Xiahou Dun thought that he had wasted the daylight by Zhuge Liang, so he naturally felt angry.

So since he decided to fight, he had to hurry up the next day and try to use dark cover to reduce losses while approaching the enemy camp and breaking the wall.

It is best to attack the fortifications of Zhuge Liang's camp that had just destroyed the outer periphery of Zhuge Liang, and the sky will be bright. In this way, in the subsequent pursuit of the death and death, we can also avoid ambushing due to unclear vision and unclear pursuit.

While aggressive, the risks can be minimized and the plan is perfect!

Du Xi wanted to persuade him a few times, saying that he should not be so anxious, and he would discuss it when Li Dian came tomorrow morning. It would be too late to fight at noon. After all, Li Dian was only two days later than Xiahou Dun, which was not long.

They had discussed the advancement of the camps in sections and successively in order to make stability. The front army advanced tentatively and determined to be able to gain a foothold so that the rear army could easily lead to the camps and keep up. In this way, there are always two lines of defense, which can minimize the losses in the middle of the slums, and when retreating, they can stabilize their position and not collapse for a hundred miles.

But Xiahou Dun insisted that time was urgent: "Zhuge Liang was on the first day and scared us by Chen Dao's bluff, and today he scared us by expansive earth walls. It has been two days since he delayed!

How far is Wancheng from Bowangpo? The vanguard who drags Gao Shun will arrive tomorrow! Maybe we will have the last chance to destroy Zhuge Liang first, so why are we waiting for! Wait until the enemy joins the army and loses the opportunity? I can't wait!"

If you stop, you will suffer! General Xiahou is still very decisive and domineering.

...

In the early morning of the next day, Xiahou Dun's perfect plan was firmly implemented.

The 40,000 Cao troops were divided into two parts, each with only a few miles apart. They launched waves of offensives along the front of the valley, which was only two or three hundred feet wide.

Soldiers with leather and even iron armor were arranged to the front row, with long spears, swords and shields, and there were crossbowmen to cover them in the back row.

The armorless soldiers wearing ordinary military uniforms were divided into some of them to carry all kinds of trees that had just been cut down and repaired the branches, and were preparing to hit the wall temporarily.

After the fourth update, Xiahou Dun's vanguard rushed to the front of Zhuge Liang's camp's long wall.

Xiahou Dun did not expect a sneak attack in secret whereabouts. The main reason was that there were too many people in the army and it was crowded. The sneak attack may lead to trampling on one another. Therefore, all the soldiers rushed upwards with shouts and shouts, and could tell the position of the sound to prevent them from hitting and stepping on their own people.

In order to indicate the formation, Xiahou Dun also asked some iron armored soldiers to light up the torches. There were also torches on the wall of Zhuge Liang's camp opposite, so people near the torches were easily gathered by long-range crossbows.

But soldiers who are slightly farther from the light source hide in the darkness, which can minimize casualties caused by long-range crossbows. Both sides can only shoot blindly in the dark.

Xiahou Dun made this arrangement and knew that the Han army's crossbows were fierce. The divine arm crossbows had appeared on the battlefield for more than two years. Although Cao's army had never suffered from the divine arm crossbows, they had heard enough bad news from Yuan Shao and Sun Quan.

(Note: Yu Jin's troops were once shot directly by Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci with the divine arm crossbow, but Yu Jin's troops were wiped out as prisoners last year, so they did not have the opportunity to pass these lessons of failure to the comrades in the rear.)

Now it seems that the effect is pretty good. During the first wave of the attacking battalion, the darkness widened the long-range firepower gap between the two sides.

However, Xiahou Dun's vanguard troops were not happy for long, and were soon blocked by new troubles.

I heard that during the charge, it was almost the last one or two hundred steps. Suddenly, Cao soldiers screamed and fell down, especially those soldiers carrying the wooden bumps. One or two fell in a group of people, and the comrades next to me would not be able to withstand it, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

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The obstacles such as deer antlers and horses are slightly larger in size. Although it is easy to bump into it in the darkness, as long as you are within twenty steps next to the torch, you can still see it clearly when you walk in front of you. It is just that you have to stop suddenly and detour and easily lead to chaos in formation.

The expensive caltrops were basically rarely useful in the late Han Dynasty. In this era, bamboo caltrops were mainly used as foot traps. Zhuge Liang was so prepared that he obviously expected that Xiahou Dun would be unable to calm down and wanted to fight the time difference before Gao Shun arrived.

The hit rate of crossbows in the darkness dropped sharply, and those small traps and obstacles were even more difficult to avoid. Xiahou Dun's scalp was numb when he heard the screams from the front and back, but he didn't care about it. He shouted loudly and ordered the whole army to rush over! Even if he used human flesh to make a way out, he would still break through the camp!

After all, the battlefield was narrow and there were not many people on the front. If there were casualties, they were not afraid of blocking the troops. Xiahou Dun showed the courage to break through the wounded soldiers after the Battle of Red Cliff in history, and wanted to make a way out just like wading through landmines.

Under Xiahou Dun's tyranny and harsh military law, after killing several retreating officers, Cao's soldiers had to carry out the orders.

But soon, they discovered Zhuge Liang's viciousness: In winter, the thorns that were deployed hastily overnight must be sprinkled there casually, so once they are stepped on or even just walked and kicked against the ground, they are easily swept away or taken away by the wounded.

The thorns deployed by Zhuge Liang were actually sprinkled with a small pinch of expansive soil after being sown, just like when sowing seeds when planting, they had to bury the soil. After burying them, they were watered.

In the cold winter climate of November of the lunar calendar, the mountainous areas are still the same, and the expansive soil swells and freezes. It is easy to grow the caltrops on the ground. Sometimes, if a Cao soldier is broken, he can't sweep away. The ones behind him may be repeatedly output.

Cao's army was covered in dust and suffered more than a thousand casualties before it could be considered as having touched the earth wall. Although the absolute loss was acceptable, this unilateral abuse that could not be beaten at the beginning really caused the morale of the army to plummet.

Some Cao's soldiers began to doubt their lives: the enemy generals were so vicious. General Xiahou had been trapped twice in virtual and real tricks and was avoided by the enemy. Now he thought he had finally caught the opportunity to defeat them for the third time, so he would still have fallen into the trap, right?

The effect of psychological strikes is very obvious. Many soldiers no longer work hard when they start charging, and look for opportunities to fight back.

Fortunately, they had already reached the front of the camp, and Xiahou Dun's soldiers began to smash the wall. If they didn't move forward at this critical moment, they would die, and they didn't have to think too much about it.

A group of soldiers who hit the wall of Cao's army were shot in front of the earth wall by crossbows. The blood seeped down along the icy and loose expansive soil, almost unable to flow to the ground.

But their efforts were not worthless. After more than a thousand people died, these strong people worked hard on the outside but the seemingly tall but not strong earthen walls were directly knocked down by trees.

The defensive effect is completely incomparable to similar projects in history when Cao Cao watered the ice city by the Wei River and defended Ma Chao.

"Break the wall!"

In today's battle, after a total of three or four thousand people were killed or injured, Xiahou Dun was still very happy, and his tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

And he saw that Zhuge Liang was obviously timid in the battle! He was indeed bluffing! When the earth wall was knocked out of the first gap, Zhuge Liang's troops in the battalion began to become unstable and retreated.

When Cao's army rushed in completely, what they insisted on leaving was just a small number of warriors who cut off the rear and blocked the friendly forces.

"Zhuge Liang is already at the end of his strength! His soldiers' morale is low, so he dare not fight if they break the wall! Chase! You must bite him, and you cannot let him run away! You cannot let him withdraw back to Bowang County to meet Gao Shun!"

Xiahou Dun was not careful either. There was a chaos in the front camp. Many soldiers who were slow to carry trees were still blocking the front row, blocking the pursuit of friendly troops.

Although Xiahou Dun had thousands of cavalry troops, the cavalry would not be thrown into the front line of battles, so when the camp was broken, the cavalry was still in the rear. The valley near Bowangpo was narrow, and it took a lot of time to change the back team into the front team.

He could only watch Zhuge Liang's defeated soldiers slightly widened the distance and failed to bite his tail when he broke the camp.

"Let the wall-hitting hands retreat to the hillsides on both sides! Throw all the trees you carry! Don't throw them on the road! Carry them to the roadside and throw them away and don't block the road! Give them a way out and go forward to the cavalry in the back team!"

Xiahou Dun commanded the troops, and the sky was not yet dawn, so he wasted a stick of incense, which was considered to have switched the formation of the troops from the attack formation to the pursuit formation. At this time, the sky was completely bright, and Cao's army launched an orderly pursuit again.

The distance that Zhuge Liang ran away was forced to return with a forceful army. Cao's army ran all the way, chasing for an hour and a half, from half of Mao to the end of Chen time (9:00 am), and chasing twenty miles away was considered to be the six or seven miles away that had been opened before.

"Zhuge Liang is right in front! Illegal Zhuge Liang!"

At this time, Zhuge Liang also set up a formation and turned around to fight. Although the main force of his army was mainly new recruits who had only served for one year, since he knew that Cao's army might be seduced this winter, it was necessary to prepare a little bit of elite troops as a later move.

Zhuge Liang is cautious, which is not far from his mentor in this regard.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang carried a camp with him and deployed it at the preset blocking site, just waiting for the effort to turn around and kill. Please note that this camp did not retreat twenty miles from the camp this morning to retreat here, because if the iron armored soldiers ran twenty miles in iron armor, they would not have to fight at all, and they would have been exhausted long ago.

They camped in the rear the night before, waiting for work today. What they had withdrew was the light troops that Zhuge Liang seduced the enemy.

In addition, the ambush on both sides of the valley have been deployed long ago. These are basic operations, and there is nothing to say in detail about the word "water".

You can always believe in Zhuge Liang's basic ambushes.

The essence of the entire battle was to seduce Cao's army here with an appetite, making Cao's army panting and physical strength greatly reduced. He had been depressed many times before, and the frightened bird was always worried about being trapped.

Now, everything is ready to be harvested.

"Xahou Pilghu! I really think my Han army is all new recruits, so you can see the true power of the trap camp and the Divine Arm Crossbow!"

The Han army shouted in unison, and the crossbows were fired. After a firepower suppressed, all the ambushers on both wings came out, and they also tried to divide the Cao army into several segments.

The effect of this ambush is a bit like the Bowangpo ambush in history, and it also has a bit of the tragic situation in history when Zhang He was cut into several sections in the valley by Zhang Fei in Langzhong, Baxi.

After all, Zhang He in this life had no chance to go to Shuzhong to be beaten. By chance, Xiahou Dun once suffered the beat he should have been beaten and the beaten beaten that Zhang He owed, in order to avoid the debt that he always owe.

Cao's army was in complete chaos, and the beginning and end could not be looked at each other, and was killed in a terrible way.

"Ah..." Xiahou Dun himself screamed like a cow, and was shot into the left eye with an arrow from a crossbow.
Chapter completed!