Zhang Xi's so-called "life-saving artifact" is really nothing new. It is a wooden board that is one person high and two people wide, with two handles in the middle to make it easier for one person to hold it.
Zhang Xi's original plan was that if he encountered an ambush, Zhang Xi would ask his guards to hold up the plank to block the arrows, and he and his soldiers would hide under the plank and retreat all the way.
When Pang Tong was shot into a hedgehog in the novel, it was because he was unprepared. As long as he had brought a few more shields when he set off, he would not have turned into a hedgehog.
It's just that the wooden boards are not easy to make. After all, there are no cutting machines these days. Making wooden boards purely by hand is a bit time-consuming and laborious. Zhang Xi spent several days to get together two hundred wooden boards.
It was originally used to save lives, so having so many is enough.
But now, Zhang Xi feels that it is not enough.
It was used to save lives before, but now, Zhang Xi wants to build an attack channel to prevent arrows. This quantity is not enough.
Therefore, Zhang Xi had to ask the rear team to fetch the tent linen used for camping and modify it on the spot. Two layers of linen were connected between the two wooden boards to expand the covering range of the wooden boards.
After spending a day, Zhang Xi finally made these preparations. Zhang Xi immediately called Kou Feng and Zong Yu and explained his battle plan.
In fact, it's very simple. Just let a group of soldiers run forward with the arrow protection facilities of wooden planks and linen cloth to attack the camp in the middle of the mountain road.
Anyway, although the enemies on the archery tower can shoot arrows from a high position, they cannot get down easily, and it is impossible to stop the advance of our own army.
So along the way, all the way to the camp, you only need to be prepared for arrow attacks.
The reason why it is so troublesome to make wooden boards and linen cloth is to reduce losses on the offensive road.
Of course, the wooden board is better, and the linen is purely for preventing stray arrows. When it comes to strong bows and crossbows, even five layers of linen are useless.
But there is no way, with these preparations, it is impossible for Zhang Xi to set up camp at this mountain pass and have people make wooden boards.
After all, they had to seize time, and try to break through the camp and lead to the south gate before Liu Xun could react.
There is only one or two days of attack time at most.
Therefore, we can only try our best to avoid greater losses, and then rush all the way to the front of the camp in the middle of the mountain road, and then we have to face the enemy head-on and attack the camp under the rain of arrows.
As long as the camp is captured, there is no need to worry about the defenders on the archery tower. Without the camp as supplies, the defenders will all surrender after starving for a day or two.
The plan was well thought out, but there was a very practical problem. Two hundred planks of wood and all the linen in the camp, put together, could only hold 500 people. And the other side's camp was standing in the way, and there might be some inside. With five hundred men, both sides have equal strength. The defenders cannot just focus on defending, and may form formations to meet them.
In this way, it is required that the soldiers in the front line must be able to withstand the enemy's first wave of impact, and at the same time follow up quickly, and quickly join the enemy in a chaotic battle. This way, the defenders in the arrow towers on the cliff will be afraid of accidentally injuring their own people. And dare not shoot the arrow.
Moreover, with only these five hundred people, the attacking army would not have any support. After all, Zhang Xi could not let his soldiers brave the rain of arrows to support without any protection.
Therefore, once the attack is unfavorable and they retreat, they can only rely on the attacking troops to find a way. It is unlikely that Zhang Xi can send troops to respond.
Zhang Xi had to explain the danger of this battle to Kou Feng and Zong Yu, and then asked them who was willing to lead troops to attack the camp.
Then Kou Feng and Zong Yu started to quarrel.
"Brother, why do you need to ask more? Since I led the army, I have charged into battle and conquered everything. This kind of thing cannot be done by a certain family."
This is Kou Feng's arrogance.
Zong Yu was more elegant. He just raised his hand and said to Zhang Xi, "General, since I entered Sichuan, I have not made any achievements. Now I have made great achievements right in front of me. I hope General will complete his work."
This was true, so Kou Feng quit and said to Zong Xu, "Why should Deyan strive for credit? This matter is a narrow escape, and it must be done by a fierce general."
Zong Yu immediately snorted coldly and said, "Since Yu joins the army, he should make great achievements. How can he cherish his life? Furthermore, Gongzhong is a fierce general, but I am not a fierce general?!"
"Deyan really wants to compete with me?!"
"How can this achievement be indisputable?!"
The more Zhang Xi looked at these two people, the more he felt a little ashamed of himself.
Then I never thought about doing this work myself, it's too dangerous.
In the end, the two of them were so angry that Zhang Xi had to interrupt and issue a military order.
Kou Feng goes first. If Kou Feng's attack is unfavorable, then let Zong Yu go up.
It's not that Zhang Xi favors Kou Feng, but that Zhang Xi must consider minimizing risks. Rather than letting the unfamiliar Zong attack in advance, it is better to let Kou Feng give it a try.
After all, Kou Feng is indeed brave, and the troops dispatched this time are Kou Feng's own troops, making it easier for Kou Feng to command.
Then, Zhang Xi still deliberately waited for a day. When Liu Bei sent another batch of wooden planks and linen cloth, Zhang Xi slightly strengthened the anti-arrow passage, and then allowed Kou Feng to set off with the planks on top to attack the walled city.
And Kou Feng, this kid, did not live up to his "strong" reputation in history.
The five hundred soldiers he chose to lead the attack were all Jingzhou soldiers, and all of them were Jingzhou soldiers who had been trained in the Yuanyang Formation.
Kou Feng led five hundred people like this, and set off against the arrow-proof passage made of wood and linen.
Along the way, the archery tower on the rock was shooting arrows wildly, and soon the top of the board was filled with dense arrows. Occasionally, some arrows shot by strong bows and crossbows also penetrated the linen cloth from above or from the side, killing some. Soldiers of Kou Fengjun.
But in the end, the casualties were much smaller than advancing without any protection.
From Zhang Xi's camp to Liu Xun's army camp in the middle of the mountain road, there is about two or three miles of mountain road. And for these two or three miles of mountain road, even with the arrow-proof passage, Kou Feng still paid thirty or forty casualties. , can be regarded as attacking in front of the enemy camp.
The camp guard was naturally not an idiot. He saw such a strange army coming towards his camp. At the same time, he had to form a long snake formation to guard against arrows. If he didn't attack in time, he would wait for them to pass through. Jianyu.com has regrouped, so it makes me feel even more uncomfortable.
Therefore, the soldiers left behind in the camp attacked.
However, there is a saying that the guard of this mountain road has a huge weakness.
Seriously underrepresented.
There was no way, Liu Xun himself had insufficient troops, so his father gave him 10,000 soldiers, which were improvised. Less than half of them had combat experience.
Although various methods have been set up to prevent enemy troops from passing through this kind of mountain road, the conditions itself are very difficult, especially for the soldiers guarding the archery tower. They have to eat and drink on the archery tower. If they are not experienced soldiers, If you hold on, I am afraid that within a few days, the soldiers will not be able to escape because they cannot bear the hardship.
Really, the control of Yizhou by Liu Zhang's family cannot be said to be very strong, and the power of Yizhou's powerful people was connived by Liu Zhang to become more and more powerful. This kind of desertion was even more common until Zhuge Liang ruled Shu. , occasionally deserters occupy the mountains and become kings, causing harm to the people.
Therefore, Liu Xun had to send his cronies to guard this mountain road, but unfortunately, he did not dare to send more soldiers, only a thousand people.
These one thousand people must also include the people placed on the archery tower. If there are five people placed on one archery tower, with two hundred archery towers, these one thousand people will be gone.
However, if there were too few archery towers and it was impossible to block the entire mountain road, Liu Xun would be in trouble. He could only try to set up archery towers in necessary places to save troops.
Even with this arrangement, there were only more than 300 people in the camp guarding the main road.
Originally, Liu Xun thought that 300 people would be enough. After all, the mountain road was narrow and the terrain itself was a bit difficult for one man to pass and ten thousand men not to be able to get through.
Coupled with the arrow towers on the rocky cliffs on both sides, whoever is full enough to brave the rain of arrows to attack this camp is really not afraid of the casualties of the soldiers, right? !
Furthermore, as long as he can withstand the first wave of attacks from the opponent and delay returning to the city for three or four days to report the news, Liu Xun can send troops from the south gate to support the camp at any time, which should be foolproof.
Therefore, Liu Xun really felt that so many people were enough.
But now, the defender feels that it is not enough.
No one expected that Liu Bei's offensive troops would come to attack directly with anti-arrow equipment as if they knew the layout here in advance, and they only waited for a day before launching the attack. Now I don't know if any of the soldiers he sent for help are there. We have arrived at Luocheng City.
Another thing is that the damage suffered along the way was really limited. The large force visible to the naked eye was approaching the camp, and it was impossible to hold on with just the 300 people in the camp.
The defender decided that he would risk going out of the camp to fight in the field, trying to defeat the opponent before they were fully formed, and not giving the opponent a chance to form a formation to attack the camp.
Therefore, the defender left one hundred men to continue to defend the camp, while he led more than two hundred people to attack, taking advantage of the fact that Kou Feng's army was still in a long snake formation, and caught him off guard.
As soon as Kou Feng saw the enemy leaving the camp, he made an immediate decision and stopped the arrow-proof passage. He held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed out of the arrow-proof passage first.
The ones following Kou Feng were naturally the long-sword soldiers in the Yuanyang Formation, holding their shields high and guarding both sides. Then the short-sword soldiers followed closely behind, keeping up with Kou Feng and rushing towards the enemy quickly.
To put it simply, Kou Feng directly gave up the advantage of the Yuanyang Formation this time and directly used short swords for close combat, and the biggest blade was Kou Feng himself.
The short sword soldiers in the Yuanyang Formation are good at chaotic fighting. After all, they are the ones who want to turn around and reorganize the formation through chaotic fighting at the right opportunity. Now, under the leadership of Kou Feng, they are directly entangled with the enemy. .
This is a hand-to-hand combat, and it is also an extremely dangerous and bloody battle.
Kou Feng truly led the way, charging into the enemy formation with a sword and a shield. With his fierce fighting style, he single-handedly created time for the short-sword soldiers behind him to follow up.
The short sword soldiers were also inspired by Kou Feng's desperate fighting method. They roared and rushed into the enemy's formation. They did not seek to break the formation, but just strangled them together as quickly as possible, so that the soldiers on the archery tower did not dare to shoot arrows.
The remaining long-sword soldiers also quickly walked out of the arrow-proof passage, and under the protection of the long-sword soldiers, began to assemble the military formation, and then launched the second wave of attacks.
It can be seen from these soldiers that Kou Feng is not a fool. He really knows how to use his soldiers, and he also knows how to use his soldiers flexibly under what circumstances.
For example, this time, none of the wolf soldiers and spear soldiers Kou Feng in the Yuanyang Formation were brought with them. With such long weapons, the arrow-proof passage could hold weapons, but it would definitely not be able to hold a few people.
For example, at the beginning, lead the short sword soldiers to rush into melee combat, creating opportunities for the long sword soldiers and long card soldiers to form formations, and then attack in two waves, with continuous strikes to completely defeat the enemy's defense line.
Kou Feng was already fierce, and he divided his soldiers into two groups to attack continuously. In addition, once the soldiers formed a formation, they would have too great an advantage in the face of the chaos.
Soon, the enemy camp defender could no longer hold on and wanted to withdraw his troops back to the camp and rely on the camp to hold on.
But Kou Feng didn't give him this chance.
Seeing that the enemy was about to flee, Kou Feng suddenly let out a loud roar, which frightened several soldiers surrounding him. In a daze, Kou Feng rushed out of the encirclement with a few strides and rushed towards the enemy general.
Then he cut off the enemy general's head with a sword and solved all the problems.
As soon as the enemy general died, not to mention the enemy troops in the camp, even the enemy troops on the archery tower were all shocked. In addition, Kou Feng had not completely killed him, so he shouted, "The enemy general is dead, and those who surrender will not surrender." "Kill". He quickly took control of the situation.
Then, it was a matter of easily taking over the camp and letting the soldiers on the archery tower come down and surrender.
(End of chapter)
