Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 869

It's easy to say, but it's even more difficult to put it into practice.

The Taihang Mountain in this era is not like the later generations. It has been changed too much by human activities, and the whole mountain is even steeper. It’s just that the entrance to Zhoushan Mountain is a steep slope with a drop of more than ten meters. As for the two sides The cliff is even higher and steeper.

Moreover, Sima Yi has not been idle these days. When dealing with Wang Hou in the Jinzhong Basin, he launched hundreds of thousands of work times, digging parapets on the mountain, piling ditches and digging ravines, and built a Zhoushikou into a heavily guarded trench. What made Wang Hou and other generals of the Western Wei Dynasty helpless was that Sima Yi also used Wang's cement to build the defense line, which was really as solid as gold.

And it is another matter that Wang Hou is speechless, the guard of this first checkpoint is actually his own family, and he comes from the wealthy family that followed him the first time, the partial house of the Langya Wang family, the Zhenhuai general Wang Ji!

A big banner with the character of king stands tall on the top of the mountain, competing with the character of king at the foot of the mountain, and there is a little bit of awkwardness anyway.

But no matter what, Wang Hou was determined to go through here.

"Lord!"

In the Battle of Quwo, the two corps of Liaodong and the third mixed brigade were dispatched just after the battle, so Wang Hou did not take the lead in transferring these professional troops to the front line. The main army fights first, but don't look at it as a temporary recruiting unit. Most of them, as the backbone of the officers, have served in the regular army.

Especially for the cash withdrawal of Longshang Industry in Kansai, before coming here, the parts customized by the military department, only half an hour, and the three-story splicing command tower with a height of [-] meters were quickly erected by the engineers.

After commanding the infantry to prepare to attack at the foot of Zhoushikou Mountain, Pang De also pulled back, climbed up the tower, and hurriedly held his fists at Wang Hou.

"Our army is ready to go, please give the order, my lord!"

Holding the binoculars all the time, looking at the heavily defended mountain pass, and then looking back, the rolling hilltop beams looking back, almost every key pass has the banner of the Eastern Wei Army. The degree of perfection of this defense can be said to be comprehensive.

But this is also a double-edged sword. Too perfect defense means that the defense force is too scattered. Therefore, on the battlefield of partial attack, Wang Hou can have the advantage in strength.

After assessing the enemy and ourselves, Wang Hou put down the binoculars, and Wang Hou gave orders in a particularly iron-blooded manner.

"Blow the horn! Go to war! Attack at any cost!"

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The loud battle horns soared into the sky, and the 24 heavy cowhide drums were also sounded excitingly by 48 strong men. These things constitute the war spirit of the cold weapon era. Even the king who has experienced many battles Hou, listening to the sound of the war drums, he could feel the hairs on his back growing up slightly, not to mention these soldiers who came to the front line in person.

But it is said that regardless of the cost, it is not like a barbarian with a large group of people rushing up the mountain, that is not called fighting, that is called sending to death!Following the bugle, the first batch of dismounted knights in heavy armor rushed out. They did not carry the usual lances in their hands. Instead, they carried a heavy Mongolian iron shield this time.

Armed with these shields, the knight lords rushed out, and immediately within the range of the bows and arrows of the Eastern Wei army, they put them down neatly, squatted down, and built a row of iron shield walls.

Immediately behind them, many of the soldiers from the Western Wei Dynasty who joined the battle as infantrymen rushed behind the shield wall with thick bags on their backs. The sturdy and heavy engineer shovels and small picks quickly dug up the ground, Then the dug up soil was quickly packed into sacks, filled and tied firmly, and thrown behind the iron shield.

Today's battlefield is very similar to another war in Wang Hou's memory that determined the survival of the regime in Northeast Asia and a world-class khanate. The difference is that Wang Hou has more advanced war experience.

On the hillside, the Eastern Wei army naturally didn't want to see the opponents stationing fortifications within their range. I don't know which level of commander suddenly shouted orders. Amidst the crackling sound, bursts of arrow rain crackled from the V-shaped entrance of the mountain. Some of them fell heavily on these iron shields, and some even wiped off the heads of the engineers working behind them, scaring the farmers and soldiers into cold sweat.

But that's all. At this time, there are still more than 80 meters away from the hillside position. It is difficult for bows and arrows to cross the half-person-high iron shield. Moreover, under the operation of sharp engineer shovels, the trench, which is more than one meter deep and one meter wide, is moving quickly. After digging, a half-meter-high sand sack was piled up in front, which can completely hide people behind.

After the excavation of civil engineering, after the first trench was dug, a large number of strong and capable soldiers who had undergone semi-militarized training for several years went in, and then the heavy cavalry marched forward with their shields on their backs. The next ten meters, but the construction of a trench!
But even if it was slow work, it was not without casualties. At twelve o'clock at noon, when Wang Hou was leaning on the rocking chair and dozed off for a while, suddenly bursts of bean-popping noises came from the mountain, which made him jump up cleverly. He suddenly grabbed the binoculars towards the front, only to see that the fourth 50-meter trench dug by his subordinates had become chaotic. Twenty or thirty heavy cavalry fell into a pool of blood with their shields on their heads. Blue smoke billowed from the opening of the parapet.

Wang Hou was able to build such a large scale because of the trust he gained from sharing secrets with Cao Cao. The Eastern Wei Dynasty also had tiger squatting cannons. This kind of jelly bean-sized pellets could not be resisted even with iron and wooden shields.

But war is like this, there is no such thing as absolute safety, even the delicate heavy cavalry, at this moment has to be on the top regardless of the danger of life, because compared with the manpower lost by the shelling, the loss of the enemy's intensive bow and arrow rain will be greater large, and civil excavation work would be interrupted.

The Liangzhou cavalry in heavy armor drew lots. After a short period of confusion, the second batch put on double-layer plate armor, and gritted their teeth and carried wooden shields on top.

The excavation of civil engineering reached about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the trench had been advanced to 25 meters, but it could not be advanced no matter what!In the front ditch, the Eastern Wei army guarding the mountain threw down the heavy oil jars, and then threw balls of torches. Immediately, more than 100 heavy cavalry in the front row and the light infantry behind them were covered with fire. Shouting and running away from the trench, more than 200 people were burned to death and injured in this wave. The fire burned for more than ten minutes before it was extinguished.

But 25 meters is enough to charge!After gathering the attacking troops for a while, Wang Hou watched nervously with his binoculars, and there were bursts of loud and desolate horn horns, and sixteen army drums sounded deafeningly. Hundreds of soldiers of the Western Wei Army suddenly raised their heads, carrying knives and holding double bows and crossbows, roaring and charging towards the top of the mountain.

Almost at the same moment, the blood of the day erupted, and the defenders of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who had been waiting for a long time suddenly let go of the bowstring, and countless bows and arrows fell down, leading the charge All the heavy cavalry were shot into hedgehogs, and the cavalry who had been shot in the vital part screamed and rolled down.

In addition, oil tanks were thrown from the trench to ignite the fire again. Amidst the thick smoke and screams, a large group of firemen ran frighteningly on the road of charge.

But even so, the Liangzhou Legion also carried out Wang Hou's order regardless of the cost. With these terrifying defensive weapons, they took huge casualties and attacked upwards. After the first row died, the second row followed. In the extra tense gaze, an Eastern Wei soldier holding an oil tank was about to throw it down, but suddenly, there was an extra crossbow arrow on his forehead, which made him fall directly behind the parapet. Immediately afterwards, the desperate Xi Jun picked up a torch and threw it on it. Amidst the sound of hula, the flames lingered, and the defense was clearly in chaos.

Panting heavily, while Wang Hou was watching closely, a big man from Kansai whose armor was blackened suddenly climbed over the parapet, raised his knife and fell, and chopped down several people who were still standing. Archers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty pulling bows and arrows.

Finally got in!

(End of this chapter)