The Qin soldiers were shot to the ground one by one, and the archers hid behind their shields to release their arrows, but the steep hillside and the slippery mud on the ground made it impossible to stand firm, let alone hit the target. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cheng Bian stood on the watchtower and saw Qian Fei's iron crown and Wujia and thought: "This outfit coupled with the shouting just now, it seems that this kid is most likely the leader, eat me with an arrow."

Saying that Bian set up his bow and shot three arrows in a row, Qian Fei on the hillside had also seen it at this time, and hurriedly raised his shield to cover himself, and all three arrows were nailed to the shield.

Qian Fei saw that his own people were coming less and less, so he had to order the soldiers to retreat slowly.

Cao Cheng looked down the slope and said angrily: "Didn't Qian Fei boast that he was very powerful, why was he so afraid of death when it came to a critical moment, and the brothers rushed up with me."

After saying that, he rushed up the mountain with his soldiers, and when Qian Fei saw Cao Cheng leading his troops to kill him, he immediately raised his sword and shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements are coming, follow me to kill."

The army had barely reached the halfway point of the hillside when they saw several fiery flying stones smashing down on top of their heads, and in an instant the hillside became a sea of fire.

Many Qin soldiers were directly smashed by the flint, and the Qin soldiers who were not hit also fell to the ground and found it difficult to get up, Cao Cheng and Qian Fei saw that there were no more people standing next to them.

Qian Fei said to Cao Cheng: "Brother Cao, you see that the Zhao army has heavy weapons, and if we rush up, I'm afraid we will all die here, so let's withdraw first."

"It seems that this is the only way to go, withdraw"

More than forty shields held shields in array to defend, and all the remaining living Qin soldiers were afraid that the Zhao army would attack again, so they struggled to get up from the ground and ran quickly down the mountain.

In the end, Cao Cheng and Qian Fei retreated with more than 40 people, and in a blink of an eye, only more than 150 corpses of Qin soldiers were left on the hillside.

Inside the fortress, Cheng Bian said arrogantly to Lu Rui: "General Lu, look at it, can't we win without Liu Xiang, besides, we still destroy more than half of the enemy and I won't break one."

"General Cheng, this is just Wang Jian sent to find out the details of our army, the other side is only a few hundred people, and our army relies on terrain and catapults to achieve victory, so this victory is nothing to praise at all."

Fifty miles east of the Yanpo Qin army camp

In the tent of the Chinese army, Cao Cheng reported to Wang Jianyu: "General, General Zhao, who is guarding the mountain, sees that we are here to investigate, so he did not order to fight back with all his might, but only rolled down the hillside to disrupt the formation of our army, and then made more than ten archers release arrows one by one.

The hill is so steep that our troops cannot shoot arrows to the top of the hill, and although it is not clear how many enemy troops there are, we can be sure of the number of catapults, otherwise I would not have lost more than half of them."

Wang Jian sat on a low stool and said to the generals beside him: "The catapults have been pulled over, it seems that Li Mu is preparing to defend here for a while, this terrain is extremely easy to defend and not conducive to attacking, we have to wait for the heavy weapons to be transferred."

Wang Ben approached and said: "Father, since the Zhao army wants to hold here for a period of time, it means that the relocation of the two cities of Chili in Yi'an has not yet been completed, and this Li Mu must still be in Yi'an, we should concentrate all our forces to conquer the fortress of Sheyanpo, and then quickly kill Ben Yi'an and capture Li Mu."

Wang Jian shook his head and said: "No, Cao Cheng led three hundred people to go, and lost more than half of them without injuring a single enemy, I have also observed that the terrain of the Shooting Goose Slope is extremely steep, so that the arrows under the slope cannot be shot on the slope at all, although the strength of the fortress at the top of the slope is unknown, it is known to have heavy equipment.

Shooting Yanpo has become a key defensive target in Li Mu's eyes, I think the fortifications above must be built relatively strong, although Li Mu divided most of his troops to move the people, but he will definitely leave heavy troops to guard this place, so our army must wait for the heavy equipment to arrive before attacking.

As soon as our army's attack on the mountain is blocked and we lose men and horses, Li Mu will definitely mobilize a large army to raid us and cut off our back road, and then we will be in danger.

In addition, the roads were very muddy just after the rainy season, and it was very difficult to transport grain and grass for a long distance, so I decided to set up a grain storage base on the other side of the mountain after capturing Sheyanpo to ensure the future needs of our army, and the only thing to do now was to wait for the arrival of the rest of our troops, horses, and equipment."

After receiving the order, the generals went out of the camp to perform their duties, and did not mention it.

Here Liu Xiang and his entourage passed through the Luoshan Valley and arrived at the Shooting Goose Fortress, Liu Xiang gathered all the four generals stationed in the two places, and said: "Wang Jian led an army of 50,000 to attack the hinterland of Zhao State, and now the general has decided to abandon Yi'an and Chili to move the people to the interior, so we must hold on to this until the completion of the task of abandoning the city and relocating the people, for the sake of the people behind us, we must hold on to the last moment."

Lu Rui, Li Huan, and Chong Wei said in unison: "It's all up to the general's orders, and we must do our best."

Cheng Bian walked a few steps with a smile and said, "General Liu, do you know that before you arrived just now, Wang Jian sent a small group of men and horses to attack us, and as a result, I killed more than 150 people without being injured."

Liu Xiang said to Cheng Bian: "With the help of heavy equipment, he will definitely repel a small group of invading enemies, which does not explain what is commendable, and I hope that the general will not fall in love with the enemy because of this small victory."

Lu Rui knew that Cheng Bian was dissatisfied with Liu Xiang in his heart, and he was afraid that he would do something radical after hearing these words, so he hurriedly said to Liu Xiang: "General Liu, we all listen to you, and now we should discuss how to resist the Qin army."

"When you came, the general had already been deployed, this goose fortress was built very strongly, and when I came, I also saw that the sniper fortifications in the Luoshan Valley were built very reasonably, as long as you lead the troops to hold your position, remember not to lead the army to attack in case you fall into the plan of Wang Qian's old thief."

Liu Xiang looked at the map and continued: "I will lead my headquarters to camp in the west of Nanhuping, lead my generals to deploy men and horses to cooperate with your sniping, and you will hand over all the cavalry to me."

After hearing this, Chongwei said: "Dare to ask the general, why do you hand over all our cavalry to you."

"You don't need cavalry to defend the city at all, you hand over all the cavalry under your command to me, I will hand over my 2,000 infantry troops to Cheng Bian Lurui Shoushan, you hand over the cavalry to me, I have my own opinions."

After everyone listened, they handed over all the cavalry in their hands, and Liu Xiang also ordered Liu Xi to bring 2,000 infantry to assist Cheng Lu and the second general to guard the mountain, Cheng Bian was still a little unconvinced, but he had to endure it for the time being.

The grain, grass, baggage and various large-scale attack equipment in the Qin army camp have all arrived, and the 30,000 horses and horses behind have also arrived at the foot of the Yanpo slope, so Wang Jian issued an attack order.

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