Chapter 19 Zhou Gongjin broke the enemy on a snowy night
The snow in the south was really not small, it had been falling for two days, and the snow on the ground was nearly a foot thick. In this bad weather, Zhao Feng also had to order a one-day suspension of training, and at the same time organized the sergeants to clear the snow in the dock and the battalion, and even helped the counties to clear the snow, so that the Xuzhou army also won a lot of people's hearts, and even some people spontaneously came to reward the sergeants.
"The general wants me to be careful of Zhou Yu's raid?" In the Lujiang Water Village, Gan Ning, who had retreated to Lujiang, was surprised when he saw the emergency military information sent. "If Zhou Yu dares to use troops in such heavy snow, he will really win in danger!" Guan Ping on the side also sighed. However, for the sake of safety, the two still spilled the news that the scouts were exploring the Ganjiang River.
"Everyone, I intend to raid across the river tonight and defeat the Jingxiang Water Division in one fell swoop!" On the night when the snow stopped, Zhou Yu suddenly summoned the generals and issued this plan that they seemed to be more reckless.
"Governor, now that the heavy snow has stopped, and the ice on the river has not disappeared, how can you march in!" Cheng Pu was the first to oppose when he heard this, and the rest of the generals also agreed less and opposed more. "I don't know what the princes said, but as soon as the heavy snow has passed, the Jingxiang Shui Master must be defenseless at the moment, and it will be a godsend if he can sneak attack." When Zhou Yu said this, his tone was slightly darkened and said: "What's more, the 100,000 Xuzhou troops in Lujiang are also eyeing each other, and they will enter the army when the road to the spring is clear." If the weaker Jingzhou army is not eradicated first, it will be difficult to sustain the enemy on both sides at that time! ”
"Indeed!" At this time, no one came out to object, but the atmosphere was a little silent, and everyone felt a little heavy about the current situation. "Metropolitan Governor, Zhou Tai is not talented, he is willing to be a pioneer!" After being silent for a while, it was Zhou Tai who was the first to stand up and hug his fists.
"Okay, I will cross the river with you with 5,000 elite soldiers, and tonight we will cross the river by boat and attack Cai Mao's naval camp first, and I and the generals will lead the army to catch up with them, and then break through the army village in Kuaiyue." Zhou Yu looked at Zhou Tai and nodded slowly.
It was the second watch of the night, and Zhou Tai led 5,000 elite soldiers to quietly cross the river in a small boat first. At this time, although the surface of the river is not frozen into a single piece, there are still a large number of ice floes in the river, and the river water collides with each other when it flows. Fortunately, Zhou Tai's people were able to cross the Ganjiang River quietly.
"No sound at all?" Zhou Tai looked at the silent naval camp opposite, and he also felt a little strange quiet. But at this time, there was no turning back from the bow, and when Zhou Tai ordered the sergeant to step up rowing. In fact, without his urging, the soldiers were already rowing as hard as they could. After all, on such a cold day, in the middle of the night on the boat, the river water splashed on the side of the boat will freeze, and these soldiers will freeze if they don't move.
"Up!" Seeing that the other party's water village was already close in front of him, Zhou Tai found that two Jingzhou sailors were lying there and falling asleep despite the cold, and hurriedly signaled his subordinates to come forward and grab them to ask about the situation.
"Huh?" The two creeps were sleeping soundly when they were suddenly woken up. At first, I thought it was the commander of the inspection post, but when I opened my eyes, I found that the bright knife and gun rested on my neck, and I was immediately frightened. "Rao...... Spare your life! Both of them stammered and begged for mercy, but they didn't know whether they were frozen or frightened.
"If you want to live, obediently tell Lao Tzu what the Jingzhou army is doing tonight?" Zhou Tai asked in a low voice.
"The general spares his life, it's too cold tonight, so Cai Dudu will let everyone go to sleep!" One of the soldiers seemed to have eased up, but he still answered Zhou Tai's words more fluently.
"God help me!" Zhou Tai was overjoyed when he heard this, and then ordered people to hurry up and kill the unsuspecting naval army camp.
"Kill!" Zhou Tai led hundreds of people to rush into a camp tent first, and did not hesitate to cut off the first knife of the Jiangdong army's night attack in front of the good heads that were still sleeping. Suddenly, the sound of chopping meat and bones sounded one after another, and then gradually began to scream. Not a few Jingzhou sergeants have gradually woken up, but they are sleepy-eyed and uneven, facing the army of 5,000 Jiangdong tigers and wolves, there is only one way left to be slaughtered.
"Don't just kill, set me on fire!" Zhou Tai slashed two poorly armored soldiers to death with a knife while beckoning his men to kill and set fire. With the firelight, more people were suddenly alarmed, but it was difficult to organize an effective attack for a while, and they could only pick up the things around them and barely resist. Zhou Tai's group of 5,000 men and horses were divided into several small pieces, rushing back and forth in the Jingzhou military camp and setting fires, as if entering a no-man's land.
"Hugh is rampant, eat me with a knife!" Zhou Taizheng was happy to commit suicide, and he didn't want to kill a man behind him, so he actually rode a horse and slashed at him. "Hey!" Zhou Tai did not stop after turning around, clenching the big knife with both hands, and slashed at the blade in the hand of the general. "Dang!" There was a loud bang, and the blow of the comer, with the help of the horse's impact, was blocked by Zhou Tai, and he was also shocked off the horse and fell to the ground.
"Suffer death!" Before he could get up, the man saw that Zhou Tai didn't seem to be affected by Shicai's moment at all, and jumped over and slashed at his head.
"Smack!" The man's skull was split in half by Zhou Tai's knife, and the latter hurriedly continued to fight. He didn't know that the one he killed was Zhang Yun, the deputy governor of Jingzhou. As for the governor Cai Mao, after being woken up just now, he had no fighting spirit, and under the escort of hundreds of personal guards, he fled directly to the infantry army Dazhai in Kuai Yue on land. After the Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu and his son Huang Shot of the rear army were woken up, they also hurriedly ran to Kuaiyue's Lu Zhai.
"The fire has started, and it seems that General Zhou has succeeded. Ordered the three armies, except for the remaining troops, give me all the crosses of the river, and I will take advantage of the situation to send the Jingzhou army back to my hometown completely! Seeing this, Zhou Yu also ordered again and again, and all 40,000 Jiangdong troops boarded the ship for a time and killed the position of the Jingzhou army on the opposite side of the Ganjiang River. In terms of the Jingzhou army, although Kuai Yue governed the army quite strictly, but in a hurry, so many routs came to his camp, and he couldn't help but be a little chaotic for a while, and immediately hurriedly ordered people to transfer 3,000 crossbowmen to go to the riverside to guard first, and then reorganize the army and horses to prepare for another battle.
It should be said that Kuai Yue's reaction is not slow, but Lu Zhai is still some distance away from the river after all. The crossbowmen of the Jingzhou army had just arrived, and the warships of the Jiangdong army were only dozens of paces away from the shore. At that moment, everyone fired arrows in unison, wanting to force the Jiangdong Army back. For a while, arrows rained down, and it was difficult for the Jiangdong Army to move forward.
"Ahh At this moment, on a ship on the left side of the Jiangdong Army, an earth-shattering roar suddenly sounded. Then a white-bearded veteran took off his armor and went naked, holding a sword and shield in his hand, and said sharply: "Breaking the enemy is at this time, it is a hero who will kill with me!" After speaking, he jumped into the waist-deep river water mixed with ice with only pants, held a shield in one hand to block the arrows, and rushed to the shore with all his might, but it was the veteran Cheng Pu.
"Demou!" Huang Gai of the Right Army and Han Dang of the Chinese Army were also stunned when they saw this, and they took off their armor one after another to concoct the same way. Seeing that the three veterans were so desperate, Ding Feng, Ling Tong and other young Zhuang factions all bravely followed suit, and the morale of the Jiangdong army was greatly boosted, and they jumped down the river and waded forward, killing the opponent's position in a blink of an eye.
"Ahh Crossbowmen who only carry bows and arrows are absolutely miserable when they are engaged in hand-to-hand combat. The Jingzhou army is different from the Xuzhou army, and after Zhao Feng implemented the military reform, the crossbowmen in Xuzhou will each be equipped with a single knife, even if it is hand-to-hand combat, it will not be too passive. The Jingzhou army only had a longbow, and when it came to hand-to-hand combat, it could only fight with people with arrows in hand. It's a pity that they are not masters of the Emei faction, and they don't know how to use this arrow to perform the Emei thorn, and they were suddenly killed and collapsed.
"In one go, break the army village!" Zhou Yu also personally went into battle to boost morale, and the Jiangdong army slaughtered the Jingzhou army like a wolf and a tiger, which was still a little chaotic. Although Kuai Yue reacted quickly, he couldn't organize too effective resistance in a hurry, not to mention that his army had been a little messed up by Cai Mao's rout before.
"The general trend is gone!" Kuai Yue came out of the account and saw that there was already a fire outside, and the Jiangdong army wielded a knife like chopping melons and vegetables, and wantonly slashed and killed the panicked Jingzhou sergeants, and immediately understood that today was a loss. With a long sigh at the moment, he arranged the army to slowly retreat south and retreat to Jiangxia.
"Metropolitan Governor, the Jingzhou army retreated to Jiangxia, is it pursuing?" Ding Feng, who was covered with sweat, rushed back in a hurry and asked Zhou Yu for instructions. Zhou Yu looked at the completely defeated Jingzhou army in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Order the whole army to pursue with all your might!" So the Jiangdong army continued to pursue after burning Kuaiyue's Dazhai again.
"Xenodu, Zhou Yu is chasing after him!" Cai Mao fled in a hurry on the horse, looking back at the shadowy pursuers from time to time, and her courage was about to be broken.
"Zhou Gongjin wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" Kuai Yue also gritted his teeth. The reason why this battle was so miserable by a sneak attack was first of all because Cai Mao was completely paralyzed, and he never expected that Zhou Yu would cross the river and sneak attack on a snowy night. The second is that after the rout, Cai Mao went to Kuaiyue's Dazhai, so that the defeated army also brought Kuaiyue's troops into chaos. The second is the Jiangdong Army, which fought to the death, full of morale, everyone bravely took the lead, and finally became unstoppable.
Of course, the deepest reason is that the Jingzhou army has been sparse for a long time, lacks training, and has poor combat effectiveness.
"Governor, there's a bunch of men and horses ahead!" At this time, Kuai Yue sent scouts to explore the way and suddenly returned to the army to report. Kuai Yue and Cai Mao's faces changed greatly when they heard the news: if Zhou Yu also ambushed the next group of people here, then he would really be lucky today. "De Jue, it seems to be the Xuzhou Army!" Kuai Yue took a few steps closer to see that there was indeed a group of people parked on the side of the road, and some people in the formation had white feathers on their helmets, and he knew that this was the unique shape of Liu Bei's ace Bai Er elite soldiers in Xuzhou. Without waiting for Cai Mao to answer, one of the generals was holding a big knife in his hand, and he was already out of the column and asked loudly: "There are Jingzhou people in front, and the young general Guan Ping is here!" ”
"It's us, I'm Cai Mao, the governor of Jingzhou!" Cai Mao was immediately ecstatic when she heard this, and agreed one after another. Guan Ping immediately stepped forward and looked at Cai Mao and the others who looked embarrassed, and frowned and said, "You can go to Jiangxia for a while to take refuge, and wait for the young general to break off." ”
"Thank you, thank you!" Cai Mao agreed repeatedly, and hurriedly patted the horse and left. Kuai Yue frowned slightly, and before leaving, he still asked: "I don't know why Major General Guan is here?" ”
"I'll wait for a boat from the Lujiang River tonight!" Guan Ping said with a smile on his face, and Kuai Yue's brows suddenly wrinkled deeper when he heard this. At this time, the rear pursuers were menacing, Kuai Yue was also in a hurry, he saw that the road here was narrow, so he ordered the sergeant to take off his armor and robes, blocking the road to delay the pursuers, so that Guan Ping could block the attack at the same time, and he ran briskly.
"Thank you, Mr. Xenomorph!" Guan Ping saw that the Jingzhou sergeants were undressing one after another, and suddenly laughed so much that the spirit in his body trembled: After the blockade was completed, he didn't plan to return this robe and armor to Kuai Yue. followed Zhao Feng and Zhen Mi a lot, and Guan Ping inevitably became more obsessed with money. Just when his little abacus crackled, most of the defeated soldiers in Jingzhou had fled back to Jiangxia from him, and at the same time, the sudden killing sound in the south shook the sky, and an unknown number of Jiangdong troops were killed.
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