Chapter 43
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cpa300_4; Lai Hu'er cut the Chen army soldiers who rushed to the front with a knife into two pieces. Under his command, the first-board soldiers had successfully cut off the enemy soldiers who were in the chariot and rushed ashore to create favorable positions for their subsequent soldiers to land]
The original intention is to climb the first soldiers on the city and then extend it to elite soldiers and dead soldiers who assume similar responsibilities. It is not only a land battle, but also a soldier who takes the lead in land battles to climb onto the enemy's ships or rushes to the shore in land battles, resists the enemy's counterattack and buys time for his subsequent landing.
Lai Hu'er, who had performed well in Chen's battle, has now been promoted to the master of the pagoda. In this battle, he was entrusted with important tasks and led a selected 100 soldiers under his command to take the first landing. Now the first step has been completed and the second cruel step is coming.
"Hurry up, come up and set up defense!" He shouted loudly and directed his men. The soldiers ran to the outside with hemp ropes and iron nails in their hands to arrange tripping ropes.
Subsequently, the soldiers on the warship got off the ship and waded through wooden stakes to the shore. They walked in the mud wearing armor, carrying spears and crossbows, but were not panicked. This is a regular training program, so it is no problem to operate in actual combat.
Cavalry rushed over in the camp to the east, and cavalry galloped out of Wuchang City to the west, arrived later. They saw the Zhou army who were landing on the shore and formed a small formation but did not care about attacking each other at the same time.
The number of cavalry coming from Wuchang was close to 300, and there were dozens of cavalry coming from the camps on the east. The number of Zhou troops on the shore was only about 400. The gap between the forces between the two sides was not big, and the Zhou army was on a flat and hard ground. So for the Chen army cavalry, this was just a soft persimmon without pinching it.
The Zhou army's archers were greeted by the Zhou army. The so-called "no three arrows to the front" When the Chen army's cavalry rushed in front of them, the Zhou army's archers successfully released the three-wheeled arrows and then the spearmen who formed the formation to meet the enemy.
Although time has been a little too hasty, most of the spear formations have been completed. They have practiced how to quickly deploy formations on the mudflats on weekdays, so they are ready when the enemy cavalry rushed to the front. Except for a few enemy cavalry who were simply arranged, they collided directly.
Blood splashed, and the cavalry rushing in the front row were stabbed by a longer spear before the horse spear hit the opponent, but the momentum was not reduced and the spear was hit into the forest. He rushed into the spear formation with a weight of hundreds of kilograms, like a heavy punch hitting the person in front of him.
The Chen army cavalry, who thought the spear formation would be in chaos, could arrive later, found that the other party was still full of spears. After being unable to dodge, they bumped into the spears again. While breaking several spears, they also killed them on the spot.
Some war horses were pierced through their chests and lost their hooves to throw their master forward and then landed in the spear forest to turn into sparrows strewn on branches. Some war horses were afraid of being disobedient in the formation and turned sharply, so they rolled towards the formation with people and horses, but were pierced with holes. The originally unstoppable cavalry charge soon ended in failure.
After losing more than half of the troops, Chen Jun saw that the Zhou army could not shake the formation, and then retreated and waited for the infantry to come to make a decision. Last year, the Zhou army's warships were approaching, and reinforcements in Wuchang City were also rushing towards the riverside continuously. Now let's see how the infantry fights.
If the Zhou army settled on Chen's attack, they would be able to gain a foothold on Jiang'an and allow the follow-up troops to land smoothly. If they were defeated, they would have to row back to Jiangbei in shame and failed this battle.
"Be ready, we are going to have a fierce battle!" Lai Hu'er said in the phalanx. His side had initially stood firm on the riverside and there was still a fierce battle to fight before the main force of the army landed. His side blocked the opponent's tentative attack with a spear formation composed of more than 300 people, but it was just the beginning.
The soldiers who were injured in the battle were transferred to the back row and the soldiers who subsequently landed formed a new square formation. The large crossbow originally set up on the ship was also taken down and carried ashore to use it in the formation. The sailors on the ship jumped into the water and pulled out the wooden stakes and everything was being carried out quickly.
When the Zhou army warships coming from Zhengrongzhou were about to dock, the Chen army who came to the riverside to intercept the river had already assembled and launched an attack on the Zhou army standing on the shore. Their number was more than 1,000 people and there were reinforcements. What they wanted was to take advantage of the unstable position of the Zhou army to drive the other side into the water.
The sound of trumpets sounded. When the two sides were in close contact, the archers of Chen army opened their bows and shot arrows, but they were defeated when they first shot. Because the opponent came first, they were crossbowmen and large crossbows that fired stone bullets and fired at a distance of 100 steps. With heavy casualties, Chen army sent a knife player to cover the archer, but was still beaten by the Zhou army's large crossbows.
They had never seen the shape of the crossbow. The crossbow arm was short and could not be seen as powerful. The stone bullets fired were amazing. Even the swordsman could not bear the attack at a distance of 100 steps. It was thought that the Zhou army was a spearman, so there would be fewer crossbows, but the other party was actually a common distance.
They have to fight in close combat and draw bows and shoot arrows, these people are elite!
Therefore, the Chen army generals did not dare to delay the decision to attack with all their strength. If the opponent resisted the shore, the subsequent main force of the Zhou army would be much more difficult to calmly land. As the saying goes, one must make one's first wave of attack, and it will be much more difficult to break the opponent's side.
The first one to take the enemy was the sword player. They found that the opponent's spear was amazingly long, but they felt that just by using a shield to protect their bodies and using a knife to separate the gun rod and then stick them on, they could break the enemy. However, the situation after the battle was one-sided.
It is true that there is a shield that blocks the body, but it cannot block the legs. In order to maintain flexibility during combat, the player's shield is a round rattan card, not a long shield, so the defense area is limited. In the past, combat was not a problem, but now it has become a big problem.
The Zhou army's spearmen seemed to be experienced and stabbed Chen's soldiers' feet or calf as soon as they came up, causing the opponent to lose their power. Some of them were injured and stood unsteadily, and then they were stabbed to take their lives with one shot. Some of them avoided the first, but the second shot was tilted and then the third shot was pierced through the throat.
The experienced soldier Chen Jun wanted to cut the gun head, but after one stab, he was shocked and hurt. He looked closely at the long guard iron behind the gun head, and could not easily cut it off. After the slash, the gap was exposed and then he was stabbed to death by several guns.
Because of the hasty reinforcements, it was not brought with me to facilitate running. Seeing the sword player vulnerable to Zhou's spear, the soldiers rushed forward with a tough bullet. They felt that the spear in their hands was not long enough, but it was not much different. It was just one or two steps away.
However, the distance between these two steps became a path to death. Zhou Jun's spearmen shot quickly, accurately and fiercely, aiming their faces at their eyes and throat, or their shoulders and thighs. They were shot to death and were so painful that they were unstable. Then the second shot that was poked could no longer avoid it.
A good-looking man rushed to the front with a spear that was poked, but before he could do it, the strong man who came up from the formation used something like a long-handled axe to break his head and his brain burst.
The thing has an axe blade, a spear head and a hook, which can chop, stab and hook people's ankles or shields. Combined with the spear array, it is almost airtight. In the array, crossbowmen shoot arrows from time to time, which makes people unable to defend themselves.
While the military formations of both sides were sticking, a group of fierce soldiers suddenly emerged from the flanks of the Zhou army. They were as skeletons, heavy armor, heads and croakers, and various weapons such as long swords, long and short handles, axes, and sword cards. Chen Jun, who thought that the Zhou army would only defend the death, was caught off guard and was penetrated into the formation by him.
These Zhou soldiers' armor was strong and did not avoid or avoid fighting directly. They had great strength and had a weak sword and were directly knocked off by the opponent. Some of them had an axe and had a shield and cut them over directly.
Not only that, these people's hands were very hard to deal with. The Chen army soldiers finally managed to hold the opponent's weapon, but they were kicked by a slim leg and then chopped over to the ground. Although the number of these Zhou soldiers was relatively small, they caused a bloody storm after breaking into the formation. Seeing this, the Chen army general was about to mobilize people to encircle them, but it was too late.
Taking advantage of the gaps cut by these "skeleton soldiers", the Zhou army's spearmen followed the flaws of the Chen army's military formation. They used a long-handled axe to open the way and the spear to advance quickly expanded the flaws of the Chen army's military formation and forced them into it.
"Stop them, block them!" The general Chen army shouted at the top of his lungs. They didn't expect that the other party could advance with an amazing spear and a melee soldiers. According to the general concept, such a long spear is easy to use against cavalry. In close combat, it may not be able to defeat the sword and card soldiers, but the other party can be so powerful.
Everyone knows that it would be wrong to block it, but the soldiers could not stop it. The Zhou army vanguard had an unstoppable warrior covered in blood and could not stop it. The sprites who were unable to defend were followed by a sprite soldier who was unable to defend and cut a wound on the Chen army formation and then forced it to open it. In a moment, the flanks broke through and then the morale of the army was unstable.
"Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"
The Zhou army formation suddenly burst out with a tide of shouting, and then the long spear formation waiting for the rabbit began to advance. The Chen army soldiers, who had been depressed due to heavy casualties, were immediately beaten to retreat and the flanks, and the Zhou army entered the final chaos of morale.
By the river, the dense warships of the Zhou army had passed through the dilapidated wooden stake defense line and landed. Many soldiers got off the ship and waded on the water. When Chen Jun soldiers saw the hundreds of soldiers in front of them, they thought that if they surrounded the soldiers, they would win, and their morale would be disintegrated.
The generals who were suppressing soldiers were shot and killed by crossbowmen mixed in the Zhou army's formation, which directly prompted the collapse of the Chen army's formation. Unexpectedly, they thought that the Zhou army soldiers were wearing armor and holding spears and running at such a speed that was not as fast as they were. However, the other party's pursuit speed was not inferior to that of them.
The army was defeated and was chased by spearmen for more than 100 steps away from Chen's army. Fortunately, the city sent troops to pick them up and let the Zhou army stop. Otherwise, few of these Chen soldiers who attacked would be able to escape back.
The messy shore was in the wilderness last year. The soldiers of Zhou army were cleaning the battlefield. The Wuchang defenders closed the city gate and organized the defense. The city was full of soldiers who were facing a great enemy. Thousands of Chen troops left the city from the south gate and set up formations in the southeast of the city. It seemed that they wanted to decide the victory and defeat with the Zhou army under the city.
The wooden stakes by the river have been pulled out. Large areas of Zhou army warships docked and unloaded their war horses and many supplies. A general wearing bright light armor walked ashore under the escort of several soldiers to come to the place where Lai Huer and others rest.
"Master Lai Zhuang, this battle is very exciting. It's worthy of our army's arrival first." Yuwen Wen nodded at Lai Hu'er, covered in blood. The other party's body smelled strong, but Yuwen Wen looked at it and found no wounds. It was the enemy's blood that was sprinkled on his body.
Chapter completed!