Chapter four hundred and eighty seventh place to death
Li Xingchen did not rush to explain, but took the time to snatch the military book from Xiao Shilian's hand. This was a copy of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
There are many art of war passed down in China, but among the many art of war, the most highly regarded is actually "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. Many of the art of war have disappeared in the process of inheritance. Only "The Art of War by Sun Tzu" has not been lost, but has been passed down by more and more people.
people learn and accept.
People who understand "Sun Tzu" may only be "talking about war on paper", but people who don't understand "Sun Tzu" don't know how to formulate troops and formations and the formulation of tactics and strategies. I'm afraid even "talking about war on paper" cannot be counted.
Li Xingchen directly turned to a page in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and pointed to the sentence above and looked at Xiao Shilian: "This is all I can do now."
Xiao Shilian glanced at the title subconsciously. It was the article "Nine Places", and where Li Xingchen's finger was, it clearly said "Throw it to death and live again."
"Throw yourself to death and live..." Xiao Shilian muttered out, and couldn't help but reach out and pat the edge of the bed, "Okay, okay!"
Li Xingchen smiled bitterly, knowing that such a strategy must be in line with Xiao Shilian's temperament. At that moment, he dipped the water in the teacup, lightly drew three lines on the table, and said in a deep voice:
"This is Panlong County, this is Tiangongyuan Mountain, and this is Xichong. These three places form three lines of defense, especially Tiangongyuan Mountain and Xichong. One guards the road going south, and the other connects the mountains on both sides.
You have to defend yourself against danger, so you still have some room."
"This... withdrawing from Langzhong?" Xiao Shilian couldn't help but frowned.
Li Xingchen smiled: "So what if we withdraw from Langzhong, Boqing, please don't forget what is the real purpose of our coming to Langzhong."
Xiao Shilian was startled for a moment, then nodded slowly.
Li Xingchen led his army out of Langzhong in order to attract both Yuchi Jiong and Wei Xiaokuan to Langzhong, so as to create opportunities for Shu County.
It actually doesn't matter who controls the Langzhong area, such as Panlong County City. Even if Li Xingchen loses Panlong County City, he can still rely on Tiangongyuan Mountain and even the mountains in Xichong and Nanchong to the south for defense.
As long as Yuchi Jiong and Wei Xiaokuan cannot kill Shishan County, they will never threaten Pei Zilie's retreat when he attacks Shu County.
When Li Xingchen entered Langzhong, he actually put himself to death.
Xiao Shilian said softly: "Shizhong, do you think we can stop it?"
Xiao Shilian's thoughts were also expected by Li Xingchen. After all, they only had three thousand people, and the enemies they faced were ten times as many as themselves. Even if there were natural dangers that could be used as a defense, they still had no confidence.
Of course, Xiao Shilian was concerned about whether he could be stopped, not because he was afraid of death, but because he wanted to know whether the sacrifices made by so many of them by retreating step by step were worth it.
"How will you know if you don't try," Li Xingchen said lightly, "I believe that the master also understands our situation, and he will do his best in Shu County."
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"Bang!" The big stone fell from the sky and hit the village wall hard. The wall shook violently and was about to collapse.
The cold wind on the river was blowing like a knife, and warships were arrayed in a row. As the orders from the flagship continued to be heard, the huge ships slowly adjusted their attack direction and launched all the stone bombs they carried.
go out.
"Arrow the crossbow!" Wang Chang shouted loudly, holding his sword in his hand. Even the howling wind could not dissipate the high-spirited fighting spirit in his voice. The navy finally got a chance to show off, and of course Wang Chang would not let it go so easily.
Pass.
The crossbow on the ship was slowly pulled to full string, and iron arrows were placed on the crossbow. The soldiers pushing the winch were all holding back their strength, waiting for Wang Chang's order.
"Fire the arrow!" Wang Chang waved his hand violently, and the sound of drums rose from the ground behind him!
On each ship, a platform crossbow fired a huge iron arrow. The iron arrow pierced the howling river wind and rushed towards the paper-thin camp in front.
Everyone knows that the small Pijiang Water Village cannot sustain for long under such an attack. This is the clarion call for Nanchen to start attacking Shu County.
The arrows whizzed past the watchtower, directly piercing the thin wooden boards of the watchtower. The wooden boards flew up with the arrows, but the iron arrows did not lose their force, directly piercing the two Northern Zhou soldiers on the watchtower. And more flew
The low iron arrows passed through the gap created by the previous stone bullets, and only the screams could be heard one after another behind the village wall.
There were scattered arrows flying out of the camp, but most of them did not have enough range. Before they could get close to the warship, they fell down weakly and floated on the water, only to be swept away by the surging river in an instant.
"Put up a shield!" Seeing the enemy's weak counterattack, Wang Chang breathed a sigh of relief, and then ordered, "Fight forward!"
The warship cut through the waves and moved forward, and the crossbowmen on the ship were also ready, and they would soon be within the range of ordinary crossbows.
"Let the ship go!" Wang Chang's voice gradually became calmer.
Small boats were lowered from the building boats one after another, and Meng Chong and Chi Ma in the fleet also sailed out from the gaps in the building boats, forming a triangular formation and slowly advancing forward. Arrows kept whistling in the Pijiang Water Village
came, but the navy had already been prepared. Most of these arrows landed on the water, and even those that landed on the ship were blocked by shields.
Originally, this type of shooting, invisible to each other across the village wall, only focused on using quantity to achieve the killing effect. Obviously, there were not many defenders in the water village, so these scattered arrows naturally
It is also difficult to pose a threat to the Nanchen Navy.
The first Mengchong stuck to the trestle of the pier. The arrows flying out of the camp suddenly became denser, almost turning the Mengchong into a hedgehog, and some of the soldiers on the Mengchong continued to fall.
However, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Mengchong ships behind them quickly approached the trestle. The soldiers on board the Mengchong skillfully lowered the springboard, and the shield bearer holding the shield took the lead and rushed towards the end of the trestle.
The Mengchong in front was just a decoy, and the ones at the back carried the troops.
The arrows hit the shields with a "pop", hitting the soldiers running forward. Sometimes someone was hit by an arrow, and his body tilted and fell directly into the water. Even those who fell on the trestle would be ignored by their companions behind them.
Hesitantly pull him into the cabin or simply push him into the water.
If we fail to cross the trestle quickly at this time, so many people will become living targets for the enemy's crossbowmen, so there must be choices and sacrifices.
"Quickly, get ashore!" a Nanchen battle leader shouted as he stepped on the ground at the end of the trestle and rushed directly towards the nearest village gate. The village gate had been smashed open by the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet - of course here
This is where the trebuchet focuses its attention.
However, the enemy was also prepared. When he saw the enemy rushing across the trestle, he simply pushed the two gate-cartridges onto the roof. A row of spearmen were already waiting behind the gate-cartridge.
"Crossbowman!" the war leader yelled.
Several crossbowmen were hurriedly ashore when they heard the sound, and at the same time they drew their bows and nocked arrows.