Chapter seven hundred and eighty fifth forcibly seized
There are a thousand defenders at Fukou Pass, who are usually divided into three squads to guard the pass. At this time, they did discover the enemy's situation. The reason why they discovered the Jin army is also very simple. The owner of the grocery store below discovered the Jin army all the way away.
He quickly closed the shop door and ran back to report.
It was as if there was a formidable enemy in Fukou Pass. Five hundred soldiers went into battle and brought in a large number of arrows and rolling logs and stones. They stayed up all night and watched the mountain road vigilantly. The master of Fukou Pass had sent a dove letter to inform the lord Li Wujun that he was going to
He reported the situation at Fukou Pass and at the same time sent a pigeon message to General Mingzhou, begging him to immediately increase troops to attack Fukou Pass.
The commander-in-chief of Fukou Pass is called Wang Qinglian, who is from Zhaozhou. Although he only has a thousand soldiers under his command, his official position is not low, and he is appointed as Zhonglang General.
Wang Qinglian's eyes were fixed on Shandao, and he felt nervous and trembling in his heart. He had been guarding Fukou Pass for four years without incident. Next month, he would be transferred from Fukou Pass to Zhaozhou to serve as a general. He didn't expect that he would be transferred to Zhaozhou as a general.
At this juncture, enemy sentiment emerged.
Of course, the enemy came from Hedong. Everyone was joking, saying that they didn't know when Guo Song would start attacking Hebei. They hoped they would never encounter them, but they didn't expect that they would encounter them.
Wang Qinglian cursed his bad luck in a low voice, but he did not dare to be careless in the slightest, and kept sternly scolding some soldiers who were sitting and dozing.
At the third watch, the soldiers standing on the high ground suddenly shouted: "General, there is enemy sentiment!"
Wang Qinglian, who was sitting beside the stone wall and felt sleepy, was startled. He quickly stood up and stared at the mountain road for a moment. Sure enough, he saw many black shadows moving this way.
Wang Qinglian shouted: "Everyone, get up and prepare to fight!"
The five hundred soldiers guarding the gate stood in their respective positions, bows and arrows drawn, and they were ready...
Gan Xin led three thousand soldiers who were slowly approaching Guancheng, about a hundred steps away. They were attacking upwards, with a slope of about 45 degrees. The slope was only one foot wide, with a mountain on one side and a deep ditch on the other side.
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Gan Xin had obtained the drawings drawn by the Jin Wei Mansion in advance and knew the situation here well. His Highness the King of Jin specially designed a mountain-attack weapon. This weapon is called Pi Peng. It actually uses rough wood to build a frame, and the surface is covered with two layers.
It is a layer of cowhide with a slightly slanted front. It is covered with grease and is extremely slippery. If a rolling log or stone hits it, the elastic force will remove the impact, and then it will fly away from the cliff along the angle.
Even if the arrow penetrates the cowhide, it is lined with a layer of wood inside, which can effectively resist the arrow. This kind of leather puffer is six feet high and eight feet wide, with wooden wheels underneath. Dozens of soldiers are needed to push it forward. A total of
Three planes were built, with thirty soldiers hiding behind each Pippin.
This kind of Pippen is usually used to resist the flying stone attacks of trebuchets at the top of the city, but it is much larger in size. It can be miniaturized and used to attack the passes on the mountain. It is equally effective.
Gan Xin took the lead. He was behind the first Pippen and led thirty soldiers to push Pippen upward slowly.
‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’ The sound of bangs suddenly sounded on the top of the city, and then the sound of ‘whoosh! whoosh!’ of arrows was heard in the air. Gan Xin shouted: “Get down!”
The soldiers lowered their bodies one after another, and dense arrows hit Pippen like raindrops. Then there was a loud bang! Pippen shook. This was a piece of rolling wood that hit Pippen, but the smooth leather and
The oblique angle removed most of the impact, and the giant wood slipped out and was thrown away from the cliff.
Immediately afterwards, another boulder hit the leather shield. The impact was not great, and the boulder flew away.
More than a dozen rolling logs and rocks hit Pippin in succession, but none of them caused serious damage. The impact was skillfully removed, which was like a thunderous punch hitting cotton.
Several pieces of rolling wood flew over their heads and continued to smash down, and below them was another Pippen.
Gan Xin waved his hand and motioned for his men to continue upward. They struggled to move upward despite the rain of arrows and rolling rocks. The bang-dong collision still caused huge damage to Pippin. The wooden frame was gradually smashed into pieces. At this time
, a large stone weighing more than 30 kilograms broke the cowhide frame, and another huge piece of wood came. It penetrated Pippen and hit the soldier directly on the head.
Gan Xin, with quick eyesight and quick hands, blocked the rolling log with his shield and shouted: "Stand aside and let the tent behind you come up!"
The soldiers stood close to the rocks and blocked their vital points with shields. Gan Xin kicked the tattered Pippen off the cliff.
The Pippin behind continued to attract enemy firepower. He and the soldiers slowly moved forward against the stone wall. They held shields in their hands to resist the enemy's arrows. In fact, this was also a good method, except that the arrows could hurt them.
, rolling wood and stones are all useless.
At this time, they were only about twenty steps away from the city head, and Gan Xin shouted, "Do it!"
A soldier lit an iron fire thunder and quickly passed it to Gan Xin. Gan Xin threw away his shield and threw the iron fire thunder into Guancheng. It was a small iron fire thunder, weighing more than twenty kilograms.
With infinite strength, Gan Xin threw it accurately on Guancheng, 'Boom!' The iron fire thunder exploded, and more than a dozen soldiers were blown up. The iron fragments burst out, and nearly a hundred soldiers were injured by the shock wave and iron fragments.
The attacks on the head stopped.
Gan Xin shouted, "Charge forward!"
The soldiers rushed forward. More than fifty soldiers rushed up holding a log. They yelled and sprinted hard, "Boom!" There was a muffled sound, the city gate shook violently, masonry dust fell, and then everyone retreated.
There was another violent impact. The old wooden door could not withstand two consecutive violent impacts. The door bolt broke and the gate of the city was suddenly knocked open. Hundreds of soldiers swarmed in.
The soldiers in Guan City fled, many were dead and injured, and the city was in a mess. The general Wang Qinglian was shot in the head by a piece of iron, killing him on the spot. The deputy general was also blown off the cliff, and all the soldiers who could move fled.
The remaining injured soldiers lay on the ground groaning in pain, completely losing their combat effectiveness.
Gan Xin shook his head and ordered to his left and right: "Bandage their wounds!"
Three thousand troops occupied Fukou Pass, and then occupied the military camp at the foot of the mountain. The soldiers fled in a hurry, and the bridge over the Fuyang River was not destroyed in time, which reduced the Jin army a lot of trouble.
In the afternoon of the next day, Guo Song led his army to Fukou Pass, and Gan Xin came out to welcome his lord.
"How many casualties did the brothers suffer?"
Fukou Pass was not considered a dangerous pass. Guo Song was not worried about not being able to capture it. He was more concerned about the price it would cost to capture Fukou Pass.
"Your Majesty, more than twenty people were injured. They were all injured by rolling logs and rocks. Two of them were seriously injured and died, and the rest were slightly injured."
"Isn't that Pippen effective?" Guo Song asked with a frown.
"The effect was very good. There were no casualties among the soldiers under Pippen, but the enemy's logs and rocks were too dense. Several logs flew far away and fell right into the crowd behind. So..."
"I understand. Did the defenders notify Li Wujun?"
"It seems to have been notified. The soldiers said that the guard general released two characters yesterday afternoon. One was sent to Xindu County in Jizhou to Li Wujun, and the other was sent to Yongnian County in Mingzhou for help."
"How far is it from Yongnian County?" Guo Song turned around and asked.
Liu Qiang, the marching commander, bowed and said: "Return to your highness, it is about two hundred miles away and eighty miles away from Handan."
"How far is Xindu from Yongnian County?" Guo Song asked again.
"About three hundred miles."
Guo Song quickly calculated in his mind that Li Wujun would receive the pigeon message around noon today. He would immediately send troops to support Yongnian County and take away a hundred miles from himself. But if it was cavalry, the two armies would arrive at about the same time.
Guo Song immediately ordered: "The army will rest for an hour and set off immediately!"
The army only rested for an hour at Fukou Pass. The army continued to march in the northeast direction. It took them two and a half days to go to Yongnian County, Mingzhou Prefecture. The elite side of the 30,000-strong army was fully demonstrated at this time, and they marched rapidly every day.
After nine hours and only three hours of rest, the journey that was supposed to take three and a half days was shortened by one day.
As Guo Song expected, Li Wujun sent General Hong Xingnan and 3,000 cavalry to rush to Yongnian County to support Yongnian County first. He then personally led 20,000 troops to Mingzhou.
There is a Gaosheng Inn near the south gate of Xindu County. It covers an area of about five acres, has a small building and a courtyard, and has more than 100 guest rooms. Its scale can also be ranked among the top five in Xindu County.
Like Gaosheng Inn in other states, Gaosheng Inn in Xindu County is also one of the intelligence points of Jinwei Mansion in Hebei. From the shopkeeper to the clerk, more than ten people are members of Jinwei Mansion. They are mainly responsible for collecting intelligence and are usually very low-key.
, no one would have thought that the happy-looking shopkeeper and the diligent clerk could actually be intelligence spies sent by Chang'an.
Just after noon, the waiter Zhang Niuer rushed back to the inn like a gust of wind, "Housekeeper! We have important news."
Shopkeeper Yue stood at the counter and glared at him, "How many times have I warned you not to talk nonsense here and make the customers startle and think something big happened."
Zhang Niuer stuck out his tongue, scratched it and said, "Isn't the drop in meat prices a big deal?"
The drop in meat prices is their lingo, which means that the intelligence is related to the military, but others cannot understand it.
"You come with me!"
Shopkeeper Yue took his clerk to the shopkeeper's room in the backyard. He closed the door and asked, "What important information?"
"Li Wujun sent out troops, a total of 23,000 people, 3,000 cavalry went ahead, and he personally led 20,000 troops to Yongnian County, Mingzhou."
"Is the news reliable?"
"What Luo Canjun told me must be reliable!"
Luo Canjun was Cao Canjun, a soldier under Li Wujun. He was bribed by them with a lot of money. He also wanted to leave a way out for himself. Shopkeeper Yue got all important information from him.
Shopkeeper Yue said quickly: "Go and ride a fast horse outside the city, rush to Mingzhou immediately, and report the news to the commander-in-chief of the Jin army."