One Hundred and Five, Fierce Battle in Ghost Ditch (3)
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.
A hard attack is not just about listening to the body and rushing against the arrows, but also about finding a way to reduce the dangerous distance between fifty and ten steps. Since the Qin army came from Fenyin, it played a role with the leather cart and the collision car. The directly subordinate army transferred ten leather cars and three crash cars to Chen Xi. Chen Xi ordered the craftsmen to install thick wooden planks on the leather cart to block the front, and ordered the sergeant to untie the Mahler and push the leather cart forward. The ramming cart was also pushed forward, just behind five leather carts, each of which covered twenty lightly armored samurai. These twenty lightly armored warriors used five to push the leather cart forward, and the others hid behind the leather cart, leaning on the back plank about four steps wide and two steps high, avoiding the bows and arrows of the Wei army, and the five chariots walked side by side on the flat ground of the ravine about 100 steps wide, slowly moving forward. There were more people in the three crashing cars, pushing forward in groups of ten, and five people wandering on both sides, from time to time to clear the stones on the road, and filling in small potholes and ditches with tools.
The Wei army was dumbfounded when they saw the Qin army attacking like this. Because they came over mountains and mountains, and they didn't bring heavy weapons, they really had no way to face the collision car and the leather car. Just when the Wei army didn't know what to do, the commander of the Wei army drove to the front of the formation, and after looking at it, he ordered: Throw stones! The bigger the stone, the better.
Wei Jun immediately picked up the stones everywhere and threw them directly. There were also clever sergeants, who carried one of the two, shouted one, two, and three, and threw them out in a joint force. Although these stones could not cause any substantial damage to the Qin army, they were soon full of large and small stones within thirty steps in front of the formation. These stones quickly stopped the Qin army's leather cart thirty paces away. Your Qin army sent people out to pick up stones, just as a live target for the Wei army, and was shot accurately by the Wei army. If you don't send someone out to pick up stones, your leather cart won't want to go any further. The front-line commander of the Qin army is a brigade commander, probably a dead brain, in order to complete the military order, he constantly ordered the sergeants to come out, in teams of two, one holding a shield to protect, and the other hiding under the shield to pick up stones. However, if you are picking up stones, of course you have to bend down and get up or something, otherwise how to pick them up? But the shield is so big, you just hold one in one hand, and you can't cover the two people who have to move with two shields, so the Qin army is still under the arrows of the Wei army, and it keeps falling. It wasn't until the division commander really felt sorry for his sergeant that he had already lost more than 20 sergeants in the battle, so he had to order Mingjin.
As soon as the Qin army retreated, the Wei army shouted in unison, so angry that Chen Xi screamed. A whole hour was wasted. The task of attacking had to be given to the direct army.
As soon as the army directly under him went into battle, he immediately accepted Chen Xijun's lesson. One by one, they held the fast hardwood planks, because the shield area was small, fifty in a row, a full ten rows, beating the drums, and pressed towards the momentum of the Wei army. The rushing car, all five of them got into the car, following behind the five hundred lightly armored warriors, and the Wei army couldn't breathe.
The commander of the Wei army looked at it: archery does not work. Throwing stones doesn't work either. I had to give an order: to shoot the archers on their backs and hang the heads of the Qin army; Order the crossbowman to shoot flat, and shoot the upper body when the Qin army raises the plank to prevent it from overhead. But the Qin army was not stupid, the first row blocked the front, and the second row held the wooden plank and put the head, which made the Wei army's arrows shoot in vain. The Wei army had no choice but to order: after the Qin army entered, the Qin army's collision car was interviewed, and the Qin army was not allowed to fill the ditch of the fence, so that the rushing car could not hit the fence. With the manpower of the Qin army alone, what kind of fence is the Ministry of Naibu, and there are still hundreds of Wei troops standing behind the fence, and they are not here to see the excitement?
As soon as the Wei army stopped firing arrows, the Qin army quickly came to the fence of the Wei army and stood in front of the trench to fill the trench. But the Wei army did not allow them, so the two armies fired crossbow arrows at each other within five paces of the fence. The Wei army could not withstand the Qin army, and the Qin army could not effectively attack the Wei army. In the end, the brigade commander commanded by the Qin army, in a hurry, did not care about the collision, and ordered, broke off the crashing wood, carried it by five people, and used five people to block it with a wooden plank, and directly used people to carry the collision wood to hit the fence.
The Wei army took a look: two groups of Qin troops carried two thick bumping logs and rushed towards the fence, so that the Wei army was in a hurry, in addition to shooting desperately with crossbow arrows, they also sent long-haired hands to hit ten long-haired hands to deal with one bumper wood, don't let the Qin army's bumper wood get close. However, the striking wood was about five feet long, and the spear was only one and two feet, and it was separated by a fence and a ditch. The tip of your spear is still far from the person who lifted the bumper, and the sharp head of the bumper has already hit the fence. You use arrows, Qin Jun is not afraid, except for using wooden planks, you just shoot the person who lifts the collision wood, and immediately replace it with a new person and continue to collide. Although the Qin army hit the wood, it was said that it was carried by people, the inertia was not enough, and the collision force was insufficient, but it was afraid that the number of collisions would be too many, and the two collision logs really knocked the first fence of the Wei army out of two holes, and then used the collision wood to stretch in and say goodbye, and it was a big piece of fence that was broken.
The Qin army didn't wait for the Wei army to fill the gap, and a large group of sergeants rushed over without their lives. Immediately the two armies were in front of the fallen fence, which together were less than twenty paces, and a fierce battle began.
Qin Jun, who was carrying the collision wood, saw that there was a play, so he carried the collision wood and found another place to collide. After continuous impacts, the Qin army knocked the first fence of the Wei army out of six holes. The 500 soldiers of the Qin army all rushed to the hole and fought with the Wei army.
The commander of the Wei army wanted to transfer people to strengthen the defense, but only a hundred were not long, and between the first and second fences fifty steps wide, five hundred sergeants were already densely displaced, so he had to retreat to the second fence to make room for the sergeants to fight.
But the Qin army actually lined up in a row of 100 people at a distance of 100 paces, a full five rows, and the tactics of using people to suppress people forced the Wei army to retreat again and again. As soon as the commander of the Wei army saw it, he ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops and retreat. As soon as the Wei army heard the military order, they pulled their legs and ran back, and the commander of the Wei army ordered the arrows to be released as soon as he saw that the Wei army was separated from the Qin army!