Chapter 333: Annihilation (6)
At this time, Chidi's forces had a great advantage, and they attacked the enemy head-on while outflanking them from both flanks; The cavalry on the right flank tried to drive the Jin soldiers who were building a defensive line into the river, while the cavalry on the left flank simply rushed into the river and attacked the boats that were crossing, shooting the soldiers on board with throwing guns, or jumping off their horses and swimming to the side of the boat to overturn them, while the coalition forces returned fire with bows and arrows.
The allied cavalry on the east bank of Fenshui could not hold back their anxious mood, and even rushed into the river and swam to the opposite bank. When the coalition forces crossed the river to join the warband, Chidi's offensive gradually slowed down, and the army began to shrink. This is not because of fear, but because their forces are too scattered.
As the battle lasted for an hour, Chidi regrouped, and retreated after killing as many enemies as they could, and at great cost to themselves.
The Jin army's ferry was thirty miles away from the enemy camp in Fendong, so when Yan Ru led the army to the ferry, the first batch of Jin troops had already completed the task of crossing the river, leaving only a mess at the scene. Chidi saw that the friendly forces on the other side had retreated, and the coalition forces were cleaning up the battlefield.
He had to stop (because he had no boats) and simply stationed himself here to prevent the second group of Jin troops from continuing to cross the river, and at the same time ordered the Kundu defenders to reinforce the army on the west bank. However, the reinforcements left Kundu largely defenseless.
Bai Dizi and the high-ranking nobles were hiding in the fox kitchen city at that time, and Bohu saw the enemy army in the southern suburbs going up the river, and after a little thought, he guessed the enemy's intentions; He decided to take the opportunity to cause some trouble for the enemy in order to cooperate with the actions of friendly forces.
Bohu asked to attack the Chidi camp, but the incompetent man who only wanted to shrink into his shell and just want to blame all the trouble on the Jin people just didn't want to fight.
Bohu left angrily, and his subordinates followed him with angry faces. Bohu stopped, glanced at these people and said, "If you have a chance but don't dare to fight, everyone in the world will despise Bai Di; Those who fail to build a nation with courage will surely perish with cowardice. I have decided to disobey the king's orders and attack the enemy camp, and instead of being sold into slavery in the future, I should die on the battlefield today! If you are willing to fight, come with me, and if you don't want to, I will not be reluctant. ”
The subordinates clenched their fists one after another, shouting loudly to follow Bohu to attack, and Bohu temporarily gathered a cavalry death squad to rush out of the south gate and go straight to the enemy camp to kill.
Chidi really didn't take Bai Di in his eyes: although the Chidi generals took the main force out of the camp, they did not arrange the defense of the Bai Di people. The death squads broke through the barrier and broke into the enemy camp, and the warriors, knowing that they were too few in number, screamed and banged their shields, making as loud noise as possible to intimidate the enemy. The people left behind in the camp couldn't figure out the truth in their panic, and could only run around shouting and screaming.
The death squad lit a few fires and began to retreat, and Chidi finally realized that the sneak attackers were just bluffing, and immediately organized an attack on the Baidi people. In the process of retreating, Bohu found that the enemy was coming from all directions with a loud shout, and he raised his sword and shouted: "If we are destined to die here today, let's get a few more funerary goods!" ”
The death squad fled the camp by the same route, and was confronted by friendly troops who had come to meet them. It turned out that Bai Dizi always felt ashamed after others made heroic moves, and after someone reported the news of Bohu's handsome army leaving the city to him, he couldn't stand the complicated eyes of the doctors, and he didn't dare to imagine how this incident should end, so he said: "The widow just wants to test the courage of Bohu, and it seems that the result has already been achieved." Listen to the orders of the widows, immediately gather the cavalry, and follow the widows to fight! ”
In this way, Bai Dizi saved Bohu's life. When the two sides met, they stopped, neither of them took the initiative to charge, and then they retreated.
When Bai Dizi returned to the city with his army, the people were very excited to think that he had defeated an invincible enemy. When Bohu came to the city again, he saw that on the other side of the Fenshui River, in the vicinity of Kundu City, a large number of enemy troops were divided into two parts, one of which was heading south, and the other was crossing the river to reinforce the Fenxi defenders.
Bohu said to Bai Dizi: "Chidi is almost exhausted, and Kundu has become an empty city. If Kundu is recovered at this time, the connection between the two parts of Chidi can be severed. The north and the south of Chidi could not take care of each other, and they would inevitably retreat to the east, and a counteroffensive was just around the corner. Bai Dizi thought for a moment, and then temporarily handed over the command of the army to Bohu.
Bohu transferred the main force of Bai Di north of Fox Kitchen to strengthen the defense of Fox Kitchen, and ordered a part of the army to take advantage of the night to cross Fenshui east and capture Kundu City.
On this day, the situation that was calm in the early morning became chaotic in the afternoon, when there were no more "original plans" and "predetermined plans", and all tactics and strategies were quickly formulated with the changes in the situation of the battle, and on the battlefield it was necessary not only to be more courageous, but also to be smarter and more daring to take risks.
The Chidi cavalry in Fenxi had retreated ten miles, and the infantry had dug a deep trench and built a high wall to block the way north for the coalition forces. The coalition army split up and detoured back to the right flank of the Chidi army, intending to attack simultaneously from the front and from the flanks.
Sensing the intention of the coalition forces, the Chidi army suddenly attacked the coalition forces in front while the roundabout army was not yet in place, and the coalition forces were taken by surprise, and the soldiers could not resist the enemy's fierce attack, so they were forced to retreat; The Chidi army was afraid of being attacked by the enemy on both sides, and did not dare to fight, so they took the initiative to retreat before the enemy arrived on the flank.
The coalition army had already fought two fierce battles in one day, and the men and horses were very tired, so they camped in place, while Chidi withdrew to the Fenxi camp. In the evening, the second group of coalition troops led by Zhao Tong and Zhao Kuo who crossed the river arrived at the camp.
Zhao Shuo ordered Zhao Tong to lead his subordinates to cross Fenshui east again and attack the empty Kundu (at this time, the position of Zhao Shuo's army was between Kundu and the Chidi Xiangfen camp). Zhao Tong couldn't help but bump into the fire, he found an excuse to try to disobey the order, but Zhao Shuo's attitude was very resolute, not only asked him to immediately carry out the order, but also pointed out that once he could not complete the task, the army would be attacked by the enemy forces in Kundu and Xiangfen on both sides, and the end of the mission failure would be death.
The tension between the Zhao Tong brothers and Zhao Shuo was well known, and the brothers often made small actions to disobey orders because of their noble lineage (they were the grandsons of Duke Wen of Jin) and their seniority, but they still did not dare to blatantly confront Zhao Shuo in the face of major events.
Zhao Tong walked out of the military tent full of resentment, and Zhao Kuo followed him out. Zhao Shuo couldn't help but sigh secretly: "I will be killed by my uncles sooner or later." ”