Chapter 15 The Grain Break

Ouyang Xuan now has 500 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers left around him, and there are 100 people in charge of the three-bow bed crossbow in the back, this kind of bed crossbow Ouyang Xuan was originally going to be modified, but he has not found the right material, and he still uses the old bed crossbow, and the length of the winch handle has been lengthened, from a single two-way handle, to four eight-way handles.

This time, Ouyang Xuan asked the cavalry to hold back, the bed crossbow was placed in the middle, and the two thousand foot soldiers were divided into four teams of five hundred people on both sides of the bed crossbow. The team moved forward slowly, and Ouyang Xuan walked in the front, pressing the speed, his eyes scanning the mound and the ground between him from time to time. When he reached 500 steps from the outermost mound, Ouyang Xuan noticed a problem. Not only did the grass and trees on the mound wither, but the grass and trees on the open ground were divided into strips and withered, each dozens of paces wide, and the mound was faintly seen stretching out of a small bulge, like a rope, disappearing into the withered strips. Raise your sword in time to stop the team, "Bed crossbows from 1 to 6 are aimed at the back of the mound, and bed crossbows from 7 to 10 are aimed at the ground in front of 1,000 paces, and the arrows are loaded."

The bed crossbow creaked and began to be wound, and in a few moments, the ten bed crossbows were wound. "Blow the cornet, bed crossbow lanyard". The bed ballista holds in his hand the dynamite rope tied to the bolt. The horn of the scalper beeped, and the same horn sounded in the distance. In Ouyang Xuan's telescope, he could clearly see the nervous expressions of the Wu soldiers on the gate of Wu Junzhai, and the soldiers who were informed up and down. This Wu general is really calm, he must not be an ordinary person, and the wide ditch rope is really a clever trick to break the cavalry and spear and shield arrays. It's a pity that he met a person who was too observant, otherwise he would have lost his troops if he rashly attacked, and it was very likely that the granary here was just a cover.

Ouyang Xuan put down the binoculars and returned to the bed crossbow, "Pull the rope, put it", the archer pulled the hair rope hard, and when the machine bracket saw the hair rope smoke, he smashed the machine bracket, and the three-finger-thick crossbow arrow burst out of the string, which was tied to a half-catty white block of explosives, which was enough to blow up the city wall with one shot. Because of the weight of the arrows, each arrow was raised in height accordingly, and it was repeatedly trained hundreds of times before it was used on the battlefield today. Suddenly, ten loud noises came one after another, and a thousand steps away, everyone felt that their livers and lungs trembled rapidly, and their ears were buzzing. "Wind up, the original target, shoot again", after the sound was over, Ouyang Xuan gave another order. The tooth-sore sound of string pulling sounded again, and everyone finished their reports, "Tether, blow the trombone". Toot toot, the trombone sounded in the middle of the two sounds, this is agreed, no attack is allowed without an order. Now there are a lot of dizzy Wu soldiers behind the mound, the first row of wide ditches has been exposed, some soldiers are climbing up from below, and four mounds have collapsed. Ouyang Xuan glanced at the collapsing mound with guilt, and could only say sorry to future generations. "Pull the rope and put". Ouyang Xuan waved his sword and shouted.

A moment later there were ten loud bangs, this time the sound was not absorbed by the mound and became even louder, and even the horses with blocked ears began to get restless. The remaining two mounds also collapsed completely, and the first ditch also blew a depression after the explosion. "All aim at the front of the thousand-step ditch, wind". Ouyang Xuan raised his sword again and shouted, not to mention the first ditch now, all the wide ditches in the back and front have already lifted their disguises, and thousands of soldiers have crawled out. After each number is ready, the sword swings "lanyard, put". Then there were ten loud explosions, and in the smoke, there were no more soldiers of Wu who could stand. Ouyang Xuan's sword pointed forward, "Advance slowly."

Rushing to the front of the formation again, pressing the speed and moving forward slowly, when passing the first ditch, the tragic scene could no longer be described in words, the explosion point was muddy, dark red color, and the smell of blood rushed to the nose. There was a rope that had broken several knots, and it was lying in the depression, and there were no more Wu soldiers standing around. The cavalry behind struck quickly and slashed the fallen soldiers. This is Ouyang Xuan's order, rather than a painful death or a painful life, it is better to give it a painful pleasure. When they reach a distance of 1,000 steps from the second ditch, raise their swords and call the team to stop, "No. 1 to No. 5 are in place, aim at the ditch in front, No. 6 to No. 10, go out 800 steps from the right front, and the cavalry and rear guards will aim at the rear ditch and execute." The soldiers moved quickly according to the order, two teams of infantry guns and shields and five hundred cavalry covered the five bed ballistas to move to the upper left, and in less than half an hour, they had reached the edge of the second ditch, a thousand paces away from the aiming point of the first team, and there was not a single soldier in the second ditch, only a very thick rope with maces tied to it, one end of which protruded from a collapsed mound, and the other end was also in a collapsed mound. It was two thousand paces from the last wide ditch, and the herald came back to report the situation, and there was no choice but to let them come back. It's just that in less than two quarters of an hour, the gate of the camp in front of it opened, and more than 50 buffaloes were driven out. The horns are tied together with a very * rope, and the mace is also tied to the rope. Seeing this situation in the telescope, Ouyang Xuan was also a little stunned, this is going to die, now the cattle have been driven across the suspension bridge and lined up. If this is blown up, the cow will go crazy, and the combat power of 50 cows tied to a rope is enough to sweep everything in front of them. Ouyang Xuan thought for a moment, and still ordered, "All aim at the ditch ahead, wind up." The creaking sound sounded again, and the Wu sergeant was already laying the plank on the third ditch. By the time the strings were finished, the board over there had already been laid. "All lanyards". Ouyang Xuan circled his horse and walked to the infantry phalanx on the right side of the bed crossbow, "Listen to my orders, prepare for No. 1 to No. 5", Ouyang Xuan paused, and looked back, the archers and machine brackets of No. 1 to No. 5 were ready, and the others were still relaxed, "Put!" There was a long howl. Five loud noises were heard in an instant, and the buffalo could already be seen in the smoke frightened and running forward. "Prepare for the sixth to tenth", Ouyang Xuan shouted loudly, holding his long sword high, and when the buffalo was still more than 50 steps away from the depression just created by the explosion, Ouyang Xuan let out a long roar, "Release!" ”。 The nameless machine bracket smashed down the machine bracket the moment the sword fell. Another boom of five loud bangs.

Amid the sound and rising smoke, dozens of buffaloes flew into the air, and then fell heavily in the smoke, smashing into the ground with a thud, and the ropes were visibly blown up. The buffalo on the far side of the left rushed madly through the depression and headed straight for the infantry on the left. Ouyang Xuan didn't think too much, he drew the knife in his left hand, held it in his right hand, held the long sword in his right hand, and slapped his horse and went straight to the mad cow. In just a moment, he had already run to the left side of the cow, and the knife in his left hand was raised high, swinging the knife towards the neck of the buffalo. Poof, the bull's head fell. Another buffalo also broke free from the rope and was running wildly. Ouyang Xuan circled the horse and chased after him from the left side, the speed of the BMW had reached the highest, and there were still two hundred steps before leaving the formation, and he had just caught up with the bull's head, and his hand was cut off with a knife. There were still less than fifty paces from the formation, and the speed of the horse was still very fast. Hurry up and make a sharp stop, the horse's forelimbs are raised high, and it makes a sharp stop at high speed, and then makes a sideways turn and stops at a distance one step in front of the military array shield. I checked the horse's hind legs, and it was still fine.

Returning to the front of the formation, he continued to direct the team to move forward slowly, and in front of the third ditch he did the same method, blowing up the wide ditch. "Blow the trombone, the whole army attack". The trombone "beep" remembered that from a thousand paces behind the mounds, the cavalry covered the infantry and rushed to kill. These are the Wu soldiers who were left to attack the mound, but I didn't expect the mound to collapse, it was useless, and those people inside have now been buried alive, I hope someone can find out after a thousand years, the whole army was assembled after the third ditch, and slowly advanced to the camp within the peninsula. In front of the Wu army's military village, the Wu army has already begun to line up, and the number is at least more than 30,000. Stopping a mile away from the opponent's army formation, arraying, four phalanxes, and cavalry on both sides to cover, Ouyang Xuan did not intend to fight hard this time. "Bed crossbow for yellow medicine crossbow arrows, all bows and arrows for yellow medicine, ready".

In less than a quarter of an hour, the other party had already finished arranging, rushed out of the three horsemen from the Chinese army, marched to the middle position, and shouted Guanzhong dialect in a tone similar to the Jiangsu dialect: "The main general of the Han army will answer before the battle." Hearing this, Ouyang Xuan ordered Lang Lang to swear and follow the army master to the position fifty steps in front of the three of them. He arched his hand and said: "The Han Army Zhenbei General leads the chariot and cavalry general and Yulin General to wait for Ouyang Xuan to greet you and others." "The former guest of the Eastern Emperor Frame, Danyang Zhou's Qiu, has seen Hu Hou". A middle-aged man with a goatee, square face, rat eyes, and a scarf wearing a Zhuzi deep coat, "Guangling Huanmao, the former major general of the Eastern Emperor's frame, has seen Hu Hou" A young man who is less than twenty years old, wearing bronze leather armor, wearing a round helmet, a black ribbon on the waist, and eagle nose and big eyes. Another middle-aged man with a black face and beard in an ordinary linen scarf replied: "I have seen Hu Hou in the Lower Chu King Changshi Huaiyin Han Wei." "There is no need to say much before the two armies, and the victory or defeat is true. I don't know what to do with the prospect and the battle? ”。“ We are dressed in the power of the gods, this time we will meet in front of the battle, on behalf of the general Ruyin, who was previously killed by the general Ruyin, the king of Yunmengshan, and the general will see the wait, in order to achieve our admiration." "Retreat high, see you on the field of life and death." After speaking, he led Lang Oath and the main book to circle the horse and return to the main formation, without giving them a chance to speak. The mood is also extremely bad, and he provokes a person from Yunmeng Mountain again.

On the battle array, the three Wu soldiers also returned to their own formation, and then the drums sounded, and the Wu army's foot soldiers marched forward rapidly in the sound of drums in an inverted cone formation, and soon marched within a thousand steps of the main formation, and the Chinese army was guarded by several pikemen in front of them. Ouyang Xuan raised his long sword and ordered: "Eight hundred steps forward for each bed crossbow target, shoot freely in turn." The squeak of the crossbow in the middle of the line sounded again. As soon as the sound stopped, Ouyang Xuan waved the sword in his hand and shouted, "Lanyard, release!" ”。 A continuous sound of machine tapping rang out from the array. Before the last bracket could be struck, the first crossbow bolt had exploded, and although the sound was not as loud as the one just now, it was also deafening. With the sound of firelight and shock waves, the soldiers of Wu were blowing. The loud flames mixed with the sound of the bed crossbow tormenting the ears of the Yulin soldiers, and the attacks of the three consecutive rounds of explosives and crossbows had become a vacuum for the Wu army, and the second half of the cone-shaped type was basically reimbursed. The Wu army was now in a state of chaos, the soldiers were in a panic, and the forward was already approaching 400 paces in front of the Yulin army. Ouyang Xuan raised his sword and shouted: "Yellow medicine bow and arrow lanyard shoot freely!" Jian Feng pointed ahead. The explosions came and went, all of them were yellow crystal explosives, the amount of which was less than a penny, but the power was enough to kill everyone within ten steps. After three rounds, there were 30,000 Wu soldiers, and the rest were less than a few thousand people in the middle. Ouyang Xuan raised his long sword and stopped firing his bow and arrows. "All of you! Those who descend will not be killed! "The sword pointed forward.

There was no suspense in the rest of the battle, and they all surrendered on their knees. After cleaning up the mess, the brigade left a thousand people to guard the prisoners, and the others lined up and galloped quickly towards the camp. Along the way, they crossed the corpses all over the ground, stepped on the red muddy road, and walked to the front of the camp in less than a moment, and the drawbridge was not retracted, and about 2,000 people knelt in front of the door to surrender. The rest of the matter was handed over to Lang Oath to deal with, and Ouyang Xuan crossed the suspension bridge with the team and entered the camp and sat down in the Chinese military tent. The tent was very shabby, with three rows of tables in front of the sheepskin mat and nothing else. On the central table is a bamboo slip wrapped in jute cloth.

Open it, and it reads: The general sees this Jane, and so-and-so is dead. He once persuaded the king to go around the march, not to take the city as a success or failure, but to destroy it. The general Ruyin defeated 50,000 of the generals in the battle of Wang Sui with 10,000 people, and we admired, the wonder of the battle formation, and the wonder of equestrianism surpassed us thousands of times. It's a pity that the king listened to what Lao Yong said, and attacked the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings, and he was undefeated. The strategy of breaking the formation offered by the nephew of King Xin of Chu, Yunmeng Mountain, was also destroyed by the general's thunder. The defeat of this battle is due to the inopportune time, Keqingqiu still has 100,000 people in Xiapi, after the defeat of this battle, all of them are entrusted to the general, thinking of the good life of heaven, and hoping that the general will open the net. This Huaicang is a grain road built by Jun Shang for many years, and the grain and grass are transferred here. If there is a future life to invest in the general's command, show your ambitions. Major General Mao worshipped, the first month of the year of Wuzi Dinghai day.