Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 145 Murong Chui is Here

On August 27th of the third year of Shengping, Gao Jingzong led the Sixth General of Zhonglang to Feng County (now Yongcheng, Henan). Qiao country.Later, the jurisdiction was changed to Liang County (now Shangqiu), and Feng County was the frontier of Liang County in Yan State.The city wall of Feng County is not more than ten feet high, and it is very dilapidated. Although there is a city wall, it is not very useful for defense.

Therefore, Gao Jingzong arranged all the more than [-] troops in the Sixth Zhonglang General's Mansion and the four Zhechong Mansions in field battles.Although there is no city wall to block it, the camp of the dead army is like a city at this moment!As far as the eye could see, the camp was surrounded by seven-foot-high earthen walls.The earth walls are not arranged in a circle, but there are many gaps between the earth walls. In front of the earth walls, many incoherent ditches were also dug, and the excavated soil was also built into a small wall half seven feet high.

During the attack and defense of Siwu City, Tian Luo, the sixth Zhonglang general, discovered that the low earth barrier like the parapet had an unexpected magical effect.

Although these earth walls are not rammed with glutinous rice soup mixed with clay as in the construction of cities, they are ideal fortifications to prevent cavalry attacks because the earth walls are filled with rectangular piles of thick wooden piles.Under the protection of such a messy parapet, the cavalry had no chance to increase their speed at all, and the cavalry who lost their speed suffered heavy losses in the face of infantry attacks due to the large target and inconvenient rotation.

The seven-foot-high earth wall is not that high. For infantry, even without any tools, they can climb over it with bare hands.However, the seven-foot-high earth wall is not something that a war horse can jump over.These earth walls are arranged in irregular layers, leaving the enemy's passage not only narrow, but also long, which will make the enemy's advantage of having a large number of troops unable to be brought into play, and at the same time, reduce the difficulty of defending the dead army!

This is Tian Luo's cleverness. If the circular fortifications are breached at one point, the whole line will be in danger of being defeated.The irregular and messy earthen walls are very tricky in layout.

Gao Jingzong led the sixth Zhonglang general Tian Luo, the left and right generals Ran Yu, Liu Laozhi, and the four captains of Zhechong pointed to the camp in Feng County and said: "This way of setting up a camp is worth learning by the whole army. , Record it down, announce it to the whole army, and use it as a rule in the future, and use it as a model for the battalions of all ministries!"

"The last will obey!"

"There is something missing!" Gao Jingzong suddenly had a flash of light in his head, and he suddenly realized: "The governor remembered it. Yes, there are also eight arrow towers arranged according to the nine palaces and eight trigrams."

The so-called "Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams".It is mysterious and mysterious, but in fact it is just the notation that the ancients used to record the location. In Houtian Bagua with Luoshu, the corresponding relationship is "one palace Kan (north), two palace kun (southwest), three palace Zhen (east) , the fourth palace is Xun (southeast), the fifth palace, the sixth palace is Qian (northwest), the seventh palace is Dui (west), the eighth palace is Gen (northeast), and the ninth palace is Li (south).

"Is this necessary?" Tian Luo frowned and said, "It is very difficult to build one arrow tower. If you build eight arrow towers, it will take time and effort."

Arrow towers, arrow towers are built on the corners or walls of the city, set up at regular intervals, as strong strongholds.The arrow tower will protrude from the flat city wall, so that the defenders in the arrow tower can shoot outwards along the direction the city wall faces.In the words of the image, it is the ancient version of the gun tower.

Liu Laozhi also felt that Gao Jingzong was making a fuss out of a molehill, setting up a temporary camp and actually building an arrow tower, what a prodigal.

Gao Jingzong said: "You all misunderstood, the meaning of the governor is..."

Gao Jingzong had no choice but to find a branch to draw the arrow tower he wanted on the ground.With a few strokes on the ground, Gao Jingzong outlined the appearance of an "arrow tower".

"Captain, are you sure this is the Arrow Tower?" Tian Luo asked incredulously, "This is the Arrow Tower?"

Gao Jingzong said solemnly: "This is natural, isn't this the arrow tower?"

Liu Laozhi wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh and said: "This is a sentry tower, not an arrow tower!"

"If it's just sentry towers, it's not difficult to build eight in the Chinese army camp!" Tian Luo said: "We just need to erect a few wooden stakes, remove the wheels from a van, and hang them up to form a sentry tower!"

Seeing Ran Yu and Liu Laozhi want to laugh but dare not laugh, their little faces flushed, Gao Jingzong finally realized that he had made a big oolong himself.Liu Laozhi even thought to himself: "I can't even tell the difference between the arrow tower and the sentry tower, how can the governor win this series of wars?"

At this moment, they saw a cavalryman with a three-sided inverted triangle red flag running towards him. This was an emergency messenger cavalry sent by the sentinel of the dead army.

"Report..." The sentry cavalry sang in a long voice: "It's an urgent military situation, don't stop it!"

The soldiers of the dead army hurriedly moved away the Luchai and Jumas placed in front of the camp, leaving a passage.After a while, the sentry rider got off his horse, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said, "Report to the governor, Murong Chui, the governor of Yan Guozheng's Southern Commander, has led [-] cavalry to Huixiang. It's less than forty miles away from us!"

"Murong Chui is here? So fast?" Gao Jingzong said, "It came so fast!"

"Not so fast." Tian Luo said: "It's just that there is an alert ahead. For the infantry, the distance of forty miles still takes half a day. However, it is less than an hour before it gets dark, unless Murong Chui will attack with light cavalry. Otherwise, it will take tomorrow at the earliest."

After Tian Luo judged this point, after a while, the second sentry cavalry brought news again that Murongchui's camp had set up camp in Huixiang.Gao Jingzong ordered the various departments of the dead army to continue training.

At this time, all the soldiers of the dead army heard that Murong Chui led [-] cavalry to attack, the whole army was not afraid, but excited.The No. [-] Zhonglang General's Mansion of the Dead Army was reorganized from [-] young dead soldiers, more than [-] Tian Family Army soldiers, and nearly [-] captive recruits.

At this time, the young dead army is no longer simply equipped with red tasseled spears, but adopts the same organization as other dead troops.The whole army rushed to the mansion in four folds, with a total of more than [-] people with bows and arrows, a total of more than [-] people with one-stone mountain mulberry crossbows and three-stone foot-mounted crossbows.There are more than [-] spear and spear soldiers and more than [-] sword and shield soldiers.

"Murong Chui is coming." Gao Jingzong slowly wiped a hundred-refined steel sword, and said with a light smile, "I will definitely not disappoint Murong Chui." He put the sword back into its sheath.

It was close to noon the next day when Murong Chui led the army and arrived late. Gao Jingzong said: "The whole army is deployed to meet the enemy. The old rule is that the first-level reward is five thousand for beheading, one hundred thousand for serious injuries, ten acres of fertile land, and 20 for being disabled. Ten thousand, twenty acres of fertile land, one million rewards for death in battle, and one hundred acres of land, you soldiers don’t have to save money for the governor!”

At the same time, the Chinese Army's sixteen-sided leather drum "Dong Dong..." sounded, conveying Gao Jingzong's order to the entire army with the sound of the drum.The cheers of all the soldiers of the dead army were like thunder.

Then the earth trembled faintly, and finally trembled violently. It seemed that at the same time, at the end of the northern sky, there were ocean-like banners protruding.Countless knights of the Yan army came running wildly, the darkness was endless, they let their horses run wildly, the sound of iron hoofs shook everyone's heart faintly.Looking at the sea of ​​fluttering flags and the boundless war horses, Gao Jingzong became nervous.It seems that the information is wrong, the Yan army coming from the south should be more than 4 horses.

(End of this chapter)