The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 766: The Navy is powerful, and the Shadow Tiger is destroyed [Please subscribe*Please vote]

"Can we really hold on until the Thunder Leopard Legion arrives?" For the first time, Ji Bu doubted the Shadow Tiger Legion.

The Shadow Tiger Corps used to be invincible, but after encountering the navy, their ghostly mobility was exposed to the enemy, and it seemed that the enemy had predicted when and where they would appear.

Now, if they had fought a head-on battle, they might have been able to salvage the situation to some extent. However, when the elite officers from Bingzhou joined in, the navy's lack of experience was made up for by that group of terrifying veterans.

Even the third and fifth battalions had lost contact. If nothing unexpected happened, the two rear guard battalions had been completely wiped out by the navy.

"There are also gaps among the cavalry!" Ji Bu sighed deeply.

The Shadow Tiger Legion is invincible because it has never encountered any troops of the same level.

Now, not only did they encounter the Bingzhou Blood Cavalry general who was also a cavalryman, but the opponent was even superior to the Shadow Tiger Legion.

Therefore, Ji Bu finally understood why the movement of their army could be predicted so accurately by the navy. This was not the gap between the navy and the Shadow Tiger Legion, but the contest and gap between the Shadow Tiger Legion and the Bingzhou Blood Cavalry.

The result was that their Shadow Tiger Legion was completely crushed.

Quyang City, a not-so-famous lower county that is not even qualified to appear on the military map, is located between Shouchun and Xiacai. At this time, the Thunder Leopard Corps is also marching in Quyang, preparing to return to Shouchun.

But at this time they received a distress signal from the Shadow Tiger Legion.

Without Bambu, the chief officer of the Thunder Leopard Corps is not even a general of the original Thunder Leopard Corps, but a eunuch, a civil servant sent by Shouchun.

So when they received the distress signal from the Shadow Tiger Legion, the eunuch and the civil servant became confused and unable to make a decision.

"General Ji Bu, as one of the three major legion commanders of our Great Chu, would lose to an unknown navy? What is a navy? Just a vehicle!" The eunuch's shrill voice sounded.

"Perhaps, General Ji Bu is just helping General Bambu to regain the military power!" The civil servant thought about it and did not think that the Shadow Tiger Corps would be forced to ask for help by an unknown navy.

The Shadow Tiger Legion will ask for help, and the greater possibility is that Bambu will regain the military power, and even work with the Shadow Tiger Legion to defeat Wei Ju's navy, recapture Zhongli City, gain huge military merit, and become the most powerful general in the Chu State again.

The former officers and soldiers of the Thunder Leopard Corps were actually also thinking about this issue.

The Shadow Tiger Corps is elusive and ghostly. How can a navy that can only roam freely on the water go ashore and force the Shadow Tiger Corps to ask for help?

What's more, they knew the relationship between General Ji Bu and their General Bambu.

So this is really possible that this is a play written and directed by General Jibu to help General Bambu escape from trouble.

"Your Majesty does not want to be controlled by others!" The eunuch glanced at the civil servant coldly.

Why did King Fu Chu of Chu come in person to take back the military power of the Thunder Leopard Legion? Wasn't it to subdue the Thunder Leopard Legion and use it to check and balance the other two legions and consolidate his throne?

If they let Bambu go to support the Shadow Tiger Legion, then by that time, the two legions would return to Shouchun with great achievements. Would King Fu Chu of Chu still have a reason to force Bambu to step down?
Banbu and Jibu are in charge of two major legions and stationed in Shouchun. So, will Shouchun listen to the King of Chu or to the two legion commanders?

The civil official pondered for a long time. He also knew what Shouchun meant. It was impossible for Bambu to take charge of the Thunder Leopard Corps again, and the Thunder Leopard Corps must also return to Shouchun's control. Therefore, even if the Shadow Tiger Corps really encountered a disaster, they would not send the Thunder Leopard Corps to help.

Five Rivers Plain.

Ji Bu's eyes were red. It had been three days. Even if they crawled, as long as the Thunder Leopard Corps did not return to Shouchun and turn around to provide support, they would be able to crawl to the Wuhe Plain.

During these three days, he also figured it out. Shouchun didn't trust Banbu, and neither would he, a general from the Ji family of Danyang. In fact, if the Ji family of Danyang didn't have a deep-rooted influence in the court, Shouchun would have dealt with him first.

Members of the Ji family even came to ask him if he did it on purpose, in order to allow Bambu to regain control of the Thunder Leopard Corps.

Ji Bu did not hide the fact that he was a little shocked at first when the Wuhe Plain was attacked, but on the first day of fighting with the navy, he roughly calculated the combat effectiveness of the navy, so he deliberately asked for help from Shouchun and the Thunder Leopard Corps in order to let Bambu regain control of the Thunder Leopard Corps.

But after Yun Danu and the elite officers of Bingzhou joined the battlefield, the battlefield situation was no longer under his control. They went from deliberately waiting for the rescue of the Thunder Leopard Corps at the beginning to really needing the rescue of the Thunder Leopard Corps.

"With foreign enemies at hand, people in the court are still suspicious of each other, and brave generals have to resign!" Ji Bu sighed.

There was nothing he could do as reinforcements were not coming and the battlefield was unsustainable!

"Break through, let whoever can escape live!" Ji Bu finally gave the order for the entire army to break through. As for how many could escape, he had no confidence at all.

Before, he believed that facing a powerful enemy, Shouchun would put aside all suspicions, work together, first annihilate the navy and stabilize the situation, but now he overestimated the intelligence and ability of Shouchun's people.

That group of people only cared about their own rights and status. They were short-sighted and had no idea of ​​the consequences of the annihilation of the Shadow Tiger Legion.

In other words, the long period of comfort made them overestimate Ji Bu's own abilities and the abilities of the Shadow Tiger Legion.

From the beginning to the end, Shouchun never thought that Bingzhou would join the war, nor did he know what the four words "Bingzhou Blood Cavalry" meant.

Shouchun thought that the Shadow Tiger Corps was fighting against the navy, and that the navy was just a means of transportation without combat effectiveness. He never thought that the Shadow Tiger Corps would have to face not only Wei Ju's navy, but also a group of veterans from Bingzhou who had survived hundreds of battles and were extremely experienced.

"The Shadow Tiger Legion has been defeated!" Hearing the sound of the horns on the battlefield and seeing the command flags of the Chu Army, Wei Ju and others knew that the Shadow Tiger Legion had given up struggling and was about to start a full-scale breakout.

"Let them go!" Wei Ju thought about it and realized that the result of a trapped beast fighting to the death would be a fight to the death. They had already defeated the Shadow Tiger Legion and did not want to fight to the death with the other side.

So the navy opened the gap, giving the Shadow Tiger Corps hope of escape without having to fight a desperate battle with the navy.

The navy chased the Shadow Tiger Legion ten miles outside the Five Rivers Basin before returning, announcing the end of the Battle of the Five Rivers Plains.

The battle lasted for ten days and the navy suffered heavy losses, with over 6,000 killed, over 10,000 wounded, three large warships damaged and countless light boats.

However, the results of the battle were also remarkable. The first to seventh battalions of the Shadow Tiger Legion were almost wiped out, with more than 20,000 casualties and more than 20,000 captured. All the organizational units were disbanded, even the central army's flag-guarding battalion was disbanded, and Ji Bu disappeared.

The Battle of Wuhe demonstrated the style of the navy and let the world know that the navy is not only a means of transportation, but also a capable and decisive combat force.

(End of this chapter)