Chapter 809: Stalemate
“Fire the arrow!”
“Pengpeng…”
As the Wei army rushed towards the Han army, arrows were raining down like locusts flying.
Those Wei troops who were sent out to test the Han army's camp screamed, and they fell to the ground with clouds of blood exploding from their bodies.
Many of them only wore cloth armor.
The long arrows dropped from mid-air directly penetrated their bodies.
Fresh blood seeped into the clothes, dripping onto the ground drop by drop, nourishing the land.
I wonder how many plants and trees will grow lush in the spring next year because of their flesh and blood?
After the rain of arrows, the Wei army finally rushed to the front of the Han army's formation.
What greeted them was a line of Juma.
The Wei army shouted, holding up long spears, hook spears, etc., trying to push these sharp objects away.
How could they let the Han army achieve their wish if they just refused to attack the horse?
I saw spears shooting out from the gaps between the horses. Many Wei soldiers were unable to dodge and fell to the ground one after another.
“Shield up!”
Wei Junxiao's eyes were red and he shouted loudly.
Soon a Wei army bumped into him with a large shield.
“Crash!”
The horse is shaky.
“Come again!”
Although Feng Yong has an engineering camp specializing in civil engineering, after all, he only has half a day and one night. It is considered very fast to build such a camp.
This kind of barrier can only be regarded as temporary and hastily made, and it is not very strong.
After the Wei army suffered a number of casualties, they clashed repeatedly and finally knocked the Juma to pieces.
“Go for it!”
Seeing that a gap was finally opened, the Wei military commander was overjoyed. He raised his sword and shouted, taking the lead in rushing in.
A long arrow suddenly shot straight through his throat.
Wei Jun's school captain, who was still alive, suddenly lost his eyes.
A hundred steps away, in the Han army's formation, a Han army general wearing a ferocious ghost mask put down the long bow in his hand and muttered:
“You are the only one who can shout happily!”
The captain suddenly fell to the ground. The most successful charge of the Wei army today was unsuccessful. The Han army counterattacked again and was forced out of the camp.
Cao Zhen, who was in the main tent, received the news, but a smile appeared on his face.
According to his idea, he has enough troops to test the Shulu army formation. Under his own repeated attacks, he can always test the weaknesses of the Shulu army formation.
However, judging from the feedback from below, this Sichuan army formation is really weird.
No matter where you attack from, you will encounter exactly the same resistance.
In this situation, there are only two possibilities.
One is that Feng Thief can know in advance where he will attack from.
If Feng Thief only has two or three thousand men in his hands at this time, it is still possible.
But as of now, there should be nearly 20,000 Shu captives.
With such a large military formation, he couldn't even see his own military formation.
How can it be possible to see in advance where to attack from?
So there is only one possibility left.
That is, his formation is a circular formation.
The circle formation is a defensive formation that looks difficult to break, but is actually the most cumbersome.
It's like a turtle, it can only be beaten passively, but it has no way to attack.
Once broken through, there is no chance to escape.
Thinking of this, Cao Zhen laughed loudly and finally ordered:
"Mingjin withdraws the troops."
Although we suffered a lot of casualties today, it was worth it.
On the second day, watching the Wei army resume their attack, Guan Ji suddenly said:
“Cao Zhen is going to mobilize the cavalry.”
“Assault Cavalry?”
Feng Yong subconsciously touched his arms, and then he remembered that a treasure worth five hundred thousand yuan was in Guan Ji's hands. At that moment, he could only stretch his neck and look to the opposite side.
I saw that the crowds on the opposite side were still as crowded as yesterday, densely packed and dark, boundless and with no end in sight.
Other than this, nothing else can be seen.
So Feng Junhou glanced at his mother-in-law: You should let me take a look!
Unexpectedly, Guan Ji didn't even look at him.
Hand did not notice Feng Junhou's eager expression at all.
Thinking of the telescope hacked by the old demon Zhuge, Feng Junhou felt even more depressed.
Guan Ji held up the telescope and looked at her two wings, but found no sign of the Wei army charging into the formation.
This made her a little strange.
“It is indeed a sudden cavalry. Cao Zhen seems to have directly let the sudden cavalry charge into the battle.”
"He's crazy?"
It is not impossible to directly let the cavalry attack the front, but that is under the premise of using infantry to consume the enemy, and then looking for opportunities to tear open the enemy's formation.
Yesterday was the test formation. Logically speaking, today should be a formal battle between the infantry of both sides in a certain direction of the military formation.
This kind of competition is, to put it bluntly, a war of attrition.
What is at stake is the strength of the troops on both sides, as well as the will of the soldiers.
Because of this consumption, many times it’s not just one day.
But it lasts for two or three days, three or four days.
A long time, even a month.
The Battle of Hanzhong lasted for two years.
So in a battlefield like this where both sides have tens of thousands of troops fighting each other, cavalry is used from the beginning.
Either one party has already taken the initiative on the battlefield, or it is a fool and easily wastes the most precious combat power on the battlefield.
Cao Zhen is not a fool, at least he doesn't seem to be.
The assault cavalry did not go into battle immediately. The first ones to come up were still the consumable infantry.
Wave after wave of Wei troops came up, filling in the trenches re-excavated by the engineering battalion at night, and pushing away the last antlers in front of the formation.
Finally, the billowing yellow dust rose up from the far end, and the clouds became more and more numerous, and finally the clouds blocked out the sun.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves gradually became clearer, like a stormy drum beat, quickly amplifying the hearing and vision of the Han army.
Guan Ji's expression finally became serious.
“Fire the arrow!”
Although many of the Tuqi were shot down by the two waves of arrows, the rest continued to charge forward without any hesitation.
“Raise the gun!”
Tall spears are raised like a forest.
"Enter!"
Facing this forest of spears, the Wei cavalry gritted their teeth, lowered their bodies, and tightened their grip on the halberd or spear in their hands.
The two sides collided violently, causing a blood-red sound.
The assault cavalry brought huge impact and had halberds and spears in their hands, although the front row died miserably under the spears.
However, the spears of the Han army also broke apart one after another.
Lance corps, ring knife corps, etc. are all equipped.
The first attack of the Wei army's sudden cavalry was already consumed by the spear team before the Mo Dao team came on stage.
The Hu cavalry in the Han camp quickly spread out, swimming around from both sides, chasing the Wei cavalry who wanted to escape from time to time.
But soon, the second wave of Wei Jun's assault cavalry rushed up.
The intensity of the match on the second day far exceeded Guan Ji's expectations.
This made her clenched the telescope in her hand.
Fortunately, I have a treasure like Alang, otherwise I would have been caught off guard by Cao Zhen today.
Guan Ji was rejoicing, but Cao Zhen started to become irritable.
Throughout the whole day, he mobilized a large number of troops and concentrated on the same position of the Shu captives to continuously attack.
There were several times when it was clear that we could rush into the front camp of the Shu captives, but for some unknown reason, the soldiers who rushed into the formation were driven out again and again.
This feeling is like seeing victory right in front of you, just a little bit closer, just a little bit closer.
But this point keeps slipping out, which makes people really frustrated.
At night, Cao Zhen couldn't sleep, so he went out to inspect the camp.
However, although the morale of the soldiers has not decreased, compared with the previous few days, the spirit of victory is gone.
It can be seen that today's casualties have had some impact on the soldiers after all.
“Da Sima, why don’t we rest for a day tomorrow and then fight again?”
Guo Huai suggested.
"no!"
Cao Zhen flatly refused, "Our army's morale is pretty good now. I think Feng Thief, who traveled a long way and fought fiercely for two days, must be much more exhausted than us."
“Let these soldiers go down tomorrow, and then bring up the rear battalion to charge back into battle.”
The match on the third day was still exactly the same as the second day.
Looking at the military formation of the Shu captives on the opposite side, they are always close to being broken, and victory is right in front of them.
But the soldiers who rushed in were driven back again and again.
The military formation set up by Feng Thief is like a huge wheel, constantly turning, throwing out everything that wants to join it.
There are always breakthroughs time and time again, but the final breakthrough is never visible.
No matter which direction he chooses, Shulu seems to be always prepared and waiting there ahead of him.
This made him feel constrained.
So Cao Zhen began to become a little irritable: Could it be that there are some tricks from Shu captives in our army?
But it shouldn’t be the case. Even if there are fine craftsmen, it’s impossible to send fine craftsmen to every camp, right? !
The reason why he chose to raid Longyou in October was naturally a matter of course.
Because it must have snowed in Longyou in November.
As long as you can enter Longyou, it doesn't matter whether you can defeat the Shu captives in Longyou.
The important thing is to establish a foothold in Longyou.
As long as it waits until the end of October or November, when it snows in Longyou, the Shu captives in Hanzhong will not be able to send a large army to reinforce Longyou.
The two sides had no choice but to make a truce and wait until the snow melts in the spring of next year before fighting again.
Then Wei can take advantage of the truce to strengthen defenses and regain a foothold in Longyou.
Unexpectedly, the Feng thief on the opposite side was even faster than him and directly attacked An Ding.
Thinking of this, Cao Zhen couldn't help but cursed: Xiahou Ba and Hu Zun are two idiots!
One was captured alive, and the other surrendered the city. Anding was occupied by Feng Thief as quickly as possible, completely disrupting his plan.
Because he could go north along the Jiazhong Road to Xiaoguan and cut off Feng's retreat.
Similarly, if you ignore the Feng thief who has already occupied Anding, and enter Longyou directly from Qian County, then the Feng thief will definitely go south along the back road and threaten Qian County.
At that time, your own retreat will be in danger.
Now he is leading the army north to cut off the Feng thief's return route, and then forces him to come forward. He thought he could break it in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a stalemate.
If the Feng thief is not eliminated, it will be difficult to get down from Xiao Pass.
Cao Zhen couldn't help but feel angry when he thought of this.
So he organized the elite soldiers he had into ten teams, and took turns attacking the Shu camp every day.
That's not the only thing that made Cao Zhen irritated.
Because a batch of grain and grass that should be delivered from Qian County did not arrive on time.
This time he led the army from Qian County in a hurry and did not bring much food and grass.
In addition, Qian County is already heavily deployed with troops and has a lot of grain and grass. It can be sent up in batches, so there is no need to worry too much.
But if the food and grass are not delivered on time, it is a serious crime at this time.
"The last general is guilty, Great Sima. This time, a group of thieves appeared out of nowhere on the middle road and attacked the grain road."
“The batch of grain and grass that the last general was responsible for transporting was attacked at night and almost all was burned.”
The Wei general in charge of transporting grain was completely black and black, and even the black ash on his face was not wiped off. He cried to Cao Zhen in tears.
Cao Zhen, who was waiting to lead his army to fight Feng Thief again, looked at this guy who came over overnight and felt that a burst of anger was about to burst out of his chest.
“Where did the thieves come from back on the middle road?”
Cao Zhen asked sternly, pressing the hilt of the sword with his right hand, almost unable to restrain his impulse, and cut off the man's head directly.
"I don't know, either. I only know that these thieves are extremely capable, and are beyond the reach of ordinary thieves. They have strong bows, crossbows, long arrows and heavy arrows. They are extremely powerful. I'm afraid they have a lot of background."
Cao Zhen was already extremely annoyed, but when he heard the words "long arrows and heavy arrows", his heart suddenly jumped.
These days... there are a group of thieves from Shu on the opposite side. Shouldn't they use long arrows and heavy arrows?
Thinking of this, he quickly asked someone to bring up two arrows.
These two arrows, one for a bow and the other for a crossbow, both came from Feng's army.
In the past few days, once the cavalry, infantry and cavalry in the army are hit by such arrows, they will all pass through their bodies. Only the armored men in the army can block them.
The format is different from ordinary arrows.
The grain transport officer saw it and shouted quickly: "Yes, yes, yes! These are the arrows!"
"That thief is not only good at sneak attacks, but he also comes prepared. He even brought oil with him to make rockets..."
Oil? Rocket?
Cao Zhen thought of all the rumors about the Battle of Longyou. He gritted his teeth and finally squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Thief Feng!"
He finally couldn't control the anger in his heart, drew his sword, and struck directly. The cold air passed through the grain transport officer's hair, making him tremble in fright, and he quickly fell down: "Da Sima, please forgive me!"
“Come here, send me the order, let the soldiers have a good meal tomorrow, and raise the army to attack the camp!”
Although he didn’t know how Feng Thief sent people to return to the middle road, Cao Zhen understood the consequences.
If this batch of grain and grass can be burned today, then the next batch of grain and grass may also be burned tomorrow.
The longer I delay here, the greater the pressure on the army's food and grass supply.
Learning that Feng Thief had a side force threatening his food route, Cao Zhen had only one idea now, which was to defeat Feng Thief as soon as possible and capture Xiao Pass.
Then reorganize the army and consolidate the Guanzhong defense line.
As for whether we can cross Longshan Mountain in the end, it all depends on God’s will.
“Is Cao Zhen crazy?”
Even the military mascot Feng Fengjunhou could notice that the Wei army's charge was different from the previous days.
In the past, they chose to break through the central key points, but now they pressed the entire army and charged in an all-out manner.
This is obviously to fight a bad war and use the numbers to wear down our side.
If he fights like this, even if he can defeat himself, he may not have the strength to climb over Long Mountain.
Because of this style of play, just resting and recuperating after the war will take a lot of time.
Guan Ji also frowned, and after a while, she slowly exhaled:
“Alang, it’s time for Erlang’s armored cavalry to prepare for attack.”
“Are you equipped?”
Guan Ji nodded: "Armor and riding equipment!"
(End of this chapter)