Volume III, Chapter 607
It can be said that this Jin Army squad had just launched into the water, and before it was halfway through the swim, it was discovered by the Red Army spies on the opposite shore, and the information was transmitted to the camp of the Jiankang Water Division as soon as possible.
At this time, Qualcomm had fallen asleep, and when the soldiers below reported to him that there was a news from Lin Zhuang, Qualcomm, who was sleeping soundly, sat up from the bed, blinked, and was stunned for a few seconds, and then, waved his hand and dragged the soldier in front of him, and asked, "Where is the news?"
Not understanding why the general reacted so violently, the sergeant stammered, "Go back...... General Hui, yes...... It was the scouts from Lin Zhuang who sent back the news!"
"Hurry up and show me!" Gao Tongteng stood up suddenly, and while getting dressed, he said to the soldier urgently.
The soldier hurriedly handed over the note from the flying pigeon to Qualcomm, who took it, unfolded it, his face suddenly showed joy, and said repeatedly: "God help me, the enemy has finally moved!"
As he spoke, he gathered the note, threw it away, and said to the soldiers: "Hurry up and pass on my generals and gather all the generals!"
"Yes, General!" the soldier agreed, turned and ran out.
The generals of the Red Army who heard the news did not enter the tent of the Chinese army at all, and as soon as they walked outside the tent, they saw Gao Tong, dressed in military uniform, riding on a horse, surrounded by many guards and escorts on war horses.
When the people were almost there, Gao Tong Zhengse said: "The enemy's crossing of the river is about to begin, and the general must go to Linzhuang in person to supervise the battle, you wait to stay in the camp, wait for the general at any time, once the order to attack arrives, except for the eighth and ninth corps to stay in the camp, the rest of the soldiers." Bring the infantry brothers, charge and kill the enemy camp for the general, and when you get to the enemy camp, you will see what you will burn, and the most important thing is to kill all the enemy's food and grass, do you understand?"
"Understood. General!" all the generals said in unison, intervening to salute.
Qualcomm nodded and continued: "The life and death of my Da Chi is in this battle, and whether you can turn defeat into victory depends on your brothers." In this battle, the officers and men of our army must go all out and move forward bravely, and when they attack the enemy camp, they must not stop no matter what accidents happen, and they must rush to kill me in one go. If anyone violates the order, if there is a natural fear of death and cowering, he will be killed!"
Qualcomm made two arrangements, one was to ambush the Jin Army and the New Red Coalition Army that landed in Linzhuang, and the other was to attack the camp of the Jin Army and the New Red Coalition Army.
There is naturally a reason why he chose to go to Linzhuang by himself, and in his opinion, the battle of Linzhuang is the most important thing in this battle. The sneak attack on the enemy camp can be unsuccessful, and it is a big deal that the two sides will continue to confront each other across the river. However, there is a huge risk that the Jin army and the new red alliance army will land in Linzhuang, in case they do not defeat the enemy army. Let the Jin army and the new red coalition army continue to transport troops and baggage to Linzhuang, then the capital will be in danger of coming to the city at any time, it can be said that the battle of Linzhuang is only allowed to succeed and not to lose the battle, Qualcomm must personally supervise the battle, so that nothing goes wrong.
Gao Tong hurriedly left the naval camp with a group of guards and rushed to the dense forest where the Red Cavalry was ambushed. In front of the battle, command the cavalry to fight.
Let's talk about the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army on the other side, the fifty elites sent by Ding Feng swam quietly and silently past Jiankang, and after going ashore, everyone first carefully hid the air bags. Then he drew the short knife he carried with him and went straight to the Red Army's outpost.
The Red Army sentry post here was a victim of Qualcomm's choice, they were unaware of the arrival of the Jin soldiers, most of them were sleeping soundly in the tower, even the two Red soldiers who were on guard at the top of the tower were dozing off with their spears.
The golden soldiers were divided into two parts, one of which climbed upwards from the outside of the tower, and the other who rushed directly into the building. With little effort, they eliminated the two Red Soldiers who were guarding the entrance to the tower, and then rushed into the tower.
They came suddenly, the red soldiers in the tower were defenseless and were killed by surprise, and many of them were still in their sleep.
Hearing movement below, the two red soldiers who were dozing off on the top of the tower were awakened from their sleep.
The two looked at each other and listened attentively, and at this time, a heart-rending scream made the two of them completely sober, and they secretly screamed that it was not good, and one of them turned around and drew his torch, trying to light the beacon fire on the tower.
But before he could reach the beacon tower with his torch, a man in black suddenly rushed up to the arrow stack on his side, and the red soldier didn't even see what was going on, and a flash of lightning shot at him.
There was a thud in the ear chakra, and the red soldier's neck was stabbed by the flying short knife, and he didn't say a word, his eyes went up, and he fell on his back, and only a few convulsions before he stopped moving.
Seeing his companion killed, another red soldier's face changed in fright, he raised the spear in his hand, looked at the man in black standing on the arrow stack in horror and horror, and screamed, "Who is it?"
The other party did not reply, but two more men in black climbed behind him.
Hearing movement behind him, the Red Soldier subconsciously looked back, but he only saw two short knives stabbing at him.
"Pounce, pounce!"
The red soldier's back heart and back waist were both hit, and he screamed in pain, and also followed in the footsteps of his companions.
Dozens of red soldiers in the tower, under the sneak attack of the Jin army, did not even make any resistance, and all of them were killed. After the Red soldiers were all cleared, Sergeant Jin picked up torches, stood on the top of the tower, and signaled to their own army on the other side.
Seeing the light of the fire on the opposite tower swaying back and forth regularly, the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army knew that the brothers who had sneaked past had succeeded. Ding Feng ordered all the rafts to cross the river.
As soon as he gave the order, the helmsmen selected by the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army immediately boarded the raft full of straw men and rowed quickly towards the opposite bank.
These straw men are all wearing the armor and military uniforms of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance, at least 11 or 20,000 people, standing on the raft, a piece of black pressing, unable to tell the number, plus the sky is dark, looking at it from a distance, it is really true and false.
The news that the Jin army was able to sneak up on the attack and the army began to cross the river was also transmitted to Qualcomm by the Red Army scouts.
Now, Qualcomm has arrived in the dense forest and joined the cavalry, and when he heard the spies' return, his smile became even stronger, and his painstaking arrangements were finally about to make a contribution.
He called Feng Yanwen, the chief cavalry general, to his approach. He encouraged: "When the enemy crosses the river, the first batch of troops must be transported, and the baggage can not be transported until at least the second or third batch, and when the enemy army comes ashore, you lead the army to rush over, without baggage." The enemy is vulnerable, and your troops will be able to win this battle easily. ”
Feng Yanwen is a cavalry general, so he naturally understands how much advantage the cavalry has over the infantry, especially since the other party has not yet carried a heavy load, so that even if there is no large weapon such as a broken crossbow and no defensive means that can block the advance of the cavalry, the Jin army and the new red alliance army will not be able to resist their own cavalry at all, and victory will naturally not be a problem.
He said confidently: "General Gao, don't worry, this battle." In the end, it will be the destruction of all the enemy thieves who have landed on the shore. ”
Qualcomm praised several times, and then he waited for the scouts to send back the news of the landing of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance.
He didn't wait long, and only half an hour later, the Red Army's report came again, saying that the rafts of the Jin Army and the New Red Army had landed and that a large number of enemy troops were landing.
However, the information sent back by the scout this time is not accurate, and the first half of the sentence is correct. The second half of the sentence was added by the scout himself.
The straw man can't move, how can he get ashore? Not to mention that he is still fixed on a raft!
When the spies saw the raft docking, they hurried back to report it. According to normal people's thinking, the enemy army landed on the shore, and of course it was about to land, so the scouts of the Red Army casually added this half sentence.
After hearing this, Qualcomm's spirits were lifted, and he nodded to Feng Yanwen. said: "General Feng, your cavalry can attack." Immediately afterwards, he said to the herald: "Give the order to the big camp immediately, let the soldiers of our army go into battle and sneak attack the enemy camp!"
He gave the order. Up and down, the Red Cavalry was dispatching at the same time, and the carrier pigeons were also released.
In his opinion, his own arrangements are extremely ingenious, even if the sneak attack on the enemy camp fails, at least it will not be a problem to completely annihilate the enemy troops who have landed.
His side began to move, and almost at the same time, the battalions of the Jin Army and the New Red Coalition Army also began to act.
Let's talk about Feng Yanwen's side first, he led his 120,000 cavalry to rush out of the dense forest and rushed to Linzhuang like a whirlwind.
According to the time calculation, the enemy forces have all been ashore at this time, and they should be assembling and forming a formation, and now is a good opportunity for them to launch a surprise attack. But when they approached the village, another spy came to report that the enemy troops were all on the raft and did not move, as if they were waiting for something.
After Feng Yanwen heard this, his brows furrowed, what was going on, just now the spies clearly reported that the enemy army was landing, why didn't he move on the raft now?
He secretly cursed in his heart that the scouts who pretended to pass on the military information should be damned, but now that they had been dispatched, they had to be fired, and they had to be brave, and he gave the order to go down, and the archers would take the lead, even if the enemy was on the ship, even if the enemy wanted to escape, he had to shoot most of them to death.
With Feng Yanwen's order, the charging cavalry that rushed to the front dispersed, and the archers behind took the lead and took the lead in charging the enemy.
More than 100,000 cavalry who charged forward, the main general gave an order, the whole army did not stop, and immediately changed formations, and at that time I am afraid that only the Red Cavalry could do this.
As the head of the front team, the archers entered the forest village first, and the cavalry did not stop, directly through the small fishing village, and killed on the shore.
There was still some distance from the shore, and the cavalry saw the rafts that were parked on the shore, and the black and crushed enemy troops on the rafts.
One by one, the archers crouched on their horses, minimizing their exposed bodies to avoid the arrows unleashed by the enemy, while they aimed their bows and arrows in the direction of the enemy, and shot their arrows out one after another.
After the knight in front of him finished shooting the arrow, he immediately turned his horse's head and ran back, and when he ran to the end of his own formation, he began to rearrange again, drew his bow and arrows, and continued to charge forward with his comrades in front, and the arrows of the red cavalry were shot in this cycle.
If you look down from above at this time, you will see that the archers are actually running in circles, as soon as they get close to the rafts of the Jin army and the new Red Army, they immediately release arrows, run away after shooting, and then wait for the next time it is their turn to get close to the enemy.
Tens of thousands of archers were divided into five or six teams, forming five or six huge circles on the shore, and arrows flew out in a steady stream, falling into the camp of the 'Jin Army and the New Red Alliance' on the raft, and the muffled sound of arrows piercing through the armor came and went.
The Red Kingdom has become proficient in the use of cavalry, and such intensive and continuous arrow shooting does not give the enemy any respite at all. If the people standing on the raft were real people, the casualty rate would be predictable.
But in fact, it was not a real person, but a straw man, under the continuous arrow shooting of the Red Army, the 'more than 100,000 troops' of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army not only did not release arrows to shoot back. And not a single person fell, not a single person fell into the water, and the whole camp did not make any noise, and the silence on the battlefield was terrible.
It wasn't until the archers had already fired as many as five rounds of arrows that Feng Yanwen, who was watching the battle behind, felt that something was wrong, how could the enemy be so quiet, even if there was no shouting of killing, there should be a scream of an arrow, even if he didn't want to escape. You shouldn't just stand motionless on the raft and let your own soldiers shoot you.
How do you feel that these enemy troops are like walking corpses! Feng Yanwen frowned secretly, he ordered the archers in front of him to immediately stop firing arrows and withdraw all, and then, he sent the charging cavalry to charge the enemy formation first and see what the situation was. By the way, also silently the bottom of the enemy army.
It's better if he doesn't send someone to rush and kill, this one will send someone over. It scared the Red Cavalry a lot. At a distance, they could not see the enemy's situation clearly, and when they approached the horse, they found that the enemy camp was already full of white flowers, not the enemy was dressed in white, but the enemy's head and body were full of arrows. The white feathers at the end of the arrow turn the enemy white.
What a terrifying scene it was for the enemy, covered in arrows, to stand upright on the raft one by one.
The red cavalry running in the front was so frightened that they hurriedly pulled the reins of their horses, and the cavalry behind them did not regain enough strength and collided with the cavalry in front of them.
Wait for the Red Cavalry to hit the guts. When I walked cautiously to the shore, I suddenly realized that the people who were standing on the raft were not real people at all, but straw men in armor and military uniforms.
Seeing this scene, people's faces changed greatly, and some people screamed, turned their horses and ran back, reporting the situation to the main general Feng Yanwen.
Hearing the report of the soldiers below, Feng Yanwen was also dumbfounded, the enemy army did not cross the river, it was only the straw man who crossed the river? He sat on the horse, stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, his body suddenly shook, and secretly screamed that it was not good, he said to a partial general beside him: "Quick! Go and report to General Gao, just say that we are in charge, and the Jin army and the new red alliance army are fooling us with straw men." ”
"Yes!" the general also sensed that something big might happen, so he hurriedly agreed, turned his horse's head, and ran towards the woods where Qualcomm was.
Now that they realize that something is not good, it is too late.
Jiankang Water Division Camp.
After receiving the attack order from Qualcomm, the Jiankang Naval Division immediately moved, and the ships were loaded with 100,000 infantry, leaving only the eighth and ninth corps, and the rest of the corps, all heading towards the Jin Army and the New Red Allied Army camp opposite.
The camp of the Jin Army and the New Red Alliance Army is located on the bank of Jiankang, and on the riverside, there are also ships of the Jin State Naval Army.
When the Jiankang Navy Division began to act, the Jin State Navy also launched an operation, because both sides wanted to sneak attack the other party's camp, so the fleets on both sides did not hold lights, and the soldiers did not light torches, and they all marched to the opposite side in the dark.
Although the Jiankang Naval Division left two corps, and the Jin Guo Naval Division was dispatched as a whole, the number of ships on both sides was still not on the same level.
There are no less than 200 ships in the Jiankang Naval Division, and all of them are large ships, on the other hand, on the side of the Jin Military Naval Division, there are only 130 ships up and down, large and small, and there are less than half of the large ships.
The 200 ships of the Jiankang Naval Division could easily fit 100,000 infantry, while the 130 ships of the Jin Army's Naval Division were already crowded with 30,000 infantry, making it difficult for people to even turn around.
Looking at the ships of the Jin Kingdom, it was really dark and oppressive, the deck was next to the people, the people were close to the people, the situation in the cabin was a little better, the middle was a little more crowded, and the sides were loose, because the sailors had to paddle, and if it was as crowded as the deck, the ship could not move.
In fact, Wang Han's strategy was also very risky, he calculated that the loophole in Linzhuang was deliberately designed by Qualcomm, but he didn't calculate that Qualcomm was a two-pronged approach, sending Jiankang Sailor out to attack his own camp.
The current state of the Jin country's naval army, which is full of infantry, is not suitable for water warfare, once the battle is engaged, the naval force of the ship will not be able to exert itself at all, and if the ship is sunk, it will suffer with so many infantry on the ship.
However, the situation at this time was that the fleets of the two sides were going in the opposite direction, although the sky was dark, the river was still foggy, and the distance between the two sides was relatively far, and no one saw anyone, but the fleets on both sides met head-on sooner or later, and a water battle was also imminent.
Lin Haotian did not go to Linzhuang, and chose to sneak attack the Jiankang Naval Division with the fleet. He and Chu Chen, Zhang Bufan, Shao Lin and other generals were all on the first ship, and only this ship looked less crowded, at least there was enough room to move around on the deck.
Standing on the deck at the bow of the ship, Lin Haotian asked the generals on the left and right: "Tell me, what is the Red Army doing now?"
Chu Chen said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the straw men who are attacking our army on the side of Lin Zhuang are all there!"
Hearing this, all the generals couldn't help but laugh on their backs.
Lin Haotian shrugged his shoulders and said: "The straw man can only deceive the Red Army for a while, it won't take long for the other party to react, at that time, the Red Army will definitely rush back, with the speed of the Red Cavalry, the distance of more than 100 miles will be there in an instant, so, after the shore, we must clean up the Red Army in the camp of the Jiankang Water Division as soon as possible, and then make every effort to resist the return of the Red Cavalry." ”
Everyone nodded their heads and responded, "What your lord said is extremely true!"
Lin Haotian was about to speak, but he suddenly frowned, and swallowed back the words that had reached his lips. He turned around and looked ahead.
Ahead was a dark and foggy place, and he couldn't see anything clearly, he closed his eyes, waited for a moment, and when he opened them again, a terrifying and strange glow shot out of his eyes.
The generals on the left and right were all startled when they saw this, and Zhang Bufan asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with my lord?"
Lin Haotian has night eyes, but not clairvoyant eyes, he can see through the darkness, but he can't see through the vast river fog, he looked ahead for a while, he muttered: "I heard that there seems to be movement ahead." ”
The crowd gasped and moved? It must have been a collision with an enemy patrol ship! The people held on to the railings and looked forward.
But even Lin Haotian couldn't see it clearly, let alone them, and after watching for a long time, people didn't see the reason.
Zhang Bufan retracted his gaze and whispered to Lin Haotian: "It won't be that the adults heard it wrong, there are so many ships in our army, and the noise is very loud." ”
Without waiting for Lin Haotian to reply, Shao Lin had already turned around and shouted in a low voice: "Mu Ke, let the eagle go to explore!"
Hearing Shao Lin's order, Mu Ke agreed, his shoulders shook violently, and the falcon standing on his shoulders suddenly jumped up and flew forward with its wings outstretched.
The eagle struck the sky, and soon, the long cry of the falcon 'quack, quack' was heard in mid-air.
If it is a wild eagle, the call should be a long cry similar to 'howling', sharp and piercing, while the call of a human-raised falcon should be relatively low, and the keeper can also judge whether it wants to express a slow or urgent meaning through the call of the falcon.
When Mu Ke heard the call of the falcon, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly said to Shao Lin: "General, there are enemy ships ahead!" (To be continued......