Chapter 223: Weishui War
After a bloody battle, the five thousand navy soldiers led by Gan Ning and Su Fei braved the attack of the enemy's thunder chariot and launched a life-and-death battle with the Cao army's navy above the Wei River.
In the end, Gan Ning and Su Fei finally won the war at the cost of more than 2,000 people. At this time, after the Cao army lost its defensive position in the Weishui River, the courage that was originally plucked up by Zhong Hui seemed to be relaxed, but this was already a smooth journey. If the Weinan camp was not protected, Chang'an City was in front of us.
Therefore, both sides planned to make their last attempt at the Weinan Camp. Seeing that the plane was not lost and could not wait for the arrival of the subsequent troops, they led more than 10,000 troops from two legions to launch an attack on the Weinan Camp.
A big war is imminent.
In the big tent of the Daying Bell Meeting in Weinan.
"Major General, what do you mean by this? Please make it clear!"
Wang Zhen asked Zhong Hui in an indignant tone, because Zhong Hui's words deeply hurt the brave general of Xiliang just now.
Zhong Hui felt a little cold and pretended to be calm: "I am not interested in this general. I just reminded General Wen that although Lord Zhong Yao is back to Chang'an to recuperate, he handed over all the command power to me before leaving. Now the banner in the army is still the character Zhong. I hope the general can obey my command."
Zhong Hui did not dare to directly scold him, but only gave him a tactful reminder, but his words were filled with a sense of superiority as a master.
Wang Zhen gritted his teeth secretly, feeling angry, but he didn't dare to have an attack.
Wang Zhen thought to myself, although I, Wang Zhen, is not a famous general in Xiliang, now after the last battle, my high fever has not subsided and I have returned to Chang'an to recuperate. Han De and Wang Shuang were killed and Han Hao was seriously injured. It was my turn. How could Lord Zhong Yao hand over the command to this young and stinky child when he returned to Chang'an? Think about it, when I was traversing the desert, he was still wearing open-crotch pants!"
Wang Zhen instinctively glared at Zhong Hui, and he only snorted, "Thank you for your teachings from the Major General. The Major General is the main general in this battle. How will the general want to use troops? The last general will follow the order."
After saying that, Wang Zhen was reluctant to persuade him again and turned around and left the military tent.
In front of everyone, Wang Zhen didn't respect him and turned his head away. Zhong Hui felt that his dignity was damaged and his face suddenly showed displeasure.
Just as he was about to get angry, a civil servant next to him coughed a few times, making a dark look at Zhonghui.
Zhong Hui understood, so he had to bear it for the time being. He just glared at Wang Zhen who was leaving, and then announced loudly: "All soldiers, today I will take the initiative to attack. We will destroy the Chu army on the south bank of the Wei River."
Before the evening, more than 40,000 Cao troops advanced to the forefront of the Wei River.
According to the civil servant's wishes, Zhong Hui set up camp at a distance of 300 meters in the Wei River. The King of Life led his 5,000 infantry and cavalry to set up camp at a distance of 200 meters from his own camp. The two camps formed a horn.
After the camp was completed, Zhong Hui, accompanied by civil servants, patrolled the Wei River and returned to the central army's tent before dark.
After entering the tent, no one else was present. Zhong Hui threw his helmet into the case and scolded: "Who is Wang Zhen? He is just a general of my Zhong family. How dare you show me the face in front of everyone? It's really hateful."
The civil servant persuaded: "Major General, now is not the time for civil strife. We have just passed by the Wei River. The Wei River has turned red, and there are corpses everywhere in the water, and flags are everywhere... That's so miserable. Gan Ning and Su Fei are transporting troops on the north bank now, and they may be attacking us today or tomorrow. This is the strong enemy we have to guard against!"
Zhong Hui's expression changed slightly. After pondering for a while, he realized that what the civil servant said was reasonable.
Zhong Hui nodded and said, "Thanks to the sir, otherwise I would have lost my big deal because of a small loss, but I still can't swallow this tone."
"Major General, don't worry, I have a plan now, and I can calm the general down." The civil servant said with a smile.
Zhong Hui's eyes lit up, his spirit suddenly became excited, and he hurriedly asked the civil servant what he had to do.
The civil servant said slowly: "If the general can order Wang Zhen's troops to attack the main attack, then the general in the Chu army who has some military power will definitely not be able to break the city. At that time, the general can secretly express his conspiracy to the commander, saying that Wang Zhen saw that we were in a desperate situation and wanted to surrender to the Chu army, but deliberately refused to fight hard, and the commander in the time must..."
Before the civil servant finished speaking, Zhong Hui suddenly realized and said happily: "Wang Zhen was punished by his father, but he consumed the Chu army's troops. I took advantage of the situation and attacked the city again. I will definitely defeat the Chu army! Sir, your plan to kill two birds is really wonderful."
The civil servant smiles without saying anything, which is meaningful.
"That's it. Come on, please send me a message to me. Wang Zhen is here." Zhong Hui slapped the table and shouted excitedly.
That night, the entire Zhonghui Camp and Wang Zhen Camp were highly alert, but the night was calm, so the excited Cao army was at the end of their strength the next day, but their determination to fight had not changed.
The next day, the south bank of Weishui
When the first ray of light of the morning sun dyed the Wei River a layer of golden clothes, more than 40,000 Cao's soldiers were already standing in line to attack the Chu soldiers who were climbing the shore.
Gan Ning stood at the bow of the boat and looked up from afar. But he saw the enemy troops on the shore being energetic and purged in the formation. The big flag of the word "king" flew in the morning breeze.
Half of the five thousand Cao troops were cavalry.
"Brother, Cao's army's formation seems a bit strange. Could it be that there is a fraud?" Su Fei next to him said suspiciously.
"What's so strange about it?"
Gan Ning had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't point it out. He wanted to see Su Fei's vision.
Su Fei pointed to the Cao army's army's formation and said, "This time, the Cao army had 40,000 people, most of them were infantry. However, nearly half of the Cao army waiting on the shore were cavalry. The cavalry was only good at fighting on the plains, and the Wei River was surrounded by mud, which was not conducive to the development of cavalry and was only suitable for infantry charges. They placed cavalry on the shore, which was obviously not in line with the military tactics, and the last general felt that it was very suspicious."
Gan Ning sneered and said disapprovingly: "What's suspicious about it? It's just an internal fight."
When Gan Ning saw the big banner of "king", he guessed that it must be Zhong Hui deliberately designed Wang Zhen.
Gan Ning said to Su Fei: "I heard that after Zhong Yao fell into the water, he felt a deep cold and had returned to Chang'an to recuperate. Now the command of the entire army is in Zhong Hui's hands. Wang Zhen and Zhong Yao seem to have a conflict now."
Su Fei asked in confusion: "Brother, how do you know these things?"
Gan Ning smiled and said, "This is the information sent by General Lu. I heard that they have a secret force, which is dedicated to collecting intelligence."
Su Fei heard that he was happy and worried. But now he couldn't let anything think too much.
Although Wang Zhen was extremely brave, he was best at field cavalry fighting, and his troops were mostly cavalry fighting, and water battles and siege cities were his shortcomings.
Even though Zhong Hui knew this, he ordered Wang Zhen to come on the shore to fight against these Chu troops from Gan Ning and Su Fei, who were born in the navy. The purpose of the matter was obviously a foolish decision made by Zhong Hui suspected that Wang Zhen wanted to affair with the Chu army and surrender to the Chu army.
"As a talented man at the moment, he can't take the overall situation into consideration. He wants to take revenge on such a brave general just for personal grudges. It's a pity!"
When Gan Ning felt sarcastic, Su Fei was still confused.
At this time, the sound of war drums came, and more than 10,000 troops led by Gan Ning and Su Fei also landed on the shore. They went downstairs and landed in battle one after another. The five thousand Cao troops led by Wang Zhen moved violently and began to advance slowly towards the shore.
Su Fei was also confused and suddenly felt passionate, and said passionately: "Brother, I couldn't take Wang Zhen down in the previous episode. This time I will let me lead my brothers to fight and kill Cao's army. I will definitely kill the king Zhen to be powerful."
Gan Ning waved his hand and said, "I'll leave this water battle to me. Brother, you have more important tasks. You'd better get off the boat and prepare earlier."
But after hearing Gan Ning's order as the head coach, Su Fei seemed to realize that this war was definitely not a simple defeat to the five thousand Cao army soldiers in front of him. He began to happily accept Gan Ning's general order.
Gan Ning waved his two halberds, facing the overwhelming enemy troops like an iron tower, with his knife-like face full of coldness and calmness.
The left and right subordinates seemed to be infected by Gan Ning's calmness. Facing the fierce enemy, they had no trace of fear, so they chose to rush forward bravely.
More than 5,000 Chu soldiers, holding swords, guns, bows and crossbows, were determined to look in their expressions, and they were staring fearlessly as they approached the enemy.
Both sides were rushing towards each other. When two hundred steps were happening, the Cao army attacking suddenly accelerated and rushed forward shouting and killing.
Gan Ning raised his hand and sternly said: "Shoot the arrow!"
The flag was shaken, and the order was passed down. Hundreds of strong bows and hard crossbows were shot together.
Countless sharp arrows, carrying the whistling sound of thousands of birds flapping their wings, broke through the air and leaned towards Cao's army like raindrops.
The Cao army was also prepared for the charge. The leading big shield hand raised the iron shield to block the arrows for the cavalry behind.
Countless arrows were nailed and bounced down like raindrops, but there were still many soldiers hiding through the gaps of the large shield and shooting into the Cao army hiding below.
Screams came one after another.
However, Cao's army did not slow down its progress because of this, and still rushed towards the Chu army fearlessly.
Looking down at Cao's army advancing in an orderly manner, Gan Ning murmured and exclaimed: "It is worthy of being Wang Zhen, it is worthy of being a brave general of Xiliang, and the soldiers under his command are indeed elite."
In a moment, thousands of Yuan troops had already rushed into the Wei River, and the soldiers from both sides began to draw out their swords and guns from each other and began to fight hand-to-hand combat.
Gan Ning had a sword eyebrows, his whole body burst into murderous aura, and his two halberds were crossing, and he shouted loudly: "The soldiers of the Chu army will fight side by side with me to destroy the enemy!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The athletes of the Chu army were excited and roared in unison.
The rumbling roar spread throughout the fields, shocking the Cao army soldiers who came to fight.
Wang Zhen, who was commanding behind, never threw all his cavalry troops into the water to fight. He had been waiting for the enemy to get ashore, waiting for these Chu soldiers to attack with the speed of the cavalry after they got ashore.
But at this time, the damn civil servant said sarcastically: "General Wang, Gan Ning's army's morale seems to be very strong. The general will not retreat at the last minute, right?"
Wang Zhenru was on the back. He knew that Zhong would make him a vanguard attack, but he was suspicious of him, but he was helpless.
He gritted his teeth and snorted coldly: "I have been lying in the desert for many years, but who have I ever been afraid of?"
After saying that, Wang Zhen jumped off the horse, rushed to the drum array in a few steps, and grabbed a wooden hammer that had snatched a drummer.
He rolled up his sleeves, a pair of round iron arms as thick as a bowl, swung his drum vigorously to cheer for his subordinates.
The thousands of tribes under his command saw Wang Zhen beat the drums for them personally, and were inspired by this, and their morale was greatly boosted. The shouts of killing rose up and gradually suppressed the shouts of the Ganning Legion in the water.
In the shallows, soldiers from both sides have already begun to take over the station.
Amid the howling, a bloody enemy fell into the water and never got up again. Their blood quickly dyed the entire river water red.
The Cao army crossbowmen, composed of infantry behind, shot archers on the opposite shore under the cover of the big shield hands, shot archers crazily at the Chu army on the other side to suppress the Chu army's counterattack.
In the dense rain of arrows, soldiers were constantly shot into the forehead, and some were killed in the water, and the bodies of Chu soldiers and Cao soldiers were mixed together.
Gan Ning held the double halberds tightly in his hand standing on the deck, and calmly commanded the battle without moving.
Under the powerful arrows of Cao's army, seven or eight Chu soldiers were shot down one after another, and the subsequent personnel were not enough to fill them up, and the Chu army's front began to loosen a little.
Gan Ning looked at this situation and shouted loudly: "Jinfan Army, kill the Cao army who broke through me."
Jinfan Army was the brothers of Gan Ning when the river was straitor. After Gan Ning surrendered to Nie Zefeng, they formed the most elite personal guards.
The personal guards who were fighting bloodyly got the order and simply took off their half-body armor, ran to the north with bare arms, and held a big knife with his hands.
With the roar, the big sword swept out like a wheel.
The Cao army soldiers were instantly swept away by these elite Chu army soldiers. With a clanging sound of shield breaking, several Cao army soldiers were killed and flew out.
The personal guards, who were angry and powerful, forced back the Cao army soldiers who were charging in the front.
Afterwards, the personal guards fought for the first place and killed all the Cao army soldiers one after another. They continued, fast, cruel, and did not care about life and death. Although these periods were vigorous, but had begun to decline, the Cao army soldiers who had retreated and killed them one after another.
All the Cao soldiers who charged forward were killed on the spot, and several of them were cut in half, with blood and blood all over the place, and they were extremely tragic.
During the half-hour battle, more than a thousand people were killed or injured by Cao's army. The blood dyed the entire Weishui River red, and corpses also floated in the river.
Wang Zhen in the military formation was really angry when he saw that all his elite infantry soldiers could not defeat these Chu soldiers, but he also knew that his soldiers were not good at water wars at all. He had to lead these people to the shore, and then use cavalry to seal their way back, and then annihilate the Chu soldiers in one fell swoop.
Chapter completed!