Chapter 81: The Battle of Baiju (7)
Yuan Yan shed tears, Chu Sima Shen Yin Shu returned to the camp and summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of dealing with the enemy.
At this time, there were two brave generals in front of Shen Yin's tent, one was the doctor Dou Di, and the other was named Qu Kun. The second general followed Shen Yinshu to fight for many years and was the general of the humerus in front of Sima's tent.
Sima Dao: "The vanguard of the Wu army is a brave general, and both the long-range shot and Wuchenghei were killed by this person. Tomorrow the two armies will face each other, and the commander will personally meet the enemy. Although there are tens of thousands of people in the Wu army, as long as they can repel the front army of Fu Shi, they will first defeat the Wu army, and then fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Wu army when the morale of our army is greatly boosted! ”
Seeing that the Wu army was several times larger than his own, Dou Di said: "Now that the Wu army is strong, the junior general thinks that Sima should lead the army to cross the river, and when he arrives at the Han River, he gathers those old troops who have shot from afar, and they have already crossed the river. The young general was willing to lead the army to cover Sima crossing the river. ”
Shen Yinshu shook his head and said: "Since the beginning of the station with Wu Bing, our army has been defeated one after another, and the morale of the army is sluggish. The most important thing for a soldier is morale, if the decline cannot be reversed, what is the use of a large army of 100,000? This is one of them; Yingdu is already in a critical situation, and it is also an expedient measure to be able to consume more Wu troops here, leaving more time for Yingdu to prepare, and then it can reduce the pressure on Yingdu to defend our army, and secondly. Moreover, the people of Chu State do not lack a Sima, but a warrior who dares to die! I have made up my mind, and the general cannot say anything more! ”
Seeing Sima like this, the generals unified their thoughts and prepared to fight to the death with the Wu army. Because Shen Yinshu loves nurses and soldiers on weekdays and governs the army well, both generals and soldiers are willing to work for him, and at this time of disparity in strength, that is the only capital that Shen Yinshu can fight with Wu Jun.
Shen Yinshu said: "The main purpose of tomorrow's battle is to intercept and kill the husband. Qu Kun led the front army and first introduced the husband into our formation. Then he covered the gate of the formation and separated the husband from the Wu soldiers behind him. I led my army to encircle in the rear, and then intercepted and killed them. The generals received Sima's advice and went to prepare.
On the second day, the two armies faced each other. Shen Yinshu divided the Chu army into two teams, the front and the rear, the former army and the husband faced the enemy, and he led the elite to hide in the rear army. When the drums on both sides sounded, the two armies began to charge.
The front army of the Chu army was Qu Kun, and when he saw that his husband was menacing, he separated the two sides of the front army. The husband is all in battle.
The husband didn't know what the plan was, so he was brave and rushed into the formation of the Chu army in a car, and rushed to kill with a halberd.
At this time, Shen Yinshu boarded the car, and Zhi Ge raised his arms and shouted: "The Wu army has invaded." I will turn the clan into ruins, lose the teacher and lose the country! Today, if my Jiangdong children don't fight to the death, there will be eggs under the nest?! ”
All the generals echoed loudly. Morale was boosted. Determined to fight to the death. Then Qu Kun covered the front and wrapped his husband into the formation. In this way, the front army of the Chu army blocked the Wu army from the formation, and Shen Yinshu led the rear army to surround the husband, wanting to kill the husband in the array.
The soldiers of the Chu army were all killed, and Shen Yinshu's chariot was a retainer Wu Jubei imperial horse, and on the left side of the chariot was the young general Mi Ding. Shen Yinshu saw that his chariot rushed into his own formation. Then he stepped forward to intercept the fight. The front army of the Chu army was desperately resisting the wave after wave of Wu soldiers' rushing killings outside, and the rear army surrounded the husband layer by layer in the formation, wanting to take the opportunity to intercept and kill.
The husband fought hard in the battle, but the Chu army was determined to win. It has the meaning of capturing the thief and capturing the king first. Those chariot foot soldiers guarding the periphery of Fu Ji were constantly scattered by the Chu army, and Fu Ji had already been hit by two arrows in the leg, which was very critical.
At this time, in the camp of the Wu army, Sun Wu was anxious, he looked at the soldiers, and finally made up his mind: "Zhuan Yi and Bo Yao listen to the order: immediately lead the army to rush to kill the Chu array and rescue the vanguard husband!" ”
The generals retreated from the big tent of the Chinese army, and Sun Wu sighed: "If I am separated from a face-to-face word, it will be difficult for me to convince myself." So I think this is a good opportunity to get rid of my husband, but as the commander of the three armed forces, I can't do that. ”
Because the husband has a rebellious and rebellious appearance, and he believes that he is the younger brother of King Wu, he often does not abide by military orders, and he does not look at important ministers such as soldiers and Sun Wu very much. The soldiers originally wanted to borrow their husband's courage to underestimate the enemy, and they were besieged by the Chu army, so they could use the hands of the Chu people to get rid of the husband, but Sun Wu did not comply, and the soldiers had to give up.
It is said that Fu Yi was surrounded by the Chu army in the formation, and he was exhausted, but when he saw the left and right sides of the Chu army, Zhuan Yi and Bo Yao each led a strong army to break into the Chu army formation, and slashed and killed, so they rushed out of two gaps in the encirclement of the Chu army to save Fu Ji.
Seeing that reinforcements had arrived, the husband regained his spirits. So he endured the pain of the arrow wound, fought desperately, and gradually broke out of the battle.
The two armies fought another chaotic battle, the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth, and after a hard battle, it was dusk before the two armies withdrew their troops.
Shen Yinshu inspected the soldiers and horses, and stopped three times and one stop. Shen Yinshu originally wanted to lead the army back to Baiju, but seeing that the Wu army had blocked the post roads in several directions, he had to give up.
On the second day, a drum sounded in front of the Wu army, and the Wu army was divided into three armies. Sun Wu and others led the Chinese army, and the left and right were the two armies of Cai Hou and Tang Hou. In front are the daring clans holding Wu hooks, in the back are archers, and Zuihou is the chariot pawn.
Shen Yinshu led the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses, and still lined up to fight against the Wu army.
Under the absolute superiority of forces, the Wu army began to fight in columns. In the middle is Zhuan Yi and other generals, on the left is Cai Hou and Wu Yuan, and on the right is Tang Hou and Bo Yao. The two armies were connected to each other, and the sound of fighting was endless.
Rushing to the front is the famous sinner death squad of the Wu army, slightly 3,000 people, the bright Wu hooks in their hands wave up and down, although they are flesh and blood, but they have the courage of tigers and wolves; He was followed by a shooter with a strong bow and a crossbow, taking cover behind. The one on the Zuihou side is a square team of chariots leading foot soldiers. This layer-by-layer attack cut the Chu army into several squads, intending to divide and annihilate them.
The Chu army was slaughtered in pieces, but it still fought to the death. Shen Yinshu was besieged by countless Wu troops at this time and could not get out, but he still fought desperately, and he killed several Wu soldiers.
Dou Di had already died in battle at this time, Qu Kun saw that Sima was surrounded, Zhi Ge rushed away from the Wu soldiers, and shouted: "The Wu soldiers are strong, Sima will go first, and the junior general will cover behind." ”
Shen Yinshu only cared about the fierce battle and desperately fought his way out of the encirclement. At this time, the random arrows that came from nowhere penetrated Shen Yinshu's armor. Shen Yinshu shook a few times, and he stumbled, about to fall out of the car. At this time, Che Zuo Mi Ding had also been killed, only the retainer Wu Jubei was on the chariot and the horse, seeing that the master was hit by several arrows and wanted to crash into the car, he held on to Shen Yinshu and let Shen Yinshu lie on the chariot.
After Shen Yinshu fell, the Wu army saw that the main general of the Chu army was seriously injured, and even surrounded him. Qu Kun fought hard, trying his best to protect Sima's car from being injured by Wu Bing.
Shen Yin stiffened in the car and said to Wu Jubei: "I can't resume the war, I'm a useless person, you quickly cut off my head and go to see the king." If it is obtained by the Wu army, won't the morale of our army be even weaker? You do it quickly! ”
Wu Jubei's tears were like springs, and he couldn't bear to look at each other.
Shen Yinshu said angrily: "You carried my head to see the king, so that the king would wake up, and Yingdu would be in danger!" ”
Wu Jubei still didn't answer, but just hugged Shen Yinshu in his arms and couldn't bear to move.
The Wu army came like a tide, and Qu Kun was no longer able to fight. Shen Yinshu used Zuihou's strength to pull out the arrows on his body, and several wounds were bleeding, Shen Yinshu let out a loud cry and passed away.
Wu Jubei had no choice but to pull out his sword, cut off Shen Yinshu's head, untie his robe, wrap the head in his chest, and jump out of the car.
Qu Kun knew that Wu Jubei was under the orders of Sima, and he was especially trapped and fighting, so he tried his best to cover Wu Jubei's escape in the back, and soon died of exhaustion. Wu Jubei slashed and killed, slowly retreated with the defeated army of the Chu army, looked at the sky, grabbed a war horse, and fled to Yingdu.
Sun Wu led a large army to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Chu army, collected countless heavy ordnance, and most of Shen Yinshu's 15,000 soldiers and horses were killed in the battle, and only some scattered remnants fled to Hanyang.
Sun Wu basically swept away the Chu army around Hanyang, and the Wu army was tens of thousands of elites, in the hinterland of the Chu State, rushing left and right as if entering a no-man's land, and the Yingdu that was close at hand was the Zuihou target of the Wu soldiers. After the Battle of Baiju, the army of Wu will begin a new journey.
The state of Chu was a powerful country in the world at that time, with a wide land and fine soldiers, and a deep and solid city. Wu is just a small country in the East China Sea, but because of Sun Wu and Wu Yuan, as well as a world-minded Helu, in the winter moon of the ninth year of Helu in the late Spring and Autumn Period (that is, 506 BC), the soldiers pointed directly at the heart of Chu - Yingdu.
For more information on what happened next, see the next chapter. (To be continued......)