Chapter 901: The Magnificent Power of Han (Twenty-Six)

ps: To read the exclusive story behind "I Am the King" and hear more suggestions about the novel, follow the official account of Qidian Chinese Network (add friends on WeChat - add official account - enter qdread), and tell me quietly! After a night's rest, the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army obviously accelerated their speed and arrived at Yesanguan at noon the next day. Then the whole army advanced along the Mashaping Gorge, which is the only way to go to Chadianzi and approach Fengcheng.

The Mashaping Gorge is about 1,500 meters long and 500 meters wide. The terrain is dangerous. When stepping into this narrow valley, Naha suddenly felt a creepy feeling, but this feeling came quickly, but it also went away quickly. In the high-pitched and passionate military songs of the whole army, it disappeared in an instant.

This kind of terrain is very easy to ambush. When the Eastern Expedition Army passes through this terrain, it is generally divided into three stages of advancement. The vanguard troops account for about the entire army. One fifth, the main force accounts for about one third, and the follow-up troops are the remaining troops. The three parts pass through in sequence. Even if there is an ambush, with the strong combat effectiveness of the Eastern Expedition Army, the three forces can also kill the ambush troops in a very short time and reunite.

There are high and steep slopes all around. Under the howling cold wind, a large amount of snowflakes drift down to this mountain corridor, making the snow in this canyon thicker than other places. When you step on it, the snow in some places has exceeded the knees, which greatly increases the difficulty of marching. Soldiers are still okay, but those crossbow carts accompanying the army and the convoys dragging military supplies are in big trouble. The ruts are deep. In the snow, the bodies of the animals pulling the carts almost all lay in the snow, and the carts were just crawling on the snow like snails, and a large number of infantrymen had to help push the carts. This made the neat marching team become clusters and groups in this section of the canyon.

Naha frowned at the crowded crowd in the canyon, and then looked at the towering mountains on both sides, and the previous feeling came to his mind again.

"Has the vanguard left the valley?" He turned his head and asked a general beside him.

"The vanguard has left the valley, and everything is peaceful." The general replied: "General, don't worry, the Qin army is now confronting the Wei-Zhao coalition army, and a part of the Han army is stationed in Fengcheng, They don't have the courage to come out of the city to fight us. With their fighting power, we are not afraid of them even if they set an ambush here."

"That's true, but the terrain here is too unfavorable for us."

"General, the scouts came here to investigate and found nothing wrong."

Naha nodded, "Pass the order down, speed up and pass through, put the convoy at the end, let them figure it out by themselves, we will pass this canyon and wait for them outside the valley."

"Understood, General, I will pass the order immediately."

Just as the general took a step forward, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the canyon, and in an instant, it was like a basin of cold water poured over his head. At the top of his feet, Naha felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. An ambush, indeed, there was an ambush.

Crossbows flew across the air and shot into the troops of the Eastern Expedition Army gathered in the canyon. With a loud bang, carriages collapsed one after another, and the surrounding soldiers fell down one after another under this sudden attack.

After the crossbows, groups of black clouds rose into the sky, gradually expanding in Naha's field of vision, "Catapults, stone cannons!" Naha roared, "Blow the horn, blow the horn, and disperse the formation!"

From the peaks on both sides, the flying stone cannons were as black as dark clouds, rushing straight into the narrow valley, smashing the snow in the narrow valley and making it fly up like a thick fog. The fog was spreading, and Naba's eyes were filled with snow and fog, so he could not see the situation of his troops clearly.

"Blow the horn and order the vanguard to attack the enemy on the left immediately." Naba half-prostrated on the ground and shouted, "This is the regular army of the Qin people."

On the peaks on both sides, there were bursts of shouting, and pieces of black armor looked particularly dazzling in the white world. Large flags were erected.

"General, there are a total of ten flags, and the Qin army has more than 10,000 people." The deputy general's voice trembled a little beside him.

Naba stood up straight, looking at the Qin army whistling down from both sides, his face grim, "Form a formation and prepare for battle!"

The military horn sounded, The Eastern Expedition Army, which was a little dazed by the sudden attack, finally came to its senses with the familiar sound of the military trumpet and began to assemble into teams. With the crossbow carts that had not been destroyed as the center, teams of Eastern Expedition Army quickly gathered together. The crossbow cart soldiers tore off the tarpaulin covering the roof of the carts, took out the tightly wrapped bowstrings from the boxes, twisted the strings at the fastest speed, loaded arrows, and raised shields. In a blink of an eye, square formations were formed in the canyon.

The Eastern Expedition Army's crossbows finally began to counterattack. Although the momentum was extremely weak compared to the attacks on both sides, it was a shot in the arm for the Eastern Expedition Army at this time.

The stone bombs thrown by the Qin army's catapults continued to fall. , although the accuracy is not good, it is good in quantity. Under the covering attack, there are always some that can hit the ranks of the Eastern Expedition Army. In the huge collision sound, the shields are shattered, and the soldiers under the shields are naturally not much better.

"Draw the crossbow, get ready!" Naha slowly drew out his sword and took a deep breath. At this time, he had no time to regret. If he did not respond properly today, the whole army would be destroyed.

On the top of the mountain, a young general stared at the battlefield coldly. He did not raise the flag at his position, but seeing that the Qin army generals standing on his left and right were standing solemnly, he knew that this person's identity was the highest here.

He is the commander-in-chief of all the troops of the Qin army attacking Wei. General Lu Chao is only 32 years old this year. No one thought that Lu Chao would actually come to Fengcheng in person. Even the Qin army’s own generals could not imagine that his family Why did the commander-in-chief pay so much attention to such a small battle? In the eyes of the Qin army generals, this was indeed an extremely small war.

But when the commander is here, the generals of the Qin army will naturally try their best to express themselves. The military discipline of the Qin army has always been strict, and there is no retreat before advancing. Once defeated, the first to be punished is the general who led the army. At this time, under the attention of the commander , naturally exerted even more strength.

"Has the vanguard of the Eastern Marching Army outside the valley been eliminated?" Lu Chao was surprised when he saw that the Eastern Marching Army that was ambushed in the narrow valley organized an effective defense in a very short period of time. The look on his face, but this trace of surprise was fleeting.

"The other side is resisting tenaciously. Although we are surrounded on all sides, the fierce fighting is still going on." A general whispered from the side.

"Go and supervise the battle in person, eliminate this vanguard force as quickly as possible, and seal the exit of the narrow valley." Lu Chao looked at the Qin army rushing down the mountains on both sides like a tide, "I want Weng Zhong to hold him back. No one from this Eastern Conquest Army can escape!"

"Understood!" The Qin army general took the order and strode away.

The crossbows and trebuchets on the mountains on both sides have stopped firing. Qin soldiers are pouring into the canyon like a tide. The snow on the hillside is relatively thin. As soon as they step into the canyon, the snow is knee-deep. This immediately slowed down the Qin army's attack speed.

"Crossbow!" Naha roared angrily.

In each square formation, there was a buzzing sound of arm-shaped crossbows shooting, and the arm-shaped crossbows rushed towards the Qin army like a swarm of locusts. The shield bearers of the Qin army immediately raised their shields, but the snow in the canyon was As a result, the Qin army's queue was uneven at this time. A round of crossbow arrows was fired, and there were still hundreds of soldiers falling in the snow. The armor on their bodies was really limited in their defense against the powerful force of the crossbow.

The arm-opening crossbows of the Zhengdong Army generally fire in three rounds, that is, all the crossbowmen do not fire at the same time, but in sequence. Such rounds of firing mean that after the third round of firing, the first round has basically been completed. The winding action.

A single shooting caused the casualties of hundreds of Qin troops, but the Qin troops seemed not to be affected at all. The shield soldiers began to approach, advancing step by step. Behind them, there were rows of soldiers in uniforms. Qin soldiers in black armor.

The crossbow at arm's length immediately changed from shooting straight to shooting upwards. Each crossbow arrow flew over the shield and then turned downward, got into the ranks of the Qin army, and shot each Qin army to the ground.

After four or five consecutive rounds of firing, the distance between the two sides finally closed to 200 steps. The crossbows of the Qin army on the opposite side finally began to fire, reaching a range of nearly 400 steps with the arm-opening crossbows of the Zhengdong Army. The range of Qin's crossbows It was almost twice as close. After the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, it finally began to counterattack. Although the range was short, the victory was in quantity. Above this distance, the two sides exchanged fire, and the Eastern Expeditionary Army fell into a disadvantage. .

Looking up and looking around, Naha felt miserable. The people here were all regular troops of the Qin army, more than twice as many as himself. I am afraid that I have no luck today. He looked up to the sky and sighed. It was not a pity to die, but he This defeat would probably drag down the governor's entire strategic plan. He couldn't help but hate himself for being too careless. If he had been more careful, how could he have fallen into such a trap.

"Destroy all the crossbows and prepare the entire army to attack!" He roared angrily, grabbed a spear, and strode towards the front of the queue.

"Kill one to get enough money, kill two to earn one!"

The crossbow was still on the ground, the sword was raised, the sword flashed, and the handle of the crossbow was broken into two pieces. The soldiers straightened their weapons and stood up straight.

The sound of charging bugles sounded from every corner of the battlefield.

"Kill!" Naha stood at the forefront of the team and killed the oncoming Qin army.

The two most powerful armies in the world suddenly collided together. In this narrow valley, which was more than 1,500 meters long and only 500 meters wide, fierce battles broke out everywhere. The soldiers of the two armies fought to the death. Together.

On the top of the mountain, Lu Chao looked a little ugly. Although the Qin army had an absolute advantage, the intensity of the opponent's resistance was beyond his expectation.

"Did you recruit someone to surrender?"

"General, it's useless. They have no intention of surrendering at all. Even if there is only one person left in a team, they will rush forward and fight us desperately. So far, we haven't captured many prisoners."

"If that's the case, then kill them all!" Lu Chao stood up and walked away. (It's a good pie-in-the-sky activity,

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