Three Kingdoms: The Kingdom Cannot Be Partial

Chapter 93 Heavy Armor Bloody Battle

From the perspective of Zhou Tai, a cavalry officer, the plateau where Deng Zhi was located was a cliff.

Only a few figures could be seen on the edge of the plateau, so whether the number of troops there was 10,000 or 1,000 was entirely a matter of guesswork.

Generals Wei Ping and Jia Xu, who led three thousand elite soldiers and one thousand miscellaneous soldiers from Hedong to climb the mountain and take a detour to seize the plateau, had now successfully climbed halfway up the mountain.

After taking a short breath, the soldiers began to form up.

Generals Wei Ping and Jia Xu inspected the battlefield, trying to see where to make a breakthrough.

They were already on a higher ground than the Han army, and could already see the Han army waiting in formation on the other side of the ravine.

"Damn it! No wonder the Shu invaders didn't set up defenses on this mountain! It turns out there's a ravine here!"

Wei Ping cursed and was angry.

"It's just a small ravine, what's there to be afraid of?" Jia Xu curled his lips. "I'm not afraid of the ants attacking the city, so why should I be afraid of a ravine?"

Although this ravine does give the Han army the advantage of being high above, the slope is not steep.

Compared to the difficulty of ants climbing a city wall, it’s nothing.

Wei Ping also thought of the bunch of rubbish under Meng Da:

"That's true. I don't think the Shu bandits are any better than Meng Da.

“Order the Hedong soldiers to quickly seize the high ground!
"You lead another thousand elite soldiers to continue climbing the mountain, and go around behind them from the top of the mountain!"

Soon, the Wei army had regrouped and the war drums began to beat in the battle formation.

A thousand Hedong soldiers took the lead in attacking the Han army line.

First, I walked down the hillside slowly, and in less than a hundred steps I reached the bottom of the ravine.

The Hedong soldiers in the front row began to climb the slope tremblingly.

The terrain was so low and the hillside was covered with lush vegetation that the Han army above could no longer be seen.

Continuing to climb upwards, the Hedong soldiers also understood that they were cannon fodder today, and they were all mentally prepared to be killed by the Han army's rain of arrows and rolling logs.

However, until they climbed halfway up the slope, only forty or fifty steps away from the top, the expected rain of arrows still did not come.

"Charge!" Hedong Sima gave an order, the red flag was waved forward vigorously, and the drumbeats representing the charge began to beat!
At this distance, when they rush to the top of the mountain, the Han army can only shoot one arrow at most!
The faster you rush, the higher your survival rate!
The sound of drums and shouts of killing resounded throughout the valley, and a thousand Hedong soldiers rushed up the hillside in a mighty force.

"Shoot!" At this moment, the Han army on the hillside finally burst out the first shout.

Two rows of Yuanrong crossbowmen, one row kneeling and the other standing, shot arrows directly at the Wei soldiers charging up the hillside.

This is the efficient killing range of the Yuanrong crossbow. Even heavy armor can be penetrated at this distance!

More than four hundred crossbow arrows were fired at once, and eighty percent of the more than one hundred Hedong soldiers who were in the front fell down in an instant.

Only about twenty people survived.

However, the Hedong soldiers in the back row quickly filled the empty space and rushed up the mountain with red eyes as if they were risking their lives.

However, before they could reach the top of the slope, the 200 Yuanrong crossbowmen of the Han army who were waiting in the back row rushed forward and took away another wave of lives in an instant.

Seeing more than a hundred people falling down, either dead or injured, screaming in agony, the Hedong soldiers who were forced to be in the front row were terrified.

Obviously, they did not expect that the Han army had so many crossbowmen and could load crossbows so quickly.

However, in the short time they hesitated and were frightened, the Yuanrong crossbowmen who had been hiding in the third row and were ready had already rushed to the front row and were shooting down calmly.

The wailing filled the mountains and valleys.

Before they reached the top of the mountain, more than 300 of the 1,000 Hedong soldiers had been killed or wounded by crossbow arrows.

This three-stage shooting technique seems simple, but not everyone can think of it or use it.

The fact that they were able to change formations without causing chaos was enough to show that they were an elite unit.

The noise and cries of the Hedong soldiers grew louder and louder, and they were already showing signs of disintegration before they even reached the top of the slope.

However, the situation did not allow them to disperse.

General Wei Ping had a vague guess that the Han army here probably only had crossbows and no bows, so he led two thousand armored soldiers to form a dense square formation and followed closely behind the Hedong soldiers.

Dozens of Hedong soldiers fled down the mountain and tried to run directly down the mountain. Wei Ping's supervising team immediately drew their bows and shot them to death. Only two people managed to escape down the mountain by moving swiftly.

Wei Ping was too lazy to send anyone to chase after them, and drove the Hedong soldiers to continue charging forward.

After the Han army on the mountain shot and killed more than a hundred Hedong soldiers with Yuanrong crossbows again, a hundred of the remaining more than 500 Hedong soldiers finally reached the top of the slope.

They started hand-to-hand combat with the Han army across a row of deer antlers.

Wei Ping, who had already climbed up the hillside, was immediately delighted when he saw this: "Go!"

The war drums beat again.

Two thousand elite soldiers began to charge up the mountain, trying to rush up the hillside before all the Hedong soldiers were killed, and find the weak point in the Han army's defense to attack and encircle it.

However, just when their front row was still fifty or sixty steps away from the top of the slope, suddenly a rain of arrows shot towards them from right to left and left to right.

The sound of "swoosh" breaking through the air was heard, followed by bursts of screams.

The Han army was in a dominant position, and their arrows had a bonus in attack power. No matter how elite the Wei soldiers were, they were not wearing heavy armor, and their formation was dense, so more than 40 people were killed or wounded immediately.

"spread!"

"Shoot arrows at the mountain!"

Wei Ping quickly gave the order.

Upon hearing the order, four hundred strong and powerful soldiers immediately drew their bows from their waists and threw arrows towards the mountain.

Unfortunately, some Han soldiers on the mountain were shot by arrows and fell down, and many Hedong soldiers in the front row were also affected.

Shooting from bottom to top is very disadvantageous. If you want to hit the target at this distance, you must pull the bow to its full extent. You will probably not be able to pull the bow open after shooting five or six arrows.

The two hundred Han army archers on the mountain could only draw half a bow. If they were elite archers, it would be no problem for them to shoot a pot of thirty arrows.

In order to avoid being hit by dense arrows, the Wei army quickly dispersed and rushed up the mountain from both sides of the front row of Hedong soldiers.

However, after engaging with more than 200 front-line Hedong soldiers, the Han army obviously still had some strength left.

Under Deng Zhi's command, six hundred crossbowmen had already dispersed calmly to the left and right.

Wei Ping hurriedly commanded the only 400 sword and shield soldiers to press forward while holding up square shields that could protect their upper bodies.

Upon seeing this, half of the Han army crossbowmen began to disperse to the left and right, while the other half put away their crossbows, picked up their spears from the ground, and worked together to push the piles of rolling logs in front of the deer horns down the hillside one by one.

The sword and shield soldiers had their vision blocked by the wooden shields. They could only hear the rumbling sound. They wanted to hide but didn't know where to hide. By the time they could see clearly, it was too late. Dozens of them were knocked down by the rolling logs.

The Han army crossbowmen who had been prepared began to harvest accurately.

"Damn it, these Shu dogs always use these dirty tricks!" Wei Ping cursed.

However, despite cursing, he obviously realized that he had encountered a tough opponent today, but no matter how tough the opponent was, he had to chew it down today!

He looked behind him and saw that Jia Xu's thousand elite soldiers had all disappeared into the mountains and forests, and their figures could no longer be seen.

The Shu invaders had only about a thousand men, and their defense line was only one mile long.

Once Jia Xu's thousand men rush down from the top of the mountain, the Shu invaders will surely be defeated!
With this thought in mind, Wei Ping roared passionately and issued orders repeatedly: "Keep charging! Pull off their antlers!"

Two hundred sixty or seventy sword and shield soldiers rushed forward upon hearing the order, and finally reached the deer horns. They pulled out the horns of the Han army at the cost of their lives, clearing a foothold for the rear army.

The only thing that made them thankful was that there were no trenches here.

Otherwise, they would have retreated by now.

Because the soil in the mountains is very hard, it is impossible to dig and fill the trenches.

Of course, this is also the reason why there are no trenches here.

In addition, tools are limited, manpower is limited, and time is even more limited. If you take care of one thing, you will lose the other.

Shout out to kill Zhentian.

Finally, at the cost of nearly two hundred sword and shield soldiers completely losing their combat effectiveness and after killing or wounding fifty or sixty Han soldiers, several sections of deer antlers fifty or sixty steps wide were pulled out.

The Wei army finally cleared a bloody path. The last seventy or eighty sword and shield soldiers stood at the front line, withstanding the Han army's stabbing attacks. The Wei army's spearmen quickly followed, relying on the shield to cover and stab the Han army.

Shields kept shattering.

There were swords and guns constantly turning their edges.

Flesh and blood were scattered everywhere, and the liver and brain were splattered on the ground.

The Han and Wei sides began a battle for positions around several opened gaps.

Although it was a battle between armored soldiers, the Han army still had the advantage of high ground and physical strength.

A Han soldier stabbed and killed three Wei soldiers who wanted to seize the platform on the plateau, and then stepped forward again.

Ignoring the swords and guns slashing at him, he rushed straight towards the fifth prey and roared at the top of his lungs.

However, just as he stabbed the enemy, the gun in his hand suddenly broke, and he fell forward without standing firmly.

Several Wei soldiers who had missed their attacks immediately put away their swords and spears and stabbed the ground.

The man rolled on the ground, but was still stabbed twice.

His teammates immediately rushed forward with guns and pushed the Wei soldiers who were busy stabbing the ground down the mountain.

The two auxiliary soldiers were quick-witted and rushed forward quickly, dragging the warrior who was groaning in pain on the ground back to the formation.

This is one of the benefits of positional warfare in controlling the battlefield. Wounded soldiers who have lost their ability to resist can return to the battlefield in time to avoid casualties.

The wounded soldiers of the Wei army were obviously not so lucky. The Han army would rush forward from time to time, driving the Wei army down the mountain and killing the wounded Wei soldiers on the ground.

By this time, most of the 1,000 Hedong soldiers had been killed or wounded, leaving only more than 300 people.

Although Wei Ping's supervision team was supervising the battle from behind, they had not received the order to retreat for a long time, and their spirits were almost broken.

Are you really not giving me any chance to survive?!

"Fuck it, if I get beaten I'll die, if I run away I'll die, how can you do that!" A completely devastated elite descendant of the Xue family cursed at the top of his lungs.

Just now he was on the plateau supervising the laborers and slaves to fill the trenches. He knew that he could not kill them all, but had to leave a small way for the laborers and slaves to survive, so that they would fill the trenches for you for this little chance of survival.

It turns out that this old thief Sima is even more ruthless than them!
"Follow me!" he yelled, turned around and ran down the mountain.

Under his leadership, the surviving Hedong soldiers no longer cared about anything else. They risked being killed by the Han army and the supervisory team, and relied on their serpentine movements to break out of the front line and flee down the mountain.

The supervising team could not kill them as fast as they escaped, so they could only shoot a few arrows and let them escape.

Of Wei Ping's two thousand armored soldiers, only more than 1,200 were able to fight, with more than 300 dead and more than 300 wounded and retreating.

Normally, with such heavy casualties, the troops would have begun to collapse.

But it didn't.

On the general platform behind the Han army, Deng Zhi frowned as he watched the Wei soldiers who were still rushing up the mountain and fighting with the Han soldiers.

Obviously, this was the toughest fight he had ever had.

If Your Majesty had not led the army in person, generously provided rewards and pensions to the soldiers with money and land, and done many things that won the hearts of the soldiers, making most of the soldiers willing to fight for Your Majesty and most of them knowing why they were fighting, it would have been difficult to withstand this offensive of the Wei army.

Apart from anything else, the Wei army was obviously bigger than the Han army in terms of size, and their morale was almost as high as the Han army. Deng Zhi could find no fault with their coordination after forming the battle formation.

This is a well-fed and well-trained army.

Suddenly, when the Han army was unable to make arrangements, the Wei army relied on a small group of elite troops to clear a small area.

The thirty armored soldiers hugged each other tightly, forming a small dense gun formation. They advanced and retreated in unison and soon gained a firm foothold on the plateau. They raised the Wei army flag to show that they were the first to ascend.

The two armies were already tightly stuck together, leaving no room for archers to maneuver.

Seeing this, Deng Zhi quickly dispatched a reserve force of 50 people to reinforce the team.

After more than twenty soldiers were killed or wounded on both sides, the Han army drove this small group of elite troops down the mountain, and the position returned to the hands of the Han army.

Wei Ping was watching from the other side of the ravine. When he saw the flag representing the Great Wei being cut down, he was not angry, but continued to look for a breakthrough.

It was soon discovered that there was a small section of the battle line where the soldiers of both the Han and Wei sides were somewhat exhausted and fought in a somewhat confused manner.

"That's the breakthrough point!" Wei Ping pointed his finger.

His personal guards immediately ran into the ravine.

Soon, a hundred elite soldiers wearing heavy armor with basin collars, who had been sitting on the ground eating meat and drinking water to recuperate, stood up.

He picked up the long-handled axe on the ground, slung a crossbow over his waist, and headed towards the predetermined location step by step.

The battle was fierce, and their view was blocked by the Wei soldiers fighting for positions in front, so almost no one noticed them.

Dozens of Han soldiers were already exhausted, and many of their swords and spears had been worn out by fighting and had to be replaced several times.

But because he was not injured, he still stayed on the front line.

The battle went on between the two equally exhausted Wei troops, but there were few casualties.

It's not that they are unwilling to kill the enemy, but after fighting for nearly half an hour, both sides are exhausted and understand that the key to the battlefield is not with them.

"You are all as weak as women. Are you worthy of His Majesty?!" The only Han soldier who was still fighting hard started cursing.

He used up all his remaining strength to thrust out a spear, knocking down a Wei soldier. The surrounding Wei soldiers were horrified and retreated several steps.

Seeing this, the morale of the other Han soldiers suddenly rose, and they hurriedly stepped forward.

However, at this moment, a Wei army soldier wearing heavy armor with a basin collar suddenly appeared and filled the gap that had just appeared.

The long-handled axe was raised high and chopped down heavily, actually cutting off half of the head of a Han soldier!
The soldier with only half of his head left collapsed, and white and yellow matter mixed with blood splattered everywhere, making the heavily armored axeman look particularly terrifying.

Not to mention that the Han soldiers were frightened, even the Wei soldiers were shuddering at the bloody scene.

The Han soldier who had just cursed others for being sissy escaped because he didn't have time to draw his gun, so he suddenly drew his gun.

He actually stabbed forward before the man could put away his axe, but found that he could not penetrate the armor at all, so he quickly retreated.

He wasn't the only one retreating.

The Han soldiers, who were already exhausted from the battle, were frightened and all retreated.

Heavy armored soldiers like humanoid Gundams boarded the Han army's position and quickly opened up a safe passage.

Deng Zhi had received the news and quickly organized a hundred mobile Yuanrong crossbowmen to rush forward.

After sniping and killing more than a dozen people at close range with the Yuanrong crossbow, the lightly armored soldiers of the Wei army rushed forward to take over the formation and drive them away, blocking the Han army crossbowmen and buying time for the remaining more than eighty armored soldiers to form a formation.

Wei Ping, who was watching on the opposite mountain, finally rushed to the Han army's plateau with dozens of his personal soldiers.

These one hundred heavily armored soldiers were the biggest support for their surprise attack team to break through the enemy's formation, and they were directly under the command of General Sima Yi.

If they can't break the formation, then there's no point in fighting today.

Fortunately, it worked.

This mud horse is simply not something that humans can stop!
It is estimated that the plateau will be captured soon.

Once we take it, there will be no suspense in today's battle!

"Deng Yangwu, do you want to continue to resist? Or retreat as planned?!"

Captain Yan Zhi rushed to Deng Yu and asked.

The soldiers were already exhausted, and the Wei army had a hundred heavily armored soldiers charging in the front. It would be difficult to eliminate them without paying a heavy price.

"Beat him!" Deng Zhi shouted fiercely and stomped his foot hard.

"They have fewer men on the plateau, and our army still has the advantage. Send all my personal guards up! Send yours too. We must hold on! Kill as many heavy armored soldiers as possible!"

"Yes!" Yan Zhi received the order and retreated quickly.

Deng Zhi looked around at his hundred personal guards, tears streaming down his face, and said, "I'm counting on you all!"

"General, you keep us alive just for today. We are willing to die for you!" Hundreds of people roared in unison, picked up their guns, turned around, and rushed to the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)