Chapter 349 Division and Gathering
The mud land is quite large, and the entire coast all the way to Kuaiji is wet mud and saline-alkali land. From the coastline all the way inward, it is thousands of meters wide and hundreds of miles long.
After entering such a muddy and saline-alkali land, it is really impossible to get out without a few hours of arduous trekking.
Even though it took a lot of time to get out, it also took a lot of energy, leaving only a state of exhaustion.
At this time, there were no reinforcements or supplies, and Sun Ce's army was waiting for work. No matter how brave the soldiers were, they had only two options: surrender or die in battle.
Therefore, Sun Ce really wished that Liu Feng would be so stupid, and even if he thought Liu Feng would not be so stupid, he still deployed a small number of scouts along the coast just in case.
Of course, this precaution is not to prevent Liu Fengjun's surprise attack, but to prevent Liu Fengjun from being so stupid, but he missed the opportunity to trap and kill these elite landing troops because he did not find the other party.
"Hey..."
Sun Ce suddenly sighed. In the distance, a wave of strong attacks led by Huang Gai's deputy general Huang An was eventually repelled by the opponent's armored soldiers. Although the battle lines between the two sides were still entangled, the navy of the Conquering Confederate Army had already docked in the distance, and Jia Kui's soldiers were already rushing to jump off the ship and reorganize their troops.
The first two hundred crossbowmen who had been organized, under the cover of a hundred-man shield bearer, had begun to press forward to cover the follow-up troops to continue landing.
Jia Kui personally appeared on the front line and raised the morale of his troops to the top.
At least the landing speed was more than 10% faster, which also boosted the morale of Gao Shun's troops who were fighting a bloody battle in the distance.
After all, the speed of friendly forces rescuing oneself affects the morale of the army too much. The generals under the bald head of the artillery party have many unique insights and experiences in this field.
Because most of the ships of the Conquering South Army at this time were small boats, which could only carry a dozen or twenty people, and the so-called large ships could only hold thirty or fifty people, so it was necessary to reorganize after landing. A lot of time.
After all, because it is a small boat, it is particularly easy to disrupt the order when traveling on the river, causing the troops to lose their organization and become completely chaotic when they land.
In this case, the larger the ship, the better it can avoid similar problems, because the basic modules to be assembled are larger. A large ship can carry a military commander of 500 people, and those 5,000 people only need to be reorganized into ten units, which is naturally much simpler and faster.
But Liu Feng and the others also thought of a little trick. They separated the walking boats and the walking boats. Between the two teams of walking boats, there was a team of walking boats. They used the flying boats to distinguish the walking boats so that the walking boats would not mix up. Coming together disrupted the team.
In this way, after landing, the speed of reorganization will be greatly improved.
It only took a stick of incense for Jia Kui's troops to regain their organization, and began to move closer to Gao Shun's troops under the cover of long-range firepower.
When Cheng Pu first landed in Jia Kui, it was not that he had not thought of raiding the chaotic Southern Conquest Army on the shore, but after careful consideration, he chose to give up.
The two most important reasons are that there are many crossbowmen standing on the ships. These crossbowmen ensure that Cheng Pu does not dare to make a surprise attack easily.
If Cheng Pu really couldn't think of anything and insisted on a surprise attack, then he would not suffer any loss if the infantry of the Southern Army were replaced by cavalry.
"Speed up the speed and attack with the whole army."
Sun Ce got off the watchtower directly and climbed on his mount. At this time, Jia Kui had landed, and the strength of the Southern Army was close to 10,000. , even if he only eats the current ten thousand conquering southern troops, Sun Ce feels that he has made a big profit, so there is no need to let the opponent ashore.
Besides, Sun Ce also knew the strength of the Southern Army through Gao Shun.
Even though Sun Ce had attached great importance to the Conquest of the Southern Army, he still found that he had underestimated the combat power of Gao Shun's troops.
The combat power of Gao Shun's troops is at least 70% of what his father left to his ancestors. Perhaps the skills, tactics, experience and battles are inferior, but the equipment and weapons and high organization level make these The gap has been mostly made up.
This is also thanks to Liu Feng's ability to make money and equipment, and Gao Shun's S-level troop training ability.
There were actually many great military training experts throughout the Three Kingdoms period. For example, Yu Jin under Cao Cao, Ju Shou under Yuan Shao, and Sun Ce’s father Sun Jian were all very powerful military training experts, and Gao Shun’s military training ability was actually It’s already in this category.
When he was under Lu Bu, there were only 700 people in the camp, but more than 1,000 people who cooperated with Zhang Liao directly defeated more than 10,000 Liu Bei's people in the siege. This is really a bit Exaggerated.
Later, due to Hao Meng's rebellion, Lu Bu could not trust his savior Gao Shun, so he changed the captured camp to his brother-in-law Wei Xu, and handed it over to Gao Shun during the war.
At this time, the performance of the trapped camp dropped significantly. It can be seen that Wei Xu's ability was too inferior to Gao Shun's, and he could not even maintain the combat effectiveness of the soldiers trained by Gao Shun.
This is also the reason why Liu Feng asked Gao Shun to be the forward. If Jia Kui was to be the forward, there is a high probability that Gao Shun would not be as solid as a rock and as stable as a mountain.
Due to the reinforcements from Jia Kui's tribe, Huang Gai and Rui Liang had to withdraw from three sides of the siege and withdraw their troops.
In this fierce battle for less than half an hour, both sides suffered no less than two thousand casualties.
Gao Shun's troops suffered more than 200 casualties and more than 600 wounded, while Huang Gai's and Ruiliang's troops suffered more than 500 casualties and more than 800 wounded.
Although the troops of Gao Shun and Jia Kui of the Southern Conquest Army who landed did not have cavalry cover, a large number of crossbows covered their flanks well, making it difficult for Cheng Pu's cavalry to find opportunities.
Cheng Pu tried to make a detour, bypassing Gao Shun's side, and then attacked Jia Kui's side.
But because of the detour, Jia Kui had enough time to gather some of the crossbowmen on the flank where Cheng Pu was, and then set up the crossbow array to wait for you to die.
Cheng Pu had to stop the attack.
This is not because Cheng Pu deliberately took a detour to waste time, but because he had no choice. If he didn't take a detour, it would not be the turn of Jia Kui's crossbowmen at all, and the crossbowmen in Gao Shun's formation would be one step ahead. Teach him how to behave.
After Gao Shun's troops lost the pressure, they took the opportunity to resume their formation, evacuated the wounded inside, took off their equipment for simple treatment and bandaging, and replaced the soldiers inside with armor to fill the front line.
Gao Shun's command originally numbered 4,000 people, but now it has been reduced by 20%. The formation can only shrink inward to maintain the density and integrity of the circular formation.
Jia Kui also took advantage of the fact that Cheng Pu did not dare to move, and quickened his pace, reaching a distance that was close to Gao Shun's troops.
This so-called long-distance echo is the range of two crossbows.
If the crossbows fired from Gao Shun's side can coincide with the crossbows fired by Jia Kui's troops, the enemy will not dare to enter the long-range fire circle, otherwise they will suffer a double blow.
This means that Gao Shun and Jia Kui have reached the minimum level of cooperation.
At this moment, Huang Gai, Rui Liang and Song Qian moved together.
They have just received an order from Sun Ce to divide Gao Shun and Jia Kui at all costs, and they must not allow each other to join together. Huang Gai and Rui Liang looked at each other. They really didn't expect that Sun Ce would give such an order, otherwise they wouldn't have withdrawn the troops besieging Gaoshun.
But Sun Ce's order had to be carried out, so Huang Gai and Rui Liang had no choice but to give the order again and let the soldiers who had just withdrawn set off again. Huang Gai was on the left, Rui Liang was on the right, and Song Qian was behind. The three armies acted together.
Song Qian was on the far right, with an endless stretch as far as the coast in front, and no opponent to stop him. Therefore, he risked his life in the formation and urged his soldiers to rush forward, rushing towards the front.
Huang Gai and Rui Liang moved to the two wings of Gao Shun respectively and sent troops to attack fiercely. Under attack from both sides, Gao Shun was unable to move.
At the same time, he used a shield and a strong bow as a combination to slow down Jia Kui's approach to Gao Shun.
Cheng Pu also began to take action at this time, and was ready to move around Jia Kui, forcing him to slow down his advance, otherwise he would be joking with his own life.
Let the cavalry find an opportunity to charge during the march, and with Song Qian on the side, this is really a waste.
Jia Kui had to slow down and was even forced to stop several times.
Song Qian seized this opportunity, ran for three miles, bypassed Rui Liang's men from the side, and began to gallop between Gao Shun and Jia Kui.
In this way, the battlefield situation formed a sandwich situation, with Gao Shun's troops below and Jia Kui's troops above. To Gao Shun's left was Huang Gai, to the right was Rui Liang, and to the right was Zheng Zheng. Song Qian, who was in a hurry, was thrusting into the middle area between Gao Shun and Jia Kui.
It is conceivable that Song Qian's troops will pay a heavy price, but only in this way can they complete the task that Sun Ce told him to complete at all costs - divide Gao Shun and Jia Kui and never allow them to merge.
Gao Shun and Jia Kui were keenly aware that something was wrong with Sun Cejun, but they were quite helpless.
Gao Shun was almost beaten between Huang Gai and Rui Liang, and he had already lost 20% of his troops and consumed a huge amount of arrows. The remaining combat power made him unable to fight again. There is still enough energy left to deal with Huang Gai and Rui Liang.
Jia Kui was helpless. From this angle, he could see Song Qian running wildly, and Song Qian's destination was exactly between him and Gao Shun.
Cheng Pu's position is quite tricky. He has moved to the upper left of Jia Kui's headquarters, which is close to the coast.
He gave Jia Kui's men enough intimidation from this position. As long as Jia Kui dared to gather the crossbowmen to the front, he would have the opportunity to ride and shoot Jia Kui's men.
In this way, the exchange ratio is the same, and Song Qian can still complete tactical maneuvers.
No matter how you look at it, Sun Cejun will never suffer.
Jia Kui looked at the battlefield situation and only took a dozen breaths before making a decision.
You have to press forward no matter what, even if Song Qian is destined to hit the target, as long as you can get closer to Gao Shun, it will be better.
Maybe this little distance in the next moment will be the thin line between life and death.
Jia Kui didn't believe that Sun Ce had the ability to eat him and Gao Shun in one go, so he chose to pay a lot of money to get close to Gao Shun.
He immediately issued three orders.
The first order is that the forwards advance forward at all costs and get close to Gao Shun. When necessary, they can return to Jian Gao Shun's command.
The second order is to simply abandon the side and rear, pull the main crossbowmen to the flanks, and concentrate firepower on Song Qian's flanks.
The third order is to reinforce the shield troops to the rear left, that is, the flank threatened by Cheng Pu, to minimize casualties, and to cooperate with the halberds to guard against Cheng Pu's charge.
In Jia Kui's view, cavalry shooting is not terrible, but the risk of charging into the formation is too great. If one of them is really defeated and chaos spreads, it will really cost lives.
Although the army was a little puzzled by the three orders, Jia Kui always managed the army with kindness and power, and maintained strict military discipline.
Therefore, although the generals under his command were puzzled, no one dared to question Jia Kui at this time, and instead worked with all their strength.
After a cup of tea, Jia Kui's vanguard and Song Qian's vanguard collided hard and fell into a hand-to-hand fight.
After another twenty breaths, Jia Kui's two hundred crossbowmen boldly left the protection of the shield men and opened a cross section of more than forty meters. The first row lay down, and the second row fell down. Squatting in the second row and standing in the third row, they fired three rounds of rapid fire at Song Qian's men in succession, hitting more than a hundred Song Qian's men in one go.
Looking down from the sky, it looked as if a large piece of Song Qian's unit had suddenly been bitten off, creating a gap.
But Song Qian also became ruthless at this time, not caring about these losses at all, and just kept urging the troops to continue pressing forward.
As a result, Jia Kui's troops and Song Qian's troops almost collided with each other, but both sides continued to invest new troops, squeezing each other and competing for space.
The nearest frontier of Jia Kui's troops was only more than sixty meters away from Gao Shun, but he just couldn't rush through.
However, this also caused the space where Song Qian was stationed to be quite small. The average depth was only one hundred meters, and the narrowest place was only over sixty meters.
Just as Jia Kui expected, Cheng Pu launched a side attack without hesitation after seeing the actions of Jia Kui's men. The horse quickly passed by Jia Kui's side and behind at a fast pace, and a burst of riding bows were thrown to the opponent. It also caused more than 60 casualties.
The reason why there is such a gap between the two sides is that, firstly, the power of the cavalry bow is inferior to that of the infantry crossbow, and secondly, it is also because the ordnance and equipment of the Southern Conquest Army is much better than that of Sun Ce's army.
With armor, even if it is just leather armor, the protection against Liu Ya will undoubtedly be much improved.
Even if you are hit by an arrow, you may not be injured. Sometimes the arrows will get stuck in the leather armor. It looks like there are several arrows stuck in the body, which is quite scary, but in fact they only break the flesh. The muscles, bones and internal organs were not injured.
Those who were seriously injured or even died unfortunately were those who had very bad luck. They were shot in key locations such as the neck and femoral artery, and eventually died in battle.
After Jia Kui inquired about the casualty data on the side and rear, he simply gritted his teeth and completely ignored Cheng Pu's troops on the side and rear. He tried his best to squeeze Song Qian's space forward, and an extremely fierce battle broke out between the two sides.
In just one cup of tea, more than a hundred warriors from Jia Kui's army had fallen, and Song Qian's army was not much better, with more than two hundred casualties.
Jia Kui and Song Qian made a new decision almost at the same time, which was to order the frontline troops to continue to expand their results, pressurize the opponent's space, and drive the opponent back to expand their occupied area.
But Jia Kui found a new breakthrough point.
After he collided with Song Qian, Jia Kui's left wing immediately fell into a fierce battle with Song Qian's right wing, but Jia Kui's own right wing was freed from the constraints. Not only did it lose the strength of Cheng Pu's cavalry, There was a threat, and there was no enemy in front of him. There was also a fighter plane that moved forward to the right, slid over and squeezed Song Qian from two directions.
(End of this chapter)