Chapter 125 also has a small pocket

Early the next morning, Liu Hou urged the soldiers, who had slept for half the night, to set off immediately and continue south. In order to save time, we didn't even cook breakfast, everyone nibbled on some dry food, hastily solved the stomach problem and set off in a hurry.

The army marched until noon and entered the Jingshan range, Liu Hou looked up, wow! It's a majestic mountain, and when I went north before, I was full of ambition, thinking about how to conquer the Central Plains, and I didn't pay much attention to this Jing Mountain.

Now he is like a frightened bird, looking at everything with a vigilant heart, this look is not tight, and he is taken aback, this kind of terrain is the most conducive to ambushes, it is an excellent place for ambushes, and he must not be vigilant.

Jingshan Mountain is located in the southeast of Wudang Mountain and the west bank of the Hanjiang River, in a north-west-south-east direction. The large fault of Qingfeng Town, Shifang County in the north, and the Jingmen-Dangyang line in the south, is about 150 kilometers long; It is about 20~30 kilometers wide to the west of Yuan'an Fushui Graben and east to Jingmen-Nanzhang line. It covers an area of about 3,100 square kilometers. Because of the ancient mountains full of growth of wattles (shrubs), hence the name.

In terms of landform, the northwest has high mountains and deep valleys, towering and steep, and ravines vertical and horizontal; The southeast mountain valley is shallow, with a slight slope and a slight openness. The mountains are mostly long and narrow, and the summits are roughly the same height. Its height is slightly reduced from northwest to southeast, the altitude is generally 1200~1800 meters, the main peak is 1852 meters of Julong Mountain, and the highest point is 1946 meters of Buddha Mountain. The tributaries of the Yangtze River, the Fu and Zhanghe rivers, originate from Shannan, and the Manhe River, a tributary of the Han River, originate from Shanbei.

Such a large mountain, even hundreds of thousands of troops can hide, and the mountain peak is too high for the hot air balloon to fly over to reconnoitre. The area is too large and the trees are too luxuriant, which greatly weakens the aerial reconnaissance role of the hot air balloon, and it is necessary to march in this place.

Liu Hou immediately ordered to strengthen the reconnaissance in the front direction to avoid being ambushed, and asked E Huan to lead his headquarters to go forward ten miles as the pioneer of the road, so that even if there was an enemy ambush, it would only ambush E Huan's vanguard troops.

Sure enough, when E Huan's troops came to a narrow terrain with a river on the left and a high mountain on the right, they found that the road ahead was cut off, and the Wei army built a low wall on the road with mud and stones, completely blocking the road ahead.

There was also a trench dug in front of the low wall, and a horse rebuff was placed, and countless Wei troops stretched out their bows and arrows, fire # guns behind this low wall, and waited for the arrival of the Shu army.

Not only that, but the hot air balloon found that there was an ambush on the other side of the river on the left, and a man on the mountain on the right. The Wei army behind the low wall in front and the men and horses in ambush on both sides totaled 50,000, and they formed a pocket-like encirclement.

"I'm you Sima Yi, I even made a small pocket here for the little master to drill, it's really poisonous enough." After Liu Hou received the news, he couldn't help but burst into foul language again.

Liu Hou also felt cold, there are 50,000 people here, so to speak, this time Sima Yi mobilized at least 300,000 troops to encircle and suppress himself, and set up an ambush on ten sides on the road from Xiangyang to Jingshan.

Even if they saw the opportunity so early and slipped away so fast, they still haven't escaped from Sima Yi's encirclement, and they haven't completely escaped from danger. Seeing that he could escape from the big pocket under Sima Yibu, who knew that he would encounter a small pocket in front.

These people who were ambushed in front should have been hiding in the vast Jing Mountain before, and escaped the reconnaissance of the Shu army through the dense forest. After the Shu army went north, they came out according to the plan, chose favorable terrain, built defensive positions, and completely blocked the Shu army's return route.

"From this point of view, it is clear that Sima Yi's overall plan is to use this 300,000-strong army to trap our army in the area from Jingshan to Xiangyang, so that we will run out of ammunition and food." Guo Youzhi said in Liu Hou's ear.

"What a Sima Yi, it really deserves his reputation, it seems that he didn't want to fight us head-on, but wanted to trap us." Liu Hou sighed.

"That's why they wanted to clear the wilderness, and the few troops that had been detected before did not approach our army too much, but chose favorable terrain to build fortifications. They're building a huge pocket, trying to trap us in it. Bu Qi also came up and added.

"Hmph, do they think they can trap us just like that? It's naïve. Liu Hou said disdainfully.

"If it is a cold weapon unit, we will die, fortunately we are a firearms unit with a strength that exceeds the cold weapon force countless times, but we don't have to be afraid of them, but a little loss is certain." Guo Youzhi.

"Pass the order, let E Huan attack the Wei army fortifications in front first, and let Guan Xing guard the enemy troops on the other side of the river on the left, if they find any abnormal movements, they will be killed. Let Zhang Bao alert the enemy on the mountain on the right, and at the same time transfer five hot air balloons to bombard the enemy on the mountain and force them to leave the mountain wall. ”

Liu Hou issued several orders in succession, and the Shu army rumbled like a sophisticated machine. The enemy forces on the other side of the river could not pose a threat to this side for the time being, and it was enough for Guan Xing's 2nd Brigade to alert them, and if they dared to cross the river, the fire # gun was the best weapon for half-crossing.

On the contrary, the enemy on the mountain is very threatening, and they can shoot arrows from the mountain and throw wooden rolling stones to kill and injure the Shu army under the mountain. Huang Xu's previous "Huilong Locking Water" in Zigui Leping used this method to annihilate Liu Feng's entire army.

The terrain here is very similar to the terrain of Huilong Suoshui, the difference is that the terrain here is relatively large and open, and the open space between the river on the left and the mountains on the right is much wider than that of "Huilong Suoshui". If the Wei army threw the rocks on the mountain, the Shu army could go to the side near the river to avoid them.

Of course, the range of arrows is long, if the Wei army shoots arrows down from the mountain, the Shu army will not be able to avoid them, and these arrows will fly longer because they are thrown down at a high place, and the range will be correspondingly farther.

Ehuan's vanguard had already suffered from the rain of arrows from the Wei army on the mountain, but Ehuan's troops were all vine armor soldiers who could ignore the attacks of arrows. Therefore, the rain of arrows of the Wei army did not play any other role than to expose their whereabouts.

However, if the firearms passed through this place, the arrows fired from the mountain would pose a great threat to them, so Liu Hou wanted to use the hot air balloon to drive them down the mountain.

Soon, the sound of "boom" and "crackling" came, Liu Hou looked up and saw that his hot air balloon unit had not yet arrived at the bombing site and had not yet started bombing, so where did the sound of these firearms come from?

It didn't take long for a herald to run over out of breath and report to Liu Hou on the situation at the front. It turned out that Ehuan's troops were strongly blocked by the Wei army in front, and Ehuan's vine armor soldiers suffered a lot of losses, but they were unable to rush to the enemy's position. The only thing that can make the invulnerable rattan armor soldiers deflated is the firearms unit.

There are no less than 500 fire# guns in the Wei army, and the rattan armor can protect against swords and arrows, but it can't resist the blows of fire# guns. In addition, the Wei army also had thunderbolts, once the vine armor soldiers rushed to the Wei army's defense line closer, countless thunderbolts would be thrown out from behind the low wall, and the vine armor soldiers would be blown up.

Liu Hou had no choice but to order E Huan to stop the attack and withdraw from the front line. Later, as soon as the men and horses were counted, Liu Hou's flesh hurt again, and in such a short period of charge, the vine armor soldiers had already lost three or four hundred people.

"Dispatch three hot air balloons to bombard the Wei army behind the low wall." Liu Hou ordered fiercely. Because there is still a need to leave a warning purpose, it is not possible to transfer all the hot air balloons to carry out bombing missions, so only three can be transferred to use them first.

Soon, a "boom" explosion sounded on the hill on the right and behind the low wall in front of it, and black smoke suddenly spread in these two places. When the smoke was too thick, the pilots on the hot air balloon had to temporarily stop bombing, because the black smoke affected their field of vision. At this time, they can only wait for the smoke to clear, and then look for ground targets to bomb again.

The bombardment effect on the hill on the right side was very poor, except for the fact that the Wei army gathered more concentrated at the beginning and was killed a lot, and the later income was very little. After being bombed by hot air balloons, the Wei troops on these mountains learned to disperse and hide from the bombardment.

Because the mountain is very large, the personnel can be very dispersed, so often a thunderbolt can only kill one or two people, which is very uneconomical.

Moreover, as soon as they saw the hot air balloon floating over, they moved places one after another, and it was very difficult to bomb the active target, so there was often a scene where a hot air balloon chased a certain Wei soldier and flew for a long time without finding a chance to throw a thunderbolt.

After all, the Shu army only had five hot air balloons to participate in this bombing activity, so at this time, this bombing operation can basically be said to have failed. Fortunately, however, there were many sharpshooters, or snipers, in Zhang Bao's troops, who aimed at the Wei soldiers who had exposed their bodies on the mountain, and shot their heads one by one, which also made the Wei troops on the mountain tremble.

On the contrary, the bombing effect of the Wei army behind the low wall was good, because they were afraid that the Shu army would take the opportunity to attack, so there were soldiers behind the low wall who needed to be ready at all times, and these people were equivalent to fixed targets.

The thunderbolts dropped by the hot air balloon were shot one by one, and a large explode was exploded. As a result, the losses of the Wei army were also larger. Later, when Guo Huai, the general of the army, saw that the smoke on the ground was too thick, the hot air balloon stopped bombing, and waited for the smoke to dissipate before continuing.

His method was very simple, that is, let the soldiers pick up a lot of damp branches and leaves, and when they ignited them, they would produce a lot of smoke, and when these smoke covered the sky, they could block the view of the pilots in the hot air balloon, so that they could not bomb accurately.

Seeing that the Wei army had come up with such a simple but effective way to stop the air raid, Liu Hou was very curious about the person who came up with this strategy. The wisdom of the ancients really can't be underestimated, Rao is own weapons are more than 1,000 years advanced in this era, Rao is his own can fly away, and people can easily break it in such a simple way.

Liu Hou felt like a master with profound internal skills, when he met a person who had no internal strength but was proficient in Dugu Nine Swords, he could slap the other party to death with one palm, but he was casually pointed at the sword here and there, and he broke his sharp attack, this feeling is not only aggrieved but aggrieved.

"Okay, okay, if you want to play, I'll have enough fun with you!" Liu Hou gritted his teeth and said.