Chapter 238: Turning Point [Two in One](1/2)
At the second hour of Xu, at the Wei army camp on the east bank of Luoshui, Sima Tangzhi and Jiao Ge were sitting in the tent, correcting the topographic map of the east bank of Luoshui drawn by scouts in the past two days, chatting about the topic of "Why did the Qin army not attack his two armies overnight in the past two days?"
Seeing that the time of chatting was almost done, Jiao Ge stood up, stretched his waist and said to Tang Zhi, "Then I'll go and rest first."
Tang Zhi didn't look up and said casually: "Before resting, remember to inspect the camp."
"I know, I know..."
Jiao Ge waved his hand and turned toward the tent.
However, before he could get out of the tent, he saw a person breaking into the tent and almost hit him.
He quickly took a step back, Jiao Ge laughed at the visitor and scolded, "Gan Fu, what are you doing?"
"Jiao Sima."
Gan Fu first sued his crime, and then said with a slightly panic look on his face: "Two Simas, something big happens, please follow them out of the tent."
“…”
Jiao Ge put away the smile on his face when he heard this. After looking at Tang Zhi, the two immediately followed Gan Fu out of the tent.
After coming outside the tent, Gan Fu raised his hand and pointed to the east, lowered his voice and said, "Two Simas, that was discovered by the soldiers just now..."
“That’s…”
Jiao Ge's face changed slightly.
What did he see?
He saw a ray of light appearing under the dark night in the distance, as if the rising sun was red.
But now it is the hour of the night, where does the day come from?
So the only explanation is...
After swallowing his saliva, Jiao Ge asked with difficulty: "Hey, Tang Zhi, that's the direction of... the main business?"
"ah……"
Tang Zhi responded lightly, and his face was also full of confusion at this moment.
"The main camp was attacked by the enemy?!"
He looked at Jiao Ge and both felt a little unbelievable.
"How is this possible?"
After coming back to his senses, Jiao Ge frowned and said, "In the past two days, I have ordered my soldiers to spread out guard posts around this area. Not to mention Qin soldiers, even if a bird flies by, you don't want to hide it from you and me, but... where did Qin soldiers emerge?"
“…”
Tang Zhi stared at the "burning clouds" in the distance for a while, and shook his head slightly.
"Main business...it shouldn't matter?"
He thought with a frown.
In his opinion, there were still 160,000 troops on the main business of his Wei army. Even if the Qin army attacked in full force, it might not be irresistible. But the problem was that the "burning cloud" - Tang Zhi knew that it was actually a huge fire on the main business - it didn't seem to be irrelevant.
"what to do?"
Jiao Ge whispered to Tang Zhidao, and the implication was that he asked Tang Zhi whether he wanted to send troops to reinforce the main business.
Tang Zhi frowned and thought for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, his expression suddenly changed slightly. He looked around and asked suspiciously: "Jiao Ge, have you heard any strange noise just now?"
"Exceptional noise? Where did it come from..."
Just as he said halfway, Jiao Ge subconsciously turned his head to face Tang Zhi, and suddenly he saw a fire arrow breaking through the air at night.
"Enemy attack!" he shouted in surprise.
"What?" Tang Zhi turned his head and saw endless fire arrows shooting towards their camp in the night sky.
Judging from the trajectory of these fire arrows, these fire arrows were clearly shot from the west bank of Luo River.
As expected, just a moment later, the commotion of the Wei soldiers under their command came from near the river bank, such as "the enemy attack" and "the Qin army attack" warnings, one after another.
Seeing this, Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge immediately ordered the soldiers of the two armies to prepare for the enemy, and they immediately went straight to the river bank to inspect the battle situation of the Qin army crossing the Luo River to attack his Wei camp.
When they arrived at the east bank of Luoshui, soldiers immediately pointed to the other side and reported to them: "Sima Tang, Sima Jiao, the enemy troops on the other side of the river..."
Tang Zhi waved his hand and interrupted the soldier's report. Because there was no need to report, they clearly saw that countless torches appeared on the other side of the river at this moment. With the help of those firelights, Tang Zhi and Jiao Ge could vaguely see that the Qin army on the other side were deploying boats and rafts and other objects to cross the river.
"Here, come."
After some commotion, Xia Yang, a general under Tang Zhi, led thousands of soldiers to the river bank, and the crossbowmen among them immediately shot arrows on the other side of the river to counterattack.
"Swoosh swish swish--"
"Swoosh swish swish--"
The Qin and Wei armies on both sides of the Luoshui River went back and forth, shooting each other, trying to suppress the other's crossbowmen.
This lasted for about a hundred breaths, and suddenly a soldier from Wei shouted: "Qin army...the Qin army crossed the river!"
"Don't panic! Listen to my order!"
Tang Zhi shouted loudly, ordering the infantry to gather on the river bank to form a defense line on the river bank while commanding the crossbowmen under his command.
"Shoot the arrow!"
With his order, the Wei army on the east bank of Luoshui shot waves of arrows at the Qin soldiers on the boats and rafts.
It has to be said that on such nights, the Qin soldiers standing on the boat raft holding torches are simply the best targets. For a moment, many Qin soldiers were wailing when they were caught in arrows on the boat raft in the river.
"...I want to easily break through our army's defense line just by rafting? Humph, do you underestimate the soldiers in the Hanoi area?"
Tang Zhi sneered secretly.
According to geographical differences, the army of Wei can be divided into three major military systems: "Hedong Army", "Hanoi Army" and "Henan Army". "Hedong" starts from the Dahe (Yellow River) in the west and ends at the Taihang Mountains in the east; Hanoi refers to the territory surrounded by the Dahe, Taihang Mountains and Wei Rivers; as for Henan, it refers to all the land of the Wei army south of the Dahe River.
These three armies once had their own opponents: the Hedong Army mainly defended against Qin, the Henei Army mainly defended against Zhao, while the Henan Army mainly targeted Chu, Song, and even South Korea once included it.
Once upon a time, the Wei State had the strongest military system in Henan, such as Wu Qi and Pang Juan, who were all commanding the Henan army, but unfortunately, since the Battle of Malingdao, the Henan army of Wei State was almost wiped out. Although the Wei State immediately formed a new army, it cannot be denied that the newly built army was completely incomparable to the Henan army, which was all Wei Wushu, which was sold by Wei Wu.
In addition, Chu was defeated by Qin and retreated step by step, Song gradually improved relations with Wei. Therefore, gradually, Wei's Henan military system gradually became less valued, and replaced it was the Hedong Army and the Henei Army. After all, compared with Chu and Song, Qin and Zhao are the biggest threats to Wei.
This is also the reason why the two armies of the Hedong Army and the Henei Army still retain a considerable number of Wei Wuzhang.
These two military corpses are currently dominated by Gongsun Xi and Zhai Zhang, and are also the two most powerful military corpses in the Wei State.
"Puff puff puff--"
"Swish--"
The crossbows on both sides of the straits were not weak at all. Although the Wei soldiers under Tang Zhi suffered considerable losses, the Qin soldiers who were riding on boats and rafts to try to attack the east bank were also shot into the river.
But strangely, even though the boats and rafts were no longer alone, they were still straight towards the east coast for some reason.
『Uh?』
Tang Zhi was stunned when he saw this, and snatched a torch from the guards beside him and threw it into the boat and raft in the river.
With the help of the torch falling into the river, he vaguely saw many Qin soldiers climbing the boats and rafts with their hands, trying to catch the Wei army off guard in this way.
"Wow!"
Tang Zhi snorted lightly, and was about to order the crossbowman to shoot arrows at the boat and raft, but after thinking about it carefully, he gave up.
The reason is that the Qin soldiers used boats and rafts as cover. Even if they ordered crossbowmen to shoot arrows at them, most of the arrows would fall on the boats and rafts, which might not cause much damage to these Qin soldiers. Instead, it is better to ask crossbowmen to continue to suppress the Qin army crossbowmen on the other side of the river. As for the Qin soldiers who tried to escape, let them see the strength of the Wei Wuzhang in the Hanoi area.
Thinking of this, Tang Zhi shouted loudly: "There are enemy soldiers hiding under the boats and rafts. The crossbowmen continue to suppress the enemy soldiers on the other side. The infantry forward and follow me to resist the enemy army!"
After saying that, he pulled out the sword around his waist with a clang.
At this time, the boats and rafts had already landed on the east coast. As Tang Zhi expected, a Qin soldier holding a weapon climbed ashore from the boats and launched a raid on the Wei army.
"kill--!"
Tang Zhi pointed his sword forward, and with a command, more than 2,000 Wei soldiers behind him rushed up with long spears in their hands and started a fierce battle with the Qin soldiers who were landing.
It is undeniable that the Qin soldiers are generally stronger, but they are still much inferior to the Wei Wushu. The most important of them is reflected in military and physical strength.
The soldiers of Qin State were not the worst in the Central Plains in terms of equipment, but the military equipment of Wei Wushu was not necessarily the top in the Central Plains - the top equipment was the Korean army - but they were definitely the most complete in the Central Plains. Moreover, a qualified Wei Wushu needed to master how to use long spears, sharp swords, and crossbow tools to correspond to enemy soldiers with different equipment and forces.
For example, in such a moment of fighting, the Wei Wushang under Tang Zhi first used long spears to block the enemy. If the weapons in his hands were accidentally shot down by the opponent, or if they had no time to pull them back when they stabbed into the body of the enemy soldiers, they would immediately give up the long spears and draw their swords to kill the enemy. The switching speed between the two killing modes was extremely fast, and they deserved to be the Hanoi Wei army that can still suppress the Zhao army.
In just one moment, the Qin army's strong attack on the river bank was restrained by Tang Zhi's army. Although the Qin soldiers still tried hard to attack the Wei army's defense line, they could not break through. Even as the war began, the front lines between the two sides became longer and longer, and had spread to about two miles.
"Damn it!"
Seeing this, Xiang Shou, the former commander of the Qin army who commanded the Qin army, cursed secretly on the west bank of the river bank.
Two days ago, Bai Qi changed his mind halfway, without discussing with him, and prepared to detour to Luoyang and attack the north side of the Wei army.
At that time, Bai Qi sent someone to notify Xiang Shou and made an appointment with Xiang Shou to carry out a full-scale raid on the Wei army tonight - isn't this a full-scale raid? Bai Qi's 50,000 soldiers, Xiang Shou's 30,000 soldiers, and Qin general Wei Yuan in Xiangshan area, as Meng Zhong guessed, a total of 110,000 Qin troops launched a raid on the Wei army tonight.
To be fair, Xiang Shou opposed this tactic because it was too dangerous.
It’s like the main business of the Qin army at present, there are actually only 20,000 people garrisoned. If these 20,000 people were placed at other times, the number of people might not be small, but if it were placed in this war, and considering that there are 100,000 elite Korean soldiers of Han general Baoyuan twenty miles away from the main business of the Qin army, 20 miles away from the main business of the Qin army, the 20,000 troops were really nothing.
If the news is leaked, Bao Yuan will learn that his main Qin army is empty and he will take the opportunity to attack, how can a mere 20,000 Qin soldiers resist the 100,000 Korean elites? I am afraid that the 100,000 Korean soldiers will be killed overnight.
But there was no way. After all, as far as the situation was concerned, Xiang Shou had no time to stop Bai Qi.
To be continued...