war
It is undoubtedly an extremely heavy topic.
This is the same in any era.
And Li Ran also knew very well that the wars in later generations would only be more tragic than the previous ones.
This is the historical lesson of mankind for thousands of years.
Therefore, if the world can only be changed through war, then Li Ran would rather give up changing the world.
Fortunately, this era is far from hopeless.
Sun Wu's answer to Li Ran was not very clear. After all, his thoughts had not experienced the baptism of historical evolution, and he had no idea of the brutality of wars in later generations and the extent of their dehumanization.
However, what he could feel from it was that what Li Ran wanted to do must be something more interesting than war.
And this matter will obviously be an undertaking beyond everyone's imagination.
However, now is not the time to discuss this.
Once the topic was settled, Sun Wu immediately ordered the guards outside the camp to protect his master tonight.
Because he himself is very likely to go to the front line to observe.
Obviously, this was another opportunity for him to gain experience from Li Ran, and it was also a way for Li Ran to obtain first-hand information about the battle.
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As the sun sets in the west, the sun slowly sets and is buried in the mountains. What followed was an endless night.
At midnight, 30,000 Chu troops held high bonfires, forming a spark in the dark night. After the assembly was completed, Wu Ju gave an order, and 30,000 people quietly set out from the camp.
Li Ran followed Wu Ju and once again came to the mountainside where he was during the day. Standing here, he could overlook every move in front of the pass.
After the left army set up an ambush at the designated location, the right army general Ziqiang quickly unsheathed his sword and gave an order, and ten thousand right army troops immediately poured out like a tide.
"Kill!"
Deafening shouts of killing suddenly rang out in the night sky, and countless torches flew fiercely in the dark night like popping rain, rushing straight towards the Wu army camp outside Shujiu Pass.
"Enemy attack!"
"Enemy attack!"
The Wu army responded quickly. These Wu soldiers who had followed Wu King Zhufan and experienced hundreds of battles were ready to face the enemy almost immediately.
Immediately afterwards, the first confrontation between Wu and Chu broke out.
The advantage of the Chu army lies in sneak attacks, and in such a dark night, the effect of such a night attack is obviously excellent. The Chu army's ten thousand people are like a sharp sword, directly piercing the Wu army. The heart of the position.
As the soldiers of Chu waved their swords and spears, the soldiers on the outermost edge of the Wu army camp who had the least time to react suddenly fell down, and the entire outer camp defense also collapsed instantly.
However, the Chu State's right army was not anxious to attack at this time. Instead, under Ziqiang's order, it quickly adjusted its offensive strategy, changing the front team to the rear team, and charged back and forth directly at Wu Jun's outer camp.
"Your Majesty! The outer camp defenses were attacked by the Chu people at night and have been defeated!"
King Wu Zhufan was still sleeping when he suddenly heard the urgent military situation and jumped up in surprise.
After hearing this report, Zhufan was furious. He immediately drew his sword from its scabbard and ordered the whole army to prepare to encircle the invading Chu army at night.
But what Zhufan didn't know was that Chu's night attack was actually a feint attack. Therefore, General Ziqiang led his troops and immediately rushed towards the exit of the outer camp after an attack. Thousands of people were in uniform, and they moved extremely quickly.
Before Zhufan could react, most of the Chu army rushed out of the camp.
"This is unreasonable! This is unreasonable! Chase! Chase quickly!"
Zhufan stood under the king's flag, boarded the drum cart himself, and beat the marching drum directly. Along with the war drums, the horns also sounded loudly.
Following an order, Wu's soldiers who had gathered in the inner camp immediately rushed out. A team of 20,000 people surrounded the two wings of Chu's right army almost at the same time, and they were about to be the first to block the exit!
At this moment, Chu Youjun suddenly changed into another formation. From the hook formation just now, ten thousand people suddenly expanded into a flying geese formation on Wu Jun's territory.
I saw thousands of people divided into two teams, each forming the wings of a wild goose, and they just blocked the Wu army who came to outflank them.
At this time, the Wu army had just been assembled, so how could the Chu army, which had been premeditated, react quickly? Besides, chasing after them at night would make it impossible to organize them. Therefore, the pursuers at the front only made slight contact and immediately collapsed.
Seeing this, Ziqiang knew that the opportunity was not to be missed. He immediately climbed onto a stone pier and shouted:
"withdraw!"
The two flying geese formations instantly reunited and retreated, guarding Ziqiang's right army flag.
When King Wu Zhufan saw this scene, he was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood. He hurriedly jumped off the drum cart, got on his horse, gathered the soldiers on the left and right, and shouted loudly:
"Quick! Quick! Let me chase you!"
He was feeling complacent after having just captured Shu Jiu, but unexpectedly he was caught off guard by the Chu army tonight. The Chu army, which only had 10,000 men, actually walked back and forth in the outer position of his Wu army, and even dared to move away. I had a head-on fight with him, but in the end I actually let him escape unscathed!
If this is not a slap in the face of King Wu, what is it?
How could Zhufan, the king of Wu, endure such a bad breath?
As a result, nearly 20,000 Wu troops clung to the back of Chu's right army, waiting for an opportunity to launch a fierce attack.
Perhaps because the King of Wu personally supervised the battle, these Wu people fought better and seemed to risk their lives. Their bravery was even worse than that of the Chu people.
By the way, it can be mentioned here that the reason why the Wu army is so powerful in combat is largely due to the fact that almost all the successive kings of the Wu Kingdom, without exception, were on the front line of the battlefield in person.
What is very unique about Wu State is that their tradition has almost become a routine. For example, King Shoumeng of Wu, talking about his four sons, there were three kings of Wu one after another, and their battle loss rate was as high as two-thirds!
Therefore, you can also imagine why King Wu Shoumeng's famous youngest son Ji Zha is still unwilling to inherit the throne of King Wu?
Being high-spirited and honest is indeed one aspect, but I'm afraid the more important thing to consider is that you are still worried that one day you will also die on the battlefield, right?
I won’t mention these things for now, but let’s talk about the battle between Wu and Chu.
It is said that these Wu people are really strong on their feet, and they are indeed better at field combat, so in just a while, Wu King Zhufan led his pursuers to catch up.
As for those Chu soldiers who fell behind due to exhaustion, those who were overtaken by the Wu army were killed without explanation.
At this time, Ziqiang was rushing to the designated location according to the established goal, so how could he take care of his behind? He immediately gritted his teeth and continued to evacuate without paying any attention.
Wu Wang Zhufan had a clear vision in front. When he saw that the Chu army was retreating, he immediately felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it and launched an even more frenzied pursuit.
In just a moment, the corpses of Chu soldiers were lying all along the way.
And the official road, which was not very spacious in the first place, was suddenly widened by them to the width of a carriage.
But just as King Wu and Zhu Fan were in pursuit, the mountains and forests on both sides suddenly lit up with countless torches!
"kill!……"
The originally gloomy and dark mountain forest suddenly burst into flames, and the sudden burst of shouts of killing was so deafening.
No matter how brave Wu Ren was, he couldn't help but be frightened by this scene.
"No! There's an ambush!"
King Wu Zhufan immediately realized something was wrong and was about to order a retreat.
However, these fire starters hidden in the forest had been prepared for them long ago, and the mountain fire ignited in an instant.
In fact, setting fire to mountains was not uncommon in ancient times. Chong'er, Duke Wen of Jin Dynasty, did this in order to force Jiezi out of the mountains.
Now it is the end of autumn, and the dead leaves and rotten branches all over the ground are very crisp. When the fire starts, it immediately burns all over the mountains and plains, and the Chu people who originally held the torches suddenly disappeared!
King Wu Zhufan hurriedly turned around, only to see that the official road he came from had already been turned into a sea of fire, and he could not retreat at all!
But at this moment, a thundering drum sound suddenly sounded from the front.
It turns out that the Chu army came back to kill them again!
"Cunning Chu people! God damn Chu people!"
King Wu Zhufan's blood was already gushing out with anger, and became even redder in the burst of fire.
However, as the king of a country, his decisiveness in killing is really nothing to say. Seeing that there was no way to retreat, he immediately chose to break out without hesitation!
I saw him pulling out his seven-foot king sword from his waist, and shouted again:
"Forward! Forward! Fight out!"
He only heard a loud roar and led the Wu army to rush straight towards the Chu army that was already blocking the front.
"Kill!"
Both sides burst into deafening shouts of killing at the same time. One side wanted to "take back" the land that belonged to them, and the other side wanted to defend the territory they had captured.
For a moment, the entire forest turned into a sea of purgatory fire!
