Three Kingdoms Eschatology

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"Report! General, there is a forest of black mist ahead, and the general specifically asked me to remind you." A soldier reported to Zhang Liao, who was leading the army on horseback.

Zhang Liao stopped immediately, muttering, "Oh, the Black Mist Forest is here."

Starting from Nanxincheng to Bumi Country, the whole way is basically walking on plain roads.Although these plains are divided into valleys or basins by mountains, most of these plains are connected by wide passages.Therefore, walking on the horse is only a little bit tortuous, and there is no big obstacle.

And this Black Mist Forest is one of the very few.The Black Mist Forest is sandwiched between a wide valley and a basin with a radius of more than fifty miles, and there is a city-state of Mahan in the middle of that basin.Although the distance between the mountains on both sides of this black mist forest is nearly ten miles wide, the terrain is not flat. There are a large number of low and high mounds distributed in it, and towering trees grow on the surface. The most important thing is It is tens of miles long.

Although Zhang Liao's army could move through the forest with few shrubs, it was full of dangers.The reason why Zhang Liao is so cautious about the Black Mist Forest is not only from his own military knowledge, but also from an intermediate military book written by Feng Yu. A famous battle between Qin State and its northern Germanic barbarians.That battle was fought in the Teutonic Forest, which had a geographical environment similar to that of the Black Mist Forest.At that time, the 200 Qin army was ambushed by hundreds of barbarian soldiers like ants. In the end, most of the [-] Qin army, including their families, failed to get out of the black forest.

Zhang Liao ordered word by word: "Send our military order, and the whole army stops advancing. Select a hundred of the most elite scouts, divide them into ten groups, and conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Black Mist Forest. In addition, tell these scouts that their mission is only to detect It is clear that there is no enemy ambushing in the forest, there is no need to detect the enemy's defenses. If there is an enemy ambush, don't startle the snake. Just come back and report."

"promise!"

After a while, a hundred mountain scouts in leggings rushed up from behind the team, and when they were still nearly a hundred battles away from the black mist forest, they all jumped off their horses.Divided into ten groups, along different paths, quietly walked towards the black mist forest.After a rustling sound came from the grass and bushes at the edge of the forest, the figures of these scouts disappeared.

After about two hours, the first group of scouts came back to report that there was no trace of the enemy in the forest.Afterwards, scouts returned one after another, reporting to Zhang Liao that no enemy troops were found in the Black Mist Forest.Zhang Liao was still a little worried, and repeatedly asked these scouts for confirmation, whether every corner of the forest had been investigated carefully.One of the scouts said: "General, don't worry, we know that the matter is important, and we have carefully surveyed the forest. This forest is more than thirty miles long and ten miles wide. We are divided into ten groups, Each group is responsible for a mile wide, combing the woodland from beginning to end like a comb, and from end to end again. Because the forest is covered by trees, it is difficult to see sunlight on the surface, so there are few shrubs and no one can hide. We waited even In the tree holes, whether there are Tibetans in the crown of the trees, and even whether there are caves dug with Tibetan soldiers on the mounds, they have been carefully observed. It can be guaranteed that there will never be a large number of soldiers hiding in them. Of course, if there are sporadic enemy scouts Hiding in the meantime, this...this lowly official and the sons of men will definitely not be able to fully detect it."

Hearing this, Zhang Liao was convinced that at least there were no large ambushes of the enemy army in the Black Mist Forest. Just as he was about to urge the soldiers and horses to pass through the Black Mist Forest, the last group of scouts rushed towards Zhang Liao.Before Zhang Liao approached, he couldn't wait to shout: "Report! I found the enemy behind the mountains in the east of the Black Mist Forest!"

Zhang Liao was shocked, and quickly asked the leader of the scouts who had already run in front of him: "Quickly tell me, what is the specific situation." Tell Zhang Liao the details of the enemy's tracks.

It turned out that this group of scouts was assigned to the easternmost area, responsible for the investigation at the foot of the mountains on the edge of the forest in the east.They marched from north to south, passed through the black mist forest, and joined the other mountain scouts, but found no trace of the enemy.But on the return journey, one of the soldiers accidentally discovered traces of people while urinating --- a fresh human stool.

He hurriedly summoned his companions, and they searched the surroundings carefully, and found an obvious trace of footprints.Fortunately, they brought a mountain dog with a muzzle, and hurriedly released the dog to follow it away.The mountain dogs led them up to the foothills of the eastern mountains, passed through a depression, and circled to the back of the mountains. In a valley here, they found soldiers and horses apparently dressed as horses and Koreans.

Excited in Zhang Liao's pupils, he asked eagerly, "How many soldiers and horses are there in this army?"

"If you go back to the general, there are about two to three hundred of them. There are still some tents in the valley. It is obvious that they are here for a long time."

Zhang Liao showed a puzzled expression again, and he couldn't help saying, "Why are there only two or three hundred people? What can this few people do?" He thought about it, and immediately realized something, and the scout asked again: "On the foot of the mountain on the other side of the mountain , are there many mountain passes like this?"

"There are countless words to return to the general. However, the task assigned by the humble position is to investigate the black mist forest. If all the valleys in these mountains are checked one by one, two hours will definitely not be enough. With such a small staff, even two days will not be enough." Too late."

Zhang Liao suddenly realized that Ma Han's army must be divided into many groups, hiding in similar valleys, and only rushed out after Liang's army had completely entered the hinterland of the forest.

He nodded and said to the scouts: "This general is self-aware, and I did not expect that they would set up an ambush so far from the center of the Black Mist Forest. But this forest is ten miles wide, separated by such a long distance. , and across the mountains, how can they unanimously obtain information about the Black Mist Forest that our army passed through, and attack our army in time?"

Chapter 737

Zhang Liao's questioning was actually talking to himself.But the people around thought that Zhang Liao was asking them, so the scout general immediately replied: "General, they may have a very small number of scouts in the middle of the dense forest. When our army passed by, they went to report and hide behind the eastern mountains. The enemy army. And such sporadic people hiding in such a large woodland, it is not easy for us to detect."

Zhang Liao repeatedly shook his head and said: "They are not just the one you found, but there should be at least dozens or hundreds of them, distributed in different and not close valleys. Because they know that our army can only use long snakes They can launch raids on various units of our army from different positions. This means that dozens or hundreds of scouts are needed to notify each group of enemy soldiers. If so many scouts hide In the forest, no matter how well it is hidden, it is impossible for our scouts to search just now without noticing any of them."

"Would it be possible to use something like a loud arrow to transmit the signal by sound? In this way, only a few soldiers need to notify one of the enemy troops, and then they will send out a sound signal to the adjacent enemy soldiers, and so on. All enemy troops."

Zhang Liao still shook his head and said: "No, this black mist forest is nearly eighty miles long, assuming that the enemy has forty troops with tens of thousands of horses. Then the average distance between two stocks is two miles. What's more, it is impossible for them to hide so far. What's more, their hiding place is not a plain, and there are mountains and high mountains in between, so it is even more impossible for the sound to be transmitted. Even if they deploy relay relay soldiers on the hillside, the signal will not be transmitted like that. It is too time-consuming, and it will definitely delay the fighter plane. Similarly, they cannot use beacons, semaphore and other methods to spread the signal in time."

After everyone was silent for a few breaths, a falcon on the shoulder of a scout impatiently flapped its wings, eager to try and rush into the air, so Zhang Liao had a flash of thought.He suddenly understood, laughed loudly and said: "I know their method and plan to learn about our army's movements, then we will give him a plan."

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On the eastern edge of the Black Mist Forest, Wu Xiexing and several other soldiers were crouching in a bush nearly one person tall.There are few shrubs in the Black Mist Forest, but there are many shrubs on the edge of the border with the eastern mountains. On the contrary, towering trees have become extremely rare.Therefore, people crouching in the bushes can cast their sights unobstructed to the sky above the Black Mist Forest.

At this time, Wu Xiexing was observing whether Liang Jun passed through the woodland that he was monitoring. He didn't need him, the leader of the Ma Han alliance, to do this.

But he insisted on personally monitoring Liang Jun.Previously, in the city of Xiegou Kingdom [-] miles away from here, more than [-] troops from more than [-] Mahan city-states had gathered.

Wu Xiexing divided them into thirty groups, 300 people each, and deployed them in various depressions in the eastern mountains of the Black Mist Forest. Then each group of soldiers sent two or three scouts to monitor Liang Jun's movements.Wu Xiexing knew how powerful Liang Jun's scouts were, and understood that if he put a lot of people in the black mist forest, they would be easily spotted by Liang Jun's scouts, who were as keen as hounds.Therefore, Wu Xiexing just let his scouts crouch at the foot of the mountain near the edge of the Black Mist Forest instead of entering the forest.

At such a distance, it was impossible for the scouts to detect the movement of Liang Jun who was walking through the forest several miles away.But as long as they keep their eyes in the air and check if there are a large number of birds soaring into the sky, they can know whether there is a large group of people arriving in the section they are monitoring.Moreover, they can estimate the general direction of advance of the soldiers and horses in the forest based on the sequence and time of the birds taking off in different places.

Suddenly, several birds that were only active at night soared into the sky, hovered in the air, and appeared in Wu Xiexing's sight.Wu Xiexing's heart skipped a beat, her eyes widened immediately, and she stared at the sky without blinking.Then more birds rushed into the air, apparently Liang Jun's brigade had already arrived under the forest.

The guards around Wu Xiexing took the initiative to take the order: "My lord, I'm going to call out the brothers who are hiding in the mountain depression!" Wu Xiexing nodded.The personal guard rushed out like flying and disappeared into the grass.After half an hour, three hundred Han soldiers will appear behind Wu Xiexing.

A general stepped forward and said to Wu Xiexing: "Your Majesty, everyone is here, so let's launch an attack."

Wu Xiexing shook his head and said, "What are you panicking about? Wait a minute. This place is not far from the entrance of the forest, and Liang Jun's queue is three or four miles long. In half an hour, their entire army probably hasn't been able to go deep into this place yet." A forest."

Wu Xiexing counted the time silently in his heart, and after another quarter of an hour, he finally ordered loudly to the [-] generals: "Attack. Note that we specialize in their rear army. Their front army, the central army and the rest of the friendly army are in charge." Let me tell you again! We don't want to fight, but fight and run. As long as we kill dozens or hundreds of Liang troops, we will retreat quickly. Don't fight Liang Junjun hard."

After finishing speaking, he paused again and proudly said to the three hundred soldiers: "Even though we only kill or injure dozens or even hundreds of them every time we attack, we have dozens of such weapons in the eighty-mile forest. Troops. In this way, all the bones Liang Jun gnawed will be like ten thousand ants devouring a snake! Let's go!"

The three hundred soldiers made a promise in Mahan language, and then followed Wu Xiexing to the forest.Wu Xiexing was wearing iron armor, and carrying a mountain-breaking ax weighing twenty catties, he rushed to the front in strides.Soon he came to where he expected to arrive.

To his great surprise, he didn't see Liang Jun's soldiers, horses and luggage moving forward in the forest like a long dragon.In his sight, there were only a few solitary Liang Army baggage carts, and two teams of nervous Liang Army soldiers with shields and guns, guarding the baggage carts.

Wu Xiexing heard the shouts of killing coming from a little distance away, and he knew that the rest of the troops had already started to confront Liang Jun.Wu Xiexing didn't have time to think about it, so he threw the mountain-opening ax into the air and said, "Kill!".Three hundred horse Han Bing will immediately surround him and kill Liang Jun.

In the forest, it was impossible to fight in formation at all, and Wu Xiexing's Ma Han army could only fight in the form of skirmishers charging.And Liang Jun didn't form a formation, and only waited for Ma Hanjun to charge close, and they all threw their spears.Although the two hundred spears were obstructed by trees, fifty or sixty spears still pierced through the bodies of the Mahan soldiers. Amidst howls and screams, dozens of Mahan soldiers collapsed in the forest.

Immediately afterwards, two hundred Liang army gun and shield soldiers quickly formed a simple army formation relying on several four-wheeled trucks and big trees.At almost the same moment, the roofs of the carriages of the four-wheeled vehicles suddenly opened, and more than twenty longbowmen appeared in the carriages, and immediately drew their bows and released arrows.

Chapter 738

A personal soldier in front of Wu Xiexing was only a few feet away from Liang Jun.At this time, there was only a pop, and the longbowman who was only two battles away fired an arrow, which pierced through the chest of Wu Xiexing, a personal soldier, and passed obliquely.It shot into Wu Xiexing's armor again.

Wu Xiexing only heard a clang, and his body shook as if he had been pushed heavily, stopping his forward steps in an instant.He looked down, and saw that a huge arrow with blood on the shaft had already penetrated into the left side of his breastplate, but fortunately, it was caught by the iron armor and failed to pierce the flesh.

At this time, Wu Xiexing's personal guard in front of him fell straight to the ground.Only then did he realize that if the guard hadn't slowed down the heavy arrow with his body, the arrow would have pierced through his chest.

Wu Xiexing was stunned for a moment, then roared and rushed forward two steps, swung his sharp ax and slashed towards the shield wall in front, unexpectedly, two spears appeared from the gap in the shield wall, and went straight to his body Coming, Wu Xiexing hastily changed from chopping to poking, and poked the two spears left and right.At the same time, screams came from nearby.It turned out that many horse and Han soldiers who rushed to the shield wall were either stabbed to the ground by spears or shot by the longbowmen who used the side walls of the carriages as cover.

Wu Xiexing saw that this was clearly Liang Jun's preparation, and shouted: "No good. Get out! All get out!" After saying that, he ran back with his big ax upside down.As soon as he retreated, how could the rest of them still have the intention to fight, they all put away their weapons and ran back after him.

But after they ran a few steps, they found that a Liang army also appeared behind them, also relying on the baggage carts and trees, they formed a suggested army formation to block their way.

Under the heavy rain of spears and heavy arrows, there were countless Ma Han soldiers who were pierced by javelins and heavy arrows.They fell in a pool of blood, screaming and wailing in pain.The surviving horse and Han soldiers did not dare to charge straight, so they had to turn around and run sideways, then turned to the east, trying to escape back into the mountains.Unexpectedly, at this time, the sound of horseshoes came from the forest.More than [-] heavy cavalrymen from the Liang army came after them, and they stabbed the fleeing Mahan soldiers to the ground one by one with light lances.

The sound of weapons clashing and fighting shouts can be heard everywhere in the black mist forest.If you go further south, you can see a similar battlefield. The Ma Hanjun who rushed out was hit head-on by the small group of Liang Jun who had been prepared for a long time. When he turned around and fled, he found that a new Liang Jun appeared behind him.

It turned out that half an hour ago, Zhang Liao led the 3000 selected Liang troops into the forest, leaving the remaining [-] Liang troops outside the forest as a reserve.After they entered the forest, the remaining Liang army entered the area near the eastern mountains of the Black Mist Forest to cut off the retreat of the Ma Han ambush soldiers.

Zhang Liao's men deliberately made a huge noise as they walked, startling the birds in the forest.Every time they walked a certain distance, they deployed the next troop to prepare for the ambush of Ma Han.

At this time, Zhang Liao poked the bloody spear on the ground, looked up, and saw that the corpses of Mahan people were lying on the ground in the forest around him, but the corpses of Liang Jun were rarely seen.

After a while, hundreds of soldiers gathered around him.They were the last remaining troops around Zhang Liao, and the rest of the soldiers were sent out along the way to counter-ambush the Mahan people.After less than half an hour, several groups of Liang Jun who were separated rushed over one after another.Liang Jun gathered into a regiment in the forest again.Similarly, the Liang army advancing along the eastern part of the forest also gathered into a regiment after the battle, and sent Scud to get in touch with Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao said to Liang Jun in a loud voice: "The battle is not over yet. The black mist forest is seventy to eighty miles long, and we have only walked less than [-]% of it. You must continue to work hard, and follow the same pattern to lure out these Mahan mice one by one and wipe them out. When we get out of the black mist forest, there will be a Mahan city waiting for us to pick it up, and when we enter the city, I will allow you to drink and eat meat tonight. Let's go!"

Immediately, Liang Jun swam towards the remaining forest area like two long snakes one after another, one west and one east...

In the mountains, with an arrow stuck in his body, two knife wounds and one gunshot wound, Wu Xiexing, who was covered in blood, was limping and running away with the support of his own soldiers.

Wu Xiexing was lucky enough to escape from Liang Jun's pursuit. Among the troops he personally led, no more than 150 were as lucky as him, which meant that more than half of his own troops had been lost.If he hadn't been mentally prepared and called out immediately when he saw the situation was not good, his losses would be doubled.From this point of view, the rest of the Ma Han soldiers and horses can only lose more than him, not less.

Wu Xiexing turned his head to see that there were no pursuers, and fled into the mountains by himself, so he shouted: "Don't run away, Liang Jun is not chasing you." After that, he sat down on the grass.Everyone accompanied Wu Xiexing in silence for a few breaths in frustration, and he suddenly stood up and exclaimed: "No, we must immediately notify all the troops in ambush in the mountains in the south, otherwise they will steal chickens like us. Lost a lot of rice! Then my Ma Han's vitality will be seriously injured."

The soldiers around showed embarrassing expressions, and one of the high-ranking generals said: "My lord, it is quite difficult for us to inform the friendly army before the Liang army. This mountainous area is not as easy as walking in the forest. Walking through is several times slower, and I'm afraid it will be too late when we rush there. If we enter the forest, it will be difficult for scattered infantry not to be intercepted and killed by Liang Jun's rangers."

Wu Xiexing was already in a very bad mood at this time, and after hearing what General Ma Han said, he cursed angrily: "You are all helping lazy ghosts and fearing death. Quickly arrange someone to notify those who are still in the south The friendly troops who are waiting to attack, ask them to stop attacking." Seeing this, the Ma Han soldiers had no choice but to retreat obediently, and arranged for someone to report the ambush farther away.

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Zhang Liao's eyes suddenly opened up, and he saw the bright autumn sun again, and the open and open plain surrounded by mountains appeared before his eyes again.He knew that his army had left the Black Mist Forest.

Based on the military information collected by various ministries, Mao estimated that Liang Jun killed at least 600 horse and Han soldiers in the black mist forest.And Liang Jun had a total of less than [-] casualties and missing.It can be described as a total victory.What surprised Zhang Liao was that when he reached the last [-] miles of the Black Mist Forest, he never found Ma Hanjun who was flying moths into the flames.At this moment, Zhang Liao wondered in his heart, could it be that Ma Han did not have many troops assembled, so he only set up ambushes on the fifty li distance?Of course he didn't know that it was actually Wu Xiexing's personal soldiers who had spent a lot of effort and tried their best to pass the news and Wu Xiexing's military orders to the remaining nearly ten or so horse and Han ambush soldiers. Let the Mahan people not pay more casualties.

Zhang Liao's army was advancing in the flat basin, and after a while, the outline of a city appeared on the horizon.

Chapter 739

Although this Mahan city-state called Doro is not an empty city, there are not many defenders.As expected, Zhang Liao's army entered the city in just half an hour.

After ordering soldiers to report to Zhang Liao that the remnants of the enemy had indeed been wiped out in Doluo City, he rode his horse and led the main force into the city.He came to the palace and mansion of the Doro Kingdom and dismounted, only to find that the palace was different from the empty cities of the Mahan city-state he occupied before—the furniture in the mansion was deliberately destroyed, and some even burned down. well-preserved.Zhang Liao secretly thought that it must be because King Doro believed that Ma Hanjun could defeat the Liang army in the Black Mist Forest, so he didn't make too many preparations for retreating.

At this time, a lieutenant general of the battalion captain rank in the army came to Zhang Liao, hesitant to speak.Zhang Liao immediately asked: "What's the matter? Don't be hesitant." Then the lieutenant said, "General, some soldiers are clamoring for wine and meat, saying that the general himself told them. "

Only then did Zhang Liao remember that he had indeed promised all the soldiers in the Black Mist Forest that after completing the mission, he would go out of the Black Mist Forest and attack Doro City, and then he would reward everyone with a banquet.But this time, Liang Jun rushed into the Bumi country, and he traveled lightly. Only after arriving at the Bumi country on the seashore can he receive supplies from the sea from the Wei Wen Dongyang fleet.

Therefore, Liang Jun's limited luggage is filled with basic staple food and horse materials, as well as explosive bombs.Liang Jun didn't even carry stone bullets. Instead, he collected local stone materials and polished them on-site with a polishing tool when he was about to fight.Under such circumstances, how could it be possible to carry wine and meat.This made it difficult for Zhang Liao. It is impossible for the five thousand soldiers to have no consequences for not having a meal of wine and meat, but it will somewhat lower their morale.What's more, Zhang Liao didn't want to be an untrustworthy person.

Just when Zhang Liao was in trouble, a commanding soldier rushed to report with a happy face, and the treasury in the city not only had enough food and grass, but also had enough wine and meat.It turned out that these supplies were intended to be used by the Ma Han ambush soldiers in the eastern mountains of the Black Mist Forest.And wine and meat are also used by Wu Xiexing to celebrate the success of the ambush Liang Jun.

As night fell, the soldiers of the Liang Army in Doro City happily ate wine and meat.However, the Wubao in the mountains of Gouxie Country, which is dozens of miles away, is indeed in a very different situation.Wu Xiexing retreated into the fort with the remnants of the defeated generals, and sent a large number of small teams to collect the defeated soldiers in the black mist forest.At the moment, this dock is gloomy, full of wounded soldiers howling in pain and hungry soldiers gobbling porridge and wild vegetables.

In a large room in the middle of Wubao, Wu Xiexing took a sip of wine and tore off the last piece of meat from the chicken leg.While chewing the chicken, he said bitterly: "Damn, I just can't swallow this breath, I must find a way to teach Liang Jun a lesson."

A general from the Gou Xie Kingdom was already at the side and advised: "Your Majesty, this Liang army is powerful, and we need to avoid its edge first. Let the Su Clan King Duli of the Bumi Kingdom and the more than [-] people who gathered in the Bumi City come first." Bang's army will fight with it, and it will not be too late for us to see the opportunity..."

After hearing this, Wu Xiexing stared angrily, and took advantage of the opportunity to smash the gnawed chicken leg bone on the leader's head and shouted: "What time is it! Still thinking about these tricks. If the Su faction is defeated If Liang Jun turns around, he will deal with Lao Tzu. I can’t help Liang Jun like this, how can I resist Liang Jun’s full attack at that time. If the Soviet Clan wins, and Lao Tzu stands by at the critical moment, wouldn’t he be ruined in the Mahan Kingdom? Can the position of Ma Han alliance leader still sit?"

Hearing this, the general quickly confessed his mistake to Wu Xiexing and apologized, and stepped aside.At this time, Wu Xiexing's eyes suddenly lit up and said: "When the Liang army and the Su faction Duli fight and form a group, we can concentrate our forces to attack the rear of the Liang army. This king knows that their southern expedition will not With 6000 men and horses, they captured more than [-] cities along the way for [-] miles. It is impossible for them to hoard heavy troops in every city, and their food supplies will run out sooner or later. They will definitely build a food road relying on the cities. By cutting off their retreat, we not only vented our anger, but also indirectly helped the Su Clan."

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Three days later, in a rather spacious room in the palace of the Bumi City, the Su Clan Duli, the lord of the Bumi City, was gathering with dozens of lords of the other city-states of Mahan.These dozens of Mahan city-state lords gathered here with their soldiers a few days ago.

At that moment, it was because the Su Clan duli had received a report from the scouts that Liang Jun was less than [-] miles away from Bumi City, and he could be considered to have entered the territory of Bumi Country, so he hurriedly summoned these Ma Hanzhus.

This time, in order to counter the Liang army's southward attack, Ma Han merged in Gouxie and Bumi respectively, and was divided into the Northern Alliance Army and the Southern Alliance Army.The Northern Alliance Army was naturally the one commanded by Wu Xiexing.The reason why the Southern Alliance Army was commanded by the Soviet Clan Dulilai was not only because the target of Liang Jun's attack was foreign countries, but also because the Su Clan Duli had a high prestige among the states of Ma and Han.If he wasn't too young, he might be the leader of the Mahan states.

At that moment, Su Clan Duli saw that everyone had arrived, so he raised his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.There was a sudden silence in the hall, waiting for Su Clan Duli to speak.Their strategy for dealing with Liang Jun has already been discussed, so there is no need for any discussion. The Su Clan Duli began to issue orders as the commander of the Mahan Southern Allied Forces, and assigned tasks for these Mahan Lords one by one.

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Somewhere fifty miles away from Bumi City, Zhang Liao, who was riding his horse along with the queue, suddenly found that the queue stopped suddenly without order in front, and the people behind were still rushing forward, which inevitably caused chaos.Zhang Liao shouted: "What's going on, why did the former army stop suddenly, did they encounter an enemy?"

A soldier has already rushed to report: "General Qi, we may have taken the wrong route again. Our way forward was blocked by a river or a fjord, and the former army was forced to stop advancing!" "

Zhang Liao said sullenly, "Quickly send an order that the whole army stop advancing. Send out scouts to find out the correct way forward."

This is the third time Zhang Liao has encountered a similar situation. After his army entered the actual control area of ​​Bumi Country, he discovered that there are more fjords, straits, rivers and lakes than he imagined.In addition, there are densely populated islands of different sizes that are only a few hundred feet to a few miles from the coast.These islands are connected to the coast or some dykes or simple bridges built between them, thus forming more water-branched fjords and inland seas.

Zhang Liaojun has collected information and maps through various channels, and after summarizing them, he drew a map as detailed and accurate as possible.But in such a maze-like terrain, they who can only travel on land often go astray.

Chapter 740

With an order, the Liang army commanded by Zhang Liao began to turn around, turning around and heading northwest along the bay that penetrated into the land.

If there is no mistake, the end of this hundreds of miles wide bay is the mouth of a big river. After traveling a few miles along the river bank, the river can be narrowed to a width of two to three hundred feet. You can easily cross the river with the foldable pontoon you carry.

The soldiers and horses had just set off for a quarter of an hour, and walked a few miles along the water bank on the right, but a waterway appeared on the left side of the team, and it was not known whether it was sea water or river water.Zhang Liao asked the soldiers to test it, and found that the water was flowing and fresh, so he was sure it was river water.The soldiers and horses continued to move forward, and the distance between the two waterways became narrower and narrower. Presumably, this river also flows into the bay, or a tributary of that big river.

Zhang Liao suddenly heard a whooping sound. Based on half a lifetime of experience, he knew that it was the sound of arrows piercing through the air, so he lowered his head subconsciously.An arrow flew past his helmet.Immediately afterwards he heard a crackling noise and two or three screams.It turned out that his troops were shot by bows and arrows.Some soldiers have already shouted warnings: "There are enemies! Be alert!", "They are on the right bank!"

Zhang Liao had already jumped off his horse, looked to the right, and saw hundreds of Ma and Han soldiers suddenly appearing on the opposite bank of the lush green river with a width of more than a hundred feet on the right hand side.Half of them hold bows and crossbows in their hands, and are firing bows and arrows at this side.Liang Jun has excellent ring armor and large shield protection, but even so, Liang Jun was caught off guard under the dense arrows, and unfortunately, several people were hit by arrows in their vital parts, causing casualties.

Liang Jun also reacted quickly, and put together a shield wall facing the river.Soldiers also began to throw javelins across the river, and some longbowmen also drew their bows and released arrows.The longest range of Liang Jun's javelins was no more than [-] feet, so many spears fell into the water with a plop. Only a few javelins crossed the river and pierced the body of the most forward Ma Han crossbowmen, forcing them Take a few steps back.The arrows of the longbowmen are constantly taking the lives of these Mahan crossbowmen.At the same time, these Mahan people began to throw a kind of sickle and sharp axe that could fly.

Most of these sickles and sharp axes hit the shields, but a few happened to get through the gaps in the shield wall or directly crossed the shield wall and hit Liang soldiers.The ring armor couldn't stop these sickles and sharp axes, they instantly cut the rolling cracks in the iron armor, and then split into the body.The wounded immediately screamed in pain.

Zhang Liao's face darkened, and he ordered: "Set up a pontoon bridge, cross the river and pursue." Following his order, a large number of soldiers from the Liang army unloaded the folding pontoon bridge from several baggage carts, and they carried it on their shoulders, braving arrows and knives The throw of the ax rushed towards the river.

The Ma Han army on the other side of the river saw that Liang Jun was about to cross the river, so he concentrated all his "firepower" on these Liang Jun soldiers who were building the bridge.Even if there are shield soldiers to provide cover for these heavy soldiers, it is impossible to cover all parts, and there will always be flaws exposed during the laying process.As a result, soldiers of the Liang Army continued to be injured by arrows and axes, and gurgling blood stains appeared in the clear river water.But at the same time, there were countless Ma Han soldiers who were shot and killed by the archers of Army Commander Liang.

When Liang Jun paved the pontoon halfway, the Baekje soldiers on the other side of the river suddenly retreated in unison amid the sound of orders, and disappeared behind a slope on the other side of the river.When Liang Jun finished assuming the pontoon bridge, and a large group of Liang Jun's light cavalry and flying feathers rode past to pursue them, these horsemen and Han soldiers would have long since disappeared.

Zhang Liao had no choice but to gather his troops again and continue to advance, on the last few dozen miles to Bumi City.Zhang Liao encountered four or five similar attacks.Each time, more or less, it caused certain losses to Zhang Liao's army.

One or two times before, Zhang Liao tried to catch the opponent to retaliate, but in the end he found that it was unrealistic, and he also understood that this was a tactic of the enemy.So when such an attack happened again, Zhang Liao simply defended passively, using a shield wall to cover the marching army to minimize casualties.In addition, Zhang Liao also asked the longbowmen to launch a counterattack with a certain force. At the same time, the army continued to maintain the marching speed, so as not to let the enemy's plan to delay the time succeed.

In the end, Zhang Liao finally arrived at Bumi City under repeated harassment by the Ma Han Army.As he expected, Duli of the Su faction did not plan to fight him recklessly, and Bumi City was already empty.Zhang Liao's army, who had been harassed repeatedly by the Duli army of the Soviet faction, hurried into the city after being overwhelmed by the harassing, Zhang Liao felt relieved.Patiently waiting for the warships and troops sent by Wei Wen to join him.

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At the same time that Zhang Liao entered Bumi City, more than 150 miles behind, Duoluo City, which was occupied by Liang Jun, was being attacked by Wu Xiexing's army.

At this time, only Zhang Liao's infantry battalion remained in Duoluo City, and the Haidong Army hadn't come to change defenses in time.It will take several days for the two teams of heavy armored cavalry patrolling along the route to reach Doro City.However, the Liang army defending the city faced as many as [-] horse and Han soldiers.

Doro City is guarding the throat of the Black Mist Forest. If they give up, there is no guarantee that Ma Hanjun will not play tricks in the Black Mist Forest in the future.Losing Doro City is tantamount to losing the dangerous place of Black Mist Forest.Therefore, the other cities can be abandoned in critical situations, but Duoluo City is one of the cities that cannot be abandoned or lost even after Zhang Liao gave the order to die.

The battalion captain guarding the city divided the 100 soldiers under his command into five teams, with only one team of more than a hundred men guarding each city wall, and the last [-] men were placed in the fort-style palace in the city as a backup.

The four hundred Liang army soldiers at the head of Doro City held shields and held guns, their faces tense.Their ears were filled with the eerie sound of Ma Hanjun's horn.At first they only heard the horns, but there was no sign of Ma Hanjun.But after the surrounding horns sounded together, a large number of Ma Han troops appeared on the basin plain outside Doro City.The Mahan infantry chanted rhythmically and rushed towards Doro City from all directions.

Then random arrows flew towards the top of the city like a shower of locusts. The soldiers of the Liang Army hurriedly hid behind the wall, clung to the wall and remained motionless, letting the arrows whiz past their heads.Soon, they heard the thunderous drums in their ears again.Thousands of horses and Han soldiers uttered shouts like a mountain roar and a tsunami, and they rushed towards Doro City like a tide, carrying ladders.

In a short time, densely packed ladders were erected on the four walls of the city.The Mahan soldiers climbed up the ladder.

Among them, Liang Jun, the head of the city in the east, was still quiet.When the Ma Han soldiers climbed halfway, there was a thunder-like sound from the top of the city, "Kill!" Dozens of baskets rose from behind the wall at the top of the city, and then the things inside poured down. It was neither rolling logs nor stones. , but huge bales of straw, bales of straw soaked in naphtha.The moment it was poured out, it suddenly ignited, like fire dragons rushing towards the city...

Chapter 741 Raid on Doro City

On the east wall of Doro City, a bundle of straw assisted by naphtha was smashed on the head of a climbing Mahan soldier. The clothes on his body burned instantly, turning him into a man of fire, together with the flaming straw bundle. Roll down the ladder together.In this way, three or four Ma Han soldiers on the ladder were brought down in a series.