Chapter 806
In the wilderness ten miles northwest of Xin'an City, the Wei and Jin armies that had been confronted for more than half an hour finally began to move, slowly moving towards each other amid the continuous sound of horns.
Among them, the Jin army's military formation was composed of 10,000 infantry, 5,000 combat cavalry, and 6,000 Japanese soldiers. The Wei army had 10,000 infantry and 3,000 tiger and leopard cavalry. In terms of quantity, the Jin army had the advantage of military strength. However, the Wei army had a small number of Liang troops brought by Xu Rong, especially the three hundred long bowmen were enough to offset the three thousand infantry and cavalry of the Jin army.
In the Wei army formation, Cao Chong stood on a command carriage, put on a canopy in his hand and looked at the other party. He found that a lifting light was also raised behind the other party's army formation. Of course, this lifting light was not like Liang Jun, but the kind of paper-paste Cao Pi back then.
When the two armies were apart, the trolleys with crossbows were all set up by both sides, and the crossbow gunners began to shoot. The difference was that the Wei army had hot bombs and stone bombs, while the Jin army did not have hot bombs, and they used more stones and crossbow guns. It seemed that they used crossbows as scattering machines.
Fireballs, stone bullets, and crossbow guns drew arcs in the air and fell into the opponent's formation. From time to time, you can see the scenes of crossbow guns piercing the shield and then piercing the armor of infantrymen, as well as the tragic image of the big stone smashing the infantrymen in front of them. In the Jin army formation, many people were also bombarded by stone bullets and burned into firemen by the flames. Screams and wails filled the entire battlefield, but did not prevent the two armies from continuing to move closer.
A three-foot-long heavy arrow suddenly shot behind the Wei army. These heavy arrows, like small crossbow guns, easily pierced the bamboo armor on one Japanese soldier after another. The reason why most of the Japanese soldiers were shot was because Sima Yi lined them up at the forefront of the military formation as cannon fodder.
The Jin army's military formation began to be in chaos because the Japanese soldiers in front began to be in chaos, but it did not affect the Wei army's military formation to continue to advance. Sima Yi snorted coldly and said, "Transfer the order, the two wings of the cavalry will attack!" At the same time, Cao Chong also ordered the three thousand war cavalry on both wings to greet the other side.
Among the five thousand battle cavalry of the Jin army, there were three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army, and only one thousand tiger and leopard cavalry of the three thousand battle cavalry of the Wei army. The former's military strength was far greater than the latter. Logically, the Jin army should arrange the battle cavalry into multiple rows to give full play to its numerical advantage. But they actually used the method of scattered cavalry charge. In this way, the war cavalry of the two sides would fight into a group, and the strength was superior, so that they could not exert the numerical advantage. However, this could try to prevent the opponent's war cavalry from interspersing into their rear.
Zhang He, who was in charge of the front line, saw the two wings fighting into a group of combat cavalry, and his side showed signs of decline, and hurriedly said to Xu Rong beside him: "Brother Xu, please transfer the longbowman to the two wings to support our cavalry!" Xu Rong responded and rode away.
On the left wing, a Wei army tiger and leopard rider had just chopped and slashed a Jin army's long rider, but he didn't know that a cavalry spear stabbed his head. However, when the spear blade was only three feet away from his head, it fell to the ground and rolled to the ground with its owner. The neck of its owner was worn by a three-foot-long arrow.
The longbowman can still accurately snipe the enemy's cavalry riders in the melee between the two sides, thanks to the distinctive differences between the two sides' clothing and armor. This is related to Sima Yi's usurpation of the throne. After Sima Yi was guilty, he tried to eliminate the memory of the Wei State in all aspects of his subordinates, so the army's medium-sized clothing was greatly changed, and the original black clothing turned into a light yellow pure mahjong. Even the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was no exception.
Just as the two sides fought in a row, the infantry of the two armies finally collided with each other. The shield wall collided with the shield wall, and the spears and swords stabbed each other in the gaps of the shield, slashing and slashing. For a moment, the killing sounds shook the sky. Screams and screams were mixed, and soldiers were constantly lying in pools of blood.
At this moment, both the cavalry and the infantry in the middle were in a stalemate. The three or four-mile front line was shocking and the bloody smell was overwhelming. At this time, hundreds of Liang soldiers suddenly appeared behind the battle line and set up portable crossbows. A small fireball rushed into the sky, and after drawing a high-angle arc trajectory in the air, it fell into the crowd of Jin soldiers without slantingly. The flames that soared into the air immediately disrupted the formation of the Jin army. The stalemate situation began to be broken, and the victory began to tilt towards the Wei army.
Sima Yi was anxious at this time and kept looking at the rear of the Wei army, but there was no scene he expected. He looked at the sea surface again, and there was no shadow of a mast on the horizontal line. He murmured in his heart. According to time, the Jin navy, who was ambushing the bay in the bay at this time, should have received the order long ago, and now he carried 5,000 Jin army infantry in the rear of the Wei army.
He didn't know that at this time his navy was hunting the entire force of the Weiwen fleet in the south of the Minghai. Hundreds of warships had been sunk. The sea was full of heads of Jin soldiers who were sinking and floating. However, the Liang army warships ignored them, but sailed straight to the coast, landed on the coast five or six miles away from the battlefield, and then unloaded the nearly 1,000 Wei army tiger and leopard cavalry loaded on the ship.
Just when Sima Yi was anxious about why his ambush had not appeared, he heard the sound of thousands of horses galloping from behind him. When he turned his head, he was shocked. He saw thousands of Wei army tiger and leopard cavalry lined up in a row and swept across the Jin army. His lips trembled and said, "Shut Ba on both wings, Sima Tong led the cavalry back to resist the enemy soldiers!"
But there is no time. Even if the Jin cavalry on both wings can't be able to safely withdraw from the battlefield at this time to face the Wei cavalry coming from behind.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the Wei cavalry rushed into the Jin army crowd, and the riders waved their horse sabers and started to slash and kill.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Sima Yi instinctively rode his horse and fled eastward, but soon a burly man rode his horse and stopped him in front of him. The other party laughed and said, "Sima Yi, do you still recognize me?" How could Sima Yi not recognize the other party? It was Xu Zhu. Before he could answer, his head was cut off by the other party's big axe...
Half a month later, the Wei army, who took advantage of the victory, quickly recovered the entire territory of Jiuzhou Island, and the Japanese countries, which were originally affiliated with the Jin army on the Shiguo Island, also surrendered. The entire Jiuzhou, or to be precise, the entire Yingzhou was basically pacified by the Wei army.
In the spring of the 12th year of Xiuwu, Cao Chong officially married the Queen of Xiematai in Taiwan. This also marked the official merger of Wei and Xiematai, a vassal state affiliated to Liang. Feng Yu also sent people to send them a big gift and an edict.
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In Siwu Hall, Daliang Imperial Palace in Chang'an, Feng Yu was chatting with the left Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.
"Sage, the King of Wei now occupys Yingzhou. If he pacified the Hokkien in the future and completely unify the Japanese islands, his strength will double and he will have the power to compete for the Central Plains. Are you really afraid of changes in the future?"
Feng Yu smiled faintly and said, "It won't be within two or three generations. Because according to my edict, they cannot build a naval force, and the imperial court has multiple naval bases in Seto and other key areas, which completely controls the ocean. In addition, the large island in the north with ice and snow was also controlled by the Beifu Army. As for two or three generations, more than a hundred years later, my Central Plains may not be surnamed Feng, and I can still control the land of Japan. However, no matter who occupys the Central Plains, it will be regarded as part of the Jiuzhou in the world, and no longer a place of exogenous foreign powers."
Chapter completed!