessness.
On the one hand, it was the madness and courage of the other soldiers, their group of mandarin duck formations, entered the enemy camp in less than a quarter of an hour, and had already killed more than 20 Jin soldiers. Even so, more Jin soldiers flocked to him. Although the mandarin duck array is exquisitely coordinated, it is not invincible in the end. Of the eleven members of their team, one has now been killed and one wounded.
The one who died was a pikeman who was tightly grasped by the enemy after the gun was drawn, and then was actually pulled out of the formation by the opponent's force. The wounded were the archers, who were slashed by the ring-headed knives thrown by the opponent before they died. Although this casualty has little impact on the combat effectiveness of this mandarin duck formation. But the morale of the enemy was high and they fought extremely bravely. Where is it like an abandoned Queen's Army? It's clearly the vanguard!
On the other hand, the further you go deeper into the enemy's village, the more messy the terrain becomes. Inside Dazhai, in addition to the stone bullets thrown by the party, the density of various tents is also extremely high. These things can give the enemy effective cover behind them, and then make it easier for the opponent to jump out of the corner to kill the enemy. Pan Dazhuang saw with his own eyes that behind the stone bullet just now, a Jin soldier suddenly rolled out and cut off the legs of two Hubu Army comrades with a single knife - on such an occasion, it was to abolish the two valuable combat forces of his own side.
"Change formation! Change the mandarin duck array into a three-talent array. The two three-talent formations cover each other left and right, and take turns to advance! "The only thing that can be a commander-in-chief is to strategically create a favorable situation for his own army. When it comes to a specific battle, no matter how senior the commander is, he also needs to rely on the on-the-spot command of middle and low-ranking officers.
A very important reason why the Shu Han army was able to defeat the strong with few and many times with the weak was that there were a large number of low-level officers who were old in battle formations and had rich experience in commanding on the spot. And this tradition is also deeply rooted in the revival army.
Therefore, after seeing the topography of the battlefield, the captains of the hundreds of mandarin duck formations unanimously made the decision to split the formation.
"What's going on? It's been more than an hour, and the general's banner has only advanced ten zhang? At this rate, how can you end the battle within today's time? ”
"Former general, the enemy resistance is stubborn, and our army's advance is extremely slow!"
"Hey! The general of this Jin army is not bad, he can make all the soldiers under his command fight to the death with all their might. Summons the order, go to the rear and transfer a thousand people. Let them also put on their armor, and then follow our soldiers closely, clearing the obstacles on the battlefield and clearing a passage for the advance of our spearmen. ”
"Whoa!"
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"General Zhou, our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and many strongholds in the battalion have been lost."
"If the order goes down, our army's back road has been cut off, and only by relying on this Dazhai can there be a glimmer of life. Let the brothers hold on a little longer, it's getting dark, and the rest will be safe. Tell the brothers, after today, one more day, Ben will lead them to break through! ”
"Whoa!"
From this morning when the Han army entered the Jin army, the fierce fighting lasted for a whole day. Although the Han army also paid heavy casualties, in the end there was a mandarin duck formation as the vanguard, so the entire front was still advancing steadily. Now, the camp controlled by the Jin army under Zhou Zhi has shrunk by at least half.
Looking up at the sky, Guan Yi turned his head and asked, "What time is it?" ”
"Back to the Great Sima, it's three quarters of the unitary time!"
"It's getting dark, but if Mingjin withdraws his troops tonight, the passage that our army has worked so hard to clear will be gone." Thinking of this, Guan Yi no longer had any doubts: "Order!" The rear reserves are on top, the whole army is not allowed to rest, night battles! ”
"Whoa! Night Fight! ”