Chapter 537: Back to Water
However, Lu Guangda still had to sigh with emotion, the enemy's reinforcements definitely did not just arrive on the battlefield - Lu Guangda was not naΓ―ve enough to think that things would be so coincidental - the enemy's commander must be a difficult character to deal with, and this battle was not so easy to fight.
"Report, the enemy's cavalry is two miles away from the camp!" The meteor scout horse is coming quickly.
"Array!" Lu Guangda said in a deep voice, "The wings are not allowed to move, and at the same time tell the sailors to ask them to come to the dock and support us with bed crossbows and trebuchets. And the ships transporting troops can go first. β
"This Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·" The deputy general was a little puzzled, now there are only a few soldiers on the ship, is it a bit risky for Lu Guangda to do this.
Lu Guangda pursed his lips tightly and waved his hand. The adjutant general did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly left.
And Lu Guangda sighed softly in his heart, he knew how risky it was to do so, but he knew better that if half of the troops were transported away at this time, it would be a fool's dream to resist the charge of 20,000 cavalry with the remaining 5,000 people alone.
"General, the enemy is coming in an instant. It's too dangerous here, so get out of here. The captain of the guard stepped forward and said worriedly, "This fight is a battle to the deathΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
Even with the support of the camp, the cavalry swept in, and it was unlikely that Lu Guangda's more than 10,000 foot soldiers could support it. What's more, the high-mobility cavalry and the gushing water behind him have obviously limited Lu Guangda's last mobility, and the only thing he can do is to hold the camp to the death.
Therefore, the soldiers all know that as long as this battle starts, only you will be left with life and death. The cavalry that the Northern Zhou Dynasty relied on to dominate the world would definitely not let them go.
The captain of the personal guard said this for this reason, since it is already a dead place, Lu Guangda at least can not continue to stay on the platform at this point, even if it is transferred to the dock, it is safer, the big deal is that the soles of the feet are oiled, even if the enemy's cavalry is arrogant, they will definitely not have the courage to directly attack the warship armed to the teeth of the Nan Chen Naval Division.
Lu Guangda glanced at the captain of his personal guard, he knew that this was definitely not what he wanted to say alone, and the rest of the generals also had such thoughts. In the final analysis, Lu Guangda is the soul of their army, and there must be no mistakes.
If it was too late to forcibly retreat because he felt the danger before, but it was undoubtedly too late now, and Lu Guangda couldn't leave half of his soldiers behind and let them die here. He will do his best to bring as many people back as he can.
And the easiest way to do this is, of course, to repel the enemy's attack. Lu Guangda didn't know if he could do it, but he had to try.
With a chuckle, Lu Guangda waved his hand straight: "Get out of the way." β
The captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, but he still subconsciously turned sideways and moved half a step away. And Lu Guangda walked straight to the edge of the Dianjiangtai, drew his sword with a "sonorous", and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy cavalry has approached our camp, and now we are facing Fancheng, with our backs to the water, and we are in a Jedi. The enemy will certainly not be kind enough to let us go, so the only option left is to fight to the death! β
Lu Guangda's voice was loud, and a famous soldier in the camp raised his head to look at him at the same time.
There was silence, only the whirring of the wind.
"I, Lu Guangda, stand here, command you to fight, fight side by side with you, as long as there is a brother in front of me, I swear by my honor that I will never take a step back!" Lu Guangda said loudly, "I will not abandon any brother and kill the enemy with me!" β
"Kill!" Countless soldiers excitedly raised their swords in their hands.
The soldiers who fought in the forefront of the bloody battle were never afraid of death and killing, what they were really afraid of was that the order and the collective they had become accustomed to would collapse in an instant, and they were afraid that their own generals would escape at a critical time.
When the generals rushed to the front line, even if there were only two or three people around them, these soldiers still had the courage to follow the main general and rush forward.
"Kill!" Arms raised, young faces full of excitement, as if their enemies were not at all twice their own iron horsemen.
The sound roared, and the whole sky and earth trembled in the roar.
And not far away, smoke and dust billowed and a cyan flag jumped out of the horizon.
In an instant, the cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty roared, and the black tide rolled forward from the sky, as if any enemy who stood in front of him would be ruthlessly torn to pieces by this cavalry trend.
Compared to the high-spirited shouts of the Southern Chen army, these Northern Zhou cavalry just urged the war horses fiercely, the black tide was divided into three, two roads were outflanked from the flanks, and the most numerous road in the middle rushed directly towards the main gate of the camp!
Crisp, decisive, without any bells and whistles, it is to be directly crushed with unstoppable momentum.
"Crossbowmen!" In the camp, a general named Nan Chen held his breath.
"Wind!" In the charging cavalry ranks, the generals of the Northern Zhou Dynasty shouted loudly.
Under the red banners, Nanchen crossbowmen stretched their bows and arrows.
And under the cyan banner in the distance, the cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was also spreading their bowstrings on the galloping horses.
With a neat command, countless arrows cut through the howling wind and swooped down on the approaching enemy.
I don't know how many people fell in this rain of arrows, but as long as they are still alive, they still greet the enemy in front of them with awe-inspiring expressions.
The cavalry swept and arrived in an instant.
"Kill!" General Nan Chen, who was standing at the front, roared angrily.
The next moment, the cavalry rushed into Nan Chen's military formation, like a wave crashing against a rock.
And at this moment, Lu Guangda, who was standing on the platform, just squinted his eyes, and his face was like iron. He didn't look back the whole time, and then looked at the pier behind him, and the outline of Xiangyang City, which could still be seen.
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On the twenty-sixth day of February in the tenth year of the Great Chen Taijian, Lu Guangda, the general of Chen Zhenbei, led his army to fight fiercely with the enemy cavalry on the north bank of the river, killing and wounding more than 7,000 people, not counting the prisoners, Lu Guangda was seriously injured and was taken back by the guards, and there were only more than 1,000 sailors who retreated and returned.
During the battle, Nan Chen's army under Fancheng was almost completely annihilated, but Nan Chen's naval division took this opportunity to successfully cut off the trestle bridge between Fancheng and Xiangyang, and the siege of Fancheng in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was lifted, but Xiangyang completely fell into the encirclement of Nan Chen.
The first large-scale fierce battle between Nan Chen and the Northern Zhou on the Xiangyang battlefield ended with a crushing victory over the Northern Zhou in terms of the number of dead and wounded.
A day later, reinforcements from the Northern Zhou Dynasty arrived one after another, with a total of 60,000 people, relying on the fortifications of various cities on the north bank of the river, and they were ready to fight.
At this point, the battle situation in Xiangyang has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the Nanchen army, which originally had the absolute upper hand, in addition to continuing to occupy the advantage in the siege of Xiangyang, the rest of the parties have all taken a defensive position upward, especially in Suizhou and other places on the north bank of the water and facing Fancheng.