Chapter 279: The First Confrontation

Standing on the ice and snow wall more than one zhang high and looking at the opposite bank, the riverbed hundreds of meters wide was all covered with a thick layer of snow, and even the water surface that was sixty or seventy zhang wide in the past was covered by thick snow after freezing, and it was impossible to distinguish where the water was and where the shore was.

Gao Wen stood on the ice wall in military uniform, frowning at the newly established camp five or six miles away on the other side of the river, which had been built in less than two hours by the Xia army who had arrived from Zhenhai.

Moreover, this large camp is not the kind of camp built in the course of ordinary marching, but a fixed camp that can allow the army to be stationed for a long time and can assume the function of defending and blocking the enemy.

Looking at it like this, Xia Jun actually has a plan to consume it here for a long time with himself, which can make Gao Wen depressed, and I don't know how these guys who have just established the country have so much money, food and materials, and the materials in the hands of Goguryeo, the overlord of the East China Sea, are tight.

The Xia army on the opposite side can not only supply themselves with enough supplies every day, but also take out a large amount of materials, money and food to win over the nearby indigenous tribes.

At the beginning, there were several tribes in the Funi tribe, and they all had the intention of taking refuge in Goguryeo under the persuasion of the envoys they sent, but what they didn't expect was that the envoys from Zhenhai took out a large amount of materials, money and food, and they followed with a daze.

Damn, we Goguryeo can also promise high-ranking officials to be generous! As a result, a relatively straightforward tribal leader directly threw out a sentence: 'You are not willing to eat by yourself, and you also say that you have a lot of money, food and materials, what about coaxing children?' ’

This time, Gao Wen originally planned to build fortifications here in advance, and then attract the Xia army on the opposite side to take the initiative to attack, so that he could rely on the built fortifications to consume the Xia army's troops, and when the Xia army was exhausted, he would suddenly attack, and he would definitely be able to make miraculous achievements.

But I don't want to think that although this group of Xia Jun was led out, but they didn't attack very calmly, and they used their rich net worth to fight with themselves, which made Gao Wen, who was not too rich in materials in his hand, unable to sit still.

After thinking for a long time, he immediately sent a barnyard general to lead 2,000 Goguryeo soldiers to sweep the formation, and then sent the soldiers of the Baishan Department and the soldiers of Beiwofu, who were good at fighting in the snow, to attack and harass the camp that had just been set up on the opposite side, and it was best to attract a group of Xia troops.

For the Baishan tribe and the Beiwo tribesmen, Gao Wen also used the method of Han Xin to drive the soldiers of the Three Qins in the beginning, in order to lure them, and he tried his best to take a large amount of rewards from the baggage materials to stimulate the fighting will of these indigenous soldiers.

As soon as Gawain heard that Gawain was going to attack the camp in front of them, these people from the White Mountain and the Northern Wo tribe rushed out without thinking about it, they skateboarded, their weapons in their hands, and the fur clothes they wore were dyed in a mess.

Combined with the strange screams made by this indigenous soldier when he charged, it became more and more like a ghost, if the state and county soldiers of Northern Qi in the Central Plains saw these indigenous soldiers, they would definitely think that this was the demon and monster in the mountains and forests.

However, these soldiers in the East China Sea, especially the soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army, had already seen these when they were training with the Wolf Tooth Army, and they didn't feel new at all, let alone feel scared, they looked at the indigenous soldiers who rushed up with a strange scream, and excitedly drew their swords and prepared one by one.

Because the weather is really cold, all the long-range weapons such as bows and arrows and crossbow arrows on both sides cannot be used at such a low temperature, and there have been many accidents when using the previous gunpowder weapons, so the weapons used by both sides are all long and short weapons in hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing that the other party sent a large number of indigenous soldiers to attack the camp, Zhang Hang, who had just completed the construction of the camp, immediately ordered his deputy general, General Zhenwu (the junior rank of the general) Cang Shu to personally lead a thousand soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army and two thousand soldiers of the Heishui Department to attack.

However, when Zhang Hang saw that the Goguryeo people seemed to have other preparations, he asked Cao An and his lieutenant Xie Yan to lead thousands of men and horses to deal with the threat from both sides of the camp, and they also had to be ready to meet Cangshu at any time, so as not to be ambushed by the Goguryeo army.

Although in ancient times, generally speaking, the soldiers who came out of the bitter cold places in the north were more fearless and brave and good at fighting, but because the overall environment of the indigenous tribes such as the Northern Wofu and Baishan tribes was not much different from the Heishui tribe in the Tongjiang River Basin.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of both sides is not too much, that is, since the Northern Wofu people have taken refuge in the Goguryeo people over the years, with the continuous suppression, the combat effectiveness of the tribes has long been inferior to before, that is, relying on the bravery of the Baishan Division, they can still hold on.

Although the soldiers of the Black Water Division have also not experienced any military training, and they do not have a team combination or anything like that, they are currently just hunters with the same weapons and equipment as the soldiers of the Xia Army in the East China Sea.

However, it was precisely because they had not undergone the military training of the Xia army that they used the means of hunting together with their companions in the tribe in the past, but they were also inseparable from the Baishan Department and the Beiwofu people, and because they had the Blue Wolf Army as the main force, they fought with the other party without winning or losing under the premise of being inferior in numbers. Wenxin School

Gao Wen watched the battle between the two armies on the middle battlefield on the high ice wall, he was not worried about the situation in front of him, although the Xia army is fighting well now, but it is precisely because of the difference in numbers, after a while after a large amount of physical strength of the Xia army soldiers, it is their own advantage.

However, Gawain did not take into account a very important problem, that is, the Xia army did not treat the soldiers of the Blackwater as pure consumables like him, and the weapons used by these soldiers of the Blackwater were all weapons as sophisticated as other soldiers.

Goguryeo, on the other hand, was different, because the purpose of recruiting these indigenous armies was not pure, so the weapons they assigned to these soldiers were all inferior weapons, which were inconspicuous at first, but when the battle came, the seriousness of the matter began to be highlighted.

The weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the White Mountain Department were of poor quality, and after a battle of incense, a large number of cracks and fractures began to appear, and before these soldiers of the White Mountain Department could react, their weapons were cut down by the soldiers of the Black Water Department and the soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army.

It would be nothing if there was even a dozen or so such things in the battle, but it was precisely because the weapons in the hands of many soldiers had problems with the low temperature and quality that this kind of scene appeared everywhere on the battlefield, which immediately made the morale of the soldiers of the White Mountain and Wofu tribes immediately low.

Even in the later generations, the people in the Northeast region believed in ghosts and gods very much, not to mention the Baishanbu and Wofu people at this time, they couldn't imagine that the quality of their weapons was too poor, and they thought that the Xia army had ghosts and gods to help, and they immediately had no will to fight.

At this time, Cang Shu, the deputy general of the first division of the Blue Wolf Army, who commanded the army to fight, immediately seized the fighter plane and took the lead in rushing towards the junction between the Baishan Department and the Wofu people.

Cang Shu wore a stamped helmet and a fish-scale iron armor, which was tightly protected, so he was very relieved to boldly charge into the ranks of soldiers in the White Mountain, and dozens of elite soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army followed, also wearing rhino skin and fish-scale iron armor, waving weapons and rushing in.

After such a team was used as an arrow to tear apart the ranks between the White Mountain Department and the Wofu people, the large army composed of the Blue Wolf Army and the soldiers of the Black Water Department behind also rushed up, and in this instant, the entire White Mountain Department and the Northern Wofu part left.

The combat effectiveness of the Beiwo people has become lower and lower over the years, even if it is time to fight hard at this time, they still can't raise much fighting quality, which is really a little disappointing to Gao Wen, but now according to the prior arrangement, they should have withdrawn, but they don't want to be stuck by the blue wolf army, and they can't withdraw if they want to.

Originally, before the attack of the Baishan and Beiwofu people, Gao Wen meant to let the Baishan tribe and the Beiwofu people attack the Xia army's camp, and then attract the main force of the Xia army to attack and print the opponent out of the strong camp, so that he could send a killer weapon and use thousands of cavalry to fatally damage it with one blow.

This can not only greatly damage the morale of the opponent, but also weaken the opponent's forces.

But I don't want those indigenous soldiers to be because of the weapons they issued to them at this time, and before they can lure out the main force of the blue wolf army, they have suffered so heavy losses under the attack of the first batch of Xia troops, and they can't even save their lives, how can they attract the main force of the enemy army to attack?

Seeing that these soldiers of the White Mountain Department really couldn't resist it, the soldiers of the Wofu people had simply become a mess, so Gawain immediately ordered the barnyard general who had swept the formation before to lead two thousand men and horses under his command, and another general's three thousand men and horses to attack immediately, and be sure to rescue the White Mountain Department and the Wofu people.

As a result, when these two Goguryeo soldiers rushed forward, they were resisted by Cao An and Xie Yan who rushed out from both sides, and then the two sides fought again.

Originally, the fighting will of the soldiers of the Baishan Department was quite strong, but because of the early rout of the Wofu people, under the influence of the Wofu people, the soldiers of the Baishan Department also dropped their weapons and ran away, no longer caring about the Xia army that was pursuing behind them with weapons.

Seeing that the first two steps of his layout were destroyed by the Xia army one after another, Gao Wen's heart was very depressed and angry, and when he saw that under the influence of the Wo Fu people, even the White Mountain Division, which had always been tenacious in battle, began to rout, and suddenly a cold light appeared in his eyes.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at a large army hidden behind the ice wall, it was the cavalry of Goguryeo, although there was a thick layer of snow on the ice and riverbed of the waterfront at this time, but because of the strong wind blowing a few days ago, the snow here was much thinner than in the forest, and it could still allow the cavalry to play their own role.

This Goguryeo cavalry is Gawain's killer weapon this time, and when he came, he didn't even let these war horses carry armor materials, not only the cavalry was light armor all over the body, but even the war horses had vests made of felt to protect bows and arrows, but now because both sides can't use bows and arrows, it only has the effect of keeping warm.

Seeing that this cavalry was all ready, Gao Wen gritted his teeth and said, "Cavalry attack!" ”