Chapter 78 Opportunities for Offense and Defense
He Bai and his soldiers rode on the horse again, and Cheng Qixi asked, "Lord, can you give him a hard blow from Guo Zhe?"
Li Ping, Hou Cheng, and Luo Pei all looked at He Bai. He Bai smiled and said, "No hurry. Our army rushed for a whole night last night. It was seventy or eighty miles away, and we had not had a good rest yet. Moreover, this rare battle of attacks must be watched. In the future, our army may encounter a strong city, and we can also learn some experience from it."
Everyone nodded thoughtfully, rode on the horse and ate some food, recovered their strength, and looked at the place where the battle was in full swing.
Guo Daxian's tactics against the attack on Qiu and Yin Erjiawu Forts were the tactics of surrounding one fort and attacking one fort. Guo Daxian once ordered his commander to lay the two wings on the east and west periphery, and also ordered a group of his priests to attack the reinforcements in the dense forest between the two forts. In terms of layout, Guo Daxian had already been very tightly distributed, and he was indeed an old thief who had been through a long battle formation.
Let’s look at the Qiu Family Fortress, which is fighting fiercely. One side of the fortress is 100 meters wide and eight meters high. Each fort wall has three three-meter-high wooden arrow towers, and each side has only 30 people defending each side. At first, He Bai thought that thirty people were guarding the 100-meter-wide fortress wall, his troops must be tense. But after looking for a while, he found that it was not the case. One person was more than enough to guard the ten-meter-wide city wall.
According to the thieves attacking the fort on the west side, the total number of their troops was 500, divided into five batches of siege troops. Each batch of 10 people, and each ten people had a long wooden ladder, just like the long wooden ladder in later films and TV shows, it was not the style of cloud ladder made by Lu Ban in the legend.
He Bai shook his head repeatedly, what's going on? Is Guo Daxian not understanding or because of other reasons. He saw a hundred thieves divided into ten teams, with a distance of about ten meters between each team, almost covering the entire castle wall. Four of them ran up the ladder, four of them covered the shield, and two of them fought back with bows.
The thirty guards on the fort walls had a hunting bow. Although the shooting distance of the flat ground was less than a hundred meters, they could be far away on the fort walls. The thirty shooters made the hundred thieves almost unable to raise their heads, let alone move forward.
Some thieves wanted to use the gap between the guards' shooting, and three other primordial shooters stood on the wooden tower, specifically using precise archery techniques to shoot and kill the exposed thieves. More than ten minutes passed, and not only did not approach the city wall, but nearly half of them were killed or injured, and they had to escape backwards.
He Bai shook his head even though he saw that the defenders' arrows were not fast, and only shot more than a thousand arrows in more than ten minutes. The thieves did not have good firepower cover and could not attack the city wall and stairs up the city. They could only passively be beaten, or consume the guards' arrows and strength. The entire battle was slow and tasteless, and far from being fast and refreshing as the field battles were fast and refreshing.
Another team of thieves were out of the line. Perhaps the arm strength of the previous defenders was consumed, or the arrows were insufficient, so they could not continue to shoot arrows to kill the enemy. After only a hundred arrows, this team of thieves attacked the bottom of the fort, set up wooden ladders, and prepared to climb the ladders to attack the city.
Seeing this, He Bai was so energetic that he observed carefully. He saw that the archer on the wooden tower was shooting at the thief's archer, while the other guards each three fought against a wooden ladder. Two of them pushed a raised wooden ladder with wooden push rods, trying to push the wooden ladder down. The other picked up more than 20 kilograms of stones and threw them down the fort.
The thieves under the fort wall had three people holding sharp blades and shields, and five people pushed the wooden ladder to avoid being pushed down by the guards. However, the big stone thrown by the guards fell down, and although they were blocked by the wooden shield of the thief on the ladder, the thief under the ladder was smashed by the big rock. For a moment, the head was broken, his hands were broken and his bones were broken, and there was no strength to escalator, and he was immediately pushed down by the guards.
The thieves screamed and fell off the wooden ladder. Although they could not kill anyone, they also made people feel very frustrated. Before they could get up, the stones of the guards were thrown down one after another. Because the distance was too close, one stone was one stone. In addition to the archers who shot archers from a distance, more than half of the thieves in a team of ten people were killed or injured, and they had to panic and flee backwards.
The thieves from other teams were almost the same. After another wave of siege battles, He Bai almost yawned. The attack of the city was not strong, and the defense of the city was not good, which made He Bai, who had countless experiences in later generations, extremely bored. Could it be that the people at this time were attacking and defending the city like this? He Bai couldn't help but think deeply. After a long time, He Bai realized something.
The mature offensive and defensive weapons that were used by the Han Dynasty in the Warring States Period so simple were also considered to be the military ills brought about by the Eastern Han Dynasty after more than a hundred years of stability. Because the enemies of the Eastern Han Dynasty have long been nomadic peoples in the north, they are all plunderers who come and go like the wind and have no fixed castles. Therefore, to a certain extent, the country's army was also required to become a style that is good at field battles, like to fight fiercely, like to boast about bravery, and like to fight alone in front of the formation.
The nomadic people did not know how to make siege equipment, so the Eastern Han army gradually weakened about defending the city. The two armies in front of He Bai were both militia-like, no wonder they were even worse. It was not until after ten years of war between heroes that all forces learned to understand the true way of offense and defense again, and the war became even more tragic.
He Bai couldn't help laughing in silence, not wanting to be like his own half-bucket of water in his later generations, and at this time he also had the offensive and defensive skills like a military god. It seems that the vision and knowledge that far exceeds the ancients for two thousand years can indeed make him unbeatable in this era. Thinking of this, He Bai couldn't help but feel more confident in his future.
People in the world say that time travel requires golden fingers. Do you really need it? With this vision and insight far beyond the ancients, it is the best golden finger, so why do you need anything else?
He Bai ignored the shocked gaze of the generals and began to think about himself. From the time of traveling to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, although he had certain ambitions, he was not sure whether he could really accomplish great things, so he was still thinking of relying on others to conquer the world. It was not until this time that he decided to completely dispel that idea.
What is his advantage? He Bai thought: It is the vision and insight that has surpassed the ancients for two thousand years. In many things, the ancients may be strange, but they are not surprised by it. This matter was considered a big deal in the eyes of the ancients, and there was no solution. But it is nothing to me. There are always similar examples in history that can be imitated.
What is his disadvantage? He Bai's ability is not strong, and he was just an ordinary soldier in his later generations. In terms of his ingenuity and innovation in his ingenuity, his political vision of political struggle in court, his ability to recruit talents and use talents, his eloquence, emotional intelligence and personal charm in interacting with others. After thinking about it, He Bai seemed to be just a talent for being a military general, and he was an emperor who could not control the overall situation of the country.
Perhaps he was like Sun Wukong, looking very powerful, but he couldn't sit in the position of Jade Emperor. Thinking of this, He Bai couldn't help but feel a little discouraged again.
Think about Liu Bei, who was born with compelling ability, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, who were good at using people, all the strange people who were good at making brilliant plans, many court ministers who were good at conspiracy, intrigue and political struggles, and high-charming and high-profile celebrities such as Yuan Shao, who were full of followers. Can you really defeat them with your vision and knowledge?
Just as He Bai was thinking, the auxiliary soldiers of Guo Daxian's army had already consumed almost all the guards. The arrows, stones and human strength were almost exhausted. Guo Daxian finally decided to send his elite troops to do the final blow.
"Have the deputy commander of the Jingqin not rest yet? The person came and ordered the Jingqin to quickly go to the scheduled battlefield to be prepared to block the reinforcements of Yin and prevent the Qiu family from escaping. The armored infantry can cross the bridge first and prepare for the attack on the city."
A cavalry commander came towards He Bai, "Lord, the thief has changed." Li Ping hurriedly woke He Bai up.
He Bai looked at the commander's commander and the armored elite soldiers who were preparing to cross the stone bridge. He immediately woke up and shouted, "Come here, stop the commander's commander quickly, just say that our troops will act now, without the urging of Guo Qu. "It seems that the confidence from his own is still lacking. He Bai shook his head, temporarily put aside all his thoughts, and focused on the battle in front of him.
A horseman came out and ran to intercept the commander, not to get close, nor could he have any chance of doubt. He Bai began to divide the cavalry into three parts, with Li Ping, who was good at commanding the cavalry, and Hou became the left and right wings, and each commanded 300 cavalry. He Bai led 300 cavalry and Chengqi to the central army and began to rush slowly towards the stone bridge.
Looking at the more than a thousand thieves who were scattered in front of him and were completely exposed to the front of the army, the whole army was exposed with blood-devouring light. He Bai, who was riding in front, silently calculated the distance, and was about to reach two hundred steps behind the thief, and immediately raised his hands high to stop the cavalry.
Guo Daxian, who faintly felt something was wrong behind him, finally turned his head and looked at the approaching spirit cavalry from the gap of the head of the Jingqian behind him. This glance immediately surprised Guo Daxian and felt something was wrong.
How could this be a formation gathered together to cross the bridge? It was obviously a formation that was scattered and prepared to assault. What was the deputy commander of the elite cavalry doing? Do you want to commit a rebellion?
Before Guo Daxian could send a messenger to ask, the 900 cavalry had been divided into three formations and three rows. Each war horse had four or five horse bodies apart, which facilitated the cavalry in the back row to charge. The front and rear rows had their heads biting their ponytails, and the difference was only staggered.
As soon as the array was completed, He Bai immediately raised his spear high, and three formations of nine hundred cavalrymen immediately whipped the horses under his seat with force. He held a one-meter-long spear in his right hand, aimed at their respective targets, and rushed forward suddenly.
Guo Daxian suddenly widened his eyes and shouted loudly: "Damn it, damn it, that guy is really rebelling. He ordered the infantry to suspend crossing the bridge, and the entire army lined up to resist spears to prevent the cavalry from rushing to the formation. The guards immediately turned and followed me to kill the rebels."
Guo Daxian's series of orders were immediately issued, but the thieves who were chaotic across the bridge did not have the qualities of Taiyuan County soldiers. They were all stunned for a moment. What is the situation?
Chapter completed!