Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

Filling up the moat is a very common thing. Basically, all the moats encountered in the siege must be filled. If the siege is urgent, the most is to fill up the moat at the position of a few gates, and leave the rest of the position alone.But now that the offensive was frustrated on the first day, the Qi army brought in large bags of sand, intending to simply fill up the moat of the entire Tobu City.If you do this, there will be more positions for the Qi army to attack the city wall, and it will be more able to attack the Jing army.

That is to say, the previous day, Kobe had been busy for half a day filling the moat near the east, south, and north gates of Tobu City. Now when do you plan to fill it in again?Besides, filling in the moat can increase the points of siege, but too many points of siege will inevitably disperse the troops, instead it is better to clench into one fist.As the saying goes, it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt his ten fingers, and it is better to attack the city gate with all his strength than to disperse his forces.It's a pity, King Qi is on fire, who dares to step forward to dissuade him?Do you still want your head?Therefore, the filling still has to be filled.

Others don't understand, but Jiang Yuan understands that King Qi's move is vicious.If he had only these 7 troops, it would be insufficient to attack the city, but his follow-up army would still have more than 7 troops. If the two sides converged in a few days, the Jing army would have no good way to resist each attack.There are only more than 1 people in the Jing army inside and outside, and the recruited civilians are only more than 2 people. King Qi can withstand consumption, but he can't.Sure enough, he had to think of a way to kill Qi Jun's energy.

On the one hand, Jiang Yuan arranged for the soldiers to shoot and kill the Qi army who filled the river, and on the other hand, he summoned several assistant leaders who had been sent to die because of their dissatisfaction. Severe suppression, ambition but not stretching, can only waste time.According to their merits, these people are all right to be the generals, but they are only assistant leaders now, and the boss still looks like they have rewarded you, and this time they are even sent to die, if not Jiang Yuan has the ability to conscript [-] people, and they are afraid that there will be no return, and these people feel unhappy, so they are finally persuaded by Jiang Yuan to join Prince Rui's command.

"I have a great achievement here, but it is dangerous. I wonder how many of you dare to accept it?" Jiang Yuan looked at the four people.

"But there is an order, go in the water, go in the water, go in the fire, the last general will wait!" All four of them bowed to accept the order.

"Okay!" Jiang Yuan began to order, "Zhang Dahai and Chen Youwei, you two lead the horse army like this. Di Fei, Pang Liang, you two lead the infantry army like this. Do you understand?"

The four of them responded in unison, but they admired Jiang Yuan even more in their hearts. No wonder he was able to become a general of the third rank from a member of the fifth rank in one fell swoop. It's planned, I have to accept it.

Staying late at night, at the third watch, when Qi Jun was sleeping soundly, suddenly gongs and drums rang out outside the camp, and there was a loud shout, and several tents on the side were set ablaze by rockets.Qi Jun thought he had encountered a stolen camp, so he hurriedly got up and prepared to meet the enemy, but when he walked out of the camp, there was no trace of the enemy, and he didn't even grab a hair of the enemy!There was no way, everyone went back to sleep, but not long after they fell asleep, there was another sound of gongs and drums, there was no way, let's go out again.As a result, the enemy was still not caught.After being tossed all night like this, and had to fill the moat the next day, the soldiers couldn't help complaining.

Qi Wang Situ Heng also knew that this must be Jiang Yuan's strategy to harass the enemy, but this strategy is indeed very difficult to deal with.If you ignore it, he will really steal the camp to fight; if you ignore it, you won’t have to sleep all night; if you fight at night and sleep during the day, he will come back to harass you at worst, and let you be like a frightened bird. No peace.

Situ Heng thought for a while, and gave an order, ordering a thousand horsemen to stay awake at night, to keep an eye on this group of harassers, and when the gongs and drums sounded, they went out to kill the enemy, and wiped out all the soldiers sent by Jiangyuan Xiaoer!King Qi stroked his beard, so it's all right. Since ancient times, famous generals have done this to break the harassment plan, um, very good, not bad!

He thought very well, but he didn't know that after the thousand-horse army chased out that night, they didn't return all night. After dawn, they found that the heads of the leading generals he sent were hung high on the east gate of Tobu City. Next to it, there is a long scroll that seems to be right and wrong, like couplet and non-coupling, and it says "Stealing a chicken will not cost you a lot of rice, and you will lose your army if you lose your general." This is how Jiang Yuan remembered how Zhuge Liang was angry with Zhou Yu in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". If it wasn't for this allusion, he wouldn't have changed "madame" to "general".No matter what, this King Qi is very angry.

If the army of a thousand horses fails, I will use up the cavalry!King Qi ordered that all [-] cavalry under his command be ready to attack!

That's right, King Qi has only [-] horse troops in total.You must know that in ancient times, infantry could be recruited at will. Anyway, there were so many ordinary people. If you gather them together, you can get them together. After two battles, you can become a qualified soldier. But the horse army can’t do it. If you don't go, you will have to fall before the fight starts. There is no way to recruit casually, so the horse army must train for a long time.He still has the horse army he has cultivated, but there are no extra horses. You can't let the sergeants fight on poor horses, donkeys and mules, right?

Moreover, in ancient times, war horses were easily damaged and died, so to deploy an army of [-] horses, at least [-] or even [-] horses were needed to pull them up.Army horses are no better than rough horses, they are not easy to breed, and the number is scarce. Moreover, the army horses in the entire Dajing are basically concentrated in the northern border to defend the northern barbarians, and there are not many remaining army horses for riding.The army horses of King Qi’s horse army were secretly saved by him from the generals of Northern Xinjiang. Even so, those generals would not dare to sell the good horses to him. Those army horses were all a little older, not in the past , but it is not too old to look bad, and it is okay to deploy a horse army for inland operations.Not to mention him, even the military horses of King Liao and Wei, including King Jiang Yuan and King Rui, were the same. No matter how good the horses were, they couldn't be obtained outside Northern Xinjiang.

King Qi heard clearly that Jiangyuan had only [-] cavalry, and even if they attacked all of them, they would not be able to match the [-] cavalry.

In the middle of the night, still at the third watch, there was a sound of gongs and drums outside the Qi army camp, and the Qi army's [-] horsemen who were ready immediately went out of the camp to pursue, relying on the light of the torches, they went straight to the Jing army in front.The men and horses that the Jing army harassed seemed to be only a thousand or so. Seeing so many horse troops chasing them out, they immediately dropped their drums and gongs, and fled northward in a hurry.

The general of the Qi Army followed the group of deserters not far or near, and a subordinate asked why he didn't immediately encircle and wipe out the thousand defeated soldiers. It is absolutely impossible that there are only a thousand people. I guess there must be an ambush army ahead. The Jing army is not enough to defend the city, and it is unable to send out infantry. The ambush must be the horse army. Why not wait until the ambush army is exhausted and all of them Eliminate it, so that the horses can be captured and returned to our army?" The subordinate immediately slapped him with a series of flattery, which made the general feel comfortable.

Sure enough, as the general expected, after chasing for more than ten li, another thousand cavalry of the Jing army ran out from the nearby woods, forming a group with the previous defeated army and continuing to flee.The general saw that the ambush army saw that the Qi army was defeated and fled in a panic to join the defeated army. Then he ordered to chase the cavalry in front at full speed, and the general shouted: "Shoot everyone, be careful not to hurt the horses. , that's all ours!" The whole army promised to speed up and rush forward.

The Qi army accelerated, and the Jing army also accelerated the speed. They were already some distance away from the Qi army. Although the acceleration distance was not completely widened, it did not tend to shrink. But these people can only shoot arrows when the horses are bumping. After all, the army in the interior is not good at riding and shooting, and the generals have clearly stated that they are not allowed to hurt the horses, so the accuracy is even worse. There are forest branches on both sides of the road The cover did not hurt the Jing army's troops at all.

After chasing for a further distance, an open field appeared in front of him, unobstructed, unobstructed, unobstructed, and unobstructed. The general of the Qi army was overjoyed. This time, let's see how you hide, and immediately urged the army to go forward and catch up.The Jing army in front has already rushed to the open ground, followed by the Qi army. The Jing army has already panicked and doesn't know how to dodge, but only knows to run away. If you don't chase at this time, when will you wait!The generals of the Qi army didn't even think about it, if they couldn't do anything, why didn't the Jing army retreat back to Dongwu City and retreat safely under the cover of the infantry at the top of the city, instead they fled here and waited to be dealt with?

Qi Jun, who had lost his composure, was full of thoughts of being rewarded for his meritorious deeds, and he pursued him closely. For a while, his horseshoes flew, setting off countless smoke and dust, and he was hazy in the night, unable to see the road ahead.The speed of the Jing army in front was getting slower and slower. The Qi army felt that victory was in sight, but suddenly heard the painful neighing sound of the horses in his team. At first, there were only one or two horses, and then there was a mournful sound. Some of the horses even bumped and threw their owners to the ground, and the rest of the horses writhed and seemed to be in quite pain.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" The Qi army general snatched a torch to illuminate himself, and then he saw the situation on the ground clearly. The ground under his feet was not a muddy ground, but a gravel beach!At the beginning, a thin layer of dust was sprinkled on it, so it couldn't be seen. Now the dust is turned over by the horse's hoof, which reveals its true colors.Looking at the horses of the Qi army, they kept moving their hooves, as if they didn't dare to step on the ground, and even traces of blood were exposed on those hooves.No, not just gravel!The general looked carefully again, and found that there were still pieces of barbed wire on the ground, which must have been dropped by the Jing army in front of him in the dark.The horse's hoof stepped on the gravel and barbed wire and was severely injured, and the pain was unbearable, so it threw the owner down in pain.But also passing through the gravel beach, why did the horses on my side look like this, but the Jing army on the opposite side were fine? !

Not allowing him to think about it, the Jing army had already turned the horse's head, and Zhang Dahai, the leader of the army, drew out his saber and shouted loudly: "Brothers! It's time to be rewarded for your meritorious service! Wipe out the rebels, kill them!"

These horse soldiers saw with their own eyes that the infantry soldiers who had made meritorious service in defending the city a few days ago were rewarded as officers. The army killed the past.

The sound of hooves was like thunder, and the sound was rolling. Those gravels could not hurt the horses of the Qi army at all, but turned into powder under the iron hooves.The horses of the Qi army were unable to move, and the cavalry who had lost their speed were like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Facing the galloping Jing army, they had no power to fight back.This is not over, another 2000-man horse army emerged from the woods behind him, led by Chen Youwei, who had been waiting here for a long time, waiting to copy Qi's army The back road wiped them all out.

These Qi troops who had lost their horses were inferior to the infantry, like lambs struggling weakly, they were defeated in one blow.Where the saber passed, there was a bloody mess, blood splattered, and heads flew horizontally. At the beginning, some people tried to resist, but this killing killed the last bit of morale of the Qi army.

Chen Youwei rode on his horse and shouted loudly: "The surrender will not be killed!" Behind him, the Jing army also shouted loudly, "The surrender will not be killed!"

Zhang Dahai was on the rise when he heard Chen Youwei's voice, wiped the blood from his face, calmed down, remembered Jiang Yuan's order, and shouted too.

Jing Jun shouted in unison: "Those who kneel on the ground surrender!" The rest of Qi's army was gutted, how could they dare to fight again?Unable to fight and fight, unable to escape even more, and regardless of the gravel on the ground that made them grin their teeth, the more than 5000 defeated soldiers got off their horses and knelt down and surrendered.The general of the Qi army insisted on not surrendering, but his head was cut off by the subordinate who flattered him just now, and the subordinate shouted: "The main general is dead, I am waiting to surrender!" At this point, the overnight war was over...

If you ask why the Qi army's war horse was injured but the Jing army was unscathed, the gap is above the horseshoe.The so-called horseshoe is actually the cuticle of the horse, and it can also be used as the nail of the horse.This layer of cuticle is not easy to be injured, but when the wild horse is domesticated into a domestic horse, the diet has changed, and the domestic horse lacks some essential nutrients, and the horse's hoof is easily damaged.In order to solve the problem of damage to the horseshoes of war horses, horseshoes came into being. Horseshoes are "U-shaped" iron pieces that can prevent slipping and excessive wear on the soles of the hooves. Once they appeared, they became popular all over the world.But this kind of shoe can only prevent normal horseshoe wear, and it can't be helped in abnormal situations, such as gravel, such as caltrops...

Jiang Yuan came from a later age and had seen a kind of mountain shoe. This improved horseshoe was specially prepared for mountainous areas. A thin iron plate with small holes was sandwiched between the shoe and the bottom of the shoe, and was fixed with pyramid-shaped nails. It is difficult to damage the soles of the hooves with sharp stones.With the addition of this kind of shoe, the gravel beach is naturally as flat as walking on the ground, and the Qi army is the only one who is unlucky.

So how do you say that, technology is the primary productive force!