Chapter 208

In March of the third year of the first peace, when the smoke of Liangzhou rose again, the princes of the world also raised troops to serve the king.

Immediately after Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai raised troops, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao sent the general Huang Zu to lead 8,000 troops, detoured to the southern foot of Jingshan, crossed the Danshui to attack Wuguan, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan personally led 30,000 troops out of Langzhong, went north to Jianshan, and prepared to enter the Guanzhong.

How did he get to Hanzhong, but he was stopped by Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu cut Hanzhong to stand on his own, and he was always afraid that Liu Yan would raise troops to attack.

Once Liu Yan's army set foot in Hanzhong, if he didn't leave, wouldn't it be to open the door to arrest thieves and lure wolves into the house, and then he was afraid that it would be too late to cry.

Zhang Lu also didn't care about agreeing to Luo Zheng to drag the horse and move his legs, and mobilized 20,000 troops to camp in Baocheng to strictly guard against Liu Yan.

Liu Yan couldn't borrow anything, so he had to temporarily camp his 30,000 troops in the Sword Pavilion and confront Zhang Lu.

Perhaps, this is also the most desirable outcome.

Since Liu Yan arrived in Xichuan, he has run Yizhou into an independent kingdom, and he has long been out of the orders of the imperial court.

However, as a clan, Dong Zhuo usurped the Han Dynasty and became independent, and if he did not afford to serve the king, he would be scolded by the world.

Now that he is blocked by Hanzhong Taishou Zhang Lu in the Sword Pavilion, he doesn't have to fight with the Xiliang Army, and it is also a good result.

At the same time, Qiao Rui, the general of Yuzhou Mu Yuanshu, also led 8,000 troops to Wuguan and fought Wuguan with Liu Biao.

Jizhou Mu Yuan Shao and Youzhou Thorn Shi Gongsun Zan also led 30,000 troops each and marched south.

For a while, the Central Plains was full of wolf smoke, war clouds were thick, and the situation suddenly became extremely tense.

At this time, Luo Zheng had personally led 6,000 Qianghu cavalry southward, and the troops were approaching Xiangwu.

Xiangwu is located in the east of Longxi County, which is the throat road from Ji County to Longxi. As long as Xiangwu can be captured, it can directly attack the hinterland of Hanyang County from Longxi. A sharp sword hung above Ma Teng's head.

However, it is obvious that Ma Teng is also an important part of Bai Xiangwu, and he sent 2,000 foot soldiers to guard Xiangwu.

Luo Zheng was all cavalry. Without any siege baggage, you can't drive cavalry to attack the city. Therefore, this time he went south to Xiangwu, did not take the avenue, but disappeared, passed through the southern part of Baishi Mountain from Shouyang, and entered the territory of Hanyang County.

Then he traveled two hundred miles in one day and came to the territory of the original road.

Late at night, Luo Zheng camp, the Chinese army's big tent.

Jia Xu opened the tent and entered. Xiang Luo Zheng arched his hand and said, "I've seen the general!" ”

Luo Zheng waved his hand and paced back and forth: "How is the Xiangwu garrison, is there a chance?" ”

Jia Xu said: "According to the news sent back by Xizuo, as early as when our army had just sent troops, Xiangwu completely closed the city gate, and there were even more sentinels within a radius of dozens of miles. ”

Luo Zheng frowned and said: "Our army is all cavalry, if we can't raid, how can we break Xiangwu?" ”

Jia Xu groaned slightly. Then he said: "It's not that there is no way, our army scouts have just found out a piece of news, and there is not much grain in Xiangwu City." Every ten days or so, Ma Teng mobilized military rations from various counties and transported them to Xiangwu. It has been five days since the last time 50 truckloads of military rations from Xixian County were delivered to Xiangwu. That is to say, in about five days at most, a batch of military rations will be escorted to Xiangwu, and as long as our army finds this batch of grain transport teams, it may try to attack Xiangwu! ”

Luo Zheng's spirits perked up, and he instantly thought of Jia Xu's plan, and immediately said categorically: "Good." According to Wenhe's words, the scout camp was quickly reprimanded to closely monitor the hundreds of miles around Xiangwu. Be sure to find this batch of grain trucks before they arrive in Xiangwu. ”

"Obey the order."

Jia Xu agreed, and immediately walked out of the tent quickly.

Jizhou. Ten miles south of Yecheng.

Guo Jia stopped the war horse and said to Xun Chen, who came to see him off: "Send you a thousand miles, you need to say goodbye in the end, if you stay!" ”

Xun Chen sighed, although he knew that Guo Jia had already made up his mind, he still couldn't help but persuade: "Why should Feng Xiao be like this, Yuan Benchu is a hero in the world, Feng Xiao thinks that Yuan Benchu is outside, who else in the world can achieve great things?" ”

Guo Jia smiled and said: "If you don't need to persuade you anymore, Jia will return to Yingchuan this time, because the old mother is old and wants to be filial!" ”

Xun Chen couldn't help but say: "Nonsense, my mother is less than fifty years old, and her body is hard-boned, so why do you say that she is already old." Even if you don't say it, you can see that Feng Xiao must have thought that Yuan Ben was not enough to achieve a great cause, so he abandoned it, right? ”

Guo Jia was silent, it was indeed the truth.

After being mixed under Yuan Shao for a few months, he has long seen that Yuan Shao is so happy and undecisive, and it is difficult to achieve great things.

Although there are four worlds and three princesses, and the ability is still improvised, it is not a heroic posture in the end, and it can only gain momentum for a while.

Although Guo Jia came from a poor family, he has always had great ambitions.

The only ideal is to assist the Lord to end this troubled world and achieve the great cause of the world.

Since Yuan Shao is not a successful person in the end, why continue to waste time in Jizhou.

Xun Chen asked again, "Why doesn't Fengxiao say anything?" ”

Guo Jia sighed: "If you know what I mean, why bother asking? ”

Xun Chen said disapprehantly: "Although Yuan Benchu has some great achievements, it is also because of his young ambition, and he may not be able to become a Ming Jun after a few years, why don't you stay for more time?" ”

Guo Jia said indifferently: "The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change!" ”

Xun Chen was silent for a long time before he sighed: "That is the case, I won't say much below, I don't know what Fengxiao's plans are in the future?" ”

Guo Jia said: "Go to Yangzhai to serve my mother first, and then let's stop!" ”

Xun Chen arched his hand and said: "In this case, Fengxiao will go all the way." ”

Guo Jia also arched his hand and said: "The world is chaotic, and I don't know if there will be a day to see each other again, and friends are cherished." ”

"Precious!"

Xun Chen gave it away, and when he saw Guo Jia go away, he couldn't help but sigh again.

Didaw, East Gate.

With a bang, the drawbridge fell and slammed into the piers.

Immediately, with a click, the city gate was quickly pushed open.

Groups of foot soldiers rushed out of the city and quickly lined up on the spot under the city.

In less than a pillar of incense, the six thousand Qiang soldiers had all opened out of the east gate and finished the formation outside Chengwai.

Dressed in iron armor and carrying a big knife, Pang De rode his horse to the front of the battle, and said sharply: "Brothers, Luo Zheng's butcher wants to trap us to death in Didao, and General Ben doesn't want to sit still, what do the brothers say?" ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Fight with Luo Zheng's dog thief."

The six thousand Qiang soldiers shouted in unison. There was a fierce murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

"Okay, I'm fighting with Luo Zheng's dog thief."

Pang Deyang pointed forward with his knife and said loudly: "Gao Shun of the dog day is going to dig a pit outside the city." Trap us to death, and those who are not afraid of death will follow General Ben and rush forward. Kill the dog thieves who killed these days and kill a bloody way. ”

"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......"

The 6,000 Qiang soldiers all roared, and the crowd was furious.

Pang De shouted, flicked his horse's head, and rushed over with six thousand Qiang soldiers.

Two hundred paces away, across the trench.

Gao Shun had already come to the front of the formation, and the five thousand foot soldiers had already finished arranged.

Because when the trench was excavated, Gao Shun ordered all the excavated earth and rocks to be piled up on the outside of the trench. And with the excavated earth and stone to build a foot high earthen wall, but due to the time relationship, the trench had just been dug up, and before the sharpened antlers could be inserted in it, Pound had already led the army to break through.

If the fortifications are completely built, Pound will definitely not be able to fly.

"If you want to break through, how can it be so easy!"

Gao Shun's resolute face showed a grim smile, and there was a cold flicker of murderous intent in his eyes, seeing Pang De leading six thousand Qiang soldiers to rush over, and his raised right arm waved down heavily. He said in a deep voice: "Archer, go out of battle!" ”

"Order."

A herald had already shouted, "The general has an order." Archers come out into battle. ”

Soon, a platoon of hoplites originally lined up on the earthen wall immediately withdrew, and a row of baffles nailed with wooden planks was lifted to the earthen wall, and each carrying plate was more than a zhang high and a zhang wide, and was fixed into an L-shape.

Although it was very simple, it was just enough to protect the archers standing behind the baffle.

Ten baffles were lined up in a row, leaving a foot-long window on the front. The top of the crossbar, which is more than two feet long, protects the top of the archer, and below there are a few simple wooden legs. Hold the bezel so it doesn't tip over.

Such a rudimentary baffle is made. It doesn't take much effort at all. Dozens of such baffles can be made in half a day, as long as the timber is sawed into planks and then spliced together with gum and iron nails.

"First team archers, step forward!"

As soon as the baffle was opened, the commander captain standing next to him yelled.

Soon, the first team of five hundred archers rushed up to the earthen wall, stood behind the baffle, drew the bowstring, and the dark and sharp arrows had already been missed, and aimed at the killing Pang De army from the one-foot-high window.

The remaining 1,500 bows and arrows were divided into three teams and arrayed under the earthen wall, ready to be replaced at any time.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Seeing that Pang Dejun rushed within fifty steps, the commander of the army immediately opened his voice and roared wildly.

In an instant, there was a shocking sound of war drums rushing into the sky.

Ten zhang away, a thousand hoplites erected huge shields on the ground, connecting them to form a shield wall to protect the front.

Gao Shun was dressed in iron armor, and at the moment of the sound of the drums, he dodged and retreated behind the hoplites.

Under the baffle, the five hundred archers who had been waiting for a long time immediately let go of the full bow and arrows, and the five hundred sharp arrows shot out of the window left by the baffle with a piercing sound, and fiercely penetrated into the rushing Pang De's army.

Almost at the same time, a wave of black-pressed arrows from the rear of Pang De's army swept through the air and fell fiercely.

Ahh......hhh

In the terrible howl, Pang De's army fell nearly 300 people.

Although there are sword and shield soldiers in the front row holding shields and forming a shield formation to protect the front of the formation, the light shields of the sword and shield soldiers can barely protect half of their bodies, and if they are not the giant shields of the hoplites, how can they completely block the rain of arrows.

Moreover, the archers of the Gao Shun army occupied the high ground and shot from top to bottom, and the sword and shield soldiers in front of the Pang De army could not protect the knife and axe soldiers and archers carrying sandbags behind them.

On the other hand, the archers on Gao Shun's side suffered much smaller casualties.

If Pound wants to attack forward, the archers cannot be lined up in front of the formation, otherwise the archers who have no protection ability are simply a group of live targets, but when the archers are lined up in the rear formation, when they rush forward, not only the accuracy is too poor, but they can not shoot horizontally, they can only shoot back, so that they cannot cause actual damage to the Gaoshun archers hiding under the baffle.

Only a few arrows penetrated the fenders through the windows, wounding a few of Gao Shun's archers.

"Damn it!"

Pound struggled to stumble the powerful arrow that was shooting at it, and hurriedly glanced at it, and almost vomited blood in anger at that time.

The archers can't pose a threat to the Gao Shun army, won't they become a living target?

But now that the arrow is on the bow, it has to be sent.

Pound yelled: "Don't stop, rush over!" ”

The sword and shield soldiers in the front row shouted in unison, and immediately held their shields and carried sandbags to rush forward.

At this moment, the archers of the Gao Shun army behind the baffle had already stretched their bows again, and another wave of swift and fierce locust-like arrows shot at them, once again knocking over nearly 300 people from Pang Dejun.

"Rush up and fill in the pit!"

Pound's eyes were torn, and he roared loudly, urging the horse forward with a knife.

The 6,000 Qiang soldiers were not afraid of death, and the 1,000 sword and shield soldiers in the front row held shields and carried sandbags, and rushed forward with all their might.

At the same time, the archers in the rear column rushed forward, and at the same time kept firing their bows and arrows, in order to kill and injure the Gao Shun army hiding behind the earthen walls and baffles, but it was difficult to gain anything, and they could only waste arrows.

The rain of arrows under the pressure of black pressure continued to pour down, and in just a few dozen steps, it caused huge casualties to the Pang Dejun army who were preparing to break through desperately, although there were not many dead on the spot, but more than 2,000 were injured by bows and arrows. (To be continued)