Chapter 2816: Killing with a knife, the old and new fight together in the mountains
It is not very difficult to lure the enemy. After all, whether it is human or animal, there is the instinct to chase prey, and the difficulty is how to overcome it.
The two armies are facing each other, and the two sides of the war plan each other. If they want to defeat the strong with the weak, there must be a prerequisite, that is, the strong make mistakes, and while the flaws are revealed, the weak also grasp the flaws, so that the situation can be reversed. If the strong stand firm and there is no mistake, then no matter how smart the weak is, it may not be of any use.
In the final analysis, both sides are still competing for strength.
Especially in war, not only the weak can, but have the right to use strategies.
Zhu Huan was wearing a heavy armor standing in the queue.
In the era of cold weapons, armor was almost the second life of soldiers. Zhu Huan basically had armor under his command, but the Shanyue barbarians on the opposite side could only use their bodies and luck to fight against damage.
The guard behind Zhu Huan raised the battle flag high and shook it open in the wind. The word "Zhu" fluttered the flag in the wind, flying in the mist, and the bright red flag was like blood flowing.
Zhu Huan took a long breath and shouted sternly: "You are a rat, Zhu is here, who dares to fight?" Lan
Zhu Huan's invitation to fight immediately caused an uproar in the barbarians.
People from the Han Dynasty were relatively simple. Zhu Huan said that he was Zhu Huan, and most of the barbarians did not know Zhu Huan, but no one doubted them. They looked at each other, and their eyes revealed some hatred.
During this period, Zhu Huan slaughtered a lot of barbarian villages, which was so strong that he had pulled the hatred. Now he has opened his way into the mountains, and there are only more than 100 people around him. This seems to be a good opportunity to take revenge. Perhaps as long as Zhu Huan is captured and killed, he can turn the situation around and win!
"Kill him! Kill him!" A leader of the Southern Barbarian jumped out, swaying his teeth and pointing his fingers. He felt that this was an excellent opportunity, and naturally he should not be missed!
Although Nanman Shanyue knew that Zhu Huan and others were more difficult, there were only more than 100 people around Zhu Huan now. Even if these soldiers were elite soldiers, the gap between the number of people from Nanman Shanyue was still very different. Moreover, this is a mountainous land, not on the edge of a river and a boat. Even if you pay a price of twice to three times, as long as you can capture and kill Zhu Huan, it is acceptable!
Zhu Huan and others seemed to have not expected the Southern Barbarians to rush up wildly, and the queue was somewhat scattered. When the Southern Barbarian Shanyue and others were about to pounce in front, they barely arranged the sword and shield hands in the front row to prepare for the battle.
The barbarian archers took the lead in launching the attack.
Zhu Huan glanced at the arrows used by the barbarians, then took a step back slightly, and asked the guard to raise the shield to block the force that was not very strong, but the accuracy was not bad, especially the barbarian arrows that were very troublesome in poison.
On the back line of the barbarians who were rushing towards him, there were always some barbarian hunters shooting at the weak spots of Jiangdong soldiers and others. The arrows of these barbarians may not have much armor-breaking ability, but they will definitely be accompanied by various toxins. Zhu Huan just wanted to lure the enemy, and did not say that he was so reckless that he wanted to hand over his life to the goddess of luck to deal with.
The barbarian's arrows fell on the shield, making a sound like a burst of beans, but Zhu Huan and others did not move at all, and did not even fight back, which showed their contempt for the barbarians to the greatest extent.
As long as it is not shot into the vital parts such as the face, the general barbarians' arrows cannot penetrate the armor, especially if they have to cross the front line of battle and fall to Zhu Huan, the strength is reduced even more severely. Under the shield of the guard, Zhu Huan's safety is still guaranteed, so that he can issue more timely instructions to adjust the queue.
Seeing this, the barbarians became more and more angry. They howled, lined up loose formations, waved their weapons, and rushed towards Zhu Huan one after another.
Seeing the barbarian pounced in front of the array, Zhu Feng roared and rushed out through the gap between the two shield hands. He rushed straight to the barbarian in front of him, and slashed left and right, killing two people in a row. More barbarians rushed up, Zhu Feng was not afraid, and the long sword was whistling, which was invincible, attracting the attention of many barbarians. He screamed and rushed towards Zhu Feng, which invisibly made the originally not very neat barbarian queue even more scattered.
"Enter!"
Zhu Huan shouted loudly, and the spearmen behind the shield suddenly emerged from the gap in the shield like a red till, like a hedgehog suddenly raised the thorns on his body, which immediately penetrated the bodies of many barbarians. Blood gushed, dyeing this open space in the mountains and forests with bright red color.
"retreat!"
Zhu Huan shouted again, and then the sword and shield hand also shouted loudly, resounding over the front line.
Zhu Feng also shouted, then chopped down a barbarian. He did not look at the rear at all, but stared at the barbarians on the left and right in front. While waving his sword to hit the barbarians' weapons, he retreated and bumped into the shield of friendly troops behind. Then he turned around and slid over the shield and hid in the shield.
The same was true for the other spearmen, fighting and retreating, retreating into the shield formation.
Of course, there are also spearmen who rushed too fiercely for a while, or unlucky guys who accidentally stepped on the battlefield. These guys were surrounded by subsequent barbarians and were killed immediately under the sword and gun.
Zhu Huan glanced at the slashed spearmen, his expression not moving at all.
Although the more than a hundred people Zhu Huan brought were all private soldiers in his headquarters, they were also of different levels. The spearmen were undoubtedly the lowest-level recruits in the main array. The spearmen needed to master the least skills, and they only needed to know how to sprint forward and retreat into the formation. When these spearmen became familiar with the spears, their bodies became stronger or more flexible during the training process. Then, according to the situation, they chose to focus on swords, shields, archers, etc.
If you are lucky, you will gradually become an elite warrior with rich combat experience. Are you unlucky?
The spearman retreated, and the barbarian rushed up stepping on the dead body.
Although these barbarians howled fiercely, these Vietnamese barbarians who had no idea what the array training was, ran around in a crooked manner. These corpses and limbs, which were everywhere, became obstacles to the barbarians' charge.
The sword and shield hands in Zhu Huan fought hard, killing the barbarians who were rushing over with their corpses and limbs in front of the formation, and then adding more flesh and blood in front of the formation.
Although the formation of Zhu Huan and others was small, they were very strong. More than 100 soldiers fought happily under Zhu Huan's command. Although the barbarians who were several times more than the Jiangdong Army continued to rush in front of the formation, they could never break through Zhu Huan's line.
Zhu Huan stood in the formation, still moving.
The battle flag fluttered above his head, as if mocking the barbarians for being overestimated.
Seeing more barbarians rushing up, Zhu Huan raised his sword, strode forward, and shouted at the same time: "Switch!"
Zhu Chang, who was just killing a little short of breath, heard this, immediately put away the sword, retreated back, and gave the position to Zhu Huan.
Zhu Huan took it, split his legs slightly, swung the sword, and waved it obliquely. One knife passed through the neck of a barbarian who saw Zhu Feng retreating and was eager to pursue merit and lost his posture. He immediately spurted out an umbrella-shaped blood mist, and then squirted the long sword, throwing the blood stained on the face of the second barbarian who rushed up.
The barbarian subconsciously closed his eyes, and then he felt a chill on his stomach, his whole body was like a pierced water bag, and he ran out with a squeak.
Before the second barbarian could realize the fact that he was being cut, Zhu Huan had already knocked out the sword that the third barbarian had cut off, and then cut off one of the arm of the fourth barbarian.
At this time, the internal organs in the second barbarian's belly fell to the ground in colorful and colorful colors...
The barbarians around were stunned and suddenly became stunned. Qi Shu took a step back. For several breaths, no one dared to approach Zhu Huan again. After a while, under Zhu Huan's waving and teasing, he howled and rushed up again.
Most of the barbarians have not been effectively trained. When fighting, these guys just know how to slash their swords. If they are very powerful, such as Shamoko, they may also pose a certain threat to Zhu Huan. But if they are just the level of ordinary people, and even weak due to daily nutrition, if they meet a skilled general like Zhu Huan, they basically don’t think about any advantage.
Zhu Huan had strength and quite good skills to exert force. When facing these barbarians, these skills could be used almost without reservation. On the one hand, in order to save physical strength, and on the other hand, he had confidence in heavy armor, so he stood up in front of the formation and refused to give in a single step in the collision of swords and guns, which added a bit of strength to his combat process, and won the union of cheers from his soldiers.
When both sides were fighting and blood, Huang Gai, with his men in the mountains and forests, took advantage of the fact that the Vietnamese barbarians were attracted by Zhu Huan, and they secretly surrounded him.
But on the other side, there were also a group of barbarians secretly touching the river...
Although Zhu Huan is so glorious and brave, it does not mean that Zhu Huan is sure to win.
Zhu Huan didn't expect him to kill all the barbarians in these pastoral villages with more than a hundred people. Moreover, there were more or less tens of thousands of barbarian warriors in the barbarian leaders. Even if Zhu Huan could fight, the elite soldiers of his troops were not infinite. Moreover, most of the barbarian leaders had not sent the real barbarian warriors up yet, so they obviously had to use cannon fodder to consume the blood of Zhu Huan and others.
If Huang Gai did not bring his troops to come, Zhu Huan and others would rotate once or twice, and they would consider retreating before they were completely exhausted. Of course, if the barbarian, who had retreated and lost the array and was obviously more flexible and convenient in the mountains and forests, would cause huge casualties to Zhu Huan and others.
This has been verified many times when Jiangdong and Nanman Shanyue were confronting each other, so Zhu Huan knew it in his heart, and the barbarian leader on the opposite side also knew it.
Zhu Huan was waiting for Huang Gai, while the barbarian leader opposite sent people to bypass the battlefield and prepared to destroy the ships of Zhu Huan and others. If Zhu Huan's ship was destroyed, the barbarian leader would have the confidence to leave Zhu Huan and others in the mountains and forests!
There are many mountains and forests in Wuling area, and the upper and lower parts are uneven. Unlike Jizhou, Yuzhou, which has a wide view, and is covered by shrubs and bushes, and there are screams of screams in the battlefield. Unless you run into each other face to face, you will not know what is going on on the forest.
At the center of the battlefield, Zhu Huan had exchanged arrays twice, and the battle gradually entered a bloodier link. After the initial death of the Southern Barbarian cannon fodder, barbarian warriors gradually joined the battle. The combat experience of these barbarian warriors is much higher than that of ordinary barbarians.
These barbarian warriors seized the biggest weakness of Zhu Huan and others, and they were few. The warriors of the southern barbarians did not easily go forward to fight for their lives. They used stones to throw stones and blew arrows on the periphery. Even if they fought with swords and guns, they would retreat at once and not fight with Zhu Huan and others for a long time.
This way of fighting in the air forced Zhu Huan and others to face more opponents, and also caused Zhu Huan and others to consume more physical strength. By the time Zhu Huan withdrew from the back line for the third time to adjust his breathing, even Zhu Huan's body was already sweating profusely and panting.
Although the Wuling area does not have the density of tropical rainforests like Southeast Asia or the Jiaozhi area in South Central, the forests are still relatively humid in spring, and they seem even more stuffy under intense exercise. Especially, the Jiangdong soldiers who are not used to being in the mountains and forests, and are carrying heavyweights. Almost everyone's heartbeats are about to pop out of their throats, and their throats are about to smoke and sting.
Zhu Huan even had a slight wavering thought in his heart.
Because of the armor, the Jiangdong soldiers suffered less casualties than the barbarians. However, it was these extra armor on their bodies that the Jiangdong soldiers now consumed more and more tiring than those barbarians without armor. If they continued like this...
Seeing that the Jiangdong soldiers began to show their fatigue, and the troops who collided with Jiangdong could feel that the power of these soldiers was beginning to weaken, these barbarians shouted, and their momentum continued to collide with the Jiangdong soldiers' array.
At this moment, it is possible to see the gap between private soldiers in Jiangdong and ordinary soldiers.
Private soldiers are more tenacious. As long as Zhu Huan does not fall, he will not retreat easily even by gritting his teeth. If this were a group of ordinary Jiangdong soldiers, at this time, they would have probably collapsed and started to flee.
So in this battle, it was not that Zhu Huan did not want to bring more soldiers, nor that Zhu Huan deliberately wanted to take risks, but that he would not improve his combat effectiveness except for more than a hundred elite soldiers in this team, even if he brought one hundred or even two hundred ordinary soldiers, he would not improve much combat effectiveness.
In the face of such strong pressure, ordinary soldiers in Jiangdong are likely to collapse, and once the soldiers collapse the chain of fronts will be dragged into the water.
As for those servants who were originally captured from Shanyue, let alone, it would be better to attack other areas. If you enter Shanyue territory, you may not even be able to fight before you can even see your original relatives and neighbors, and you will whisper in secret. It is possible to rebel on the spot. Therefore, if Jiangdong wants to march into Shanyue, you will generally not bring these servants.
Zhu Huan's private soldiers are basically supported by Zhu Huan. From another perspective, the family of these private soldiers is the hostages seized by Zhu Huan. Of course, these private soldiers have to protect Zhu Huan when fighting. If Zhu Huan died, even if these people can escape their lives, they will not have any good ending. Often, the whole family will be arrested and buried as a rebel. Therefore, most private soldiers, especially Zhu Huan's guards, would rather follow Zhu Huan to die together to protect their families.
The battle was fierce. Although his companions continued to fall in pools of blood, Zhu Huan and others still fought tenaciously, did not retreat, and gritted their teeth and persevered.
The barbarians were also in a difficult situation.
They were many people, but Zhu Huanxuan's position was very good. The barbarians could not fully utilize the advantage of the number of people. In addition, after the casualties of the battle, blood and spring moss were mixed with mud, as well as corpses and limbs, with high and low feet, and they could not do their best. Facing the array of Zhu Huan and others, although they continued, they were unable to make substantial breakthroughs. As the battle situation continued, as more and more barbarians were injured and injured, their confidence gradually faded and their fighting spirit was no longer high.
When several barbarian leaders saw this, they were anxious.
Their numbers were several times larger than those of Zhu Huan and others. They were still unable to defeat the formation of more than 100 Zhu Huan and others. Although they did cause some casualties to Zhu Huan and others, the injured soldiers were quickly dragged into the array, so the barbarians could not calculate the specific casualties of Zhu Huan and others for a while.
Now the total number of barbarians is only nearly a thousand. Although the number does not seem to be large, just like someone in Jiangdong who always says 100,000 or 200,000, it depends on the quality. These nearly a thousand people are all young and strong, which means they are the core forces of the Southern Barbarians, which is the same as Zhu Huan's private soldiers.
These nearly a thousand people are equivalent to the pillar of a barbarian family of seven or eight hundred families. If they really suffer too much casualties in this battle, even if they really kill Zhu Huan and others, it may not be a good deal...
Should I bet on my own or just give up?
The barbarian leaders have some disagreements.
At a stalemate, Huang Gai saw that he had already touched the same position, and some of them had even begun to contact and fight with the barbarians on the edge of the battlefield, so he simply ordered an attack.
The war drum was beaten and echoed in the mountains and forests.
Huang Gai and his men scattered into a team, without any specific formation, and rushed towards the barbarians' troops from all directions. The barbarians were immediately frightened, shouting nonsense, dizzy and at a loss.
Seeing the yellow flag flashing among the woods and bushes, Zhu Huan took the sword and let out a long breath.
He persevered.
Huang Gai is here.
Zhu Huan had doubts more than once before that, could it be Huang Gai who deliberately wanted to use the barbarian sword to invade Zhu Huan's strength, so Zhu Huan was very worried that Huang Gai would wait until he had drained his hands before appearing.
Zhu Huan had questions, but he did not say it out, nor did he express his objection, because he was a young general in Jiangdong. In front of Huang Gai, he was not qualified to say something...
Now it seems that Zhu Huan is too careless?
He saw Huang Gai appearing on the edge of the forest and seemed to turn his eyes to him.
At such a moment, the two people seemed to have exchanged some information in their eyes...
Zhu Huan stood up straight, raised his blood-stained sword, and roared hoarsely: "Kill--"
Huang Gai also raised his sword in the distance and shouted the same voice: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The Jiangdong soldiers held up their weapons and rushed to kill the barbarians.
The arrival of reinforcements from Jiangdong completely defeated several barbarian leaders' confidence that they did not retain much.
These barbarians were not interested in fighting and immediately ordered a retreat. The barbarians who could not fight for a long time were in a state of morale, but they were somewhat frustrated. When they saw so many Jiangdong soldiers swarming around, they heard the order to retreat, they screamed, not caring whether those who went around could achieve any results. They just wanted to follow the barbarian leader out of the battlefield...