Chapter 82: Extinguishing Qi 9
readx;???? The Chu army's offensive against Jimo, although the generals of the Chu army, including Xiang Zhuang, had no real intention of fighting, so in the early confrontation between the two sides, whether it was the Chu army attacking Jimo or the Qin army defending the city, the casualties were not too serious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, as the commander-in-chief, Xiang Yu soon saw this situation, and he couldn't help but roar angrily at his own soldiers: "Tell Xiang Zhuang that if they continue to act like this, be careful of their military treatment."
And Xiang Yu's order is also an important opportunity for the Jimo defensive war to enter the white heat.
What Xiang Yu didn't expect was that Xiang Zhuang and the others were forced to act according to Xiang Yu's orders and strengthen the offensive against Jimo City under pressure from many quarters. As a result, the Chu army was faced with not only the Jimo garrison, which was also "grinding foreign workers" in many senses, but also began to become serious in defending the city, and more importantly, the problem of the overall quality of their Chu officers and soldiers also began to erupt.
It is true that in this operation to reinforce the Eastern Qi Kingdom, Xiang Yu also mobilized the elite troops under his command. But the recruit rate of these elite units is also very high.
In last year's Qi Di War, although Xiang Yu took advantage of it in many aspects, for the Chu army, the desperate resistance of the Qi army also made them pay a very tragic price.
Especially the elite veterans who survived the battle of Hangu Pass were very badly damaged in the more than a year of war in Qidi.
This situation led to a serious decline in the overall combat effectiveness of the Chu army.
In particular, the heavy losses of many experienced grassroots officers made it impossible for the Chu army to recover for a long time.
During this period of time, even Xiang Zhuang knew very well that at least the current Chu army was also included in the scope of this period of time.
The Chu army launched a fierce attack on Jimo, which soon caused a fierce counterattack by the Shang county soldiers guarding Jimo against the Chu army.
Especially when falling in the sky, the target is mainly a group of Chu army crossbowmen who carry ladders or use bows and crossbows to cover the front-line troops to enter the city to fight, and the dense bed crossbows and crossbows fired from the city walls are within the range of these rows of crossbows. It's like mowing the grass.
The shields of many Chu officers and soldiers could not resist the crossbows fired by these rows of crossbows, and these Chu officers and soldiers were often nailed to the ground by a large number of arrows falling from the sky like raindrops before they could see anything clearly.
The cost of these crossbows is quite high in many ways. And for logistics consumption, it is a situation that Zhang Jiashi has to face.
But with the intensity of such a blow. The rows of crossbows that were often fired on the Jimo city wall did not allow the attacking Chu officers and soldiers to react, and a dozen or more Chu troops fell under the second batch of arrows that fell a few seconds later.
And some experienced veterans of the Chu army quickly commanded others to assemble a tortoiseshell formation to resist the arrows shot from the city.
However, for the Qin army's armor-piercing arrowheads, the armor on these Chu troops could not effectively defend against the arrow-piercing ability after the shield was shot through.
Once the Chu officers and soldiers in front paid a large number of casualties, the light infantry of the Chu army without shields in the back would often become the target of slaughter by the next few waves of arrows.
Under the influence of such a situation. Many times, these Chu officers and soldiers were shot and killed on the road of attack before they could get close to the city walls of Jimo.
After Xiang Zhuang saw the heavy casualties of the officers and soldiers under his command, he was very sad in his heart, because he knew very well that these Qin defenders had already been prepared. And judging from the feedback from the front, that is the Qin army they are facing. The equipment used is far more advanced than theirs.
Faced with such a situation, Xiang Zhuang really wanted to report the actual situation of the battlefield to Xiang Yu. But he soon learned that this approach was simply not realistic.
Because if Xiang Yu could change his mind so easily, he would not be Xiang Yu. Moreover, Fan Zeng will not end up like that.
Although Xiang Zhuang is not afraid of Xiang Yu's scolding or even punishment, for Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Yu is really wrong. He also couldn't say to Xiang Yu what he hoped he could say.
In other words, there are not many people who can say this to Xiang Yu in Chu State now.
Xiang Liang, Fan Zeng, Long And
Xiang Yu may listen to the words of these three people, but Xiang Zhuang knows. That is, he does not have the ability to bring back three people who have long since died.
Therefore, after being silent for a long time, Xiang Zhuang could only continue to mobilize troops to launch a fierce attack on Jimo.
Dividing line
On the west wall of Jimo, Zi Anxun roared at his guards: "You all go and carry the wounded down the city wall for treatment."
Most of Zi Anxun's personal guards are people from Mizi Joseon or young people who mainly come from a family in Mizi Joseon.
In this case, Zi Anson's orders were well executed. A large number of Anson's personal guards were ordered to remove the wounded on the city walls.
Different from the personnel composed of other Qin troops in the Great Qin Empire, the two troops of Zi Anxun and Wenle mainly recruited personnel from Shang County for the past few years.
Therefore, the Qin officers and soldiers guarding Jimo City were mainly the remnants of Jizi Korea in Shang County.
Jizi Joseon about 1122 B.C. 194 B.C., after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, the Shang Dynasty relict Jizi led 5,000 Shang Dynasty remnants to move east to the Korean Peninsula, united with the indigenous people to establish the "Ji Clan Marquis State", which is considered to be the capital in the area of present-day Pyongyang in the Datong River Basin. The country was destroyed by the Yan people Wei Man during the Western Han Dynasty. At the end of the 3rd century BC, it was recorded for the first time in the history of Korea. According to the famous historical records of Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty in China, Jizi, the uncle of the last king of the Shang Dynasty, took the etiquette and system of the Shang Dynasty to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula after King Wu of Zhou conquered the Zhou, and was elected as the monarch by the people there, and was recognized by the Zhou Dynasty, and was known as "Jizi Joseon" in history.
Ancient Korea ruled by Jizi occupies an important position in the ancient history of the Shang and Zhou dynasties of China, the history of Northeast China, and the history of Korea. Jizi appeared in history, ideology and culture as a philosopher, politician, representative of Yin Shang ideology and culture, and representative of ancient Chinese intellectuals. The new regime was called Wei Joseon, and the "Three Koreas" historian Yoon Nai-hyun acknowledged the existence of Jizi Joseon in his new treatise on the ancient history of Korea, and believed that the Jizi originated in the Central Plains of China.
In this case, Zi Anxun naturally would not be too harsh on the officers and soldiers under his command. After all, they are also people of the same race, and the situation on Wenle's side is similar.
In the defense arrangement of Jimo, Zi Anxun and Wen Le were responsible for the defense of the east and west respectively, and facing the defense of the northern area was a Qin army captain named Zheng Hao.
And this Zheng Hao is a lieutenant under the command of the county guard of Shangjun, but for many considerations, while mobilizing Zheng Hao to fight with Zi Anxun and Wenle. The number of people in the upper county was not transferred to the interior of Daqin, which was less than 10,000, to recruit troops, but the troops under the command of Zi Anxun and Wen Le each transferred 3,000 people under the command of Zheng Hao.
As for the defense arrangements to the south of Jimo. It was mainly handed over to the Liaodonglou boat soldiers who were cruising on the sea.
In such a situation, whether it was Zi Ansun or Wen Le, although there was no dissatisfaction in their hearts, they were more worried about whether Zheng Hao was capable of commanding the troops composed of these remnants of the Jizi Joseon.
It is impossible for them to be completely dissatisfied with this kind of troop transfer arrangement, but for many reasons, they can only acquiesce to this situation when it comes to the order of the Tsuma.
And for Zheng Hao. He was facing an offensive of about 15,000 men under Xiang Shang, another newly promoted general of the Chu army.
He also knew very well that if something really went wrong, he wouldn't want to go back to Shang County to see him, because the county soldiers of the Korean ethnic group under his command might directly tear him apart.
But I don't know if Zheng Hao is lucky or quite unlucky, after holding on for a long time. The officers and soldiers under his command obviously had some very serious flaws, and for many reasons, Zheng Hao was indeed as worried by Zi Anxun and Wen Le, and there was a problem that was not very serious, but it was also quite troublesome, for the command of the officers and soldiers of the Korean ethnic group in Jizi.
That is, Zheng Hao is not too proficient in the language of Jizi Korea. And these troops happened to be officers and soldiers who were mainly from the Korean ethnic group in Mizi.
In this case, although Zheng Hao did not make any major mistakes in command and scheduling, because of the language barrier, Zheng Hao's command orders could not be implemented in time because of the language barrier.
This can be said to be not entirely Zheng Hao's fault, but Zheng Hao's luck is still very good, that is, the commander of the besieging Chu army he faced. is a recruit egg with basically no actual combat experience.
If it weren't for Xiang Yu seeing that the other party was indeed quite talented, and because of Xiang He's request, Xiang Yu would not have appointed a son-in-law with no actual combat experience to command the troops to fight.
It is said that even Xiang Zhuang expressed his dissatisfaction with this Xiang Shangdu, because the other party was simply a person who talked on paper.
As far as the Chu army is concerned, Xiang Yu's way of employing people has also made many middle-level officers who can be regarded as veterans of the Chu army dissatisfied.
But Xiang Yu actually has something unspeakable, that is, the Chu army is indeed quite lacking in talents at this time.
Especially after Long Ji and others, who were the five tiger generals of the Chu army, died in battle one after another or took refuge in Zhang Jiashi, there were fewer and fewer people under Xiang Yu who could make him trust.
In Xiang Yu's heart, some capable officers were not necessarily loyal to him, and he was not at ease to hand over a large number of troops to the other party's command.
This also created a more dramatic situation in this attack on Jimo:
Although Zheng Hao's defense system is not full of loopholes, it may not be possible to go anywhere properly, if the Chu army commanding the attack in this direction is Xiang Zhuang and others, Zheng Hao may really not be able to resist the onslaught of the other party's seized opportunity.
However, Xiang Shang had no idea that this was the best time to increase the intensity of the attack.
Therefore, in Zheng Hao's battle, although it was quite dangerous, several times he even let Xiang Shang's troops enter the city, and then it turned into a melee.
But in fact, for Xiang Shang, he is still too inexperienced, and although the offensive method he adopts is also in line with the golden mean, it is still impossible to attack Jimo in this way.
There were several skirmishes between the two sides in the area north of Jimo, but Xiang Shang had lost his best chance to attack Jimo after Zheng Hao adjusted his defensive posture again.
In the relatively internal houses of Jimo City, more and more wounded Qin soldiers were carried into these houses for treatment by military doctors.
Zhang Jiashi spared no effort for the development of military doctors, but he was limited by many restrictions, especially the military doctors themselves are best to know such things as words, and at this time most people are illiterate people, so Zhang Jiashi's military medical training in the past few years, although the results are not too ugly, but it is better than nothing.
Therefore, in this regard, although this place has dispatched more than half of the military doctors in the Shang County area, in the face of more and more wounded, there are less than sixty military doctors, and they can only give priority to the treatment of the seriously injured.
As for whether the lightly wounded will have problems because of the delay in the speed of treatment, this matter, even if it is these military doctors, it is more to pray for these wounded.
Many of the wounded Qin soldiers who received treatment were waiting to be transferred to the port area, and then boarded the ship home for recuperation, and some officers and soldiers may indeed have to retire or even die because of their injuries, but compared to those who stayed, many of them were able to save their lives, which was already a good result.
As for the medical support of the Qin army, the military doctor of the Chu army is more of a person who only serves high-ranking officers.
Most of the wounded of the Chu army, even if they struggled back to the barracks, were unlikely to be treated. Even some people were caught by the military judges of the Chu army before they could find a military doctor who was willing to treat them
If these people are slightly injured, they may be able to survive, but if they are seriously injured, the fate of these people will stop there.
This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the morale of many Chu officers and men who have not yet been mobilized to fight on the battlefield.
Because of his background, although Xiang Yu is not completely indifferent to the life and death of grassroots officers and soldiers, he may not necessarily love soldiers like sons, and Zhang Jiashi's situation in this regard, compared with Xiang Yu, is completely different.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi didn't know that a practice like Wu Qi would help improve a country's overall combat effectiveness, after all, he couldn't be like Wu Qi and personally treat a soldier's wounds. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation.
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