Three Kingdoms: The Kingdom Cannot Be Partial

Chapter 94: Use right combination and win by surprise

Including more than 80 elite soldiers in heavy armor, more than 200 Wei soldiers have successfully climbed the plateau, established a firm foothold, and slowly tore through the Han army's line like a sharp knife and pressed forward.

Wei Ping climbed up the plateau. Some of his personal soldiers planted the general's flag on the plateau, and some of his personal soldiers gathered their courage and blew the horn.

The Wei soldiers who were fighting hard with the Han army in the distance heard the sound of the horn and saw the general's flag. They were overjoyed and fought while marching, slowly moving towards the gap.

The freed Han army also received orders to follow closely behind, continuously pouring towards the gap.
"Bang!" The long-handled axe hit a Han army soldier's chest hard, causing him to spit blood from his mouth and fly backwards.

The surrounding Han troops became frightened upon seeing this and retreated one after another, their morale being greatly dampened.

The Wei army's originally sluggish morale received a significant boost.

"No retreat!" Captain Yan Zhi roared at the top of his lungs.

He and Deng Zhi's 150 personal guards were now behind the front row of Han troops, supervising the battle, and more than 20 of them had already reached the front row.

Deng Zhi also arrived at the front line with a crossbow in hand, commanding the Han soldiers to surround the enemy and prevent the Wei army from widening the gap.

"Damn it, you not only didn't run away when you saw me, but you also dared to fight back!" The heavily armored axeman was angry that the Han army did not retreat but instead rushed forward.

"Die for me!" He opened his eyes and roared, then raised his axe and struck hard at a Han soldier with a silver spear in front of him.

What made his scalp tingle was that the Han army didn't even blink or move.

"Assassinate!" A sergeant of Yan Zhi's personal guards roared with red eyes and ordered.

At this point, the Han soldier who was bearing the brunt of the attack thrust his spear forward.

"Bang!" The dull sound of the long axe and the clattering sound of armor rang out at the same time.

The man groaned and vomited blood, then flew backwards, his life or death unknown.

At the same time, six silver spears had already pierced the heavily armored axeman.

An ownerless silver spear fell to the ground.

The other five spears hit the heavy armor hard, and four of them were deflected due to the slight curvature of the armor plates, so they failed to penetrate. Only the spear head in the hand of the sergeant who gave the order brought out a little blood.

"Stab!" While the axeman couldn't retract his axe in time, the sergeant gave the order again!

In a flash, led by the squad leader, several people rushed forward again.

It was also the first time for them to face this kind of iron lump covered in heavy armor and almost invulnerable to swords and guns.

The brain, whose IQ was sealed due to the adrenaline rush, had no time to think and just rushed forward mechanically and desperately.

The five silver spears collided fiercely with the heavy armor plates, causing a large amount of sparks to burst out, but they still could not break the armor.

The axeman with a long handle was stabbed and took two steps back, groaning twice.

"Stab!" At this moment, several Han soldiers thrust their spears forward again.

"Die!" The axeman raised his axe with a ferocious look, roared, and struck hard at the man who gave the order.

The strong sense of security brought by the heavy armor made him too lazy to even hide.

However, at this moment, a crossbow arrow came from nowhere, shot straight into his wide-open mouth and out from the back of his head, and finally knocked the helmet on his head directly off.

The Han army sergeant who had just given the order ignored the spears stabbing at him from both sides and rushed directly to the heavily armored soldier and hugged him. A dagger pierced into the heavily armored soldier's abdomen from bottom to top along the gap in the armor and then spun fiercely to tear it open.

The man fell dead with a bang.

The sergeant was hit by four or five bullets. Although the defense of the armor in the sleeves on his body was not as good as the heavy armor, it was not easily broken. After suffering some minor injuries, he retreated calmly under the cover of the larger Han army.

This is how it is when soldiers face off against each other. Only by hitting the weak points such as the face, neck, elbows, armpits, and lower body can effective damage be caused.

More than a hundred steps away, Deng Zhi took back his specially made six-stone large yellow crossbow, stepped on the crossbow with all his strength, and then quietly aimed at a heavily armored soldier through the mountain.

ejaculate.

Another person died.

Only then did he retract the crossbow and continue giving orders.

On the battlefield which was fifty or sixty steps wide, both the Han and Wei sides ignored casualties and advanced without retreat, starting a meat grinder-like killing match.

Wei Ping looked down from a high position, squinting his eyes to observe the Han army who were still resisting stubbornly through the layers of helmets and spears, and frowned for a moment.

The Han army still has the advantage.

At a glance, about 70% of the people were wearing iron armor.

This terrifying armor-wearing rate is even higher than the two thousand armored soldiers he brought with him.

Of his two thousand armored soldiers, only 30% were wearing light armor with two crotch armor, 30% were wearing medium-length armor with tube sleeves, and 40% were wearing leather armor. They were already elite.

However, his men were not as physically fit as the Han army because they had to fight on the mountain. Moreover, they suffered heavy losses in the battle for positions and were outnumbered by the Han army.

His only advantages were that he had a hundred heavily armored soldiers who were capable of fighting ten enemies at once, and that his men were better trained than this Han army.

However, these one hundred heavily armored soldiers, armed with long-handled axes and always victorious in battle, were unable to truly defeat ten of the Han army with one.

At the beginning, the heavy crossbows that the Han generals mobilized in time were fired at close range and intensively, resulting in more than a dozen casualties.

Later, because the long-handled axes were difficult to form a dense formation and their movements were slow, a small group of elite Han soldiers who came from behind fought desperately and successfully replaced more than a dozen people.

The battle line advanced and retreated at times, and finally came to a stalemate here.

"Let the warriors put on their spears and form a dense formation!" Wei Ping thought again and again and gave the order quickly.

The long-handled axe consumes too much energy and is too slow. Since it cannot scare the Han army, it is better to replace it with a dense formation of long spears and slowly advance relying on the advantage of defense.

On the banks of the Xieshui River.

Zhou Tai could not see what was happening on the battlefield on the plateau.

One of Wei Ping's personal soldiers, with a flag behind him, suddenly ran down the mountain, crossed the sloping water and came to his side.

"General Zhou, my general has led two hundred men to the plateau, but the Shu invaders are resisting stubbornly and are at a stalemate. We need support!"

Zhou Tai looked at the gentle slope that led to the plateau.

The defense line arranged by the Han army on this plateau formed a "』" shape.

Xiahou Bao led two thousand Chang'an soldiers and two thousand laborers to attract the attention of the Han army on the gentle slope in front.

On the flank, Wei Ping and Jia Xu led two thousand elite troops to climb the mountain and attack from a detour.

After most of Xiahou Bao's troops were defeated, he sent another thousand miscellaneous soldiers to attack them. Although they could not climb the plateau, they did not collapse.

Now Wei Ping was having a hard time attacking Jia Xu's flank, but the Han army was unable to send troops to support the front and defeated the 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers sent by Wei to the front.

Then the main force of the Han army must be on the flank, and there are no extra troops to be deployed!
When he thought of this, Zhou Tai became excited.

"Order Zhou Dang to lead a thousand men to attack the plateau from the front!
"If the Shu invaders on Wuzhangyuan don't come down to support us, then the entrance to Xiegu Valley will definitely be captured by the Wei Dynasty!"

The messenger rushed to Zhou Ping quickly.

Zhou Ping led his troops to the plateau.

On the plateau.

The Han and Wei sides are still fighting for positions.

A Han army commander (commanding fifty soldiers) covered in blood had his spear broken, leaving only the spear shaft. He could have picked up the spear from the ground and continued fighting, but suddenly he found an opportunity.

Without thinking any more, he threw the spear to the ground, took out a dagger from his waist, rushed out of the front line with red eyes, and pounced on a heavy armored soldier of the Wei army who was already tired.

The dagger in his hand pierced accurately through the gap in the armor and went straight into the heart of the Wei man.

After a successful strike, he laughed ferociously. The heavily armored Wei man was horrified and struggled twice before becoming completely motionless.

The Wei army's four or five long spears numbly stabbed at the team by inertia, and one of them pierced straight through the back of his neck.

The bloody gun tip pierced through the throat.

He held the tip of the gun with both hands and raised his head, his lips moving up and down, his throat gurgling, no one knew what he was saying, and he died with a hideous smile on his face and his eyes wide open.

At this point, more than a hundred Han soldiers in the front row were all killed in battle.

Deng Zhi and Yan Zhi also suffered thirty or forty casualties among the 150 personal soldiers in the front row.

In the end, only more than twenty of the Wei army's hundred brave warriors were left.

The young Han general's fearless display of courage was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, causing dozens of Wei soldiers around him, including the brave warriors, to retreat several steps.

The Wei army's formation was thrown into chaos.

The Han army took the opportunity to charge forward and pushed half of the Wei army on the position down the hillside.

In order to avoid being sniped by the Han army, Wei Ping hid in the crowd.

At this moment, he was squeezed out of the Han army position by the retreating soldiers and returned to the hillside.

Even after retreating to the hillside, they did not stop and were still forced to retreat slowly by the Han army.

Wei Ping was so angry when he saw this scene that his eyes were about to burst.

The hundreds of warriors who had already rushed to the battlefield were unable to break through the Shu army's defenses?!

Why didn't the Shu invaders collapse at the first blow like the Wu invaders and clan rebels of the past?!
Where on earth does this kind of courageous will to sacrifice one's life come from?!
After fighting with the wind for a long time, Wei Ping and the brave warriors and elite soldiers he brought encountered such stubborn resistance for the first time, and the belief in their invincibility and success seemed to have been shaken.

And to be honest, by this point in the battle, both the Han and Wei sides had become exhausted and were hanging on by a thread.

It's time to withdraw troops and call a truce.

Yet neither side did.

Wei Ping was naturally waiting for Zhou Tai and Jia Xu, one from the bottom of the mountain and the other from the top of the mountain, to come from both sides and encircle the Han army on the plateau.

Where is the Han army?
Of course, this is to defend this plateau position that cannot be lost.

Soon, Zhou Tai's messenger ran to Wei Ping and said breathlessly:
"General Wei, the Shu invaders can no longer hold out!

"The Shu invaders on the east coast numbered only a thousand or so. They abandoned two positions shortly after the battle began and have all retreated to the west coast!

"The army wants you to hold on for a while longer. General Zhou Dang is already charging onto the plateau from the front!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Ping finally felt a slight surge of joy. The Shu invaders on the east bank of Xieshui River abandoned their positions shortly after the battle began.

Why?

It is clear!
Once this plateau is captured, the Wei soldiers will appear directly from behind them, blocking their way back and leaving them with no way to retreat!

"It seems that the Shu invaders want to use all their forces to defend this plateau."

Once this plateau was captured, the Shu army guarding the entrance to the valley would have to abandon it and retreat.

If we retreat further, we will reach the Xiegu plank road.

Although the plank road is narrow, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

But the Wei Dynasty could have simply avoided fighting and blocked the troops at the entrance to the plank road.

Shoot some more rockets onto the plank road.

Is there water on the plank road to put out the fire?

Can you cook on the plank road?
With this thought in mind, Wei Ping issued another military order, ordering his soldiers to continue to stalemate with the Shu bandits and not give them any chance to withdraw and stop Zhou Dang's frontal offensive.

On Wuzhangyuan.

Due to the obstruction of vision, Liu Chan could not see what was happening on the battlefield at Xiegukou.

But when they fought against Cao Zhen earlier, smoke billowed from the Yushan general's platform.

This shows that the Han army had abandoned Yushan and retreated to the west bank of Xieshui.

According to the Longxiang Guard who had excellent eyesight, there were about three to four thousand Wei troops leaving the Wei army's general platform and heading towards the slanting water.

Apparently, the two positions east of the Xieshui River in the Han Dynasty were abandoned, and the Wei army wanted to try to cross the river to fight, or send people directly into the Xiegu Valley.

This is taken for granted.

The reason why the big man dared to abandon these two positions was that the sloping water behind the two positions was nearly one person deep for more than ten miles, making it difficult to wade across. Anyone who dared to come here would be a sitting duck.

With this thought, the great Han emperor in silver armor and red robe stood up from his chair, his armor rustling and his red robe fluttering. After a moment's thought, he said:

"Pijiang, send a thousand Tiger Guards down the plateau. King Yang Qiang, lead another thousand cavalry to protect the formation. I want to see if he dares to go any further."

"Yes!" Zhao Guang and Yang Tiao responded at the same time.

However, the ministers on the plateau were in an uproar.

Guo Youzhi spoke first, "Your Majesty, if Lieutenant General Longxiang and Yang Anding lead another 2,000 men down the plateau, we will only have 2,000 soldiers left on Wuzhang Plateau. What if we lose them?"

It is said that there are two thousand, but in fact, once Zhao Guangyang Tiao takes two thousand people away, there will only be one thousand left here.

Another thousand were led by Dong Yun and guarded the northern end of Wuzhangyuan.

Liu Chan frowned and was about to refute, but Zhao Guang spoke before him:
"Minister Guo, the battle situation is so difficult. The reason why the Wei invaders dared to rush to the entrance of Xiegu is because they knew that my troops at Wuzhangyuan were insufficient.

"The less we send out troops, the more certain they will be that our Wuzhangyuan is short of troops.

"After this battle, even if we manage to hold the entrance to the Xie Valley with difficulty, Sima Yi will likely send more troops to seize it, or even directly attack Wuzhangyuan."

Yang Tiao also nodded and said:

"Once the Wei invaders see our army coming down the plateau, it will be hard to predict our true strength. They will not dare to advance further until Deng Yangwu's side has won.

"And if he comes to fight, we can also relieve some of the pressure on Deng Yangwu."

After hearing what Zhao Guang and Yang Tiao said, everyone stopped discussing it.

Zhao Guang and Yang Tiao's troops had already been waiting on the slope of the lower plateau, and soon they marched towards the battlefield at the entrance of the valley in a mighty procession.

Flags are waving and gongs and drums are beating in the sky.

Zhou Tai suddenly stopped when he heard the drumbeats and looked towards Wuzhangyuan.

Linghu Yu and Xiahou Bao, who had already retreated from the front line, were both stunned.

Xiahou Bao asked, "What's going on? Why are there people coming down from Wuzhangyuan?"

Because the battle at Xiegukou was difficult and there had been no movement at Wuzhangyuan since the battle began, everyone was convinced that the last elite troops of the Shu army were deployed at Xiegukou, and the defense of Wuzhangyuan was empty, so they did not send troops to reinforce.

The reason why Zhou Tai just sent the last 4,000 infantrymen to advance deep into the Xia Valley Pass.

One was to see if he could go deep into the valley, force his way across the sloping water, and appear behind the Shu army.

The second thing is to confirm whether Wuzhangyuan will send reinforcements and whether it is really empty.

If no reinforcements came down even after this, it would undoubtedly prove that Liu Chan was indeed a coward and there were indeed no soldiers available on Wuzhangyuan.

Wen Qin asked, "General of the State, should we send the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to attack them?"

Zhou Tai thought for a moment and shook his head. "Let them come over on their own. We can wait for them to tire themselves out. Let all the soldiers who just set out return and be ready to meet the enemy."

After Zhou Tai finished speaking, he mounted his horse and climbed up the valley mountain that the Han army had just abandoned. From his vantage point, he looked down at the plateau on the other side of the sloping water.

It was only then that he saw the situation on the plateau for the first time.

Although they were five or six miles away, it was obvious that Zhou Dang, Wei Ping and Jia Xu's troops had successfully surrounded the enemy from three directions and attacked the plateau.

Most of the Han army maintained their formation and abandoned the front line of the plateau, starting to fight and retreat, and a small number of Han soldiers even abandoned their formation and fled.

The Wei army's front line advanced very slowly, and from time to time there was even a small section that was suddenly rushed forward by the Han army and retreated slightly.

But it was obviously the last desperate resistance.

"Charge!" Wei Ping shouted at the top of his lungs, commanding dozens of his personal guards who still had strength left to charge forward.

Of the two thousand troops he brought, only more than six hundred could still advance, and their physical strength and morale were almost exhausted.

There were only a dozen or so heavy-armored warriors left.

At this moment, we are advancing with difficulty and walking slowly.

If Zhou Dang had not led a thousand men to attack from the bottom of the plateau, and Jia Xu had not come down from the mountain and forced the Han army away, he would have been defeated today and would have had no chance to attack the plateau at all.

The Han army's fighting style was too reckless.

"Ten thousand victories!" Jia Xu, covered in blood, also roared and rushed forward holding a horn crossbow.

An arrow was shot, and a fleeing Han soldier fell to the ground a few dozen steps away.

Jia Xu finally became excited.

In fact, his more than a thousand men also encountered stubborn resistance on the mountain.

But in the end, only two or three hundred people held back the Han army, and the remaining hundreds of people went around the plateau and appeared behind the Han army.

The Han army's Deng-shaped flag was just a hundred steps away. Jia Xu led his personal soldiers and ran away.

"Brothers, charge! Kill the generals and seize the flag. Today is the day!"

However, just as he finished speaking, he was surprised to find that the flag with the word Deng on it suddenly stopped moving.

After a moment, it began to rewind.

"Boom boom boom!"

Continuous drumbeats came from the direction of the general's flag.

The Han army at the rear stopped and advanced at the sound of drums.

Generals Wei Ping, Jia Xu and Zhou Dang were all extremely shocked and looked towards the dense forest on the right at the same time.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of drums in the dark forest!
"Kill Wei Gou!"

"Wei Gou, die!"

A deafening roar suddenly came.

The more than 2,000 Wei soldiers in pursuit looked in horror in the direction where the sound came from.

A moment later, a large group of soldiers wearing heavy armor in the Wei style suddenly rushed out from the side.

The armored soldiers lined up in the middle, carrying long spears on their backs and holding heavy crossbows. They slowly pressed towards them like giant beasts with murderous aura.

On both sides and behind this group of heavily armored soldiers, there were countless brave soldiers shouting "kill", carrying big swords on their backs, holding heavy crossbows of the same strange design, and slowly coming towards them in formation.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

One step, one kill.

Before the Wei soldiers could react, hundreds of crossbow arrows flew through the air.

The clanging sound of armor plates colliding echoed throughout the valley.

Wailing and crying followed closely behind.

Nearly a hundred Wei soldiers fell in an instant!

"Kill!" Deng Zhi, with red eyes, snatched the general flag from his personal guards and waved it fiercely in the direction of the Wei army.

The Han army, which had been fighting and retreating without losing its formation, quickly stabilized its position and swept forward like a tidal wave.

The Wei army was frightened and formed a battle formation in a hurry.

"Wei dog, come and die!" An eight-foot-tall soldier in heavy armor grinned ferociously and grabbed a Wei soldier who was staggering to his feet from the ground from behind.

He grabbed the throat, took out a dagger and cut it casually like killing a chicken, then left the body and continued walking.

(End of this chapter)