Chapter 31: Li Huan Suo
"The subordinates do have two strategies, which may make it difficult for the Jing people to move forward." Meng Tian's question quickly made the shogunate quiet. A group of strategists whispered for a long time, and finally came up with two solutions.
"What's the plan?" Meng Tian leaned over and asked anxiously.
"First, our army can attack it with huge rocks and smash the Jing people's chariots." Meng Gong bowed. "Second, our army can..." Meng Gong said at the critical moment and stopped the sound. He walked to Meng Tian and whispered a few words. Meng Tian couldn't believe it when he heard this. He asked, "Can it really be like this?"
"It can be done." Meng Gong emphasized, "but this can only be done once."
The Ba people occupied the peaks on both sides of the valley, and the closer they were to the mountain pass, the steeper the mountain. The hillside, which is only more than one mile long, is 400 meters higher at an altitude and has an elevation angle of more than 45 degrees. Such a slope is not easy to attack, even climb. The suggestion of the Grand Sima Mansion to attack trenches is not without reason. Whether the Qin people roll stones or shoot crossbows, they can only be blocked with trenches.
It is just to attack it with trenches. It is not easy to dig a trench that can be used by chariots and horses. The trench can cover the attacks of the Qin people, so the Qin people will not attack when digging trenches? If the Qin people throw stones and shoot arrows, digging trenches will inevitably become digging tunnels. Digging trenches is fast, digging tunnels will be slow. Although there is no need to worry about landslides for three or four miles, the time will definitely be long.
Ephes asked for horses to pull, and used chariots to cover the cannon carts and soldiers, so that they could also cover the rolling stone arrows on both sides, and the speed was faster. In addition to pulling out Sanguan as soon as possible and attacking Guanzhong, another reason was that the autumn rain would come soon. Once the autumn rain came, the valley would be cloudy and mist, and the road would become very muddy. At that time, if the ancient Daoyi was not attacked, the north of the Nanzheng City, the 250-mile mountain road after the Baoshui landed on the shore may not be able to support the army's logistics.
Lu Qi did not sleep all night, and his bloody armor was always worn on his body. He regretted that he did not bombard the first corner, and sent an envoy to a certain extent to ask the Ba people to retreat, and insisted on showing off his might and fighting them to the death.
The battle was won and the corner was seized, but unfortunately time was delayed. The war that could have attacked the mountain pass in one day was delayed for a day, giving the enemy time to deal with it. He was personally worried that the enemy would launch a night attack at night, but he guarded all night without any movement except for listening to the cry of apes and owls.
When it was almost dawn, the temperature suddenly became cold and the white frost fell. Lu Chou couldn't stand the cold and gritted his teeth and held on. The dark night in front of him suddenly melted. After a while, the noisy birds cried everywhere in the mountains and forests, and the gray-black night turned into thin mist, and the entire valley was shrouded in a hazy area.
"Your Majesty, I just want to be wary of the people falling rocks today..." A servant came from the camp to report, and he stood in front of Lu Qi and spoke. Before Lu Qi could finish hearing, he pulled out the short sword in his hand and stabbed him suddenly. The master stabbed him with a sword. The servant was stunned immediately, but the sword body just wiped his armor and stabbed behind him. The screams protruded in his ears. A Ba man who was wielding an axe behind him fell down, and warm blood splattered on his back.
"Why are you so careless?" Lu Qi put away his sword and moved his arms and waist.
"Little man, villain..." The servant was speechless and sweated like rain. Thinking of Naba Ren following him. If he hadn't just found the Lord, he might have been chopped by him.
"Raising the shield, forming a formation." Lu Qi did not listen to his explanation. The soldiers beside him had already raised their shield to form a formation to resist the Ba people who were attacking the fog. After the whistle, the drums in the ring camp had already sounded, and all the soldiers who were sleeping were awake, and there were shouts of killing around him. But seeing that the Chu people were on high alert, the sound of shouting and killing quickly disappeared. After shooting out a few crossbow arrows, the Ba people completely disappeared into the thick fog.
"Thirty-six people died..." When it was dawn, Sima Zhang Han from the brigade came to bow. At this time, Lu Chui was having breakfast. He was stuffing a large piece of canned horse meat into his mouth with yellow corn rice. The number of casualties did not surprise him. More than 100 soldiers were killed in the battle yesterday.
"When will you drag the cannon?" Lu Qi swallowed the rice meat in his mouth and asked.
"The horse is already making a fire." Zhang Han told the workers' notice. The boiler must be heated first, and it will take about half an hour. It will be bright in half an hour.
"How about the fake guy?" Lu Qi asked Lu Gao again. He was swept the head helmet by a broken giant wire rope, but fortunately it was just the upper edge. The head helmet was knocked away on the spot. When he was helped up from the ground, he told the doctor that his ears roared and his headache was about to break.
"There is still a constant blow." Zhang Han subconsciously shook his head. The fake king was injured in order to save Ba Nu. This was a very stupid thing to everyone. Some people even said that the fake king was lustful and made people confused. Of course, if the fake king saved a Chu girl, even if the Chu girl was just a concubine, the public opinion would be different. Everyone would only say that the fake king not only had a kind heart, but also had extraordinary courage.
Lu Chuang ignored everyone's discussions. He knew that he could not leave Lu Gao for advice. "Let him recover for the time being." He instructed, and then continued to eat. When he finished the meal, he heard the shouts of the workmen. The thick silk rope dragged over, circled the pulley for half a circle, and then pulled it back quickly. After waiting for a while, the ground under his feet suddenly shook, and the first rushing car slowly advanced along the uneven mountain road, heading towards a corner a mile away.
The sun had already come out and the fog gradually dissipated. There were countless people standing on both sides of the valley full of frost. They once again saw the rushing car in the valley without pulling horses and moving forward strangely. Standing on the highest peak on the left side of the valley, Meng Tian and others also saw the rushing car moving forward. At this time, the fog was completely dissipated, looking down from a high place, the distance of more than 1,000 meters could be seen clearly without Lu Li's mirror.
The narrow and long rushing car was grabbed by a thick rope and advanced at a normal walking speed. The mountain road was not smooth, but the rushing car was effortless. Following the thick rushing car, Meng Tian saw the Fu Yao horse behind the rushing car. The Fu Yao horse was hidden in the huge rushing car like a cannon, and it could not be seen at all. On the mountain without killing, there was an inexplicable, 'ho sneering ho sneering' sound that had never been heard before.
‘Boom--!’ A fire flashed and the cannon sounded suddenly. The Ba people on both sides of the valley were prying the huge rocks on the hillside. When the Chu soldiers saw it, they quickly fired fire to stop it. Although the shells did not hit the Ba people, they were so scared that they could dodge everywhere.
Seeing this, the chief, who was standing at a higher place, waved the axe and shield in his hand, as if he was warning, and seemed to be cursing. The evasive man ran back and pried the huge rock again. The cannon sounded even louder, but the huge rock had been pried and shaking, and before the other cannons came, they rolled down tremblingly.
With a drop of hundreds of meters, the huge rock was already speeding in the valley. ‘Boom-!’ The huge rock did not hit the rushing car, but caused a wave of shaking even more violently than shelling. Meng Tian on the top of the mountain also felt a trembling under her feet.
"It's a pity that I haven't hit it!" Meng Gong's voice beside him. The rushing car is only three meters long, and the speed of the huge rock rolling down cannot be controlled. It is indeed difficult to concentrate such a small target at a distance of hundreds of meters.
The first huge rock failed, and the second huge rock did not hit. At this time, the Chu army artillery had already adjusted. The artillery would hit the car at the same position. The Ba people on both sides of the valley began to force the rock down the mountain with shells. As the artillery fire became more and more dense, they were hit several times in a row, and the people finally scattered like birds and beasts.
So under Meng Tian's nose, artillery big and small, and Fu's horses in the rushing car were dragged to the corner that was occupied by the Chu army yesterday. As soon as this corner passed, the valley was facing the mountain pass. Meng Tian felt very uneasy when he thought of the huge witchcraft facing the mountain pass.
The only thing that made him feel a little relieved was that the Chu army could only reach this corner, and the witchcraft could not be dragged forward. He thought so, and Hou Zhengzao's hand suddenly pointed straight to the bottom of the mountain. Standing at the top of the mountain, the corner where the Chu army was located was located in the southeast of the top of the mountain. Hou Zhengzao is now pointing in the east, which is somewhere below the mountain pass.
Looking over the forest on the hillside, Meng Tian saw the figures of some Jing soldiers. They rushed to the mountain pass, rushed to about two hundred steps away from the mountain pass, and stopped moving forward with their shields. There were crossbows at the mountain pass, and there were various giant crossbows besides the Kezhang crossbow. Two hundred steps was a distance that was inconvenient to shoot. The Kezhang crossbow could not shoot at the enemy at this distance. Although the giant crossbow could be shot, they used the giant crossbow to shoot more than a dozen Jing soldiers. Not only would the position of the giant crossbow, they could not kill a few Jing men.
The Jing people who were rushing forward stayed at the mountain pass for a short while before quickly retreating. Meng Tianshu, who was watching them, breathed a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, Meng Gong and others had not thought of a reassurance to him. Huang, the confidant of the guard guard at the mountain pass, rushed over, "Report to the general, the Jing people are dragging their witchcraft to the mountain pass and want to attack me."
"Ah?!" Meng Tian was shocked. Looking at the foot of the mountain, he saw a corner of the rushing car. As before, the rushing car was moving forward at a walking speed. The Jing people hit the drums, and the sound of the drums shook the mountains and forests.
"How did the Jing people push..." Lieutenant General Qi He was also on the top of the mountain. What he couldn't understand the most was that the Chu army had not captured any of the foothills below the mountain pass, so how could it drag the heavy witchcraft to the foothills? This section of the mountain road was the most rugged. Could it be that there were strong men who could lift a tripod in the rushing cart? They were pushing the cart up the mountain?
He was confused, and the others didn't understand it for a while. After a while, a counselor coughed heavily and bowed: "Report to the general, what the Jing people used may be a snail."
"Li Huansuo?" The extremely unfamiliar name, no one knows one or two.
The adviser continued: "The Jing people dragged the witchcraft to set up a wheel in front of them, and a rope was placed on the wheel, and then dragged it."
Chapter completed!