At night, Li Bing asked the five swordsmen to bring in a hundred swordsmen with bows and arrows to assist in the battle. The battalion that attacked during the day was used as the assault battalion, and a public servant was sent to command the follow-up reinforcements.
After dinner, Meng Ao came to this battalion again. The soldiers in this battalion were talking about the day's battle. Meng Ao's sudden appearance caused them to cheer. Meng Ao waved them to sit down and told them that they were going to have a real one tonight! He assured them that as long as they obeyed his orders, they would never be harmed.
As if to prove what he said, Li Bing sent someone to deliver a new type of weapon: Shu.
The 殳 is somewhat like a spear, but it is heavier and longer than the spear head. The part fixed to the handle is deeper than the spear, and the fixation to the handle is stronger. Shu's main function is no longer to stab, but to chop. Since the metal part of Shu is much heavier than the spear, it naturally uses a lot of materials, and ordinary people cannot afford it. Currently, those who can use Shu in the army are swordsmen, and they are the personal guards of the King of Qin. Li Bing searched all over and found only fifty or so bottles. I had no choice but to find some other spears to replace them.
Meng Ao asked everyone, who has taken off the grain at home? Many people raised their hands immediately. ——Because there are mostly Yiqu soldiers here, there are only a few people who have land to cultivate. Meng Ao saw that many of these people were corps commanders. They were responsible for remote output, so he had to go to the nearby camp to find them. Finally, he found a hundred farmers who could thresh grains with a big rake. Meng Ao gave them all the hundred swords and spears, and let them go to the battlefield and swing them like rakes.
A hundred swordsmen with bows and arrows also arrived. Meng Ao led them to the stone wall and introduced them to their mission in detail.
Everyone knew that there was going to be a battle tonight, and they all prepared their weapons with anxiety. Seeing that the leading battalion was provided with good weapons and additional troops, and suddenly became the center of the entire army, I felt a little bit envious in my heart.
At the zenith of the moon, Meng Ao set out first with the strengthened vanguard battalion. More than 600 people were walking on the hillside. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see them at all. Reaching a hundred steps away from Zhao Yingzha, Zhao Jun finally discovered it. Warning drums sounded.
Meng Ao waved his hand, and a hundred swordsmen rushed out quickly and rushed to the bottom of the big rock. Zhao Jun did not shoot any arrows, and was probably still on the fence. The group of swordsmen aimed directly and fired the first arrow, and the torches hanging on the top of the fence for observation were shot down. This led to an unsurprising result: after many torches fell, they ignited the surrounding dead branches and dry grass, causing small fires one after another, causing some chaos. Taking advantage of this chaos, the archery team composed of the Qin army's commanders also rushed forward without any hindrance. The swordsman under the boulder bent down and quickly rushed into the trench. ——No one seems to have noticed it, or even if someone did, they didn't give a warning, because there are too many emergencies and it's really not worth causing trouble!
When the third batch of shield soldiers rushed up, someone from the Zhao camp finally shot arrows. They were scattered and did not pose a threat, especially to the shield soldiers. When the shield soldiers came up, the group of captains rushed into the trench with their bodies low. Everyone's attention was attracted by the shield soldiers and they did not notice the situation here.
The fourth team of one hundred spearmen transferred from each battalion rushed out. This time they encountered obstructive fire. Under Meng Ao's command, the spearmen lay down collectively to avoid the rain of arrows; at the same time, the two hundred archers in the trench fired a volley, and wailing sounds suddenly sounded. The spearmen jumped up and rushed to the front of the boulder.
After a brief pause, the shield soldiers were in front and the spear soldiers were behind. They emerged from behind the stone, formed a formation, and moved forward. Zhao Jun saw this and hurriedly fired three rapid shots, with almost no effect. When the Zhao army fired a salvo at the shield soldiers, the archers in the trench also fired three arrows, and the Qin army a hundred steps away rushed forward with another hundred men.
The shield soldiers maintained their formation and pushed forward, shooting arrows on the shields without any effect; at the same time, the bows and arrows shot from under the trench steadily harvested one life after another. Especially those swordsmen, although the angle was not good and there was interference from the camp fence, after all, they were only about ten steps away and they still accurately hit Zhao Jun who was close to the camp fence. Those who did not have such good archery skills would shoot arrows at the places where the enemy's arrows were flying. Although the hit rate was not as good as that of the swordsmen, the lethality could not be underestimated. In the chaos, the Zhao army was unable to take care of the Qin army a hundred steps away, and only wanted to stop the pressing team.
The small team advanced towards the corner of the Zhao army's barracks, forcing the Zhao army to concentrate the archers there, thus guiding the Qin army's archers in the trench in the direction of attack.
Zhao Jun fought hard, falling in front and rising from behind. At about thirty steps, the impact of the arrows was too strong and it was difficult for the shield soldiers to move forward, so they simply stopped and refused to retreat.
Zhao Jun's strength only lasted for a short time. Under the blow of Qin Jun's archers, those determined people all fell in a pool of blood. The remaining people dispersed in a hurry, shouting: "Qin Jun has entered the stronghold." , the Qin army entered the stronghold!
The bows and arrows on the opposite side finally stopped, and the shield soldiers of the Qin army rushed forward. The spear soldiers behind picked up their heavy spears, smashed open the camp fence, and rushed into the Zhao camp. The following Qin troops swarmed in, quickly spread out along the camp fence, searched and killed scattered Zhao troops, and steadily occupied the Zhao wall. The archers lying in the ditch also came out of the ditch and entered the Zhao army's camp. The bells and drums of the Zhao army's camp rang together, reporting to the rear that a camp fence had been captured.
Although Li Bing handed over the task of commanding reinforcements to a public servant (he himself only had the title of Duke), he still stood on the stone wall and watched Meng Ao and the others fight. The two camps were not far apart. Although the details could not be seen clearly under the hazy moonlight, the general outline could still be seen clearly. Since Meng Ao had told him the battle plan in advance, Li Bing could also see those hidden actions, but they were indeed relatively hidden. If you didn't pay attention and looked for them intentionally, you wouldn't be able to see them.
Meng Ao and the others came out from the zenith of the moon. Until now, it has been less than an hour, and the moon has not gone very far in the sky. Li Bing himself found it incredible to capture a Zhao camp so smoothly. It is true that the Qin army used all their killing moves in this battle, but the biggest killing move was just using a hundred swordsmen. He felt that Meng Ao was simply amazing!
Hearing the sound of bells and drums reporting victory from over there, Li Bing immediately took the bus and a battalion of reinforcements and trotted all the way to the Zhao camp. While taking over the defense of the camp, he met Meng Ao.
Meng Ao took Li Bing and Gongcheng to patrol the camp gate for a week, saying: "The Zhao army will come to fight one day, and I will make their corpses fill the valley."
After counting the baggage in the camp, we found that there were tens of thousands of arrows, several loads of grain, and several jars of water. It seems that since this is the front line of combat, regular rotation up and down the mountain is no longer feasible. It is gradually transforming into a permanent camp, and the entire construction process is not over. Meng Ao said: "That camp prepared food, water and arrows, for fear that other camps might not have them. So there was a big chaos in the camp, and the other camps did not come to help. It can be seen that Kuo did not care about the stone city and took the chief of Zuo Shu."
Li Bing asked: "What will happen to me?"
Meng Ao said: "Just guard the camp fence for one day and then attack again day and night."
Li Bing said: "What if we attack from two places on the mountain and below?"
Meng Ao said: "The enemy on the mountain should be resisted by the camp; the enemy at the foot of the mountain should be rejected by the captain." He looked for the Zhao camp at the foot of the mountain and said: "The camp is so dense that there is no formation. The captain can only get one." If the camp is on its side, the enemy will be defeated."
The attacking troops were lined up and ready to return to camp. They reported that a total of 150 people had been beheaded. Li Bing asked Meng Ao to lead his army back. Meng Ao said: "I would like to live here to make great achievements!" Li Bing did not force himself and went back with the attacking troops.
Meng Ao patrolled around, and while reinforcing the parts that needed reinforcement, he sent out small groups of troops to constantly harass the Zhao camp in front. Harassing the Zhao camp to prevent them from resting is only one aspect, ensuring that the Zhao camp will not come to rob the camp is the most important thing. The two battalions are only one mile apart, and there is no trench to block them. If Zhao Jun comes to attack, it will not be too convenient.
After Li Bing returned to camp, he immediately wrote a battle report and reported it to Bai Qi. Baiqi is far away from Shicheng, and the military envoys have to go around the Zhaobi wall to reach it. Bai Qi heard that the Qin army only captured one battalion and did not continue the attack. He was a little angry and said: "Since its integrity has been broken, we should attack it with one drum. How can we cause more trouble?"
The defeated Zhao army also sent envoys to report to Zhao Kuo the situation of losing a battalion. Zhao Kuo asked Ming that the Qin army did not continue to attack. He only said "we will discuss it someday" and did not order a counterattack.
The results of the night attack on Zhao Camp were ignored by the generals of both sides!
The next day, Zhao Kuo ordered the 10,000 generals on duty to organize their forces to recapture Zhao's camp. He still focused on opening the south passage. Two more complete armies were pulled onto the battlefield to fight Bai Qi. Today, he wanted to attack the Western Route Army in Gaodu. This decision is not consistent with common sense, because the Western Route Army is in the middle. It would be great if the center blooms and wins. But when it will be attacked from both sides, the chance of victory is actually small. Unless there is absolute certainty, ordinary generals will not dare to make a decision-making center!
The ten thousand generals who faced off against Meng Ao were usually responsible for the defense of the southeast, which was generally very peaceful. Shicheng is the core of Zhao's defense and the last line of defense for the entire army. In the tactical scenario of this ten thousand general, he would only run to Shicheng if he could not win, so he would not think about how to regain Shicheng if it was lost! The deployment of the entire force was not directed at Shicheng. Now, the Qin army pointed its spearhead at him, and he had to turn around before he could fight. The hard work involved was beyond the imagination of the refugees.
The first question he faced was, how many battalions should he use to attack? Most of his camps were at the foot of the mountain, and there was no space to even queue up when leaving the camp. The original scenario was that the battlefield was on the mountain ridge, so the camps set up on the mountain ridge left room for attack; the base of the mountain was just a resting place, with more people and less land, so we had to arrange places to eat and sleep, and there was no room for attack. There isn't even a place to queue.
