Chapter 122: Gangu Water
To the west of Jingshui, outside Chang'an County, Fu Liu at this time had already personally stood on the shore to command the enemy.
"How's it going? Is there movement elsewhere? "Standing on the bank of this river, all I saw and heard was the sound of shouting and fighting. The scouts who had just been sent out finally came back two ways at this time, and he hurriedly asked.
"Great King, the Huashan rebels stationed in Bacheng have already begun to attack the army on the west bank. On the side of Shiping County, the same situation is the same, it seems that the Huashan Army has attacked on all fronts, determined to fight Jingshui and Weishui! The spies reported.
"Well, let's find out again! If something happens, report it immediately! Of course, Fu Liu understands this. After all, the Huashan Army has not moved for more than a month, but at this time, it suddenly killed it, it can't be just for fun!
"Pass the order, strictly guard against it, and you must not let a Huashan thief come over!" Fu Liu said coldly. He stood on a high place and looked at the other side, as if he was looking at Li Xin across the river.
Just when the north and south lines were already fighting, Zhou Tong personally led people to launch an attack on the first line of defense in the east of Haoqi County. He had 3,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and the other party also placed more than 2,000 people on the bank of the river that was more than ten miles long. In this way, in terms of numbers alone, he seems to have an advantage, but the real fight is not so simple.
This first line of defense, to the north, is a reckless mountain, which cannot be crossed directly from the east. If you look at it according to normal means, you can only attack it by boat, but in that case, even if you take this place, there will be many casualties. For today's Huashan Army, every soldier is very precious, and Li Xin is not willing to lose it in vain.
Therefore, when Zhou Tong arrived at this shore, he set his troops and horses away, and then put down his boat, and began to make a big attack. After seeing this scene, the soldiers and horses on the west bank naturally became nervous.
"Kill!" Zhou Tong raised his knife and pointed at it, and the troops behind him immediately rushed towards the opposite bank.
Many of the soldiers on the other side of the strait were civilians who had just been forcibly brought in to serve as soldiers, and their training had not been long in coming. At this time, under the nervousness, he shot the arrow in his hand ~ with a shake of his hand, regardless of whether the Huashan Army entered the range or not. However, some veterans who had been on the battlefield seemed much calmer and did not immediately release their arrows.
In this way, the counterattack of the Fu Qin soldiers and horses would be sparse, and it would not be able to form an effective defense at all. Not to mention that the soldiers of the Huashan Army on the ship were all shielded, so there were almost no casualties.
"Release the arrows, the Huashan Army is coming, hurry up and release the arrows! Don't let them rush over! Seeing that the Huashan Army had finally entered the firing range, the Fu Qin generals who were guarding the opposite bank hurriedly ordered.
In this way, a relatively powerful attack force was formed, but at this time, the Huashan Army had already begun to counterattack. They hid behind their shields, and through the gaps between their shields, they fired arrows at the opposite side, and from there, they slowly approached the opposite shore.
And when the battle was raging from south to north, at this time, in the mountains and forests more than ten kilometers away from the northeast of Haoqi County, Peng Lin was hiding among his men and horses, standing on the top of the mountain and paying close attention to the battle between the two sides under the mountain.
Looking at the past from Peng Lin's point of view, he saw from a distance that at the foot of the mountain on his left, on both sides of the Jingshui River, the lights were bright at this time, and the sound of shouting and killing almost drifted along the wind. Twenty or thirty miles to the left, in the county seat of Haoqi, the lights were not so bright, and they seemed quieter.
Gangu water flows south from the mountains north of Haoqi County, and originally flowed southeast in the east of the county, but after flowing southeast for about forty miles, it suddenly turned around and flowed in the northeast direction. Then it was about twenty or thirty miles, and finally merged into Jingshui.
In this way, a small alluvial plain was formed at the foot of the mountain, which was under the peak on which Peng Lin and the others were standing at this moment. The second line of defense was the southwest and southeast banks of the Gangu River, and finally joined with the defenders of Shiping Chang'an at the confluence of the two rivers.
"Captain Peng, shouldn't we act? The faster we move, the sooner this war will end! After looking at the top of the hill for a while, another lieutenant said to him.
"Well, I'll leave it to you here, settle the battle as soon as possible, and it's best not to alarm the enemy southeast of Gangushui. I'll take someone to take a detour behind Haoqi County first, and when we are almost there, you won't be too late to do it! Peng Lin looked at it for a while, then nodded and said.
Soon, the team divided up, Peng Lin personally led 1,500 men to Haoqi County, while another lieutenant led 500 men to quietly kill at the foot of the mountain. Since there was a certain distance between the two places, it was not until nearly midnight that Peng Lin arrived at his destination.
After sending out the signal, Peng Lin and his men and horses quietly lurked at the foot of the mountain not far north of Haoqi County, and then waited for the soldiers and horses of Zhoutong on the opposite side to come over.
Zhou Tong led the army to attack the first line of defense and stormed it by boat. Because I know that someone will answer, so there is actually a large proportion of bluffs in this, mainly to attract the attention of the enemy on the opposite side.
But what he didn't expect was that after halfway through the battle, he suddenly found that the enemy's combat strength on the other side was really not very good, and the people who commanded the battle were only afraid that they were a little flustered. The soldiers and horses of Fu Qin on the shore cannot form an effective defense at all, and such a favorable opportunity is in front of him, and Zhou Tong will certainly not miss it.
So, he was originally just a feint, but when he changed his mind, he began to fight. In this way, by the time the soldiers and horses in the mountains suddenly came from behind enemy lines, he was already about to land on the shore.
Fu Qin's soldiers and horses, who were already a little unsupportable, suddenly heard the sound of shouts coming from behind him, and were immediately startled. After the five hundred soldiers and horses arrived, they took advantage of the darkness to kill for a while, and these people completely scattered and fled. Zhou Tong's army landed on the west bank and held on to the spot, allowing the follow-up army to cross the river from the opposite side in a steady stream.
"General Zhou, can you send a signal now!" After the two phases converged, the captain came over to listen to the order!
"You take 1,000 soldiers and horses, together with 500 soldiers and horses from your headquarters, and quickly rush to the east bank of Haoqi County, and attack Captain Peng on both sides to take down Haoqi County. Then, he led the army to kill from the west and joined our army on the shore of Jingshui! Zhou Tong nodded, and sent another group of people over to act with him.
"Yes, the last general will go!" The lieutenant hurriedly went west with his soldiers and horses.
Zhou Tong, on the other hand, quickly led his soldiers and horses to the south, rushed to the confluence of the two rivers, prepared to cross the Gangu River from here, and then directly killed the Fu Qin army on the west bank of Jingshui from the north.
The water flow of this Gangu is not very large, and it is much worse than Jingshui Weishui. However, the ditch is relatively deep, and under the condition of sand and soil erosion, the two banks are really a little far away. In addition, it is summer, and it often rains in the mountains, which makes the river rise a lot, and the river has become wider because of it.
At this time, the soldiers and horses of Fu Qin on the southeast bank of Gangu Water had already noticed that something was wrong, and immediately sent someone to inform Fu Shuo, the king of Beiping, who was in charge of this defense line.
"What, the Huashan rebel appeared on the other side of the Gangu River? Aren't there two thousand soldiers and horses guarding it? How did you get beaten so quickly? Hearing this news, Fu Shuo, who was supervising the battle on the front line, couldn't help but be startled, and asked repeatedly.
He knew that if his side lost the big defense line of Jingshui, he was afraid that he would have to fight head-on with the Huashan army. If it was in the past, he would really like this, but after repeated defeats in the hands of the Huashan Army, few people in the current Fu Qin court dare to do this. Especially when the soldiers and horses under his command are not elite soldiers, but only miscellaneous armies, this is especially true.
"Hurry, hurry up and mobilize 2,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce Gangushui, we will definitely not be able to let the enemy come over!" didn't have time to think about it, Fu Shuo hurriedly sent 2,000 men and horses from his own defense line, and if there were more, he wouldn't have to defend his side.
At this time, Li Xin, who was supervising the war on the east coast, also quickly got the news.
"Okay, order the cavalry to quickly cross the river from there, and once they break through the Gangu Water defense line, they will immediately kill them from behind enemy lines!" Hearing this news, Li Xin couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered.
To the west of Jingshui is a plain, and if cavalry is used in that place, its power is simply unstoppable. In terms of the strength of the Qin court in Guanzhong now, as long as these thousand cavalry are killed, it can be said that the result of this war is basically half over.
At the same time, he ordered the army to intensify its attack, so as to draw the enemy's attention to this place thoroughly, and prevent them from having the strength to support other places. In order to achieve this goal, he specially mobilized 3,000 recruits from the training camp to wave flags and shout on the shore, just to increase the momentum. Of course, if you wait until the end, you can also directly use it as a reserve and follow it across the river.
When the boat rushed directly to the shore, it collided violently with the sharp logs that were used to hinder the landing, and there was a loud bang. The soldiers who arrived first immediately jumped out of the ship and engaged the enemy in a hand-to-hand battle.
Although the Fu Qin army tried its best to block it under the strict orders of the generals, as time went by, the Huashan army that landed on the shore began to become more and more numerous. Basically, except for the close to the edge of Weishui, where the breakthrough was relatively slow because of the large number of veterans of the Qin Dynasty, the entire defense line from south to north has begun to open gaps one by one.
At the same time, Zhou Tong, who was on the northwest bank of Gangu Water, was also urging his troops and horses to attack the opposite bank, preparing to cross Gangu Water in one fell swoop and join Li Xin's frontal army. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Eastern Jin Dynasty Tang Wang's Claw Book House" for free for the first time.