Chapter 40: A sacrificial attack
"Hahaha!" Outside the city of Jiling, there was a burst of rampant laughter, and Ju Ji led hundreds of knights to shoot around the city, venting his frustration to the fullest. Looking at the Han people who had no choice but to endure the banter in the low city, Ju Zheng finally felt a lot more relaxed.
After making the decision, Ju Zheng led the allied forces to the south, and after arriving at Keiling, he quickly set up camp and set up defenses, collected ships along the coast and burned them, and waited for the arrival of the royal army. Who would have thought that Lou Yuan would not play his cards according to the routine, and waited for several days, but still disappeared, which made Ju Ji irritable for a while, and a sense of restlessness began to fill the Tu army.
The scout found that Ji Lou Yuan led the army, and he stopped for two days after one day, such an abnormal behavior is really confusing. At the same time, Ju Zheng was also vigilant in his heart, he really didn't dare to underestimate Ji Louyuan, and he didn't gain anything by increasing the scope of vigilance. Ju Ji felt quite depressed, so he could only send people to stare at the movements of Ji Louyuan's army, and for this reason, he had already lost a lot of elite scouts, which made him feel distressed.
"Report!" A sentry rode quickly and said to the sentence: "The army of the royal court has reached the south bank of the river!"
Hearing this, Ju Ji clenched his fists and said with some relief: "Finally come, gather the warriors to go to the north shore, and meet our belated Da Danyu!"
In the yin of the river, Ji Louyuan only brought 5,000 cavalry to the river bank, and the rest of the army was arranged to camp and set up tents. Seeing the Tu troops who had already set up a position on the north bank, he smiled: "Ju Ji's reaction is not slow, and he is a rare talent in my Huns, but unfortunately his ambition is too big, and he can't be used against this single Yu!"
Wu Yue followed Ji Lou Yuan's side at this time, and said with a smile when he heard this: "The sentence is indeed not bad, but in the end, it still fell into the big order and calculation!" Ji Louyuan turned his head to look at Wu Yue, it was obvious that he was aware of his movements, but he still asked, "I don't know what you mean by Wu Yue?"
"I don't know where the general's servant is?" The smile is even stronger.
"Haha!" Ji Lou Yuan and Wu Yue glanced at each other: "Wu Yue, you are not bad, Wu Clan has you, and you can protect its prosperity for decades!" Wu Yue's upper body was slightly bent, neither humble nor arrogant: "Then you also need to follow in the footsteps of Da Shan Yu!"
Ji Lou Yuan raised his whip and said loudly: "The warriors of Tu Ge, Ju Ji has bad intentions and makes chaos against the Huns, and Ben Shan Yu personally led a large army to crusade. I advise you not to be bewitched by it, and to be the enemy of this Danyu, otherwise you will die and regret it!"
"Ji Lou Yuan!" Ju Zheng's voice full of hatred came from afar: "Your ambition is monstrous, but you just want to annex me and slaughter various tribes, with me, you don't want to think about it!"
Directly ignoring the clamor of Ju Ji, Ji Louyuan carefully observed the terrain on both sides of the river and turned a deaf ear. This made Ju Ji unbearable, scolded angrily, asked his subordinates to release arrows, and hundreds of bows and arrows broke through the air and attacked Ji Louyuan. It's a pity that although the river bank here is narrow, there are dozens of zhang, and the remaining strength is gone, and they have fallen into the river, so that Ji Louyuan heard hundreds of sounds.
"Back to the station!" Glancing coldly to the north, Ji Louyuan turned around and led the army to retreat south. On the south bank of the river, the garrison of the army has been set up, the flags are fluttering, the felt tents are lined up, the horses are returned to the stables, and the camp that is enough to accommodate 50,000 people is full of people, shouting and scolding.
Returning to the station, unlike the previous leisurely, he quickly summoned the leaders of the generals to raise the army, and said with a serious face: "Tu all the troops are on the other side, and the big war is about to start, so give Ben Danyu a little more vigilance." Didn't they all clamoring to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions before, but now the opportunity to fight with real swords and guns has come, don't give me cringe on the battlefield. This single is placed here, and anyone who is afraid of the enemy during the battle will be killed! After the account is scattered, I will give this order to go back and fight hard, ready to fight in the north at any time!"
The huge change in the style of painting made the generals in the tent a little uncomfortable, but seeing Ji Louyuan's serious face, he didn't dare to say more, and Qi claimed that it was.
"Lan Li!" Lan Li, who was named and shrunk in the crowd, was excited, and felt nervous to stand by the queue, only to hear Ji Louyuan's order float to his ears: "You take 2,000 people to cooperate with Han craftsmen to build a raft for me to fight in the north." Remember, build with great fanfare!"
When Lan Li heard the order, he almost cried with joy, and Da Shan Yu finally remembered him, an "old minister". Now Lan Li has grown up a lot, and under Lan Zhi's explanation, he has long understood what a taboo his uncle and nephew committed by spying on Ji Lou Yuan. During this time, he has been feeling cold and swishing on his neck, and he can still keep his head on his neck, which makes him happy.
At this time, Ji Louyuan suddenly gave Lan Li the task, although it was only for him to build a boat, it was enough to make him feel a lot more stable. Don't dare to slack off, keep reminding yourself that you are loyal and attentive to do things for the big order, and don't want anything else.
Ji Lou Yuan's actions soon reached the ears of Ju Ji, and Lan Li was unscrupulously building on the south bank of the river, without having to repeatedly probe and confirm. Ju Ji laughed: "If Ji Lou Yuan really plans to rely on this improvised boat to cross the river to attack, I will definitely teach him a profound lesson!"
After three days of repair, Ji Lou Yuan seemed to be eager to lead the army to attack, and at this time, Lan Li Fang supervised the construction of more than 60 small boats and sent more than 1,000 soldiers to launch a tentative attack.
"Ji Lou Yuan, this is in a hurry, look at how I can destroy these thousand people today!" Ju Ji said very easily to the leader of the turtle house beside him.
Thousands of soldiers dismounted and boarded the boat, and saw many soldiers squatting tremblingly on the boat, looking around in fear, rowing towards the north shore. Chi Yi persuaded Lou Yuan a little anxiously: "Da Danyu, my Hun warriors don't know much about water, and the other party is waiting for the battle, so rashly attacking the north, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!" The other party only needs to take the opportunity to shoot halfway, and the minister is only afraid that the thousands of warriors will die innocently, and he hopes that Da Dan will think twice and take back his life. ”
Ji Lou Yuan's face was indifferent, he didn't even look at Chi Yi, and said indifferently: "Look at it first!" Before Chi Yi could speak, he was stopped by Wu Yue beside him. Seeing it in his eyes and anxious in his heart, Chi Yi really didn't understand in his heart, what happened to Da Dan Yu and why he made such a stupid move.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the warriors who boarded the boat crossed the river halfway and came within range of Tu's army. Under the cold order of the sentence, the slaughter of the army array suddenly rained arrows, sharp arrows broke through the air, and constantly shot at the nervous soldiers crossing the river, although a lot of small wooden shields were prepared to defend, but the effect was not obvious when the battle was in place. The arrows pierced into the bodies of the soldiers, causing a lot of wailing and screaming, and many of the soldiers fell into the river with arrows and died in aggrieved conditions.
By the time dozens of boats approached the north bank, less than half of the soldiers were still alive, and many of them were scarred. The soldiers looked to the rear in horror, but the clarion call to continue the attack came, and the warriors had no choice but to land, facing the siege of the Ju Ji army.
Like Mount Tai crushing eggs, the soldiers on the shore were slaughtered, the blood of hundreds of people stained the river along the river red, extremely desolate, and the sound of the slaughtering army was joyful and celebrating on the other side.
Ji Louyuan led more than 30,000 Xiongnu troops on the south bank and watched the warriors sent out to be slaughtered until they were destroyed, without the slightest action, many soldiers were angry, and the atmosphere was extremely depressed for a while.
A fire broke out, and the ash smoke filled the air, and Tu Ge's army threw the corpses of the Hun soldiers onto the ship and set them on fire. Ju Ji yelled arrogantly towards the south bank: "Ji Louyuan, look at how you cross the river!"
"Withdraw!" Ji Lou Yuan was expressionless, stared at the burning ship twice, turned around and returned to the camp with the army.
In the next few days, Ji Louyuan looked for a few other ferries and wanted to cross the river to the north, but they were all blocked by Ju Ji, losing more than 2,000 troops. On Tuge's side, the loss was less than 400, and the atmosphere of the entire Xiongnu army was solemn and abnormal, and the military spirit was severely hit, aggrieved and helpless, and endless anger was suppressed.
As for Tu Ge's side, the atmosphere was very relaxed, the soldiers were arrogant, and many people had already looked down on the more than 30,000 royal court troops. In their opinion, they only need to wait on the riverbank, wait for Ji Louyuan to send someone to die, a few more times, it won't take long, it will be offensive and defensive, and it is time for them to attack south.