Chen Fengzhi was a militant. Now that the enemy was at the door, Qing Mulan and Zhang Liang refused to fight, which made him feel as if a cat had scratched his heart. He raised his head and looked at Jin Feng.
Then he saw Jin Feng and shook his head: "There is a huge disparity in numbers between us and the Southern Expeditionary Army. It is indeed not suitable to take the initiative at the moment!"
"Yes!" Chen Fengzhi nodded with some disappointment.
"Don't worry, you'll be the one to fight next."
Jin Feng glanced at Chen Fengzhi, then looked at Zhang Liang: "Notify brothers to be careful recently, Li Lingrui is coming very menacingly, and there is a high probability that he will launch an attack in the near future!"
"Yes!" Zhang Liang nodded, then turned to look at Han Feng: "Is there any news about Dashan Pass? When can the hot air balloon be delivered?"
In Zhang Liang's view, the key to this battle is the hot air balloon.
Nowadays, Xihewan has the ability to mass-produce hot air balloons. Although the party has many falcons, taming them requires a process. If you kill one, you will lose one.
As long as there are enough hot air balloons to fight off all the falcons of Dang Xiang's southern expedition, this war can be ended as soon as possible.
Therefore, it is very important whether Dashanguan can send the hot air balloon over as soon as possible!
"I just received news today that the brothers escorting the hot air balloon set off three days ago, and Old Tang personally led the team." Han Feng replied: "I am worried that the King of Qin will stop them. They took a small path and it is estimated that it will take about ten days to arrive!
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"Ten days..." Zhang Liang nodded: "It shouldn't be a big problem!"
The King of Qin's army and the Southern Expeditionary Army have just arrived, and it will take several days to settle down.
If we formulate a battle plan again, ten days may pass.
When Tang Fei brought his men over, the Shu army concentrated its forces and defeated the King of Qin's army first, and then took over the hot air balloon, trying to use their numerical advantage to kill all Li Lingrui's falcons.
Jin Feng, who was standing aside, frowned slightly as he listened to Zhang Liang and Han Feng talking.
According to Jin Feng's idea, a hot air balloon needs to be replaced by at least a falcon to be cost-effective.
However, previous actions have proven that the enemy is already prepared, and it may take two, three or even three or four hot air balloons to replace one falcon!
According to Zhang Liang's strategy, if you want to replace the falcons of the Southern Expedition with hot air balloons, you will not only need the hot air balloons, but also the scouts who control the hot air balloons!
In the previous operation, two more scouts were sacrificed. Based on this casualty ratio, it is estimated that the entire reconnaissance battalion will be wiped out after this battle.
Although Jin Feng adjusted his mentality, he still wanted to avoid avoidable casualties.
The failure of this operation was enough to prove to Jin Feng that his idea was wrong.
But he really has no good solution at the moment.
When he was in Xihewan, he once tried to use sound to drive away falcons, which was also a common method used at airports in his previous life.
But in his previous life, the airport used electronic speakers to play sound waves that birds were afraid of. Where can Jin Feng now have the conditions to get electronic speakers?
He tried beating gongs, drums or firing cannons to drive away the falcons, but the enemy's falcons were trained and were not afraid of these sounds at all.
Jin Feng also tried to cover the surface of the hot air balloon with a layer of barbed wire to resist the sharp claws of falcons. However, the balloon's balloon area is too large. If it is completely covered with barbed wire, the weight of the hot air balloon will increase several times.
It will be difficult to fly again.
Jin Feng even tried to install two small aerial platforms on the top of the airship, and then asked the bodyguards to stand guard on the platforms with guns. When the falcons approached, they used muskets to hunt down the falcons.
However, the currently used balloons are too soft to support the construction of the platform, while hard balloons are difficult to produce and cannot be produced at the current industrial level of Xihewan.
In fact, if Jin Feng was given enough time, he would definitely be able to find a way to deal with the falcon, but the problem was that the enemy did not give him time.
After returning from the East China Sea, Jin Feng has been busy fighting and has no time to study.
There was really no other way, so he agreed to install explosive bags on the hot air balloon.
Now Zhang Liang actually planned to trade several hot air balloons and several scouts for a falcon, which made Jin Feng feel uncomfortable.
If he had started research earlier, he might have created a new weapon long ago, and he wouldn't be so passive now.
So after the meeting, Jin Feng once again got into the small cave that served as a laboratory, hoping to find a way to completely eliminate the falcon before the battle broke out.
Jin Feng and Zhang Liang both thought that Chen Anjie and Li Lingrui would not launch the attack for several days at the earliest. However, what they did not expect was that after the Qin King's Army and the Nanzheng Army arrived, they only repaired it for less than an hour, and even the tents were damaged.
Without setting up, they suddenly launched an attack!
Perhaps because its own combat effectiveness was not good, or perhaps because the number was too small, the offensive of the Qin army was not fierce, and the Shu army easily blocked it by taking advantage of the terrain.
However, the party at the northern end marched southward, and its attack was extremely frantic from the beginning.
Under Li Lingrui's strong coercion, countless soldiers carried huge shields and roared against the falling rocks and kerosene altars above their heads. They charged towards the Shu army fortifications at the northern end of Brass Valley.
There are also countless party soldiers, like locusts, climbing densely to the peaks on both sides, preparing to attack the catapults and heavy crossbows set up on the highlands on both sides of the valley.
Even though Zhang Liang repeatedly reminded him to be ready for battle, most of the Shu army officers thought the same as Jin Feng and Zhang Liang, believing that the enemy needed a few days to settle down and would not launch an attack so quickly. As a result, they were caught off guard.
Fortunately, most of the Shu army were veterans, and they built fortifications at both ends of the Brass Valley in advance. After recovering, they immediately launched a counterattack.
The catapults on both sides of the mountain were started at the same time, throwing baskets of stones and grenades into the valley.
On the high ground, the Shu soldiers also pushed down the stones that had been prepared.
Round stones rolled down the hillside, and those party soldiers who climbed were smashed to pieces with broken bones and tendons.
After nearly half an hour of fierce fighting, the Shu soldiers successfully repelled the enemy by taking advantage of the terrain.
I thought that the enemy should withdraw and rest now, but only ten minutes later, the Southern Expeditionary Army launched a second round of attacks!
The fighting lasted from the night of the 27th to the morning of the 28th before it came to an end temporarily.
It wasn't that Li Lingrui had softened his heart or was afraid of being beaten, but that the Southern Expeditionary Army that had arrived had all been defeated, and the team behind them had not been able to catch up because of the snow.
Under the fortifications at the northern end of Brass Valley, corpses were piled as high as the fortifications!
This reminded Jin Feng of Yuguan City!
From here we can also see Li Lingrui’s determination!
Brass Valley is a ravine, and the fortifications built by the Shu army were nothing more than a temporary stone wall built with stones in the middle of the ravine.
Now the enemy corpses are piled as high as the fortifications.
Taking advantage of the temporary end of the battle, Zhang Liang immediately organized Shu soldiers to clean up the enemy corpses in front of the fortifications.