Chapter 94: The Ninth Day
The Qin army in the camp was divided into two groups, one followed to eliminate the archers, and the other remained near the camp gate to block the Zhao army. They just slashed and slashed very simply, and Zhao Jun couldn't get close. The Qin army behind him also arrived, and the Zhao army was confined to the narrow area in front of the camp gate, unable to advance or retreat, and was scarred.
In the midst of the crisis, reinforcements from the Zhao army arrived. Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the Qin army guarding in front of the camp quickly retreated and headed in the direction of the granary. The Qin army outside the door continued to attack the Zhao army, covering the retreat of his teammates. Since the archers of the Zhao army had retreated in the direction of the granary under the leadership of five hundred generals, the Qin army no longer had the threat of archers, and could rely on their superiority in weapons to entangle with the Zhao army, until the reinforcements of the Zhao army had appeared outside the camp wall, and then they gave the order and retreated.
Seeing the retreating Qin army outside the camp gate, the Zhao army rushed into the camp, opened the camp gate, and welcomed the reinforcements. But he didn't want an arrow to fall from the sky, and shot down more than a dozen people at once, scaring everyone to lie down immediately. The organic spirit man shouted, "He has taken the granary!" The people were startled, and as they were getting up, another arrow fell, and it was impossible to see the way in the night, but the direction from the granary was clear.
A thousand will sweat profusely: if the granary fails, all the following will be guilty; Moreover, the granary itself is also a fortress, with an arrow that shoots outward, which is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. But when the time came, he had no choice, so he ordered the shieldmen to come forward and hide the halberders behind them, while the others left them to lie still and retake the granary with only halberders: the spearmen and archers could not be used in the granary, and they would only die in vain.
Since it had to move on its knees, it took a while to form a formation. When they straightened up and prepared to charge towards the granary, someone shouted in horror: "The Qin people are the best! When everyone turned their heads to look, they saw that the black-pressed Qin army had already assaulted up, and it was only a hundred steps away from the camp gate. Those Qin troops who retreated slightly also rushed up again with long bamboo poles.
At this time, thousands of people will not dare to act rashly. It seems that the Qin army's attack has been prepared for a long time, wave after wave, and it is staggered; Even other aspects of the offense are playing as a cover for this offense. Without a special turnaround, the loss of the granary is irretrievable.
Having said that, he still had a heartbreak and ordered: "Get up! "Fat!" Although the arrows flying above his head shot down a lot, Zhao Jun still shot blocking arrows.
At this time, the Qin army holding the long rod had approached the camp fence. A thousand men will order the spearmen out of the camp to meet the battle.
The spearmen and the bamboo pole changge have their own merits, one is light and agile, the other is lethal, if the wound is exchanged for the wound, the spearman will definitely take advantage; But if you fight, instead of hitting hard, and the spear is heavier, it will be a loss. The Qin army did not resist the Zhao army, but fought and retreated, entangled, and led the Zhao army's spearmen away.
The archers continued to fire at the barn at the barn, and the assault group of shieldmen and halberdiers was forced to stop in the camp and stay put. Suddenly, arrows came from all sides, with such precision that almost every arrow hit a soldier. In just one shot, he shot down most of the archers, and he also carried a lot of shield soldiers and halberd soldiers. The archers, who were already frightened by the arrows on the granary, were suddenly struck again, and immediately collapsed, screaming and falling to the ground, clutching their heads in fear.
The second arrow entered through the gap between the shields, knocking down the halberdiers behind them. The Qin army, who was blocked a hundred steps away, shouted and rushed forward. This battalion of the Qin army is obviously different from the first battalion, with shields, spears, and halberds, and it looks like it is a murderer. Thousands of people will desperately order the remnants to come forward, but no one has listened to him, everyone scattered, scattered and fled, becoming the target of two bows and arrows up and down, abandoned in the center of the camp of the thousand generals and his five hundred generals, hundreds of generals and dozens of other people, formed a formation, ready to fight to the death. The spearmen who rushed up slammed their spears into their shields, and only a few times missed the shields, and the spears pierced, picking out the people behind them and throwing them to the ground. The formation of the group collapsed. The last dozens of people still fought to the death, exchanged injuries for injuries, and knocked down dozens of Qin soldiers in a row, but finally fell down due to their injuries. The spearmen of the Zhao army, who were attracted by the Qin army, saw that the camp was lost, and they were all slightly injured, although it was not fatal, it was also a hot pain, and they had no intention of fighting, threw down their spears, and ran down the mountain. The Qin army did not chase either.
The fires at the barracks and lookout posts burned for a while before they went out of their own accord. But the flames at such a high place could be seen by almost all Zhao Ying. At the same time that Zhao Kuo saw the flames, the military envoys sent by the 10,000 generals also arrived, reporting that the Qin army was attacking the grain mountain in a big way, and the 1,000 generals had already gone to the rescue with another battalion, and he would lead the troops to the rescue. Zhao Kuo ordered the military envoy to tell the 10,000 generals that the life of the whole army in the granary must be recaptured! The envoy said yes and left.
Zhao Kuo looked painfully at the fire on the grain mountain, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and then gradually extinguished; Hearing a shout on the grain mountain, he returned to calm. He wanted to do something, but he couldn't. In the place of Liangshan, the strength of 10,000 generals is sufficient, and there is no need to send reinforcements at all. The army guarding the grain mountain is the most reliable army of all the troops; The combat effectiveness has always remained intact, and Zhao Kuo has never drawn his army in the early battles, nor has he allowed them to participate in other combat operations. But......
He called one of his vassals and told him to go to the ten thousand men guarding the granary to supervise the battle.
At this time, the rooster crows for the second time.
Suddenly the sky darkened, and the stars in the sky lost their light. Zhao Kuo secretly said in his heart: "Good opportunity! Sure enough, I heard shouts, drums, clashing weapons, wailings, and cursing from the mountains ahead...... Because it was too dark, Zhao Kuo didn't know what was going on over there, but it was obviously a big battle. Then the bowstring rang out, and the wailing took the place of the others......
Then the shouts resumed.
The 10,000 people guarding the granary will be in this job since Lian Po was the main general. The soldiers under him changed one stubble after another, and he was always in this position.
As soon as Lian Po arrived in Changping, when the first line of defense in the south was constructed, the excavation and ramming of the granary began at the same time. The granary is a huge pit, twenty or thirty steps in length and width, as deep as two people high, piled up from bottom to top, and can hold nearly a million stones of millet (one stone was about twenty liters during the Warring States period). A total of five such granaries were built, a hundred steps apart. According to Lian Po's instructions, the outer wall of the granary was rammed with rammed earth, and a sentry tower was built on it, which could accommodate thirty or forty people at most, and thousands of arrows were piled up. In case of emergency, relying on these people alone is enough to support a short period of time. But after all, this is a granary, not a fortress, and there is no one on duty upstairs in normal times, and if you want to go upstairs to fight, you must get orders. This gave the Qin army the opportunity to raid, followed the archers upstairs, and captured the granary.
After receiving the report of the Qin army's attack, 10,000 people will not only report to Zhao Kuo, but also immediately set up their battalions and prepare for battle. From the mouth of the rout, it was learned that the granary had been lost, that a thousand people would be killed in battle, and that ten thousand people would be like ashes, and quickly put two battalions into battle.
The two battalions were sleepy-eyed, grinding and grinding, and they couldn't stand in line for half a day. forced 10,000 people to personally go to the battalion to supervise the battle, and then drove the two battalions to the battlefield. In the darkness, they encountered an ambush by the Qin army, fought for a while, and unconsciously entered the range of the Qin army's bow and arrows, and were shot by a burst of arrows that made people turn their horses on their backs and had to retreat.
Seeing the failure of the first attack, the 10,000 men would immediately throw the two battalions of the second wave into battle without waiting for the previous formation to completely retreat.
In the darkness, both battalions were not lined up, the formation was loose, and as soon as they saw the camp fence, they were fired back by a burst of arrows. The Qin army's archery was accurate, while the Zhao army's formation was not in order, and as they went back and forth, nearly a hundred people were shot down in the first wave of arrows, and the rest of the people had no fighting spirit at all and retreated. He was chased by Qin Jun's shouts for a while.
It took a lot of effort to put the two battalions of the third formation in order and move them to the battlefield, and by the time they were in formation, the sky had already begun to light up, and the rooster crowed for the third time.
As visibility increased, the power of the Qin army's bows and arrows became more and more exerted, and they could inflict serious damage on the Zhao army almost from a hundred paces away, and the Zhao army could not reach within fifty steps, so it lost more than half of it, and had to retreat again. 10,000 men will have to redeploy their forces to fight.
After Bai Qi sent everyone away, he personally went to the Qin army in Dongling, selected a battalion with strong combat effectiveness, and transferred it to the back hillside for combat training, and did not let them rest until nightfall. At this time, the Qin army everywhere began to attack. Bai Qi slept with the soldiers in the camp, and his hundred retinues were scattered around to rest. The officers and doctors of this battalion, doctors at all levels, and even some of the commanders of the Shiwu were all selected from Bai Qi's pro-battalion, and when they saw Bai Qi like this, they all worked hard.
When the sound of fighting everywhere gradually stopped, Bai Qi called the doctors, once again explained to them the precautions when attacking, gave full play to the advantages of the Chu people's scattered formation, and approached the Zhao army camp fence with the help of the cover of darkness. After breaking through, do not fight with the enemy, but quickly grab the granary, and then shoot arrows down from above to control the whole situation. Under the auspices of the official doctors, several doctors assigned their own tasks and performed their own duties. Seeing that the plan had been implemented, Bai Qi was very satisfied, and took his entourage to the back swordsman camp. Not long after, Bai Qi actually brought a thousand swordsmen, and Sima Jin also came. Bai Qi waited until the rooster crowed, and ordered the Nanjun soldiers to start moving.
Sure enough, under the cover of darkness in the night, the blocking fire of the Zhao army did not cause much casualties, and the Qin army broke into the Zhao camp as planned and successfully captured the granary. At this time, a thousand swordsmen had already divided into two groups and covertly approached the grain mountain. Hearing the sound of shouting and killing on the mountain, indicating that the reinforcements of the Zhao army had arrived, Bai Qi waved his hand and let the swordsman start to advance.
The advance of the swordsmen was fast and quiet, the archers quickly found their firing positions, and the other swordsmen quickly rushed forward. By the time Zhao Jun spotted them, the Qin Army archers had already begun to shoot at them.