Chapter 873
"Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!"
Facing the sudden departure of Chen Jun from the camp, the Wu army soldiers immediately sounded the alarm bell. The bell echoed quickly in the camp and finally passed back to the Regent's camp on Siping Mountain.
"Everyone is on guard and line up to meet the enemy!"
Seeing that the delaying strategy of delaying the army was no longer useful, Shen Luoyan immediately issued an order to face the enemy. No matter what the plan was, in the end, he had to rely on swords and guns to speak.
The autumn wind danced, blew up the flags and wisps of helmets.
However, few people from the Wu army discovered that in the dancing autumn wind, there seemed to be a burst of clear smoke, and there were bursts of strange fragrance of flowers in the mist. At this time, it was very strange to have such smell in the air.
However, in the face of the great enemy, the Wu army stepped forward and prepared for war. The soldiers were wearing armor, helmets, and raised their shields and guns. No one seemed to care about this accident.
The autumn is clear and the warm sun is shining.
The soldiers of the Wu army were facing a great enemy. Tens of thousands of troops gathered in the first camp, carrying helmets and armor, holding shields and holding swords, waiting for Chen's attack.
The war drums in Chen Junying were still beating over and over again. The strong rhythm of the drum beat was like hitting the hearts of the Wu army soldiers, making them feel passionate and red. One by one, the Wu army officers ran around their defense zones, swinging their swords and shouting loudly, arousing morale over and over again, and their mouths were dry, which made the soldiers all rise up and ready to fight to the death at any time.
However, from the beginning of the sun rises until the sun reaches the center. Chen's war drums are still beating, but Chen's soldiers never intend to attack. Even the group of Chen's troops who first left the camp turned around and returned to the camp.
However, the Wu army generals did not dare to be careless. Chen's army was scheming and could be fooled by accident. They must be guarded. Therefore, even though Chen's army only made a fake shot, the Wu army did not dare to withdraw. They were still on guard, and no one dared to order the retreat.
Although it was early winter, under the sun, wearing thick armor, she had to maintain a strict formation and stood there motionlessly. Even in early winter, the soldiers couldn't help sweating and their mouths became dry. Many soldiers couldn't help but feel thirsty and picked up the water bags and drank water from time to time.
In the afternoon, Chen Jun stopped even the drums and still had no intention of attacking.
The soldiers on the front line of the Wu army were already a little fooled at this time. Many soldiers advised their superiors, thinking that they had been deceived by the Chen army. The army should be disbanded and rested, otherwise. If they were mobilized by the Chen army just by listening to a sound of drums, then if this continues, everyone will be completely trapped in Chen army's tired army plan and they will not want to fight.
The soldiers' words reached Chen Luoyan. Chen Luoyan thought for a long time but could not come up with any better way to deal with it. In the end, he had to divide the more than 100,000 people in the camp into three divisions, each division of 30,000 troops. He took turns to the front camp to be on duty. No matter whether Chen's army was real or fake, someone had to guard it.
As the Wu army expected, the Wu army had just retreated. The drums sounded in the Chen army camp again, and the Chen army quickly rushed out of the camp gate and formed a formation, showing an immediate momentum to prepare for an attack. The Wu army had to immediately pull the newly assigned horses to the top of the front camp.
But as soon as Wu's army was in place, Chen's army retreated.
After many times, it was almost dusk. The three teams of Wu's army had already taken almost a turn. Each soldier was exhausted and didn't even have time to eat a bite of food all day. Most of them only drank a stomach full of water and a piece of dry cake.
"Your Majesty, the time is almost over. Although the Wu army has divided the troops to defend during the day, they are exhausted by the trouble. What's more, calculating the time, our secret weapons will almost be launched. At this time, the attack is just right. If the Wu army attacks again, they may respond." Li Benlei stood behind Chen Kefu and suggested.
Chen Kefu looked at the eighteen battalions in front of Siping Mountain and nodded. It really made the Chen army soldiers run over one by one. Not only was it time-consuming and labor-intensive, it might cause a lot of damage to the soldiers who pieced together.
At present, every Chen army is a part of its power, and Chen Kefu is reluctant to lose it at all.
It is not a bit unfair to come up with such a method to deal with the Wu army, but the soldiers' tricks are that as long as they win, sometimes Shecheng can do it, let alone this.
Slowly pulling out the red-snow sword from his waist, Chen Kefu pointed at the Wu army camp in the afterglow of the setting sun: "The whole army attacks! Today, it will be decided!"
Li Benlei, Qu Tutong, and three marshals Zhang Zhongjian knelt in front of Chen Kefu on one knee and said respectfully: "For the sake of the Great Chen and for Your Majesty, I will go through fire and death!"
"For the sake of Da Chen and His Majesty, I will go through fire and death without hesitation!" More generals shouted in unison.
"attack!"
“Woo!———
The long horns whimpered and the serpent drums were beating. The Chen army camp opened again, but this time the first one to rush out of the camp was not the infantry, but the 20,000 cavalry mobilized from all the battalions of the entire army.
It was like the flood gate opening, and thousands of troops rushed out of the camp and ran wildly!
At the same time, a row of military tents behind the camp of Chen Jun camp was suddenly lifted, and ten red-clothed cannons were revealed. These cannons that took great effort to transport them all demonstrated their hideous nature.
"fire!"
Ten cannons roared together, and whistling shells flew over the rushing war horses and smashed violently onto the first battalion of the Wu army with a long tail flame. After a violent impact, the landing was destroyed by several defense facilities in the first battalion, and one shell even hit a high arrow tower directly. The arrow tower disintegrated in the air and turned into shattering.
The sudden attack made the Wu army feel unconscious. The first camp of Chen's army and the Wu army were ten miles away. No one expected that Chen's army would attack directly from the camp and attack directly into their camp.
The several fake attacks during the day have significantly reduced the vigilance of the Wu army. Although I heard the horns and war drums of Chen army before, and even saw the Chen army leave the camp, many people thought that the Chen army was still a strategy for harassment by the exhausted army. Many Wu army's reactions were obviously slower. After being hit by the first round of violent artillery attacks, many people suddenly realized that the Chen army really attacked.
However, by this time, the Chen army's cavalry had quickly attacked the middle of the two battalions, only about a thousand steps away from the Wu army's camp.
"Welcome to the enemy! Welcome to the enemy!"
A panic roar sounded everywhere in the Wu army camp, and Wu soldiers hurried forward.
The collective charge of 20,000 cavalrymen is definitely a collapsed attack. Such a heavy cavalry charge does not even require any formation. Just rushing together, it makes people feel like a mountain collapse and a tsunami. The earth shakes and mountains.
"Gun array! Squat down in the front row, raise the gun in the back row!" The Wu army captains in front of the formation shouted loudly.
But at this moment, soldiers suddenly fainted in the dense infantry gun array.
A lieutenant stepped forward angrily, pulled the soldier up and yelled, "Don't plant it if you don't want to, get up and stand up." But the soldier seemed to faint completely, and no matter how he yelled, he didn't react at all.
The angry officer cut off the soldier's head with a sword and splashed all over his body. But at this moment, this action not only deterred the timid cowards, but a few more soldiers fell in the array.
"Coward, coward! You cowards! I will kill you all!" The officer was so angry that he was filled with smoke. The battle was about to come, and these cowards fell down before they even met the enemy.
Just when the captain raised his sword again, a seemingly old officer suddenly shouted: "Sir, they seem to be poisoned."
"What, poisoning!"
As soon as the veteran said, countless people became panicked.
Sure enough, as soon as the words were finished, several soldiers in the spear formation fainted. At this time, no matter how dull the officer was, he knew that something was wrong. The soldiers in the army were the most useless. Facing the enemy's attack, it was impossible for so many people to faint directly.
"Yes, but they don't look like they are poisoned, they don't shed black blood or die, but they seem to be asleep?" The captain asked in confusion after looking at several soldiers who fainted.
However, no one answered his question at this time. Chen Jun's second round of artillery bombardment came again. The rumbling sound directly made several huge gaps in the camp, and dozens of unlucky soldiers were directly bombarded into scum.
The captain's ears roared, and for a moment he felt a buzzing sound and could not hear any sound. But he looked around in a daze and found that the dozen or so spear square arrays that were lined up had dispersed. From time to time, people suddenly fell down, and those people were like the people in his formation before.
There were many people falling down, basically twenty or thirty people fell down in a square array of more than 200 people. There were only 10% of the people falling down, and it was still increasing. Although those people did not die, they seemed to fall asleep, there was no difference between this and death on the battlefield.
What shocked him even more was that a square array of spears would tell the dense array guns to fight against those extremely fierce cavalry. The person who suddenly lost a layer of people immediately made the gun array full of loopholes, countless flaws, and gaps everywhere. Such a square array would only have a dead end against the overwhelming cavalry, and it would be difficult to stop it in a round.
"Escape!"
"Chen Pojun can do it and take his life directly."
"This battle cannot be fought, run away!"
......
The captain suddenly recovered his hearing, and then the next moment, the panic sound of countless people came into his ears.
There were whistling shells on his head, and countless rushing Chen cavalry in front of him. What's even more terrifying is that there are people around him who keep falling down suddenly. Under such a huge blow, the first battalion of the 18th company of the Wu army had collapsed before the 20,000 Chen cavalry had not yet arrived. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!