Chapter 46: Eight Directions Press the Sword to Hide the Wind and Thunder (3)
[Third Update.] 】
The Black Khans did not respond.
The Han infantry who attacked retreated to the camp after a quarter of an hour of activity.
The cavalry, on the other hand, waited a little longer, then ran half a circle around the camp and returned from the northern camp.
As the cavalry returned to the camp, the detachments of soldiers who had collected arrows also returned. There were four or five hundred people in total, and there were many or few short arrows of wooden feathers collected back, an average of twelve or thirteen, all of which were shot out of the air and plunged into the snow, and the arrows were at most slightly damaged, and they could be easily repaired by placing them on the craftsman's side. More arrows flew farther, and for the sake of safety, Wang Sunsin gave up digging in the middle of the battlefield.
For this sortie, the army also had some doubts, and there was even more discussion in private. Inexplicably went out to pick up arrows, is it really not enough?
The power of the divine arm bow was remembered by the Black Khan people with human lives, and the Uighurs and Tubo people on the side of the Great Song Dynasty were also recorded with human lives. Suddenly, there were no arrows, and no matter how powerful the magic weapon was, it could only burn firewood. And there is still the Black Khan Army outside, without a bow and crossbow to resist, can it still block the Black Khan Army with several times the number of people?
When Li Quanzhong came, Wang Sunsin's tent had already gathered a number of generals. Almost all of the Uighurs and Tibetans arrived.
Wang Sunchen stared at Li Quanzhong's entry into the tent, and asked with a cold face: "Li Quanzhong, the general didn't pass you on, what are you doing here?!" ”
Li Quanzhong suddenly shuddered, bowed his head and said: "Today, the official army went out of the village to invite the battle, and the Black Khan people did not dare to fight. The villain came to congratulate him. ”
"You too!" Wang Sunchen smiled angrily, and looked at the faces of the generals, "It's all the same!" ”
Li Quanzhong's heart fluttered when he heard this, and he heard Wang Sunchen's even more gloomy voice say, "He Yehe has passed, what are you still standing for, do you want to invite you to tea?" ”
Li Quanzhong's knees were weak and he almost didn't kneel, and he wanted to turn around and leave, but he didn't know Wang Sunchen's true intentions and didn't dare to go, so he stood stunned.
"Did you hear that you are afraid of no arrows?"
Wang Sunchen's eyes were cold, and Li Quanzhong's back was full of cold sweat. Where do you still not understand that you are not at the right time. was provoked by the colleagues who came to inquire in front of him, and it happened to sprinkle it on his head.
He finally knelt down: "The villain doesn't dare." The official army just has no arrows, and those black sweat thieves are not the opponents of the official army. The villain never thought of it that way! ”
Wang Sunchen snorted, slapped his leg, stood up, and dropped his words: "Come with Ben General." Then the curtain was lifted.
Wang Sunchen passed in front of him with a gust of wind, and the generals did not know why, so they obediently followed behind. As Wang Sunchen passed through the city gate from the main tent of Nanying, he walked into the city of Moman.
Just behind the city gate, where the people were dwellings, had already been turned into a warehouse to store the weapons and arrows of the Han army. At this time, the arrows that had been stored in the storehouses of the city were taken out and arranged in bundles on the felt. Hundreds of bundles, hundreds of nearly thousands of bundles lined up on both sides of the road. Dozens of feet away, there are still many bundles in the open warehouse courtyard. Seeing these arrows, the doubts in the hearts of the generals suddenly disappeared, this is still called a lack of arrows, so what can be called more?
Just one question dissipated, and another question arose, since there are still so many arrows, why do you have to send someone out to pick up arrows?
"Not even a smart man!" Seeing that no one understood, Wang Sunchen widened his eyes and shouted angrily, "Don't kill all the black sweat thieves here." How much will it take to attack Shule next year?! They're going to run away today, and they don't think of a way, how can they stay?! ”
His voice roared like thunder, echoing under the walls. Li Quanzhong suddenly realized, and then looked to both sides, and the faces of the Han soldiers carrying the arrows were full of ridicule and sneer.
I only heard Wang Sunchen roaring: "Go back and spread this matter to the whole army, don't think nonsense, and keep your eyes open!" He didn't want to listen to the words of these barbarians in the Western Regions, so he waved his hand again, like a thunderstorm: "Get out!" ”
All the generals and schools have scattered birds and beasts!
Wang Sunsin snorted coldly in the back. This group of people, who don't remember to eat or not, don't scold a little bit, but let them go to the house to expose the tiles.
Wang Sunsin ordered the generals to convey the reasons for their actions to the whole army, and calmed the morale of the army. witnessed the number of arrows, and knew that they were luring the Black Khan to stay. The fear of the Black Khan people in the Tibetan army will be a little less.
This style of acting is also something he learned from Han Gang, otherwise, with his character, he would just say a few words to the general, and he wouldn't care what the soldiers were thinking at all.
But in fact, Wang Sunchen did not have many arrows in his hands. There are a lot of bundles, but if you really count them, it's not much. From Gaochang to Moman, after consumption, there are only more than 200,000 of the million arrows left, and the average is only 60 on the more than 3,000 crossbowmen of the Han army who use the divine arm bow.
There is a saying that there are no more than three arrows against the enemy, but when defending the city, the consumption of arrows is many times more. Sixty arrows can survive several attacks, and the consumption of a day or two of fierce battles!
Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the arrows were extremely expensive, even if Wang Sunsin sent more soldiers to retrieve the arrows that had already been used, he would definitely not be able to deceive the opponent's very calm commander.
Later that day, the scouts sent to inquire about the main camp reported that the movement on the side of the main camp of the Black Khan Army was small, and the movement that was preparing to retreat was gone.
In the next two days, it was calm and quiet, and the Song army went out of the city to invite the battle, picking up arrows by the way, while the Black Khan light cavalry came out to interfere and shoot arrows from afar. The Song army turned a blind eye to this, and the Divine Arm Bow, which had a longer range, did not move. However, the scouts reported that the Black Khan Army was building siege equipment, but it was not placed in the camp of the former army, and it was not clear what kind of equipment it was.
Two days later, at midnight, the darkest and coldest part of the day, suddenly a bonfire broke out in the camp opposite, and drums and trumpets were playing.
The sound came from afar, and it immediately alarmed the entire camp.
Wang Sunchen came out dressed neatly.
At this time, the spacecraft was still on the ground, and Wang Sunsin immediately walked up to the watchtower.
Looking at the enemy camp from a distance with a clairmile mirror, I saw that the campfire in the camp was endless, and the main camp in the far distance behind was even brightly lit, and a fire dragon sailed out of the main camp and headed north.
"It's finally here!" Wang Sunchen sneered, but looked back at his own camp.
From south to north, it's all calm and quiet.
No orders shall be given, soldiers shall not go out of the camp tent at will, and those who violate the order shall be beheaded. Wang Sunchen has already killed five or six people for this, and he is in the first camp. Now we can see the results.
Wang Sunsin walked down the watchtower, and a group of generals had already arrived at his big tent.
Approaching the tent and sitting down on the tiger skin soft couch, Wang Sunchen said slowly: "After waiting for a few days, it is finally here." ”
A group of generals in different costumes stood with their hands down, waiting for his orders.
Wang Sunsin was very satisfied with their attitude, he did not like people with many tongues, especially barbarians.
"But there's no need to worry, except for the firehead army and the night watch, everyone else continues to sleep."
"Could it be that the movement over there is fake?" A general asked.
Dispatching a large army on a cold night when a bucket of water can freeze through the bottom for half an hour outside is not a sneak attack, and Wang Sunsin will not do it. He didn't think the boss of the Black Khan would do it. And whether it's true or not, he has time to tell, and there is no need to rush the soldiers up.
"Whether it's true or not, I won't fight today, and when they get to the front of the battle, it's too late to come out." Wang Sunsin said, "Mr. fires to cook. Eat some hot food and wait for the Black Khans to deliver it to their door. ”
The generals agreed in unison.
Wang Sunchen's voice was a little lower again, "Today is the most important opportunity, if you can't annihilate this group of thieves as much as possible, it will be very troublesome to attack Shule next year." I don't want to spend more time next year, so I have to work hard today. I didn't let you wait to go into battle before, and I'm going to use you today. ”
"But by the command of the Ruler!" Li Quanzhong immediately replied loudly.
A group of generals then said in unison, "But by the orders of the rulers!" ”
Wang Sunsin nodded, "Ben will be watching." The imperial court will not treat meritorious courtiers badly! ”
It's getting dark.
With the sound of the trumpet, the soldiers came out of their tents, ate a hot breakfast, and went to their respective positions. On the side of the Black Khan, as Wang Sunchen guessed, there was no movement.
The spaceship rose into the air, monitoring the distance, and soon spotted the main force of the Black Khan, which only then began to leave the main camp.
An hour passed, and thousands of troops and horses finally gathered in the forward camp south of the city.
There was a sudden silence on the battlefield.
More than a mile apart, the Song army and the Black Khan army looked at each other from afar.
I don't know who shouted first, from behind the camp of the Black Khan Army, hundreds of soldiers, shouting and pushing wooden carts, rushed towards the direction of the Song Army's camp.
After each wooden cart, more infantry followed. It looked like the outfit was a light cavalry that had given up their horses, but no one knew if there were more elite Iqta and Gulam soldiers hidden inside.
As the wooden cart approached, it became clearer and clearer in the clairvoyant.
It was a piece of wood that was erected on a horizontal plank, and there was much less wood needed to build a cannon truck. Not with war horses, just by manpower. At first glance, the erected planks were used to ward off arrows. It's no wonder that within a few days, hundreds of arrow blocking vehicles have been successfully built.
Soon after leaving the camp, these armies split into two routes, one approaching the Han camp in the south, and the other turning west to attack the camp in the west.
The arrow guard was moving fast on the snow, and when you looked closely, you could see that there were not wheels under the car, but long wooden planks. It is the most common sleigh in Middle-earth. I don't know if it's the original technique of the Black Khanate, or who offered it.
But Wang Sunsin doesn't have time to care now.
The thunderbolts were fired one after another, but the stone projectiles that were thrown flew down, but they all missed, only to hit the rear, injuring a few Black Khan soldiers who were following closely behind, but instead made them follow the arrow blocking car even closer.
Compared with the previous siege vehicles such as the tall and heavy artillery trucks, this simple arrow blocking vehicle is fast and the target is small, and the thunderbolt cannons can't catch up at all.
"Not stupid." Wang Sunchen whispered.
It's a tricky enemy. He was more sure.
But the plan was a success.
Except for the initial attempt to storm the military formation and attack the barracks, the artillery was used only once. In addition, the Black Khan Army has never taken the initiative to attack the camp at all, and has been tempting all the time. Seeing that the weather suddenly turned cold, he prepared to retreat. It shows that the commander of the Black Khan Army is unwilling to waste his life.
Directly attacking a stronghold defended by a strong army, with no matter how good the equipment is, the casualties will not be less. Now to go straight to the camp is to abandon the previous principle, and choose to sacrifice in exchange for victory.
'Finally made up your mind?' Wang Sunsin grinned, "This is really good!" ”
Today is the decisive battle.