Spring in the jungle is like this, when the weather changes faster than a person's face, and often without warning.
The downpour was not long, it was very heavy at first, and gradually the rain became smaller, and when people were still stunned, the clouds cracked, and a ray of sunlight shone down through the gap in the clouds, and it seemed to be a passage to the sky.
When more and more sunlight falls through the gaps in the clouds, people are uncontrollably engrossed in watching, as if they have come from the world to heaven in an instant.
The heavy rain caused the mountain to continue to slope down, and looking deeper into the city, the low-lying places were filled with puddles in a short period of time, and even a very fast canal flowed towards the lower sections.
Guancheng originally had a strong smell of blood, but after a heavy rain, the blood was washed away, and the air became fresh again, that is, the corpses that died in battle and did not have time to clean up were drenched by the rain, and their skin looked wrinkled and white, and the eyes of some people who died and did not close their eyes looked very cloudy.
Liu Rui was holding a steaming bamboo pipe in his hand, it was some ginger water, which could also have the effect of avoiding colds if it was damp and cold, and he was asking: "Have the casualties been counted?"
Zhang Lian, a military marquis, also had a steaming bamboo pipe in his hand, and replied while rubbing: "Our army has 26 killed, 57 seriously wounded, and 341 lightly wounded.
Four hundred and seven were captured, and one hundred and nineteen were taken prisoner. ” In terms of materials, it is not easy to calculate how much the loss of the Li Chenghan side is, and the crossbow arrows fired by the Han army alone have reached 7,000, and more than 4,000 crossbow arrows have been recovered and can be reused.
"The number of weapons in the Cheng army is actually more than that of the Zhao army."
Zhang Lian was talking about a batch of weapons reserves found after conquering Guancheng, with a large number of bows and arrows, and a small number of knives, spears, spears, and shields.
He couldn't help but show a contemptuous expression and said: "In terms of combat quality, the Cheng army is not comparable to the Zhao army. ” The Han army fought the most with Shijie Zhao Jun.
They had the impression that although the Shijie Zhao army had poor weapons, the Shijie Zhao army would not lack the courage to fight hard, but the troops of the Li clan Chenghan had a greater advantage than the Shijie Zhao army, but they looked very cowardly.
During the attack on Guancheng, the Han army killed a little fiercely, and most of the soldiers still waved their weapons when facing the surrender of the enemy soldiers, so that the number of kills was more than the number of captures, or under normal circumstances, a heart-wrenching victory should have more prisoners.
Around the end of the evening, the plank road behind lit up with a bright dragon composed of torches, which was the follow-up arrival of the Han army.
As a striker, Liu Rui's department was supposed to make a tentative attack on the cottages on both sides of the valley, but a sudden heavy rain interrupted the rhythm, and it would be more than worth the loss to launch an attack after the sky darkened.
The Han scouts were supposed to be scouting the road, but their actions were still affected by the heavy rain, until after night had completely fallen, a few scouts were sent back to report the situation, and the rest of the scouts planned to explore overnight.
The number of Han troops who arrived in the second group was 10,000, and they were not idle after their arrival, and the tower shield soldiers in the army were busy building a shield wall, which was to build an object like a shelf in a circular and gradual way, and use the defensive performance of the tower shield to directly extend it, and it was forced to create a channel established with the tower shield.
During the establishment of the protective passage, the two cottages garrisoned by the Li clan and the Han people did not choose to be blind in the middle of the mountainside, and they found that the movements of the Han army had been shooting arrows, as if they had found that the arrows could not play any real threat, and some stones were pushed down from the mountainside, and the rumbling sound was often ended with a louder muffled sound, that is, the stones hit the wall composed of tower shields, some sections were defended, and many were directly loaded with stones to make a big hole or collapse in pieces.
"At least they're not stupid when it comes to the use of terrain."
Huang Lu saw that he was a general in his clothes and badge, and he took over the command after he came, and it was his idea to use the tower shield to form a passage.
Because it was too dark, he couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly, but there was a bright light on the side of the cottage that he could see: "The enemy army originally had two thousand" "Yes, there were two thousand enemy troops stationed here."
Liu Rui frowned, after the arrival of the follow-up friendly forces, they should have continued to take the lead as the vanguard, but the tower shield passage was just messed up by the enemy's rolling stones, only a few hundred people passed through the enemy's attackable area, and more people were stranded.
He said: "More than 400 killed, more than 100 prisoners, considering that some enemy soldiers will flee, the enemy should still have about 1,23 thousand." ” Huang Lu nodded, but his brows were also furrowed.
If it is on flat ground, according to the quality of Li's Chenghan army, the enemy army of 1,003 can be solved by a single charge, but the remaining enemy army is on top of an absolutely advantageous cottage, or a cottage that can threaten the passage road on both sides, which can be regarded as taking advantage of the easy to defend and difficult to attack.
"The job is going to infiltrate in batches."
Liu Rui knows what it means to have a military order, they are the vanguard, they are the troops used to fight hard, not to mention whether they can pass quietly and without a trace, it is to take human lives to crash out of a passage, after all, a military order is a military order.
He said with less certainty: "If the quality of the army is not good, it should not be discovered." ” Huang Lu is directly:"" There are risky behaviors in any military operation, and there is absolutely no 100% certainty in saying that, Liu Rui will do whatever he says, and in the second half of the night, the troops began to infiltrate secretly in batches, and they really passed the dangerous area quietly.
Liu Rui couldn't figure it out, why didn't the enemy troops on the cottage know that they dropped torches to illuminate from time to time, but since his command had achieved their goal, the problem should be left to the Yellow Brigade with the task of attacking fortifications.
After the sky brightened again, Yang Xu had no idea that a group of Han troops had quietly continued to move south through his defensive position.
He looked down condescendingly, the banners of the Han army fluttered above the city, and found that the number of Han troops was so large that the tents were crowded with places where they could be accommodated.
The two cottages halfway up the mountain are not large, and the range of the bow and arrow can control the range of about 270 steps of the valley road below and a radius of about 400 meters.
The slope of the mountain is too high, basically any building is pierced by wooden piles to maintain balance, the buildings of the cottage are all timber structures, and some roads need to be made into a plank road mode to stand on their feet.
With the light, Huang Lu was finally able to see clearly what was going on with the two cottages halfway up the mountainside, and at a glance he could see the obvious characteristics of the Nanban village, and he only looked at it briefly before focusing on the larger stones and objects that looked like sassal wood.
The valley road surrounded by the mountains looks like a mess, with crooked tower shields and ubiquitous arrows, and the corpses of Han soldiers who were stoned to death by stones rolling down the mountains during some operations.
The passage that the Han army worked so hard to build existed for a short time, especially in the position directly below the two cottages, which looked the worst, and it was impossible to get the passage up without letting the enemy's rolling stones consume it, so the Yellow Brigade should think about whether to continue to build the passage or focus on attacking the two cottages.
There are many mountains on this side of Hanzhong, but it will definitely not be more than Shudi, and the Li family will definitely make the best use of the terrain, and the invasion of the Han army is destined to be a hard enough difficulty.
Considering that the terrain will create countless times more difficulty for the invasion, Huan Wen said in great detail at the beginning, the invasion of Li Chenghan is a war of attacking the heart, and the invasion should be like fire at the beginning of the invasion, so that the army of Li Chenghan will find the gap with the Han army psychologically, but it will not let the army of Li Chenghan have any hope of being able to persevere.
Liu Rui sent scouts before, and the Yellow Brigade also sent scouts overnight.
After the sky brightened, the scouts sent by Liu Rui returned, bringing back a lot of information, and it was more useful that there was indeed a sheep intestine trail that could detour back to the enemy army's cottage, but the road still could not accommodate the two of them walking side by side.
"Mountain warfare" Huang Brigade didn't do anything emotional, he didn't even have a superfluous expression at all, and directly ordered: "Attack" The Han army, which had just finished eating, had been ordered to break away from the brigade at the sound of horns.
Most of the costumes are some soldiers holding small round shields in their left hand and swords in their right, they are only wearing battle robes and no armor, and most of them are not tall.
The other part was the crossbowmen, who were the last.
The reason why it is the sound of the horn is because there is no way to carry war drums on the plank road.
The number of Han troops dispatched was 2,000, and each team of 1,000 people went straight to the cottages on both sides, and their actions made the sound of sheep's horns and wooden drums on the cottages loud.
The attacking Han army approached the range of the defenders of the cottage, and first the sparse arrows attacked, and the Han soldiers blocked with small round shields or swords, and the casualties were not serious.
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The top of the cottage should have fully reacted, the arrows gradually became dense, and the casualties of the attacking Han army began to increase, and at this time the Han army just rushed to the foot of the mountain.
It just rained yesterday, and the feet on the ground will be covered with mud, if you enter the soft area, you will directly sink into the ankle area, and after falling, you will be covered in mud.
After getting close enough, the crossbowmen of the Han army began to shoot back, and the crossbow arrows fired by the crossbow could still be shot to the cottage position from the bottom to the top, and even the strong bow in the hands of the archers could not reach it, so it was necessary to understand what gravity was and what it did.
In the arrows flying back and forth, someone is falling all the time, and the screams have become a sound that is never lacking on every battlefield.
The Han soldiers who started to climb suffered a lot, they could not use the small round shield to block the arrows when climbing, and the Han soldiers who rolled down after the arrow would also hit the robe behind them, causing a series of rolling gourd effects.
Yang Xu condescendingly watched the Han army follow one another, it was an absolutely bloody scene, looking at the Han army was not only miserable and embarrassed, but the Han army was still in front of the followers.
There is no way to do it, the mountain is originally very sloping, the defenders of the Li family Chenghan also cut down the trees that will block the shooting distance in advance, the ground after the rain is still very soft, and the Han army without any shelter falls in two steps, it must become the target of the cottage defenders, the difference is whether the defenders' archery accuracy is enough.
The Han army felt that unfortunately the ground was soft after the rain, which made the already difficult climb even more difficult.
It should be fortunate that it was also heavy rain, just because the bowstrings of the cottage defenders were wet and softened, some bows could not be used, and some of the bows that were barely used were really not very strong, and the Han soldiers who were shot looked very miserable, and they were not directly shot at the vital point but were injured rather than killed.
After sunrise, the attack continued without stopping, at first the defenders of the cottage only used arrows, and later used sandalwood and rolling stones, and by about noon the Han army finally approached the cottage position despite huge casualties.
I don't know if it's heat or nervousness, Yang Xu's forehead is covered with sweat, his hands are shaking slightly, and within the sight of his eyes, the closer is the Han army who has arrived close to the cottage, and the far place is the Han army who is taking the opportunity to catch the wounded soldiers back.
"Captain, the arrows are running out" "City captain, Han soldiers are everywhere."
"City Captain, some walled areas have been lost" "Captain," Yang Xu is more or less a qualified general, and he can guess how many casualties the Han army should have.
What he didn't understand was how the Han army could maintain a strong morale with more than 20% casualties, shouldn't it collapse and retreat Soon Yang Xu received a new report, that is, some Han troops came from another road, although they had been prepared for a long time, but the two sides fought hard, and the Han army was too brave, and the node defenders collapsed again and again, and they couldn't hold out for long.
Ordinary troops will lose their fighting spirit when they reach one achievement in casualties, and the more elite troops should also stop attacking if they suffer three percent casualties, and the last person in the battle is actually forced.
Whether the army is elite or not depends not on how capable it is to fight, but on how strong it is to withstand casualties.
In the afternoon, the defenders of the cottage on the right were the first to stop resisting, and the cottage on the left was still supervised by Yang Xu himself before they persisted.
Under repeated attacks, the Han army cleared the perimeter with heavy casualties, approaching the highest point where the remnants of Yang Xu continued to resist.
"How many casualties" Huang Brigade's face was so gloomy that it could be dripping: "When can we destroy the enemy troops who are still resisting?"
The first batch was 2,000 Han troops to participate in the war, and another 1,000 were added later.
The reason why there is no more is not only to attack, but also because the terrain is like that, and there is really not enough space for too many troops to put down.
Huang Lu didn't wait long, only half an hour passed from the time he asked the question to when Yang Xu was escorted to the front.
"Hmm" Huang Lu saw Yang Xu, looked at it carefully for a while, and commented: "He is a man with backbone." ” Yang Xu was not tied up, and he didn't look at any abuse, he wanted to speak, but Huang Lu had already made a decision.
"The army is strong-willed to resist, it is worthy of it, well, respect, it is respect."
The Yellow Brigade was actually very angry in his heart, they paid the price of more than five hundred deaths, and they knew very well that if they killed an army on flat ground, it would not be much more difficult than killing chickens, they were all damn terrain too fucked up.
He actually saw Yang Xu's reserved expression, and he was stunned for a moment and continued to say with respect: "So in order to show respect, give them the destination that warriors deserve." ” Yang continued: "", at the moment of death, I understood that the price of being respected was very high, and the Han army had not persuaded him to surrender from beginning to end
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