Chapter 199: Breaking the Enemy's Spirit Wang Sunxiong led a sentry of men and horses, pinned the horses, and secretly marched in the mountains and forests.
The last time he returned, as the beloved general of King Wu, the people who knew King Wu's mind begged for him bitterly, and finally got pardoned.
His scouts had found out the accurate news of Qingji, and the main force of Qingji had left the city and rushed to Luojiang to rescue the Chu army.
The Wu army attacked the Luojiang Chu army, and it was expected that Qingji would be saved, the two armies of Quanyi and Yuhan were in the Ming, and the Yingdu army was in the dark, and they had laid a net in Luojiang, and if Qingji went to Luojiang to rescue, it would fall into a heavy encirclement.
If he takes the opportunity to capture Yuhan or Quanyi, then Wang Sunxiong takes his base camp, and the defenders of Yuhan or Quanyi, who have long been prepared, resist his attack, and the Wu army of Luojiang Sanlu swallows the Chu army, and will wave against each other, and if Qingji, who has lost its foundation, does not want to be eaten, he can only flee in the wilderness, and the city he painstakingly manages not only falls into the hands of the enemy, but also the last important road also falls into the hands of the Wu army, he will be more difficult to compete with the Wu army, and the Chu army's strategy of encirclement and shrinking step by step will also be completely bankrupt.
It was dark in the forest, and the soldiers leading the way in front covered the lanterns with black cloths, and only a little light reflected below, illuminating the small area under their feet, and there was no sound in the forest except for the rustling of the grass and trees.
But Wang Sunxiong knew that on the other side of the valley, in the mountains and forests, there was also a force marching in sync with him.
The peaks on both sides of the valley were originally stationed with Qingji's two armies, and now the main force went out with Qingji, and most of the defenders on the mountain were also withdrawn, but Wang Sunxiong knew that there were still soldiers stationed there, in order to avoid being prematurely discovered by the defenders of the city, he divided his troops into two roads, and trekked from the endless mountains on the left and right, avoiding the defenders of the valley.
There was a small hill in front of it, and over this hill, the city was on the plain beyond the mouth of the valley.
The road was safe and sound, and Wang Sunxiong, who was tired from crossing the mountains and mountains, was secretly relieved.
"Hurry, it's getting dark, we have to hurry.
Wen Cheng, take a few people to contact Dongmian and order them to quickly assemble here; General He Li, you are responsible for blocking off, taking your men and horses from here to the northwest, destroying the Zhuxiu Bridge, and stationing there to protect the flank of our army defending the city, and preventing the Qingji men and horses stationed in Baijindu from rushing to the rescue; Engineers, cut down trees on the spot immediately, and make improvised siege tools, which must be completed before dawn. ” Everyone took the order one by one, and Wang Sunxiong stood in front of the mountain with his sword in his hands and closed his eyes and was silent.
In his mind, the scene of the last battle with Qingji was coming to mind.
Qingji suddenly led the army to appear, took the initiative to attack, and in the melee, he made the ambush cut off the cooperation between his chariot formation and the foot soldiers, drove away the foot soldiers, trapped their elite, and played in a strange way, which was very different from his usual methods.
"The experience of being displaced for more than a year, the danger of being assassinated and almost dying, it seems that Qingji has changed a lot, he is no longer the original Qingji.
But let him be cunning like a fox, this time there will be no more chance.
The king captured the Chu capital, the prestige was lost for a while, and all the wealth of the Chu country was transported back to my Wu country, and the national strength of the Wu country will inevitably be greatly improved, as long as our king defeats the coalition army and successfully returns to the Wu country, he can use his power to win the hearts of all the people in the Wu country, even if he does not die, he can no longer do anything about my Wu country in the future. ” Wang Sunxiong closed his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"General Wang Sun, the last general has finished assembling his headquarters and is here to wait."
Wang Sunxiong opened his eyes and saw General Yiqiu, who had come from the other side of the valley, hurried to the front, and not far behind was a dragon of people and horses, winding towards him.
"Well, you're not found there, are you?"
"No, the brothers are very careful", Yi Qiu gasped and wiped the sweat from his cheeks: "It's just that I just came over the mountain, and everyone is a little tired." ” Wang Sunxiong looked up at the inky sky and said: "Order, the whole army rests on the spot, eats some dry food and water, and after two pillars of incense, attack the city."
The hour has come.
Although he did not burn incense, Wang Sunxiong, who has many years of experience in battle formations, can still accurately grasp the time.
He looked up again, and there was a faint white lining in the sky.
"Engineer, how many siege equipment have been made?"
The engineer hurriedly stepped forward and said: "General Huiyu, due to the urgency of time, and the dark sky, it is impossible to light the lamp, so only two vehicles were built in a hurry, more than ten wooden bodies were hit, and more than 20 simple wooden ladders were built. ” Wang Sunxiong smiled faintly: "That city is not high, the trench is not deep, the gate is not thick, and there are few defenders in the city, these are enough, we only need to break through a little, we can get the whole city."
Qing Ji is here, once he finds out about the plan, it is likely to leave the Chu army and ignore it, immediately break through and return, time is pressing, immediately attack the city" Wang Sunxiong came here urgently, and it was a sneak attack at night, like a house that could hang an arrow, a car that shot arrows into the city from the air, a rushing car that assembled a large wood to hit the city gate, and a stone thrower were too late to manufacture, but the city was very close to Yingdu, although there was originally a garrison, because in the depths of the Chu State, there was no danger of foreign enemies besieging the city, so the city was built extremely simply, and there was no need for heavy siege tools, these things were enough.
Wang Sunxiong rushed to the city, the defenders of the city had discovered their movements, immediately called the police, the defenders of the city immediately took action, by the light of the morning light, Wang Sunxiong saw that the city was actually slightly transformed, the city wall is still not high, but now the female wall of the concealed defenders' actions has been added, and the corner tower has been built in the corner of the city, but the city gate is still dilapidated, and the unique suspension bridge of the city for purely military purposes has not been installed.
The city was short, and the defensive materials prepared in the city were obviously incomplete, and the two sides fought together, Wang Sunxiong inspected the number of defenders at the head of the city, and the defensive equipment they used, and knew that the city would be broken today, Wang Sunxiong couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately put the reserves into it.
He was worried that once Qingji found Zhongfu, he immediately abandoned the Chu army and returned to the old nest, if he could not take the city before he returned, he would fall into the danger of being attacked by the enemy, regardless of the sacrifice.
There were too few wooden ladders to attack the city, and many of them had been smashed by the large iron vertebrae connected by the iron chains of the city head wrestlers, but the two chariots were transported to both sides of the city gate, and Wang Sunxiong did not use the chariots to dig tunnels or destroy the city walls, although the city walls were simple, it was not possible to dig them out in an instant.
His men did not have many soldiers under the two wagons, but piled up a large amount of grass, poured fire oil on it, and when they reached the city, they set the chariots on fire, and the smoke billowed into the air, choking the defenders on the city tower with tears and unable to see.
Immediately there are soldiers holding the thick hard door to forcibly attack the door, the defenders of the city are red and swollen eyes, some rolling wood, stone smashed down, and continue to fire crossbow arrows, although shot a lot of siege soldiers, but the Wu army that hit the city under the command of Wang Sunxiong forgot to die, as soon as someone fell, someone immediately made up, a few hits in a row, the thin city gate has been far away.
The defenders in the city screamed loudly, and immediately someone pounced on the city gate, but the city gate that was only reinforced with a layer of wooden planks still could not withstand the impact, and hit it several times in succession, only to hear the sound of "boom", the city gate was torn apart, and the soldiers who arrived at the gate in the city were knocked out and fell to the ground.
Wang Sunxiong was overjoyed and immediately shouted: "Beat the drum and take the city" The war drums rumbled, the soldiers of the Wu army abandoned the city walls on both sides, and swarmed in from the main gate, Wang Sunxiong took the lead, rushed forward with spears, and overturned more than ten soldiers along the way, leading more than 500 pioneers to rush into the city.
There were many soldiers in the city, and the two sides fought together.
The shouting shook the sky, only to hear the rear Wu army screamed, Wang Sunxiong pulled out a spear from a soldier's chest, turned his head to look, couldn't help but be surprised, Qingji to the city wall of the city to repair and strengthen the limited extent, but in the city gate hole to do the mechanism, no wonder the city gate above the city tower, the original inside the secret hanging door, at this time just rushed into the city less than 2,000 people, from the center of the door hole actually fell a heavy gate, slammed to the ground, the Wu army inside and outside the partition.
Immediately, there was a shout in all directions, and I don't know how many ambush soldiers jumped up, standing on the high wall of the urn city, everyone holding the crossbow of the Chu people, condescendingly, aiming at the Wu army on the ground.
The soldiers who had been fighting with the Wu army quickly retreated, distanced themselves from them, and blocked their way forward with a long halberd in their hands, and one of Wang Sunxiong's partial generals saw this scene and roared a spear to rush up, and just took two steps, he heard the sound of an arrow breaking through the air, and the general was shot like a thorn, and without even screaming, he fell to the ground.
Wang Sunxiong still has someone around him to pounce up, he grabbed him, then he heard the sound of bangzi on the city gate, Wang Sunxiong turned his head to look, only to see a person wearing a crown of the son, wearing a white plum crane, appeared at the head of the city with a smile, and shouted to him with a wall: "Wang Sunxiong, can you surrender this time?"
When Wang Sunxiong saw that this person was the son of the prince who should have been stationed in Baijindu, he couldn't help but sigh, he already knew that he had fallen for the poisonous plan of Qingji.
When the hanging door fell, the moment the inside and outside were separated, the drums outside the city rumbled, and the dust flew in the distance, reflecting the morning sun rushing here, like a sandstorm blowing from the ground.
Outside the city, the Wu army was stunned, and they stopped to look at it, and saw one hundred and fifty or sixty military vehicles, lined up in a triangular pyramid, rushing towards the front of the city.
There were more than 50 military vehicles in that city, plus more than 100 military vehicles captured last time, and these combat vehicles were equivalent to the heavy tanks of later generations on the battlefield at that time.
The city was between the valley mouths, but outside the valley mouths was a flat river, which was suitable for chariot action, but this time Qingji's army was not like the last time, but only dispersed the Wu army, one hundred and fifty or sixty chariots ploughed over the vast plain in front of the city gate like bulldozers, and the chariots ran over, and the ground was bloody and muddy.
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The Wu army was a sneak attack over the mountains, without carrying heavy weapons, in the loud sound of rolling thunder, more than a hundred chariots will be the siege troops of the Wu army to pieces, a Wu army brigade commander hurriedly avoided a chariot, drew his sword in his hand, and was about to drink the spearmen to form a formation to block the chariot, another chariot came out of the dust, the horse's hooves were raised, and his whole body was kicked up.
The brigade commander only felt that he was like a cloud driving through the fog, and after landing on the ground with a "poof", a bone turned over, and he felt as if he was unharmed.
The brigade commander was stunned, and found that the sword in his hand had been kicked away, so he grabbed it and wanted to snatch a blade from the hands of the dead corpse on the ground, he just took two steps, and then he felt that the sky was spinning, his throat was sweet, and a stream of blood spurted out, and as soon as the darkness in front of him fell softly to the ground, the ground trembled, and another chariot pounced, the wheels ran mercilessly over his body, his consciousness was still there, his eyes were wide open, and he stared hard ahead, but he couldn't see anything, and the heavy wheels rolled over his waist, almost breaking his waist, He didn't feel a trace of pain, black blood covered his eyes, ears, mouth and nose A large number of foot soldiers, as the chariots shouted and rushed in, more than a hundred chariots whizzed past the Wu army's camp, and then circled back to the two wings, as if they were about to launch a second charge.
On the land where the chariot passed, following a large number of foot soldiers chasing the soldiers, the chaotic Wu army foot soldiers lost their armor all the way, and fled quickly to the valley, the banners and gongs and drums were thrown away by them, and the few generals who were lucky enough to survive ordered the army hoarsely, but they were surrounded by the soldiers and fled forward involuntarily.
There are indeed Wu troops stationed on the hills on both sides, but the number is too small, the sporadic arrows are not lethal, the chariot with the pursuers from behind, but the road in the valley is difficult to travel, the chariot is difficult to exert its power, this Wu army lost its armor and ran out of the valley sweating, and before it took a breath, it couldn't help but be stunned, thousands of people and horses stood at the mouth of the valley in a daze, and they were silent.
Out of the valley, is a small hill, it is a gently undulating grassy slope, across the grassy slope, is the three-way road to Yingdu, Yuhan, Quanyi, on that hillside, like a wall, quietly standing a group of people and horses, flags and banners extend to both sides, at a glance can not see the edge, I don't know how many people and horses.
A military general in the middle, straddled the horse and held a spear, with a tooth flag on the left behind him, a handsome flag on the right, and the word Qingji was written on it, and Qingji had led the army back.
The two tower-like generals took a few steps forward and shouted loudly: "Your Highness has an order, those who descend will not die, and you will make a decision as soon as possible."
Wu Jun, who fled to the valley, was frightened, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but look at each other, and gradually, the soldiers focused their eyes on several high-ranking generals.
Those generals were also hesitating, their majesty and arrogance of winning many battles since the war against Chu had been polished by Qingji's two battles, and the prestige of the first warrior of Wu State in the past resurfaced in their hearts.
At this time, the main general Wang Sunxiong was trapped in the city and did not know whether he was alive or dead, and they had completely lost the courage to be the enemy of Tongqingji, but What should I do if I surrender my family members in Wu Country He Lu may not be so sick that he slaughters all the soldiers' families, but he is a general, will he let it go The two military attaches who surrendered in front of him were Ah Qiu and Zai Qiu.
Seeing that everyone hesitated, Ah Qiu laughed and said: "No more revenge, I see that these people are not giving up, and they still want to challenge His Highness's spear."
It's just that I don't know, under the hands of the first warrior of Wu Kingdom, who is the enemy of the three, anyway, I can't, haha" Zai Qiu sneered, held the halberd in his hand and said: "I don't think so, they are only afraid that once they surrender, the Wu family will be slaughtered by the brutal Ji Guang, so they are not willing to be annihilated here, but also unwilling to surrender." ” Ah Qiu laughed and said: "What is there to worry about Ji Guang even if he wants to be a big deal, he will have to wait for him to return to Wu, but can he still go back Now, Chu, Wei, Song, Cao, Lu and other princes who are close to Wu are all allied with His Highness, although the two countries of Qi and Jin are strong, it is difficult for the distant water to save the fire."
Ji Guang was trapped in the capital of Ying, and His Royal Highness did not say that he was about to destroy Wu and restore the country and become the lord of Wu.
Today, it is said that those who belong to His Royal Highness are all meritorious ministers, and there is the possibility of sealing his wife and son, and it is difficult for Ji Guang not to die at that time, and how to slaughter people."
The Wu soldiers who were trapped in the valley mouth suddenly shook when they heard this.
They were afraid of the torture and military law, but the answer of revenge and revenge planted dissent in their hearts.
People are in a predicament, they are not greedy for life, there is the possibility of both, people's psychology will naturally think on the good side, if Qingji becomes the lord of Wu State, then do you still need to be afraid of Ji Guang's military torture Qing Ji sat on his horse and stood still, seeing that the soldiers of the Wu army were already moved, Qing Ji added another weight to the balance of choice that was vacillating in their hearts at the right time, and he raised the spear in his hand upward, and the spear pointed straight into the sky.
After receiving the commander's order, a war drum immediately sounded in the army.
A series of drums were beaten at a speed similar to the rhythm of the heartbeat, and Qingji used the drums of the Wu army, these Wu soldiers could understand and know that this was the war drum sound that was about to launch a charge, the drums were getting faster and faster, and their hearts were beating faster and faster, and they were so nervous that their mouths were dry for a while, and sweat was unconsciously hanging all over their foreheads.
"Surrender or not surrender is not surrender" Ge hand with Gordon ground, sword and shield hand with sword knock on the shield surface, shouted to the Wu army besieged in the valley mouth.
Taniguchi's Wu army was even more flustered, and several generals inside exchanged glances with each other anxiously.
Qingji's spear stayed in the air for a moment, slowly pointed forward, the handsome flag was raised, the tooth flag was waved, and the five-color flags of each army were waved together, which is called "Ying Qi", which means that all armies have received the commander-in-chief's generals, and then as long as Qingji's tooth flag points forward, the armies will move forward like tigers and wolves, and start a one-sided slaughter and poke battle.
Looking at Qingji's tooth flag, the soldiers of the Wu army all raised their throats.
Qingji's tooth flag was raised by the wrestler, and just as the tooth flag was about to point forward, there was a sudden shout, and a general in the Wu army's team rushed out and stepped forward alone, raising his hands high and spreading them to both sides.
The spear in Qingji's hand paused slightly, staring at him, this person's appearance was somewhat familiar, and he thought about it slightly, Qingji had already remembered this person, and recognized this person as Wu Guozhong's doctor Chizhong, according to his grade, this time he should be the commander of the division in the army, and his status should be second only to Wang Sunxiong, so he raised his voice and asked: "Chizhong, what do you have to say?"
Wu Junshi Marshal Chizhong opened his hands widely, stopped Qingji from ordering to cover up, and then slowly turned around and looked at the scattered behind him, behind him the Wu army was scattered and crowded at the mouth of the valley, the valley had been blocked by Qingji's men and horses, the whole army had no formation, and every soldier looked at him with panic and desire for life in his eyes.
Everywhere he looked, several subordinate brigade commanders bowed their heads in shame, as if they were ashamed to let him peek into their thoughts.
Chi Zhong sighed, turned around again, faced Qingji, and then pulled his sword out of its sheath with a choked sound.
The blade of his sword shone in the sunlight with a cold light, bursting with an instant of brilliance.
Qingji sat on the horse, looked at him coldly, and did not say a word.
Brave stepped forward, walking towards Qingji in full view of everyone, there were still more than ten steps away from Qingji, a row of spearmen Huo Di took three steps forward, and the tips of the bright spears were gathered in a row, blocking in front of him.
Chi Zhong stopped, looked up at Qing Ji, leaned over suddenly, plunged the sword deep into the soil with a "bang", held the hilt of the sword, knelt on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "Chi Zhong is willing to lead the department and be loyal to the command of the prince."
Qingji said lightly: "You are a Wu person, you should call me Your Highness" Chi Zhong bowed his head and said: "Yes, Chi Zhong's department, I am willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness Qingji" Since someone took the lead, the generals of the entire Wu army couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the soldiers of the Wu army, who were originally helpless, suddenly found the choice they should make, and they all knelt on the ground with Chizhong Xiang Qingji, swearing allegiance, and Qingji couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.
Once this army swears allegiance to him, from now on, for the sake of his own surname, for the sake of his family's surname, and for their future, they can only swear to serve him to the death.
What's more, with the addition of this army, it will seriously shake Ji Guang's military spirit, people's herd mentality is very serious, a forbidden place that everyone originally thought was insurmountable, once someone took the first step, there will be an endless stream of successors.
In the confrontation with Ji Guang's army, he fought a beautiful battle, not only in the gains and losses in this battle, but in both battles, which did his best to file the morale of the Wu army, won the hearts of the people, and opened the hearts of the Wu people.
To be continued: