Chapter 520: The Battle of the Slopes
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This last reminder is an explanation made by Wei Jie's to Liu Muzhi, Hou Liangsheng's mind has been completely blinded at this moment, and he can't see his situation clearly in the bureau, no matter how much he says, it's useless!
As for the terrifying hoplites of the Jingzhou army, although the guards are worried, they are not panicked, judging from the current comparison of combat power, they will definitely not be able to fight, and they can't stop it, but since the Jingzhou army has chosen to open the way with hoplites, it obviously wants to be stable, and does not plan to fight quickly, in other words, as long as the guards order their own camp to keep a distance from the Jingzhou army, and then strictly prevent the opponent's cavalry from raiding, there is still time to think about the strategy of breaking the enemy!
It's just that if you can't think of any good way to break the opponent's hoplites, even if you buy more time, you will only survive!
The trap area arranged by the soldiers of the assault battalion has been gradually filled in by the Jingzhou army, and all the Jingzhou troops have maintained the formation of hoplites advancing forward, and the cavalry guarding the two wings are slowly approaching, while the Beifu soldiers are also maintaining a defensive formation, retreating slowly and methodically, just maintaining the distance between the two armies and not making contact with the opposing hoplites!
It's a pity that there are no hoplites at this time, although even the hoplites don't have any upper hand over the hoplites with huge shields and spears, but if they can retreat to a terrain suitable for cavalry charges, the hoplites can still try to break up the cavalry on both flanks of the opponent first, and then attack the heavy infantry from both sides!
"Pang Yun, from this moment on, the Beifu soldiers and cavalry will continue to be commanded by you!"
In this way, both sides were unhurried, one chased, the other retreated and walked for more than an hour, and it was less than forty miles away from Jingkou, this is still because the speed of the Jingzhou army's hoplites advancing is too slow, otherwise Jingkou City is already in sight at this moment!
Jingkou is the base camp of the Beifu soldiers, and its city defense is equal to nothing, no one thought that there would be soldiers in Jingkou one day, and when the Jingzhou army advanced to the Jingkou city, do the Beifu soldiers continue to abandon the city and flee?
Time can be delayed, but a decisive battle is inevitable!
However, at this point, the guard can only try their best to delay the arrival of the decisive battle!
"Keep the current distance and strictly guard against the surprise attack of the cavalry of the Jingzhou Army!" In Pang Yun's command, Wei Jie's continued.
In the next ten miles, there will be a slope of more than 500 meters long, is the only passage to Jingkou, the angle of the slope here should not be less than 30 degrees, and at the same time both sides are dense forests, if there are heavy cavalry, here will be a good place to fight back, but there is no heavy cavalry in the Beifu military formation, let the existing cavalry use the formation to charge, can only be sent to death!
After passing through this slope, all the way to Kyoguchi Castle is an endless open area, and there is no terrain to use!
Wei Jie planned to use this slope to slow down the pace of the Jingzhou army while causing as much damage to the hoplites of the Jingzhou army as possible, and after handing over the Beifu cavalry back to Pang Yun, he and the soldiers of the assault battalion took the lead and rushed to this slope.
He still has an hour to prepare!
After reaching the slope, Wei Jie divided some people to dig a pit above the slope to store water, and the excavated soil was placed around the puddle, while at the same time, another part of the people were collecting enough boulders nearby!
Most of the soldiers of the assault battalion who came with the guard rank went to the woods on both sides of the slope to cut trees, and the thick trees were their targets, and after an hour, the upper part of the slope was full of collected boulders, and behind the boulders were layers of stripped bark trunks!
Soon, the Beifu cavalry led by Pang Yun entered the sight of the guards and others, they had come to the bottom of the slope, only to see that after the herald left at the bottom of the slope of the guard stepped to explain the order of the guard, all the Beifu cavalry accelerated and galloped towards the top of the slope, and after a while, all the Beifu soldiers passed the slope and disappeared on the slope.
Just a moment later, the Jingzhou army appeared, because of the limited terrain and the fear that the Beifu cavalry would return to the horse gun against their own cavalry, it was only the heavy cavalry of the Jingzhou army that stepped on the slope first, and there was no cavalry on its two wings!
However, it can still be seen that Hou Liangsheng is careful, the formation of the hoplites of the Jingzhou Army was deliberately widened, and its two wings did not leave enough space for cavalry to charge in a roundabout way!
"Drain, drain!"
Just when the front row of the hoplites of the Jingzhou Army had already passed through most of the slope, and most of the heavy cavalry had already stepped into the slope, with the order of the guard, the water that had been hoarded in the puddle in advance was mixed with mud and mixed into thin mud and then flowed down the slope along the dense small ditch on the slope, and soon the entire slope was covered with thin mud and became slippery.
The already bulky hoplites, let alone continue to march, even maintaining their physical balance in place has become an extremely difficult task, and the next scene is even more heartbreaking!
I saw rows of boulders rolling down the slope, blocking their originally not very wide line of sight like a cloud, and the screams of the Jingzhou army hoplites after being hit by the boulders, the last sound of struggle before death, became the main theme on the slope at this moment!
After the acceleration of the thin mud all over the slope, after the boulder rolled to the slope, it rolled dozens of meters into the formation of the Jingzhou army before slowly stopping, and the cavalry of the Jingzhou army under the slope was also affected, and from time to time the neighing of the war horse reached the ears of the guards and others above the slope!
"General, do you want to continue to push the trunk?" The assault battalion soldiers above the slope looked excited and excited, and one of the heralds asked with a shudder.
When preparing in advance, the guard rank just gave an order, and did not explain much, although some soldiers with more flexible minds had already guessed the plan of the guard rank, but the effect obtained in front of them still made them excited, if it were not for the limited time, there were not many boulders nearby that met the requirements of the guard rank, and if there were a few more rounds of boulder crushing, the effect would definitely be better!
Rao is like this, after the three rounds of boulders rolled, the casualties of the heavy cavalry of the Jingzhou Army were no less than two thousand!
"Don't worry, wait!" Wei Jie said with a smile.
"Are you still afraid that they will fly up with their wings and swallow us? Whether to fight or escape, at least the initiative is still completely in our hands now! ”
If the person who came in this pursuit was only Hou Liangsheng, at this moment the guard rank must have ordered to put down the cut tree trunks and cause as many casualties as possible to the Jingzhou army, but at this moment there is still a Huan Xuan in the Jingzhou army array! For mobile phone users, please browse M. Reading for a better reading experience.