Chapter 40: Zhu Xia breaks Xu Huai
Xuyi, the city on the east bank of Yingshui, is like a nail, firmly nailing the army of Huaiyi people here.
If this nail is not removed, no one will dare to cross Yingshui to attack Luoyi.
It is always said that the remnant sun is like blood, but Luo Zhongshu feels that it is not as good as the current Xu Yi, and the soldiers in the city call it Xueyi in private.
From the attack on Xu Yi to the present, Luo Zhongshu doesn't know how many Huaiyi attacks he has repelled, and there are no less than 100 Huaiyi elites in his own hands alone.
The foundation accumulated by the Huaiyi people over the years is really thick, and such heavy casualties have not yet retreated, so we must take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely overturn the Bangzhou car.
Luo Zhongshu himself doesn't know how long he can hold on, and only the elite of Luoguo can withstand the elite of Huaiyi.
Therefore, the casualties paid in these days are very large, these are all young laborers, and they are also the most elite people in Los Angeles, and if this continues, Los Angeles will need at least decades of recuperation to recover.
As for those nobles, if it weren't for the fact that the heirs of these nobles had already been sent to Luoyi, and once they fled, it would be a cruel consequence of seizing the lord and exterminating the entire clan.
These nobles are afraid that they have fled.
The elite of Luoguo is becoming more and more courageous, and the casualties of their comrades will only make them treat the Huaiyi people more fiercely, especially the daring warriors of Luoguo, the strongest soldiers on the entire battlefield, and their combat effectiveness has reached the point where the Huaiyi people feel afraid.
Again repelled the attack of the Huaiyi people, and listened to the law enforcement officer crying in his ear: "General, thirteen more daring soldiers have died in battle, your ...... The eldest son was also among them. ”
Over the past few years, he had listened to these reports many times, and he prayed to King Su countless times in his heart, praying for the blessing of his ancestors.
Hearing that his eldest son had died, Luo Zhongshu was sad in his heart, and waved his hand a little weakly, "According to the old practice." ”
If a soldier of the country of Luo died in battle, in addition to the pension allocated by the country from the treasury, the office will also give an additional one.
Moreover, the children of the daring warriors will directly enter the public school, and they will be free of food and housing, which basically relieves the worries of all the daring warriors.
But the grief of the death of his loved ones is unforgettable, and he has already killed three of his sons, and two of his eldest brother's concubines have been killed in battle.
There are not many adults in the public lineage, and they really can't afford these casualties, because the ancestor once strictly stipulated that at least five descendants must survive in this world at the same time.
Luo Cheng's sending his eldest son and younger brother was already his selfishness.
News came from Yingguo that Luo Ren, the heir of the next generation of Luoguo, was seriously injured, had a high fever for several days, and is now bedridden and dying.
In fact, if it weren't for Ji Zhao spending luck points to use the ancestral blessing, Luo Ren would probably be gone.
Luo Zhongshu has also survived until now with his strong physical fitness, but he is already very tired.
The highest-ranking people among these clans have all reached this point, and you can imagine how tragic the battle situation is.
"General, letter from Luoyi!"
Luo Zhongshu Huo had to sit up straight, thinking that the people and supplies supported by Luo Yi had arrived again.
The ability to persevere these days depends not only on the bravery of the soldiers, but also on the support of Luoyi.
As a result, when he unfolded the bamboo slip, Luo Zhongshu instantly burst out laughing, and the whole person couldn't wait to jump up directly.
"Brother Zhong: You have been working hard in Xu Yi these days, and the sons and daughters of Luoguo have worked hard.
Yan'er sent an envoy to the state of Chu, and has successfully reached an alliance with the state of Chu, and the state of Chu has withdrawn from the state of Shen and the state of Sui, and I have issued an order to the state of Shen, Suiguo, and Tang, ordering them to take the armies of the two countries to the state of Ying and the state of Xu to support you and Ren'er.
The state of Chu will also send an army to detour behind the Huaiyi people, cooperate with you, and hold on for a while, Huaiyi will not be far from defeat. ”
After reading the letter in a hurry, Luo Zhongshu couldn't suppress his excitement at all, and finally didn't have to hear the law enforcement officer report to him every day how many Luo people had died in battle, it was simply too torturous.
"Immediately announce the contents of this letter to all the soldiers, hold on for a while, a large number of reinforcements will come soon, and then you will be able to find those Huaiyi for revenge!"
As the letter was spread, the entire Xu Yi resounded with earth-shattering cheers.
Hope is something more precious than gold.
Shen followed the reinforcements of the Tang Three Kingdoms to come faster than Luo Zhongshu imagined, Luo Cheng gave them a death order, if they dared to overdue, even if they were the marquis surnamed Ji, they would be directly tied to Luoyi and beaten.
In addition to the princes in the direction of the country, almost all the princes gathered in the Xu country, there are three marquis alone, Shenhou, Suihou, and Tanghou, all of whom are small sects surnamed Ji, canonized by Luosu, and there are many other Bozinan and vassals.
Luo Zhongshu commanded all the armies in the name of the general of the Hanyang Zhuji, and even the marquis had to obey his orders.
Huaiyi already sensed that something was wrong, the defenders in Xu Yi were getting stronger and stronger, and they were not at the same level as before.
Until they received the news that the state of Chu had actually negotiated peace with the Zhou dynasty, and sent troops to attack them.
Immediately afterwards, Luo Zhongshu waited for the grain brought by Wang Ji, and after swearing in Xuyi, he led all the troops out of the city of Xuyi for the first time.
This is not an evenly matched battle, Huaiyi is not strong enough to be stronger than the combined strength of most of the Hanyang princes, and it was able to break through before, but it was only because the Hanyang princes did not cooperate with each other that they were broken by each other.
Especially now that Shen, who was in charge of guarding against Chu, the new force of the Tang Three Kingdoms had joined in, and this strength had completely exceeded the strength of the attacking Huaiyi.
Especially the state of Chu appeared behind them at the same time, and Huaiyi was the meat on the chopping board under the attack from both sides.
When the strength can crush the opponent, you must fight steadily and steadily, and fight with the opponent with hard power, Luo Zhongshu knows this well, the offensive formation is impenetrable, and he has always liked to go into battle to kill, this time he will no longer step forward, stay in the Chinese army to command, and let other warriors go into battle to kill.
"The armies should keep a distance from each other, and no army should hastily break away from the ranks, not rush forward, obey orders, and march according to the sound of drums."
"Knock knock!"
Three-way drums, every time the war drums sounded, it was a rain of arrows, the shield soldiers in the front row covered the archers behind, and the chariots were cruising in the back, as long as Luo Zhongshu gave an order, they would begin to speed up, directly crushing all the Huaiyi people.
The distance of a few dozen paces was only an instant, and before the archers could shoot a few rounds, they began to throw at the rear army, and the front army had already collided with each other.
The former army was all the elite transferred from Shen and Tang Sanguo, just just contacted, they overthrew the Huaiyi people, the Huaiyi soldiers quickly stabilized, the casualties still increased greatly, and the bronze weapons were relatively easy to curl.
Luo Zhongshu looked at the situation of the front army, and the rounds of reserves were constantly replaced, and now the number and elite of the army in his hands exceeded that of the Huaiyi army, and with the wheel battle, he could also consume the opposite side to death.
Most of the soldiers killed on the coalition side were killed by bows and arrows, and not many were killed in white-knuckle combat, because there were very few warriors who could kill with a single sword in white-knuckle combat.
Luo Zhongshu estimated the physical strength of the soldiers, and when their physical strength might affect their combat strength, they would be transferred down and replaced with another team.
In this way, the soldiers of the coalition army can always maintain their physical strength, while the Huaiyi side does not have so many reserves, so it will face the dilemma that its own side is getting weaker and weaker, and the enemy is getting stronger and stronger.
The charioteers have not been on the battlefield until now, and Huaiyi's chariot is very majestic on the battlefield, if it weren't for the fact that Luo Guo had already consciously developed the tactics of restraining chariots, I am afraid that the casualties would be at least two layers higher than now.
People kept asking Luo Zhongshu when he would go into battle, and Luo Zhongshu kept saying that if he waited a little longer, he would only use the chariot to deliver a fatal blow when he saw the declining appearance of the Huaiyi people.
This is the way the dominant side plays, and finally, he saw the opportunity!
The charioteers of the Huaiyi people have been significantly tired, the lethality of the archers on the chariots has decreased significantly, the wielding power of the soldiers using Changge has also slowed down, and the most important thing is that the number of auxiliaries equipped with each chariot has decreased significantly.
"All the charioteers, attack from the northwest direction, and tear their formation hard for me!"
The soldiers who couldn't wait for a long time screamed and pounced on the Huaiyi people, these soldiers with full physical strength, whether they bent bows and arrows, or wielded Changge, their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable to the Huaiyi people who had already fought a fierce battle.
The scene of the battle was comparable to the beating of water dogs, and the entire coalition chariots split the Huaiyi ranks in two, and the destroyed chariots made them unable to move, and the divided charioteers were surrounded by shield-wielding soldiers, and then died at the hands of archers.
The Huaiyi people, who were already in a state of limit, collapsed with the first person, and the whole army collapsed in a short time, scrambling to escape, no matter how elite the army was once it was defeated.
Seeing that the Huaiyi people were completely defeated, Luo Zhongshu ordered the whole army to maintain a formation in pursuit, and it was necessary to leave more Huaiyi people on this plain.
Once the army is defeated, it is a cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, under the cover of the coalition army all the way, there is no way to know how many Huaiyi people died on this land, Luo Zhongshu can only see that the whole land is stained red with blood, and even the lake not far away is stained red by the blood water that gathers into a stream.
The casualties of the Huaiyi people who have been attacking the city for so many days are not as big as today's, countless corpses are scattered, and almost all of them have frightened expressions on their faces.
Especially the state of Chu is behind them, and if they want to escape, it can be said that there is no way to escape, and a rout battle has turned into a war of annihilation.
As the Huaiyi people retreated, the seriously injured soldiers in the coalition army were treated on the spot, leaving some people to continue to garrison Yingguo and Xuguo.
The rest of the army, under the leadership of Luo Zhongshu, crossed the border of Chen and came to the battlefield of Song and Xu.
Song, Zheng, and Chen are all great powers in Zhuxia, especially Song and Zheng, which are not inferior to Luo, and Zheng Hou is even more courageous, but they all suffered big losses in front of Xu.
The first reason is that the strength of the Xu State is indeed strong, and with the support of many Fang States, it has the ability to wrestle with the Three Kingdoms.
What's more, the monarch of Xu State, who arrogantly claimed the king, was too fierce, and even Zheng Bo, who was self-sustaining and brave, was not an opponent in front of him, a long brother was invincible, and his archery skills were called miraculous, because of him, no general dared to charge forward now.
On the contrary, the opponent's generals led the elite to come and go in the battle array, and they could tear through their own defense lines every time, causing huge damage, and even once almost let the other side blow up the front army, and never used the slave soldiers again, for fear that the slave soldiers would be coerced by the other party to directly attack their own camp.
Luo Zhongshu faced such a situation after coming here.
However, with the arrival of Luo Zhongshu, the strength of the coalition army has more than doubled, and it has been able to crush the Xu army with hard power.
King Xu is obviously different from Huaiyi, Huaiyi has no way to retreat, and has to fight a decisive battle with Luo Zhongshu, who has superior forces, hoping to win the battle.
But the king of Xu has a way out, as long as he retreats to the Xu country, if the Zhou army dares to chase after him, he will take advantage of the geographical advantage of the Xu country to hit these Central Plains military horses, if the Zhou people have to die, Xu can retreat to the southern city, unite the Huaiyi tribe, across the river and natural danger, the Central Plains princes who are not familiar with the water station can only be discouraged.
At this time, King Xu had already received the result of Huaiyi's defeat and retreat, and even the reason had been obtained.
"The King of Chu is really a short-sighted person, will the Zhou people really accept you?
They are so arrogant that they think they are favored by the Divine.
He wants to greedily bring all the land under his rule, and he wants all the tribes to prostrate under the Zhou Li.
Dayi merchants will never give in! ”
King Xu vented his emotions in the military tent, but although he was clamoring for the benefits, he was still very clear about the current situation, and did not hesitate to call the nobles and let them prepare to withdraw the army.
A good man does not suffer immediate losses, and King Xu deeply understands this truth.
But Luo Zhongshu and they certainly couldn't let King Xu retreat so simply, and immediately commanded the soldiers to chase and kill, King Xu had to leave a third of the army behind, and he himself tried to leave here by ferry with most of the elite.
Unexpectedly, there was a sudden sound of shouting and killing behind him, and when he saw that the flag fluttering first turned out to be Wu Guo!
King Xu is really dead at this time, how could Wu Guo suddenly appear here, and when did the Zhou Dynasty mobilize Wu Guo to come to King Qin.
He is a descendant of Yin Shang, how can he understand the greatness of Zhou Li?
More than 200 years of Xia Yi distinction has drawn a clear gap between Zhuxia and Yi people.
Therefore, as long as Luo Cheng sent a young son to argue in front of the king of Chu, he could let the state of Chu let go of the century-old grudge between him and the Zhou royal family.
Similarly, as long as he repaired a letter and promised Wu Guo to return to the camp of Zhu Ji, he would be able to let Wu Guoxing attack Xu.
This is the royal road that Zhou Tianzi walked!
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