Chapter 195: Be confident
The news of Guan Miao's death in front of the two armies was transmitted back to the Chinese military account of the Mu army as soon as possible, and when he heard this, Sima Changren was furious and asked, "Who killed my general?"
The wooden soldier who reported the news stammered: "Looking at its appearance, it seems to be Ling Wuya, the vanguard officer of the Jin Kingdom!"
"Ling Wuya, hum, nobody, dare to be rampant, I'll go get his head!" Sima Changren stood up, and he was about to walk out.
Zhou Fang, who was sitting on the side, sighed helplessly, stretched out his hand and said, "General Sima, slow down!"
Sima Changren turned his head and looked at Zhou Fang in puzzlement.
Zhou Fang smiled and said, "General Sima is the commander of an army, how can he easily go to battle......"
Before Zhou Fang finished speaking, he heard someone outside the tent shouting: "Report-"
With the words, another soldier who reported the news quickly ran closer, knelt down in front of Sima Changren, and said urgently: "General, the main force of the Jin army has come out and is approaching our army's camp!"
"Oh?" Sima Changren was shocked, his face was happy, and he asked, "How many people are dispatched by the Jin Army?"
"There are no less than 100,000 people!"
"Haha, okay!" Sima Changren was waiting for the Jin army to start a decisive battle with himself, and now the Jin army finally came, he slapped his palm with a single fist, and shouted to the generals on the left and right: "Generals, follow the commander to fight!"
"Newspaperβ"
At this moment, another detective came closer, intervened in the salute, and said: "General Bao, there is a golden army on the west side of our army!"
Well, there are enemy troops in the west? This was quite unexpected by Sima Changren, and he asked in a condensed voice, "How many men and horses are there?"
"Looks like less than 10,000......!
"But what?
"Still. This Jin army is playing the handsome flag, and the commander's banner has the word 'Lin' on it. β
"Ah?!" Hearing this, everyone present gasped. There is a handsome flag, and the main flag has the word Lin, so don't ask, this is the army led by Lin Haotian, the commander of the Jin army, but Lin Haotian is not in the main force of the Jin army, what is he doing on the west side of his side? And he only brought less than 10,000 people, which is really strange.
Sima Changren originally planned to lead the generals to meet the main force of the Jin army. But after hearing the news, he immediately changed his mind.
But on the surface, he deliberately sank his face. He said coldly: "Nonsense, Lin Haotian is not in the Jin army camp, why did he run to the west side of our army?"
"Back to the general, the villain saw it with his own eyes. There is no such thing as a fake. This Jin army was twenty miles away from our army's camp, and all of them were hiding in remote places, and it seemed that they wanted to attack our army's camp. β
Hearing this, Sima Changren immediately reacted, the Jin army wanted to use the main force to attract his own army to fight, and then take advantage of the emptiness of his own camp, Lin Haotian came to smash Huanglong again. Sneak attack your own camp, once the rear camp is not protected. The soldiers who fought the decisive battle with the Jin army in front will be chaotic, and in this way, the whole army will be in danger.
What a scheming Lin Haotian!
Sima Changren first sneered, then turned his back to hahadaxiao, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Are the enemy troops all horses?"
The spy was stunned for a moment, blinked, and didn't understand how Sima Changren knew, he nodded dumbly, and said: "It's true that they are all horse teams, and the Jin army is very well-equipped, and they are all wearing steel helmets and steel armor. β
There are not many iron mines in the Jin country, and the steel production is even less pitiful, because of this, the Jin army can't afford to wear steel armor, all of them are leather armor, and the Jin army that can wear steel armor is not only elite, but also more likely to be Lin Haotian's personal guards.
In fact, the wooden army scout didn't see too clearly, if he could get closer, he would find that the steel armor of this golden army was unusual, lined with steel chain armor, and there were steel blades and steel sheets hanging on the outside of the chain armor.
Of course, just this body weighs more than 100 catties, and ordinary soldiers can't move at all after putting it on, which requires the heavy cavalry to be strong men, even so, the soldiers are extremely inconvenient to put on this set of armor, and they need someone to support them when they get on and off the horse, and they can't even walk after leaving the war horse.
Sima Changren basically confirmed that the Jin army on the west side was indeed commanded by Lin Haotian, he only pondered for a moment, turned his head to Zhou Fang and said: "General Zhou, you command 50,000 infantry and cavalry of our army, go out of the camp to meet the main force of the Jin army, I will set up an ambush in the camp, if Lin Haotian really dares to come and steal the camp, I will let him come and go!"
Zhou Fang said with a solemn face: "General Sima, Lin Haotian is the commander of the Jin Army, and he steals the camp, and he only brings less than 10,000 horsemen to steal the camp, which is really unreasonable, among them...... Isn't there a fraud?"
Sima Changren had also thought about this, but he really couldn't see any cunning in it, so he asked rhetorically: "What does General Zhou think there is any deceit in it?"
"This ......" Zhou Fang is not an immortal, how can he be a prophet, he just feels that there is a problem with the tactics of the Jin Army, but he can't say what the specific problem is.
Seeing that Zhou Fang couldn't answer, Sima Changren smiled and said confidently: "You are outside the camp, and I am sitting in the camp to respond to all changes without change, and I am not afraid of what tricks the Jin army can play." β
Zhou Fang felt that what Sima Changren said was also reasonable this time, he nodded, stood up, arched his hand and said: "Okay, according to General Sima's opinion, I will go to meet the enemy, and General Sima will sit in the camp." β
In the end, under the command of Sima Changren, the Mu army was divided into two routes, commanded by Zhou Fang, out of the camp and arrayed, and the main force of the Jin army launched a head-to-head confrontation, and the other was led by Sima Changren himself, ambushed in the camp, and could only be attacked by Lin Haotian.
Zhou Fang was cautious, he did not dare to have any carelessness about the Jin army like a wolf and a tiger, and ordered the whole army to set up a battle formation, and waited for the Jin army to take the initiative to attack.
On the Jin Army's side, the First Army and the Second Army were not merged, but divided into two parts, from one left and one right, approaching the Wood Army camp like an iron pincer.
A fierce battle between the two sides began.
The wooden army first suppressed the Jin army with an arrow array, the Jin army had already prepared, all the shields, looking from afar, the two camps that were advancing forward, were covered by the shield of the silver flower, the arrow of the wooden army was blocked by the shield, and the moment when the opponent's arrow array stopped, the Jin army fired back.
The two sides went back and forth, and arrows were fired, but the advance of the Jin army was not hindered in any way.
Seeing that the camp of the Jin army was less than 100 paces away from his side, Zhou Fang waved the order flag and sent the cavalry on both wings to the battlefield.
The speed of 50,000 cavalry was so fast that it was like a flood from both sides of the Jin army.
The enemy sent cavalry, and the Jin army immediately reacted, removed their shields, and fired arrows from all their troops.
However, before the Jin army's arrow array was fired, the arrow array of the Mu Guo cavalry arrived first, and in just an instant, the soldiers who were hit by arrows on both sides of the Jin army were connected.
Ding Feng and Bi Wu were surprised by the fact that the cavalry could shoot arrows during the charge, but both of them were commanders who had weathered the storm and were extremely adaptable, so they immediately ordered the soldiers to rearrange their shields and attack each other with bows and crossbows.
The lethality of the bow and crossbow to the cavalry should not be underestimated, and the crossbow arrows were fired, often penetrating the horse's body, and the cavalry above fell to the ground, and before they could get up, they were trampled into pulp by the cavalry who followed behind.
After using the bow and crossbow to disrupt the formation of the opposing cavalry, the Jin army once again unleashed arrows in unison.
Arrows continued to fire from both sides, and there were many casualties.
At the beginning of the battle, even Lin Haotian, who was twenty miles away, could faintly hear bursts of shouts and killings.
At this time, the nerves of the soldiers became tense, and they all focused their eyes on Lin Haotian.
Lin Haotian was stable, sitting on a stone, with a straw stick in his mouth, leisurely looking at the air.
"My lord!" Lu Kai was the first to sit still, came to Lin Haotian's side, intervened to salute, and said softly: "It sounds like our army has fought with the wooden army, my lord, we ...... Isn't it time to go?"
"Don't worry!" Lin Haotian replied without bias, and said slowly: "Today's weather is good, it doesn't look like it's going to rain." β
didn't expect Lin Haotian to come up with such an inexplicable sentence, Lu Kai was stunned and speechless.
Lin Haotian seemed to say an innocuous word, but in fact, for them, it was very important that it did not rain. (To be continued......)