Chapter 166 The first battle
When the deputy general heard the word "Rolling Wood", he shuddered.↖ Now the people he led were not even easy to stand firm, so how could he stand the crushing of "Rolling Wood".
A "slam" sound came from the top of the mountain, which must be the iron chain that untied the rolling wood. The deputy general Qiyun stood firmly on the hillside and shouted loudly: "Don't mess around, hold on with me!"
Before he finished speaking, a rumbling sound came from the top of the mountain, and the sound quickly increased.
As soon as I looked up, I saw a huge rolling wood rolling towards me with a man.
The deputy general was also a person who had fought for many years, but he had never seen such a scene. The rolling wood from the mountain was not a single piece, but many rolled down together, just covering him and his men.
These rolling woods are arranged in a very regular manner, not in a straight line, but in an orderly manner and do not affect each other. I don’t know what the Song army used to do on the top of the mountain. Each rolling wood is straight down and will not interfere with the route next to it.
"Oh my god, this must be crushed into meat pie!"
The local soldiers who were brought were first frightened by this scene, howled, turned around and ran away.
Someone took the lead, and the Jiaozhi people's team immediately became a mess.
The deputy general shouted: "Those who disrupt the military formation will die!"
Before he finished speaking, he raised the steel knife in his hand and cut off the three soldiers who turned around and fled in one go, and then he barely stabilized the team again. The 10 or 20 people who had already run away, and before they reached the foot of the mountain, Ruan Dali ordered his soldiers to shoot arrows and shoot them into hedgehogs.
When war is most afraid of chaos. Once chaos starts, you can no longer control it.
Seeing Ruan Dali helping him press the pressure, the deputy general breathed a sigh of relief, and saw the rolling wood above his head getting closer and closer, and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid. The more you want to escape, the more you want, you can't escape. People can't run away. Turn around and run, and catch up quickly. Now everyone stands apart, watch the rolling wood come down, listen to my order, and block the rolling wood together, and then slowly go down the mountain. There is still a glimmer of life!"
Ruan Dali was staring at the foot of the mountain, and now he was dead when he went down the mountain. The soldiers cheered up and stared at the faster and faster rolling wood above his head.
“Hi——get it!”
The deputy general saw the situation of rolling wood, plucked up the courage to raise his hands and hold it up.
Not everyone has courage, let alone come. There were only a dozen people who went up to hold the wooden rolling wood as soon as possible. The deputy general felt as if he was hit hard by a big hammer in his chest. The fishy blood suddenly surged to his throat and flowed out along the corner of his mouth.
Fortunately, the survival was a terrifying person who had just been shocked to react. He stretched out his hands one after another and held the rolling wood coming towards him. Although seven or eight soldiers were unstable and were knocked down the mountain by huge force, most of them still stood firmly on the hillside.
The deputy general forced the blood from his mouth to swallow, gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "The wood is getting faster and faster, and it is not scary to slowly get off. Don't let go, listen to my orders and retreat step by step toward the mountain!"
A single Jiaozhi soldier survived. Of course, only the deputy general's leader followed and agreed to his promise.
Lu Fang poked his head out on the top of the mountain. He watched the Jiaozhi soldiers below take action together, hold the rolling wood, forming a stalemate on the hillside, and exclaimed: "As long as the lifting official is right, the distance of fifty steps is too short. As long as the attacking soldiers work together, they can withstand it. Next time, let it go seventy steps away from the top of the mountain to see if they have this ability!"
After saying that, he glared at the portable soldier beside him: "Did you remember?"
"Remember, remember, are you seventy steps?" the soldier agreed. He also stretched his head to look at the foot of the mountain, "Commander, what should I do now? The Jiaozhi people held the rolling wood!"
"So what?" Lu Fang snorted coldly, picked up a fist stone from the ground, looked down at the mountain with a real look, and said, "Look at me to beat the leader of Jiaozhi!"
Before he finished speaking, he raised his hand and the stone flew out from the top of the mountain, hitting the red-faced deputy general's shoulder.
The deputy general suffered a pain when he took it, and he almost knelt on the hillside. Fortunately, nearly 200 people were holding the big wood now, and his mistake did not affect the overall situation.
On the top of the mountain, Song Jun burst into laughter, and they all followed Lu Fang's appearance, picked up stones of different sizes from the ground, shouting: "I'll beat you a fat person!" "I'll beat you that thin person!" "I'll beat you that--"
For a moment, stones fell from the top of the mountain like rain.
A soldier in his arms said to Lu Fang: "The commander should use a hard crossbow. As long as he shoots down thirty or fifty people, these people will have to wait to die."
Lu Fang seemed to have not heard it, and still picked stones around and muttered in a low voice: "I'm talking too much, I don't know that all the arrow officials remember there are a number? It's impossible to use unless it is absolutely necessary!"
While muttering, he shook his head and picked up stones to hit the Jiaozhi soldiers on the hillside.
Yongzhou is a small frontier. Although it is also a courtyard, Xu Ping has carried out many transformations, but arrows are still expensive, which costs a lot of money. There are many arrow bamboos on the west road of Guangnan. The price of arrows is slightly lower, and a branch costs about 30 cents, and a crossbow and arrows cost about 60 cents. No matter how rich the sugar business is, Xu Ping cannot let his soldiers shoot randomly in the countryside. This battle was fought by Yongzhou. There was no money allocated by the imperial court or support from military weapons. Military supplies are not only expensive, but also cannot be replenished in large quantities. Consumables must be used for saving.
The Jiaozhi soldiers were exhausted by carrying the rolling wood on the hillside and were often hit by the Song army on the mountain with stones. In a short while, twenty or thirty people rolled down the mountain. The huge rolling wood could not hold it anymore.
A general beside Ruan Dali said, "General, this is not a solution! There are stone mountains on both sides of the valley, and there are endless stones on the mountain. Sooner or later, our people will not be able to support it! Let's send hundreds of people up and save them all!"
"Nonsense, can you save people if you send someone? You have been with me for many years of war. Haven't you seen that the Song army on the mountain is waiting for us to send people up? Just hitting people with stones is playing with us! It's obvious that only a few dozen crossbows, two or three hundred people on the mountain can't support it, but they just don't use it. It's clearly a trap! The mountain here is so steep, if you can't find a way to break the Song army's rolling wood, it's useless to go up! If you have the intention, think about how to deal with these rolling woods!"
The general who spoke had to sigh and turned his head and couldn't bear to look at the scene on the mountain again. As long as the Jiaozhi soldiers on the hillside couldn't hold on and rolled down the wood, more than 200 people would probably be crushed into meat pies.
However, Ruan Dali said it was right. This hillside was obviously a trap set by the Song army, so no matter what, no one could be sent up. If you don’t think of a solution, how many people will die when they go up.
You should know that these rolling woods are not placed on the hillside casually. They must cover the entire hillside and can also be able to stretch and contract freely. When they are put down, they cannot interfere with each other. When the corpse of the Jiaozhi soldier is pressed, they cannot jump up and change the route. The collection and release mechanism on the mountain is very complicated.
Xu Ping explained to Shi Quanbin the principle of collecting and retracting these rolling woods for a while, but he didn't understand it. It was conceivable how much effort it took.
Xu Ping took countless efforts to level the hillside and build a rolling wood mechanism, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources. How could two or three thousand Jiaozhi soldiers easily cross the hillside?
(There is another chapter tonight.) (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!