As night gradually fell, the first day's battle also ended. The defenders on the pass defense line, whether they participated in the battle or those who stopped to watch nervously, were exhausted and got a short rest. The mountain garrison vanguard troops After Xingtian's headquarters was defeated, he also stopped and prepared for dinner. It seemed that he planned to fight again tomorrow.
The defenders of the pass defense line, the soldiers of Jiang Hong Defense Area, were also properly arranged and cared for under the "care and concern" of Army Sima Jiang Xue. The wizards and pharmacists who accompanied the army also immediately helped those who fought in the battle. The injured warriors treated their injuries, and a lot of medical supplies such as gold sore medicine and thatch (used as bandages) were also consumed instantly.
Perhaps Jiang Xue foresaw that in the next few days, the battle might be as fierce as this time, and the need for golden sore medicine would exceed expectations. Therefore, after Jiang Xue handled some deployment matters in Jiang Hong's defense area, he immediately dispatched The cronies rushed to the rear to raise gold sore medicine from the other three legions.
Jiang Xue was now standing on a prominent arrow tower. Looking up, the more than 100-meter fence defense line in Jiang Hong's defense area was repaired immediately not long after the battle ended, as Jiang Hong said, but the battle situation was so real It was too tragic. At this moment, there were still dozens of broken gaps in the fence defense line. Although the largest gaps were only two or three meters wide, they already gave him a headache.
If the mountain garrison takes advantage of the darkness to attack this area at night, I am afraid that these small gaps will become a major hidden danger for the defense area to fall, and the casualties will be even more serious at that time.
The so-called "thousand-mile embankment breaks in an ant nest"!
"Reject the horse, block the gap with the rejected horse and thorns! Try to avoid close combat."
"In addition, immediately send additional personnel to repair the cracked fence and re-install the wooden stakes! Hurry, go right away!"
"You, and you, immediately send soldiers to pick up the stone arrows on the battlefield that are not completely damaged. Yes, there are also those stones, try to collect as many as possible!"
Although a series of orders were issued to save Jiang Hong's defense area, Jiang Xue knew that not only this defense area, but also the entire pass defense line would not last long. It might only last two or three days at most before it would be completely breached. He never After coming down from the arrow tower, a Xing Sima was left here to cooperate with Jiang Hong in commanding. He himself returned to the second main pass to deploy defenses. Even if the entire defense line of the first pass was captured, at least there would still be a second main pass. The pass defense line can resist
As soon as he returned to the main pass, Jiang Xue immediately started to arrange the defense line.
Just one day later, Tan Mafei reported: "Report, Sir Shanzhu launched a comprehensive general attack on the first line of defense. It was repulsed by our army, but as many as a thousand of our soldiers were killed!"
Jiang Xue said hurriedly: "How serious is the damage to the defense line?"
Tan Ma responded: "There are several big gaps in the defense line, and they are currently being repaired. In addition, the line commanders of the defense line asked me to tell you, most of the 500 copper axes he has there have been damaged, and they cannot cut wood. They are in urgent need of copper axes." He only had time to build a fence line of defense. Once it is fully breached, it will no longer be able to hold on."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Xue jumped with anxiety. He himself was also short of copper axes. There were only 2,000 in total. Most of them have been damaged now. It won't take long for the rest to be destroyed once they are all damaged. No more fortifications can be built. The number of two thousand copper axes is too large for the hundreds of logistics support personnel accompanying the army. If we expect these army logistics to repair these copper axes, it may be too late in time.
This book was first published in 17k Chinese online. One logistics person can probably repair 3-4 copper axes in a day. A hundred people can only repair 400 in a day. Another serious problem is that these logistics personnel do not have all the time to repair copper axes for you. They
They also need to coordinate the supply of grain and fodder, and are responsible for the maintenance of other weapons that are simpler than copper axes. In addition, a series of things such as collecting stones and cooking also need these people to complete. Therefore, a logistics staff can only do at most one day.
It can only repair a copper axe. For an army that consumes very quickly, this seems to be a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the actual problem at all.
"I don't have many usable copper axes left here. I'll send another hundred copper axes over. You go back and tell them to hold on for me for a few more days no matter what, but..." Jiang Xue's tough tone suddenly became a bit...
Songsong: "If you really can't hold on... then leave more than a hundred soldiers behind and withdraw the rest immediately."
"Yes!" Tan Ma responded in a deep voice and immediately retreated.
Not long after, a hundred copper axes were quickly delivered to the first pass defense line with the return of the exploring horses.
Now, not only the situation of the first pass defense line is critical, but the situation of the main pass defense line is also not as good as the main pass. Two defense zones have been built at the main pass, and most of the copper axes have been damaged. Now the third defense zone is being repaired. All the copper axes are in a hurry.
Before it was damaged, I didn’t know if it could be repaired.
Jiang Xue had no choice but to order his subordinates to stop building arrow towers. The third defense zone only built a simple fence defense line hundreds of meters long.
The first pass and the main pass where Jiang Xue is now are both the entrances from the plain outside the mountain pass into Yingshan. However, compared to the main pass, the terrain of the first pass's defense line eight miles away to the east is more difficult than the main pass.
It is more narrow. For the defender, the first line of defense is much easier to defend than the main pass.
Because even if the mountain garrison has a greater numerical advantage, the defenders can only face attacks from four to five hundred people at the same time. On the other hand, the main pass defense line, the defenders can face up to a thousand people at one time, which is more than twice as many as the first pass.
In the past few days, after the mountain garrison forward troops lost one-third of their strength (more than 3,000 people), Xingtian and several other tribal leaders decided to change the direction of the attack and switch to the offensive after some discussions.
main pass defense line
Although Jiang Xue was prepared for a battle early in the morning because the mountain garrison did not have cavalry for reconnaissance, under the attack of the mountain garrison, which became more and more fierce one after another, the entire fence of the defense line was almost completely destroyed.
He was completely pushed down and put into danger of hand-to-hand combat. The arrow tower was also seriously damaged.
Jiang Xue felt extremely overwhelmed by such a reckless attack by the mountain garrison vanguard force, even though he had been prepared for it. Under the dedicated command of him and other generals, and with the desperate counterattack of the entire army, the first one finally came.
After repelling the violent attack of the mountain garrison for the second time, the mountain garrison retreated again, leaving more than 2,000 corpses behind.
The mountain garrison vanguard army has as many as ten thousand soldiers, and the soldiers are all brave and strong hunters. Its combat effectiveness can be said to be second to none in the entire mountain garrison army.