Chapter 45: The Battle of Jiangxia (3)
The east gate of Shiyang City
Since the battleship of the Wu army sailors traced eastward, Wen Ping expected that the Wu army would press the border from the east, and immediately led a group of generals to the east gate.
"General! It's Sun Huan! It's Sun Huan's troops! Beside Wen Ping, the southern commander Huang Yan shrank his eyes suddenly, pointed to the flag of the Wu army in the distance, and shouted in a lost voice.
"That's right," Wen Ping clenched his fist and slammed it on the battlement of the city wall, affirming, "Our old opponent is here!" ”
After that, Wen Ping seemed to mumble to himself: "Sun Huan is here, Sun Quan, it must not be far away." ”
"All stopped!"
"All stopped!"
"All stopped!"
The army marched until it was a mile away from Shiyang City before Sun Huan gave the order to stop the march.
Slowly, Wu Jun stopped their unhurried and calm pace.
Then the formation of the Wu army surged, and at the opening of the formation flag, first a team of pro-soldier warriors rushed out and tied up the formation, and then Sun Huan patted his horse and saddled out with the six captains.
On the mount, Sun Huan built a pergola and stood in the distance.
Seeing the flags on Shiyang City like clouds, halberds and spears like forests, thousands of Wei soldiers almost crowded the east gate of the city, putting on a posture as if facing a great enemy.
Smiling, Sun Huan said to the lieutenants on the left and right: "Wen Zhongye's cautious and slight personality is really as good as his name." ”
Immediately, Sun Huan restrained his smile again, and said with a straight face: "Order: Part A is on alert, and the rest of the departments choose a place to set up camp!" Folk husbands and handymen bury pots to cook, and release scouts to guard! ”
Obviously, the army has just arrived today, and the soldiers are tired, and this battle cannot be fought.
Sun Huan gave an order, and the whole army of 10,000 people immediately began to get busy, except for the 2,000 people in the first department, the rest of the soldiers were busy unloading their armor and resting, the people and miscellaneous servants were busy unloading their burdens and setting up tents, and the miscellaneous soldiers went to the nearby mountains to cut down trees, and then carried them back to set up fences and watchtowers, and a small number of sentry horses were cruising back and forth around, responsible for guarding.
Shiyang East Gate
Seeing that the enemy army was camped under the city with no one around, Huang Yan couldn't help it, and asked Wen Ping tentatively: "General, Sun Huan must be the vanguard of Wu thieves, why don't you take advantage of his camping to stabilize it, let's go out of the city to frustrate their spirit?" ”
"No, the strength of our army is almost the same as that of Sun Huan's army, and the combat effectiveness of his troops is also good, and it is difficult to win in a hurry. If it is dragged to the support of Sun Quan in the back, the situation will definitely take a turn for the worse. Wenpin categorically rejected it and chose the most cautious plan.
"Moreover, this battle is the attack of the Wu army, and our army is defending, and it is a good policy to wait for the labor side."
As the sun set, at the last moment when the sun disappeared into the horizon, Sun Quan's army finally arrived at the Shiyang battlefield.
With the appearance of a towering purple daxu, the remaining 40,000 soldiers of the Wu army, under the guidance of Daxu, took sonorous steps, approached Shiyang City with overwhelming power, and drove straight into the camp set up by the vanguard troops.
Wen Ping, who has been sticking to the city, naturally also saw the majestic Wu Wang Daxu, but this domineering Daxu is not the first time he has seen it, and it is not a big deal if he sees it more times.
The next day, at dawn, it was just dawning
The camp of the Wu army under Shiyang City was in a commotion, the sound of trumpets and drums continued to sound, and the neatly dressed soldiers lined up in front of the camp under the organization of the tun commander and the military marquis, and then marched to the avenue to line up.
The next moment, the camp gate opened, and groups of Wu soldiers rushed to Shiyang City not far away.
After a night's rest, the Wu army launched a tentative attack on Shiyang City.
There was no "encirclement of three ques", and there was no "encirclement on all sides", so Sun Quan lined up 50,000 horses outside the east gate of Shiyang and attacked only one wall. In fact, it can be seen from such actions and only 50,000 horses that the battle of Jiangxia this time was more like a temporary routine military training.
Outside the east gate of Shiyang, in the continuous sound of horns and drums, a group of Wu soldiers and soldiers have set up a formation, and then a team of dead soldiers and people have pushed the ladder and siege vehicles to the city wall, followed by the ladder and the siege body, there are rows of light soldiers and crossbowmen.
The last to appear were the two thousand tiger guards who guarded the scum power.
Surrounded by a banner that covered the sky and the sun, a chariot slowly drove into the Wu army's formation, wearing armor and a sword, straightening his waist, holding the wheels with both hands, standing proudly on the chariot.
Left and right of the chariot, more than a dozen tiger generals such as Sun Huan, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng rode horses to follow.
Suddenly, Zha Quan raised his right hand and pressed it forward gently, and at the same time, his expression was indifferent, and he spit out a word lightly: "Attack!" ”
Suddenly, the continuous sound of the horn stopped abruptly, and after a momentary pause, the dense war drums rushed into the sky, and its momentum was enough to pierce the golden cracked stone, making people's blood boil, and 50,000 soldiers of the Wu army followed and shouted: "Roar! Roar! Roar! "While roaring, you can strike the shield with a sword or a halberd!
Then, the soldiers in the front row shrank their formations one after another, making way for passages, and the crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time walked through the road to the front of the formation.
"Pull the strings!"
"Pull the strings!"
"Pull the strings!"
With a long and mournful howl with the bow and crossbow, the archer opened his bow and set up the arrow, and the crossbowman stepped on the arrow, and then all the crossbowmen turned in unison, and the cold arrow pointed directly at Shiyang Dongcheng.
"Ah...... Ha! There were countless long and mournful howls, and six thousand crossbowmen released the bowstring or fired the trigger almost simultaneously.
In an instant, six thousand feather arrows had swept into the air, and with a sharp sound of breaking the air, they rose for a distance, and finally turned into an endless rain of arrows, falling towards the head of Shiyang City.
On Shiyang City, Wen Ping and the generals had already hid behind the parapet wall of the gatehouse, and those veterans who had experienced a hundred battles immediately shrank under the battlements or hid behind their shields. And some of the new soldiers who have just arrived this year still come to the city to watch the excitement, and some even grimace downward. At this moment, the rain of arrows struck, and in a panic, he panicked and ran around crying and mourning.
Seeing this, an old pawn immediately shouted "Get down!" Find cover and take cover! ”
These recruits have just woken up from a dream, but the best time to dodge has long been lost......
"Woohoo!"
The rain of arrows finally fell from the sky, and the recruits' eggs fell one by one.
Just when a young soldier who was grimacing at the Wu army under the city was proud, a pain suddenly came from his face, and when he was busy squinting, he saw that a sharp arrow had pierced his face, and blood suddenly flowed out of the wound like a spring. The soldier instantly screamed like a pig: "It hurts! Hurt! It hurts! ”
The other recruit covered his left eye, and through his fingers there was an arrow feather, and red blood gushed from it, and after only two screams, the soldier fell headlong in a pool of blood.
Not far away, another Wei soldier was even more unlucky, he was directly shot through the head by the arrows that fell in the air, and the cluster of arrows shot into the back of his head, straight through the forebrain, scarlet blood and white brain pulp gushed out from the penetrating wound, and the soldier didn't even have time to say a word, and fell straight to the ground.
It can be seen that this is a veteran, his tall body tried his best to shrink into a shield of less than two square meters, carefully covering the important parts of his body, but the cluster of arrows thrown by Wu Jun fell from the sky, still ending his life.
Such scenes are constantly staged, and the rain of arrows is like the sickle of death, constantly reaping the lives of the Wei soldiers.
Soon, a long-lasting wail sounded at the head of Shiyang City.