Chapter 233: The Battle of Changyi (2) [Two in One]
About ten miles southwest of Changyi City, there is a piece of low hills. Among the valleys of this low hill, "Chuanluo Supervisor" Bosile was lying against a tree with a piece of stone.
A rag was used to carefully wipe a long sword used in horse fighting.
While he was maintaining his weapons, he suddenly saw a dozen cavalry approaching from the east direction. Upon closer inspection, he saw that they were sentry cavalry from his Jiejiao Army.
After a while, the dozen or so cavalrymen came to Bosile, dismounted, clasped their fists and said, "Supervisor, the Chu army is attacking Changyi."
"How many people are there?" Bosile asked casually.
After hearing this, the sentry rider made gestures and said: "Many, many, many more than the Chu army that fought with us last time. Many, many more."
"..."
Bosile glanced at the sentinel rider somewhat speechlessly, but he was not angry at all.
Because he also understands that the people of Sanchuan are not sensitive to numbers - or in other words, they have not received relevant education. Just like the scouts of Wei State, they can roughly give "thousands", "tens of thousands", and "hundreds of thousands"
Waiting for a relatively intuitive number of enemy troops, most of the sentries in Sanchuan County always used vague words such as "many", "many", and "very many".
In the past, Bosile thought that the "National School" promoted by Wei King Zhao Run was unnecessary, but now, he increasingly felt that it was so damn necessary, at least for the young sentry in front of him.
Stuff him into a school in Luocheng.
At this time, opposite Bosile, Captain Hechahaqi was lying lazily on the ground basking in the sun. After hearing this, he sat up and said with a smile: "The Chu army that attacked Changyi last time was about twenty in number.
Ten thousand, right? There are more this time than last time...Tsk, tsk, it would be great if we could catch all of them."
Bosile heard this and glanced at Hecha Khaqi. Of course he knew that Hecha Khaqi was alluding to the slave trade, but unfortunately, King Zhao Run of Wei did not allow the sale of slaves in the Central Plains, unlike their fellow tribesmen who currently live in
The Jie people in the Wandi area of Nanyang can earn a considerable amount of income every year by capturing Ba people as slaves and trading them privately to the Wei State.
"The King of Wei will not allow Chu people to be bought and sold." Bosile said calmly.
He knew that in recent years, Hechahaqi's three sons had gotten married one after another, which cost the latter a lot of money in wedding expenses. In addition to the unmarried children, the number one general of his Jiejiao Army was now
Now he looks like a Wei man, troubled by money.
"The King of Wei only did not allow people from the Central Plains to be treated as slaves, but he never said that he would not recruit prison workers..." Hecha Haqi laughed strangely.
The prison workers he refers to refer to the prisoners who were sent to the army for violating the laws of the Wei State. To be honest, their treatment is not much better than that of slaves.
Livestock can be slaughtered at will.
Some things do not need to be listed in detail. The Wei State has launched one major project after another in recent years. Does it mean that all the labor depends on recruiting civilians?
It's just the imperial court's declaration to the outside world.
Behind the rapid rise of a powerful empire, it is inevitable that it will be accompanied by blood and cruelty.
"Survive first and then talk about it."
Bosile stood up, put the sharp blade in his hand back into the scabbard, and said lightly.
"Survived? Chu people?"
Hecha Hachi smiled nonchalantly.
In this world, apart from the soldiers of Wei, the only ones worthy of attention by the Jie people in this world are the soldiers of Qin, because both countries have defeated the Jie people one after another. As for the soldiers of Chu... during this period
, the Jiejiao cavalry has been hunting Chu army patrol soldiers in the Changyi area, and even competed with each other privately to see who could kill more 'prey', which can already explain the problem.
After listening to Hechahaqi's words, Bosile didn't say much. After all, he didn't think the Chu soldiers were very powerful. They just relied on the strength of their numbers.
But no matter how many sheep there are, they can't withstand the attacks of wolves, right?
"Notify the soldiers and ask them to be ready to attack," Bosile ordered.
"yes!"
About a quarter of an hour later, more than 40,000 Jiejiao cavalry slowly rushed to Changyi.
When he arrived in the Changyi County area, he learned from the outposts that Changyi County was being attacked fiercely by the Chu army, and the situation seemed not to be optimistic.
"What's going on?"
Bosile was a little puzzled.
Because the last time the Chu army attacked Changyi, the city of Changyi was still well defended. By the time he arrived with his army, the Chu army had already retreated in the face of difficulties. So that day, he led the Jie army under his command.
The horned cavalry chased and killed the Chu army for a while.
But today, according to what the sentry cavalry said, the Chu army has actually attacked the city wall of Changyi City?
Did the Wei army suddenly become weaker, or did the Chu army suddenly become stronger?
Bosile was a little confused.
After ordering his cavalry to rest where they were, Bosile took Hechahaqi to a high slope to peek at the offensive and defensive battles along the southern wall of Changyi City.
"Dong...Ou...is that also the designation of Chu's army?"
Bosile thought secretly.
I have to say that this "Chu Army" in Dongou is a bit weird. It looks very inconspicuous at first glance. The weapons in the hands of the sergeants and soldiers are all in a mess, including swords, guns, swords and halberds. However, the combat capability of this army is quite different.
Compared with the Chu army (grain-recruiting soldiers) from the previous few days, I don't know how much more powerful it was.
No, just when Bosile was thinking to himself, a group of soldiers from the Dongou Army climbed up the wall of Changyi City with a long ladder, causing chaos among the Wei troops on the wall.
"Could it be that these are the elites of Chu State?"
Seeing that the situation in Changyi County was critical, Bosile could not think further and immediately ordered Hechahaqi, the commander of ten thousand men, to launch an offensive against the Chu army.
"Woo-wu-wu-"
Waiting for several Jiejiao cavalry to blow their horns at the same time, more than ten thousand Jiejiao cavalry surged up the high slope like a tide, and immediately killed the Chu army outside Changyi City in the distance.
The movement of thousands of horses galloping was like the earth shaking and the mountains shaking. The "Chu Army" outside Changyi City immediately discovered this rapidly approaching army.
But in fact, this army is not the Chu army, but the only standing army of the Yue Kingdom, the Dongou Army.
This Yue army has a long history, no less than that of the Beibo Army in Song County. It was the "Chu-Yue War", and it was also the "Wei, Qi, Lu, and Yue Four Kingdoms attacked Chu". However, in all Yue wars, the Dongou Army is worthy of its name.
The main force - or to put it simply, the country of Yue, with its weak national power, could only afford this one standing army.
However, don’t underestimate the Dongou Army just because the Yue State is weak. Even though the Yue State is even weaker than the Wei State, the strength of the Dongou Army is extraordinary. Just look at the massive energy used by the Chu State.
, it took more than ten or twenty years to defeat this army, which shows how extraordinary this army is.
Especially when the Dong'ou Army was in the dense forests in the mountains, it was definitely a nightmare for the armies of other countries in the world. Even those as brave as Chu State General Xiang Kuan frequently suffered losses at the hands of the Dong'ou Army.
"Is that the alien cavalry wandering around this area?"
When he noticed the sudden attack of the Jiejiao cavalry, Wu Qi, the general of Dongou Army, turned his head and observed carefully.
Wu Qi was not surprised that this cavalry came to support Changyi, because before the battle, Chu Shuijun had already told them about this foreign cavalry, and told them that this foreign cavalry surrendered to Wei.
Recently, he has been wandering around Changyi County, and soldiers of the Chu army appear from time to time to hunt and kill them.
Of course, what's more important is that Chu Shuijun equipped Wu Qi's Dongou Army with an auxiliary army, namely the Caixi main army led by Caixi County Duke Cai Hou, which was specially designed for the Jiejiao cavalry, so as to avoid the Jiejiao cavalry.
The harassment of the Dongou Army affected the Dongou Army's attack on the south gate of Changyi.
"The whole army...hold the position!"
As the Chu general Cai Hou roared at the top of his lungs, more than 20,000 Chu soldiers from Caixi County formed a tight defensive formation in front of the Jiejiao cavalry, seemingly preparing to withstand the impact of this cavalry head-on.
It is undeniable that cavalry is the nemesis of infantry, but when a certain number of infantry forms a tight defensive formation, its ability to resist cavalry is greatly enhanced, unless it is a heavy cavalry such as Shangshui Youma and Daijun Heavy Cavalry.
Weapons, otherwise, the cavalry's breakthrough ability will be greatly reduced in this tight defensive formation.
However, the key lies in the bravery of the soldiers of the two soldiers. To put it simply, between the two armies, who is more brave and not afraid of death.
At this point, the Chu army in Caixi County was obviously inferior to the Jiejiao cavalry. The Yue general Wu Qi could see clearly that when the Jiejiao cavalry charged towards the Chu army, the soldiers of the Chu army were obviously a little confused.
There was so much confusion that there was some commotion.
"When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win... This Chu army will probably be defeated by that foreign cavalry..."
Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, shook his head secretly and told a general beside him: "Cai Hou cannot stop this cavalry...Wu Liang, you will take over the attack on Changyi City, and I will personally command the soldiers to resist this cavalry."
"Yes!" the Yue general named Wu Liang responded with clasped fists.
At the same time, more than 10,000 Jiejiao cavalry had already crashed into the defense line composed of more than 20,000 regular Chu troops in Caixi County.
Just as Wu Qi judged, in front of those fierce and fearless Jiejiao cavalry, the Chu army in Caixi County was obviously timid. Although it was said that they did not flee with their backs, due to fear, when facing the enemy, they
The response was more than a beat too slow. In the blink of an eye, the Jiejiao cavalry tore a hole in the defense line.
"Block them! Block them!"
Chu general Cai Hou shouted angrily at the top of his voice, as if he couldn't believe that his main army was so vulnerable.
But unfortunately, no matter how much he encouraged and cursed, the response of the Chu army under his command was still slow and slow. Not to mention the inability to make an effective counterattack against the Jiejiao cavalry, it was even difficult to parry.
"Tsk! Vulnerable."
Hechahaqi, the captain of the Jijiao Cavalry, thought disdainfully.
I saw him waving the sword in his hand, rushing in front of the soldiers, like a sharp blade, piercing into the hinterland of the Chu army in Caixi, killing all directions in the hinterland.
It has to be said that this reckless man from Sanchuan County really has the qualifications to despise the Chu people. After all, during his charge, almost no one was his enemy, whether they were soldiers or generals of the Chu army.
"Happy! So happy!"
Holding tightly the iron sword forged by the Wei State, Hecha Haqi's body was covered with the blood of the Chu army, which made his smile particularly penetrating.
In front of the Dongou Army's position about a mile away, the Yue general Wu Qi sat astride his horse and squinted at Hecha Haqi, a fierce general of the Jijiao Cavalry.
"What a brave and brave general... The morale of this foreign cavalry seems to be heightened because of this general. Well, it seems that we have to get rid of him first to cut off the momentum of this cavalry..."
Raising his hand to touch the stubble on his chin, Wu Qi was thoughtful.
In less than a cup of tea, the defense line built by 20,000 Chu soldiers from Caixi County was penetrated by Hecha Haqi, the captain of the Jijiao Cavalry.
After breaking through the Chu army's defense line, Hechahaqi suddenly saw that not far ahead, the Chu army with the flag "Dongou" did not give up the attack on Changyi City, but instead deployed all its troops.
Divided into two, one half was used to attack the city, and the other half was used to consolidate the position, as if it was ready to withstand his surprise attack.
"Hey!"
Hetcha Hatcher licked his lips.
He secretly thought: This Chu army called Dongou is the main force attacking the southern city wall of Changyi County. It is better to defeat this Chu army together.
Thinking of this, he gave up turning around and continued to cover up the Chu army in Caixi. He led the cavalry who followed him in a sudden attack and headed straight towards the Dongou army.
Seeing this scene, Wu Qi, the general of the Yue Kingdom, was stunned, feeling a little bit dumbfounded.
You know, Wu Qi was still thinking about how to lure this alien cavalry who was advancing alone. Unexpectedly, before he could make a move, the other party was heading straight towards his Dongou Army.
"He is quite upright... a reckless man."
Wu Qi chuckled and suddenly ordered: "Lure him in."
Hearing this, a general beside him nodded, hurried to the vicinity of the Dongou soldiers who were building the defense line, and whispered a few words to the commanding general in that area.
For a moment, some commotion occurred in the front row of the Dongou Army. The Dongou soldiers in the front row seemed to be afraid of the oncoming Jiejiao cavalry, and actually showed a faint move to retreat to both sides.
As a result, a slight gap appeared in the originally tight defense line.
"Aha!"
Hechahaqi, the captain of the Jiejiao Army, was overjoyed when he saw this. He immediately changed the direction of the charge and rushed towards the gap.
You must know that the Chu army in Caixi County just now was pierced by Hechahaqi's army because the soldiers at the front were restless and exposed their flaws. But now, this Dongou Chu army seems to be more powerful than
The Chu army was even worse.
With great joy in his heart, Hechahaqi led his troops into the hinterland of the Dongou Army without hesitation.
At this moment, Yue General Wu Qi raised his hand and shouted loudly: "Fire arrows to cut off the cavalry behind him!"
After giving the order, the crossbowmen deployed behind the front row of Dongou Army's infantry immediately launched a volley at the cavalry behind Hecha Haqi.
Although the weapons in the hands of the crossbowmen of the Dongou Army are not very powerful, the problem is that the Jiejiao Cavalry is also a light cavalry and does not have too thick armor to protect themselves. In addition, they were unprepared, so that they only had two
More than a hundred Jiejiao cavalry followed the ten thousand captain Hechahaqi into the hinterland of Dongou Army. The rest of the Jiejiao cavalry who followed them all missed the opportunity to break into the enemy's defense line because they subconsciously avoided the arrows - and Dongou
The frontline infantrymen of the Ou Army took this opportunity to immediately close the door, closing the slight gap that they had deliberately exposed before.
"not good!"
A commander under Hechahaqi who was blocked from the Dongou army's formation was horrified when he saw this.
Although the Jie tribe is brutal, in fact they are not stupid. When they saw the Chu army closing the door in front of them, how could they have imagined that they had fallen into the enemy's trick?
Therefore, the commander immediately led his troops to attack the Dongou Army's defense line in front.
It can be seen at this time that the combat quality of Dongou's soldiers is far from comparable to that of the Chu army in Caixi County. Facing the most primitive and brutal assault of the Jie tribe's cavalry, they just used their shields to block it, even though they
The wooden shield wrapped in cowhide in his hand was smashed to pieces by the angry Jiejiao cavalry. These soldiers of the Yue Kingdom did not retreat. They would rather choose to die with the enemy with the weapons in their hands than run away because of the fear of their lives and affect those behind them.
of Tongze.
At this time, Hechahaqi, the captain of the Jiejiao Cavalry, had already reached the hinterland of the Dongou Army. He was killing and killing, but he felt that something was wrong, because the Chu soldiers in front of him were not attacked because of their own defense line.
They broke through and collapsed, but on the contrary, they surged in from all directions and killed them endlessly.
"What's going on? The soldiers behind didn't follow?"
Hechahachi turned his head and took a look, and then he realized that there were only about a hundred cavalry behind him, and the rest of the soldiers were actually blocked from the Chu army's defense line.
Just when he was distracted, he saw several Dongou soldiers leaning down and cutting off the front hooves of Hechahaqi's horse with a sword.
"What?!"
Hechahaqi was shocked. Before he could realize what had happened, he was knocked to the ground by his horse.
"Kill him!"
A Dongou Army general shouted sternly.
After hearing this, the surrounding Dongou soldiers rushed towards Hechahaqi like a tide.
"Get away!"
Hechahaqi immediately stood up and chopped to death several enemy soldiers who rushed forward with the sword in his hand. He bared his teeth and showed his fierce look, like a ferocious beast.
Several times, when he showed such a fierce look to the Chu soldiers, most of the Chu soldiers would be frightened by him, but this time, these "Chu Army" soldiers turned a blind eye to his fierce look.
No, the faces of these Chu soldiers were also extremely ferocious, like wild beasts in the mountains.
At least at this moment, Hecha Haqi felt as if he was surrounded by a pack of hungry wolves.
"roll!"
"roll!"
"Get away!"
Waving the sword in his hand, Hechahaqi immediately killed several Dongou soldiers, but in the next breath, he was stabbed in the right chest by the spear of a Dongou soldier, and the latter also bared his teeth.
With a ferocious expression on his face, he held the spear tightly with both hands, still trying hard to penetrate the spear deeper.
"ah--!!"
Hechahaqi roared in pain and held the gun body with his left hand. The spear did not move at all. Then, he swung his sword fiercely and immediately chopped the spear into pieces, taking the Dongou soldier's life with him.
His chest was also split open by him, and blood splattered all over his face.
However, at this moment, there was another spear behind him, which penetrated his back and pierced his chest.
Looking at the shining spear point on his chest, Hecha Haqi was stunned. Immediately, the expression on his face became more ferocious. He grabbed the spear tip, held his breath and twisted his body hard, and suddenly
Break the spear.
Immediately, he was seen grabbing a long spear that was pointed at him, and using brute force, he actually lifted up the Dongou sergeant with his gun, and threw him far away, hitting several Dongou sergeants.
Such a brave performance by him even moved the Yue general Wu Qi and secretly praised him.
But unfortunately, no matter how brave Hecha Haqi was, under the joint attack of countless Dongou soldiers, he would inevitably end up dying on the battlefield.
Together with the hundreds of Jiejiao cavalry who followed him into the hinterland of Dongou Army, they all died in the battle.
A moment later, when Dongou's sergeant held up the head of Hecha Haqi with the tip of his spear and displayed it in front of the front line, the Jiejiao cavalry were shocked and their momentum dropped.
Although there are still nearly ten thousand Jiejiao cavalry in the southern suburbs of Changyi City at this time, and they are still very powerful, but as Wu Qi judged, after the brave captain Hechahaqi was killed, the strength of these Jiejiao cavalry
Morale will inevitably plummet.
At the same time, Bo Xile, the governor of Chuanluo, and several other captains of ten thousand men, led most of the cavalry to attack the east city of Changyi City, because there was the main force of the Chu State and the main formation of the Chu Army.
"Hagel, you lead people to support Changyi."
When he arrived at the battlefield in the east of the city, Bosile ordered Hagel, the commander under his command, to lead his cavalry to attack the Chu army that was attacking the city, that is, the army under the banner of "Zhaoguan", and he
He himself led half of his troops to attack the Chu army's main formation.
"yes!"
Hagel, the captain of ten thousand men, took the order and led the cavalry to attack the Chu army at Zhaoguan.
At this time, Xiang Kuan, the chief general of the Chu army at Zhaoguan, was standing on the front line. He frowned when he saw a group of cavalry suddenly coming from the left.
"What the hell is Wu Qi doing?...Wait a minute, could this alien cavalry have come around the southern suburbs?"
As an old rival of the Yue general Wu Qi, Xiang Juan did not think that the Dongou army would be defeated by a foreign cavalry so easily.
If the Yue general Wu Qi and the Dongou army under his command were only at this level, why did the Chu state pay a high price to recruit the Yue state in the first place?
From a distance, he saw Hagel, the captain of the Jijiao Cavalry, leading the cavalry towards this side. Xiang Kuan shouted in a deep voice: "On the left wing, all troops should go south and form a formation to resist the enemy's cavalry."
As he spoke, he drove his war horse and slowly approached the left wing.
"Defend!"
As a general of the Zhaoguan Chu Army roared, the Zhaoguan Chu Army on the left immediately raised their shields and formed a line of defense.
Just like Hechahaqi who underestimated the enemy, Hagel also confused the Chu army in front of him with the Chu army that he thought could be "killed at will", so that he rushed over without any scruples.
It wasn't until these Jiejiao cavalry crashed into the defense line of the Chu soldiers at Zhaoguan, knocking them off their backs, that Captain Hagel realized the difference between this Chu army: the Chu troops they encountered in the past only needed to
A gentle assault immediately fell into pieces. However, this Chu army withstood the impact of their Jiejiao cavalry head-on. Many soldiers were directly hit to death on the spot, but even so, this Chu army did not retreat even half a mile.
Step by step, still firmly guarding the position.
"What's going on? Isn't the Chu army always weak?"
Hagel was puzzled.
Just when he was confused, a group of Chu cavalry suddenly came from the side. The number was very small, probably only a few hundred, and they headed straight towards Hagel.
Seeing this, Hagel suddenly understood: It seems that he is coming towards me.
He felt excited because he discovered that the leader of the hundreds of cavalry seemed to be a general from the Chu Kingdom.
Thinking of establishing a meritorious service today, Hagel was greatly excited and rushed forward brandishing his sword.
In the blink of an eye, two war horses passed by each other.
Immediately, I saw the Chu general reining in the reins, stopping his horse on the spot, shaking off the blood-stained sword in his hand, and looked up in the direction of Changyi City.
"The progress of the siege is slower than expected... Apart from anything else, it would not be good if Wu Qi took the lead in attacking the city."
The fierce general of the Chu State named Xiang Juan was muttering to himself.
Behind him, Captain Hagel of the Jiejiao Cavalry fell to the ground with a thud.
From the beginning to the end, Xiang Juan never looked at Hagel, as if he was just a nobody.