Chapter 373: The Battle of Yunyang (Part II)
As soon as the Song-Wu coalition army came to the vicinity of Yunyang City, they were sniped by a small force discharged by the Chu army. For such a way of fighting, Le Yi was not surprised. In his opinion, as long as the Chu army does not stay in the city all the time and engage the Song army in a purely defensive way, then it will be absolutely good for the Song army!
And just when he was about to send a large army to fight the Chu army, the Wu heroes who defected to the side of the Song army also stood up one by one and asked to fight.
In the eyes of the Wu people, no one is more familiar with the land of Wu than them, and they are better at fighting in the land of Wu. Not to mention anything else, just those paddy fields in Wu, whether it is the Song army from the north or the Chu army in the upper reaches of the west, are not suitable battlefields for them, and these places are the best places for the Wu people to fight!
Seeing that the morale of the Wu army was so high, Le Yi didn't want to hit their morale. So he immediately divided the Wu army of nearly 20,000 people into more than ten squads, and let the prestige Wu heroes lead them to snipe the Chu army's invasion of the Song-Wu coalition army.
I have to say that although Yunyang is now occupied by the Chu army, the land south of the Yangtze River is naturally the territory of the Wu people! Wu Jun is fighting at home, and it does have a great advantage! After the Wu army was dispatched, because of its familiarity with the geographical environment of Wu, coupled with its own brave and good fighting character, as well as the desire to make meritorious contributions, it immediately achieved extremely dazzling results.
On the north shore of Zhenze, there is a muddy land everywhere, and weeds grow everywhere in it. Such a land was originally calm, but when the Song army began to attack Yunyang, the atmosphere here began to become extremely tense.
At this time, a group of Chu troops was patrolling the land under the orders of the commander of the Chu army, Zhao Hua, to see if they could find traces of the Song army here. These Chu armies were all from Zhaohua after the Song State captured Jiangbei, and Zhao Slip abandoned the Huaishui city and transferred it to the south of the Yangtze River. Originally, their life in Huainan was extremely nourishing, but now they have to patrol around this dangerous place, which really makes them extremely unhappy!
The leader of the Chu army who was inspecting came to this place, sent soldiers to look around at random, and made a mark on the map, and then said to his subordinates: "I have inspected this place, there is no enemy here, let's go back!" ”
Hearing the leader's voice, all the subordinates became extremely happy, and then they began to regroup and prepare to return. However, at this moment, from the overgrown muddy earth, there was a sudden sound of whistling ropes.
The leader of the Chu army who was inspecting immediately changed his face and shouted: "It's not good, it's Wu Jun!" However, before he could react, hundreds of arrows immediately flew out from those lands, attacking the Chu army!
Under such a sudden surprise, dozens of people in the Chu army were immediately shot, killed or wounded, and the entire army immediately became a mess. Faced with such a critical situation, the Chu military leader could only command the soldiers to retreat while launching a counterattack to the place where the attack was made. However, when they couldn't see the specific situation in the weeds, they could only use bows and crossbows to fire salvos in a denser way, and the damage caused by such tactics to the Wu army was naturally far less than the damage caused by the Wu army to the Chu army!
And after the Chu army counterattacked, in the whole muddy field, wherever it was inconvenient for the Chu army to enter, the Wu army immediately entered. These people, barefoot, walked like flying in this muddy land, and launched an attack on the Chu army from all directions! In less than a moment, hundreds of corpses were left behind by this patrolling Chu army. Under such circumstances, the leader of the Chu army also had to leave behind his dead comrades with hatred and flee backwards alone!
Returning to the Chu army camp outside Yunyang City, the team leader immediately reported the situation of his attack to his superiors in detail. These battle reports went up one by one, and finally fell into the hands of Zhao Hua, the commander of the Chu army.
"This is the first time our army has been attacked by the Wu people?" Looking at this casualty report, Zhao Hua asked the liaison officer's subordinates.
"Qiyu Zhuguo, this is the twelfth time that our army has been attacked by the Wu people!" Without the slightest hesitation, the liaison officer immediately reported the data recorded in his heart.
Hearing this number, Zhao Slip couldn't help but feel a headache. Although the Chu army he sent out to inspect was the lowest level of combat power in the Chu army, and it was a clan soldier recruited by the local heroes of Huaishui, but when he encountered the Wu army, which had been trained for less than a month, he suffered such a fiasco, which still made the Chu army lose face!
Moreover, these large-scale defeats also weakened the Chu army's understanding of the battlefield. Can't let this situation continue, Zhao Slip shouted in his heart!
Subsequently, after this battle, Zhaohua recalled all these patrol troops. And the troops that were originally trained by the local government and responsible for garrisoning the local area were transferred out and let them continue to go out to patrol!
At this time, in the camp of the Song army, Le Yi looked at the head beheaded by the Wu army, and his face was full of joy. The Wu army was familiar with the local combat methods of the hometown and set up an ambush in the mud swamp to deal with the Chu army, and it was really captured!
Wu Jun has won the battle merits, and Le Yi will not be stingy. He immediately rewarded the Wu army team with the largest number of beheadings, not only could all the soldiers get a monetary reward equivalent to that of the Song army, but the generals of the Wu army who commanded the battle even got a title equivalent to that of the Song army generals!
Such a major reward stimulated many Wu generals at once! Their desire to go out and fight and gain merit began to grow stronger!
Only five miles away from the Chu army camp outside Yunyang City, a group of Wu troops lurked in the muddy land at this time, as usual, intending to attack the Chu army team that was out on patrol. As soon as he saw the black and oppressive team in the distance, the generals of the Wu army knew that the opportunity had come!
Seeing that the patrolling team had arrived nearby, the general of the Wu army gave an order, and the arrows were dense like raindrops, shooting towards the Chu army. The first wave of attacks immediately caused casualties to the Chu army!
Seeing that his attack had an effect, the generals of the Wu army hoped to make persistent efforts and continue to break up this patrol team, but what surprised him happened, such an attacked Chu army team did not make a mess once it was attacked, as the Chu army that fought with the Wu army before, so that it could only retreat!
They immediately formed a tight formation, and the soldiers in the front row even raised their shields to block the attack of the Wu army. Advancing in this neat formation, they quickly found the place where Wu Jun was hiding!
After arriving at this place, they did not blindly attack the invisible Wu army, but directly set fire to this overgrown place! The hiding place of the Wu army was immediately exposed in front of the Chu army.
Subsequently, this Chu army began to attack the Wu army in a neat formation and in a formation.
I have to say that Song Jun, who has a habit of rehearsing formations, is the master, even if Wu Jun has only been trained for less than a month, he is still very familiar with positional warfare. In the face of the Chu army's array attack, they immediately lined up in the same formation, so that the two sides immediately fought a positional battle in this place!
In the battle of the formation, the influence of the terrain on the war is already minimal. The only thing that the Wu army can compete with the Chu army is its own martial arts and proficiency in the battle type.
The armies of both sides, with strong and neat formations, fought in this muddy land! In such a face-to-face battle, the more skilled the formation of which side is, the more stable the formation of which side!
As the garrison of the local government of the Chu army, even if it is an ordinary army, it has undergone perennial training. The army trained in this way is not at all comparable to the Wu army, which has been trained for more than half a month and has a rough formation.
If in normal times, the two sides compare the formations, and in the layman's opinion, there is not much difference between the two sides. However, in the official engagement at this time, the gap between the two sides was immediately apparent.
In the battle, the Chu army had a strict formation and strict military discipline, so there were fewer deserters, and the entire formation revealed fewer flaws to the Wu army. And even if the Wu army has a few extremely heroic people, but in the face of a neat formation, any single brave force is meaningless, but it leaves more flaws for the Chu army!
Soon, this Wu army collapsed directly in a frontal battle with the Chu army! This is the first time since the Wu army went to war that it has been defeated in the hands of the Chu army in a field battle!
At the beginning, Le Yi received the news of Wu's defeat and didn't pay too much attention to it. However, when he received several defeats in succession, he immediately knew that the entire battlefield had changed, and he could no longer wait for the Wu army to fight the Chu army alone!
So he immediately recalled all the Wu army teams that were attacking outside, and no longer used small-scale field battles to consume the opponent, but came directly to the Chu army, intending to fight a decisive battle with the Chu army.
After the Song army concentrated the main force to advance, in order to recover the morale lost by the Wu army's repeated defeats, and at the same time to deter the Wu army, so that they could clearly understand the strength of the Song army, Le Yi directly sent the Song army infantry to engage the Chu army who went out!
When the Song army joined the battlefield, the Wu army did not adapt to the disadvantages of the battle, and disappeared without a trace. Compared with the Chu army, the Song army's formation is more perfect, and the training time is longer!