Chapter 82: The Fire Burns the Tsuguchi River
Looking at these soldiers who were cautiously approaching their camp, Zhuge Song still ordered someone to release a round of arrows. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Of course, there is only one round, after the release Zhuge Song waved his hand, and immediately some soldiers began to set fire to the village, although the camp here is relatively simple, but for a time it can be regarded as a fire, and Zhuge Song After setting fire, he immediately led people to withdraw.
The next interesting thing happened, when Yu Ban's infantry cautiously rushed through the fire to pursue under Yu Ban's strong order, Zhuge Song didn't go far as if he was watching a good show. He just ordered people to shoot a dozen rockets from a distance whenever the enemy approached a wall of dry grass that he had preset, and then set it back when it was burning, and then ignited it with rockets when the enemy came to the next wall of grass when the fire weakened.
In this way, Zhuge Song had only retreated halfway to the middle of the valley, and the infantry under Yu Ban had advanced for nearly two hours. In the end, Yu Ban could only use cavalry, and when he encountered a wall of fire, he made a strong charge, which made Zhuge Song speed up his retreat. Until Yu Ban's cavalry stormed the five walls of fire, and when Zhuge Song retreated into the Gukou camp on the side facing Fancheng, they suddenly fell into the traps that had been dug but were covered by the grass, and under such traps, there was no longer anything inside like the previous exposed traps.
The spearmen and halberders, who had been waiting in the village for a long time, immediately came out one after another, and stabbed down at the fallen enemy who had been badly injured by the spikes in the trap, whether they were dead or alive! The archers who retreated with Zhuge Song turned around and fired their arrows one after another, delaying the enemy troops who had not yet fallen in the distance!
For a while, the sound of wailing and screaming was endless. The slaughter of the enemy troops who fell into the pit greatly destroyed the psychological defense of the cavalry that followed.
As Zhuge Song expected, the follow-up cavalry quickly made the choice of fleeing in the face of the rain of arrows and the pits everywhere. Count the results of the battle, kill the thirty-seven cavalry who rushed to the front and fell into the pit, and capture thirty-two horses still alive, which is actually not a loss for Yu Ban, who has 20,000 troops, but when Zhuge Song took down the armor on those cavalry and hung it high outside the camp gate to show off, Yu Ban was finally completely enraged!
In order to facilitate the attack on Zhuge Song's camp for days, Yu Ban set up the camp in the valley of the Yankou River, and the anger was still cautious, in order to prevent being attacked from a high position, he specially took people to investigate on the spot, confirmed that both sides were difficult to climb the cliffs, and after peace of mind, he immediately supervised people to build a camp and prepare to attack in the coming day.
Although the cliffs on both sides of the Yankou River are not conducive to the army climbing and swooping downward, one person in Zhuge Song's camp can also be selected to climb and hide and observe the movements of the forbidden army from top to bottom. Having to repay the abstinence in the camp in the valley, Zhuge Song was overjoyed, and immediately left a letter to order someone to send to Guan Yu's tent, thinking about it is not enough, and wrote a letter to order people to shoot arrows in front of the forbidden village, so he ordered everyone to be ready at all times to meet the onslaught that Yu Ban was about to come.
Let's say that after surveying the terrain in the forbidden area, he returned to the tent, thinking that although the losses in today's battle were not large, he was frustrated, and he thought that the clothes and armor of his fallen cavalry were still hung outside the camp gate by Zhuge Song, although he has always been known for his calmness, the more he thought about it, the more he felt angry.
Suddenly, someone outside the tent came to report, saying that the enemy army shot a letter, began to read it carefully, and if he didn't read it, he suddenly became angry and overturned the table, and he wanted to immediately lead the army to attack Zhuge Song.
The letter said so: people such as the forbidden, less from Bao Xin, followed by Cao Cao, the beginning of the Dubo, every battle must be before, from the conquest of Lu Bu, and break Yuan Shu, now in the main defeat in Zhang Xiu, said to be like the ancient famous general, since then alone, often a heavy responsibility. However, Song Guanzhi, Junwen is not as good as full of favor, Wu is not as good as Zhang Liao, every single battle before the battle, they all cower and wait for others to go first, but they always feel calm and calm, thinking that they have the style of famous generals. The general of Jinguan broke the bull gold in front of the battle, surrounded Cao Ren in Fancheng, Cao thief made you lead 20,000 soldiers to rescue, the people in front of him were not as old as the weak crown, and the soldiers were not as good as eleven, but they were afraid of their broken barbarian soldiers in Wuling, retreating from Lu Meng in Hanshou, and hesitated. In the end, he was brave and unscrupulous, scheming and thinking less, underestimating the enemy and adventuring, so that the front and back were out of touch, and the spirit was lost, so it was better to return to Runan as soon as possible, don't ask the good general to help Fan, Shang Sheng was defeated and captured, and his name was lost!
At this time, the forbidden Dazhai had just been built, and the soldiers had been running around all day, and after their morale was frustrated, they were tired of labor, so that they could build the prototype that night, and all the horse and foot archers participated in it. Yu Ban suddenly wanted to lead the army to attack, and he was busy to persuade: "The army is tired now, and it has been frustrated, why should the general fight in a hurry, wait for my camp to be established, recuperate for two days, and then it is not too late to send a large army to level the enemy village!" ”
Yu Ban looked at Cheng He angrily, threw the letter written by Zhuge Song on Cheng He's face, and said angrily: "See for yourself! Our army is ten times larger than the enemy, but it was so humiliated by a yellow-mouthed child, what do you have to wait? Wait until you call me what face will I see my lord! After saying that, he ignored him, and only told the rest of the troops to gather troops.
Cheng He was also dumbfounded when he saw Zhuge Song's book, and it was difficult to understand why Zhuge Song didn't ask to keep the last day is a day, but he wanted to provoke Yu Ban to attack his camp today, but he didn't dare to say anything about not sending troops, so he could only follow the order stupidly.
When Yu Ban hurriedly gathered troops and began to attack Zhuge Song's camp, it was already dusk, and the people in the village were in full spirit, waiting for work, on the contrary, Yu Ban's soldiers were exhausted, and they could not assemble large equipment to assist in a hurry, and they passed by to see the corpse of their own cavalry who had just died in the pit not long ago, and the morale was even lower after a few rounds of arrow rain, and Yu Ban still did not make any progress until it was dark. I had no choice but to return to the camp, but because of the deployment of troops, the people who stayed behind could not build a big village before dark, let alone the antlers, trenches and other protective facilities that should be in the village. The generals barely had a few tents that had been erected, and ordinary soldiers had to sleep around the campfire at night, which was even more miserable.
At night to the fourth watch, Zhuge Song ordered less than 50 horsemen in the Qi army, each rider carried four unlit torches, held one, and the horse bag was filled with oil divided into small bags, while everyone in the forbidden village was asleep, and the vigilant people had also leaned on the wooden pillar and fell asleep, they suddenly rushed into the forbidden village, and instantly raised fire, not seeking to kill the enemy, but only pouring oil on the camp tent and lighting the fire. Yu Ban had to fall asleep very late because of the daytime, and when he hurriedly put on his battle armor and went out to command, Zhuge Song and his men had already thrown all the torches and rushed out of the gate of the village, leaving only Yu Ban's soldiers who did not know how many enemies there were in the village.
At dawn on the second day, each side will report in the forbidden tent in the future, more than 5,000 soldiers escaped and lost in the village yesterday night, although they have returned one after another after dawn, but the soldiers of the full battalion have been tired, and they are no longer able to attack the camp of Zhuge Song.
Yu Ban was even more angry, and ordered the deserters to be punished with fifty military sticks each, and the generals hurriedly pleaded, but Yu Banping was very strict with his subordinates, and such a large-scale rout still made him force each deserter to give at least twenty military sticks. As a result, their own military strength has been greatly reduced, the soldiers are miserable, and their fighting spirit is completely lost. For five days in a row, although Yu Ban was unwilling, he had no choice but to divide the rest of the sergeants into three groups, take turns to rest and build camps, and only wait for the army to rest and recuperate before taking revenge.