Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 275 The Best Strategy to Repel the Enemy

Mantian Ridge is in the north of Lizhou, which is the collective name of the local people for the mountains in the north. After the army crosses the river, the biggest obstacle ahead is the Damantian Village in the north of Lizhou.

Compared with Xiaomantianzhai, which guards the ferry, Damantianzhai is larger in scale. It guards on the road south to Lizhou, and there are more defenders. There are six other small villages on the mountain around, guarding the trails, echoing each other, and the total force More than five thousand, it is the largest camp of the Shu army in the north of Lizhou.

Due to the difference in geography, the combat style is also very different. The Khitan people in the north like to engage in guerrilla warfare, engage in mobile warfare, and control the initiative on the battlefield; in the mountains in the south, most of them are mountain defensive warfare. , for passive defense.

In the final analysis, these tactics are caused by geographical reasons, but no matter how they change, the main body of the war is still people.

Fighting all the way to the present, the morale of the Zhou army has reached its peak. On the fourth day of March, more than 2 troops crossed the Jialing River and assembled on the east bank.

Many soldiers asked for the battle one after another, with high morale.

Shi Congyun knows that the battle has reached this level, and he doesn't need him as the coach to do anything. The so-called harmony between people is just like that.

The Damantian Village in front seems to be strong and dangerous, with sufficient troops, but it is definitely unstoppable in front of Zhou Jun, who is dedicated to the three armies and the generals are united. It is only a matter of time before it is defeated.

However, as the coach, how to minimize the casualties of the soldiers is still what he has to consider.

In the afternoon of that day, Shi Congyun summoned the commanders of all the armies, and all the commanders and other generals discussed matters by the river. They sat around on the sandy ground by the river to discuss how to attack Damantianzhai.

Everyone was chattering, and many people didn't come to discuss it at all, but they all felt that they should do it themselves.

Especially the Chinese army, which has never fought before, is the most noisy at this time. It is almost entering the Chengdu Plain, and they still have no military achievements, so they are also anxious.

Maybe it was because the fight was too smooth before, which gave the soldiers a lot of confidence, and many people wanted to rush to make meritorious service.

Shi Congyun wasn't angry, but it was easy to understand, and he thought of the reason why he was rushing to fight the Shu Kingdom back then, and there were not many opportunities to make meritorious deeds and meet easy enemies, and it was better than fighting the Khitans , is also human nature.

The crowd debated for a long time without reaching a conclusion, so Shi Congyun simply asked Wang Quanbin for his opinion.

Wang Quanbin thought for a while: "The Chinese army has never fought, so it is reasonable to give the Chinese army battalions."

"How can wars come in turns? It's not fair. Everyone in a war depends on his ability. Those who are capable work more, and those who work get more.

Our vanguard battalions first took down Xingzhou, Xixian, and Sanquan. If we don't take these places, can the army get here? This is the meat in our pot, why should the Chinese army grab it! "Because of Liu Qingchuan's eloquence, he was promoted by the generals to be the representative of the forward armies, and he really made a point.

The generals of the forward armies booed and applauded.

The Chinese army was not convinced either, and a commander stood up and said, "What is there to say? If I were to change it, I would have already fought in Lizhou. The other side has never been beaten. What kind of wolf are you pretending to be? Let us get one instead." You can go to Chengdu in a month!"

"What are you bragging about?"

"Do you dare!"

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The two sides quarreled more and more, and it seemed that they were about to make gestures. Shi Congyun raised his hand to stop them, "Okay, okay, shut up for me, I know how to fight."

When he opened his mouth, everyone stopped and looked over.

Shi Congyun took a stick and drew it on the ground, and everyone gathered around.

Shi Congyun drew a circle, "This is Damantian Village, and this is Jialing River." He also drew a road beside it.

"The main body of Mantianzhai is on the hill next to the road. I think there are three ways to attack. One is to take the road and attack along the road by the river. This is the most difficult place, but the road is also wide and many people can pass."

As he spoke, he stroked his stick upwards, "There is a mountain road in the north, and you can drive from the mountain to the south along the ridge.

There is another way to go over the mountain ridge, go to the east side of the mountain, and drive from the east side of the mountain. This road is usually the road used by Damantianzhai to transport supplies. It is also relatively wide, but it takes a few more miles to walk. "

After Shi Congyun finished speaking, he looked at the crowd: "Since you all want to fight, then fight together. The armies are separated, and the commanders come to me to draw lots to decide which way to fight. When the time comes, the three sides will attack together. Whoever gets in first will be the first!" achievement."

Now everyone was speechless, and they all agreed with Shi Congyun's statement.

On the sixth day of March, all the armies were ready, and then Shi Congyun ordered all three groups to march towards Damantianzhai in the south.

For a while, the mountains and plains were covered with the banners of Zhou soldiers and horses, and the soldiers rushed up the mountain with a groaning roar, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded through the valley.

Shi Congyun rode a horse and watched from a distance. The Zhou army on the riverside avenue was the fastest, but the pressure was also the greatest. The Damantian village was primarily to contain the enemies on the riverside avenue. Arrange a large number of bows and crossbows, and continue to roll stones on the avenue.

However, Zhou Jun is also an old fritter after all, and the method he adopted was to turn back immediately after the first wave of people rushed in, and the sharpshooters behind stared at the people who showed their heads at this time and shot them.

Even so, some people were unable to withdraw in time, were hit by rolling stones, and fell down in the avenue.

Soon there were shouts of killing on the mountain, and the battle on the mountain ridge was much more straightforward. It was not as condescending as the avenue, and you could climb in by stepping on people's shoulders or taking a small ladder, but there were sharpened wooden fences on the outside, so you could really climb in. It was counted.

The Shu army also deployed a lot of people on the inner wall, and the defense was tight, and the dense spears were no joke.

The warriors of the Zhou army wearing several layers of armor carried the crossbows of the Shu army and directly chopped down the outer wooden fence with a huge axe. Many crossbowmen in the rear cooperated closely and alternated with each other, firing arrows at the top of the Shu army city without stopping.

Relying on this reckless way of fighting, dozens of warriors wearing several layers of iron armor were shot into hedgehogs, but they insisted on using axes to chop down the wooden pile fence and city wall outside the Shu army camp.

Afterwards, they didn't rush in. Instead, they let the crossbowmen go in and shoot and then retreat, and after several times, most of them rushed in and entered the inner wall to compete.

The inner wall is a masonry wall, but it is different from the sharpened large wooden pile wall outside. With a ladder on it, Zhou Jun soldiers can climb up and attack the city.

The battle immediately entered a fierce battle for the top of the city.

Originally, the siege party was extremely disadvantaged, but Shi Congyun saw from a distance that the soldiers of the Zhou army actually killed all directions after climbing to the top of the city.

If you look closely, it's not how powerful they are, but that the Shu army did not dare to approach them. Some people retreated a few steps away, and some people copied their bows and shot.

At the beginning, they didn't dare to risk their lives to drive the enemy down, but soon they couldn't stand it anymore. More and more Zhou army soldiers who were not afraid of death came to the top of the city one after another, killing all directions at the top of the city, and their advantages became bigger and bigger. , and began to chase the Shu army at the head of the city.

With the breakthrough from above, the battle situation on the side of the avenue has gradually improved. Some soldiers have already touched the front along the lower corner and began to cut down the outer fence.

And the history of the battle in the east can't be seen from Yunyun, but it should be similar.

Sometimes Shi Congyun himself has to feel that the war is full of variables. At the beginning, 10 of them were blocked by Liu Renshan's Shouzhou City in Huainan for more than a year.

Although Damantianzhai is not as strong as Shouzhou's now, it is not so unbeatable. If the soldiers at the top of the city hadn't flinched and fought them desperately, the ending might be different.

But they retreated in fear, and let many generals of the Zhou army take the opportunity to climb to the top of the city. No matter how powerful the generals were, they would not have expected these things.

In the afternoon of the battle, the general situation was settled. After half a day, under the siege of Zhou army on three sides, Damantianzhai was breached. Some Shu troops surrendered, and some ran south over the wall.

The situation was settled, Shi Congyun sent Shao Ji to lead his cavalry to chase down the deserters along the main road, and they reined in their horses until the city of Lizhou in the south before reining in their horses.

Watching the enemy army chase down the city, the feeling of oppression and fear of being defeated by one's own army is what he wants to bring to Lizhou City.

Shao Ji understood his intentions very well, and chased him all the way to the city of Lizhou, and then led his iron cavalry to tour around the city in a swaggering manner, before leading his army back.

This move must have dealt a huge blow to the morale of the defenders in the city.

Damantianzhai was breached, and most of the Shu troops in the surrounding small camps fled that night, and some came directly to him to surrender because they heard rumors that the Zhou army would not kill the prisoners.

Of course, Shi Congyun would not kill them, but directly reorganized them into a new army temporarily. They all brought their own weapons and armor. They fought with the army and were mainly responsible for logistics and leading the way.

After that, the army rested for a day in Damantian Village, and the Shu Army also hoarded a large amount of military supplies in Damantian Village, which were squandered by Zhou Jun.

The next day, Shi Congyun ordered the army to go south and besiege the city immediately after reaching Lizhou. There is only five miles to the south, and the army arrived outside the city of Lizhou in less than an hour, and the soldiers approached the city.

The black army marched in line, coming from the north, like a slowly flowing tide, with neat armor, reflecting the sun, and gathering into a sparkling ocean.

Many iron cavalry raised the flags of dragons, tigers, and cranes with their fangs and claws, rolled up dust and cruised around the periphery to protect the advancement of the Chinese army, and entered the large open space outside Lizhou City.

The highly mobile cavalry cruising on the two wings, protecting the main force into the battlefield, and deploying the array is a routine operation for the Zhou army who has fought countless battles. Even the recruits must be very familiar with this process.

However, tens of thousands of people cooperated closely and moved in an orderly manner, which gave the enemy another kind of chill.

Shi Congyun is located in the central army, and the two wings of the army are tight and powerful. Besides the famous flag of the king of Qin, the handsome flag, and the square flag for command, there are also the flags of dragon, tiger, crane, iron horse, and red bird, which represent dragons. Jie, Tiger Jie, Konghe, Iron Cavalry, and Shenhuo armies.

Suddenly, I felt a little ostentatious.
Seeing such a scene, the accompanying civil servants of the Privy Council couldn't help feeling overwhelmed, and chanted:
"The beacon fire shines on Xijing, and I feel uneasy.

Yazhang resigned from Fengque and rode around Dragon City.

The snow is dark withered and the flag is painted, and the wind is full of jumbled drums.

Better to be a centurion than a scholar"

Shi Congyun glanced at him and said with a smile: "Scholars are not useless, the only ones to be afraid of are those who study hard.

If you think about Li Gu, Li Gong was able to lead troops to fight and govern the country in peace, and the officials asked him to lead troops, raise troops, and stay in the capital, even if the Yellow River flooded, let Li Gong govern.

He is also a Jinshi, a scholar, and he has made great achievements; don't belittle yourself, and you can't make a car behind closed doors. The so-called civil and military boundaries, but everyone insists on adding it, sometimes it doesn't have to be so serious. "

"Thank you, Commander, for waking me up!" He thanked again and again, regaining his energy.

Zhao Chongtao stared closely at the densely packed enemy army below the city, and felt a little dizzy for a while.

The news that Damantianzhai was breached arrived yesterday, so they immediately sealed off the city gates and transferred the defenders outside the city into the city.

The next day Zhou Guo's army really came, but the strict formation below, and the deployment and dispatch of everyone as one, made him terrified and sweating, and the successive defeats also made the soldiers dejected and frightened, although no one said , but everyone seems to think that he is not Zhou Jun's opponent.
Needless to say, this atmosphere can be subtly felt.

Zhao Chongtao looked from a distance, and the commander-in-chief flag of the Chinese army below was particularly conspicuous. Under the commander's flag was a mighty young man covered in armor and riding a tall horse. No need to guess, Zhao Chongtao knew that it must be the legendary Qin King Shi Congyun .

The commander-in-chief flag and famous flag behind him all indicate his identity. In the past six or seven years, he has fought in the South and the North, and has a great reputation. He is also regarded as a military god with mixed reputation in Shu.

Those who admired him said that he fought south and north, strategized without a single defeat, and the Khitan people were also defeated by him. Moreover, he was kind to the prisoners of war in Shu, Huainan, Jingchu and other places, and he did not kill them indiscriminately. Countless people, many are grateful for his life.

There are two kinds of slander, one is naturally because this person is likely to become their enemy.

The other is to criticize Shi Congyun's virtues, saying that he has no conscience in his actions. It is said that after he captured Huainan, crossed the Yangtze River and came to Jinling, he coveted the beauty, humiliated the concubines of the sixth princes of the Southern Tang Dynasty face to face, and even snatched them back. It is simply not human for Daliang to be a concubine.

In short, there have been many discussions. After all, in these years, no matter what they say is good or bad, Shi Congyun is destined to be the most popular figure in the world, and he has also stirred up the world.

Meeting here now, on such an occasion, Zhao Chongtao doesn't know whether he is lucky or unlucky.

After a while, he asked the person next to him, "Where is the commander in chief?"

"I don't know, since I heard yesterday that Damantianzhai was breached by Zhou Jun, the commander-in-chief hasn't shown his face."

Zhao Chongtao was worried, "I'm going to meet the commander-in-chief, and now there is only one way to try, which is to stick to the city.

Zhou's army has come from afar, and it is advantageous to fight quickly. We can hold on to the strong city and delay them. "

That's what Zhao Chongtao said in his mouth, what Zhao Chongtao thought in his heart was based on the previous lessons, looking at Zhou Jun's military appearance, and then looking at the morale in the city, going out to fight them is definitely not Zhou Jun's opponent, but as a superior, he knows that such words cannot be said no matter what of.

So he hurriedly got down from the top of the city, rode across the street, and went to the government office to the north to find the commander Wang Zhaoyuan, trying to persuade him.

When he arrived outside Wang Zhaoyuan's temporary residence, he was stopped by someone. After explaining his identity, the concierge went in to report, and soon someone came out, but it was not Wang Zhaoyuan who came, but his staff.

"The commander-in-chief is busy comprehending a good strategy to retreat from the enemy, the general should go back for now."

Zhao Chongtao was a little surprised, Wang Zhaoyuan still has a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?
So he asked: "May I ask the commander-in-chief to understand what is a good strategy to defeat the enemy?"

The staff was quite proud: "You just wait, you don't need to ask, the commander has his own tricks!"

(End of this chapter)