With Sun Wu taking out the trump card of King Chu's token, how could Chao Niuchen, the chief defender of the city, dare to question it any more? Immediately according to Sun Wu's arrangement, the gate of the outer city was opened.
At this time, Wu Wang Zhufan, who was stationed outside the city, saw the lowering flag erected directly on the tower of Chaoyi City, and saw the city gate being slowly opened. He immediately thought that there was a rebellion in Chaoyi City!
Turning his head, Wu King Zhufan immediately summoned his troops, quickly gathered 10,000 Wu troops, and pressed them to the foot of Chaoyi City with great force.
King Wu Zhufan was walking at the front. He turned around and looked at the more than 10,000 Jiangdong disciples under his command with great pride, and shouted:
"Good men of Wu Kingdom! The final battle to capture Qunshu is today!"
As I said just now, the occupation of Chao State is obviously of very important strategic significance to Wu State.
If they could capture Chaoyi without any bloodshed, in the eyes of the Wu people, it would be equivalent to controlling the entire Jianghuai region.
Hearing King Wu raise his arms and shout, the Wu army of more than 10,000 people also spread their arms and shouted! The momentum was so strong that it seemed like it would submerge the entire nest city in the next second.
When Zhufan saw this, he no longer hesitated. He thrust the accessories forward in front of him, then let out a loud roar and rushed straight into the city, one man at a time.
At this time, hundreds of Wu troops who were closest to King Zhufan of Wu, led by Zhufan, also rushed directly into the gate of Chaoyi City together.
Since the Chu army had retreated dozens of formations before, Zhufan had already concluded that this was the defeat of the Chu army, and Chaoyi had already become an isolated city. Now something happened in the city, which must be difficult. It has become a climate.
Therefore, he did not pay attention to the defenders of Chaoyi at all. In addition, he did not know that Sun Wu had quietly entered Chaoyi, so his movements were as fast as a tiger's and he rushed into the city almost without thinking. In the door.
But when he entered the outer city gate and saw another gate standing not far away, he felt bad.
"No! It's Wengcheng!"
Wu King Zhufan never expected that the Chu people, who had always disliked building cities, would actually build a city gate with an urn in Chaoyi!
Why is it said that the people of Chu generally dislike building cities? There are actually several reasons for this.
On the one hand, the Chu people have always chosen strategic expansion for hundreds of years. This resulted in him never defending. Since he didn't need to defend, he naturally didn't need to build a city.
On the other hand, this is actually the consistent style of their Chu people. Because Chu people have always had the habit of moving their capital. Almost every previous king of Chu had to move the capital at least once.
Especially in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu State moved its capital frequently, and the number of locations was even more dazzling. According to records in later "Chu Ju", the Chu State clearly moved its capitals to Qiuying, Fanying, Weiying, and Daying. , Bo Ying, Sui Ying, Lan Ying, Mei Ying, etc., and these are only a small part of the list. But it can be seen from here that the Chu State is indeed very happy to move its capital.
Since the Chu people loved to migrate so much, they naturally gave the world the impression that they "didn't like building cities".
Therefore, Wu King Zhufan never expected that the Chu people would actually build a fortification with an urn city in Chaoyi.
Seeing this, he also knew that he had been fooled, so he hurriedly turned his head and looked at the surrounding walls.
At this moment, on the wall of the outer city where only the lowering flag was originally erected, countless archers suddenly appeared, all bent their bows and arrows, aiming at the Wu army that had already rushed in.
On the wall of Wengcheng, a bright red Chu army flag was whistling in the north wind.
"withdraw!"
Zhufan knew that he had been tricked and hurriedly turned back to withdraw.
However, how could Sun Wu miss such a good opportunity?
Just after hearing his order, countless arrows shot through the air on the four walls, and the Wu army under the wall immediately fell like grass and half!
On the other side, at the gate of the city where the Wu army had just rushed in, the five thousand Chu troops that Sun Wu had arranged long ago were like divine soldiers descending from the sky. They immediately cut off the Wu army, making it unable to respond from head to tail, and firmly occupying the city gate.
The thousands of Wu troops who had rushed into the city had no power to fight back when they were attacked from both sides. More than half of them were immediately killed or injured.
Under the cover of his guards, Zhufan retreated while avoiding the rain of arrows, but the archers on the tower had no intention of giving up.
In just two breaths, all the guards around Zhufan were dead and wounded, and screams echoed throughout the small city, making people's hair stand on end.
At this time, Sun Wu, who was sitting at the top of Wengcheng, waved the command flag in his hand. The Chu army at the gate of the outer city received the order and immediately counterattacked into the city, forcefully forcing the Wu army who wanted to rush out back. Then he backhandedly closed the city gate.
"Hold the city gate!"
Zhufan shouted, wanting the Wu army behind to guard the city gate.
But at this time, the Wu army outside the city was also leaderless and had already been completely disorganized. The Wu army who was trapped in the Wengcheng was shot by the archers standing on the wall and ran around with their heads in their hands, looking for a place to avoid the rain of arrows. Everywhere he looked there was wailing, but where could anyone hear his cry?
When Zhufan saw this scene, his heart suddenly became cold.
But there was still a look of perseverance and perseverance on his face. He didn't know where he came from, he raised a wooden board in front of him, and rushed towards the city like an arrow from a string. At the gate, he alone rushed directly into the Chu army stationed at the city gate.
Because a large number of Chu troops gathered here, the archers on the city wall did not shoot arrows wildly, and Zhufan no longer had to worry about the cold arrows from behind.
But Leng Jian was gone, but before he could catch his breath, the Chu army was already coming from all directions. Because these people were the core of the tactics trained by Sun Wu himself, they did not carry long weapons such as halberds, but all replaced them with short knives to facilitate fighting in such a narrow area.
The Chu army's swords were sharp and they greeted Zhu Fan in unison.
Zhufan realized that something was not good and immediately drew his sword to meet the enemy. After a fight, dozens of Chu soldiers were knocked to the ground by him.
But the lives and deaths of dozens of Chu troops could not stop the remaining Chu troops from attacking in turn. After all, what they wanted to capture now was the famous Wu King Zhufan! Therefore, all of them rushed towards Zhufan without hesitation.
Zhufan was a mere commander at the moment. It was needless to say how valuable his head was. As the saying goes, there must be a brave man with a lot of money, not to mention that the Chu army had already had enough of the Wu army's slippage, and they had no intention of Zhufan. I was already itching my teeth with hatred.
Therefore, at the city gate, Zhufan was facing the siege of hundreds of Chu troops alone.
Even so, Zhufan managed to guard the city gate with only his own strength!
At this time, those Wu soldiers who were not shot to death by arrows also reacted. When they saw that their king was fighting alone at the city gate, their morale was greatly boosted, and they also rushed towards the city gate to fight with him. The Chu army came together again.
However, the weapons in their hands obviously limit their performance. The terrain between Chaoyi's outer city and Wengcheng is narrow, and there are too many people on both sides, so there are not many places where people can stand, so how can they use their long weapons?
Therefore, once the two sides fought, Wu Jun faced the siege from the front and was attacked from both sides. Countless Wu troops fell at the gate of the city.
But after all, the Wu people were eager to survive, and the Chu people fighting with them in Wengcheng were not superior in number, so they could only barely occupy the city gate and prevent the Wu army from withdrawing.
At this time, King Wu Zhufan once again performed for everyone present what is the true meaning of "one man is in charge of the barrier, and no one can open it".
I saw him charging straight into the Chu army alone again. Seeing that the defenders of Wengcheng were about to be unable to resist, they immediately shouted and closed the city gate quickly to ensure that Wu Wang Zhufan did not escape.
When Zhufan saw this, he didn't know when a halberd appeared in his left hand. He used the halberd to stand on one of the city gates and stood there to prevent the gate from closing. He waved his sword with his right hand to block the attack. His Chu army was all repulsed.
He stood at the city gate like a murderous god. People came to kill people and Buddhas came to kill Buddhas. No matter how hard the Chu army attacked, they could not force him back.
"Get out! Get out!"
Zhufan held up the city gate and refused to let it close. Then he turned around and shouted, telling the remaining Wu troops to withdraw quickly.
The Wu troops who were still fighting bloody battles with the Chu army heard the king's words and immediately seemed to rush towards the city gate. They ducked under Zhu Fan's halberds and withdrew from the city.
But at this moment, there are still many Wu troops fighting with the Chaoyi defenders in the city. They were shot by the archers on the tower and ambushed by the defenders below. The casualties were quite heavy, and only a few people could walk. , and the remaining ones were either dead, or lying on the ground wailing and screaming. In the blink of an eye, only four to five hundred people were left in the Wu army of thousands of people.
When Zhufan saw this scene, his eyes were bloodshot, his teeth were clenching loudly, and his face was filled with resentment and anger.
"Damn Chu people!"
He only heard an angry roar from him, dropped his halberd and was about to leave the city gate.
Even though he has the courage to be defeated by ten thousand men, he also knows that it is not advisable to stay here for a long time. It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge in ten years. He can leave the green mountains without fear of running out of firewood. Retreating now is obviously the best choice.
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Chapter 247_The Invincible Sun Wu
After Wu Wang Zhufan easily recaptured Shu Jiu, he defeated the Chu army for more than ten consecutive formations, and naturally thought that the Chu army was really withdrawing. However, as the saying goes, when the truth is false, the false is also true. Zhufan, who had won the game, could never have imagined that Chaoyi would be another trap carefully laid for him by the Chu army.
Thousands of Wu troops fell into the trap together with him, and in the end, only a few hundred people were left and they hurriedly evacuated from the gate of Chaoyi outer city.
The rest were either shot to death by random arrows between the outer city and the Wengcheng, or were killed at the city gate by the Chu army who came to besiege them, and the hill made of the Wu army's corpses was completely destroyed. blocking the city gate.
When Zhufan saw this scene, his eyes were bleeding. He knew that the defeat was decided and there was no way to recover.
However, just as he was about to retreat with the Wu army who had narrowly escaped death, Sun Wu appeared outside the city like a divine soldier from heaven, with a three-foot long sword across his chest, blocking him abruptly. .
"Damn Chu people!"
He had met Sun Wu as early as the Battle of Shujiu.
At that time, he was led by Sun Wu, who was led by three thousand Chu soldiers. While retreating, they sang Chu songs in front of his face without ridicule. After being severely humiliated by them, he finally became angry and provoked The soldiers pursued him, but he was eventually ambushed and almost died.
When he met Sun Wu again at this time, the situation he was in was somewhat similar to before.
Sun Wu just stood on the chariot, looking at him with an almost pitiful look, as if he had never cared about this war.
How could Zhufan, the always irritable and conceited King of Wu, endure such humiliation? Immediately he picked up the halberd in his hand again, led the more than a thousand Wu troops who broke out and entered from outside the city, and launched the final breakthrough directly towards Sun Wu.
In fact, at this moment, Sun Wu only had hundreds of Chu army elites left with him, and the rest were arranged by him on the outside to resist. Therefore, when faced with the invincible hero Zhufan attacking them, these hundreds of Chu people who came with Sun Wu couldn't help but feel a little timid.
After all, Wu Jun has been aroused with a strong desire to survive at this moment. Anyone who stands in front of them and hinders their escape will be overwhelmed by their aroused murderous intention.
But there was no fear on Sun Wu's face at all. Seeing King Wu Zhufan leading his troops towards him, he became more and more excited!
"Soldiers of the Chu State! Get into formation and capture the King of Wu alive!"
I saw Sun Wu unsheathing his sword, and hundreds of Chu soldiers immediately formed strange formations in twos and threes outside the city of Chaoyi, either round or square, fighting in front and behind, or fighting on the left and right. Under his command, it seemed like thousands of people were fighting independently.
And these Chu soldiers, after hearing the commander's words "Capture the King of Wu alive", their momentum was also high for a moment.
The first wave of Wu Jun's charge quickly met them. Although the first wave of Wu Jun was not large in number, these Wu troops all held long guns in their hands, so they should be able to fight in the vast terrain outside the city. They had a greater advantage. They roared ferociously, and their long weapons drew arcs in the air.
The smoke and dust outside Chaoyi City were suddenly drowned by the deafening shouts of killing.
"Ding!"
The sound of gold and silver swords clashing suddenly sounded, and the Wu army's fierce attack met the Chu army who was waiting in full formation. The Chu army's strange formation, and the sharp halberds were suddenly blocked by the Chu army's strange formation.
I saw the Chu army fighting in close combat with short weapons. With their tacit cooperation, the Chu army's formation in twos and threes suddenly held the Wu army's long weapon in the air. After hearing the first drum sound, these Chu soldiers immediately Moving closer to the center of the battlefield, short weapons rushed out from the gaps between the people, constantly stabbing the Wu troops who were rushing over.
This resulted in the originally fierce Wu army being unable to effectively exert the power of their long weapons, and their numerical advantage also lost its edge due to the Chu army's move of "breaking it into pieces".
Because the Chu army moved in small formations and was more agile and agile, coupled with their mutual cooperation, often as soon as the Wu army rushed in front of them, they would cooperate with each other to kill the nearest enemy, and then look for opportunities to interact with each other. The cooperative small formation of the Chu army, going back and forth like this, actually completely resisted the first wave of Wu army's impact.
This is the best proof of Sun Wu's keen grasp of changes in the battlefield situation.
He knew that Wu Jun would definitely burst out with unimaginable courage and combat power when escaping. A person's will to survive cannot be measured by common sense.
Therefore, he did not choose to let the Chu army deploy in a conventional one-line formation to meet the impact of the Wu army. Instead, he chose to break it into pieces and let the Chu army put into a star-point formation that had been trained long before.
Divide the Wu army's attack, and then use the advantage of short weapons to destroy the Wu army that wants to break through.
Although the Wu army was also very tough, in the face of the Chu army who was waiting for them, their toughness that they were all proud of turned into a kind of recklessness. Even if he dies in battle, it seems like nothing more than a cricket shaking a tree.
After all, the five thousand Chu troops led by Sun Wu this time can be said to be the elite among the elite! After 20 days of personal training, he has already mastered the essence of this camp.
Therefore, although there were only a few hundred Chu troops, when facing the Wu army that was twice their own size, they took on the Wu army's attacks one after another at almost zero loss.
Zhufan looked at Sun Wu in front of him in disbelief. His hand holding the Geji tightly could not help but tremble slightly. He felt fear for the first time.
Always conceited, he had never felt fear at any time, even when facing an ambush of more than 10,000 people led by Wu Ju, he had never felt this way.
However, at this moment, when he saw the hundreds of Chu soldiers led by Sun Wu, they were like gods descending to earth, standing motionless opposite him, becoming a high-rise wall that he seemed to be unable to overcome. wall.
He had never felt that kind of thick and steady yet cold murderous aura. It was as if in front of this person's eyes, the life and death of these Wu troops had already been determined. Any resistance has become futile.
Facing Sun Wu like this, "fear" emerged deep in Zhufan's heart for the first time.
He looked at the Wu man who had fallen on the ground, and then at Sun Wu who was still indifferent. The sword trembled more and more in his hand.
"Sons of Wu Kingdom!"
"Fight and die together with me!"
He held on, trying his best to cover up the fear in his heart, and roared to embolden himself.
I saw him brandishing his halberd and rushing straight towards Sun Wushi.
Sun Wu also unsheathed his sword, jumped off the chariot with an expressionless expression on his cold face, and quickly moved towards Zhu Fan's position.
"Ding!"
Zhufan still had the advantage of long weapons, and he was extremely powerful. With one blow, the bronze sword in Sun Wu's hand was almost knocked to the ground by him.
However, Sun Wu didn't care. He turned around and immediately stabbed straight at him. The bronze sword in his hand stabbed Zhufan at a rather strange and tricky angle, and Zhufan's back was completely exposed to Sun Wu's. Within stabbing range.
"ah!"
Wu Wang Zhufan was stabbed in the big arm and fell to the ground in an instant.
He hurriedly swung the halberd and swept it across his body, but Sun Wu ducked again and dodged Zhufan's halberd. The bronze sword tip slanted out and stabbed Zhufan's arm again.
"ah!"
The shrill screams immediately moved the remaining Wu troops. They rushed towards Zhufan regardless of the situation and wanted to rescue them. However, they were blocked by the Chu troops who had been waiting for a long time. During the decisive battle between the two armies, the Chu and Wu troops The final battle also comes.
