Chapter Seventy-Seven: Evenly Matched
"That's all the strength of these four countries? They're humiliating themselves!" Yan Ran was very confident after finding out the strength of the enemy army.
Adjutant General Nie Dang said on the side: "General, the soldiers and horses of the Five Kingdoms this time are not as many as those of Zhao State last year, and our army will win this battle!"
Nie Dang has been with Yan Ran for many years, fighting bravely, leading troops very well, and his combat power is also quite high, and he can be regarded as a second-rate military general in the Six Kingdoms.
Yan Ran calmed down again: "This battle is different from fighting with the Zhao army, the Zhao army had the advantage of terrain and rivers that time, now we don't have these, if we want to attack, we must solve the problem of the generation of mountain scale pass, you also know the defense system here, there are nearly 100 strong crossbows that can shoot three or four miles, and the consequences are unimaginable once you get close."
Yan Ran now regrets very much that he didn't take down the Mountain Scale Pass, everything was arranged by Liu Cheying when he left the Xia Kingdom last year, except for the soldiers and horses, as well as grain, grass and money, he didn't take away any favorable terrain territory, especially this Mountain Scale Pass that can kill the eastward road of the Xia Kingdom, if this is not opened, they will have to take a detour, which is very unfavorable to continuous combat.
In ancient times, people lived around rivers and lakes, like the south near the coast, there are few people, mainly because the drinking water here is relatively scarce, and there are many beasts and insects, which are very unsuitable for people to live, so now there are very few households in the south, and the supply of grain and grass will naturally be relatively troublesome.
"Report ~ the general's enemy army is coming to ask for a meeting!"
Yan Ran didn't have to guess to know that it was something like Sun Ding who sent him to talk before the battle, and Yan Ran was not worried about fraud, after all, he and Sun Ding had known each other for many years, and everyone knew very well the combat styles of the two, if it weren't for Yan Ran's high limelight over the years, Sun Ding's reputation might have been even greater.
"It's been a long time since I've seen you and you're still the same! How was it in Chu last year? I remember that you have a daughter named Sun Yan, she is now a member of my Xia Kingdom, you haven't seen her for so many years, this time wait for me to defeat the 360,000 in your hands" Yan Ran didn't talk about the war with Sun Ding when he came, but talked about the old days first, after all, the friendship between the two is still there.
"I'm naturally doing well, I don't have to worry about this, this Sun Yan has nothing to do with my Sun family, see what she does." Sun Ding said so, in fact, he still had some expectations for Sun Yan, "Yan Ran, this time I must defeat you, break your undefeated legend, and let you also taste failure~hahaha~"
"Hahaha~ Sun Ding, your tone is not small, I want to see if you have this ability, now my Xia Kingdom is not only strong in military strength, but also has an ancient Ming Jun, this world will be my Xia Kingdom sooner or later, you might as well return to my Xia Kingdom! Presumably you're fed up with that old guy from Fang Buqun, this guy looks loyal on the surface, but in fact, you and I both know that your status will be higher than it is now when you come to my Xia Kingdom!" Yan Ran really wanted to win over Sun Ding, the influence of the Sun family in the Chu State is very great now, especially the Sun Family Army, that is, the trump card army, which can represent the strength of the entire Chu State.
"Phew~ Since my Sun Ding is the general of the Chu State, he naturally wants to shed his blood for the Chu State, this party has nothing to do with me, as long as the Chu State needs my Sun Ding, Yan Ran, you are not honest, you will not stop the King of Xia from declaring war on the Six Kingdoms, and now that the Five Kingdoms are attacking you, you are not panicking at all?" Sun Ding still admired Yan Ran a little, although the five countries did not send many troops, and the army of 530,000 was not a small number.
"What am I panicking about, I can tell you clearly that Xia Guo has this strength! The Zhao army you landed in the south of the Xia Kingdom has been completely wiped out, and I, the Xia Kingdom, have been wounded and killed! Tell me who this world will be? "Yan Ran has already received the news, Han Feng has won a complete victory, and now as long as the battle on his side is over, Xia Guo will launch an attack on Zhao State.
"What? That's impossible! That's an army of 190,000! Even if the whole army is annihilated, how can it not hurt you, and the Xia army will not hurt a single soldier! You must be a rumor!" Sun Dingke didn't believe that such a thing would happen.
The strength of the Zhao army's naval army is the first in the world, even if it is a landing battle, it is impossible to lose so badly, this is simply an unprecedented thing, and it is impossible for another person to believe that this kind of thing is true, unless he sees it with his own eyes.
However, the Vietnamese army has not reported any news now, and once it is reported, it will definitely affect the morale of the army, and they will not be sad at that time, so it is better to hide it first, and the Vietnamese army itself has come to the scene, and has no intention of fighting at all.
Sun Ding knew that Yan Ran was not a madman who would say such things, he thought about it for a moment in place, this may be true, now Sun Ding's face is full of incredulity, plus the legend of the previous Hanfeng breaking the Liang and defeating the Zhao army, then this is really possible, then this kind of miracle is normal.
"Yan Ran, is King Xia really King Xuanwu of Chu? This question has bothered me for a long time, King Xia claims to be the King of Chu Xuanwu, and King Chu Xuanwu is now in the Fengyuan Palace, and it is also the last incident I feel that the personality of King Chu Xuanwu has changed greatly, the previous King Xuanwu is not afraid of Fang Buqun at all, it can be described as a domineering side leak, and now the other party is not obedient, he is a complete puppet, Fang Buqun said one He definitely dare not say two. Sun Ding was also very curious about this Xuanwu King.
"Hahaha~" Yan Ran now wants to pull Sun Ding to the Xia Kingdom, he also sees hope, it seems that Han Feng's charm is really attractive: "Then there is still a fake, if the five countries lose this battle, and soon the Xia State takes the Zhao State, they will definitely attack the Chu State with all their might, and then the Chu State will die, and the Xia State will leave a place for your Sun family!"
"Victory or defeat is not certain, Yan Ran, don't say it so early, let's talk about it after this battle first!" Sun Ding felt that he was almost the same as Yan Ranxu, and he was about to fight, and now it was time to go back.
"Tomorrow, we will have a showdown outside the mountain scale pass!" After Sun Ding said this, he turned around and rode his horse, rolled up a cloud of loess, and flew towards the barracks.
But as soon as he returned to the barracks, Sun Ding was questioned, and the main generals of the other three kingdoms all stared at Sun Ding, with no good looks on their faces at all, and even revealed disdain and disgust.
"What's wrong with the generals, why do you look so surprised?" Sun Ding was puzzled, he could roughly guess what this group of people were thinking, after all, they would definitely not be willing to be the commander of the four armies, but this time they sent the most troops to the Chu State, and the strongest Chu State would inevitably have to dominate the battle.
The 360,000 people in the Chu State accounted for 200,000, which does not occupy the main dominant power, and I am sorry for the 200,000 majestic and high-spirited soldiers of the Chu State, and as soon as he and the soldiers, Sun Ding saw that none of these people were really willing to fight with the Xia State, and they brought either new soldiers or miscellaneous troops, and the main force did not bring one.
Mi Fang, the chief general of the Jin Kingdom, held the general's belly, carried a fine bronze sword at his waist, and put his right hand on the hilt of the sword and said disdainfully: "General, what should you not talk about with the enemy general!" Yan Ran is our number one enemy, general, your behavior is very unfavorable to us, and my Jin Kingdom has the right not to send troops to fight!"
"Yes~ We also have the right not to send troops to fight!"
The commanders of the remaining two countries also echoed that once they had the opportunity not to send troops, they would never send troops, and this alliance seemed to be a joke, not united enough at all, and the most important thing was that they had their own ghosts, and they were unwilling to lose their troops.
"You guys!" Sun Ding's face turned red with anger and reprimanded angrily: "If you don't send troops, I won't force it, the Jin State is still far from the Xia Kingdom, but your Yue Kingdom and the Wei State are still far from the Xia Kingdom?" Don't you know the strength of Xia Guo? Defeating Zhao Jun and driving Liang is a joke? ”
"That's it, that's it~ If you want to withdraw your troops, withdraw now! If the Xia State attacks you at that time, don't say that my Chu State is unwilling to send troops to support!" Sun Ding took the tiger talisman of the Three Kingdoms on his waist and slapped it on the table, very dissatisfied.
Mi Fang said with a tricky voice: "General Sun, you are still so arrogant in your private meeting with the enemy generals, I'm afraid this is unreasonable, is this how you Chu State bullies people?"
"You don't want to talk nonsense, if I fornicate with the Chu State, what good will it do to my Sun family's army! Am I joking with an army of 200,000!" Sun Ding no longer wanted to argue with these people, he had never seen such a brazen person in the years of fighting.
As soon as Mi Fang walked to the table and stretched out his hand, Sun Ding drank: "No one can evacuate tomorrow, after this battle, you have to withdraw your troops, and my Chu army will not stop you!"
These generals do not dare to evacuate, if they withdraw, it will make the world laugh, not only their own face will not be able to pass, but also bring the enemy of Chu, this Yue Wei is now impossible to tear his face with Chu, Jin is fine, but the King of Jin is also a person who wants face, if he withdraws the army, the King of Jin will definitely kill Mi Fang, which Mi Fang knows very well in his heart.
Tonight, the Xia army and the soldiers of the four countries are recuperating, but they are destined to have no good dreams, life and death are unknown from tomorrow, maybe this is their last night, many recruits and soldiers can't sleep, they are all terrified.
Two soldiers in the Xia army camp whispered: "Ergouzi, have you slept?" Tomorrow is the battle, and I can't calm down. ”
Ergouzi turned over and said helplessly: "Hurry up, from the day I joined the army, I will hand over life and death to this battlefield, rest well, don't think about it, the battlefield is either you die or I live, we go all out, only the strong can live, even if we die in battle, we are also the heroes of the Xia Kingdom, and future generations will be proud of us."
Ergouzi is a veteran and has long been accustomed to this, but he is also worried about tomorrow's battle, and no one can say whether he can survive or not, this life is only once.
At this time, a bunch of people in the Jin army barracks could not sleep, they were all newcomers, many of them had never been on the battlefield, it can be said that they were the latest team of the Jin Kingdom, all of them were recruits, and their ages were uneven.
"Lao Wang, if I die on the battlefield tomorrow, tell my family that I am sorry for them and cannot honor the second elder."
"I'm not sure if I'll survive, but I also said okay, if I die, you have to help me, we will definitely win, and the army of the four countries will definitely be able to defeat the Xia Kingdom."
For these insomniacs, the night is very long, today is destined to be a difficult night, maybe there will be no tomorrow after tomorrow, all time is very important, if you can feel a little more in the world, you can feel a little more.
The next day, the two armies fought on the plain ten miles away from the mountain scales, although it was spring, but it was all loess, except for a little trees and grass on both sides, and there was no vegetation on the middle road, and all the land was flattened by the soldiers and horseshoe wheels.
The war drums of the two armies sounded vigorously, and with the sound of horns, the competition between the two sides officially began, and the vanguard army of Chu State rode horses and began to attack the Xia army, and the two sides officially entered a state of anxiety, and the scene could be described as chaotic.
In this battle, the Xia army invested a total of 30,000 soldiers, and the main force was no longer here at all, Sun Ding also found out that this matter was wrong from a distance, and he was puzzled: "Yan Ran, this old fox, this is to lure us to the bait, there may be how many ambushes behind it, and it will not be long before these Xia troops will be defeated."
What Sun Ding didn't know was that there was now a team of less than a thousand people approaching from their side, and here were the elite cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, as well as several generals and a hundred new troops with firearms, for the decapitation operation.
The battle on the frontal battlefield was very fierce, and at this time this special team had also arrived near the main camp of the coalition forces, and killed the coalition troops from behind.
"Report ~ General, a team of nearly 1,000 people has been killed on the side, and it is rushing towards the rear of our army's command battalion!" The spy panicked.
"What! Yan Ran, this old fox, is really poisonous enough, hurry up and send troops to intercept it! All but the escort are on the field!" Sun Ding, who was watching the battle between the two armies from the command platform, was now shocked, although he now had a very advantageous front, if the rear was raided, it would definitely be an accident.
This new army with firearms is what these ordinary soldiers can resist, although there are only 50,000 coalition troops on the battlefield now, the army under them has not sent troops.
The new army, armed with firearms, was unstoppable, barely hindered along the way, and these infantry were no match for the new army at all.
"Archer prepare!" Seeing this, the generals already had the idea of sacrificing their own soldiers.
"General, don't, if we release arrows, our own people will be killed!" The adjutant general stopped the general in charge of interception, his eyes full of horror.
"If you don't stop it now, it will be me and us who will die next, and the losses of the coalition will be greater!" The leader couldn't care so much: "Release the arrow!"
In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired, and the Xia army who wanted to join forces and these raids was shooting!
"Raise your shield!" The generals of the Xia army gave an order, and all of them held the tempered glass shields on their backs in their hands, and continued to think about the coalition camp and run.
In an instant, the battlefield became even more chaotic, and there were still many overseers and generals in this coalition camp, if this was broken, the battle would be completely over, and the team without a leader would completely lose its soul.
After a rain of arrows, thousands of allied troops died at the hands of their own people, while the Xia army suffered few casualties.
"It's too late, go and inform General Sun, the enemy army is about to attack our camp!" The leader stood on the guardrail and was even more panicked now.