Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 337 Onimu
For thousands of years, all ambushes in ancient and modern China and abroad have been like this.

Especially in ancient times, the army in most cases could only fight with the wind.The more soldiers and horses there are, the easier it is to cause chaos due to accidents, and finally die in the hands of one's own people (horses), sometimes far more than being beheaded by the enemy.

On the other hand, those terrains that are conducive to ambushes, such as the "lands of six evils" mentioned in Sun Tzu's Art of War, can actually be seen by ordinary people who do not understand the art of war.

Regardless of Juejian (deep and steep valley), Tianjing (similar to a basin), Tianlao (surrounded by high mountains), Tiancao (low-lying terrain), Tianluo (deep grass and dense forest), Tianchao (two mountains facing each other, narrow stream)
What these terrains have in common is immediately apparent.

It is nothing more than easy to enter and difficult to exit. The terrain is narrow, or low-lying, or the road is muddy, and the water flows in it, which is not conducive to passing, escaping, or even adjusting the formation in case of emergency.

So why ambushes always work, the key is not where the terrain is, let alone how dangerous the terrain is, it is still in people's hearts.

As long as the ambusher can convince the enemy that he is not here to ambush, the ambush will always go on and on and be successful.

But this time, the main general Jiang Tiao also made such a mistake.

At the moment before entering the valley, the experience and instinct gained from the battlefield were all reminding him that this was a fierce place, but Jiang Tiao was always because of Liu Beifang's judgment on the strength of Wang Zheng's troops, so there was no need to hug him It's a fluke that some people set up an ambush here.He didn't wake up until the moment before the ambush was launched, but it was too late.

Because at this time, the Hongyi Saber had mercilessly wiped across this person's neck.

On the other hand, the original shortcut has become a desperate situation, which has caused many Xiapi troops to fall into chaos. Especially when they set off from Tancheng this time, Liu Bei's army also had many recruits who were not well trained, and even those who were recruited by the army. Husband, their performance in the face of this situation is even more unbearable.

With the shouts of killing, not only bows and arrows, falling rocks, but also countless firelighters were thrown down.

Dead branches and fallen leaves bundled and piled up in advance,

The remaining branches of the felled logs,

Oil or oil "collected" from nearby villages in Xiaxiang.
They fell overwhelmingly into the valley, causing the flames to roll in with a pungent and familiar smell.

Fire attack, a strategy as enduring as ambush!

No matter it is in any military art book, it is the most basic strategy that must be mentioned. The so-called fire and water are ruthless. Compared with water attack, fire attack is often less difficult to implement, but the effect is often amazing.With the specific geographical conditions, it is impossible to wipe out the entire opponent's army.

But at this time and this place, the right time and place are extremely suitable for Huo Gong.

The exits on both sides are sealed, the vegetation in the valley is dense, and the season happens to be a severe drought and hot summer, so it is very prone to wildfires.After countless dead branches and fallen leaves and fire oil spilled, just a single spark can ignite a raging fire in the valley.

"shoot!"

Accompanied by a shout from above the valley, the archers in Yuan Junli used torches to ignite the cotton wool tied to the arrows, and shot down at will, without even needing to deliberately aim at the target.

boom!
The rockets scattered on the ground ignited the fire almost instantly, and spread wildly in all directions.

Afterwards, the most elite cavalry in this trilogy was the first to collapse in a terrifying scene like a prairie fire.

Although the cavalry could still maintain their sanity, the horses neighed one by one. The beasts that had just been appeased became panicked again, and many riders were overturned and fell off their horses. Running wildly, the chaos and casualties caused were even more serious.

But when a rider from the Tianjun side held Jiang Tiao's head and yelled, "Your general is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed", the Xiapi army completely collapsed.

With the help of Tianhuo, after half a day of fierce fighting, Liu Bei's army was at a loss for advance and retreat, and after the main general Jiang Tiao was directly beheaded by Wu Sheng, the army's morale was even more broken.

At dusk, there were no fugitives, and half of them surrendered. As for those who refused to surrender, Wu Sheng was naturally happy to see them, and they were all killed on the spot while waving with a smile.

Afterwards, the whole army was mobilized. The total number of casualties of the army that set up an ambush this time was less than 100. If you look at the proportion of the Tianzhu Battalion that was at the forefront of the battle, there were more than [-]% of the [-]-odd soldiers!

But no matter what, being able to nearly wipe out the 3000 Xiapi reinforcements was already a glorious victory.

It was not until the end of the war that Yuan Jun began to take the initiative to put out the mountain fire. At this time, it had been burning for almost half a day!

When it was boiling the most, the flames and black smoke could be seen ten miles away. If there were gods in the clouds and looked down through the smoke, they would be able to see burnt ashes and corpses of soldiers everywhere on the scorched ground. Let this barren valley seem to have become a hell on earth.

Even Li Ren and other generals who are used to killing, even if the victim is Liu Beijun whom they hate so much, they still feel sympathy.

"I've heard from Lord Yan's book before that there is a saying in the ancient military book: Fire attacks can harm the peace of heaven, and those who use them will lose their life." Looking at the scene of purgatory in front of him, most of Li Ren's joy after the victory suddenly dissipated, and he He said with emotion: "At that time, I still thought this was a fallacy, but seeing it with my own eyes today, I am shocked that this statement may be true."

"Bullshit!" Wu Sheng didn't take it seriously when he heard the words, and snorted heavily: "Where is there such a reason, killing people with swords is fine, but using fire to hurt Tianhe? And loss of life?"

He seemed to be the only one in the audience who was not affected by the tragedy. Not only was he triumphant, but Wu Sheng couldn't help muttering in his heart, this fire attack is a good way, and he will use it more in the future!

However, there is no time to think about it at this time. The elimination of Xiapi's reinforcements is only the first step of the plan. The purpose of encircling the reinforcements is to prevent Xiapi from sending reinforcements in the short term, and at the same time use a victory to boost Yuan Jun's sluggish morale.

From the beginning to the end, Wu Sheng never forgot the real purpose of his trip!
It's still conquering the bottom!
He ordered to record the contributions of all the people, and allocated a team to deal with the prisoners. Wu Sheng didn't intend to congratulate at all, so he ordered his troops out of the mountain and rushed towards Xiapi.

Next to the city.

In the past few days, although Yuan Jun's attack on the city was not violent, it never stopped.

The remaining elites of this defeated Yuan army have long been lost to Si Zhenshan, and the rest are just cannon fodder. What's more, neither the leader Yuan Yin nor these ordinary soldiers have much fighting spirit. It did not cause any pressure on the defenders of Xiaxiang City, let alone casualties.

If you want to talk about the effect, at best it can only consume some of the physical strength of the defenders.

Yuan Yin, who was in charge of the command, was not in a hurry about it, and continued to attack step by step every day, and then stared at the west in a daze when he was fine.

He knew that his family's purpose of attacking the city here was to draw reinforcements from Xiapi.

So how many people are dispatched to Xiapi now?
What about Si Zhenshan's current situation?
Ready to fight?

Can the winner be decided?

These doubts are filled in Yuan Yin's mind, but they have not been answered. However, Yuan Yin also knows that it is not up to him from the beginning, and the current group of soldiers and horses in the city, whether he can capture the prime minister or not. decided.

The guard of Xiaxiang City is actually the same at this moment.

Can be entrusted by Liu Bei at a critical moment, sent here, and even defeated Yuan Yin himself before, and captured the prime minister, the guard is also a good soldier. After coming down, under careful observation, the guards have already noticed that the number of bandits in the city is not only small, but their combat effectiveness is also very unbearable!

But the only thing that terrified him was that someone in his subordinates recognized him. This was actually not the Yellow Turban bandits, but Yuan Shu's former loser!
So where did the Yellow Turban bandits go?

The defender felt an inexplicable panic in his heart, but even though he knew that his opponent had changed into a weaker one, he was still the defeated one before, he still obeyed Liu Bei's instructions, patiently defended the city, and resolutely did not leave the city to fight in the field.

By chance, a strange scene appeared in Xiaxiang.

Raiding a city and attacking a fortification has always been the most tragic. No matter the attacker or defender, the owner of a city needs an extremely tragic price. But in the early stage of the siege, if there is no big battle, there will be small battles, and the atmosphere is extremely depressing and desperate.

Now it is the attacker who is indifferent to the attacking side, and the defender is also lazily guarding, as if playing an offensive and defensive drill, more like a drill than a war.

In troubled times, such days are actually pretty good.

But whether it was Yuan Yin who knew about Wu Sheng's plan, or the fact that the besieger was Yuan Jun's defender, they all knew that such a seemingly harmonious stalemate would not last forever!
What happens after that depends on another battlefield.

Yuan Yin knew where the battlefield was, and the guard had roughly guessed it, and even tried, sending out sentry cavalry secretly at night, trying to remind the reinforcements, but no matter how relaxed Yuan Yin was, there was really no such thing as this matter. given any chance.

Day after day passed.

It was the fourth day that the prime minister was besieged.

Just when Yuan Yin commanded the soldiers to attack again according to the usual practice, a group of galloping cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance and rushed towards the barracks.

It's the messenger!
Yuan Yin's heart immediately came to his throat.

He can't understand Wu Sheng, and Wu Sheng also dislikes him, but the current situation is stronger than others, and both sides have a common enemy. On the surface, they are maintaining a cooperative relationship, but after taking photos, they communicate with each other There was no news, and Yuan Yin didn't know where he had progressed.

Will it be good news?

At this time, Yuan Yin didn't care about the siege any more, he stood up suddenly, and stared at the messenger cavalry who rode their horses into the camp. He watched several riders enter the camp and turned over. , got off the horse, and immediately rushed in with strides, shouting at the first sentence: "Lieutenant, good news!"

"Sizhen Mountain, our army won a big victory!"

"Xiapi reinforcements are almost wiped out!"

Won!

Yuan Yin only felt a buzzing sound in his ears, and his heart started beating. The other generals around him couldn't help standing up at the same time, chattering and making a lot of noise.

After a while, Yuan Yin, who was calm and calm, stopped the crowd first, and then sat down in the commander-in-chief again, and personally asked about the whole story of the battle.

"General Liu Jun seemed to be vigilant and ordered a group of troops to cross the valley first. Seeing this, Major Wu ordered everyone to hold back for now. Seeing that there was indeed no ambush in the valley, the remaining infantry entered the valley together with [-] cavalry. Only then did he issue an order to put down the huge stones and logs on both sides to seal the way out, set fire to the mountain, and personally led the yellow scarves...the elite of the heavenly army blocked the entrance, and even killed the enemy generals."

"In this battle, more than a thousand people were burned and killed, nearly a thousand people were beheaded, and more than [-] people were captured."

The eloquence of the rider who reported the letter was not bad, and he described the situation in an orderly manner under the excitement, which made everyone in the tent beam with joy.

"What a Wu Sheng!" Someone couldn't help but blurt out praise.

"Our brothers only killed more than 300 people? Just killed more than 2000 Liu Beijun? This is also..." Some people were delighted, but they couldn't believe it.

"Hey, I finally got it back!" This is the complaint of the former loser: "I, Jiang Dongerlang, proved that the previous defeat was due to Qiao Rui's incompetence!"

"The troops sent by Xiapi are gone, and they will be unable to rescue Xiangxiang after a while, right?"

Yuan Yin also thought a lot, and this battle was a joy to him, the only fly in the ointment.
He curled his lips secretly.

Now that the commanding power of this army and horse is under control, the Wu bandit is even more determined.

There is no other way, Yuan Yin sighed secretly, and immediately ordered the guards: "Spread the news of the great victory immediately, and let everyone in the army know!"

In the current situation, there is nothing better than a victory, or even a big victory, to restore the morale and morale of one's own army.

When the news spread quickly within Yuan Jun, thousands of people immediately cheered together.

If it is said that during the previous expedition to Xuzhou, most of the soldiers were nothing more than military pay and military exploits, but they were not necessarily willing to die. After the defeat of Xiapi, the hatred and shame made these Jiangdong men sincerely willing to fight to the death in exchange for the enemy. defeat.

But only if victory is guaranteed.

And Wu Sheng's battle made many people believe this, and the flame of revenge really ignited.

Thousands of people cheered in unison, and the movement was naturally not small. Liu Jun, who was on the head of Xiaxiang City, was shocked.

At the beginning, they mistakenly thought that Yuan Jun finally couldn't hold back and was about to attack, and they were very nervous for a while.The guard rushed over immediately, but saw that there was no special movement in the city, but even those who were attacking the city were called back.
The guard realized something was wrong.

This must have been a good news!
Seeing the cheers in the city one after another, he felt a deep sense of uneasiness in his heart.

The thieves have been bluffing from the very beginning, and the real number of people in the city has never been more than a thousand, and there is no elite main force.
But my own family sent a messenger to ask for help on the first day of attacking the city. Counting the time, I am afraid that they are already on the way
Now, the thieves rejoice together, shouting and cheering, shouldn't it be
Already faintly aware that the enemy might be the defenders who were surrounding the spot to fight for reinforcements, a possibility came to his mind at this moment, and his face turned pale instantly.

Do not!
impossible!
The next moment, the guard suppressed this terrible thought by himself, but soon, someone had heard the noise of the bandit army below the city, and passed the news back to him.

Yuan Jun sent from Xiapi was ambushed by the enemy in Sizhen Mountain, and almost all of them were wiped out!
This sad news spread across the city like a hurricane, instantly knocking down the morale of the city guards to the bottom.Although the guard received the report after the cup of tea, and immediately ordered the officers to investigate and not allow such news to spread, it was too late.

"This must be a rumor of thieves. Seeing that the city cannot be captured for a long time, it is used to attack our army's morale!"

The guard firmly refused to admit this news, and vowed that the thieves simply did not have such capabilities and strength, and the reinforcements would arrive within two or three days at most!
While appeasing the hearts of the soldiers, they usually dispatched their confidants immediately, trying to pass the news back to Xiapi.

His idea is very simple, if the news is false, the bandit army will definitely take the opportunity to step up their attack on the city, then this rhetoric can help stabilize the morale of the army.If the news is not forged and the Xiapi army is really defeated, then at most two or three days later, the elite of the thieves will return with a large number of prisoners and captured.At that time, even if you want to hide it, you can't hide it.

What I want now is to delay as much as possible for a few days.

On the one hand, I went to Xiapi again to ask for help, and on the other hand, I hurriedly prepared for a tough battle.

Perhaps because of his complacency, this time Yuan Yin didn't stop all the messengers sent by Xia Xiang again, so that night, seeing the figure of Yiqi going west, the guard's heart was finally relieved.

But at noon the next day, it was hoisted high again.

Wu Shenghui's army advanced rapidly, and at night the next day, they had actually arrived outside the city of Xiaxiang.

Because he had traveled for more than a day and his army was exhausted, Wu Sheng didn't even disturb Yuan Yin's camp not far away. He just found a hidden place far away. After resting for three hours, he suddenly launched an offensive in the early hours of the morning. .

Before attacking, Wu Sheng did one thing first.

He hung the heads of Jiang Tiao and countless Liu Beijun high in front of the formation!

these heads
There were both those who were killed in the valley and those who were captured. From Wu Sheng's point of view, the troops were limited at this time, and it was impossible to separate troops to guard the prisoners, and such hidden dangers could not be left behind!
There is only one best solution.
kill!

All killed!
So when the sun came up again, what the Prime Minister saw was the scene of Senluo Hell.

In front of the army and horse formation under the city, all you can see are tall poles.

There is a human head hanging on each pole, and the expression is pain, horror, or fear. The same place on every face is a bloody mess!
They densely circled the city for a week, and the strong smell of blood made the midsummer morning suddenly cold!

The wind is tight, whistling and circling.

Silently, the guards of the next prime minister looked miserable, their morale was depressed, and what's more, they trembled and collapsed in fright.

Laughing wildly, Wu Sheng took the lead in the charge, followed by the Tianzhu Camp. In such a tough battle, the strong must go first!
In half a day's time, the city was the first to fall!
Once again at dusk, Xia Xiang fell!

(End of this chapter)