Late Tang

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The Huai army also had naval divisions, and there were quite a few of them, but at this time the Huai army was in a mess, and the navy did not dare to act rashly while shrinking in the water fortress.

The task of the Qin Army Navy tonight is very heavy. At the beginning, 2 marines will be sent to the upper reaches of the Huai Army camp to land.Then more than [-] Qin troops will be sent to the south of the Huaihe River and the east bank of the canal to ambush. After completing these tasks, they must guard the entrance of the canal to the Huaihe River, preventing the Huai army from retreating, and now they are also responsible for cutting off the canal after the battle begins. , an important task of cutting the Huai army.

Julie accepted the military order with a cold expression, without saying a word.Megan drew his sword, pointed it at the river, and shouted: "This is the river, today!" The heavy rain had stopped, and a layer of white mist covered the river like a blanket. It was full of mud. "My Qin army navy is here. Today we will sink any piece of wood we see on the water and kill anyone who tries to cross the river. If any Huai army wants to cross the river, we will chop off his dirty things and throw them away. Feed the fish in the river."

Megan held a sword in each hand. At this time, he struck the two swords alternately with two forces, making a loud clang.

"Cleave the waves!" she yelled.

The officers and men of the Navy immediately echoed loudly: "Cleave the waves, and the Navy is vertical and horizontal!"

At this time, some soldiers shouted, "Long live King Qin! Long live King Qin!"

Zeng Yuanyu rode slowly and inspected the battlefield.

The Jianghuai land in the rainy season is soft and muddy, especially on the shore, which is a piece of thick mud soaked in water.The Qin army guarded the land about two miles away from the shore, which is much better than the land on the shore.Here is an open paddy field, and rice seedlings have been planted in the field, but at this time, this flat paddy field has become a continuous battlefield.Zeng Yuanyu came and went on the front, shouting loudly, doing the final mobilization before the battle.

The Chinese army is almost all infantry, with strong shields, long spears, horizontal knives, mo knives, and crossbows.They will be an iron wall, blocking the Huai army's attack head-on. As long as they block the Huai army, the victory will belong to the Qin army.

"Will Chuzhou come to rescue the Huai Army?" the recruit under Guo Xiong whispered.

Shanyang City of Chuzhou was twenty miles behind them. If the fighting here was fierce, and Chuzhou behind them suddenly sent troops, wouldn't they be flanked by two sides?Guo Xiong laughed. Could it be that the King of Qin is not clear about such a question?The reason why King Qin dared to set up an ambush twenty miles away from Chuzhou was because he knew that there were only [-] defenders in Chuzhou city at this time, and there were no generals guarding it.

Right now, the Qin army's rangers have been monitoring Chuzhou, and the Huai army can't get close to Chuzhou at all, and it's hard for Chuzhou people to go out of the city and go back.Besides, on such a rainy night, even if the people in the city knew the news, they would not dare to venture out of the city easily with his small number of people.

Chuzhou is very close to Huaiyin, but it is separated by a canal. This time, it is used as a logistics base for the Huai army. The food and equipment in the rear are directly stored in Chuzhou from Yangzhou through the canal.

Guo Wei didn't have time to think about why the Huai army did not set up their camp in Chuzhou but in Huaiyin. The drums became louder and louder, thump, thud, shaking his eardrums.He was originally an official of the Shengjie Army's Military Intelligence Department, but at this time, the Shengjie Army was placed on the most frontal battlefield of the Chinese army. He, a general who had just been promoted to command, had to face a big battle.

He hurriedly pulled out the Gurkha scimitar that he had received from the honor. This is the sharpest treasured knife, made with special craftsmanship, purely handcrafted, and the output is scarce.The scimitar is held in the hand, the head of the blade is slightly heavy, and it is like holding a battle ax in the hand. This kind of scimitar is very suitable for chopping and is good at piercing armor.

In an instant, the enemy had already appeared in front, emerging from the beach on the river bank. Although they were frightened by the Qin army setting up an ambush here, they had no way to retreat at this time. There were pursuers behind and ambushes in front. They only had to fight to the death. They hid behind the shields and spears, calmed down, and marched forward in a neat formation.

Guo Wei somewhat admired the opponent's generals. He heard that the chief general was Gao Pian's nephew. He was ranked forty in his family, and he was called Forty Lang. His official worship was General Zuo Jinwuwei. .

Previously, Gao Jie's army in Haozhou was like a broken bamboo all the way, and his fight was amazing.And right now, although Gao Yu's camp was raided just now, even if he gave up the camp and withdrew back to Chuzhou, and encountered another attack halfway, he was able to keep the team together, and he even regained his morale and formed an array to attack. It can be seen from this that There are indeed no worthy men under the prestigious name, there is an uncle of a famous general, and the two heroes of the Gao family are also talented for a while.

There are so many Huai troops, at least at first glance, they seem overwhelming.

Although Guo Wei knew that the Huai Army in Huaiyin Daying had only 5 troops, among which there were at least tens of thousands of sailors.A large part of this overwhelming crowd must be civilians of the Huai army.It is really admirable that Gao Yu was able to gather those civilian husbands together, and march forward in an indistinguishable formation.

In the morning light, what Guo Wei saw was the Huai army far surpassing the Qin army, at least [-] to [-] soldiers.The generals of the Huai army rode armored war horses, leading and commanding the soldiers to advance in the phalanx, and the flag officers one by one held the battalion flag, the team flag, and the officer flag and walked side by side with them.He saw the flags of Gao Zishuai, Yu Zijiang, Yao Zijiang, Wang Zijiang and Gao Zijiang flying high...

The blue battle flags of the Huai army can be seen everywhere, fluttering in the wind, fluttering on the long poles, hunting.

The bugle sounded, honking blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, low and long, like the new wind coming from beyond the Great Wall, which made people shudder.

When the trumpets faded away, the team leaders and other low-level officers in the Qin army began to blow their iron whistles to command.

Although Guo Wei, as a commander at the capital level, can no longer be at the forefront of the whole team when he is in battle like the leader of the team, but at this time he is at the front of the battle line, and he is a decorated officer, so he Mustering up his courage, he carried his Gurkha scimitar and stood in the front row wearing the full-body armor he got when he was awarded the honor. He still had the imitation of the medal on his left chest. The real medal was kept by him. Home in Dengzhou.

Behind him, hissing sounds continued, and the crossbowmen in the crossbow array began to release arrows, which was just a prelude.

The Huai army started to run and charge, and let out a sharp roar while running, and there was helplessness and despair in the excitement.However, many of the Huai army had never really fought against the Qin army. Under the mobilization of Gao Yu and others, many of the Huai army knew that General Liang Zuan had just wiped out more than [-] troops of the Qin army in Huduzhou.The Qin army was not the invincible army as rumored, which made the soldiers of the Huai army a lot more courageous.

After all, most of the officers of the Huai Army here, from top to bottom, followed Gao Pian to fight in all directions, a master of hundreds of battles.The general is the courage of the army. With these strong generals and skeleton officers, it can be said that the Huai army, which is the first decisive battle with the Qin army, is still full of confidence.

The previous retreat was not because the Huai army was afraid of the Qin army, but because they were unwilling to fight with the Qin army under unknown circumstances.Now they are ambushed by the Qin army, but their number is higher than that of the Qin army.

Many generals of the Huai army saw that the Qin army on the opposite side only had more than [-] people, and even felt that they were a little too worried before, thinking that they could break through the interception of the Qin army in the first battle.

The Huai army is running and charging!

However, Zeng Yuanyu was full of confidence in his large formation of the Chinese army. With a wave of the sword in his hand, the bows and arrows of the bow and crossbow battalion immediately attacked them like a torrential rain.

Hundreds of branches, thousands of branches, innumerable in an instant.

Thousands of arrows are fired together, covering the sky and covering the sun, and the arrows are like rain.

Many people in the Huai army rushing to the front fell to the ground with arrows, and the shouts suddenly turned into wailing.

At this time, the second wave of attacks had already fallen from the sky, and the crossbowmen put the third arrows on the bowstring one after another.

Although the rainy days in the rainy season, the lethality of bows and arrows has been greatly reduced.

But the archers of the Qin army are each equipped with four bows, eight strings, two crossbows, and one hundred arrows.This is quite advanced equipment, even the Khitan cavalry, only the most elite cavalry are equipped with four bows, and ordinary cavalry are only equipped with two bows.However, in many military towns of the Tang Army, there are very few professional and elite archers, and they generally only have one bow.

The iron whistle sounded again, beep, beep!

Zeng Yuanyu waved his hand and waved the flag behind him. Eight buglers blew their horns again, and eight drummers also began to beat the war drums.The leader of the Leopard Cavalry Army, Lao Heiqiu Shengong, waved the Mo Dao in his hand, and shouted an order, and the voices of thousands of people on the battlefield responded.Holding the honor knife in one hand and the regiment card in the other, Guo Wei roared loudly, joined the din, and entered into a rush of ecstasy, and then slowly moved forward with the phalanx.

"Drive the southern barbarians into the river to feed the fish!" He shouted to his subordinates. Although his hometown is Xuzhou, which is not far from Huainan, he already regarded himself as a northerner.This is a war between North and South.The hundred warriors behind him immediately followed his footsteps and strode forward. Arrows rained all over the place, and the two sides were approaching.

Directly ahead, a group of Huai army spearmen formed a half-moon formation, like a turtle with two thorns, hiding behind a tall pine shield painted with a tiger's head.These pine shields are five feet seven inches long. Compared with the slightly shorter southerners, these shields are almost as tall as soldiers.The pine shield is narrow in the middle and wide at both ends. The narrow part in the middle is one foot, and the width at both ends is one foot and three inches. The front is painted in the shape of a tiger, and there is a handle at the back.

There are no long-range heavy weapons such as catapults and ballistas between the two sides. At this time, the formation is advancing, the shield formation is in front, and the spearmen and swordsmen are on the side, covering their respective archers who are constantly shooting arrows. Neither side has light cavalry. For a while, they rushed up to fight, but they were arranged on the two wings of the infantry formation, carefully protecting the flanks.

In the contest between the archers of the two sides, the archers of the Qin army prevailed.The archers of the Qin Army have better bows and stronger arrows. The most important thing is that each of the archers of the Qin Army has two crossbows. While continuing to shoot, he regained his strength.

Under the continuous shooting of the archers, the sword and shield players have not yet engaged in battle at this time, and they are also guest archers.Each of the non-archer infantry of the Qin army is equipped with two bows and one crossbow. Usually bow and arrow training is also very important.At this time, the cameo archer was even more lethal than the Huai army's archer.

When shooting from a long distance just now, Qin Jun had only the archer to shoot the arrow.At this time, seeing that the distance between the two sides was only thirty or forty steps, all the sword-shield jumping soldiers and Mo Dao soldiers unleashed their bows and crossbows and shot fiercely. The sudden increase in firepower caught the Huai army by surprise, and immediately many Huai troops fell to the ground.

The Huai army was in chaos, Qiu Shengong seized the opportunity at the right time, and immediately dispatched a light cavalry battalion under his orders.

Mo Dao General Qiu Shengong personally led this battalion of elite cavalry, formed a wedge formation, and plunged into the battle formation fiercely.Facing the rows of long spears, most of the horses stopped sprinting at the last moment and dodged, while some of them spotted the gaps and charged forward.

Rows of long spears stabbed out, and many cavalry were pierced through the chest by the point of the spears and died on the spot.In an instant, dozens of cavalry were killed.

Qiu Shengong's mount was pierced by a spear through its neck. It stood up, neighing mournfully, stretched out its legs with horseshoes and kicked violently, leaping into the enemy's battle frenziedly, the spear stabbed at it from all directions. , but the shield wall also disintegrated under its weight at the same time.

The soldiers of the Huai army staggered and dodged the dying struggle of the horse.

The horse fell down with a bang, but Qiu Shengong, who was dressed in plate armor, miraculously stood up unscathed, holding a huge Xueliang Mo Dao, and launched a frenzied attack. The heads of Huai army soldiers.

Guo Wei withdrew the crack on the enemy's shield wall before he could close it, so he rushed in with the shield in one hand and the saber in the other.Hundreds of people under his command followed closely behind.

Guo Weigao shouted: "Follow me!" (To be continued.)