Chapter Twenty-Nine: Shenting Ridge Blockade
"Why do you need so much courtesy? Sister-in-law stays, the right is gone! Holding Da Qiao's jade hand and waving it, Sun Quan let go and turned away. Da Qiao was a little flustered by his grab, and when he came back to his senses, Sun Quan had already walked outside the courtyard gate, still smiling and waving his hand back at her.
"I'm really funny, Zhongmou is still a child who hasn't grown up in front of me, what's the reason to panic if he catches me." Seeing that he was quite attached to him, Da Qiao couldn't help but feel a little emotional. When she married Sun Ce, Sun Quan was only twelve years old. At that time, among Sun Ce's four younger brothers, except for Sun Quan, the third Sun Yi, the fourth Sun Kuang and even the fifth Sun Lang, whose surname Ge was more similar to Sun Ce, were somewhat brave and ruthless. Only this Sun Quan, although he looks weird, Su Yueli is polite and polite, and he is quite attached to himself. Da Qiao's own brother has long since died, and he has always treated him as his own brother over the years. Even if he is nineteen years old and becomes Wu Hou, in Da Qiao's eyes, the difference between him and the child at the beginning is that he has grown a little taller. Thinking of this, Da Qiao shook his head a little self-deprecatingly, and turned to enter the house.
If Da Qiao turned around half a moment later, he could just see Sun Quan's eyes when he turned around to look at her. Looking at Da Qiao's plump back, Sun Quan's blue eyes couldn't hide the greedy look, and in the moonlight, it looked like a wolf examining his prey. When Sun Quan turned around again, the greed in his eyes was gone, and he regained his majestic and graceful demeanor as Wu Hou.
On the other hand, Zhao Feng, Huang Zhong and Chen Zhi finally arrived at Shenting Ridge before dawn after more than an hour of running. "Damn, this is Shenting Ridge?" After Zhao Feng arrived at his destination, he couldn't help but scold his mother. In his impression, the so-called ridges should be relatively tall and dangerous places, such as Qinling, Shangganling and even Badaling. After all, how do you say that sentence, the mountains are steep. In this way, more than 10,000 people will be put away, just wait for Zhou Yu to hit this side, and just throw it down with a stone. But now this Shenting Ridge looks at this scale, and it is similar to those artificial rockeries in those parks in later generations. Visually, the height is only a few tens of meters at best, and the altitude is definitely not a hundred. Moreover, the slope is relatively gentle, and the infantry will have absolutely no problem charging up. Although you can hold the avenue here, once the other party is determined to attack you first, it will still be under a lot of pressure.
"This is not just a cheat, it's a cheat!" Zhao Feng scolded and scolded, and he still had to block it. At that moment, he first put the more than 100 baggage carts on the road to stop the enemy, and then stationed his men and horses on the ridge. At the same time, trenches began to be dug, horses were arranged, ballistas were placed, and in short, all resources that could be used to defend them were mobilized. You must know that Zhou Yu has an army of 50,000, and he currently has less than one-third of the people in his hands, so it is more difficult to defend. Zhao Feng saw that the soldiers were still busy building positions, so he immediately pulled Chen Zhi and Huang Zhong to discuss how to defend them.
"Zhou Yu left Poyang yesterday, I asked the local soldiers, and they all said that if he marched with all his might, he would be able to rush here tonight. And Xu Gong and the lord agreed that the city could only be surrendered at the second watch in the evening, and there were many defenders of Wu County. Even if there is an internal response, if the lord wants to take Wu County, he will inevitably have to fight until Tianming. Until then, we must not let a single Jiangdong Army pass! Zhao Feng stopped and looked at Huang Zhong and Chen Dao when he said this, and the latter two also nodded again and again when they heard this. General, I'll hold the front with pikemen and shieldmen! Chen Zhi said first. This time to attack Jiangdong, Liu Bei deliberately replaced him with Gao Shun to defend Taishan County, and asked him to come to Jiangdong with him.
"Okay, Uncle Zhi, I will hand over all the big shields and horse rejection guns to you, and you go and build a forward position!" Zhao Feng was not surprised when he heard this, in history, Chen Zhi had killed tens of thousands of Jiangdong troops in Ma'anshan with 400 Bai Er's elite soldiers. Now he has 1,000 elite soldiers in Bai'er alone, and there are also 1,000 spearmen and 1,000 shield soldiers, even if Shenting Ridge is not as steep as Ma'anshan in this configuration, it shouldn't be a problem for Chen Zhi to hold on for less than a day.
"General Zhao, give the bow and crossbow to the old man!" Huang Zhong saw that Chen Zhi took the initiative to ask for help, and it was not good to be lazy anymore. Zhao Feng also agreed, and immediately handed over most of the 3,000 crossbowmen and ballistae to Huang Zhong this time, and let him be responsible for sniping the enemy army to attack instead of defending. "If the old general has the opportunity to snipe Zhou Yu with one arrow, he will get twice the result with half the effort!" Zhao Feng finally whispered. Huang Zhong nodded, and kept this sentence in his heart from then on.
"General, I'm willing to guard the back mountain!" At this time, Hao Zhao also stepped forward and took the initiative to ask for battle. Zhao Feng looked at this pro-guard marquis who had been following him for a while, and then he spoke: "Bodao, with your merits, you should have been promoted a long time ago." When this battle is over now, I will promote you to military commander. If you can win, you will be promoted to captain! ”
"Thank you, General!" Hao Zhao was also overjoyed when he heard this, if he could be promoted to the captain, then he would be promoted two levels in a row, and at the moment Hao Zhao was also secretly determined that he must defend the back mountain. Due to the rugged road in the back mountain, there is only one small road up and down, which is not suitable for a large army to attack, so Zhao Feng allocated him 500 foot soldiers and 200 crossbowmen to let him hold this road. After arranging all this, Zhao Feng looked up at the sun, it was still morning, so he ordered the sergeants to rest and recuperate, and accumulate physical strength to prepare to block the enemy army.
Zhou Yu didn't let Zhao Feng wait long, and when the sky was just a little dark in the afternoon, the soldiers who were lying on the ground resting suddenly felt the ground tremble slightly, and then the tremor became larger and larger. "It's coming!" I don't know who shouted first, but all the sergeants quickly assembled and lined up in a guarded formation ready to engage in battle.
"Zhou Yu is not slow!" Seeing the other party's Zhouzi banner from a distance, Zhao Feng was also a little surprised. The Jiangdong Army did not have too many cavalry, and it was really unexpected that the infantry could run so fast, and it seemed that Zhou Yu was marching at full speed. At the same time, Zhou Yu also saw from a distance that there was a detachment of men and horses stationed in Shenting Ridge, and immediately understood that Liu Bei had not given up on defeating Wu County.
"That's fine, wait until I break through this enemy army first!" Zhou Yu was not in a hurry, and ordered the vanguard to move forward and see if he could kill him directly.
"Governor, I'm afraid it won't work, there are a lot of big cars piled up on the road, and they are all tied together, and they can't pass people at all. If we want to clean it up slowly, the defenders on Shenting Ridge will take the opportunity to attack us, and it seems that we still have to break the defenders of Shenting Ridge first! Pioneer Tai Shi Ci took a look at the situation on the road, and he naturally saw the importance of it after a long time on the battlefield.
"Okay, let's capture Shenting Ridge first." When Zhou Yu heard this, he immediately ordered an army to attack. "Who is the commander of the Xuzhou Army?" Zhou Yu asked.
"Look at the banner should be Fenwei General Zhao Feng!" Tai Shi Ci said with some hesitation. When Zhou Yu heard that it was Zhao Feng, his handsome face suddenly distorted. "Pass through my military order, and whoever kills Zhao Feng will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and the official will be promoted to three levels!" Zhou Yu issued this reward order in an almost roaring tone, but Tai Shi Ci didn't say anything when he heard it, after all, he had to take some responsibility for Sun Ce's death.
"Kill!" A total of 2,000 Jiangdong soldiers lined up in formation, and the first row held steel swords and shields, and under the command of the junior officers such as Junhou and Dubo, they slowly pressed towards the defenders on the Shenting Ridge. After entering the range of the Xuzhou army's bow and crossbow, with Huang Zhong's order, the ballista and the bow and crossbow were launched at the same time, and the dense rain of arrows attacked the Jiangdong army that was slowly advancing.
"It's a pity!" Zhao Feng watched the first wave of arrow rain being blocked by the shield of the Jiangdong Army, and couldn't help but secretly scream a pity. If this mountain can be a little steeper, these arrows can directly fall into the opponent's formation, and the casualties caused will be too much.
"Ahh However, a military marquis who was commanding was killed by Huang Zhongyuan's arrow, and this was already the seventh Jiangdong sergeant to die under his arrow. At the same time, the trenches, traps, and barricades on the hillside also annoyed the Jiangdong army, which was climbing, and could not completely let go of the speed charge with ease. Zhou Yu can see clearly in the rear army, and now his commando team is like facing a peerless beauty, but she is wearing a thorny shirt that pierces your hands, which makes you salivate, but you don't know where to start.
Finally, after paying nearly 300 casualties, this Jiangdong Army finally collided with the Xuzhou Army. However, they found that what was waiting for them was the large shields of the Xuzhou army standing upright across the intersection to seal the road, as well as the cold and shining spears between the shields, and the crossbowmen waiting behind them.
The sound of "poof" meat cutting sounded immediately, and under the cover of the shield, the pikemen in the back row kept piercing out of the gaps between the shields, harvesting the lives of the Jiangdong army. But the Jiangdong Army was not helpless, they either dodged, or took the opportunity to stab their blades through the gap in the shield of the Xuzhou Army. While shields guard their own families, they inevitably make their attack area more narrow. The two sides are engaged in hand-to-hand combat in an almost hand-to-hand manner. In this way of warfare, in addition to being able to occupy a little condescending advantage, as well as long-range bow and crossbow firepower suppression, the Xuzhou army did not take advantage of anything else. Whenever someone fell, a comrade behind him would take his place, and the battle was fought fiercely from the beginning.
After a fierce battle of nearly half a pillar of incense, the first wave of the Jiangdong Army was forced to retreat. Of the 2,000 people who came up, less than 1,000 were left when they returned. But their deaths were not worthless, and the Xuzhou army also fell more than 300 people. What's more, many traps and trenches have been filled with corpses.
"God, if you want to help me, please make it rain!" Although Zhao Feng did not come to the front line at this time, he was not idle, he always watched the battle ahead, and in his busy schedule, he still prayed that God would rain to ease the offensive of the Jiangdong Army. However, his wish had not yet been fulfilled, and it was not long before another Jiangdong Army came up, and the tragic battle sounded again. "Xu Gong, if you dare to play me, Lao Tzu will play you to death if he crosses again!" Zhao Feng said hatefully, but his subordinates did not dare to slack off at all, and continued to allocate manpower, ready to check and fill in the gaps everywhere at any time.
"Governor, the sergeant has traveled for a long time, can you rest and recuperate before making plans?" Cheng Pu saw that the two groups of people were suffering heavy casualties, and he was also a little painful, so he hurriedly went up to admonish. Zhou Yu didn't answer, but his eyes were fixed on the figure on the mountain who had a relationship with Shouchun, and at this time he was standing under his own banner to command the battle.
"Zhou Tai, you lead a thousand men and horses to see if you can kill them from the back mountain path!" Zhou Yu rejected Cheng Pu's suggestion with action. After Zhou Tai obeyed the order, he hurriedly led people to obey the order, Cheng Pu looked at Zhou Yu, his mouth moved, and he didn't say anything after all.
"Brother Bo Fu, today I need this Zhao Feng to give the head to sacrifice your spirit in the sky!" Zhou Yu muttered, the murderous aura in his eyes was unprecedentedly strong.
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