Chapter 30 The Battle of Jingzhou
Ma Yue's battlefield was in Jizhou, and it was inseparable from Gongsun Zhan's killing.
Dong Zhuo's battlefield was in Yizhou, which was a war that the people of Liangzhou were never familiar with, fighting on the water. Therefore, he can only rely on the never-before-seen weapon of fierce fire oil to obtain the threat of the river. And this battle also made Dong Zhuo truly realize that Ma Yue's strange weapon armor also didn't work, and the keel ship that he had painstakingly developed was still not Jiangdong's opponent. Liangzhou people can only pursue their own victories in a down-to-earth manner.
And Liu Bei's battlefield is in Jingzhou.
At first, he knew that when Sun Jian led an army of 80,000 to attack Yizhou, he taught Liu Xuande to pinch his heart fiercely, and it was not until he heard that Liangguo sent troops to help Liu Zhang, and finally let go of his hanging heart. Then I felt deeply glad and a little angry. Sun Jian actually took away all the famous generals around him, and the three old ministers who had already become famous with him needless to say, Sun He, Sun Ben and others, who were famous in Jiangdong, also took them away, and only sent a son Sun Ce to deal with him.
Well, Sun Ce brought 40,000 soldiers and horses, a powerful fleet that rode the wind and waves.
Liu Xuande doesn't care at all, he won't be stupid enough to fight with Sun's water, if he has the ability, he will attack the shore!
No matter how strong the Sun family's fleet is, in Liu Bei's opinion, without those famous generals, the pressure on his shoulders will be much less, after all, there are countless generals in his hands who dare to fight. However...... In the end, Lao Liu, who knew the truth, burst into tears.
Jingzhou now also has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but there is a shortage of warships, although the soldiers are not ready, but if they do not go into the water, they can still fight.
Not to mention Sun Ce's martial arts that are better than his father's, the Donglai man named Tai Shici also has abilities that are not inferior to him, coupled with the ferocity of Zhou Tai and others, it simply makes Liu Bei Cao's heart broken.
Jiangxia is a good place.
After ten years of hard work, the four counties of Jingnan did not know how many loyal souls were buried in the bones to allow Liu Bei to completely recover the entire territory of Jingzhou, but now it has been beaten by the invasion of the Jiangdong people and can only defend Jingbei. Although everything was not easy to come by, Liu Bei was never discouraged.
Since Sun Ce came to attack, 30,000 soldiers and horses began to capture the city from Changsha County, the eight counties in the north and south were shelved by a Yangtze River moat, Jiangdong's warships cruised the river, and swallowed Jingnan at a very fast speed.
But after crossing the river, the war is not so easy.
In order to reduce losses, Liu Bei did not dare to garrison too many troops in Jingnan, because there was a big river, he knew that it was difficult for soldiers and horses to hold Jingnan, so he stationed all the main forces in Jingbei, intending to fight to the death with Jiangdong people in Jiangxia and Nanjun.
Liu Bei is now stationed in Xiling, Jiangxia, where the mouth of the Yangtze River is guarded, and the Jiangdong Army is stationed in Exian on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the two armies are facing each other.
The earlier tentative attack had passed, and Liu Bei clearly knew that what he would face next was Sun Ce's large-scale attack. Although guarding the mouth of the river, Liu Bei had nowhere to retreat, and Jiangxia only had many high mountains in Xiling, which could also become the defense line of the Jiangdong army's attack. If you cross Jiangxia, you will lose the last line of defense.
Liu Bei stood at the head of Xiling City, looking at the vast river of Tianshui in the distance and sighed, even at the urgent juncture of the war, the counties of Jingbei still did not stop labor production, and even the head of Xiling City was rushing to make ordnance. Sophisticated catapults hitched up to the city, and columns of sergeants with spears and iron knives kept looking around, for fear of being attacked by the enemy.
"Brother don't worry, it doesn't matter what Sun Ce or Sun Jian is, I know that when I get to Xiling City, a certain family will beat them as grandsons!" Zhang Fei paced to Liu Bei's side, saw the worry in Liu Bei's heart, and said angrily: "It's not early, brother, it's better to go and rest early, there is a little brother in the city, keep it safe." ”
"It's Yide." Liu Bei turned his head, smiled at Zhang Fei, and said: "Brother Wei is indeed a little worried, Daze, three hundred miles south of Xiling, once Xiling City is lost to Jingzhou, there will be no natural danger, how can Brother Wei not worry?" ”
The wind blew Zhang Fei's robe, but it couldn't blow the heavy iron armor, Zhang Fei shook his head and smiled: "If they dare to attack the city, then come." I waited for them in Xiling, brother rest assured, Zilong and Hansheng and others all set up camp on the north bank of the river, just waiting for the Jiangdong thieves to come, the gravel cannons sent by King Liang were all studied, and a few small boats could be sunk with one shot, and the Jiangdong people couldn't afford any wind and waves! ”
"Well, rest, rest for the night, tomorrow Yide and I will go to the riverside to meet the enemy!"
Zhang Fei said well, Xiling this place is a dangerous place, there is only one road to communicate the north and south of Jingzhou, the east and west sides are surrounded by mountains, the east and west mountains are the boundary, the land is now very chaotic, the Sun father and son took away the elite soldiers and horses and warships in Jiangdong, Yangzhou Jiangbei is no longer stable in the blink of an eye, Xuzhou's Zhenrong supervised tens of thousands of Buddhist children to move into the north of Yangzhou to take root, and took the lead in presenting gifts to Liu Bei, which can be regarded as guarding the eastern gateway for Jingzhou.
Some time ago, Liang sent 30 stone cannons and more than 1,000 sets of armor to Jingzhou through the trade routes of the Central Plains, which was also a little help for Liu Bei to fight against the Sun family.
Although the gift is a drop in the bucket, it is enough to last its spirit!
Jingzhou is very important, not only to the Han family, but also to the local people of Jingzhou, and even to Liu Bei himself. Not to mention that this is Liu Xuande's place in the world, as the assassin of Jingzhou, he shoulders the responsibility of defending the land, and he cannot be slack.
And on the river, tonight's war has begun.
In the middle of the night, Sun's army was divided into three routes, the governor Zhou Yu guarded the Jingnan camp, Sun Ce and Tai Shici supervised 3,000 soldiers and horses to land on the front, and the captain Jiang Qin and Zhou Taiyu 3,000 sailors quickly broke through the river defense line of Jingzhou soldiers and horses by light boat, and directly attacked Yan County east of Xiling. After Sun Ce, there was also a lightly armed ambush army, and 3,000 sergeants led by Captain Ling Cao and Sima Xu Sheng and Ling Tong of other departments joined the battlefield when the two armies were engaged.
Sun Ce, known as the little overlord of Jiangdong, stepped on the bow of the boat, looked at the shore that was getting closer and closer, and the corners of his mouth hooked into a smile, slowly pulled out the ring knife at his waist, and tilted his head to give Tai Shici, who was carrying a halberd on the warship next to him, a look...... Tonight, they're going on a killing spree!
As a general, you need strong force to convince your soldiers. But martial arts and battle array charges are a little too good for Sun Ce. In this regard, Jiangdong's veterans unanimously agreed that Sun Ce was far superior to Ma Yue, the king of Liang, who was known as martial arts at the same age. As we all know, the beginning of Ma Yue's exploits was to rely on his strong martial arts to conquer the heart of the former emperor Liu Hong, and Sun Ce was even more so, completely inheriting the heroic martyrdom of his father Sun Jian, or even better, and he must be the first in every battle. So much so that it was difficult to find a pioneer when Sun Ce led his troops to fight, because he was the strongest vanguard general in the world.
However, this embarrassment has been made up since Shentingling met Tai Shi Ci when he conquered Liu Xiang in Yangzhou, and since Sun Ce saw Tai Shi Ci for the first time, he knew that this person was the pioneer he needed!
And now, Sun Jian's boast of Haikou has been realized, and Tai Shici has also become a pioneer, not to mention the joining of Jiujiang warriors Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, who are proficient in water and land warfare, and Sun Ce is even more proud. He thinks that Jingzhou can be recovered!
Jiangdong's soldiers and horses landed, light boats anchored on the shore, and a column of Jiangdong men with small swords and shields, strong bows and arrows followed behind their little overlord and walked majestically towards the front.
Sun's soldiers are all light soldiers, and the low armor coverage rate is terrifying, but these men are not afraid of life and death, and there are even many men with strong bows on their backs who go into battle shirtless.
But these are enough in Sun Ce's opinion!
The night brings endless fear to some people, and to others, it brings boiling blood.
Quietly bypassing a valley, the leader of the Jiangdong Army was killed by an arrow before he could even see the lights on Xiling City in the distance.
"Enemy attack!"
In an instant, the shouts of killing exploded in the valley, and the men and horses on both sides let out fierce shouts and fought towards the enemy.
Sun Ce, who was in the middle of the army, suddenly raised his head, and saw a group of men and horses suddenly killed on the high ground, led by a white horse and silver spear on the battlefield, which was pointing to his own position at this time, and the countless black shadows behind him were running in stride, and there were also standing in place with bows and arrows to shoot arrows, looking very fierce.
Sun Ce didn't say any nonsense, raised his knife and pointed at the white-robed general at the leader and shouted: "That's over there, shoot him to death for a certain family!" ”
The general is the only factor in commanding the soldiers and horses, as long as the general is dead, the battle does not need to be fought.
What do the common people know about the barbarian soldiers and soldiers, they don't even know the words, do they still expect them to replace the generals to command the soldiers and horses?
When the sergeant of Jiangdong heard this, he shot with his longbow, and in an instant, countless arrows rained in the direction of the white-robed general, and the arrows collided in the air with a clanging sound, and Sun Ce thought that this skirmish would end with the death of the general. But isn't it, where is someone wearing a white robe in the dark night, isn't this looking for being shot by an arrow?
But he was disappointed, and the arrow was shot around the general's body and was picked open by the five silver spears, and the spear head lit up a little spear flower in the air, and an iron spear danced impenetrable, not to mention a silver robe, that is, even the white horse was firmly protected in it, and the arrows could not be splashed in the rain. A wave of arrows rained over, and he heard the white-robed general roar, Tai Shici secretly said that it was not good, and then saw a yellow-robed veteran in the rear with a big bow leading the soldiers and horses from the back of the valley to suddenly kill the general, and there was a big knife across his waist, directly surrounding his own soldiers and horses.
"The enemy will be good in the future!" As soon as Sun Ce saw the martial bravery shown by the white-robed general, his face was overjoyed, and he didn't care about his own walking, he rushed out of the army formation with a ring knife and shouted: "A certain Jiangdong Sun Ce, can the enemy general dare to fight with a certain family!" ”
On the other side, Tai Shi Ci held an iron halberd and saw that the enemy troops on both sides had almost surrounded his troops, and shouted loudly: "Where is Captain Ling Cao!" ”
In a loud roar, the sound of soldiers and horses marching came from the rear of the soldiers and horses led by Huang Zhong again, and in the smoke and dust of the horses, Ling Cao threw the torch in his hand to the ground, led the soldiers out with an iron spear, and shouted loudly: "Ling Cao is here, the thief will die!" ”