Chapter 191
Chapter 191
When all the 50,000 troops in Jiangdong reached the east bank of the Yangtze River, Liu Jun moved from Changsha City to the barracks.
Wang Yue'er and Sun Shangxiang were supposed to stay in the city, but the two of them said that they would not do anything and would be Liu Jun's guards. Liu Jian thought about it and felt that his side should be safe, so he agreed.
The Feitian Battalion outside Changsha City now has 10,000 soldiers and horses, but in addition, there are 3,000 Wuxi barbarian soldiers. They were selected from among the captives, and in order to keep them true to himself, Liu Jun treated them exactly the same as the Han army.
These barbarians, whether under their respective leaders or under the barbarian king Samok, had a very low status. Now that Jingzhou Mu Liu Cong did not treat them as slaves, they naturally had to fight to the death.
A total of 13,000 soldiers, 3,000 were stationed in Changsha City, and the remaining 10,000 were all defended along the river.
"Lord, we will station soldiers and horses here, okay?" Seeing Liu Jun's defense, Liu Min was a little puzzled.
"Of course it's okay!" Liu smiled.
Jingzhou and Jiangdong were formerly feuds, and the battlefields were mainly in Jiangxia and Changsha. The strongest in Jiangdong is the water army, there are many warships, although the Jingzhou water army has a large number, but the combat strength is far from the same, and it is impossible to get cheap on the river. So many times, it is to let the Jiangdong soldiers and horses cross the river, and then stick to the city.
Now that there is no water army in Changsha, Liu Min feels that it is natural to defend the city. At most, leave an army outside the city, form a horn with the city, and respond to each other.
But he didn't expect that Liu Wei would station his soldiers and horses by the river.
"Captain Liu, you don't understand this!" Fa Zheng looked at Liu Min and smiled, "This is the lord's new combat method, you wait and see! At
first, when Liu Jun arranged it this way, Fa Zheng was also a little puzzled, how could this battle be fought like this?
After the Jiangdong navy disembarked, it first had to pass through an open field, and at this time, the bows and arrows and guns of the Han army could play a role. And there are dozens of thunderbolts on the shore, and stones can hit the river.
Even if the Jiangdong army rushed through the open area and had to climb ashore, the Han army only had to kill with a sword.
This is backwater camping? Half-crossing? It doesn't seem to be. How could the Lord have so many practical and novel ideas?
In fact, this is too simple for Liu Jun, to prevent crossing the river, shouldn't we all set up defenses on the riverside so that the enemy troops cannot land?
On the east bank of the Yangtze River, warships were lined up for several miles. All 30,000 Jiangdong soldiers have boarded the ship.
Lü Meng's handsome ship is a small building ship with two floors. The upper floor was mainly responsible for issuing flags, and Lü Meng, surrounded by two hundred guards, stood on the side of the ship on the first floor.
On each side of the ship, there was a ship, and the Jiangdong generals Ling Tong and Pan Zhang, wearing helmets and armor, stood at the bow of the ship.
"The army is marching and crossing the Yangtze River!" Lü Meng ordered.
Immediately, the soldiers on the second floor of the building waved the yellow and green battle flags up and down three times.
The vanguard Jiang Qin Zhoutai received the order and commanded more than 100 warships of all sizes and 6,000 soldiers such as the three wings, the warship, and the bucket, and set out in a mighty manner.
The river here is wide, but from Yuzhang Ferry to Changsha Ferry, it goes down the river, so the boat speed is very fast. After a short time, I saw the other side.
"Speed up!" Jiang Qin still felt that the ship was a little slow and ordered loudly.
The warships flew and arrived on the shore one after another.
Six thousand soldiers disembarked one after another and assembled on the shore.
Liu Jun, who was not far away, sneered in his heart. It seems that in this era, the water army did not have the consciousness of rushing to the beach to land at all.
After a while, the Jiangdong water army was assembled, and the 6,000 soldiers and horses were divided into two teams, and Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai each led one team, ready to rush forward.
Liu Min was a little nervous, but also full of excitement, and ordered loudly.
A thunderclap sounded, followed by countless stones flying in the sky.
"Thunderbolt?" exclaimed Jiang Qin, "Quick, scatter, shield..." The
panicked Jiangdong soldiers quickly dispersed, and stones fell from the sky.
"Ah..." The screams rose one after another, and the flesh and blood flew along with the monstrous waves.
The stones were not launched accurately, and some fell in the river, splashing waves more than a foot high. Some were smashed on the ship, and the warship was smashed out of a hole. Some fell on the Jiangdong soldiers, which were miserable.
"Rush over, kill!" shouted Jiang Qin.
"Kill!" Jiang Dongbing saw that instead of being smashed by stones here, it was better to rush over and fight with the Han army. So he braved flying stones and rushed to the shore like a tide.
The thunderbolt suppressed the momentum of the enemy army, and the casualties caused were not large. However, Koto's real nightmare is still ahead.
"Release the arrow!" Gong Zhi shouted.
The whistling of thunderbolts stopped, but the dense stream of arrows rolled over.
"Shield, quick!" ordered Jiang Qin urgently.
The Koto soldiers raised their shields, but many slow soldiers were still shot to the ground.
"Drop the arrow!"
Jiangdong's crossbowmen used the gap in their shields to fire arrows at the Han army on the shore.
The two sides began to fire at each other, but the Han casualties were small, because they had already concealed. And the Jiangdong soldiers wanted to rush forward with their shields, so they kept dropping corpses.
At this time, Zhou Tai led another group of soldiers and horses to rush over, which greatly boosted the morale of the Jiangdong soldiers, and they saw that they were about to rush to the Han army formation.
"Shoot!" Gong Zhi shouted again.
A projectile flew over with a howling wind, piercing the shields of the Jiangdong soldiers at once, and some were even smashed.
The Jiangdong soldiers, including Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, were taken aback.
Immediately after, another round of projectiles flew in.
The Jiangdong soldiers hurriedly used the weapons in their hands to block it, but how could this be blocked?
The row of soldiers rushing in front was almost all penetrated by the projectile and nailed to the ground.
"Gong Yi, you can't rush like this anymore!" Zhou Tai ran next to Jiang Qin, and while firing the gun with the big gun in his hand, he said loudly, "Let's retreat quickly!" Jiang
Qin saw that the casualties of the soldiers had already exceeded a thousand, and if it continued like this, even if he rushed to the Han army, he would not have the strength to fight.
"The rear team becomes the front team, slowly retreat!" Although he was unwilling in his heart, he was helpless.
The Jiangdong soldiers are worthy of being strong soldiers, and they have been in the battlefield for a long time, and they are not flustered when retreating.
"Wolf Battalion warriors, kill!"
Liu Jun shouted, and saw a group of Han troops wearing animal skins, "whooshing", waving all kinds of weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the retreating Jiangdong soldiers.
Wolf Battalion, it was Liu Jun who gave the name to the three thousand barbarians. Originally, he was going to break up and integrate into the Han army, but then he thought that if that was the case, he would not be able to display his brave characteristics, so he organized it into a separate battalion, that is, so that they would be as fierce as wolves when they rushed to kill.
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