As the proud musketeers in the army, they usually look down on other arms. But now they suddenly discovered that these guys are still very cute.
Especially when they rush past and jump into the crowd.
"Fix the bayonet!" the general shouted, this time his voice was full of energy.
The musketeers neatly put on their bayonets and followed the swordsmen and shieldmen who passed by around them to launch an attack.
The wave of Han troops surged forward. Although including the new arrivals, there were only five or six hundred people, but it was enough for them to launch an attack on an enemy that was twice their size!
The red flag suddenly raised, and the Linyi people began to retreat.
"Control the dock, don't be wary!" the general ordered immediately.
The top priority is not to kill these cannon fodder.
The most important thing is to occupy every corner of the dock and let more Han soldiers ashore.
After all, Fan Fanzhi can gather more of these cannon fodder if he wants. No one dares to doubt the fertility of these southern monkeys. Although most of them are in ragged clothes, if they really use the human sea tactic, the Han army
Failure to protect everything is no match.
"Form up!" Luo Yi shouted loudly as soon as he stepped onto the pier.
The military formation is the Han army's greatest advantage over these barbarians.
The Han soldiers on the pier gradually leveled the battle line and pushed it out. As they moved forward, the military formation had changed. The left and right wings protruded forward, and the Chinese army followed behind and moved forward steadily. It was a standard flying goose shape.
Array.
"Go forward!" Luo Yi ordered again.
There is still some distance from Lu Rong's dock to Lu Rong City, and the navy can do nothing for this distance. The navy goes south and among the ships it carries, whether they are clippers or Qinglong ships, compared with orthodox inland river ships, in order to increase the number of navigation
The stability and draft cannot be considered shallow, and the perfume outside Lu Rong City is not a big river, and the main warships of the navy cannot enter it.
These small sampans used to transport soldiers cannot even be equipped with the most common five-hundred-step crossbow. It would be risky to allow them to venture deep into an inland river where even the hydrological conditions are unknown.
What's more, Fan Fanzhi was not unprepared. According to the news sent by Bai Pao, Fan Fanzhi arranged fire ships upstream and set up river blocking iron cables under Lu Rong City, just because he was afraid that the Han army would dispatch ships to assist in the attack.
The city is on the shore of Perfume. Therefore, for the navy, it is really not worth the gain to send out the few ships that can be used to transport troops. These ships are mainly carried by the Qinglong Ship to risk attacking the city.
As for the Linyi ships on the dock, they had already been seized and scuttled by Fan Fanzhi, or mobilized upstream of Perfume. Since he planned to fight the Han army to the end, and knew that the Han Dynasty would not easily forgive him, Fan Fanzhi made the decision
Complete defense preparations.
When the Han army attacked Xianglin before, Fan Fanzhi was unprepared. Now that he has learned a lesson, he will not give the Han army another chance to attack by water.
Luo Yi stomped the ground under his feet. As an army general, he had to admit that he still felt at ease when his feet were on the ground.
But looking forward, although Lin Yi's army had rolled up its flag and there seemed to be no barrier from the dock to Lu Rong, Luo Yi felt uneasy in his heart.
This area is full of vast riverbanks. Compared with Hengshan Mountain in the north, it is definitely gentle. The only place that is really easy to defend and difficult to attack is Yuping Mountain further inland. Yuping Mountain is located to the southwest of Lu Rong.
Lu Rong Pier is located in the northwest of Lu Rong, the entrance to Xiangshui, so this mountain has no role in blocking the advance of the Han army.
But such a vast land suddenly appeared in front of him, which made Luo Yi feel more and more that things were far from that simple.
If it were in the north, Luo Yi could almost conclude that the enemy was going to use cavalry to attack.
But there are no war horses at all in the south, so naturally there are no cavalry.
So, what exactly does Fan Fanzhi want to do?
"General, look, there's smoke and dust over there!" Army Commander Shi pointed toward the distance.
Luo Yi suddenly raised his eyebrows, because soon he felt the trembling of the earth: "Xingman, what is the origin of this?"
The Changshi, who was called "Xingman", had a surname of Wang and a name of Shichong. He had Hu ancestry, so he looked half Han and half Hu. However, Wang Shichong had been familiar with classics and history since he was a child, and he had a wealth of knowledge about Chinese culture.
Just listening to his conversation, I might have thought that he was an old scholar of the Chinese Han nationality with pure blood.
At the beginning, Wang Shichong was captured together with Li Xun and surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Because of his profound knowledge, he was one of the few in the army. Therefore, although he did not serve as a general, chief historian, Sima and chief secretary several times along the way,
However, the position has been changed. When it comes to the economics of the chest and abdomen, even Luo Yi, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, has to be polite.
Therefore, when Luo Yi saw the scene in front of him, his first reaction was to ask Wang Shichong.
"It's the elephant soldiers!" Wang Shichong frowned.
Luo Yi suddenly took a breath of cold air, he had indeed forgotten this!
Elephants are not unfamiliar to the Chinese people. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, elephants were widely found in areas south of the river. Precisely because of their large size and obvious markings, elephants were often used as symbols. During the Han Dynasty
Among the several states in the world, Yuzhou has the word "xiang" in the word "Yu", which shows that people at that time knew and knew about elephants and had seen elephants in this place.
However, as wars began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, even humans were at risk of being reduced to two-legged sheep, let alone elephants. The barbarians from the north to the south also raised their butcher knives to these animals for food. In addition, the arrival of the Little Ice Age
, climate change has made the north increasingly unsuitable for elephants to survive, so the distribution range of elephants has rapidly shrunk to the south of the river, and finally shrunk to Lingnan, where the temperature has not been seriously affected by the Little Ice Age.
After all, Jiangnan, where it snows in winter and the lakes freeze, is not suitable for the survival of elephants.
Therefore, elephants have become increasingly rare for people in this era, but the names are still heard to some extent. Even Luo Yi had not seen elephants before in Lingnan.
But he has seen very few elephants. Even the ones that have been tamed are used to transport goods. Although elephant soldiers have heard of such things in Linyi State in the south, this is the first time Luo Yi has seen them in person.
see.
Regardless of whether he knows this kind of thing or not, Luo Yi now has to face a problem, that is, the elephant soldiers are getting closer and closer to them!
If we just let the elephant soldiers rush to the dock, it will definitely be a big chaos and a tragic defeat!
The Han soldiers on the dock also noticed these enemies they had never seen before. The swords and guns in their hands were shaking slightly. They didn't know whether it was because the earth was shaking or because of the growing fear in their hearts.