Chapter 238 confrontation
There was nothing wrong all night, and the east was white. In the early morning, when the sun was not rising, the soldiers in the Goguryeo military formation had finished their meals and soon began to move westward, launching an attack on the Zhou army formed by the back river, and the distance between the two sides was gradually shortened.
When the two armies were nearly three miles apart, the rising sun rose and the sun shone in the wilderness, causing the two armies with different flags to dye bright golden yellow.
The Zhou army, who was on the west side and east, had his eyes shining by the sun at this time.
The rising sun will not be dazzling, but after a while, when the two armies confront each other, the sunshine will be shining and it will make people unable to see it directly.
Direct sunlight on your eyes will affect the performance of the archers. When the two armies are fighting, when the soldiers see the sun on their opponent's heads with their eyes, they will easily get blurred and cannot see the opponent's movements clearly, resulting in slower reactions.
This is exactly the effect Goguryeo coach Eji Funde wants to achieve.
The decisive battle was delayed for a day, causing the Zhou army to spend the night in the muddy riverside, suffering from mosquito bites. Then they marched in the early morning. When the two armies confronted each other, the rising sun could just shaking the eyes of the Zhou army soldiers.
In order to give his side as much as possible to win chips, he racked his brains and used all the solutions he could think of.
The large hills on the battlefield at both north and south are now occupied by the Zhou army. He must pull out these two "nails" to ensure that the north and south wings of the army are not restricted, so that he can attack the main force of the Zhou army that is forming a formation with all his strength.
Wende of Yizhi dispatched troops and ordered general Gai Zhongquan to lead his troops to attack the hills in the north, and ordered general Jinming to lead his troops to attack the hills in the south to ensure the safety of the two wings of the army.
The two soldiers, horses, infantry and cavalry were mixed, and they were located on the north and south wings of the military formation. After receiving the military order, they immediately acted. Gai Zhongquan's troops quickly arranged the formation and rushed towards the hills in the north.
This hill is the "mould armor" of the mound where Wang Shiji, the chief marching officer of the Zhou army, was located. When Wang Shiji saw the enemy coming in a fierce manner, he directly ordered a retreat, so he took his troops and horses to leave the mound.
Gai Zhongquan's troops drove away the Zhou army without any effort, occupied the earthen mound, and raised a large flag.
Seeing that the Zhou cavalry did not withdraw from its original formation, he wandered in the north, so he left infantry guarding the mound to ensure the safety of the northern wing of the army, and he led his cavalry to pursue the enemy.
As soon as they escaped and chased, they gradually moved away from the battlefield without realizing it.
At this moment, the Goguryeo military formation was approaching the Zhou army formation, and the distance between the two sides was less than two miles.
Several consecutive thunders suddenly exploded in the wilderness. The noise was so loud that the soldiers on both sides who were about to fight could not help but look at each other. Everyone looked in the sound, but saw that the "hedge" of the hills occupied by the Goguryeo Army at the northern end of the battlefield, a huge black smoke column rose.
The fierce explosives buried in the mound of Zhou army exploded, causing heavy casualties to the Goguryeo soldiers guarding the mound.
Among the nearly five thousand people, most of them were affected by explosions, and countless bloody soldiers fell into a broken limb and arms, and their lives and death were unknown.
The scene that happened in the hills in the north made Goguryeo shocked the soldiers. At the southern end of the battlefield, the troops of Jinming, who were surrounding the hills, became hesitant.
They didn't know if the mound occupied by the Zhou army in front of them would also have a big explosion after they captured it.
The hilly "Qiu Yi" occupied by the troops of Liu Boer, the chief marching commander of the Zhou army, had several circles of barbed wire fences at this time, and during this period, there were horse-resisting horses, deer antlers and shallow ditches. In the eyes of Goguryeo soldiers, it was difficult to deal with.
The situation changed. The main general Jun Jinming felt that there was no need for him to take the risk of attacking. Since the opponent surrounded him with barbed wire, he only needed six thousand infantrymen under his command to stare at him. The opponent could only sit down and could not exert influence on the battlefield.
This hill is about one mile away from the southern end of the Goguryeo formation. Qian Jinming felt that even if the Zhou army on this hill had powerful long-range weapons, it would not be able to attack its own army.
Sure enough, the messenger who rode his horse brought him the order of commander Yizhi Wende: he only surrounded him and did not fight, stared at the hills with infantry, and the cavalry stood by.
At this time, the two armies were less than one mile away, and the sun was shining. It was a good time for backlight attacks. A tide of horns sounded from the Goguryeo military formation, and a large number of archers came forward and shot arrows towards the Zhou army formation ahead.
The spear soldiers who originally held the spear vertically turned the spear at this time, and the spearheads were moving forward unanimously. The soldiers maintained a neat formation and advanced forward with the intense drum sounds.
They clearly saw that in the Zhou army formation in front of them, spears standing like forests were also put down and facing their side.
To the northwest of the Zhou army formation, there were a large number of ships upstream, and the Goguryeo soldiers on the ship were ready. When the time was right, they had to attack the Zhou army and exchange their huge casualties for the opponent's formation to be in chaos.
As time passed, the two armies were getting closer and closer. After shooting several rounds of arrows, the archers who came out of the front retreated into their respective armies. The battle lines of the two armies were getting closer and closer, and the drums became louder and louder.
At this moment, the endless explosion sounded, and the loud sound directly made the drum sound "quiet".
Fire and smoke flashed in the Zhou army formation, and countless black shadows flew out thick smoke, drawing beautiful arcs in the air, crossing the front line where the two armies were about to confront each other, and landing directly on the abdomen of the Goguryeo Army formation.
Falling on wet curtains one by one.
Each cloth curtain is supported by many thick bamboo poles. The cloth curtain is spread wide by strong soldiers. This kind of thing is everywhere in the Goguryeo military formation, as if it is a umbrella for the entire military formation.
Objects flying over from the Zhou army formation fell down at a very fast speed, crashing into the solid curtain and directly hitting the ground, and the bamboo poles supporting the curtain were broken one after another.
But the soldiers supporting the curtain didn't care about so many and immediately tightened the curtain so that the objects falling into it were completely wet.
There were objects that were blocked by the curtain and fell directly on the ground. Some Goguryeo soldiers nearby carried buckets and rushed towards the uninvited guests with a wet blanket, aiming at the target, and striving to splash the water in the bucket, then spread the blanket, covered it, and wrapped it.
This is the means by the Goguryeo Army to deal with the Zhou army's shooting of sky-bombing thunder. The head coach Yizhi Wende considered that the Zhou army had a powerful weapon that could shoot sky-bombing thunder to a longer distance, so he specially arranged cloth curtains and "fire extinguishing teams" in various parts of the military formation.
There is a fire twist on the sky-bombing thunder. Only when the fire twist is burned out will the sky-bombing thunder explode. Therefore, extinguishing the fire twist to avoid the sky-bombing thunder explosion is the solution that the Goguryeo Army soldiers came up with when they deal with the sky-bombing thunder thrown by the Zhou army. Although the effect is not much better, it is always better than relying on a shield to hold it.
The objects that landed were no longer moving. Just as the soldiers were about to breathe a sigh of relief, explosions sounded one after another, flames soared into the sky, and thick smoke blew.
The Goguryeo Army Formation, which was smoky and burning, was like being hit by a heavy punch from the Zhou army. In theory, the military formation would inevitably be unstable when it was hit hard, but the Goguryeo Army Formation did not show any sign of collapse.
The thick smoke gradually dissipated, and the hot air balloons floating above the Zhou army formation. The soldiers in the hanging basket looked to the ground ahead and found that there was no cover of the curtain. The Goguryeo army formation was actually composed of hollow small arrays, not a dense array.
Therefore, the thunder that we shot over did not cause much damage.
In the Goguryeo formation, the Central Military Office, the commander Yizhi Funde looked at the big cloth bag floating in the air and said nothing.
Zhou Jun's thunder can indeed be waterproof, fortunately...
The best way to deal with Zhou Jun’s bombardment of the sky-booming thunder is not to resist it, but to avoid it. Therefore, a large array composed of a hollow small array is more effective against the sky-booming thunder.
However, the Zhou army had a large cloth bag floating in the air, and could see the clues from a high point, so the military formation needed to be disguised.
The large amount of soaked curtains can be used to extinguish fires and block the opponent's view after they are opened. This is the countermeasure of Yizhi Wende, which made Zhou army mistakenly think that the army formations they shipped out were extremely dense and crowded, and as a result, the bombardment of the sky-blasting thunder shot over greatly reduced its killing power.
Looking back at the sun, he felt that the sun was extremely dazzling. Now the time is right, so it is time to do his best.
As the signaling department approached, Wende of Yizhi was about to give orders, but he heard thunder sounds coming from the south, and several times.
He looked in the sound and saw thick smoke on the hills occupied by the Zhou army at the southern end of the battlefield. Then white flowers bloomed from the southern end of his army.
Chapter completed!