But the situation has reached this point and everyone has no way to retreat. Now there is no way to escape or hide, so they can only bite the bullet.
Fortunately, the enemy came by boat. Although we did not have arrows and crossbows for long-range attacks, we were on the shore, so we had a natural geographical advantage.
After the generals deliberated, they issued orders to put the entire army on alert. Cao Yan also gave an impassioned morale boost.
The soldiers had already guessed that today would happen, so they were not surprised when they heard the news.
On the contrary, under the encouragement of General Cao Yan, everyone was full of morale, clamoring to kill as many as they came.
They are all people who have experienced life and death. Now that the enemy is facing them, they want to kill them until the sky is dark and the earth is dark, so that they can relieve the hatred in their hearts.
Finally, the soldiers came to the riverside to stand ready, and sure enough, within three hours, everyone saw the enemy's warship.
According to their observations, the enemy's warship fleet was not very large. According to previous calculations, Song Qing remembered a result.
The group of enemies in front of them was estimated to number around 40,000 people. After receiving the news, all the soldiers shouted excitedly. It turned out that there were only 40,000 people and they were fully capable of fighting.
The enemy wanted to make a surprise attack by boat, but they were discovered.
Now the enemy is in a landing battle, and the difference in numbers between the two sides is only 10,000, so they are not afraid at all.
There is an ancient saying in the art of war that if the number of people in the battle to land on the beach is not several times greater, there may be no chance of victory.
In addition, they occupied the high ground and the enemy disembarked from the boats and came uphill, making it impossible to attack them. The generals felt relieved that victory was within their grasp.
Not long after, the enemy's warships came to the river in front of our phalanx. The two sides faced each other, and the war was about to break out.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty had already made complete preparations, and they were all eager to try. A murderous atmosphere permeated the entire army, and everyone was quietly waiting for the battle to come.
But who would have expected that the Nanding Kingdom's fleet actually stopped on the lake and made no move for a long time. The two armies faced each other across the river, both helpless.
The Nanding Kingdom fleet stopped for two days. These two days were torture for the people of the Tang Dynasty. Why did the enemy stop on the lake?
Didn't they find them?
impossible!
If they didn't find it, how could it stop right in front of them?
Are they waiting for something?
Various speculations repeatedly sounded in the minds of the generals and soldiers, and gradually their military morale began to waver.
Song Qingji was afraid that the enemy was cheating, so he sent people out to check the situation within a fifty-mile radius two days ago. No movement was found, and Song Qingji breathed a sigh of relief.
But the people he sent out the next day didn't come back by noon, and Song Qingji suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
At this time, the originally silent Nanding Kingdom fleet on the lake in front suddenly started to move. An enemy ship wanted to dock.
Cao Yan was impatient for a long time. He found that only a small number of enemy warships had docked.
So he ordered two generals, Zhu Fushu and Hainan, to lead 5,000 men each down the mountain to guard his left and right sides.
When the enemy disembarks and moves uphill to attack the shore, the two armies are waiting for the opportunity. When the time comes, they will be surrounded on three sides and form an outflank, and they will surely annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.
Hainan did not want to carry out this order, but the military orders were overwhelming and had to be carried out.
Song Qingji was also very opposed, but Cao Yan insisted on having his own way, and he looked down on the enemy's mere 40,000 people.
Hainan and Deputy Secretary Zhu had already discovered that the enemy only had a small fleet coming towards the shore. They were probably the enemy's vanguard and came up to understand the situation.
When Vice Secretary Zhu and General Hainan led everyone to the river, they hid in the woods on the left and right sides.
After this small group of enemies disembarks, annihilate them in one fell swoop, catching the enemy by surprise so as to destroy their prestige.
More than a dozen warships approached the shore one after another. The strange thing was that they did not choose to land.
These dozen warships suddenly divided into two groups, one wave upward and one wave downward.
Hainan feels bad, what is the enemy going to do?
Why did the enemy come to where they were hiding?
When Song Qingji saw that the enemy troops were divided into two groups, he immediately understood the enemy's intentions. He immediately sent people down the mountain to inform Zhu Fushu and Hainan Generals, but it was still too late.
The enemy warship moved too fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it reached the opposite side of the woods where they were hiding in Hainan.
After a brief period of silence, dense firelights were seen rising from the enemy's warships, and then rockets were seen flying down from the sky like heavy rain.
"What! How did they know we were in the woods!"
Hainan was shocked, and Vice Secretary Zhu above was also facing the same situation.
This sudden change caused everyone to panic. In one moment, five thousand people screamed under the rain of arrows and suffered numerous casualties.
The fire spread quickly through the woods, and within a moment the woods turned into a sea of flames.
Hainan watched soldiers fall into the sea of fire one after another, and the heart-piercing cries pierced Hainan's heart.
Hainan felt helpless and quickly ordered the troops to retreat. In a hurry, they scattered in all directions.
When they withdrew they found that they had lost thousands of men.
Hainan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and Song Qingji even cursed Cao Yan for being stupid.
The enemy's operation was undoubtedly very successful, but the strange thing is that they did not pursue the victory.
They didn't even go ashore, they just docked the boat by the river and made no move after that.
In the first battle, the Tang Dynasty's sneak attack failed, and the loss of troops and generals was considered a heavy loss.
Zhu Fushu and Hainan finally withdrew, and upon their return they came to Cao Yan.
Hainan was furious. He never expected that this Cao Yan turned out to be a complete mediocrity.
"Cao Yan! Do you want us to die?"
Hainan yelled angrily.
Cao Yan sat quietly on the ground and did not speak. It seemed that he was scolded by Song Qingji and several other generals and became autistic.
Song Qingji walked up and held Hainan down.
"I am also responsible for this! It's all my fault for not stopping it in time, but now is not the time to talk about this. We are not clear about the enemy's actions at the moment, but the enemy seems to know us well. We must not fight among ourselves, otherwise we will fall into the enemy's tricks again. .”
"It's not worth it for me to take care of the dead soldiers! Alas!"
Hainan looked up to the sky and sighed, chuckled, and walked away with a lonely expression.
Li Mo was secretly congratulating himself on the side. Fortunately, he didn't take anyone out by himself.
The defeat in the first battle greatly damaged the morale of the soldiers, and now most of the soldiers' indomitable momentum has been lost.
Now the two armies are in a stalemate with each other, until finally our latest spy sent out comes back to report.
It was said that a large enemy force was found in the Gobi, with a visual estimate of about 40,000 people. After hearing the news, the generals closed their eyes and thought deeply, lamenting in their hearts.
Suddenly Li Mo said with a ferocious face:
"This damn Meng Jue, we should have killed him with one sword at the beginning, but now we have no room at all, it's over! No one can save us this time! We're dead!"
Cao Yan saw Li Mo talking nonsense and cursed:
"Li Mo, why are you crazy? It's not the last moment yet. We haven't lost yet. Even if he dies, we will tear off a piece of his flesh. This is the duty of our soldiers."
Li Mo sneered:
"You still have the nerve to talk to me about your responsibilities! If it weren't for your insistence on going your own way, would we have lost so many people just now? Now that you are talking to me about your responsibilities, Tang Huangguo would have forgotten us long ago. If it weren't for their teleportation There is a problem, how could we end up like this! Why are we talking about responsibilities now!"
"You!" Cao Yan was speechless.
Song Qingji was also angry. After all this time, these two people were still quarreling here.
Song Qingji slammed the sword in his hand to the ground and roared:
"Why are you arguing! Now is not the time to argue about this. None of us have a way out today, we can only fight!"
Everyone was shocked when they saw this scene. Song Qingji, who was usually calm and easy-going, actually became furious.
After everyone heard Song Qingji's words, they secretly decided to die, but at this time Li Mo showed a sinister smile.
