Chapter 257 Attack the Mountain
Sure enough, Deng Qi led his army forward for about half an hour and ran into a large group of cavalry head-on, which were the cavalry temporarily replaced by Hu Shi'an.
Deng Qi was so shocked that he was furious that he rushed forward, but unexpectedly he was blocked by the cavalry of the Pei family army.
Deng Yan is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. Although the situation has fallen to such a point, he still has no idea of surrender. His mind changes rapidly. Suddenly, he sees Xiao Shanbao beside him and shouts:
"The entire army has it, move to the mountain and defend it." Then he took the lead and ran up.
The soldiers behind Deng Qi had heartfelt trust in him. Without even asking, they turned around and followed Deng Qi toward the mountain without asking any questions. What exactly did Deng Qi bring to them?
This mountain is an inconspicuous small hill on Baizhong Mountain. The trees on it have long been cut down and burned by the nearby people. However, the most terrible thing is that there is not even a drinking spring on the entire mountain. After living on the mountain for a long time, you will sooner or later be thirsty and starvation. Obviously, this place is a Jedi.
On the other side, when the cavalry of the Pei family army saw that the Sichuan army was going to escape, Hu Shian snorted coldly and said, "The trapped beasts are still fighting. Let's chase after them. I want to see what else can these officers and soldiers run to the mountain? Could it be that they can still run with wings?"
Hu Shi'an's words made many cavalry laugh. Before attacking Nanyang, they had already conducted reconnaissance on the nearby terrain. Naturally, they knew that although hundreds of mountains and mountains were continuous, the mountains were dead ends. If they fled to the mountains, once they were surrounded by heavy troops, there would be only a dead end.
Therefore, these cavalry were not in a hurry, and slowly drove all of these Sichuan soldiers to the mountain just like driving away wild animals. In a few days, even if the Pei family army did not attack them, they would naturally be cut off from food due to water and starved to death, or they could not hold on and go down the mountain to surrender, that's all!
In this way, it not only saves the Pei family army a little bit, but more importantly, it can greatly reduce the casualties of the Pei family army.
An hour later, all the Sichuan Army soldiers were driven to the top of the mountain. Afterwards, Hu Shi'an led the cavalry to the foot of the mountain. As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, Hu Shi'an ordered the Pei family's troops to divide into four groups and block the four major traffic routes that came down from the mountain.
On the other hand, Deng Yan, who was in the limelight, did not see this way. In his opinion, mountain combat was also the old tradition of their Sichuan army. They relied on their specialty in mountain combat to join the army of She'an. In the mountains and ridges of Guizhou, one mountain and one mountain attacked the arrogant She'an.
Now they are back to the hill, which is equivalent to returning to their home court, mountain battles, and they are not afraid of anyone.
However, this mountain is completely different from the mountains they used to be in Guizhou and Sichuan. Not only does it have no food on the mountain, but it is more important to have no water. People can live for more than ten days without food. However, without water, they can't live for up to three days.
"We can't stay here for a long time, we must find a way out as soon as possible." Deng Yan looked around, then left his eyes in a stronger green area, which belongs to the deeper mountains, deeper and more trees. In contrast, the possibility of discovering water is greater and the chance of survival is higher.
"The entire army continues to move, and no longer stay here."
Wen Ling, the tired army embarked on the journey again. In fact, they could definitely be called unparalleled towards Deng Yan. When they left Sichuan, they had no objection at all, and they directly followed him out of Sichuan despite their family's opposition.
Later, after four years of guarding Zunhua, the soldiers had no objection and went south to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion. The soldiers followed them. Until two days ago, the army was defeated and suffered heavy losses. The soldiers still did not say a word and followed him to this hundred mountain. Now they still have to move, and the soldiers abide by it again.
However, there must be a limit for such a thing. When Deng Yan completely exhausts the trust of the soldiers, lets the soldiers down, and disappoints the soldiers, that is, the entire Sichuan Army collapses.
Deng Yan also obviously understood this point. He cherished this trust very much, so that all the decisions he made tried his best to maximize the interests of the entire army. However, the form was better than that of people, and he could not help him at all at all.
The Sichuan Army began to break through to the foot of the mountain. As soon as they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they ran towards the Pei family army guarding the foot of the mountain and were about to arrive. There was nothing to say about the two sides when they met, so they fought head-on.
Everyone in the Sichuan Army understood that the situation of the Sichuan Army was not good at the moment, so everyone was willing to retaliate against the death of fighting against the Pei family army, and everyone fought bravely to be the first, and they did not take their lives seriously.
In a melee, the Pei family army suffered a lot of losses. Seeing this, Zhang Ze, the chief general of the Pei family army, chose to retreat voluntarily. For a wounded beast, the Pei family army naturally did not need to fight head-on with him. They just had to follow him quietly, chase him from time to time, bite him, and gradually expand the crack on his body. When he could no longer hold on, it was time to come forward to share the delicious food.
The Sichuan soldiers were able to escape. Sure enough, they could no longer care about the Pei family army retreating to the side. Instead, they fled desperately towards the deeper part of Bai Rebirth, even Deng Qi could not care about it. At this point, Deng Qi's rule finally became a little loose.
The Pei family cavalry who retreated to one side immediately notified the other three teams, and the four teams of cavalry were chasing the trail and advancing quickly. Soon, the pursuit came to the deepest part of Baizhong Mountain, Shaoqiu Ridge, the highest mountain, and once again surrounded the Sichuan army on the mountain.
This time, the Sichuan Army never continued to escape. There was enough water on the mountain and there was even a small village. Deng Yan was confident that he fought the Pei family army with this.
The Pei family army was not in a hurry to attack at this moment. Besides, they were all precious cavalry, how could they lose here in vain? They guarded the passage down the Shaoqiuling Mountains again, surrounded the entire mountain again, and quietly waited for the arrival of the Wang Daozhi infantry.
Wang Dao came directly to the news that the cavalry had surrounded Deng Qi and other remaining Sichuan troops on Shaoqiuling, and immediately ordered the entire army to speed up, and at the same time, report to General Pei Xiaoer.
Two hours later, more than 20,000 infantry soldiers carried by Wang Daozhi arrived at the foot of Shaoqiu Ridge. After a brief pause and a rough look at the terrain, Wang Daozhi immediately organized an attack.
The war broke out two hours later. The Pei family army sent out a thousand infantry soldiers, all of which were sword and shield soldiers. On the steep mountain road, they were wearing shields and groping up little by little.
On the mountain, the Sichuan Army had already occupied the favorable terrain. It used the higher steep slopes and prepared a lot of rolling wood and rocks around it, waiting for the Pei family's swords and shields to reach half of the steep slope.
Deng Yan gave the order, a large number of rolling stones fell from the woods and were thrown down together. As he said that the mountain was rolling down the mountain. Although the swords and shield soldiers of the Pei family who had already hidden their bodies behind the shield, the huge rocks that fell on the shield were still like a giant hammer to the chest, spitting blood on their mouths, falling to the ground, and were actually smashed to death.
A soldier from the Pei family, who relied on his blood and courage, tried to use his flesh and blood to resist the rolling stones rolling down the mountain. Perhaps it was his tenacious will, or perhaps it was the rock that stuck in a corner, and a huge rock pressed firmly against him without rolling downwards.
"Hurry, continue to attack." The soldier vomited blood and said hoarsely, and soon died suddenly on the spot.
The robe behind him wiped away his tears, stepped on his body, climbed up the rolling stone, and continued to attack. Unexpectedly, after only more than ten steps, a larger and heavier boulder was pushed to the edge of the cliff by more than a dozen people, and with a loud shout of "rising".
The huge rock, which was one person tall, began to roll heavily and slowly down the mountain, and then rolled faster and faster. As the huge rocks passed by, many of the huge rocks that had originally stopped fell down.
More than a dozen soldiers of the Pei family who had not had time to disperse were pressed directly on their bodies by the huge rock and rolled over. Before they could even scream, they had already returned to the west and escaped from the sea of suffering in the world.
Chapter completed!