In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and it is already dark at three quarters of the hour. Adjutant General Chen sent five waves of 50 cavalry to Qiaotou Town to deliver a message. At night, Zhao Yingqi's master and servant and Vice General Chen also led a thousand people and more than 40 carts to Santong Town, and this time Zhao Yingqi was not carrying a sack!

At this time, although the moon in the sky is not as round as before, the moonlight is still very bright, in fact, this kind of moon and starry night is not suitable for night marching, and it is easy to be captured. But time waits for no one, and it is necessary to complete all arrangements in Santong Town and give the Zhou army enough blows before the Zhou reinforcements arrive.

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Before dawn, the drums were already beating in the military tent in the Zhou army's barracks.

General Wang sat on the handsome case, next to Zhang Han and Huangfu Qin, that's right, Huangfu Qin found it, in the end, it was a second-class master, the Beihe River in the Qiaotou Town section was relatively gentle, and Huangfu Qin was washed more than 100 miles downstream. When he was found by the cavalry of the Zhou army, he fainted from the cold.

Next are the five lieutenants.

A military horse in red armor and black border walked into the tent.

"General Qiyu, the herald of the Shuo army has been recruited, the 25,000 reinforcements of the Shuo army will arrive in Qiaotou Town in three days, and the commander of the Shuo army will follow the advice of a hermit named Zhao Yingqi, and ask the Shuo army to monitor our army across the bank, as long as our army sends more than half of the troops to leave the village, 20,000 reinforcements will immediately attack our army camp."

"Is this news reliable, can the heralds of the Shuo army be deceived?" Huangfu Qin hurriedly asked, Huangfu Qin suffered a big loss from Zhao Yingqi in Qiaotou Town last time, and he was always worried about it.

"If General Hui Huangfu speaks, it is basically certain that the eight captives captured by our scouts from different teams are all the same rhetoric, and there is no difference."

"General Huangfu, what do you think?" Wang Lin was a little excited to see Huangfu Qin.

"Back to General Wang, this Zhao Yingqi is indeed very tricky, at that time in Qiaotou Town only a quarter of an hour, Zhao Yingqi arranged an ambush, and the martial arts are strong, the last general will fight with him, I faintly feel that he has touched the threshold of the head armor, full of oppression!"

Wang Lin was not very worried about this Zhao Yingqi, after all, they also have head armor masters here, Wang Lin was worried that Shuo reinforcements were about to arrive, thinking of this, he asked Zhang Han on the side:

"General Zhang, there is news in Chunuchi Dao, when will the 30,000 troops of the second prince arrive?"

"The day before yesterday, a herald came over, saying that His Majesty had approved the dispatch of 30,000 troops, with Marshal Li Dingjun as the chief commander and the second prince as the deputy marshal, and he would arrive at Chunnai Road in a few days."

"The day before yesterday? Didn't there come any news yesterday? Wang Lin thought of the grain transportation of the Shuo army in the past two days, and couldn't help but feel uneasy.

"There was no news yesterday, maybe I met a scout of the Shuo army on the road. Is General Wang worried about change? ”

"The general always feels that the fake grain transportation of the Shuo army in the past two days is not simple, and he has to bother General Zhang to send two teams of men and horses to Jiaxian and Santong Town to investigate, and he also needs to send more people to keep an eye on the direction of Qiaotou Town."

In fact, Wang Lin was not worried about the retreat problem, but he was worried that the Shuo army intercepted and killed the herald soldiers in order to cooperate with the reinforcements to fight a time difference, after all, Santong Town has loose soil and is not suitable for building a city, so Santong Town is just a town without any fortifications such as city walls, even if Santong Town is stuck at the northeast exit of Chunnei Road, his more than 10,000 cavalry can completely break through such a small town as Santong Town.

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In the grain transportation team, Zhao Yingqi rode a horse and talked with Zhao Tong next to him, and he was also happy, he had never ridden a horse in his previous life, and he felt quite fresh.

The sky is already bright, and the winter in the north is like this, the sun rises and sets quickly, although the sun is still cold on the face, but it seems to have a temperature on the ground. A few days ago, the snow on the ground had begun to melt slowly, revealing pieces of yellow earth, and the horse's hooves on the ground also made a sound of "popping towers", but fortunately, there were not many melts, and the carts in the grain transport team could barely maintain normal travel speed.

Scored three times, and was discovered by the Zhou army less than ten miles away from Santong Town, Zhao Tong asked Zhao Yingqi for orders to intercept this group of Zhou army scouts, but Zhao Yingqi still said that he didn't have to worry about him.

A team of ten scouts, no matter how Zhao Tong is, it is impossible for him to stop them all, and Zhao Yingqi was originally going to see Zhou Jun.

The scouts of the Zhou army saw that the Shuo army did not send troops to chase them, so they were far away less than two miles behind the Shuo army's food team, but only sent three scouts to respond to the report, and the remaining seven scouts rode slowly and followed for less than an hour, and then saw Santong Town.

By the time the convoy entered Santong Town, and the seven scouts saw Santong Town clearly, everyone was stupid.

A city wall nearly two zhang high was erected outside Santong Town, no, it was not a city wall, but an earthen wall! At this time, I saw that there were still Shuo soldiers digging trenches, while loading the excavated soil into sacks, and continuing to widen and raise the earthen walls.

Considering that Santong Town was the only way for the Zhou army to retreat, the scouts suddenly lost their souls, took a closer look at Santong Town, and immediately turned their horses around and returned to the camp to report.

"Sir, why don't you send troops to intercept them?" Zhao Tong was puzzled.

"Why do you want to intercept, originally I wanted them to see, now that the troops have been transferred to Santong Town, sending back a thousand cavalry to Jiaxian has not yet set off, Jiaxian only has two thousand defenders at this time, we are here to attract the attention of the Zhou army."

Wang Lin, who heard this, also frowned, it is not without such a precedent to build an earthen wall with sandbags, but they also have a way to crack it, whether it is to burn the outer sack with fire, or to use a grappling hook to pull the method of destroying the earthen wall, it has been used.

However, for the sake of safety, two battalions of 4,000 cavalry were still sent to observe, and if there was an opportunity, it would be better to annihilate a part of the Shuo army on the spot.

At noon, Zhao Yingqi from Santong Town had just sent a thousand cavalry back to Jiaxian, commanding the soldiers to strengthen the first earthen wall, and according to his plan, the second earthen wall would be built.

At this moment, the cavalry of the 4,000 Zhou Army rushed towards the northeast, and the soldiers on the lookout also sounded the gong of warning.

The Shuo soldiers who were digging trenches along the outer edge of the position ran into the earthen wall, and at the same time, the 2,000 soldiers inside the earthen wall quickly climbed the earthen wall, stretched out their bows and arrows, and prepared to meet the enemy.

And Zhao Yingqi and Zhao Tong were also dressed in light armor, and they were on the roof of a building closest to the front line in Santong Town behind the earthen wall, overlooking the entire battlefield.

The four thousand cavalry of the Zhou State were divided into two teams, respectively from the left and right sides of the charge diagonally in front of the earthen wall, the Shuo army dug a trench eight feet wide and one zhang outside twenty paces, the two teams of Zhou cavalry were obviously well-trained, when they were about to reach the trench, they stopped, just along the trench sideways, at the same time a large number of cavalry bows, short crossbows began to shoot at the earthen wall, and the archers on the earthen wall began to fire arrows when the cavalry reached one hundred and fifty paces. The two sides injured each other, and the two groups of cavalry left dozens of corpses and withdrew a mile and a half away, and from Zhao Yingqi's perspective, he saw that the Shuo army also had thirty or fifty people carried off the earthen wall.

"Alas, the cavalry of this Zhou army is really worthy of its reputation, if they choose to cross the trench, this time they can leave all their two battalions of cavalry." Zhao Yingqi is still very sorry.

"Why did you build this trench so close, sir? And wouldn't it be better to build it wider? Zhao Tong stood on the left side in front of Zhao Yingqi, ready to protect her husband.

"Eight feet is certainly not wide for the cavalry in the charge, but for the cavalry whose horse speed has not yet risen, it will be fatal."

In fact, Zhao Yingqi was not a trench built for the first earthen wall, because the distance between the twenty divisions was too close, and the Zhou army that rushed through the trench did not have to think that it would leave alive, and the Zhou army that did not rush through the trench could shoot arrows in even with a short crossbow.

The Zhou army, which was one and a half miles away, changed its formation again, and almost 500 cavalry still chose to insert diagonally from the right side in front of Haogou, while the other 2,000 cavalry were divided into two teams on the left and right one mile away, and the remaining 1,500 cavalry retreated to three miles away.

It's ready for an echelon attack!

The 500 cavalry first raised their shields and rushed to the edge of the trench, using the speed of the charge to throw the rope with the grappling hook into the earthen wall, and then fought hard to prepare to drag the earthen wall down, most of the grappling hooks were deeply rooted in the sacks, and some Shuo soldiers were hooked by the grappling hooks, and then dragged all the way to the excavation wall. When the five hundred cavalry ran out of a certain distance, the ropes were stretched straight, the earthen wall shook, some Shuo soldiers were stunned or catapulted down the earthen wall by the straight ropes, and some of the female walls on the earthen wall were dragged down, but the whole of the earthen wall was beyond everyone's expectations, and there was no large-scale collapse, only some of the places where the binding was not strong were pulled out a few bags of sandbags to cause a small gap.

Zhao Yingqi, who was standing on the roof behind, couldn't help but sneer, in his previous life, as a project manager, he had done some mining projects, like this explosion-proof chain lock sand wall, even the explosives of the mountain are limited, and they are often used to fight floods, just with your hundreds of horses want to collapse?

In fact, the real lock sand wall should be a sack filled with sand, and then fixed with a steel wire as a frame, connecting a bag with a bag, even the construction of military camps in the previous life was often used, but the various weapons and equipment in the previous life were more and more restrained from this artificially created geographical advantage, so there was not much use. However, if you want to think about 500 horses compared to the previous life, some fuel vehicles can reach this horsepower, even if the species of the Shen Twenty Earth are generally higher than the previous life, they can't drag this kind of sand wall that spans four or five miles, two zhang high and two zhang wide and connected with hemp rope, and Zhao Yingqi requires that every three zhang be hammered into a wedge in the sand wall, straight into the ground five feet, even if the soil of Santong Town is loose, but the pull is distributed to more than 200 wedges, it is difficult to shake.

At this time, many of the five hundred cavalry had been dragged down by themselves, some of the horses were erect with their front hooves, and some of the saddles were dragged off their horses along with the cavalry, and the scene was very chaotic.

Moreover, the ground in front of the trench had been trampled many times and the sun was shining, and the snow had already melted and the mud was so muddy that some horses slipped without even trying too hard.

A hundred more soldiers poured up on the earthen wall, and began to cut ropes, and the cavalry and horses freed from the earthen wall were about to hurry out of the chaotic battlefield with arrows flying, but were knocked down and trampled by the friendly forces rushing up from behind.

This is the lock sand wall that was often overlooked in the previous life because it could not function under mechanized warfare.