Chapter 87: Cao Wei's Counterattack (4)
The Wei army received the instructions of Wang Ji, and three or four thousand people were divided on the battlefield to fight to the flanks to protect the central army, which happened to face Zhu Yi's assault troops! Both sides attacked and defended in a different way, but they were both desperate moves, and they were extremely tragic killings.
Seeing that his chief general had rushed to the front line, even the hinterland of the enemy's army, even the front line, the generals of various Wu army began to attack frantically! The first thing he was the fierce general Xi Xi, who had chopped off many heads in his hand, and he was still drinking the blood of the Wei people as if he was not full.
Tang Bin took more than ten generals to attack Xi Xi's Wu army in turn, trying to break the sharpest blade of the Wu people. Unfortunately, every time he could only add scars to the Wu army, but he could never defeat or even repel the "remnants". The Wu soldiers had such fighting spirit, which shows that there were many generals in Jiangdong!
After some rushing, Tang Bin was rectifying his troops to prepare for the next round of rushing. Unexpectedly, Xi Xi, with more than 600 wounded soldiers, rushed back with more than 1,000 Wei soldiers! Not only was the surging momentum, but the oncoming momentum made people feel even more heartbroken.
At the same time, the Wu army on the entire battlefield began to attack! The strength was large and small, but the same was launched at the same time, which doubled the pressure of the Wei army. Many Wei army had an advantage the moment before, but at this moment they were in a mess and barely resisted the Wu army's charge.
The advantageous part is still the same. Wouldn't the Wei army, which was evenly matched the Wu people and even at a disadvantage, be even more dismal? The battlefield trend tends to be on the Wu army. The Wei soldiers who have the advantage of the number of people fell to the ground and died, and some soldiers could not help but start to retreat.
To resist Zhu Yi's three or four thousand Wei troops could have confronted the Wu army for a while, but the Wei troops around had already begun to retreat, and several vanguard generals of the Wu army also joined the battle. The Wei army finally could not withstand the offensive and began to collapse...
Zhu Yi's eyes were as sharp as a torch, staring at Wang Ji's central army not far away. Seeing Wang Ji's continuous dispatch of infantry to support various places, the central army's troops became increasingly thin, and he couldn't help but feel secretly happy!
"Follow me!" Found a gap in the Wei formation, Zhu Yi's big sword kept waving among the Wei generals. General Wei's killed arms and legs flew around the sky, wailing everywhere. More than 3,000 Wu soldiers followed Zhu Yi and accelerated their pace, broke through the Wei army's last line of defense in one fell swoop, approaching Wang Ji's central army.
"Wu General Wu wants to be arrogant, Wang Chong is here!" A general of Wei stabbed out with a spear and pressed against Zhu Yi's big sword!
Wang Chong made many military achievements in the Huainan Battle and subsequent battles with the Wu people, and was also a general in the Wang Ji clan, so he was highly valued. Seeing that Zhu Yi's Wu army was unstoppable, Wang Chong finally stepped out of the battlefield and led three or four hundred personal soldiers to intercept Zhu Yi.
There were less than two thousand people in Wang Ji's army. If they were surrounded by the Wu army, the consequences would be unimaginable! Wang Chong stabbed Zhu Yi with a gun and fought to the death. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yi raised his sword above his head and roared wildly, and the sound was like thunder, which shocked Wang Chong's head and his hands couldn't help but ease.
He thought to himself that it was not good, but Wang Chong cheered up and stabbed his gun again, but it was half a minute late. The big knife was like a meteor from the sky, and drew a shrill diagonal line and slashed heavily on Wang Chong's head...
"Ah!" Wang Chong screamed, and his head and body were chopped into two halves, and his body slid down from his horse. Poor Wang Chong followed Wang Ji to fight in the east and west for more than 20 years, but he finally died in the army.
When Wang Ji saw it behind, his heart tightened, and his eyes ignited anger that had never been there for many years! Zhu Yi from the Zhu family in Jiangdong was actually a guy pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. He was really blind and he didn't realize it until now. Whether it was several previous confrontations or the battle just now, Zhu Yi had never shown such a sharp skill.
Just now, Zhu Yi killed everyone among the seven or eight Wei generals and howled. He felt that the situation had changed. Before he could remind the generals, his beloved general Wang Chong drank and hated the knife. This Wu man was really hateful!
"Shoot the arrow!" Without Wang Ji's order, seeing the Wu army approaching, the deputy general commanded the less than two thousand Wei troops to form a formation and shoot the enemy with arrows.
"Old man Wang Ji, today is the day you die!" Zhu Yi was not hiding his skills, and protected the man and war horses with a big sword, and jumped into the Wei formation.
With this, how could there be weak soldiers under his command? The Wu army following Zhu Yi was all the troops passed down from the three generations of the Zhu family. Not only did they cooperate with the main general, but they were also the elite among the elite. Even if they had no shield in their hands, they could resist the hasty arrow formation that the Wei army had risen up in a hurry.
Without this ability, Lu Kai had the courage to only leave 30,000 Wu troops to guard Jiangbei?
The generals who were freely guarding beside Wang Ji saw that the formation was instantly captured by the Wu army, and each rushed forward to fight with the Wu people. Wang Ji was over 70 years old and was still strong. With a swing of a spear in his hand, he came to fight Zhu Yi in person!
Zhu Yi and three or four Wei generals were hard to separate. When they saw Wang Ji, they were fighting spirit. The sword in their hands was like a dragon in the sky. They flew around left and right, and countless cold lights were rolled up, and Wang Ji and three or four Wei generals were included in it. The sound of weapons colliding with each other was jingling. The Wu army rushed into the formation with only six or seven hundred soldiers and generals, and the rest were separated from the periphery to fight fiercely with the Wei army. The Wei army's formation was also divided into two places by the Wu people, fighting each other endlessly, and no one could take a step back.
Once retreating, the entire army will be defeated!
A scream sounded in the battle group, and half of a Wei general's head was chopped away by Zhu Yi! Although Wang Ji was not bad at martial arts, he was old after all. After more than a dozen moves with Zhu Yi, he felt his arms were sore and his breath was uneven. The Wei generals around him were like a god, how could he let Wang Ji take risks? They sacrificed their lives to join the battle group and attacked Zhu Yi.
Wang Ji's reputation and status in the Wei army were highly respected. Is Zhu Yi also a beloved general in the Wu army? General Wei flocked to him, and General Wu also sacrificed his life to meet him. More than 30 generals from both sides fought in the battle formation and opened up a small battlefield.
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Wei general Zeng Lie, who brought more than 7,000 cavalry first as suspicious soldiers to confuse Jiangdong's navy. With Lu Kai's ability, if he used some old, weak and disabled soldiers as a guise, it would be impossible to hide it. Therefore, Wang Ji simply asked the general Zeng Lie to take seven,000 cavalry and acted as a vanguard to deliberately exposed to the surveillance range of the Jiangdong navy.
After many spysing on military information, the Wu army believed it, so the Jiangdong Navy took advantage of the hydrological advantages of the Huai River and began to snipe the Wei cavalry. They either set up ambush on the key points of the throat or delayed the Wei cavalry's journey. Even though Zeng Lie was good at governing the army, he lost nearly a thousand cavalry.
The Jiangdong Navy also suffered a lot of losses. The attack range in the ship was limited, but it was just a sniping attack on the Wei cavalry near the river. When the Wu army selected the Wei cavalry to be on guard, they organized several landing raids. The first few times were smooth, but after a long time, they were intercepted and killed by the Wei cavalry for a while.
Both sides went back and forth to show their own abilities, and finally arrived at a relatively developed area by land. Now the Jiangdong Navy had no place to be brave and had to watch Wei Qi go away.
The Wei cavalry galloped all the way, and could hear the sound of fighting from afar, but they could only assist in the battle. The target was directly aimed at Zhu Yi's camp in Jiangbei. Wang Ji nearly 40,000 Wei troops attacked, and the Wu people would definitely have to fight with all their strength, and the rear was empty. If they defeated the Wu people's camp in Jiangbei and seized their supplies in one fell swoop, it would not only solve the difficulty of the Wei army's long-distance transportation and supply replenishment, but also threw the threat of insufficient supply to the Wu people.
This is the strategy formulated by Wang Ji.
After walking for more than thirty miles, the Wu army camp indeed appeared in front. Seeing a large area of Wei cavalry attacking, the Wu general who was left behind in the camp hurriedly commanded the defenders to enter a state of combat readiness, and at the same time sent someone to take a small path to notify Zhu Yi who was fighting fiercely in front.
As soon as someone was sent to report the news, the Wei cavalry rushed over, without any formation or any buffer. The Wei cavalry saw through the young Wu army in this camp and planned to force him to eat!
The arrows shot towards the Wei cavalry, and knights and war horses kept falling to the ground by arrows, but more were Wei cavalry close to the camp bar...
"Protect the granary!" The Wu general who stayed behind knew that he could not stop the Wei cavalry for a long time, so he sent his confidant generals to the camp where the granary was located to set up defenses, and he led more than a thousand Wu troops to shoot hard. However, facing the six thousand iron cavalry, no matter how hard the more than a thousand Wu soldiers shot, they were only scratching the surface of the Wei cavalry.
Although more than 200 cavalry were damaged, the Wei cavalry had already broken into the camp and killed Wu troops everywhere. The remaining Wu generals lit the camp with their remaining soldiers to block the Wei cavalry's front army. They were then surrounded by the Wei cavalry and died in the chaos.
"Start the camp! Go and seize the baggage!" Zeng Chong left hundreds of cavalry to burn the tents of the Wu army, and took five thousand iron cavalry to the rear of the Wu camp to steal the food and supplies of the Wu people.
The fire soared into the sky, and the Wu army and the Wei army fighting in the distance could see clearly. Seeing that the plan was successful, the morale of the Wei army suddenly increased and began to prepare for a counterattack! Wang Ji and General Wei fought hard to resist Zhu Yi, and he was relieved when he saw this. However, Zhu Yi had no intention of retreating at all. Instead, he raised his arms and shouted: "The camp will be protected by Lu Jingfeng. Kill Wang Ji, and you will definitely win this battle!"
The two or three thousand Wu soldiers who followed Zhu Yi to fight were roaring with their weapons when they heard this, and their voices were earth-shaking. The Wei people couldn't help but feel frightened when they heard this, while the Wu army put aside their retreating minds and focused on the battle in front of them.
Even though he said that, how could tens of thousands of people be united? Some people think that's right, they are still affected and lose the will to fight. The same is true for the Wei army. Some people think that the Wu army is brave and scary, while more people fight with the Wu people with great fighting spirit.
The Wu people gradually lost their advantages on the battlefield. After all, only a few Wu soldiers were strong and strong in fighting. But these few people have achieved great success. You should know that in this era, when they are attacked in the rear and are attacked by others, there are still seven or eight thousand soldiers who believe that the main general will refuse to retreat. Such means of governing the army and dealing with the war are definitely the best choice!
If tens of thousands of people want to decide the outcome, it still takes a test of time. However, the key to the outcome is not the tens of thousands of people, but the life and death of Wang Jishi, where the central army of Wei is located! Zhu Yi was extremely calm in his heart. His power could maintain the fighting spirit of some Wu troops, and it would definitely not last long.
Chapter completed!