It didn't take long for the situation to be found out, and the messenger rushed to him.
"General, a brother slipped and fell into the spike trap."
Chen Ping's eyes darkened, and he immediately ordered to slow down his advance and be careful where he stepped.
Chen Ping had long expected that there must be a trap in the mountains, so his mood was not greatly disturbed.
However, the two thousand people of the Eagle Brigade who were incorporated into the vanguard, plus the five thousand main force behind them, made a total of seven thousand people pour into Qingyu Mountain.
The front actually stopped, but it took some time to send orders to the rear, so that the speed of the main force did not slow down, and the distance between the vanguard and the main force became shorter and shorter.
At the back, the two groups of people gradually crowded together, less than fifty steps apart.
Seeing the dense crowd behind him, Chen Ping couldn't help but frown: "Call the messenger!"
When the ordering soldier arrived, Chen Ping pulled out the knife without saying a word and shouted in a low voice: "Do you know what you are guilty of for delaying the military order?"
The messenger turned pale with fright and looked aggrieved: "General, the six of us messengers sent the message down together. There was no delay at all. When you summoned your subordinates, they were almost at the rear. It was not the subordinates who delayed. Military orders, but...such a slutty garrison, they don’t obey orders at all!”
Hearing this, Chen Ping closed his eyes and took a deep breath, silently put down the knife, sent the messenger away, and at the same time called Ma Ning to his side.
"These so-called search and suppression armies are even more rubbish than I imagined. They are used to guarding the city and cannot handle field battles at all. They are even a bit rubbish than the Liang Guo defenders!
"When the two armies get mixed up, the enemy will take advantage of the chaos and sneak attack.
"To prevent these wastes from getting in the way, you stay here with the main force. We will go ahead. If the attack fails, we will naturally send people down to ask for help."
Although Ma Ning disdained to associate with these rotten county defenders, in order to prevent these wastes from attacking the mountain and getting in the way, he could only follow Chen Ping's orders.
Leaving the main force behind one-third of the way up the mountain, Chen Ping no longer hesitated. He led the vanguard and continued to advance upward. However, the advancement speed was greatly reduced. While guarding the surroundings, he was searching for traps and preventing possible dangers overhead at any time. Fallen beam.
This speed cannot be faster even if we want to.
When the vanguard reached two-thirds of the mountainside, the spike traps on the ground not only did not decrease, but actually increased!
As we get closer to the mountainside, the geology becomes harder and more stone-based, making it extremely difficult to dig spike traps.
Because of this, these traps are extremely poorly made. They are almost made by prying open the stones on the ground to expose some irregular holes, and then inserting a few sharp wooden thorns at the bottom of the holes.
As for covering up the trap, it’s even more hilarious!
The ground is full of rocks, but the trap is covered with branches. As long as you are not blind, you can determine the location of the trap at a glance.
Chen Ping didn't even bother to check and destroy these simple traps. He just let the vanguard army avoid the traps and continue to advance upward.
After advancing thirty steps, the traps became more dense. There was a trap almost every five or six steps.
Chen Ping couldn't help but wonder, could these things really hinder the attack?
Could it be that the guards of Tianji camp lost their minds and started to get sick and seek medical treatment?
"No! Absolutely not! These Tianji Camp guards are a troublesome existence for even the Lord."
Just as Chen Ping was secretly pondering the purpose of these simple traps, a sharp whistle sounded.
The sound was extremely harsh!
Chen Ping looked up and saw a whistle arrow, drawing an arc in the air and slowly falling down.
Before Chen Ping could react, the Tianji Battalion guards hiding on the mountainside suddenly appeared and fired wildly at Chen Ping's vanguard.
"Defend the enemy!"
Chen Ping roared, crouched down quickly, took off the bow and arrow from his shoulder, and fired back at the Tianji Camp guards in the distance.
At the same time, the soldiers beside him raised their shields, and a vanguard of 500 people raised their rifles and rushed towards the Tianji Camp guards.
But soon, Chen Ping discovered something was wrong.
Although he led a thousand infantry and exchanged arrows wildly at the guards of Tianji Camp, due to the long distance, there was a separation of more than a hundred cloths. In addition, the terrain was low and he was in a upward shooting position, while the guards of Tianji Camp were all hiding in Only half of the body was exposed from behind the stone.
After some exchanges, our side screamed repeatedly, but the other side didn't react at all.
At the same time, the 500 vanguards had just taken a few steps forward when they were struck by crude traps densely packed on the ground, forcing their formation into chaos.
The soldiers rushing in front had to stop in order to avoid the trap, only to be bumped into by the unsuspecting soldiers behind them.
It was obviously a "fake" trap that should not have had any effect, but as a result, soldiers kept stepping into the trap.
The deepest trap only reaches the knee level, but the spikes below are equally lethal. If you step on it, your skin will be ripped apart!
At the same time, Ning Hu was shooting wildly at the five hundred vanguards, trying to slow down the advancing vanguards as much as possible.
After shooting more than a dozen arrows, Ning Hu realized that only a few of the enemy's arrows hit the stone in the hiding place, and almost all the rest of the arrows fell seven or eight steps away from the stone.
Realizing that the enemy's arrows could not threaten him, Ning Hu couldn't help but show a touch of excitement on his face, and he shot even more happily.
At this moment, a dull drum sound of "dong dong dong" came from above the head.
Ning Hu turned his head and glanced in the direction of the watchtower. Based on the length of the drum sound, he judged the order given by Qin Feng, and immediately shouted to the guards beside him: "Don't worry about the enemy's infantry archers. All soldiers obey the order and hit the arrows." Arrow, block the enemy vanguard!"
One hundred guards hidden behind the stone aimed all their arrows at the enemy vanguard.
Due to free shooting and the influence of the terrain, even though there were only a hundred people, the density of arrows was still quite high.
The vanguards holding rifles had no defense against the hail of arrows. In just a few short breaths, dozens of people were lost.
The vanguard army struggled hard, and finally some people got rid of the entanglement in the trap area and began to rush towards the stronghold where the guards of the Tianji Battalion were located.
At this time, the drums sounded again.
Ning Hu put down his bow and arrow and shouted: "Team one, throw stones!"
One hundred guards were organized into two teams of fifty men each.
The second team continued to charge at the enemy's vanguard and shoot, while the first team, under the leadership of Ning Hu, lifted up the large rocks that had been stored in the stronghold and pushed out the stronghold with force.
The terrain on the mountainside is already quite steep.
The stone rolled down along the curvature of the mountain, facing the enemy's vanguard.
The dozens of vanguards who had just escaped from the trap had to dodge left and right in order to avoid the boulders, but the vanguard behind them were in dire straits. Limited by the dense spike traps around them, they could not move and dodge at all, facing the falling rocks. Huge boulders were smashed on the spot, killing countless people.
Seeing that the vanguard army suffered heavy casualties, Chen Ping decisively ordered: "Infantry archers, move forward!"
