Chapter 89 Falling into the trap
Inside Hangu Pass.
Cai Wenying, who had just learned the truth, was heartbroken and ran to the arsenal like crazy. Finally, he found a few gongs for him. When he climbed up the wall panting with the gongs, he was frightened by the sight in front of him. stunned.
The sound of cannons had just sounded, and the dozen or so small boats moored in the river to the south suddenly lifted their boat awnings at the same time, and sailed from the center of the river to the north bank. After a series of muffled sounds of "bang bang bang", a row of shield walls was erected along the sides of the boats on the shore side, and then a cloud of locusts quickly rose from each boat.
Locusts on fire!
In addition to the spearmen, there were only five or six archers in each small boat, and together they numbered only seventy or eighty at best. Ordinary bows and arrows can only threaten the unarmored, and they mainly use suppressive probability shooting - let alone damage, these dozens of archers alone are hardly even a threat to the two thousand officers and soldiers who counterattack.
However, the target they shot was not a person, but a car!
The "crash cars" that overturned on both sides of the door.
In order to prevent fire cans thrown from the wall from igniting, the wooden roof of the "crash car" was covered with a quilt coated with a thick layer of wet mud - and a layer of quilt was nailed to the inner layer of the roof.
Quilt soaked in grease!
The battering ram was fake, with only the small front half hanging in the air. There was nothing visible from the wall, but the belly of the car was filled with straw and firewood mixed with sulfur and crushed charcoal!
There were several explosions of "boom" and "boom". Although the accuracy of the rockets was extremely poor at such a long distance, hundreds of rockets fell in several rounds. Finally, several rockets hit the target one after another. Several crashed cars one after another jumped into the sky. of flame. Although the official road in front of the gate is still open, flames are burning on both sides. The breeze blows, and the scorching heat wave rolls into the official road from time to time. In a short time, it is impossible for large troops to pass - the traffic inside and outside the gate is instantly blocked. Cut off most of it.
The fire was both a signal and a command, and the two circular formations on both sides of the closed door began to move toward the closed wall. He looked up and saw that he was just a stone's throw away from the wall. It was at the limit of the range of the defenders' bows and arrows. The bamboo whistle in Zhang Ding's mouth sounded "咻...咻,咻..." again, with long-short- —The long whistle issued another command that everyone had already memorized: change formation!
The circular formation stretched out, and the shield soldiers and spearmen in the rear half circle rushed forward. The circular formation turned into an arc formation, with their backs to the wall facing the battlefield. Then the two arc formations approached each other and were about to meet before closing the door.
Zhang Ding, who was behind the arc formation on the south side, was covered by several shield soldiers and surrounded by guards, staring nervously at the line - the men on the outside were busy fending off the enemy and could not observe their own situation in time, so they needed to complete the move according to the orders of the bamboo whistle. Bit. "Boom...boom...boom, boom...boom...boom", the whistle sounded two long and one short. After the two arcs merged, Zhang Ding issued a new order again, and the soldiers on the outside of the line array began to gather in the middle. Finally, it gathered into a huge hollow square array: only a thin layer of warning was left on the east side facing Hangu Pass, double layers on the north and south sides, and four or five thick layers on the west side facing the battlefield. Blocked on the road. The counterattack officers and soldiers who had just been full of joy and were bent on making a fortune and making meritorious deeds were horrified to find that their escape route had been completely cut off!
"Dang Cang".
The sound of the gong falling to the ground in Cai Wenying's hand woke up Qi Xiaoguang and Sun Fugui who were looking at the battlefield dumbfounded. Sun Fugui suddenly shouted: "Close the city gate! Come with me to block the gate!" Several personal guards immediately dispersed and drove the surrounding soldiers to follow Sun Fugui down the wall.
Qi Xiaoguang pointed at Guanxia with heartache and shouted: "What should we do with those people outside?"
Sun Fugui, who had already stepped onto the horse path, responded without looking back: "It's hopeless, I can't care anymore! If you don't close the door, you'll be through soon!" Before he finished speaking, the helmet tassel on his head had disappeared from Qi Zhifu. within the field of vision.
Before Sun Fugui could get down to the city gate, he had just crossed the corner of the horse path. Unexpectedly, there was a person sitting against the wall in the lower half. He stumbled suddenly and fell down!
Fortunately, there were still a few guys standing below who hurriedly caught it. Otherwise, even with the armor weighing more than 200 kilograms, Commander Sun would have been disgracefully disabled on the spot even if he did not fall to his death.
The guy who was kicked also rolled down the steps and fell beside him. When Sun Fugui got up and took a closer look, he saw that it was Lieutenant General Kou Zhizhang who was showing off his force just now!
The smart Lieutenant Kou had already thought about it before leaving the city. He had the highest official rank among the attacking troops. As long as he won, the credit of "bravely and invincibly leading the team to counterattack the bandit bandits" would fall firmly on him. In order to avoid being injured by the desperate thief general Qiuji, he did not join the cavalry chasing the thief general, but stayed at the end of the team.
Although the field of vision on horseback is not as close as that of infantry, it is much wider than that of infantry. When he saw that the thieves did not flee in all directions but formed small formations, Lieutenant General Kou hesitated and did not leave the gate too far. At this time, Qi Zhu and others' attention was attracted by the battlefield, and no one paid attention to him anymore. When he heard the sound of the Xin'an cannon, the small circular array turned into a large circular array, and the boat in the river fired the first round of rockets, Kou Zhizhang, who knew something was wrong, called to the servants and guards surrounding him and turned around and ran back. Before the second round of rockets landed, Lieutenant General Kou had already nimbly dodged through the open door!
Knowing that he was in big trouble, he didn't dare to go up the wall to see Qi Xiaoguang and that Sun Manzi, so he sat on the horse path and leaned against the wall, holding his head and thinking about a countermeasure. Before he could think of a countermeasure, he was kicked by Sun Fugui and they both rolled down. …
Sun Fugui had no idea that the man who had caused such a huge disaster by falsely passing military orders would be hiding here, tripping him up again! But it was not that his men had nothing to do, and the situation was urgent and there was no room for delay. He angrily slapped the bodyguard who was supporting him with a loud mouth and knocked him over. He held the broken helmet with one hand and ran towards the door to close the door. He yelled: "Donkey and horse, you are the best, shut the door quickly, close the door! Where is the sunniang stealing the ox cart? Pull it over and block it! Block it for me!"
The soldiers who rushed down rushed to the door and tried their best to close the two doors.
However, it was a waste of effort.
Because I had not grasped the timing when opening the door, the huge hammer hit the closing point of the two doors with all its strength. The iron covering was torn and curled outwards, and the broken wood was stretched out. The door gap was still half a foot wide. They were biting and pushing together tightly, and no matter how hard dozens of people pushed, they couldn't get it to close again.
It was too late to block the door - the oxcart would not go backwards. Therefore, when blocking the door, the empty cart was first pushed behind the door to block the wheels, and then the stone bars were installed. Finally, the oxen was put on the yoke so that it could be dragged away at any time according to the battle situation. Clear the passage. Obviously, it would be too late to unload the stone strips, untie the ox yoke, push the cart into position, and then load the stones at this time!
Sun Fugui ordered angrily: "Forget it, forget it! Block the door and push the carts over. It can only block it for a while!"
Kou Zhizhang stopped the guards who wanted to help him up with his eyes. At his signal, the guards dragged him to the side of the road. Lieutenant General Kou simply leaned on the ground and continued to pretend that he could not get up, secretly observing the movements around him.
Sun Fugui looked at the only two knife carts blocked side by side in the doorway, with a passage of more than three feet free on both sides, and sighed heavily.
The knife cart is the last defensive measure to close the door, and its function is only to delay time - the attackers can either burn it with fire, or push together with spears, and sooner or later they will be able to clear the passage into the city. The majestic pass, the defenders with abundant troops, sufficient supplies... No one expected that the war situation would take a turn for the worse in an instant, and that such trouble would be needed!
The age of the two sword carts is unknown. There are many vacancies in the sword positions, and the blades are also rusty. Sun Fugui can tell at a glance. He doesn't even need other methods. He only needs a few soldiers in double armor to pounce on them. , the people behind push hard, and this symbolic barrier will no longer exist. Well, with so much space on both sides, the horses can run, so why is there a need for a cart? Sun Fugui gritted his teeth and stamped his feet. Without even looking at Kou Zhizhang, who was cowering on the side of the road and continuing to pretend to be dead, he turned around and stepped onto the horse path.
Hearing the clanging sound of armor fading away, Kou Zhizhang opened his eyes and climbed up. Still squatting, he waved to a personal guard and whispered: "Follow me and listen to what this guy is saying." Then he ordered the others: "Get your horses ready and guard them. We must be on guard against those guys throwing our man down!"
Guan Peizhong made a large circle to the north. Since the horse was running at nearly full speed, it galloped almost to the foot of the mountain under the action of inertia before turning back to the east and galloping towards Hangu Pass. Mr. Qian, the middle manager of Mercedes-Benz, looked sideways at the battlefield. As expected, the bandit cavalry that rushed out of Xin'an City had been divided into dozens of small columns, with three or two cavalry and one column pounced on the official cavalry scattered everywhere.
Many official and army riders made the same mistake as Yuan Wu in their haste: first they reined in their horses and stopped, then turned back and ran. The anxious Mr. Guan Qian cursed in his heart: Stupid pig, how could you possibly escape? Accelerate and run to the side at the same time! As long as you survive this wave, you still have a good chance of escaping back - when you return, the bandits' column will disperse in order to intercept you. In this way, when you encounter them for the second time, you only need to avoid the oncoming enemy. That guy only has a gun or a knife! Then...then he ran back to the pass! Otherwise, do you think you are Zhao Zilong and can kill seven in and seven out?
I thought to myself as the horses galloped. Because they had made a big circle, Guan Peizhong was actually far away from the main battlefield, and the first batch of enemy cavalry to rush out of Xin'an had already rushed close to the square formation in front of the gate, completing a staggered roundabout. , heading back west.
Fortunately, perhaps it was the flying dust that obscured the view, or perhaps it was the sunlight that made it difficult to see clearly, or perhaps it was just good luck. Most of the enemy cavalry did not notice the lone Mr. Guan Qian on the edge of the battlefield, and they all nodded their heads one after another. Without any hesitation, he returned to the battlefield again. There was only one enemy rider, and his face was not clear, but the tall tassel showed that he was the leading thief general. He looked at himself while running, pointed the lance in his hand at Guan Pei provocatively, and then pointed towards Guan Pei. With a final sweep, he drew an arc, and then galloped into the dusty battle group. Guan Peizhong didn't care to respond to the provocation. He ran all the way to Guanxia without any danger, then pressed against the wall and headed south towards Guanmen.
Of course Gu Baisong led the cavalry team that Guan Shengyun attacked here, but the first one to rush out was Gu Baihua.
In this battle, those who had previously launched a feint attack to lure the enemy were the Pili Battalion led by Zhang Ding, half of the Zhenyong Battalion led by Gong Derun, and more than two thousand capable auxiliary troops from Guoqing Lin. The other half of the Zhenyong Battalion temporarily acted as guards for Guan Shengyun and others, and was also a suspect to lure the enemy. In order to paralyze the defenders, and because they were just bluffing and would not seriously climb the wall to fight hand-to-hand, the two main battalions of thousands of soldiers were either in leather or semi-armor, plus the key protection of the shield soldiers, it was not a big problem. By the time Kou Zhizhang opened the door, half of the Zhenyong Battalion, who had temporarily pretended to be the general's escort, had joined Zhang Ding's round formation as the commander-in-chief. Guan Shengyun, Gong Derun and the others had only one thing left: run!
Continue to lure the enemy.
In Xin'an City, there were actually only Guan Shengyun's bodyguard Poxiao Battalion, Gu Baihua's Gangfeng Battalion, and Gu Baisong's cavalry. The rest were two thousand auxiliary soldiers. Gao Tengdou and You Futian's five combat barracks and the main auxiliary force of Guoqinglin were missing and had been gone for several days.
There is no camp officer in Poxiao camp, and Guan Shengyun personally leads it. Neither does Gangfeng Camp. Guan Shengyun, Gong Derun and others went out of the city to lure the enemy, so Gu Baihuaguan was the largest one who stayed in the city. The cat looked longingly at the battlefield on the city wall. Gu Baihua seemed to have seven or eight kittens hiding in his heart, scratching him left and right, wishing he could grow wings and fly into the battle group. Not to mention the uncomfortable feeling. He murmured an unknown number of curses for being a bastard, and no one around him knew whether he was scolding the officers and soldiers guarding the gate on the opposite side or the commander of his own army. No one dared to ask him anyway.
Hearing the sound of Guan Shengyun's pretending to urge the formation, and seeing that everything was as expected by the military advisor, Gu Baihua couldn't bear it anymore and called Jia Wanzi, the leader of the B team's thief, to the wall and asked him to be the temporary battalion officer to wait for the next leader. The whole battalion attacked, and Liang Laosi was told to guard the wall. When the commander and the commanders ran back, they would be able to recognize the commander's face and fire the cannon. Then he turned around and got off the city wall, stepping over After getting on the horse, he squeezed to Gu Baisong, who was leading the team.
Gu Baisong glanced at his brother in confusion, but Gu Baihua glared at him without daring to say anything. No one in the Gu team dared to say anything, so naturally everyone else pretended not to see it. Then when the cannon fired, Gu Baihua was the first to rush out.
The cavalry officer in front of me was a bad guy. He didn't have the guts to hedge. He actually reined in his horse, stopped, then turned around and ran - no matter how smart the horse is, he can't understand why you don't turn while running! Simply dumber than an animal. This distance is enough for Gu Baihua's horse to run at two-thirds full speed. Isn't it a piece of cake to catch up with Yuan Wu who started at zero speed? They were running in the same direction again, so there was no need to worry about bruised wrists due to resistance, so Gu Baihua casually handed the spear forward and easily sent the tip of the spear into Yuan Wu's back.
Many people think that the horse is a noble weapon, and it is said to be magical. In fact, most of it is literati nonsense, just like the Hongyi cannon "eroded for dozens of miles" with one shot. Roughly speaking, the main difference between several similar types of long soldiers is the spear head: the one with a small head is called a spear, and the one with a longer head is called a spear, such as Zhang Fei's "Snake Spear of Eight Zhang Zhang"—— No one dares to say to Mr. Zhang, "You have to save some time on making revolution and save some iron on the gun," right? If the iron blade is longer (there are also iron pipes and iron hoops that are put on the front of the gun to protect it), it can almost be called a gun. The specific name depends on the general: he thinks Zhang Fei is powerful, and the spear in his hand is the battle spear. If he thinks Zhang Fei is majestic, you have to praise him vigorously for his good horse spear... Otherwise, you will get a few mouths. That's light.
After killing Yuan Wu, the next guy Gu Baihua encountered actually dodged his blow, and was immediately slashed in the chest and abdomen by the rider behind him, causing his intestines to flow all over the ground.
When Dou Ma came back, Gu Baihua glanced around the battlefield as a habit, and an enemy horse galloping back near the foot of the mountain on the north side caught his attention. From the red tassel, we can tell that this is an enemy general. The enemy's horse is riding very fast, which shows that this man has rich experience in the battlefield. After discovering danger, he immediately moved his horse to the side to avoid it. The enemy's horse and man are galloping together as one, which can be seen at a glance. Is a good player. Gu Baihua suddenly felt the urge to rush over and compete. However, I quickly calculated in my mind that one enemy general was insignificant compared to the battlefield mission of the cavalry. Besides, I felt a little guilty for abandoning the army just to have a good time. At this moment, it would be useless to abandon the army and find someone to challenge. Unable to explain, he pointed his horse towards the opponent and then swept backwards - this was a standard provocative move of the knight - to express his unwillingness, and then joined the group to block the enemy's cavalry again.
