"Report!...The front army was defeated, and General Shen Kang was ambushed by the Wei army and died in battle!"
"What?"
When Wu Gan, the general of Chu, heard the news, he could not believe it.
He had just led his army to the vicinity of Yanling City. He originally planned to detach part of his army to rescue the fire in Yanling City. Unexpectedly, the former army was ambushed.
Wu Gan, the general of Chu, looked carefully in the direction of the Yanling Hill, and sure enough he saw the former army defeated and fleeing. Behind them, Bailiba, the general of Junshuiying, led 25,000 Wei soldiers, chasing closely and orderly.
With.
"Knot... form a formation!"
Chu general Wu Gan quickly ordered the nearby Chu soldiers to form formations to meet the enemy.
But he did not expect that the first enemy that the Chu soldiers under his command faced after they formed a formation was not the Wei army from the Dredging Camp, but the Chu soldiers who were defeated and fled back from the front line.
These idiots... actually attacked our own defense line!
Chu general Wu Gan was so angry that his eyes almost popped out. He stared dumbly at the defeated troops on the front line, and tried to escape into the neatly arrayed Chu army's defense line with a panicked look on his face.
To make matters worse, facing the defeated friendly forces, the Chu soldiers who formed the defense line were obviously at a loss as to whether they should block it or let the friendly forces on the opposite side pass through the defense line.
Seeing this, Chu general Wu Gan made a decisive decision and issued a cruel order with an angry voice.
"Kill!...Anyone who attacks our defense line will be killed without mercy!"
This cruel general order was issued, and the defeated Chu troops on the front line suffered. They thought that as long as they fled to the friendly defense lines, they could escape the killings of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui camp at the rear. Unexpectedly, Chu general Wu Gan's command
The army actually issued a kill order against them.
No, the defeated Chu armies closest to Chu General Wugan's line of defense were baptized by friendly crossbows, resulting in heavy casualties.
"Wow, what a cruel general!"
Bailiba, the general of Junshui Camp, saw this scene from a distance and couldn't help but make fun of it. But deep down in his heart, he had a higher opinion of the Chu general who commanded the defense line.
After all, at this time, the most taboo thing is to be soft-hearted and allow the defeated front army to hide in the defense line. After all, once the defense line is chaotic, not only will the front army be defeated, but the Chu army's central army that forms the defense line here will also be shattered, leading to the entire
The army collapsed.
It's a pity that the Chu State's front army that you defeated was no less numerous than your central army...can they stop it?
Bailiba waved his hand and ordered his Junshui Battalion to slow down the momentum of the attack, allowing the defeated Chu army in front of him to attack their own defense line.
The Chu army of nearly 20,000 was defeated, and amid the angry scolding and curses of the Chu general Wu Gan, they crashed into the latter's defense line.
"No...don't come..."
A Chu soldier within the defense line used his shield to resist the rushing troops, who were originally his compatriots from the Chu country.
Behind the first row of shield soldiers, those Chu soldiers holding spears in the defense line gritted their teeth and finally stabbed their spears at the oncoming compatriots.
"Puff puff puff——"
Hundreds of sharp spears penetrated hundreds of oncoming frontline troops. The survivors who had finally escaped from the sharp blades of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui Camp stared blankly at the butcher's knives in front of them.
Compatriots, those confused eyes seemed to be asking: Why?
However, the cruel kill order did not stop the defeated soldiers from attacking the defense line of our army. These people had their fighting spirit destroyed by the two hundred terrifying tanks of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui Camp.
Later there was the massacre of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui camp, and before there was the butcher's knife sacrificed by the compatriots' troops. The fragile psychology of those defeated soldiers caught between the two armies had already collapsed. How could they think about victory or defeat? Their minds were full of thoughts.
They all want to survive and leave this terrifying battlefield as soon as possible.
"No...don't stop me!"
Finally, a Chu soldier who was lucky enough not to be killed by his compatriots couldn't help but raise his sword towards his former comrades. They almost frantically used the knives in their hands to hack at the soldiers blocking their progress.
The shield infantry stepped on the shield in the opponent's hand and even stepped on the opponent's body, forcing their way into the originally neat and orderly Chu army's defense line.
The defense line summoned by Chu general Wu Gan was torn open by the rout of Chu's frontline troops who had a strong desire for survival.
At first there were only one or two people, but as the shield soldiers on the defense line were forced to the sides, more and more broken soldiers squeezed into the defense line. In order to survive, they frantically attacked their own defense line.
These beasts!...killed everyone here!
Chu Jiang Wu Gan's eyes widened in anger, he drew his sword angrily, squeezed through the crowd and killed those damn defeated soldiers.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The defense line he had built had been broken up by the defeated frontline troops who were desperate for survival. Seeing this, Bailiba, the general of the fifth battalion of Junshuiying, waved his hand and said,
He shouted: "Follow the trend... kill him!"
"Oh oh oh——!!"
More than 20,000 highly motivated Wei soldiers from the Junshui camp followed closely behind the defeated Chu army. Using them as shields, they rushed towards the defense line formed by Chu general Wu Gan.
During this period, the cavalry team of Junshui Camp was responsible for disrupting the already chaotic Chu army's defense line, while the chariot fleet that arrived later directly acted as the backbone to attack the most solid position in the Chu army's defense line.
Originally, the defense line formed by Chu general Wu Gan could block the Junshui camp's offensive, but when his defense line was rushed by the defeated Chu army on the front line, the defense line was immediately in chaos, and it was impossible to stop the Wei soldiers.
Not to mention effectively killing the enemy, some Chu soldiers even fought on their own: the Chu soldiers within the defense line followed orders and tried to kill the friendly forces attacking their defense line, while the defeated troops who were routed from the front line and tried to escape to the friendly forces' defense line were because
The friendly troops were not given a way to survive. They were frightened and anxious, and they didn't care much, so they raised the butcher's knife against the friendly troops.
Actually... unexpectedly...
Holding a sword that could not stop bleeding, Chu General Wu Gan couldn't help but laugh miserably.
He never expected that when he drew his sword for the first time on this battlefield, he would kill his own soldiers.
"Now that things have happened..."
Looking at the defeated situation of his own army around him, Chu General Wu Gan gritted his teeth and scanned the surroundings with sharp eyes, as if he was looking for something.
But at this moment, a chuckle suddenly sounded beside him.
"Are you looking for me?... What a coincidence!"
Wu Gan raised his head subconsciously, and was shocked to see that the target he was looking for—General Bailiba of the Junshui Camp—had unexpectedly jumped on his horse and arrived in front of him, raising the long-handled saber in his hand towards him.
.
Too bad...
Just as an ominous premonition flashed through his mind, Wu Gan only felt the flash of a knife in front of his eyes and instantly lost consciousness.
"Plop."
The headless corpse slowly knelt down and fell limply to the ground.
Not far away, a human head rolled twice on the ground, and one could still see the horrified and frightened expression of Chu General Wu Gan.
At the same time, Baili Ba, the general of the fifth battalion of the Junshui Camp, was sitting astride his horse, holding a knife in one hand, expressionlessly shaking off the blood on the blade, then raising his left hand and swiping forward heavily.
Following his gesture, the Junshui Camp's cavalry quickly rushed into the battlefield from both wings, trying to kill the Chu army here from both wings.
In the center, the chariot that harvested the enemy's lives like wheat, rumbled and appeared in front of all the Chu troops here.
"Then...what the hell is that?!"
The person who subconsciously asked this question was obviously a soldier of the Chu army who had never seen the power of this kind of chariot.
As for those Chu soldiers who looked back at the chariots and looked horrified as if they had seen a ghost in the day, they did not even dare to stop for a moment. They pushed aside the crowd desperately and headed towards Yanshui direction desperately.
Road to escape.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"
"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"
The bursts of sound were like nails hammering into a wooden board, but in fact each sound represented the death of a Chu infantryman under the crossbow bolts of the Wei crossbowmen in the compartment above the chariot.
Wherever the chariot advanced, one after another Chu soldiers were struck by arrows and fell to the ground.
Some were lucky and died directly from arrows.
And some still breathed a sigh of relief because they didn't hit their vital points.
However, the Wei crossbowmen on the chariot didn't even look at the Chu soldiers wailing on the ground. They only saw the Chu soldiers who were still running away.
That is their prey!
As for those Chu soldiers who had been hit by arrows but had not yet died, some were killed by the Junshui battalion infantry on both sides of the chariot. Some were even more miserable and were directly crushed to death by the huge wheels of the chariot. It was too horrible to watch.
Finally, more and more Chu soldiers joined the fleeing team. Although there were still high-ranking generals of the Chu army in the team, in this case, even those generals of the Chu army could not save the Chu army from being defeated.
situation.
"The army was defeated like a mountain..."
This was the second time Bailiba, the general of Junshui Camp, murmured these words to himself.
Although there were flashes of pity in his eyes, he would never really sympathize with these Chu soldiers.
The Wei army is winning now. If the Chu army were the victors, the fate of their Wei army would not be much better.
Because, this is war!
Either you die or I die!
"General, Yanshui is ahead of us." A battalion general patted his horse and ran to Bailiba's side, reminding him in a low voice.
Bailiba took a deep breath, and the pity in his eyes was immediately replaced by cruel determination.
"The cavalry team goes around! Seize the pontoon bridge! The rest of the troops, cooperate with the chariot fleet, drive these Chu soldiers... into the Yan River!"
"clear!"
The battalion general accepted the order with clasped fists, clapped his horse and left.
It is true that the Yan River is not turbulent due to the onset of winter, but don't forget that it is already the early winter season. If those Chu soldiers jumped into the Yan River to escape, they would try to swim from the river to the other side.
So, the cold wind at night in this season is enough to freeze these wet Chu soldiers to death.
No doubt about it!
But even so, Bailiba still had some regrets. After all, he kept claiming that no Chu soldiers could successfully cross the Yan River, but when he thought about it carefully, this was indeed unrealistic.
Unless... there is another Wei army near the Yan River, which seizes the pontoon bridge in advance and cuts off the Chu army's retreat.
Thinking of this, Bailiba shook his head, somewhat amused by his "greed".
But what he never expected was that several cavalrymen actually sent back a piece of news that he couldn't believe.
"Report! Chen Shi, the military commander of Yanling, has led five thousand Yanling soldiers to capture the pontoon bridge. Please wait for our army to ask for reinforcements!"