Chapter 288: King Chuzhuang Destroys Yong (5)
The bait soldiers of the Chu army were still constantly defeating the battle, and it was difficult for Shanrong to win, and the spoils of war were accumulating more and more. When the Chu army paid a heavy price to introduce the Rong division into the encirclement, it had already been defeated seven times in a row. The loot (including prisoners of war) captured by the Shan Jung was so large that many simply engaged in warehousing and logistics trading. These transactions are mostly carried out by those who are virtuous or infirm—those who are not very good at deceiving people; The physically weak do not dare to deceive people.
Later, Yongzi decided that the Chu army was vulnerable, and he was unwilling to share the fruits of victory with others, so he dismissed most of his allies. In the end, only the three ** teams of Yu, Su, and Xiu were left to continue the battle with the Yong army, because these three countries "really focused on honor rather than spoils", while the other allied forces paid special attention to looting.
When Shanjung completely entered the encirclement, Da Sima gave the order to attack. The fierce sound of war drums echoed through the valley, and the Chu army rushed into the valley like a mountain torrent, the anger in his eyes was enough to burn all enemies, and this scene was a replica of the battle of Qin and Jinkun more than twenty years ago.
Shanjung, who had no way out, broke out with a strong fighting force, and the battle was extremely fierce. At this time, they no longer fight for honor, spoils, or even their lives, but like their opponents, they are motivated by hatred and anger.
The first wave of Chu soldiers who rushed down were also killed and wounded by the enemy after killing and wounding a large number of the enemy. When the officers saw this, they ordered the soldiers to form a phalanx.
The soldiers of the Chu State have undergone strict military training, one of which is how to form a specific battle formation with unfamiliar companions according to instructions in actual combat, and those soldiers who do not meet the requirements are not allowed to fight, and can only do some menial work in the barracks.
The array of the Chu army was scattered, but the soldiers quickly regrouped according to the order. The phalanx turned their backs to the hillside and slowly retreated under the cover of the archers behind them.
The Shanjung army also formed a phalanx and pressed the Chu army tightly, believing that once they entered the mountain forest, they would have an advantage. But when they approached the foot of the mountain, the war drums of the Chu army sounded again, and the Chu army, which had just retreated up the hillside, rushed straight down to them again, and the formation of the mountain was immediately scattered, and the soldiers squeezed each other and staggered, and fled back with rolling belts.
A large number of Chu troops rushed down and slashed the enemy as much as they could, and after forcing them into an open field, they gathered in a phalanx and slowly retreated. At this time, the arrows from the hillside shot like locusts towards the mountain, and the enemy had to lean together again to form a shield array.
The approximate situation was repeated several times, and casualties on both sides were increasing, but the losses of the Shan Rong were much greater.
The sun has turned to the west, and Doujiao wants a quick victory: because the night is favorable to Shanjung, and if the allied forces dismissed by Yongzi turn back to rescue, the victory or defeat may be reversed.
Ziyi said: "The mediocre wooden shield rattan armor, those objects are most afraid of fire, if you shoot with rockets, the enemy will be defeated." ”
The allied troops carried the grease that ignited the fire, and the sergeants tore their sleeves into strips, tied them to the front of the shafts of the arrows, and soaked them in grease. The archers cut off tree branches to make torches and stick them into the ground to ignite rockets, and a terrifying fire attack began.
Shan Rong, who had just been given a chance to breathe, was surprised to find countless tongues of fire flying towards them overwhelmingly, and a large number of soldiers were instantly hit by arrows and burst into flames, and they involuntarily broke away from the array and jumped around. Suddenly the ground erupted in one after another, heart-rending screams, which were more terrible than the intense pain.
Some soldiers chased after the arrow-hitters and wanted to help their companions rip off the rattan armor, but those people became live targets for the Chu army, resulting in more people being hit by arrows and catching fire. People howled, ran, died, the positions were filled with disgusting smoke, and the whole formation dispersed. Seeing that the time had come, Dou Ban immediately gave the order for a general attack, and the coalition forces rushed down the valley again, many soldiers holding weapons in their left hands and brandishing torches in their right hands, slaughtering the enemy as much as they could.
Yongzi ran around in the crowd, shouting not to panic and to maintain the battle formation. At this moment of crisis, a soldier suddenly went berserk and stabbed Yongzi head-on, Yongzi fell backwards, and the murderer was immediately stabbed to death by the guards. Although this knife stabbed Yongzi in the vital part of the body, it only stabbed half of it, so his injury was not fatal enough.
Yongzi was helped by the soldiers to sit leaning against a large tree, and he grabbed one of the soldiers by the arm and said, "Why do you want to kill him?" He saved your lives! The widow will neither surrender nor be captured alive, so he will surely die. But if the widow dies here now, you can live! If the country is doomed, what's the point of fighting for your lives? When he had finished speaking, he grasped the hilt of his sword and stabbed it with all his might, and he died instantly.
The bloody sun shone across the valley, and the heavens presented the most tragic scene in the world to everyone who was still alive. There were corpses of men and horses everywhere, and the stench of burning caused some to stop chasing and fleeing, and to vomit with their weapons in hand.
But most of the Shanjung still ran helplessly and screamed, and the coalition forces continued to assassinate mercilessly, until many threw away their weapons and fell to their knees, stretched out their hands to the coalition forces, and screamed miserably to the heavens.
Yongzi's battle flag appeared, followed by eight guards, who carried Yongzi's body on their shoulders and slowly moved forward, the Shanjung knelt down in tears for the dead monarch, and the standard-bearer rolled up the battle flag and surrendered to the coalition army with both hands.
Ziyi said: "Yongzi is dead, Shanrong has been defeated, there is no point in killing more, please order to stop the attack and accept their surrender." ”
Dou Jiao said: "The widow did not give me the order to surrender. ”
He said, "The widow has not heard the order to kill them all!" ”
Doujiao continued to arrogantly issue combat orders, and Ziyi angrily rushed across the battlefield with his guards and went to the opposite side to find Dou. Shan Rong did not expect that the Chu army would not accept the surrender and still carry out the slaughter, and many of them huddled together in despair, praying to the gods who had never appeared and waiting for the final moment to come.
However, to everyone's surprise, the Dou Ban Right Army stopped attacking. The sergeants of the right army ordered Shan Rong to lay down his weapons and crouch on the spot, and then collected their weapons. Facing the left army, Shan Rong immediately threw away his weapon and turned around and rushed over, which was faster than grabbing loot.
The battle was over, and the soldiers began to clear the battlefield. When Dou Pan saw Dou Jiao, he tactfully blamed Dou Jiao's murderous behavior, and Dou Jiao rightly ridiculed him. Dou lost his patience and condemned him with all his might. As a result, the two first debated fiercely, then quarreled, then spoke ill of each other, and finally the cousins would have drawn their swords if they hadn't pulled each other.
The Chu army cleaned up the battlefield and rested for two days. King Chuzhuang ordered to move on, intending to break through each of them from the weak Shanjung, so as to break the enemy alliance and isolate the Yongguo.