Chapter 80: Adhesion [two in one](1/2)
"Woo-"
"Woo-"
In the main formation of the Korean army, the bugle sound representing the attack sounded.
Accompanied by the solemn and majestic bugle sound, the soldiers of the two Korean armies, Yuyang Army and Shanggu Army, slowly approached the Wei army in the distance with neat steps.
On the opposite side, the Wei army remained motionless, as if solemnly waiting for the arrival of the Han army.
Today's troop deployment, the Han army's Yuyang Army and Shanggu Army moved in full force. Only Beiyan Shou Leyi left half of his troops in the "Qinghe Military Camp", so the total strength is about 50,000.
As for the Wei army, its strength is about 40,000. Apparently, the Wei army has also reserved thousands of soldiers to guard Julu to prevent unexpected changes.
Although the number of the Wei army in this battle was slightly less than that of the Han army, in fact, no one on the Han army dared to relax their vigilance because of this. After all, the opponent was the Shang Shui army led by Wei Gongzi Run himself, who was more or less a general in the Central Plains.
A powerful enemy that he dreams of defeating and becoming famous all over the world.
In today's Central Plains, the combination of Wei Gongzi Run and the Shangshui Army (including the Yanling Army) can definitely be regarded as the strongest army in the Central Plains. Even the Wei Wujun, who has a very high status in the hearts of the Wei people, has a higher status in the entire Central Plains.
, or the threat level is far less than that of the former. After all, the former is the only army that has remained undefeated for ten years and successively captured Shouying, the capital of Chu King, Handan, the capital of South Korea, and Xianyang, the capital of Qin King.
From ancient times to the present, no army has achieved such brilliant results as the Shangshui Army (including the Yanling Army).
Because of this, even though they knew that this battle would be assisted by Sima Shang's 50,000 heavy cavalry, Yuyang Guards Qin Kai and Shanggu Guards Ma She, who were leading the army at this time, still felt extremely dignified and nervous in their hearts.
"Tap tap tap——"
On the frontal battlefield, tens of thousands of Korean troops slowly approached the Wei army in the distance at a relatively orderly pace. On the west side of the battlefield, "Xu Li", the deputy general who guarded Ma She in Shanggu, also led thousands of Shanggu cavalry.
He looked solemnly at the Wei cavalry directly opposite - judging from the flags, the Wei cavalry opposite was personally commanded by Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army.
Wei General Wu Ji is also famous in Korea. In the eyes of Koreans, the threat level ranks third, only behind "Wei Gongzi Run" and "Nanliang King Zhao Zuo", and worse than Wei General Sima
An, Shaohu, Pang Huan and others are ranked even higher. The reason is that Wu Ji once captured alive one of the top ten North Korean tycoons in the former North Plains and acted as the governor of the county. Therefore, he was dubbed "Wei" by the Koreans.
The reputation of "the brave general of the country".
In fact, there are many brave generals in Wei, such as "Meng Lu", "Cai Qin (Cai Qin Hu)", "Jiang Bi", "Cao Jie", etc., but so far, only Wu Ji has achieved the level of surrender.
The Korean people are afraid of it.
"This mission is not easy to handle..."
Looking at the Shang Shui Army cavalry waiting solemnly in the distance, Xu Li, the deputy general of the Shanggu Army, swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart.
When he noticed that the cavalry on the opposite side had a banner with the words "Wei Shang Shui Army", he could not help but feel a little uneasy. After all, as far as he knew, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army opposite, was the bravest among the three armies and liked to fight alone.
Riding to kill the enemy general, in addition to Ju Xin, Kang Gong Han Hu's former deputy general, the Korean veteran "Xin Zan", who had fought in the north and south under Kang Gong Han Hu, helped Korea through the most difficult moments.
The hero was also beheaded by Wu Ji.
Counting them carefully, there were probably more than a dozen Korean generals who died in Wu Ji's hands, considering there were more than 2,000 generals.
Xu Li felt a little weak at the thought of confronting such a fierce person today.
After all, he is self-aware. With his martial arts, he is not a match for Ju Xin, so how can he withstand the opposing Wei general Wu Ji?
But as the deputy general of the Shanggu Army, how could there be any reason to retreat in the face of battle?
Therefore, at this moment, he could only pray secretly, praying that when the cavalry clashes later, the guy named Wu Ji would never come to him.
Unfortunately, Xu Li didn't know that his head, Shang Shui Army General Wu Ji, had long been concerned about him.
Think about it, after all, Xu Li is the lieutenant whom Ma She, the guardian of Shanggu, regards as his confidant. Killing Xu Li is equivalent to cutting off an arm of Ma She. This is not comparable to killing a few ordinary Korean generals.
In addition to staring eagerly at Xu Li's Shanggu cavalry, Wu Ji was also paying attention to the situation on the frontal battlefield, secretly thinking that after defeating the Shanggu cavalry on the opposite side, he would find a way to cut into the Korean army on the frontal battlefield and disrupt the Korean army's formation.
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Just when Wu Ji was paying attention to the frontal battlefield, the Korean army was slowly approaching to the point where it was only a stone's throw away from the Wei army.
For a moment, the atmosphere on the battlefield seemed to become much more tense, as if the air around him had become thicker, making it difficult to breathe.
"Whoa!"
I saw Yuyang Shou Qin Kai, who was serving as the vanguard general, pulled out the sword on his waist, pointed at the Wei army on the opposite side from a distance, and shouted in a deep voice: "Yuyang army, attack!"
At the same time, Ma She, the Shanggu guard on the other side, also issued an order to attack in his military array.
In order to hold back the Wei army and bring the battle to a stalemate as soon as possible, the Korean army skipped the previous war mode and directly entered the final stage.
Following the Qin Dynasty, Ma She gave an order, and tens of thousands of Korean infantry showed their momentum as the strongest army in the past. They roared like shouts, and these shouts finally converged into one word.
"kill--!!"
Facing the Korean army's attack, Nanmen Chi, the deputy general of the Shang Shui Army, came to the battle in person, waved his big hand forward, and shouted sternly: "You sons of the Shang Shui Army, let the Koreans appreciate the strength of our Shang Shui Army! Attack!"
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"Whoa whoa--!"
The soldiers of Shangshui, who had been waiting solemnly, suddenly burst out with a more powerful cry than the Korean army.
In just the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of Korean troops and tens of thousands of merchant navy troops violently collided together like two torrents.
At this time, there were no tricks or conspiracies at all, only bloody struggles and collisions. The area where the two armies met seemed to have turned into a meat grinder. In just the blink of an eye, countless soldiers died.
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In this most brutal and primitive fight, the Shangshui Army demonstrated their strength in sweeping across the Central Plains. Rows of heavy infantry armed with iron shields, in a tight formation, blocked the Korean army's tidal offensive.
, and eroded the opponent's space step by step - every time a Korean soldier was killed, the Wei soldiers took a step forward. Repeatedly, in less than a stick of incense, they forcibly moved the battle line towards the Korean army.
The direction advanced more than ten feet.
Although looking at the entire battlefield, the distance of more than ten feet is really insignificant, but this can fully prove that the Wei army is stronger than the Korean army.
"Kill it!"
Ran Teng, the general of the Wei army, roared violently, and as if he and his dozen or so fierce soldiers turned into sharp knives, they plunged into the hinterland of the Korean army, killing them.
“Don’t fall behind Team Ran Teng!”
Not to be outdone, Xiang Li, a brave general of the Wei army, also participated in the battle and set an example to inspire his soldiers.
It has to be said that the heavy infantry is the absolute core of the Wei army.
Head-on collision, both in terms of momentum and actual combat, they are superior to the Korean soldiers.
It's not that the Korean soldiers are not brave enough, they suffer from their lack of weight - don't think that heavy armor is just a burden on the battlefield, in fact, it is also an advantage.
Just like on the battlefield at this moment, when the heavy cavalry of the Shang Shui Army protected their chests with shields and slammed into the opposite side with all their strength, the Korean light infantry on the opposite side were all knocked off balance and retreated continuously.
On such a battlefield that is so dense that there is almost no place to stand, there is no room for you to move around. Once you lose your footing, it means that you are not far away from death.
What's more, the soldiers of Shangshui are rich in battle experience. If it is not necessary, they will not even use the sword in their right hand in such a fierce battle. They simply rely on brute force and the momentum brought by their own weight to kill the Korean soldiers on the opposite side.
Knocked to the ground, and then trampled directly over the opponent's body - as for those Han soldiers who fell to the ground after being trampled by the Wei army but had not yet died, they were handed over to Tongze from the rear team for the finishing blow.
With this simple, crude but effective tactic, the Shangshui Army gained an advantage on the battlefield from the very beginning.
Seeing this scene from a distance, even though Yuyang Shouqin was happy and expected it, his expression at this moment also looked a bit ugly.
You must know that the Yuyang Army under his command is not a weak force. It is also an army that has defeated Donghu several times and has been tested on the battlefield for many years.
What I didn't expect was that the Yuyang Army, which was not inferior to the powerful Donghu soldiers, fell into a disadvantage in such a short period of time when facing Wei's Shang Shui Army today.
At this time, he finally realized that his Yuyang Army attacked Julu a few days ago but was easily repelled by the Shang Shui Army on the opposite side. This was natural, because the strength of the Shang Shui Army was originally superior to his Yuyang Army.
"...Did you suffer from the equipment?"
Qin Kai frowned, and after gritting his teeth, he made a difficult decision: "Forward the target, crossbowmen fire a volley!"
The front line he refers to actually refers to the front line on the battlefield at this moment. It cannot be denied that when the battle situation is so stalemate, ordering crossbowmen to fire a covering volley is undoubtedly a way to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.
It was decided that after all, arrows have no eyes. In this case, friendly troops will be accidentally injured, and the probability of accidental damage is even high.
But Qin Kai had no choice, because if he couldn't find a way to suppress the momentum of the Shang Shui Army's counterattack at this time, the front army of his army might collapse.
"Fire the arrow!"
Following the roar of a Korean army general.
The crossbowmen of the Yuyang Army who were in the middle army pulled the triggers one after another and launched a burst of fire in front of them without distinguishing between friend and foe.
The flying arrows, which were as dense as a swarm of locusts, after crossing a small half of the battlefield, enveloped the entire frontline area like a heavy rain, interrupting the offensive momentum of the Shang Shui Army, forcing the latter to slow down the offensive and move the shield
Hold it on your head to withstand the baptism of this rain of arrows.
After a burst of clanging noise, the Korean and Wei soldiers on the front line suffered casualties from each other, but after careful calculation, the Korean soldiers suffered greater losses. After all, the Wei army's solid armor and iron shields were able to effectively defend
Flying arrows from a long distance, but on the other hand, most of the armors worn by the Korean soldiers were leather armor, and their defensive performance was far inferior to that of the Wei army's iron armor. Now they were exposed to the rain of arrows, how could they be spared?
"Damn it, are you bullying our army for not having bows and crossbows?"
In the center of the Wei army, three thousand generals Gu Tao and Xiang Dai saw this scene and were furious. They immediately ordered their crossbowmen to fight back at the Han army.
For a moment, the flying arrows on the battlefield were like a tide of locusts, so dense that they could even cover the entire sky.
At this time, on the northern flank of the battlefield, Xu Li, the deputy general of the Shanggu Army, also suppressed the fear in his heart and launched a charge towards the Shangshui cavalry led by Wu Ji, the general of the Shangshui Army.
At the same time, the Shangshui cavalry led by Wu Ji also launched a charge against the cavalry under Xu Li.
Before the advent of heavy cavalry, cavalry could not be regarded as the absolute main force on the frontal battlefield. They were more responsible for dividing and disrupting the enemy's formation. In addition, they were responsible for sneak attacks on the enemy's main formation, killing generals and capturing flags.
To be continued...