Chapter 260: Abandoning the North and Protecting the South
There is a saying: what you are afraid of, what you come.
In the wee hours of the morning, the river is surging. The sky is not bright, but the river is lined with goose yellow.
Zhang Tianlei was dreaming that he was swimming in a sea of gold nuggets, silver ingots, and copper coins when he was woken up by a personal soldier.
"General, wake up, something is wrong!"
Zhang Tianlei lay in his clothes, his armor was not taken off, and he did not sleep well all night. At this time, with a sneeze, Zhang Tianlei sprayed the face of the soldier in his early forties.
After two breaths, the frightened Zhang Tianlei opened the military tent and went straight to the north of the camp.
Zhang Tianlei soon met Yu Yunwen.
Yu Yunwen also moved quickly, he came to a place less than three hundred meters away from the first sheep and horse wall, and motioned to Zhang Tianlei and the others with his eyes to be exempt.
Silence, an eerie silence enveloped the north side of the temporary camp of the Great Zhou army.
Fang La's army did not attack at night, nor did it launch a surprise attack, so stunned, slowly approaching the camp of the Great Zhou army in the early hours of the morning.
Yu Yunwen suppressed the irritability in his heart, "Generals, what is the idea of the Fang Lajun on the other side?" Could it be that you want to use 16,700 miscellaneous soldiers to drive my 22,000 people down the Qiantang River? ”
In the Suizhou spear throwing battalion, the battalion commander surnamed Chen stood on the far right, and said: "Lord Yu has already reminded me that the sheep and horse walls and horse rejection in the camp have been changed for night attacks, and there are even more sergeants who keep patrolling, but they are not afraid of the night attack of the Fang La army." ”
"I thought that Fang Lajun must have some basis to approach our army's camp so arrogantly. Before knowing the strength of Fang La's army, our army should not rush out of the camp. ”
After the commander of the battalion surnamed Chen finished talking nonsense, the generals present chatted enthusiastically, speculating about what Fang Lajun's intentions were and what they relied on.
Yu Yunwen found that Zhang Tianlei was actually in a cold sweat, so he asked suspiciously: "General Zhang saw something wrong?" ”
Zhang Tianlei arched his hand, then pointed to the direction of the north and east, and said: "The Fang Lajun standing in the middle of the mark is solemn and neatly dressed, not like an ordinary miscellaneous soldier. ”
"If so, what if the other party is not a miscellaneous soldier, but an elite of the Fang La army?"
It's not just Zhang Tianlei who saw that something was wrong.
The generals around Yu Yunwen, as well as the generals and section ranks standing on the front line, there are many people who can see that in the middle of the military formation of the Fangla army, the soldiers of the Fangla army who are close to 8,000 are extraordinary.
Fang Lajun got closer and closer. The soldiers of the Great Zhou Army standing at the front could almost see the expressions of the soldiers of the Fang La Army in the front row.
The atmosphere was very depressing. There were even battalion commanders in the Great Zhou army who were sweating, and there were even more who swallowed and spitted wildly.
Yu Yunwen was about to give the order to use the superior ordnance such as three sentry guns, five sentry guns, bed crossbows, and catapults to first injure the enemy from a long distance, when he heard the exclamation of the soldiers in the front row.
With high myopia and mild cataracts, Yu Yunwen couldn't see the latest movements of Fang Lajun clearly, but fortunately, Zhang Tianlei explained to him.
I saw the 8,000 square army standing in the middle of the military formation, and suddenly removed the clothes from their bodies, revealing the shining armor inside.
Eight thousand armor elites!
The exclamations of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army were not over. A golden banner was suddenly erected in the military formation of the Yongle Puppet Dynasty, and immediately all the soldiers of the Fangla Army began to cheer.
The puppet emperor of the Yongle puppet dynasty, the banner of Fang La himself appeared on the battlefield!
Although Yu Yunwen was surprised, he did not panic, but ordered an immediate attack.
The catapult violently threw polished stone bullets, the bed crossbow fired nine arrows with a terrifying sound, and the large and small stone bullets fired by the three and five sentry guns whizzed past.
Fang La received the exact news that Yu Yunwen sailed to sea the day before yesterday, and his scalp was numb, so he rushed back to Hangzhou City the day before yesterday with only more than 1,000 elites.
In a day and a half, Fang La gathered 8,000 armor elites in Hangzhou and marched to the riverside.
Yu Yunwen defeated the Yongle Dynasty naval army, and after landing on the north and south banks at the same time, Fang La had gathered more than 8,000 township soldiers, that is, the miscellaneous soldiers in the mouth of the Great Zhou army generals.
Fang La chose to lead more than 16,000 people to directly resist the more than 22,000 people of the Great Zhou army on the north bank, of course, he had his own considerations.
After revealing the armor, Fang La's army immediately charged the whole army, seemingly without any tactics.
After suffering huge casualties from stones, stone bullets, bed crossbows and arrows, the soldiers of the Fangla Army quickly overcame obstacles such as trenches, earth pits, thistles, and horse rejection with blood, and came to the first sheep and horse wall.
Almost at the same moment when the front line of Fang Lajun stuck to the sheep and horse wall, above the East China Sea, the morning light was shining!
Hangzhou Bay is flat and has a flat terrain, and the sun is very dazzling in the morning, especially when there is no rain.
Where did the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army think that Fang La would even take advantage of the sun? All of a sudden, the dazzling morning light, the reflection of the armor, and the flash of swords and guns made most of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army in a trance, and even at a loss.
The three sentry guns and five sentry guns of the second round of the Great Zhou army were very inaccurate, and one of the three sentry guns and one five sentry guns actually threw stones, poisonous smoke fireballs, and thistle fireballs on the heads of their own soldiers.
Because the angle of the big arrow of the bed crossbow was adjusted in advance, there was no oolong.
The catapult uses the energy stored in the bow and tendons of animals to throw objects, and the soldiers need to hit it with a large mallet when firing, so it does not hurt its own people. However, the soldiers of the Great Zhou Army were all facing east at this time, and under the interference of the dazzling light, not a single catapult could throw the thunderbolt fireball into the dense soldiers of the Fangla Army.
"No wonder the Fang La army wants to cover the armor with robes, no wonder the Fang La army has to line up in the east, and would rather bear one more round of stone throwing." Yu Yunwen was furious, "It turns out that our army is facing the east and facing the strong light!" ”
"What a calculation!"
"Even if Fang La himself is here, he still wants to defeat the Chinese army carefully selected by his own officials with fewer enemies and more enemies?!"
Half an hour later, Yu Yunwen's Chinese army began to retreat.
Mr. Zhang's fears were fulfilled. He was not worried about how strong Fang La's army was, but worried that the Chinese army selected by Yu Yunwen was unreliable.
If you are not afraid of the enemy, you are afraid of the friendly pit!
The Xiangzhou Navy proved that it could fight, but Yu Yunwen was full of confidence in the Shiyan soldiers, Shiyan archers, Nanyang equipment army, Tangzhou horse team, and Suizhou spear battalion, one by one.
The Shiyan soldiers dared to fight, but they completely ignored the cooperation, and rushed into the military formation of the Fang La army, and really had the posture of defeating the right flank of the Fang La army in one fell swoop. However, the number of soldiers was too small, and they were quickly blocked by the elite armor of the 1,000-square-meter army, and they saw that more than half of them had been killed or wounded.
Shiyan archers don't need to mention much. During the exercise, arrows rained down, which was called a majestic style, but after the battle, the arrows flew wildly, and they were rushed and defeated by the miscellaneous soldiers of the Fangla army of less than 500.
Although Yu Yunwen's eyes were not good, he heard the voices of many archers crying and calling his mother, and at this moment he hated Shiyan Zhizhou in his heart. Who are the people chosen!
There is no pit, only more pits!
The Nanyang Instrument Army is really easy to use, after all, it is piled up with copper coins, but the melee combat is too poor. The sergeants who pulled the three-sentry and the five-sentry cannon were simply inferior to the people. The sergeant who operated the catapult and the bed crossbow had such a high salary, and as soon as the Fang Lajun approached, he immediately coaxed him.
The equipment army that dares to love Nanyang is only a technical branch, and there is almost no hand-to-hand combat training in peacetime, and it is estimated that many people don't even dare to kill chickens.
The Tangzhou horse team is a veritable treasure army, with more than 1,000 horses on the register, but in fact less than 700, which is the trump card in the hands of Lord Yu. This horse team consumed a huge amount of money and grain to get to Jiangnan, and each horse ate better than ninety percent of the Great Zhou Xiaomin.
The war is too urgent, and the situation is frequent. Yu Yunwen didn't care that the horses hadn't rested yet, so he forced the horse team to attack.
The commander of the Tangzhou horse team went to the battlefield with trepidation. Fang La lacked cavalry than Da Zhou, and he did not slack off at all, and two thousand elites lined up in a tight formation, holding a large number of strong bows and crossbows.
The horse team came to a beautiful temptation, roaring past the elite army of the two thousand square troops, leaving behind more than twenty horses. Then came the second temptation, the third, the fourth...... The Tangzhou horse team, which could only make one move, and the elite of the two thousand square army who lacked experience in fighting cavalry, went away from each other.
Yu Yunwen could no longer hear the neighing of horses and the sound of horses' hooves. His eyes twitched, and he finally found the biggest pit on the battlefield.
More than 700 horses, of which 200 horses have armor, are they not horses but dogs? It's only rubbing and rubbing on the side, which cavalry fights like this?!
And that's not all. A scream from nearby successfully attracted Yu Yunwen's attention.
After seeing the battlefield performance of the Suizhou spear throwing battalion, a bloodshot finally flowed from the corner of Yu Yunwen's mouth.