According to Di Lie's original plan, he blocked the Jin army and retreated step by step. While actively retreating, he continued to attack the morale of the Jin army, eliminated its vitality, and finally dragged the Jin army down. In this way, even if the Jin army was at the end of the journey, it was already at the end of its strength. It could not penetrate Lu silk, and it was even more impossible to penetrate the bunker.

Unexpectedly, in the blocking plan, a small harassing force, the special operation team, created a series of mine wars, and defeated the morale of a powerful and victorious army. In addition, the forest musket attacks, the valley was trapped in thunder. In fact, less than 2,000 infantrymen besieged the Jin army with tens of thousands of infantry.

Under such a great situation, should we trap the enemy to death, defeat or even annihilate it in one go? Or should we stop as planned, withdraw the Naihe Pass, rectify the troops, and prepare for a defensive counterattack?

Di Lie was a little confused. When discussing with his subordinates, his opinions were basically one-sided. Ling Yuan, He Yuanqing, Gao Liang, Zhang Li, Shi Zhihe and even Zhang Rui, who had just returned to the construction, all believed that the Jin army had no fighting spirit, and even with ten thousand people, their combat power might not be as good as Wanyan Agu's three thousand Jin army. On that day, the Tianzhu Army also used four infantry battalions and two thousand people to defeat them. As for Yang Zaixing's 800 cavalry battalions, they were just to ensure complete annihilation, and they only participated in the war at the last moment. Its significance was equal to the last straw that broke the camel's back...

The result of the military discussion was that if the enemy could be defeated in one fell swoop for another two days, it would be best if it could be defeated in one fell swoop. It would be impossible to withdraw after giving the enemy strong killing and injury. Gao Liang also asked at the meeting whether a night attack could be launched, even if it failed. Di Lie rejected it. If he had a strong bow team, it would be considered, but musketeers... In the dark environment, soldiers loading ammunition and operating muskets would be greatly affected, and they would be at least one or two times slower than usual. Moreover, the flame mouth generated during shooting was also very likely to expose their own targets, causing unnecessary losses.

After a decision, the first battalion of the Tianzhu Army and the garrison battalion were camped overnight, while the two battalions of Zhang Li and Shi Zhihe still controlled the high ground on both sides and threatened the Jin army with two wings. If the Jin army did not attack them, the two battalions could not move, so as not to be noticed by the Jin army. Maintaining mystery and pressure is the only way to crush an army.

On the second day of November, the weather showed no sign of warming up. In such a cold season, the Jurchens and the Khitans in Liaodong who rose among the white mountains and black waters were exactly what they could do. But for the Han people in the Central Plains, they couldn't stand it. Fortunately, the logistics work of the Tianzhu Army was very good, with tents, military quilts, sheepskin coats, fur boots, etc., and the soldiers were not afraid to be frozen.

It was just because of the haste. The quilt department of the Military Industry Department only made summer uniforms in standard military uniforms, while winter clothes were limited by the insufficient supply of wool, so it was not yet able to equip the entire army. Therefore, the Tianzhu Army's winter clothes could only temporarily wear sheepskin coats, wear iron armor, and cover them with large outer arms, which looked very neat.

Just after Chen Shi, there was movement in the Jin army camp east of the valley. First, two teams of about 400 cavalrymen rushed out. After leaving the camp, they ran to the hillside highlands guarded by Zhang Li and Shi Zhi and the two battalions.

Zhang Li and Shi Zhihe's soldiers immediately grind their fists and prepared for war. If the Jin army came not four hundred but four thousand, then these two battalions might not be able to withstand it, but there were two hundred cavalry on one side... It was not clear that it was Zhang Li's fourth battalion or Shi Zhihe's third battalion, and he could really eat it.

However, these four hundred cavalry and Jin soldiers did not rob the top of the mountain, but were determined to rush to the foot of the mountain. Four hundred cavalrymen were wearing heavy armor, horses were equipped with gear, and all the cards, swords and bows were available. Although they were scattered into a semicircle and stared at the hillsides on both sides, they were just defense and no offensive.

If the Jin army did not attack, of course the soldiers of the Third and Fourth Battalions could only hold on. From the woods on the hillside to the foot of the mountain, the distance was more than 200 steps, and the muskets could not be shot at all. And the soldiers of the Third and Fourth Battalions could not rush out of the forest, shorten the distance and shoot the Jin army. Once the Jin army discovered that there were only a few hundred long-range firepower shooters on the top of the mountain, it was hard to say that the leader of the Jin army would not make up his mind and fight to kill thousands of people, and also repel the two battalions and seize the highlands.

The forces on both wings of the enemy and us, one light and one dark, entered a state of confrontation.

Subsequently, the Jin army sent two envoys to ride horses to the pit and demanded the collection of the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle.

Di Lie agreed. Although the weather was cold and the corpse would be in trouble for a while, it would have to be dealt with. It would be better for the Jin army to clean up than for themselves. But if the conditions were available, the corpse could be taken away, and the soldiers and horse corpses had to be kept.

Even though the Jin army was angry, they could only pinch their noses and recognize them. It would be a time-consuming and laborious task to catch all the corpses of five hundred people from the pit. After a lot of trouble, the day passed.

Di Lie's soldiers were not idle either. They hurriedly camped yesterday and were simplified. Today, they had leisure time, so they divided one battalion to defend against the enemy, while the other battalion went up the mountain to cut wood and set up a square. A simple camp was surrounded on the west side of the valley, posing as a protracted battle with the Jin army.

On the second day of November, it passed by the short state of peace between the two armies.

On the third day of November, the cold wind blew, and the top of the mountains on all sides had been dyed white.

Early in the morning, the Jin army was still the same rule, and first sent four hundred cavalry to monitor the flanks. On the front, a team of infantry was sent to pounce on the central army camp where Di Lie was located.

The soldiers of the First Infantry Battalion and the Guard Battalion had a hot horse bone soup with cooked cakes and horse meat for breakfast. Amid the call of assembly, they brought enough weapons, arranged neatly, and trotted out of the camp gate. About fifty steps away from the wide huge pit, the soldiers were arranged in formation. The bodies of the Jin soldiers in the pit had basically been handled almost the same, but a large number of frozen horse corpses were left behind...

As the soldiers of the Tianzhu Army expected, if the Jin army wanted to launch a frontal attack, they had to fill the blood corpse pit that buried 500 cavalry. Therefore, the infantry sent by the Jin army was a typical cannon fodder soldier - the signature army.

There were 2,000 people in this signing army, less than half of them were armoured, and at the top three rows had side cards in their hands, and the rest were holding a broken gun or a knife full of gaps. The last one was about 500 people, and they were carrying a shovel and carrying a vine basket. Of course, they were not expecting them to charge with shovels, but shoveling soil to fill the huge pit that hindered the army's advance.

This soldier with a sign-in expression was numb and his movements were stiff. He had to form without formation, and he had to form without formation, and he was scattered. If it were not for the big pit in front of him, Di Lie had no doubts. He only needed one attack from the three hundred heavy armored swords and axe soldiers in the first three rows to defeat this army without any combat power.

About twenty steps behind the Taxi Army were more than a hundred Jin soldiers supervising teams riding tall horses. Everyone carried big sticks in their hands, their eyes were bloodthirsty, and they drove the flock of sheep like wolves and tigers to rush forward. But there were reviewers who directly hit the stick with one stick, just three or four miles away. No less than twenty people were killed by the brain. The war had never started. They were already corpses all the way...

Such an army that drove the ducks to the shelves was simply unbearable to fight. However, what the Jin army wanted was not fighting, but digging soil to fill the pits. Civil engineering operations, using these cannon fodders was the most suitable...

Seeing the enemy getting closer, Gao Liang rode back and forth in the military formation on a horse, looking anxious. He couldn't help but run to the rear under the command platform, and asked Di Lie, who was observing the enemy with a scope: "How is it? Will you fight?"

Di Lie put down his sight and said indifferently: "The Jin army just wanted to use these ant soldiers to investigate the reality of our army's weapons. Fighting these people is a waste of ammunition, so I don't need to pay attention to it."

Gao Liang was a little anxious: "But once the pit is filled, our thousand people may not be able to resist the attack of tens of thousands of gold soldiers..."

Di Lie looked indifferent: "Let them fill it up, you can't expose the corpses of these war horses in the wilderness. It's not easy for us to take action. When they are almost filled, we should leave. The weather is so cold, depending on the situation, there will be heavy snow in the next few days. Why should we play with the enemy in the ice and snow? Isn't it good to go back to Naiheguan to cook fire and shoot targets with comfort?"

Gao Liang opened his mouth and it took him a long time to smile and close: "I understand..."

Just as he was about to turn around, Di Lie called out: "Not beating these wastes does not mean that they will be so unscrupulous in front of us. We can take time to let the children in the security camp practice targets."

Gao Liang said happily: "It should be like this, thank you, the military leader."

Two thousand soldiers, who were signed, rushed to the edge of the huge pit for about a hundred steps and stopped. More than a thousand soldiers with armor on the side of the other soldiers took the shovels and rushed to both sides of the valley to get soil. It was cold and the soil was frozen and solid. After one shovel, the hands were numb. The efficiency was numb...

Five hundred soldiers shoveled the soil, and another five hundred soldiers carried vines baskets filled with mud and land, ran to the huge pit, dumped the soil, and then ran away in a hurry with the empty basket.

This huge pit, which is thirty meters long, three meters wide and three meters deep, divides the entire mountain road into two. If it is to be filled all, even if these two thousand signing troops work together, it will inevitably take ten days and half a month. Fortunately, the top of the pit is very special and only needs to fill a channel of about five meters. Moreover, since the bottom of the pit is covered with corpses of war horses, the pit is at least nearly one meter shallow, which greatly reduces the project volume. It is estimated that a channel can be laid in at most two or three days.

However, all this must be based on a smooth situation. Will Di Lie allow these ant soldiers to complete the paving project smoothly?

A soldier panted a basket of soil into the pit, then sat on the ground and rested. This was the third trip, carrying 50 or 60 kilograms of soil on his back and forth, and even his strong body could not bear it. In the morning, the hard cake and the stuff under the ice water were almost gone after a few twists and turns. He was hungry in his stomach, soft all over. In the cold weather, he was sweating and stuck to his body, which was so uncomfortable.

Before the first trip, the soldier of the signature army, like other soldiers, regarded the filling of soil as a circling in front of the gate of hell. Six or seventy steps away from the opposite side were rows of enemy soldiers with distinctive armor and shiny weapons. The murderous aura and power made them, the unarmed soldiers, frightened, fearing that the opponent would suddenly shoot a row of deadly arrows or a weapon that would spit out fire and smoke.

However, after a few trips, I saw the bandits on the opposite side - Tian Kelian, compared with other people's equipment, this one is more like a bandit soldier... Although these bandits are solemn and ready, they never attack them. After a while, most of the soldiers who signed soldiers were relieved, but they only knew that the people who filled the soil were miscellaneous soldiers and could not waste arrows. Therefore, more and more soldiers who filled the soil with baskets of soil were habitually sitting on the ground after dumping the soil - after all, they could take a breath here. If they were lazy at the digging site, they would be afraid that a bad thing would be discovered by the executioners holding big sticks, and they would just hit them without saying a word...

Just as he thought of this, a loud bang, the soldier in his arms was shocked and his chest was heartbroken. He was about to look down at what was going on, but his body became soft and rolled down the bottom of the pit like a piece of soil he had poured.

With this gunshot as the first sound, in the Tianzhu Army's military formation, rows of muskets on the top of the next signs were constantly gushing out flames and blue smoke. More than 60 steps away, many soldiers carrying vine baskets rolled under the pit, including people, baskets, soil, and dumplings...

There were constant rebukes in the guard camp:

"Quick, fast, I haven't loaded the ammunition for more than ten breaths. Isn't eaten enough this morning?"

"Mao Sanwa, you missed such a big target... It was the tall man in the middle, not the short man ten feet away..."

"A bastard, how many times have you said that after compacting the gunpowder, you have to take out the stick, but you actually knocked it out... What kind of gunpowder is used to use to plug it in? Do you use the thing under your crotch?"

These rebukes made Gao Liang, who was the commander of the security camp, embarrassed him and looked at Di Lie with an awkward look.

Di Lie had a cold face and felt helpless. Compared with the four infantry battalions, the security battalion, which had been established for less than three months, was a new battalion. It is usually used by a servant who maintains public security in the city. Although it also contacts muskets, it has little training and no equipment. Therefore, once the target is attacked, it is naturally full of mistakes and misses when facing the enemy.

Di Lie didn't want to embarrass his generals too much, so he comforted him casually: "It's okay. Now he has the opportunity to practice troops in actual combat, and the brothers from the First Battalion are here to mention it. After this battle, I believe that the sons of the security camp will improve quickly..."

As soon as the gunshots sounded here, a large area was knocked down there. Hundreds of soldiers who had signed the soldiers who filled the soil were filling in the filling, they even filled in, shouted in unison, turned around and scattered.

But these soldiers of the signature army had just run back to their own formation. Before they could cry a few times, they were knocked over dozens of people by the supervision team that drove out of the crowd. The corpse and the strong smell of blood were even more shocking than the dozens of corpses shot by muskets in the pit.

Advance is death, and retreat is also death. Hundreds of soldiers in the signing army shouted sadly, with vine baskets on their backs, and everyone was filled with deathly aura, like walking corpses. Faced with these slave soldiers of the same clan, no one could do anything, whether they were the First Infantry Battalion, which had already developed murderous aura or the soldiers of the Chu Ge Guard Battalion on the battlefield...

Di Lie shook his head gently and exhaled a white breath: "I am sorry for my misfortune, and I am angry about my failure to fight... People have sheep nature and wolf nature! Why, do you only show the sheep nature side?"

The staff officer Ling Yuan, who was beside him, frowned and said to himself: "There is always a bottom line for human tolerance. Why do the Jin army fight for the risk of mutiny and also ask these soldiers to lose their lives to fill the pit? What exactly does the Jin army want to do?"

Di Lie's heart moved faintly, and he was about to say something, suddenly a trembling sound came from the sky. Di Lie was stunned and immediately raised his left hand, and the audience was in awe. Then a series of vibration sounds came. Although the sound was subtle, almost everyone heard it.

Looking back in shock, the direction of the sound coming - what is the limit!

At the same time, the Jin army shouted at the opposite side, and the camp gate opened wide and countless Jin soldiers rushed out. Thousands of troops and horses advanced like walls, and they forced all the two thousand soldiers into the pit. Using people as bridges and corpses as a base, thousands of Jin soldiers stepped by the corpses and rushed towards them wildly...
Chapter completed!