Chapter 1366 The decisive battle on the Jinsha River (1)
Wu Jie fought and retreated, and within a few days, he retreated to the bank of the Jinsha River.
The Gao Family's Jiaozhi Allied Forces defeated the enemy several times in a row along the way, and their morale was high. Just as Wu Jie expected, they seemed to be really eager to defeat Duan Zhengyan in one fell swoop. Therefore, they mobilized almost all their troops and declared a hundred thousand troops.
, but in fact it is only 70,000 to 80,000.
But for a small country like Dali, an army of 70,000 to 80,000 people can be said to have exhausted all its resources.
Wu Jie also has 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses. It can be said that all the elites are here. This battle will directly affect the direction of the entire Dali battlefield.
This will surely be a decisive battle.
Both sides were very nervous.
After Wu Jie retreated to this only plain area, he immediately asked his soldiers to set up a fence at the intersection to hinder the enemy's charge. If Wu Jie really wanted to retreat, then he must stick to this place to cover his soldiers crossing the river.
Fortunately, it was midnight when Wu Jie and the others retreated here, so the Gaojiao Allied Forces were not in a hurry to attack. This was a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, and no one dared to launch an attack in the dark night.
At this time, hundreds of torches were erected on the riverside, and the lights were brightly lit, illuminating the river surface. More than a hundred small boats on the Jinsha River were on standby.
"Hurry up, hurry up, the enemy is about to attack."
Dozens of non-commissioned officers stood by the river and kept urging, and soldiers were seen hurrying onto the boat carrying bulging sacks.
There is a saying that before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first. The same is true when retreating. These food and grass are very precious, so the food and grass must be transported there first.
Around a hill in the northeast of the plain, only three thousand soldiers were seen forming a square formation to protect the surroundings. At this time, Wu Jie and Duan Zhengyan were standing on it. Standing here, they could take in the entire scenery of the plain.
Close your eyes.
"The general is really good at predicting events. The enemy really sent out all their elite troops to block our army from crossing the river."
Duan Zhengyan had a smile on his face, but he couldn't hide his nervous expression. Although everything was developing as Wu Jie expected, it was a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people. Once a fight started,
, no one can control it, any small accident may affect the entire war situation, and what's even more terrible is that this war directly determines the success or failure.
If he loses, he will never have a chance to make a comeback.
Wu Jie was calm and composed. He had all the qualities of a military strategist, including self-confidence. He pointed his riding whip downward and said: "As long as the enemy comes here, I will make it impossible for them to come back."
Duan Zhengyan said: "In this case, why is the general still setting up defenses at the intersection? Why not just let them in."
Wu Jie shook his head and said: "The key to this battle is to confuse the enemy. If we really want to cross the river, anyone with a little knowledge of military knowledge will guard the intersection with heavy troops to cover the soldiers on our side.
Crossing the river, if we don't guard the intersection, the enemy will definitely notice something strange. Then we may lose all our efforts."
Duan Zhengyan added: "But there is no need to send 30,000 soldiers to guard the intersection, right? We can use 10,000 soldiers to pretend to defend and let the enemy break through. If we use 30,000 soldiers and horses to guard the intersection, the enemy will not be able to break through for a while.
Come in."
Wu Jie smiled and said: "If only ten thousand people are guarding the intersection, then the opponent can indeed attack easily, but the opponent still has seventy or eighty thousand troops. Even if they enter our encirclement, it will not be easy to annihilate them all.
.I used 30,000 horses to defend the intersection, mainly to wear down the enemy's physical strength and wait until they are tired before letting them in. Our cavalry are now recharging their strength, so they can wait for work and get twice the result with half the effort.
"
"I see."
Duan Zhengyan nodded slightly and said: "The general has thought more carefully." As he spoke, he glanced across the plain again, and suddenly said with a whoop: "We have no defense on the Jinsha River. If the enemy
What if we use the fleet to outflank our rear?"
This person does have some sense. Wu Jie smiled and said: "The enemy will definitely outflank our rear."
When Duan Zhengyan heard this, he asked, "Is it possible that the general has been prepared?"
Wu Jie pointed towards the shore and said: "Du Tong, please take a closer look."
Duan Zhengyan looked towards the shore with his clairvoyance. All he saw was soldiers carrying food and grass onto the ship. There was nothing wrong. After looking at it for a while, he frowned and shook his head and said, "Please forgive Duan for being stupid. I don't know the general."
What is meant?"
Wu Jie said: "Didn't Tong discover there is something special about those bags of grain and grass?"
Duan Zhengyan looked at it carefully for a while and suddenly said: "Judging from the steps of the brothers, these grains and grass seem to be a little lighter."
Wu Jie nodded and said with a smile: "Because the sacks contain not food and grass, but gunpowder and hay. I plan to give these one hundred small boats to the enemy for burial."
Duan Zhengyan suddenly realized it, and the tension in his heart disappeared. He laughed and said: "General, this is a good plan. In this way, we don't need to send too many soldiers and horses to garrison in the rear."
Suddenly the war drums started to sound.
It came from the enemy camp.
Duan Zhengyan was startled and frightened, and quickly looked with his clairvoyance, only to see a fire shining in the sky in the distance. At this glance, it seemed as if there was a sea of fire in the distance, which showed how many enemy troops there were! He said anxiously: "Isn't it the enemy army?
Do you want to attack at this time?"
Wu Jie shook his head and said: "Don't be anxious, everyone. The enemy troops are still in formation. I think they will wait until dawn before attacking."
Sure enough, after an hour, the sky in the east gradually turned fish-belly white.
When it gets dark today or tomorrow, it's the best time to charge.
Wu Jie used his clairvoyance to look at the enemy formation with the first light before dawn. He saw hundreds of enemy battlefield vehicles arriving in front of the formation. He nodded to the adjutant beside him and gave an order:
The war drums on Duan's side also sounded, and the soldiers immediately cheered up and prepared for the coming storm.
Not long after, the enemy's war drums suddenly beat loudly and their horns sounded loudly.
The high-altitude coalition forces finally sounded the clarion call for attack.
Hundreds of chariots rushed up from the middle road, and the rolling wheels of the chariots made a terrifying noise on the road.
Tens of thousands of archers behind them bent their bows and drew arrows, and a small number of cavalry on both wings surrounded them.
"Kill!"
Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses came roaring like a tsunami, and the sound of killing shook the heaven and the earth.
Wu Jie nodded slightly after looking at it and said: "It seems that not all the enemy camp is full of losers."
Whizzing!
Two signal arrows were launched into the air.
"Prepare!"
More than ten people shouted in unison at the intersection.
More than a hundred bed crossbows are all ready, including fifty large bed crossbows and fifty small bed crossbows. The large bed crossbows can shoot five arrows. The small ones can also shoot three arrows.
A thousand steps!
Nine hundred steps!
Eight hundred steps.
"put."
"put."
...
When the enemy came within 800 steps, hundreds of long arrows were shot out with lightning speed.
The buzzing sound of the bowstring was enough to cover up the sound of the enemy's charging horn.
But before the sound of the bowstring fell, the soldiers quickly removed all the large crossbows. These items were very precious and could not be wasted by the enemy.
This high-altitude coalition army was not as good as the Jin Army. When the Jin Army charged at Moutuogang, when the Song Army fired its crossbows, the cavalry could quickly disperse and minimize losses.
The high-altitude alliance army is mainly composed of infantry and cannot disperse. Their only way is to use the arrow-blocking vehicles and shield soldiers in front to resist this round of crossbows.
boom!
Snapped!
The power of this crossbow was extremely fast, but a long arrow penetrated an arrow-blocking vehicle directly, and there was another explosion, which directly blew the arrow-blocking vehicle to pieces, and all the soldiers around the arrow-blocking vehicle were also
It blew up.
Boom boom boom!
Although the enemy had shields to protect their front, the result was only broken shields and casualties.
Amidst the fire, the enemy soldiers were seen turning their vehicles upside down, and those who were bombed were in a state of disarray. I saw pieces of people lying in a pool of blood.
Although the Gao family's army had already seen the power of this crossbow, this was the first time they had experienced such a large-scale bombing. They were frightened for a while, but orders to death had been issued from above, and those who retreated would be killed without mercy.
The high-profile coalition forces could only continue to charge over the bodies of their own brothers.
When they rushed within 500 steps, the second round of crossbows came again. Although the arrow blocker blocked some, Duan's side deliberately increased the arc this time, so many arrows still fell into it.
Among the crowd, there were countless casualties again.
Unfortunately, the time between each round of the Fuzi Crossbow was relatively long, and two rounds was already the limit. In order to avoid another round of bombing, the enemy rushed forward desperately, and finally got within a hundred steps.
Whoosh whoosh!
The archers behind the chariot started shooting wildly.
Arrows rained down, but Duan's side was well prepared, and the shield soldiers came to meet them and blocked them all.
"drink---!"
With a roar, the shields rose, and hundreds of spears flashed out.
A hail of arrows shot out from under the spear.
More than a thousand javelins from the enemy were thrown out at the same time. Arrows and spears met in the air, and the sound of piercing the air became more and more rapid.
"Kill!"
The cavalry on both wings suddenly outflanked Duan's spear formation, but---.
Hoo ho ho!
The spear suddenly spit out flames several feet long.
A wall of fire appeared out of thin air between the two armies.
Hearing bursts of screams, my mother didn't recognize the people who were burned in the Gaojiao Alliance Army. Even the horses and people, the carriages and the horses were bathed in a sea of fire. It was really pleasant.
In this round of charges, thousands of people were killed or injured.
But this also reminded the Gaojiao Allied Forces that they must break through in one breath and not give Duan's army a chance to re-arrange themselves. Seeing that the first round of charge was blocked by the enemy at the intersection, it was difficult to move forward. At this time, the sky
It was already bright, the horn sounded again on Gao's side, and tens of thousands of soldiers rushed forward.
At this point in the war, the firearms show was about to come to an end. The enemy was already close, and Wu Jie had only temporarily built some defensive equipment here. There was not even a fortress, and all that was left was hand-to-hand combat.
Bang bang bang!
The enemy's chariot violently smashed through the fence blocking the front, and the shield soldiers in front were directly knocked away by the impact of the chariot.
"Kill!"
The Gaojiao Allied Forces rushed forward in a swarm, and each one saw them waving their swords, leaping over the wooden fence, and fighting together with Duan's soldiers.
At one time, tens of thousands of people were engaged in a fierce battle. The sky was dark and the ground was dark, smoke filled the air, corpses were strewn across the fields, and rivers of blood flowed.
The drums of war are rising again.
The second wave of charge from the Gaojiao Allied Forces has arrived.
Wu Jie also quickly issued the order, and Duan's 10,000 infantrymen immediately entered the battlefield.
Although the Gaojiao Allied Forces had the upper hand in terms of numbers, all the Duan soldiers fought hard and defended the intersection with the advantage of the favorable terrain. After more than two hours of fighting, the time had reached noon, and the Gaojiao Allied Forces forced the Duan army back.
For three to four miles, the road was full of destroyed chariots, and corpses were lying upside down. But everyone could see that Duan's army was gradually exhausted.
Wu Jie picked up the telescope and looked at the enemy camp, smiled slightly and said: "The final moment of decisive battle should be coming soon."
As soon as he finished speaking, the high-altitude coalition forces blew their horns three times, and all the remaining main forces rushed over. (To be continued...)