After hearing what Ding Yuan said, Huangfu Song was silent for a while and said: "The Xiliang Army is completely different from last year."
Ding Yuan also had the same feeling. Not only had the fighting power of the bandits on the opposite side increased, but more importantly, they had become much tougher. In the past, if the fight had been so difficult and they were not guarding the country, they would have retreated long ago. Today
Those Xiliang thieves were extremely tenacious. They fought from morning to afternoon, with countless casualties and still kept fighting.
However, he only had some feelings and did not feel that the Xiliang Army was invincible. In Ding Yuan's view, he had sent troops to cut off the Xiliang Army's retreat, so he did not want to suffer too many casualties and left a few points behind.
Only then did the Xiliang army push back. Otherwise, the Xiliang thieves would have been unable to hold it back!
He smiled and said: "It is a little more difficult to deal with than before, but it is still no match for us!"
Lu Bu, whose left shoulder was tightly tied, was standing next to Ding Yuan. Hearing this, he said loudly: "Today Gao Shun defeated four rebel camps one after another. Please give me a reward from my lord!"
The smile on Ding Yuan's face suddenly disappeared, and he said perfunctorily: "I know, I will be rewarded later."
Lu Bu raised his thick eyebrows, and the anger on his face disappeared in a flash. Ding Yuan did not see the dissatisfied look on Lu Bu's face behind him, and said to Huangfu Song happily: "If the thieves surrender tomorrow, I will share some prisoners of war."
Give it to me. Although the Xiliang army is unruly, they still fight well. They will be useful against Dong Zhuo in the future."
Huangfusong's expression was still serious, and he said in a deep voice: "General Zhengxi must not be careless. The trapped beasts are still fighting, let alone the Xiliang army today? Don't make a mistake, but let the enemy take advantage of the loophole."
Ding Yuan laughed loudly and said: "They will be blocked by us between the mountains soon, how can they take advantage of the loopholes? When they get the news tomorrow that their retreat is cut off, their morale will be completely gone. We can go forward again.
With one push, the enemy will surrender without a fight!"
The Han army did not withdraw to Chencang, but set up camp at the mountain ridge that pierced the plain and stationed the army. Huangfu Song led the troops rigorously, arranged many sentries in the wild, and placed a team of soldiers on the mountain ridge.
He has an infantry of more than a thousand people. He does not have many elites in his hands now, but with the three auxiliaries behind him, he can continuously recruit young men and women. There are still more than 30,000 soldiers and horses who can go forward to fight, plus transportation from the rear.
, and the civilian men accompanying the army, they can almost be called an army of one hundred thousand.
In the camp of Chen Cheng's army at the foot of Changpo Plain, soldiers were shuttled back and forth, no longer as orderly as before. During the day's battle, they caused several times more casualties to the Han army, but their own losses were also very serious. Although morale was still there
Now, the organization has been lost a lot.
Half of the original camp was burned down, and the flames toward the front gate had not been completely extinguished at night. While Chen Cheng ordered people to collect the wounded and bury the dead, he also ordered people to start again fifty steps behind the original camp wall.
A trench was dug, and a low defensive line was built on the side with the excavated soil.
Because they carried a large number of shovels, axes, hacksaws and other equipment, the new defense line was established quickly. The wounded soldiers thrown here by the princes were frightened when they saw today's fierce battle. Many people planned to take advantage of the weather
Jiang Hei escaped, but was captured by Yang Qiu, who was patrolling the rear. All the officers in the group were beheaded, and the rest were sent to dig holes.
After the bloody heads were hung up, everyone else could only suppress other thoughts. Because they were afraid that the Han army would attack again tomorrow, those who were slightly injured would actively ask to participate in the task of digging trenches. The deeper the trenches were dug, the more likely their lives would be.
The more guaranteed it is!
There are mountains all around here, and there is only one way to retreat. Unlike other places, as long as you get horses and run into the wild, you will really be in trouble. If there are only one or two people, you can also retreat from the mountains.
I ran away through a small road, but I heard that the north side was blocked by officers and soldiers, so I was afraid it would be bad if I ran there.
In addition, if the water quality is good enough, you can also try to jump into the Liuchuan River, then swim into the Wei River, and then swim upstream for dozens of miles, and then you can climb ashore. But when Chen Cheng wants to come, such fierce people will be there no matter where they are.
, they are all very few.
Li Kan looked at the repaired section of the defense line, went up and tried it, and said to Chen Cheng with some disappointment: "My lord, this earth wall is no higher than chest level. You can easily climb over it, but I'm afraid it's of no use."
Chen Cheng said: "At least it can provide some protection. Besides, you defended very well today. The officers and soldiers killed and injured so many elites. I'm afraid they won't dare to come back tomorrow."
Li Kan shook his head and said: "Huangfu Song didn't even use half of his strength. If the lord hadn't been cruising outside with his cavalry, why would he have put more than half of his troops to guard the retreat? Today they only lost a few thousand people.
However, our army's camp has been burned down, and now the officers and soldiers have set up camp at the mountain ridge, clearly preparing to continue the attack tomorrow."
He patted the earthen wall in front of him and said, "This kind of thing is really useless!"
Chen Cheng smiled and said: "It's okay. I'll ask Ding Yuan to lead people to assemble a few more catapults later, and aim at the distance of fifty steps in front. If Huangfu Song dares to come again tomorrow, I must give them some encouragement."
Take a look."
While he was talking, a messenger rushed over and said: "My lord, the people from Changpo Plain said that some of their soldiers were seriously injured but could not be sent down, so they asked my lord for guidance."
Chen Cheng turned his head and took a look at Changpo Plateau, which stood in the middle of a large flat land. He knew that it was indeed difficult to go up and down there. If he was not injured, he could still climb up and down with the rope, but the seriously injured could not
There's no way to do that. Apart from him, it's really hard to deal with others.
So he said to Li Kan: "I'll leave the matters here to you, follow this model and leave some passages in the middle. I'll go over there and take a look."
Li Kan said: "Master, don't worry, I can take care of myself."
Chen Cheng rushed to the edge of the Changpo Plateau, pulled the rope lowered from it a few times before he was afraid to go up. In fact, he could go up without the rope, otherwise, where did those big yellow crossbows on the top come from? It's not all him.
Brought it up myself.
After climbing up, Chen Cheng first assembled a hanging basket, and then lowered the wounded soldiers down one by one. It was very scary to lower the hanging basket from a height of more than ten feet, but those wounded soldiers were all seriously injured and had already suffered from bleeding.
After a while, I fell into a coma. Now I just breathe a sigh of relief and can't care about anything else.
After Chen Cheng put down all the wounded above, he went to inspect the temporarily built camps for wounded soldiers. He prioritized adding the seriously wounded to his command, adding "buffs" to them, and saving their lives first. And this
Unlike other princes of the era, Chen Cheng always attached great importance to the treatment of the wounded. The research report he had read also said that the zhandouli of injured veterans was much higher than that of recruits.
Treating the wounded to the greatest extent, reducing the casualty rate, can also bring a series of benefits such as improving morale and increasing cohesion. It is for these reasons that Chen Cheng spends two valuable skill points on "medical treatment"
Above. After having two levels of "medical treatment" and working with a professional medical team, anyone who does not die on the spot can be saved.
But if there are stumps and severed limbs, then there is nothing you can do. Maybe if you stay in the team long enough, you can grow back the lost limbs. If this is the case, then some groups who often enter the palace,
But there is help.
After the new defense line was built and the wounded and dead were treated and buried, Chen Cheng ate a few bites of food in a hurry, and then went to Ding Yuan's engineering camp to guide the craftsmen in assembling the catapult. Without his personal command, the craftsmen would
The efficiency will be very slow, and the success rate will be much lower.
It was busy until the fifth watch of the day when the two counterweighted catapults were finally assembled. The tall catapults stood at the back of the camp, with more than 20 remaining stone bombs beside them. Each piece was
It weighed one hundred and twenty or thirty kilograms. Chen Cheng stretched his body, looked at Dongfang Pale, and gave up the plan of resting.
He put on his double armor again, returned to his tent and ate two pancakes, and then led more than a dozen soldiers to patrol the camp. Walking in the camp that was getting noisy, Chen Cheng finally understood.
Understand how Zhuge Liang was exhausted to death. Even though he had "infinite physical strength", mental fatigue was not so easy to eliminate.
If there were other people here in another city, they would probably be exhausted and ready to die.
While inspecting the camp, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the west. Two cavalrymen dressed as Qiang people passed through many barriers and came to Chen Cheng. After getting off the horse, before they could calm down, one of them gasped and said
: "Chen Shijun, the Han army has occupied the line from Huangbei Mountain to Jinshili. Our army's retreat is dead!"
The soldiers on the side were stunned when they heard this. Where is Huangbei Mountain? Where is Jinshili? However, although they don't know what these place names represent, they still understand the meaning of "no way back". I understand.
After coming over, everyone was shocked and looked at Chen Cheng.
Chen Cheng's face remained the same as before, and he said calmly: "Drink some water first, then go into the tent and talk."
The mountains, rivers, geography, and rivers he walked through will be displayed on the small map. Huangbei Mountain is located close to the middle of Shanggui and Chencang. Because there is a large area of yellow soil on the northern slope, it is called Huangbei Mountain. The Weishui River turns there.
We turned a corner and the current was very fast.
Although it is an important road, the terrain there is not particularly dangerous. To be able to block tens of thousands of Xiliang troops, the Han army must have at least several thousand troops, and it is not impossible to have tens of thousands.
Chen Cheng walked into the tent and while looking at the terrain near Huangbei Mountain on the small map, he thought: The enemy's partial division has clearly stopped at the three-way intersection in the north. How come there are still enemies fighting to Huangbei Mountain?
But then he realized that the "Reconnaissance" skill showed that the enemy troops within a radius of forty miles were good, but what if the enemy troops made a large circle and passed through forty miles away?
What a beautiful interlude! Chen Cheng really wanted to say this to the enemy. He took a detour to Huangbei Mountain and traveled at least two hundred miles in the mountain. To dare to go so deep alone requires not only extraordinary strategy, but also the courage to fight against the odds.
He thought again: This is really very similar to the Changping Battle. The enemy, like Bai Qi, sent out two partial divisions. They also went deep alone. If they failed to succeed, the partial divisions would be annihilated. They were separated by two divisions.
A commander who has been in command for hundreds of years, the tactics used are almost as good as a retreat.
