It is difficult to explain clearly the feeling of despair and hope again if you have not experienced it personally. Even if you have experienced it, it is difficult to express it in words.
The husband heard the cheers and could hear the joy and gratitude in those cheers.
Judging from the cheers alone, the officers knew that those who had been recruited had returned home, and the next operation was very critical.
Zhiying rushed into the camp and said happily: "Reinforcements are coming!"
Yes, their reinforcements have arrived.
The first to appear were about 3,000 Zhishi cavalry. They were divided into three groups and attacked the Wu army everywhere.
The Wu army, which was resting and recuperating, was unable to organize effective resistance in the early stages of the surprise attack. Many small and medium-sized camps were directly penetrated by Zhi's cavalry in a panic. Only large camps could be defeated due to the larger area of the camp.
Hold on.
Xu Menchao's first reaction after discovering that he had been attacked was to lose consciousness, and his mind went blank for a moment.
After coming back to his senses, Xu Menchao smiled bitterly and said, "No wonder the king has repeatedly said that the Zhi family is like himself."
Wu Jun likes to make sneak attacks. It can be seen that Zhi's style has changed over the past twenty years to be very similar to that of Wu. If he can make sneak attacks, he will never challenge head-on.
The state of Wu is like that because of the character of the regional ethnic groups and the country's growth journey. How come the Zhi family has always been a high-ranking family in the Jin state and has become like that?
When Xu Menchao reached a high enough position, he saw the Jin army's cavalry sweeping in. They did not make any entanglement at all. They suddenly came and went without a fixed marching track, making it difficult for the Wu army to react and judge the attack even if they wanted to intercept it.
direction; another about 10,000 Jin Army chariot-infantry mixed regiments appeared. They were divided into two parts and entered the battlefield in a pincer attack.
Wu Jun definitely didn't just set up one camp. It's not that the terrain didn't allow for a camp that could accommodate 40,000 to 50,000 people. Only a qualified general would not concentrate all the troops into one camp.
Although the military strategist has just emerged, the experience of not defending an isolated city and failing to establish an isolated camp has long been summarized. Only a fool will gather all the troops in one place. If faced with an attack like that, everything will be in chaos. It is impossible to use it.
Nowhere to show it.
Xu Menchao, who divided his troops into camps, just followed tradition and arranged a layout to support each other in the event of an attack. However, it suffered from the high mobility of the Zhishi cavalry. The camps that were supposed to rescue each other after an attack were overrun by each other.
The result of defeat.
If Xu Menchao could convey orders to various places, there would actually be a chance to stabilize and try to surround and annihilate the Jin army that broke into the core of the Wu army. Unfortunately, the simple flags of the Wu state could not issue complex orders and send people.
It is also not feasible to contact us.
Therefore, Xu Menchao's order to the Wu armies everywhere was very simple. He ordered them to stick to their camps. As long as they could withstand the first wave of Jin army's surprise attacks, they would have a chance to make a comeback.
The progress of the war was in a strange direction. The incoming Jin army was too clear-eyed about the choice. The Zhishi cavalry gave up when they found which Wu army was difficult to defeat, and turned to attack the next target; the Zhishi's traditional troops
After defeating the Wu troops on the left and right sides, the target was clearly heading towards the location of the trapped civilians...
"Is there anyone noble in the camp?" Xu Menchao was not stupid. He immediately made a guess when he saw the Jin army's movements.
Zhan Ru said: "The ones who 'generalize' the entire army are close ministers of Zhiyao."
This made Xu Menchao confused.
Isn't he just a close minister? Does he need such a big battle to save him?
They do know who the people who are resisting are, they are just a group of civilians gathered from all over Qi. No big force would pay special attention to a team with this composition, let alone 10,000 civilians who were annihilated.
, plus it doesn’t matter if it’s two or three times more. Anyway, the ones who died were just the strong men pulled from the occupied areas.
Yes, the nobles cherish Li Shu but do not value Li Shu. This has been such a contradiction since ancient times. They cherish Li Shu because these tools are useful to people, but being able to give them up at any time makes Li Shu look cheap compared to others.
There is also a truth that in the eyes of a large number of powerful people, Li Shu has always been a group that can be abandoned at any time.
Zhan Ru asked: "Now that we know the enemy's intentions, how should we act?"
Xumenchao fell silent.
Wu Jun's chain of command failed, and the reality was that he could only protect himself for the time being, and could do nothing else.
No general wants to encounter this kind of dilemma, where he knows what he can do to change the situation of the war, but cannot do anything. Generals with poor mental endurance are likely to be useless.
The Jin army with clear goals successfully made contact with the trapped civilians.
After all, Fu Liao had not been with Zhiyao for nearly twenty years in vain. He organized the remaining civil servants in advance and then evacuated together with the friendly troops who came to help.
Ten thousand people resisted for four days. At first, the casualties were relatively high. Later, they adapted and the casualties were reduced. About 6,000 people survived.
A cruel thing happened during this period. Civil servants who were injured and unable to move were left where they were, and only those who maintained their ability to move were taken away.
Ji Qin learned that Xu Men's nest was in the military camp, so he deliberately came to the camp gate and called for the general of the Wu army to come and answer.
"What do you mean?" Xu Menchao heard it clearly just now, but even if he heard it clearly, he still felt confused.
On behalf of the Qin family, the Zhi family made a request to the Wu army. The Zhi family was willing to redeem the wounded soldiers and captured Homo sapiens who were left behind, and asked the Wu army to treat them well and treat them well.
Zhan Ru also heard it clearly and was also confused by Zhishi's request.
When a war breaks out between two countries, only the nobles will always be treated well, and the captured noble families will come to redeem them later. The other classes will not receive that kind of treatment.
What is the situation of the Zhi family now? The generals along the way cautiously asked for good treatment of the prisoners, and they spoke so clearly. The nobles may have understood but pretended to be stupid, but the soldiers in both armies fell silent after hearing this.
"Maybe something can be done?" Zhan Ru thought that since Zhishi cares so much, he must carefully investigate one by one to find out the key figures among them, and then do something with them as hostages.
This is very characteristic of Wu people. They don't care about the means used if they can achieve their goals.
The incoming Jin army and the rescued civilians evacuated, but they did not go far. They went ten miles to the north and began to camp in a place visible to the naked eye from the Wu army...
The civil servants who escaped were clearly enjoying an extraordinary treatment. In the past, as civil servants, if they were trapped, they would be trapped. There was no expectation that a large army would come to rescue them.
"My master has treated me like this, how dare I not repay him with death?" Guan did not forget his duty, caught the young man in a grateful mood, and repeatedly emphasized some concepts.
Similar things happen to every village chief who wants to make progress. It is precisely because they want to make progress that they understand the importance of letting the villagers remember Zhi's kindness now.
Of course the people are grateful to Zhishi. After today's experience, even if they don't show love and loyalty to Zhishi, they will never cause trouble to Zhishi in the future.
As for the fact that they were recruited by the Zhi family and fell into that dangerous situation, they were followed by the Qi army in order to serve the Qi army. The Qi army ran away after a slight resistance. It was not the Zhi family's fault!
After the Jin army retreated, the Wu army's cavalry would make raids from time to time, causing the Wu army's chaos to continue until the next day.
Xumenchao and Zhanru were unable to calculate how much they had lost for a while. They called in their subordinates to discuss how to deal with the Jin army all night long, and they still didn't have a good solution until dawn.
In the following days, Wu Jun encountered a dilemma that he could not move away from. Once the various camps interacted, they would immediately be attacked by the Zhishi cavalry.
Xumenchao cannot gather all the troops, and orderly retreat will become a luxury. The more anxious the mentality, the less good it can come up with.
This time, Wu Jun fully realized the difficulty of the Zhishi cavalry, which was completely different from what they knew about riding alone.
In order to find out why the Zhi family's cavalry was so powerful, Zhan Ru personally led his team to fight against the Zhi family's cavalry. He did not want to eliminate the opponent, but simply wanted to capture or capture the war horse.
Zhan Ru's action was very brutal. At the cost of more than 2,000 casualties, Zhan Ru was still unable to capture Zhi's cavalry alive, but he managed to capture a few live or dead horses.
"It is this thing that can be used to lend strength to the legs of a horse. There is also this thing that can be used to cushion the bumps when riding on it, and the hands can also hold the evil golden ring." Zhan Ru was talking about the stirrups and saddles.
Wu Jun and other soldiers picked up sabers, riding bows, and riding crossbows, but it was difficult to figure out the specific advantages in a short period of time.
Xu Menchao and Zhan Ru had long heard that the Zhi clan had been fully using evil gold to equip the army, and had also engaged in the operation of letting vassals on credit. In the past, there was no lack of ridicule within the Wu State, until after the "Battle of Ailing"
The laughter disappeared.
Wu's smelting technology is ahead of other countries in the Central Plains to a certain extent. They also began to study evil gold after the "Battle of Ailing", but the previous accumulation was not enough, and the time to pay attention again was too short, and there will be no more for a while.
What breakthrough was achieved?
Someone hurried over and reported that he had been allowed to enter. When he came in, he hurriedly said: "The Jin army and the Chu army are coming!"
What's going on?
Xu Menchao and Zhan Ru looked at each other, both thinking it was because of the leakage in the house because of the continuous rain.
Jin and Chu have always regarded each other as mortal enemies, and have not formed an alliance for a long time.
"The Jin army is coming. The Song Dynasty has no way to escape, so where will the Chu army come from?" Xu Menchao asked.
The visitor said with an incredulous expression: "We came together hand in hand!"
What the hell???
At this time, all the generals and commanders in the military tent really couldn't believe that Jin and Chu could form an alliance, and they were stunned.
Where did the Chu army come from? They were the ones captured in the last "Battle of the Weishui River". Later, the Zhi family negotiated an agreement with the Chu State. The Chu State redeemed these captives and gave money, silk or other items to the Zhi family.
Procurement of materials including shirts and weapons was then led by Zi Qi to join forces with Zhiyao.
This time, the Chu army led by Ziqi will become comrades with the Jin army led by Zhiyao, and together they will destroy the Wu army heading north!
