Chapter 217: Heavy losses

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The scout cavalry reined in his horse, hurriedly arched his hands and said loudly: "The villain has seen the lord. ”

Luo Zheng tugged at the reins of the horse lightly and said in a deep voice: "Excuse me, what's the movement of Chen Cang?" ”

The scout cavalry replied: "The four gates of Chencang are closed, and the people are not allowed to enter or leave, and they may not be able to sneak into the city." ”

Luo Zheng asked again, "Have you ever found out, how many soldiers and horses are there in Chen Cang?" ”

The scout replied, "At least not less than two thousand." ”

Jia Xu also urged him to come up at this time, and said: "General, Chen Cang's defense of the Chang'an Ancient Road is one of the passes that must be passed when Guanzhong and the west go out of Liangzhou, and it has always been a strategic place for soldiers to fight, and it is impossible for Duan Xuan not to leave heavy troops to garrison. ”

Luo Zheng said 'um', and waited for the scout cavalry to retreat before he said: "Wen He is right, now it seems that it is impossible to attack Chen Cang, since this is the case, there is no need for our army to continue to advance eastward." ”

Jia Xu nodded again and again and said: "General Mingjian, the main goal of our army at the moment is to mobilize Duan Xuan's 30,000 troops, and then try to find an opportunity to destroy the enemy, and it is not yet time to attack Guanzhong." Even if our army can attack Chang'an, it will only attract the shift of Dong Zhuo's strategic focus, and sending elite troops to counterattack the attack in the future will be really harmful and useless to our army. ”

Luo Zheng said happily: "It's @ this truth, so General Ben doesn't stick a knife in Dong Zhuo's heart, so as not to attract Dong Zhuo's desperate counterattack, let Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung princes fight for defeat first, and General Ben will pacify Liangzhou first." Wait until Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung princes can't move, and then see if there is a chance to attack Guanzhong. However, Duan Xuan's army of 30,000 was always a scourge. If you don't find a way to solve it, General Ben will defeat Ma Teng. It is also necessary to be on guard against threats from Guanzhong at all times. ”

Jia Xu thought deeply and said: "What the general said is extremely true, but Duan Xuan was born in the general's door. is another veteran of a hundred battles, if you want to break Duan Xuan's army of 30,000, I'm afraid it's not so easy! ”

Luo Zheng said with a smile: "The solution was figured out by people, if Duan Xuan Turtle is not out of the camp, there is nothing that General Ben can do with him." As long as Duan Xuan's army can be mobilized, our army may not have no chance. ”

When Jia Xu heard this, he also showed a smile like an old fox, and nodded again and again: "This is right, if the rabbit is hiding in the hole, the eagle will naturally not be able to do it." But if you dare to run out, the eagle has a way to catch it. These 800 miles of Qinling Mountains are full of dangerous peaks and ancient forests, deep ravines and evil streams, and ambushes can be laid everywhere, see how Duan Xuan can defend against it! ”

Luo Zhengda agreed: "Yes, what Wen He said is very much in line with my intentions, and General Ben is good at Chencang Xiaodao!" ”

Jia Xu's brain teaser had already thought of a plan, and then said: "There is a way......

Longxian, Gaoshun Daying.

There was a pungent smell of blood in the air. Drifting out more than ten miles away with the wind.

The earth-shattering shouts of killing, screams, and the long neighing of war horses blended together, turning this place into a meat grinder, and soldiers died almost every breath, and the battle was so miserable. It's outrageous.

Groups of soldiers with red eyes, driven by the warlords, rushed up the hillside without fear of death.

The rear of the army. Duan Xuan's face was so blue that he was about to drip water, and he almost wanted to bite off his steel teeth.

Seeing that the soldiers who rushed forward were not pierced through the body by bamboo spears and nailed to the ground. It was a broken tendon that was smashed by a boulder of rolling wood that rolled down from the hillside, and I wanted to rush up in person. Kill a few enemy soldiers to vent your fire.

After paying an extremely heavy price, Duan's army finally filled in the five trenches from the lower camp to the foot of the mountain, and killed the outside of the fence against the rolling wooden boulders that rolled down from the hillside and the bamboo spears that fell from the sky.

"Kill it, kill it!"

Outside the fence, the commander of the army had red eyes and roared heartbreakingly.

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

The nearly 1,000 foot soldiers who rushed to the outside of the camp were also red-eyed and shouted and pounced, some soldiers ignored it and slashed through the fence, while others ran over and struggled to cut the fence buried in the ground.

Some soldiers climbed a one-man fence to climb in.

At this moment, on the other side of the camp.

"Pikemen, strike!"

Gao Shun broke off his drink, and the two thousand pikemen who had been waiting for a long time immediately crossed the battle and arrived in front of the formation.

"The Han army is mighty!"

The commander of the army slanted his spear and howled.

"Victory is won!"

Two thousand spearmen roared in unison, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

"Kill!"

The commander raised his spear and stabbed a soldier who climbed the fence and climbed in.

The two thousand spearmen raised their guns in unison and stabbed at once, and immediately a poignant blood flower bloomed outside the fence.

Two thousand spears like poisonous snakes stabbed out of the cracks in the fence, instantly piercing a large area of Duan Xuan's soldiers who were crowded outside the fence and wanted to pull out the fence and rush in, and the middle of them was either dead or maimed.

The terrible howl almost wanted to tear people's eardrums, even at the foot of the mountain, it was also terrifying to hear it.

The two thousand spearmen were unmoved, indifferent as if they were a machine, constantly raising their guns and stabbing flatly, and a large number of corpses soon piled up outside the fence, the fence was already stained red with blood, and the blood was dripping down.

However, more and more soldiers of Duan Xuan's army rushed forward without fear of death, and they had completely killed Hong. There was a majestic tun commander who stepped on the fence and jumped in directly, waving his saber and killing several people in a row, extremely brave.

Soon, though, the chief's good fortune came to an end.

At least ten spears stabbed him in three directions, piercing him in front and back.

The coordination of these two thousand spearmen is amazing, and the efficiency of killing is even more terrifying, even if there are occasionally very brave Duan Xuan soldiers jumping in from the fence, they will quickly be surrounded and killed by at least ten or more spearmen.

The fierce bloody battle lasted until noon, and a corner of the fence was finally pulled out.

"Kill, kill!"

There was a commander captain who vigorously brandished his saber and hissed loudly.

Hundreds of axemen who rushed to the outside of the fence immediately rushed in with a roar, fighting their way forward.

The rear of the army.

Gao Shun's face was grim, and there was no expression on his knife-and-axe-like face. Seeing that the lower camp was about to be built, he immediately waved his big arm. He shouted: "The first platoon of hoplites is out of the ranks, and they will not retreat in a desperate battle. The rest of the armies retreated to the middle camp. ”

The herald who was closely guarding him didn't say a word, and immediately waved the small flag.

In an instant, the earth-shattering war drums rang out like cannons, and they were extremely fast.

A hundred hoplites quickly crossed the line and came to the front of the formation, blocking the gap that had been broken open.

"Fight to the death!"

The commander of the team raised his sword and shouted, and a hundred hoplites responded with three shouts.

And at the moment when the war drums sounded, the spearmen who were strangling Duan Xuan's soldiers retreated without hesitation. He didn't love war at all, and immediately turned around and rushed to the middle camp above, and the discipline was extremely strict.

"Chase, kill!"

Colonel Duan Xuanjun roared sharply, "Kill all these sons of bitches, don't let them run away." ”

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

The red-eyed Duan Xuan soldiers rushed forward, like a group of wolves rushing into the sheepfold, and their blood-red eyes seemed to be about to choose people to devour, struggling to cut a spark on the iron armor of the hoplites that blocked up.

Yamashita. In front of the Great Army.

"Not good!"

A general hurriedly shouted to Duan Xuan: "General, the front camp is broken, Gao Shun Pifu wants to retreat to the middle camp, and Gao Shun must not let the army retreat to the middle camp." Otherwise, if our army wants to break through the middle camp again, it will have to pay a heavy price. ”

Duan Xuan had already seen it, and he didn't want to think about it. He shouted: "Order, kill at any cost." Be sure to break through the two large camps above in one go, and capture Gao Shun alive. The general will kill him with his own soldiers. ”

"Order."

There was already a herald who roared and rode away with his horse.

In an instant, the rear once again sounded the earth-shattering war drums of Jin Tie.

The deafening shouts of killing instantly became even more high-pitched, and without the spurts of the spearmen, Duan Xuan's soldiers immediately climbed over the fence into the front camp, chasing upwards like desperately, wanting to break through to the middle camp in one fell swoop.

At this time, the spearmen who retreated to the middle camp had just passed, and a team of arrows had already been wound, and after the bow and arrow that was like a full moon, it appeared in the eyes of Duan Xuanjun who was catching up, and the little colonel who took the lead in rushing to the front immediately exclaimed, "Quickly form a shield array!" ”

However, it was too late.

The soldiers who climbed over the fence have long since lost their formation, and even their shields have been lost, so how can they form a shield formation.

The next moment, in the continuous sound of the bowstring, a black arrow rain poured down.

In the terrible howl, the soldiers of Duan Xuan's army who caught up immediately fell a large piece, and the captain at the front was even more cared for, and was stabbed into a hedgehog, spitting blood foam, falling to the ground heavily, and rolling down the hillside in an instant.

More soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, turning into humanoid rolling logs that rolled down the hillside.

The soldiers who came up behind were in a big chaos, and when they were in chaos, waves of arrows rained down on Duan Xuanjun's head unceremoniously, causing huge casualties to Duan Xuanjun's army again.

At the foot of the mountain, in front of the army, Duan Xuan's eyes were about to split, and he vomited blood in anger.

It's miserable, it's miserable.

In just three days, the casualties caused by the attack on this broken mountain actually exceeded the casualties caused by the attack on Longxian, which simply violated the common sense of war.

It wasn't until this moment that Duan Xuan finally realized that he had made a small mistake and couldn't help but regret it a little.

Knowing this, he went directly back to Chencang, where he lived, cleared the walls, surrounded and surrounded them layer by layer, first killed Luo Zheng's more than 10,000 cavalry, and then turned back to solve Gao Shun's 8,000 army, and finally took Longxian.

Now, instead of failing to break through the Gaoshun battalion, he has suffered heavy casualties, which is really more than worth the loss.

Moreover, Duan Xuan finally realized that sometimes, under the special geographical constraints, those seemingly simple camps are not necessarily bigger than the fortified city, and on this not wide ridge, his advantage in military strength cannot be brought into play at all.

At a time, at most, two or three thousand soldiers could rush up, crowded on the slope of the mountain less than 100 zhang wide, whether it was the bamboo spears thrown down or the rolling logs and stones rolling down from above, the soldiers were crowded on the mountain road and could not avoid it at all.

The final result is to fill Gao Shun's camp with human lives.

If the fortified city is changed, the soldiers can still dodge.

However, huddled on this damn hillside, only the lives of countless soldiers could be buried.

Just when Duan Xuan was about to crush his steel teeth, Gao Shun's army finally withdrew to the middle camp, and the morale of Duan Xuan's army, who had regrouped and rushed up, had fallen to the extreme, seeing the countless rolling logs and stones above the hillside like a group of hideous beasts, rumbling down again, the army's heart suddenly collapsed, and immediately threw away his weapons, crying and running down the mountain.

Even if the saber of the overseer team is added, he doesn't care about it at all.

Duan Xuan's eyes were on fire, and his chest rose and fell sharply like a bellows.

The generals around him were also all blue-faced, and their eyes were full of disbelief.

The Xiliang Army, which has always been fierce and good at fighting, is now unable to defeat even a single camp.

This is a big blow to everyone, the belief that they are invincible and invincible was shattered by this cruel fact, and Lao Tzu's idea of being the first in the world was unconsciously wiped out.

After a long time, the general said: "General, it is better to collect the troops and rest for the time being, and then attack!" ”

Duan Xuantie's face was blue, and a few words almost burst out from between his teeth, "Order, Mingjin withdraws the troops." ”

"Order!"

The generals breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that Duan Xuan would recklessly and forcibly attack.

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