The Yellow River is not called the Yellow River now, it has several names, such as the mother river or the big river.
The water of the Yellow River is not muddy, it should be said that its water looks very clear, providing drinking water and agricultural irrigation for the entire river.
There have been a lot of records about the Yellow River, usually focusing on the record of the change of course, the fifth year of King Zhou Ding in 602 BC, the third year of Yuanguang of Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty in 132 BC, and the third year of Wang Mang's founding of the People's Republic of China in 11 AD, several Yellow River diversions are seriously recorded, and any diversion of the Yellow River is to make the imperial court at that time face a huge crisis.
Now in this clear river, by the thorn as a body, the downstream of the river floating on the surface of the river is difficult to count, some sections of the river even because of the water surface of the river grass and some broken wood branches and other things, the corpses are hooked too much, resulting in too many corpses piled up in the river section, exaggerated modification is the floating corpse to cut off the river water.
Of course, the floating and dense corpses on the surface of the river are on the surface of the water, and the water is still flowing in the deeper places.
The corpses drifting downstream from Jianjin extended very far, and the farther the floating corpses drifted as time went on, and it is conceivable that if there were floating corpses that were not stopped by anything, or floated up the river beach, they would either be swept into the riverbed by the current and trapped in the mud, or they would definitely be able to float into the Bohai Sea.
The Shijie Zhao army, which was defending the southern bank of Jianjin, collapsed, and Ma Qiu chose to abandon everything and run away when he couldn't handle it completely.
The reason why he would do this was very simple, he thought that this time Shi Hu would never let himself go, and if he didn't run, he would have to wait to be skinned and cramped and then boiled and eaten Ma Qiu, who completely lost his square inch, did not run, and it would not have any impact on the battle situation, and it would be a good thing for a completely useless general to run away and be replaced by someone who could do something to take over the command.
The person who took over the command was Jia Jian in advance.
In fact, he pretended not to find out so that Ma Qiu was able to escape, and after Ma Qiu ran away, he urgently summoned all levels of generals and colonels in the army, making it clear who the commander was from now on.
As soon as a group of chaotic generals saw that someone came out to take the blame, they immediately accepted it in that unbelievable mentality, anyway, Jia Jian asked them to do whatever they wanted.
In this way, the chaotic Shijie Zhao army miraculously regained some organizational strength, they deliberately opened the channel for the rout to escape, organized the troops to build a defense line and set up defenses, and the army of the Qi people went up, and in the face of the Han army mixed behind the rout to try to break through, it was to block the Han army back.
The real situation is that the number of Han troops who tried to break through was only 1,000, and they deliberately changed their clothes under the leadership of a military marquis named Cheng Shuo, mixed in the enemy's rout and went to the bridge, and they had not yet reached the north bank of the bridge and had been squeezed into the water Many people, a group of panicked soldiers in their murderous disguised soldiers were too obvious, and the archers of the Qi people who were discovered in time covered indiscriminately, and everyone on the bridge was crowded and pushed after being chaotic, and they could only try their best to withdraw and retreat.
From the collapse of the Shijie Zhao army on the south bank of Jianjin to the confrontation between the Han army and the Shijie Zhao army on the north bank, the whole process lasted two days.
There are too many things, and some things are not easy to deal with at the first time, so that Cheng Shuo is kneeling in front of Ran Min now.
That time when a thousand Han troops tried to break through, it was not an order from Shangfeng, but Cheng Shuo saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it and take his headquarters to carry it out.
It didn't work out, and more than 400 people were lost by 1,000 people, and he was supposed to be held accountable.
According to Ran Min's original intention, he really didn't think that Cheng Shuo had done anything wrong, and if he could call the shots, he would still want to praise him.
The problem is that the Han army has its own discipline, and if Cheng Shuo succeeds, of course, he will be meritorious, but he will not be able to do it "According to military law" Ran Min read the document with it, looked up at Cheng Shuo who was kneeling on the ground, smiled and said, "Do you know what kind of treatment you will face?"
Cheng Shuo knew what punishment he was facing, and he responded "yes" very calmly, looking like he would fully accept any punishment.
He felt that there was only one thing to be depressed, if they succeeded in breaking through and gaining a foothold on the south bank, it was a certain thing to get a knighthood, and the official position should be promoted to the rank of captain.
Ran Min looked at Li Tan, who was accompanying him, as if he was gossiping: "It seems that something similar happened before, but it was successful."
"There is such a thing."
Li Tan knew what Ran Min meant, he actually knew who Cheng Shuo was, and after watching Cheng Shuo, who was ready to accept punishment, he said to Ran Min: "You are the main general, and you can give the final verdict depending on the circumstances." ” Ran Min was waiting for this sentence, and with the support of the deputy general, Changshi also said that he could deal with it lightly, and he would be able to get an idea.
The battle situation developed far faster than expected, he was still in a happy mood, and he intended to tease Chengshuo, so he asked: "The heaviest punishment is execution, do you think you should be executed?"
Cheng Shuo swallowed a mouthful of saliva and chose to smile awkwardly and remain silent.
"Demote to the commander and keep it."
Ran Min waved his hand, signaling that Cheng Shuo could get out.
He looked at Li Tan, and then at Changshi Zhang Shi, who seemed to regard himself as an ornament, and deliberately made a distressed expression, and said: "Now that the south bank of Jianjin has been taken, the king has specially ordered us to rest.
What the hell is going on?"
Zhang Shi is the one who once stayed in Xiangguo for a long time as a secret agent, before he was a lieutenant in one of the Jiuqing, and after Liu Yan's personal conscription, the lieutenant had nothing to do, and was sent to Ran Min to be the marching commander, which may be for experience or gold-plating.
In fact, to make it clear, whether it is Liu Yan or anyone who knows what Ran Min is, Ran Min in the military, as the main general, does not like to have subordinates to dictate, and Ran Min's military ability is also more trustworthy, Zhang Shi came to be the responsibility of Changshi surveillance is far more than giving advice.
Now it was time for Zhang Shi to speak, and he said: "The scale of the war with Shijie is huge, and the movement of our army has been delayed, so we need to wait for the troops and horses of several other roads to be in place. ” This is the interaction between the global and the local.
To put it bluntly, the war has developed to a certain scale, and some parts can be abandoned, but some important points should be insisted on fighting to the nearest person, and no matter what kind of action there is, it is to be regulated and controlled in order to achieve a comprehensive victory.
Ran Min guessed that this was the case, they had become pawns to attract Shi Hu's attention along the way, what the center wanted was to make a breakthrough from other positions, in order to achieve the goal, not only did they have to rest along the way, Huan Wen had to continue to persist in the predicament all the way, maybe Li Kuang also knew that he would be trapped or surrounded.
"The Han Dynasty has recently expanded a lot of territory, and the number of Zhao troops eliminated is also quite a lot, and the situation seems to be favorable, but" Li Tan deliberately glanced at Zhang Shi, and saw that Zhang Shi continued to pose as if he did not exist, and pondered for a moment before continuing: "Generally speaking, the war against Shijie is still not progressing much, and even has a tendency to fall into a quagmire" "Hmm."
Ran Min really regarded Zhang Shi as non-existent, and he had no scruples when he spoke, and said: "You shouldn't listen to those civil officials, if you launched a long-distance attack on Yecheng or Xiangguo, you would have made a big breakthrough a long time ago." ” Li Tan definitely didn't dare to take that stubble, changed the topic, and said: "Now Xie Lang will lead 50,000 troops to march to Ji County, Xu Zhonglang will lead 80,000 troops to Zhu'a County, and the king will personally lead the army to move to Dongping County in Qinting."
It seems that if you don't move, it will be a full-scale offensive against Shijie."
There are more and more troops of the Han State along the Yellow River, there are 170,000 on Ran Min's side alone, and the troops in the rest of the positions definitely exceed 300,000 with the arrival of the new army in the rear, that is, the strength of nearly 500,000 troops is fully spread.
A map covering the Yellow River was quickly laid on the ground of the big tent, Ran Min took the lead in taking off his boots and stepping on it, walked to the location of Puyang County, and said while pointing: "Shi Hu's troops are only more than our army, there are more than 300,000 people on the north bank of Jianjin alone, and there are constantly troops moving closer to this side in other places." ” The obvious thing is that Ran Min defeated the Shijie Zhao army on the south bank of Jianjin here, forcing the Shijie Zhao army to retreat to the north bank, and the Shijie Zhao army on the north bank of the Yellow River was only forty miles away, and the Shijie Zhao army that retreated to the north bank of the Yellow River was not pressed to the head of Huan Wen's subordinates in addition to sticking to the Jianjin coast Therefore, Li Tan is both envious and worried about Huan Wen, who is surrounded by Huan Wen, they either become a nail and firmly guard the place, or they are a lonely boat above the sea that may be smashed by the huge waves at any time.
The importance of Huan Wen's department increased again and again because the siege plan of Shi Hu's main force went bankrupt, and this army in Chaoge attracted too many enemy troops, and it was a nail that Shi Hu had to pull out before retreating to Yecheng or Xiangguo.
The center of the Han State is currently around Huan Wen's department, which can firmly attract the main force of Shijie Zhao's army to make deployments, and Ran Min's original leading role of the Han army can be said to have been robbed.
In the following three days, Ran Min and others only put on a posture that they would attack and seize the bridge at any time and did not launch an actual offensive, in contrast to Shijie Zhao's army desperately building fortifications on the other side of the river, it was seen that Ran Min was both anxious and extremely annoyed, until the news that Xu Zheng led the army to cross the river to the north arrived and made Ran Min directly scold.
"Messing around, our army of nearly 200,000 is here to become a decoration" Ran Min all the good moods went with the wind, and he almost blushed his face: "We created a situation, and the result was that others easily came out to pick peaches" Li Tan felt deeply, and he was also annoyed that the great credit was about to be taken, but he was at least rational and persuaded: "The credit is indispensable to ours."
Since the king has already allowed the attack, let's discuss how to attack first."
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"Nothing to discuss."
When Ran Min was furious, he didn't want to talk at all, so he directly said: "The armored infantry will advance first, and the bow and crossbow troops will follow up and shoot out a river beach where they can stand on their feet, and it should be the matter of cavalry behind." ” Li Tan was speechless, the rest of the pontoon bridges have been completely destroyed, in recent days they have only ensured that the three bridges will not be destroyed or blocked, but the fleet has not reached the place where the river can be crossed, and it can really only rely on thick-skinned troops to force a passage.
The order was given, and the drums of war were beaten.
In the midst of a "boom boom" drum, the Han army camp lined up and walked out of the infantry army, led by the mounted heavy infantry, among which there were few tower shield soldiers, followed by archers and crossbowmen.
Li Su, who succeeded Jia Jian, heard the war drums on the Han army's side and began to move on his own.
Located on the north bank of Jianjin, the Shijie Zhao army has increased to 200,000, and the soldiers of the Qianren clan have 70,000, and the rest are still all kinds of miscellaneous cards put together, it is worth mentioning that Shi Hu asked Li Su to bring 3,000 Longteng guards over, which is 1,000 heavy cavalry and 2,000 heavy infantry.
The last time Ma Qiu commanded the battle, the morale of Shijie Zhao's army collapsed to the bottom, Li Su did not choose to let those miscellaneous cards go first, in order to boost morale, he directly let the heavy infantry of the two thousand dragon guards go on the field at the beginning, and also allocated five thousand archers.
There were still traces of the collapse on the three stone bridges, which were blood stains that had turned dark black from the sun, and even around the piers there were some swollen floating corpses, and the air was filled with the foul smell of corpses.
The movement of the mounted heavy infantry was very strong, causing the heavy footsteps on both sides of the Yellow River, bounded by the bridge, to echo in the sound of war drums and trumpets.
There were 10,000 mounted heavy infantry under the command of Ran Min, of which only 2,000 were heavy swordsmen, and the rest were selected and trained from tall and sturdy soldiers.
The mounted heavy infantry of the two armies soon appeared within visual distance of each other.
The mounted heavy infantry at the front of the Han army was covered with scale armor on the outside, chain mail and leather armor on the inside, and two layers of silk underwear under the battle robes.
Their helmets and armor were lowered, revealing only a pair of eyes, holding a tower shield in their left hand and a long-handled simple knife in their right hand.
In addition, there were no heavy infantry with shields, but they carried a very thick three-pointed and two-edged knife, which was called the Mo knife in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
It is necessary to have a heavy swordsman who carries a thick broadsword, but they are arranged in the position of the wings.
The heavy infantry on the side of Shijie Zhao's army, the outer layer looks like the current very traditional armor, that is, the kind of armor inlaid with iron pieces of leather or cloth, and a layer of armor composed of iron rings can be seen at the neckline, and it can be guessed that there is also a layer of chain mail within the armor, and what is there can only be guessed.
The weapons appear to be heavy weapons, mostly maces or flails, that is, a wooden handle connected by an iron chain to a spiked sphere.
Ran Min saw in the rear that Shijie Zhao Jun had let the equipped heavy infantry of the Longteng Guards on the field at the beginning, but he was happy after being stunned: "There are elites like the Longteng Guards present to slaughter them, which is much more meritorious than slaughtering miscellaneous soldiers":