One Hundred and Four, Fierce Battle in the Ghost Ditch (2)
The two divisions that released the crossbows, after the fifth round of crossbows, withdrew to the rectangular army formation, and used 600 men to perfect the three-row formation in the east, and the rest of the men all rested in the formation, recuperating and waiting to go to the battlefield again.
As soon as the Wei army climbed the mountain beam, it launched an attack on the Qin army's 300-man platoon, which was no more than 500 steps wide. At a glance, he knew that the Qin army was very tactically commanded, and used a small range of military formations to weaken the military superiority of the Wei army. Are you a lot of Wei soldiers? But you can't pile up 40,000 troops and fight me within 500 paces? If you put up to 6,000 people, you will be able to reach the sky, so I am similar to you locally, at most you can use turns to fight, so that every attack is a new force, and although I can replace it with people, the maximum time is only a quarter of an hour of rest, so let's fight it!
Xun Ji immediately ordered: leave 6,000 people, use 2,000 people in rotation, and give me turns to attack every hour! After the order, he led the army to the ghost ditch, and in the narrowest points in the north and south, each used an army to set up a solid camp. He gave orders to the two army commanders: when you meet the Qin army to defend Zhishun, you are not allowed to attack, give me to defend the camp to the death, and not let the Qin army advance is a victory, which is a great achievement. After he personally arranged the camping of the two large battalions, he returned to Shanliang to personally supervise the battle, and he had to completely annihilate this Qin army. By the time he returned to Shanliang, three hours had passed, and the Qin army was still resisting stubbornly, but the rectangular battle formation had been reduced to a row of one hundred and fifty people.
As soon as the tenth season arrived, he ordered the original 6,000 men to withdraw and replace them with his descendant Yuanli army to charge into battle. The Yuanli army was not ambiguous, and did not charge immediately as soon as it entered the battle, but rained down six rounds of arrows on the heads of the Qin army in a row. When the sixth round of arrows was falling, the spear-wielding sergeant rushed directly to meet the battle. This succession was immediately earth-shattering. Because the Wei army was a three-row spear-bearer, and then a sword-bearer, the attack became endless, and there was no need to fill the position behind a spear-bearer, as long as the second row stepped forward, he could raise a spear to stab, which formed a sea of bright and sparkling spear tips, and swept towards the already thin Qin army battle array.
Regardless of the stab, the Wei army stabbed a big hole in the battle formation of the Qin army, and the swordsmen of the Wei army immediately drilled into this big hole and continuously expanded the hole. The two division commanders of the Qin army took a look: the formation is broken! Immediately with the guards, he personally came up to fill this hole, and the two armies were around this hole for a while, and they fought their life and death.
Although the Qin army was brave, but it was no longer afraid of life and death, and it was also difficult to defeat the four hands with three punches, and the Wei army, relying on the advantage of the large number of people and the new army, forced the two division commanders of the Qin army and their four hundred guards to kill all in the battle. The banner of the division commander has fallen, but the remaining hundreds of Qin troops still have no one to surrender, no matter how you persuade you, it will be a kill! It wasn't until Xun Ji reluctantly gave the order that all these hundreds of Qin troops were killed.
After all the Qin troops were killed, Xun Ji left the formation and asked, "Is it the Ketou Army?" The doctor replied: "No, look at the flag, it's the third and fourth divisions of the Seventh Army of the Qin Army." β
Xun Ji sighed: "A seventh army is such a fierce fight to the death and does not retreat, what should the head army be?" β
The doctor didn't know how to get back, so he kept silent and stood quietly by the side of the ten seasons.
Xun Ji looked at the chaotic battlefield and asked, "How much did our army lose in battle?" β
The doctor replied, "It's almost one-to-one with Qin Jun." β
After solemnly giving the battlefield a one-legged kneeling supreme military salute, he stood up and said, "Sue sΓΉ baggage!" Bury them like our samurai. They are also heroes and deserve our respect! After saying that, he ordered to set up his Chinese army camp half a mile from the battlefield.
The next day. On the second day of the first day of spring. In the morning. Zhao Hu, the third army who rushed to the south entrance of Guigou first, saw the large camp of the Wei army in the narrowest place half a mile after entering the south entrance. After he hurriedly reported to Pang Pao of the Tenth Army behind, he began to organize an attack. But he came all the way to 280 miles, including 190 miles of mountain roads, and all his vehicles were lost in the mountain passes, and now he was attacking the enemy's camp, so he had to cut down the big trees first, and come to be carried by men and horses, otherwise how could he break through the large camp of the Wei army in the middle of the road?
The second one to arrive was the reinforcements sent by the White Tiger. As soon as Qin Guogong Qu Liang received the news that the post road was intercepted, he took his two directly subordinate armies to Fenyin and commanded the battle of Dushan with the White Tiger. As soon as he received the arrangement of Gongsun Marting, he sent two directly subordinate armies to the southeast to pick up Gongsun Marting. As soon as the receiving troops sent converged with Chen Xi's army, Baihu and Qin Guogong ordered almost simultaneously that the three armies would go to Guigou and that the Wei army would not be allowed to occupy it. If the Wei army had already occupied the ghost ditch, it would not hesitate to open it at any cost. Therefore, when Chen Xi was still ninety miles away from Fenyin, he followed the two directly subordinate armies of Duke Qin to go back, and at noon on the second day of the first month, he rushed to the northern entrance of the ghost ditch. It was also after ten miles in the valley that in the narrowest part of the ravine, a large camp set up by the Wei army in the middle of the road was found. Fortunately, Chen Xi was luckier than Zhao Hu. Because from Fenyin to Guigou, although the road is a mountain road, it can barely let a big car pass after a small rest, so the direct army has five crashing cars. As soon as the two commanders directly under him saw it, they discussed it with Chen Xi for a while, and decided: The three armies will not suffer losses, one army will attack one hour, and the three armies will take turns to fight, and see whose luck is good, and if the Wei army camp is broken, the battle merit will go to whom. Since Chen Xi had the worst qualifications, Chen Xi took the lead. Although Chen Xijun only had three divisions left, attacking the battalion in this ravine could only open up one division at most.
First, did Chen Xijian climb the mountain beams on both sides, and then rush down condescendingly? But the three military commanders climbed halfway up the mountain and looked: impossible. Because the Wei army cleared the obstacles on both sides of the mountain and built a fence under the cliff, you didn't hit the wood, don't think about it at all? So you can only punch hard in the front.
Chen Xi took three division commanders and twelve brigade commanders to the Wei army camp, inspecting the terrain and discussing offensive methods. However, the Wei army was cunning, and in a ravine less than a hundred paces wide, they built a continuous row of ten rows of fences, and in front and behind each row of fences, they built half-human-high stone walls with stones, like city walls, to block the opponent's arrows. The Wei army was behind the stone wall, behind each row of fences, arranged a row of 100 people, a total of three rows of warriors, holding ge, spears, shields, knives, swords, bows, crossbows, etc., guarding where they were, waiting for the Qin army to attack. Chen Xi and the others saw that there was really no way to do anything but attack hard, so they returned to the military formation and organized an attack.