Hearing the word "rolling wood", the lieutenant general shuddered. Now it is not easy for the people he leads to even stand firmly, how can they stand the crushing of the rolling logs.

There was a sound of "bang-bang-bang" from the top of the mountain, which must have untied the chains of the rolling logs. The lieutenant general's legs were lucky, stood firmly on the hillside, and shouted: "Don't mess up, resist with me!" ”

Before the words fell, a rumbling sound came from the top of the mountain, and the sound quickly increased.

As soon as he looked up, he saw a huge rolling log rolled towards him with a person in his arms.

The lieutenant general is also a person who has fought for many years, but he has never seen such a scene. The rolling logs that came down the mountain were not one, but many rolled down together, just enough to cover him and his men.

These logs are arranged in a very regular manner, not in a straight line, but in a staggered manner, without affecting each other. I don't know what means the Song army used on the top of the mountain, each rolling log is straight down, and it will not interfere with the route next to it.

"Damn, this can't be crushed into a meatloaf!"

The native soldiers were first frightened by this scene, howled, turned and ran.

Someone took the lead, and the ranks of the Cochins immediately became a mess.

The adjutant general shouted: "Those who disturb the military formation, die!" ”

Before the words fell, he raised the steel knife in his hand and cut down the three soldiers who turned around and fled in one go, before the team could be stabilized again. And the one or twenty people who had already run away, before they reached the foot of the mountain, Ruan Dali ordered his soldiers to shoot them into hedgehogs with arrows.

War is the most afraid of chaos, and when it starts, it can no longer be controlled.

Seeing that Ruan Dali was helping him to play the pressure below, the deputy general let out a sigh of relief, looked at the rolling log above his head getting closer and closer, and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid, the more you want to escape at this time, the more you can't escape, people always can't run away from the rolling log." Turn around and run, and soon catch up. Now everyone stands separately, watches the rolling log come down, listens to my command, blocks the rolling log together, and then slowly descends the mountain. There is still a silver lining! ”

Ruan Dali was watching at the bottom of the mountain, and at this time going down the mountain was death, and the soldiers cheered up and looked up at the rolling logs that were getting faster and faster overhead.

"Hey-up!"

The lieutenant saw the momentum of the rolling log, plucked up the courage and raised his hands to support it.

Courage is not available to everyone, let alone just come, and only a dozen people went up to support the rolling log at the first time. The lieutenant only felt as if he had been hit hard in the chest by a sledgehammer, and the blood, with the smell of fish, suddenly gushed into his throat and flowed out of the corners of his mouth.

Fortunately, the desire to survive made the people who had just been frightened react. He stretched out his hand one after another and held the rolling log that came to him. Although seven or eight soldiers were unsteady and were knocked down the hill by a tremendous force, most of them were firmly grounded on the hillside.

The adjutant general forcibly swallowed the blood in his mouth, gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "The rolling wood is getting faster and faster, and it is not terrible to slow down." Don't let go, listen to my orders, and retreat down the mountain step by step! ”

One soldier escaped death. Naturally, only the deputy general's horse head is looking forward to it, and they promise together.

Lu Fang poked his head out from the top of the mountain. Seeing that the soldiers below shot together, they held the rolling logs, forming a stalemate on the hillside, and said in their mouths: "Sure enough, the official is right, the distance of fifty steps is too short, as long as the attacking soldiers are united." can withstand it. Next time, we will put it seventy steps from the top of the mountain and see if they still have the ability! ”

After speaking, he glared at the soldier next to him: "Remember?" ”

"Remember, remember, seventy steps!" The soldier agreed. He also stretched out his head to look at the mountain, "Commander, what now?" The cochin man held the rolling log! ”

"So what?" Lu Fang snorted coldly, picked up a fist stone from the ground, looked at it at the bottom of the mountain, and said, "Look at me beating the Jiaozhi general who took the lead!" ”

Before the words fell, with a wave of his hand, a stone flew out of the top of the mountain and hit the shoulder of the red-faced adjutant general.

The adjutant general suffered this pain, and as soon as his hand was loosened, he almost knelt on the hillside. Fortunately, there are now nearly 200 people supporting Damu, and his mistake did not affect the overall situation.

On the top of the mountain, Song Jun laughed together, and they all followed Lu Fang's example, picked up stones of different sizes from the ground, and shouted: "I'll beat a fat one!" "I'll hit that skinny one!" "I'll hit that—"

At one point, rocks fell from the top of the mountain like rain.

A soldier with him said to Lu Fang: "Commander, still use a hard crossbow, as long as you shoot down thirty or fifty people, these people will only wait to die." ”

Lu Fang didn't seem to hear it, still picking stones everywhere, and muttered in a low voice: "Mouthy, I don't know if the arrows and officials remember the number?" It can't be used unless it is absolutely necessary! ”

While muttering, he shook his head as he picked up stones to hit the soldiers on the hillside.

Yongzhou is a small border state, although there are also courtyards, Xu Ping has also carried out many transformations, but the arrows are still expensive things, which cost a lot of money. There are many arrows and bamboos on Guangnan West Road, and the price of arrows is slightly lower, about 30 wen for a branch, and 60 or 70 wen for crossbow arrows. This battle was fought in Yongzhou, there was no money allocated by the imperial court, and there was no military support, and military materials were not only expensive, but also could not be replenished in large quantities, and consumables should be used sparingly.

The Jiaozhi soldiers were exhausted from holding the rolling logs on the hillside, and from time to time they were hit by the Song military stones on the mountain, and after a while, twenty or thirty people rolled down the mountain, and those huge rolling logs could not withstand it.

A general beside Ruan Dali said: "General, it's not a way to go on like this!" There are rocky mountains on both sides of the valley, and the stones on the mountains are endless, and sooner or later our people will not be able to support it! Let's send a few hundred more men up and save them all! ”

"Nonsense, if you send someone more, you can save people? You have also been fighting with me for many years, haven't you seen that the Song army on the mountain is waiting for us to send people up? Hitting people with only stones is playing tricks on us! Obviously, as long as there are dozens of bows and crossbows, two or three hundred people on the mountain can't support it, but they don't use it, it's obviously a trap! The mountains here are so steep, if you can't find a way to break the Song army's rolling logs, it's useless to use no number of people to go up! Do you have a mind, or think about how to deal with these rolling logs! ”

The general who spoke had no choice but to sigh and turn his head away, unable to bear to look at the scene on the mountain again. As long as none of the Jiaozhi soldiers on the hillside could hold on and roll down the logs, more than 200 people would be crushed into meatloaf.

However, Ruan Dali was right, this hillside was obviously a trap set by the Song army, and no matter what, no more people could be sent up. I don't want to come up with a way, how many people will die when I go up.

You must know that these rolling logs are not placed on the hillside casually, not only to cover the entire hillside, but also to be able to stretch freely, when put down, the various sections of rolling logs can not interfere with each other and entangle, and the corpse of the Jiaozhi soldier cannot jump up to change the route, and the retraction mechanism on the mountain is very complicated.

Xu Ping explained to Shi Quanbin for a long time the principle of retracting and releasing these rolling logs, but he didn't understand it, so you can imagine how much effort it took to do so.

Leveling the hillside and building a rolling mechanism, Xu Ping spent countless efforts and a lot of manpower and material resources, how could it be possible for two or three thousand Jiaozhi soldiers to easily cross the hillside.

(There's another chapter in the evening.) (To be continued.) )