Chapter 436

Echinojin.

After arriving, the Han army only launched two exploratory attacks and stopped. That was when Li Tan found that it was impossible to win Jijin with the troops at hand.

It was supposed to cooperate with the fleet of Li Tan's department to attack Jijin. When they sailed about 15 miles away from Jijin, they kept hitting the reef. The bottom of the ship didn't touch the reef at all. It was the stone tiger that sank the stone tablet.

In addition to large and small sunken ships in the river section around Jijin, wooden stakes were also laid in some relatively flat and shallow water flow positions. Similar movements were only found by the Han army. This is a special situation. At that time, the troops of both sides were frequently mobilized. Then, the self sinking and driving of wooden stakes of Shijie water army took place at night. Even if the Han Army found bodies floating down the upstream, they were ignored.

The fleet of the Han army was blocked 15 Li downstream from Jijin. During this period, there will be burning boats floating down the river. It is not only blocked, but also in danger of fire attack. The fleet can only temporarily turn into the Chenzi River to escape.

Only when Li Tan's army arrived in Jijin, it faced at least 150000 Shijie Zhao troops. On the premise of insufficient strength, it was meaningless to make a strong attack. What needed to wait was for the follow-up friendly forces to come.

With Jijin as the center, the barracks established by Zhao Jun in Shijie are far beyond imagination. The south bank is a barracks and fortifications about ten miles deep, and the north bank is a continuous large area.

Mistakes in the decision-making of the Han state were obvious. First, there was no encirclement of the stone tiger, and then the troops looked too scattered and failed to seize the opportunity to fight a decisive battle. Now Shi Hu has reached the North Bank of the Yellow River, but two Han troops are trapped in the hinterland of Shijie. Huanwen's headquarters has been surrounded on all sides. Li Kuang's headquarters will be surrounded in Suoyang city if they don't retreat.

On the sixth day after Li Tan arrived in Jijin, ran min led the Ministry to arrive.

"Now it seems that we should decisively attack Yecheng or Xiangguo at that time." Ran min is actually more bitter about this matter: "the same is to let the stone tiger reach the North Bank of the river, but one is to force the stone tiger to retreat, the other is to let the stone tiger arrange calmly."

The first civil and military dispute in the Han Dynasty was won by the civil servants without suspense because Liu Yan adopted a stable strategy. It is not necessary to say that there is no unwilling mood on the part of the military generals. Waiting for the current situation to develop into this, it is difficult to say what thoughts the civil servants have, and most of the military generals have changed from unwilling to a kind of resentment.

"Now there are new tricks. Are you going to do what you want?" Ran min is talking about the trap set up by taking advantage of the stone tiger's half crossing attack. However, he was not optimistic: "what can be seen clearly and casually is likely to be a ecstasy array. I'm afraid their ideas will fail."

Li Tanmo listened silently. He was familiar with the terrain around Jijin after ran min arrived.

It must be said that the terrain of Jijin is very flat, and the place you can see is clear at a glance. What will be arranged is basically in the open. The difference is to judge where the enemy will hide heavy troops under the cover of the established camp.

Ran Min said a lot. Seeing Li Tan's respectful attitude, he didn't say much. He felt boring and asked the key question: "in your opinion, how long can Huan Wen persist?"

Li Tan followed ran min and stopped. After thinking for a while, he said, "Huan Lang has many equipment troops. How long he can persist depends on when arrows and other materials are consumed."

The generals and schools of the Han Army are clear that if they want to see the bottom of their own materials, they will only happen in one case, that is, they will not have the opportunity to build workshops after they arrive at a place.

After such a long time, it should have been understood that their king was a figure like a living God. He could not only mobilize elite troops from places unknown to anyone, but also efficiently produce war materials as long as he owned some buildings, and even continuously obtain food from a strange building.

Tacit things need to be observed by themselves. No one will talk about strange things no matter how they look. They know that they only need to enjoy that convenience.

It is precisely because there are too many strange things. People with enough identity in the Han country never doubt that the Central Plains will be recovered. The difference is how much time it takes and how much it will be lost during the period. More importantly, internal contradictions will occur, but no one wants to shake Liu Yan's ruling position.

Ran min is obviously also a person who knows the "inside story". If he has any ideas before, the only pursuit left after knowing the situation is to seal the king for merit. He has absolutely no intention of independence or rebellion again. After all, although his EQ is not high, it does not mean he is stupid.

"That's a fight." Ran min will ask Huan Wen about the friendship they established when they worked together to attack Yecheng or Xiangguo. Afterwards, they found that the other party was similar to their own nature, and they had the meaning of meeting late. He said to Li Tan, "what the king means is that Jijin's strategic position has begun to decline. What remains is how many enemy troops can be eliminated here to create favorable conditions for the future war situation."

Li Tan understood that it was a frontal battle, and the two sides were completely fighting with strength.

Ran min brought 80000 Han troops. The number of Han troops in Jijin increased to 180000, but the war soldiers were 90000. The rest of the Han troops could not be said to be able to participate in the war, but they were more inclined to serve the war soldiers most of the time.

Because of the terrain, Zhao Jun in Shijie knew when ran min led his army. They had no superfluous action, but constantly strengthened the fortifications of the camp and assumed a posture of sticking to it.

On the second day after ran min's arrival, before dawn, smoke rose from the Han Army's camp, and so did Zhao Jun's camp in Shijie. Judging from the cooking smoke, both armies are having extra meals, which indicates that the calm of the past few days will be broken today.

It was bright. After a full meal, the Han soldiers marched out of the camp. It was seen that the arms were led by various soldiers of the forbidden guard army, followed by the soldiers on foot. The cavalry were placed on the left and right wings as a grazing array after the infantry approached the Zhao army in Shijie.

When ran min and Li Tan appeared at the front of the battlefield, a large number of figures of Zhao Jun in Shijie opposite were arranged according to the defense fortifications established. The strong war drums of the Han Army and the bleak horn of Zhao Jun in Shijie echoed, combined with the fluttering flags of the two armies, giving the air a sense of killing.

"The world has changed." Ran min seemed to have a clear irony and said, "Hu people are good at riding and shooting and like to fight in the field. I didn't expect to have to fight camp defense now."

Li Tan is observing the source of soldiers in the enemy camp. He can see very clearly through a single telescope. Most of Zhao Jun in Shijie have yellow skin and black head. His eyes are all black and brown, and only a few have white skin, brown hair and green eyes. So does it mean that the people of the Jie nationality only exist as supervisors and need to work hard for all kinds of miscellaneous Hu and Jin people?

"The Hu people don't have many strong crossbows, and the bow is not pure." Ran min also looked at it with a single telescope and commented: "our strong crossbow has a better range than the enemy."

Shijie Zhao Jun must also understand the gap between the long-range attack weapons of the two armies. When building the camp, they arranged many roofs. The stress is that the wooden raft structure is combined with fire-proof sand, and some are straw huts and soil, which makes it look like a defense work and more like the existence of a village.

Ran min ordered the necessary close combat escort force and a large number of bow and crossbow troops to advance as the leader, followed by crossbows and stone throwing vehicles.

Nearly 30000 Han troops moved forward in the shape of a half moon. When the two sides were 300 steps away from each other, the strong crossbow soldiers stopped and formed an arrow array, and the rest of the troops continued to move forward. The crossbow troops stopped when they were 200 steps away from the enemy. The close combat arms, archers and stone throwing vehicles did not stop until they approached the enemy's fortifications about 150 steps.

A burst of "Hua Hua" sounded first on the battlefield. It was the sound of too many powerful crossbows. One sound was followed by another. There were "dark clouds" composed of crossbows and arrows in the sky. They sent out "Xiu Xiu" in mid air, broke through the air and fell in pieces to hit all kinds of objects.

If you are in the camp of Zhao Jun in Shijie, the environment you are facing is like a rainy day. The difference is that what falls is not raindrops, but crossbows and arrows that will kill people.

Not all Shijie Zhao troops have shelters on their tops. Waves of dense crossbows and arrows are fired. After a group of Shijie Zhao troops without overhead cover are killed and injured, they scattered to the covered position to avoid. The barracks covered by crossbows and arrows are a phenomenon of running around in a scream.

The strong crossbow troops of the Han army continued to shoot arrows quickly and mechanically. A similar situation occurred in the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. At that time, the Qin army used strong crossbows as an advance offensive everywhere. Generally, the Qin army would continuously shoot arrows at the enemy's barracks or cities for six or seven days, so as to disrupt the enemy's morale.

Soon, the crossbow of the Han Army also joined the ranks of launching. It should be said that the ceiling built by the Zhao army in Shijie can prevent the crossbow and arrow of the strong crossbow, but it is not necessary to face the crossbow and arrow with a length of about ten feet and thick.

One after another, crossbows and arrows like long guns fell after a leap over a distance. Their sharp metal arrows penetrated into the ceiling, penetrated the soil, broke through the layer of thatch, and brought up a cry of panic, which was inevitable.

The thatched roof can't stop the crossbow, while the wood roof depends on the firmness. Only a small number of crossbows and arrows can shoot through the roof of the wood structure, and more only make the roof vibrate after hitting. Some sand and soil fell on the Shijie Zhao Jun who took refuge, and then scared them silly.

Because the Han army was too close, and then the Han Army's long-range attack weapons were too long, Ma Qiu, who was in charge of commanding the army's defense, saw that the barracks covered by arrows were within half a mile of the barracks. In a daze, he was glad that Zhang Qun had spent so much effort to get those ceilings.

"Hold on!" Ma Qiu is not respected by Shi Hu now. Otherwise, he will not be assigned such a task. He kept yelling: "hold the enemy's long-range arrows and wait for the enemy to rush to the camp. We'll kill them!"

The battlefield is large enough and full of all kinds of voices. No matter how loud a person has, the distance that the voice can spread is limited. The most is to inspire the people around him, and then cheer himself up.

In recent years, Ma Qiu has really had a bad time. First, he followed Shi Hu to attack Murong Xianbei, who was not founded at that time, and the whole army was destroyed. Later, he led his army to attack Zhang Liangguo alone, and then there was a broken halberd and sand, so that the official positions of Liangzhou governor and East Zheng general were removed one after another.

Ma Qiu's short fortune happened in March this year. He was appointed governor of the three counties of Henan, Hanoi and Xingyang. He was stationed in the three counties. He is likely to become a general of the western expedition and enter Guanzhong. As a result, the Han Army used troops in Xingyang county. After he was defeated by xie'an, he immediately retreated to Ji county. Hanoi county was soon attacked by the Han army. In a rage, Shi Hu once again removed his position as governor of the three counties, gave an official position as governor of Puyang County, and lost it to Jijin as the front commander of the defense Han army.

If people are unlucky to a certain extent, nothing will go well. Ma Qiu expects the Han Army to quickly launch a close-up attack. However, the Han Army just uses the advantage of long-range bow and ride weapons to shoot continuously. It is a strong crossbow, vehicle crossbow and stone throwing vehicle that shoot endlessly for six days, resulting in the death and injury of the Shijie Zhao army guarding the camp. However, the Han Army has delayed to launch a close combat attack.

After six days of all kinds of long-range weapon attacks, the front of the camp of Zhao Jun in Shijie has been in a mess. There are numerous crossbows and arrows everywhere, and many of them are as thick as long guns. The rolling stone bullets can quickly pile up into a hill.

What the Han Army caused to the camp of Shijie Zhao army was that no matter what fortifications were, they became ruins under the high-intensity bombardment. The dead Shijie Zhao army was left on the battlefield and no one took care of it. They had to retreat continuously. They retreated two miles back in six days. The Han Army entered the original camp of Shijie Zhao army, Then continue the endless shooting.

Ma Qiu tried to let his men and horses launch a counterattack, but the result was miserable. It was a kind of arrow that attracted rain at the beginning of a man's head. The bed crossbow and stone throwing cart of the Han army would soon join in. Their attempt was to collapse and flee backward after moving less than a hundred steps forward.

"When are they going to shoot?" Ma Qiu's sorrow even turned white. The whole person looked extremely haggard, both angry and with a deep sense of powerlessness: "is there such a war!"

Of course, there are such wars. First, the Qin army has done this to all countries in the Central Plains and the Huns. Later, the Western Han Army also did this to the Huns and grassland tribes. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the army still did this to all kinds of western regions.

Now the Han army can still continue to do so. It is Shijie Zhao army who gave up the advantage of field cavalry and played a poor method of fighting by building camps.