The phrase "pick up a rock and smash it at me" will have many effects when and in different places.
For example, if you are on the side of resistance, after the long-range weapon is consumed, there is no better way to resist the enemy's invasion, and it can be tragic to use stone, an ancient natural product, as a weapon.
Another example is to stand on the attacking side and watch the enemy counterattack with stones, many times it will be funny, so that people can't help but laugh dumbly after hearing it.
The Han army that was smashed by stones all the way in the face of Li Cheng Han made full use of the height to lose stones really has a lot of psychological shadows, they have experienced dense stone covering, and they have also been crushed by huge stones tumbling down from the mountain, it can be said that this attack on Li Cheng Han so far, the number of Han soldiers killed and wounded on the stones is definitely much more than the number of dead and wounded on the weapons.
The invasion of the Han army is no longer sudden, Liu Rui knows that the effect of a rapid attack or a slow attack is the same, compared to the previous Guancheng Jitou Pass, it is not a good pass to capture, and the time spent is definitely not short, so they should try their best to find a place where they can camp.
When the defenders of Jitou Pass faced the arrival of the Han army, they showed nervousness and panic.
The guess they had before was that the fortresses ahead could stop the Han army for at least two years, but the fact was that it only took nearly three months for the Han army to invade and enter the city.
Miscalculations of the arrival of the Han army can have many different effects, the simplest being that some of the fortifications have not yet been built, and there will be a shortage of food and military equipment to be prepared, and even the collection of stones will be less than the amount should be.
Fu An, who was in charge of garrisoning Jitou Pass, had just received a direct order from Zan Jian two days earlier, who wanted Fu An to resist as long as he could, and promised to send reinforcements.
Fu An's understanding of Zan Jian's words was that although the terrain of Jitouguan was extremely favorable to his side, the high-level was not optimistic about how long it would take to resist the Han army.
Because of Zan Jian's influence, in fact, it caused Fu An, the commander of Jitou Pass, to start feeling weak in his heart.
If Zan Jian knew that his words would have such an effect, he would probably slap himself on the cheek a few times.
There are 3,000 garrisons in Jitouguan, most of which are garrisoned in camps built on the mountain, and a small number are stationed on high places in the shape of cockscombs.
The distribution of the garrison camps stationed at Jitou Pass seems to be very scattered, all of them occupy the commanding heights, especially the height in the shape of the cockscomb has the most geographical advantages.
From the place in the shape of a cockscomb, the archer's firing range can cover a wide area, so to speak, any road that can be attacked is within its coverage.
Fu An was now standing in the shape of a cockscomb, where he could see a wide position, and he could see everything the Han army was doing within his field of vision, but he couldn't see what was going on behind the stone gate.
The Han army was not stationed in the camp, it was a lot that was not wide enough nearby, either an inclined position or a forest of strange rocks, and it was really impossible to find an area that could be placed.
Liu Rui only frowned after getting the report, it was close to summer recently, but this mountainous area is very evil, and there will be a rain from time to time, if there is no place to camp, military supplies such as bows, crossbows, and food can only be hoarded in the plank road covered by mountains, otherwise it will be bad to get wet.
The exploration of the surrounding terrain has been carried out since the Han army first came, and the exploration of some of the original roads is secondary, after all, the ready-made roads have long been clear, and the Li Cheng Han troops as the defenders must have been prepared, and the Han scouts mainly reconnoiter the places where the roads can be opened, and finding the roads that can go around to the rear of Jitou Pass is the first priority.
Because of the terrain, Liu Rui's department did not completely go out of the plank road, only nearly 1,500 people came out, and the remaining soldiers and related auxiliary personnel were either on the plank road or on the side of some mountain foothills.
When Liu Rui's brows were not relaxed, he preliminarily judged that the defenders of Jitou Pass would not be less than 2,000, which was calculated from the defenders who had already appeared, and it was also based on the terrain of Jitou Pass.
The topography of Jitou Pass determines one point, the defenders who occupy an absolute geographical advantage can be spread out, they are located in a condescending area, as long as the Han army enters the range of bows and arrows, they can shoot arrows from top to bottom, so the defenders who can be seen are basically archers.
"I'm afraid the chance of becoming a god will be very high this time."
Xiaodouzi is nibbling on dry food, which is a kind of fried noodles mixed with meat foam, and the sound of food in his mouth is slightly indistinct: "If you want to attack, you can only rely on hard pushing, and there is no room for opportunism." ” Wu Commander Li Mi was also gnawing on dry food, his eyes were fixed on the enemy army located on the heights, where the Li Cheng Han soldiers were standing in rows, one after another definitely holding bows and arrows in their hands.
There are already strong crossbowmen of the Han army conducting test firing, which is to fire crossbow arrows from their own positions in all directions, which is to judge the shooting range of the strong crossbow, and also to test the local wind direction.
The terrain is a canyon, and the mountain wind is actually very strong when the wind has only one channel, which can be judged from the fluttering of the flag above the chicken head pass, but the strength of the wind is not exactly the same at different heights and positions, which is related to a kind of knowledge of the wind and flow layer.
A Han army entered the bow and arrow shooting range of the defenders of Jitou Pass, and the Han soldier with a strong crossbow had not yet pulled the trigger to fire the crossbow arrows, and the five defending archers above shot the arrows first.
The arrows from top to bottom appear to be more floating when they were launched, and the five arrows floated from the string to the ground so that they did not touch the Han soldiers, the closest was close to five steps, and the farthest was more than ten steps away.
When the arrow landed, the strength was not weak at all, and the arrow inserted into the ground was not about one-fifth, and some of the arrows that hit the stone were directly bent.
The Han sergeant ran over and picked up the arrow and walked back, the arrow of Li's Cheng Han arrow was not triangular in shape, but a triangular flat and elongated shape.
In fact, the whole army is a triangular shape that only appears in two periods, the first is the Qin Empire that uses templates for assembly line production technology, and there is now the Han State under the rule of Liu Yan, and the rest of the three-edged arrows are specially made as armor-piercing arrows in small quantities, and the rest are more arrows of other shapes.
In this case, there is a situation where the mold casting method has not been mastered, and there are too many grinding processes that rely on completely manual grinding and the production time is too long.
"Good news is bad news."
Liu Rui was holding the enemy arrows that had been picked up, holding the bent arrow in his hand, and observing the arrow shaft, he said: "The mountain wind is too strong, and there is no precision in the arrows, and the quality of the enemy's arrows looks like a batch of military supplies rushed out."
The Wind Storm increases the lethality of the arrows, both for us and for the enemy. ” It is common sense in military affairs to borrow the wind from archery, and there is a convention to seize the limelight, especially in cavalry warfare.
The erratic mountain wind on the side of Jitouguan is indeed beneficial to the side of the Han army that launched the attack, it is better than having a fixed wind that can be used by the enemy, but I don't know if Li Chenghan has enough military literacy to exist, such as the use of wind at least understand.
The Han army likes to use arrow arrays for endless coverage, and has enough experience in the use of the wind, so the erratic wind on the side of Jitouguan is who can judge the change of the wind more accurately for the two armies.
"It won't rain, right" Liu Rui looked up at the sky, pursed his lips and ordered: "Prepare for the first wave of tentative attacks." ” The outgoing scouts have made some returns, and can provide the route of the troops' march basically have enemy garrison nodes, and some places that have not been carved out are difficult to find a place to stand.
To be honest, this is normal, after all, it can be used as a place for the road, and it has long been opened up by the predecessors, and there is no reason why the defenders will not pay attention to it, unless the defenders have not made a correct judgment before, but the probability of this is very small.
As the first wave of tentative attacks, the Han army only dispatched 500, and they were divided into several groups to advance towards different roads, without exception, except for the crossbowmen, they were all shield soldiers.
Fu An had already discovered when the Han army made a move, he didn't give any military orders, not because he was stupid, but because he had already made corresponding deployments before.
The Cheng Han troops of the Li clan stationed in sections found that the Han army was showing signs of attack, and the horns and wooden drums were blown and beaten out respectively, and the whole canyon was immediately filled with the sound of urging battle.
The first Han army entered the garrison node, and in an instant it was the defending archers standing on a high place pulling strings and shooting arrows.
Xiaodouzi carried the tower shield and followed the sound of the trumpet, he and the robe Ze were five people in a row, the first robe on the left and right sides of the tower shield was vertical, and he and the two robe in the middle were holding the tower shield above their heads.
Not to mention the narrowness of the road, the ruggedness and unevenness make it infinitely more difficult to form a shield array, resulting in large and small gaps between the tower shields.
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Not every lot of the road is the same width, sometimes you can walk side by side, the next moment you can only provide three people side by side, and some lots can accommodate more people side by side, resulting in a situation where you can accidentally squeeze each other and make people fall into a deep ravine.
The Han army advanced very slowly, and from time to time they had to stop to adjust their positions.
The little bean who stopped looked up from the gap in the shield, and the arrows shot by the defenders would appear in a strange trajectory in mid-air, not directly forward, but the shaft of the arrow would be shaken by the wind and make a strange sound, and it would also change the trajectory up and down, making it really difficult for him to judge whether those arrows would shoot to their location.
It may seem strange and funny to say, the defenders of the garrison node should have about 200 people shooting arrows at the same time, but the number of arrows that hit the area where the Han army was located was only about 30 arrows, and the rest of the landing points were widely distributed and scattered.
Little Beans can judge the strength of the shield from the force, and the symphony of metal and the arrows that penetrate the iron shield only show one point, that is, if a person is really shot, it will definitely cause a penetrating effect.
There was already a scream in the queue, it was supposed that an arrow had hit the person through the gap between the shields, and the screams were rapid and short, indicating that the person who was hit was killed almost instantly.
More than one Han army entered the bow and arrow shooting range of the defenders of Jitou Pass, and there was no shortage of arrows in the middle of the canyon, and the group of archers was full of depression, and the people who were passively shot were also heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys all felt uncomfortable, just because the archers could not hit to see their luck, and it was pure bad luck to be shot.
To be honest, a similar situation happened a long time ago, the army of the former Qin vassal states and the army of the ancient Shu state, Shu Han and Cao Wei, I just don't know what is the difference between the mentality of the soldiers at that time and now.
The casualties of the advancing Han army were not large, and there were probably more people who stumbled and fell into the ravine than those who were hit by the defenders' arrows, and the first major casualties began to appear within the distance that the defenders could smash stones.
The heavy clashing sound occurred between the shield and the stone, and was sometimes accompanied by the screams of the Han soldiers who had been smashed.
The weight of the stone is higher than that of the arrow, and although it will be blown by the wind when it is smashed out, the heavier stone still has a fixed trajectory, and the hit rate is naturally much more than that of the arrow.
"Retreat."
After Liu Rui finished ordering, he touched his chin as if he was talking to himself: "It seems that there is no need to form a shield array, it should be a flexible and light soldier as the main force."
The formation of a shield array with crossbowmen, crossbowmen, and archers is the killer weapon of the Han army in the plains and wilderness, and it can be solid in the face of the cavalry-based enemy army, and if it is faced with the infantry-based enemy army, it is stubbornly defended like a mountain and invaded like a wall, and the best results can always be achieved at the slightest cost again and again.
It is very difficult to form a shield array in the mountains, so that the Han army, which is accustomed to forming a shield array and fighting, will look stupid at some times, and stupidity is a kind of inertia in thinking, and whether or not you can break free from the inertial thinking depends on when the commander and general understand it.
Liu Rui was born in the beggar army, and the beggar army is a force that wants nothing, and has to use what it has, and does not pay attention to conformism, let alone inertial thinking.
He quickly came up with a method of attack that he thought was feasible, and if he was replaced by a general who had stayed in the Han army from the beginning, he might have to suffer more and greater losses before he could change his mind.
There are many flexible and light troops in the Han army.
The most flexible and light is the jumping soldiers, but the number of jumping soldiers is very small, and they are generally used to use hooks and ropes to directly climb and attack during sieges, and they really haven't played since invading the Li family.
Soldiers who do not wear armor and do not hold shields can be regarded as flexible and light, but the soldiers who do not wear armor in the Han army are strangely a small part, and each soldier will at least have a set of decent leather armor.
Liu Rui sent relatively flexible and light soldiers into battle, and he asked the troops to make all kinds of attempts as much as possible, and it was best to attack them, even if they couldn't, they had to create possibilities.
After all, if they can't find a passage to detour, then they can only bite the bullet and go up: