Chapter 370: Wu Cheng Changed Hands
The news of the Song army's landing from the beach near Nanwu City not only made Jing Huan, the guard general of the Chu army who stayed in Yunyang, extremely panicked, but also shocked Zhao Hua, the commander of the Chu army who was in charge of commanding the Chu army in Yunyang!
For the army trained by Song Guoziyan, Zhao Slip can be said to be the earliest contact and the most incomprehensible army. From the time of King Chu Wei, the state of Chu and the state of Qi fought in Xuzhou, and the soldiers of Fengyi easily defeated the army of Yangling Jun, and the soldiers trained by Ziyan began to create one miracle after another.
Together with the Chu State to defeat the Yue State, the Fengyi soldiers led by Ziyan were the real elite of the Song army. With this elite, the Song army easily defeated the Yue army all the way, and directly defeated the forces that the Wu people had just gathered.
During the Song Civil War, in several major battles between the Taoqiu Army and the Suiyang Army, the Taoqiu Army was always in the upper hand! Even until it fought against the Chu army, the Song army, which had always been weaker than the Chu army, was not below the Chu army in the slightest.
As a country with a long history, the state of Chu is not without encountering powerful enemies, powerful armies. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, it has fought against the armies of the Central Plains, even if it encounters the Jin army, which is known as "good and tidy", the Chu army also dares to fight and can fight. When the state of Wu in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River rose, the army trained by Sun Wu defeated the Chu army in a short period of time, and even broke through the capital of the state of Chu, but the state of Chu, with the concerted efforts of the whole country, also quickly defeated the state of Wu, and together with the state of Yue, the state of Wu was destroyed.
Even in today's Qin State, after the law change, the courage of the Qin State's sharp soldiers is the best in the world. The strength of the Song army, similar to the Qin army, was a powerful army newly trained under the changes led by the strongman. However, in Zhao Hua's view, the current Song army is more of a threat to the Chu State than the Qin army!
First of all, the equipment of the Song army has always been ahead of the world. During the civil war in the Song Dynasty, the army led by Zhao Hua fought against the Song army and found that the Song army's weapons were not only incomparable with the Chu State, but also with the Qin, Han, Wei and other countries that had fought many times with the Chu State, and even the Qi State, the backer behind the Song State.
And another problem of the Song army is the problem that makes Zhao slip even more headache, that is, the Song army's tactical thinking emerges in an endless stream, and it is impossible to predict where the Song army will fight with the Chu army, and it is impossible to think of how the Song army will fight.
Not to mention the newly trained cavalry of the Song army, during the Song Civil War, the Song army only relied on thousands of cavalry, which easily compressed the activity space of the Chu army's infantry, and made the Chu army's originally stable logistics line precarious, so that the Chu army had to retreat to strengthen the logistics line.
During the water battle of Fuling Lake, the Song Army's naval division took the lead in applying fireboat tactics to water warfare, so that the Huaishui Naval Division of Chu State was almost completely annihilated, which was another major tactical innovation!
Today's Song army, fighting against the Chu army in the south, has come to a cross-sea landing attack very simply! Zhao Slip is the most troublesome for such enemies, because they never abide by the basic rules of war of the times and do not play their cards according to common sense.
And now, the Song army has launched an attack on the territory of the Chu army from a place he did not expect, on the ocean, which is a tactic that has never been successfully realized before, but now it has been successfully used by the Song army. Facing the Song army, Zhao Slip had a sense of powerlessness, because against such an army, he not only had to confront with strong strength, but also needed to test his own imagination and think about where the Song army would use new tactics to attack the Chu army!
However, complaining is never what a good general should do, as a famous general of the Chu State, although Zhao Hua felt a deep headache about the actions of the Song army, he also responded immediately.
First of all, he immediately sent a large army from Yunyang, quickly returned to defend Wucheng, the heart of Wu, and warned Jing Huan, the guard of Wucheng, that he must encircle the heroes of Wudi, and send troops to guard the city gate, so as not to let this city fall into the hands of the Song army.
At the same time, he immediately sent an envoy to Huiji, the hinterland of the Yue Kingdom, and found the Yue nobleman Wang Chao, who had a high prestige in the Yue Kingdom, and officially recognized and granted him the right to govern the Yue Kingdom. And the only thing Wang Chao needs to do is to send troops to help Chu expel the "Song pirates" who invaded Wudi!
In addition, in order to truly build a stable rear, Zhaohua began to mobilize troops from Jinling and gather troops to Yunyang. Once he had gathered enough troops, he would personally lead his troops to expel the Song army from the sea, along with the Yue army.
However, when Zhao Slip made such a response, the information he received was itself imperfect. He didn't know at all that the Song army was able to break into Wu land so quickly, and it was only with the help of the Wu people that it was completed.
When the Wu people took Nanwu City and handed it over to the Song army, Le Yi, the chief of the general staff who was in charge of commanding the Song army in Wu, had already prepared to send troops. He only sent thousands of people to guard Nanwu, and immediately led a large army to directly attack Wucheng at the fastest speed!
The Song army marched south, all the way to Jiangbei and to Wudi, most of them came by boat, but this does not mean that the Song army marched slowly on land. On the contrary, at the request of Dai Yan, in Song Jun's continuous training for many years, there is a basic exercise that has never been interrupted for several years, and that is running.
Running for several years not only made the Song soldiers' physique stronger, but also enhanced the endurance of the Song soldiers, which made the overall marching speed of the Song army extremely fast. At this time, when the army of the lower kingdom of Tianxia marched at a speed of no more than thirty miles a day, the average marching speed of the Song army could reach more than twice that of the ordinary army, and in the state of rapid marching, it could even reach more than three times that of the army of other countries!
Nanwu City is only seventy or eighty miles away from Wu City. When Nanwu Castle was attacked, the defenders of the city quickly sent envoys to Wucheng and Yunyang respectively to report. The envoys who arrived at Wucheng, on horseback, set out from the morning, and arrived at Wucheng in the evening.
As soon as he arrived in Wucheng and reported the battle situation in Nanwu City to Jing Huan, the defender of Wucheng, Jing Huan began to organize men and horses to defend the city. However, what Jing Huan didn't know was that at this time, the main force of the Song army had actually followed behind the envoys of Chu and arrived near Wucheng.
Regarding the geographical situation of Wu Land, although Le Yi came here for the first time, he saw the scene of Wu Land with his own eyes. However, as the chief of the general staff in charge of the counselor's military aircraft, he didn't know how many times he had read the map of Wudi, and he knew all the cities in Wudi.
For a city like Wucheng, which was originally the old capital of Wu, he naturally knew its importance. Therefore, as soon as he arrived near Wucheng, he immediately took advantage of the dark night and high wind to also summon the surrounding Wudi heroes to come and meet.
Now that the Song army has arrived in Wucheng quickly in a hurry, it naturally does not want the whereabouts of the Song army to be discovered by the Chu people. Fortunately, with the help of Wu Di Haojie, the nearly 20,000 troops led by Le Yi did not build a specific camp, so they directly found the villages near Wucheng and settled down directly.
Subsequently, Le Yi asked these Wu heroes how to break through the defense of Wu City and break through this city quickly!
If the Song army followed the normal siege method to attack a southern Xiongcheng like Wucheng, even if the Song army had relatively advanced siege weapons, it would be impossible to break through the city by storming it without spending a few days.
However, with Wu Renhaojie as the internal response, Song Jun naturally did not have to work so hard. And when Le Yi knew that the heroes around Wu City also had a way to sneak into Wu City like Nanwu City, and called on the Wu people to rise up and attack the Chu people, Le Yi immediately made a decision and launched a direct attack on the city tonight!
At this time, he did not even bury the pot to cook, but directly let all the soldiers eat the military rations brought from the large camp by the beach in the morning, and ordered all the soldiers to rest in place immediately. Wait until the third watch, and then use the strength of the whole army to directly raid Wucheng!
When Le Yi arranged the specific actions, those Wu heroes began to find a way to contact the people in the city. Even though Nanwu City had just been breached, and Wu City was already under martial law at this time, these heroes still passed through an extremely secret tunnel and directly entered Wu City.
When Wu Cheng was imprisoned by Jing Huan, the activities of the Wu people in Wu City began to be restricted, and it was not as smooth as before. Therefore, these heroes also had to act cautiously, for fear of letting Chu Jun pay attention and discover something.
Fortunately, they deserve to be the head snakes here, and under their cautious actions, they did not arouse the vigilance of the Chu army. Now in Wucheng City, the total number of Chu troops is nearly 15,000 people, and Jing Huan did not guard all the city walls, but specially asked people to guard the four gates of Wucheng.
On the night when Wu Cheng had just received the urgent report from Nanwu City, the defenders in the city naturally did not immediately begin to pay all their attention to defending the city, and most of the soldiers still did not have the nervousness of the imminent war.
At the time of the third watch, the heroes who broke into Wucheng had already gathered thousands of people from the city, and then they took advantage of the dark and high wind at night to suddenly attack the east gate of Wucheng! Such an unexpected move was something that the defenders of the Chu State in the city did not expect at all, and the east gate of Wu City was quickly taken by the heroes of Wu Land!
When they took the east gate of Wu City, they did not directly attack the four gates and control the entire city like the previous Nanwu City. After all, Wucheng is a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, and the size of its cities and the number of Chu troops are not comparable to Nanwu City. It is obviously impossible to defeat all the Chu troops just by relying on the thousands of people called by the Wu heroes in the city.
They took control of the East Gate and immediately lit fireworks on the East Gate to signal the Song army outside the city! Such a signal is not only extremely conspicuous at night, but also allows the Song army under the city to clearly distinguish the defenders in the city, and will not let the Song army fall into the trap of the Chu army!
Le Yi personally came to the east gate of Wucheng to confirm, and when he confirmed that Wucheng was indeed occupied by the Wu people, he immediately ordered the Song army to enter Wucheng directly from the east gate!
Such a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, which was once the capital of Wu and had deep walls, fell into the hands of the Song army in a way that the Chu people could not have imagined!