Chapter 103: Crossing the River
Knock, knock, knock......
The drums of war rang out from the south bank.
Zhang Yu launched the first battle to cross the river.
Not surprisingly, the Jin army in the left battalion took the lead, and hundreds of soldiers rushed to the north bank with large shields and stepped on rafts.
The northerners rode horses, and the southerners drove boats.
The rafts are like flying fish in the water.
Dozens of trebuchets on the north shore began to wield their might, and the cannons whistled through the sky and smashed into the water, making a splash.
However, this kind of raft has a small target and is extremely flexible in the water, with three people holding shields, three people holding crossbows, and four people paddling on a raft, and the speed is extremely fast, and it is difficult for catapults to hit.
Even if they hit, the enemy who was not killed on the spot still moved forward, and they could still shoot at the north shore camp with their crossbow machines.
The archers in the middle base bent their bows and arrows.
Li Yue waved his hand, "Let them cross the river." ”
Although it is the best choice to maintain the undefeated trend in this battle, Zhang Yu has to come to seek death, and no one can stop him.
A few hundred Jin troops soon crossed the not wide water.
Formation on the shore.
The war drums in the south shook the sky, and the soldiers began to shout loudly, and dozens of rafts continued to rush towards the north shore, and the water seemed to be boiling.
Han Xu and Zheng Hui's faces were a little ugly, but Du Fan looked calm.
Li Yue ordered: "Forward Department, fight quickly." ”
"Command!" Wei Shan came out with a hammer and a shield.
Forward, mid-base, horseman, guerrilla, scout five divisions, the forward soldiers are renamed from the previous death battalion, gathering the outlaws on Heiyun Mountain, the most fierce of the five, the most suitable for this kind of frontal fighting.
"Kill!" There was a loud roar on the ground.
The strikers rushed out directly from behind the antlers, and their heads were scattered, either carrying maces or iron bones.
In the middle of summer, many people are too lazy to get dressed, only wearing a layer of iron or leather armor on the upper body, and rushing forward with their bare buttocks.
Like a group of wild people in the mountains.
The Jin army is still a traditional square and round formation, with the peripheral troops deployed layer by layer, the sword and shield layer by layer, and the crossbowman in the middle.
The formation is good, but in terms of momentum, it is obviously inferior to Li Yue's forward department.
The battle of Xuanyuan Mountain has allowed them to establish a psychological advantage.
Almost all of them were war-hungry madmen, who had not seen blood for most of the year, and now they saw the enemy, like a wolf seeing a flock of sheep.
How much food can be exchanged for killing an enemy, and how many merits are accumulated, all of them are clearly marked.
Hundreds of crossbows fired in unison in the square array, and there was a ding-dong sound, as if a shower of rain had smashed on the shield, causing a burst of wild laughter in the forward department.
The first dozen or so sturdy armorers threw away their shields and jumped up with their bare thighs, as if a vicious wolf pounced on the wolves, and the bones, maces, and hammers fell down......
First there was the sound of gold and iron pounding, then the sound of broken bones and screams, and the sound of gruesome laughter.
The Jin army seemed to have never seen such a barbaric army, and the Fang Yuan array was smashed by the outlaws of the forward department.
Li Yue, who was watching the battle from behind, only felt that the soldiers were more fierce than before.
After the order of Heiyun Mountain was established, everyone had a support and guarantee, and they had changed from being a homeless person to a real army.
"Hahaha." One of the vanguard soldiers smashed the enemy's head, blood splattered all over his face, but he stuck out his tongue and licked it, the expression on his face becoming more and more excited.
As if killing was his only pleasure in life.
The Jin army came from afar, although it was well-equipped and well-trained, but in the final analysis, this war was not theirs, and when they encountered the outlaws in the forward department, they were three points weaker in momentum.
Wei Shan smashed over a soldier, scanned the battlefield with red eyes, and his eyes fell on an enemy general wearing Mingguang armor.
This equipment is too obvious on the battlefield.
The cyan cloak set off his extravagance even more.
"Die!" Wei Shan roared and rushed directly with more than a dozen personal soldiers.
Although the enemy army was hit, because of the existence of the formation, it had not completely collapsed, and only a weighty general stood up and raised his arms and shouted, and the enemy army could hold on for a while.
When the raft crosses the shore in the water, the outcome is uncertain.
However, not everyone can fight to the death like Heiyun Mountain, and after seeing Wei Mountain, the enemy general suddenly threw down his weapon, turned around and ran......
As soon as the generals retreated, the already shaky formation immediately collapsed, and the enemy turned around and fled.
Those who didn't have time to escape knelt directly on the shore.
Wei Shan rushed to the water's edge and spat fiercely, "Cowardice!" ”
The hundreds of rafts on the river, seeing that the situation was not right, rowed halfway through, and hurriedly rowed back.
A battle to cross the river came to an end.
Wei Shan stained his armor with blood and returned to Li Yue, with a dissatisfied face, "The other side is too unpleasant, our army has not yet finished its fun, they turned around and ran." ”
Han Xu, Zheng Hui, and Du Fan next to him opened their eyes wide.
The vicious battle just now made them tremble, and they had a new understanding of the combat power of Heiyun Mountain.
Half of this battle was fought to show them, so that they could feel the strength of the Black Cloud Army for themselves.
The other half was called to Zhang Yu and asked him not to jump off the wall in a hurry.
Just consume it like this, hello and I'm good.
On both sides are deep ditches and high bases, separated by water, whoever takes the initiative to attack will be unlucky.
However, Zhang Yu obviously did not understand the information revealed by Li Yue, and after two hours, he organized his soldiers to attack from the upstream, and more than 300 rafts floated down.
This time Li Yue was not polite, and the archers in the middle base fired thousands of arrows in unison, and smashed into the water with the catapult.
Before the more than 300 rafts could reach the shore, more than 60 or 70 overturned in the river, glowing with bursts of blood red.
The enemy troops who rushed to the north bank could not break through the resistance of the antlers and ravines, and after throwing down four or five hundred corpses, they were driven down the water in disarray.
After these two battles, Li Yue had a new understanding of the combat power of Heiyun Mountain.
After the transformation of the soldiers, they are more brave and fierce than before.
People who know what they are fighting for are usually not timid.
Putting aside the general national righteousness, once Zhang Yu broke through the Weishui defense line, the grain he had worked so hard for would be wasted.
Even if the two armies faced each other, Honglu Cao's people were not idle.
Zhang Yu was rich and wealthy, lost six or seven hundred people, and his eyes did not wrinkle, and the next day he launched a new attack, making a long-distance detour from the upstream and downstream respectively.
But none of these tricks escaped the scout's eyes.
There were Cui Jin and Xu Cheng's suspicious soldiers in the upper reaches of the west, and the scouts in the lower reaches set up an ambush, and without Li Yue's action, the three hundred scouts defeated more than 1,000 people on the opposite side.
Every small victory increases the confidence of the soldiers.
Li Yue was firmly blocked on the Weishui defense line, and Zhang Yu could not advance an inch.
The fighting has relapsed into a stalemate.
This stalemate is naturally beneficial to Li Yue.
Regardless of whether this battle is won or lost, it will be harmful to Heiyun Mountain at the political level.
Unless you can kill Zhang Yu in one breath and swallow Xuchang.
But after seeing the continuous barracks on the other side, Li Yue still gave up this illusion.
Zhang Yu didn't hurt his muscles and bones, he couldn't attack it, and Li Yue couldn't beat it.