The last three kingdoms

Chapter 148 Fierce Battle

Deng Ai personally supervised the battle at the foot of the mountain, looking at the scattered sparks all over the mountain, Deng Ai's face was very solemn.

It is not easy to fight fortified battles. In such a dangerous terrain, even with dozens of times the strength of troops, Deng Ai did not expect to be able to solve the battle with a single attack.

What surprised him was that the Shu army actually used a new type of weapon, an arrow that could explode. Deng Ai had fought with the Shu army for many years, and he had never seen or heard of such a weapon in the Shu army.Deng Ai repeatedly inspected the wreckage of the gunpowder arrow. It was just an ordinary arrow cluster, but the bamboo shaft below the arrow was almost blown apart.Deng Ai knew about the rocket. He tied oiled cloth strips on the shaft of the arrow, ignited it, and fired it. However, the arrows in front of him were different from rockets. They could not only burn, but also explode, although they were not fatal. But it can also cause considerable damage.

The research and development of weapons of the Kingdom of Shu has always been ahead of the two countries of Wei and Wu, such as Yuanrong crossbow, Bailian knife, etc., so Deng Ai was not too surprised when there were novel weapons.In the view of most power holders in the high-level Wei State, it is the overall national strength that determines the outcome of a war, not one or two new weapons. Therefore, the high-level Wei State has always had little interest in developing new weapons, although they once had Ma Jun, a genius inventor, once claimed that he could create a weapon five times more powerful than Yuan Rong's crossbow. However, due to various reasons, until Ma Jun's death, Wei's weapon research and development has been stagnant.The top officials of the Wei State devoted their main energy to improving the comprehensive national strength, until they believed that they had the advantage of crushing the two countries of Shu and Wu, and then began to raise troops to destroy Shu.

Deng Ai is also the implementer of this kind of thinking. In his opinion, no matter how powerful the Yuanrong crossbow is, it is just a dead thing. If you want to win a battle on the battlefield, you have to rely on the morale of the army, the quantity and quality of the army, and the victory of a hundred battles. Soldiers, a brave and brave division, can be invincible.

"Extraordinary skill, the skill of a worm." Deng Ai threw away the half-damaged arrow cluster in his hand, and said contemptuously.

Shi Tuan was in charge of commanding the night attack. When the first wave of attack was blocked, he hurriedly reported to Deng Ai, "Captain, the Shu soldiers have powerful rockets, and our army suffered heavy casualties. Do you want to suspend the attack?"

"No!" Deng Ai said with a serious face, "Continue to maintain the momentum of attack, improve the defense of the shield soldiers, strengthen the countermeasures of the archers, how many casualties in the front, and how much the reserve team will replenish."

"No!" Shi Zuan didn't dare to disobey his order, and immediately turned around and went down, commanding the army to launch the second wave of attack.

There are no tricks and tricks to play in the tough battle, it is all about fighting hard with real strength. Deng Ai has fought countless tough battles, and in terms of experience, no one is better than him. , Only by using continuous attacks to create a sense of oppression for the enemy can the enemy be mentally crushed.A battle of fortification is a war of attrition, which is the same for both the attacker and the defender, except that the attacker has to pay a higher price than the defender, but Deng Ai doesn't care, he has twenty or thirty times the enemy's strength, no matter how big the casualties He can also bear the price.

The defenders on the mountain are different, there are only a few hundred people in total, and there are only one casualty. As long as the pressure is continuously exerted on the mountain, Deng Ai believes that they will collapse in a short time.To put it bluntly, the tough battle is a contest of spirit and willpower. Whoever can resist to the end will be the winner. Those who cannot resist will be the first to collapse.

For Deng Ai, the biggest difficulty is not the lack of troops, but the lack of time. His food and grass can't last for a few days. If he can't take Jingjun Mountain and Jiangyou Pass as soon as possible, his army may starve to death. It is on the Yinping Trail, so Deng Ai needs to get through the Yinping Road at all costs, people block and kill people, gods block and kill gods.

Zhao Zhuo also felt a bit of pressure. Wei soldiers were brave and fearless, and launched wave after wave of offensives. For these soldiers, it was indeed a test. Although these soldiers were of good quality, they were used to being pampered , They have never experienced such a baptism of blood and fire. In the face of such a high-intensity bloody battle, the physical and energy consumption is huge. After fighting for four consecutive hours, they are almost exhausted.

Liu Yin's rotating combat plan is obviously very effective. If all the troops are put into the frontline combat, it may be unsustainable for at most one day, and the combat time of each group of four hours can be said to be just right. , Physical strength and energy are exhausted, and the next group of people will take over immediately, so that the combat effectiveness can be maintained vigorously.

The Wei army's offensive reached its climax during the day. Looking from the top of Jingjun Mountain, the entire rugged mountain road was densely packed with Wei troops, like ants gathering, like locusts arriving, all over the mountains and plains, mighty and mighty , Banners covered the sun, war drums rumbled, and the sound of shouting and killing shook Yunxiao.

Liu Yin couldn't help being deeply shocked by it. Deng Ai's ability to govern the army was really extraordinary. Even on the bumpy mountain road, the Wei army's team was still neat and orderly. The soldiers in front fell, and the soldiers behind They will make up without hesitation, and the entire army is like a well-built war machine, advancing in an orderly manner, like an unstoppable torrent, going up against the mountain, sweeping everything.

The various arms of the Wei army cooperated skillfully, braved the rain of arrows, and pushed forward tenaciously.

The shield soldiers form a dense phalanx, with shields on their heads, each shield is closely connected, almost no gaps can be seen, forming a huge shield, even if one shield soldier is shot to death by random arrows, the shield soldiers behind will be killed. Climbing up without hesitation, the entire giant shield has always maintained a complete appearance, moving slowly and firmly towards the top of the mountain.

The auxiliary soldiers carried sandbags on their shoulders, and built temporary defensive bunkers on both sides of the path to provide shelter for the archers.

Wei Jun also used the bed crossbow—God knows how Deng Ai brought this ultra-long-range offensive weapon to the Yinping Trail, probably this bed crossbow is a detachable equipment—the huge arrows made a loud noise , whistling and flying towards the top of the mountain, all the targets hit by it were easily destroyed, even the thick stone walls were shaken precariously when hit by crossbow arrows.

The battle at Jingjun Mountain had reached a fever pitch. The entire mountain road was already covered with countless dead bodies of Wei soldiers.

But the number of casualties of the family soldiers was increasing sharply, Liu Yin was very worried, and ordered: "Prepare grenades!"

(End of this chapter)