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Chapter 27 Tomorrow

The position on the side of Yuanwu Mountain was aimed at the Ba people who rushed down the mountain pass. The fifteen-pound cannons were bombarding. After several days of war, the birds and beasts nearby had gradually become accustomed to this huge roar. However, every time the cannon sounded, clusters of birds in the deep forest would still startle. The birds were frightened, and the Ba people were frightened. After several fierce attacks were defeated by artillery a few days ago, all they could do was to harass them day and night. Even if the Chu army stopped what they were doing, it would be considered as a goal.

The valley was not a straight line. At least the valley facing the Chu army now had three obvious corners, one was at the mountain pass, and the other two were about a mile in front of the mountainside position. As soon as the cannons bombarded, the Ba people hid in the corner at the bottom, which was a safe place. Seeing the Ba people retreating like a mouse, someone on the position began to shout, "The Qin people were defeated, the Qin people were defeated." At this time, Lu Zi just rushed to the bottom of the mountain.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, which was later called Sancha Village (the east-west ravine, plus the valley up the mountain, is actually Sancha, which is a flat land about seven or eight hundred meters long). Lu Qi and Lu Gao looked up at the Yuanwu Mountain together. The altitude difference between the tops of the two sides and the foot is about one thousand meters. The slope of the hillside, which is more than 4,000 meters long, is 25%, and the elevation angle is about seventeen degrees.

The mountain peaks are towering, and the valley appears relatively flat, with a slope of only half that of the mountain. The valley is also wide, at least the width of the one in front of me is dozens of steps. People come and go in the valley, and there are shouts of "The Qin people are defeated" above everyone's heads, and the gray-white smoke spreading in the air. Lu Zi seemed to smell the siege of the city again.

"How? Is this mountain dangerous?" The curtain was set at the Sanchakou. Lu Chuang and Lu Gao were waiting for the main general Cheng Tong to summon him. Unexpectedly, Cheng Tong went out of the tent to speak directly. The two of them were shocked and said hurriedly: "I have seen the general."

"No gifts." Cheng Tong seemed a little tired. The Chu and Qin army felt the importance of Yuanwu Mountain if they could not attack at night. The Chu army urgently transferred Lu Qi's siege brigade, and the Qin army was also mobilizing elite troops. Yesterday, there seemed to be the guards responsible for the safety of the Qin Palace. The two sides had fought in Xianyang.

"It's you two little guys again." Xin Cai Shi led Pan Wuming to pat his palms on Lu Feng and Lu Gao's shoulders. He had drunk wine with them when he was in Juyi, and he also knew that Lu Feng was here to compete for military achievements.

"I have met Mr. Pan." Lu Chuang and Lu Gao didn't care about Pan Wuming calling themselves, and bowed with a smile.

"If we don't pull out this battle, our army will not be able to advance in a state of mind. This, this..., cough cough," Pan Wuming was a rough man. He learned Cheng Tong in the first two sentences, and Pang Nuan said in his tone. After saying these two sentences, he didn't know how to continue. He could only watch Cheng Tong let Cheng Tong speak.

Cheng Tong didn't want Pan Wuming to lose his steps, so he quickly said, "Call you to attack the mountain, not to attack the mountain. It means that the siege brigade does not have to attack the mountain pass..."

"There is no need to attack the mountain pass?" Lu Cai and Lu Gao were puzzled. Attacking cities and mountains requires one-piece action. Since you have attacked, you have to attack the mountain pass. "Why don't you have to attack the mountain pass?" Lu Gao asked.

"The Qin people built a fortress at the mountain pass to defend it, but you cannot attack the mountain pass." It forms a passage. "You can only attack it with artillery. When the forty-five kilograms of cannons are dragged to the mountain pass, you can break the Qin army's groundbreaking and attack the mountain pass."

Lu Cai didn't know that Lu Gao had personally served such a cannon in the combat department, and the weight of the thing was as high as a small trencher. When he thought of pulling such a heavy thing to the top of the mountain, he opened his mouth wide and smacked his tongue.

"It is not that you want to wait for the cannons to go up the mountain, but you want to attack to the top, and then the sealer pours a large concrete pillar, and use a horse to drag the cannons to go up the mountain." Cheng Tong said that when he wanted a horse, he also pointed to two units at the foot of the mountain, which was emitting white steam.

"The large concrete pillar?" Lu Chuang and Lu Gao were stunned. Thousands of soldiers from all over the brigade came to protect the construction of the seal?

"Yes." The person who spoke was no longer Cheng Tong, but the general of the artillery soldiers to stop the enemy. He looked at Lu Qi and Lu Gao. What made Lu Gao feel uncomfortable was that his eyes only stayed on his face for a short time and turned to Lu Qi's face.

"This is the general of the artillery soldiers to stop the enemy." Cheng Tong looked at the talk of the enemy and introduced it, and the two of them hurriedly saluted.

"This is General Gongshu, the general of the engineer." Everyone in the shogunate came out, and Cheng Tong continued to introduce Gongshuji. "This is Linwujun, the general of Zhao who was personally led by the five-nation coalition forces to attack Qin, and now it is the journey of Cangwu."

"I have met Linwu Jun." Lu Chuang and Lu Gao saluted again.

"This is Feng Renqiao." The last one introduced is Feng Renqiao, who has a dark face and very young eyes.

"The siege brigade attacked the valley to protect the sealed people and dig soil to build pillars." Pang Nuan was like the enemy, and his eyes did not stop on Lu Gao's face, but stared at Lu Jing. Lu Jing was the brigade leader. It was rumored that this man fell down the city wall several times with his enemy in his arms. The enemy fell to the ground and died. At most, he was injured and twisted his feet, and he became active again after a few months.

"I will accept the order." Lu Chuang bowed to Cheng Tong and others.

"Shen Qing's artillery soldiers are already on the mountain. When can you fight?" Shen Qing was the battalion commander of the artillery battalion. He had always cooperated with the siege brigade before. The reason why Cheng Tong asked this was that he had been waiting for three days and did not want to wait any longer. He now wanted to attack Lu Chuang and attack the mountain pass as soon as possible. The news from Wuguan Road would be able to repair the plank road in at most ten days, and the king would soon leave Lantian.

"Ming... it's okay." As soon as Lu Qi said the word "Ming" was revealed, Lu Gao moved him, but he still said tomorrow.

"Let's go tomorrow..." Cheng Tong seemed disappointed.

"No today?" Pang Nuan on the side also asked. The Chu army was not the Zhao army, and siege was not a formation battle. For siege, the shogunate usually only stated specific requirements and gave a general time. The specific time of the combat plan was drafted by the commanded division.

"The Qin people's equipment is unknown at the mountain pass, and the soldiers have not yet come to rest..." Lu Qi seemed to have not seen Cheng Tong's disappointment and Pang Nuan's displeasure, and only said his own considerations. "I will investigate the terrain today, and the army will discuss warfare at night, and we can fight tomorrow."

"That's it." Cheng Tong looked at the top of the mountain and said without any objection. After saying that, he pointed casually, cares about what you meant by yourself, and turned around and returned to the shogunate. As soon as he left, Pang Nuan, Pan Wuming and others also left, and only his old partners Shen Qing and Feng Renjiao were left outside the shogunate.

"It's difficult." Lu Gao was about to blame Lu Qi for not observing his expressions, but Shen Qing sighed. He walked in front to lead the road up the mountain, and said as he walked: "Let's look at the mountain and the equipment of the Qin people first."

Siege is different from attacking mountains, especially in the valley, which have several corners, which cover the firepower and play a crucial role in covering the enemy out of the valley. In Lu Chuang and Lu Gao's view, this is equivalent to capturing three cities. Each corner is a dirt city, and the enemy guards the corners, and the artillery can't support the battle at all.

This is also the reason why the siege brigades were drawn. The Chu army and the Yue people were used to the spear formation for a long time. The spear formation was inconvenient to unfold in such a narrow place. Even if it was unfolded, it would not be able to form a formation due to the staggered mountain situation. The Ba people had spears and swords and shields, but their formation was not yet proficient enough, and they were better at scattered fighting than formations. Only the siege brigades were used to using swords and shields and were good at fighting in rugged and dangerous places. Another reason might be that Lu Cang was rude. When his military flag was blown by the wind on the mountainside position, the enemy at the corner fluctuated.

"Pushing the mountain?!" Some of Langzhong Ba people shouted loudly. They did not garrison the mountain pass. Considering that the two corners below the mountain pass were not important, Meng Tian agreed to them to garrison here to delay the advance of the Chu army.

According to the habits of Qi people, the word "Lu" on the military flag is written by a merchant. There is a wavy mountain peak on the left, and a wavy mountain peak on the right, with the peak facing inward and outward, and the upper half of the word "六" between the two peaks. It is like a person standing between two mountains. The short horizontal line above the word "六" is his arm, and the arms are raised upward and high, as if they want to push away the peaks on both sides. The long horizontal line below is his thighs, and the thighs are wide to both sides, connecting to the lower calves, firmly standing between the mountains.

The people of Langzhong Ba did not know Xia Wen, and the most direct understanding of this image was to push away the mountains. This is right, this is exactly the original meaning of the Chinese character creator. What is Lu? Lu is the wasteland at the foot of the mountain. These wastelands are not flat, and people need to fill it up. The meaning of the word is that people must open up hard under the uneven mountain to obtain a small piece of precious land that can be cultivated.

The word "Lu" on the military flag is that there is a person sandwiched by two mountain peaks. The oracle bone inscriptions is a wavy mountain peak on the left, and two people on the right. Both are manifestations of the various ways of writing the word "Lu" in the ancient character "Lu" but different shapes but the meaning is exactly the same.

As an old opponent, Baren saw the military flag with one person on the two mountains and immediately realized that it was the old opponent. A leader held Lu Lijing and jumped on the high place for a while, and confirmed that the person coming was Lu Zi and jumped down again. Then someone soon walked out of the corner to block the view and ran down the valley to the entrance.

"The Ba people know that you have come here, so they must be prepared. Why don't you attack today?" Lu Gao wanted to persuade Lu Chuang to attack today. Now, seeing the enemy alert, he couldn't help but complain.

"The enemy is not familiar with the mountains, and the soldiers are tired from afar..." Lu Qi felt the other party's alertness. Of course, he also wanted to attack today and catch the Qin people off guard, but he had never seen the terrain and rested the soldiers. How could he lead them to the battlefield?

"There is a pillar at the corner!" Feng Renqiao was beside him, and the entire siege brigade served him, so he naturally made a request.

"At the corner?" Lu Chuang and Lu Gao looked at the two places together.

"There is also a mountain pass." Feng Renjiao pointed his hand upward. "It is best to have a hundred steps away from the mountain pass."

"It's not difficult to attack, it's difficult..." Lu Gao did not have actual combat, but he had a lot of knowledge. "How long does it take for you to set up a pillar?"

"At least one day." Feng Renqiao replied. "You can set up a pillar in one day, get out of the ground for several inches, and then bury it. It will solidify and cannons in seven days. However, it is necessary to attack again in seven days. At that time, the large pillar will be dug out and the cannon will be dragged to the vicinity of the mountain pass."
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