Chinese people are good at everything else, but one thing is that they care too much about their family. They think that family is greater than everything else. The concept of family is more important to them than the country. How can they still be loyal to them? It is far inferior to the country. It is just a country. Where is the coach Sun Jian!
Why did the enemy army on the opposite side follow Sun Jian? It was just that there was no way out, no leader, and all the generals of about a hundred people were Sun Jian's confidants.
As for the remaining ordinary soldiers, even if they have other ideas, there is no leader with strong prestige to lead the action and form a certain scale. Even if they rebel and launch a military coup, it will not happen at all!
Therefore, all the troops under Sun Jian who still want to be loyal to the imperial country do not dare to speak out even if they have other thoughts at this moment. They can only blindly follow Sun Jian in rebellion, completely heading towards a road of no return!
This is why all the great emperors in ancient times strictly guarded the rights of generals everywhere, for fear that they would rebel if they were unhappy.
Those soldiers had no ideas. Even if they wanted to support the emperor, they had no good way to do it. They could only blindly follow the generals and do this treason!
Afterwards, Sun Jian killed the messenger. In anger, he sent thousands of troops to tentatively attack.
However, Tian Feng's army was well-prepared and supplied with supplies, and a burst of crossbow fire was fired at them. They were driven down the river in great embarrassment and became a drowned rat.
Sun Jian only had over 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command at the moment, but now he lost two to three thousand. He felt extremely sad in his heart, and no matter what he said, he would not dare to send any more soldiers and horses to die.
These elites were the basic foundation for him to unify all parts of the imperial kingdom and maintain his rule. Now that they are completely destroyed, then he, an ordinary person who has not yet cultivated a strong fighting spirit, or even has no fighting spirit, will be in this In a world where gods and demons appear as saints, what does it matter
He was so proud of himself that he could match the strength of dozens of people, but in this world with deep water, he couldn't even make a splash.
The reason why he is able to show off his majesty now, even suppressing his strength up to the fourth level, and his combat power is even higher than before. He is so fierce that he is not like a human being. Chief Wolf, who killed thousands of his elite soldiers, cannot hold his head up.
It is relying on the 30,000 brave men under his command, relying on their sophisticated equipment, strict discipline after training, and bloody determination after killing the enemy.
Only then can we arouse the awe and obedience of those barbarians who respect the strong, and ensure their current glory and power!
After some testing, Sun Jian found that a strong attack was not advisable. Although he could still win such a small river beach without taking losses into account, this kind of loss was not something he could bear now!
Then we can only find other ways. This river is not long, only about fifty miles. It is not impossible for our army to change the route at this moment, follow the river to the end, and then turn around.
It's just that this journey is not short, more than 100 miles is considered a relatively long journey. If the 30,000 troops go all the way, it will take him four or five days to reach Pingyin City!
This does not include the enemy's harassment along the way, making some small moves along the way to slow down the march, so how long will it take.
Sun Jian did not forget that the cavalry troops divided into dozens and hundreds of people were wandering around him before he came.
Now that we have arrived at the enemy's home court, there must be more cavalry ambushing around, waiting for their army to reveal a flaw during the march, so that they can seize the opportunity to bite off a piece of their own flesh!
Then again, even if I wanted to choose a safer method and slowly rush from the river to the other side, my military rations would not be able to support such a long march!
If you insist on it for another ten days, it will be exhausted. How can I have so much time to waste it on the way? I can only choose a method as soon as possible, which is more effective!
After much deliberation, Sun Jian still had no good solution. He could only choose the stupidest but most direct and effective way to attack!
After giving the order, the army built bamboo rafts and some relatively sturdy boats, and prepared to send out a large army to forcefully cross the small river. They would fight to the other side despite losses and seize a good crossing.
The only thing that made him heartbroken was that in such a war of attrition with huge losses, he couldn't send those crude-minded and low-morale barbarians!
They were afraid that they would go halfway, and because they did not know the nature of water, had low morale, and had poor discipline, they would be shot over by the crossbowmen on the other side and fall into the river. Not only would they not have any results, but they would lose their own army in vain. Morale, another batch of useful cannon fodder has been lost!
Therefore, he could only bear the pain and send the elite troops under his command, those with high morale and sufficient training, on the way. I only hope that they can capture the crossing on the other side of the river as soon as possible with less losses. Damn, as much as possible Reduce your losses!
A fierce battle for the ferry began. Sun Jian's army launched together, and thousands of rafts crossed the river together with great momentum. They were connected with iron cables and wooden ropes to strengthen the stability of the rafts!
Since the river is not wide, the journey is not far, and there is no strong wind, there is no need to worry about the enemy on the other side, who may come up with a series of fire schemes, but it also avoids unknown dangers!
Although the raft is small and carries only a few soldiers, its number is in the thousands. From a distance, it looks like thousands of sails competing and a group of soldiers vying for supremacy. It is full of majestic and majestic atmosphere!
Seeing the defenders on the other side of the river, they all felt a little psychologically depressed, but they were immediately shouted away by their officers. They cheered up, raised their bows and fired in unison.
A shower of arrows fell from the sky, hitting everyone crossing the river on the other side. They screamed in agony and ran away with their heads in their hands.
He accidentally fell into the river again, struggling with his body, shaking his hands and feet, and grabbing the raft around him. There was another shaking, more people fell down, and Sun Jun's army was in chaos.
But with the restraint of more generals, the scene slowly returned to calm. It only caused some chaos at the beginning, but then the soldiers who were already prepared slowly came to their senses and started to counterattack!
Sun Jian's army also had crossbows. Although they didn't have much experience, they were still able to fire a few rounds to counterattack. After a burst of arrows, the two sides came and went, but the fight was vigorous and the stalemate was deadlocked!
As time passed, although Tian Feng and others tried hard to delay time, they tried their best to think of strategies to defend.
But Sun Jian still relied on his numerical advantage and more elite soldiers to slowly fight his way to the river bank, get ashore, and start the fight for the ferry!
After a fierce fight, the ferry was still captured by Sun Jian and others. It was not that Tian Feng and others were unwilling to sacrifice their lives, but that Sun Jian and others knew that there was no way out and were even more unafraid of life and death.
At the end of the battle, even Sun Jian put on his armor and went to the front line of the battlefield. He personally led his most elite soldiers to open a gap, allowing his army to have a breakthrough point and seize the key to victory in this war. Opportunities determine the tone of victory or defeat.
After holding on for three days, Tian Feng and others who lost the ferry led the remaining thousands of soldiers to withdraw to Pingyin City, intending to rely on the ten-meter-high city wall to hold Sun Jian's army firmly here. place and dragged him until His Majesty the Emperor's army came to rescue him.
Sun Jian, on the other hand, led the 20,000 or so soldiers left under his command to tightly surround Pingyin City, which had only 5,000 soldiers and horses left, preparing to take the city in one go and then march eastward.
As for how many soldiers and horses will be lost, Sun Jian, who has gone crazy at this moment, can no longer care. He just wants to clear all the passes as soon as possible, and then go to the city behind where there is no backhand to seize cannon fodder to serve as his own soldiers and horses. .
(End of chapter)