Chapter 103: Men should be self-reliant
"Pride in the face of thousands of waves......"
"Blood is like the red sun......"
"Guts... Like... Iron... Beat... Bone... As... Essence... Steel, with a hundred thousand feet of mind and a long vision......"
"I'm trying to be strong...... Do a good job ...... Han"
The song was accompanied by the sound of drums, and a sonorous and powerful rhythm of blood boiling came to the face.
Although I have never heard it, I can feel Cao Jun's determination from the sound of drums and songs.
The general did not give up!
The general has no intention of abandoning us!
War!
All the Shu soldiers tightened their bodies, and their breathing became rapid.
Cao Jun's gaze swept from familiar and unfamiliar faces, and his heart became enthusiastic under the encouragement of the drums.
The drums are louder.
The singing voice is also rougher.
"To be a good man, you have to improve yourself every day......"
"A hot-blooded man, brighter than the sun......"
Sure enough, music knows no nationality, no borders, no time and space.
The Shu soldiers below understood his determination from Cao Jun's singing.
And Cao Jun understood their minds from the gaze that came over.
Whether there are reinforcements or not...... Regardless of whether they can survive or not...... It doesn't matter if you can see the sun tomorrow or not.
War!
Only to die and war!
After singing once, Cao Jun repeated the song a second time.
The melody of this song is simple, there is not much change, and the lyrics are also simple, even if it is a change of time and space, everyone can understand it after listening to it.
But without exception, they can all feel each other's determination and heart from the singing.
After the second time, all the Shu soldiers and soldiers hummed intermittently.
Their eyes were determined and their fists were clenched.
A tragic atmosphere of death quickly shrouded the sky over the Shu army's position.
After a while, the song became louder and louder, the drums became louder and louder, and the chorus of the Shu soldiers became more and more neat.
Gradually, through the sky above the canyon, it slowly came out.
Sima Zhao on the hillside was still surprised when he heard the drums in a daze at first.
Presumably at this moment, the Shu general already knew the news that the reinforcements had been cut off.
The morale of the Shu army should be low to the bottom.
They could no longer lift shields and spears.
One of his father's poisonous plans is comparable to Xu Huang's 10,000 elite soldiers.
It is the so-called soldier who surrenders without a fight.
After a while, the drum beat grew louder, and faintly, there seemed to be a singing voice.
Sima Zhao was immediately confused.
At this moment, are you still in the mood to sing?
Could it be a children's song from my hometown?
Before you die, do you recall the last memories of your hometown?
After waiting for a while, the chorus of all the Shu soldiers, accompanied by the sound of drums, was much louder than Cao Jun's solo before.
Sima Zhao listened with his ears pricked up for a moment, and his heart was suddenly shocked.
This is definitely not a hometown nursery rhyme.
There is no other children's song that has such momentum, can hook people's hearts, and is so impassioned.
"No, it's a military song!"
Sima Zhao was naturally not that stupid person, he listened quietly again, and the emotion in his heart became bigger and bigger, although the lyrics were confused and not real, but music is a common attribute of all human beings.
From this singing, he heard the determination of the Shu army to die.
Alas!
Unexpectedly, his father's poisonous plan did not break up the Shu army, but instead made them fall into a desperate state and became a mourning soldier.
The so-called mourning soldiers will win.
It seems that the battle is not over.
Sima Zhao suddenly let out a long sigh, and was also infected by the tragic emotions of the Shu army for a while.
"If my father is here, I will be surprised, this Shu general's ability to command the army is no less than Xu Huang, and he is really handsome!"
The changes in the Shu army in a short period of time are definitely inseparable from the command of the Shu generals.
In such a desperate situation, a monstrous battle intent can still erupt.
This is no longer comparable to ordinary generals.
"It's a pity, why is he a Shu general, not a Wei general?"
The singing from the Shu army's position also alarmed Xu Huang in the Wei army's position.
Surrounded by his own soldiers, he quickly came to the front of the position, listened quietly for a while without saying a word, and also felt the meaning of the death battle from the song of the Shu army.
There are more than 2,000 people in the Shu army, and if they are united, they will definitely be able to burst out several times their combat power.
Haven't they given up yet?
was able to use morale to such an extent that Xu Huang had to be convinced.
Before, he always thought that Cao Jun was just a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, relying on his martial arts and brute strength, blindly moving forward bravely, and breaking through the tricks with strength.
Such a reckless man, even if he is lucky enough to win one or two battles, he will not let Xu Huang be moved.
Because sooner or later he will die on the battlefield.
As the saying goes, softness can't be kept, and rigidity can't last long.
Rigidity is easy to break.
Being able to advance and retreat, knowing honor and disgrace, and knowing how to lose is the way to be a leader in the long run.
And now, for the first time, Xu Huang looked at Cao Jun in his heart.
At the same time, a fluke arose.
Fortunately, there was no military order.
If you can't break through the Shu army's camp in one day and take off the head of the Cao army, won't you be implicated?
Although the Shu army was surrounded by regiments, the terrain of the canyon was relatively special, and due to the limited vacant flat land, it could only be attacked from both sides, and it may not be able to throw too many troops into it at one time.
This is where Xu Huang worries.
"Come on, quickly order the whole army to bury the pot and make rice, and after half an hour, launch an attack on the Shu army."
"No!"
The change of the Shu army made Xu Huang feel a little uneasy in his heart, which also urged him to speed up the pace and pace of the attack.
On the other side, Cao Jun also jumped down from the carriage, he handed over the drumsticks to his own soldiers for safekeeping, temporarily stopped singing and drumming, and all the Shu soldiers began to prepare in an orderly manner under Cao Jun's orders.
Cao Jun found that the Wei army did not take advantage of the first time after dawn to attack, and his heart moved, and asked all the Shu troops to move their positions to the side of the hillside.
With your back to the hillside, you have abandoned one side of the defense and only have to face the enemy head-on.
In this way, the lineup of the Shu army has also changed from an oval to a semicircle.
Invisibly, a part of the troops was saved.
There is also a hidden danger in this way.
If the Wei generals had been more patient and had occupied the hillside and ordered the soldiers to knock down the boulders from the hillside and roll down, the Shu army might have been wiped out.
It's just that at this moment, I can't care about so much.
After moving the position, Cao Jun ordered his soldiers to take out all the meat and ordered to bury the pot to make rice.
On this expedition, each soldier brought 15 days' rations and a little jerky, which was a treatment that only elite soldiers could have.
Due to the abundant supplies and military supplies, it also gave the Shu army hope to hold on in a desperate situation.
The short half hour that Xu Huang set aside could only allow the Shu army to set up simple fortifications after transferring their positions.
Extra shields and spears were still planted in front of the camp, forming a hedgehog camp.
Soon after, the drums of the Wei army launching an attack were also heard.
All the active Shu soldiers consciously discharged a seemingly indestructible lineup according to their positions, waiting for the arrival of the Wei army.
Cao Jun held a drumstick in his hand and stood on the carriage, his resolute gaze seemed to penetrate the heavy positions of the Wei army not far away.
"If Zhuge Liang's reinforcements arrive, they should rush in from here."
Somehow, an extravagant thought popped into his mind.
Then he licked his lips and banished the thought from his mind.
In the lineup of the Wei army, Xu Huang, surrounded by his own soldiers, also stood an arrow away from the position of the Shu army.
From here, you can almost see the 'gun forest' of the Shu army, which is composed of shields and spears.
Under that expressionless old face, a sense of urgency rose for the first time.
This time the Wei army also changed the offensive combination.
Due to the change in the position of the Shu army, the Wei army's two-way offensive lineup, one left and one right, consciously merged all the way.
At the head were still 500 cavalrymen.
They will launch a death squad-like charge.
If the formation of the Shu army can withstand the cavalry charge, it will be followed by a vast number of infantry.
The terrain of the canyon is long, and at most about 2,000 troops can be invested.
After Xu Huang studied it, he divided the attacking Wei army into several waves.
The first wave consisted of 500 cavalrymen, mainly charged, responsible for disrupting the Shu formation.
The second wave was 800 infantry, followed by cavalry, the main force of the storm.
The third wave was 800 infantry, followed by a fourth, a fifth......
A whole day.
Even if it is consumed with troops, it will consume the Shu army.
Of course, it would be best if the problem was solved in the first half of the day, so that Xu Huang would not be so embarrassed when facing Sima Zhao.
If it doesn't work for half a day, then it's a day.
The continuous Wei army continued to attack, giving full play to the advantages of sufficient soldiers and horses, and did not believe that the Shu army could hold out until the moment when the oil ran out.
"Attack!"
The drums of the Wei positions became more and more rapid.
Under the urging of the drums, the first wave of 500 Wei cavalry turned over and mounted their horses, and after wearing their weapons and armor neatly, they stood quietly to the side, waiting for Xu Huang's order.
With Xu Huang's order.
All the cavalry began to charge.
The distance of two miles, although it could not raise the speed of the cavalry to the fastest, was barely enough.
The faster the speed, the stronger the impact.
This is also the way to save the life of the Wei cavalry.
It's just that the Wei cavalry, who was ranked in the front row, didn't think so in his heart.
As the distance grew closer, the fear in their eyes grew, and the spears and shields that had been half-buried in the earth braved the cold light to form a small line-up of repulsors.
If you hit it directly, you will be disabled at least and die directly.
There is no chance of survival.
50 Steps...... 20 Steps......
Stimulated by fear, some of the Wei cavalry closed their eyes directly.
Since the military order cannot be violated.
Whether to live or die can only be left to heaven to choose.
In the position of the Shu army, the drum sounded again in the hands of Cao Jun.
Knock knock knock......
This time, he didn't need to speak, all the Shu soldiers sang along.
War!
Fight to the death!
Fight to the death!
The Shu soldiers at the forefront saw the Wei cavalry getting closer and closer through the gap outside the shield, and he was very frightened in the past, so he did not retreat at this moment, but instead pushed his whole body up and firmly pressed behind the shield.
This was followed by a hasty and brutal neighing of war horses.
Touch!
The cavalry at the head collided with the shield of the Shu army again.