One Hundred and Six, Fierce Battle in Ghost Ditch (4)
The three military marshals thought about it, can't they waste time here? They don't have time to waste. When I thought of Zuo Shuchang and more than 200,000 people, I shuddered, so I naturally thought of finding another way. Chen Xi was still familiar with the road, so he and the three military marshals, with 2,000 long axes, handed over the matter of attacking the fence to the deputy general, and made a detour to the east side of Dongshan Liang, walked to the salt lake, and checked the terrain. The three of them looked at each other: there was a door. The sparkling salt lake surface is at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, with an outer arc-shaped curve, nestled against Dongshan. The dense forests of Higashiyama do not seem to be afraid of the salt lake, and they stretch the woods into the lake.
Chen Xi said happily when he saw it: "We cut down the big tree and tied it into a wooden raft, and let the sergeants sit on the wooden raft and come from the salt lake." There is no need to see these dozens of miles of mountain roads. ”
A military commander of a directly subordinate army immediately poured cold water: "Which one is going to drag the wooden platoon?" The one who came to drive the wooden raft? Do you know that none of our sergeants know how to water, and if it turns over, it will be a lot of lives? ”
Another commander of the army directly under him said: "Let's cut the road honestly!" This mountain beam is only about 20 miles long, and if we count the turns, it will not exceed 30 miles. Our three armies had six thousand axemen, each of whom was ten miles long. Divided into three sections, rest people without stopping, day and night, a day always to see a five, six, this calculation, at most two days to cut it. ”
The three immediately agreed. Each army sent 4,000 men, 2,000 cut and 2,000 rested. According to one person cutting two steps, five steps wide, two people in a row, a thousand people is two thousand steps, close to a mile and a half. After watching the substitutions, move forward another mile and a half. The plan is to cut five rounds a day, which is eight miles, and three armies are twenty-four miles. At this point, the three of them rejoiced. I will immediately go back and arrange people, and I will ask the deputy general to lead the task at noon the day after tomorrow.
The lieutenant general led the road cutter away. As soon as the three military commanders were excited, they thought of annihilating the Wei army in this ghost ditch together.
Pang Plagiarism's idea of annihilating the Wei army in Guigou coincided with the Qin army in the north of the ditch. The next morning, that is, the third day of the new month. At the beginning of the day, he found that the Qin army was coming from both ends of the mountain beam towards his camp. He immediately ordered the whole army to be put on alert. After giving the order, he scolded in his heart: I have only been here for three days, and I have been besieged by the superior military strength of the Qin army at both ends. I have 40,000 people, and I have lost nearly 5,000 people in battle, and I have to face the attacks of hundreds of thousands of Qin troops at both ends and everywhere, whether I can withstand the arrival of the fifth prince depends on the destiny of heaven. The fifth prince asked me to cut off the return of the Qin army, and it seemed that it would be difficult for me to complete it. Therefore, with the idea of doing his best to obey the destiny of heaven, Xun Ji organized the Wei army to resist the upcoming two-headed attack. At this moment, Xun Ji received an urgent message from two Wei army commanders in the ravine, saying: The Qin army's attack is becoming more and more fierce, and it will start attacking early this morning, just after arriving in Yin. They hold out for a maximum of three days. Ask for reinforcements, preferably heavily armored samurai.
Xun Ji smiled coldly: "If I have reinforcements and heavily armored samurai, will I still nest in the big camp?" It's already fucking attacking the Qin army. Like the Qin army, we are all lightly armored warriors, but we have the help of the fence battalion, and the Qin army completely relies on flesh and blood to attack our fence battalion, why should we be bitter? Thinking of this, Shunji gave an order to the commanders stationed in the two ravines: there were no reinforcements, and neither were the heavily armored samurai. But we have a large camp fence, and the Qin army does not. The Qin army didn't complain, so why should we complain? You fight to the last man, and you can't give up the big battalion. Now is the time for you to repay King Wei.
As soon as the messenger left, the two ends of the camp sounded at the same time as the horn of the Qin army to gather troops and arrange troops. When he walked out of the tent of the Chinese army in the early season and came to the front fence south of the camp, he heard the drums of the Qin army beating at the same time from the north and south of the camp. He stood on the lookout and took a look: he saw five hundred Qin troops, lined up in a row of 100 people, a full five rows, with the beat of the drum, step by step towards the camp. Because it is a regular arc-shaped mountain beam, there are only ten Qin troops on the ridge of the mountain beam, and the others are on the slopes on both sides of the ridge, but the neat formation, the sound of strides in unison, and the drum beat, are still very imposing.
Xun Ji originally wanted to release arrows, but as soon as he saw the Qin army holding a wooden plank, he ordered all the archers to change to crossbow arrows, all of them to stand on a high place or on both sides, and wait for the Qin army to reach a distance of ten paces, and then he was allowed to listen to the order to shoot at the Qin army, especially for the three groups of Qin troops carrying the collision wood, and arranged a group of thirty people to shoot crossbows intensively on both sides against a collision wood. After arranging the crossbowmen, they brought in long axemen, each with a spearman and a sword and shield bearer, to deal with the Qin army's long axe and sword men who came to charge into battle. As soon as the arrangement was completed, the Qin army came within ten steps of the fence. Standing on a high place, you can see clearly, and wave your hand! The drummer next to him beat the drums of war. The crossbowmen of the Wei army immediately followed the drum and fired crossbow arrows.
The first batch of crossbow bolts worked well. Because the Qin army did not guard against the sides and high places, but only guarded the front, this was the road of the tenth season, and dozens of sergeants fell in an instant, and the most fallen to the ground were the wooden planks that were lifted and hit. The howl of the Qin army after it fell to the ground immediately filled the battlefield. However, the second round of crossbow arrows of the Wei army was much less effective than the first round, and the Qin army only fell less than ten sergeants, and the Qin army had already rushed to the fence and was preparing to hit the fence with a ramming log.
As soon as the season was ruthless, he used sixty crossbows to fire at a group of striking wood. Arrows like a waterfall, shoot three striking logs to the ground at once, let your Qin army defend tightly with wooden planks, but a striking wood is four zhang long, ten people lift, ten people hold the hitting wood behind and drag it back, how to defend the person who holds the wooden plank is also careless, under the sixty rounds of crossbow arrows, Lisuo was of course shot by the Wei army. As long as a single knocker knocks down ten people, especially those who are carrying it, as long as five or six people are shot down, the knocker will lose his balance and fall to the ground. As soon as the wood fell to the ground, it would bring over a large number of people, which provided the Wei army with a human target, allowing the Wei army to shoot down a large area. In this way, the failure of the three striking trees made the first attack of the Qin army, after losing hundreds of people, fail. The commander of the division who commanded the front had no choice but to order Mingjin.
As soon as the Qin army retreated, he handed over the command to the commander of the front-line division, telling him to fight like this, and to keep the Qin army out of the fence. After handing over power, he called the two guards who were heavily rewarded, and ordered them to immediately bring each person to the ravine camp at the bottom of the mountain, and teach them the tactics of repelling the Qin army just now! After the two guards left, he rushed to the camp in Beitou with the guards.