Therefore, the officers who commanded the garrison at the front saw that the situation was not good, so they ordered their soldiers to move back, first, to temporarily avoid this continuous attack of Gao Shun's troops, and second, to adjust the range of their bows and crossbows and counterattack Gao Shun's troops.

At this time, behind Gao Shun's department, in front of Lu Bu, there were hundreds of foot soldiers holding shields, pushing pontoon bridges, or carrying dirt bags, and they were about to run outside the camp of Huang Gai and Sun Ben.

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In Sun Jian's camp in the distance, Wen Chou and Sun Jian saw this scene.

Wen Chou said: "Lu Bu wants to use Gao Shun as the front, suppress Huang Gai and Sun Ben, and then fill the soil with foot pawns to fill in the trenches, and then use Gao Shun as the sharp and infantry pawns as the auxiliary to break through the camp of Huang and Sun. ”

This tactic was also used by Wen Chou in previous campaigns.

Sun Jian watched the battle carefully and did not speak.

Seeing Huang Gai and Sun Ben's camp from afar, the soldiers who resisted Gao Shun's attack, after seeing Dong Bing's foot soldiers approaching and coming to fill the ditch and level the trench, seemed to have a brief panic, but it should have been under the officer's calm, and soon calmed down again, and according to the officer's command, the shield formed a formation, in response to Gao Shun's short spear attack, and at the same time the bow and crossbow moved back, and the backward bow and crossbow were no longer aimed at attacking Gao Shun, but concentrated on attacking the approaching part of Lu Bu's foot soldiers.

This is one of the most appropriate ways to deal with this situation.

The hundreds of foot soldiers sent by Lu Bu were too far away to see the banner clearly, so they didn't know who the general who took the lead was, but compared to Gao Shun in front, this general was also very brave, risking arrows and commanding soldiers to go straight without hesitation.

The foot soldier is slow, and the crossbow bolt shot by the strong crossbow is fast and very powerful, so it is protected by a shield. But these hundreds of Lu Bu's foot soldiers were still targeted one after another. Looking at these hundreds of pacemakers from afar, they are really stepping on corpses and blood.

Of course, because they were too far apart, it was impossible for Wen Chou and Sun Jian to see the casualties among these foot soldiers, but they could judge from the short-lived smoke and dust that kept rising that they must have suffered a lot of casualties. -- These foot soldiers were carrying dirt bags or pushing pontoon carts, and whenever someone fell to the ground, some dirt bags fell to the ground, or some pontoon carts toppled over, and every time the bags fell and overturned, smoke and dust would rise.

Probably because of the cover of Gao Shun's troops in front, although this group of foot soldiers suffered a lot of casualties, they braved the rain of arrows and did not move very slowly. About two quarters of an hour later, they were in front of the ravine.

Arrived at the front of the trench. The shield-bearers at the fore of the group raised their shields high to form a shield array, and then the rest of the foot soldiers, protected by the shields, threw their bags of earth into the trenches, and some of the pontoon carts tried to put the bridge on top of the trench, but the bridge was not easy to erect, for the soldiers in the camp of Huang Gai and Sun Ben kept shooting rockets when they saw that there was a bridge. One or two rockets fell on the bridge, which probably did not cause a fire. But when a dozen or dozens of rockets fall on the bridge, they will inevitably catch fire, and under the blow of the crossbow bolts on the opposite side, these foot soldiers of Lu Bu are not capable of extinguishing all these fires.

However, even if all the pontoon bridges could be burned out, Huang Gai and Sun Ben would not be able to stop the pace of Lu Bu's soldiers' attack. -- Because in addition to the pontoon bridge, the soldiers of Lu Bu also carried dirt bags, and the trenches outside Huang Gai and Sun Ben's camp were not very deep and narrow, and the soil bags could easily fill in a section of them. And once it is filled, the Gao Shun who are cruising around it will inevitably attack the camp in large numbers.

Watching the battle on the watchtower with Wen Chou and Sun Jian were Wu Jing, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Zu Mao, Sun He and other Sun Ying generals.

Wu Jing said: "The pontoon bridge is just a bait for the Lu Department, in order to disperse the arrows of the soldiers of the Gongfu and Boyang battalions, so as to cover the rest of the soldiers who carry the soil to fill the trenches. ”

Wu Jing said well, the pontoon bridge is indeed just a bait, but this bait, Huang Gai and Sun Ben can't help but swallow it, because if they don't swallow it, ignore these pontoon bridges, and when the pontoon bridges are erected, with the help of these pontoon bridges, the attack of Lu Bu's soldiers will be smoother.

Han Dang said: "Gao Shun's department is trapped in the camp, the attack is very sharp, the public is overturned, the Boyang camp is ugly, and the trench is flattened, and it is bound to be dangerous. General, you should immediately send troops to help Gongfu and Boyang. Ask for five hundred armor soldiers, and immediately rush to their aid. ”

Sun Jian didn't twist his head, and while continuing to watch the battle, he said lightly: "The war side is just rising, how can you come to help?" ”

"General, Gao Shun is very brave, Lu Bu and Xu Rong are watching behind, and the Hu Zhen array has also begun to attack, if it is too late, I am afraid that the public will be overthrown and Boyang will be lost."

"Will there be a loss, I will only know when the white blades intersect!"

Seeing that Sun Jian was resolute, Han Dang did not say anything.

Wen Chou sighed secretly in his heart: "Wentai is really a battlefield tiger general." Huang Gai is okay, Sun Ben is his subordinate, and now his camp is surrounded by the enemy on both sides, but he can endure from a distance for the sake of the overall situation, and refuses to rush to help immediately. …… Replaced me? Is it Zilong who is in the camp at this time? Will I go and save him? Or will I be like Wentai, just sitting and watching for the sake of the big picture? ”

Wen Chou asked himself, he would be like Sun Jian, sit back and watch it, and would not immediately send troops to save him.

Ci is not in charge of the army, since he has joined the army, then on the battlefield, he must always have the consciousness of dying in battle, and he must be ruthless, if he is in chaos because the person who is caught in the flank is his own relatives, then this battle will not have to be fought.

In the air where Han Dang asked for battle, Lu Bu's foot soldiers had already filled in a ditch.

After filling in the trench, this group of foot soldiers temporarily retreated, giving way for the cavalry of Gao Shun's department to attack, -- Wen Chou glanced at it from a distance, and noticed that the number of this group of foot soldiers had now been sharply reduced, originally about four hundred people, but now it seems that there are probably only two or three hundred people left, at least more than a hundred people have been reduced, and some of these more than 100 people are killed and wounded on the road, and some are dead or wounded when filling the ditch.

Not every battle will be attrition a lot, sometimes a battle with tens of thousands of people to participate in the battle, maybe the two sides together may only reduce a few hundred people at most, and this battle has just started, Lu Bu's infantry has been reduced by more than 100 people, one can see the fierceness of Huang Gai, Sun Ben's battalion soldiers, and secondly, it can also be seen that Lu Bu's soldiers, at least the elite soldiers' will to fight firmly.

The trench has been flattened, and the next step must be the attack of Gao Shun's trapped camp.

Wen Chou retracted his gaze, no longer looked at the casualties of the Lu Division's foot soldiers, held his breath, and stared intently at the cavalry of the Gao Shun Division.

Sure enough, this cavalry of hundreds of people, under the leadership of the front military banner, first turned around the horse's head, and galloped in the direction of the departure from Huang Gai and Sun Ben's camp, that is, in the direction of facing Lu Bu and Xu Rong's main formation, and then turned around, as they did when they first came, and began to rush towards Huang Gai and Sun Ben's camp again. (To be continued.) )