Horse on the World

Chapter 240 Humiliation
Badaman Ningbu rushed up to Congling Pass, his hands trembling slightly at the scene in front of him. Under Congling Pass, on the left side of the Shiwei camp, there were rows and rows of uniform black armor, holding long The spear's Dingzhou soldiers stood like a deep, there was no shouting of mountains and tsunamis, no earth-shattering sound waves, but the death-like silence made people feel a kind of pressure like a mountain.Badaman Ningbu's face was ashen, looking at the big flag waving opposite, a burly general was raising his whip, pointing at Congling Pass.In the distance, countless siege equipment and convoys of supplies are rushing here incessantly.

Dingzhou soldiers are good at defending the city, but on the contrary, those who are good at defending the city must know the weaknesses of the city well, and they will surely get twice the result with half the effort when attacking the city. The Qingbu and Dingzhou soldiers have confronted each other for the first time. It's not too much of a stretch, compared to his own tribe, the combat effectiveness is indeed inferior.

"Decree that all the clans, those who can afford swords and guns, and those who can hold bows and arrows, will come to the top of the city. The clan will live or die in one fell swoop." After a brief shock, Badamaningbu regained his calm, "to the emperor Your Majesty, please ask for help, report to him the news that Dingzhou soldiers have appeared outside the Congling Pass, and let him pay attention to it."

"Patriarch, the Congling Pass is dangerous, even the Dingzhou soldiers may not be able to do anything to us." A general looked at the army outside the city dissatisfied.

Badamaning Buzhan smiled, "Yes, we will be able to defend the dangerous place of Congling Pass. Qi Luo, you lead [-] cavalry out of the city and stationed on the left side of the city, camping against the mountain, posing a threat to the right wing of Dingzhou. It is necessary to attack its right flank and reduce the pressure on the defenders."

Qi Luo nodded, "Don't worry, the patriarch, even if my body is smashed to pieces, I will restrain some Dingzhou soldiers."

Looking at the Congling Pass, Guo Shanfeng, who is used to seeing majestic and dangerous cities, sneered at Shi Wei Tienig and said: "It is this low wall that has blocked you for so many years? This can also be called a city, at best it is It's just a slightly higher courtyard wall, Prince Tienig, I'm really disappointed, it's just such a little difficulty that you have paid so many casualties and still get nothing, thanks to the people of Dingzhou who spent so much to arm you, you guys Holding much better weapons than them, wearing much better armor than them, and letting them fight to the brim, I really doubt your combat effectiveness after entering the customs. Maybe you have lived in a small place for hundreds of years. The bloodiness is also gone."

Tienig was ashamed and annoyed, his face was so red that it was about to drip blood, and he argued in a hoarse voice: "General Guo, we Shiwei people are good at field warfare and not good at attacking cities, as long as General Guo can take down this city and enter the pass Afterwards, General Guo will see Shi Wei's blood and fighting power."

Guo Shanfeng smiled coldly, pulled the knife and walked back, "Really, then I'll wait and see." He walked away, leaving Tie Nige on the spot, his face flushed and white for a while, his teeth chattering .

"General, is it appropriate for you to humiliate Tienig like this?" Back at the camp, Jiang Heiniu looked at Guo Shanfeng in puzzlement, wondering why Guo Shanfeng was so rude to his allies.

Guo Shanfeng smiled, looked at Jiang Heiniu, and said: "Don't you understand? I humiliated Tienig for the sake of entering the customs. Tienig was angry with me, but he had nowhere to vent. After closing, where does this breath go?"

"Of course it was sprinkled on the barbarians." Jiang Hei Niu blurted out.

"That's right!" Guo Shanfeng clapped his hands and laughed, "I just want him to take this anger out on the Manzi, let him work hard with the Manzi, make the enmity with the Manzi deeper, and the blood on the hands of the Manzi will be more serious. More, this will be of great benefit to the commander-in-chief's future rule over the grassland and Shiwei."

Jiang Heiniu looked at Guo Shanfeng with his eyes wide open. To him, as a young man, he just regarded the war as a series of battles, without thinking about the things behind the war.

"Come on, let's take a closer look at how to attack Congling Pass." Guo Shanfeng didn't explain too much. To him, Jiang Heiniu was just a simple general. From another perspective, he was also used by the general. A chess piece to check and balance him, Jiang Heiniu, who was born in Wang Qinian's Tianlei Camp, could not become his confidant. Of course, he has no obligation to teach Jiang Heiniu these things, but after seeing Jiang Heiniu pondering for a while, he suddenly understood. With a look on his face, he couldn't help sighing secretly that the commander-in-chief had no eyesight, and none of the people selected was easy to get along with, of course, including himself.

"Everyone knows about the defensive battle in Fuyuan, right?" Guo Shanfeng asked the generals under his command. Among his generals, except for one who was his absolute confidant who followed him when he was a bandit, the other generals, including Jiang Heiniu, were all from Li Qing's former personal guard camp.

All the generals laughed, most of them were witnesses of this battle.

"General Jiang, tell me. If I remember correctly, you should have fought on the front line at that time, and you should have a deep understanding of this type of defense." Guo Shanfeng said.

Jiang Heiniu nodded, and said: "General, colleagues, the defense system outside the Congling Pass is basically copied from the Fuyuan defense. During the war, our army's external positions outside the city are generally the same, but some places are specious. The most important thing is What's more, this defense system lacks the cover of two fortresses, which greatly reduces the defense power of this system. At least, it will not form a deadly triangle of death, which provides convenience for us to clean up the outer positions. Taking Congling Guan that low city wall, as long as the outer defense line is cleared, it will be much easier to capture him."

Guo Shanfeng said: "What General Jiang said is true, if Badaman Ningbu knows the way, he will definitely deploy a soldier on our flank to restrain us, and this soldier will be handed over to Tieni. Ge, didn’t he say that they are very powerful in field battles? Then let them fight head-to-head with the Qing people. Let’s concentrate on attacking the city. The commander has an order. On the day of the summer solstice, we must enter the customs. The time left for us is less than In 20 days, I hope that within ten days, we will break through the Congling Pass, do you have any objections?"

"Follow the general's order!" The generals stood up abruptly and responded loudly.

Guo Shanfeng smiled and pressed his hands, and said: "Now we have about 8 troops with Shiwei's coalition army, and the Qingbu on the opposite side has at most 2 elites. If you count his people who can hold swords and guns, even the soldiers and horses cannot Compared with us, not to mention the level of elite, my method of attacking Congling Pass is to overwhelm people with power." Guo Shanfeng slashed down with his palm obliquely, saying: "Use power to overwhelm people, use force to overwhelm people , with the momentum of Taishan, I will scare Qingbu. Within two days, I will clear the outer defense line. Who will take the lead in the first round of attack?"

Xiong Dewu stood up abruptly, "General, my department is willing to go."

Guo Shanfeng nodded, "Okay, then let General Xiong lead the attack. Generals, just received the news from Dingzhou that Dingyuan's guard Guan Xinglong fought bravely, and the troops he led have been bestowed with horizontal swords by the commander." Guan Xinglong himself was even praised by the commander as a straight horse, but I am the only general, I hope that the next camp leader named by the commander himself will be from our mountain shifting division."

Master Yishan of Guo Shanfeng is a new teacher, compared with Master Lu and Master Qi Nian, his qualifications are much lower, and Guo Shanfeng himself cannot compare with the two. In the last seat, even among the Dingzhou Army, some people think that Feng Guo or Jiang Kui is more qualified to be the commander of the third division than Guo Shanfeng. This makes Guo Shanfeng secretly make up his mind that the second battlefield not only Win, and win beautifully.

Xiong Dewu was born as a salt worker, and he fought fiercely. Most of his troops were former salt workers.

"Within two days, your battalion will clear the outer positions for me. Two days later, we will directly attack the city wall of Congling Pass."

Tie Nige was in charge of the Qingbu Qiluo Division on the right wing of the Mountain-moving Division. Holding his breath, he sent [-] people to attack Qiluo. After the two sides fought, Qiluo retreated far away helplessly. They are not inferior to Qingbu Jingkuang in the slightest, and they are now much more fierce than before when they are equipped with Dingzhou equipment.

This saved Tie Nige a little bit of face. Today, he specially came to Guo Shanfeng's camp, in the name of learning the art of crossing the city from Guo Shanfeng. In fact, he couldn't help but want to see Shanfeng The idea of ​​a joke, didn't you say I was useless?Well, I will let you gnaw on this tough bone.

But as soon as the mountain wind broke out and opened up the formation, Tienig was speechless. Hundreds of trebuchets lined up, and densely packed eight-ox crossbows were mounted on chariots. Sorry.

Guo Shanfeng never thought of letting the soldiers attack the front line of defense with their flesh and blood. This defensive system was originally created by Dingzhou Marshal Li Qing, and its lethality is astonishing. Back then, Li Qing relied on this defense system to forcibly block the attack of Wanyan Bulu's tens of thousands of troops with thousands of troops.

I will smash you to death with silver!Guo Shanfeng appreciated Jiang Heiniu's words very much. The commander also said that what is fought in war is money. If you have no money, it is best not to fight.

The range of the trebuchets made in Dingzhou was much farther than those used by the barbarians. At this distance, the only thing to be beaten was really.With the order of the passing mountain wind, the trebuchet made a creaking sound of breaking the tight rope, and with a tight mouth, countless stone bullets tilted out and smashed towards the defensive position on the opposite side.

Round after round, it seemed to never stop, and the eight-ox crossbows, separated by the catapult throwing stones, also began to fire strong crossbows at the opponent. A big hole was opened, and after more than ten or twenty rounds were hit on a section of the parapet, the flaws were exposed, and it was no longer possible to provide cover for the soldiers.

The trebuchet began to extend its range, and the first wing of Xiong Dewu's battalion head had begun to approach.

On the city wall, Badamaningbu watched with disbelief as his position outside the city was smashed to pieces by the opponent's stone bullets, but there was nothing he could do. Passively being beaten, he watched the opponent's pawns approaching, and he ordered severely, "All trebuchets, get ready with crossbows, and hit their pawns hard for me."

(End of this chapter)