Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Among them, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry tried to besiege Jushibao.They still use hook ropes to climb the city.It's just that although this giant stone castle is small, its walls are so tall that it can't even compare with ordinary cities.

Just as a Xianbei cavalryman was about to throw out the claw, an arrow pierced his arm. He let out a scream, and the claw missed and fell on the buttocks of his companion in front of him.The horse was injured by the claws, the pain was unbearable, and it ran wildly in fright.The Xianbei soldiers on the horse were also tiptoed to the ground.

More than a dozen Xianbei soldiers had already grabbed the wall edge of the giant stone fort or the window edge of the tower with their hooks. Just halfway up the fort wall, a Xianbei soldier suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. Bring out the blade of a spear.

It turned out that dozens of spears suddenly shot out from the small holes in the wall.The first batch of Xianbei soldiers who tried to climb the wall of the Wubao immediately turned into a dozen cold corpses and slid down from the rope.

It was Shi Biao, the leader of the Jie people who led these hundreds of Xianbei iron cavalry, and Kebi was able to make him conquer this giant stone fortress.These hundreds of people are all members of his tribe.Shi Biao was so angry that he was going to burst when he saw such a fighting situation.

Shi Biao shouted, "Pile up sandbags!"

Stacking sandbags is a stupid way for grassland cavalry to attack the city. It is to fill the sacks with sand, then gallop to the city wall and drop the sandbags, so that the sandbags are stacked layer by layer to form a ramp in front of the city wall.The cavalry can attack the top of the city along the ramp.

But this method requires tens of thousands of warriors to be possible.His hundreds of people will be piled up until the year of the monkey. Maybe the ramp has not been piled up yet, and all these hundreds of people will be shot and killed by bows and crossbows.

Shi Biao's subordinates quickly reminded him: "We have too few people, and it is absolutely impossible to pile up sandbags to attack the city."

Shi Biao was angrily circling his horse, unable to do anything, but Ke Bineng came in person.

When Ke Bi could meet, he asked, "Shi Biao, has this Liang army's outpost been captured?"

"Report to the Great Chanyu, this Wubao is too tall..."

Just as Shi Biao was about to explain, he was interrupted by Ke Bi Neng: "That is to say, it has not been shot down? Then let's not fight! We must hurry up and not delay here. I think there are more than a hundred soldiers stationed in this Wubao at most. , staying in the rear is not a problem. Anyway, we are here for a quick battle, and we don’t have to worry about food and supplies.”

Shi Biao had no choice but to lead his hundreds of horses back to the brigade resentfully.

A quarter of an hour later, another pigeon flew up from the boulder castle.There were two lines of small characters written on the letter in the letter box on the pigeon's leg: "The Xianbei army passed through the Great Wall near Jushi Fort at [-]:[-] p.m. During the period, hundreds of cavalry attacked our Wubao and left around the fort after failing for a while."

Chapter 303 Fish on the Cutting Board

At the head of Zhenbei City, Wei Feng, the deputy commander of Zhang Liao's army, was patrolling back and forth.His heart was going up and down, because at this moment in Zhenbei City, there were only more than Qianbei Town Reclamation Army in Zhenbei City, plus a regiment and a supply battalion.

The rest of the army, including the two cavalry battalions sent by Hua Xionghou, were all pulled out by Zhang Liao.At that time, all the generals in the army were puzzled by Zhang Liao's decision.Wei Feng was no exception.

Zhang Liao said that he wanted to take the main force to set up an ambush in the ridges and ravines south of Zhenbei City, and intercept the Xianbei army.But why did Zhang Liao conclude that Ke Bineng's main force was to raid the Shizhi mine?

Even if Kebi can really do this, why can he conclude that the rest of the Xianbei army will not attack Zhenbei City with all its strength.And if Zhenbei City falls, wouldn't the craftsmen and equipment transferred to Zhenbei City fall to the enemy?

Zhang Liao said confidently to everyone: "Now that the battle is imminent, I have no time to give you a detailed explanation. You just follow the military orders!".

Although everyone was puzzled, they had no choice but to believe Zhang Liao's confident appearance, and the military orders were overwhelming, so they had to make a promise in unison.

Only Wei Feng was really worried and insisted on staying in Zhenbei City, personally leading the remaining reclamation soldiers and the battalion of heavy soldiers to defend the city.After hearing his request, Zhang Liao said, "Well, brother Wei Feng, it's fine for you to guard the city and take care of the house yourself. This will make XX more worry-free."

Afterwards, Zhang Liao waited for the others to go away, and whispered in Wei Feng's ear: "There is no 100% guarantee in this marching battle. What if..., what if someone miscalculates, and the enemy breaks the city. You should how?"

Before Wei Feng could understand, he was taken aback for a moment, and said dully: "If the city is destroyed, I will fight the enemy with all my strength and die for the country."

Zhang Liao said again with a stern expression: "In case the city breaks down, you will kill those artisans who are concentrated first, and destroy the documents and equipment for refining naphtha. This is a sacrifice of necessity. But it is just in case. One, it will almost never happen, someone has already calculated that Xianbei will not attack the city at all!"

Hearing Zhang Liao's words, Wei Feng opened his mouth wide in surprise, unable to react for a long time.

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After the rolling Xianbei cavalry crossed the Great Wall, they headed southwest.After a while, they met the Great Wall again.Ke Bi Neng called Shi Biao, pointed at the Great Wall with his horsewhip, and said, "Take five thousand riders and walk along the wall, and you will reach Zhenbei City."

Shi Biao opened his mouth wide in fear, and said in his heart: "If you want me to take five thousand cavalry to attack Zhenbei City, isn't that asking me to die?"

Ke Bineng seemed to see what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I don't want you to attack Zhenbei City, you just need to set up a formation in the suburbs below Zhenbei City. Your main task is to attract Zhenbei City and a nearby The strength of the Liang army in the camp. Of course, they may go out of the city, but the Zhang Liao army in Liang State only has four battalions of [-] cavalry. In the countryside, your [-] cavalry can intercept them and win. It should not be a problem."

Only then did Shi Biao feel relieved, cupped his hands and said: "This subordinate obeys orders."

After a while, the Xianbei army divided into two groups, one led by Shi Biao, and marched along the Great Wall to Zhenbei City.The other main force, led by Ke Bineng, headed south.

Ke Bineng's Xianbei army has entered the Loess Ridge Plain. It looks flat here, but in fact there are thousands of ravines and complex terrain.If you are not familiar with the road, you will be blocked by a deep ravine when you walk on the plain, and you have to find another way to cross it.

In order to prevent the enemy from setting up an ambush in such a terrain, and Ke Bineng wanted to search for the stone fat mine as soon as possible.So his [-] Xianbei warriors had to be divided into several shares.That's why he wanted to bring so many troops here.

These cavalry teams supported each other and searched around the ridge.When a cavalry team is marching at the bottom of the ditch, there are often other cavalry teams supporting on both sides of the edge of the ravine to prevent the enemy from setting up an ambush on the edge of the ditch.

Ke Bineng knew in his heart that with this kind of terrain and Liang Jun's possession of "Shenhuo", the consequences would be unimaginable once he fell.

It's just that there is a Xianbei cavalry team as a forward, eager for success, advancing alone, and quickly distanced itself from the rest of the troops.The head leader compared the rough hand-painted map, searched all the way, passed through one gully after another, and turned over one ridge after another...

Ke Bi Neng personally led a cavalry team of 3000 people to search southwest, when he suddenly heard the sound of a loud arrow screaming.It was definitely not the sounding arrow of the Xianbei people, he said in his heart: "Not good!" He hurriedly led the team to follow the direction of the sound.

Ke Bineng rode his horse and galloped for a while, and found a light cavalry with 500 Liang troops not far away.The strange thing is that these light cavalry have all dismounted, some are drawing bows and arrows, and some are throwing fireballs.And there was a miserable howling sound coming from below.Ke Bineng immediately understood what was going on.

When Ke Bi Neng got closer, he found a deep ditch lying in front of him.At the bottom of the ditch, a Xianbei cavalry team was being attacked by the Shangliang army along the opposite ditch.At the bottom of the ditch, corpses full of arrows were strewn all over the place, and there were countless balls of flames burning blazingly.

"Take the bow and shoot the enemy on the opposite side!" Ke Bineng shouted loudly.But when his Xianbei soldiers took out their bows and arrows, the opponent had already stopped attacking, got on their horses and retreated quickly.

The veins on Ke Bineng's forehead twitched violently, and he shouted angrily: "Find the way, chase after crossing the ditch!"

After a quarter of an hour, his soldiers finally found a way around the ravine.Just when Ke Bineng was about to mobilize the army to chase the enemy in the direction where the enemy fled, a soldier beside him exclaimed, "Miracle! Miracle! The gods have descended!"

Kebi could follow the soldier's eyes and looked into the sky, only to see several huge objects floating high in it.There are no objects in the front, back, left, and right. Obviously, this is not a trick, but it is actually floating in the air.

At this time, the soldiers beside Ke Bineng knelt down and bowed to these floating objects.Ke Bi Neng squinted his eyes and found that there was something like a hanging basket under the floating object, and there were actually two soldiers of the Liang Army in it, waving semaphore.

There are also a few rope-like things under the hanging basket.Because of the long distance, if you don't observe carefully, you can hardly see it with the naked eye.

Ke Bi Neng shouted: "A bunch of idiots, get up. This is not some kind of god's apparition, it's just something won by Liang Jun's strange skills. Don't you see that there are still people in the hanging basket below? There are still people under the basket. Support things. Get up and chase after me!"

All the soldiers got on the horseback again after rolling and crawling, and chased in the direction of the floating object.This floating object is naturally Liang Jun's scouting hot air balloon. It was originally made by Yibin workshop. Feng Yu equipped several sets for Zhang Liao's army, and all of them are used today.

At present, the Xianbei army distributed on the Long Plain is like fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board.Zhang Liao knew their every move.

Chapter 304

On the Loess Ridge Plain, several battles of dust were flying up. A 2000-man Xianbei cavalry rode forward at a neither fast nor slow speed.

They were also frightened by Liang Jun's hot air balloon just now.It was the commanding soldiers sent by Ke Bineng who told them later that they recovered from their panic.

Ke Bineng added a new task to them on the basis of searching for the stone fat mine - to find and destroy Liang Jun's "watchtower" base floating in the air.

Although Ke Bineng didn't know why those hot air balloons could float in the air, he could clearly see that there were rope-like things connecting them to the ground, so he believed that destroying things on the ground would destroy them.

At this time, another Xianbei Lingqi suddenly came galloping on horseback. Before he arrived, he shouted loudly: "The Great Chanyu has orders! Liang Jun has already made preparations on this loess slope. The various units of the team support each other. When passing through dangerous places, there are horse scouts to detect before passing! When encountering danger, let off smoke to report!"

After the Xianbei cavalry team got the order, they slowed down a bit and continued to advance towards the nearest Liang Jun "air watchtower".

The hot air balloon was only two miles away from them, but because of the ravines, they couldn't get there in a straight line, so they actually had to walk miles to get there.

When they marched to another ridge, another rider came galloping.But this person was not sent by Ke Bineng, but a scout from another Xianbei cavalry team.The cavalry was passing through the gully beside the ridge, and asked them to stop on the ridge for a while and provide them with cover.

The Xianbei leader who led the army made a gesture, and the whole cavalry slowly stopped.The leader rode his horse to the edge of the ditch, and sure enough, he saw another Xianbei war cavalry with more than a thousand people walking through the bottom of the ditch.

At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of horses galloping in the distance, and he knew that it was not the cavalry team of the Xianbei people.

The leader was startled, and looked towards the other end of the ridge, only to see the dust covering the sun in the distance, and in the billowing yellow dust, Liang Jun's tall armored cavalry could be vaguely seen.

"Prepare for battle!" The leader shouted loudly, and the Xianbei war cavalry quickly formed their usual cavalry formation and charged towards the opponent.

The Xianbei cavalry were used to riding and shooting, so they drew their bows and strings on their saddles one after another, shooting randomly into the billowing dust.Although they couldn't see the specific casualties of Liang Jun's cavalry in the dust, they could see that the raised dust heads were still moving forward, and it seemed that Liang Jun's cavalry was not damaged.

In fact, their arrows could not penetrate the iron armor of Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, so they basically did not cause any casualties to the opponent.Seeing that the opponent was getting closer, the Xianbei put away their bows and arrows, drew out their sabers, and rushed towards the opponent.

When they were within a few feet of each other, they realized that rows of lances were heading towards them like mountains and seas.Most of the Xianbei cavalry in the front row were stabbed off their horses after being pierced by lances.

The Xianbei cavalry in the rear took the opportunity to wave their sabers and slash at Liang Jun's iron cavalry who were empty-handed and had no time to get their mace.But amidst the jingling sound, he found that his blade could only leave a deep knife mark on the opponent's armor.

The two sides turned their heads again and fought on the wrong horse again.If Xianbei's scimitar hits the opponent's mace, it will be knocked flying, and if it is hit by the opponent's stick, it will all fall off the horse.The Xianbei soldiers who fell off the horse would most likely be trampled to pieces by the horse's iron hooves.

The battle lasted less than half a quarter of an hour, and the two thousand Xianbei war cavalry were almost wiped out by the nearly thousand Liang army heavy cavalry.A soldier in the heavy cavalry rode his horse and ran to a place not covered by dust, and raised a semaphore to the hot air balloon in the distance.The soldiers of Liang Jun on the hot air balloon then waved their small flags to spread the news.

After a while, an infantry battalion of Zhang Liao's army appeared on this ridge, and quickly lined up along the edge of the ditch.The longbowmen shot heavy arrows at the bottom of the ravine.

The spear and shield soldiers each carried three slender clay pots like vases, and the pots were naturally filled with naphtha.The mouth of the pot was stuffed with hemp, and they lit the jumble with a torch, and then threw the pot viciously to the bottom of the ditch.

After the clay pot fell to the ground, it would burst open in an instant, and a flame as high as a tower would rise, igniting the green but still yellow grass at the bottom of the ditch.

The thousand or so Xianbei soldiers crowded at the bottom of the ditch were suddenly in chaos.Everyone wanted to run, but they were congested in the narrowest part of the gully, and only a few people could rush out in the end.

The entire ravine is filled with the sound of people shouting and neighing, the sound of heavy arrows piercing the air, and the sound of whistling flames flying into the air.What's more is the heart-piercing screams of Xianbei soldiers after being pierced by heavy arrows and burned into burning people by the fire.

The Xianbei general, whose face was covered in blood and smoke, roared: "Hurry up, let go of the wolf smoke. Please help!" As soon as he finished speaking, a heavy arrow shot into his temple, and the arrow shot out from the other cheek. out.Without saying a word, he fell under the horse...

Three miles away from this straight line, Ke Bi Neng looked in despair at the two puffs of thick smoke rising one after another around him.

He knew that this meant that at least two more Xianbei armies had been attacked, and that if he did not arrive in time to help them, they would almost inevitably be wiped out.However, the headquarters led by Ke Bineng is facing difficulties, so how can they rescue others.

Ke Bineng glared fiercely at the hot air balloon that was within two miles away, knowing that it must be the fault of this thing that he was so passive.

This thing was obviously so close to him, but he couldn't get close after chasing it for a long time.Now Ke Bineng finally understood that the watchtower suspended in the air must be movable.

Ke Bineng was anxiously thinking about how to get out of his body, and now he has penetrated deep into the hinterland of the loess ridge, which is like a labyrinth of thousands of ravines.Even if they join forces and retreat now, it is still inevitable that they will be eaten by the opponent like ants gnawing on a giant python.He might be able to run out by himself, but most of his fifteen thousand war cavalry will be left here.

Just when Ke Bineng was in a dilemma, two riders appeared in his vision and were galloping towards him.Ke Bineng's personal soldiers immediately stood in front of him, guarding the opponent with bows and swords drawn.

The two riders shouted from a distance: "Don't do anything, we are our own people... There is news to report to the Great Chanyu, and we have discovered the location of the stone resin mine!"

Ke Bineng quickly asked his soldiers to let them in. Before the two of them approached, they even scrambled off their horses, ran to Ke Bineng and worshiped: "Qi Da Shanyu, we found Liang Jun's mine. It's on. It's not far from here."

Ke Bineng said with joy in his heart: "Then did you launch an attack?"

"Not yet, the leader asked me to report to the chief order first before making a decision."

Ke Bineng nodded and said: "That's right. Pass my military order, except for the team monitoring the stone fat mine, everyone must gather here and follow me to seize the mine!"

Chapter 305 Brazier

It is not a good idea to join forces on this ridge with thousands of ravines.But in the case that the other party has a high-altitude watchtower for detection and communication, for Ke Bineng, this is also a no-brainer.

At this time, Kebi can think that as long as he can capture the craftsmen who can refine the sacred fire oil in the petrochemical mine and seize related equipment.Even if most of his Xianbei war cavalry is lost, it is worth it.

About half an hour after Ke Bineng sent out his messengers, three groups of Xianbei cavalry came to join them.The rest of the roads have never been seen.Ke Bi Neng didn't need to think too much, and he also knew that they were in danger.

He didn't wait any longer, and led the existing nearly [-] cavalry, under the guidance of the two commanders, to kill the stone fat mine.Not long after, they entered another gully.Here, they can no longer see each other's "air watchtower", which also means that the other party cannot see them.

The whole team was surging like a black turbid current.The few Xianbei scouts who opened the way ahead had turned their horses and ran back, stuttering and saying to Ke Bineng: "Da Shanyu, it's not good. There are corpses in front... the front of the road. The soldiers and horses who found the stone fat mine They were all wiped out by the opponent!"

Ke Bineng didn't seem too surprised, he seemed to have expected this.The stone fat mine is at the bottom of a gully like a basin, and there must be troops deployed on the ridges around the gully.To reach the Shizhi Mine safely, these hidden dangers must be eliminated first, otherwise the number of soldiers and horses will be for nothing.

Ke Bineng rolled his thoughtful eyes, and then made a gesture. The orderling next to him immediately shouted: "Stop!" It slowly stopped...

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A 500-man Xianbei iron cavalry appeared on the ridge beside the ravine again.It seems that there should be Xianbei army at the bottom of the ditch next to it, and they are here to prevent Liang Jun from ambush on the edge of the ditch and cover the main force at the bottom of the ditch.But more than five hundred riders seem to be a little less.

Liang Jun soldiers on the hot air balloon recently spotted them immediately and raised flags.After a while, another Liang army Qingqi Feiyu with more than a thousand soldiers appeared from nowhere and attacked the five hundred Xianbei iron cavalry.

Before the men and horses arrived, more than a thousand arrows had been shot like a torrential rain, and five hundred Xianbei cavalry raised their small round shields to protect the vital parts of the human body.But their horses were exposed to the rain of arrows.The five hundred Xianbei iron cavalry rolled off their horses like crops hit by hail.

However, several of them had already lit the smoke, and the billowing black smoke shot straight into the sky.On one side of the ridge, suddenly there was a roar like thunder in summer. More than 8000 Xianbei warriors rushed up the ridge from a slope in the ravine like a torrent.It turned out that the five hundred Xianbei cavalry were just a decoy.

The Qianliangzhou Qingqi didn't dare to confront the Xianbei iron cavalry head-on, the leading general shouted: "Retreat", reined in the horse's head, led the cavalry to make a sharp turn, and ran eastward.Behind him, the Xianbei army chased after him.

Ke Bi Neng saw that his side was getting closer and closer to the opponent, and after passing through a section of isthmus, he entered another ridge.

The area of ​​this ridge is very small, only a few hundred mu, which is just enough to hold more than ten thousand warriors.The nearly Qianliang army Qingqi who was being chased in front suddenly sank down and disappeared.

Kebi could know that they had descended into a ravine again, and chased them forward. Sure enough, there were gaps and slopes in front of them, leading to the bottom of the ravine at the edge of the ridge.

Kebi Neng glanced out of the corner of his eye and found Liang Bing on three nearby hot air balloons, waving semaphore wildly.Suspicion arose in his heart again, if Liang Jun set up an ambush on the opposite ditch and went down into the ditch by himself, wouldn't he be a turtle in a urn.

He immediately sent an order to make the riders stop again.Ke Bi Neng got off his horse and looked towards the bottom of the ravine.Finding that this section of the ravine was the only entrance and exit from this ramp, the five hundred Liang army Qingqi galloped towards the other end of the ravine, and soon disappeared from his sight.

At this time, the two Xianbei soldiers who reported the letter came forward and reported to Ke Bineng: "Qi Da Shanyu, the end of this deep ditch is where the stone fat mine is."

"Are you sure? If you misreport the military situation, you will be beheaded!" Ke Bineng said coldly.

"Da Shanyu, you can't be wrong. Xiao's specialty is knowing the way, so he was selected as a scout commander. You see, the place where Xiao's original group was wiped out by the enemy is there, and the corpses of those companions are still there." said one of them.

Kebi could look in the direction of his finger, and it was indeed the place where he started just now, and the straight-line distance from the current place was only more than one mile.

Ke Bineng rode his horse around twice and looked at the "enemy watchtower" in the sky.Gritting his teeth, he made up his mind and said: "Leave [-] soldiers and horses here to guard the rear, and the rest will go on! Confiscated the Shizhi mine in Liang State. Take all the equipment and people!"

The Xianbei army moved in response, pouring into the ravine like a torrent.Kebi could not go down by himself...

More than 5000 Xianbei cavalry who went down to the gully circled the ridge along the gully.Their eyes suddenly opened up, and the width of the gully widened suddenly. On this open land, there were houses and buildings, and puddles of sticky black stone resin could be seen from time to time on the ground.

Obviously, this is the stone fat mine that Da Shanyu was looking for.But in fact this is just a branch mine next to the main mine.

The Xianbei soldiers howled excitedly, swung their knives and rode their horses into every room.But to their disappointment, without the woman and treasure they expected, let alone a woman, they couldn't even see a figure.

A Xianbei leader brandished his weapon angrily, and shouted: "Damn, I can't even see a ghost here..." With a puff, a cloud of blood mist appeared on his neck, and then his head instantly blew up. It disappeared, and the headless body fell to the ground.

It was Liang Jun's ballista, and a large number of ballistas had been set up on the edge of the ravine in the mine.Stone bombs and incendiary bombs were thrown into the ravine one after another, in addition to heavy arrows shot from the longbow.

A few Xianbei warhorses were frightened and ran around wildly, rushing into the Shizhi pit.A fireball happened to land in a pool of stone fat, and with a bang, the fire shot up into the sky.Pyro screamed and fell off the fire horse, fell into the sea of ​​fire and collapsed without a sound.