Chapter 65: The Challenge of Leaving the Camp
The camp is made of earth and wood and is solid on all sides, and the only weakness lies in the gate.
In the usual war, when encountering a camp, the best response is to leave a small army of soldiers and horses to besiege the gate of the village to cut off the rear supply, and the large group of soldiers and horses directly bypass the camp. Especially for the northern captives like Xianbei, just like their practice of plundering the Han border again and again, a small number of soldiers and horses surrounded the city, and most of the soldiers and horses plundered in the rear.
In such cases, camps that do not always have a lot of food and grass are usually breached due to hunger and low morale.
But when a frontal assault on a fort becomes the goal, things often get tricky...... It was difficult for people to storm the fort head-on unless they were willing to pay more casualties than the defenders.
No sensible general would be willing to pay such casualties, unless the camp is critical.
If you are a Han Chinese general, you have many options when you have to uproot the camp, such as bombarding it with stone cannons. The fortified camp could not withstand the slamming of flying stones; But Xianbei people, Kebineng didn't have such means, although he wanted to have them.
Kebineng could only choose to divide most of his troops and horses into multiple teams and many times, and constantly attacked the camp. Attract the attention of the defenders with cavalry shooting, and forcibly destroy the gate of the fortress by carrying and hitting wood by foot soldiers, so as to get the opportunity to enter the camp.
However, the topography of the valley limited the direction in which Kebineng could attack, and the greatest casualties occurred under the attack of the camp before destroying the wooden fences on both sides.
Dian Wei's lieutenant battalion as the north of Yanbei, there is a Yan Zhao warrior, the past post is only 3,000, the old soldiers are constantly assigned to the ministries, and constantly expand new soldiers, has always been the mainstay of the Yanbei general's department. Every ordinary soldier in the battalion who is placed in the other captain's department can become a junior officer who leads the new soldier. They possess high morale and sophisticated skills, and are the weapons of murder that roam the hidden land.
After a short engagement, the Xianbei people rushed to the camp more than a hundred steps before they were pressed back by arrows...... Thousands of bows and crossbows were fired alternately, and only two thousand-strong troops did not dare to rush to the front, let alone smash the gate of the camp with heavy bumping wood.
In fact, when they withdrew from the range of the Han army, the two thousand generals found that although the arrows of the Han army were dense, they only brought them dozens of casualties.
At first, both sides were just tentative.
The most elite warriors under Yanbei's command were also an incomparable gold-devouring beast, but with a single salvo, arrows worth 8,000 yuan were spilled out.
After a brief trial, Kobi was able to try to get more soldiers and horses into the valley in preparation for a forcible capture of the camp. There was no movement on the mountain roads on both sides, and Kebineng did not go to find out whether there were any preparations for ambushes, so he ordered the tribal leader Yuyan to lead his troops into the valley and send a large army to attack the camp.
Although Kobi did not let his own tribe attack the camp, it was the safest means of doing so, and he did not want to eradicate dissidents. Yuyan's subordinates are not elite, most of them are slave soldiers, and most of his headquarters are elite Xianbei warriors...... The large army responded outside the valley to ensure that it would have the strongest combat power left in the event of an attack by ambushes on both sides of the mountain road.
Even if there is an ambush on the mountain, it cannot be used as a means of covering up, it can only be used to cause trouble. The current army is defeated, and the elite in the rear can stabilize the formation and military morale, so as not to lose all battles.
Yan Bei stood on the mountainside, with a cliff at his feet, and the wind pouring into the valley from here brought up the sand and dust from the north, covering his figure and blocking the view under his feet, but he still watched. He wanted to see it, but he couldn't see the faces of the people under the mountain clearly when he picked up his feet, so he could only guess the approximate location of Kebineng from afar with the rough deployment of troops and horses.
The most outstanding Xianbei Hu Shuai on the grassland is still in the black and oppressive military formation outside the valley, right?
Tens of thousands of people poured into the valley, and when they landed, the mountain road was blocked, and Yanbei had the intention to kill him for a while, so he shouted to the herald beside him: "Tell Dian Wei that the rain of arrows will start from the valley later, and if the enemy army is chaotic, you can kill for a while, don't fall in love." ”
The winding mountain road is several miles, and the messenger ran out for a long time, and Yanbei only then held a small flag and unfurled. There is a flag hand every hundred steps on the mountain road, with Yan Bei's hand shaking, the flag of the entire mountain peak is swinging, and it will be transmitted to the mountain peak in an instant, several big flags are waving in the wind, and then the opposite mountain peak is also swaying at the same time.
The two peaks were joined together, and although there were no golden drums, the bowmen and crossbowmen all burst out.
Dian Wei received the news of the herald, so he summoned the military marquis of all departments and asked Xu Huang: "The lord has an order, and the rain of arrows in the valley will be able to kill for a while, and you can't fight, Gongming, do you dare to lead the army to rush and kill?" ”
Xu Huang didn't say anything grandiose, just nodded calmly, then walked down the wall to lead the horse, picked up three hundred riders and eight hundred foot soldiers and went to the middle of the camp to standby.
The black-pressed Xianbei people attacked the camp again, and this time the enemy army was much more numerous than before, and there was no edge in sight. Yu Yan really wanted to press all his subordinates to the walled city, but due to the terrain of the valley, most of the soldiers and horses could only be accumulated to the west of the camp, and the soldiers who could really shoot at each other with the camp were only nearly a thousand, so he sent six teams of foot soldiers to rush to the camp with huge hitting wood.
At this moment, on the mountain peak that they could not see, the dark banner suddenly became short, and it was replaced by a bright red flag, and the crossbowmen on both sides of the mountain road suddenly came out together, and the rain of arrows poured down at the same time, and the rolling stones and trees roared down from the mountain.
Under the mountain road, it was the brigade of the Yuyan Department. The dense rain of arrows and rolling stones made the Xianbei people on both wings hug their heads and run away, but their soldiers and horses were too dense and the formation was too dense, and a salvo would teach a group of people to turn over on their backs, and the terrible rolling stones and trees made the Xianbei people who felt attacked on their stomachs and backs panic.
Kebi had long expected an ambush from crossbowmen on the mountain path, but not every Xianbei warrior could have guessed that they didn't know that much about the art of warfare. The chaos suddenly broke out among the sergeants of the Yuyan Division, and the Xianbei foot soldiers who were charging forward were not yet aware of it...... Thunder was rolling down behind them.
The rain of arrows and rolling stones caused a riot, almost splitting the Xianbei army that attacked the camp from the middle, and the huge noise made the Xianbei soldiers who braved the rain of arrows in front of them panic, and hurriedly turned back only to find the chaos of soldiers and the torrent rolling down the mountain road.
Yu Yan restrained the horse to avoid the rolling wood, and shouted loudly to order his subordinates not to be desolate, but the crowd was a chaos that he could stop alone.
At this moment, Dian Wei in the camp once again ordered the bow and crossbow to the west, thousands of arrows made the desolate Xianbei soldiers at a loss, the crimson Zongyi coat of arms banner was unfurled, the closed gate of the village suddenly opened, Xu Huangqing's big axe across the war horse led the elite soldiers to rush out of the camp village, directly attacking the Xianbei army several times their own!