Chapter 18: The Strategy of Exhausting the Enemy
But the lords' interest is getting higher and higher.
The Qin army has been retreating, and there is no ambush or anything.
What does that mean? It shows that the other party is afraid.
There are still seventy or eighty thousand horses on his side, and they still have an overwhelming advantage in the face of the Qin army, so it is normal for them to escape, which is understandable.
So now, the coalition soldiers have become completely numb to the inappropriate Yin Damage moves of the other side while pursuing.
This is what Li Feng wanted, and he was already waiting for Liu Bang and the others to arrive in front of the last and strongest camp.
"Your Majesty, you can count on it, you have been retreating, and the soldiers are already dissatisfied with this state." When Su Du saw Li Feng, he suddenly felt that a big stone fell to the ground in his heart.
"I'm afraid your kid is also dissatisfied."
Su Du was a little weak-hearted, and laughed twice: "How dare the last general!" ”
"Hmph, it's good if you don't dare. Tell your men that this time there will be no retreat, we will be ruthless. Li Feng walked to the map: "Come and see, our camp is in this location, and where will Liu Bang and the others camp?" ”
"Here." Sudu pointed to a point in front of the camp.
"Yes, they still have an army of nearly 100,000 people, and they are short of people and horses, only here is a water source and a place to provide them with 100,000 troops to camp in."
"But you see, the mountains and forests here are dense, and there are many fallen leaves and dry firewood, which is simply a natural fire storehouse."
"I've got you more than 10,000 of those fiery oil canisters, and I've brought over 1,000 trebuchets overnight, and then you know what to do. The next trick is called: I will fight when the enemy is tired. ”
"You know, the whole woodland will be a sea of fire."
Li Feng smiled and patted Su Du's shoulder: "Don't disturb them tonight, let them sleep well." ”
As Li Feng expected, the Three Kingdoms Alliance came to the sixteenth camp.
Because the soldiers were exhausted by this time by removing nails and poisonous snakes.
According to past experience, Su Du's coward did not dare to come out to find trouble, and as long as they attacked for a while and exhausted the Qin army's arrows, the Qin army would retreat.
And they are about to start a new round of pursuit.
If you keep chasing like this, I believe that it will not be long before you will enter Shuzhong, and when the time comes, the army will be able to regain its vitality again, completely occupy the land of Bashu, and capture the king of the dead country alive.
So don't be in a hurry now, let the soldiers rest for a while, and then talk about raising the army.
By now, Liu Bang and others have also learned to plug their ears with sackcloth, and they have also arranged more sentries, so they are no longer afraid of those guys in the camp running out to do things.
Liu Bang was very proud: "Su Du boy, if you want to consume Lao Tzu's energy, I'm afraid I haven't woken up." ”
Su Du said: "Yes, you are right, don't disturb your dream tonight, sleep well, it's better to sleep to death." ”
In the middle of October, even in the Great Qin Dynasty, where there was no pollution, it was dry and dry, so be careful of the weather with candles.
In fact, once the fire breaks out at this time, it will be more ferocious and more difficult to extinguish.
When it was ugly, for the people of Daqin, it was the time when they slept the deepest, and in the barracks of the coalition army, they slept soundly from top to bottom.
It's strange that Qin Jun's group of grandsons didn't come out to disturb them again tonight.
This allowed them to sweep away the fatigue of the past few days and sleep peacefully.
However, the Qin army in the camp was not so comfortable, and they were led by Su Du to a commanding height of the mountains.
From this vantage point, the trebuchet fired something that could be accurately smashed into the coalition camp, accurately and efficiently.
"According to the formation, the trebuchet is swinging out, and within a quarter of an hour, give me more than 10,000 fierce fire oil bottles into Liu Bang's military camp, if it is uneven, you take the archers, quietly touch it, and when I start to project torches, you will shoot me with rockets."
"Command!"
The sentry of Liu Bang's camp was napping when he suddenly noticed that a black piece of something in the sky had smashed down.
For this new weapon, the sentinels didn't care at first.
There is no fire or smoke, and there are no spikes and thorns, what kind of threat can there be.
It wasn't until these things smashed into the camp and shattered into a large amount of fierce fire oil, and poured it all over the camp, that they reacted.
It's all too familiar to them.
Along the way, nine out of ten dead and wounded brothers died on this thing.
A large number of high-altitude objects caused a large movement that quickly woke the entire camp from their sleep.
Liu Bang and the others rushed out and roared angrily: "What's the matter? ”
Fan: "I don't know. ”
"Fierce fire oil, fierce fire oil everywhere, King Han, ah! Help me. ”
It only took a few breaths for a rocket to rain down from the sky, igniting the oil of the fire, and the wind fueled the fire, igniting the trees around the camp.
The soldiers didn't even have time to react before they were killed in the flames.
For a while, there was a scream.
Liu Bang and the others also reacted very quickly, and when they saw the situation, they knew that they couldn't do anything, so they decisively rushed out with their cronies, as for those little soldiers who were still screaming? I'm sorry, at a critical time, Lao Tzu's own son's life can be given up, let alone you. ”
In the last camp, Su Du's face was full of excitement, after this battle, he already admired Li Feng, the emperor, in his heart.
"Your Majesty, let's take advantage of the victory and pursue it, I don't expect Liu Bang and them to run far."
"What's in a hurry, people are not in a hurry when they chase you, and you don't have to be in such a hurry."
Li Feng glanced at him, and then stood up and faced the generals: "Listen to the order, you pour out of the nest, chase the enemy army, and chase after it, but you don't have to kill them all, mainly to accept prisoners, surrender can live, and those who resist die." ”
"No!"
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After Liu Bang and others escaped, they counted the number of people, and there were only 20,000 horses left.
Almost all of the soldiers were burned, their clothes were in tatters, their arrows were all gone, their knives and guns were burned with sticks, their bodies were dehydrated, their bodies were weak, and they had no fighting spirit.
The most terrible thing is that now that the grain and grass have all been exhausted, the whole army can only dig bark and grass roots along the way to eat.
Even, the poisonous insects and poisonous snakes that were burned to death by themselves before felt very delicious when they picked it up and ate it at this time.
Some soldiers couldn't bear this pain, so they resolutely slipped away and secretly became deserters.
Fan Xu tried to kill the chickens and make an example, but was stopped by Liu Bang: "Forget it, since you have no intention of following us anymore, don't embarrass everyone." ”
Hearing Liu Bang's benevolent words, the remaining soldiers wept silently, deeply feeling that they had met the Ming Lord, and even Long Ji and Sima Xin couldn't help but nod their heads in appreciation.
I have to say that Liu Bang does have the spirit of a king, and along the way, inexplicably, Long Ji and Sima Xin have already tacitly acquiesced that Liu Bang is the leader of this coalition army.
But Liu Bang is no one, the reason why he said this is just that he was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to endure the torment, so they mutinied en masse and took their own heads to ask for credit from the Qin army.