In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, March 27. The Battle of Xinchun, which was later known as one of the three major battles in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, kicked off.

The two sides of the battle: The Blood Banner Army, which has now taken Sichuan and most of Jingzhou, is known as the world's first male soldier. On the other side is the combined army of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who are known to have 200,000 troops.

The entire Battle of Xinchun was divided into two parts: the Battle of Jiangmian and the Offensive and Defensive Battle of Xinchun City. It lasted fifteen days. In fact, 250,000 combat troops were deployed in the attack.

Among them, the Blood Banner Army invested 30,000 main forces, 50,000 militiamen, more than 30,000 soldiers, and 8,000 naval troops.

The Sun-Liu coalition army invested 15,000 naval troops and 120,000 marine soldiers. Among them, the navy army was all from Sun Wu, and 20,000 of the land soldiers were from Liu Bei, including all the remnants of Jingzhou. The remaining 100,000 were all sent to the battlefield by Sun Wu successively.

March 28. Sixty miles outside the city of Xinchun, Xiaoyangpo, the front army of the militia of the 1,000 Blood Banner Army and the 3,000 Sun Liu coalition army encountered, polishing the first spark of the Battle of Xinchun.

The encounter was a pure coincidence, but it quickly ignited a large-scale field battle.

The military training of the Blood Banner Army is "Fight against the enemy, and win the battle." "Naturally, I won't just turn around and run because of the disadvantage in numbers. As the Sun-Liu coalition army, after seeing the fierce ability of the Blood Banner Army, because he wanted to avoid the fear of being baptized by the Yama God and Thunder, he also hoped to weigh the weight of the Blood Banner Army in the field battle.

The front armies of the two sides that encountered first lay down a total of more than 900 people within half an hour. The battle loss was almost two to one. But because of the numerical inferiority, the 1,000 militia of the Blood Banner Army was still at a disadvantage.

Then, the 500 elite cavalry galloping from Xinchun City became the last straw that crushed the militia of the Blood Banner Army.

Under the rout, only more than 300 militiamen finally fled back, and the rest were killed.

This is a great encouragement for the Sun-Liu coalition. Since the Battle of Jingzhou, the Blood Banner Army has never been defeated for a while, and it seems to be unmatched. This battle shattered this myth and greatly boosted the morale of the Sun-Liu coalition army. He even began to adjust his military strategy, trying to avoid attacking and defending urban battles, and preferring to start field battles with the Blood Banner Army.

Of course, the Blood Banner Army, which lost the first battle, was furious. In the face of the follow-up provocation of the Sun-Liu coalition army, it was also colored. Then 5,000 main forces and 5,000 militia were dispatched to start a second round of field battles 60 miles outside the city of Xinchun.

Among the main forces of the Blood Banner Army in this battle are Gao Shun's subdued camp and a thousand elite "Shenshui Cavalry". And the Sun-Liu coalition army did not show weakness, and sent the generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who led an army of 12,200, including Liu Bei's leading army, the Baier Army.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, it was a one-sided slaughter. The elite of the elite in the trapping camp is simply crushed against the Sun-Liu coalition army, which is still in the category of ordinary people. Even just five centurions trapped in the camp forced the general Zhang Fei to fall from his horse. In the end, if it weren't for the timely rescue of the soldiers, Zhang Fei might have explained it here.

The infantry is no match at all, and neither is the cavalry. In the face of the elite cavalry of the Blood Banner Army, where both men and horses had drunk the "divine water", the cavalry of the Sun-Liu coalition army was like a child's trick. Just one hedge, and all of them are gone. Until death, he could not understand why the cavalry of the Blood Banner Army could sit so quickly and steadily.

Why? Because the cavalry of the Blood Banner Army had stirrups under their feet, not on their legs. In this way, it can be more stable, easier to exert force, and can also use more tactical movements.

Don't underestimate this pair of stirrups, which is completely equipment crushing on the battlefield.

The second round of the field battle. The Blood Banner Army returned victorious. Kill more than 5,000 enemies. His own loss was no more than five hundred. The swap ratio is as high as ten to one.

March 28, late at night. The Sun-Liu coalition army launched a night attack on the left camp of the Blood Banner Army garrison eighty miles away. was recognized by Wu Yi, the general of the left, and launched a counter-raid. Not only did he crush the intentions of the Sun and Liu coalition forces, but he also counterattacked and beheaded a thousand enemy troops under the camp.

In the early morning of March 29. Fifty miles ahead of Jiangxia, the Sichuan navy from afar took the lead in launching a surprise attack on the Sun Wu navy entrenched in Jiangxia.

In this battle, a new type of inland river warship called the "Wuya Great Ship" made the Sun-Wu coalition understand what it means to destroy the withering and decaying.

The five-tooth big ship, the ship building is as high as ten zhang, divided into five floors. Each floor has sixteen well-developed ports for shooting crossbow arrows. The crossbow bolts equipped with are also bed crossbows that can only be pulled apart by the winch of three people together. The firing distance is 150 zhang, and it can be used with fire oil for long-distance fire attacks.

In addition to the advanced ship crossbows, six five-zhang boulder poles were erected on both sides of the five-tooth ship. Once they get closer, they can take the lead in smashing the enemy ship before the "jumping gang" broadside battle begins, or even directly smash the enemy ship.

Moreover, the body size of each five-tooth ship is fifteen zhang long and five zhang wide. It is a literal behemoth, and fearless of siege.

Look at Sun Wu's ships again. It's all old-fashioned design and tactical mixing. Suddenly, when he encountered the black technology of the five-tooth ship, he was naturally blinded directly.

From the beginning of the battle between the two sides in the early morning to noon, Sun Wu's naval army lost a full 150 large and small ships. Trying to play with flexibility in front of the five-tooth ship is simply looking for death. The extra-long range of the bed crossbow and the dense barrage of arrows can destroy these so-called clippers before they get close.

As for the big killing weapon, it is naturally the two trebuchets in the front and rear equipped on each five-tooth ship. The thing that was thrown was naturally the Yama Divine Thunder. It only takes one to turn the largest warship in Sun Wu's navy into a fireball.

In the evening, Sun Wu's navy, which had lost 300 large and small warships, chose to retreat, relying on the river to block the pursuit of the Blood Banner Army.

As far as Zhou Yu, the governor of the Sun Wu Water Army, is concerned, he will not go out of the water village again until he has figured out how to restrain the Blood Banner Army's five-tooth ships and fierce long-range attack methods. It's just going to die.

March 30 at dusk. Zhang Liao led his troops to advance ten miles below Xinchun City, and after setting up the formation, hundreds of huge bonfires were lit around Xinchun City. Prepare for the night battle.

There are pros and cons to night fights. The disadvantage is that it is impossible to clearly find out what is leaning down from the head of the city on the defending side.

For example, if you think that there is a stone falling from it, and then you use a shield to block it, but it turns out that it is gold juice that falls, then it is miserable. The hot gold juice can be left on the body along the gap in the shield, and the taste is indescribable, and as long as the burned area exceeds the size of a palm, you can basically wait for death.

There is also an advantage, that is, the defender of the city cannot find out in advance where the Yama Divine Thunder is heading, and the casualties caused are naturally more considerable.

March 31, early in the morning. After pouring down 200 Yama Divine Thunder, leaving 5,000 casualties, the Blood Banner Army ended the storm. At noon, Wu Yi's subordinates replaced Zhang Liao and led 20,000 soldiers and 5,000 militiamen to attack Xinchun City again. and blew up the city gate to the east of Xinchun City in one fell swoop. So much so that both sides then fought brutally over this city gate.

The first day of April. In the afternoon, the east gate of Xinchun City was finally lost, the gatekeeper Guan Yu was seriously injured and captured, and a large number of elite blood banner troops broke into the city and started a fierce street battle with the stubborn Sun and Liu coalition forces.

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