Lord of the House

Tong Erdan didn't realize the seriousness of the problem. Although Tian Chang hesitated, thinking that the Huaidong Army would not aimlessly, but he couldn't see where the doubts were.

In their opinion, the Huaidong Army set up suspension ropes to cross the river at night, just using the usual hemp ropes. On the top, it is indeed possible to rush a group of people over here without taking precautions, but it is limited to this.

Although the Huaidong Army would deploy a large number of bed crossbows and scorpion scorpions to block the rivers upstream and downstream of the suspension cables and prevent naval warships from destroying the suspension cables, the functions of bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows are not unlimited.

First of all, the accuracy of the bed crossbow and the scorpion crossbow is actually very low. Only when shooting dense enemy formations or large-scale targets such as city walls can they play their best role. If a person was really asked to stand there, they would shoot with a bed crossbow at a distance of 300 paces, and they would only hit one or two out of ten; if they were thrown with a scorpion crossbow, they might not be able to hit one out of ten stone bullets.

Warships are made of thick wood to build sides and awnings, which have a considerable protective effect on bed crossbows and ordinary scorpion crossbows.

Although Huaidong heavy catapults can cause structural damage to warships, heavy catapults are generally used for fixed purposes such as smashing city walls. If they are used to strike fast-moving warships in rivers, the accuracy will be poor. pathetic point.

The Huaidong military used suspension cables to cross the river, and the efficiency was slow. Moreover, the suspension cables could cross the rivers, but if they wanted to use the suspension cables to cross the Han River, it was not satisfactory.

The Huaidong Army was strong in combat, but it was stronger than two, one was that the generals dared to fight, and the other was that the armor and equipment were excellent.

The scorpion crossbow and the fine iron bed crossbow each weighed five or six hundred catties or even more than a thousand catties. These weapons in Huaidong caused great setbacks to the Zhejiang, Fujian and Beiyan troops. Tian Chang and Tong Erdan thought about the Huaidong army. It is absolutely impossible to transport these heavy and sophisticated weapons to the south bank through suspension cables...

Tian Chang and Tong Erdan first led 3,000 soldiers and horses of Ma Tuhai's troops to head towards Shanmenyan along Shilongling. When they arrived at the periphery of Shanmenyan, they realized that the situation was much more serious than they had expected.

In fact, during the march, Tian Chang received three times, one more severe and one more heart-wrenching message:

First of all, a scout force of about 60 cavalry dispatched by Miaotan Lingqiangu camp in the early morning was ambushed by the Huaidong Army at the periphery of Shanmenyan, and nearly half of the troops and horses were lost. The number of soldiers was much larger than expected.

The second is that when a navy ship was dispatched from Gucheng to the scene of the incident, it was unexpected that it would be fourteen or five feet high from the river surface after the suspension cable was stretched straight. Under the seal of the Huaidong Army's bed crossbow on the north bank, the squat boat was not accurate enough, and there was no way to stop in the turbulence and directly reach it to destroy the suspension cable. Although they fired rockets indiscriminately, it didn't work. The squat boat had to retreat to Longzhong downstream, avoiding the Huaidong Army's bed crossbow on the north bank, and had to wait for the Xiangyang and the navy to send high-masted warships from the lower reaches. Come on, it will be delayed until after noon at the earliest.

Thirdly, in the early morning, the soldiers and horses of the Huaidong Army lurking on the south bank stormed the Huyatan post in the early morning. Fifteen guards were wiped out. At present, there is a Huaidong army occupying the Huyatan post. Signs of quitting...

The situation was far more serious than he imagined. Hearing that the Huaidong Army had sneaked to the south bank to occupy Huyatan, Tian Chang had chills on his back. He could almost guess what the Huaidong Army's intention was in this raid!

Shanmenyan and Huyatan are less than four miles apart, separated by gentle slopes and dense forests. The two places do not seem to be far apart, but it is definitely not because the Huaidong Army rushed over three to five hundred people and could control them at the same time!

More importantly, Shanmenyan is located at the west foot of Miaotan Ridge, Huya Beach is located at the east foot of Shilong Ridge, and the middle is the valley between the two mountains. Gu, it means that the next step of the Huaidong Army is to cut off the passage from Xiangyang to Gucheng...

Tian Chang was not able to attack Shanmenyan directly, but by the time of the day, more than 300 Huaidong troops had occupied Guanyinjian at the eastern foot of Miaotan Ridge, blocking their way to attack Huyatan or Shanmenyan.

Tian Chang envoy Ma Tuhai led his troops to attack the Guanyin tip, but if the Guanyin tip did not go down, they would not be able to hit Huya Beach and Shanmenyan behind.

Guanyinjian is a broken ridge at the east foot of Miaotan Ridge. The terrain is not connected to Miaotan Ridge. It is isolated in the **** and valley. It is only more than 20 feet high. 300 people, 3000 soldiers and horses came with Tianchang, nearly ten times the strength advantage, enough to overcome all terrain obstacles, and the Huaidong Army just entered the Guanyinjian, and did not have enough time to use the terrain to establish enough defense.

Tian Chang asked Ma Tuhai to personally lead the team to the front of Guanyinjian Mountain, and sent 600 armored soldiers with large shields to suppress the attack from the pine forest in front of the mountain. The Eastern Army was torn to pieces—Tian Chang and Tong Erdan straddled and sat on horseback, commanding the battle on a huge rock less than a mile away from the foot of Guanyin Jianshan.

The cold wind was howling, and snow particles had already drifted down from the hazy sky, but it did not affect the battle.

Tian Chang could clearly see the situation of his troops attacking Guanyinjian. Everything went smoothly at first. The arrows shot by the Huaidong Army intermittently from the forest could not break the protection of the big shield, so that the six hundred soldiers could suppress the face. Climbing the slope, constantly approaching the Huaidong Army, which was organizing defense in the forest.

But for some reason, the two-winged soldiers and horses that climbed the **** stopped halfway up the mountain. There were more than a dozen people at the front who suddenly tripped to the ground, and asked the Huaidong Army to shoot and kill several people from the forest— Trips, caltrops? Tian Chang's mind flashed these two things in an instant, and he secretly scolded the attacking generals as rubbish, failing to detect such simple obstacles, and in vain told the Huaidong Army to shoot and kill several people.

Tian Chang calmly looked at the battlefield, and could see that there was still a gap more than ten feet wide in the middle, which was not affected.

In such a situation, the generals should slow down, gather in the middle, and the regiment should shrink to prevent the Huaidong Army from counterattacking from the mountain, and send people to clear the obstacles on both sides, so that they can stabilize their positions and then attack——

Since Miaotan Ridge Qiangu Camp had dispatched scout horses early in the morning, although this scout horse was ambushed in the north of Guanyinjian and suffered nearly half of the casualties, more than a dozen people kept monitoring Miaotan Ridge and Shilong Ridge. area in between.

Tian Chang knew that the Huaidong army had only taken over the Guanyin tip half an hour earlier than them, and he was still extremely surprised to see that the Huaidong army could set up an obstacle belt four or five hundred paces wide in the forest with tripping ropes and iron bristle.

If it's just obstacles such as tripping ropes and caltrops, it's easy to clear them!

Perhaps the soldiers who were attacking were also very confused about the barrier belts on the two flanks.

Tian Chang was so angry that he was about to send someone to question Ma Tuhai what the battalion general under his command was doing, when the Huaidong Army soldiers rushed out violently from the gap reserved in the middle.

Four or five flying contradictory vehicles rushed down from the pine forest and called by the soldiers of Huaidong. From a distance, I knew that these four or five shield vehicles were much heavier than usual. At the gap, he used a shield formation formed by dozens of large shields to overturn the shield chariots of the Huaidong Army - where is this shield chariot, it is obviously a powerful iron rushing chariot!

The shield formation could not block the attack of the Huaidong Army, and the soldiers who stopped at the edge of the pine forest were hesitant and did not retreat to the center in time. kill.

Tian Chang's face was ugly. Ma Tuhai had been with him for more than ten years. Although these 3,000 soldiers were not the most capable warriors under his command, they were also better than other generals. , told him to be extremely shameless in front of Tong Erdan.

Seeing that Ma Tuhai was barely standing at the foot of the mountain, he used crossbows to block the opening of the Huaidong army directly attacking the foot of the mountain at a slightly higher position on the two wings, so that the soldiers who were scattered halfway down the mountain could retreat and form a new formation; Tian Chang beat Ma Chi. When he came to Ma Tuhai, he gave him a hard look, and scolded: "What kind of ghost battle did you fight, shame and shame..."

"This kind of iron wire is used in the mountains and trees, and there are iron caltrops inside," Ma Tuhai showed Tian Chang a piece of iron wire that had been twisted from the middle of the mountain, and complained, "The Huaidong Army Because of their cunning, they left a wide gap in the middle, and the shield cars they used, from the front shield to the frame of the car, were all made of solid iron, and the spearheads were cast on the shield like roots. Tian Shuai, you can also see that the Huaidong Army is condescending, using this stuff to dash down from the gap, and there is no way to stop it from below!"

Tian Chang gasped, and more than 300 Huaidong soldiers were guarding the south of Guanyin Jianshan. It seemed that the **** in the south of the mountain was relatively gentle, but in fact, these 300 Huaidong Jia soldiers deliberately used this gentle **** to counteract the enemy. The attacking soldiers and horses made repeated dashes... But the iron wire handed by Ma Tuhai shocked Tian Chang even more.

There was Zozijia in the world, and iron wire was not a rare thing, but in Tian Chang’s impression, the longest iron wire made by craftsmen to make Zozijia was no more than one or two feet, and the iron wire foot that Ma Tuhai handed him It's six feet long...

The Huaidong Army was able to transport heavy shield vehicles made of fine iron to the south bank, and the iron wire used by the Huaidong Army to wrap the trees was much longer than expected—according to the description of the scattered soldiers, about three or four hundred The forests of Bukuan are all wrapped with a whole piece of iron wire, and it is no wonder that the Huaidong Army can use iron wire to wrap a tree as a stump in such a short period of time to create an obstacle to bring it.

"How do you fight this mountain?" Ma Tuhai smacked his lips and complained bitterly, "I can't tell the brothers to give up their lives!"

Ma Tuhai was still thinking about how to get the Guanyinjian down, but Tian Chang was thinking about something else: if the suspension cables erected by the Huaidong Army between the two river valleys were such iron wires, the situation would be more deadly than expected. Much more! This wanted to make Tian Chang's forehead seep a layer of sweat under the sparse snowflakes!

Tian Chang stood stunned for a moment, before he thought of folding the iron wire in his hand into four or five folds, twisting it into a rope shape, throwing it on the ground, and drawing a knife to cut it.

Tian Chang's saber is naturally a rare sharp blade. If you don't hesitate to use a knife, you can cut off an iron bar as thick as a finger, but this wire that is broken into several pieces will only be cut off after five or six consecutive cuts...

"General Tian is saying that the hanging rope erected by the Huaidong Army might be this thing?" Tong Erdan is not stupid after all, and Tian Chang's unusual behavior also reminded him of the key point. The rope made of iron wire has to be chopped even when it is placed on the ground to take a sharp blade. Five or six times, if it hangs in the air, there is no place to borrow force when slashing. If you want to cut it, it will be ten times or a hundred times more difficult!

If the suspension cables erected by the Huaidong Army could not be burned or cut off, wouldn't the Huaidong Army continue to send troops and horses to the south bank?

Tong Erdan was also stunned when he thought of the powerful and deadly places.

"Leave two battalions of troops and horses for you, you will form a formation at the foot of the mountain and keep an eye on the enemy of Guanyin Jian, but you must also beware of another Huaidong army coming from Shanmenyan..." Tian Chang stared at Ma Tuhai. At Guanyinjian, he and Tong Erdan led the other three battalions to reorganize their troops and horses, circled into Guanyinjian, penetrated inward, cut between Guanyinjian and Huya Beach, and climbed to the Moshi cliff less than two miles away from Hanshui. Looking to the north, where is the suspension cable between Longclaw Rock and Shanmen Rock, it is obviously a suspension bridge with only half of the pallets!

The Huaidong Army is going to build a suspension bridge directly between the two river valleys!

Tian Changsuo Station is located three miles away from Shanmenyan. You can see the suspension cables erected between Shanmenyan and Longzuoyan, and you can also see that there are four or five hundred Huaidong Army troops guarding the south of Shanmenyan— - I didn't expect that before the Huaidong Army actually built the suspension bridge, they had already crossed thousands of people through the suspension cable!

Since the Huaidong Army can also transport the heavy cast iron shield car to the south bank, it must not be short of bed crossbows, scorpion crossbows and other combat equipment. In comparison, Tian Chang led his troops to rush here, but the advantage of troops was on the contrary. Call the Huaidong Army's sophisticated war weapons to completely suppress it!

At this time, Wu Ya and Lin also received Ye Ji Luorong's order to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to come from Qiangu Army Valley.

Wu Ya and Lin's troops stopped at the south of Guanyinjian, and surrounded by cavalry, he came to Mo Shiya to meet Tian Chang, and said, "Following the order of Prince Mu, and Lin came to call for General Hou Tian's dispatch, yes Don't let He Lin lay down the Guanyinjian first..." Between the words, the soldiers and horses who looked down on Tian Chang's direct line actually called the three hundred Huaidong Army of Guanyinjian to entangle.

"Don't take care of the enemies of Guanyin and General Lin, you should immediately come in and attack Shanmenyan. If you can't take down Shanmenyan, both you and I will be covered in disaster!" When Tian Chang ordered, his hands and feet trembled.

The warships of Xiangyang and the navy had to come from the lower reaches, and they would delay the afternoon as soon as possible. Even if the warships could arrive in time, they would immediately cut off the hanging iron cables on the water surface. This end of the Huaidong Army Hanging Bridge will block the Huaidong Army on the north bank and will not be able to pass!

Wu Yan is an aristocrat of Yandong, Tong Erdanzhi and Lin may not be convinced by Tian Chang's command~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Not to mention the threat of Guanyinjian's enemy at the side and behind, and directly ask him to use all his strength to attack Shanmenyan?

Tong Erdan explained the seriousness of the problem to He Linlue and said: "It is about the survival of the troops and horses on the south bank. You need to implement the order of General Tian immediately..."

At this moment, a horse-drawn carriage came from the south, and when it was near, Hu Zongguo stumbled over from the carriage.

"I heard the news of the Huaidong Army attacking Huyatan, and Prince Mu was very worried. The Huaidong Army's ambitions are not small," Hu Zongguo climbed up the Moshi Cliff, panting to explain the reason why he came over, his eyes were not as good as Tian Chang's They, with blurred vision from afar, asked Tian Chang, "Is the Huaidong Army building a bridge?"

Tian Chang nodded, his hands and feet were cold. In his field of vision, the Huaidong Army on the north bank had already laid the trestle bridge to Shanmenyan, and on the Longzhao Rock on the north bank, a group of Huaidong soldiers were ready to cross the river by crossing the bridge. ...

On the three-hundred-step-wide suspension bridge, you can see with the naked eye that there are dozens of soldiers of the Huaidong Army laying pallets on the bridge. The army can project thousands of soldiers to the south bank in an hour!

"I don't have time to fight Shanmenyan." Hu Zongguo's despair in his heart was no weaker than Tian Chang's. At this time, he completely understood why the governor did not have the heart to flee north in Huangpi. The governor was completely desperate in Huangpi! No matter how desperate he was, he could not give up. Hu Zongguo, even though his hands and feet were weak, continued to advise Tian Chang, "Quickly withdraw all troops and horses, and withdraw to the south of Guanyinjian; if the warships coming downstream can destroy the suspension bridge, then It's the best; if the suspension bridge can't be destroyed, we can only do everything possible and try everything possible to suppress the Huaidong Army crossing the river to the north of Guanyinjian, and we can't let them pour out of this gap..." I The QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter