Chapter 50 Left Bank
No one responded. After the last warship on the water sank, the Qin people disappeared. Cheng Kui's shouting became less and less. When he was about to lose his voice, a black shadow floated over from a distance. It was a big drum with a man lying on the drum.
"Who?" Cheng Kui asked. He was holding the longbow in his hand. Unfortunately, the bowstring had long been loose and he had no arrows.
"I, I Yiyang..., who are you?" The person who came said was Chu Yu, and Yiyang Brigade was also in this battle series.
"Xi Shi Cheng Kui." It's always a good thing to see the robe, Cheng Kui wiped his tears. "You are the only one?"
"All have sunk." The visitor came closer. His hair was messy, and his hair was draped over his head. Only half of his face could be seen under the starlight. When he noticed Cheng Kui's water, he said, "You have a strange trick, why not swim on the shore? Outside the Yue army, the boats and oars were sunk. If your uncle..."
"Outside the Yue Master?" The floating Cheng Kui did not see any boats and was shocked when he heard this. "You mean that the Yue Master has not sunk?"
"The Yue army drove the Qin people north, and naturally it did not sink." The visitor said. He was worried that Cheng Kui would not believe it, so he said again: "This is what I have seen with my own eyes! If you and I don't, if you don't travel to the shore to treat each other, I'm afraid, I'm afraid..."
As they were talking, Yi Yang's hand, half lying on the drum, slid his hands and hit the edge of the drum with a thud. Cheng Kui hurriedly helped him. The movements of the two men caused a series of ripples, and the corpses floating around him were distant, and they stopped after hitting other corpses.
"I can send you to the shore," Cheng Kui gasped. "If I swim on the shore, I will not be able to return here."
"You and I don't swim on the shore, so I must be frozen here. When Master Yue returns, you can find your uncle." Cheng Kui is strong and floats for several hours without realizing anything. Yi Yang's soldiers held a jiangu and had not sunk, but soon after they fell into the water, they felt that Zeshui was cold and their lower body was no longer conscious. Seeing that Cheng Kui still didn't want to go ashore, he said, "You, you have no parents in your family, and no wife..."
Yi Yangzhang's hand slid down on the drum's face again. Cheng Kui realized that he was not because of his strength, but had frozen. All the familiar people died in battle and turned into corpses floating on the water. Cheng Kui was unwilling to leave them, but the last words of the visitor woke him up. In addition to his comrades, he also had his parents, grandmother, and nephew. He could not die here, at least not at this time.
When his head hit the drum edge for the second time, Yi Yang's servant sank straight down. Cheng Kui quickly pulled him out of the water with a fierce move. After shaking violently, Yi Yang's servant choked on a few sips of water and woke up. He floated weakly on the water, with his head tilted, as if he was looking at the stars in the sky. Cheng Kui was about to speak, but under his weak breath, he shouted out an extremely familiar syllable: "You, you..."
The Chu people called their mother "you". Except for childhood, people were only dying and called their mother like this. Cheng Kui's nose felt sore when he heard this. He pushed open the corpse on the water and swam to Ze'an with Yiyang soldiers.
When he was swimming towards the shore, the battle on the Yuanwu Mountain had just stopped, and Meng Tian, who was standing in front of Zhao Zheng, felt sweat again.
In order to keep the secrets to the greatest extent, the Warring States Weifu not only set up a suspicion array, but also strictly limit the number of insiders. As a general of the Qin army, Meng Tian did not know his mission until dawn: to seize the left bank of Mianshui on the west side of the Yuanwu Mountain occupied by the Jing people.
During the Battle of Weinan, the Chu army used artillery to block the Wei River in the detailed report of the Chu army's battle. Although the Qin army did not have such a systematic staff system, the battle has only been a few years, and many generals still remember it fresh. In addition to the Chu army blocking the waterway, another fatal threat was that the Chu army on Yuanwu Mountain would block the Mianshui with witchcraft and intercept the boat troops and ships going south. For this battle, Wang Jian and Li Xin's elite soldiers gathered quietly and waited along the Wei River near Chencang.
The Qin army headed south, and the front was seven or eight hundred warships, with the boats stretching for more than 60 miles, followed by boats transporting soldiers. Because Shaofu only built warships, most of these transport boats were official boats and civil boats retreated from Nanzheng to the Qinling Mountains, and a few were boats secretly collected from various places in Guanzhong. The number was about a thousand, and the maximum number was only 100,000 people. The captain of the boat was also more than 60 miles.
The Mianshui at the foot of Yuanwu Mountain was straight, and there were waterways with sufficient length and width in front to allow for silt. Therefore, the warships passed by extremely fast speed. The long paths of six or seventy miles of march were all gone in less than an hour and a half. At this time, the Chu army was still towing the artillery with difficulty, and it was still several miles away from the Mianshui.
The ship transporting troops was slow, and only half of it had passed in two hours; and the boat was small, and as long as the cannon was hit, the small boats would sink, and the big boats would be seriously injured if they didn't sink. After a while, they would have to be repaired. It was nothing to sink a ship, but if there were too many sunk, the waterway would be blocked. Therefore, from the morning, the two armies were competing for the highlands on the banks of the Mian River.
The Qin army wanted to drive the Chu army back to the east of Yuanwu Mountain. If it could not be at least possible, it would drive the Chu army away from the coast of Mianshui. The Chu army held its existing positions and tried its best to prevent the Qin army from moving south. If all seven or eight hundred warships were abandoned, it would only pose a threat to friendly forces on the water. On the transport boats were Qin soldiers with strong limbs. These people went south to Juyi and Nanzheng General, which was a fatal danger to them. They must be stopped.
During the Danming period, the Qin people sailed south along the river, and the Chu army fought with the Qin army. After early meals, they approached Yan Shi. The Chu army set up artillery on the left bank of the Mianshui River to bombard the Qin army's lost boats. In the middle of the corner, more and more artillery added to the bombardment, and the Qin army sank dozens of boats, and the traffic in the Mianshui River was completely cut off.
During the small remit, the Qin army fell down the rock with ropes and vines, and attacked Sanchakou, forcing the Chu army stationed at the Yuanwushan Pass to retreat. Later, the Qin army tried to capture the west of Sanchakou, connecting the Mianshui coast and Baoxie Pass on the west side of Yuanwushan, trying to cut off the connection between the Chu army and the rear, and isolated the Chu army along the Mianshui coast west of Yuanwushan.
The two sides were at the fork in the west of Sanchakou, and later called Liufeng Pass the place called Liufeng Pass. Unfortunately, the Chu army stationed at this fork was the Xi army of Ruoao. Meng Tian tried every means but failed to take this place before Zhao Zheng arrived.
"King, the battle has stopped." Zhao Zheng sat on the head of the Yiling Mansion, standing next to Wei Liao and Zhao Gao and others. He came from Yongcheng after receiving the news that the boat troops passed through Yuguan at noon. He was two hundred miles away and arrived at the old Daoyi in the middle of the night. Seeing that the Mian River was blocked by the Chu army, all the warships transporting soldiers were blocked here, Zhao Zheng immediately became angry and was furious at Meng Tian.
"So what?" Zhao Zheng opened his five fingers with all his strength, biting his teeth, his face full of anger. "The Jing people cut off my waterway, and the soldiers could only stop here. Even if the Zhou army defeated the Jing people, they could not pull out Juyi Nanzheng, and could not gain the land of Bashu!"
"Stop the wrath of the king." Meng Tian continued to wipe his sweat, and only Wei Liao persuaded him. "There are many Qin soldiers in our army's boat army. It may not be possible to capture Nanzheng, but to capture Juyi. Since our army has Juyi, we can obtain Bashu."
"Juyi?" Zhao Zheng looked at the map with some suspicion. Water war is the first step, land war is the second step, and invading Bashu is the third step. Because water war has the risk of being blocked, Zhao Zheng used to focus on water war rather than the later land war.
"Yes." Wei Liao tried his best to reassure Zhao Zheng. "The dangers of this battle are all about whether the Zhou army could go south to Daze by surprise. If we could, our army would win; if we could, our army would be defeated. Fortunately, the people of Jing were one step behind me and had not sent heavy troops to defend Yuguan before, so our army would be defeated."
"There are only 30,000 or 40,000 troops. How can we defeat Juyi if there is a ladder in the chariot?" Although we have not received any news from the front, Zhao Zheng never doubted the victory of the Battle of Daze. What he wants now is Bashu, occupy Bashu, and the Qin army can continue to fight with food and feed.
"Juyi is a small town. Three or forty thousand people may not be able to be pulled out." Wei Liao said and looked at Meng Tian again, and said again: "And General Meng will be able to capture the Chakou tomorrow. If the Jing people do not retreat, they will be surrounded by our army. In a few days, the military rations will be eaten..."
What the Qin army wanted was that the land soldiers quickly went south, and then pulled out Juyi and rushed into Bashu with one go. Now the Chu army was stuck on the left bank of Mianshui, and the land army might be able to go around from the right bank, but the boats could not go around.
Standing on the overall situation, Wei Liao wished to beat drums and drums and send the Chu army to retreat, rather than encircle and annihilate them. To encircle and annihilate them, with the combat effectiveness shown by these divisions and brigades today, even if they eat all the military rations, they can still last for several days. Time is precious, and a few days is enough for the Chu army to send troops from the old Yingfang City to rescue Nanzheng and Juyi. Once this is the case, there will be no hope of capturing Bashu.
"I will lead the army tomorrow to seize the fork and force the Jing people to retreat..." Wei Liao said a little lost, while Meng Tian showed his determination to fight to the death. Wei Liao didn't hear his words at all. Judging from the Chu army's rapid mobilization of artillery to block the Mianshui, the Chu army seemed to fully understand its strategic intentions. Even if Meng Tian seized the fork tomorrow, the Chu army might not retreat.
He began to worry about his original design. If the Chu army did not climb Yuanwu Mountain and detoured to the left bank of Mianshui, it would be impossible to clear the sunken boats in Lingguan Gorge, and the Qin army's boat troops would not be able to go south. Now, the boat troops were heading south. The Chu army, who had reacted, immediately called witch tools to block Mianshui. The Qin army was stuck here without going up or down.
What should I do? Could it be that the Zhou army who was really waiting for the south to be beaten by the Chu reinforcements?
In the Daoyi, Wei Liao smiled bitterly in his heart, and the military discussions on the Chu army's military station on the left bank of Mianshui had just begun.
In addition to Lu Gao and Lu Chuang, the Xishishi led Cheng Si, the general of Xin Cai, Pan Wuming, the general of Cai, Cai, the general of Qisi, Gui Que, and the general of Kuaiji, who had to go ashore, had the general of Kuaiji, who had to go ashore. The general of artillery soldiers stopped the enemy, and the commanders and soldiers were in charge of Lu Qianli. In addition, Sima, the army commander and military plan of each division, there were more than 20 or 30 people sitting in the curtain.
Chapter completed!