The fortifications and barracks of the army were the safeguard against enemy attacks and the barrier on which the army would rely in case of defeat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA well-built system of fortifications is difficult to penetrate, and all the tricks of the enemy will not succeed in front of it. Zhu Ran knew that the engineering weapons of the Chu State were extremely destructive and difficult to resist, and he also knew that the combat power of the infantry of the Chu State was stronger than that of the infantry of the Eastern Wu State. When he united with Chu to defeat Liu Bei many years ago, he built defenses on the border of Changsha, and a large number of stone walls and stone piers were needed in wartime, and now they can stop the Chu army, if it were not for Zhu Ran's foresight, I am afraid that they would have been defeated in the hands of Pang Tong and Liu Ye by now. In front of the stone walls and stone moats, the first ditch was nearly seven meters wide, the second and third ditches five meters wide, and the third ditch was filled with water.

Behind it is a four-meter-high berm, topped by a breastwork and a pheasant moat, where the breastwork and the berm meet, with sharpened wooden piles diagonally outward. Wooden towers are built every 20 meters on the berm. And arrange ballistas. In order to make it more difficult for the enemy to cross, the following defenses were added: many tree trunks and tough branches were felled, the top of the branches was peeled off and sharpened, and after digging a two-meter-deep continuous trench, these stakes were lined up in the trench, and their bottom was nailed so that the enemy could not pull them out, only the tip of the trunk sticked out of the ground. There are five elements of them, connected layer by layer, intertwined with each other, and interspersed with each other, and anyone who rushes into them will inevitably pierce himself by these extremely sharp stakes. In front of this, there is a diagonal pit in the shape of a plum blossom, which is one meter deep, and gradually shrinks and inclines towards the bottom of the pit. Inside are stakes the thickness of a human leg, the top sharpened, hardened with fire, and some of them sticking out of the ground, no more than four fingers high. To make them tough and firm, they are padded with thirty centimeters of compacted soil underneath them. The rest of the pit was covered with twigs and firewood to cover up the hidden weapons. A total of eight rows of such pits were dug, each one meter apart. In front of all these works, there were thirty centimeters of wood, with strong iron hooks nailed to the top, which were buried in the earth not far from each other, and were scattered all over the place.

The trench was followed by a stone wall and a stone mill, which effectively prevented the Chu army from charging the cavalry after filling the trench with firepower, because it was difficult for the horse's hooves to cross the piled stone mill. Although Zhu Ran had an estimate of all this, he still underestimated the sappers of the Chu State, Pang Tong had already arrived at the battlefield and prepared a large amount of cement and soil sand, when it rained or went against the wind, Pang Tong ordered the soldiers to fill the trench with cement on a rainy night, because when it rained and went against the wind, the range of the longbowmen of Eastern Wu was greatly reduced, so Pang Tong filled the first trench in three days, a trench that was ten miles long, and paid tens of thousands of manpower, due to the headwind, Zhu Ran could only stay on the stone wall and watch the actions of the Chu army, Don't dare to lead troops out of battle. After that, Pang Tong used this method to fill the last two trenches in a row, although he lost a large number of soldiers in the process of filling the trenches, more than 3,000 tall people, and finally opened Zhu Ran's stone wall defense line with gunpowder, rushed in and had the first real battle with Zhu Ran, this contest Zhu Ran did not lose, Pang Tong did not win, for Pang Tong This is a temptation, he understands that it is impossible to win easily when the opponent is Zhu Ran, so at the beginning he planned to lose 50,000 troops, Zhu Ran also had to stay here, and with Huang Zhong's loss of 50,000 troops, Pang Tong estimated that he would need 100,000 casualties to completely defeat Zhu Ran on the Changsha border and annihilate his troops.

The infantry phalanx of the Chu State, each phalanx has about 3,000 heavily armed and lightly armed infantry, each phalanx is divided into thirty hundred regiments, each regiment has a hundred commanders, and every thousand people have a thousand commanders, all the thousand commanders are under the management of the square commander, that is, the captain, sometimes the battle begins, the captain can directly lead the troops into battle, and sometimes a senior general will be sent to command the army. The phalanx is divided into three columns according to the age, training level, and combat experience of the soldiers, and the hoplites are divided into three columns, the first column is the youngest and little combat experience soldiers, because the soldiers without actual combat experience are often the first soldiers to be sent to death, consuming the enemy's strength first, and creating opportunities for the follow-up soldiers; The second column is composed of adult soldiers with a certain amount of combat experience (main force), and this main force is the infantry who want to open up the situation; The third column consisted of older and battle-experienced veterans, known as reservists, which were basically used to harvest the enemy. The first and second columns each had 10 hundred-man regiments, divided into five rows of 200 people each. Keep a certain distance between each column to facilitate the backward or forward between the two columns, the first two columns are the main battle array, so slightly closer, the third column is the farthest.

Pang Tong's army, there are 30 infantry phalanxes, a total of 90,000 people, the remaining 10,000 infantry are its elite ace infantry, in addition to 10,000 cavalry troops, these cavalry units are used to harass Zhu Ran's supply lines and once the war is won, Zhu Ran's army will be pursued and attacked.

And Zhu Ran's army, after experiencing the battle with Huang Zhong, its remaining troops of more than 45,000 people, all infantry, divided into four divisions, 10,000 people on the left led by Ling Tong, 10,000 people on the right led by Sun Huan, Zhu Ran led 15,000 people in the center, Sun Jing led 10,000 people in the rear wing as support, but due to Pang Tong's tentative attack, Zhu Ran did not dare to order Sun Jing to support, because he was afraid that Liu Ye would take the opportunity to attack his Chinese army, so he had to let Ling Tong take a thousand people to support Sun Huan, and now Sun Huan has died in battle, and his 10,000 people are less than 1,000 people left, Zhu Ran ordered Sun Jing to bring 10,000 people to the right.

At present, after the war of attrition, the Pang Tong Legion still has 25 infantry phalanxes, totaling 75,000 people, 10,000 elite infantry and 10,000 cavalry. Zhu Ran's army, a total of 36,000 people. In terms of numbers, Pang Tong had an absolute advantage, because Wei Yan's three-way army would be able to arrive after a month, and the third-way army was led by Wei Yan, a hussar general of the Chu state, with 50,000 infantry and 30,000 barbarians. Ma Yan, Liu Feng, Huo Jun; Including Meng Huo, Zhu Rong, Meng You, Yang Feng and dozens of southern and Chinese generals. With Jiang Wanfei Yi as the military advisor. After reinforcing 80,000, Pang Tong's army plus Wei Yan's army had an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield of Changsha. Although sometimes a large number of people is not necessarily useful, Soochow is already at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.

In the land battle of Jiangxia, Eastern Wu has been completely defeated, Ma Hong's main army has controlled all the cities in Jiangxia except Shaxian, and once Zhou Yu failed in the water battle, Chu won half of it.

(To be continued.) )