In the river area of Yupan City, after receiving a report from Deng Jiuru upstream that he had crossed the river, in order to respond and cooperate with the left route army upstream, under the order of the eldest prince, Li Bao's headquarters began to Launch a violent attack on the other side.
Groups of Zhenbei soldiers rode boats toward the other side. Arrows from both sides were like rain. Overturned boats and floating corpses could be seen everywhere on the river.
A natural moat is a natural moat. In front of the river, the Yan people's cavalry lost their former sharpness, even the Zhenbei Army was no exception. So it is no wonder that Qian Guo has to pay special tribute from Qian Jiang. At great cost, a Bianhe River was artificially dug to protect his capital.
However, the Zhenbei Army is still the best in the world. Even without horses, its morale and bravery can definitely be regarded as the strongest soldiers in the world.
Already several times, the Zhenbei Army successfully broke through and reached the other side, and then quickly tried to form a formation to cover the arrival of subsequent troops.
However, the previous few times the rebels' counterattacks were too fierce, causing them to fail to stand on the shore, and they all failed in the end.
This is like attacking a city, one wave after another, trying to gain points and gain an Arrancar.
However, when several Yan troops who had sneaked across the bank a few days ago suddenly rushed out from the other side of the bank under the order of the eldest prince, they successfully disrupted the position of the rebels on the other bank.
Finally, a team of more than 500 people successfully landed on the ferry and stabilized their position. Immediately, the subsequent Zhenbei Army began to continue transportation.
On the other hand, the rebel side finally lost control of their morale. They could no longer organize death-defying soldiers to expel the Yan people on the shore as before.
Firstly, the sudden appearance of the Yan cavalry on their side brought great psychological pressure to them. Secondly, the rebels were still mainly composed of rabble-rousers from all walks of life. The real Elite, only a small part.
And that small part was actually consumed in the initial fighting on the shore.
Without the support of the backbone, other rebels immediately began to languish.
"Your Highness, it seems that not only the left army, but also our army is about to break through!"
After seeing another group of ships transporting 800 soldiers, Li Bao Bao finally couldn't hold back his excitement and walked to the eldest prince and said.
A man who was born in the North and fought in the desert. This was his first time in his life to have a water fight.
This big river almost made Li Bao depressed to death, but at least, the hole has been torn open, and the main force of the savages is not here. It is only a matter of time to seize the other side.
Moreover, to a certain extent, capturing the other side is tantamount to successfully crossing the river, and if the crossing is successful, then Yupan City will be within easy reach.
The reason is very simple. This place is not far from Yupan City. The rebels, that is, Situ Yi’s small court supported by the savages, will inevitably line up their troops on the shore to defend. Will not be stupid general soldiersThe horses were placed on the city wall, waiting for the Yan people to cross the river and then attack or besiege the city.
In other words, Yupan City should be an empty city at this time!
The balance of victory has been pulled down by myself and others. Yan is destined to be invincible!
The eldest prince took a deep breath. After all, he was young, and at this time, he was inevitably a little excited.
The main force of the Left Army should have crossed the river. If we break through, Wangjiang will be completely torn apart.
After capturing Yupan City, and then all the way to the easternmost part of Chengguo, the terrain is basically flat. Whether the barbarians fight or retreat, Ji Wujiang can deal with it more calmly.
The Yan army is still the most majestic on their war horses, and they are more comfortable to use.
The most important thing is that without the support of Situ Yi, the puppet imperial court, the guest army of the barbarians will also lose all support on this land.
However, just at this moment, the messenger came quickly:
"Report!!!!!!!!! Chu warships appeared upstream, blocking the river! ”
What!
The eldest prince and Li Bao looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
Chu people, why do Chu people appear here!
How could the Chu people who were fighting among themselves appear here!
"Report!!!!!! The main force of savages raided the Left Route Army camp!"
"Report!!!!!! The Left Route Army camp fell into a fierce battle! "
"Straight bitch, what's going on? No wonder we didn't see any savages here. It turns out that the main force is upstream!"
Li Bao cursed loudly, his chest heaving.
The emergence of the Chu people and their navy directly disrupted the rhythm and layout of the battlefield, becoming a huge unknown.
Li Bao is a veteran general in the army. His experience in leading troops is much richer than that of Deng Jiuru, who is older than him. I was used to fighting with barbarians in the desert, and even when I was sleeping at night, I was used to holding the handle of the knife in my hand.
If the Jingnan Army was able to enforce orders and prohibitions because of Marquis Jingnan’s strict military discipline, then the Zhenbei Army relied on this instinct that they had learned through fighting in the desert.
When he went south to Qianguo, Li Fusheng, as the commander-in-chief of an army, dared to throw himself into the camp to cause trouble, because even without his command, the soldiers and horses under his command knew how to cooperate in fighting .
But what is the Left Army?
There are many military leaders, from one family to the general and this family to the general, this family and that family are in-laws, and that family and this family are feuding, if it weren’t for the eldest prince reorganizing the left flank after entering Yingdu Army, they can even fight over the distribution of food and grass supplies!
Don’t even think about what kind of chaos this group of people will get into just after they cross the river. And if they are attacked by the main force of savages at this time, what will happen...
< p>The most important thing is that Chu people’s waterThe division cut off the river, and the main force of the left army that crossed the river had no way to withdraw, and subsequent reinforcements could not be reinforced.The Left Army became a lone army!
"Your Highness?"
Li Bao looked at the eldest prince.
At this moment, the eldest prince still has to make the decision.
It’s not that Li Bao deliberately pushed the matter to the eldest prince, nor is it that he is afraid of taking responsibility, but now it seems that Wangjiang, who is in trouble with various opera houses, is being disturbed.
For As far as Yan Jun is concerned,
there are only two ways to go.
One,
Just call the gold and withdraw the troops.
The Left Route Army depends on the good fortune of the Left Route Army and Deng Jiuru.
Because after the Yan army entered Chengguo, they never had large-scale conflicts with the barbarians. The barbarians also avoided fighting in the early stage and were obviously conserving their strength. In addition, when the three families were divided into Jin Dynasty, no matter how Whether it is the Situ family or the Helian family, they can go out to fight and bully the wild people from time to time, and their own Marquis of Jingnan can cross the snowy fields with only 30,000 cavalry. This undoubtedly made Li Bao and other generals underestimate the strength of the wild people. combat effectiveness.
On Deng Jiuru’s side, as long as he guards it well, he should be able to hold it, right?
After all, it’s the Yan army. It can’t be overwhelmed by the savages all at once, right?
The second option,
That is to continue to storm here, regardless of whether the Chu navy is here or not, coming or not, break through here and take Yupan City. , the battle situation can be reversed immediately.
Even, to put it bluntly, when both sides of the river are controlled by the Yan army, the Chu navy doesn't care when you sneak upstream, as long as it still wants to fight and doesn't escape quickly, Then those ships will have to be named Ji sooner or later!
Actually, there is another reason that Li Bao cannot say.
That is why His Majesty asked the eldest prince to coordinate the military leaders from all walks of life in the territory. His intention to integrate these military leaders and their troops is very clear.
Even if you try to speculate again, if it is not possible, it is possible to consume them...
The eldest prince stared at Li Bao with his eyes focused.
Li Bao was also looking at him, their eyes facing each other.
The eldest prince immediately said to the messenger next to him:
"Detect the movements of the Chu Navy!"
"Follow your orders!"
< p>Immediately, the eldest prince drew out his saber and roared:"I, Ji Wujiang, as the commander of the Eastern Expedition Army, will never do anything like that to Paoze and not save them!"
p>Hearing this, Li Bao lowered his head and saluted with his hands clasped in fists. He understood.
"Li Bao!"
"The general is here!"
"Transfer Gu's personal barracks directly up. I want to board the ship in person and sail to the other side. Take it down, our army has not lost yet, as long as we take over the other side and Yupan City, this situation is still under our control!"
Hearing this, Li Bao immediately said:
"Your Highness, this is too reckless. The general is willing to go for it personally. I also ask Your Highness to sit in the army. You are the commander-in-chief of the army, so you must not make any mistakes!"< /p>
"I have made up my mind. No need to say more. You and I both know that there is a Chu navy across the river. If we cannot capture the other side this time, we will wait for the Chu navy to go down the river again. Isolating this place and the Yupan City on the opposite side will make it impossible for us to defeat him.
We have to save Deng Jiuru! Even if it is defended, if our army cannot cross the river to respond, the left army will not be able to hold on for too long."
The eldest prince raised his sword and chopped off his cloak, shouting: < /p>
"Guard camp, board the ship with me!"
"We obey your order!"
"We obey your order!"
Surrounded by a group of personal guards, the eldest prince came to the shore and got into bed. He rowed the oar himself and began to cross the river.
Li Bao said "haha" twice, and he did not stop Ji Wujiang's behavior. To put it bluntly, the lives of Ji's family have become slightly more valuable in recent years.
In those days, the Ji family was not only a prince, but also an emperor. If they died in battle, they would die in battle. Who can say that?
As a military general, Li Bao said that the eldest prince should not take risks, but his heart was actually quite turbulent.
As members of the Zhenbei Army, when the Marquis of Zhenbei was acting with His Majesty, their subordinates did a lot to break into Tiancheng County, capture Yanjing, and seize the emperor's throne for their own marquis. The idea of sitting.
Even later, before the princess decided to marry the prince, their thoughts did not go away.
It was just that as the Marquis of Zhenbei took the initiative to cut up the Zhenbei Army, everyone knew that the Marquis did not want to rebel and dominate the world, so everyone settled down.
Now,
Look again,
Okay,
The Ji family man still has his blood, but it doesn’t make people feel that he has What a disappointment.
As soon as he thought of this,
Li Bao immediately shouted:
"We are trapped in the camp, follow the general on board the ship!"
"General , I’ve gone to the main hall, and you’ve gone too, what should I do here?” Sui Yuanyi, Li Bao’s general, immediately dissuaded him.
He is Li Bao's son-in-law and his favorite general.
"You have to figure it out yourself. If you can't take Yupan City, there's no need to fight this battle at all!"
The Chu navy in Hengjiang, after this navy appeared, , the difficulty for the Yan Army to cross the river will increase exponentially in the future, because it is impossible for the Yan Army to summon a navy in a short time.
At the same time, the Yan army will likely lose its left army.
This will directly affect and change the strategic situation of the entire Chengguo war situation. Even if the left army is ineffective, it is still a regular army of the Yan state. Its combat power cannot be compared with Zhenbei Jingnan, but the Eastern Expedition army suddenly With tens of thousands of losses, how do you want to handle the next battle?
"The trapped camp, board the ship!"
At this moment, the second batch of ferries has arrived. Under Li Bao's order, the soldiers from the trapped camp began to board the ship.
In the six towns of the Zhenbei Army, each town has a trap camp, which is the essence of the soldiers and horses in the town. However, when there is a fierce battle, the trap camp must take the lead and serve as the arrow of the entire army.
Right now, Li Bao is at the end of his rope.
If the other side cannot be breached and Yupan City cannot be taken, let’s all apologize to His Majesty together!
Over there,
The eldest prince has led his personal guard camp to the shore, and the Yan army originally stationed on the shore has expanded forward to a large area before the eldest prince arrived. .
When the eldest prince came up, the Yan army on the shore not only received another wave of reinforcements, but also had a great morale boost. On the contrary, it was the Chengguo rebels above, whose morale instantly increased. Depression to the extreme.
In fact, as a general of an army, bright armor is of great use. A general is the courage and soul of an army. To use an inappropriate metaphor, when people are fighting on the battlefield, , the mood swings will be very big, and when people are hesitant and confused, after seeing the figure of the general, they will really feel like a wanderer seeing his biological father and mother.
Therefore, in cold weapon wars at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, it is almost a common rule that generals wear special and bright armor.
When Marquis Jingnan led his army to conquer the snowy plains, he didn't even need to speak, he just used himself as an arrow to charge forward, which was extremely terrifying for the morale boost of his knights.
Of course, Zheng Fan of Shengle City had to give up this privilege of being in the limelight with great regret for the sake of the safety of the demon kings.
The Chengguo rebels on the shore also saw the figure of the eldest prince. This was really invisible because the armor on them, whether it was the eldest prince himself or his personal barracks, was already too bright. .
The opponent’s general, the legendary Prince of Yan who led the army, has already landed in person. There is not a single figure of His Majesty the Emperor on his side. I am really afraid of comparison in everything.
"Yan Jun obeys the order!"
The eldest prince raised his long sword and shouted.
"A hundred steps forward!"
With the supplement of the guard battalion, the Yan army began to rush forward with all its strength, and it was forced to counterattack in an almost arrogant and unreasonable way. push!
The Chengguo rebels on the shore are still resisting, but this resistance is getting weaker and weaker. They are more numerous than the Yan army who landed on the shore, but their morale is no longer comparable.
As they advanced all the way, deserters began to appear among the Chengguo rebels.
This phenomenon is contagious, and for a time, more and more collapses begin.
If reinforcements from the rebels arrive at this time, the situation may be able to be stabilized again, but it is obvious that there are no more reinforcements in Yupan City.
The eldest prince knew clearly that since the main force of the savages was upstream, this place must be empty. As long as he could survive,Fight and kill, and you can finally tear this line of defense apart!
Originally, perhaps they were concerned about the cost of casualties and wanted to encroach on Wangjiang in the safest and least costly way, but now, they can only fight to the death.
Fortunately,
It’s done.
After a fight,
the eldest prince reached out to pull out the arrow that had been shot from the gap between his shoulder armor, and at the same time wiped his blood-stained face with his hand.
At this time,
The trapped camp led by Li Bao also landed, and the addition of a new wave of fresh troops completely destroyed the Cheng army's last bit of persistence.
From the generals to the soldiers, the rebels began to flee.
Li Bao, holding a knife with one arm, was in the mood to kill, but he still remembered the business and hurried to the eldest prince's side.
"Your Highness, are you okay?"
The eldest prince shook his head, stretched out his hand to support Li Bao's shoulder, and said:
"Keep moving forward, take the "Go to Yupan City!"
The defense line on the shore has been broken. At this time, we must take Yupan City in one go, instead of continuing to wait for the follow-up troops to cross the river, because if we do not take Yupan City at this time, As a stronghold, the navy of Chu State may continue to come south here later and cut off the river here.
With the support of Yupan City, it can respond to the Left Route Army upstream, and the Chu Navy can no longer continue to block the river unscrupulously. In fact, the eldest prince even dared to treat the Left Route Army as At one point, I went to make savage dumplings in reverse!
As the prince of the Yan Kingdom, there is still no shortage of such courage!
“Gather your troops and horses, defeat them without pursuing them, and follow my commander to take Yupan City directly!”
………
The road leading to Yupan City! On the small river, the flower boat was still floating there. However, as rebel soldiers escaping from the shore continued to appear on both sides of the surrounding roads, Xiao Si finally appeared on the flower boat and began to paddle closer to Yupan City. .
On the flower boat, the eighth prince of Chu had just relieved himself once.
The sword maker sighed and said:
"The Yan people are indeed fierce."
This is something that has to be admitted, and, This is something that has not been proven.
But this time, I saw it with my own eyes.
The eighth prince nodded and said:
"Yes, that's why the fourth brother decided to join forces with the savages. Otherwise, if we just wait for the Yan people to annex all the three Jin lands, we will completely It is difficult to look out from the north. If you are condescending, the Yan people will attack Qian State if they want to attack Qian State, and attack Chu State if they want to attack Chu State; In addition, I, Da Chu, only have the power to resist but not to fight back."
"I understand the truth. After this time, the friendship between Yu Huaping and me is considered complete. It fell through, alas."
Everyone knows that the sword master of Jin and the sword maker of Chu are close friends.
The sword maker of Chu State created a sword for the sword master.Long Yuan,
The sword master even praised the sword maker and elevated the sword maker to the throne of the four great swordsmen.
"It's also strange. Daxia has been dead for eight hundred years. What is the brain of his sword master? He actually thinks that he is a survivor of Daxia instead of a Jin person."
"In this life, you must have something to hold on to when holding a sword. I think that if given the choice, His Highness the Fourth Prince would not want to join forces with the savages."
"The savages are nothing, they are just a bunch of wild dogs. , when this wave blocks the Yan people in Wangwang River, it will buy me Da Chu and my fourth brother some time. In the future, this land of Chengguo will eventually belong to me Da Chu."
" That savage king is not an ordinary person. If possible, I really want to kill him while he is still on the boat.
If the Yan people are tigers, then the savages may be wolves in the future. , Your Highness, please don't be careless."
"I understand the truth. After this battle, I will definitely tell Fourth Brother."
"Then I will tell you. I'm relieved."
Said,
The sword maker shouted to the people rocking the oar:
"Hurry up, I don't see the Yan people. Are they all chasing me?"
"Master, you seem to be scared?" His Highness asked curiously, "Is it possible that Master really doesn't know martial arts as the legend says?"
"The sword is the most terrifying sword in the world when it is in its scabbard."
"I don't understand."
"Because it can bluff people."
" Oh, I kind of understand."
"It doesn't matter whether you understand or not."
"Huh?"
"Because if Qu Tiannan doesn't come out, we will. They will be captured alive by the Yan people."
......
Thousands of Yan troops, led by the eldest prince and Li Bao, directly chased the defeated soldiers towards Yupan City. .
If this wave continues, seizing the city is almost certain!
These Yan troops are exhausted, but their will is still firm. They are fighting across the river in a hurry and can't wait for the horses to transport them, so they are basically infantry at this time. What they want is to win the city in one wave!
However,
just when he saw the city wall of Yupan City,
The gate of Yupan City suddenly opened, and from inside the city gate, the A group of soldiers wearing green armor walked out in a neat queue, as if there was an endless stream.
Arrays of sword and axemen, spearmen, crossbowmen, and heavily armored soldiers formed their own formation directly after leaving the city.
Their flag is cyan with a phoenix embroidered on it. The color of the armor and the flag indicate their identity. The Qingluan Army of Chu is an elite infantry warrior controlled by the Qu family of the Chu State. .
At this time,
A middle-aged general riding a white horse with a blue bird standing on his shoulders slowly came out of the city gate:
" Qu Tiannan, the great Chu, has been waiting here for the eldest prince of Yan for a long time!"