Chapter 228 The beacon rises
In the tent of the central army of Bart's military camp, Bart, who was originally sitting on a rattan chair with his eyes closed slightly to rest, his eyelids kept beating and he felt panicked inside.
"Oh, I'm old and useless."
Bart rubbed his eyes, slowly stood up from the rattan chair, walked to the center of the tent, and looked at the simple sand table and was fascinated.
Qingshui River meanders through, and to the east of the river is the area occupied and controlled by the Zhoukuan Ulan Army, and on the west side of the river is the place where its own troops are stationed.
Although he has 100,000 soldiers in his hand, he has to defend the entire Tianyang City.
To the south of Tianyang City is the eastern part of the towering Two Realms Mountain. There are more than 10,000 mixed army of infantry and cavalry in Dongfang Yangda, which is used as a reserve force.
Of course, there is a reason for the Dongfang Yangda army to be stationed there.
There is a concave area, backed by the mountains, and you can't escape it no matter what.
Bart was more or less wary about this army that took the initiative to open the city gate and surrendered to his own army twenty years ago.
To the north of Tianyang City is a mountainous forest and a large number of trees. From the north of Nituo Mountain, you can walk north of the mountain area and then walk north for dozens of miles. It is Yizhou City controlled by the Ulan Kingdom. At the only pass on the top of the mountain, you have also arranged a garrison force of ten thousand people.
Although there are not many people, it is no problem to withstand the attacks of tens of thousands of troops with the steep mountain roads and solid city walls. The most important thing is that no siege equipment can be used there, and it can only be forced to attack by infantry.
Guojiaao, in the north of the city, is stationed in his most elite tiger camp. This is mainly to prevent Tianyang City from providing quick support. The number of people in this army is about 5,000.
There are three or four thousand city defense camps left by Tianyang City, but most of them are the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.
The troops, known as more than 100,000 people, actually include the Dayue tribe, which has been operating frequently in the northwest direction of Tianyang City. These forces can only be under his jurisdiction in theory.
In order to prevent Dayue City from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, I had no choice but to release more than 10,000 troops outside Dayue City.
In other words, I stationed my troops on the west side of Qingshui River, with less than 60,000 troops.
"Hulun!"
Bart turned and shouted.
"The last one will be there."
A middle-aged man with a back and a waist quickly stepped outside the tent and got into the tent.
"Look at it again, what's wrong with this layout? I always feel something is wrong?"
Bart has always been quite confident in his font-shaped platoon.
The so-called platoon of soldiers in the shape of a font means that the tip of the Qingshui River is about 20,000 people, and they are closely guarding the bridgehead and the two wings of the Qingshui River to prevent the opponent's strong attack. On the back of both sides, the enemy is stationed with about 15,000 teams. These two teams are mainly responsible for defending the river bank of more than ten miles up and down the west bank of the Qingshui River. They can be used as support when necessary. When the front cannot be resisted, they can be filled in time.
"General, Shino-no's husband, I really can't see any problem with this platoon of troops, but how do I feel that this convex shape in the center is naturally the best formation, but... if it's defense... Once an enemy attacks from the rear, I'm afraid..."
Hulun said slowly.
"I'm worried about it. We defended head-only. Where did the enemy troops from behind attack us?"
Bart seemed unhappy and stroked his beard.
"Dongdongdongdong..."
A huge sound of gongs and drums came from the east.
"Come here, go check it out quickly, why do you beat the drum?"
Bart walked out of the tent quickly while giving orders. He was very familiar with the sound of drums!
The defensive position was attacked, and the message from the drum sound should be a large-scale attack.
What he couldn't understand was that Zhou Kuan's Ulanguo army had stopped for half a month and had not attacked, so why did it suddenly start again?
"Report, General, something is not good!"
A soldier stumbled and ran over, jumped off his horse quickly, and knelt on one knee at the entrance of the camp to report.
"Don't panic! Report it quickly!"
Even though Bart knew he was attacked, he must be stable as the main general, otherwise the people below him would be even more impatient.
"The enemy suddenly began to attack wildly. I... my defenders can't resist it. Please send troops to support me!"
"I have tens of thousands of soldiers and have strong walls as shields, so why can't I resist it?"
"Return to the general, the enemy used some new attack weapons this time, and it has never appeared before..."
The soldier reported tremblingly.
"Hulun, mobilize five thousand men and follow me!"
Bart turned around and ordered, and got out of the camp, and under the protection of several personal soldiers, he rushed to the west side of Qingshuihe Bridge.
Standing on the top of the slope and looking down, on the Qingshui River bridge several meters wide, there were about a dozen round iron rods that were several meters tall, slowly rolling towards the west side under the joint efforts of many Ulan soldiers. It turned out that the opponent's horse stakes, caltrops, and abandoned logs and stones of various sizes were crushed into powder in an instant under the crushing of these giants.
"Why don't you shoot arrows?"
Bart turned around and asked the guard beside him with a blue face.
"General, the bow and arrow are almost useless to them. As soon as we shoot the arrow, they hide behind the big bump, and once they stop, they continue to push forward."
The general replied with a frustrated face.
Sure enough, as soon as the arrow rain was shot out, the soldiers who pushed the iron roll were all hiding behind the iron roll and never coming out.
"Come, stop the person from rushing up!"
Bart issued another order.
Soon, a team of hundreds of people, holding spears, shouted and charged without any protection.
Bart's intention was obvious, killing the soldiers who pushed the big iron roll.
Before the hundreds of people approached the bridge, from the east side of the bridge, dozens of fully armed locomotives, each of which was pulled by at least four war horses, came to the rear of these big iron rolling soldiers, and hundreds of soldiers holding hard bows jumped out of it, aimed at the charge of Daxi soldiers, and flew in a row.
Poor these hundreds of people have become hedgehogs before they can rush over.
The big iron roll, with a dull loud noise, was like a bulldozer, clearing the obstacles on the west side of the bridge, and Bart had no choice but to do anything about it.
Immediately afterwards, the fully armed locomotives rushed over the bridge and up the slope with the sound of the tower again. Behind these locomotives were countless Ulan soldiers holding copper shields, shouting, blackened, crossing the obstacles on the slope and starting a crazy attack.
Bart was not particularly worried about this kind of positional attack war, he was prepared for it.
Although he was prepared, the other party was also prepared. Countless infantrymen rushed across the bridge and attacked the positions on the slope one after another.
Countless stones fell from the slopes and covered the sky.
Countless rains of arrows poured down like storms.
On the steep hillside, flesh and blood were flying everywhere, corpses were everywhere, shouting, charging, roar, and moaning were heard one after another!
Although the Ulan National Army had a fierce offensive, it could not take any advantage in the face of Bart, who had a unique defensive advantage. Instead, countless dead and injured. Countless corpses were spread across the hillside, and a few corpses rolled into the surging rivers and were washed away with the waves. Countless blood gathered into small streams, constantly flowing into the river, dyeing the riverside light red.
But even so, the Ulan National Army's offensive showed no signs of stopping or weakening, and seemed determined to attack.
Bart stood on the slope with a machete in his hand, and killed the Ulan soldiers who rushed up!
Chapter completed!