Chapter 61 Attack and Loss

Southwest, barbaric land, Black Mountain Cliff.

As soon as the sky dawned, Chen Bing sounded a stirring drum in the Song army camp three miles below the cliff. At the urging of the sound of drums, 500 Song troops rushed to the still quiet Black Mountain Cliff at the fastest speed. Because of the limitations of the terrain here, the Song army sent only a few hundred people to attack the Black Mountain Cliff every time, and 500 people were already the limit.

Today is the fifth day of the Song army's attack on the Black Mountain Cliff. With the first four days of experience, the soldiers were able to quickly enter their roles, and each of them set up a formation according to the established guidelines. Five hundred people rushed to the bottom of the cliff and had completely blocked the whole road under the mountain. The shield in front of them held a wooden shield that was more than half a person high and was always careful of the attack above.

But this time, the black mountain cliff was calm, and there were no arrow stones like the rain of a few days ago, which made the soldiers hesitate a little. At this time, the generals of Song camp over there also found that this was different, and someone immediately reported this information to Xiang Cang, the general who attacked the mountain.

Xiang Cang came to the front of the camp. After a closer look, he resolutely gave the order to attack: "Kill me. It seems that the barbarians have no weapons to hinder us from climbing, so they will not stop it!" The two teams behind me also follow me. This time I'm going to take down the Black Mountain Cliff!"

In the past four days, the Song army hit his head under the Black Mountain cliff, and nearly 2,000 people fell on the road up the mountain, mostly injured by stones smashed from the mountain. This made Xiang Cang, who struggled to attack the mountain from Wang Chong, anxiously. He still expected to rely on this battle to wash away the previous shame of the Xizhou army. Now, seeing that there is no movement on the Black Mountain Cliff, he naturally wants to take the opportunity to attack.

The order was issued, and the drums that urged people to move forward were even more urgent. The 500 Song troops who had reached the foot of the cliff no longer stopped and shouted to rush to the narrow passage on the cliff. And behind them, hundreds of people followed with weapons, and suddenly under the cliff of Montenegro had become the sea of the Song army.

Because the road on the cliff was extremely narrow, the Song army who went up could only open a very long team, but their speed was not slow. After a cup of tea, the first shield soldiers had rushed halfway along the mountain road. And the road up again was steeper than below, which reduced their speed, but this did not affect the Song army below, and soon the mountain road was full of Song soldiers.

Seeing that the dense Song army had occupied half of the mountain road, and the barbarians above still did not react at all, Xiang Cang's face smiled proudly for the first time: "Soon, our Xizhou army will be able to occupy the Black Mountain Cliff! The first achievement of entering the barbarians will belong to our Xizhou Army!"

Corresponding to his full confidence, several generals around him frowned, and they always felt that something was wrong. Yesterday at dusk, the barbarians' counterattack was still so fierce that they retreated the Song army close to the cliff. How come today they didn't even make any movement because they had exhausted stone wood and other weapons?

Things must be close to the demon, and the faces of these generals suddenly became solemn. They wanted to advise Xiang Cang to slow down the Song army in front of him and distance them before going up. But when the words came to their mouths, they still didn't say it, because they knew that it was absolutely impossible for Xiang Cang to listen to their opinions and act cautiously at this time. Once this brave general is determined to fight, he will throw in all his troops!

In the army camp of the Song army, Wang Chong climbed up and looked at the situation on the other side of the Black Mountain Cliff. He also frowned and felt even more uneasy. He looked back at Wang Junqing beside him and said, "Junqing, something is wrong today!"

"Yes, why haven't the barbarians fought back today? According to the past, whenever our soldiers rushed to the bottom of the cliff and were about to climb the mountain road, they would greet us with stones and arrows. Why are you so calm today?" Wang Junqing also said uneasily.

On the second day of the attack of the Xizhou army on the Black Mountain Cliff, Wang Junqing and others returned to the camp and reported everything they had found to Wang Chong, including Xu Jinghong's plan to climb the cliff from behind the Black Mountain cliff. Although he attached great importance to their intelligence and greatly appreciated the battle plan to climb from the back of the cliff, Wang Chong did not adopt this idea.

Because before that, he had ordered the Xizhou army to attack the Black Mountain Cliff. At this time, of course, he can't use other methods. Only by watching the Xizhou Army attack the Black Mountain Cliff for the time being can they change their strategy until they can't attack it for a long time.

Wang Junqing understands Wang Chong's persistence. The Song army is composed of multiple troops, and sometimes it also has to take into account the mood of several other soldiers, otherwise it will only mess up his position and make it impossible to win.

"I hope our worries are superfluous. This is not a trap for barbarians!" After a long silence, Wang Chong had no choice but to say such a sentence, and obviously his heart was also very uncertain about it.

But soon, the situation on the cliff told Wang Chong that it was impossible.

Just as the Song army stretched out and attacked the Black Mountain Cliff with all its strength, on the top of the cliff, a man taller than the ordinary barbarians smiled proudly: "Song Jun is nothing more than that. I just made a little trick, and they sent it to my door."

"Duan Sigui, what did you do when you ordered us to stop attacking? Now the Song army has killed halfway up the mountain. If they don't stop it, they will attack!" A barbarian leader beside him said uneasily.

"Mu Feng, don't worry! When they cross the next mountain pass and let people do it, then you will know how correct my strategy is!" Duan Sigui smiled and said, "Believe me, I can't joke about the lives of all of us here."

Mu Feng, the younger brother of the barbarian king, snorted, but did not speak again. Only because of the obstruction of the Song army in the first four days, the weapons on the mountain were consumed too quickly, so he had no choice but to ask the general with Han blood. The other party only asked him to give him today's command, and Mu Feng can only endure it now. However, seeing Song Jun keep coming up, but his own people can't do it, which makes Mu Feng feel very uncomfortable.

Seeing that the forward troops of the Song army had rushed through the mountain pass, Duan Sigui nodded and said, "Let everyone do it!"

"Do it, smash them all down!" Mu Feng immediately gave the order to attack.

Immediately, the barbarians who had been patient on both sides of the mountain and the mountain road finally showed their heads. First, the large mountain stone rolled down under the push of more than ten people and rushed straight to the front Song Jun. Those rocks rumbled down the mountain road, carrying the strength of a thousand pounds and hitting the front open team with a shield.

Those wooden shields can only resist arrows and small pieces of gravel. Under the crushing of such a big stone, they suddenly split apart. The Song soldiers who hid behind them were also crushed by stones after a few screams and turned into a ball of flesh and blood. And those rocks did not stop moving forward, but rolled faster and faster because of the terrain, and rolled straight to the Song soldiers below.

Because of the terrain, the soldiers had no room to escape. More people were crushed to the ground by the falling rocks, and some jumped off dozens of feet high cliffs because of the deadly stone and fell to pieces.

After the rocks rolled down, the barbarians kept greeting the Song army below the stones in their hands, bows and arrows, and immediately covered the whole Song army, who was already on the mountain road with little cover. The screams and exclamation kept coming from the mountain road to the Song army camp below.

At this time, Song Jun had no fighting spirit and turned his head and ran down the mountain one after another, but the narrow mountain road became the biggest obstacle to their departure. Many people had to squeeze out the robes in front of them before they could go down, and this process was the process of more Song Jun falling on the mountain road and being trampled to death by their own people.

Seeing that the Song army was so vulnerable, the morale of the barbarians rose even more. Stones, wooden pillars and arrows greeted the Song army like raindrops. The condescending attack made the weapons thrown and shot by the barbarians more powerful, and the Song army only focused on escaping desperately, which made it more difficult to dodge. Many people only bleed to the ground after being hit, but no one went up to treat them. What was waiting for them was bloodshed...

After half an hour, when Song Jun finally ran down the mountain, there were only less than 200 people left, and these people were more or less injured, and their eyes were full of fear.

This battle was a very heavy blow to the Song army, because this situation was completely passively beaten, which was almost a defeat.

Looking at such an ending, Xiang Cang's face suddenly turned white. He knew that with this defeat, he and the Xizhou army had no possibility of turning over. An army that has been completely detered, even if there are still available soldiers, it is impossible to exert its real combat effectiveness.

In the Yunzhou army camp on the other side, Ye Hao smiled with relief when he saw the end of the Xizhou army. He was very glad that he did not attack with the Xizhou army, otherwise his men and horses would be severely damaged. At the same time, he also felt that the task given to him by the Ye family became less difficult. This Black Mountain Cliff is indeed a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is no need to do anything by himself, and Wang Chong's failure will not be too far away.

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