In Wei City not far away, the enemy soldiers on the watchtower shouted loudly, and then the gate of the village was closed.
Zhang Chong led his generals and led the Taishan army slowly down the slopes of Mount Lu. As soon as they reached the ground, they saw the thieves shouting from the watchtower.
Changshao was where the Battle of Changshao between Qi and Lu took place. It was a chariot battle, because although this place is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is a flat plain.
So when Zhang Chong led his army out of the mountain, he directly saw a strong wall stretching between heaven and earth, accompanied by the sound of desolate horns and solemn silence.
Zhang Chong decided on his strategy and held a military meeting with the generals, saying that he planned to take the initiative to leave Taishan in the west and attack Taishan County.
Unlike Zhang Chong who thought he needed to encourage the generals again, as soon as his idea came out, the generals were happy to hear about the battle.
To be honest, the generals had not moved for several months. They had spent the whole winter and half of the spring renovating and training their troops. They had long wanted to go out to see the blood. Now when they heard that they were heading west to Mount Taishan again, the battle was still in Taishan County, everyone was excited.
After that, Zhang Chong organized the order of battle for the westward expedition. The left captain Guan Yu led Chen Huan's tribe, Ding Sheng's tribe, and Wang Zhang's tribe to accompany the army. The right colonel Zhang Dan led the Dian Wei tribe, Li Damu's tribe, and Yu Jin's tribe to accompany the army. In addition, Zhang Chong also His own flying army scout department, assault cavalry department, and cross-collision team headquarters had a total strength of 3,600 soldiers, including 3,200 infantry and 400 cavalry. Each department prepared six days of rations, and then rushed out of the mountain with Zhang.
After several military strategy discussions, the first battle was to be fought at Changshaowu.
The reason for this is that this place is located seven inches from Ying County and Mou County. After leaving this place, you can drive straight into the Laiwu Valley and directly attack Taishan County and Fenggao.
Therefore, once the battalions stationed in Ying County and Mou County knew that Changshaoxu was attacked, they would definitely come to support. Zhang Chong's idea was to mobilize reinforcements from the two counties and then directly attack the reinforcements to eliminate the enemy soldiers blocking Mount Tai and Lushan Pass.
At this moment, Zhang Chong, who was riding on his horse, put up a pergola and looked at Changshaowu in front of him to see whether the camp was strong or not.
I saw that the main body of the camp was a civil structure, with logs as the base and earth on the outside. It was eight feet high. There was a trench outside, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. From his point of view, it was at least one foot deep. Looking at the large gates, they were all thick doors. Zhang Chong estimated that a wall with this shape would have a back door, which could be used for surprise troops and for withdrawing troops. However, they were on the front and couldn't find it yet.
However, Zhang Chong felt that the camp wall was not a good one, so he called Yu Jin, who was accompanying the army. He was a native of Mount Tai and knew the situation in Changshaoxu better than them.
Yu Jin came from behind, and Zhang Chong's army was actually still on the mountain road in a long line of snakes. And because the plain leading out of the mountain pass was blocked by Changshaoxu, they were really on the front line and Changshaowu at this moment. The Shaowu camp soldiers were facing off against the vanguard Dianwei tribe, while the others were hiding behind and could not expand.
To be honest, this kind of march is very detrimental to Zhang Chong's troops. As long as Changshaowei defends, he may be blocked on this mountain road and unable to get out. This is why Zhang Chong has to take Changshaowei away. reason.
As soon as Yu Jin arrived, he followed Zhang Chong and set up an awning to watch. After watching for a long time, Zhang Chong asked him:
"Wen Ze, do you think this stronghold looks awkward? Generally, this stronghold is built here, as if it is blocking the mountains outside. But if you look at its shape, the main entrance faces us, which seems to block the enemies in the mountains. But if we want to stop the enemy in the mountains, why not just stand at the mountain pass?"
After hearing what Zhang Chong said, Yu Jin suddenly understood, and he hurriedly explained to Qu Kui:
"Qu, you are right. This stronghold is indeed a barrier to our enemies in the mountains. And this stronghold was built at the mountain pass back then. I heard from the old people that when Gongsun Da Canal left Taishan Mountain in the west, it was blocked by this stronghold. I don't know. No matter how many people died, Ren piled the corpses of his brothers in to break the wall. But later Gongsun Daqu was destroyed by Duan Gou, and the village was moved outside the mountain pass. It is said that it was a few powerful men who ran the fair. We all agreed together that because the mountain pass was small and the mountain goods could not be piled up, we moved the market to the plain outside the mountain pass. However, the camp general there also required that the market should still have the ability to block the enemy, so it was built. Such a nondescript dock wall."
After hearing this, Zhang Chong smiled:
"These powerful men really want money rather than their lives. If this wall is still built at the mountain pass, how can I get out? It's built here now. Hum!"
Since Yu Jin was there, Zhang Chong asked him what suggestions he had for conquering the wall.
Yu Jin knew that the opportunity had come, and he immediately told Zhang Chongyan about the military strategy he had planned:
"To attack such a strong wall, the best strategy is to use the internal force to open the wall, so that it is easy to trap the wall. The middle strategy is to encircle it without attacking. For a fortress of this shape, there is more than enough food and fodder, but not enough water storage. If you surround the wall for seven days, the enemy will be defeated. The next best strategy is to encircle the wall without attacking it. It means being surrounded on all sides and overrun with ants to attack the wall. With my bravery and bravery from Mount Tai, we will definitely defeat it."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, Ding Sheng, who was also beside him, sneered:
"I have been talking for a long time, but what I said is not all nonsense. What are the three strategies of upper, middle and lower? The best strategy you said is to use internal forces to open the wall. We are all here now. The gate of the village is closed. Where can we find internal forces? And what do you mean? Zhongce, you have to build a wall and say that people are short of water. Yes, people may really not have enough water, so they don’t know how to dig. This place is not far from Wenshui, so there must be groundwater. As long as they dig deep wells, the water problem will be solved. Solved. When the time comes, we will be stupidly surrounded there. Once the reinforcements from Fei County and Ying County arrive, we will be surrounded. That is to say, the last decision is reasonable, which is to go straight to it. With the bravery of our Taishan soldiers Be very quick. If you take the wall in front of you, I have four hundred soldiers with great weapons. If you give me half a day, I will definitely break through the wall."
Yu Jin was criticized for being useless by Ding Sheng, and his face turned red for a while, but he didn't reply in the end.
On the one hand, although he and Ding Sheng are both generals, Ding Sheng's general is different from him. He is an old brother and the core, but he was born as a subordinate general and was promoted quickly, so he was already hated by others. How dare you talk back at this moment.
But on the other hand, he didn't reply because Ding Sheng was right. The three strategies seemed to be effective. But for the strategy of hard attack, he could do it even if he let the most ignorant Hei Fu in the army think about it. Come to think of it, he said this to Yu Jin, so why should he be proud?
So Yu Jin remained silent.
And what about Ding Sheng? He ridiculed Yu Jin, not because he was right about things, but because he was right about people.
Ding Sheng supports this spring's reorganization and expansion of the organization. Which general doesn't like that the more soldiers he has, the better. But he is deeply dissatisfied with this arrangement.
This reorganization has almost divided the ranking of the generals. First of all, except for Yang Mao, who is still the second deputy in the army, among the other generals, the most important ones are Guan Yu and Zhang Dan. One of them is Zuo Xiaowei, and the other is The Right Colonel can be said to be the two pillars of the army. As the Left Colonel, Guan Yu is more important than the Right Colonel.
So in other words, this Beigou joined the army last fall and within one winter became the second most important general in the army after Yang Mao. He was very upset. You must know that when the Shi Jiajun was just established, he and
Zhang Dan was still neck and neck, vaguely a head above Ding Sheng. Now, he is directly behind him.
Ding Sheng did not dare to blame Zhang Chong. He was completely convinced by him. He still believed that Ding Sheng's ability to bring glory to his ancestors and bring him back to the Spring and Autumn Period was all thanks to his head. He firmly believed that he could do great things, but he was anxious.
The question was whether Ding Sheng could follow him by then. So he finally asked Zhang Chong for orders to let them go.
Of course, Ding Sheng knew that this wall was difficult to fight, and many people would definitely die. But there was no way, if he didn't fight hard, Ding Sheng would be overtaken by Yu Jin, the thief. Unexpectedly, he had already climbed as fast as himself.
Have you all become generals?
In fact, Ding Sheng's request for the fight robbed the forward Dian Wei of an opportunity, but Dian Wei had always been silent and did not take credit for the fight, nor was he angry at Ding Sheng's fight.
Seeing Ding Sheng's invitation to fight, Zhang Chong laughed:
"Okay, Daqi is still so aggressive and dares to fight. Okay, I will use you in this battle. How do you plan to attack this wall?"
Ding Sheng expressed his innermost thoughts:
"In this battle, I specially brought 600 sacks, just to use them at this time. Look, leader, the deep chasm on all sides in front of us is getting deeper and deeper. I took my brothers to carry the bags of earth to fill the chasm.
The rest of the brothers used big canisters to cover themselves, and I didn’t expect that they would be filled in two hours. After that, we used the remaining sacks to pile up at the bottom of the wall to make a mountain of earth, and we fought our way into the wall along the mountain of earth."
Zhang Chong took a picture and said ok loudly:
"Da Qi, I'm so impressed by you as a scholar. I didn't expect you to use your brain in battle. Very good, very good."
Ding Sheng smiled innocently, feeling proud in his heart. Zhang Dan and I both said that what Qu Kui admires the most is those who are smart in fighting, so I, Da Qi, must be the one with the most brains.
But just when Ding Sheng thought that this attack was about to fall on him, he heard Zhang Chong leisurely say:
"In a moment, you and Awei will lead the troops out first. Once they reach the bottom of the wall, they will follow your strategy, pack soil first, and continue to create pressure on the enemy wall. Then listen to the sound of my conch. Together with my conch, we will attack the enemy's stronghold.
There will definitely be chaos, and when the time comes, you and Awei will rush in, fight hard, and kill them through the wall."
What Zhang Chong said was incomprehensible. Why would people be in chaos when Fa Luo came up?
However, the military order had been issued, so Ding Sheng and Dian Wei went to prepare separately.
Two moments later, Zhang Chongzhong's army's magic conch rose up, and the drums shook the ground.
At this moment, Ding Sheng, wearing an iron bag, was naked, with a big earth bag in one hand, and under the cover of a soldier holding a pillar, he said to the soldiers behind him:
"Let's rush together with Naigong."
With that said, he rushed towards the trench head first.
Arrows continued to hit the ground in front of Ding Sheng, and some were accurate, hitting the big pillar above his head. Ding Sheng gritted his teeth, reached the deep chasm first, and then directly threw the soil bag in his hand into the deep trench. Over there
Dian Wei also took the lead, carrying two earth bags in one hand and filling the deep chasm.
The battalion generals on the long ladle wall were in great panic and kept urging the archers on the turret to fire their arrows. However, there were only a hundred soldiers inside the wall, and the archers were only twenty. They were scattered on both sides, one on the left and the other on the right, which could not form an effective barrier at all.
.
There was no way, the camp general just watched helplessly as the bandits filled the trench more and more. Just when he was about to recruit everyone in Wei City to guard the wall, a group of people, led by two black scarfs, Rushed up the wall.
He just reprimanded:
"Who are you? Who asked you to come up?"
A Bai Lian flashed past over there, and a ram's horn dagger was already stabbed in his neck. Then the other soldiers on the wall were also attacked and killed by people who suddenly came up with daggers.
Two moments later, Ding Sheng, who was sweating and carrying a soil bag, saw the gate of the camp in front of him wide open. Then he saw General Meng Ju of the Fei Army, standing in front of the gate with a section of his head and shouting.