Chapter 451: Withdraw for the time being

Then the order was raised, and two thousand archers shouted violently and shot an arrow.

An arrow leaped forward seven steps at the same time, no more, no less, seven steps, just seven feet. The back hand then probed the bag to take the arrow, the arrow was wound again, the bow became a full moon, and the arrow was shot out with the hand, jumping out of seven steps. In this way, the two thousand archers kept shooting intensively while quickly shortening the range of the fish and wood village.

"Boom!"

If you are poor, you will think about change, and if you change, you will understand.

The "step-by-step" approach does work.

As the two thousand royal archers gradually approached Yumu Village, the rain of arrows in the sky became extremely powerful, and many arrows even condensed a strong aura and exploded in the "canopy" one after another. The crisp sound of clanging then becomes dull and loud. The stone piles supporting the "canopy" also show a faint sign of being loosened. Obviously, these royal archers were all formed improvised, and most of them were not good at archery, but the distance of a hundred zhang was enough for their cultivation to make up for the frustration of archery skills.

"Boom!"

"Humph!"

"Three points of color on the red, give you the sun will be brilliant!"

Two thousand archers were more than two hundred zhang away from Yumu Village, and the powerful arrows had already exerted their greatest effect, and in just a few rounds of rapid attacks, they bombarded the canopy to block the arrows and leak a few small holes. Seeing this, a northerner leader sitting under the canopy snorted angrily and stood up, swept his eyes at the hundred and ten northerners in the east and west mountains, and then raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come for us to teach this group of girls to be human beings, and they will all be rectified to death for me!"

"Kill them!"

"Yikes..."

After drinking, the speaker first walked a few steps, from the pile of rubble stacked with rolling stones, picked up a half-human huge stone in both hands, twisted his waist in a deep step, and smashed it down with all his strength towards the archers at the bottom of the mountain! The rest of the northerners were not much behind, the former threw stones, and the latter dozens of northerners either lit the clay pot full of fire oil, or found a suitable boulder, and threw it down the mountain with all their might!

"Boom!"

"Knock knock..."

"Evade damage!"

When the two armies clash, the time and terrain are very important, followed by the people.

The advantages of Yumu Village are also vividly reflected in the confrontation with the royal forces.

The 2,000 archers of the royal family attacked the city with arrows, and the number of people was fierce, but it was difficult to ignore the heavy resistance and gravity of the upward attack. Due to the steepness of the cliff, shooting at the target on the top of the mountain from the bottom of the mountain, there is no straight line in the trajectory of the arrow, only the curve can, compared with the power of the flat shot of the arrow within hundreds of zhang, it is not only weakened, but also difficult to obtain the accuracy of the target, in fact, it is twice the result with half the effort.

On the other hand, the northerners who occupy the high point, condescending, have a wide field of vision, attack the mountain from the top of the mountain, and strive to throw the boulder regardless of speed and strength, which has the bonus of falling momentum, and the power has increased greatly, which can be said to be twice the result with half the effort.

But when he saw dozens of rolling stones, rolling logs, and fire pots falling from the top of the mountain, they were easily smashed into the bow array. The archers belonged to the attacking arms, the armor on their bodies was light, and there was no shield to defend them, and the hundreds of zhang battle arrays were suddenly smashed open. The fire pot was shattered, the fire oil turned into a fire dragon splashed everywhere, and the surrounding soldiers were burned immediately. Rolling stones and rolling wood are falling down, like a hammer hitting raw rice, and rice grains burst out. Fortunately, most of the soldiers were agile and dodged in advance, and a few soldiers who were not good at cultivation could not dodge, and they were smashed to the ground at once, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead. More than a dozen rolling stones fell and crushed all the way with the momentum, and the originally neat two-wing bow formation was crushed in an instant.

But that's just foreplay...

The northerners on the top of the mountain had no intention of keeping their hands at all.

As soon as the first round of stone and wood oil fell, they casually picked up the nearby boulder and continued to smash it down the mountain. Although the number of northerners is small, the victory is fierce and fast enough, and the tacit understanding is very good. Suddenly attacking and attacking, boulders, wooden stakes, fire pots, like meteorites and stars falling from the sky, wave after wave, layer upon layer, continuous, looking at it makes people's scalp tingle.

"Boom..."

Seeing this powerful stone falling all over the sky, the archers of the battle formation on both wings couldn't help but panic, retreating again and again, dodging left and right, where could they still care about shooting arrows? Dozens of soldiers who did not have time to flee in the chaos were even smashed to the point of vomiting blood on the spot, and several people fell down immediately and never got up again.

"Retreat!"

In the blink of an eye, the army was in chaos, with dozens of casualties.

Seeing this, the two generals in front of the battle, although they were angry and unwilling in their hearts, they also knew the key point and did not dare to meet the front again. Then they waved their hands and cheered one after another, and ordered the soldiers to drag away the wounded and fallen to the ground, and at the same time led their respective men and horses to retreat quickly.

"Retreat..."

"Stop!"

The two thousand archers retreated again and again, retreating nearly 400 zhang all the way. The northerners on the east and west hills of Yumu Village could no longer form an effective offensive, so they stopped throwing stones without getting enough.

"Eh, why don't you dare to come here?"

"I have a mountain of knives and guns to accompany you..."

"Just 2,000 men and horses want to attack my mountain? Heh, Lao Tzu can drown you and other rats and ants by urinating!"

"Hahaha..."

On the east and west mountains, the northerners laughed one after another.

The leading general even crossed his waist with one hand, pointed to the retreating royal bow formation with the other, and mocked loudly: "Grandpa, my body is not hot, you guys are running away? Are the fucking rats born? Are you so timid, what kind of knives do you still learn to play? In my opinion, you better go home and drink milk as soon as possible!"

"Haha..."

The former drank, and the northerners on the east and west mountains laughed again.

The laughter was presumptuous and extremely insulting, and the two royal generals in front of the army under the mountain were so angry that their faces turned vermilion. But at a distance of 400 zhang, the power of the bow and arrow can no longer pose a substantial threat to the defense of Yumu Village, and if you order a rapid shot, it will be nothing more than sending arrows to the enemy in vain.

Whether it is advancing or retreating, the key point is that the general cannot grasp it.

In desperation, the two generals in front of the bow formation had no choice but to turn around and ask for the opinion of Long Gongzi in the rear. But seeing that Long Gongzi shook the dragon fan lightly, and said a few words to the herald soldier beside him. The herald soldier immediately raised the two command flags in his hands and pointed them to the rear.

"Homecoming!"

The two generals received the order and quickly shouted.

Led 2,000 archers back to the rear...

"Hahaha, this is going to run?"

"Sure enough, it's a rat, and after being beaten twice, he has to run home to drink milk. ”

"Haha!"

“......”

The northerners on the mountain did not give up, and they did not stop mocking.

At the head of the mountain, watching the two thousand archers who returned dozens of lost soldiers in vain trotted into the battle, Long Gongzi ignored the unbearable insults, and asked with a side face, "Do you see it?"

Bai Lingyun bowed slightly and replied, "I saw it." ”

"How?"

Bai Lingyun was silent for a moment, revealing a slightly grim color, and said: "The defenses of the two mountains are as solid as a rock, and my army's bow formation may not be able to achieve results. If you want to enter the village from the two mountains, only the infantry can be preferred, but our infantry is only the Cangyun army, and the cangyun is good at making the shield armor and slash the knife, and is not good at climbing and attacking the city. A soldier is only a heavenly strategy, and the iron prison is good at defending but not good at attacking, and it needs the cooperation of the rear army. If there is a strong attack, the losses will inevitably be heavy, and it is necessary to think in the long run. ”

After Bai Lingyun finished speaking, Long Gongzi ignored it.

Turning to the herald soldier, he said, "Let the horses go." ”

"Yes. ”

The herald soldier responded to the order, turned around and waved a black and yellow flag at the Confucian students of the Hanlin Academy who were not far away.

"Drive!"

"Da Da Da..."

Not far away, dozens of Confucian scholars of the Hanlin Academy of Imperial Horses saw the order and whipped at the same time, slapping the horse's buttocks vigorously. Dozens of horses suddenly roared in pain, and galloped out with their hooves...

The horses are strong, their limbs are extremely powerful, and they are extremely fast.

For example, dozens of lightning galloped on the battlefield, and in the blink of an eye, they carried people out of a hundred zhang, and in a short time, dozens of horses swept to the front of the Yumuzhai mountain pass...

"Wow..."

When there was still a distance of more than 200 zhang on the mountain pass trail, the Confucian students on the horse all pulled out the iron swords at their waists at the same time, jumped up with both feet, and stabbed a sword at the horse's hips rushing under their respective seats!

"Son!!"

"Da Da Da..."

The horse was in pain again, and the panic immediately turned into madness, and the horse's hooves ran wildly, and the speed was a few minutes faster. Towards the unguarded path of Yumu Village, continue to go straight...

"Chirp..."

"Son!"

The sound of horses' hooves was not surprising.

Dozens of horses galloped, and before they could run into the trail, they were first ambushed.

But when he saw several horses running at the forefront, they first stepped on the trap hidden in the yellow earth, and the trap was closed, and the sharp edge immediately cut the horse's hooves in half, and then fell to the ground with a miserable roar. Immediately afterwards, dozens of horses were lucky enough to run through the area where the animal traps were arranged, but just a few steps away, the trench camouflaged by the grass on the ground could not withstand the gravity and suddenly collapsed. More than a dozen horses fell into it, and they were directly pierced by the wooden thorns in the trench, and they had to die at the sight of it. The last dozen or so horses flew over the trench, but they still didn't take a few steps, and the hidden arrows hidden in the gaps of the nearby mud pits suddenly shot fast!

Without exception, the remaining dozen horses were all killed by arrows...

"Son..."

The screams and screams are terrible and insolent.

In just a few breaths, dozens of horses did not even break into the path of Yumu Village for half a step, and all of them fell more than 60 zhang away in front of the trail. The ambush outside the mountain is so terrible, and you can imagine how many tragic means there will be in the trail that must be passed through the mountain.

"How now?"

Looking casually at the dozens of horses that fell outside the Yumu Village mountain pass, Long Gongzi asked calmly.

Bai Lingyun pondered for a while, then clenched his fists with both hands and replied softly: "I thought that the trail was heavy and dangerous, and it was three points more dangerous than the danger of attacking the mountain. If we attack, I am afraid that the losses of our army will be even heavier. ”

"Then you mean, you just can't attack it?"

Long Gongzi's words were very light, but Bai Lingyun heard a trace of anger in them. Bai Lingyun looked up at the sky slightly, only to see that the sun had already set at this time, and there was only the last trace of red glow. When the red glow fades, night will fall...

After thinking for a moment, you will know the key trade-offs.

Bai Lingyun held his hand, neither humble nor arrogant: "There is an attack to attack, but there is an attack method." Xia Xun has always been scheming and deceitful, and he is worried that the hasty deployment of soldiers will be negligent and affect the army. And it was already night, and the weather was not conducive to attacking. Therefore, I implore Gongzi to temporarily collect his troops and return to the camp to rest, give him some time in the next day, calculate carefully, and then make a conclusion. ”

"Incompetent. ”

The second son of Long is anxious, and he has a grudge against the loss of troops from the mountain pass, and he always thinks about revenge. When he heard this, he was even more displeased: "I'll just say that you, a scholar, know how to lead troops into battle? Now that our army is approaching the city, 8,000 battles and hundreds occupy an absolute advantage, although the front of the army has suffered a slight setback, but what does it matter if we take advantage of its unpreparedness to take it in one fell swoop?

"The second son's words are wrong. ”

Bai Lingyun turned his eyes to look at the second son of Long, and said without humility or arrogance: "The speed of the soldier is the method of war, and the strategy is to move after the plan." When the army is strategic, the strategy comes first, and then the tactics follow. At this time, the time and place are not in our army, and it is reckless to rely only on people and forcible attack. Xia Xuncheng must have expected that our army would fight and attack, how could he not be prepared?"

The second son of Long grinned disdainfully, and his disdain was even worse: "What if you are prepared? Our army has 8,000 fierce generals, all of whom are brave. I have the Heaven-Shattering Twin Hammers, which can break gold and stone. When I lead the men directly up the hill and break through his defenses on the east and west flanks, the army will then be able to drive straight into the mountain and kill him without leaving a single piece of armor! If you don't attack now, when will you wait?"

Bai Lingyun's voice remained unchanged, and he shook his head: "The second son is strong in martial arts, and I am convinced that you can rush into the mountain." But what about the rest of the people? Yumuzhai East and West Mountains are hundreds of zhang high, only the Apocalypse Realm can jump up, even if the second son can lead a hundred people to the top, but there are still Mo Xian, Lei Meng, and Muto on the mountain, three Tiangang good hands stubbornly defended. As long as these three people besiege, the second son will be in trouble. Are you going to retreat or stay?"

"I..."

"The second brother doesn't need to say more. ”

The second son of Long has a fiery temper, and he can't hide what he has in his heart.

On the contrary, Long Gongzi is cautious and thoughtful, weighing everything. He seemed to feel that Bai Lingyun's words were reasonable, and if it was too late today, if he rashly raised his troops, he would most likely suffer fearless losses.

didn't think much about it, he raised his hand and suppressed the words of the second son of Long.

Looking at Bai Lingyun, he said with a heavy face: "I'll believe you again, temporarily withdraw the army and return to the camp for repair." You have three hours to work out a strategy that can be implemented. Ling Yun, I'm talking ugly ahead. Everything is only three, if you have any more words of shirk, you will really disappoint this palace. ”

Long Gongzi's rhetoric has changed subtly.

Bai Lingyun knew the weight of these words, so he clasped his fists with both hands, bowed humbly, and said: "Thank you Gongzi for your trust, Lingyun will definitely go all out." ”

“......”

Long Gongzi didn't say anything more, and waved his hand to the herald soldier on the side: "Order the three armies to return to the camp for repairs, and double the patrol manpower to prevent thieves from sneaking up at night." Then he ordered the generals of all departments to come to the camp after dinner to discuss the advance of tomorrow's troops. ”

"Yes. ”

When the herald soldier received the order, he immediately turned around and crossed his waist, and shouted loudly: "Gongzi has an order, the whole army will return to the camp for repair, and the patrol manpower will be doubled." After dinner, the generals of the various departments will go to the Shuai camp to discuss matters!"

"Withdraw. ”

The three armies were ordered, either suspicious or surprised, with a thousand expressions.

However, the military order is heavier than Mount Tai, and no one in the generals dares to question it. Then the army of 8,000 royal families, the rear army turned into the front army, turned into hundreds of people, and quickly retreated into the forest and left...