Chapter 133: Heavy as a mountain, steady as a mountain
"This trip was a failure......
When Chu Jiangzi Cheyu jumped off the warship with the leaky cabin, he couldn't help but feel a little bitter in his heart.
Because when he proposed this plan to Xiong Tuo, the monarch of Xuancheng, he had a bad premonition in his heart. Now, that ominous premonition has really come true, it turns out that the Wei people have really ambushed and killed in Caihe a long time ago, but I don't know when the Wei people made preparations in advance.
Looking at the panicked Chu soldiers around him, Zi Cheyu sighed secretly.
30,000 Chu soldiers and dozens of warships were washed away by the flood of the Nacai River, and almost sixty or seventy percent of the warships were damaged.
Fortunately, the casualties of the soldiers were relatively not serious, and it is roughly estimated that less than one percent of the soldiers died directly in Caihe.
"For now, the only way to do this is to retreat for the time being."
After thinking for a while, Zi Cheyu calmly ordered: "The whole army listens to the order: remove the food from the warship, and then ...... Try to mend the ship. β
The Chu soldiers drooped their heads and removed the bags of grain from the more than 30 warships stranded on the east bank of the Cai River.
At the same time, another part of the Chu soldiers began to tinker with the interior of the warship.
After all, many of these warships only leaked a lot of water inside the cabin, which was naturally extremely dangerous in the middle of the river, but now that the battlefield has run aground on the riverbank, there is no danger of sinking, so the Chu soldiers can still continue to sail after spending their efforts to repair it.
But even so, Zi Cheyu didn't have the heart to continue to sneak attack the capital of Wei, and even sent a number of men to keep an eye on the other side of the river, after all, the west bank of the Cai River was the hinterland of Wei, and it stands to reason that if the Wei people still ambushed follow-up ambushes. Then it should be on the west bank of the Cai River, which is why Zicheyu ordered the whole army to forcibly anchor on the east bank of the Cai River.
Although in this area, both the east and west banks of the Cai River belong to the territory of the Wei State, but in comparison, Zicheyu still feels that the east bank is slightly safer.
Unfortunately, he guessed wrong!
Wei ...... The Wei army is coming! β
About a stick of incense. When the Chu soldiers who were farther north shouted the warning words in horror, Zi Cheyu's mind immediately tensed up when he had just let go of it slightly.
"What? It turned out to be an ambush on the east bank of the Cai River? Why? Could it be that the man who set up the plan to attack the water calculated that I would choose the east coast and force my way to the shore?'
Zicheyu was horrified.
He looked back at the nearby Chu soldiers and saw that there were at least 10,000 Chu soldiers under his command, and he felt a little relieved in his heart.
"Don't panic, our army has a lot of soldiers at the moment, don't be afraid of the Wei soldiers who are coming! β¦β¦ The whole army is in formation to meet the enemy! β
I have to say that Zicheyu is worthy of being the general of the Chu army under the command of Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, and has a very high prestige in the army, so under his shouting. The panicked Chu soldiers nearby seemed to have found the backbone, and they formed a formation on the east bank of the Cai River around Zicheyu.
At the same time, the Wei soldiers who came from the upstream direction were getting closer and closer.
What shocked Zi Cheyu was that this Wei army actually had a team of cavalry, and the number of them had to be at least 2,000 people.
"More than 2,000 cavalry of the Wei State ......"
Zicheyu muttered to himself in his heart, you must know that in the Wei State. The cavalry of the local garrison army will not exceed 100 people at all, and the Wei army in the distance has as many as 2,000 cavalry. That means that the attacking Wei soldiers are by no means local troops in the Wei State, but only six permanent elite troops in the entire Wei State.
In the midst of speculation, Zicheyu suddenly caught a glimpse of the banners carried by some Wei soldiers in the distance, and the dazzling word "Dangshan" made him smile bitterly in his heart.
"It turned out to be the Wei army of the Dangshan Battalion...... Aren't they assisting the Suiyang army of Nangong, the general of the old Song Dynasty? How could it be near the Cai River, hundreds of miles away? Could it be that the Wei State intended to give up the Song Land from the beginning?'
Time. All kinds of random speculations filled Zicheyu's head, making it difficult for him to understand what he was seeing: the Dangshan Army of Wei State, which was supposed to appear on the battlefield of the Song Dynasty, actually appeared on the Yingshui battlefield.
"Mouth inβ"
With a light reprimand, a Wei general in armor took the lead and stopped about a stone's throw away from the Chu soldiers' phalanx.
This will. It was Sima An, the general of the Dangshan battalion.
"This Chu army ......"
Restrained the sprint of the battlefield under his crotch, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, looked at the Chu army that formed a formation to meet the enemy on the bank of the river with an expressionless face, and was really a little surprised and surprised in his heart.
In his opinion, the Chu army in the distance had just almost suffered a catastrophe on the Cai River, and it stands to reason that it should have almost collapsed in a panic at this time.
In his original plan, when he led the army to kill, these Chu soldiers should flee south, so that he Sima An could lead the cavalry of the Dangshan army to cover up and kill the Chu army without difficulty.
Unexpectedly, instead of fleeing, this Chu army formed a formation on the bank of the river, and set up a posture to meet it, making Sima An's plan completely empty.
"Humph! I seem to have caught a big fish......
Sima An snorted coldly with an expressionless face.
Obviously, only a Chu general with good command on the opposite side of the Chu army could make the Chu soldiers obey his command and meet the enemy in formation, instead of stupidly fleeing all to the south.
However, Sima An didn't care about this, anyway, in his opinion, even if those Chu soldiers cleverly chose to form a formation to meet the enemy, it was nothing more than prolonging the time for this group of people to survive and steal their lives.
No army can survive the strength of his Dangshan army!
"Formation!"
With Sima An's shouting when he raised his arms.
Those Wei soldiers who rushed here in confusion actually stopped the momentum of their charge in just a few breaths, and arranged their formations neatly.
At this scene, Chu Jiangzi Cheyu saw it in his eyes and couldn't help frowning: What an elite soldier this is!
Come to think of it, only those soldiers who have been trained weekdays can quickly arrange the formation in that chaotic situation.
"Stump, Tread, Treadβ"
I saw the infantry of the front army of the Dangshan battalion, holding a shield in his left hand and a short spear in his right hand, marching towards the Chu soldiers in a neat and orderly manner.
Zi Cheyu didn't care much about these Wei infantrymen, after all, he was more worried that there were a lot of crossbowmen in this Wei army, and what made him ecstatic was that the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army didn't seem to have many crossbowmen.
It reassured him.
After all, in his opinion, as long as there were enough crossbowmen among the Wei soldiers on the opposite side, it would not be enough to defeat them at all.
Therefore, he immediately ordered the whole army to tighten the defensive line and wait for the charge of the Wei infantry.
And noticing that the Chu soldiers quickly tightened the defensive line, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, snorted coldly.
At the same time, the Wei soldiers who were gradually moving towards the Chu soldiers suddenly stopped at a distance of more than ten zhang away from those Chu soldiers, and then, the thousands of Wei soldiers invariably made preparations to surrender and rob.
Thousands of people, neatly as if they were one person, the scene was simply magnificent.
And this scene made Chu Jiangzi Cheyu look like earth, and there was a chill in his bones.
"Those Wei soldiers...... They're not going to ......
Zicheyu guessed with a shocked face.
Before he could finish his guess, he saw the thousands of Wei infantry projecting the spears in their hands at the same time, and in an instant, thousands of short spears flew up in the air and threw them towards the phalanx of the Chu army.
At the same time, those Wei soldiers launched a charge, holding their shields while drawing their swords from their waists, shouting in unison, and rushing towards the Chu army.
"This ......"
Zicheyu was simply confused.
As a general under the command of Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, Zicheyu has been in constant conflict with the Wei soldiers of Fencheng over the years, but he has never fought against this Dangshan army, and there is no way to know that the tactics of the Dangshan army are so "alternative".
How can this be?
Looking at the throwing guns that were about to fly into his army, and then looking at the many Wei soldiers who were rushing towards his own army, although Zi Cheyu was also an experienced general, there was also some chaos at this time.
However, the passage of time waited for no one, and before Zi Cheyu could come up with any countermeasures, the attack of thousands of short guns had arrived.
Suddenly, countless Chu soldiers were stabbed by those short guns, their bodies were pierced, screaming and wailing and falling to the ground, and the neatness of the Chu army's defense line was disturbed by this wave of throwing guns.
And the worst thing is that just when the defense line of the Chu soldiers was in chaos, the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army killed them in one go.
I have to say that the Wei soldiers of the Dangshan Army are not inferior to the Junshui Army in terms of individual combat ability, and I saw that the Wei soldiers in the first row used their shields to build a defensive line, shouting in unison, and pushing forward together, and many Chu soldiers who lacked strength were pushed back again and again.
And at this moment, those Wei soldiers suddenly removed their shields and waved their swords neatly at them with the war knives in their right hands.
"Ahh
There was another terrible howl, and hundreds of Chu soldiers were cut to the ground.
The Chu soldiers behind them saw this scene, opened their eyes angrily, and stabbed with spears, but unfortunately, after those Wei soldiers quickly finished slashing, they immediately raised their shields in front of them again, blocking the attack of those Chu soldiers.
Use the shield to block, then push hard, wait for the Chu soldiers in front of you to push away, and then quickly swing the knife.
This Wei army only repeated this process mechanically, but it caused great casualties to this Chu army.
These Wei soldiers, who didn't even look at the Chu soldiers who were cut to the ground by them but had not yet breathed, had their own Wei soldiers behind them to calmly mend their swords.
Calmly and unhurriedly, yes, the Wei soldiers of the entire Dangshan Army seem to be a mountain, extremely calm and calm, stabbing one by one, harvesting the lives of the Chu soldiers one by one.
And what made Zi Cheyu feel unbelievable was that although the other party used strange tricks to gain the upper hand at the beginning, so that the Chu soldiers under his command suffered heavy casualties, but in the later head-to-head confrontation, the Chu soldiers under his command almost had to pay the price of more than ten or even dozens of people to kill a Wei soldier with great difficulty.
"This Wei soldier...... Stronger than the Wei soldiers of the Junshui Army!'
Zi Cheyu gritted his teeth and commented secretly. (To be continued.) )