Chapter 375: The Southern Expedition to the Frontier
On the battlefield, the Song Junmo knife formation still did not stop. In the face of this kind of dense killing god pressed over like a wall, the most powerful heavy infantry phalanx in the Chu army had no way to deal with it, and the rest of the entire Chu army had no way to deal with it.
The heavy infantry trained by Zhao Hua himself could not be said to be desperate, and some of them did not care about the pain and death threat of being killed, but also cut a sword at the Song army on the opposite side. However, whether it was a big sword or a heavy axe, when it was slashed on Song Jun's body, it could only make a crisp metal collision sound. Even if their weapons were cut through a gap, they couldn't penetrate the mirror-smooth armor. Their only ending is the result of being split up by Mo Dao.
In just a quarter of an hour, the battle situation of the entire battlefield was completely changed by the Song Army's Mo Dao Formation.
In the face of this kind of massacre-like battle situation, even the heavy infantry of the Chu army was an elite soldier who had spent several years and personally trained by Zhaohua, but they could not resist. Under such a one-sided battle situation, there were immediately soldiers of the Chu army who could not withstand this kind of heavy pressure and turned around and fled!
On the battlefield, once the escape has begun, it is bound to be unstoppable. Although Zhao Hua was extremely hard hit by the Song army's Mo knife array, he did not lose the decision that a famous general should have, and immediately ordered the Chu army's battlefield law enforcement team to make a decisive move and kill the retreating soldiers.
However, the soldiers of the Chu army had been frightened by the large array of Mo swords that marched like a wall, and they ordered Yuan to retreat and die under the swords of their comrades, and they did not dare to face the sword formation of the Song army at all. Soon, the collapse of the Chu army was from a small part at the beginning, and then rapidly expanded to the whole army!
After the collapse of the Chu army, the decisive battle between the two armies of Song and Chu was immediately divided into winners and losers! Seeing the changes that had taken place on the battlefield, the Song army had not yet reacted from the losses due to the heavy infantry of the Chu army before, and there was no action, while on the other side of the battlefield, the Wu army, which had been idle, immediately began to act.
Under the leadership of the heroes of Wudi, they attacked directly towards the fleeing Chu army. Before this battle, the Wu army could not even defeat the regular army of the Chu army, but now, the Wu army was not afraid at all, and rushed straight towards the heavy infantry unit carefully trained by the Chu army.
The heavy infantry units of the Chu army, when fighting head-on, were certainly unstoppable, but once they suffered defeat and lost their fighting spirit, they were no different from all the routs. Even on the battlefield today, the situation they encountered was worse than that of other Chu armies, at least the other units of the Chu army did not need to be equipped with as many layers of armor, nor did they need to carry such heavy weapons.
In addition, the way they train is not quite the same as that of Song Jun, they do not work training and running, which also makes them not have very good endurance. When the Song army also began to pursue, the heavy infantry of the Chu army was rarely able to run away from the battlefield, and was almost completely killed by the Song-Wu coalition army!
When the Chu army withdrew from the battlefield and fled to Yunyang again, Zhao Slip couldn't help but cry bitterly! He didn't understand why the elite heavy infantry unit he had spent several years and exhausted the wealth of the Zhao clan to build was the most powerful army among the nations in the world, so why he still couldn't fight the Song army head-on?
As the saying goes: victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. However, the battle of Yunyang was too big a blow to Zhaohua. The army he had built after several years of hard work in order to deal with the Song army was defeated by the Song army in an instant, which made his whole body seem to be drained.
His whole person became depressed, and he no longer had any confidence in Yunyang's defense. Subsequently, he immediately took the remaining remnants of the Chu army, withdrew directly from Yunyang, and returned to his Jinling, a fortified city established by the first king of Chu and built by him himself. Now, only this fortified city can make him feel a little reassured!
In this way, the Song army was able to enter Yunyang smoothly. After taking Yunyang, the Song army's strategy in the Jiangnan region was thus linked to Jiangbei. Tang Ying, who was in Guangling City on the other side of the river, also quickly moved the marshal's mansion to Yunyang, and at the same time led an army of 50,000 into Jiangnan to supplement the troops here.
Before and after the decisive battle between the Song and Chu armies, Le Yi sent to the south to attack the army in Yuedi, and finally had a result. At the beginning, the Song army first used cavalry to directly attack Huiji by land, which surprised the Yue people. So they immediately sent heavy troops, began to fortify the Wu-Yue border, and set traps to deal with the Song cavalry through the special muddy terrain in the south of the Yangtze River.
As soon as the harassing Song generals saw that the cavalry could not play a miraculous effect, they arranged a large number of cavalry in the Wu-Yue border area to intimidate the Yue. On the other hand, the "navy" of the nobles of the East China Sea of the Song Kingdom directly dispatched and directly entered Huiji along the Qiantang River by sea, and gave the Yue people a hard blow in the hinterland of the Yue Kingdom!
The success of two consecutive sneak attacks made the Yue people no longer dare to underestimate the Song Kingdom, and began to really pay attention to this war. Wang Chao, the leader of the Yue people, gathered an army of more than 60,000 people from Yuedi, and not only tightly defended the sea route to prevent the Song army from sneaking attack, but also sent a large army to directly invade Wu and start a war of attrition with the Song-Wu coalition army.
In his mind, since the Yue Kingdom could not really defend against the cavalry and navy of the Song Army, then it would be better than who had more troops in the hands of everyone and who would cause more damage to the other side!
Although the Song-Wu coalition army now has cavalry with a special position in the Song State, the number of infantry of the Wu army is only 20,000, and such a huge disparity in strength cannot resist the attack of the Vietnamese army head-on. And after the Battle of Yunyang, the vanguard of the Vietnamese army even began to directly attack the surroundings of Wucheng, threatening the safety of Wudi's heart!
received a distress signal from Wu Ren, and Le Yi was also a little entangled. In his mind, under the current situation, the main force of the Chu army was defeated by the Song army, which can be said to be the best time to completely expel the Chu forces from Jiangnan. However, if Wu Land is not saved at this time, not only will the Wu Land just fall into his hands, but it may become the land of the Yue people, even if the Song State takes back this place in the future, the Song State will inevitably face the disappointed eyes of the Wu people.
Subsequently, Le Yi still decisively decided to give up the pursuit of the Chu army and completely defeat the Yue people instead! When he made this decision, he thought of what he had said when he was chatting with his own sovereign: Any piece of land, as long as it belongs to my Song Kingdom, can never be lost from our hands!
Since Wu Di has become the land of the Song Dynasty, if the Yue people dare to put their claws in, then the Song Kingdom will definitely not be polite, and they will definitely cut off the claws of the Yue people! In Le Yi's mind, now that he has captured the Song Kingdom, which is half of the south of the Yangtze River outside the Jiangbei River, he already has the momentum of a great power in the world. And after the formation of a big country, it is inevitable to have a domineering spirit of its own: those who commit a strong Song Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away!
Le Yi will not argue about the conflict with the Yue people, whether the Song army used cavalry and navy first, or the Yue people who first declared war on the Song State. For example, in today's disputes between the following countries, if it is useful to reason, what else do you want a general like him to do?
In the land of Yunyang, he only sent 5,000 men to settle the wounded soldiers of the Song army, and after welcoming the commander Tang Ying, all the other Song-Wu coalition troops were led by him and began to return directly to Wucheng to engage the Vietnamese army.
The army led by Le Yi, as soon as Fang returned to Wucheng, he encountered the advance of the Vietnamese army. Even if there is no such important weapon as the Modao Formation, just the veteran army of the Song Army, the Vietnamese army will be completely unable to resist!
With the strength of one division, the Xuanniao Army easily defeated the forward force of nearly 6,000 Vietnamese troops. After defeating the Vietnamese army in front, the surrounding area of Wu City began to calm down again, and the Wu people were relieved.
Subsequently, Le Yi did not stop at all, continued to lead the main force of the Song and Wu coalition forces, and began to concentrate all the large armies and march towards the south and Yuedi. Among them, the Song army had more than 30,000 infantry, plus 2,000 cavalry, while the Wu army had an army of nearly 40,000 people.
The Song and Wu coalition forces of more than 70,000 people marched from the intersection of Wu and Yue in the south to the Yue Di Huiji. And along with the coalition forces, there is also the Song Navy marching by sea!