Four hundred and twentieth chapters trapped in the horse pit(1/2)
When Tu Yu died in battle, Situ Yao could see clearly on the tent. Seeing Tu Yu being beaten to death as a nail, he couldn't help but turn black in front of him and almost fell down.
But at this time, he was in the central army's tent, and in addition to him, there were dozens of heads of aristocratic families. Therefore, no matter how sad he was, he would suppress his emotions.
Therefore, even though his fists were almost clenched and bleeding, he did not say a word, and quietly watched Yang Yanzhang swayingly bring Tu Yu's head back to Guangling City.
After Yang Yanzhang's army returned to Guangling City, Situ Yao reluctantly calmed down and said in a hoarse voice: "Changqiu, go and take your senior brother's..."
Situ Yao couldn't help but pause when he said this, then he took a deep breath and said reluctantly: "Take your senior brother's body back."
"Yes, teacher."
Bai Chengqiu felt a little sad when he saw Tu Yu die in battle. Tu Yu is very generous to his people. Moreover, as the senior brother of Situ Yao, he takes good care of Hu Ming and himself on weekdays. He suddenly died here in battle today, which made Bai Changqiu feel a little unacceptable for a while.
He brought the soldiers to Tu Yu's corpse with a dazed expression. After seeing the corpse of Tu Yu's head cut off by Yang Yanzhang, he could no longer help but feel sad and burst into tears.
There are only three of them under the teacher's sect. Now the second senior brother Hu Ming died in Yining City. It has not been long since the body was taken back to Qianjiang. Now the senior brother Tu Yu died in front of him again, and even a complete corpse could not be left behind.
The three people under Situ Yao's sect are now the least capable self left.
Bai Changqiu gathered Tu Yu's body with tears in his eyes. When he returned to the camp, Situ Yao had been waiting in the camp for a long time.
When he saw the stretcher covered with white cloth that Bai Changqiu brought back, Situ Yao, who had already exhausted, stretched out his slightly trembling right hand, trying to uncover the white cloth.
"teacher……"
Bai Changqiu stopped Situ Yao. He gently pressed Situ Yao's hand and shook his head slightly, signaling Situ Yao not to lift the white cloth.
The scene under the white cloth was too tragic, and he was a little worried that Situ Yao would not be able to stand it after seeing it.
Situ Yao's trembling hands paused in the air. He hesitated for a long time, but in the end he did not push Bai Changqiu away, but instead took back his right hand powerlessly.
He regarded these three students as his own. Now he watched Tu Yu die before him, and even the whole body could not be left behind. That feeling could not be described by the word "sad".
"Yang Yanzhang..."
Situ Yao almost roared out these three words. Before, the second disciple Hu Ming died indirectly at the hands of Yang Yanzhang, and now his eldest disciple died tragically at the hands of Yang Yanzhang. For him, this hatred is irreconcilable.
After roaring, he stood there for a moment and closed his eyes weakly.
Yang Yanzhang, who had the Red Flame Dragon Rider in his hand, could not do anything to him at this time. Even if he wanted to use people to kill the Red Flame Dragon Rider, the heads of those aristocratic families would not agree to send troops when there was little hope, so it was not that simple to take revenge.
Situ Yao took a staggering footstep and returned to the chair. The continuous blows made him look old, who was originally a little energetic.
"Changqiu, the revenge of your two senior brothers must be avenged!"
"I understand, teacher."
Bai Changqiu nodded fiercely, but when he thought of the Red Flame Dragon Knight, he couldn't help feeling weak, "But Yang Yanzhang has the Red Flame Dragon Knight..."
"The Red Flame Dragon Knight can protect him for a while, but not for a lifetime."
Situ Yao pondered for a while, then said, "Changqiu, you can transfer half of the craftsmen in the army to create a horse trap."
"Create a trap?"
Bai Changqiu was stunned for a moment. He just dug a slender deep pit on the ground. Why is it specially built? Isn’t the teacher so angry?
"Yes, it's just a creation!"
Situ Yao said firmly: "The horses riding by the Red Flame Dragon are not ordinary war horses. Even if they are trapped in the ordinary horse pit, they will slow down at most and will not cause any harm to them, so they must be specially built."
"You asked the craftsmen to pour it with iron, leaving barbs in the hole in the middle, and make a metal trap."
"Even if it is a wild horse, as long as it falls into a trap, I will let it break its hooves!"
For Situ Yao, the most difficult thing about the Red Flame Dragon Knight is not the soldiers in the Marrow Cleansing Realm, but the magical war horses.
As long as you can destroy those war horses and make the red flame dragon cavalry lose their mobility, and then you will siege and kill them, I think the heads of those aristocratic families will not oppose them.
"Metal trapped horse pit?"
Bai Changqiu thought a little in his heart, and instantly understood what Situ Yao meant. He nodded and said, "I understand, teacher, I will let the craftsmen do it now."
"I promise that after it is completed, those Red Flame Dragon Cavalry will never step out of Guangling City again."
After saying that, Bai Changqiu went to gather the craftsmen directly.
With a army of 500,000, there are naturally no fewer craftsmen who follow the army, so the samples were quickly created.
It was a two-meter square metal plate poured with iron. On the metal plate, there were several fist-sized grooves extending downwards, and hollow metal columns were chaotic inside the metal columns, two or three fingers long metal barbs.
This is the trapped horse pit made by metal. The horses that bury this metal plate on the ground and move forward at high speed will immediately break the horse's legs as long as they sink their hooves.
Even if it is not trapped deep, those barbs are enough to make the horse's hooves half-waste, and they are not vicious.
However, this kind of metal trap also has its disadvantages, that is, this thing is made of pure metal. If you want to use it to surround Guangling City, even if it only surrounds the four gates, you need to use a lot of iron.
But their army went to war, and there were very few other metal products besides the armor of the army. Therefore, for the sake of these metal horse traps, Bai Changqiu forced the armor of nearly 3,000 people to barely create a metal horse trap that covered all four city gates.
These traps were almost laid under Yang Yanzhang's nose, so he naturally saw the vicious intentions of Situ Yao and others, so after this thing was laid, he rarely let the Red Flame Dragon Cavalry leave the city.
However, the replacement was Han Qu's Shenwei Army. In order to train troops, Han Qu sent 10,000 people out of the city every time. The goal of these 10,000 people was very clear. In addition to siege equipment from Situ Yao, he was digging the trap that Situ Yao and the others worked hard to lay.
Situ Yao naturally couldn't watch this kind of thing, so he sent elite troops to surround these Shenwei troops who dared to leave the city.
The generals sent by Han Qu were not greedy for merit. After fighting for a while, they immediately led their troops back to the city as Situ Yao became more and more people.
Then after a while, Han Qu sent another 10,000 people to fight, and this cycle continued and circled back and forth, hoping to achieve his goal of training.
"This is something wrong."
Situ Yao looked at the ten thousand Shenwei troops walking out of the city again, and couldn't help but frown.
These ten thousand soldiers came out several times a day, but they were all iron-clad. Now they should be exhausted. But judging from the mental state of these people, they were all refreshed and full of energy, and they could not tell that they were tired at all. This is obviously abnormal.
Moreover, not only that, the strength of these soldiers was also abnormal. The Shenwei Army came out every time and in order to destroy these 10,000 people, he mobilized 50,000 elite troops to encircle and suppress them every time.
But the result was that the 10,000 Shenwei army that came out had almost no losses. Instead, the 50,000 elite troops on his side lost one or two thousand at the beginning, and then to the last few thousand at the end, and then to nearly 10,000 now, the casualties are getting bigger and bigger.
"What's going on with this army?"
Situ Yao was filled with confusion. He had thought that what he had come up with was not the same army, but the problem was that if these armies were really not the same, it would mean that Han Qu had tens of thousands of such powerful soldiers in his hands, and the result would undoubtedly be even more terrifying.
So even if Situ Yao had guessed this possibility in his heart, he would not dare to think deeply about it, because such a result would make him feel desperate.
"We have to find a way to keep this army."
Situ Yao put aside the complicated thoughts in his heart and began to think about how to keep the ten thousand soldiers who left the city, and at the least he would hurt them.
Otherwise, if they let them go in and out like this, their previous efforts would be in vain. And more importantly, the iron materials in the army had been almost exhausted. If they were asked to dig like this, the army's armor would be a little insufficient.
Thinking of this, Situ Yao couldn't help but feel a little sad. He surrounded 500,000 and 100,000. He obviously had the advantage, but the 100,000 army would leave the city as he wanted, but he had no choice but to do anything to them. What kind of city is this surrounded!!!
Situ Yao has been on the battlefield for half his life and has never surrounded the city so frustrated. Sometimes he wonders if he is really old.
Then when he recalled, what would have happened if he was young, facing such a strong and unreasonable army?
As a result, after thinking for a long time, he found that even when he was young, he had no choice but to use this army.
After thinking about this, he couldn't help but feel even more sad.
After planning for half a lifetime, I thought I could successfully overthrow the Mo family, but it would be fine if there were a lot of accidents, but such an outrageous army emerged. Is God determined to go against me?
Situ Yao took a deep breath. If he didn't believe in fate, he would just go directly to the emperor at that time, Mo Congyi, and he would not have to take huge risks to plot against Tang Shuyu.
Therefore, even if this fate is decided by God, he still has to fight with God.
"There is strong, but the battle formation is a bit messy, and the formation when retreating is even more scattered. This is obviously a new recruit."
Situ Yao thought for a while, then called Bai Changqiu, "Changqiu, when the troops are sent later, bring ten thousand auxiliary soldiers."
"Bring ten thousand auxiliary soldiers?"
Bai Changqiu didn't know what Situ Yao wanted to do, so he was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Why should I lead the auxiliary soldiers, teacher?"
"Han Qu wants to use our people to train troops. Since that's the case, I'll let him 'quickly achieve it'."
Situ Yao looked at the ten thousand Shenwei troops fighting outside the city and said lightly: "In addition to bringing auxiliary soldiers, you must also try your best to defeat them, so that Han Qu can slowly relax his vigilance."
"Teacher, do you mean to paralyze Han Qu by fraud?"
Bai Changqiu instantly understood Situ Yao's plan. He brought some auxiliary soldiers on his side and let the opponent release water, making the opponent think that they are very strong and slowly numb them. After they gradually got used to their weak combat power, they replaced them with elite soldiers to fight without intention, so that it would be easy to keep the soldiers who had the city.
"only……"
Bai Changqiu thought for a while and couldn't help but hesitate. This plan is good, but it will only cost a large number of innocent soldiers. He was afraid that the coalition forces of the aristocratic families would disagree. "Will they agree to let the people of those aristocratic families die?"
"It's okay, I'll talk to them about this."
Situ Yao nodded indifferently. There is no immortality in war. As the leader of the three armies, he still has the final say in this matter. "Just go."
"clear."
Seeing Situ Yao say this, Bai Changqiu stopped talking and directly transferred 10,000 auxiliary soldiers to fight against the 10,000 Shenwei army who had just left the city.
I didn't know that I had changed my opponent's Shenwei Army, but I felt that I was able to fight this time, and I didn't feel that my opponent was weak at all. I directly killed nearly 10,000 people, and then I retreated to Guangling City.
In the next two battles, the results of the Shenwei Army each time they left the city were similar.
Logically speaking, it is difficult for Han Qu and Yang Yanzhang to discover this situation on the wall, but the last time, Han Qu sent out a new soldier who had fought for the first time, and he killed so many people at once, which made the two of them realize something was wrong.
"This is not right."
Han Qu frowned and looked at the Shenwei Army who was withdrawing troops under the city, his eyes full of confusion. Judging from previous experience, it would be good if the soldiers who left the city for the first time could kill one or two thousand people, but this time he killed five or six thousand, and he had not suffered any losses. This was obviously something was wrong.
To be continued...