Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Lu Bu was mistaken for his father-in-law

Chapter 168: Chapter 167

In the next three days, the Beiguo army's attack on the village became more and more fierce.

On the first day, Zhao Rui led the Death Squadron to rush to the east of Qishan Mountain. The shield soldiers and crossbowmen pressed forward desperately. Lu Jun threw the prepared rolling stones and wood one after another, and kept killing and retreating the Northern Army. In this battle, the Northern Army lost more than 800 people, more than any day before.

On the second day, Zhao Rui led his men to attack the mountain in the east again in the early morning. Compared with the first day, the second day's offensive did not weaken, but most of the rolling stones and wood were used.

It wasn't until the third day that the Northern Army's strength finally showed any sign of decline. The shield soldiers didn't dare to step forward rashly, and they advanced very slowly. Most of the time, they just wanted to gain distance for their own crossbowmen to shoot at each other.

But in the end, it is the upward shooting versus the downward shooting, and the loss is still the Northern Army's loss.

Seeing the retreat of the Beiguo army, the generals and soldiers of the Lu army were relieved. Many people chose to lie down and gasp for breath, as if the sky had fallen and they were covered by quilts.

Gao Shun, who always paid attention to military appearance, just walked past them and helped the wounded soldiers into the stockade to bandage them, without saying a word from the beginning to the end.

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

Even in the elite camp, there will be follow-up fatigue at this level of intensity, let alone ordinary episodes.

"If there are more attacks of this level, Qishan will fall." Looking at the battalion of wounded soldiers, Zhao Yun's attitude was not optimistic.

From the attempted attack in the first few days to the desperate charge in the past three days, more than 200 people were lost in the Qishan Army Village, and more than [-] soldiers were injured.

Compared with Yuan Jun's casualties, this ratio is of course extremely high. The problem is that the Qishan Army stronghold has only [-] troops, which cannot be rotated, and the military strength will become critical over time.

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

"Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted."

Gao Shun, with a paralyzed face, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The attack these days is obviously a death squad formed, but it is impossible for Yuan Jun to maintain such an attack continuously."

Zhao Yun nodded and agreed: "Now, they are taking a short rest. They think they will start the second round of death squad attack in a few days. As long as they survive this second round, Yuan Jun's army will be frustrated, and he must be disappointed."

On this point, the two agree. In other words, the next second round of attack is the biggest challenge. After getting through it, Qishan Dazhai will be as stable as Mount Tai.

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

In order to gather the morale of the army, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun could only patrol the barracks again and again, this is to tell the soldiers that the Lord will be with you.

Works, but not particularly large.

"Report, there is a situation!"

Chen Zhao from Bingzhou Wolf Rider ran over, "The brothers patrolling the hills in the north have spotted the food transport team, and they can reach Yuan Jun's Dazhai after going around the mountains in front of them and going more than a dozen miles!"

"Go, take a look!"

Gao Shun went first, while Zhao Yun looked at Chen Zhao, "Go and invite Mr. Jia!"

"Here!"

The two quickly ran to the hill to the north. Qishan is not low. Standing on this position, you can overlook the entire battlefield. In addition, under the bright moonlight of the full moon night, the visibility is extremely high. Although it is not possible to clearly judge the number of opponents like in the daytime, but the basic situation can also make a general judgment.

The grain transportation team in the distance can't see less than a hundred grain trucks, and there are cavalry in the grain protection team, but the number cannot be judged.

"The continuous strong attack must have consumed a lot of Yuan Jun's food and grass. This is the support that has just been transported from the rear food and grass battalion." Gao Shun looked down the mountain and murmured to analyze.

"If I lead someone to burn the food and grass, as long as this batch of food and grass is destroyed, the brothers will be able to rest while they wait for the second batch of food and grass, and the momentum of the Northern Army will also stagnate."

At the end, Zhao Yun added: "These days the Northern Army is attacking from the east hill, and I will descend from the west later, so there should be no ambushes.

It's a bit far away, but with the speed of Bingzhou wolf riders, they can definitely arrive before they return to camp! "

Gao Shun didn't express his opinion immediately, but his heart was shaken. There were at least tens of thousands of stones at the foot of the mountain. Although destroying these food and grass would not cause a fatal blow to the wealthy Northern Army, it would definitely slow down their troops as Zhao Yun said, and it would also buy time for the brothers in the army to rest.

Jia Xu who came in a hurry took a look, twirling his beard and muttering.

The Northern Army is well-known for its wealth. It has only been a few days since the war started, and even if tens of thousands of people eat three meals a day, it is impossible to eat up all the food and grass that accompanied them.

Surround the people who use food and grass to attract us, and then ambush them?
This may be possible, but it is impossible to make such a big movement just to earn 2000 people. The ultimate goal should be to get rid of the mountain, so once the people in the army camp go out, they should attack the mountain soon?
However, they definitely need some kind of signal to communicate with each other in order to judge whether the army has left the village.

How do you contact me?
Moreover, there should be another layer. After attacking the mountain, they may want to attract Wenhou's trilogy to rescue, and Yuan Jun will ambush again.

In this way, there is a triple strategy here, so the death squad's strong attack in the past few days is probably for this moment, and the skill is not small.

After a brief review, Jia Xu became a little flustered. Tonight must be a general attack. Not only must he retreat from the enemy, but he must also find a way to inform Marquis Wen. If either of the two things fail, it will be difficult to explain, but let’s think about how to retreat from the enemy first. Life is important.

"What about Mr. Jia, did you ask Zilong to burn this batch of grain and grass?" Gao Shun couldn't help reminding him seeing the grain truck moving slowly and the time being delayed for a long time.

Jia Xu's body trembled, and suddenly she figured out some clues that she couldn't figure out completely, and the fire burned.
Immediately, a flash of splendor flashed in his eyes, so hot, killing three birds with one stone.

He can survive, retreat from the enemy, and inform Marquis Wen. Marquis Wen may not know, but who is Yunwen, he will definitely understand the meaning when he sees the fire.

"Okay, okay, let's do it like this." Jia Xu nodded frequently.

"Then it's hard work for Zilong to make a trip."

Gao Shun had just finished speaking, and Zhao Yun hadn't acted yet, so Jia Xu said, "There's no need to let Zilong go for such a trivial matter, just let a village chief take 30 people down the mountain."

"Three 30 people?" Zhao Yun suspected that he had heard it wrong. He scratched his head and looked at Jia Xu in a daze. Did you see clearly? There will be more than 2000 people in the food protection team. Did 30 people go to give some military merits?
"30 people are enough, it's useless if there are more."

Jia Xu made a gesture of invitation, signaling the two to go back, "Time is running out, as I expected, the Northern Army should be attacking the village soon, we need to prepare quickly."

The two looked confused, what, aren't we talking about going down the mountain to burn food and relieve the pressure on the cottage? You came over and took a look, and you said that the Northern Army is going to attack the mountain. Is it true?

In doubt, the two hurriedly followed up to ask what happened.

At the foot of the mountain, Yuan Jun mobilized a large number of elite troops tonight, 2 people gathered at the foot of the mountain, ready to go, just waiting for the signal to take action.

Wen Chou led the Xiandeng camp and the euphorbia soldiers to ambush on the only way Lu Bu came to the rescue. As long as the opposite side dared to come, even if there were only a few thousand people, it would be absolutely unambiguous to deal with him.

Even Han Ju brought a battalion of troops to ambush on the other side of Qishan Mountain. They rushed out and killed the group of people only after the surprise troops on the mountain came out to attack and burn the grain carts.

Han Ju wasn't worried that the other party would burn those grain carts. Anyway, there was no grain and grass on them, but they were just bait from Xin Ping. If necessary, they were destroying this army, and they would light the grain carts themselves, because the [-] troops led by Zhao Rui were still waiting for the signal to act.

With such an arrangement, Yuan Tan is full of confidence. In Simpi's plan, after three consecutive days of attacking the stronghold, the Lu army on Mount Qi was exhausted to the extreme. At this time, the grain trucks appeared. In order to relieve the pressure on the stronghold, they would definitely venture down the mountain. How could the group of cavalry who boasted that they came and went 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 food and grass, but chose to set fire. This fire was precisely the signal for Zhao Rui to attack the mountain.

When the fire started, Han Ju would rush out with 5000 people. This time, all the people brought here were the brave horses of the Northern Army. Coupled with the ambush at the mountain pass, Zhao Yun would definitely not be able to escape.

At the same time, Zhao Rui turned on the storm mode. The cottage, which had run out of wood and rolling stones, could hardly survive until dawn. However, in order to prevent Lu Bu from suddenly sending troops to reinforce the mountain while the army was attacking, Wen Chou led the most elite first boarding camp and euphorbia soldiers to guard the mountain pass.

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

In this wave of operations, the last harvest is to win Qishan, and the best result is to win Qishan and at the same time severely injure Lu Bu, and the army can immediately overwhelm the territory and break through the Chinese army in one go.

At that time, Lu Bu was already defeated, and it didn't matter whether he pursued or killed him. He went straight to Taishan County and pushed all the way. If Cao Cao's rear was in chaos, the western battlefield would immediately fall apart.

Let's let him, the prince of the world, do Yuan Shang dare to sit?
It's over, it's beautiful.
Can't think about it, thinking about it can make Yuan Tan laugh out loud.

Under the moonlight, 30 people, led by the head of the village, went down the mountain from the west, rode fast horses and galloped all the way, and immediately called the soldiers into action when they reached the mountain that the grain truck passed by just now.

They quickly gathered the fallen leaves in the forest into piles, forming dozens of bonfire piles, and immediately lit them with flint.

Soon, dozens of burning bonfires reflected half of the sky red in the middle of the night.

Han Ju was a little confused, what's going on, didn't the grain truck have already passed the mountain depression, why did it catch fire now? "Quick, send someone over there to see what's going on over there!"

"Here!"

When Han Ju was in a daze, Zhao Rui didn't think so. He thought it was a signal. He drew out the sword at his waist, turned around and shouted at the Beiguo army:
"Brothers, half of the Lu army on the mountain has been transferred away, and now there are only 2000 people left. Here is our chance to make meritorious deeds! The young master has rewarded the first climber with a hundred gold, and whoever breaks into the fortress will be given the title of Captain!"

Good guy, after the reward, the soldiers raised their shields, crossbows and ring knives one after another, screaming to charge.

This is 2 people, and even one mountain cannot be squeezed down. There are many rocks in the west and dangerous cliffs in the south. These 2 people attacked the mountain from the east and north according to the prior arrangement.

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

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

On the top of the mountain, Gao Shun and Zhao Yun were afraid for a while, oh my God, it's fortunate that Marquis Wen sent Jia Xu over, otherwise something big would happen tonight.

As soon as the fire started at the bottom of the mountain, they immediately attacked the mountain, and hearing the movement, they knew that it was inevitable to seize the mountain tonight.

Not long after, arrows rained down on the mountain one after another.

But Zhao Rui was extremely excited, and laughed loudly: "Brothers, the number of enemy troops is small, charge up and receive a reward!"

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

According to the previous round of arrow rain, at least twenty or thirty shield soldiers would fall down, but this time, only ten or eight shield soldiers fell down, and the strength of the troops can be imagined.

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

This is still under the condition that they are prepared for defense. If they are caught by surprise, they may have already reached the top of the mountain.

"Throw 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.

Only the sound of pinging, bang, bang, and shattering terracotta tiles could be heard incessantly, and hundreds of tung oil jars had already been thrown down.

Immediately, on the mountain, Zhao Yun threw a torch into a ditch that had been dug. The flames in the ditch spread rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. The crossbowmen moved their arrows down, and the arrows bound with velvet ignited.

Hundreds of rockets poured down, and after a short period of silence, there was a whoosh, and fire dragons sprang up from hundreds of places on the entire hill.

"Ah~ run! It's on fire, it's on fire, run!" On the hill, there were heart-piercing shouts one after another.

In autumn, the vegetation is flammable, and with the blessing of hundreds of tung oil jars, coupled with the howling evening wind, the speed of the fire's spread can be imagined.

In just a moment, Zhao Rui didn't even have time to call out the order to withdraw the troops. The whole Qishan Mountain had been burned into a big brazier, driving away the darkness of Suye, shining like day.

Mountain roads are no better than plains, and you can run around. There are only a few roads in total. If the big guys instinctively want to escape quickly, there will inevitably be pushing and shoving, but it will cause congestion and stampede.

Seeing the fire rushing towards it like a ferocious beast, the desperate Northern Army even chose to jump, perhaps to save their lives.

The shrill screams and howls are entangled with the crackling sound of grease bursting, making people creepy and scalp tingling.

Lu Jun on the top of the mountain was also forced to retreat to Dazhai by the soaring heat wave. Fortunately, a fire zone had been built here earlier, which separated a distance of several tens of feet, so the fire could not be overwhelmed.

But Yuan Jun at the bottom of the mountain was not so lucky, especially Yuan Jun at the mountainside. The naked eye could see them screaming after being burned to the ground. The sound seemed to come from hell.

Many people run down the mountain in a tumbling posture. It is good to save their lives. Who cares about the military appearance and military appearance.

(End of this chapter)