At the main position of the Wei army, Zhao Hongrun looked at the battle situation ahead from a distance and made comments from time to time.｜Chinese｜Novel..
After hearing what he said, Wei Jiao, the Zongwei Chief on his right, asked for instructions: "Do I need to send someone to remind him?"
"That's not necessary." Zhao Hongrun shook his head.
At this time, on the left side of Zhao Hongrun, Mi Jiang was also looking at the battle ahead expressionlessly. Although she couldn't bear the huge casualties of tens of thousands of Chu peasant soldiers, when she heard that Zhao Hongrun seemed to be disappointed with Nanmen Chi's
The commander complained, but she couldn't help but ask: "Is there any omission in General Chi's command from Nanmen?"
Surprised that this woman would actually ask about this matter, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but turn his head and look at Mi Jiang.
It has to be said that in order to deceive others, Mi Jiang had already changed out of her red and white witch clothes and put on the brocade armor that Zhao Hongrun had barely worn a few times. She showed off her heroic appearance, as if she were a female general.
Zhao Hongrun secretly admired this.
"It's not an oversight, it's just that his tactics tend to be radical." Zhao Hongrun explained while admiring Mi Jiang's curvy figure.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun didn't mean to blame Nanmen Chi. After all, everyone has his own ideas.
For example, Zhao Hongrun prefers to use the crossbow box of the Lu State, a war weapon that is equivalent to a disposable prop, on the edge of a knife. To put it bluntly, he uses it to deal with the Chu State's regular army or local county divisions on the opposite side.
After all, Zhao Hongrun always felt a little disadvantaged by using this terrible war weapon against a group of temporarily recruited peasant soldiers.
Therefore, if he, Zhao Hongrun, were in command, he would definitely wait until the Chu army or the local county division was dispatched on the opposite side before using this murderous weapon.
But Nanmen Chi was different. This person was more inclined to seize the opportunity. He did not hesitate to use precious war weapons such as the Lu Guo machine crossbow box to deal with a group of peasant soldiers who set foot on the battlefield for the first time. He also wanted to cause heavy casualties to the enemy at the beginning.
It severely damaged the morale of the Chu army.
Therefore, we can’t say whose strategy is better, it’s just a difference in philosophy.
"...As for Nanmen Chi's eagerness to advance troops, this is not a big problem. However, his order will bring some trouble to the Chinese army. Fortunately, Wu Ji reacted quickly. As soon as he found out that Nanmen Chi had ordered
When he entered the army, he immediately ordered his troops to prepare for the battle... How can I put it, both of them are outstanding."
Zhao Hongrun made a eloquent evaluation. Generally speaking, he highly praised Wu Ji and Nanmen Chi's command so far.
And listening to Zhao Hongrun's words of appreciation for the two generals under his command, a hint of reminiscence and confusion appeared in Mi Jiang's eyes.
She suddenly thought of the abandoned hunter's hut in Yangcheng, Chu State two years ago.
At that time, she had a premonition that the short Wei man in front of her might become their enemy of Chu State in the future.
But now, the premonition has come true. The short young master who was captured by her back then is now marching his army to attack Shouying, the capital of their Chu Kingdom. With Ruo Ding in command, he scolds Fang Qiu. Compared with two years ago,
More imposing.
Maybe, it's really hard for Shouying to escape being captured this time?
Mi Jiang raised her head and looked at the majestic giant city in the distance, with a strange look flashing in her cold eyes.
Zhao Hongrun clearly noticed this and whispered: "If you feel uncomfortable, I can send someone to take you back to the camp first."
This thoughtful reminder made Mi Jiang feel a little warm in her heart.
I saw her shaking her head slightly, looking at the huge city in the distance with a tangled mood, and murmuring: "After my father passed away, I wished that this country would fall... I was young and ignorant at the time, and I didn't know how to do it for the sake of Da Chu.
How could my hard-working father be accused of rebellion for no reason? When Mr. Xiong Tuo told me the cause of his father's death, I understood that it was not my father who was at fault... The survival or destruction of this country depends on it.
I don’t care. The reason why I came here is just to see with my own eyes. The moment I saw the destruction of Shouying City, it was just like Runan County back then..."
"..." Zhao Hongrun said nothing because he didn't know how to continue.
Although Mi Jiang's tone was full of resentment, he could still see confusion, entanglement and other emotions in her eyes, but it was no wonder, after all, they both knew that if Runan Jun Xiong Hao was still alive,
No matter how unfairly he was treated, he would never sit back and watch Shoying, the king of Chu, be captured.
After all, as one of the original Three Pillars of Chu State, Runan Lord Xiong Hao did not receive the support and support of the people of Chu State because of his title as a nobleman of the Xiong family.
The father worked hard for the country all his life and would rather be executed than cause a civil war. However, in the bottom of her heart, the daughter is looking forward to the fall of the Chu Kingdom and the fall of the King of Chu, Shoying. It is conceivable that Mi Jiang is now
Complex mood.
"Today...will Shouxing be captured?"
I don't know how long it took, but Mi Jiang asked in a complicated tone.
As if he had seen through Mi Jiang's complicated mood at this moment, Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "You want to capture Shouying on the first day? How is it possible!... Let's look at tomorrow first. If our army can severely damage the opponent today, we can gain a few points tomorrow.
Odds of winning.”
In fact, when he said this, Zhao Hongrun was also trying to cheer himself up. To put it more seriously, it was not surprising that Shouying, as the capital of Chu State, would fight for several months at a time.
Maybe, King Lu Xi of Qi will be dragged to death here.
Glancing at the battlefield, Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
As he expected, this battle was the most difficult battle that his Wei army had ever encountered so far. The hardship mentioned here did not simply refer to the large number of Chu troops that the Wei army faced, but to the momentum of those Chu troops.
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The kind of momentum that feels like a last-ditch battle, the momentum of united efforts and the same hatred against the enemy.
Looking at the entire battle situation at this moment, to be honest, the situation of the Wei army is not completely advantageous. Although Chi Fang of Nanmen made a small plan to the Chu army and ambushed tens of thousands of Chu peasant soldiers, this loss was not enough to reverse the Wei army.
An unfavorable situation for the Chu army.
The Wei army had 50,000 troops, while the Chu troops in the western suburbs of Shouying were nearly 300,000. With such a huge gap in strength, how could the superiority and disadvantage be reversed by the casualties of tens of thousands of peasant soldiers?
Even when the Wei army's front line commander Nanmen Chi decided to advance, the Chu army on the opposite side also launched a counterattack against the Wei army.
Four square formations, as many as 40,000 to 50,000 Chu troops, took advantage of the front army's left wing Yi Jia's troops and right-wing troops Chen Xie's troops to surround and kill the peasant soldiers. They took the opportunity to outflank the two generals Yi Jia and Chen Xie.
Partially divided and surrounded.
Fortunately, Wu Ji, the commander of the Chinese army on the Wei side, reacted quickly and immediately ordered the 3,000-man general Lu Zhan's left army and the 3,000-man general Xu Jiong's right army to advance forward, and with Yi Jia,
Chen Xie and his two generals joined forces to resist the Chu army's left and right wings.
This situation made Zhao Hongrun frown involuntarily.
He actually placed the main army on the left and right wings and asked a group of peasant soldiers to fight in the middle?
Zhao Hongrun frowned and glanced at the Chu army in the distance, feeling a little guilty in his heart.
Because it stands to reason that the most powerful elites in an army will usually be deployed in the middle. That’s not to say that the left and right wings are unimportant. The problem is that the middle on the battlefield is a straight line and has the shortest distance. Unlike the two wings where soldiers and horses need to be deployed,
Roundabout and outflank. Therefore, if the most elite troops of the general are not deployed in the middle, if they encounter the enemy's elite troops, they are likely to be penetrated and killed all the way to their own formation, and then defeated.
But the commander-in-chief of the Chu State on the opposite side didn't know what he was thinking. He actually asked a group of peasant soldiers to take charge of the middle road. Although the number of these peasant soldiers was indeed shocking, even if tens of thousands of them were ambushed and killed, they were still all over the mountains and plains.
.But in the final analysis, this is just a large number of people. Facing this kind of mixed soldiers, such as Ran Teng, Zhang Ming, and Xiang Li's elite thousand-man team, the sergeants of the army can outnumber ten, which is hardly a problem.
Well, there is an intention...
Seeing from a distance where the center of the Chu army was, there was a fully armored legion that had not yet been dispatched. Zhao Hongrun immediately guessed the intention of the commanding general on the opposite side: to use miscellaneous soldiers to consume the physical strength of the elite merchant navy troops, and then send out the elite troops.
The legions fought back in one fell swoop and reached the Wei army's main formation.
If it succeeds, the Shang Shui Army will lose the first battle; if it fails, the elite teams like Xiang Li, Zhang Ming, and Ran Teng who form a sharp knife formation will most likely not be able to survive.
The advantages of the human sea tactic...
Zhao Hongrun sighed helplessly. Although he looked down on Chu's way of fighting where soldiers were purely used as consumables on the battlefield, it was undeniable that since this ancient tactic is still used today, it must have its own uniqueness.
No, the Chu army made it clear that they were using a huge number of soldiers to consume the Wei army's physical strength. Even if Zhao Hongrun could see through this, he couldn't think of any good way to counter it for the time being.
After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun said to Zong Wei Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, send an order to Wu Ji and ask him to send someone to warn Nanmen Chi that the center of the front army is too deep compared to the left and right wings. Be careful of being ambushed by the Chu army.
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"yes!"
Wei Jiao nodded, and immediately summoned two Su Wang guards, asking the latter to pass on His Highness's orders.
Sure enough, subsequent facts proved that Zhao Hongrun's judgment was indeed accurate: the Wei army's forward corps, which went too deep into the enemy's hinterland, and the elite men including Ran Teng's team, Zhang Ming's team, and Xiang Li's team, were attacked by the Chu army.
ambush.
When the Wei army's vanguard army was about to break through the peasant soldiers, the previously motionless legion in the Chu army's formation suddenly took action and advanced at once, curbing the Wei army's offensive.
Although Nanmen Chi was already on guard after being reminded by Wu Ji at that time, he did not expect that the Chu army's counterattack in the middle would be so swift and violent, forcing the Wei army to retreat step by step.
In response, Zhao Hongrun just shook his head regretfully and said nothing more.
Think about it, if the Chu soldiers on the opposite side can't even repel the severely exhausted Wei soldiers, why should they be called regular troops?
Furthermore, Zhao Hongrun did not expect to achieve a decisive victory on the first day. This was too underestimated the foundation of Chu State.
"That's it for today, withdraw our troops!"
In Mi Jiang's complicated eyes that were unwilling and relieved, Zhao Hongrun left two armies to break off alternately, and the army slowly withdrew.
Seeing that the Wei army chose to withdraw, the Chu army on the opposite side tried to pursue them. However, because they did not get any advantage, they simply let the Wei army go after chasing for a while.
After the war, Zhao Hongrun counted the casualties in the army and learned that, excluding the casualties of the peasant soldiers, the ratio of casualties between Wei soldiers and Chu soldiers was only one to two.
This result made Zhao Hongrun frown greatly. (To be continued.)