The position halfway up the Yuanhu Mountain, aimed at the Ba people rushing down from the mountain pass, and the fifteen-pound cannon was bombarding. After days of fighting, the birds and beasts in the vicinity have gradually become accustomed to this huge roar, but every time the cannon is fired, clumps of birds will still be startled in the depths of the dense forest. The birds were frightened, and the Ba people were also frightened, after several fierce attacks were defeated by artillery a few days ago, all they could do was to attack day and night, even if the Chu army stopped what they were doing to guard once, it was considered to have achieved their goal.

The col was not a straight line, at least the col that the Chu army was now facing had three distinct corners, one was at the pass and the other two were about a mile in front of the mountainside position. As soon as the cannon bombarded, the Ba people hid in the bottom corner, which was a safe place. Seeing the Ba people shrink back like rats, someone on the position began to shout, 'The Qin people are defeated, the Qin people are defeated', and at this time, Lu Xun just rushed to the bottom of the mountain.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, which was later called Sancha Village (the ravine that runs east-west, plus the col that goes up the mountain, is actually Sancha, which is a flat land about seven or eight hundred meters long and wide), Lu Qian and Lu Gao looked up at Yuanhu Mountain together. The difference in altitude between the top of the mountain and the foothold on both sides is about 1,000 meters, the slope of more than 4,000 meters is 25 percent, and the elevation angle is about 17 degrees.

The peaks are so high that the col is relatively gentle, with only half the slope of the peak. The ravine in the col is also wide, at least the one in front of me is dozens of paces wide. People came and went in the mountain col, and above everyone's heads was the shout of 'the Qin people are defeated', as well as the gray-white gunpowder smoke that diffused in the air, and Lu Chan seemed to smell the smell of siege again.

"How? Is this mountain dangerous? The curtain was set up at the three-way crossing, and Lu Qian and Lu Gao were waiting for the main general Chengtong to summon them after the report, but they didn't expect Chengtong to speak directly. The two of them looked shocked, and hurriedly saluted: "I've seen the general." ”

"Excuse me." Cheng Tong looked a little tired, and the night attack was not successful, and both the Chu and Qin armies felt the importance of Yuanhu Mountain. The Chu army urgently transferred Lu Xuan's siege brigade, and the Qin army was also mobilizing the elite. It seems that there are also guards in charge of the security of the Qin Palace, who rushed down from the mountain pass yesterday, and the two sides have fought in Xianyang.

"It's you two little shafts again." Xin Cai Shi led Pan Wuming's palm to slap on the shoulders of Lu Chan and Lu Gao, he had drunk with the two of them when he was depressed, and he also knew that Lu Chan was here to rob the battle merits.

"I've seen Pan Shirate." Lu Qian and Lu Gao didn't care that Pan Wuming called him erected, and saluted with a smile.

"This battle is not strong, our army cannot advance an inch, this, this ......, cough cough," Pan Wuming is a rough man, he learned the tone of Cheng Tong and Pang Nuan in the first two sentences, and after saying those two sentences, he didn't know how to say it, so he could only look at Cheng Tong and let Cheng Tong speak.

Chengtong didn't want Pan Wusheng to go down the stairs, so he quickly said: "I summoned you to come here to attack the mountain, not to attack the mountain." If it is not for the attack on the mountain, it means that the siege brigade does not have to attack the mountain pass......"

"You don't have to attack the mountain pass?" Lu Gao and Lu Gao were puzzled. Attacking cities and mountains is all about making a big move, and since it has been attacked, it is necessary to attack the mountain pass. "Why don't you have to attack the mountain pass?" Lu Gao asked.

"The Qin people built a fortress to defend the mountain pass, and you can't attack the mountain pass." into a channel. "It can only be attacked with artillery, and when the forty-five pounds of artillery are dragged to the mountain pass, it can break through the Qin army's earthen fortress and attack the mountain pass."

The forty-five-pound cannon Lu Yu didn't know that Lu Gao had personally served this kind of cannon when he was in the Operations Division, and the weight of that thing was as heavy as a small trebuchet. The thought of pulling such a heavy object up to the top of the mountain made him open his mouth wide in surprise and smack his tongue repeatedly.

"I don't want you to wait for the artillery to be dragged up the mountain, but you want to attack to a high place, and then the sealers will pour concrete pillars, and use the Fu horses to drag the artillery up the mountain." When Chengtong said that Fu wanted a horse, he also pointed to the two at the foot of the mountain, which were steaming white.

"Concrete columns?" Lu Qian and Lu Gao were stunned, thousands of soldiers and soldiers of the whole brigade came hundreds of miles to protect the construction of the sealers?

"Yes, yes." The person who spoke was no longer successful, it was the general of the artillery to defeat the enemy, and he looked at Lu Yu and Lu Gao. What made Lu Gao faintly uncomfortable was that his gaze only stayed on his face for a short time before turning to Lu Xuan's face.

"This is the general of the artillery to defeat the enemy general." Cheng Tong looked at the enemy who spoke, introduced it, and the two hurriedly saluted.

"This is the general of the sappers." All the people in the shogunate came out, and Naritsu went on to introduce the public loss taboo. "This is the general of Zhao Guo, Lin Wujun, who personally commanded the Five Nations Alliance Army to attack Qin in the past, and now it is the tour rate of the Cangwu Brigade."

"I've seen Lin Wujun." Lu Qian and Lu Gao saluted again.

"This is a seal of people." The last person to be introduced is Feng Renqiao, who has a dark face and very young eyes.

"The siege brigade attacked the mountain col to protect the people of the seal to dig and build pillars." Pang Nuan was also like the enemy, his eyes did not stay on Lu Gao's face, but looked at Lu Gao. Lu Chan is the brigade leader, and it is rumored that this person fell off the city wall several times with the enemy, and the enemy fell to the ground and died.

"The subordinate receives the order." Lu Chan said to Cheng Tong and the others.

"Shen Qingzhi's artillery is already on the mountain, when can you fight?" Shen Qing was the commander of the artillery battalion, and he had always cooperated with the siege brigade before. The reason why Cheng Tong asked like this was that he didn't want to wait anymore after waiting for three days. He wants Lu Chan to attack it now, and attack this mountain pass as soon as possible - the news from Wuguan Dao that the plank road can be repaired in more than ten days at most, and the king will soon be out of Lantian.

"Ming... Day can also. "As soon as Lu Xuan's word 'Ming' came out, Lu Gao moved him, but he still said tomorrow.

"Tomorrow......" Chengtong looked disappointed.

"Not today?" Pang Nuan on the side also asked. The Chu army is not the Zhao army, and the siege is not a battle. For the siege of the castle, the shogunate generally only stated the specific requirements and gave an approximate time, and the specific time of the battle plan was drawn up by the commander himself.

"I don't know the terrain of the mountain pass, and the soldiers have never rested...... Lu Qian didn't seem to see Cheng Tong's disappointment and Pang Nuan's displeasure, and only said his own considerations. The subordinates surveyed the terrain today, and discussed the tactics of the army at night, and they could fight tomorrow. ”

"That's it." Chengtong looked at the top of the mountain and said noncommittally. After saying that, he pointed his hand casually, to the effect that you would see it yourself, turned around and returned to the shogunate. As soon as he left, Pang Nuan, Pan Wuming and others also left, and only his old partners Shen Qing and Feng Renqiao were left outside the shogunate.

"It's hard." Lu Gao was about to blame Lu Qian for not being able to observe words and expressions, but Shen Qing sighed, he walked in front and led the way up the mountain, and said as he walked: "Let's look at the mountain and the equipment of the Qin people first." ”

A siege is not the same as a siege, especially since the col has a few corners that obscure the fire. It played a vital role as a cover for the enemy who came out of the mountain pass. In the eyes of Lu Qian and Lu Gao, this is equivalent to capturing three cities. Every corner was an earthen city, and the enemy held on the corner, and the artillery could not support the operation at all.

This is also the reason for the transfer of siege brigades. The Chu army and the Yue people have been accustomed to the spear formation for a long time, and the spear formation is inconvenient to expand in such an undulating and narrow place, and even if it is expanded, it will not be able to form a formation due to the scattered mountains. The Ba people have spear and sword and shield pawns, but their formation is not skilled enough, and they are better at scattered fighting than formation fighting. Only the siege brigade is accustomed to using swords and shields, and is good at fighting in rugged and dangerous places. Another reason may be that Lu Chan is the enemy, and when his military flag is blown up by the wind in the mountainside position, the enemy around the corner fluctuates.

"Pusher?!" Some people in Langzhong and Pakistan shouted loudly. They did not garrison the mountain pass, and considering that the two corners under the mountain pass were not important passes, Meng Tian agreed that they should be stationed there to delay the advance of the Chu army.

Due to the habit of attacking the Qi people, the word "陸" on the military flag is the way of writing of merchants, there is a wavy peak on the left, and a wavy peak is also standing on the right, the peak is facing inward and the root is outward, and the upper part of the word "坴" is sandwiched between the two peaks. It's as if a person is standing between two mountains, and the short horizontal above the soil character is his arm, and the arm is raised high and obliquely, as if to push away the peaks on both sides, and the long horizontal below is his thigh, and the thigh is wide open to the sides, connecting the lower calf, and standing firmly in the mountains.

The people of Langzhong did not know Xia Wen, and the most direct understanding of this image was the person who pushed the mountain. That's right, that's exactly what the Chinese word makers intended. What is Lu? Lu is the wasteland at the foot of the mountain. These moors are also uneven and need to be filled in by human activity, which means that people have to carve out the undulating mountains in order to gain a small piece of valuable land that can be cultivated.

The word '陸' on the military flag is a person sandwiched between two mountain peaks, and the oracle bone inscription is written as a wavy mountain peak on the left side, and two people on the right side. Both of these are the embodiment of the various ways of writing the ancient word '陸', with different shapes but exactly the same meaning.

As an old opponent, when the Ba people saw this military flag with two mountains and one person, they immediately understood that the old opponent had arrived. A leader jumped on a high place with a landing mirror and looked at it for a while, and after making sure that the person who came was Lu Chan, he jumped down again. Soon someone stepped out of the corner and ran down the col to the pass.

"When the people of Pakistan know that you have come here, they will be on guard. Why not attack today? Lu Gao wanted to persuade Lu Gao to attack today just now, but now seeing that the enemy is alert, he can't help complaining.

"The mountains are not familiar with the enemy, and the soldiers are ......tired from afar," Lu Chan felt the other party's vigilance. Of course, he also wanted to attack today and take the Qin people by surprise, but he hadn't seen the terrain and had not rested his soldiers, so how could he lead them to the battlefield.

"A pillar around the corner is necessary!" Feng Renqiao was on the side, and the entire siege brigade was at his service, so he naturally made a request.

"Around the corner?" Lu Qian and Lu Gao looked at the two places together.

"And Yamaguchi." Feng Renqiao pointed upwards with his hand. "100 steps from the mountain pass is the best."

"It's not difficult to attack, but it's difficult to ......" Lu Gao didn't have actual combat, but he had seen a lot. How long does it take for you to stand upright? ”

"At least one day." Feng Renqiao replied. "In one day, the pillar can be erected, a few inches out of the ground, and then buried, and it can be solidified and used after seven days. Seven days later, however, another attack was required, when the pillars were dug up and the artillery was dragged to the vicinity of the pass. ”