Chapter 511: Occupy the Advantageous Territory
The first large-scale attack killed and wounded more than 200 people, which made Lu Fang a little annoyed and angry, he also realized that he had underestimated the enemy, and more importantly, they had no shield, and the enemy's rolling logs were smashed, and they had no room to dodge.
At this time, one of his subordinates gave him advice: "With so many dead brothers, it is better to carry their corpses up the mountain, and perhaps reduce the casualties." ”
This sentence is the meaning of using the corpse as a meat shield, generally this kind of thing is not easy to do, and it is easy to chill the hearts of the soldiers, but Lu Fang was also at a loss for a while, so he also let it go, so he nodded and said: "Go and call Luo Jin!" ”
After a while, Luo Jin rode over and shouted from afar: "Big brother, it's better to concentrate your forces to attack!" ”
"That's exactly what I wanted, you go and all the brothers are transferred to the north!"
Luo Jin turned his horse's head and galloped away, and soon brought the remaining more than 300 soldiers to the north, the two armies reunited, and Lu Fang recounted the troops, there were about 780 people, and dozens of seriously wounded soldiers, but these wounded soldiers had lost their combat effectiveness and could no longer be used.
Lu Fang selected 300 people to form archers, ordered them to release arrows to the mountain to cover the main attack, and selected 100 strong soldiers, and ordered each of them to carry a corpse to charge in front, he planned in his heart that as long as 100 people rushed up the mountain first to meet the enemy in close combat, it would be easy for the soldiers behind to go up the mountain.
Li Yanqing only left 30 people to defend on the southern mountain road, reducing the number of soldiers defending on the east and west sides, and the east and west sides had to rely on ropes to climb up the mountain, and only ten people were needed to patrol and cut the ropes in time.
The rest of the soldiers are all concentrated in the north defense, in addition, Zhang Ying is leading dozens of people to dig tree roots around the mountain temple, the reason why he did not make a big mud ball is because the snow on the top of the mountain is no longer enough, it has melted into water before, most of the snow has been used, there is no snow without water, and making a mud ball requires a lot of water to stir the soil.
Secondly, there is not enough time, and it will take at least two or three hours to freeze for a big mud ball to fully solidify, and they can't wait.
But Wang Gui soon discovered another resource, that is, tree roots, the mountain temple was originally overgrown with large pine trees, but the perennial felling, so that the forest has been cut down, only one by one stump remained, the stump was dug up by the roots, cut off the roots and branches, and it became a large wooden stake weighing 100 catties, there were hundreds of them.
It's a very useful resource, and it's easy to obtain, as long as you put a rope around the stake and everyone works together to uproot it.
More than 200 soldiers were waiting on the top of the north hill, when there was a sound from the bottom of the mountain, 'Boom! Boom! At the sound of drums, Li Yanqing shouted: "The crossbowmen are in place, and the rolling wood is ready!" ”
There are still more than 60 rolling logs on the top of the mountain, and if more than 100 root stumps are delivered in time, it will be enough.
More than 200 people were divided into two teams, Yue Fei led a hundred spearmen to stand behind the dirt bags, while Wang Gui led a hundred crossbowmen and other throwing soldiers to stand on the side and prepare.
At this moment, a dense array of arrows suddenly shot at the bottom of the mountain, more than a dozen soldiers couldn't dodge, and were shot by arrows, but the arrows did not penetrate their double leather armor, and those who were hit by the arrows were all in danger, only two soldiers were shot by arrows in the face, screaming and falling, Li Yanqing urgently ordered the soldiers to dodge, and the two wounded soldiers were quickly carried into the courtyard.
However, the number of bandits under the mountain is not large, and no three-stage shooting is used, when a dense burst of arrows is fired, there is a short gap in time, this is the enemy archers are drawing arrows on the string, Wang Gui shouted: "Crossbow arrows shoot archers!" ”
The crossbowmen turned over and lay on the mud bags, raised their crossbows and shot at the enemy archers under the mountain, the crossbow arrows were much more powerful than the foot bows, and in an instant, more than 20 archers fell to the ground with arrows, and then a dense burst of arrows shot towards the mountain, and the bows and crossbows of both sides shot alternately, forming an arrow net.
At the same time as the bow and crossbow battle broke out, hundreds of bandits began to attack the mountain, this is the second large-scale attack after Lu Fang learned a lesson, the hundred pioneers who rushed to the front held spears in their hands, each carrying a corpse, although the taste of carrying a corpse was not pleasant, but compared to being stoned to death by a rolling log without any cover, or being killed by random arrows, having a meat shield on their bodies still made them much more assured.
The army in the back went up the hill as close to the dirt slope as possible, elongating the ranks and no longer clustering on the hillside.
"Smash it down with a rolling log!"
In the gap of the enemy's arrows, dozens of soldiers have picked up the big wood and smashed it down the mountain, the bandits on the mountain road shouted one after another, lying on the ground, the giant tree crackled and smashed on the corpse on their backs, the effect was really good, more than 20 giant trees only smashed a few people, the bandits continued to get up and carry the corpse and run upward.
"Log rolling, stop!"
Li Yanqing also found that there were not many casualties, and the enemy army did not have many casualties, so he immediately stopped the rolling log, and after a little thought, he suddenly understood that the enemy must have carried the corpse up the mountain.
"Lao Li, what should I do?" Wang Gui asked nervously.
Li Yanqing sneered, "Don't worry, when they go up the mountain in the second half, hit them from the front with a rolling log, I want to see how they resist?" ”
This time, Li Yanqing only carried a wind-chasing bow and a straight knife when he went north, and did not carry other large weapons, and he also brought more than a dozen flying stones and three daggers, but now Li Yanqing also felt that he needed some weapons.
"Agui, can you find me some daggers!"
Wang Gui suddenly remembered the scene of the attack on Xixia, and he trembled with excitement, "I'll go now!" He turned and ran, and in a short time he was carrying dozens of daggers, and the two soldiers behind him were also carrying dozens of daggers.
Each soldier is equipped with a short dagger, and this small weapon will only be used when the two of them are entangled together, otherwise most of the time it is just a kind of cutlery, but it is different for Li Yanqing, his flying knife magic skill will save a large number of village soldiers from the ghost gate.
This kind of skirmish did not actually need Li Yanqing's command, Wang Gui and Yue Fei were enough to command the soldiers to fight, Li Yanqing was only responsible for coordinating and looking for possible loopholes in the defense, and at the same time accurately throwing the backup soldiers into various weak links.
Li Yanqing stood at the very edge of the side, with a four-foot-high mud bag wall in front of him and a large stone on the side, from his point of view, he could observe the overall battle, and of course, when the enemy troops rushed up the slope, Li Yanqing was also right behind them.
At this time, a hundred mountain bandits had already rushed through the bend of the zigzag mountain road, and began to face the defending soldiers above, a distance of about thirty paces, and in front of them were a hundred spearmen, dense spears poking out from above the three-foot-high mud bag wall, like a bush of vigorous thatch, and above their heads, seven or eight feet high, were a hundred crossbowmen and dozens of soldiers ready to throw rolling logs.
However, the crossbowmen's target was not them, but the archers at the foot of the mountain, and it was not the sharp crossbows that really scared them, but the thick and heavy logs above their heads.
There were still more than forty logs left on the top of the mountain, and at this time, more than a dozen wooden piers made of tree stumps were also delivered, these wooden piers were very large, like large wooden barrels in the cellar of a tavern, and they were all handed over to Yue Fei, who would use them to attack the enemy from the front, and at this time, the attack on the bandits had stopped, waiting for them to concentrate.
Although they only took thirty steps to the top of the mountain, the attacking bandits walked with great difficulty, mainly because the ground was too slippery, and one step was a stumble, and they had to use their hands and feet at the same time, carrying the corpses on their backs and slowly climbing up.
Yue Fei and a group of township soldiers spearmen looked coldly at the bandits who were struggling to climb below, their eyes were like a group of cats coldly looking at the large group of rats that were coming to send them to death, I believe that many people regretted a little that they shouldn't have made the ground so slippery, and the bounty offered by Li Yushi would not have been with them.
At this time, more than 100 bandits had already climbed halfway, Yue Fei was a little unbearable, he looked at Li Yanqing, and just saw Li Yanqing nodding to himself.
The blood in Yue Fei's heart was ignited all of a sudden, and he turned around and shouted, "Move ten wooden piers!" ”
The wooden piers were very heavy, two or three soldiers could only move one, the soldiers quickly put the wooden piers on the mud bag wall, with Yue Fei's order, ten heavy wooden piers rolled and smashed towards the enemy soldiers on the ramp, many soldiers screamed in fright, discarded the corpses and rolled down the hillside desperately, but the wooden piers still smashed mercilessly, and the hillside suddenly wailed.
At this time, the rolling log above the head also fell mercilessly, and the soldiers who had no corpses to block were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, with heavy casualties, and only a dozen of the hundred soldiers survived, stumbling down the mountain, and the hundreds of soldiers who were following them below were also frightened and turned around and fled, and the mountain road was in chaos.
The villagers seized this opportunity and smashed down more than 30 pieces of rolling logs, together with five or six heavy wooden piers, and the dense crowd on the mountain road was smashed one by one, and many people jumped down the mountain road and rolled towards the foot of the mountain.
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