1301 Strong bones and heroic soul
The Jie army on the water probably did not expect that this night attack, which they regarded as top secret, was actually discovered by the Jin army in advance and was on the shore with a strong posture, so the approaching ship formation was obviously in chaos and stagnation.
But soon, behind the Jie army, which had not yet been covered by the fire, there was a surging and violent sound of flags and drums, overwhelming all the noise on the shore and on the water, and driving the soldiers to launch an attack.
But at this moment of pause, the most important momentum of the Jie army's night attack disappeared. Especially when the ship speed subconsciously slowed down, it would take a long process of accumulating power and accumulation, but now it is only about a mile away from the water shore, so there is obviously no such opportunity.
In contrast, the Jin army, due to Gao Zhong's cautiousness and even the soldiers of the plants and trees, had already summoned the soldiers of the Third Battalion in advance. At present, all the soldiers had been added to the front line and began to set up various large-scale defensive weapons. The soldiers in the subsequent battalion also came out of the camp with the sound of drums and lined up to fight.
Gao Zhong has now stepped onto a pavilion with a wide view. At this position, he can not only overlook the entire water camp, but also the changes in the enemy's formation.
With the limited vision, the water surface that was covered with enemy ships, and he could see as many as hundreds of ships alone, and the main general's ship that made the sound of drumming was still hidden in the darkness beyond his vision.
There were not many large warships in the Jie army formation, most of which were small flying boats. Each ship was loaded between thirty or fifty people, and it was laid out to give people a dense sense of oppression. According to the scale seen in the field of vision, Gao Zhong estimated that there were at least more than ten thousand enemies in this time, because he was in a heavy mood and did not have the joy of predicting the enemy's initiative at all.
"Prepare to throw a stone, bomb!"
With the issuance of a military order, the Jin army's front suddenly became active. Many catapults lay in the defense line like ferocious beasts. At this moment, it made a heavy and ferocious sound. Then many huge catapults hit the enemy warships that were even closer like hail. Suddenly, crackling sounds sounded on the water surface, and the sound of falling into the water and roars. The originally complete enemy ship formation was suddenly hit with holes!
Although the Jie army's warships were not large in size, they were not very flexible. One reason was that there were too many ships, which occupied the river channel and had no room for rushing left and right. Secondly, although it was late autumn, the water was still good this year and the water flow was still fast. These ships needed hooks and ropes to avoid being taken away by the water flow when sailing at night.
As the two sides narrowed, the Jin army's thrown stones did not need to be deliberately aimed, and they hit ships full of soldiers one after another. Although the chaos caused was quite large, the actual casualties were not large. Even if some soldiers fell into the water, they were quickly salvaged and rescued by friendly ships around them.
The Jin army threw stones and did not take killing the enemy as its primary task. It mainly wanted to disrupt the enemy's attack rhythm and pushed the enemy out of the defense line. Then it shot a crossbow and shot the black arrows and splashed towards the already chaotic enemy formation. Under the illumination of the fire along the coast, you can see that the Jie army was constantly wailing arrows wailing into the water.
The night attack was caught off guard. As the Jie army's actions were exposed in advance, with the Jin army waiting for the battle, it can be said that the enemy's night attack had already begun to fail and had no meaning as it should have.
Moreover, although Gao Zhong is not a famous general, he can also judge it through various signs of the enemy. The commander of the Jie army this way is definitely not a long-time general with rich experience in the army.
At the very least, night attacks, especially on the battlefield with a dangerous obstacle with open river lines, should have been a means of attacking more with less and winning with strange means. For military cities like Wushuang, there must be careful warning arrangements around them. No matter how weak they are, even if Gao Zhong does not notice them carefully, if they want to achieve success in the surprise attack, there are too many variables that are not an appropriate goal of winning.
As a result, the enemy not only rushed straight to the clean, but also had more than ten thousand people. Once their whereabouts were exposed, the result was that they rushed forward and responded to the enemy and became slow and chaotic, and their original initiative became a disadvantage.
The situation on the battlefield at this moment is a perfect portrayal of backfire. The enemy's front line was thrown into stones one after another, and the arrows were tortured. There were many people falling into the water. There were neither organized charges nor flexible avoidance and adjustments. The warships seemed to be numerous, but they were completely exposed to the offensive of the Jin army. In just a quarter of the hour when the war started, at least more than 2,000 casualties had occurred.
However, these Jie troops were indeed brave. Despite such a violent blow, there was still no large-scale escape and escape. Some people also pulled the string to reflect, but the sparse rain of arrows was not enough to form the lethality of the arrow rain net.
Some other Jie soldiers lucky enough to rush through the area that was hit hardest, rushed directly to the Jin army's water camp, held up a thick wooden shield covered with cowhide, and waved their swords and axes to slash the corner-to-corner formation set up by the Jin army outside the water gate.
Seeing that the Water Gate Refusal Formation was destroyed, Gao Zhong felt as if he was tightly held. He even jumped off the pavilion where he was watching the battle and entered the battle formation to control a powerful crossbow. He shot fiercely at the enemy soldiers who were still slashing and stabbing: "Kill, kill all these Hu slaves!"
At this moment, the situation of the enemy and us was very obvious. It was nothing more than the Jin army using all defensive measures to prevent the enemy from rushing to the dock water camp, and no longer needed a quick command in the face of the battle.
While operating the crossbow machine, Gao Zhong ordered his personal soldiers to say solemnly: "Go back to the city quickly and inform him of the launching turtle oil here!"
Because there are many warships docking in the Swallow Water Camp in daily life, there are still many equipment storages in the future. In order to prevent accidents, many fire attack equipment and equipment are very well-equipped, and they need to go to the Swallow City more than ten miles away.
Although the enemy is still being resisted stubbornly on the river surface, Gao Zhong is not optimistic about this. He knew that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the camp was far inferior to the front-line soldiers of the King's Division. The reason why the shocking lethality erupted at this moment was mainly due to the various defense structures of the water camp.
The enemy in front of you will not be able to break through the defense of the Jin army in a short time, but if the battle is delayed, as the guards lose their physical strength, even with various powerful equipment structures, their lethality will soon fade. Once the enemy is bullied to the dock, a large-scale close contact will occur, and the situation of the clean cleansing Jin will be in trouble tonight!
"Kill me, continue to kill! I will never die tonight, and I will praise Heluo tomorrow, and I will shine on my ancestors!"
The crossbow with a slow launch frequency could no longer satisfy Gao Zhong's anxious mood. He changed into a strong bow, pulled the strings and hit the approaching enemy troops, shouting and boosting morale, and his voice soon became hoarse and unbearable.
The guards on the front also looked frightened. After hearing the general's call, they still pursed their lips and kept shooting at the enemy.
"One field, two field... It's worth my death now, and my children and grandchildren have their own support! No wonder those tiger soldiers fight to kill the enemy one by one. Such a time to work hard, such a price to work hard..."
There are many soldiers who kill the enemy while muttering messy words. The king's army has its own plan and the mastermind of the general's mansion is even equipped with a direct subordinate to the general's mansion to watch and fight directly in the battle formation. In addition to the simplest beheading, many tactical requirements will be achieved and will be rewarded in the armored ritual.
"Jin'er is covered in strong bones, and she can see the heroic posture of killing the enemy in the future!"
Although the staff and chief clerks assigned to the camp were not responsible for killing the enemy, they were also wandering in the defense line, roaring and encouraging morale. Once the defense line collapsed and the soldiers fled, they were the first to be punished on the crime. Therefore, whenever these people were in war, they acted more fearless than those campers.
During this attack and killing, half an hour quickly passed, and the enemy's battle formation that had been rushing wildly finally underwent some obvious changes.
The enemy front-line warships that were originally laid out were now pushed open from the rear, revealing a large warship. Under the flames, the warships could be seen standing in the armored soldiers, and flags were also dancing in the wind, which was obviously the enemy's commander.
The sound of drumming stopped temporarily, and the sound of the battlefield became soaring. Then a burly figure with black armor appeared on the platform of the big ship. With a wave of his arm, soldiers lifted heavy boxes one by one onto the platform. When the figure slashed the knife, the box was cut, and the dreamy glow splashed out from it.
When the Hu soldiers on the battlefield saw this scene, their originally depressed and tired emotions suddenly rose. Although the roars on the ship could not be transmitted to every corner of the noisy battlefield, they also understood the meaning in it without saying anything.
As the drumming sounded again, the Hu soldiers' rush became more fierce. On the other hand, the counterattack of the Jin army on the shore became much softer than before. Many catapults were either damaged or uncontrollable. Some Jin soldiers even held high and low fences with their hands, so tired that they blew up and retching.
It was not that they did not do their best. After a fierce fight back, the enemy troops killed had already exceeded their multiples. The entire clean camp was very large, and even if there was no war, the less than 5,000 guards were slightly thin.
If an ordinary enemy had caused such great casualties, even if there was no military order to retreat, they would collapse and flee. However, there were too many enemies invaded this time. Although they had killed so many, and the bodies and wreckage of boats were covered with the open river surface, there were still a vast crowd behind them, which made them feel desperate.
The soldiers were seriously exhausted, and even with strong weapons, it was difficult to exert matching lethality. Gao Zhong's face was also gloomy at this moment, and he was full of self-blame. Recently, he was too strict because of his nervousness, which also affected the soldiers' physical strength to a certain extent.
A truly excellent general needs to use his ability accurately and achieve a balance between caution and relaxation. Gao Zhong does not have such qualities. Although he successfully predicted the enemy's initiative and was ready to smash the enemy's night attack plan, he also caused a lot of unnecessary consumption of the soldiers' physical strength.
Even himself, his arms were sore and swollen that he was no longer enough to draw a bow. If the soldiers could always maintain sufficient physical strength, even if the camp was not defended in the end, at least it would cause greater damage to the enemy at the moment.
The enemy rushed over again, and the atmosphere in the Jin army camp seemed much lower. Gao Zhong raised his arm, flashed the strings of the slingshot, and a trace of pain flashed in his eyes, and then he said a slouch: "Gather towards me, enter the armed camp, and dismantle the armed weapons."
As soon as this order was issued, the surroundings were silent. In order to prevent these powerful weapons from falling into the hands of the thief, once the battalion defense was almost exhausted, dismantling the destructive equipment was the most important task for the defender. Once this order was issued, it meant giving up the most powerful attack and killing method of the Jin army, and then either fighting fiercely or leading the troops to retreat. In short, it was the final end.
There were many soldiers and generals around him. When Gao Zhong said this, his expression became dim. He took the initiative to remove his claws and teeth, and the situation could be imagined. Even though they were unwilling to accept it, they were also feeling sad when they saw many soldiers who were so tired that they were on the ground and could not stand up in their defense.
"General, after that..."
Someone asked with a stuttering mouth.
Gao Zhong's face suddenly turned soaring. He raised his broken finger's palm and pressed the scar on his forehead. Then he seemed to have the strength to pour into his body. He pulled out his sword with his hands and laughed heroically: "No matter how much he said in previous years, it was boring. Today, I am crazy, let the children see what true courage means!"
In the Jin army camp, the fire groups on the defense line were extinguished one after another, and the entire front line was once again submerged into the darkness. Under the night sky, the sound of equipment being dismantled and collapsed from all over the defense line, and the tired camp soldiers also dragged their heavy bodies to the war zone where the leader was located.
"The only son in the family, the old and the young are out of the house!"
The soldiers of the camp in charge behind Gao Zhong made such a roar, and a dull sob sounded in the entire camp.
"Put your horse's pee and feel disgusting sound. When my heroic soul returns to the Garden, it's not too late to cry again!"
Gao Zhong paused his feet and roared, and at this moment, there were crackling and messy footsteps sounding from the water gate behind him. He roared again: "Go quickly and go quickly and tell Mr. Shen that Gao is heroic this night, and fight for his life! The thief is powerful, be careful to surround and kill!"
There were not many children in the army who were in love. At this time, they were joking about their lives. Nearly a thousand soldiers withdrew from the camp, boarded their horses, threw fire seeds along the way, and as the fire spread, they rushed along the avenue into the dark night.
More and more Hu soldiers rushed into the water camp, and the whole camp was noisy. Gao Zhong stood in the camp, still listening to where the loudest sound was. After a moment, he suddenly grinned: "I'm going to die, why bother me, give them a big gift!"
After saying that, he waved his arms and shouted, "Retreat, give up the camp, let's go to the Cang Camp to guard!"
So more than 3,000 soldiers who were still remaining in the battle formation all followed Gao Zhong and went straight to the camp behind under the nightlight.
After a long period of hard work, he was blocked and killed in front of the water camp. The Jie soldiers thought that a new round of hard fighting would take place after they got ashore, but they didn't expect to lose their lives and were ecstatic for a while. Even though many soldiers who got ashore rushed into the Jin army's camp without taking the orders, they did not care about the military.
The Jin army had sufficient supply, and they had known that at this moment, they would naturally have to grab a lot of robberies. However, a considerable number of Hu soldiers occupied the important areas of the camp at the fastest speed, took various facilities of the Jin army for their own use, and some of them were neatly armored, and they began to sweep the camp and search for enemy tracks in the camp and thoroughly eliminated them.
After nearly half an hour, although the Jin army soldiers gathered in the Cang Camp were also discovered, the enemy did not immediately launch an attack, but just surrounded it. At this moment, the commander of the Jie army finally landed on the dock and boarded the dock.
He was a man in his thirties, with a curly beard on his face but with a sinister face. The man was Shi Xuan, the second son of Shi Hu. Shi Xuan stood with a sword. He listened to the flattery and praise of the generals gathered around him, saying that he had never been so powerful since the prosperity of the country.
Xingguo was changed to the year name after Shi Hu took over Xiangguo. When he heard his generals say this, Shi Xuan's beard and sinister face were filled with a strong look of joy. This is indeed not a compliment. After his father was beaten to escape north in a panic in the south in his early years, until now, in the confrontation between the north and the south, Jieguo has been at a disadvantage and has not yet won such a brilliant victory in important barriers.
Later, when he heard that he had no income after searching the camp, the Jin army was still guarding the residence of the Cang Mansion, a trace of gloom appeared on Shi Xuan's face, and he personally led the crowd to the trapped Jin army who was surrounded by the Jin army. After thinking about it, he made someone shout, "Who is the general of the Jin army? The weak people blocked my vast heavenly army. Although they were foolish and unaware of the destiny, they were victorious because they were praised for their strong aura. If they were bound to the camp, they would avoid death!"
Responding to him was a few angry curses: "Shi Jilong is a slut in my family who is a illegitimate animal!"
The trapped troops of the Jin army seemed to have made an agreement. Such a vicious curse was as uniform as a shouting slogan, echoing loudly in this world.
When Shi Xuan heard the scolding, he was furious and paused and shouted: "Kill me, no one will leave any survivors! That Nan thief, I want to peel his flesh!"
The Jie army immediately launched an attack, surrounded by more than 10,000 generals and advanced all the way. Although the Jin army inside was tired, the resistance was also extremely fierce. Shi Xuan followed the army and stepped slowly into the formation. Seeing the mud all over the ground was watered with blood. Even though he was a cruel and vicious person, he was still shocked by the tenacity of the Jin army.
With such a chance of victory locked in, the battle continued until dawn. Although the Jin army was divided and dispersed, they still stubbornly guarded seven or eight warehouses.
At dawn, the Jin army opposite finally shouted to surrender. Shi Xuan originally didn't want to pay attention to this, but a general reported that the losses were really heavy this time, and there was no income from the search camp. I guess the heavy goods of the Jin army were still stored in these warehouses.
"The dog thief is so tired that he is tied up? Forget it, let's keep his life. I'm going to peel his skin and give it to the southern thief Shen Weizhou to make a cloak!"
Shi Xuan smiled grimly and ordered the attack to be temporarily suspended, allowing the trapped Jin army to surrender. He also slowly walked towards the warehouse where the general of the Jin army was located under heavy troops. After making some weighing in his heart, he decided to temporarily restrain his evil spirit and show it a little, and find out some of the Jin army's defense arrangements after being cleaned from him to allow the army to invade later.
After the fighting stopped, the bloody Jin army general Zhu Jian stood at the gate of the Cangsan with hundreds of people. As the surrounding soldiers dispersed, Shi Xuan and Gao Zhongbing saw each other.
Seeing Gao Zhong's blood-stained appearance, Shi Xuan's eyes flashed and he was about to make someone shout, but suddenly he heard the Jin general roaring, "The Lord of Ji Long, the beast, is also worthy of my Jin'er's hero!"
With this roar, suddenly thick smoke came out of the warehouse behind him.
Seeing this scene, Shi Xuan knew that he had been fooled, but compared to the deaths of Gao Zhong and other disabled people, he felt even more distressed about the resources that were about to be burned, and he roared angrily: "Kill the thief quickly and rescue the goods!"
Although there are some goods in the warehouse, the inventory is not large. Instead, the things that Gao Zhong had sent from the Scarf City that caused fire and ignition that he had sent from the Scarf City were not used in use at the dock before, and are now stored in these warehouses they guarded.
Seven or eight fires ignited together, and instantly rushed out of the warehouse letters. Gao Zhong stood at the door of the warehouse, watching the enemy soldiers with a ferocious expression continue to rush towards him. However, before the Jie soldiers could get close, their figures were already overwhelmed by the flames that jumped out from behind. The Hu soldiers were blocked by the fierce heat wave and retreated together.
"Life is to strengthen bones, death is to strengthen the soul! When you go to the Yellow Spring, you will surely destroy the souls of the dragons in the world!"
The call of calls gradually weakened and the sea of fire spread.
Chapter completed!