Prancing Horse Xiliang

Chapter 222
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The scout cavalry reined in their horses, cupped their hands hurriedly and said loudly: "The villain has seen the lord."

Luo Zheng pulled the rein lightly, and said in a deep voice: "Forget it, what happened to Chen Cang?"

The scout cavalry replied: "The four gates of Chencang are closed, and the people are not allowed to enter or leave. I am afraid they will not be able to sneak into the city."

Luo Zheng asked again, "Have you ever found out how many soldiers and horses there are in Chencang?"

The scout soldier replied, "At least two thousand."

Jia Xu also urged to come immediately, saying: "General, Chen Cang guards the ancient road of Chang'an. It is one of the passes that must be crossed when leaving Liangzhou in the west of Guanzhong. It has always been a strategic point that military strategists must fight for. heavily guarded."

Luo Zheng made a 'hmm' sound, and waited for the scout cavalry to retreat, before saying: "Wen He is right, now it seems that it is impossible to attack Chencang, since this is the case, there is no need for our army to continue East in."

Jia Xu nodded again and again and said: "General Mingjian, the main goal of our army right now is to mobilize Duan Yan's [-] troops, and then try to find opportunities to wipe out the enemy. It is not yet time to attack Guanzhong. The success or failure of Chang'an is of great importance. Even if our army can attack Breaking Chang'an will only lead to a shift in Dong Zhuo's strategic focus, and sending elite troops to attack the key points in the future will do harm to our army."

Luo Zheng said happily: "This is the reason, so this general will not stab Dong Zhuo in the heart, so as not to provoke Dong Zhuo's desperate counterattack, let Dong Zhuo and the Kwantung princes go to fight for both sides, and this general will first pacify Liangzhou. Wait until Dong Zhuo and the princes of the Guandong can't fight anymore, let's see if there is a chance to attack Guanzhong. However, Duan Yao's [-] army is always a scourge. If there is no way to solve it, even if I defeat Ma Teng, the general must always guard against the threat from Guanzhong. "

Jia Xu took it seriously and said: "What the general said is very true, but Duan Yan was born in the general family and is a veteran of many battles. It may not be so easy to defeat Duan Yao's [-] troops!"

Luo Zheng said with a sly smile: "People came up with the solution. If Duan Yan hides in the camp, the general will have nothing to do with him. As long as Duan Yan's army can be mobilized, our army may not have a chance."

Jia Xu also smiled like an old fox when he heard this, and nodded repeatedly: "This is the truth. If the rabbit hides in the hole, the eagle will naturally ignore it, but if it dares to run out, the eagle has plenty of ways to catch it. These eight There are dangerous peaks, ancient forests, deep ditches and evil streams everywhere in the Qinling Mountains, and ambushes can be planted everywhere, let's see how Duan Yan can defend!"

Luo Zheng felt the same way: "That's right, what Wen He said is very much to my liking, the general looks good on the Chencang Trail!"

Jia Xu's brains turned sharply, and she had already thought of a plan, and immediately said: "There is a way..."

Long County, Gaoshun Camp.

There was a pungent smell of blood in the air, which drifted for more than ten miles with the wind.

The sky-shattering shouts, screams, and the long hiss of the horses mixed together, turning this place into a meat grinder. Soldiers died almost every breath. The brutality of the battle was simply outrageous.

Teams of soldiers with red eyes, driven by the supervisory team, rushed up the hillside bravely without fear of death.

In the rear of the army, Duan Yan's face was so livid that water dripped from his face, and he almost gritted his steel teeth.

Seeing that the soldiers who rushed up were either pierced by bamboo spears and nailed to the ground, or were broken by the rolling logs and boulders falling from the hillside, they could not wait to rush up in person and kill a few enemy soldiers to vent their anger. fire.

After paying an extremely heavy price, Duan Jun's army finally filled the five trenches from the camp to the foot of the mountain, and fought against the rolling wood and boulders that rolled down the hillside, and the bamboo spears that fell from the sky, and killed outside the fence.

"Kill it, let me kill it!"

Outside the fence, the captain of the Commanding Army, with red eyes, yelled heart-piercingly.

"Kill kill kill..."

Nearly a thousand infantry who rushed outside the camp were also red-eyed, roaring and rushing over. Some soldiers ignored them and slashed across the fence with their knives, and some soldiers rushed over, struggling to chop the buried fence .

Some soldiers even climbed onto the fence that was one person high, ready to turn over.

Just then, on the other side of the camp.

"Pikemen, attack!"

Gao Shun stopped drinking, and the [-] pikemen who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped out of the formation and arrived at the front of the formation.

"Han army mighty!"

The captain of the commanding army slanted his spear and let out a long howl.

"War must be won!"

Two thousand spearmen roared in unison, with momentum like a rainbow.

"kill!"

The commander-in-chief stabbed with his spear and nailed to death a soldier who climbed up the fence and turned in.

The two thousand spearmen raised their guns and stabbed, and bloody flowers bloomed immediately outside the fence.

Two thousand snake-like spears stabbed fiercely from the gaps in the fence, and instantly pierced through a large area of ​​Duan Yan's soldiers who were crowded outside the fence and wanted to pull out the fence and rush in. Those who died or were maimed.

The shrill howling sound almost tore the eardrums of people, even if it was at the foot of the mountain, those who heard it were shocked.

The two thousand spearmen remained unmoved, they were indifferent like robots, they kept raising their guns and stabbing, a large number of corpses quickly piled up outside the fence, the fence was already stained red with blood, and the blood was dripping. dripping.

However, more and more soldiers of Duan Yan's army rushed up bravely and killed Hong completely.There was an extremely majestic village head who stepped on the fence and jumped in directly. He swung his saber and killed several people in a row. He was extremely brave.

But soon, the chief's good luck improved.

At least ten long spears pierced him from three directions, piercing him back and forth.

The cooperation of these two thousand spearmen is astonishing, and the efficiency of killing people is even more terrifying. Even if occasionally a very brave soldier of Duan Yan's army leaps in from the fence, he will be surrounded and killed by at least ten spearmen. .

The fierce bloody battle lasted until noon, and a corner of the fence was finally pulled out.

"Kill, kill in!"

A captain of the commanding army brandished his saber vigorously and roared loudly.

The hundreds of knife and ax soldiers who rushed outside the fence immediately rushed in with roars, fighting hard and moving forward.

The rear of the army.

Gao Shun's face was stern, and no expression could be seen on his face like a knife and axe. Seeing that the next battalion was about to be built, he immediately waved his arms and shouted: "The first row of heavy infantry will go out and fight to the death. Army, retreat to the center camp."

The messenger who stood by his side immediately waved the small flag without saying a word.

In an instant, the shocking sound of war drums sounded like cannonballs, extremely rapid.

A full hundred hoplites quickly jumped out of the formation, came to the front of the formation, and blocked the gap that was opened.

"Fight to the death!"

The leader of the village raised his sword and shouted, and a hundred hoplites responded with three shouts.

At the moment when the war drum sounded, the gunmen who were strangling the soldiers of Duan Yan's army retreated without hesitation.

"Chase, kill!"

Junior Duan Yanjun snarled, "Kill these sons of bitches, don't let them get away."

"Kill kill kill..."

The red-eyed soldiers of Duan Yan's army rushed forward, like a group of wolves rushing into the sheepfold, their blood-red eyes seemed to choose someone to devour, and they struggled to cut out from the armor of the heavy infantry that blocked them. A slip of sparks.

At the foot of the mountain, in front of the army.

"not good!"

A general hurriedly said to Duan Yan: "General, the front battalion has been broken, and Gao Shun is about to retreat to the middle camp. Gao Shun's army must not be allowed to retreat to the middle camp, otherwise our army will have to pay a heavy price if we want to break through the middle camp." cost."

Duan Yan had also seen it a long time ago, without even thinking about it, he stopped and shouted: "The order is to kill at all costs. You must smash the two camps above with one effort and capture Gao Shunpifu alive. This general wants to kill him personally." .”

"Order."

Long ago, the messengers responded with a roar of tigers, and rode away in anger.

In an instant, the ferocious and shocking sound of gold and iron drums sounded again from the rear.

The deafening shouts of killing became louder in an instant, and without the stabbing of the spearmen, the soldiers of Duan Yan's army immediately jumped over the fence and entered the front camp, chasing upwards desperately, trying to break into the middle camp in one fell swoop.

At this moment, just as the spearmen retreating to the middle camp passed by, a group of arrows had already been fired, and the bows and arrows that were drawn like a full moon appeared in the eyes of Duan Yanjun who was chasing up. Shouted, "Quickly form a shield formation!"

However, it was too late.

The soldiers who climbed over the fence have long since lost their formation, and even lost their shields. How can they form a shield formation.

The next moment, amidst the continuous light vibration of the bowstring, a black rain of arrows poured down from the head.

Amidst the miserable howls, a large number of soldiers of Duan Yan's army who were chasing up immediately fell down, and the captain at the front received special attention. He was stabbed into a hedgehog, spitting blood, and fell heavily on the ground. The ground rolled down the hillside in an instant.

More soldiers fell to the ground with arrows and turned into human-shaped rolling logs, rolling down the hillside.

The soldiers who came up from behind were thrown into chaos, and when they were in chaos, waves of arrows unceremoniously poured down on Duan Yan's army, causing huge casualties to Duan Yan's army again.

At the foot of the mountain, in front of the army formation, Duan Yao just stared, his eyes were about to burst, and he almost wanted to vomit blood.

Too bad, really too bad.

In just three days, the casualties caused by the attack on this broken mountain exceeded the casualties of the attack on Long County. This simply violated the common sense of war.

Until now, Duan Yan finally realized that he had made a small mistake, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

If I had known this earlier, I would have gone straight back to Chen Cang, occupied all the key passes, built strong walls and cleared the fields, and surrounded them layer by layer. First, I would kill Luo Zheng's more than ten thousand cavalry, then go back and deal with Gao Shun's eight thousand troops, and finally take Long County.

Now instead of breaking through the Gaoshun camp, they suffered heavy casualties, which is really not worth the loss.

And Duan Yan finally realized that sometimes, under the special geographical constraints, those seemingly simple camps are not necessarily bigger than the strong city. Can't play out.

At most two or three thousand soldiers can rush up at a time, and they are crowded on the hillside less than a hundred feet wide. Whether it is a thrown bamboo spear or a rolling wood and stone rolling down from above, the soldiers crowded on the mountain road have no way to avoid it. avoid.

The end result is to use human lives to fill Gao Shun's camp.

If it was changed to a strong city, the soldiers could still avoid it for a while.

However, crowded on this damn hillside, they could only bury the lives of countless soldiers.

Just when Duan Yan was about to crush his steel teeth, Gao Shun's army finally withdrew to the middle camp, and the morale of Duan Yan's army, which had regrouped and rushed forward, was already extremely low. Seeing the countless rolling wood and rocks on the hillside, they roared like a group of ferocious beasts Long's fell down again, the morale of the army collapsed immediately, he threw away his weapon immediately, and ran down the mountain crying.

Even if the supervising team's saber is added to their bodies, they don't care about it at all.

Duan Yao's eyes were burning, and his chest rose and fell rapidly like a bellows.

All the generals around him also had pale faces, their eyes full of disbelief.

The Xiliang army, which has always been fierce and good at fighting, can't even take down a single camp.

This is a big blow to everyone, the belief of being invincible and invincible was shattered by this cruel fact, and Lao Tzu's idea of ​​being number one in the world was unknowingly obliterated.

After a long time, the general said: "General, why don't you take a rest for now and attack again!"

Duan Yao's face was ashen, and he almost burst out a few words from between his teeth, "Decree, Ming Jin withdraws troops."

"Order!"

All the generals breathed a sigh of relief, they were afraid that Duan Yan would forcefully attack regardless of the consequences.

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