Chapter 730 Collision
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The Huai Army also had naval troops, and there were a large number of them. However, at this time, the Huai Army was in chaos, and the navy was shackled in the water camp and did not dare to act rashly.
The Qin Navy's mission tonight was very heavy. At first, it would send 10,000 Marines to the upper reaches of the Huai Army camp to land. Then it would send more than 20,000 Qin troops to the south of the Huai River and ambush the east bank of the canal. After completing these, it would have to guard the entrance of the canal into Huai River. It would not only prevent the Huai Army Navy from retreating, but now it is also responsible for the important task of cutting off the canal and cutting the Huai Army after the battle began.
Julie's face was as cold as if she had received the military order, without saying a word. Megan pulled out his sword, pointed the river with his sword, and shouted, "It's this river, today!" The heavy rain had stopped, and a layer of white mist covered the river like a blanket. The clear river water flowed under it, and the shallows were covered with reeds and mud. "My Qin army navy is here. Today we will sink any piece of wood that we see on the water and kill anyone who is trying to pass the river. If any Huai army wants to cross the river, we will chop off his dirty things and throw them into the river to feed the fish."
Megan held a sword in each hand. At this time, he knocked the swords and double forces intertwined, making a clanging sound.
"Strike the waves!" she shouted.
The soldiers of the navy immediately echoed loudly: "Slash the waves and cut the waves, and the navy is surging!"
At this time, some soldiers shouted, "Long live the King of Qin! Long live the King of Qin!"
Zeng Yuanyu rode slowly and inspected the battlefield.
During the plum rain season, the land of Jianghuai is soft and muddy, especially on the shore, which is even thick mud soaked in water. The Qin army is guarding about two miles away from the shore, which is much better than the land on the shore. This is an open paddy field, with rice seedlings already planted in the field, but at this time, this flat paddy field has become a continuous battlefield. Zeng Yuanyu came and went on the front line, shouting loudly, and making the final mobilization before the battle.
The central army was almost all infantry, strong shields, long spears, horizontal swords, wild swords, and crossbows. They would be a wall of iron to block the impact of the Huai Army on the front. As long as they block the Huai Army, victory would belong to the Qin Army.
"Will Chuzhou come to rescue the Huai Army?" the new recruit under Guo Xiong said in a low voice.
The Shanyang City of Chuzhou is just twenty miles behind them. If the Chuzhou behind them suddenly sends troops when the battle is fierce, wouldn’t they be attacked from both sides? Guo Xiong smiled. Will the King of Qin not know about such a problem? The reason why the King of Qin dared to set up an ambush twenty miles away from Chuzhou was naturally because he knew that there were only five thousand defenders in Chuzhou at this time and there was no general guarding him.
At present, the Qin army's cavalry has already monitored Chuzhou. The people of the Huai army cannot get close to Chuzhou at all, and it is difficult for the people of Chuzhou to go back after leaving the city. Moreover, on such a rainy night, even if the people in the city know the news, they dare not go out of the city to take risks easily with his few people.
Chuzhou is very close to Huaiyin, but it is just a canal. This time, it is used as the logistics base of the Huai Army. The food and wage equipment in the rear are all directly from Yangzhou to Chuzhou through the canal and stored there.
Guo Wei had no time to think about why the Huai Army did not set up the camp in Chuzhou but Huaiyin. The drums were getting louder and louder, dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongxi, shaking his eardrums. He was originally an official of the Military Intelligence Department of the Shengjie Army, but at this time, the Shengjie Army was placed on the most frontal central battlefield. He, the general who had just been promoted to command, must also face a big battle.
He quickly pulled out the Gurkha scimitar he received. It was the sharpest treasure knife, made with special craftsmanship, made with minimal production, and hard to find a fine product. It is hard to find a thousand gold medals. Holding the scimitar in his hand, the head of the knife is slightly heavy, and holding it in his hand is like holding a battle axe. This kind of scimitar is very suitable for chopping and is good at breaking armor.
In an instant, the enemy had appeared in front and emerged from the beach on the river bank. Although they were frightened by the Qin army's ambush here, they had no way to retreat at this time. There were pursuers behind and ambushers in front. They could only fight to the death. They hid behind the barriers formed by shields and spears, calmed down, and formed a very neat array to advance.
Guo Wei admired the other party's general a little. He heard that the chief general was Gao Pian's nephew, and his family was 40, known as the Forty-seven Lang, and he was appointed as the General of the Left Jinwu Guard, and the General of the Left Xiaoguard of Forty-five Lang, Gao Jie, was known as the two masters of the Gao family.
Previously, Gao Jie sent troops to Haozhou, and his battles were amazing. At present, although Gao Yu had just been attacked by the camp, even if he gave up the camp and retreated to Chuzhou, he was able to keep the team from dispersing, and he also raised his morale again and lined up his attack in an array to attack. This shows that there is indeed no void under his reputation, and there is a famous uncle of a famous general, and both the two heroes of the Gao family were also talented at the moment.
The number of Huai Army is large, and at least it looks overwhelming at first glance.
Although Guo Wei knew that the Huaiying Army had only 50,000 troops, and there were at least tens of thousands of navy troops. Among the overwhelming crowd, a large part of the crowd were the civil servants of the Huai Army. Gao Yu was able to gather those civil servants together, and even made it difficult to distinguish between virtual and real, which was really admirable.
In the morning light, Guo Wei saw the Huai Army far surpassing the Qin army, at least 50,000 to 60,000. The generals of the Huai Army rode armored war horses and led the soldiers to advance in the square formation. One by one, the flag-holding officials held the camp flags and team flags and generals and officials flags and walked side by side with them. He saw the high-flying flag of the high-flying flag, the Yu character, the Yao character, the Wang character, the Gao character...
The blue battle flags of the Huai Army can be seen everywhere, and the flags flutter in the wind, flying over the long pole, making a sound.
The war horn sounded, and the sound of the sound of the sound of the sound of the whistle and the sound of the sound of the whistle and the sound of the whistle and long, like the north wind from outside the border, making people shudder.
As the horns gradually subsided, the lower-level officers such as the leader of the Qin army began to blew the iron whistle and command.
Although Guo Wei, as the commander of the capital, he could no longer be in front of the team like a team leader, at this time he was located in front of the front line, and he was also a great-winning officer. Therefore, he mustered up the courage to carry his honorary sword, Gurkha scimitar, and stood in the forefront wearing a full body of armor he received when he was awarded. There was also an imitation of the medal that had been awarded on his left chest. The real medal was maintained by him at his home in Dengzhou.
Behind him, hissing sounds continued, and the crossbowmen in the crossbow array began to shoot arrows, sprinkling a rain of arrows, which was just a prelude.
The Huai Army started to run and charged forward quickly, and ran with sharp roars, with helplessness and despair in the excitement. However, many Huai Army had never really fought with the Qin army. Under the mobilization of Gao Yu and others, many Huai Army knew that General Liang Zhang had just annihilated more than 10,000 Qin army troops in Hudouzhou. The Qin army was not the rumored invincible army of hundreds of battles, which increased the courage of the Huai Army soldiers a lot.
After all, most of the Huai Army officers here, from top to bottom, followed Gao Pian to fight in all directions and a hundred battles. The generals were the courage of the army. The officers with these powerful generals and skeletons could be said that the Huai Army, which had the first decisive battle with the Qin army, was still full of confidence.
The previous retreat was not because the Huai Army was afraid of the Qin army, but because they were unwilling to fight with the Qin army in an unknown situation. Now they are ambushed by the Qin army again, but their number is above the Qin army.
Many Huai Army generals saw that the Qin army opposite was only 20,000 people, and even felt that they were a little too worried before, thinking that a battle could break through the Qin army's interception.
The Huai Army is running and charging!
However, Zeng Yuanyu was full of confidence in his central army formation. With a wave of the long sword in his hand, the bows and arrows of the crossbow camp attacked them like heavy rain.
Hundreds, thousands of branches, countless in an instant.
Thousands of arrows were shot at the same time, and the sky was covered with clouds, and the arrows were like rain.
Many people from the Huai Army who rushed to the front fell to the ground by arrows, and their shouts suddenly turned into wail.
At this time, the second wave of attacks had already fallen from the air, and the crossbowmen put the third arrow on the bowstring.
Although the rainy days in the plum rainy season have a much lower lethality to bows and arrows.
However, each of the archers of the Qin army was equipped with four bows, eight strings, two crossbows, and one hundred arrows. This is a very powerful equipment. Even the Khitan cavalry, only the most elite cavalry was equipped with four bows, and ordinary cavalry was only equipped with two bows. However, many troops of the Tang army's vassal states had few professional elite archers, and generally only had one bow.
The iron whistle sounded again, beep, beep!
Zeng Yuanyu waved his hand, and the flag behind him shook. Eight soldiers blew the horns again, and the eight drummers also began to beat the war drums. The leader of the Leopard Cavalry Army, Lao Heiqiu, waved the Mo Dao in his hand, and roared a command. The voices of thousands of people on the battlefield responded. Guo Wei held the honorary sword in one hand and the group card in the other, and then shouted loudly, joining the noisy noise, and he entered a selfless passion, and then slowly advanced along the square formation with his steps.
"Driving the Southern Barbarians into the river to feed the fish!" He shouted to his subordinates. Although his hometown is Xuzhou, he was not far from Huainan, he had already regarded himself as a northerner. This was a war between the north and the south. The hundred soldiers behind him immediately followed his footsteps, striding forward, and under the rain of arrows flying everywhere, the two sides approached rapidly.
In front, a group of Huai Army spearmen formed a half-moon formation, like a turtle with thorns on both sides, hiding behind a tall pine shield painted with a tiger's head. These pine shields are five feet and seven inches long. Compared with the slightly shorter southerners, these shields are almost as tall as soldiers. The pine shield is narrow in the middle and wide in the middle, one foot in the width of the two ends, and one foot in three inches wide. The front is painted with tiger-shaped paintings and handles behind. Almost all the Huai Army soldiers are hiding behind the shield and waiting for battle.
There were no long-range heavy weapons such as catapults, crossbows and other heavy weapons between the two sides. At this time, the array was advanced, the shield array was in front, and the spearmen and sword players were on the side, covering their respective archers to keep shooting arrows. The light cavalry of both sides did not rush up to fight at the first time, but arranged them on the wings of the infantry array, carefully protecting the flanks.
The Qin army archers were the prevailing in the battle between the two sides. The Qin army archers had better bows and stronger arrows. The most important thing was that each of the Qin army archers had two crossbows. When both sides were fighting for a long time to shoot arrows and were exhausted, the Qin army archers could still hold the crossbow and continue shooting while restoring their strength.
Under the continuous shooting of the archers, the sword and shield players had not yet joined the battle, and they were also playing the archers. The non-archers and infantry of the Qin army were each equipped with two bows and one crossbow, and the usual archery training was also very important. At this time, the guest appearance of the archers was even more lethal than that of the Huai army's archers.
When the long-range shooting just now, the Qin army had only archers fired arrows. Seeing that the two sides were only thirty or forty steps away, all the swords and shields jumped, and the Mo swords and soldiers took their bows and shot fiercely. The sudden increase in firepower caught the Huai army off guard, and many Huai army fell to the ground.
The Huai Army was in chaos, and Qiu Shengong seized the fighter opportunity at the right time and immediately transferred a light cavalry battalion that he ordered to come forward.
Mo Dao personally led the elite cavalry of this battalion to form a wedge-shaped formation and suddenly inserted into the battle formation. Facing rows of spears, most of the war horses stopped sprinting at the last moment and dodged, while some saw the gap and rushed over.
Rows of long spears were stabbed out, and many cavalrymen were penetrated by the tips of their guns and died on the spot. In an instant, dozens of cavalry were killed.
Qiu Shengong's mount was penetrated by a spear through his neck. It stood up, neighing with sadness, and kicked out his legs with horseshoes and jumped violently. The crazy battlefield jumped into the enemy formation, and the spear stabbed it from all directions, but the shield wall also collapsed under its heavy pressure.
The Huai Army soldiers staggered and dodged the dying struggle of the war horse.
The war horse fell down with a bang, and Qiu Shengong, who was covered in plate armor, stood up magically without any injuries. He held Xueliang's huge Mo sword in his hand and launched a crazy attack. Xueliang's sword light flashed by, and he had already chopped off the heads of three Huai soldiers.
Guo Wei retreated the cracks on the enemy's shield wall before he could close it. He held the shield in one hand and held the sword in the other hand, and rushed in. A hundred people under his command followed closely behind.
Chapter completed!