Chapter 55: A Thousand Dead

Although Chun Yuqiong is not a prestigious person, she is by no means an unknown person.

To analyze it in a vulgar way, when Zhang Liao was still an ignorant child, Chun Yuqiong was already a captain who could not be underestimated under Liu Hong, the son of the Han Dynasty.

The eighth lieutenant of the West Garden, who can be called the new official appointed by the Emperor Ling, had a higher status at that time than the general of the Tiger Ben Yulin, just at that time, Yuan Shu was the general of the Tiger Ben, but he was secretly jealous of Yuan Shao, who was one of the eight captains of the West Garden.

Taking 10,000 steps back, Chun Yuqiong is not as famous as today's Bafang princes, but he is more famous than Zhang Jaw.

Zhang Liao openly despised Chun Yuqiong, which was definitely unacceptable to Chun Yuqiong.

Especially if there are comparisons.

Zhang Liaoneng and Zhang Jaw call each other brothers, saying that they have admired the name for a long time, and it is a pity in life to meet on the battlefield.

but ignored him Chun Yuqiong, as if he were air, and then spoke wildly, degrading him to nothing.

Yes, only good-for-nothing philistines have no reputation.

"Zhang Liao'er, I will crush your bones and scatter ashes! A certain name that you will never forget! ”

Chun Yuqiong's chest was full of anger, and before the words of Zhang Jaw's advice were spoken, Chun Yuqiong raised his hand and roared angrily: "Siege!" ”

Outside the pass, there are both horse pits, and there are horse guns, as well as solid barriers to block the army, Yuan Shao has a state iron cavalry, but he can not be put into the battle of attacking Hangu Pass, after all, this is in the valley, not the plain, there is no open battlefield, the play of the cavalry is restricted everywhere.

The front troops of the charge carried the flying bridge to Hangu Pass, they had to first build the flying bridge on the trap pit, and then move away from the horse rejecting gun, and finally use the city hammer to break through the wall, behind the three lines of defense, are the two gates of Hangu Pass.

Zhang Jaw wanted to speak and stopped, he couldn't tell whether what Zhang Liao said to him was true or false, but he was sure that Zhang Liao was deliberately provoking Chun Yuqiong.

Now Chun Yuqiong's expression changed, angry and angry.

Obviously, Zhang Liao's goal was achieved.

Zhang Jaw wanted to persuade him, but even if he said it, it would be useless, so the surname Suo would not find himself to hit a wall.

The vanguard was still fifty paces away from the pit, and the shouts of shouting and shouting came one after another.

In battle, pay attention to morale, and those who take the lead can often suppress the enemy.

Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps...... Zhang Liao, who was standing on the Guancheng, waved his hand indifferently, and archers appeared side by side on the city tower facing the east, mixed with soldiers with crossbow machines in the middle, and on a total of ten towers inside and outside the Guancheng, the archers also opened their bows and arrows, and shot at the enemy army in the east in unison.

"Kill!"

Zhang Liao lightly spit out a word, and the entourage beside him immediately waved the order flag.

In an instant, an overwhelming array of arrows burst out from the Hangu Pass Tower and the defensive tower, flying like locusts, shooting diagonally down.

Zhang Jaw couldn't bear to close his eyes.

Blood, he saw a lot.

corpse, he was numb.

But now this hard rush to Hangu Pass, the soldiers are simply sent to death!

Zhang Liao has a high-altitude advantage, and both the archer and the crossbow machine can exert at least two percent more power than usual.

Chun Yuqiong and Zhang Jaw's army also had archers, but the range and power of the upward shooting and movement were difficult to inflict damage on the defenders of Guancheng.

The most intuitive understanding is that the archers of Hangu Pass are well prepared to shoot the enemy troops from afar, while the archers in the Yuan army must run forward at least ten steps further if they want to shoot the defenders on the Guancheng, and they do not count the preparation measures such as bending bows and arrows and aiming.

The rain of arrows covered the sky, and the Yuan army who went forward and followed fell in front of the trap pit, and many of them died in the trap, they wanted to use the flying bridge to build the road, but did not make the slightest progress, but paid a heavy price.

"General, collect the troops."

Zhang Jaw couldn't help it, there were soldiers dying on the front line, and the casualties of Yuan's army were increasing every minute and second.

The war of attrition between the two sides really had to hurt the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800 to be effective, but now Zhang Liao only used the consumption of bows and arrows in exchange for at least 2,000 or 3,000 casualties of the Yuan army.

The battle is not fought like this.

If you continue to fight like this, don't say that Yuan Shao is waving 200,000 troops today, even if he sends 400,000 troops to Hangu Pass, he will be defeated!

"Withdraw? How do I withdraw my troops to the main bus? ”

Chun Yuqiong didn't breathe out of the evil breath and didn't want to stop.

Open jaw really has a heart-wrenching feeling.

Do you want to bury innocent soldiers for the sake of personal grievances?

"If Hangu Pass is not taken, and the army is completely lost, how can the general replace the main bus?"

Zhang Jaw had no choice but to ask rhetorically with a bit of a repulsive taste.

Chun Yuqiong turned her head and looked at Zhang Jaw, her expression uncertain.

As long as Hangu Pass is broken, even if all the 60,000 soldiers and horses are lost, Yuan Shao will definitely not care, but reward Chun Yuqiong, but if Hangu Pass is not broken, all the soldiers and horses are buried here, Chun Yuqiong, even if he is a veteran general of Bohai with the rise of Yuan Shao, it is difficult to give Yuan Shao a satisfactory explanation.

"Withdraw! Collect the troops and return to the camp! ”

Chun Yuqiong roared angrily, this situation that the attack could not go further, and the life of a person could not fill a bloody road, it seemed that he also felt shameless, covered his ears and stole the bell, turned the horse's head by himself, and ran away one step ahead.

Yuan Jun retreated like a tide.

"Brother Jun, please stay."

Since the Yuan army withdrew, the rain of arrows at Hangu Pass also stopped in an instant.

Zhang Liao summoned him when Zhang Zhang's whole army was about to withdraw.

Before this, Zhang Liao had heard of Zhang Jaw's name, but he was far from admiring it, but now, he had a deeper understanding of Zhang Jaw.

This is a general who is always calm and can take charge on his own!

Chun Yuqiong ran away without any sense of responsibility, but Zhang Jaw arranged for the army to evacuate in an orderly manner, and he personally broke off the rear to strictly prevent Zhang Liao from going out of the customs to pursue.

Zhang Jaw instantly commanded the scattered army neatly, looked up at Hangu Pass, and didn't know what Zhang Liao was going to do.

"Brother Jun, please bring back the corpses of the fallen soldiers of your army."

Zhang Liao said, the figure disappeared at the head of Hangu Pass, and the archers on the city tower also retreated, and the atmosphere of Hangu Pass's slaughter dissipated invisibly.

The ancients paid attention to the safety of entering the earth, and there was a whole corpse when they died, even if it was a eunuch, when they were buried, they had to bury the incomplete part in the coffin.

People die like lights go out, but the bones must be preserved as much as possible, and therefore, in ancient times, ruthless words often said that the other party would die without a complete corpse, which was not only to kill the other party, but also to let the other party die undignified.

Looking at Hangu Pass, Zhang Jaw had mixed feelings, and at the same time, a heavy heart also rose with respect.

A squad of soldiers was sent to collect the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and the defenders of Hangu Pass did not make any trouble before cleaning up the battlefield.

On the way back, Zhang Jaw was preoccupied and was not optimistic about the prospect of attacking Hangu Pass.

The key is not how to play, but that the coach is Chun Yuqiong.

The reason why Zhang Jaw agreed to come to attack the city today is because of strategies and steps.

First provoked in front of Zhang Liao, if Zhang Liao dared to go out of the city to fight, the two armies would rush and kill, and the Yuan army had a great chance of winning.

If Zhang Liao refuses to go out of the city to fight, then he must be prepared to attack the city, at least the two arms must be mixed together.

Sword and shield soldiers and archers, sword and shield soldiers raise their shields to resist the rain of arrows, archers can return fire within range, advance step by step, overcome difficulties, although they also have to pay the price of casualties, but it is impossible to fall to the ground and be slaughtered as on the battlefield just now.

Alas, Zhang Jaw felt helpless, and he had his own strategy for attacking the city, but he had no way to deal with a general like Chun Yuqiong who was determined and did not command the battle according to the rules of the art of war.

The official level crushed people to death, and Zhang Jaw would rather lead the army to fight alone than be lost by Chun Yuqiong.

Chun Yuqiong, who returned to the camp south of the Yuan army, was so angry that he lost his temper in the tent and began to drink to kill his sorrows.

A soldier and a pawn did not lose but killed nearly 3,000 enemies, Zhang Liao was not proud, Chun Yuqiong and Zhang Jaw's soldiers and horses were not badly damaged, this is relatively speaking, they have 60,000 soldiers and horses, the loss of 3,000 is nothing, if there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses, 3,000 is not a small number.

Back in the barracks, Zhang Liao told Jia Xu everything about the battlefield today.

The breezy Jia Xu put down "Zuo Biography", he read this book when he was young, but now he still bears the name of Guo Ye's teacher, he learns from the past, and if he wants to teach and educate people, he can't slack off.

"Oh? In this case, let the general act according to his plan. ”

After Jia Xu finished speaking, he picked up the book again and continued to read, as if he didn't care about the gains and losses.

Zhang Liao bowed, and then withdrew from the tent.

In Hanguguan, Zhang Liao is the coach, but his attitude towards Jia Xu is not only respect for his elders, but also reverence for his superiors.

Just after the unitary hour, the sky was dark, and in the military camp in Hangu Pass, the lights were bright, Zhang Liao stood in front of the team of thousands of people, and behind him, there were many wine bowls on a desk.

The team of 1,000 people looked majestic and looked at death as if they were at home.

Some soldiers came to the front of the group with wine bowls, and one by one they sent them down, and then they brought up the wine jar and filled it for each of them.

Zhang Liao saluted them with a wine bowl, and said solemnly: "Today, the Dead Soldiers Camp has been established!" Soldiers, you are all the tiger and wolf soldiers in our army, Liao hereby promises that those who are killed or wounded in the dead battalion can no longer fight, Liao will ask the lord for a pension that can let you and other families enjoy a lifetime, if Liao can't do it, it's like this bowl! ”

After taking a big gulp of the wine in the bowl, Zhang Liao slammed the wine bowl to the ground.

The crisp cracking sound echoed through the barracks.

The thousands of dead men drank the wine from the bowl in unison, and then threw the bowl to the ground together.

Zhang Liao looked at them solemnly.

"Today is the day of the establishment of the Dead Soldier Battalion, and it is also the first time that the Dead Soldier Battalion has carried out military orders.

When a soldier is originally a knife licking blood, and the head is pinned to the waistband of the trousers, the dead soldier is even more dangerous, because the dead soldier means that the combat mission they perform is usually there is no return.

Zhang Liao wanted to create a strange soldier a long time ago, since it was a strange soldier, he had to defeat the strong with the weak, and if he killed the enemy, he had to kill several times.

He had been planning for a long time for the establishment of the Dead Soldiers' Camp, and now he has finally put it into practice, and it is at the most critical time.

(To be continued)