Chapter 992: Step by Step (2)
"Are those people still there?"
In the early morning of the next day, when the soldiers of Ran Teng were burying the pot and cooking, the soldier Yang Wu asked Tong Ze, who was on guard. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Nope. …… But maybe they'll come back later, didn't they try to sneak up last night? ”
Sitting on Wu Gang's car with his back against the baffle, the Wei soldier who was on guard at night was wrapped in a sheepskin blanket, and his face was slightly cold.
"Last night? Is there such a thing? ”
Yang Wu was taken aback.
The Wei soldier rolled his eyes, and at this time, Le Leopard, who was beside Yang Wu, said lightly: "Of course there is such a thing, but last night you slept like a dead pig, and we saw that Han Qi couldn't kill it anyway, so I simply didn't call you." ”
Hearing this, the soldiers who were feeding their hunger with dry food in the vicinity immediately burst into laughter.
After laughing, these soldiers involuntarily turned their heads to look at those Wugang cars, and secretly sighed in their hearts.
I remember that a few days ago, they thought that this was just a cart specially used to transport grain, but they didn't expect that this was a sharp weapon against the South Korean cavalry.
Thanks to the blessing of this Wugang car, their Ranteng thousand-man team was stationed on the Linshu Plain for a night last night, although they were attacked by two Han cavalry of about several hundred people before and after, but these two Korean cavalry could not shake the Wugang car at all, and there was no threat.
Instead, the crossbowmen who were hiding behind Wu Gang's car shot more than a dozen South Korean cavalrymen with a sneak attack.
This made the rest of the Ran Teng army excited.
After all, yesterday afternoon, most of their thousand-strong team was piling up strongholds, and although the Korean cavalry could not break through the barrier formed by Wugang vehicles, they could not kill each other, and the only gain was that the crossbowmen shot more than a dozen cavalrymen.
Overall, this collision between friend and foe in the wilderness seemed a bit dull and boring.
Of course, this was only the opinion of the belligerent soldiers, and in the eyes of Ran Teng and Gan Mao, they had faintly seen the victory of this battle.
"His Royal Highness King Su, worthy of His Royal Highness King Su......"
Standing on the car of a Wugang car, Ran Teng and Gan Mao looked into the distance.
If they stayed on this endless plain on weekdays, they would inevitably be worried about the harassment and sneak attack of the Korean cavalry, but now, due to the strict protection of the Wugang chariot, they had no worries in their hearts.
After all, yesterday, the two South Korean cavalry circled back and forth several times around the stronghold composed of many Wugang vehicles, but they failed to find a flaw that could be attacked, which made Ran Teng and Gan Mao have great confidence in this kind of Wugang car - it is worthy of being a sharp weapon used by His Royal Highness King Su to deal with the Korean cavalry.
"It seems that His Royal Highness King Su is planning to use the 'step by step' strategy." Licking his slightly dry lips, Gan Mao said: "If I am not mistaken, today our army will send a few thousand troops to continue to go deep into the front plain, build a few more strongholds, and further compress the activity area of the South Korean cavalry, maybe a month later, this plain will be all over our army's strongholds, and at that time, even if the South Korean cavalry has tens of thousands, there is no way to gallop freely on this plain as before." ”
"yes."
Ran Teng nodded, and said with emotion: "I heard from the crows that this plain is nearly more than 100 miles long, flat and wide, if you force the army, I really don't know how many people will die." …… However, His Royal Highness King Su came up with such a clever plan, and cooperated with the Wugang chariot to camp step by step, although it took a lot of time, but the victory was that our army had almost no casualties. ”
"It's just that the non-commissioned officers in the army are not very satisfied, they seem to be ready to fight the Korean cavalry." Gan Mao said with a smile.
Hearing this, Ran Teng grinned a few times, and then, he nodded and said, "There will be a chance." …… Waiting for our army to advance to Qishui Pass with the clever plan of His Royal Highness King Su, sooner or later it will have a showdown with the Korean cavalry. ”
Probably because of the relationship with Wu Gangche in hand, Ran Teng was full of confidence when he said this, as if he had defeated the Korean cavalry.
Suddenly, he turned to Gan Mao and said, "By the way, I deliberately mentioned you as a hundred generals, are you willing?" ”
"Huh?" Gan Mao was stunned when he heard this, and then his expression was a little strange: "Is it appropriate?" His Royal Highness King Su ......"
"It shouldn't get out of the way." Ran Teng shrugged his shoulders, then bared his teeth and said, "I suspect that His Royal Highness King Su may have really forgotten about you......"
Hearing this, Gan Mao couldn't cry or laugh.
In fact, he had a similar speculation a while ago.
"How?" Glancing at Gan Mao, Ran Teng said while the iron was hot: "Anyway, most of the Qi country is still in a civil war now, and the situation is chaotic, and most of them will not think of you, the general of the Donglai Army, I think it is a bit condescending to let you be a soldier in our army." …… When I joined the party a while ago, there was a 100-man general under my command who died heroically, and you can make up for this person's shortage. ”
Hearing this, Gan Mao couldn't help but hesitate.
Starting from his heart, of course, he prefers to return to the Qi State, return to the Donglai Army, follow the will of his first king of the Qi State, Lu Xi, assist Zuo Xiang Ji Zhao to assist Gongzi Bai to inherit the throne, and defeat the rest of the sons who made rebellious moves to seek the country, but he has been in the Shangshui Army for a long time, and it is obviously self-deception to say that he has no feelings.
"Think about it."
patting Gan Mao's arm, Ran Teng Zhengse said: "You also know that our Shang Shui Army is not inferior to the Yan Ling Army, but it is slightly lacking in commanding generals, General Wu Ji...... You know, so I won't say more. ”
Hearing Ran Teng mention Wu Ji, Gan Mao couldn't help but laugh.
This is something that all the Shangshui soldiers and soldiers know, in the Jixian battlefield a while ago, Wu Ji, the general of their Shangshui Army, killed Xin Zhan, the general of the Korean cavalry at that time, in the chaos of the army, which made many Shangshui soldiers exclaim the courage of this general.
But after the war, the general was severely reprimanded by His Royal Highness King Su, and even the position of the general was cut off and became the temporary position of the general.
At that time, after Gan Mao heard about this incident, he could also understand the anger of His Royal Highness King Su: You said that you are the general of the merchant and water army, and you are not good at commanding the soldiers under your command, and you actually do what kind of behavior to kill the enemy general on a single horse, you are really invincible yourself?!
As a result, a certain general of the merchant army drooped his head at that time, did not dare to say anything, and obediently accepted the reprimand.
But then again, although there are some meanings of relying on the courage of the horseman, including Gan Mao, there are still many soldiers in the Shangshui army who admire the bravery of the general Wu Ji, maybe the general is still bad in command, but the deeds of killing the enemy general on a single horse made many soldiers feel enthusiastic.
Even Gan Mao was excited at the time, after all, on the battlefield of the Central Plains, there were few amazing deeds similar to killing enemy generals on a single horse.
It's no wonder, after all, on the battlefield of the Central Plains, weapons such as bows and crossbows are becoming more and more powerful, and no matter how brave the generals are, they can't withstand the salvo of this kind of bow and crossbow, and they don't want the Central Plains war more than 100 years ago.
“…… At present, only General Zhai Huang can be in charge of our merchant army, but I think that your talent is enough to command an army, as you of the Donglai Army of the former Qi State. ”
After leaving these words, Ran Teng turned and left, leaving Gan Mao alone to stand there and think.
To be sure, Gan Mao didn't believe that His Highness was still disgusted with him, and he was more inclined to Ran Teng's judgment - most likely that His Highness had forgotten about him. So, will he return to the Donglai Army of Qi State, or stay in the Shangshui Army?
Gan Mao swayed from side to side, after all, he had feelings for both the Donglai Army and the Shang Water Army.
"Hoo ......"
After thinking for a long time, he let out a long breath.
During this period, he casually glanced to the southeast, and vaguely saw an army in the distance.
He squinted, and after half a ring, he came to the conclusion that that army was indeed their merchant army, and that it was also a friendly army with the same duties as their Ranteng Thousand People.
"Let's wait until this battle is over......
Gan Mao said to himself secretly.
As Gan Mao guessed, the army in the distance was indeed the Shang Shui Army, and it was also an ally with the same mission as the Ran Teng Thousand People.
However, when this army was preparing to be stationed, a South Korean cavalry suddenly galloped from the northeast.
To Gan Mao's surprise, the friendly army had no intention of dodging, and actually pushed the Wugang car and rushed towards the Korean cavalry, forcing the Korean cavalry to dodge in a roundabout way.
This radical approach made Gan Mao guess the identity of the friendly army at once-Xiang Li's thousand-man team.
As Xiang Li, who is no less powerful than Ran Teng in the Shangshui Army, this thousand-man general's combat method is more radical than the former.
Nearly half a month after that, as Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, speculated, the Suwang army did begin to advance to the Linshu Plain for more than 100 miles, but the way the Suwang army marched was very different from the ordinary way, they used Wugang cars to open the road, used Wugang vehicles to carry bricks, cement and other materials needed to build defensive strongholds, and used Wugang vehicles to block the sneak attack and harassment of the Korean cavalry, so that the Korean cavalry was completely inferior.
In this regard, Han Yang, Marquis of Dangyin, was unbelievable, it was obviously in the plain area where the cavalry was extremely favorable, but the Wei army on the opposite side advanced without the slightest scruples.
At the end of February, when Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, reacted, he saw that the Linshu Plain was full of Wei army's defensive strongholds, and these defensive strongholds were connected to each other by a strong low wall one person high, which seriously compressed the area of activity of the Korean cavalry.
After learning of this, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, was greatly frightened and immediately sent cavalry to destroy those low walls.
Unexpectedly, those low walls seem to be made of masonry and mud, but they are extremely strong, so that it is especially difficult to destroy these low walls.
What made Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, even more frightened, was that every defensive stronghold of the Wei army on the Linshu Plain was a beacon tower. The Wei soldiers stationed in these strongholds would light beacons when they saw the Korean cavalry, so that the movements of the Korean cavalry were exposed to the Wei army's noses.
In this situation, the Korean cavalry was helpless - for the first time they were helpless against a group of infantry.
On the ninth day of the first month of March, the Wei soldiers relied on the tactics of step-by-step to push the defense line to the bank of the Qishui River step by step, and built a temporary river port again at the confluence of Qishui and the big river.
This time, Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, felt extremely frightened, because he finally realized the tactics of the Wei army.
However, it was too late at this time, because the Han army could not break through the layers of defense of the Wei army, and there was no way to harass the Wei army to build a river port at the confluence of Qishui and the Great River.
Although it took nearly a month, the Wei army managed to occupy the Linshu Plain with small casualties.
When this incident spread, the Han troops in Linxi, Qiguan, Dangyin, Moyi and other places were shocked, and they could not have imagined that the Wei army would occupy the Linshu Plain unscathed and push the battle line to Qishui Pass.