Chapter 7: The Battle of Huaishui
On the bank of Huaishui, tens of thousands of troops gathered here.
After a day of repairs, the coalition of princes began to prepare to cross the river. This time, the princes' coalition had already prepared for the river crossing, and the craftsmen made thirty boats and hundreds of rafts in advance. There are also soldiers who are familiar with the nature of the water to lead the crossing of the river.
The river crossing operation was divided into several batches, and the river was crossed from three river bends. Zijue only had 1,500 people in his hands, and these people could only hold one ferry, and the Qi army marched in three directions. Even if Zijue desperately stopped two ferries, as long as one of the ferries successfully crossed the river, he could only retreat.
For the first time, the Qi coalition army dispatched 5,000 people to divide into three teams and cross the river from three ferries. For a while, there was a lot of noise on the Huai River, and Zijue led the soldiers to attack tentatively, taking advantage of the fact that one of the teams had just crossed the river and had not yet gained a firm foothold, so he took the opportunity to attack.
If it weren't for the other two teams having completed the river crossing, Zijue was worried that they would be surrounded, and the coalition forces that crossed the river were probably going to be wiped out.
Seeing that the Huai army was retreating and the formation was in good order, Qiu Mu did not let the army pursue, but commanded the army to cross the river. It took more than 20,000 people a whole day to cross the river, and by the time everyone had crossed the river, the sky had already darkened.
Immediately, the Jianguo Qiu Mu ordered the army to set up camp, and in order to prevent the sudden flood of Huaishui, the camp still stood on a high place, and at the same time, he also sent a team of men and horses along the river for fifty miles upstream to prevent Huaiguo from building a dam to block the water, and set up a simple beacon every five miles. It can be said that every way imaginable is blocked.
Seeing that the Qi State Coalition Army was so vigilant, Zijue was also a little surprised. It's just that this Qiu Mu's style is still useless after all.
The golden black hangs in the west, and the jade rabbit rises in the east. As the night deepened, in the Huai army camp on the south bank of the Huai River, Zijue gathered the nobles and soldiers, and then climbed the high platform that had been prepared long ago to prepare for the sacrifice.
Everyone was very confused by the king's behavior of worshipping the heavens at night, but they didn't say anything.
Soon Zijue took the stage to worship the sky:
"Born a bird, descended to give birth to Shang, the Zhou people were despicable, sneak attacked me, and Yin Shang collapsed. Now we are waiting to move south, live here, Qi Shi to fight, vainly trying to exterminate us, lonely inheritance of the mandate of heaven, although Qi Shi is many people, but I have God's help, if we do not do our best, the mandate of heaven will abandon us and wait, when the Huai country does not exist, the people of the country will become slaves of the Zhou people.
I don't think anyone wants to be a pig and dog slave of the Zhou people! Lone has received the oracle from heaven, and there will be a heavenly fire falling into the camp tonight to help our army, and this battle will be won! ”
When everyone heard Zijue say that there was a heavenly fire falling into the camp, they were all shocked. It was also at this time that Zijue turned on the system, then chose to use the Tianhuo card, set the time and place, and began to wait quietly.
Minutes and seconds passed, and soon a quarter of an hour later, a little light suddenly flashed in the sky, and the next second I saw a meteor streak across the night sky. And what is surprising is that the meteor did not disappear in a flash, but flew towards them.
Soon, in the stunned eyes of everyone, the meteor in the sky came from the east, and the firelight illuminated the entire night sky, and the heaven and earth were suddenly as bright as day. This strange sight made everyone stunned, and what was even more surprising was that this meteor seemed to have eyes, and fell towards the camp of the Qi coalition army on the south bank of Huaishui.
Everyone in the Huai army was stunned, and everyone realized that the heavens had really sent heavenly fire to help. The morale of the entire Huai army battalion was raised to the extreme at this moment, even if there were 100,000 troops in front, these armor soldiers dared to rush forward and fight to the death without hesitation.
The surrounding ministers were also stunned by this meteorite, and the fire fell from the sky, making them immediately believe that Jun Shangzijue was the one who was favored by the heavens.
The meteor crossed the sky in the blink of an eye, flames rose, and countless heavenly fires fell from the sky into the camp of the Qi army. The camp, where it was resting, suddenly burst into flames.
This can be said to be a catastrophe for the alliance of the princes of the Qi State, this era is superstitious, and the heavenly fire fell into the camp, which directly makes people think that they are angry with the heavens and punished.
The entire camp turned into a sea of fire, and many people were killed by the fire before they had time to run out of the camp. What is even more frightening is that the camp has been bombed.
The already chaotic camp was bombed again, which can be said to be even worse. And other nobles such as Jian Guo Qiu Mu and Lu Guo Gongzi Bo Yu saw Tianhuo fall into the camp, their faces changed greatly, and several of them suddenly turned like earth. One of them couldn't help but say: "Heavenly Fire Falling Camp, could it be that the remnants of Yin Shang really obtained the Mandate of Heaven?" ”
Bo Bird was furious: "Hugh is talking nonsense! Yin Shang has lost the mandate of heaven, King Wu has cut down, Fengming Qishan, my Bang Zhou has obtained the mandate of heaven, this is a natural disaster, not the mandate of heaven! ”
Before the words fell, a killing shout was heard outside the camp.
"The Zhou people were punished by heaven, and the heavenly fire descended into the world, kill!"
"Heavenly fire descends into the world, we have the protection of heaven, and this battle will be won! Come on! ”
In the dark night, the firelight flickered, the firelight shone, and there were shadowy figures everywhere, and the shouts of killing came from all directions, and there seemed to be countless people besieging in the night. The allied forces of the princes of Qi were already in chaos, and countless people were fighting in chaos.
Jian Guo Qiu Mu and Lu Guo Gongzi Bo Yu shouted that they wanted to stabilize the soldiers and re-form a defense, but except for a few guards around them, everyone was in a mess and couldn't control it at all.
"Your Majesty, the general trend has gone, you can't form a formation to defend anymore, the army's morale is in turmoil, I can't stay for a long time, let's withdraw quickly!" Seeing the chaos in the camp, the surrounding guards hurriedly persuaded him.
"There are still people in the country, the king must not fall here, and please put the country first and evacuate quickly!" These guards dragged the prison country Qiu Mu and Gongzi Boyu to the bank of the Huai River.
The camp of Qi was in chaos, but the Huai State side was full of people, and the surrounding ministers were excited one by one: "God has given the mandate of heaven to send down heavenly fire to punish the Zhou people, this is the opportunity for us to win a big victory, please give an order quickly, break this Qi army!" ”
Zi Jue immediately shouted: "Everyone is a team of hundreds, forming a formation to storm the tent of the Zhou army, and the archer rockets are ready to be thrown!" Everyone shouted, the fire of heaven descended into the world, and the sin was condemned to the sky! ”
The four hundred archers divided into two teams and began to throw at the Qi camp, the rockets fell, and the camp became more and more chaotic. At the same time, Zijue let the guards around him with more than 90 armed forces rush into the Qi army camp as arrows.
These warriors with a force value of up to ninety, all of them are invincible fierce men, the bronze Ge in their hands is swept away, and they can directly beat a Qi State armor soldier out with armor, and before the person landed, the blood in the mouth and the broken internal organs spurted out wildly, and the bronze Ge slashed left and right, and where he passed, there was no enemy at all.
The Qi army was already in chaos, and the Huai army, led by these warriors, took advantage of the chaos to attack, which can be described as invincible. This army was originally a coalition of princes, not one, after the attack of heavenly fire, directly bombed the camp, it was already a mess, and there was no discipline at all.
Cannibalism, trampling and countless deaths, the Huai army in the dark night is like a messenger of hell, everywhere it passes, corpses are everywhere. The Huai army shouted slogans, which can be described as invincible, and the rain of arrows fell, and countless people died. The entire battlefield was completely turned into a one-sided slaughter.
Yi led a team of 100 people straight to the tent in the center of the camp, and there was no enemy in the place where he passed. The Qi army has already broken its guts, and the morale of the Huai State armor is very fast, and more than ten teams of soldiers are like more than ten sharp knives, dividing the fat of the Qi army camp.
This was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the Qi coalition army completely collapsed, countless people threw away their weapons and fled, the night was dark, many people ran towards the Huai River, but except for a few people with boats, more people fell directly into the water.
The archers continued to shoot arrows at the fleeing rebels, the army covered all the way, from the camp to the Huaishui this short distance, it can be said that the corpses are all over the field, the blood will stain the earth red, the blood penetrates the soil, the ground is muddy, after a year, Huaishui is dyed red again.
The sky gradually brightened, the golden crow rose in the east, a night of fighting, the dead pillowed, on the Huai River, floating corpses all over the field, the river was silted up, and the Qi coalition army was completely defeated.
The Huai army slaughtered countless people, the bronze Ge was broken, the knife edge was cracked, and the archers' arms were sore. But everyone's faces were full of excitement. In the battle in different fields, the Huai army had almost no casualties, and the corpses of the Qi coalition army were all over the field.
When the sun shone down, there were corpses of the Qi coalition army everywhere, and in addition to these, there were a large number of captives, and even the nobles had quite a few. Last night, except for Chumu and Bo Yu, who had not seen a good situation and escaped under the protection of the guards, the other nobles were either killed or captured, and almost all of them were wiped out.
There were more than 20,000 allied troops of the Qi State, of which 7,000 or 8,000 died of cannibalism and were burned to death, 5,000 were drowned in Huaishui, 5,000 were killed, and 2,000 surrendered, and less than 1,000 were able to flee for their lives.
And not all of these people fled to the north of the Huai River, they didn't know the direction in the dark, many of them fled to other places, and the fate of these people is estimated to be not much better, and it is difficult to survive nine times out of ten.
Zijue did not let the army cross the Huai River to continue the pursuit, although the morale of the Huai army was high, but after fighting all night, it was still very tired, although the strength of the northern countries suffered heavy losses, but it was not something that more than 1,000 people under his command could break through.
Immediately take it when it is good, and then command these captives to clean up the battlefield and rescue the baggage at the same time.
This time, the Qi coalition army suffered heavy casualties, and tens of thousands of corpses were scattered in the wilderness, if they were not dealt with as soon as possible, it would easily cause a plague. Relying on the medical skills of this era, once the plague occurs, it is almost lifeless.
Several pits of a thousand people were dug around the Huai River, which were quickly filled with corpses, and then they were buried, and even if there were too many corpses, the quilt Zijue ordered to set fire directly.
A big war has come to an end.
- The fourth year of the king, the alliance of the Qi Dynasty, and the Huai. That night, a meteor fell into the camp, and the heavenly fire came to the world, as bright as day, and the camp burned on fire, and the officials were frightened, saying: "Guilty in the sky, collapse." King Jue sent troops, won a great victory, and the deceased of Qi Division. "The Bamboo Book Chronicle: Yin Ji"