In the next three days, the momentum of the Northern Army's attack on the fortress became more and more ferocious.

On the first day, Zhao Rui led the death squad to rush in the east of Qishan, the shield soldiers and crossbowmen pressed forward desperately, and the Lu army threw the prepared rolling stones and sassal trees one after another, and constantly killed and retreated the Northern Army, in this battle, the Northern Army lost more than 800 people, more than any previous day.

The next day, Zhao Rui led people to attack the eastern mountain early in the morning, compared to the first day, the offensive on the second day was not weakened, but the rolling stones, the wood has been used for the most part, in addition to desperately pouring down with the rain of arrows, the soldiers also had to fight hand-to-hand, and even Gao Shun was involved, and finally the battle ended with more than 600 people killed by Yuan's army.

It wasn't until the third day that the edge of the Northern Army finally showed a hint of decay, and the shield soldiers did not dare to rush forward, advancing very slowly, more often just to gain a distance of an arrow for their crossbowmen, forming a situation of counter-shooting.

But after all, it was an upward shot against a downward shot, and it was the Northern Army that suffered a loss.

Seeing the Northern Army retreating, the officers and men of the Lu Army were relieved, and many people chose to lie down directly on the spot and gasp for breath, looking like the sky had fallen as a quilt cover.

Gao Shun, who has always paid attention to the appearance of the army, just walked past them, helped the wounded sergeant to the stockade to bandage, and did not say a word from beginning to end.

He knew that three consecutive days of fighting, high-intensity defense and high mental tension were a very severe test for any team, and it would not be easy to persevere, and the requirements should not be too high.

Even if the elite is like a camp, there will be follow-up weakness at this intensity, let alone ordinary parts.

"This level of attack, a few more times, I'm afraid that Qi Shan will fall." Looking at the battalion full of wounded soldiers, Zhao Yun's attitude was not optimistic.

From the first few days of attempted attack to the three-day desperate charge, the Qishan military village lost more than 200 people and wounded more than 400 soldiers.

Compared with the number of casualties of the Yuan army, this ratio is of course extremely high, and the problem is that there are only 5,000 troops in the Qishan military village, and there is no way to rotate, and the military strength will be in danger after a long time.

After all, the opponent has divided more than a dozen groups of people to attack, but if you only have this battalion of people to defend from beginning to end, you will definitely be tired in terms of endurance.

"One blow, then decline, three exhaustion."

Gao Shun, who was paralyzed in the face, took a deep breath and said slowly: "The attack in the past few days is obviously a death squad formed, but even Yuan Jun cannot maintain such an attack continuously. ”

Zhao Yun nodded and agreed: "Now, they have a little rest, and they think that in a few days, they will start the second round of death squad impact, as long as they survive this second round, Yuan Junjun's heart will be frustrated, and he will definitely be able to sigh at Guan Xing." ”

At this point, the two are of the same opinion, in other words, the next second round of attacks is the biggest challenge, and if you get through it, Qishan Dazhai will be as stable as Mount Tai.

But this is also the most difficult, because without rolling stones and sassal wood, it is too difficult to repel the outlaws carrying shields with arrows alone, so that on the second day of the death charge, Gao Shun needs to participate in the battle in person.

In order to unite the hearts of the army, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun could only patrol the barracks over and over again, which was to tell the soldiers that the Lord would be with you.

It works, but it's not particularly big.

"Report, there is a situation!"

Chen Zhao from the wolf rider in Bingzhou ran over, "The brothers who are patrolling the mountain in the north have discovered the grain transportation team, and they can reach Yuan Jun Dazhai by bypassing the mountains in front of them and entering more than ten miles!" ”

"Let's go, let's see!"

Gao Shun took the lead, and Zhao Yun looked at Chen Zhao, "Go and invite Mr. Jia!" ”

"Whoa!"

The two of them quickly ran to the north hill, Qi Mountain is not low, standing in this position can overlook the entire battlefield, plus the bright moonlight on the night of the full moon, the visibility is extremely high, although it is not as clear as the number of people on the other side in the daytime, but the basic situation can also make a rough judgment.

The grain transport team in the distance visually inspected no less than 100 grain carts, and there were cavalry in the grain protection team, but they could not judge the number.

"In the continuous strong attack, the consumption of grain and grass in the Yuan army must be very large, and this is the support that has just been transported from the grain and grass battalion in the rear." Gao Shun looked at the mountain and muttered an analysis.

"If I don't lead someone to burn this grain and grass, as long as this batch of grain and grass is destroyed, they will be able to rest and recuperate while they wait for the second batch of grain and grass, and the momentum of the Northern Army will also be stagnant."

At the end, Zhao Yun added: "These days, the Northern Army is attacking from the east mountain, and I will come down from the west in a while, so there should be no ambush."

It's a little farther away, but the speed of the wolf riding in the state can definitely arrive before they return to camp! ”

Gao Shun didn't express his position immediately, but his heart was already shaken, there were at least tens of thousands of stones under the mountain, although the destruction of these grains and grass would not form a fatal blow to the rich Northern Army, but it would definitely be as Zhao Yun said, slowing down their troops, and also winning time for the brothers in the military village to recuperate.

Jia Xu, who came in a hurry, looked at it, twisted his beard and muttered.

The wealth of the Northern Army is famous, and it has only been a few days since the war began, and even if tens of thousands of people eat three meals a day, it is impossible to eat up the accompanying grain and grass, obviously trying to earn us to go out of the camp and go down the mountain.

Encircle and send reinforcements to attract our people with food and grass, and then ambush them?

This may be there, but such a big move can't be just to earn one or two thousand people, and the ultimate goal should be Qishan, so as soon as the people in the military village go out, they should soon attack the mountain?

However, they must need some kind of signal to communicate with each other to determine whether the army has left the village or not.

How do you contact them?

Moreover, there should be another layer, after attacking the mountain, it may be to attract Wen Hou's troops to come to the rescue, and Yuan Jun will ambush again.

In this way, there is a triple strategy here, so the strong attacks of the death squad in the past few days are all for this moment, and the stroke is not small.

After a brief combing of Jia Xu, he was a little panicked, tonight must be a general attack, not only to retreat from the enemy, but also to think of informing Wen Hou, it is difficult to explain either of the two things, but let's think about how to retreat from the enemy first, life matters.

"How about Mr. Jia, did you let Zilong burn this batch of grain and grass?" Seeing that the grain cart was moving slowly, the time had been delayed for a long time, and it was too late to act, Gao Shun couldn't help but remind.

Jia Xu's body trembled, and suddenly there were some clues that could not be fully figured out and figured out.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed with a touch of brilliance, so hot, killing three birds with one stone.

can survive again, retreat from the enemy, and notify Wen Hou, Wen Hou may not know, but Yun Wen who is, as soon as he sees the fire, he must understand the meaning.

"Okay, okay, that's it." Jia Xu nodded frequently.

"Then it's hard work."

As soon as Gao Shun finished speaking, Zhao Yun hadn't taken action yet, so Jia Xu said: "There is no need to let Zilong go for this kind of trivial matter, just let Yitun Chang take thirty people down the mountain." ”

"Thirty or thirty?" Zhao Yun suspected that he had heard it wrong, scratched his head and looked at Jia Xu blankly, did you see clearly, how could there be no less than 2,000 people in the food protection team, and 30 people went over to give people some military merits?

"Thirty people is enough, and it's useless to have more."

Jia Xu made a gesture of please, motioning for the two to go back, "Time is pressing, as I expected, the Northern Army should be about to attack the village, we must prepare quickly." ”

The two of them looked confused, what, aren't we discussing going to the mountain to burn grain and then relieve the pressure of the cottage, you came over and took a look, and said that the Northern Army was going to attack the mountain, is it really fake?

Confused, the two hurriedly followed and asked what was going on.

At the foot of the mountain, Yuan's army dispatched a large number of elites tonight, and 20,000 people gathered at the foot of the mountain, ready to go, just waiting for the signal to take action.

Wen Chou took the first camp and the halberd warriors, and ambushed Lu Bu on the way to the rescue, as long as the other side dared to come, don't look at only more than a thousand people, it is absolutely unambiguous to collect thousands of people from him.

Even Han Ju brought a battalion of men and horses to ambush on the other side of Qi Mountain, and after the surprise attack troops on the mountain came out to attack and burn those grain carts, they rushed out and killed this group of people.

Han Ju was not worried that the other party would burn those grain trucks, anyway, there was no grain and grass on them at all, it was just bait under Xin Ping, and even if necessary, they were exterminating this army, and they would all set fire to the grain carts, because the 20,000 army led by Zhao Rui was still waiting for this signal to act.

Such an arrangement, Yuan Tan is full of confidence, in Xinbi's plan, three consecutive days of attacking the village, the Lu army on the Qi Mountain has been exhausted to the extreme, at this time the grain cart appeared, in order to relieve the pressure of the cottage, they will definitely risk going down the mountain, how can the cavalry who boast of coming and going like the wind be afraid of the Northern Army?

However, in order to maintain the flexibility of the cavalry, they definitely did not dare to rob the grain and grass, but chose to set fire, which was precisely a signal to Zhao Rui to attack the mountain.

As soon as the fire was in place, Han Ju would rush out with 5,000 people, and all the people he brought over this time were all horsemen in the Northern Army, plus the ambush in the mountain pass, Zhao Yun would definitely not be able to escape.

At the same time, Zhao Rui turned on the strong attack mode, and the cottage that had run out of wood and rolling stones was difficult to hold out until dawn, but in order to prevent Lu Bu from suddenly sending reinforcements when the army was attacking the mountain, Wen Chou led the most elite first battalion and euphorbia to defend the mountain pass.

Even Tian Feng didn't have any big flaws in this plan, but he uneasily persuaded him a few times that it was too risky to use troops like this, but Yuan Tan didn't agree, it was seamless.

In this wave of operations, the most important gain is to take Qishan, and the best result is to take Qishan and hit Lu Bu at the same time, so that the army can immediately press the border and break the Chinese army in one go.

At that time, Lu Bu was already in a state of collapse, and it didn't matter whether he was chasing or not, he went directly around Taishan County and pushed all the way, and Cao Cao's rear was in chaos, and the battlefield on the Western Front would immediately collapse.

In this world, let's let him go, does Yuan Shang dare to sit?

Rest, beauty.

can't think about it, thinking about it can make Yuan Tan laugh out of the library.

Under the moonlight, thirty people came down from the west under the leadership of the tun chief, rode fast horses and galloped all the way, and immediately let the soldiers move after coming to the mountain where the grain cart had just passed.

They quickly hugged the fallen leaves of the forest into piles, formed dozens of bonfires, and immediately lit them with flints.

Soon, dozens of burning bonfires lit up half of the sky in the middle of the night.

Han Ju was a little confused, what's the matter, hasn't the grain truck already passed the mountain pass, why is it only catching fire now? "Quick, send someone over and see what's going on over there!"

"Whoa!"

When Han Ju looked confused, Zhao Rui didn't think so, he felt that this was a signal, pulled out the sword at his waist, turned around and shouted at the Northern Army:

"Brothers, half of the Lu army on the mountain has been transferred, and now there are only 2,000 people left, and our opportunity to make meritorious service has come! The son gave a reward of 100 gold to the first climber, and the one who attacked the cottage was named the captain! ”

Good fellows, after this shout of appreciation, the soldiers raised their shields, crossbows, and ring-headed swords in their hands, and shouted to charge.

This is 20,000 people, a mountain can not even be squeezed down, the west side is full of rocks, the south side of the cliff is dangerous, 20,000 people according to the advance arrangement from the east and north two directions to attack the mountain.

After Zhao Rui gave the order, he directly took the lead on foot, followed by a large group of people behind him, and quietly climbed up.

When Yuan Jun could be seen, the distance between the two sides was only a stone's throw away.

On the mountain, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun were afraid for a while, oh my God, fortunately Wen Hou sent Jia Xu over, otherwise there would be a big incident tonight.

When the fire burned under the mountain, they immediately attacked the mountain, and when they heard the movement, they knew that it was inevitable to take the mountain tonight.

It didn't take long for a rain of arrows to pour down on the mountain.

But Zhao Rui was extremely excited, and laughed: "Brothers, the enemy army is not numerous, rush forward and receive the reward!" ”

Zhao Rui is not a wine bag and rice bag, on the contrary, he has fought some tough battles with Wen Chou, and he can judge how many people are on the mountain from the density of the arrow rain.

According to the previous round of arrow rain, it was said that twenty or thirty shield soldiers would fall, but this time, only ten or eight rolled down, and the strength of the army can be imagined.

In less than a moment, the defending sergeants standing on the hill didn't even have time to release the third round of arrows, and the shield soldiers of the Northern Army had already pressed up.

This is still under the condition that they are ready to defend, if they are taken by surprise, they will only be afraid that they have already killed the mountain.

"Tung oil!" Zhao Yun gave an order, and the tung oil jars that had been built in advance beside the soldiers were thrown down one by one.

I could only hear the sound of ping-pong clattering terracotta tiles, and hundreds of tung oil jars had already been cast.

Immediately, on the mountain, in a ditch that had been dug, Zhao Yun threw the torch into it, and the flames in the ravine spread rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the crossbowmen took the arrow downward, and the arrow tied to the velvet burned.

Hundreds of rockets poured down, and after a short silence, there was a hula and hundreds of fire dragons sprang up in hundreds of places throughout the hill.

"Ah~ Run! It's on fire, it's on fire, run! On the hill, heart-rending shouts came and went.

Autumn is already flammable plants and trees, and with the blessing of hundreds of tung oil jars, coupled with the howling of the evening wind, the spread of the fire can be imagined.

It was only a moment of effort, and even Zhao Rui didn't have time to shout the order to withdraw the troops, and the entire Qishan Mountain had already burned into a large brazier, expelling the darkness of the night, shining like day.

The mountain road is not as good as the plains, you can run around, there are just a few roads in total, and the big guys instinctively want to escape quickly, and there will inevitably be pushing, but it causes congestion and stampede.

Seeing the fire rushing like a fierce beast, the anxious Northern Army even chose to jump in a hurry, maybe it could save a small life.

The screams and wails mingled with the crackling of grease and made the scalp tingle.

The Lu army on the top of the mountain was also forced to retreat into the village by this rushing heat, but fortunately, the fire belt had already been made here before, and the distance of dozens of zhang was isolated, and the fire could not burn.

But the Yuan army under the mountain was not so lucky, especially the Yuan army on the mountainside, it was visible to the naked eye that they were burned into flames and screamed, the sound seemed to be a cry from hell, and even Wen Chou, who had countless souls under his hands, couldn't help crying when he heard it.

Many people are running down from the mountain, and it would be good to be able to save their lives, who can take care of the military posture and military appearance.

(End of chapter)