Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 674: Armored Army
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There were few village houses on the banks of the river behind the forest. Thousands of Zhou army rebels came out of the forest. The scene was strange. People rushed to the camp behind in a mess.
There are undulating mountains on both sides, only this beach is relatively open. In the wilderness, the beach is even more noisy. There are many camps and towering arrow towers.
After the enemy's infantry chased out of the forest, they did not rush over.
But after a while, at the edge of the woods at the foot of the mountain, suddenly some huge monsters slowly appeared! The soldiers in the Zhou Army Camp looked on in surprise.
"Mou..." a strange monster called out. The generals of the Zhou army in the camp finally recognized that it was an elephant!
The elephant was not an ordinary elephant. It was caught from nowhere. It was very large, with iron armor on its body, and a tower-like thing on its back, with people sitting on it. Although the elephant walks slowly, it is covered with iron and spears, as if invulnerable and looks terrible!
On the sides and back of each elephant, there are infantrymen with swords and shields in front, and bowmen and crossbowmen behind them, following the elephants. Those huge war elephants are like warships in a sea of people... and very much like an armored army group, where the infantry forms a battle group centered on the war elephants.
6 Continued dozens of war elephants rushed out of the mountains and forests, followed by the Southern Han Kingdom on foot, and the men and horses attacked the camps scattered on the river beach by the Zhou army.
The Southern Han Army gradually approached with a strange war elephant organization, and the open ground seemed to be slowly surging over for a while! The calls of elephants, human voices and horses neighed across the mountains, and the wilderness was very lively.
The horizontally spreading war elephants and the infantry with thick wooden shields gradually attacked within 200 steps! Neither side has fired a long-range weapon yet, but the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty on the war elephant have already prepared their bows and crossbows; the giants are coming over like a moving arrow tower!
Not long after, some of the pennants on the ground were knocked down by the Nanhan infantry soldiers who came by.
At this moment, there was a "sizzling" wooden rubbing sound at the Zhou Army Camp, and the men were pulling the hemp rope on the catapult. "Kang bang bang..." Many cobblestone bumps were thrown out of the catapult.
The pebble bump was very accurate! It happened to be in the position of the South Han Army's offensive, because the range was marked in advance.
"Boom!" There was a loud bang, a flash of fire in the air, and the smoke exploded...The cobblestone was actually exploded in the air!
After a while, the explosion sounded "boom boom boom...", the stone cannons exploded with loud noises in the sky or on the ground, and the rocks flew randomly and the smoke was filled. The attacking army of the Southern Han Dynasty was immediately struck by thunder and panicked into a panic.
Those war elephants turned around in fright, and the rider above could not control the frightened elephant. The elephant turned around and rushed to the southern Han army's infantry... At this time, except for the horse squad, the army was basically very dense to maintain its combat strength. The elephant rushed into the crowd. It was a huge object, covered in iron, and a spear like a hedgehog. How could the Southern Han Army stop the elephant? They evaded one after another, forming a mess.
After one round of stone cannon bombing, it quickly stopped, and then the real stones were thrown, and the ones that could not be bombed... According to the method of Tokyo's Beiyuan Firearms Workshop, people have to drill on the stone to hollow out the interior, but It is not easy with few shells.
But the Southern Han Army has been overwhelmed by its own war elephants!
At this time, the fence between the camps was lowered with a bang. The neatly armored infantrymen heard the gongs and drums and the flags were released, and they ran out in a column.
The former army caught up with the Nanhan rebels with spears and swords and shields, and killed them when they saw them. The crossbowmen and firearms behind them changed their columns into three rows and moved forward.
The battlefield was surging, shouting loudly, and people everywhere. The land here is moist, the vegetation is good, countless people rushed together, but there is no dust; but the sky is filled with the smoke of the stone cannon bombing.
Behind the soldiers of the Zhou army, some people actually played the song, the exciting tune screamed with fear, and the scene on the battlefield was very strange!
The Zhou army in front and the dense rebels of the Southern Han Dynasty fought. The choppers and spears of the Southern Han sergeants pierced and creaked on the plate armor of the sergeant Zhou, and some pierced the hard leather armor between the four plates, and the screams were endless. Sergeant Zhou died very rarely, mostly injured.
At this moment, the military music stopped, and those people banged thick brass instruments "ding, ding, ding...", the sergeant Zhou in front turned around and withdrew, some were nervous but didn't hear it, but they all saw the accomplices. After running, turn around and run. The rebel soldiers retreated from the void in the middle of the horizontal line.
At this time, the crossbowmen were also ready, and the "cracking" string sounded everywhere, and the Southern Han Army ran away in a mess. The Zhou army marched from time to time in various queues, and stopped to shoot a salvo from time to time. The firearms and crossbows of each command fired alternately, white smoke filled the air.
The infantry of the Zhou Army Brigade chased down to the foot of the mountain. At this time, all the men and horses attacked by the Southern Han Army collapsed and ran into the woods.
The messenger with the triangular red flag on its back came over on horseback, screaming at the commanders everywhere while sprinting: "The Chinese military order, stop chasing, and prohibit entering the forest!"
...The army in the camp is cheering everywhere, it's so lively!
Civil officials and military commanders around Cao Bin were congratulating, and Prime Minister Li Gu said with a smile: "General Cao deserves to be appointed by your Majesty! A group of new soldiers, a few months ago, were still hoes, and now they can pick up weapons. Defeating the main reinforcements of the Southern Han Dynasty, the old man admires me!"
Cao Bin politely said: "This is also because your Majesty has provided excellent equipment. Li Gong dispatched sufficient food and military supplies, so I would not dare to take credit. I would have entered the army during the (later) Han Dynasty. These armors Weapon, when it was changed, elite soldiers might not have such equipment."
The staff said: "Dashuai Cao sent people into the forest in advance, it turned out to be a trick to lure the enemy!"
Cao Bin is noncommittal.
At this moment, a group of generals in front of them entered the account and quarreled. Some people patted their chests and said loudly: "If the Chinese army does not tell us to retreat, we have to fight to Shaozhou!" /
Someone said: "Don't talk about hitting Shaozhou, breaking through this mountain, and setting up camp behind the mountain to approach Shaozhou..."
Cao Bin is in his thirties, his face is pale, and he is very elegant in his shots. He is often praised as a Confucian general. He is not angry at the complaints of the generals. He just said with a serious face: "It is reported that the Southern Han Army is in Shaozhou. Additional reinforcements have been sent. The mountains are high and the forests are dense in front. The Chinese army has not yet controlled the situation. It is a big taboo to underestimate the enemy and advance soldiers!"
The staff immediately echoed: "Cao Gong’s words are reasonable. There are no elephants in Shaozhou. The elephant soldiers of the Southern Han Kingdom were obtained from Dali Annan (Wu Dynasty). Only the Forbidden Army in the capital has it. Appearing in Shaozhou, just as Gong Cao expected, the Southern Han Dynasty sent the main reinforcements!"
The generals were stunned for a while.
Li Gu said: "This is a great victory in this battle. Cao Gong can revise the book and report the victory."
Cao Bin's gaze swept from the civilian officials of the "Passing the Order Army" behind him, and said: "I will report it according to the facts. This is a great victory, but no real progress has been made. First, because of the increase in the Southern Han Dynasty. Reinforcements were transferred. Secondly, there was a miasma in the south, and there were many sick people in the army, which caused a great reduction in the strength of our troops."
Li Gu frowned and said: "The miasma is really difficult to deal with. The old man brought a lot of medicinal materials to the healing camp, but it didn't get better."
...The Central Plains people are indeed very afraid of the miasma in the south.
In the previous Han and Tang Dynasties, the south was under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but the last thing the officials wanted to go to was to become an official in the Southern Han, which was regarded as out of favor and exile...because many people came to be an official and died of miasma!
In the army, there is an imperial doctor sent by Taichang Temple, who thinks that the miasma is terrible, which makes Cao Bin and other people in the big camp very worried.
Under the arrangement of the imperial physician and the army physicist, the people who fell ill were divided into camps for residential treatment. In addition to copying the medical books, the treatment method was based on the local doctors who took herbal medicine to treat them. Some of them can be cured, and some of the illnesses are cured.
After Yu Liang escaped from the forest, he fell ill. Swinging that night, sweating all over, was immediately sent to live in the wounded camp. The Kaifeng command was in the worst condition. Hundreds of people were killed and injured in the woods, and another 6 people fell ill. The whole command basically lost its combat effectiveness.
Yu Liang was lying in the makeshift straw shed, surrounded by the smell of realgar smoke, smog, and vomiting and groaning. He was in a bad mood.
He didn't expect the war to be like this...It was completely different from the poems "If you don't break Loulan, you won't pay it back", "Why don't you take Wu Gou" and so on, it's not so poetic at all! What happened to Yu Liang after his expedition: walked, walked, walked thousands of miles away! Then I heard that Xiongzhou had been captured, so he walked over again, and then led people to dig trenches and repair walls in the wilderness...just marching in line, even the enemy soldiers didn’t even see the looks of the enemy clearly, so they ran back embarrassed. .
Then he fell ill and was sent to this broken place to lie down.
Zhou Jun became ill with many people. The reason why he did not retreat was that under the treatment of the local doctors in the imperial doctor, some people continued to recover. It is said to be a miasma, but it can be cured anyway.
But Yu Liang hasn't improved. He lay on a broken bed every day, and no one came to see him... Soldiers who were usually familiar were not allowed to enter the healing camp. Yu Liang felt that his body was getting worse and weaker. He was a little struggling to get up. He had to think about whether he would die in this broken place.
After all, he is a scholar, Yu Liang is now a little questioning whether he has entered the wrong profession and is not suitable for martial arts... but he also failed to pass the Jinshi exam. What a literary can't become a weapon!
Now he can only wait for death in depression, and the despair deepens little by little.
The Zhou army made slow progress and almost stopped its offensive. After the last war, there was no news of the Southern Han army. A few days later, Yu Liang never saw him well. He was pulled out of the camp by an ox cart and sent to Xiongzhou. Many people were sent away by Minzhuang with him.