In the humid and sultry night, the sound of killing was everywhere, shaking the sky, and the torches flickered and reflected the red sky.

Facing the rain of arrows shot down by the crossbow platform of the Han army's arrow tower, the boulders rolling down the hillside overhead, the antlers and thorns with teeth and claws, and the deep pit of traps under their feet, the Kushan army paid a huge price in casualties, killing more than 5,000 people from midnight to dawn.

Guniuling, which is only five miles in radius, has been covered with corpses, the various fortifications of the Han army have been filled with corpses, and the rolling stones and trees have also been smashed, fortunately, there are nearly 100,000 bows and arrows, thanks to Wang Shouren's material dispatch. With these bows and arrows, you can still hold on for some hours according to the danger, so as not to start a bloody hand-to-hand combat too early.

People are iron and steel, and after fighting for most of the night, the Kushan army is already hungry, and the people are sleepy and tired.

"Stay in place, cook early!"

Wu Yunzhao, who was covered in blood and soot, stuck his spear on the ground, and ordered to bury the pot on the spot to make food, and then continue to attack when he was full of food and drink, and swore to break through the defense line of Guniuling.

Zhou Yu's army, which was five miles away, was closely monitoring the changes in the situation on the battlefield, and the scouts in the night were like marquees reporting the news to Zhou Yu from all directions one after another.

"Report ...... The two generals, Pei Xingyan and Suo Dila, fought a fierce battle with Jiang Song's defenders at Chiwei Beach, suffering huge casualties, and had lost 4,000 men so far, but most of the Han army's defensive positions had been destroyed. At present, our army is burying the pot and cooking, ready to continue the offensive after eating and drinking! ”

"Report ...... The two generals Wu Yunzhao and Muhandas were strongly sniped by He Yuanqing at Guniuling, and the Han army defended it with danger, and the number of casualties of our army has exceeded 5,000. But the Han army's fortifications were also almost completely destroyed. Our army is cooking on the spot, ready to take a short rest before continuing the assault! ”

A bearded face. Zhou Dewei, who had thick eyebrows, filled the only remaining jerky in his hand into his stomach with three times and five divided by two, and pulled out a knife in his hand: "Gong Jin." Let's divide our troops into two ways to support Guniuling and Chiwei Beach, right? It seems that the Han army is insufficient, as long as it breaks through these two lines of defense, it can reach the city of Huai'an, take Huai'an, and then it can drive straight into the battle line to Cangwu, Gaoliang and other places! ”

Zhou Yu, who was looking at the map, hung a sword at his waist, his eyebrows were heroic, and he was full of ambition in his gestures, and listened to Zhou Dewei's words. Unhurriedly said: "Don't worry, Wu Qi's team hasn't been dispatched yet, we have to keep our back hands, and it's not too late to invest all our troops after Wu Qi attacks!" ”

After a pause, Zhou Yu said again: "Xu Huang's army has been besieged by Pei Yuanqing and the Taiping army, so we don't have to worry about reinforcements from the south." However, the Huo Qubing army in Yulin in the north had to be guarded against. ”

"Isn't General Wang Ben's forward troops approaching Yulin? I don't have to worry about Huo Quji's legion! Zhou Dewei pressed the saber in his hand and said disapprovingly.

Zhou Yu stared at the map and muttered: "Yulin is located in the Xunyu Plain, with a radius of 100 miles and a flat river, and the cavalry can play a huge advantage. General Wang Ben's choice of light cavalry to attack Yulin was a correct decision. But the cavalry has strong field capabilities, but they can't attack the city, and Huo Qubing may also divide his troops to rescue Wu Qi, so he has to guard against it! ”

"Look here!" Zhou Yu said that his fingers fell on a place called Sangmagou. "This terrain borders the Yu River in the east and the Xunyu Plain in the west, as long as this road is guarded. Huo Quji's reinforcements will be blocked in the Xunyu Plain. At that time, Huo Quji's army could only face the charge of the Kushan cavalry on this plain. As long as Huo Qujian dares to go out of the city, it will inevitably be a fiasco! ”

"Gong Jin means to let me guard Sangmagou?" Zhou Dewei put the knife into the sheath. It seems to have come to an understanding.

Zhou Yu bowed: "Our army wants to attack Huai'an, and we can't draw too many troops, so I can only allocate 5,000 people to my brother, can you have the confidence to hold Sangmagou and not let Huo Quji's reinforcements enter Huai'an to reinforce Wu Qi?" ”

"Gong Jin can clean up Wu Qi with confidence, as long as my cousin has a breath, he will never let Huo Quji's soldiers and horses cross the Sangma Ditch!"

Zhou Dewei swore that he had gone to Haikou, picked up a big knife and turned on his horse, led 5,000 soldiers and horses to march westward, and went straight to Sangmagou in the northwest of Huai'an and the border with Yulin to garrison and set up an ambush.

After sending Zhou Dewei to intercept the reinforcements from Yulin, Zhou Yu sent two Guishan generals to lead 5,000 Guishan soldiers and horses to Guniuling and Chiweitan to reinforce Wu Yunzhao and Pei Xingyan, striving to break through the Han army's defenses in the fortresses along the way and join Huai'an as soon as possible.

In addition, Zhou Yu also had his own selfishness, and threw the Guishan Army, the Taiping Army, and the Linyi Army into the front line as much as possible, and used their blood to break the way, which could reduce the casualties of the Sun Army. After all, the remaining more than 40,000 Sun troops are the foundation of Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, although Sun Quan does not understand himself, Zhou Yu knows that he has been thinking about the Sun family.

Zhou Yu walked out of the handsome tent, looked at the rising sun in the east, the glow of the sun indicated that there would be a great victory, and muttered to himself: "Bo Fu, although you are optimistic about the spirit of the sky, even if I Zhou Yu try my last strength, I will make the Sun family a hegemon!" ”

An hour later, the Kushan general Hurd led 5,000 Guishan troops to Guniuling, met Wu Yunzhao and Muhandas with fists, sounded the horn again, and prepared to launch another onslaught against the Han army on the opposite side.

Although the Han army occupied a favorable position, condescending, and relied on antlers and thorns, trapped in deep pits on horses, and killed and wounded more than 5,000 enemy troops with rolling stones and woods, but under the counterattack of the allied crossbow arrows, more than 500 people were killed on their own side, and more than 500 people were wounded, and they withdrew to Huai'an County in the rear and received treatment from medical craftsmen.

At present, the defenders under He Yuanqing are less than 9,000, and when the enemy army is burying the pot to cook, He Yuanqing also ordered to make a fire to cook, and then fight with the enemy after eating and drinking.

But after the fortifications were destroyed by the enemy's desperate casualties, the defensive advantage was gone, and what was bound to be brutal hand-to-hand combat was bound to follow, and the casualty rate was bound to skyrocket. Seeing that reinforcements from the Guishan Army had arrived, He Yuanqing's brows furrowed into pimples.

When I looked up and saw the towering Guniu Ridge main peak "Niujiao Peak" in the west, I immediately thought about it, and laughed loudly: "Sons and daughters follow me to climb Niujiao Peak, condescendingly, this will definitely greatly reduce casualties and make the thieves suffer!" ”

"Don't ......" Dai Zong, who was in charge of liaison, put down the pottery bowl in his hand to drink water and put forward a different opinion, "If the thief army does not attack Niujiao Peak, and directly arrives at Huai'an City through Guniuling to attack, I am afraid that the city will not be able to hold it!" ”

He Yuanqing laughed: "Dai Qianhu, in terms of spying intelligence and passing on news, I am not as good as you, but the focus of Jinyiwei and the generals is fundamentally incompatible!" If the thief army does not attack me, but directly crosses the Ox Horn Peak, then I can't ask for it, I have to thank his ancestors for eight lifetimes! First, I can attack General Wu in front and back, so that they can't take care of each other, and second, I can cut off his food supply, the way of using troops is endless, it's not as simple as you think, learn more! ”

He Yuanqing made up his mind and immediately sent an order: "The whole army climbs the Niujiao Peak, shoots bows and arrows, and defends against danger!" ”

After receiving He Yuanqing's order, the nine thousand Han troops immediately packed up their weapons and armor, climbed Niujiao Peak with dry food on their backs, and occupied a dangerous terrain before the Kushan coalition army launched a fierce attack. Dai Zong had no right to stop He Yuanqing, so he could only leave and report the information from here to Wu Qi.

As soon as the Han army climbed the Niujiao Peak, the Kushan army surged and slaughtered at the bottom of the hillside.

Looking up, the altitude of Niujiao Peak is at least more than 300 zhang, the strange peak is steep, the trees do not grow, the whole mountain peak is a stone tooth of white flowers, the Han army hides behind the rock, and releases arrows downward, the Guishan army launched a wave of tentative attack, just touched the foot of the mountain on the corpse of more than 200 people, and the Han army was unscathed.

"Haha...... Turtle sons, come on, there's a kind of attack for me! He Yuanqing stood on a boulder, holding a sledgehammer and looking down at the ant-like Guishan Army under his feet, and became surprised by his randomness.

The coalition army took more than 200 lives, but not even a single hair of the Han army was injured, Wu Yunzhao did not dare to attack, and immediately sent someone to ask Zhou Yu who was five miles away.

After Zhou Yu got the report, he brought five hundred personal soldiers, and rushed to the foot of Guniuling without a stick of incense, stared at it and laughed: "This He Yuanqing is looking for death by himself, surround Niujiao Peak, if he doesn't drink water for a day, the army's heart will be dissipated, and if he doesn't drink water for two days, if he doesn't need us to fight, the Han army will die of thirst!" ”

After receiving Zhou Yu's order, the 20,000 Guishan army immediately set up fortifications around Niujiao Peak, dug trenches, erected antlers, built arrow towers, and made an encirclement to trap He Yuanqing's team firmly under Niujiao Peak.

And Zhou Yu also led his troops to move to Guniuling, and set up a back-to-back position with 20,000 horses led by Wu Yunzhao and Muhandas, blocking Wu Qi's reinforcements, and preparing to completely annihilate the 9,000 Han troops trapped on Niujiao Peak.

Zhou Yu found a piece of high ground and set up a tent, commanded the overall situation, and ordered: "As long as He Yuanqing is trapped, Wu Qi will definitely come to the rescue with all his might, and our army is just fighting a decisive battle with Wu Qi's main force in this wilderness." As long as Wu Qi's main force can be blocked for about three days, He Yuanqing's troops who have been cut off from water will inevitably collapse, lose their fighting spirit, and lose their physical strength. Annihilated He Yuanqing's nearly 10,000 horses, Wu Qi was like a broken arm, and our army was able to defeat Wu Qi by virtue of its superiority in strength! ”

Dai Zong reported the news of He Yuanqing's transfer to Niujiao Peak to Wu Qi as quickly as possible, and Wu Qi couldn't help but sigh: "He Yuanqing, He Yuanqing, I have long told him to strictly implement my plan, Guniuling will retreat to Qingshi Slope if he can't hold it, this is our second line of defense, how can he be clever and climb the Niujiao Peak, which has no grass, this is simply self-defeating?" ”

(PS: Finally, two points of view are corrected, one is that the south is full of mountains, forests and hills, and the cavalry cannot fight.) This view is wrong, it is true that there are many waters, swamps, and hills in the south, but that is the overall terrain, and there are also plains with a small area in some areas, which do not look big on the map, but look at the mountains and run dead horses, not to mention cavalry charges, and they may not be able to run out of the plains for half a day.

Another point of view is that as long as soldiers are mentioned, it is believed that the soldiers under Liu Wei are from Eastern Wu and are very proficient in water. Please note that the territory controlled by Liu Wei has covered half of China, and the troops come from various regions, how can the more than one million troops be Eastern Wu soldiers?

There are also people who think that it is wrong to mention that southerners are proficient in water, and those who are really proficient in water are concentrated in the Yangtze River basin, near the major Hubo. Other places are slightly water-oriented at best, and they are 108,000 miles away from being proficient in water, let alone compete with veterans who have been fighting horses on rivers for half their lives. )