Volume 15 The Furious Waters of the South China Sea - South Vietnam Volume 8 Arson
In April in Guangxi, the weather has been a little hot, the evergreen trees of the four seasons are even more lush, and the boss of the Longwei Mountain looks like a sea of green covered by forests. According to modern parlance, it is estimated that the forest coverage rate can reach at least 90 percent, and only a small area on the top of the mountain is bare!
Fusu stopped at the foot of Longwei Mountain, and the generals followed, inspecting the terrain together. After a while, Fusu said: "Everyone, this Longwei Mountain is high and dangerous, and the thickets are deep and dense, which is not conducive to the deployment of our army's large-scale troops!" Mr. Meng, what do you see?"
Meng Long nodded and said, "Yes! This Longwei Mountain is the last powerful barrier of the Dragon Valley, the main road under the choke mountain should be established, and after the Longwei Mountain is a horse flat, the plain, so if you want to take the Dragon Valley, you must take it first! However, the northern, western, and eastern sides of Longwei Mountain are not only steep mountains, but also deep and dense forests, and the South Vietnamese army defended this strange and dangerous way, and our army's superiority in strength was greatly reduced, and the enemy must not be underestimated!"
Li Xinhu asked: "It seems that the master of the Meng Shaodong has missed a side, so what is the mountain situation in the south of Longwei Mountain?" Meng Long said with a smile: "The south side of Longwei Mountain is a cliff that is difficult for birds to cross, and it is difficult for ordinary people to climb it. If the South Vietnamese army refuses to defend the top of the mountain with 100 people, I'm afraid that even the gods will not be able to fly up!"
Hearing this, Fusu's heart moved: "Has Mr. Meng heard of 'Wolf Teeth'!?" This is the strange soldier trained by this gentleman, who is very good at climbing high and overcoming dangers, and making surprise attacks and secret crossings, maybe they can do it!"
Meng Long was stunned when he heard this: "Even if it works, then we have to hope that the South Vietnamese army is not guarded against the southern wall, and the number of 'wolf teeth' strange soldiers seems to be small, only a thousand people, and I am afraid that there are no less than 60,000 South Vietnamese troops on Longwei Mountain, and these thousand people can climb to the bottom of the cliff, how can they withstand the hard work of a large number of South Vietnamese troops?"
Fusu couldn't help but hesitate a little when he heard this: "With such a huge disparity in strength, if you are not careful, you will bury all the 'wolf teeth', so you still have to be cautious!"
Ren Huan said at this time: "I think this plan may work!" On the one hand, our army can tentatively attack Longwei Mountain from the front. On the one hand, we will send a rebuke to the south of Longwei Mountain to see if the South Vietnamese army is prepared and whether the mountain can be climbed, and then make a decision according to the situation!"
Fusu nodded and said, "At present, it can only be like this!" Qin Hu!" The end will be in !"
"You send ten 'wolf's teeth' soldiers to sneak from the ancient road down the mountain to Longwei Mountain at night, see if the mountain can be climbed, whether the South Vietnamese army is prepared, and report to me as soon as possible!" Whoa!"
"General Li Xin, General Qiang Kui, General Ren Huan!" The end will be in !"
"The three of you will each command 50,000 troops early tomorrow morning, and you will take turns to attack Longwei Mountain within two hours. Test the reality of the South Vietnamese Army!" Whoa!"
Early the next morning, 150,000 Qin troops came out of the camp and assembled at the foot of the mountain, ready to attack the mountain!
At that moment, Li Xin, the general of Xiao, took the lead, and led 50,000 Qin troops into the jungle along the rugged mountain and climbed to the top of the mountain!
The ancient rotten trees on Longwei Mountain don't know how many years they have grown, as if they have never been cut down, they are all five big and three thick, reaching into the sky. The lush foliage obscured most of the sunlight, and even though it was daytime, the forest was as dark as evening.
The Qin army of the brigade staggered through the forest, carefully stepping on the rotten leaves all the way, paying attention to the situation under their feet and in the vicinity. After all, Poison Valley has learned a lot of lessons. Who can guarantee that the South Vietnamese will not resort to any more tricks!
But what made Li Xin and the others who commanded the army a little strange was that seeing that the 50,000 Qin troops were almost on the mountainside, there was still some quiet on Longwei Mountain! Li Xin didn't dare to be careless. Tell the three armies, be more careful!
Fusu and the others were sheltered by dense forests at the bottom of the mountain. Although I couldn't see the progress of Li Xin's department, I could hear that it was a little strange to hear that it was a little quiet on Longwei Mountain, and I couldn't help but wonder: "What's going on?" Did the South Vietnamese all flee? Why is it so quiet?"
Meng Long was also a little puzzled: "It shouldn't be, the rebuke has not found any signs of a large-scale withdrawal of the South Vietnamese army!" The Vietnamese army planned to fight a decisive battle with our army on the mountain. So don't you defend the mountainside?" The generals looked at each other: Who knows!
At the moment, there is no answer, and everyone in Fusu has to wait patiently!
However, it was said that Li Xin had led the army to the mountainside and climbed the mountain road for nearly an hour. Although most of the Qin troops were big men in Guanzhong, they were still a little out of breath, and their speed of movement slowed down! And with the increase of exhaustion, the vigilance of the Qin army was inevitably a little lax.
At this moment, a loud horn suddenly sounded in the dense jungle, and this suddenness was like a sudden thunderbolt in the quiet night sky, which made the Qin soldiers all stunned!
At the moment when the Qin soldiers were stunned, a strange change suddenly occurred: there was a sudden sound of branches above the heads of the Qin soldiers, and then countless cold rays screamed and swooped down from the top of their heads, attacking the Qin army, which was actually a stream of arrows in the sky!
"Plop pounce pounce...... The Qin army was caught off guard, and they were hit by arrows one after another, blooming blood flowers, and suddenly a miserable howl resounded through the jungle. Countless dead and wounded soldiers of the Qin army couldn't restrain their hands and feet, and they fell down the steep sentry like a rolling gourd all the way down the steep whistle mountain!
"Watch your head, the enemy is in the tree!" Li Xin's ears were deaf and clear-sighted, and he quickly avoided a stray arrow and shouted hard!
After all, the Qin army was well-trained, and they reacted instantly, and when they looked up, countless South Vietnamese soldiers appeared on the towering ancient trees, and they all opened their bows and arrows to shoot fiercely at the Qin army!
The scream of ......the monster shook the eardrums, and the arrows of the South Vietnamese army were a little too dense for a while, and from time to time, the Qin soldiers screamed and were pierced through the bare heads, and some were shot straight to the point that their brains were splashed, which was unspeakably miserable!
The Qin army was furious and immediately prepared to counterattack, and then the Qin army found the embarrassment: the enemy army was on a tree several zhang or even nearly ten zhang high, and all the Qin army was under the tree, the Qin army wanted to attack the enemy, but the weapons in their hands, whether it was a sword, halberd or beryllium, could not frame the enemy at all, and the only place that could kill the enemy was a crossbow arrow! So, under the vigorous shouting of the generals of the Qin army, the crossbowmen of the Qin army immediately risked their lives to come forward and shoot at each other with the South Vietnamese army on the tree!
In an instant, arrows flew on the mountainside of Longwei Mountain, and the sound of killing shook the sky!
However, only 10,000 of the 50,000 Qin troops were crossbowmen, and they were unsheltered on the ground, while tens of thousands of South Vietnamese troops hid in the trees and opened heavy fire on the Qin army. Coupled with its condescending advantage, it didn't take long for the crossbowmen of the Qin army to shoot the South Vietnamese at all, and they were shot and killed by the South Vietnamese army in the dense and chaotic shooting!
What's more, the South Vietnamese army even used weeds and vines to weave rope ladders one after another, connecting the big trees one by one, forming a vast and tightly entrenched tree fortress, ##εθΆεε¨ζ δΈζ΄ζ―θ‘ε¨θͺε¦, coming and going like flying. For a moment, the Qin army only felt that there were enemies scurrying all over their heads. It seems that if you hide in any corner, there will be deadly arrows whistling and flying!
When the crossbowmen of the two armies exchanged shots, many brave Qin soldiers were not to be outdone, and abandoned their long soldiers one after another, and struggled to climb the trees, trying to fight the South Vietnamese on the trees! It's a pity that when climbing the tree, the motivation of the Qin army was equal to zero, but they were shot down by the South Vietnamese army one by one, and it didn't take long. No one in the Qin army is willing to die in vain!
For a time, 50,000 Qin troops were killed by the South Vietnamese army, and they had no power to fight back!
Li Xin was furious. Pull the iron-tired bow behind his back and perform the magic skills passed down by his ancestors. An arrow was fired. With a "thud", the arrow pierced the throat of a South Vietnamese soldier, and the South Vietnamese soldier fell from the tree without snorting, and his brain burst out. Dead too much to die again!
Immediately afterwards, Li Xin performed a double-bead stunt, and every time he bowed and shot with two arrows, shooting directly at the nearby South Vietnamese army. Killed! Seeing Li Xin's divine shooting, all the South Vietnamese soldiers were terrified, and they did not dare to approach Li Xin for a while, and they either roared and pulled vines on the trees, leaped from one tree to another, or escaped to other trees through rope ladders extending in all directions!
Li Xinzheng shot vigorously, and suddenly touched the quiver with his right hand, but it was already empty, and when he was taken aback, he looked around, and saw that the Qin army was in great chaos, and it was completely like a broken army, but it was resisting in vain due to the harsh military discipline. Li Xin knew what to do, stomped his feet viciously, and said in a lower voice: "After the crossbow hand is broken, withdraw the army!"
The Qin army didn't want to stay in this ghost place anymore, and when they heard the order to withdraw, under the tenacious cover of the crossbowmen, they swept down the mountain like a rushing tide!
At the foot of the mountain, Fusu and the others suddenly heard the sound of killing halfway up the mountain, and immediately raised their hearts to their throats, and they didn't know what the battle situation was for a while, and they couldn't help but be very anxious. Suddenly, Fusu saw from a distance that the soldiers of the Qin army in the brigade were very embarrassed and retreated from the mountain, and his heart suddenly sank: "Damn, I have retreated, and I am afraid it is quite miserable!"
Sure enough, after a while, the gray-faced Li Xin walked over with a depressed face, fell to the ground with a "plop", and said astringently: "Your Excellency, the last general is incompetent, and he will return in defeat, please deal with it!"
Fusu hurriedly picked up Li Xin and said: "The general doesn't have to blame himself, I can't see the situation on the mountain clearly, how did the army lose?" Li Xin then depressedly recounted the defeat in detail.
The generals, including Fusu, couldn't help but widen their eyes for a while, and said in their hearts: "What, this battle can still be fought like this!?" Fusu also said a little sleepy: "This monarch has led the army for many years, crisscrossing the six countries, and has not tasted defeat, but I didn't expect that since I entered Lingnan, I have been frustrated again and again, and this 'building a tree for the city, and defending the palace in a chain' is even more unheard of, and it is not unjust to lose!"
Qiang Kui also said a little depressedly: "The enemy army is condescending, the far ones kill the enemy with bows and arrows, and the near ones use short swords to fight hand-to-hand, which can be said to have taken advantage of the whole Longwei Mountain, and turned the entire Longwei Mountain into a strong city, how can this be good!"
Ren Huan also scratched his head a little and said: "If the city is better, set up equipment to attack the city!" It's just that this mountainous terrain is rugged and precipitous, and it is difficult to use any equipment at all, and the trees are no less tall than any city, so our army has a million male soldiers, and there is nothing to do if we can't reach the enemy!"
Meng Long thought for a moment when he heard this: "This tactic of the South Vietnamese Army perfectly combines its own strengths and geographical advantages, if it attacks head-on, the possibility of victory is extremely small!" The best way to crack it is to attack with fire!"
Hearing this, Fusu nodded and said, "What Mr. Meng said is exactly what I want!" The forest is located on the mountainside, with plenty of sunlight, dry air, and trees such as Pinus tabuliformis, which are easy to catch fire! It's just that Benjun is a little worried, if the fire starts and spreads, I'm afraid the disaster will be not small!"
Qiang Kui said with some disapproval: "As long as you can defeat those South Vietnamese, why not attack a few more barren mountains!"
Fusu shook his head and said, "Benjun is not worried about this, but he is just worried that once this forest fire burns out, it will get out of control!" Our army's camps are all set up by the sparsely wooded river, and the camp will not have a problem, but once this forest fire is about to burn, if it spreads throughout the mountains and burns off our army's food road, it will be a big trouble! This mountain trail is already narrow, and it takes too much time to repair! As long as the fire breaks out at Longwei Mountain, the South Vietnamese army can still refuse to defend as long as it retreats to the top of the hill where there is no fire, and if the war drags on, our army will not be in danger of running out of food, and it must be investigated!"
Shi Lu nodded when he heard this: "This is indeed worrying, but rest assured, there will be a way to prevent the forest fire from spreading!"
"Oh!? What is General Shi's magic method?"
"My army can enclose the north, west and east sides of Longwei Mountain, build a fire barrier around the mountain, about ten zhang wide, remove the trees on the fire barrier belt, and then send troops to garrison along the line, so that the forest fire will burn up, and it will only burn Longwei Mountain into a bald mountain, and it will not spread out!"
Fusu then remembered that Shi Lu was an engineering wizard, and such a small project should not be difficult for him. Hurriedly asked, "Great, General Shi, I don't know how long it will take to build this fire belt?"
Shi Lu pondered for a moment and said: "According to the sand table drawn by the soldiers, the north, west, and east sides of Longwei Mountain are about twenty miles long, and our army uses 100,000 troops to prevent the Yue people on the mountain from coming down to harass, and another 100,000 people to build a fire barrier, which is about a day's time!"
Fusu nodded, and said, "Okay, General Shi will arrange the construction of a fire barrier tomorrow, and this gentleman wants to let the South Vietnamese people taste the taste of burning their buttocks!" Hahaha...... The generals laughed.
After the Qin army spent a day building the fire belt, they did not want to wait for more than one night, so they sprinkled fire oil and sulfur at the foot of Longwei Mountain and began to set fires.
Suddenly, Fusu gave an order, and fire dragons rose from the north, west, and east of Longwei Mountain, rolling and roaring towards the mountainside in the night wind. The sky-high flames soared into the sky, illuminating the dark night sky as bright as day, and the stars that had been shining in the night sky suddenly looked dull under the light of the furious forest fire.
Faintly, the Qin troops at the foot of the mountain heard the panicked shouts of the South Vietnamese army from the mountainside, and couldn't help but rejoice and curse loudly at the foot of the mountain!
Early the next morning, when Fusu and the generals got up to see, the entire Longwei Mountain was almost burned to the ground, and as far as the eye could see, the entire mountain was black and mush, full of ashes left after burning and the remaining smoke that was still curling from itself!
Fusu smiled bitterly: "It's really a fierce battle, yesterday it was a green mountain, but today it has become a red land, my ability to set fire is really no less than Zhuge Liang!"