Chapter Forty-Three: The Battle
Scouts had already probed the depths of the river, marking the banks of the river, and the horn of attack was like a flash of lightning before thunder, instantly attracting a terrifying thunder. The 3,000 soldiers trapped in the camp are 3,000 dead soldiers, not afraid of the enemy troops on the opposite bank who are a stone's throw away from the water's edge, and the more than 1,500 soldiers in the front abandon their bows and back swords, and hold a giant shield half a man high in both hands, slowly marching in rows, cautiously walking towards the Tuojiang River. Behind him, more than half of them raised their bows and arrows in their hands, and followed the giant shield intently. Within a radius of three miles, there was only the sound of wading in the water, and even the breathing of the horse-riding general's war horse could be heard so clearly, this was the prelude to death, the great god of death drove away all the sounds of the world, so that the dying people could finally listen to their breathing.
Yang Huai looked at Gao Shun's army crossing the river, although the three thousand men and horses must be one less than a thousand, but the momentum in it is Yang Huai is deeply feared, this is the main force, Yang Huai can conclude without hesitation that this is Gao Shun's trapped camp. The enemy waded into the water, and it was the best plan to attack the side halfway, but at this time, Yang Huai did not dare to act easily. Looking at the trapped camp, even if one or two are unstable in the water, but the whole formation is not chaotic at all, this is unimaginable, this is crossing the river. The ancients marched and set up the formation, and stopped at ten steps to form a new formation, so as not to confuse the formation, this is still on the flat ground, but the performance of the trapped camp in the water now completely suppressed Yang Huai.
"Ling Long Sima led five hundred troops to come back to help, and left five hundred upstream, that is just a group of farmers with weapons, and this is the main force." Yang Huai was busy beckoning Long Sima to come back when the trapping camp was still in the middle of the Tuojiang River, and now Yang Huai knew that the shouts from the upper reaches were just to attract his distracted suspicious soldiers. The range of Yang Huai's archers happened to reach the waterside of the Tuojiang River, which was a silted and difficult river beach, so Yang Huai arranged a formation outside an arrow, which is the reason. I saw that at this time, the giant shield in front of the trapped camp had left the water, and it was still marching in a row of shapes, and the giant shield that had left the water at this time didn't care about the dripping water all over the body, and suddenly accelerated and bowed forward about ten steps. Lifting the giant shield heavily and smashing it to the ground, he saw that the half-human-high giant shield was straight under the mud and stood straight on the ground, at this time, the soldier behind the giant shield instantly pulled out the weapon on his back and squatted under the giant shield with his head down, waiting for the rear team to come ashore one after another.
There were less than three or four hundred people in the trapped camp who came ashore when they heard Yang Huai's angry order on the case: "Release the arrows." "The arrows from the sky were like a drizzle, and four thousand arrows were crowded into a small space, obscuring the sky. The whole river beach up and down a hundred steps, the upstream is Chen Guo, the downstream is Gao Shun, the crackling arrow iron cone smashed heavily on the giant shield, a spark crossed, many also through the giant shield into the body of the soldier hiding behind, only a whining sound, I saw the soldier in the arrow fell down with difficulty. I don't know if it's the tenacity of life or the will of people, although many of the trapped camps who were hit by the arrow fell to the ground, they still pressed their huge bodies against the giant shield and prevented the giant shield from falling. Gao Shun came on horseback behind, the water of the Tuojiang River didn't even wet Gao Shun's shoes, looking at the soldiers who couldn't stop being hit by arrows, Gao Shun's eyes were ruthless, and there was no surge. As if it wasn't life that fell, maybe it was because he had seen too much.
Yang Huai only had time to shoot three rounds of arrows, and then he saw that the trapped camp had all rushed to the river beach, although it was still muddy under his feet, it was much easier than under the water, and Yang Huai obviously felt that the movements of the trapped camp were a lot more flexible. Yang Huai glanced upstream, Long Sima was already retreating, three thousand five hundred against three thousand, Yang Huai was a little bottomless.
Chen Lin rode on his war horse, had already walked out of the bushes, and looked directly at the opposite bank, the dazed five hundred defenders, Chen Lin smiled, looked downstream, and the trapped camp had already landed. Chen Lin: "The ancients had a saying, when the enemy crosses the water, when the enemy crosses the water, when the half crosses and strikes, why did Yang Nianxian miss the opportunity and fall into the camp and go ashore, Yang Nianxian is absolutely unable to resist three or four thousand people, it seems that I can appear under the city of Chengdu tonight, what about Wenhe?" ”
Jia Xu thought for a moment, his eyes quickly turned around, and he raised his head and responded: "My lord, the shepherd of Chengdu will not leave less soldiers and horses, and the high walls of Chengdu City are thick, so I think that attacking the heart is the best, and it is the best policy to attack the city of Chengdu from the inside." Chen Lin nodded, although Liu Yan personally conquered Jiangyang in the south, but the eldest son Liu Fan stayed in Chengdu, plus the county soldiers or something, there were at least no less than 10,000 defenders, even if there were three months of such a city, Chen Lin might not be able to take it with this amount of troops. But how do you know if you don't try, only when you attack the city of Chengdu, you will know if it will work.
"Well, let's talk about it later, let's learn Gao Shun's attack first." The trapped camp moved, Yang Huai's handsome flag was set in the middle of Chen Guo and Gao Shun's attack, Yang Huai also divided the army into two, to meet the attack of Gao Shun and Chen Guo's two wings, and there were less than three hundred guards under Shuai's banner. At this time, Long Sima's 500 soldiers and horses happened to rush back to the battlefield, Yang Huai hurriedly ordered the flag, and ordered Long Sima to attack Chen Guo's right flank and guard it with the front army formation.
Trapped in the left flank of the camp, Gao Shun's department, a messenger rushed to report to Gao Shun, who was commanding in the rear: "General Yu, the right wing of Chen Sima's department is facing the enemy's sudden addition of 500 people to attack the right flank of Chen Sima's department, is it a little help to Chen Sima?" Gao Shun turned his head sharply, and sure enough, he saw that Long Sima was rushing towards Chen Guo's right flank, Gao Shun's eyes narrowed, and he said coldly: "Gao Shun Chen Sima, there are no reinforcements, and only 500 people can't resist him, don't be a Sima, don't be a Sima, if you want him to resist no matter what, so that our department can capture the enemy's commander." The messenger rushed and went. Gao Shun has never had the habit of holding a gun in person, unless he has to, and now it is the same, Gao Shun only followed slowly behind the army, and all kinds of orders were issued again and again, either raising a shield or releasing arrows, either a quick attack or a stick, and the water did not leak. The trapped camp is like a turtle with a mask, Yang Huai can't stop the advance of the trapped camp at all, although the speed of the trapped camp is very slow. But this situation made Yang Huai deeply feel like an iron spear coming straight to his chest, although it was very slow, but he couldn't move, and he was about to watch the head of the gun pierce into his body, Yang Huai was anxious.
Now is not the time for the melee, but the whole is moving, the strong military formation of the trapped camp has no intention of loosening, although this also makes the efficiency of the trapped camp to kill the enemy very low, but it will also protect itself to the fullest, Gao Shun's intention is obvious, that is, to let the army out of this muddy river beach first, and retreat Yang Huai's army, as long as the trapped camp steps on the solid ground, then it will be a real big war. Chen Guo is worthy of being the deputy general led by Gao Shun, basically without Gao Shun's order, Chen Guo can understand Gao Shun's meaning, the two are less than fifty steps apart, and the two departments are just a stone's throw away.
Yang Huai pulled the restless war horse, and saw that many soldiers in the rear army were frightened by the calmness of the trapped camp, and they looked a little confused. Can't wait, Yang Huai turned around and said to a fast horse: "Quick, ask for help from the defenders three miles downstream, and order Li Sima to speed up his troops to come to the rescue." The fast horse was startled, it seemed to be Yang Huai's cronies, and he couldn't help shouting: "General, as soon as the downstream defenders leave, if the enemy crosses the river from there, won't our army be attacked on both sides." Yang Huai shook his head and shouted: "There is no enemy army, Jia Qiande is not moving in Jiangzhou, it is impossible to send troops in the direction of Deyang, and the scouts have no return for Deyang's troops, Gao Shun's army is all here, even the newly recruited recruits have been pulled by Gao Shun, where are there still enemy troops, quickly." ”
Fast horses galloped away, three miles away, in a blink of an eye, Yang Huai knew that in less than an hour, the reinforcements downstream would arrive, at that time he had six thousand troops, Gao Shun only three thousand, I don't believe that two to fight one can not beat. Yang Huai immediately shouted again: "Order all departments to release arrows, mainly bows and arrows, don't care about bows and arrows, try to delay the enemy's attack, and reinforcements will arrive in a moment." Yang Huai ordered, Gao Shun faced even more arrow rain, Yang Huai's army poured out all the arrows without reservation, and all of them greeted Gao Shun Chen Guo's army. In order to avoid greater damage, the speed of the trapped camp was paused, and the soldiers of the trapped camp with the giant shield were miserable, and it was okay to smash an arrow on the giant shield, but there were more and more, and slowly the hands of the giant shield were a little unbearable. The soldiers in the camp kept shouting and scolding, and when Gao Shun saw it, he laughed out loud, spreading throughout the battlefield. Many of the soldiers in the camp looked at the main general suspiciously.
Gao Shun raised his hand and laughed loudly: "Why are the enemy soldiers so densely released, they are afraid, afraid that I will fall into the camp and kill it, hahahahahaha, a group of bad seeds, hahahahahaha, what are you afraid of." As soon as Gao Shun shouted, everyone in the camp was in high spirits, and immediately decided that this was all caused by the enemy's fear, and they all laughed, despite the rapid rain of arrows on their heads. There was crazy laughter from the camp position, even Chen Lin heard it clearly, and Chen Lin, who didn't know the truth, asked Jia Xu in confusion: "Wenhe, what are you doing in the camp?" "Everyone can see the pressure on the trapped camp, and the casualties are also rising, although there are bows and arrows to fight back, but because of the terrain, Yang Huai is always unable to suppress.
Jia Xu is also inexplicable, but at this time, he can't say anything discouraged, especially when there are two thousand recruits behind him, Jia Xu: "Hehe, lord, this is my first army in Hanzhong, General Gao is always unexpected, what is there to fear from the rain of arrows." Chen Lin paused, knowing that Jia Xu didn't know, hearing Jia Xu say this, it was clearly for the recruits behind him, Chen Lin smiled on his face and stopped talking.
Just a muddy road and a section of the river beach silt, the trapped camp has been grinding here for at least half an hour, looking at the ground under his feet, Gao Shun is very satisfied with the casualties in the army, in the face of Yang Huai's lifeless arrows, the trapped camp can keep the casualties at this number, Gao Shun is very satisfied, indicating that the defense of the trapped camp is very good. Gao Shun grinned, looked at Yang Huaiqi, who was more than a hundred steps away, and said coldly, now let's look at the attack of the trapped camp. The scout ran over: "General, Sima Chen said that the enemy army is running out of arrows, if our army also lets the enemy army see how our army's archery skills are, please make it clear to the general." ”
Gao Shun is happy, Chen Guo is much more enlightened than before, he knows how to think, no need for Chen Guo to say, Gao Shun will also return Yang Huai first, how to minimize the damage of the camp, Gao Shun has always done it. Gao Shun waved his hand and said, "Go back and tell Sima Chen that if the general sees that there is still an arrow left in his quiver after the end of the war, the military law will deal with it." ”
It was as if the arrow shot by Yang Huai just now had turned a corner, and at this time, the sky was flying towards the head of Yang Huai's army, and the hand-to-hand combat was about to begin.