Chapter 255: Mutations in the Battle Situation
No matter what kind of attention everyone has, with the confrontation between the scouts of the forward army and the small indigenous troops, more and more of the Jiaozhou indigenous army began to cross the 100,000 mountains at the junction of the two states and came to Ninghai County (Fangchenggang) bordering Jiaozhou, and the decisive battle between the two armies was inevitable.
Although Wang Ze put forward his opinion in front of Ouyang Ze last time, Ouyang Ze has always been very skeptical of Wang Ze's opinion, but after all, Wang Ze is a friendly army that came to support him, although Ouyang Ze does not agree with Wang Ze's point of view, but he will still chat peacefully when they meet.
In fact, he still admires Ouyang Wang Ze very much, this person is a sincere gentleman, he was famous for his filial piety in his hometown in Xiangzhou earlier, and he was unwilling to be recommended by the government as an official at that time, and he didn't even want to run out to live with his family property.
It was not until his old father died of illness that he became an official at the forced request of his eldest brother, and he was not a civilian official, but a middle-level officer in the lieutenant's office.
Later, when the rebellion of Hou Jing of Southern Liang, Ouyang was already an official in Lingnan, and at this time Jiaozhou and Guangzhou in Lingnan were also in turmoil.
At that time, Yuan Tanshou, the Taishou of Jiaozhou, handed over 500 taels of gold to Ouyang Yu because of the inconvenience of transportation, and asked him to return 100 taels of gold to Gong Hui, the Taishou of Hepu, and the other 400 taels to his son Yuan Zhiju.
It didn't take long for Ouyang to be unwilling to belong to Xiao Bo of the Xiao Liang clan who tried to stand on his own and resist Chen Baxian, so Xiao Bo sent troops to conquer the city and deprived him of all his money, but the five hundred taels of gold were concealed and preserved by Ouyang Yu.
Not long after, Yuan Tanshou, the only Jiaozhou Taishou who knew the news, also fell ill and died, but Ouyang Yu did not greed for the gold, but waited until the war subsided, and handed over all the gold to the two people entrusted by Yuan Tanshou in good condition.
However, for Wang Ze, although he respects Ouyang Wei very much, he is an official of Nan Chen after all, and because of his layout of Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, Wang Ze does not want Ouyang Wei to win too smoothly, so Wang Ze hopes that Ouyang Wei can win this time, but he will lose a little more.
Although he also hopes that the strength of the entire country of Nanchen will increase a little, which is very important for containing the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi of the Northern Dynasties, especially the rapidly rising Northern Zhou is the great enemy in Wang Ze's heart.
To restrain the rapid rise of the Northern Dynasties, all of this requires Nan Chen to focus his main attention on the northern front, and his previous advice to Nan Chen to develop Lingnan is just to enhance Nan Chen's comprehensive strength.
Only when Nan Chen set his main military eyes on the restoration of the Central Plains, and with the support of the rapid economic development of the rear and the development of the hinterland of Lingnan, he continued to wage wars and confrontations with the Northern Dynasties, so that Wang Ze could farm leisurely and sit on a small bench and watch the Central Plains countries fight.
Therefore, this time, Wang Ze made up his mind not to speak much.
Wang Ze had a small calculation in his heart, and Ouyang Yan was also busy with the deployment of troops.
Ouyang Wei was not particularly worried about the more than 100,000 Jiaozhou indigenous troops near Ninghai County, although this indigenous rebel army was more than 100,000 people, and it had a strong combat power that far exceeded those rebels.
But when this rebel army came out of Jiaozhou, which he was familiar with, and wanted to fight a decisive battle with him in Ninghai County, it was already in a disadvantageous position in fact, if it weren't for Ouyang Yi's thoughts of annihilating it in one go, I am afraid that the war would not have dragged on for so long.
Let's ask, far away from the base area that supports you, and come to a strange place where no one supports you, whether it is in terms of weapons, training or battle formation experience, the improvised army of the aborigines of Jiaozhou is not as good as Nan Chen, but they just came.
At the same time that Ouyang was preparing for battle, a group of indigenous soldiers who were all dressed differently, carrying all kinds of strange weapons, came out of the dense jungle in the west and gradually gathered on the flat land near the mountains in the west of Ninghai County.
As time passed, in less than two days, more than 100,000 indigenous soldiers came out of the jungle, although the indigenous people are very adapted to the environment in the jungle, but there are poisonous snakes and other poisonous insects in it I don't know how many, even if the indigenous people have to cross the jungle, they have to pay a lot of price.
The assembled indigenous soldiers quickly formed a battle formation, especially the well-dressed young men in the center, surrounded by more than twenty war elephants.
Wang Ze took the binoculars and looked over, among the several men, a young man of a different race was the most luxurious, wearing a gilded tower-shaped crown on his head, the inlaid gems were shining, and the armor on his body did not know how the effect of protective knives, guns, and arrows was, anyway, it was also plated with a layer of gold, and it was more and more conspicuous against the backdrop of hundreds of sergeants in gray military uniforms around, and it was a good target.
Wang Ze guessed in his heart, it seems that this should be the prince of Funan, after seeing it from a distance, Wang Ze secretly said that it was a pity, if there were so many bed crossbows, equipped with explosive warheads with fierce gunpowder, he could send these guys to his grandmother's house at once, and those guys who got these guys were there.
However, the appearance of this man also confirmed Yang Feihu's previous intelligence that Funanguo might intervene in the Jiaozhou war, and it was not possible to figure out the participation of the Tianzhu people.
In Jiaozhou, the Central Plains of Nanchen regarded it as a barbaric place, but other countries in Nanyang knew the preciousness of this place, if it were not for Nanchen because this place has always been Chinese territory, it must be maintained and had to fight, I am afraid that it is really possible to be won by these natives.
Since the arrival of the old general Zhou Wenhua, Mrs. Xian and Wang Ze, he assigned the scattered tasks, and then gathered all the troops under his command to prepare for a decisive battle with the indigenous army of Jiaozhou. 8090 Chinese
Now the army of 120,000 people is fighting, and if you don't get it right, you will miss it, in order to maintain the diplomatic relations between the two countries, so Ouyang Wei doesn't want Wang Ze to go to the battlefield, but just lists it as a reserve, but this is exactly what Wang Ze thinks.
During this time, a large number of soldiers in Wang Zezhong's escort army fell ill, which caused the combat effectiveness of this army to drop a lot compared to before, even if the soldiers who were not sick were not physically stronger than before, if they went to the battlefield at this time, I am afraid that the number of casualties caused would not be a small number.
On the battlefield, the armies of the two sides formed two worlds with distinct personalities, because the Chen army was mostly a regular army, and it was just at the beginning of the founding of the country, it was a time when military discipline was strict, so one by one the soldiers of the Chen army quietly waited for orders, and the atmosphere of slaughter permeated the entire battlefield.
The Jiaozhou indigenous army on the opposite side is the opposite, there is no formation, not to mention, and they are noisy and chaotic, and from time to time you can see some soldiers fighting, it may be that the two tribes that had a grudge in the past are next to each other, and then the old feud recurs.
But Ouyang Wei, who knew the situation of the natives in Jiaozhou, did not dare to look down on these natives, he had dealt with the natives of Jiaozhou for more than a year or two, although these natives had no military discipline, but they didn't need to cooperate at all to know what to do when fighting.
And the weapons used are very strange, some will get a kind of sap from the forest called the 'blood to seal the throat' tree to make a very toxic poison, as long as the weapon smeared with this poison is a little bit bruised, then within a quarter of an hour will die of suffocation, the end is very vicious.
However, at this time, the two armies couldn't take care of so much, Ouyang Wei still had confidence in his soldiers, and there were also armies led by Zhou Wenhua, Mrs. Xian, A Niu, Wang Ze and others, no matter what, they were invincible.
The land of Lingnan is not suitable for the survival of good horses in the north, and the mountain horses obtained from Ningzhou in Lingnan cannot be used for riding because of their short stature, so there are not many cavalry on both sides, and the only cavalry is mostly used for messengers.
And because the fighting Ninghai County is mountainous here, the naval army that can only operate in the rivers and seas is not useful for the time being, so at this time, the Nanchen army on the battlefield and the indigenous armies of Jiaozhou are all infantry troops.
More than 200,000 soldiers on both sides gradually moved forward under the leadership of their respective generals, and with the gradual sound of drums, the battle formations of both sides advanced faster and faster.
Suddenly
The sound of fighting, swords and weapons colliding sounded, and the air was quickly filled with a strong smell of blood, and the smell of blood became more and more pungent in this hot weather, and even Wang Ze felt it several miles away from the battlefield.
If Wang Ze hadn't been accustomed to all kinds of bad situations brought about by fighting on the battlefield, I'm afraid he would really be unable to persevere.
The fact that a group of soldiers fell in the battle was not eye-catching, because after more than 200,000 soldiers on both sides were thrown into the battlefield from multiple angles, they completely covered this area within a radius of dozens of miles, and even if 20,000 or 30,000 people died, it would not be obvious to people.
The indigenous army from Jiaozhou, although it was all from different forces and tribes before, but the general who organized these indigenous armies was very smart, he clearly understood the scattered nature and weakness of the indigenous people in Jiaozhou, and simply formed more than 100,000 indigenous armies into teams completely according to their relatives.
These small warbands then form a large team based on the tribes, and then the friendship of the tribes is used as a basis to form larger units.
Although it was easy for the Chen army to find a loophole and use the gap between the two teams to break the battle formation, the indigenous army relied on itself to outnumber more than half of the Southern Chen army, which made up for this problem very well.
It was the first time for Ouyang to see these natives so crazy, because the leaders had said before that as long as they defeated the Han people and occupied Lingnan, they and their relatives could have a huge country, and they could all get the land, houses, cattle and sheep that the Han people had cultivated.
If they make a great contribution, they can even get Han women, or Han slaves, the natives of Jiaozhou are crazy, in order to be able to have a country of their own, to obtain the conditions promised by the leaders, they are not afraid of life and death, even if they exchange two people for the life of a Chen soldier, it is simply a suicide attack in later generations.
Ouyang Wei was also stunned for a moment by the desperate frenzied fighting of the indigenous army at first, but then he made arrangements for this situation, the natives' desperate efforts would certainly cause great trouble to Chen Jun, but as long as Chen Jun delayed for a while, the physical strength of these natives would drop significantly.
When the time comes, Chen Jun will take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and it will be easier to gain the upper hand.
As time passed, as Ouyang expected, the native army of Jiaozhou became more scattered, and as the soldiers of the Chen army advanced towards the enemy, the native army soon could not hold on.
The rabble has always been able to fight with the wind, so as soon as the momentum was not good, some of the tribes' soldiers immediately began to flee, which led to the collapse of the indigenous army even more severely, and as a large number of indigenous soldiers fled, a group of Chen soldiers pointed directly at the noble man surrounded by twenty war elephants.
When Nan Chen's group of soldiers was about to catch up with the noble men who commanded the Jiaozhou indigenous army, they suddenly heard a long howl in the mountains and forests not far in front of the Jiaozhou indigenous army.
Ouyang Yan, who had been dealing with the natives in Lingnan for a long time, immediately turned pale when he heard it, and he anxiously said to the soldiers around him: "Quickly Mingjin withdraw the troops!" ”