Chapter 587 Liangshan Offense and Defense (Part 2)
What are the powerful generals? At this time, Lu Da and Wu Song, who were leading the army to attack the mountain, explained the specific manifestation of the powerful general's name with practical actions. They rushed to the front of the team, and even if the defenders in front kept putting down their arrows, they could not stop their charge. While the two swords and Zen staff were waving in their hands, the arrows shot from above were all shot and ejected, and the two of them swept under the stone wall like two whirlwinds.
While throwing out the hook rope, the two of them rose up almost at the same time, with their feet only on the wall one after another, and the people had already swept up the high stone wall one after another. At this time, the Liangshan minions guarding behind the wall had not yet had time to make preparations to resist. Seeing the two of them pounce on like tigers, some people screamed and waved swords and guns to slash, but more people subconsciously retreated, but were already scared by the murderous aura emitted from the two of them.
Before the establishment of the camp, Lu Da and Wu Song were actually a bit embarrassing in the army. Both of them had a good relationship with Sun Tu, and they both had martial arts skills that were far superior to their comrades. According to the principle, the status in the army should be very high. However, they lacked military training and military use, which made it difficult for them to lead their own army like Lin Chong and Yang Zhi. After all, martial arts skills are not the most important in the army, and commanding is the ability to command.
As Sun Tu built this camp of trap, the two of them really found their place of use. In this army, all they had to do was lead the army to fight. Without too many concerns and particulars, they could fully demonstrate their strengths of high martial arts. It can be said that the camp was tailor-made for them.
The two of them did not disappoint Sun Tu's arrangement. As soon as they stepped onto the wall, they did not retreat at all against the many swords and guns that were stabbed. They all rushed in the roar of tigers. With the swords and rods, they not only broke the weapons handed to the front, but also took advantage of the momentum to pounce on them and rushed into the crowd, launching a completely one-sided killing.
Wu Song and Lu Da were like two tigers and wolves rushing into the flock of cattle and sheep to hunt. There was no enemy in front of them. After just a moment, they had killed the minions and kept retreating. More people were so scared that they retreated directly from the wall. Even if there were no ones, they were already confused at this time and were unable to counterattack and obstruct the officials who were constantly climbing up the wall.
It was also taken this opportunity that Li Zhong and Zhou Tong had already taken the troops to the wall. Compared with the price they paid to attack this pass a few days ago, their damage this time was almost negligible. In just one meal, hundreds of people in the camp had completely entered the city, and the first level of Liangshanpo, Locking Tian Pass, was broken!
Once they lost the support of the stone wall and were scared by the two killing gods Wu Song and Lu Da, these Liangshan troops guarding the pass completely lost the courage to resist and could only keep screaming and retreating. After more than half of the casualties and being captured, the other leaders fought and finally retreated to the mountain in a hurry. At this time, Li Kui and others had just ordered all their men to go down to rescue. Seeing this situation, they all showed an incredible look, and could only pick up the brothers to go up the mountain first.
At the same time, the official army at the foot of the mountain sent another army to go up the mountain, and cooperated with the soldiers of the camp to quickly occupy Suotian Pass completely to prevent the Liangshan bandits from counterattacking while they were not yet firm in their foothold.
When the number of soldiers and horses stored here reached more than a thousand people, everyone was relieved and confirmed that the first level was controlled by the government army. Suddenly, cheers continued to sound, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.
In fact, during this period, the pressure on the official army was quite high. They took turns to attack the mountains but gained nothing. On the contrary, people died every day. This may not affect the Qingzhou army, but it caused the wing troops in other prefectures to be slightly shaken.
Especially in these days, Sun Tu only sent the Xiang army of each prefecture to attack Suotian Pass, which inevitably caused people to have some questions. Is it because Sun Dujian wanted to retain his direct troops, so he only let the official troops of other prefectures die?
Until today, hundreds of people in the Qingzhou army quickly broke through the barrier like a wind and clouds, and everyone became convinced. It turned out that the elite troops of the Qingzhou army were indeed much stronger than their own. Perhaps Sun Dujian made this arrangement before just to hone the fighting spirit of the three armies. This also boosted Sun Tu's reputation in the army again, and many local officers looked at him with a little more respect.
"Send the order to let all the soldiers in the trapped camp retreat first, and then let others guard that level, so there is no need to rush to attack the above." However, Sun Tu was not blinded by this small victory and still issued the order calmly.
Zeng Kaiqian, who was forcibly brought by him, couldn't help but mutter: "Shouldn't our army take advantage of the victory to pursue it? This is a tactic written in the military book..."
Sun Tu waved his hand and asked someone to send an order. Then he glanced at him and said calmly: "Military books are dead, people live. It is better to have no books than to believe in books. Liangshan Lake is steep and has many levels. Now they must have been fully prepared. Continuing to attack will only increase casualties in vain." Moreover, he never thought that such a strong attack could really break Liangshan, so naturally it was impossible to act so recklessly.
Zeng Kaiqian was a little embarrassed. Sun Tu said in his words that he was talking about war on paper, which made him feel a little embarrassed. But with his current situation, he didn't dare to turn against Sun Tu, so he could only lower his head and stop talking, just look at what Sun Tu plans next.
Just as Sun Tu guessed, at this time, the Liangshan defenders were already working hard at the checkpoints above the Suotian Pass. They took out bows, arrows, wood, stones, and even tincture oil that were rarely used. They just waited for the official army to come up and gave the other party a headache.
However, the government army stopped when they saw it was good, but their plans were all gone. They could only watch the government army add troops to Suotian Pass and turn their own level into an outpost for the opponent to attack the mountain.
On the mountain and in front of the big village, Song Jiang finally persuaded Li Kui and others to lead troops to retake Suotian Pass brothers, and then sighed: "After all, many brothers have been left to the hands of the official army."
This made Chao Gai and others blush. It was their objection just now that they did not withdraw the person in time. Now, not only was the level lost, but the brothers inside also lost more than half. Of course, with the speed of the official army attacking the mountain, even if they really gave orders, the troops would not be able to retreat smoothly.
However, this did not affect their recognition of Song Jiang's judgment. This time, Chao Gai no longer cared about the rift between the two sides and asked sincerely: "Brother Gongming, what do you think we should do next?" Only one sentence made almost everyone present look at Song Jiang.
Song Jiang coughed dryly: "Brother, don't blame yourself. Although we lost for a while, I still believe that Liangshanbo is not something they can easily conquer. As long as the brothers at the next few levels are dealing with it carefully, they will not think about breaking the level easily."
After pausing, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the military camp at the foot of the mountain, and said in a very affirmative tone: "And I believe that as long as we can hold on for this period of time, the turning point will come soon."
"How do you say this?" Chao Gai asked in confusion.
"Because there is a problem in Sun Tu's rear, he shouldn't have too much food and grass. As long as we guard the mountain village for a month, he will have to retreat because of the food and grass. "It was not Song Jiang who said this but Wu Yong.
When it comes to military use to fight, Wu Yong is obviously not enough. But in terms of his guess and grasp of people's hearts, he is stronger than everyone in the village: "There has been news that Sun Tu is arrogant and domineering in Qingzhou, and even many officials in the court are powerless to him, so this is naturally suspicious. Especially now, there are still some treacherous and slanderous people in the Song Dynasty in power. As long as they are enemies with them, no matter how much the price they pay, they must eradicate them.
"Now Sun Tu is facing such a situation. If he continues to make contributions and even conquers our Liangshanbo, he will only make the senior officials in the court lose face and feel uneasy. Since this is the case, they will never allow such a thing to happen. In their opinion, the threat from Liangshanbo is not as good as Sun Tu."
"What the military advisor said is very much. All these officials are selfish and the officials are blinded by them, so Sun Tu will definitely not have a good ending. This time, if you can use our hands to convict them, they will definitely do something behind their backs, such as making a big fuss about food and grass supply." Hu Yanzhuo nodded deeply and agreed. As a former military general in the court, he knew very well what kind of virtues those officials were.
Song Jiang made the final summary at this time: "So even if we lose a city for the time being, we don't have to panic. We will win this battle! But if we want to win, we must be able to stand our minds, not be scared by Sun Tu's momentum, and not be inspired by it. Take the initiative to attack and give him any chance. As long as we hold on for one or two months, our siege will be resolved, and we can take the opportunity to counterattack and defeat them!"
If it weren't for the previous announcement, someone might have raised objections to Song Jiang's proposal, at least people like Liu Tang would definitely say something strange. But after the incident just now proved that his judgment was correct, but everyone failed without following it, no one dared to question it anymore. Chao Gai made a quick decision: "Just do as the leader of the Song village, we will defend all the checkpoints and slowly grind them with the official army. Anyway, the food and grass in our village are still quite rich and can afford it!"
Chapter completed!