The counterweight light trebuchet, rushing car, ladder and other attacking equipment prepared for more than half a month are quite good. After a day of fierce fighting, Zhang Yue divided his troops into four and five armies, and successfully captured two large army villages in the north of Baocheng County, beheading nearly 2,000 people, and his own casualties were only seven or eight hundred.www.biquge.info

The battle record is said to be good, but Zhang Yue is very dissatisfied, and in the afternoon of the same day, he personally led 6,000 soldiers of the second and third armies to line up two miles outside the north gate of Baocheng, and sent soldiers to the city gate to scold, but unfortunately the soldiers scolded for a day, and Han Baozheng just didn't come out for a decisive battle.

Han Baozheng is also a famous general in Shuzhong, holding nearly 10,000 elite soldiers without fighting, and Baocheng is the throat of the north of the Hanzhong Basin, the city is strong and tall, although there is no moat, but the city wall of nearly two zhang high is also daunting.

Zhang Yue didn't want to storm and break the bloodstream, so he retreated to camp on the slope of three miles north of the city, but the camp in the Baoshui River Valley in the north was used as a temporary grain and grass gathering place, stationed 1,000 soldiers who transported grain to the south from Liuba County, and left craftsmen to build and repair siege equipment.

After dinner, Zhang Yue took his own soldiers to inspect the camp as usual, and discussed the battle situation with Feng Qianhou, Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan, Han Zhongming, Zhang Congzhao, and several of his own people, and they all felt that it was not appropriate to storm the city for the time being.

Because there is no news from Xiang Xun's side, Yuanzhou Pet Fucheng has not yet been resolved, and Li Tingqi went to Xingcheng Pass to resist Wang Jing, there is no result on both sides of this thing, and it is impossible for Han Bao to fight a decisive battle with the whole army.

When encountering mountainous terrain, the requirements for the tactical literacy of officers and the combat ability of soldiers are quite high, because this kind of topography determines that the use of troops is more suitable for separate attacks and small corps battles. If a long snake attacks, it is easy to be cut off and return.

Zhang Yue was a little depressed, and asked Fu Zhaoji and his second brother Zhang Cheng to send a few people back to the account, and asked the soldiers to bring warm water and wash their faces and sleep with their clothes.

Maybe it was because the camp was too close to the Shu army city, Zhang Yue's mind was like a tide, ups and downs, and he couldn't sleep when he closed his eyes, so he got up again and found a stack of letterheads sent by Zhang Quanxu in Fengzhou, and looked at them one by one.

Zhang Quanxu said in the letter that Li Deliang had preliminarily completed the trade route from Yuezhou in the southwest to Tangzhou, and then from Wuguan to Guanzhong, and that Song Yaozhu had come from Huizhou and was about to arrive in Fengzhou.

After that, there is a letter from Tokyo, and his wife Fu Jinqiong's handwriting is beautiful, like gentle words lingering in her ears. First, Yang Junping successfully gave birth to the eldest daughter, and two days later, Cheng Yachan also gave birth to a boy, which is the eldest daughter and the eldest son, let him give a good name and reply. Then he said something about the Tokyo Dynasty, and Zhang Yue was not interested.

Just looking at the letter, Hao Tianying broke into the big tent, opened the curtain and poked his head in, and said with a smile: "Hehe...... Didn't you fall asleep? Chenggu County Military News, do you want to see it? ”

"Nonsense! Take it! Zhang Yue hurriedly put away the letter and beckoned to Hao Tianying.

Hao Tianying walked into the back tent, handed the general newspaper to Zhang Yue, and when he saw that the night was dark, he retreated with interest. Zhang Yue quickly read the military report, couldn't help but be overjoyed, silently calculated the location of each army, the time required after the mobilization of the march, and realized that the time for a decisive battle was about to be ripe.

Also in the evening of this day, before the sun set, Li Tingqi finally arrived at Xingcheng Pass after four days of rapid marching, and met with 5,000 troops of Lu Yanke's army, plus Gao Yanqi's troops who had retreated from Qingni before, and 14,000 soldiers.

Xingcheng Pass is a small pass, the pass is not big, the garrison of 10,000 troops is very crowded, Li Tingqi camped in the open space south of the pass, followed Lu Yanke and Gao Yanyu into the pass, and went to the north of the city to inspect the situation of Wang Jingbu's Fengxiang army garrison.

"Except for the tooth soldiers, the rest of the Fengxiang Army is nothing more than that. It is ashamed to say, Qingniling was caught off guard by defeat, and then retreated to Shunzheng County and the troops were insufficient, unable to defend the city steadily, and now our army will be divided, and the troops have a slight advantage, but Li Jieshuai came from afar, and he did not have time to rest, please go out of the city again the day after tomorrow to fight a decisive battle. Gao Yanyu pointed to the Fengxiang Army camp in the distance and said with some shame.

"The day after tomorrow? We can't afford to delay it any longer, you must know that as soon as our department leaves the Baijiao Pass in Xixian County, the Zhou army north of Baocheng will also attack the city, but the military report has not yet been delivered, and I don't know what the situation is, so whether it is good or bad, it will be a decisive battle tomorrow. Li Tingqi said categorically.

Early in the morning of the 24th, Li Tingqi sent scouts out of the north of Guancheng to inspect the terrain, and ordered the forward commander to make Li Jin lead 2,500 troops out of the city first, seize the favorable terrain, and then set up a formation with 10,000 troops of Lu Yanke's general out of the city.

Gao Yanyu led 2,000 troops to the high ground as the left army, Lu Yanke led 3,000 troops as the right army, Zi led 5,000 troops as the middle army, and the last three battalions were the rear army, responsible for preparing and responding.

As soon as Li Tingqi arrived, Wang Jing actually knew about it, and he had already made sufficient preparations, and when he saw the Shu army Li entering and leaving the city, he knew Li Tingjue's plan, and immediately made-for-tat arrangements.

Ordered Zhang Jianxiong to lead 2,000 troops out of the camp to expel the Shu general Li Jin, because there is a small gentle slope in the middle of the valley depression in the north here, and whoever occupies this place first can attack the other side condescendingly.

As a result, the Chinese armies on both sides have not yet been deployed in place, and the front armies have already fought first. Zhang Jianxiong is both wise and brave, and he is one of the few good generals in the Fengxiang army, seeing that Li Jinbu of the Shu army is almost on the gentle slope, and there is still a distance between the upper and lower levels, he has just been beaten when he rushes up.

Zhang Jianxiong's troops were slightly smaller, and he did not like to fight to the death, seeing that the Shu army had seized the city first, it was a foregone conclusion, and the mountain bank in the west of this valley was very steep, and the east was a gentle slope, covered with thatch, and there was no dense wood. At that moment, he moved his heart, led his troops to the east, transferred a commander to rush up the hill and rushed forward to the hill beam, and led three commanders to move forward along the foot of the mountain, and as the distance between the two armies narrowed, the battle was soon engaged.

Because there was just a cliff at the foot of the mountain south of Qiuliang, Li Jin had no choice but to see that Feng Xiang's army rushed up to the slope on the east side, so he had to add a battalion to the east section. The Shu army went up to Qiuliang first, and quickly pulled away horizontally along Qiuliang, and the formation was still a little messy, but there was no time to form a team.

Almost at the same time, the Zhou army also rushed to the foot of Qiuliang, the same formation was chaotic, the soldiers in the front row rushed upwards with swords and shields, and the rear ones followed up and released arrows, and the two armies soon started a bloody battle on Qiuliang.

The Shu army's troops pulled away from the hills and beams that occupied two miles wide, and the formation of more than 2,000 troops was thin, while the Zhou army Zhang Jianxiong's troops were completely concentrated at the foot of the mountain on the east side, and the advance was slow at the beginning, and it was shot in rows by the archers of the Shu army, and the losses were not small. However, when a battalion from the hillside arrived, concentrated the archers' fire, and the situation was quickly reversed.

Zhang Jianxiong took the lead, personally led the charge, and with the assistance of archers from above, he quickly rushed up to Qiuliang and engaged in a melee with the Shu army. And Li Jin only reacted at this time, and he had lost the opportunity to shrink his troops, but was led by Zhang Jianxiong to advance step by step along the top of the hill.

The top of the hill beam is neither wide nor narrow, but it can stand in a horizontal row of ten people, and the two sides are not steep, so it is not completely spread on the top of the slope, and the two sides also follow the battle, but the main battle force is formed on the top of the slope. The two armies advanced and retreated, and when they reached the middle of Qiuliang, a war of attrition was formed after the forces of both sides were concentrated, and they were helpless for a while.

The former army failed to achieve its goal, and the battle situation showed a declining trend, Li Tingqi led his troops out of the city to discover this situation, and immediately ordered Gao Yanyu not to have to line up the whole team, and quickly led his troops to increase, and Lu Yanke no longer arranged the formation according to the normal field method, but only divided into two parts on the left and right to advance slowly, while crossing the distance of two miles, while integrating the battle sequence.

As soon as Li Tingqi moved, the battlefield sentinel flew to report, Wang Jingsuo's department had just pulled out of the camp, and he didn't dare to delay the whole team at the moment, so he ordered Wang Tingyi to lead his troops to run forward, and the whole army was also approaching Qiuliang two miles away.

As a result, the armies of Zhou and Shu gradually approached in this narrow valley about two miles wide with more than 20,000 troops, and fought a bloody battle to the death. The soldiers rushed up one after the other, and the forces of the two sides were also mismatched, and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.

More than 10,000 troops on each side are in the valley two miles wide, which is not enough to fully deploy, and the rear is on standby under the hills, which is the tactic of adding oil, whoever wins the high ground first will have an advantage, and will easily win the battle.

The Shu army almost didn't have any war horses, and there were only a few hundred of them from a few forbidden army commanders and personal soldiers. The Fengxiang army has a horse army, but the Shu road is difficult to walk, and Wang Jing did not bring war horses to the south, but the proportion of war horses matched by officers is much higher than that of the Shu army.

"Herald! Ordered the officers of each army to hand over the war horses, as well as the scouts, and quickly formed a horse army command for the old man, and the old man should personally lead the horse army to charge. Wang Jing frowned and shouted.

The consequence of the refueling tactic is to injure the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800 by itself, no matter which side it is, even if it wins, it is useless, and it will have a great impact on the entire battle situation, and the consequences are unpredictable.

The two armies formed a human wall on the hill beam, and it was of course the best for the horse army to break the enemy and open the way, and Li Tingqi also thought of this at the same time, and quickly collected the war horses of the officers under his command and handed them over to the tooth soldiers to form a cavalry battalion.

Almost at the same time, the two armies on the top of Qiu Liang received a military order, and began to slowly open a big gap, followed by the roar of horses' hooves, Feng Xiang's side first completed the combination of the horse team and started, Wang Jing personally led the team to kill Qiu Liang.

The soldiers of the Fengxiang Army saw that their old handsome man was wearing mountain pattern armor, holding a long-handled Dapu knife, and rushing in front with white beards and black robes, they couldn't help shouting, and their morale was instantly high. The soldiers of the Shu army rarely saw cavalry fighting, and when they saw the stormy wave of the Fengxiang army horse team, their morale suddenly overlapped, and some of the soldiers in the back of the edge began to retreat quietly.

"Kill, ......" The two armies almost collided on the top of the hill, only one face, Wang Jing was mighty, and even cut the two horses of the Shu army, and the personal soldiers of the Fengxiang army also followed the breakthrough, and the momentum of the Shu army horse team fell, and then the assault forward.

The top of the hill beam was less than ten steps wide, and it was only a few horse positions, and the Shu army was intercepted at once, and the momentum of the Fengxiang army horse team was unabated, and then rushed down the slope unstoppably, breaking the Shu cavalry in one fell swoop.

Wang Jing saw the position of Li Tingqi's handsome flag from a distance, followed with a loud shout, and led the horse team to rush straight over. There were still four or five commanders left around Li Tingqi who had not yet been transferred, but they were powerless in the face of the horse team that was charging at high speed.

"Defend against the enemy!" Not wanting the cavalry to pass by so much, Li Tingqi was taken aback and shouted an order, but it was too late, and the soldiers of the Shu army saw the Fengxiang army horse team rushing over, and there was a lot of noise, and they fled back from the slope like an avalanche.

"Collapsed...... Hurry up, big guy! The tooth general Li Wenguang pulled Li Tingjue's war horse and ran, Shuai Qi fell weakly, and the Shu army was defeated on all fronts, rushing all the way towards Xingcheng Pass. (To be continued.) )