"PS: When I saw a book review, some book friends hoped that the author would save the manuscript, saying that it would make the New Year easier for both of us. However, the author did not save the manuscript..."
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"On the fourth day of October, Wei's "Shang Shui Army" attacked Pi Lao but failed."
In Zhao Hongrun's battle report, there may only be a few words about yesterday's surprise attack on Pilao Pass by his merchant navy. However, on the pass tower of Pilao Pass, Han general Jin Mao wrote yesterday's battle report as a battle report.
At that time, I wrote a long article proudly.
In Jin Mao's eyes, both "Wei Gongzi Ji Run" and his subordinate "Shang Shui Wei Master" are worthy of special mention.
He did not dare to classify this battle as a "successful battle" because in yesterday's battle, the Wei army as the siege party suffered far fewer casualties than their Korean army, only a few hundred people.
In fact, even when he thinks about it today, Jin Biao still has lingering fears.
After all, the battle situation yesterday was really thrilling. If General Gao Yang had not led hundreds of cavalry to rush out of the pass and sacrificed himself to burn down the six wells and chariots of the Shang Shui Army, the Pilao Pass would have fallen into the hands of the Wei army at this moment.
Thinking of General Gao Yang, Jin Mao couldn't help but feel a twinge of pain in his heart: after all, that brave general did not come back alive to drink a glass of celebration wine that Jin Mao personally poured for him.
With a long sigh, Jin Biao took two wine bottles, placed them on the table one on each side, took the wine jug and filled the two wine bottles.
Immediately, he glanced at the empty seat opposite him, raised the wine bottle in front of him, offered a toast to the opposite person, and drank it all in one gulp.
Just one cup. After all, Jin Yao is a very self-disciplined general.
After taking a deep look at the full glass of wine on the table, Jin Biao stood up, walked out of the gate building, stood by the wall and looked at the narrow passage in front of the gate.
Because of yesterday's autumn rain, the mountain fires in the Yishan area have gradually been extinguished. Although a small area in Dongshan is still burning, in general, the fire has been contained.
The fire in the Yishan area was contained, and the smoke in the Pilao Pass area naturally dissipated a lot, so that it would not happen again like yesterday. The Wei army quietly sneaked to the foot of the pass, and only then did the soldiers on the pass wall see the enemy's sneak attack.
But Jin Mao was still worried, so in the early hours of this morning, he sent hundreds of soldiers to dig deep trenches in the narrow channel in front to prevent the Wei army from repeating their old tricks, and then secretly transported siege weapons such as wells and carriages to the
Come this way.
"... Under the circumstances at that time, the Shang Shui Army actually withdrew decisively... Judging from the position where the Wei army sounded the retreat horn, it did not look like the Wei army outside the pass at that time. It seemed to be in the Wangwushan area... It seemed that it was the Wei Gongzi
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"I've been underestimated." Touching the rough bricks and stones on the wall, Han Jiang Jinmao had a complicated expression.
He knew very well that in fact, given the situation at the time, Wei Jun's merchant navy still had a chance to conquer this Pi Lao Pass, as long as they were willing to pay the price of casualties.
Logically speaking, a strategic location like Pi Laoguan must be conquered at all costs.
But that Wei Gongzi Ji Run still chose to withdraw his troops. What does this mean?
This means that in the eyes of that Wei Gongzi, Pi Lao Pass was not worth the huge casualties the Wei army had to pay to conquer it.
To put it bluntly, the other party didn't take Jin Yao and the Korean soldiers at Pi Laoguan seriously.
"How arrogant..."
Jin Biao clenched his fists, his face showing a bit of anger, but when he recalled the opponent's stunning misty rain surprise attack, he felt that the opponent's arrogance was not completely blind.
"So... how do you plan to capture my Pi Lao Pass, Wei Gongzi Run?"
Licking his lips, Jin Biao murmured.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a scout came in a hurry, knocked on the ground and reported: "General, the Wei army has launched an attack on Wangwushan!"
"The royal house?"
Jin Miao frowned, turned to look at Wangwu Mountain to the southwest, and secretly murmured in his heart: What tricks does Mr. Wei Run want to play?
At the same time, just as the Korean scout said, on Wangwu Mountain, the Shang Shui Army had launched an offensive.
Different from the scout battle that was carried out in Wangwu Mountain a few days ago, today, several thousands-man troops of the merchant navy on Wangwu Mountain acted jointly. From the south of the mountain to the north of the mountain, dozens of merchant navy troops of a hundred men formed a column.
A carpet-like search was launched on the mountain.
Countless Wei army sword and shield soldiers holding shields, as the front team, slowly approached the east mountain of Wangwu Mountain.
Behind these sword and shield soldiers, a crossbowman holding a Wei crossbow vigilantly searched the surroundings with his eyes, guarding against attacks from the Korean army.
"bite--"
There was a blow, and a Shangshui saber shield player felt a slight trouble with his left hand. When he looked down, he discovered that there was an extra crossbow bolt on the ground.
"Enemy attack!" he shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sword and shield soldiers near him quickly gathered towards him, forming a shield wall with ten sword and shield soldiers as a unit to protect the crossbow soldiers in the rear.
"Left front!" shouted a sharp-eyed Wei crossbowman.
Thousand Man General Ran Teng carefully glanced through the gap between the shields, and then noticed that behind the trees on the left front, there were about a dozen figures hiding behind the trees.
"It's the Korean sentries, left and right, go around and kill them." Ran Teng commanded.
After a while, the two hundred-man troops on Ran Teng's left and right slowly moved forward from both sides, launching a pincer attack on the dozen sentries from the left and right sides.
Different from the previous hand-to-hand combat, in this battle, the sword and shield soldiers of the Shang Shui Army simply put their swords back into the scabbards on their waists, and held the shields with both hands purely as guards to protect the crossbow soldiers behind them.
The crossbowmen hid behind the sword and shield soldiers one by one. After occupying the favorable terrain, they squatted down and set up their hand crossbows, aiming at the Korean sentries in the distance.
Suddenly, a Korean military sentry in the distance revealed half of his body from behind the tree, stuck his head out and took a peek.
Immediately, a dozen Wei army crossbowmen who were already ready pulled the trigger, and with a few "puff puff" sounds, the Korean sentry was immediately shot into a hedgehog.
In fact, even his head was shot, and red and white things were splashed on the surrounding trees.
"withdraw!"
The captain of the Korean sentry on the opposite side couldn't stand it any longer and immediately ordered a retreat.
Think about it, if a dozen of them faced the Wei army that was more than ten times larger, even a fool would not dare to fight against them.
But just as they were retreating, four or five more Korean sentries were shot dead on the spot by crossbow bolts because they were exposed.
"continue!"
Following Ran Teng's order from the thousand-man general, hundreds of Shangshui soldiers continued to advance.
After advancing about another hundred feet, they saw a sentry in front of them. It was not big, only a few feet in diameter.
Originally, this kind of sentry in the mountains and forests had advantages for the defenders, but the problem was that there were hundreds of Wei soldiers here. How could that sentry with only twenty or thirty sentries be an opponent?
They didn't even dare to show up, because once they showed up, they would be killed by the Wei army's crossbowmen who had been prepared.
It has to be said that although the Korean crossbows are much more powerful than the Qin crossbows and the Chu crossbows, there is still a certain gap compared to the Wei crossbows, especially the new crossbows of the Shang Shui Army, which are from the Smelting Bureau.
The craftsmen learned from the craftsmanship of the Lu State and then designed and improved the strong crossbow. Even if it is called the first strong crossbow in the Central Plains, it is not an exaggeration.
Regardless of range or power, the Korean crossbow is inferior to the Wei crossbow.
"Withdraw!"
Perhaps realizing that there was no chance of winning, the Korean sentries on the opposite side chose to retreat. After all, if they did not retreat, they would be surrounded by Wei soldiers.
As a result, the guard post was occupied by Wei soldiers.
Further forward, after walking for about a mile, the front suddenly became clear, and in the distance from the large clearing of the mountain forest that had been cut down by humans, a small camp was standing on the high ground.
Thousands of people took a few glances at Ran Teng, and several crossbow bolts from the Korean army barely grazed his face.
"This camp is difficult to get to..." a sword and shield soldier whispered.
Ran Teng frowned and nodded. After all, he had also noticed that the small camp opposite was built on a high ground, with a cliff about two or three feet high at the bottom. Without the help of any siege weapons, he could easily
It is obviously very difficult for the infantry to capture this camp.
"Only the brothers at the foot of the mountain..." Ran Teng, the general of thousands, whispered.
After hearing this, the soldiers nearby changed their expressions slightly.
One of the soldiers swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "Thousand-man general, are the brothers at the foot of the mountain...reliable?"
"I guess so……"
Ran Teng, a thousand-man general who was always known for his bravery, was also a little uneasy at this moment.
After a while, dozens of crossbowmen gathered together. They took out a fist-sized cloth bag from the backpack on their backs. After opening it, they found some crushed roots of unknown plants inside.
I saw these crossbowmen lighting the grass scraps with tongues of fire, then quickly wrapped the cloth bags and tied the front ends of the crossbow bolts with ropes.
Within a moment, thick green smoke emitted from those cloth bags.
"put!"
Following Ran Teng's low shout, the dozens of crossbowmen pulled the triggers, aimed the crossbow bolts tied with cloth bags in the direction of the small camp, and shot out, either falling inside the camp, or directly nailing them.
On the fence of that camp.
After that, Ran Teng waved his hand: "Withdraw!"
Immediately, hundreds of Wei soldiers turned around and ran backwards, running faster than rabbits one by one, and disappeared immediately.
Seeing this, the Korean soldiers and generals in the distant camp just felt baffled.
They originally thought that the Wei soldiers would forcefully attack the camp where they were located, but unexpectedly, the other party turned around and ran away, as if they were being chased by something terrible.
At the same time, on the open ground at the foot of the mountain, hundreds of catapults were neatly arranged.
Suddenly, a soldier pointed to a place on Wangwu Mountain and shouted: "Two thousand generals from Gu Tao, send a signal from there."
"Huh?" Two thousand people looked up at Gu Tao, and sure enough they saw billowing green smoke coming out of a spot on Wangwu Mountain. They immediately straightened their expressions and shouted: "Test the bomb!"
Immediately, a catapult adjusted its position and threw a stone bomb towards the smokey location on the mountain.
But unfortunately, there is a big gap between the impact point of this stone bullet and the position where the smoke rises.
"Gu Tao, you bastard——"
On Wangwu Mountain, the curses of thousands of generals came from Ran Teng.
Under the gazes of the Shangshui sergeants who couldn't help but laugh, two thousand people, Gu Tao, coughed and whispered: "Ahem... aim at the target."
"Bang--"
Another stone bullet was thrown out, and this time the impact point was quite accurate.
Seeing this, Gu Tao showed a bit of joy on his face, waved his hand and shouted: "Use the angle of this catapult to drop the bomb!"
"Bang bang bang——"
"Bang bang——"
In an instant, hundreds of stone bullets the size of millstones were thrown out.
At this time, looking at the small camp on the mountain, I saw a hundred-man general of the Korean army looking at a huge stone that was smashed at his feet in horror. He then raised his head and stared into the air in horror, his face dull.
I saw hundreds of black spots rapidly growing in size in mid-air.