Chapter Eighty-Seven: The South Shore
No one could have imagined that the Qin army attacked Daliang just for the tens of thousands of sets of armor in the city. Whenever he thought about this matter, Wang Jian was not very embarrassed, the Qin army not only had no witch weapons, no magic medicine, but also could not even make usable armor, so he had to exchange human lives for armor. Now, in a few years, the gap between the two countries' young governments will become wider and wider, and he can't imagine what the scene will be at that time. The siege of the city in the middle of the night, although there was an internal response, it was not smooth, and the morning food was not available, and the miserable military report followed: the Chu army pulled out the camp.
"Where are the Jing people going? How much is the soldier? Witchcraft geometry? Pawn geometry? How many columns of marches? Where are you going...... "Shahai Shogunate, Wang Jian, who was sitting on the side of the generals and Fusu, asked a series of questions in one breath. This series of questions was asked, and the scouts who came to pay their respects could not answer them at all. "General Yu, the former army of the Jing people has just come out of the camp, and it marches in sixteen columns, and the rest don't know."
"Sixteen columns on the march?" Liu Chi shook his head again and again. "At this time, Mu Ze's ice is not thick, and it is impossible to carry sixteen columns, so Jing people should go around Fengze."
The military marquis Wang Le added. "Zemian can't ride a horse yet, our army reprimands and rides along the coast, and the Jing people should do the same."
Although the Qin army had a shogunate, the shogunate was not as meticulous as the Great Sima Mansion, and there was no clear data on what temperature and thickness of ice could be marched, only accumulated experience. After Wang Le finished speaking, Liu Chi said again: "The chasm is seventy miles away from Kaifeng, and the Jing people should go to the south bank of the chasm, and they will definitely cross the water to attack me tomorrow." ”
"Good." Wang Jian breathed a sigh of relief. What he was most worried about was that the Chu army was coming on the frozen plain face, and he had already prepared to follow the shore - along the north bank of the chasm, before the ice, the Qin army built a rammed earth wall one foot and two feet high, which could withstand the Chu army for at least a few days. In addition to this chasm, the ice is not thick, and the war boat can also prevent the Chu army from crossing the water.
"The last general is willing to lead the army to defend the chasm to resist the Jing people." Wang Ben, who was sitting down, stood up and said.
Among the generals, Wang Ben has no real position, he can only be regarded as Wang Qian's general. Wang Jian looked at his son, in front of Fusu and the generals, the father and son looked at each other for a moment, he didn't agree, but turned his head to look at a person who shouldn't have appeared here: "How many days does it take for General Bai?" ”
It was not Zhao Yong, Qiang and others who attacked Daliang, but Bai Lin's subordinates. It's not because Bai Lin's subordinates are not good at fighting and therefore consume them, but because most of his subordinates are elites, and they are used to city warfare and mountain warfare.
"Three days." Bai Lin was extremely calm, and he fully understood the significance of this battle. "The last general will rush to Daliang immediately, and he will seize the arsenal in the city in three days."
"The last general will hold on to the chasm for three days." Wang Ben turned his head to glance at Bai Lin and shouted loudly.
"Not really. If it is not a chasm, the major general also wants to prevent the Jing people from coming more and more. Liu Chi had to remind. It's not that you can't leave now, but that you can't walk a lot of people. The weather is getting colder and the ice is getting thicker, and the Chu army will definitely detour from Zemian after a long delay, even if it does not detour to the Shahai, it will also detour to the southern city of Daliang south of the chasm.
"I will give you twenty-five lieutenants, and General Yu Fen will lead the cavalry and General Tian Pu will lead the boat division to help. In addition to guarding the chasm, we should also block people from Fengze. If you don't keep three days, you will abandon the market. "Military law is like a mountain, even if it is his own son who leads the army, Wang Jian will never tolerate it.
"The last general respectfully obeys the order!" Wang Ben did not change his original intention, "a certain general can break the ice and fight......"
"It's up to you how you fight." Wang Jian didn't want to hear the details of Wang Ben, he stretched out three fingers, "Three days!" ”
"Yui!" Wang Ben's chest rose and fell, and he took a deep breath before taking the feather and talisman given by Wang Qian, and then went out of the account.
The son disappeared outside the tent, Wang Jian looked at Bai Lin tightly, Bai Lin said without waiting for him to speak: "Within three days, the arsenal will be captured!" After speaking, he also walked out of the account like Wang Ben, and went straight to Daliang City, where the fighting was becoming more and more intense.
The Qin army must not make any mistakes, but if anything goes wrong, the army will be wiped out in the sea of sand. Wang Jian knows this, and the generals here also know this. Since yesterday, Wang Jian has not been disarmed and slept, he and Liu Chi and others have sat in the shogunate waiting for the military situation on the front line. Any frustration at the front, any progress at the front, tugged at his already tense nerves.
Time seems to have returned to the winter of that year, when 500,000 troops ran at night, and the Chu army was in hot pursuit. Fortunately, the Qi people only wanted to recover the lost territory and did not want to fight, so the Chu army stopped when they chased to Hubyi. Will you be so lucky this time?
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The huge iron horse's paw stepped on the ice and snow, making a rustling sound, and Xiang Liang led the cavalry of Xiang Division to gallop north. On the south bank of Muze Bank, more than 30 miles north of Kaifeng, two teams of cavalry are fighting the white snowfield, one is the Chu army in bright armor, and the other is the Qin army in flax gray armor. Before the war, the two sides always fought on horseback, but it was surprising that the Qin army repelled the cavalry and held on the south bank of Muze to block the traffic between Daliang and Kaifeng.
In view of the heavy casualties of the cavalry of the Xiang Division in the First Battle of Shashui, the Great Sima Mansion specially transferred 700 dragon horses from Yangma Island to the Xiang Division, and the Xiang Division's jockey recovered a little. Seeing that the Qin army's scouts were still fighting with their own scouts, Xiang Liang pointed forward and ordered: "Kill!" ”
"Kill!" The knights had accumulated horsepower from afar, and Xiang Liang's army was ordered, and countless knights shouted, riding their horses and galloping towards the Qin cavalry who was fighting.
More than 1,000 cavalry of the Xiang division rushed into the battlefield, and the Qin army reprimanded the cavalry inevitably not supported, but when the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Xiang division accelerated forward, a Qin cavalry that had just arrived on the west bank of Muze also accelerated in vain and rushed towards the battlefield.
The battle of the cavalry turned into a large-scale cavalry battle between the two armies, something that no one expected. Xiang Liang didn't dare to be like his brother, and he led his division to gallop westward, meeting the Qin cavalry that had just arrived, and at the same time ordered loudly, asking his entourage to go to the shogunate as soon as possible to report to the emergency. Behind this cavalry in front of him, there was also a cavalry army of the Qin army, which was by no means something that he could resist.
"Qin cavalry attacking me?" It was only more than an hour, and before the front army had reached twenty miles, Xiang Liang sent people to report the emergency, which made Xiong Jing extremely surprised, and Fei Jing, Zhuang Wudi, Peng Zong and others were also very surprised.
"Yes, yes." The urgency was an entourage of Xiang Liang, and Concubine Jing knew him and called Xiang Liu. When the general heard that the cavalry was in a hurry, he led the jockey to the rescue, to the south bank of Muze, and the Qin cavalry also arrived. After Qin Cai, there are nearly 10,000 cavalry, and he can't be saved. ”
"Qin cavalry is fighting for the south bank of Muze, why?" Zhuang has no place to know. "Prevent our army from crossing Makisawa ......"
"Let's go!" Guessing that it was Sima and the shogunate's strategists, Zhuang Wudi and a few people were still speculating about why the Qin people were like this, Xiong Jing had already ridden out of the column and rushed to the front of the marching army. He drove out of the queue, and the knights of the guards also drove out of the queue, and the three jockeys of the Yingshi division, the three jockeys of the Eshi division, the one jockey of the Ruo Ao clan, and the knights of the rest of the divisions began to gather.
After the battle of Shashui, there were more than 12,000 knights in the Chu army, and at this time, nearly 10,000 knights galloped on the west side of the queue, and the horse's hooves trampled out bursts of white snow mist. Some of the leading generals came forward to salute, but they were stopped by the knights of the guard, who shouted, 'Don't be there.'
"Report ——!" Xiong Jing had just overtaken the Xiang Shi at the front, and there was a horse rushing in front of him. The knight saw that the three-headed phoenix flag was faster, and when he stopped, he was in too much of a hurry, and the hooves of the dragon horse slipped on the snow.
"What?" Xiong Jing was a little displeased when he saw this. Dragon horses are precious, and until today, Yangma Island produces more than 700 dragon horses every year, and knights should cherish them.
"Yu Da Ao, the more Qin cavalry, our army is defeated, please come to the rescue quickly." Half of the horse's body was bloodied, and the horse's body was still stuck with arrows. This is a risking death. The blame in Xiong Jing's heart couldn't help but dissolve.
"Qin Qi geometry?" He asked. "Who is handsome, is he hard?"
"There are tens of thousands of Qin troops, but I haven't seen the banner of the general." The rebuke thought about it for a moment, making sure that he didn't see the general flag of Yu Fen.
"Even if you are hardworking, you don't dare to show the flag." Fei Jing Road. The knights of the Chu army have the deepest hatred with Yu Fen, and if they dare to show their flags, the knights will definitely go straight to Yu Fen. The most inexplicable thing about this cavalry battle is that the two armies don't know what they are fighting for.
"Herald Heavy Cavalry: Armor, Array." Xiong Jing didn't think too much about it, what he had to do now was to disperse the Qin cavalry and ensure the safety of the march.
"Da Ao has an order, wear armor and line up!" The heavy riders were several horses, and the armor and weapons were all carried by another horse, and the other people rode a horse. Heavy Riders and Heavy Knights in Armor cannot be done alone, and must rely on the help of others to complete it.
It took more than half an hour for the heavy cavalry to dismount their horses and put on their armour, and the light cavalry to escort them on the flank, and it took more than half an hour for these heavy cavalry to be dressed, and every two brigades and more than 100 light cavalry formed three wedge-shaped formations, and the remaining 7,000 or so light cavalry formed a huge horizontal formation, and rushed quickly to the south bank of Makizawa.
"Report ——! King Jing came to ......" Yu Fen, who was standing on the west bank of Muze, heard the military report of the repulsion. In fact, from the time the knights of the Chu army gathered and rushed forward, he continued to receive reports. He originally thought that the Chu army would go north as fast as possible, but he didn't expect that the Chu army would be delayed for more than half an hour with heavy cavalry, and it was only now that he saw the three-headed phoenix banner that all the Qin soldiers were eager for and feared.
"King Jing has arrived, what if?" Zhao Teng, the general of the cavalry, was eager to try. The flaxen armor made the Qin soldiers not afraid of arrows, and also made the war horses ridden by Chou not afraid of arrows. This is extremely important, the weight of the previous cavalry war horse was too light, and he could not bear the stone armor and iron armor, and the leather armor was unbearable, and the batch of two layers of leather armor would still be pierced by the heavy arrows of the Chu army. Linen armor is light and tough, which fully meets the protection needs of the domain riding war horse.
"The domain rider is a cavalry that breaks the formation, why is it a broken cavalry?" The corners of Yu Fen's mouth hooked a smile, and his gaze was close to the Yiqu Crane who was the farthest away, "I heard that the Yiqu cavalry is stronger than the world, and this battle should be attacked by the Yiqu cavalry." ”
Transferred from Henan to the Central Plains, in addition to the accumulation of troops, there is naturally another meaning, that is, to consume the Yiqu people and maintain the balance between the Guanzhong cavalry and the Yiqu cavalry. When Yu Fen didn't give a military order, Yiqulu dodged his gaze, and after giving the order, Yiqulu looked at him angrily. It was a pity that Yu Fen was not afraid, and the result of his gaze was that Yiqulu retreated, and he shouted in Rong language, and the carriage inlaid with gold and silver galloped out, and the guards and horsemen around him followed him closely.