Chapter 28: The Battle of Wentu Mountain
Wentu Mountain, the monstrous shouts make people unable to hear the golden drum.
Han, Goguryeo, Sanhan, and Waren, more than a dozen different pronunciations of the four major language families are glued together, and even the most brilliant generals are difficult to command their subordinates in this situation.
Because of the fear of the Han army, Yi Yinmo set up four military formations in a row to attack the east and west like two big crows of crabs. The Japanese people had a sense of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and the fishermen on the seashore did not even have the courage to raise the stone axe in the face of the bright Lelang Han army in red armor, but when they rushed towards the army gathered by the various divisions of the three Koreas, they were like a tiger entering the flock, and the tactics were simple and decisive, but they were really effective.
Lacking offensive weapons, the Japanese had no intention of fighting the Han army, and they had fought many times with the soldiers of Samhan before the arrival of this Han army, although they had many iron swords from the Han land, and even some iron armor, but this was not a problem. Although the Maruki bow that absorbs the recurve of the Han bow does not have a complex production process like the Han crossbow, it also has a slight recurved shape, which is not weaker than the Han bow in terms of strength, and because the production of the Maruki bow is simple, there is a Maruki bow in the hands of three people in the army of the dog slave country crossing the sea.
The power of the salvo is extraordinary.
Before they had taken a hundred steps after receiving the order to charge, the soldiers of the three Han divisions had been shot three rounds of arrows by the dogs, and in an instant, the two winged sergeants were hit by nearly 4,000 arrows...... The left and right wings together are only 3,000 people!
If it weren't for the thousands of skinned shields brought from Lelang County before the battle, this rain of arrows alone would have been able to teach the Sanhan tribe to rout!
Even with a large shield, the rain of arrows still brought hundreds of dead and wounded to both wings, and at this moment they were still two hundred paces away from the nearest Japanese front...... However, this distance is enough, and the Samhan tribes, like Han Lelang County and Goguryeo, have a tradition of making sandalwood bows with good range and durability, and their subordinates also have many sandalwood bows, which are similar to Han bows but more durable and stable bows and arrows on the battlefield are no less powerful than Japanese bows.
Although it is inferior in range, the speed of the arrow is not comparable to that of a long and bulky bow.
Under the cover of the big shield, hundreds of Tan Archers drew their bows one after another after entering the firing range, and although the initial rain of arrows was only sparse, it made the Japanese soldiers who had learned the power of Tan Bow speed up the pace of attack. The Japanese soldiers with stone axes and stone spears rushed to the front of the formation, and the archers with Maruki bows also ran neutrally and released their arrows, and then hurriedly pinched the arrows and hurried away.
Tian Yu, who galloped after riding his horse from the formation, could see clearly that at a distance of two hundred paces, the Japanese bow had an absolute advantage, and the Tan bow could not shoot them at all; But if the distance between the two armies is 200 paces, the closer the distance, the more Tangong will have the upper hand.
Especially when the formation enters a hundred steps, 500 sandalwood bows can shoot 2,000 Japanese archers to the point that they can't lift their heads!
Within ten breaths, a well-trained Tan archer could draw a bow and fire three arrows in a row, while a dog slave archer with a huge bow could only fire one arrow...... Yi Yinmo's tactics are wrong. This Goguryeo prince may not have known the advantage of the Wagong against the Tan Gong.
Thinking so, he looked over the right flank, which was less than half the number of the enemy's troops, and placed it in the formation of nearly a thousand infantry archers on his side. The commander of the foot archers was Zhang Zun, the commander of Suicheng, who was the nephew of Zhang Qi, the former Lelang Taishou. Zhang Qi was sent to Xiangping prison for more than half a year after being seized power by Yanbei, and when the dust settled, he had no idea of fighting for power, and he was released after consulting Yanbei, but his clan was forbidden to return to his hometown of Qinghe, and the elderly Zhang Qi could only live in Liaodong.
His nephew Zhang Zun learned Jingyi since childhood, good at riding fast horses, because of his outstanding talent and Liaodong was ashamed of his uncle's heart, so he was raised to Maocai in the second year of Chuping, and successively served as the county government and Xuansu County, and was later seconded to Lelang and appointed as the city order.
However, perhaps because his uncle was imprisoned, Zhang Zun studied the art of war in recent years, and was recruited to take a fancy to it, so that he could lead the troops this time...... Speaking of which, this is Zhang Zun's first time on the battlefield.
The big shield and Changge of the Lelang army surrounded like a hedgehog in the center of the battlefield, but the soldiers and horses on both sides of the left and right flanks fought together, but no one touched the foot archers he brought out from Lelang County, which gave Zhang Zun an opportunity, with a burst of orders, four hundred strong crossbows and two hundred sandalwood bows continued to throw three groups of arrows to the enemy's left flank.
Because the 800 cavalry led by the lead was to circumnavigate the left flank of his own side, intending to attack the right flank of the enemy.
In this tactical regard, the lead move coincides with Yi Yin Mo, and they are unwilling to engage the opponent's main force at the beginning of the battle. The target of the selection was the right flank of the Dog Slave State's Japanese soldiers, and the opponent selected by Yi Yinmo was the right flank of the Samhan tribes. At the same time as recruiting light cavalry to bypass his left flank, Yi Yinmo also led more than 1,000 Goguryeo warriors to quickly circulate from the left flank of the Japanese soldiers.
Yi Yinmo re-set foot in the territory of Samhan this time, nominally under the banner of Goguryeo's restoration, but in fact he just wanted to snatch some mountain bantams of Samhan native to return to the Gonu country.
It was only four months after he fled south by boat to the country of dog slaves that he found out that nine out of ten of the wild people on the entire islands of the Wa Kingdom had never seen horses, because there were no horses there, let alone cavalry!
With a horse, he could raise a cavalry in the country of dog slaves; And with cavalry, he was able to defeat Himiko, the queen of the remote kingdoms in the west. The Wa Kingdom was in chaos, but even if they were not chaotic, there were too few households and too little land to truly complete the hope of attacking Samhan in the north. Only by achieving these goals and unifying the Wa kingdom could he gather enough troops and horses to launch a vast expedition to fight for the restoration of the country.
It wasn't what he thought, he used the wrong tactics, and he also knew that the Japanese bow had an advantage over the Tan bow in terms of range. He has been playing with Goguryeo's sandalwood bow since he was a child, how can he not know its advantages and disadvantages? It's just that nearly half of the warships he loaded his soldiers across the sea have now rushed in more than 400 Sanhan horses and goods that have been plundered...... Where is there a place for these dog slave fishermen?
The reason why he set up camp on Wentu Mountain here was to contain the reinforcements of Sanhan and Youzhou, so that his fleet had time to send the horses away first, and it was enough to leave a ship that could transport 3,000 people.
Yi Yinmo had not yet engaged the Samhan troops, and he could not help but feel annoyed when he saw from a distance that the left-wing Japanese soldiers had already fought with the scarce Samhan soldiers, but the Chinese crossbowmen in Lelang County had inflicted huge casualties on them, leaving them with no chance of completely defeating the Samhans. At this moment, the barefoot right-wing Japanese soldier ordered him to run quickly, fell to his knees and muttered a bunch of words that he did not understand, which made him even more angry.
After a few words from Congren, he finally stared at the right wing with a frightened gaze...... There, a cavalry of the Han army, numbering several hundred men, attacked their right flank from the flank, and in a moment the right flank was crushed!
It's just that the two people who commanded the battle of Wentu Mountain, whether Yi Yinmo or Zhao Zhao, would never have thought that in the chaotic era of the melee of the princes of the Central Plains, this insignificant battle that occurred on the northeast peninsula of the Han Dynasty would be written by the people in later generations because it opened and laid the thousand-year-old order of East Asia.
And this battle is just the beginning.
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