Chapter 315: It's right to fight the Chu army first
The Chu army on the south bank of the Wei River began to prepare to cross the river, and news came from Gaoling that the Qin army had begun to fight with the Jin army.
"How's the battle going?"
"Returning to Zongzi, the two armies lined up and fought on the west side of Gaoling. The drums were beating loudly, the chariots were crisscrossing, and there were thousands of casualties on each side."
Zhiyao started to get a little confused. Did they join forces to plot against the Zhi family?
If this time it is really a layout of several families uniting with foreign forces, with the current speed of information communication, coupled with the problem of mutual trust, so many forces are uniting, who can take the lead to convince the crowd, and how close will it be?
Contact, especially without being noticed?
If they really join forces, they will fight. A confrontation will result in thousands of casualties each. The leader may not care. What kind of explanation should the people below give?
Zhiyao, who carries the memories of his previous life, was actually born from his mother's womb, and grew up in the environment of the Spring and Autumn Period. Some of his ideas are different from those of today's people. The customs, customs, and three views of the Spring and Autumn Period are still familiar to him.
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One moment they are fighting life and death, the next moment they are friends with each other. There are many similar things, especially in the Spring and Autumn Period, which happened very often.
It can even be said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, as long as the king of a country or the head of a family who could make a decision agreed to something, there was less need to worry about the feelings of the people below him than in other eras.
The fact is that, for example, the Zhishen family was fighting life and death with the Qi State. One day, Zhishen suddenly said that he wanted to live in peace with the Qi State. The people below were astonished. No matter how unconvinced they were, they would faithfully carry out the orders from the family head.
So, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the history of Zhu Xia, some social structures and other aspects may have been backward, but the execution ability was the most exaggerated period in the history of Zhu Xia. Regarding this point, hundreds of thousands of troops can be easily mobilized through mobilization.
, you can basically see how the execution is nearby.
"Don't light a fire, don't make a loud noise, and pay close attention to the movements of the Chu army!"
"promise!"
Zhishi is staring at the Chu army, and he also needs to hide.
They could light a fire to make food in other places, and just go to the trouble of transporting the steamed buns and soup back. However, they were troubled by not being able to light a fire at night. They had been with the Chu army for more than ten days across the Weishui River, and it didn't look like they were discovered by the Chu army.
appearance.
The Chu army was cutting down timber on a large scale, and Zhi's scouts also discovered that Chu troops were exploring the Weishui River in boats.
It is not only to explore which section of the river has a relatively gentle flow, but also to determine which tidal flats are suitable for landing, and then to decide where is the most suitable place to build a bridge, etc.
Building bridges? Yes, building bridges.
Don't think that in the Spring and Autumn Period, people did not master the technology of hypothetical floating bridges.
If many countries in the Central Plains do not know how to build various bridges, Chu and Wu will be in a relatively leading position in terms of relevant technologies based on the limitations of the times.
That is because the area where Chu and Wu are located has too many river systems. They cannot travel by boat or boat. Some bridges that should be built must be built. Otherwise, how can they expand and effectively rule?
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"Chu people are good at water, and they also have the skill of building bridges with driftwood." Zhiyao was watching a group of Chu troops busy.
These Chu troops had many newly built boats and rafts. They drove wooden piles in the shallower parts of the river bed. In the deeper parts of the river bed, they used boats or rafts as buoyancy. They first fixed the boats or rafts in one position.
Longer and woven wooden rafts of different thicknesses are being laid on top, and six pontoon bridges are slowly forming.
For modern people, even if they have never done the work of erecting a pontoon bridge, they must understand the basic common sense. They can definitely master it through repeated trials and successfully erect a pontoon bridge.
However, erecting pontoon bridges was a "secret skill" in the Spring and Autumn Period!
"You guys, let's take a closer look."
"only!"
There is really no subject about erecting pontoons in Lao Zhijia. The main reason is that it is rarely needed.
It's not a joke, but it seems like a joke. What most countries in the Central Plains do when encountering rivers is to find a shoal that can be crossed once the river section here is difficult to cross. After getting used to it once, the enemy will basically cross the river.
Everything is clear, so just place your troops there when defending.
Are there many countries that have mastered the technology of building bridges across rivers? It refers to the technology of building bridges with a river width of more than 100 meters, which can be used for a long time after completion.
To be honest, there are really not many countries that have mastered the construction of permanent bridges with river widths of tens, hundreds, or hundreds of meters.
What's weird is that Chu and Wu also don't have that kind of technology, and the only one who masters the relevant technology is Qin!
There is a stone bridge across the Fen River in the "Kundu" of the Jin State. This bridge was built under the supervision of a certain prince of the Qin State. It has provided convenience to the Jin people for hundreds of years and is still in use today.
What's even more strange is that there is no bridge spanning more than 100 meters across the river in Qin State.
"Zongzi, the Chu army has built six bridges, and the progress is very urgent." Zhilin is one of the new generation who is beginning to show his prominence.
Zhiyao still hopes that a clansman can take over, provided that this clansman's blood relationship is far away from Zhishen.
It's really not that Zhiyao has a deep dark psychology, it's purely a necessary precaution under the clan model.
Under the clan model, the closer the blood relationship is with the current head of the family, the easier it is to do things reasonably and reasonably. What Zhiyao wants to do does not allow any obstacles within the family, otherwise why is he deliberately trying to separate his brothers?
Why did Zhiyao come over in person to hide and watch the Chu army build the bridge? It wasn't because there was no one in the Zhi family who could see the progress of the bridge construction. He needed to come over in person to see when the Chu army could build the pontoon bridge.
Soldiers from the Chu army are coming to the north bank of the Wei River.
"Back off." Zhiyao said and turned around to leave.
If the Chu army wants to cross the river, it must not just rush in. It is inevitable to send people to the north bank of the Wei River to investigate first.
Zhiyao returned to the camp, summoned the officers, and said, "The Chu army will cross the river within seven days. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be time for us to attack."
Everyone's expressions immediately became serious.
Cheng Wu asked: "I wonder how the battle at 'Gaoling' is going?"
Anyway, it won’t be Zhiyao who answers in person.
The battle that broke out in "Gaoling" has lasted for six days. There was a fierce collision on the first day, and the intensity of the subsequent battles can only be described as tepid.
The reason given by the Qin State for inviting hunting was that the Xie family was willing to move their entire family to live in the Qin State. It was very unreasonable for the other families in the Jin State to intercept and kill the Xie family.
In order to angrily scold the Jin State, the Qin State also used the Jin State's acceptance of Hou Jin's "Five Clan Rebellion" as an example. Anyway, it was so scolding that the Jin people present did not know how to reply.
In addition, the hidden soldiers originally hiding in the northern mountains appeared.
As expected, it was Zhao's mother-in-law who led the army. Zhao came with two "divisions" of troops, as well as Bai Zhai with about 20,000 troops, and Lou Fanren with nearly 10,000 troops. The total was about 50,000 coalition troops.
They did not rush towards the "Gaoling" battlefield. After appearing, they headed directly towards Luoshui, making no attempt to conceal their intention to cut off the Jin army's retreat.
A series of battle trends began to make Zhiyao wonder if she had overthought it before.
However, if the Qin army doesn't fight with Han's troops one day, Zhi Yao will still have doubts in his heart.
Zhiyao's paranoid state will not disappear. On the contrary, due to the emergence of an idea, it will affect the direction of subsequent external communication.
Of course, although Zhiyao was in a suspicious state, what he was doing was still a serious matter. He did not lead his troops to retreat because of his suspicion. What he wanted to do was to deal with the Chu army first.
A few days passed by in a blink of an eye.
The Chu army's bridge-building speed was faster than Zhiyao's guess. It took them a total of nineteen days to build six pontoon bridges from the south bank to the north bank of the Weishui River.
"Set out at the Yin hour and attack at the fifth quarter. If there are still Chu troops in the north at the Mao hour, ask the two or three sons!"
"The pontoon bridge must not be damaged! Just as cavalry cannot cross the river on the bridge, light troops must cross the river and hold back the Chu army with the army on the south bank."
"For this attack, the time and place are all mine."
"This battle must be won!"
You don’t think Zhiyao is just watching these days, do you?
There is no doubt that the Chu army is going to the north bank of the Wei River.
Zhiyao wanted to attack halfway across the river, so how could he not send troops from the shoals in other river sections to find a place to hide on the south bank of the Weishui River.
The so-called half-crossed attack is really not as simple as waiting on the bank for the enemy to cross the river and launch an attack. It is necessary to find out the enemy's intentions and keep an eye on when to cross the river. An indispensable step is to hide one of your own troops in the river.
The enemy is on the other side!
If there are troops only on one side of the shore, the action carried out should be called a beachhead attack, not a half-crossing attack at all.
Zhiyao has no intention of participating in the battle in person, and may not even watch the battle with his own eyes. Instead, he will stay in the camp and dispatch or increase troops to certain areas in a timely manner based on the reported battle situation.
There were knowledgeable people on the side of the Chu army. They not only surveyed the area of more than 20 miles around the tidal flat where they were going to cross the river, but also chose a day with plenty of moonlight among several days.
They started crossing the river early one morning. The first batch of Chu troops to cross the river was about three thousand people. When they arrived on the north bank of the Wei River, some of the soldiers immediately occupied the favorable terrain, while others cleared the surrounding vegetation.
Heading to favorable terrain first must be to prevent being surprised.
Clear the surrounding vegetation, such as trees, bushes, weeds, etc., firstly to prevent fire and easy burning, and secondly to make the view wider.
It took about an hour for all three thousand Chu troops to arrive on the north bank of the Wei River, followed by another Chu army of about five thousand, and then the baggage train.
After the first day, there were about 10,000 Chu troops arriving on the north bank of the Weishui River. They had been busy and tense during the day, and all of them felt completely exhausted.
There will definitely be people on duty as required, but they are just not in good spirits, and the scouts who went out did not notice any abnormalities in the surrounding area, so they will inevitably be more lax.
In the middle of the night, when the moon moved to the west, around the fifth quarter of Yin hour, some Chu soldiers on duty first heard a strange noise while they were drowsy. Then they felt that the ground under their feet was shaking slightly, and they were suddenly startled to sleep.
Most of it.
"The earth dragon turned over?"
No, it’s Zhishi’s cavalry who is coming!
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The weather is changeable, so everyone should change clothes according to the temperature. The author has runny nose and dizziness now, so it is too difficult to write.
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