Chapter 142 Attack and Kill
"Thieves are coming, prepare your troops!"
In Wei City not far away, the enemy soldiers on the watchtower shouted loudly, and then the gate of the village was closed.
Zhang Chong led the Taishan army with his generals and slowly walked down the slopes of Mount Lu. As soon as they reached the ground, they saw the thieves shouting from the watchtower.
The Battle of Changshao between Qi and Lu took place here in the past. It was a chariot battle because although this place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is a flat plain.
So when Zhang Chong led his army out of the mountain, he directly saw a strong wall stretching between heaven and earth, accompanied by the sound of desolate horns and solemn silence.
Zhang Chong decided on his strategy and held a military meeting with the generals, saying that he planned to take the initiative to go west to Mount Tai and attack Taishan County.
Unlike Zhang Chong who thought he needed to encourage the generals again, as soon as he said this, the generals were happy to hear the battle.
To be honest, the generals had not moved for several months. They had spent the whole winter and half of the spring renovating and training their troops. They had long wanted to go out to see the blood. Now when they heard that they were heading west to Taishan again, they were fighting Taishan County. Everyone was excited.
After that, Zhang Chong organized the battle sequence for this westward expedition. Guan Yu, the captain on the left, led Chen Huan, Ding Sheng, and Wang Zhang to accompany the army; Zhang Dan, the right captain, led Dian Wei, Li Damu, and Yu Jin to accompany the army. In addition, there are Zhang Chong's own Flying Army Scout Department, Assault Cavalry Department, and Collision Team Department. The total strength is 3,600 soldiers, including 3,200 infantry and 400 cavalry. Each department prepared six days of food, and then followed Zhang Chong out of the mountain.
After several military strategy discussions, the first battle was fought at Changshaowu.
The reason for this is that this place is located seven inches from Yingxian and Mouxian. After leaving this place, you can drive straight into the Laiwu Valley and directly attack Taishan County and Fenggao.
Therefore, once the battalions stationed in Ying County and Mou County know that Changshaowu is attacked, they will definitely come to support. Zhang Chong's idea was to mobilize reinforcements from the two counties, and then directly attack the reinforcements to eliminate the enemy soldiers blocking Mount Tai and Lushan Pass.
At this moment, Zhang Chong, who was riding on his horse, put up a pergola and looked at Changshaowu in front of him to see whether the camp was strong or not.
I saw that the main body of the camp was a civil structure, with logs as the base and earth on the outside, eight feet high. There is a trench outside, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. From his point of view, it is at least one foot deep. Looking at the large gate, it is a thick gate to keep out horses. Zhang Chong estimated that the wall of the stronghold with this shape would have a back door, which could be used for surprise troops and for withdrawing troops. It's just that they are in front now and can't find it for a while.
However, Zhang Chong felt that the camp wall was not a good one, so he called Yu Jin, who was accompanying the army. He was a native of Mount Tai and knew the situation in Changshaoxu better than them.
Yu Jin came from behind, and Zhang Chong's army was actually still standing on the mountain road in a long line of snakes. And because the plain leading out of the mountain pass is blocked by Changshaowei, the only ones on the front line confronting the Changshaowei camp at this moment are the pioneer Dianwei troops, while the others are stuck behind and unable to expand.
To be honest, this kind of march is very detrimental to Zhang Chong's troops. As long as Changshaowei defends, he may be blocked on this mountain road and cannot get out. This is why Zhang Chong has to take Changshaowei away. reason.
As soon as Yu Jin arrived, he followed Zhang Chong and set up an awning to watch. After watching for a long time, Zhang Chong asked him:
"Wen Ze, do you think this stronghold looks awkward? Generally, this stronghold is built here to block enemies from outside the mountains. But if you look at its shape, the main entrance faces us, which seems to block enemies from inside the mountains. But. If we want to stop the enemy in the mountains, why not just stand at the mountain pass?"
After hearing Zhang Chong's words, Yu Jin suddenly understood. He hurriedly explained to Qu Kui:
"Qu, you are right. This stronghold is indeed a barrier to our enemies in the mountains. Moreover, this stronghold was built at the mountain pass back then. I heard from the old people that Gongsun Da Canal was blocked by this stronghold when it left Taishan Mountain in the west. I don't know. Many people died, and it was only through the corpses of his brothers that the wall was broken. But later, Gongsun Daqu was destroyed by Duan Gou, and the village was moved outside the mountain pass. It is said that it was a few powerful men who ran the fair. They agreed together that because the mountain pass was small and the mountain goods could not be piled up, they moved the market to the plain outside the mountain pass. However, the camp there also required that the market should still be capable of blocking the enemy, so it was built. Such a nondescript dock wall.”
After hearing this, Zhang Chong smiled:
"These powerful men really want money rather than their lives. If this wall is still built at the mountain pass, how can I get out? Now it is built here. Hum!"
Since Yu Jin was there, Zhang Chong asked him what suggestions he had for conquering the wall.
Yu Jin knew that the opportunity had come, and he immediately told Zhang Chongyan about the military strategy he had planned:
"To attack such a strong wall, the best strategy is to use the internal force to open the wall, so that it is easy to trap the wall. The middle strategy is to encircle it without attacking. For this type of fortress, there is more than enough food and fodder, but not enough water storage. If you surround the wall for seven days, the enemy will be defeated. The next best strategy is to encircle it without attacking. It's like being surrounded on all sides and attacking the wall with ants, but with my own bravery, I can defeat it."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, Ding Sheng, who was also beside him, sneered:
"I've been talking for a long time, but it's not all nonsense. What are the three strategies of upper, middle and lower? The best strategy you mentioned is to use internal forces to break the wall. We are all here now. The gate of the village is closed. Where can we find internal forces? What else can you say? Zhongce, you have to build a wall and say that people are short of water. But they may indeed have insufficient water, so they don’t know how to dig. This place is not far from Wenshui, so there must be groundwater. They only need to dig deep wells to solve the water problem. Solve it. When the time comes, we will be surrounded by the reinforcements from Fei County and Ying County. That is to say, the last decision is reasonable, which is to go ahead and do it with the bravery of our Taishan soldiers. Quickly, I can defeat the wall in front of me with only four hundred soldiers. Give me half a day."
Yu Jin was criticized by Ding Sheng for being worthless. His face turned red, but he didn't say anything back.
On the one hand, although he and Ding Sheng are both generals, Ding Sheng's general is different from him. He was an old brother and the core, but he was born as a general and was promoted quickly. He was already hated by others, so how could he dare to speak back at this moment.
But on the other hand, he didn't reply because Ding Sheng was right. The three strategies seemed to be the best. But the strategy of hard attack can be thought of by Hei Fu, the most ignorant person in the army. He said this in Jin, so why should he be proud?
So Yu Jin remained silent.
And what about Ding Sheng? He is sarcastic and sarcastic, not because he is right about something, but because he is right about people.
Ding Sheng supports this spring's organizational reorganization and expansion. Which general doesn't like the more pawns he has, the better. But he was completely dissatisfied with this arrangement. This reorganization has almost divided the rankings of generals. First of all, except for Yang Mao who is still the second officer in the army, the most important among the other generals are Guan Yu and Zhang Dan. One of them is the left school captain and the other is the right school captain. It can be said that they are the two pillars of the army. And Guan Yu, as the left captain, is more important than the right captain.
So in other words, this Beigou, since he joined the army last autumn, has become the most important general in the army after Yang Mao in one winter. He was sore. You must know that when the Shi Jiajun established their army, he and Zhang Dan were on par with each other, and they were vaguely a head above him, Ding Sheng. Now, he has directly fallen into the same position as others.
Ding Sheng did not dare to blame Zhang Chong. He was completely convinced by him. He still believes that Ding Sheng's ability to bring glory to his ancestors and bring them back to the Spring and Autumn Period rests on his head. He firmly believed that he could do great things, but he was worried about whether Ding Sheng could keep up when the time came. That's why he finally asked Zhang Chong to let them go.
Of course Ding Sheng knew that this wall was difficult to hit and many people would definitely die. But there is no way, if he doesn't work hard, he, Ding Sheng, will be surpassed by Yu Jin, the thief. Didn't you see that he has climbed as high as himself and has become a general?
In fact, Ding Sheng's request for the fight robbed the forward Dian Wei of an opportunity, but Dian Wei had always been silent and did not take credit for the fight, and he was not angry at Ding Sheng's fight.
Seeing Ding Sheng asking for a fight, Zhang Chong laughed:
"Okay, Daqi is still so aggressive and dares to fight. Okay, I will use you in this battle. How do you plan to attack this wall."
Ding Sheng revealed his innermost thoughts:
"I brought 600 sacks for this battle, just to use them at this time. Look, Captain, the deep chasm on all sides in front of me is getting deeper and deeper. I took my brothers to carry the bags of earth to fill it. The rest of the brothers used big canopies to cover up, and I didn’t expect it to be filled in less than two hours. Then we piled the remaining bags under the wall to make a mountain of earth, and marched into the wall along the mountain.”
Zhang Chong took a picture and said hello loudly:
"Da Qi, I'm so impressed by you as a scholar. I didn't expect you to use your brain in fighting. Very good, very good."
Ding Sheng smiled innocently, feeling proud in his heart. Zhang Dan and I both said that what Qu Kui admires the most is those who are smart in fighting, so I, Daqi, must be the one with the most brains.
But just when Ding Sheng thought that this attack was about to fall on him, Zhang Chong said leisurely:
"In a moment, you and Awei will lead the troops out first. After arriving at the bottom of the wall, follow your strategy, pack soil first, and constantly create pressure on the enemy wall. Then listen to the sound of my Fa Luo. Together with my Fa Luo, we will fight against the enemy's stronghold. There will be chaos, and when the time comes, you and Awei will rush in, fight hard, and kill them through the wall.”
What Zhang Chong said was incomprehensible. Why would people be in chaos when Fa Luo came up?
However, the military order had been issued, so Ding Sheng and Dian Wei went to prepare separately.
Two moments later, Zhang Chongzhong's army's magic conch rose up, and the drums shook the ground.
At this moment, Ding Sheng was wearing an iron bag, naked, with a big earth bag in one hand, and under the cover of a soldier holding a pillar, he said to the soldiers behind him:
"Come on with Nai Gong."
With that said, he rushed towards the trench head first.
Arrows kept hitting the ground in front of Ding Sheng, and some were accurate, hitting the big pillar above his head. Ding Sheng gritted his teeth, reached the deep chasm first, and then threw the soil bag in his hand directly into the chasm. Over there, Dianwei also took the lead. He carried two earth bags in one hand and filled the deep chasm.
The battalion generals on the wall of the ladle were in great panic and kept urging the archers on the turret to fire their arrows. However, there were only a hundred soldiers in the wall, and the archers were only twenty. They were scattered on both sides, one on the left and one on the right, and there was no effective resistance at all. .
There was no way, the camp general just watched helplessly as the thieves filled the trench more and more. Just when he was planning to recruit everyone in Wei City to guard the wall, a group of people, led by two black turbans, Rushed up the wall.
He just reprimanded:
"Who are you? Who asked you to come up?"
A Bai Lian flashed past over there, and a ram's horn dagger was already stabbed in his neck. Then the other soldiers on the wall were also attacked and killed with daggers by the people who came up suddenly.
Two moments later, Ding Sheng, who was sweating and carrying a soil bag, saw the gate of the camp in front of him wide open. Then he saw General Meng Ju of the Fei Army, standing in front of the gate with a section of his head and shouting. .
Ding Sheng was so angry that he cursed:
"It's all in vain again."
(End of chapter)