Chapter 301: Danyang Attack and Defense (II)
Is it really appropriate to go into battle despite the exhaustion and fatigue of the troops? He Yi used to be a hundred generals, and he didn't have much military experience, but he still knew the common sense that was not suitable for fighting with a tired army.
Su Lie, who was leading the army alone for the first time, was obviously in a nervous state, and some of the instructions issued obviously did not take into account the state of his subordinates.
Danyang is about whether Lu Zhe can retreat from the waterway, what else can He Yi say? Could it be that it is said that it is related to the back road of the Lord, and he still builds yì rest? That is, regardless of the safety of the Lord, wouldn't it be unlucky to be put on the line by a superintendent.
The headquarters of Hengshan County has been fighting for a month and eight days in a row, and for an army to use it for a month, it can be regarded as a critical point of fatigue.
The troops under Lu Zhe's command, except for a part of the garrison, which of the troops invested in the war with the Chu State did not fight continuously for more than a month? Is he willing to do that? Don't you want to sit back and watch the Chu State get Lujiang County, and then become stronger and attack yourself?
But not everything works according to common sense, and sometimes it is a last resort to do it when you know you can't do it.
The Chu army of Surabaya County going south is also a tired army, can Xiang Zhu not know this? He also knew, but did not hesitate to throw his troops into the attack.
Shan Yang City is not big, covering an area of only five or six square miles, and the soldiers and civilians in the city fled a group before Lu Zhe's army attacked the city when Lu Zhe's army came. waited for the county seat to be captured by Lu Zhe's army, and in the next few days, another batch escaped. Now the number of Qianshou left in Danyang County is only about two or three out of tenth, and they actually have very complicated feelings in their hearts when the Chu army is back in the slaughter.
Lu Zhejun has strict military discipline, although it is not said that there is absolutely no disturbance to the people, but compared to the Chu army, which has almost no military discipline to speak of, it is definitely a civilized army.
An army with strict military discipline, you can see from here the attitude of this force towards the people, especially Lu Zhejun, who will give money when buying things and is generous, which has made a great impression on the people of Danyang.
The soldiers are so rich, and it is rumored that Nanjun is very rich, right? The people of Danyang who stayed behind understand what a place depends on if it wants to be rich, so there will always be people who have some ideas. I feel that maybe living under Lu Zhe is not an unacceptable thing.
Now that the Chu army has re-killed, the reason why the Danyang people who are still in the city are complicated is that they are contradictory to themselves because of a kind of Chu people's feelings and desire for stability and prosperity.
Some of the undercurrents that were in contact with each other to help the Chu army recapture Danyang should have been very turbulent and turbulent, but those in charge of contact found that except for some of the gentry and clans who remained in the city, they seemed to be less enthusiastic.
Will someone run to Mei Kai to inform someone that they want to cooperate with the Chu army outside the city? That's just thinking too much. Although the people of Danyang did not have much enthusiasm for cooperating with the Chu army to recapture Danyang, they would not love Lu Zhejun so much.
Mei Hong found that the Chu army in the south was more elite, so he tilted his attention to this side, and arranged the troops in the east to a lieutenant named Qiang Bao.
Captain Qiang Bao is a 500 lord of the original Southern Xinjiang Army, he is a person who has participated in the battle of unification, and was promoted to 500 lord for merit in the battle to destroy Chu, and he is relatively familiar with the offensive methods of the Chu people.
The Chu army in the east has not been a soldier for ten days. They were untrained, and probably didn't even have a qualified leader, and what Qiang Bao saw was a group of farmers who had been shot by more than 200 archers. These Chu troops rushed extremely fiercely when they shouldn't be fierce, but they slowed down after being shot by a few arrows, and Qiang Bao didn't have enough crossbowmen in the troops he was in charge of temporarily, otherwise this batch of Chu troops didn't even want to cross the trench if they were close to obstacles such as rejecting horses.
"The rattan armor soldiers and the Pak sword soldiers are preparing to launch a counter-charge."
Qiang Bao had only 2,000 troops, and in addition to the 200 archers, there were 500 vine armor soldiers, 200 Pu sword soldiers, and 1,100 Ge spearmen. He believed that it was appropriate to launch a counter-charge against such a rabble, and that a fierce counter-charge with soldiers could frighten the enemy. And that's what it seems. The Chu soldiers who were close to the rejection of the horse were slashed with swords and bayonets after the vine armor soldiers and Pu Dao soldiers who launched a counter-charge approached, and then the archers scattered at the people behind the Chu soldiers, and the more than 10,000 Chu soldiers who attacked the east turned around and fled.
The Chu army in Surabaya County, which Mei Kai defended, was different, and these Chu troops knew how to disperse as much as possible under the fire of 500 crossbowmen. The offensive posture is not so anxious.
The Chu army in Surabaya County has experienced a lot of battles, they have fought with all the forces that have raised troops in Surabaya County, and later they have fought with the Wei army that has put their hands into Surabaya County, and their courage and mentality have been cultivated in many battles. It won't be like those newcomers in Huiji County who are on the battlefield for the first time, and they don't know how to save their bodies, and they are full of fear.
However, there is one thing that the Chu army in Surabaya County and Huiji County are the same, and many of them are facing arrow shots in military formation mode for the first time, so when they get closer, many people do not know how to avoid and are shot to the ground.
Five hundred crossbowmen could not give full play to the greatest advantage of long-range attacks against the Chu army, which was as scattered as possible. Gradually, the Chu army approached the obstacles such as the rejection of horses.
Mei had 500 rattan armor soldiers, 500 Pu sword soldiers, 500 spearmen and 1,000 spearmen, and the tactics he chose was to let the troops line up in formation to build a battle line defense, and then let the crossbowmen continue to kill and wound the Chu army, slowly bleeding.
In the other two directions, the Gongwei fought relatively steadily, and there was basically no possibility of being broken through by the Chu army in a short period of time, but there was absolutely no counteroffensive, so among the four directions, Qiang Baobiao was relatively dazzling.
Xiang Zhu continued to listen to the reports of the battle after launching the siege, and the position he himself was in was the east side of the battlefield, and what he saw with his own eyes was that more than 12,000 people on his side were firmly blocked by the 2,500 people of Lu Zhe's army, and the report he heard was that the west and north were also deadlocked, and the south side was very annoying that the enemy troops defending the city were defeated and retreated.
"It is worthy of Lu Zhe's army that annihilated 100,000 Baiyue people and defeated 150,000 Qin troops!" Sighing, Xiang Zhu frowned frequently, he already knew that there were only 10,000 defenders in the city, and he originally thought that he could go down with a drum, but now it seems that it is not so simple.
The attack on the south could not be stopped, and as soon as the defenders stopped, they could draw up their forces to support other positions, and Xiang Zhu drew 5,000 from the reserve of 20,000, and together with the defeated retreaters, he attacked the south again with 12,000 men.
Qiang Bao took the countermeasure just now, this time the counter-charge seemed to have met the opponent, which made his originally smug expression freeze, if it wasn't for the quick reaction, sending the Pu Dao soldiers and some Ge spearmen to reinforce it, then the five hundred vine armor soldiers who launched the counter-charge should have been surrounded.
"It's dangerous!" After rescuing the rattan armor soldiers, Qiang Bao did not dare to be arrogant and relaxed anymore after regaining the dìng battle line.
It was a pity to turn from the east to the south to personally supervise the battle, but this time the battle was turned on a glimmer of aura, he moved to the west, which was also the direction in charge of the attack of the recruits of Huiji County, and after looking at it for a while, he summoned the right leader in charge of the attack in this direction and whispered something.
The Lieutenant took a very conservative approach, the kind of stubbornness that did not seek to defeat the enemy army cheaply, so that a stalemate was maintained in the west and north. He was informed that the enemy's flag had been moved to the west, and he himself had moved it.
The Chu army attacking the west was still sticking to the defending Lu Zhejun just now, but when the communist lieutenant arrived, he saw the Chu soldiers suddenly shouting and retreating. He could observe that the Chu soldiers attacking this side were not very good, otherwise he would not have stayed in the north to command, waiting for the Chu army to move the flag before coming here. He didn't know what was going on on Qiangbao's side, so he naturally regarded the sudden retreat of the Chu army as a collapse of morale.
Xiang Zhu quickly organized a new round of attacks, and he mixed the elites he could use in his hands in the attack sequence of the recruits in Huiji County, expecting that the defending generals here would also be as arrogant as the defenders of Lu Zhe's army in the south. In order to achieve the goal of suddenness, the flag naturally could not stay here, so he ordered someone to carry the flag and leave, while he stopped in place and waited for a miracle to appear.
Gongwei also planned to return to the north when he saw the Chu army leaving the banner, after all, the Chu army there was relatively elite at a glance, and he was worried that there would be a mistake in the north after he left for a long time.
The Chu army in the west launched another attack in the shout, they braved a few arrows to cross the trench again to the obstacle area, the defending Lu Zhejun killed and wounded a large number of attacking Chu troops in advance, and unconsciously pushed the front forward, and the originally tight formation gradually pulled away.
Lu Zhejun, who was in charge of the defense here, also fought like this just now, and that time the Chu army, which was full of new soldiers, was only oppressed, and there was no tactic at all to take advantage of the gap to intersperse joint attacks. However, this time it was different, the defenders who advanced the front found that the enemy army had suddenly become smarter, and the Chu army in the local area was actually interspersed and divided, and the southern defenders who reacted hurriedly ordered the troops behind to go up to reinforce and try to re-enrich the formation of the troops.
"It worked!" Xiang Zhu smiled, "The follow-up troops continue to invest, don't give the enemy a chance to breathe!" He turned to the man and said, "It's time to light the signal agreed with a cigarette, and let the troops inside the city cooperate with the troops outside to attack this side." ”
The results of Xiang Zhu's flash of inspiration were enormous, the army of Lu Zhe advancing to the south had been completely divided, and the people in the city should successfully break through the defenders' defenses as soon as they came, and then they could enter the city.
The defenders of the city are most afraid of losing one side, because as long as one place is breached, it will cause the enemy army to bloom from the middle, and then no matter how tight the defense on the periphery is, it will become a dilemma of loopholes.
On the other side, the lieutenant who had walked halfway to the south received an urgent report from the southern guard and was making a U-turn, while Mei Kai received the news that someone was in trouble in the city...... (To be continued......)