The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 224

Du Xi was not sure whether Prime Minister Cao's army could arrive in time.But things have come to this point, and I can only bite the bullet and push forward.What he is most afraid of is Dong He from Jiameng Pass, who will be flanked by Yuan Jun outside the city.In that case, he must die. Fortunately, Dong He is not very courageous, but just sticks to it, and has no intention of leaving the city.

Du Xi used his power to deceive nearly 3% of the bows and arrows in Tiandang Mountain.His strength is small, almost one division, about [-] people.They are all members of the Guanzhong Army, and none of them are from Hebei.Du Xi ordered the soldiers to give up their knives, spears, guns and swords. Each of these weapons for close combat was assigned a bow and arrow, and they shot out non-stop.He calculated that even if each soldier shoots [-] bows and arrows a day, it will take at least two days to consume them.This is the most pessimistic plan. In fact, Yuan Jun should not continue to attack with heavy casualties.Du Xi has been to Chencang and seen Hao Zhao's independent crossbow artillery division.Fully aware of the range of the shuttle crossbow and catapult.So he dug ten trenches in advance, in order to isolate the camp from the range of the flying shuttle crossbow, so that Yuan Bing was helpless.He planted sharp bamboos in the trench, and covered it with a layer of wet soil to camouflage.Yuan Bing didn't know the details, and jumped down one after another, and there was a scream of misery.

The sound of Mingjin was loud, and Zhang Xiu withdrew his troops.

The red flag was fluttering, and hundreds of trench filling vehicles were rumbling, raising dust, and advancing towards the camp from four directions.After the trench-filling carts, there are arrow-stopping carts inlaid with huge wooden planks lined up, and behind the arrow-stopping carts are shuttle crossbows and catapult machines.The last is Yuan Jun's infantry holding scull shield bows and arrows.This kind of arrow blocking car is also Hao Zhao's recently improved and updated product. It uses four-wheel drive and looks like a small movable house. The top of the herringbone is made of giant wood. If the rest of them attacked the city, they might not be able to show their power if they were ruled by the rolling stones on the top of the city, but they could easily attack such a medium-sized and simple camp.The key is how to pass through these ten trenches.

This is the safest siege formation that has evolved through countless offensive and defensive battles.

During this period of time, the soldiers in Du Xi's camp ran frequently, shuttling back and forth, piling up sand and mud bags one by one around the wooden mountain, layer by layer, until they covered everything above the chest. The mud bag, the arms can be raised to shoot the arrow, but it greatly reduces the lethality of Yuan Jun's flying shuttle crossbow.

The flying shuttle crossbow was outside the ten-story ditch and could not hit the camp. Similarly, the bows and arrows in the camp could not hit the Yuan soldiers who filled the trench.It is obvious that at least four of Du's ten trenches are not for killing the enemy, but for delaying time.The longer the fight, the more likely he would survive.

Yuan Jun's banners are like the sea, overwhelming the sky and covering the earth.The horns sounded again and again, and the war drums mingled together, like thunder rolling from the sky.To say that Du Xi is not afraid at all is really deceiving himself.

Half an hour later, the trench filling vehicle filled the first trench without being attacked at all, and continued to move forward.The circle surrounded on all sides is like a steel hoop getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, without warning, a strong wind blew up.

In an instant, flying sand and rocks covered the sky and covered the earth.The sand and gravel blown up by the wind hurt people's faces more than needle pricks.The strong wind is like a mad lion, howling among the valleys and peaks, showing its rage and destructive power to the earth.The rolled up dust dyes the sky yellow, and the wind blowing towards people is like an invisible hand, covering your breath.

Yuan Junjun's flag fluttered and rattled, like thousands of heavenly soldiers marching in the clouds.Strong and fierce, murderous.Probably because of God's help, Yuan Jun's trench-filling vehicle was blocked by the wind, and it immediately slowed down. It seemed that a pair of huge arms on the opposite side were contending with the soldiers pushing the cart, making it difficult for them to move with all their strength.

"No, I can't withdraw the troops. Continue to fill in the trenches. As I said, the camp must be taken down before sunset tomorrow." The nervousness made me lose my patience, and I shouted hysterically at Zhang Xiu. There was a loud "click", and the thigh-thin flagpole carrying the handsome flag outside the handsome tent broke off from the raging wind.

Xu Shu's face changed, he lifted the gray robe, walked to the door in a few steps, avoided the tongue-like tent, and walked out of the handsome tent that was trembling in the strong wind.Looking at the Suzaku handsome flag and the uneven break of the flagpole lying on the ground with the word Yuan written on it, he turned around and rushed back: "My lord, the handsome flag is broken, and my energy is dull. I must withdraw my troops." Guo Jia frowned and grabbed my arm. Shoulder said: "The handsome flag is broken, it's a bad omen, I'd like to order a long-term plan."

To say that the breaking of the handsome flag is a bad omen, I, who has the memory of the 21st century, absolutely scoff at it.But there is no doubt that it will affect morale.Just look at Yu Jin, Zhang Yan, Jia Xin, Yang Qiu, these generals who killed people without blinking an eye, and climbed out of thousands of bones, their faces turned pale with fright, which can be seen.

"Wow!" I swept all the food brought by my soldiers on the ground and lost my temper.After being forced to withdraw troops yesterday, the strong wind continued all night, changing the color of the wind and clouds, and hanging the sky and the earth upside down.The sand formed tens of thousands of layers of dense yellow cobwebs in the air, blocking people's sight.Xu Shu, Guo Jia and others inspected the environment, and came back to report: "We can't enter the army, we should wait for the opportunity." I lost my temper, sat weakly on the cushion, held my head and smiled wryly, "Wait for the opportunity? Or wait for Cao Cao?" Xu Shu and Guo Jia had a bitter expression on their face, speechless.

Wen Chou broke in from the outside, and said in a cold voice, "Prime Minister, why didn't you order the troops to enter?" Wen Chou blamed himself for being late about Du Xi's matter, and felt very unhappy. He wanted to kill Du Xi to wash away the shame. , the strong wind annoyed him very much. "Prime Minister, although the wind and sand are strong, it cannot blow away the soldiers' desire to kill the enemy and serve the country. The Prime Minister orders the battle."

Xu Shu was not easy to interrupt.Guo Jia persuaded: "Yuyu, I'm afraid there is little chance of winning in such weather. The enemy is waiting for work." Wen Chou calmly said: "I also know that the chance of winning is not great, but if Cao Bing arrives, the chance of winning will be even smaller. "Guo Jia stopped talking.I stood up and made a decision: "Give you two divisions. Concentrate your forces and attack the village from the west of the leeward wind. If the casualties are too large, you should withdraw and make a long-term plan."

Wen Chou chose to attack from the south, but after leading his troops to the attacking position, he found that the trench that was so easily filled yesterday had been dug again.Du Xi seemed to expect that the Hebei army would attack the village from this direction, so he deployed five thousand crossbowmen in the gap of the third trench. When the crossbowmen fought back, they found that under the resistance of the strong wind, the bows and arrows showed obvious insufficiency and lack of strength, and they couldn't shoot the enemy soldiers at all.In this embarrassing situation where he knew he was at a disadvantage, Wen Chou ordered to retreat.

"It's not that the brothers are afraid of death, it's that there is no way to fight." Wen Chou spread his hands and sighed repeatedly.

Guo Jiadao: "I've seen it just now. The strong wind will stop in the afternoon. Yuyu, you go to rectify the soldiers and horses. When the wind becomes weaker, set off immediately." Wen Chou's whole body is like a volcano that has accumulated countless magma and is eager to erupt; , I will prepare."

"Wait—" I stood up and said, "Tell Zhang Xiu, after the wind stops, the three of us will attack one side. Before sunset, this place must be leveled. Before tomorrow, we must rush to Jiameng Pass. "

As Guo Jia said, after noon, the ferocious wind gradually weakened, and Zhang Xiu Wenchou and I mounted our horses one after another, commanded two divisions each, and drove out of the camp.

"Trench filling——" Two hundred trench filling vehicles were added, and the pioneer army began to move sand and gravel at lightning speed to fill up the trench.The strong wind has deflated, just like the sea surface after a tsunami. It still has some lingering power, but it no longer tries to capsize the sailing giant ship.The two divisions attacking from the front, under the condition that I personally supervised the battle, filled the third trench with high morale, and the arrow guard vehicles roared and followed.I was riding on a horse, holding my gun high, and shouting to boost morale.

The fourth trench was filled without resistance, and Hao Zhao's ballista troops finally had a place to use.According to the original plan, the soldiers who filled the trench retreated first, and replaced them with the catapult machine and the shuttle crossbow behind them and advanced to the edge of the fifth trench. This distance, a thousand steps away from the camp, cannot be reached by ordinary bows and arrows. range.In other words, Du Xi's archers could only hide behind the sand and mud bags in the camp and wait to be beaten, but they could not fight back.I mean, cause some panic, casualties among his soldiers, and then go on the offensive.

"Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" Thousands of giant crossbows pierced through the air. "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom" Thousands of hundred-jin boulders drew an arc in the air, and fell to the center of the camp like a torrential rain, knocking down half of the tents in the camp.The crackling sound of the stake being smashed into pieces can be heard endlessly, and the monstrous screams make you feel like you are in hell.The giant crossbow with super destructive power shot the sand and mud bag blocking the soldier's body totteringly, and some simply shot through it, and the soldier's body was dismembered into two halves, and the bright red intestines flowed from the upper half to the ground .However, Hao Zhao also had to admit that Du Xi's sand and mud bags minimized the losses. Without these sand and mud bags, the battle would not have been fought.

After the artillery attack, the trench filling vehicle continued to fill the trench and move forward.It wasn't until the sixth trench was filled and Yuan Jun's infantry advanced three hundred feet outside the camp that rain-like arrows shot out from the camp.

Endless lasing, endless lasing.To be exaggerated, if I shoot like this for a day, I don't need to fill in the trenches, I can just step on the shaft of the arrow.Yuan Jun's trench-filling vehicles lined up in a neat row, covering the archers behind them, and shooting into the village.The bows and arrows of the enemy soldiers hit the raw cowhide of the arrow shield car with a muffled sound, and they fell to the ground one after another. The trench filling car continued to fill the trench under the cover of the archers.

I jumped off the horse, with the red flag in my hand, and the trench filling vehicle quickly withdrew from the position. The ladder troops led by Yang Qiu rushed to the front like a dozen angry dragons.A series of ladders were erected at both ends of the trench.

"Brothers kill—"

I took the lead, jumped up the ladder, and started the trench warfare.The soldiers in the enemy camp immediately became nervous when they saw our army crossing the trench, and the arrows were more than twice as dense as before.My eyes and ears were full of black lines, which only penetrated into the human body.Not caring too much, the fierce gun swept across, protecting the whole body, and his two legs nimbly straddled the ladder.The powerful arrows hit the armor from time to time and bounced back. Some of them got stuck between the two scales and charged into battle with me.The soldiers around him didn't have such excellent armor and body protection, but it would be miserable. Countless people died from being shot by arrows.

"Fire——" Hao Zhao's ballista division played its role again. Behind the siege infantry, it fired the arrows at the enemy camp, suppressing the rain of arrows like flying locusts in an instant.The enemy soldiers hid behind the sand and stone bags one after another because of the powerful power of the catapults and ballistas.The infantry seized the opportunity to seize the opportunity, crossed the triple trenches in a row with incomparable speed, and attacked outside the camp.

"Damn it, this camp doesn't have a gate, brothers, use a ladder." Yang Qiu fought such a battle for the first time, and he needed to use a ladder to attack a camp.Du Xi is more or less a talent.

The ladder was placed on the enemy's village, and Yuan Jun's soldiers quickly entered the village. At this time, the sky was already dark and night was about to fall.Du Xi never showed up, the resistance of the soldiers in the camp was very weak, and the soldiers in the front were defeated and fled after a few blows.Seeing Yuan Bing coming in, the soldiers from the east and the south abandoned their bows and arrows and picked up swords and guns to defend themselves. Wen Chou and Zhang Xiu took advantage of the situation and rushed into the village.

Wen Chou was the first to jump in and yelled, "Where is the thief Du Xi, bastard Du Xi, come out to me, I want to fight to the death with you." .Wen Chou grabbed the soldier's neck and said sharply, "Where is Du Xi?" The soldier tremblingly said, "No—I don't know, I probably ran away—"

"Run away—" Wen Chou threw the soldier out "No, Du Xi won't escape alone, he can't do such a thing." After a period of contact, Wen Chou asked himself that he knew something about him.

With a loud roar, Wen Chou's spear unfolded, knocking down the obstacles around him one by one, and the body of the Feiyun gun was instantly dyed blood red. "Prime Minister, Prime Minister—" Wen Chou shouted in the chaos.

I heard Wen Chou's shout, and by the light of the fire, I saw a white-robed general wielding a spear in the chaos.An enemy school lieutenant raised a knife and attacked Wen Chou from behind. I just arrived, and the fierce gun slashed down sharply, breaking his neck bone.Wen Chou turned around: "Prime Minister, something is wrong, Du Xi actually ran away by himself, is there some kind of conspiracy?"

"Yu Jin, Hao Zhao and others are still setting up formations outside the camp. Even if there is a conspiracy, they will never succeed." I am full of confidence.Wen Chou was very nervous; "Be careful of fire attacks." I said in surprise: "He won't even kill his own people—"

"Be careful—" Wen Chou stood in front of me and stabbed an enemy soldier to death.Loudly said: "The battlefield is stalemate and there will be no victory or defeat for a while. To be on the safe side, the lord should retreat to the camp first."

"Forget it, I can't leave even if I want to, I'd better settle the battle quickly." After speaking, he rushed out again, and it was too late for Wen Chou to stop him.

(End of this chapter)