Chapter 170: Battle of the Waterfront
Only half a day after you left, Ramme led the forward of the Beji East Route Army with 4,000 horsemen to Linshui Town.
Ramu is a mixed race of the Beji people and the nomadic people of the Sibel region, tall, green-eyed, brave, known for his retributive character, in the war against the Han land, cruel methods, accustomed to excessive killing, known as the "butcher of the north".
The Ram tribe is all equipped with Arabian mixed breeds, which have endurance and excellent speed, and are the fastest troops in the entire Dasu tribe.
In order to cooperate with the high-speed marching operation, the cavalry of the department is equipped with a uniform skin and bone bow leather armor, the skin and bone bow is light and accurate, the firing range is long, it can be fired quickly in the process of galloping, and it can also be suddenly fired back in the process of retreating, although the protective ability of the leather armor is not as good as the iron armor, but it effectively enhances the flexibility of the cavalry in the horse operation, and can carry out a more active immediate killing.
When Rambu was about to reach the water, he received the sad news that his family had been shot and killed by you at Lake Kano. Lamu is heartbroken, beats his chest, scolds you, and vows to take revenge. This time, he has made up his mind to break through Linshui Town and start a killing ring, so that "Han chickens and Han dogs will be extinct".
But when he rushed to Linshui Town with murderous violation, his grief and indignation were in vain. The four doors of Linshui Town are open, and the birds are silent, and it is an empty town! The doors of the streets and alleys are locked, and there are no traces. After breaking in, but seeing that the family was empty except for the furniture and farm tools that could not be moved, let alone the things to eat, the Han people did not even leave them a piece of chicken feathers.
The troops searched the town for most of the day, but found nothing.
Lamu judged that the Han people who fled after hearing the wind carried the old and weak women and children and swept away a lot of supplies, and they must not have fled far, and could only hide in the nearby mountains, and it rained heavily, so he decided to let the troops make rice with dry food, first have a full meal, take a rest, and then start to search the mountains to arrest the Han people and grab supplies.
Since he did not know much about the depth and geography of this area, while letting his subordinates have lunch, he took a small group of men and horses to the nearby mountains to observe the surrounding geography and judge where the Han people might be hiding.
When he returned to Linshui Town, he found that something was wrong with the troops: a large number of their horses had begun to have diarrhea after drinking water from the town's wells, and almost two-thirds of the soldiers had begun to have stomach problems after lunch.
Knowing the trick, Lamu was so angry that he was like thunder, scolding the Han people for being treacherous and cunning, but he had no choice but to organize military doctors to treat diarrhea. He was afraid that the Han people would flee far away, so in the afternoon he personally led the troops and horses that were still able to move and began to search the mountains in the rain.
The enemy cavalry rushed to the mouth of the Guanchi Gorge and encountered an ambush by the Han army. The ground suddenly fell, and the cavalry running in the front fell into the traps that you personally commanded the Han military to dig for them first, these traps were as deep as 3 zhang, with sharp blades or sharp wooden thorns inserted into them, and the neighing and screaming of men and horses for a while were unbearable to hear.
The cavalry behind saw that the front was ambushed, and immediately slowed down and stopped, and then the cavalry behind did not know what was happening in front of them, and still moved forward quickly, and when the two soldiers and horses were stagnant and crowded at the mouth of the gorge, two hundred Han archers appeared on the rocks on both sides, condescending, and took turns in batches to shoot vigorously with strong crossbows, and for a time the arrows flew like locusts, and the enemy army was shot by arrows and horses.
Ramme immediately ordered the cavalry to shoot back with leather bows, but unexpectedly, the leather bows were slippery and wet all the way through the rain, and most of the leather bows could not be fired accurately. And the upward launch needs to face the rain, and the soldier is hit by the rain so that he can't open his eyes, and the return shot is scattered, and the effect is not good.
He didn't know how many Han troops there were, so he decided that the heroes would not suffer the immediate losses, and led his troops to retreat in the direction of Linshui, only to find that after they passed, the Han army ambushed a large number of thistles on the way back, and pierced the horses' hooves.
During the chaos, it was attacked by the Han army on the mountains on both sides. Ram tried to climb the mountain several times to search, but was repelled by the catapult attack, and finally after injuring many men and horses, he finally rushed to the top of the mountain, only to find that the Han army had long since fled without a trace, and only some discarded catapults remained.
Ram returned to Linshui Town, counted the people, and found that more than half of the people and horses in Soushan had been lost. What made him even more angry was that after he led his team to search the mountains and left, Fu Tianliang led a hundred cavalry of the New Han Army into Linshui Town, picking up and killing enemies who had lost their ability to fight. They divided into three groups, took advantage of the familiarity of the terrain, sprinted back and forth through the houses and alleys of the town, and then quickly retreated and fled, killing and wounding about 400 enemies.
As the night wore on, worse news came. Sun Haocheng's cavalry of the New Han Army was ordered to detour behind the enemy, attacked his baggage team, cut off the follow-up supply to the Lamu Department in one fell swoop, killed more than 400 enemies, destroyed all the baggage that arrived later, and robbed the follow-up grain and grass.
In order to avoid falling into a bigger trap and suffering greater casualties, Lamu decided to evacuate Linshui at noon the next day, move closer to the rear army under the personal command of the Dasuobu, regroup his forces, and make a comeback.
When the unit was stationed in the field at night, it was harassed three times by the mixed attacks of Zhang Bao's cavalry and infantry, and the enemy was exhausted and could not get a good rest.
On the morning of the third day, this enemy army was surrounded by many Han troops at a distance of eighty miles from Linshui.
Sun Zhanming, the deputy general of Yantang Pass, suddenly switched out to attack and respond to the defenders of Linshui. He led 2,000 elite troops of the Han army to attack and kill from the left flank, Zhang Baobu attacked and killed from the right flank, Sun Haocheng attacked from the rear, and Ding Youren and Fu Tianliang pursued from the direction of Linshui. The four Han armies completed the encirclement. The Ramu part has completely become a turtle in an urn.
Fierce fighting between the two sides continued until near dusk in the afternoon.
Lamu was trapped by the elite cavalry regiment of Sun Zhanming's department, and was killed by random arrows, and the army was killed in front of the army, and then Lamu's department was completely annihilated in one fell swoop!
The news of Linshui's victory also spread from Yantang Pass and Linshui Town to the royal court of Huaizhou Mansion and Dongcheng.
The Battle of the Water, one of the few battles you commanded, was one of the few battles that focused on defense, and was considered to reflect your command skills. Although you are also quite good at defensive warfare, you don't like this kind of warfare by nature, so when you fight this kind of battle, you are usually not on the scene.
The Battle of Linshui is the last battle of your cooperation with the Southern Han Dynasty, and your last greeting to the monarch to whom your father is loyal.
Liu Yan, the king of the Southern Han Dynasty, reacted inappropriately to your earlier battles again, causing him to completely lose your allegiance. You conclude that Liu Yan is not enough to be your partner, not enough to take on the arduous task of pacifying the world and creating a peaceful and prosperous world.
You decided to give up on Liu Yan and find another way.
You're on your way to the wrong path.