Chapter 177: Hug and kill
In the sixth year of Guanghe, on the seventh day of March, on the east bank of Wenshui River.
At this time, the battlefield has been cleared, but no one is the final winner. In last night's heavy rain battle, Jibei Kingdom not only suffered heavy losses to its Central Military Academy and Lieutenant Division, but after the war, only 400 troops were selected, and two-thirds of the troops were lost. All formations were basically defeated, and there was no possibility of fighting again.
In addition, the generals and staff at all levels suffered heavy casualties. In this battle, Chen Gui, the commander-in-chief of the Jibei Kingdom, was seriously ill. Four of the Five Dragons of Jibei died, and thirteen of the Kong family and other powerful men died. It can be said that this battle directly broke the bones of Jibei Kingdom.
But compared to the Right Colonel Weibu who came back for reinforcements, the losses of the Jibei National Army did not seem to be that great. After this battle, the entire army of Youxiaowei was completely wiped out.
Yes, you heard it right. The right school captain who wanted to withdraw from the battlefield was all dead.
When Ding Sheng, Dian Wei, and Guo Liang refused their request to withdraw from the battlefield, the Jibei Kingdom's Youxiaowei, with 900 soldiers, directly launched a desperate charge against the Taishan Army.
No one knows why they made such a choice. In the end, they all died, and the three troops of Taishan Army were also disabled. Among them, Ding Sheng's general Zhao Rong was seriously injured, Dianwei's soldiers lost hundreds of soldiers, and Guo Liang's soldiers suffered the least damage, but they also suffered injuries. It can be said that this battle was the most damaging battle since the founding of the Taishan Army.
After the war, Dian Wei and Guo Liang had no choice but to abandon the camp and join forces with Ding Sheng to defend Ding Sheng's camp, but they were unable to attack.
In this way, on the seventh day of March in the sixth year of Guanghe, nothing happened on the east bank of Wenshui River.
But on the east bank of Surabaya, hundreds of miles to the west, on the seventh day of March, Zhang Chongzheng led a sudden attack on the Lu soldiers who were still sleeping.
On the sixth day of March, Zi hour. Zhang Chong led 800 cavalrymen and 1,100 horses, wrapped in cloth on their hooves and holding coins in their mouths, and circled from the north of Weishi Wall.
Thanks to the sudden heavy rain, their voices and traces were covered up, otherwise it would be hard to tell. Last night, there was such a heavy rain that dogs could be heard barking inside the wall. If it weren't for the heavy rain, those sentries would have gone back inside the wall to hide from the rain, otherwise they would have found a cavalry speeding up to their north.
But it was also because of the rain that the Tuqi soldiers suffered terribly. The heavy rain made the trail even more muddy and difficult to walk. The riders stepped deeper and deeper, and the mud they brought out stained their new winter clothes. These were the few good clothes they had. When stained with the mud, One can imagine the mood.
It is about thirty miles from Weishibi to the ferry on the east bank of Surabaya. The cavalry can reach it in one and a half hours by normal march, but Zhang Chong and the others walked all the way to the end of Yinshi, and got lost several times in the rainy night. Unless the guide was familiar with the road, It's really the wrong way around.
At nine o'clock, the rooster crowed. Two miles away from the Lu Guobing camp in Surabaya, Zhang Chong's sergeants changed into clean clothes, then began to put on each other's armor, mounted their horses that had rested for the night, and began to organize themselves into teams. Sixteen attack clusters were formed.
The rain has weakened a lot, but the Lu Guobing camp in the distance is still quiet. No one would think that there would be any enemy soldiers in such heavy rain, so there was no one even on the wooden gate tower of the camp.
Several Taishan troops dismounted and ran to the front of the camp. They carefully moved their horses away and cleared a passage for the cavalry behind them. Then they climbed over the wall of the village using ladders and opened the door of the village.
In this way, when the Sishui camp was opened, the Lu soldiers were still unaware.
Zhang Chong did not rush directly to the camp, but carefully observed the camp. He saw this huge camp open to him in the drizzle. Seeing that Zhang Chong had not yet ordered the charge, Tian Jun thought about it and stepped forward:
"Kui, are you worried about an ambush in the camp?"
Zhang Chong nodded, but shook his head:
"This village is so quiet, I was really worried about an ambush. But after thinking about it several times, I still felt that it was impossible for the enemy to know that we would attack here. But when it came to the battle, I was a little hesitant. After all, when we charged, If there is an ambush inside, our cavalry will not be able to move at all, and we can only wait for death in this camp.”
Unexpectedly, Tian Jun advised:
"Qu Kui, isn't it what you often tell us, do your best and obey fate. We have done our best along the way. If we are looked down upon by others, then it can only be said that this is what fate is. When the time comes, we will Brothers enter Xiaohuangtian and become brothers again.”
The other brothers were holding on to their coins and it was difficult to speak, but the perseverance on their faces all showed that if they die, they will die. When the time comes, they will enter the Little Yellow Heaven and become brothers again.
Seeing these old brothers who had entrusted their life and death to him, Zhang Chong was filled with pride. Then without saying anything, he raised his horse and took the lead in rushing into the Lu State barracks.
Then all the soldiers followed, without horns or drums, just following the advancing Pao Ze, and following Qu Kui to fight for eternal peace.
The rain wet the armor and brought a slight chill, but it could not hide the fiery hearts of the Taishan Army's assault riders.
Smooth, so smooth.
When they rushed into the camp and knocked open several tents, the Lu soldiers inside were still sleepy-eyed and were trampled to death by war horses on the wet mud.
Then the Lu Guobing stronghold suddenly exploded, and countless people rushed out of the tent and ran around. The camp was filled with yelling, begging for mercy, and wailing. These sounds mixed together to break up the silent morning.
Some Lu soldiers picked up their weapons and formed a small formation under the organization of their respective military officials, preparing to block the enemies entering the stronghold. But it was of no use. These people didn't even have time to put on armor. Only a ring-headed sword could stop Zhang Chong's Hundred Battle Armored Cavalry.
When Chen Yi, the Prime Minister of Lu, built this camp, he did not follow the shogunate's advice to build it into a messy and staggered pattern. Instead, it was built into a square shape, with each team's tents erected horizontally and vertically. This looks beautiful, but once encountering an enemy attack, it will be too convenient for enemy troops to rush in and penetrate.
Fast, too fast.
At this time, the Taishan Army's sudden cavalry was like this. Thanks to the smooth and straight camp road, the sixteen Taishan Army's cavalry rushed wildly, especially Zhang Chong. The arrows in his hands never stopped, and every arrow would kill Lu. The national army is a military official. Without the organization of the military officials, the newly organized Lu soldiers could not maintain their military formation among the roaring horses, and they collapsed one after another.
Even though there were only 800 horses, it didn't sound like much, but in the eyes of Lu Guobing, this was already a scale that shook the mountains. No human being had the courage to stand in front of a herd of horses of this size.
And the most important role here is Zhang Chong himself. Why did he never lose a battle when he led a tactical charge? Because he always picks out the enemy's grassroots soldiers to kill. If soldiers are the flesh and blood of an army, then officers are the skeleton of the army. The bones are broken, but how can the flesh still stand up?
In Zhang Chong's eyes, all military officers were invisible regardless of whether they were disguised or not. And which tactical team can withstand Zhang Chong's killing?
Wang Dang, a young cavalryman who was in the same team as Zhang Chong, had a feeling at this moment:
Cool.
Following Qu Kui Chong, they only need to kill the enemy in a blind manner. Take the Lu army formation they just overran, for example. It was originally quite tight. Although it still had no armor, it could barely stop them for a while. But Qu Kui was riding on his horse, facing the enemy formation in front, with three arrows in his pocket, and then the morale of the army formation visibly withered.
Then Wang Dang followed the other riders in three moves: bump, poke, and step on.
After a while, corpses were left on the ground and they charged towards the next wave of enemy soldiers.
It has been two years since Wang Dang surrendered to Zhang Chong before the battle, but he is still just a captain, not because he doesn't work hard, but because it is the most difficult thing for them to advance suddenly. The main reason is that expansion is difficult. Originally, it was not easy to find good riders in the Neijun area, and Zhang Chong had to select the best among the best. Therefore, as the earliest established Tuqi Tun, it only managed to accumulate 800 riders in four years.
But there is one thing to say, Wang Dang is very satisfied as a team player now. The team general can lead fifty cavalry and can already perform military duties alone. Don't blame Wang Dang for thinking that he is not a good soldier because he doesn't want to be a general. In fact, everyone in the Cavalry is practicing weapons, and even the generals are proficient in them. In such a highly valued team, promotion is inherently difficult.
Seeing that Taishan's army was about to kill the central army, finally a piao cavalryman dressed in armor rushed over. In the haze of the rain, I saw the leader of the cavalry, wearing a red turban, astride a dragon and a horse, charging forward like a tiger with a horse of eight feet and eight feet.
The man exhaled like mist in the rain and roared:
"I am Kong Anguo, the lieutenant of the State of Lu. I am a small thief and bandit. I am not dead yet."
After that, the Biao Hu cavalry were all very tall and gentle:
"Not dead yet."
"Not dead yet."
The cry shook the rain curtain, and the whole camp was shaken by it.
But Zhang Chong, who was under the mask, didn't match this man at all. He pulled the reins, and the angry dragon stirred up a lot of mud and water, and he charged towards Kong Anguo with his head straight.
Kong Anguo yelled and stabbed him with a stick. Zhang Chong dodged it lightly and hit Kong Anguo with a stick. But Kong Anguo was so extraordinary that he was able to avoid Zhang's blast from the wind and thunder.
Then the two horses passed each other alternately. At this moment, Zhang Chong stretched out his arm and directly pulled Kong Anguo to his side, including his man and his armor.
Kong Anguo was caught in the air. Although he was not frightened, he was about to fall to the ground with great force from his waist. He had already made a plan. Even if he hit the ground, he couldn't be caught by the thief again, otherwise he could stab himself to death with a long knife.
But after shaking for a long time, he found that the thief's arm that had grabbed his armor hadn't moved at all. Then he was hugged by the thief into the creaking nest, and with a creaking sound, Kong Anguo's world went dark.
It turned out that Zhang Chong actually broke Kong Anguo's neck with his arm.
Kong Anguo, a brave general of a generation, was killed in the east of Surabaya.
Kong Anguo's death heralded the end of Lu Guobing's resistance. The soldiers of the State of Lu were already weak, but they were attacked in their sleep, and they were still soaked in the rain. They had no intention of resisting for a long time.
Kong Anguo was already a rare warrior. When he died, not to mention the other Lu soldiers, even the cavalry that charged with Kong Anguo collapsed.
Afterwards, Lu soldiers kept laying down their weapons on the battlefield, flags were cut down by the roaring Taishan soldiers, and the sounds of begging for death and capturing generals could be heard all over the east of Surabaya.
Big win!
There are still a few chapters left to write in The Battle of Two Rivers, and a complete map of the Battle of Two Rivers will be drawn after the end. The maps are all drawn based on satellite maps, so they are quite time consuming.
(End of chapter)