Chapter 42: The Rat's Den 2
Relying on artillery and gunpowder, the Chu army attacked the city all the way to here. Suddenly, there was no artillery, and Ruo Ao only felt that he was missing a backbone. In return for the scouts, the Qin army outnumbered him. With a tired army of two divisions and one brigade, if you want to repel these strong-armored soldiers in front of you, it is not that there is no hope of victory, but the hope of victory is extremely slim.
If the Qin army wins, he will be driven back to Danshui Valley Road, although it means that the Chu army can continue to attack the day after tomorrow, but this will be delayed for at least two days. In the past two days, the Chu army has approached Lantian; In these two days, 50,000 Qin kings and soldiers will retreat west to the pass to fight again with themselves. Originally, it could have been carried down in one go, but I didn't know that it would be delayed for a few days......
Thinking of these consequences, Ruo Ao Duxing's heart was dripping blood, but the four brigade commanders in front of him were waiting for his orders. At this time, the 5,000 Qin troops had climbed to the north end of the eastern ridge one after another, and began to cautiously move south.
The Zhao that Qi Brown had thought of before would be the battle of Zhao Hao and his command. The Zhao army attacked Que He at that time, and because of the early occupation of Yan and Beishan, the Qin army was repeatedly unable to attack, and finally had to retreat and win. The current situation is similar to the battle of Que and Que, except that there are now two northern mountains, one to the east and one to the west.
The division of Xi'ou was attacking the mountain of Suhe, and the Qin army on the mountain was defeated by them, and Qi Brown quickly ordered Du Wei Zhao to lead an army of 5,000 men to reinforcements, and Du Wei Yu's 8,000 men were bound to take the eastern ridge before dark. It was already high spring, and after the next spring, it was a hanging car. Even in the summer, it gets dark quickly when the car is suspended. The Qin army must drive the Chu army out of the mountain pass before dark, and then hold it until tomorrow morning at Wuguan The Qin army reinforced and strengthened the defensive line, and the battle was won.
"General......" Ruo Ao was obviously a little at a loss when he walked alone, so Dou Mirage shouted.
"I lead my army to defend the ridge." Ruo Ao walked alone back to Shinto. "Only by holding the ridge and waiting for the division to rest, can our army ......"
"Definitely! It should be the last general who led the army to defend the ridge of Dongshan. Dou Mirage interrupted unceremoniously, and he said: "The land of mountains and forests, the vegetation is thick, the branches and leaves are lush, and it is not the land of the razing spear...... Dou Mirage spoke, and he struggled to draw the sword in his hand, and cut off the spear with a sword, he held the only half of the Yi spear and shook it, and said: "This is the land of the short spear!" ”
"The ridge and mountainside, the reeds and bamboos, the danger is thin, this is not the land of bows and crossbows, but the land of swords and shields." Dou Mirage picked up a shield discarded by Qin Pawn, which was discarded by Qin Pawn who had planned to block the Chu army at the mouth of the valley road, but unfortunately there were only one or two hundred pieces. "General Qin ordered his pawns to seize the ridge, not to let the pawn of the sword and shield but to order the pawn of the spear, this is a big mistake."
Compared to Ruo Ao alone and the three young brigades around him, Mirage is an old man. He was not optimistic about the Qin general who was commanding the battle, this person was definitely not a seasoned general, otherwise he would not have given such a stupid order. Even the Chu army, which had practiced column tactics hard, could only run between the mountains and forests, but could not fight in the mountains and forests.
"Good! Give the two more brigades of pawns, and Dongshan will be handed over to you. Ruo Ao looked at the mirage alone, and his eyes were extremely eager.
"The last general respectfully obeys the order!" Compared to the battle on the ridge, the col is largely ignored. Mirage was ordered to go. The spearmen of the three brigades of the Chu army became one pawn after another, and each pawn cut off the spear in order to fight in the forest. Most of the more than 500 archers were holding shields thrown by Qin soldiers, abandoning their bows and using swords.
After climbing the ridge, the team of more than 3,000 people did not engage the Qin army head-on, but ran through the mountainside and penetrated directly behind the Qin army. It is okay to stab the two-zhang long chieftain spear in front, but if you turn around and stab in the left, back, or even back, because the wooden pole is too long, it will often be blocked by branches.
The chieftain's spear was not flexible, and the bow and arrow were not easy to use - the Chu army did not engage head-on, but suddenly rushed out of the dense forest on the mountainside like the Yue people, and the archers could not throw them at all. If they can't shoot, then the three thousand archers are a complete waste, they only have the front row to shoot directly, the ridge is narrow, and they can't account for so many people at all.
One by one, the Chu army walked through the forest like a wild boar, and pounced out of Ye Mao unexpectedly. The archers of the Qin army did not have time to release their arrows, and the spearmen did not have time to turn. And when they draw their swords and engage in short arms, they will find that the swords are not the opponent of the short spears of the Chu army at all.
The original dominant fish scale iron armor now has no advantage at all, the Chu army no longer stabs the body, but stabs the throat and picks the crotch, this is a place where the fish scale armor cannot protect, once hit, it can often be killed with a stab. It doesn't matter if you can't defend it, because the Qin army is heavily armored, it is slow to turn around, react slowly, and pursue even slower.
Screaming and screaming continued on the four-mile-long ridge. It's just that due to the obstruction of branches and leaves, Qi Brown and the others can't see the entire battle situation, and just as he is looking south, a Chu army has already circled from the east side of the mountainside to his north side. The thousands of short soldiers standing on the ridge on guard only paid attention to the front and not the rear, after all, the mountain was full of lieutenants and soldiers, and no one could have imagined that the Chu army could pounce from behind.
"Jing ......" A short soldier just shouted the word jing, and was stabbed through the throat with a spear by the Chu pawn who rushed forward. The Chu army is still a row of rushing spears, and Qi Brown, who is a hundred steps away, will also be alert if the short soldiers do not shout. Seeing the Chu army coming, the short soldiers panicked, and the guards around Qi Brown hurriedly shouted, 'Protect the general, protect the general', and dragged Qi Brown down the ridge quickly. The surrounding soldiers saw Qi Brown running down the ridge, and naturally followed down the mountain, making mistakes in the chaos, and when they ran halfway up the mountain, everyone realized that the flag had been forgotten.
"Ruoao! Ruoao! "The flag of the Qin army on the ridge was waved by the Chu soldiers, and the Qin soldiers on the entire ridge were driven down the mountain pass. Yao faced the Chu pawns who captured the banner of the Qin army on the east mountain, and the cheers of the Yue pawns also sounded on the mountain, and they held up the military flag of the division of Xiou - the same as the Chu pawns on the east mountain, even more neat than the Chu pawns, and the Yue pawns led by the great elder Song swept away the Qin troops on the mountain.
Chu soldiers shouted 'Ruo Ao', and Yue soldiers shouted 'Shi Strike'. Seeing that the two mountains were occupied by the Chu army, the Qin army in the col slowly withdrew from this col and only guarded the narrow pass between the col and the Wuguan Road. And when the Chu soldiers and Yue soldiers attacked from the mountains and forests again, losing more than 1,000 people, the Qin army had to abandon the pass and retreated until three miles away before lining up again. At this time, the artillery that came out of the gun carriage had just arrived, and in the joyful cheers, Pan Xuan didn't know what he had missed.
"The mountain has been lost?!" Wuguan, Zhao Hai, who received the news, was shocked.
"Yu, general, Jing people are good at the battle of the mountains and forests, the soldiers enter the forest and march quickly without chaos, and our army is like a bird." Ling Qi, who came to report the news, relayed Qi Brown's confession. It wasn't that the Qin army didn't know and cut the spear short, not that it couldn't run through the mountains and forests. The more complex the terrain, the higher the requirements for discipline and organization, and Qi Brown's regret is that even if the lieutenants who are more than seven feet six inches tall, they are scattered as soon as they enter the mountains and forests.
"Furu? Haha......" Zhao Hai laughed angrily, he couldn't imagine the bloody battle of the squad in the mountains and forests without having experienced the battlefield.
"General Yu," Ling Qi didn't dare to say more, but Mingtang's general reminded: "The Jing people occupy the mountains and the mountains, and our army only has more than 10,000 people, and the Jing people should have a follow-up division, and Shangyi has been lost." Since Shangyi has been lost, please ask the general to make a decision as soon as possible. ”
If we didn't hold the mountain at the first time, it was too late to increase the number of troops to seize it. This is the judgment of the attendance rate. Although I don't know the news of Jingzi Pass and Zhulin Pass, 20,000 Chu troops appeared in Shangyi, and it is obvious that these two passes have been pulled out by the Chu people. Now that these two fortresses have been uprooted, it is impossible for the Chu army to attack Shangyi with only 20,000 people, and now it is only the former army that is attacking Shangyi. The result of their own reinforcements in Shangyi is likely to be a big battle between their own army and the Chu army in Shangyi, which is not helpful at all.
Since it is useless, it is necessary to retreat as soon as possible - the Wuguanshui to the east of Wuguan comes from Lushi County in the north, and the Wuguanshui can be traced north to Lushi County. From Lushi County to the west through Luonan can also be transferred to Lantian and Guanzhong.
"No, you can't. The king ordered me to garrison Wuguan, but now the Jing people have not arrived, but they have abandoned the pass and left......" Zhao Hai shook his head again and again. "Our army must fight again with the Jing people to seize the Shang city."
Jingzi Pass and Zhulin Pass have been broken, and Wuguan is meaningless in the short term. These months are the season when Danshui is full of water, and water transportation is not only much more than land transportation, but also faster than land transportation. It's just that Zhao Hai, who was ordered to garrison here, was unwilling to retreat to Guanzhong like this, and he had to fight to the death with the Chu army to prevent it from attacking westward to Lantian.
As a general of Wuguan, Zhao Hai has the right to decide whether to fight or not. In Xianyang, 500 miles to the west, taking advantage of the last ray of light, the news of the Jing people's capture of Suhe Mountain reached the Guowei Mansion. As soon as the national lieutenant Wei Yifu heard the words "菟 and mountain", his teeth couldn't help but tremble. He tried his best to be calm, but the sound of his teeth clashing was undisguised.
"Servant! Servant! Servant! After a long time, he cursed these words, and then got up and went to Qutai Palace. The few cases in front of him were knocked over by him, and the day after tomorrow he forgot to wear a penny, so he ran barefoot to Qutai Palace.
Even in normal times, Zhao Zheng has unfinished official business, and now a big war is imminent, and he often sits in the Mingtang of Qutai Palace in the middle of the night.
When fighting a large army, grain and grass should be the first consideration. The 600,000 army rushed to help Nanyang, and the grain and straw on the road were easy to solve - in ancient times, most of the grain and straw were solved on the spot, and only the external operations such as Meng Tian taking Henan and Tu Sui attacking Baiyue had to rely on the rear to transport grain. During the march, as long as the army does not pass through one place repeatedly, the grain and straw are worry-free. But when these 600,000 people arrived in Nanyang, because the officials in the counties of Nanyang County were either killed or fled, it was difficult to solve the grain problem.
The officials are the skeleton of the Qin State, and the traitors are the scouts of the Qin State. As soon as these were gone, the Qin State completely lost control of the grassroots, and even if there was grain in the county and barns and strong soldiers in the countryside in the counties, the Qin army could not draw resources from all over the country.
Will Qianshou take the initiative to send food to the Qin army? Of course not. It is said that these people were bewitched by the Chu people, and all counties and townships were hunting and killing the old Qianshou in Guanzhong. Zhao Zheng, who learned of this, could not help but feel a great resentment, and he vowed to wait for the Qin army to recover the two counties, and he would punish these people for the crime of national thieves.
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