Chapter 42 Rat Den 2
Relying on artillery and gunpowder, the Chu army attacked the city and pulled the village here. Suddenly, there was no artillery, and Ruo Ao only felt that he had a lack of a backbone. With the reward of the scout, the number of Qin troops was greater than that of him. With two divisions and one brigade, the tired army of Qin kings who wanted to repel these strong armored and sharp soldiers in front of him was not that there was no hope of victory, but the hope of victory was extremely slim.
If the Qin army wins, he is driven back to Danshui Valley Road. Although it means that the Japanese and Chu army can continue to attack in the future, it will take at least two days. With these two days, the Chu army has already reached Lantian; With these two days, 50,000 Qin kings will retreat westward to Yiguan very calmly to fight him again. The Yiguan, Lantian, which could have been in full swing, will not know how many days it will take...
Thinking of these consequences, Ruo Ao Duxing was bleeding in his heart, but the four brigade commanders in front of him were waiting for his order. At this time, the five thousand Qin troops had climbed to the northern end of the eastern ridge one after another and began to carefully come south.
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The Xiou army was attacking Batuhe Mountain. The Qin army on the mountain was defeated by them. Qi Hesu ordered the Duwei Zhao to lead 5,000 troops to reinforce, and the Duwei Yu's eight thousand people would have to take down the eastern ridge before dark. It was already high spring, and after the spring was over, there would be a car hanging. Even in summer, the sky would soon be dark. The Qin army would have to drive the Chu army out of the valley before dark, and then guard until tomorrow morning in Wuguan Qin army reinforced and consolidated the defense line. This battle was won.
"General..." Ruo Ao Duxing was obviously a little confused, so Dou Shen shouted.
"I will lead my army to guard the ridge." Ruoao walked alone back to his spirit. "Only by guarding the ridge and waiting for the rest of the army, our army can..."
"No! It should be that the last general led his army to defend the ridge of Dongshan." Dou Shen interrupted without hesitation, and he said again: "The land of the mountains and forests is lush, and the branches and leaves are lush, which is not a place of barbarian spear..." Dou Shen said, pulling the sword in his hand, and cut off the barbarian spear with one sword. He held up the barbarian spear, which was only half of the barbarian spear, and said: "This is the land of short spear!"
"The mountain ridge and mountainside, the reeds and bamboos are bleak. They are dangerous and incomparable. This is not a place for bows and crossbows, but a place for swords and shields." Dou Shen picked up a shield discarded by Qin soldiers. This was the thing that Qin soldiers who were planning to block the Chu army at the entrance of the valley. Unfortunately, there were only one or two hundred yuan. "The Qin general ordered his soldiers to seize the ridge, but did not order swords and shields but the soldiers who were chief spears. This is a big mistake."
Compared to Ruoao's lone and the three young brigades around him, Dou Shen was an old man. He was not optimistic about the Qin general who was commanding the battle. This man was definitely not a general who had been in war for a long time, otherwise he would not have issued such a stupid order. Even the Chu army, who was practicing column tactics, could only run among the mountains and forests, and could not fight among the mountains and forests.
"Good! I will give you the soldiers of the two brigades again, and the East Mountain will be handed over to you." Ruo Ao looked at Dou Shen alone with an extremely eager look.
"The last general will accept the order!" Compared with the battle on the ridge, the valley was basically ignored. Dou Mian Yi Li took the order and left. The three brigades of Chu army spearmen became one soldier, and each soldier cut off the Yi spear and wooden slashes to fight in the forest. Most of the more than 500 archers held the shields thrown by the Qin soldiers, abandoned their bows and used swords.
After climbing the ridge, a team of more than 3,000 people did not confront the Qin army head-on, but ran past the mountainside and penetrated directly behind the Qin army. A two-meter-long chief spear could be stabbed in front, but if you turn around and stab at the left, stab behind, or even the back, because the wooden pole is too long, it will often be blocked by branches.
The chief spear is not flexible, and the bows and arrows are not easy to use - the Chu army did not fight head-on, but suddenly rushed out from the dense forest on the mountainside like the Yue people. The archers could not shoot at all. If they could not shoot, the three thousand archers would be a waste. They could only shoot directly in the front row, and the ridge was narrow and they could not occupy so many people at all.
The Chu army, one soldier and one soldier, walked through the forest like wild boars, and suddenly rushed out from Ye Mao. The Qin army archers had no time to shoot arrows, and the spearmen had no time to turn. When they drew their swords and fought in a short battle, they found that the swords were no match for the Chu army's short spears at all.
The fish-scale iron armor that originally had the advantage had no advantage at all. The Chu army no longer stabbed the body hard, but instead stabbed the throat and neck, and pricked the crotch. This is a place that the fish-scale armor cannot protect. Once hit, it can often be killed with one stab. It would be fine if it could not defend. Because the Qin army was wearing heavy armor, it turned slowly, reacted slowly, and pursued even more slowly.
There were constant screams and screams on the four-mile-long ridge. However, due to the obstruction of branches and leaves, Qi He and others could not see the entire battle situation. Just as he looked south, a Chu army had already gone from the east side to the north side. The thousand short soldiers standing on the ridge were only concerned about defense in front but not defense in back. After all, there were lieutenant soldiers at the foot of the mountain, and no one would have thought that the Chu army could pounce from behind.
"Jing..." A short soldier was pierced by the storm of the Chu soldiers who rushed forward. The Chu army was still row by row of spears, and Qi Hu, who was not a hundred steps away, would be alert. Seeing the Chu army rushing towards him, the soldiers were panicked. The guards beside Qi Hu were shouting "Protect General, Protect General" and pulled Qi Hu quickly down the ridge. The surrounding short soldiers saw Qi Hu running down the ridge, so they naturally followed him down the mountain, making mistakes in chaos. When they ran to the middle of the mountain, they realized that the flag had been forgotten.
"Ruoao! Ruoao!" The Qin army flags on the ridge were waved by the Chu soldiers, and the Qin soldiers on the entire ridge were driven down the valley. At the Chu soldiers who seized the Qin army flags on the East Mountain, the Yue soldiers also cheered on the mountain. They held the military flags of the Xiou army - just like the Chu soldiers on the East Mountain, even more neat than the Chu soldiers. The Yue soldiers led by the Great Elder Song all swept the Tu and the Qin soldiers on the mountain.
The Chu soldiers shouted "Ruoao" and the Yue soldiers shouted "Shizhao". Seeing that both mountains were occupied by the Chu army, the Qin army in the valley slowly retreated from this section of the valley and guarded only the narrow pass between the valley and Wuguan Road. When the Chu soldiers, the Yue soldiers attacked from the mountains and forests again and lost more than a thousand people, the Qin army had to give up the pass and retreated until three miles away before making formation again. At this time, the cannons that had escaped from the cannon mount had just arrived. Amid the cheers of joy, Pan Xuan didn't know what he had missed.
"Tuhe Mountain has been lost?" Wuguan, Zhao Hai was furious when he received the news.
"Report to the general, Jing people are good at fighting in the mountains and forests. When soldiers enter the forest and move quickly without chaos, our army is not as good as that." Lingqi, who came to report the news, reposted the words of Qi Xi. The Qin army did not know that they had cut off the spears, rather than being unable to run away in the mountains and forests. The more complex the terrain, the higher the requirements for discipline and organization. Qi Xi's regret is that even the lieutenant soldiers who are above seven feet and six inches tall will be scattered as soon as they enter the mountains and forests.
"Fu Ru? Haha..." Zhao Hai laughed furiously. He had not experienced the battlefield personally and could not imagine the bloody battle between the squads in the mountains and forests.
"Report to General," Lingqi did not dare to say much, but Mingtang's general reminded: "The Jing people have occupied Tuheshan, and our army has only ten thousand people left. The Jing people should have a follow-up army, and Shangyi has been lost. Since Shangyi has been lost, please make a decision early."
It was too late to defend Tuheshan at the first time, and it was too late to capture it. This was the judgment of the generals present. Although we did not know the news about Jingzi Pass and Zhulin Pass, 20,000 Chu troops appeared in Shangyi. It was obvious that these two Guanjiao had been removed by the Chu people. Since these two Guanjiao were removed, it was impossible for the Chu army to attack Shangyi. Now the attack was only the front army. The result of our reinforcements to Shangyi was that the battle between the Chu army and the Chu army in Shangyi was very likely to be of great help.
Since it is useless, it is time to retreat as soon as possible. The Wuguan River on the east side of Wuguan comes from the Lushi County in the north, and you can go north to the Lushi County. From the Lushi County to the west, you can also turn to Lantian and Guanzhong.
"No. The king ordered me to guard Wuguan, but now the people of Jing have not arrived, but they abandoned the pass and left..." Zhao Hai shook his head repeatedly. "Our army must fight with the people of Jing to seize Shangyi."
Jingzi Pass and Zhulin Pass have been broken, and Wu Pass has no meaning in the short term. These few months are the season for Danshui to be full, and water transportation is not only much higher than land transportation, but also faster than land transportation. However, Zhao Hai, who was ordered to garrison here, was unwilling to retreat to Guanzhong like this. He had to fight to the death with the Chu army to prevent him from attacking westward to Lantian.
As the guard of Wuguan, Zhao Hai had the right to decide whether to fight or not. In Xianyang, five hundred miles west, taking advantage of the last ray of rays of rays of rays of rays, the news that the Jing people captured Tuhe Mountain reached the Guowei Mansion. As soon as the Guowei Wei Liao heard the three words Tuhe Mountain, his teeth could not help but tremble. He tried his best to calm down, but the sound of teeth colliding could not be concealed.
"Master husband! Master husband! Master husband!" After a long time, he cursed these words, then got up and headed for Qutai Palace. He knocked over several cases in front of him. The next step forgot to pass the pirate the day after tomorrow, and he ran to Qutai Palace barefoot.
Even in normal times, Zhao Zheng still has endless official duties, and now a big battle is imminent. He often sits in the Mingtang of Qutai Palace for the middle of the night.
When fighting in large armies, food and grass must be considered first. Six hundred thousand troops rushed to Nanyang to support Nanyang, and the food and fodder on the road were easy to solve. In ancient times, most of the food and fodder were solved on the spot. Only when Meng Tian took Henan and Tu Sui attacked Baiyue, he had to rely on the rear to transport grain. During the marching, as long as the army did not pass through a place repeatedly, food and fodder would be worry-free. But when these 600,000 people arrived in Nanyang, because the officials in various counties and towns in Nanyang County were either killed or fled, the food and fodder would be difficult to solve.
Officials were the skeleton of Qin, and the traitors were the scouts of Qin. During this period of time when they occupied Nanjun and Nanyang County, the Chu army mercilessly killed officials, suppressed all the traitors like wildfire, and burned bamboo slips from the official offices. Once these were gone, the Qin State completely lost control of the grassroots. Even if there was food and fodder in the counties and warehouses, and strong soldiers in various counties and towns, the Qin army could not draw resources from various places.
Chapter completed!