Chapter Fifty-Seven: Soldiers Descend on the City

The Wei army's offensive was wave after wave, forcing the Korean army to retreat again and again with an unstoppable overwhelming momentum. Of course, the ROK army can not retreat, but the struggle for each step is too fierce, and if the ROK army wants to maintain the defensive line and not retreat, it can only pay three, four, or even five times more casualties than before. In order to keep the Wei army out of the ferry for a longer time, Zhu Hai could only order the Han army to fight and retreat. The Wei army, which had gained momentum, became more and more frenzied, and the horse rejection array was destroyed at a visible speed. Half an hour after the arrival of the 50,000 reinforcements led by Shin Lingjun, the only horse rejection array that the Han army could rely on had been destroyed in half. At this rate, after a maximum of an hour, the horse rejection array would be completely destroyed.

At present, the Korean army defending the rejection of the horse formation has become a Korean boat division, and Zhu Hai gathered the 6,500 people who were still able to fight in the Huben battalion, and prepared to make a counter-charge after the Wei army broke the formation, which would demoralize the Wei army. Of course, if you can kill Xinlingjun's Chinese army in one fell swoop, it is also excellent to capture or kill Xinlingjun. Behind the Tiger Ben camp were three thousand archers, which was also the limit of what Zhu Hai could mobilize. If there were more, there would be no guarantee that there would be enough troops to suppress the Wei army wading in from the north and south.

The whole ferry port was filled with two atmospheres, the tragic one from the Han army and the ecstatic one from the Wei army. Everyone knows that the next hour will decide the outcome of this war. Either the Wei army wins, the Great Liang can be preserved, and the Wei State mobilizes more troops to strictly defend the river beach defense line, forcing Korea to accept the immediate outcome. Either the Korean army wins, and a steady stream of Korean troops crosses the Danshui and besieges Daliang.

Xin Lingjun stood on a high place, watching the Korean army retreat one after another, and also watching the Korean army after the rejection of the horse formation gathering, ready to fight to the death, and the fist hidden in the long sleeve secretly clenched tighter.

"Be sure to win! Be sure to win! Without victory, there would be no chance for Wei to turn things around! This is the only voice of Xinlingjun.

It's just that. After all, the script was not written as Wei had hoped. At the last moment, the Yulin Army arrived in time. When the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came from the other side of Danshui, and when the smoke and dust in the sky were like a yellow dragon getting closer and closer to Danshui, Han Jun was crying with joy, and Wei Jun was in turmoil.

After Han Teng led an army of 50,000 to successfully ambush the 10,000 Wei army led by Jin Cong, he followed King Han's original orders. Coming directly to the Xitang Ferry. Because of the drag of the foot soldiers, the speed of Han Teng's army was very slow. In fact, the speed of traveling seventy or eighty miles a day is not slow, considering that these 40,000 foot soldiers came all the way from Taiyuan, and there was no rest on the road, it was even more difficult. It's just that compared to the speed of the Yulin Army's three hundred miles a day, Han Teng was naturally dissatisfied. If it weren't for the fact that the main force crossing the river had always been foot soldiers, and the warships of the Yingchuan Boat Division were too small to accommodate a few heavily armed Yulin troops. Han Teng had already led the Yulin Army to set off first. Fortunately, at the most critical moment, Han Teng's 50,000 troops arrived at the battlefield in time.

In the case of thinking that he was going to die, he suddenly saw the opportunity to turn defeat into victory, Han Jun was crazy, and he had never experienced such a situation, it was difficult to describe the excitement and ecstasy in his heart. At this moment, the Han army at the Xitang Ferry only knew. I have not been abandoned, I can die for this war! The morale of the ROK army was high, bursting out with 200 percent strength. Not only did it gain a firm foothold, but there were also faint signs of a counterattack. The Wei army couldn't accept such a cruel reality for a while, and it was clear that it would only take an hour to win, but at this critical moment, reinforcements from the Korean army arrived. Suddenly and sharply downward, the Wei army was faced with a difficult choice. Either retreat quickly, or finish the battle and gamble your life.

Shinling-kun chose the latter. Although South Korean reinforcements have arrived, they are on the other side of Danshui after all. As the saying goes, far water can't quench your thirst. The South Korean army on this side of Danshui is more morale than that. After all, the strength has not changed much. Unless the Korean reinforcements on the other side of the Danshui can successfully cross the river, the Wei army will still have an overwhelming advantage.

Zhu Hai naturally knew this, and transferred all the troops that had been assembled to prepare for a counter-charge into the horse rejection formation, in order to stabilize the defensive line. Don't look at the sudden rise in the morale of the South Korean army just now, the originally precarious defense line has not only become impregnable, but the South Korean army also has a faint momentum to regain the lost territory. But Zhu Hai knew that this was only a temporary effect on morale. As long as the Wei army, which has an absolute advantage, survives this period of time, the morale of the Korean army will inevitably fall, and if he does not send reinforcements before this, the Korean army will eventually be defeated and retreated.

Of course, just as important as defending the Horse Rejection Formation was directing the Boat Division to transport reinforcements from the other side. Such a thing that the Korean boatmaster is familiar with can no longer be familiar, and the Korean boatmaster was given such a mission at the beginning of its establishment. For the Nanyang Boat Division, which is the most elite and the earliest to build the army, it is even more of a piece of cake, at least, it is much simpler than defending the horse rejection array and the fierce battle of the Wei army.

Xinlingjun threw all the Wei troops he could mobilize into the battlefield, and most of the archers were concentrated and attacked the boat division with rockets in a vain attempt to destroy the warships. The Wei army, which attacked the Korean army camp on the north and south flanks, also changed from a containment to a real strong attack regardless of casualties.

Time is of the essence at this time. If the South Korean reinforcements successfully cross the river first, the South Korea wins. If the Wei army conquered the Xitang ferry first, Wei would have won.

The archers of the Wei army caused great trouble to the Korean army crossing the river, and in order to prevent the war horses from being frightened, the first batch of Korean troops to cross the river were mainly infantry. Where will the Wei army allow the Han army to cross the river successfully?! The entire Danshui sky has become a world of fire, because most of the rockets used by both sides are frantically shooting at any cost, densely forming a red arrow rain. The burning warship, the billowing smoke, the neighing of the war horses, the rumbling of the war drums, the Han soldiers who fell into the water after the arrows fell into the water, and the Wei soldiers who were shot dead on the shallows, the entire Danshui bank became a purgatory on earth, and the originally clear Danshui not only became turbid, but also became bloody. Every minute and every second, there are dozens and hundreds of casualties.

The casualties at this time really became an insignificant number, life became the cheapest thing, and the only thing that the commanders of both sides wanted was victory! For the sake of victory, even if you pay 20,000, 30,000, or even 70,000, 80,000 casualties, you don't care.

Because of the rush of time, the first batch of Korean troops to cross the river was only 10,000, but even with the cover of warships, the Korean troops who really succeeded in stepping on the other side of the Danshui River were only 5,000 people. The number of these 5,000 people may not seem like much, but it is enough to give the supreme spiritual encouragement of the Korean army at Xitang Ferry. The situation, which was originally stalemate, and even the ROK army was faintly behind, gradually developed in a direction favorable to South Korea. Wei Jun was a little discouraged. The Wei army has worked hard, but there are too many Korean warships, although the Wei army burned thirty or forty Korean warships, but there are more Korean warships to transport the Korean army on the other side! If this development continues, the Han army can crush the Wei army with a steady stream of troops. When the rate of Korean casualties was less than the rate of growth in Korean reinforcements, the Wei army would never be able to truly win the war.

Xinlingjun understands this truth. But understanding doesn't mean you have to accept it! The tenacity of the Han army was beyond Xin Lingjun's imagination, and the Tiger Ben battalion was not inferior to the Wei soldiers, and even stronger than the Wei soldiers trained by Wu Qi, but this could not be a reason for his defeat. Xinlingjun is now thinking about how to win!

Is there still a chance to win? Xin Lingjun secretly calculated the strength in his hands. So far, he has put all the troops in his hands into the battlefield. The only soldier who could be sent was the eight hundred guards around him. In such a large-scale war, no matter how powerful his 800 guards were, they couldn't turn the situation around. Let alone. In this narrow battlefield, the two sides have invested so many troops that there is no place for them to stand in a dense area. The places that could fight directly opposite the Han army were full of Wei troops. The biggest problem of the Wei army now is not the lack of troops, but the fact that the war situation is really stalemate.

The 30,000 troops attacking the South Korean camp from the north and south were still advancing slowly, and the South Koreans mobilized nearly half of their boat divisions to suppress their own 30,000 troops, otherwise there would not be so many warships, but they could only transport 10,000 troops at a time. The powerful crossbow arrows on the Korean warships kept wearing down the Wei army's fighting spirit, as long as the Korean army's crossbow arrows were sufficient. Shin Lingjun didn't see any chance of breaking through on the two wings. The only thing Xinlingjun could do was to consume the crossbow arrows of the Han army with human lives. When the crossbow arrows on the Korean warships were exhausted, the Wei army, which had lost its suppression, could easily circle behind the horse rejection array.

On the side of the Horse Rejection Formation, he invested 40,000 troops, but the Korean army, which was blocked by the Horse Rejection Formation, had only retreated less than ten steps in the past half an hour. The Han army, like the Wei army, is completely deadly. Both sides numbly handed over the weapons in their hands, and they had no strength to block them. Either you die or I die, there is no third possibility. Because there was no time to clean up, the dense corpses accumulated more and more, almost completely blocking the way for the Wei army to advance. The Korean army relied on these dead bodies. Guarding the Horse Rejection Formation with more ease. The repulsion formation, which had been destroyed by two-thirds, remained stubbornly and stubbornly in the hands of the South Korean army. Even though there were only 15,000 Korean troops guarding the Horse Rejection Formation, Shin Lingjun still didn't see much hope.

The Korean army on the opposite side still has 40,000, of which 10,000 are the Yulin Army, which has the largest cavalry in the world. This is more like a silent demonstration of the Han army, even if the Wei army breaks through the rejection formation, the Han army can use the Yulin army to break the Wei army's formation.

Soon, the South Korean army had a new move. The Korean warships of the Wei army, which were originally responsible for suppressing the attacks on the north and south sides, turned around and retreated deeper into the river. Xin Lingjun's face immediately became happy, and he realized that the crossbow arrows on these warships must have been exhausted. This is the moment that Xinlingjun has been waiting for for a long time, and almost without Xinlingjun's orders, the Wei army that is charging has accelerated its speed. Although the number of archers of the Korean army was not large, only 3,000 people, the problem was that the charging Wei army was too concentrated, and the Korean archers did not need to aim at all, just repeat the actions of setting up arrows, drawing bows, and releasing arrows. The Wei army, which rushed to the front, suffered heavy casualties almost instantly, and when the Wei army adjusted its formation and rushed to a distance of only a few dozen paces from the Han camp, the new Korean warship arrived. The South Korean warships, which had run out of crossbow arrows, went to transport the second batch of South Korean troops

The second wave of Korean troops who crossed the river braved the rain of arrows fired by the Wei army and set off without hesitation. This time, the Korean boat division cooperated more tacitly, and the dense warships blocked the view of the Wei archers on a large distance. The archers of the Wei army could only rely on their instincts and kept firing arrows.

This group of South Korean troops had 9,000 people when they set out, and more than 7,800 people managed to reach the other side! More than a thousand casualties in this war are almost an unblinking number. The Xitang ferry port became more impregnable because of the new 7,800 people, and in the face of the Korean warship that returned to the other side to pick up the Korean army, Xinlingjun had the intention of wavering for the first time!

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The scouts on the other side of the river have an urgent report! A voice broke Shin Lingjun's thoughts.

Xin Lingjun's face changed, and he said hurriedly: "Bring him in!" ”

"Whoa!" The guards rushed out.

Soon, a sweaty scout came to Xinlingjun's side. Xin Lingjun didn't want him to give a salute at all, he directly pressed the other party's shoulder, and said, "Tell me quickly, what's the situation on the other side of the river?" ”

"Your Majesty! General Wei's army encountered an ambush by the Korean army and was completely annihilated! Kaifeng was also lost, and General Jin was killed in battle! King Han personally led an army of 300,000 to attack our country. The Striker is only thirty miles away! Please plan quickly! The scout said breathlessly.

"What? King Han led an army of 300,000 to conquer in person? General Jin and General Wei were killed in battle? Are you sure this news is true?! Shin Ling-kun shouted in disbelief.

"What the subordinates say is true! If there is half a falsehood, the subordinates are willing to apologize with the head of the item! ”

Because the second wave of the Han army has successfully crossed the river, Xin Lingjun was originally very wavering about whether to withdraw the troops, and now he heard that the king of Han led an army of 300,000 to conquer in person, and the forward was only thirty miles away from here, so he subconsciously wanted to retreat. Because of the retreat, the Wei State still has room to turn around, and if the troops are not withdrawn, the whole army can only be wiped out here. The Korean troops on the opposite side continued to cross the river. It is already very difficult for your side to win, and with the 300,000 elites led by King Han, no matter how you plan, it is impossible for your side to draw enough troops to defend Xitang Ferry while capturing Xitang Ferry. At this time, the most important thing is to preserve strength. It became unimportant whether the Xitang ferry could be taken or not, because as long as the Korean boat division was still there, the Korean army could cross the river. Lost land. People and land are lost; Save people and lose land, people and land survive!

"Immediately send someone to report to the girder. Inform the king of this. Then send someone to inform the Saigon and Dongmen ferries, and order the defenders of the two ferries to immediately retreat back to Daliang. Xin Lingjun immediately decided.

"Your Majesty, if the guards of the two ferries do not obey," the lieutenant general said worriedly. According to common sense, Xinlingjun did not have the power to mobilize the defenders of the two ferries. Now Xinling Junyue is acting on behalf of the Emperor, although it is essentially to preserve the strength of the Wei State, but after all, it may not be able to convince the guards of the two ferries! Who knows if Xinlingjun took the opportunity to rebel?! Meet the brainless guards. Wei is about to lose tens of thousands of troops in vain.

"If you don't comply, kill it immediately! If there is any problem, we will bear it! "What Xin Lingjun said is categorical and unquestionable.

The lieutenant replied abruptly: "Oh! "I also admire Xinlingjun in my heart, Xinlingjun is willing to protect the strength of Wei. Willing to sacrifice one's reputation can be described as selfless. It's just that I don't know, King Wei repeatedly told Xinlingjun before Xinlingjun set out to take the Xitang Ferry, once Xinlingjun led the remnants back to Daliang, what would greet him? !

"The king is shouldering a heavy responsibility, the Korean army is about to help, for the Wei country, for the king's plan, please lead the army to retreat quickly! The last general is willing to stay and contain the Korean army to protect the king's safety! The adjutant general said.

Xinling Jun hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed. If he stays, there is a great possibility that Xinlingjun will die in battle, and the best outcome is only defeat and capture. With 300,000 Han troops crossing the river and besieging Daliang, Wei was bound to become panicked. The more dangerous the situation, the more it is necessary for the monarch and the ministers to work together. As the prime minister and the younger brother of the current King of Wei, whether he died in battle or was defeated or captured, he did not condemn the Wei State for a catastrophe. The already chaotic situation will become even more difficult to control. For the sake of Wei's society, Xin Lingjun could only secretly apologize to the deputy general, and then turned to leave.

The whining horn came from behind the Wei army, and the Wei army, which was in the midst of a fierce battle, was stunned, and naturally heard that this was a signal to withdraw the army. Although it was not clear why Cheng believed that Lingjun had ordered a retreat, the Wei soldiers still obeyed the instructions given by the horn. Because the Wei army was still in a weak upper hand, the Han army was worried that the Wei army was deliberately deceiving, so they only rushed out and killed a short formation before turning back to the rejection array. After all, who knows, does the Wei army want to lure the Han army out of the rejection formation, and encircle the Han army with superior forces on open ground?!

After getting rid of the entanglement of the Korean army, Xin Lingjun led an army of 40,000 to go straight to Daliang, leaving only 10,000 horses to the deputy general, so that the deputy general could delay the Korean army. At this time, Han Teng finally determined that something must have happened to the Wei State that forced the Wei army to withdraw its troops. Among the many possible speculations, only the army led by King Han was about to arrive at the Xitang ferry port was the most likely.

The Han army, which had been suppressed for a long time, naturally refused to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and wanted to pursue the fleeing Wei army, but was blocked by 10,000 Wei troops. Without the harassment of the Wei army, the Korean boat division completely played the role of the transport brigade, and half an hour later, the army under Han Teng crossed the Danshui. With the Yulin Army as the vanguard, they broke through the formation of the Wei army, and all 10,000 Wei troops were killed, but at this time, Xinlingjun had already led 40,000 troops to go away. The 200,000-strong army led by King Han himself had just appeared on the horizon. (To be continued......)

PS: It's going to be the girder of the siege soon, whether it's flooding or flooding, let's talk about it