Chapter 730: Collision

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The Huai army also has a water division, and there are quite a few of them, but at this time, the Huai army is in chaos, and the water army does not dare to act rashly when it shrinks into the water village.

The task of the Qin Army's naval division tonight was very heavy, and at first it was necessary to send 10,000 marines to the upper reaches of the Huai Army camp to land. Then more than 20,000 Qin troops should be sent to the south of the Huai River and the east bank of the canal to ambush, and after completing these, they must guard the mouth of the canal at the mouth of the Huai Army, not only to prevent the retreat of the Huai Army's naval division, but also to undertake the important task of cutting off the canal and cutting the Huai Army after the battle begins.

Julie's face was as cold as she took the military order, and she didn't say a word. Megan drew her sword, pointed it at the river, and shouted, "This is the river, right today!" "The heavy rain has stopped, and a white mist covers the river like a blanket, and the clear water rushes underneath, and the shallows are covered with reeds and mud." Our Qin Army Sailor is here, and today we will sink any piece of wood we see on the water and kill anyone who tries to cross the river. If any Huai army wants to cross the river, we will chop up his dirty things and rotten things and throw them into the river to feed the fish. ”

Megan held a sword in each hand, and at this time, he staggered the two swords and struck them with a loud bang.

"Chop the waves!" She shouted.

The soldiers of the sailor immediately shouted loudly: "Chop the waves, the sailor is vertical!" ”

At this time, even soldiers shouted, "Long live King Qin!" Long live King Qin! ”

Zeng Yuanyu rode slowly and inspected the battlefield.

In the rainy season, the land of Jianghuai is soft and muddy, especially on the shore, which is a thick mud soaked in water. The Qin army was stationed about two miles from the shore, which was much better than the land on the shore. This is an open paddy field, and rice seedlings have been planted in the field. But at this time. This flat paddy field. But it has become a continuous battlefield. Zeng Yuanyu came and went on the front line, shouting loudly, and doing the most difficult mobilization before and after the battle.

The Chinese army is almost all infantry, with strong shields, spears, horizontal knives, Mo knives, and bows and crossbows. They will be an iron wall, blocking the impact of the Huai army head-on, as long as the Huai army is blocked, the victory will belong to the Qin army.

"Will Chuzhou come to the rescue of the Huai army?" The recruit under Guo Xiong whispered.

Chuzhou Shanyang City is twenty miles behind them, if the fight here is fierce. Chuzhou behind them suddenly sent troops, so weren't they being attacked from both sides? Guo Xiong smiled, could King Qin not be clear about such a question? The reason why King Qin dared to set up an ambush twenty miles away from Chuzhou was naturally because he knew that there were only 5,000 defenders in Chuzhou City at this time, and there was no general to guard it.

At present, the Qin army rangers have monitored Chuzhou, and the Huai army's people can't get close to Chuzhou at all, and it's difficult for the people of Chuzhou to go back when they go out of the city. Besides, on such a rainy night, even if the city knows the news, it depends on his little people. I don't dare to venture out of the city easily.

Chuzhou is very close to Huaiyin, but it is separated by a canal. In this time, it was used as a logistics base for the Huai army, and the food and equipment in the rear were all from Yangzhou to Chuzhou through the canal, and they were hoarded in it.

Guo Wei didn't have time to think about why the Huai army didn't set up the big camp in Chuzhou but in Huaiyin, and the drums were getting louder and louder, knocking and knocking, 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 in the most frontal battlefield of the Chinese army, and he, a general who had just been promoted to command, also had to face a big battle.

He Huo pulled out the Gurkha scimitar he had been honored, which was the sharpest knife, made by special technology, handmade, and the output was scarce. The scimitar is held in the hand, the head of the knife is slightly heavier, and it is like holding a battle axe in the hand, this kind of scimitar is very suitable for chopping and is good at armor piercing.

In an instant, the enemy had appeared in front, emerging from the beach on the bank of the river, although they were frightened by the Qin army to set up an ambush here, but at this time they had no way to retreat, behind were the pursuers, in front of the ambush soldiers, only desperate battle, they hid behind the barrier formed by shields and spears, calmed down, and formed a rather neat array to march forward.

Guo Wei admired the other party's generals a little, and heard that the main general would be Gao Yu's nephew, who was ranked forty in the family, known as Forty Lang, the official worshiped General Zuo Jin Wuwei, and the forty-fifth Lang Zuo Xiaowei General Gao Jie was known as Gao's Shuangjie.

In the past, the high-ranking soldiers in Haozhou were like a bamboo, and the fight was amazing. And now, although Gao Yu has just been raided by the big camp, even if he gives up the big camp and retreats to Chuzhou, and is attacked again halfway, he can actually keep the team from dispersing, and he also re-muster up morale and attack in arrays.

The Huai army was numerous, at least at first glance, it seemed overwhelming.

Although Guo Wei knew that the Huaiyin army only had 50,000 horses, and there were at least tens of thousands of sailors. In this overwhelming crowd, a large part of them must be the people of the Huai Army. Gao Yu was able to gather those people, and he also made a virtual and real indistinguishable array to advance, which is really admirable.

In the morning light, Guo Wei saw the Huai army, which far surpassed the Qin army, at least fifty or sixty thousand. The generals of the Huai army rode armored war horses, led and commanded the soldiers to advance in a phalanx, and one by one the flag officers held the battalion flag and the team flag and marched side by side with the official flag. He saw the high-character handsome flag flying high, the Yu character general flag, the Yao character general flag, the Wang character general flag, and the high-character general flag

The blue battle flags of the Huai army can be seen everywhere, fluttering in the wind, flying on long poles, and hunting.

The bugle sounded, the whistle whistled and whistled and whistled, low and long, like the wind from outside the plug, which made people shudder.

When the trumpet gradually died down, the low-level officers such as the team leader and the commander of the Qin army began to blow the iron whistle continuously.

Although Guo Wei is a commander-level commander, he can no longer be at the front of the whole team like the head of the team, but at this time he is all in front of the battle line, and he is a decorated officer, so he plucked up his courage, carried his own medal knife Gurkha scimitar, and stood in front of the front wearing a full-body armor obtained when he was awarded, and there was still a copy of the medal on his left chest, and the real medal was maintained by him at his home in Dengzhou.

Behind him, hissing sounded incessantly, and the crossbowmen of the crossbow array began to fire arrows. A rain of arrows spilled. This is just a prelude.

The Huai army ran fast and charged. Running and running a sharp roar, there was helplessness and despair in the excitement. However, many Huai troops did not really fight with the Qin army, and under the mobilization of Gao Yu and others, many Huai troops knew that General Liang Zhang had just annihilated more than 10,000 troops of the Qin army in Huzhuzhou. The Qin army was not an invincible army in a hundred battles as rumored, which made the Huai army soldiers emboldened a lot.

After all, most of the Huai Army officers here, from top to bottom, followed Gao Biao to fight in all directions. A division of a hundred battles. It will be the courage of the army, and with these fierce generals and skeleton officers, it can be said that the Huai army, which fought a decisive battle with the Qin army for the first time, is still full of confidence.

The previous retreat was not that the Huai army was afraid of the Qin army, but that it was unwilling to fight with the Qin army under unknown circumstances. Now they are ambushed by the Qin army again, but their number is higher than that of the Qin army.

Many Huai generals saw that the Qin army on the opposite side was only more than 20,000 people, and even felt that they were a little too frightened before, thinking that a battle could break through the interception of the Qin army.

The Huai army is running, charging!

However, Zeng Yuanyu was full of confidence in his Chinese army's big array. With a wave of the long sword in his hand, the bows and arrows of the crossbow battalion suddenly attacked them like a torrential rain.

100 branches. Thousands of branches, innumerable in an instant.

Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, covering the sky and the sun, and the arrows rained down.

Many of the Huai troops who rushed to the front were shot and fell to the ground, and their shouts suddenly turned into wails.

By this time the second wave of attacks had fallen from the sky, and the crossbowmen had put the third arrow on the bowstring.

Although it rains during the rainy season, the lethality of the bow and arrow is much reduced.

But the archers of the Qin army were each equipped with four bows, eight strings, two crossbows, and a hundred arrows. This is quite perverted equipment, even if it is a Khitan cavalry, only the most elite cavalry is equipped with four bows, and the average cavalry is only equipped with two bows. In the troops of many feudal towns of the Tang Army, there were very few professional elite archers, and they generally only had one bow.

The iron whistle sounded again, beep, beep!

Zeng Yuanyu waved his hand, the flag waved behind him, eight trumpeters blew the horn again, and eight drummers also began to beat the war drums. The old Heiqiu Shengong, the leader of the Leopard Cavalry Army, waved the Mo knife in his hand and shouted an order, and the voices of thousands of people on the battlefield responded. Guo Wei held the sword in one hand and the group card in the other, and roared loudly, joining in the noisy hustle and bustle, and the whole person entered a selfless passion, and then slowly advanced forward with the phalanx.

"Drive the Southern Barbarians down the river to feed the fish!" He shouted to his subordinates that although his hometown of Xuzhou was not far from Huainan, he already regarded himself as a northerner. It was a war between the North and the South. The hundred warriors behind him immediately followed in his footsteps and strode forward, and under the rain of arrows flying in all directions, the two sides were rapidly approaching.

Directly ahead, 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 were five feet seven inches long, and they were almost as tall as soldiers compared to the slightly shorter Nanren. The pine shield is narrow in the middle and wide at both ends, the narrow place in the middle is one foot, and the width of the two ends is one foot and three inches, the front is painted with a tiger-shaped painting, and there is a handle behind it.

There were no long-range heavy weapons such as catapults and ballistas between the two sides, and at this time the formation was advancing, the shield array was in front, and the spearmen and knife players were on the side, covering the continuous shooting of their respective archers, and the light cavalry on both sides did not rush up to fight at the first time, but were arranged on the two wings of the infantry formation, carefully protecting the flanks.

In the contest between the archers of the two sides, the archers of the Qin army were superior. The bows of the Qin archers are better, the arrows are stronger, and the most important thing is that the archers of the Qin army each have two crossbows, when the two sides shoot arrows for a long time and are exhausted, the Qin archers can still hold the crossbow while continuing to shoot while regaining strength.

And under the continuous fire of the archers, the sword and shield men have not yet engaged at this time, and they are also making cameo appearances as archers. The non-archer infantry of the Qin army was equipped with two bows and a crossbow per person, and bow and arrow training was also very important in peacetime. At this time, the cameo archers even surpassed the archers of the Huai army.

When shooting from a distance just now, the Qin army only had archers to send arrows. At this time, seeing that the distance between the two sides was only thirty or forty steps, all the sword and shield jumping soldiers and Mo sword soldiers all picked up their bows and crossbows and shot fiercely, and the suddenly strengthened firepower caught the Huai army off guard, and many Huai troops fell to the ground immediately.

The Huai army was in chaos, and Qiu Shengong seized the fighter in time and immediately transferred a light cavalry battalion that was under his orders to come forward.

Mo Dao General Qiu Shengong personally led this battalion of elite cavalry, formed a wedge-shaped formation, and violently inserted into the battle formation. In the face of rows of spears, most of the war horses stopped sprinting at the last moment of the last moment, dodging and dodging, and some saw the vacancy and rampaged.

Rows of spears pierced out, and many cavalrymen were pierced through the chest with spears and died on the spot. In an instant, dozens of cavalry were killed.

Qiu Shengong's mount was pierced by a spear through its neck, and it stood up, screaming in grief, and kicked and kicked its legs with horseshoes nailed to it, and the frenzied battlefield leaped into the enemy line, spears stabbed at it from all sides, but the shield wall also collapsed under its weight.

The Huai soldiers staggered to dodge the dying throes of the war horse.

The war horse fell suddenly, and Qiu Shengong, who was dressed in plate armor, stood up unscathed, holding Xueliang's huge Mo knife in his hand, and launched a crazy attack, Xueliang's knife flashed, and he had already chopped off the heads of three Huai soldiers.

Guo Wei withdrew the crack in the enemy's shield wall before he had time to close, holding the shield in one hand and the sword in the other, and also rushed in. He was followed by a hundred people.

Guo Wei shouted: "Follow me!" (To be continued......)