In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, March 27th, the Battle of Xinchun, known by later generations as one of the three major battles in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, kicked off.
The two sides fighting: the Blood Banner Army, which has now captured Sichuan and most of Jingzhou, and is known as the most powerful army in the world. The other side is the coalition of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who claim to have 200,000 troops.
The entire Battle of Xinchun was divided into two parts: the battle on the river and the offensive and defensive battle of Xinchun City. It lasted fifteen days. The actual attack force of both sides was 250,000.
Among them, the Blood Banner Army invested 30,000 main troops, 50,000 militiamen, more than 30,000 soldiers, and 8,000 naval troops.
The coalition forces of Sun and Liu invested 15,000 naval troops and 120,000 land troops. The naval forces were all from Sun Wu, and 20,000 of the land troops were from Liu Bei, including all the remaining Jingzhou soldiers. The remaining 100,000 were from Sun Wu.
Wu was sent to the battlefield one after another.
March 28. Sixty miles outside Xinchun City, on Xiaoyang Slope, the former militia force of the Thousand Blood Banner Army and the three thousand Sun-Liu Allied Forces encountered each other, which sparked the first spark of the Battle of Xinchun.
This encounter was purely coincidental, but it quickly ignited a large-scale outdoor battle.
The military training of the Blood Banner Army is "When encountering the enemy, you must fight and win." Naturally, they will not turn around and run away just because of their numerical disadvantage. As a coalition of Sun and Liu, after experiencing the fierce attack capabilities of the Blood Banner Army, because they want to
To avoid the fear of being baptized by the divine thunder of Yama, he also hopes to weigh in on the Blood Banner Army in the field.
The front troops of both sides that encountered them first laid down more than 900 people within half an hour. The battle losses were almost two to one. However, due to their numerical disadvantage, the thousand militiamen of the Blood Flag Army were still at a disadvantage.
Then, the five hundred elite cavalry who rushed to the rescue from Xinchun City became the last straw to crush the Blood Banner Army militia.
After the defeat, only more than 300 militiamen finally fled back, and the rest died in the battle.
This was a great encouragement to the Sun-Liu coalition. Since the Battle of Jingzhou, the Blood Banner Army had never been defeated for a while and seemed to be invincible. This battle broke this myth and greatly encouraged the Sun-Liu coalition.
Morale. He even began to adjust his military strategy, trying to avoid offensive and defensive city battles in favor of field battles with the Blood Banner Army.
Of course, the Blood Flag Army was furious after losing the first battle. Faced with subsequent provocations from the Sun-Liu coalition, they responded in kind. So they sent 5,000 main troops and 5,000 militiamen to start a second round of field battle 60 miles outside Xinchun City.
The main force of the Blood Banner Army in this battle included Gao Shunshou, who had fallen into the camp, and a thousand elite "Shenshui Cavalry". The Sun-Liu coalition did not show weakness, and sent generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, leading an army of 12,000.
Among them is Liu Bei's leading army, the Bai'er Army.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, it was a one-sided massacre. The elite of the elites like the trapped camp were completely crushed against the Sun and Liu coalition forces who were still ordinary people. Even just five centurions from the trapped camp forced the general Zhang Fei to fall.
Next. In the end, if it weren’t for the timely rescue by his own soldiers, Zhang Fei might have given the explanation here.
The infantry was no match at all, and the same was true for the cavalry. Facing the elite cavalry of the Blood Banner Army, whose men and horses had drank the "sacred water", the cavalry of the Sun-Liu coalition was like a child's play. With just one hedging, they were all wiped out. They died.
No one could understand why the cavalry of the Blood Banner Army could be so fast and sit so firmly.
Why? Because the cavalry of the Blood Banner Army use stirrups under their feet instead of clamping themselves on the horse's back with their legs. This makes them more stable, easier to exert force, and can make more tactical moves.
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Don't underestimate this pair of stirrups, they are a complete equipment crusher on the battlefield.
In the second round of the Xinchun Field Battle, the Blood Flag Army returned with a great victory. They killed more than 5,000 enemies and lost only 500. The exchange ratio was as high as ten to one.
On March 28th, late at night, the Sun-Liu coalition launched a night attack on the left camp of the Blood Banner Army stationed eighty miles away. Wu Yi, the general on the left, saw through it and launched a counterattack. Not only did it defeat the Sun-Liu coalition's intentions, but it also
A counterattack killed a thousand enemy troops under the camp.
In the early morning of March 29th, fifty miles ahead of Jiangxia, the Sichuan navy took the lead in launching a surprise attack on Sun Wu's navy entrenched in Jiangxia.
In this battle, a new type of inland river warship called the "Five-Toothed Ship" made the Sun-Wu coalition understand what it meant to destroy the dead.
The five-toothed ship is a large ship with a height of ten feet and is divided into five floors. Each floor has sixteen perfect crossbow shooting ports. The crossbows equipped are also bed crossbows that can be pulled apart by a winch with the combined efforts of three people. The shooting range is 150 meters.
Ten feet, it can be used with fire oil to carry out long-distance fire attacks.
In addition to the advanced crossbows, there are six five-foot-long boulder poles erected on both sides of the Wuya ship. Once it gets close, it can take the lead at five feet and launch a fierce attack on the enemy ship before the "jump gang" boarding battle begins.
Smashing, even directly smashing enemy ships.
Moreover, each five-toothed ship is fifteen feet long and five feet wide. It is a real behemoth and has no fear of siege.
Let’s look at Sun Wu’s ships. They are all old-fashioned designs and tactical combinations. When you suddenly encounter the black technology of the five-tooth ship, you will naturally be blinded.
From the beginning of the battle between the two sides in the early morning, to noon, the Sun Wu navy had lost a full 150 large and small ships. If you want to play with flexibility in front of the five-tooth ship, you are simply courting death. The super-long crossbow is over a hundred feet long.
The shooting distance and dense barrage of arrows can directly destroy these so-called clippers before they get close.
As for the big killer, naturally it is the two trebuchets at the front and rear equipped on each five-toothed ship. The thing thrown is naturally the divine thunder of Yama. Only one can directly turn the largest warship in Sun Wu's navy into a
Fireball.
By the evening of the battle, Sun Wu's navy, which had lost 300 large and small warships, chose to retreat, relying on the river ziplock to block the pursuit of the Blood Flag Army.
As for Zhou Yu, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sun Wu Navy, he would never leave the water fort again without figuring out how to restrain the Blood Banner Army's five-toothed warship and violent long-range attack methods. He would simply be going to die.
At dusk on March 30th, Zhang Liao led his troops to advance ten miles below Xinchun City. After setting up a formation, he lit hundreds of huge bonfires around Xinchun City in preparation for a night battle.
Night battles have advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that it is impossible to clearly discover what is leaning down from the top of the city on the defending side.
For example, if you think that what is falling is a stone, and then use a shield to block it, but what falls is gold juice, it will be miserable. The hot gold juice can stay on the body along the gaps in the shield, and the feeling is indescribable.
, and as long as the burnt area exceeds the size of a palm, basically you can only wait to die.
There are also advantages, that is, the defenders cannot discover in advance where the Yama Thunder is going, and the casualties caused will naturally be more considerable.
In the early morning of March 31st, after pouring down 200 Yama Divine Thunders, leaving 5,000 casualties, the Blood Banner Army ended its attack. At noon, Wu Yi's troops replaced Zhang Liao and led 20,000 soldiers to surrender.
Together with five thousand militiamen, they launched another attack on Xinchun City and blew up the east gate of Xinchun City in one fell swoop. So that both sides started a brutal fight for this gate.
On the afternoon of the first day of April, the east gate of Xinchun City was finally lost. The gatekeeper general Guan Yu was seriously injured and captured. A large number of elite Blood Flag Army broke into the city and launched a fierce street battle with the Sun and Liu coalition forces who were stubbornly resisting.