Chapter 0274: Attacking Overnight
Zhang Guangzan's eyes widened like copper bells, and the closer he got to the wall, the steadier and slower his steps became, often when he was close to the target, which was the most dangerous time, and he could lose his life in the blink of an eye. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Sure enough, at this moment, an officer of the Shu army at the level of an envoy found out that he had sent it, and took dozens of personal soldiers to draw bows and arrows, the bowstring was squeaked, and the cold and shining arrows were aimed at him, and shouted: "Release!" ”
A rain of arrows flew, Zhang Guangzan's heart tightened, and he raised his right hand plate axe to cover the door like lightning, and he heard a sudden sound of dangdang, a huge force came, and suddenly the center of gravity was a little unstable, and the fatal thing was that his left arm was also hit by an arrow, and his left hand was numb and weak, and he leaned back, unable to stand on his feet, and the whole person fell backwards.
Zhang Guangzan shouted angrily, hurriedly copied his feet, hooked the wooden ladder rung, handed over the plate axe to his left hand, grabbed the ladder with his right hand and slammed it up, and at the same time the personal soldiers who followed him pushed him, and soon stabilized his footing on the wooden ladder, but fell half a person high.
Seeing that he was in danger, the soldiers below raised a small shield and handed it over, Zhang Guangzan didn't dare to hold it up anymore, stretched out his left hand to take over the top of his head, and at the same time held the plate axe upside down, accelerated his pace and continued to climb. When he waited for the previous position, there was another rain of arrows, and this time Zhang Guangzan hugged the wooden ladder tightly, and his body suddenly suffered a huge pain, and his shoulders and chest were full of arrows, which was completely like a thorn.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Shu army finished releasing the arrows, Zhang Guangzan shouted, jumped six or seven feet high on the wooden ladder like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and went up to the battlement of the wall at once. When the foothold was unstable, more than a dozen spears stabbed straight in, and Zhang Guangzan swung his plate axe, and a row of spears were cut off in unison. At this moment, a simple knife swept in the wind and thunder, Zhang Guangzan jumped up, and at the same time as he pounced, the axe in his right hand flew away, and the door of the opposite Shu general was opened with a bang.
The general was stunned for a moment, his eyes widening in disbelief, and his body dangling as if drunk. Zhang Guangzan flew up and kicked Na Shu Jiang over, grabbed the axe and pulled it, not wanting the axe blade to be embedded in Na Shu's skull and unable to take it off for a long time.
The Shu general's personal soldiers were shocked, reacted and roared angrily, but did not escape, and rushed over with their swords. Zhang Guangzan was helpless, so he had to swing a board axe to meet the enemy, and suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Fortunately, the pro-soldiers followed the team and climbed over the wall, which made his pressure drop sharply.
The defenders of the Shu army were killed, but the deputy envoy continued to command, and quickly mobilized troops to reinforce him, intending to cut off Zhang Guangzan's troops who attacked the head of the wall, but it was obviously a little late, and once the attackers were on the wall, there was a steady stream, and rows of wooden ladders were set up, and they could not be blocked at all.
On the other side, Liu Chongbin also led his troops to attack the top of the wall, and received his subordinates to board, and the Shu army gradually fell on the left and right, exhausted. At this time, the back road was also cut off, and after Jiao Dayong received five or six hundred people crossing the river, he completely blocked the retreat road and tried to climb the wall from the rear.
The Shu general could not escape, but resisted stubbornly, but then Luo Yanhuan personally led the whole army to press, and soon occupied the head of the wall, and then opened the north gate of the military fort, and received Li Chuyun's troops into the military fort.
In less than an hour, the Qingjiangqiao military village was occupied, and the deputy capital of the Shu army fled back to the military office and killed himself, which made Li Chuyun and Luo Yanhuan have a little respect for the Shu army. Seeing that it was still early, Luo Yanhuan led the three armies to take a short rest, replenished the ordnance, and asked to continue to attack the Datigou military fort in the south. Because the fort is said to be small, only 300 people to defend it, the desirability is still very high.
It was the beginning of the unitary period, it was dark late in midsummer, Luo Yanhuan was eager to make meritorious service and make a name for himself, Li Chuyun understood in his heart, so he agreed, and led a battalion of soldiers to leave prisoners of war, count the military spoils, and send Chen Jia to follow Luo Yanhuan south.
After crossing the Qingjiang Bridge, more than ten miles forward is the downhill mountain road, the soldiers of the sixth battalion marched lightly, leaving the sunset in the distant mountains behind, and after facing the cool breeze of dusk to the south for twenty miles, they finally stepped on the flat ground, but the sky was also dark, the moon was only so wisps, and the visibility between the valleys was reduced.
Luo Yanhuan ordered the soldiers to light torches and continue to march without stopping, and in the middle of the night, the scouts all reported that the ditch village was opposite a ravine three miles ahead, and suggested that the light troops sneak attack and seize the military fort for the night.
Luo Yanhuan happily accepted, and sent Chen Jia and Jiao Dayong to lead a thousand troops to a sneak attack, and the two were ordered to walk the mountain road in the dark, and there was still half a mile away from the valley, Chen Jia ordered the soldiers to stop advancing and rest on the spot.
"The scouts reported just now that the military village is on the opposite side of the ravine, and there is no bridge in the ravine, and the scouts must not have reached the edge of the ravine, there should be a hidden outpost there." Chen Jia was transferred from Zhang Yue's personal soldiers, and he often served as a scout, repeatedly fighting with Zhang Yue, and attached great importance to pre-war reconnaissance.
"There must be dark sentinels, scattered everywhere and can be pulled out one by one, and if they are discovered, they will be attacked." Jiao Dayong said disapprovingly.
"It's very dangerous to attack this night, the loss of soldiers is too heavy, but although the victory is still defeated, you stay and wait, I'll try it, see if I can find it!" Chen Jia didn't know the bottom of his heart, although he had listened to Zhang Yue explain the skills of touching the whistle more than once, but he had never practiced it, and he was afraid and wanted to try it again.
"I'm going with you!" Jiao Dayong was a little surprised, Chen Jiadu was still doing this dangerous work after he became the deputy army master, and he was waiting for Yu Hou, as the deputy capital of the three armies, he was old, but he couldn't be compared to this young deputy army leader of the second army.
Chen Jia nodded in agreement, they were all veterans and didn't need to say anything, the two quickly selected a hundred elite players, divided into groups of twenty to disperse and advance, and the other eighty people followed in groups of ten, and began to search the side of the river and valley in an inverted figure, trying to catch them all.
This river valley is from north to south, and when he went forward, he saw the fire on the wall of the military fort on the opposite bank, Chen Jia made a gesture, Jiao Da had a tacit understanding, and immediately took a personal soldier to leave, and vividly learned the melodious cry of the cuckoo, prompting the scouts to disperse more and pay attention to vigilance.
A crescent moon flickered and flickered, and the night was slightly bright, enough for a full-time scout. At the edge of the ravine was a sloping wasteland, waist-high with artemisia grass and the scent of wildflowers wafting through the night.
Chen Jia held a sword and shield to gently separate the weeds, and the cat moved forward cautiously, walking as slowly as a snail, and there were rustling sounds not far from the left and right, and the soldiers were moving. After walking for a while, I suddenly saw dozens of steps ahead, the weeds were moving forward as fast as a line, and two black shadows were running in small steps, one after the other.
Chen Jia got excited, shouted and greeted his companions near the left, shook off the pace and chased after him first, the dark whistle did not dare to make a sound at this time, as long as he shouted, he would be exposed immediately, so he would be surrounded and captured, so the experienced dark whistle would only shout a warning when his life was in danger.
Chen Jia has no scruples, he is a skilled runner and has a very light foot, but he runs fast when he is frightened, and he is always a little short. At this time, the nearby comrades heard the movement and approached, gathering three groups of six people.
Ran and chased for a while, almost to the edge of the ravine, Chen Jia couldn't wait, waved his hand, the two continued to chase, the other four people picked up their bows at the same time and quickly aimed, an arrow was shot, the dark whistle fell in response, shouted twice, two companions rushed forward and pressed it to the ground, and he was killed.
"Oops!" Chen Jia was a little depressed, because the lanterns on the military fort on the other side of the valley began to shake, and the soldiers on duty at night in the Shu army were shouting orders, so naturally no one was birding them. But even if it is alarmed, it will take some time to deploy the defense, this is the opportunity, Chen Jia sent another order: "Order the Luo military master to follow quickly!" Ordered Jiao Dayong to assemble with his troops and cross the river with me. ”
Almost at the same moment, Jiao Dayong's side also failed, the dark whistle sounded, and the defenders of the military fort on the opposite side finally determined that there was an enemy attack, the gong was choking, and the soldiers ran on the wall, but there were obviously not many troops on duty at night. Now the nearby scouts understood, and they converged without waiting for the order.
Chen Jia saw that the ditch below was two zhang deep and five or six zhang wide, and the river surface was not wide, and there was no problem in the past, but the stone steps in front of him were too narrow to walk. A hundred scouts crossed the river and climbed to the opposite bank, and the military fort was a few steps away in front of them, and they entered the attack distance at once, but the Shu army at the head of the wall was just shouting and intimidating, and indiscriminately firing arrows, and the other soldiers were still dreaming on the couch, and they didn't catch up at all.
At such a close distance, it is very threatening to put arrows on the wall, and the scouts have raised their shields to resist, and the thin scale armor has strong defense, as long as it is not too bad luck and is shot in the weak part, it is basically safe. This was the edge of the ditch, too narrow to avoid, and had to be squeezed through the corner under the fort wall to make room for those behind.
"There are fewer damn people, hurry up and ...... quickly" Chen Jia regretted it, he knew that the sentinel failed, so he simply pressed the whole army over to save a lot of trouble, but he heard that his general was very good at touching the sentinel, so he didn't know how to find someone.
Without waiting for a hundred scouts to arrive, Chen Jia beckoned ten pro-soldiers, took out packages from their backs in unison, opened them, and pulled out a string of ropes, which contained dark cyan iron hooks that were very eye-catching.
"Jiao Da used to lead people to release arrows to cover me, and then followed, brothers! Fight! Chen Jia led ten pro-soldiers to straighten out the ropes, grabbed the flying fox in his right hand and made a few turns on his side, and threw it at the head of the military fort wall.
There was a bang, and the flying fox grabbed the wall, as long as the person pulled the rope to hang it, the defenders at the head of the wall could only knock it off with a sledgehammer, which was a race against time.
Ten good hands pulled ropes to forcibly climb the city, the Shu army held knives and guns on the top of the wall, but the flying fox grabbed the masonry and it was difficult to pry it off, the Shu army was so anxious that it yelled, but it was a little helpless.
Zhang Laigao soon went up, and a hundred scouts climbed the wall one after another, but at this time the Shu army also came out of the barracks to reinforce, Chen Jia and Jiao Dayong were attacked head-on as soon as they got on the wall and gained a foothold, but the scouts were all elite and good hands, and they could still carry it for a while if they were besieged by one enemy and three enemies.
Not long after, Luo Yanhuan heard the gong of the Shu army to warn, led a battalion of soldiers to run, and immediately threw himself into a strong attack, and ended the battle with only a cup of tea. (To be continued.) )