Chapter 133: Heavy as a Mountain, Steady as a Mountain
This trip was indeed a failure...
When Chu General Zi Cheyu jumped off the warship with a leaky cabin, he couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart.
Because when he proposed this strategy to Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo, he had a bad premonition in his heart. Now, that ominous premonition has come true. It turns out that the Wei people have really ambush a murderous intention in Caihe, but they just don’t know that Wei When do people make preparations in advance?
Looking around at the terrified Chu soldiers under his command, Zi Cheyu sighed secretly.
Thirty thousand Chu soldiers and dozens of warships were washed away by the flood of the Cai River, and almost 60% to 70% of the warships were destroyed.
Fortunately, the casualties among the soldiers were relatively not serious. It is roughly estimated that less than 10% of the soldiers died directly in the Cai River.
Right now, the only option is to retreat temporarily.
After thinking for a while, Zi Cheyu calmly ordered: "The whole army listens to the order: remove the food on the warship, and then... try to repair the warship."
All the Chu soldiers lowered their heads and took down the bags of food from the more than thirty warships stranded on the east bank of the Cai River.
At the same time, another group of Chu soldiers began to repair the interior of the warship.
After all, many of these warships just leaked a lot of water inside the cabins, which was naturally extremely dangerous in the middle of the river. But now that the battlefield has been stranded on the river bank, there is no danger of sinking. Therefore, all the Chu soldiers spent their efforts to repair it. Yes, you can still continue sailing.
But even so, Zi Cheyu had no intention of continuing to sneak attack the capital of Wei State. He even sent many men to watch the other side of the river. After all, the west bank of Cai River was the hinterland of Wei State. Logically speaking, , if the Wei people still have a follow-up ambush, they should be on the west bank of the Cai River. This is why Zi Cheyu ordered the entire army to forcibly anchor on the east bank of the Cai River.
Although in this area, both the east and west banks of the Cai River belong to the territory of Wei State, but in comparison, Zi Cheyu still feels that the east bank is slightly safer.
Unfortunately, he guessed wrong!
"Wei...Wei army is attacking!"
After about a stick of incense, when the Chu soldiers further north shouted warning words in fear, Zi Cheyu's mind, which had just been relaxed for a moment, immediately became tense.
What? An ambush was planned in advance on the east bank of the Cai River? Why? Did the person who set up the water attack plan think that I would choose the east bank to forcibly dock?
Zi Cheyu was horrified.
He looked back at the Chu soldiers nearby. Seeing that there were at least ten thousand Chu soldiers under his command, he felt a little relieved.
"There is no need to panic. Our army currently has a large number of soldiers. There is no need to be afraid of the invading Wei soldiers! ...The whole army forms a formation to meet the enemy!"
It has to be said that Zi Cheyu is worthy of being a general of the Chu army under the command of Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng. He has a very high prestige in the army, so under his shouts, the panicked Chu soldiers nearby seemed to have found a backbone. , groups surrounded Zi Cheyu and formed a formation on the east bank of Cai River.
At the same time, the Wei soldiers coming from the upstream direction were getting closer and closer.
What shocked Zi Cheyu was that this Wei army actually had a group of cavalry, and the number must have been at least two thousand.
More than two thousand Wei cavalrymen...
Zi Cheyu murmured to himself, you must know that in Wei State, the cavalry of the local guard army does not exceed a hundred people, and since the Wei army in the distance has more than two thousand cavalry, it means that, The invading Wei soldiers were definitely not local troops within the Wei State, but the elite permanent troops that only had six in the entire Wei State.
While guessing, Zi Cheyu suddenly caught a glimpse of the banners carried by some Wei soldiers in the distance. The dazzling words "Dangshan" made him smile bitterly in his heart.
It turned out to be the Wei army from the Dangshan camp... Aren't they assisting the Suiyang army in the old Song Dynasty to surrender to General Nangong? How could they appear near the Cai River hundreds of miles away? Did the Wei State intend to abandon the Song Dynasty from the beginning?
For a time, all kinds of random speculations filled Zi Cheyu's head, making it difficult for him to understand the scene he saw: the Dangshan Army of Wei State, which should have appeared on the battlefield of Song Dynasty, actually appeared on the battlefield of Yingshui.
"Kou Yu"
With a slight scolding, a Wei general in armor took the lead and stopped about a stone's throw away from the Chu army's phalanx.
This general is none other than Sima An, the general of Dangshan Camp.
This Chu army...
Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, stopped the sprint on the battlefield below his crotch and looked at the Chu army forming a formation by the river bank to meet the enemy with a blank expression. He was really surprised and surprised in his heart.
In his opinion, the Chu army in the distance had just nearly suffered a disaster on the Cai River. Logically speaking, it should have been in panic and almost collapsed at this time.
In his original idea, when he led the army to kill, these Chu soldiers should have fled southward. In this way, he, Sima An, could lead the cavalry of the Dangshan Army to cover up and kill them, and effortlessly kill the Chu soldiers.
The army was wiped out.
Unexpectedly, instead of fleeing, the Chu army formed a formation beside the river bank and prepared for an attack, completely making Sima An's idea come to nothing.
Humph! It seems that I caught a big fish...
Sima An snorted expressionlessly.
Obviously, only if the Chu army on the opposite side has a Chu general with good command, can the Chu soldiers obey his orders and form a formation to meet the enemy in place, instead of foolishly heading south.
get away.
However, Sima An didn't care about this. Anyway, in his opinion, even if the Chu soldiers cleverly chose to form a formation to meet the enemy, it would only prolong the time for this group of people to survive.
No army can survive the power of his Dangshan Army!
"Form up!"
Following Sima An's shout as he raised his arms.
The Wei soldiers who rushed here in a chaotic manner actually stopped their charge in just a few days and arranged themselves into a neat formation.
Seeing this scene, Chu General Zi Cheyu couldn't help but frown: What an elite soldier these are!
Thinking about it, only those soldiers who have gone through hard training can quickly arrange their formations in such chaotic situations.
"Tap tap tap"
I saw the former infantrymen of the Dangshan camp, holding a shield in their left hand and a short spear in their right hand, marching towards the Chu soldiers in an orderly manner.
Zi Cheyu didn't care much about these Wei infantry. After all, he was more worried about the fact that there were a large number of crossbowmen among the Wei soldiers. But what made him ecstatic was that the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army
, there don’t seem to be many crossbowmen.
This made him feel at ease.
After all, in his opinion, as long as the opposing Wei soldiers lacked enough crossbowmen, it would not be enough to defeat them.
Therefore, he immediately ordered the entire army to tighten the defense line and wait for the charge of the Wei infantry.
After noticing that the Chu soldiers quickly tightened their defense line, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, snorted coldly.
At the same time, the Wei soldiers who were gradually advancing towards the Chu soldiers suddenly stopped a dozen feet away from the Chu soldiers. Immediately afterwards, the thousands of Wei soldiers unexpectedly made a throwing move in unison. Prepare.
Thousands of people, all in neat rows, were throwing spears as if they were one person. The scene was simply magnificent.
But this scene made Chu General Zi Cheyu's face turn pale and a chill ran down his bones.
Those Wei soldiers... they don't want to...
Zi Cheyu guessed with a horrified face.
Before he could finish his guess, he saw thousands of Wei infantry shooting their long spears at the same time. In a moment, thousands of short spears flew into the air and threw them towards the Chu army's phalanx.
At the same time, the Wei soldiers launched a charge. They held up their shields and drew their swords from their waists. They shouted in unison and rushed towards the Chu army.
this……
Zi Cheyu was simply stunned.
As a general under Xiong Tuo, Lord of Yangcheng, Zi Cheyu has been constantly fighting against the Wei soldiers in Fenxing for years, but he has never fought against this Dangshan army. There is no way to know that the tactics of the Dangshan army are so " Alternative”.
What should we do?
He looked at the spears that were about to fly into his army, and then looked at the numerous Wei soldiers who were rushing towards his own army. Although Zi Cheyu was an experienced general in conquests, he was still a little out of control at this time. Big chaos.
However, the passage of time waits for no one, and before Zi Cheyu can come up with any countermeasures, the attack of thousands of short guns has already arrived.
In a short time, countless Chu soldiers were stabbed by those short spears, their bodies were pierced, and they fell to the ground screaming and wailing. The orderly defense line of the Chu army was completely disrupted by this wave of spears.
What's terrible is that just when the Chu soldiers' defense line was in chaos, the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army came over and killed them one after another.
It has to be said that the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army are no less capable of individual combat than the Junshui Army. I saw the Wei soldiers in the first row building a line of defense with shields, shouting in unison, and pushing forward together. Many Chu soldiers who were weak were pushed back continuously.
At this moment, the Wei soldiers suddenly removed their shields and swung their swords at them neatly with their right hands.
"ah"
There was another burst of miserable howling, and hundreds of Chu soldiers were chopped down to the ground.
When the Chu soldiers behind them saw this scene, they opened their eyes angrily and stabbed with their spears. Unfortunately, after the Wei soldiers quickly finished the chop, they immediately raised their shields in front of them and blocked them. The offensive of those Chu soldiers.
Use your shield to block, then push hard, wait until the Chu soldiers in front are pushed away, and then quickly swing your sword.
This Wei army just repeated this process mechanically, but it caused great casualties to this Chu army.
These Wei soldiers did not even look at the Chu soldiers who were chopped down by them but had not yet died. The Wei soldiers behind them were calmly finishing their blows.
Calm and unhurried, yes, the entire Dangshan Army's Wei soldiers were like a mountain. They were extremely calm and unhurried, killing the Chu soldiers one by one with one sword.
What makes Zi Cheyu unbelievable is that even though the opponent used strange moves to gain the upper hand in the beginning, causing his Chu soldiers to suffer heavy casualties, in the subsequent head-on battle, his Chu soldiers actually lost almost ten people. Even at the cost of dozens of people, it was very difficult to kill one Wei soldier.
This Wei soldier... is more powerful than the Wei soldier from the dredging army!
Zi Cheyu gritted his teeth and commented secretly. (To be continued.)