Boom, boom, boom...
Mighty war drums sounded from the south bank.
Zhang Yu launched the first battle across the river.
As expected, the Jin army from the left camp took the lead. Hundreds of soldiers carried large shields and stepped on rafts, rushing toward the north bank.
Northerners ride horses and Southerners drive boats.
The rafts are like flying fish in the water.
Dozens of trebuchets on the north bank began to exert their power, and the cannon stones roared across the sky and smashed into the water, causing waves of spray.
However, this kind of raft has a small target and is extremely flexible in the water. There are three people on a raft holding shields, three holding crossbows, and the remaining four rowing oars. They are extremely fast and difficult to hit with a catapult.
Even if it was hit, the enemy soldiers who were not killed on the spot still rushed forward, and they could still shoot at the north bank camp with their crossbows.
The archers in the middle section bent their bows and nocked arrows.
Li Yue waved his hand, "Let them cross the river."
Although maintaining an unbeaten momentum in this battle is the best option, if Zhang Yu insists on seeking death, no one can stop him.
Several hundred Jin troops quickly crossed the Mishui River, which was not very wide.
Formed a formation on the shore.
The war drums in the south were beating loudly, and the soldiers began to shout and shout. Dozens of rafts continued to rush towards the north bank, and the water surface seemed to be boiling.
Han Xu and Zheng Hui looked a little ugly, but Du Fan looked calm.
Li Yue ordered: "Forward troops, fight quickly."
"Take the order!" Wei Shan walked out from the crowd holding a hammer and shield.
There are five divisions: Forward, Middle Base, Valiant Cavalry, Guerrilla, and Scout. The Forward Soldiers were renamed from the former death camp and gathered the desperadoes from Black Cloud Mountain. They are the most ferocious among the five divisions and are the most suitable for this kind of frontal combat.
"Kill!" Pingdi yelled.
The forwards rushed out directly from behind the antlers, all with disheveled hair, either carrying maces or iron bones.
In midsummer, many people are too lazy to wear clothes. They only wear a layer of iron armor or leather armor on their upper bodies and rush forward with their buttocks bare.
Like a group of savages in the mountains.
The Jin army still had a traditional square and circular formation, with peripheral troops deployed layer by layer, swords and shields advanced layer by layer, and crossbowmen in the center.
The formation is good, but in terms of momentum, it is obviously not as good as Li Yue's forward department.
The battle at Xuanyuan Mountain has allowed them to establish a psychological advantage.
This group of people are almost all war-hungry lunatics. They haven't seen blood for more than half a year. Now that they see the enemy, they are as excited as wolves seeing a flock of sheep.
How much food you can exchange for killing an enemy and how much merit you accumulate are all clearly marked.
Hundreds of crossbows fired in the square array, and there was a clanging sound, like a sudden rain hitting the shield, which caused a burst of laughter from the front line.
The first ten or so strong warriors threw away their shields and jumped up with bare thighs, like evil wolves attacking a pack of wolves, smashing down their bones, maces, and hammers...
First there was the sound of gold and iron hitting, then the sound of broken bones, screams, and ferocious laughter.
The Jin army seemed to have never seen such a barbaric army, and the square array was riddled with holes by the desperadoes in the front.
Li Yue, who was watching the battle from behind, felt that the soldiers were more ferocious than before.
After the order in Black Cloud Mountain was established, everyone had support and protection, and they have transformed from refugees to a real army.
"Hahaha." A forward soldier smashed the enemy's head and blood spattered all over his face, but he stuck out his tongue and licked it, his face becoming more and more excited.
It was as if killing was his only joy in living.
The Jin army came from afar. Although it was well-equipped and well-trained, in the final analysis, this war was not theirs. When they encountered the desperadoes at the front, their momentum was weakened by three points.
Wei Shan knocked over a soldier and scanned the battlefield with red eyes, his eyes falling on an enemy general wearing bright light armor.
This equipment is too obvious on the battlefield.
The cyan cloak further accentuates his nobility.
"Death!" Wei Shan roared and rushed over with a dozen soldiers.
Although the enemy army was hit, it had not completely collapsed due to the existence of the formation. As long as a powerful general stood up and raised his arms, the enemy army could hold on for a while longer.
By the time the raft crosses the river bank, the outcome is uncertain.
However, not everyone can fight as hard as Heiyun Mountain. After seeing the wolf-like Wei Shan, the enemy generals suddenly dropped their weapons, turned around and ran away...
As soon as the general retreated, the already shaky formation immediately collapsed, and the enemy troops turned around and fled.
Those who had no time to escape knelt directly on the shore.
Wei Shan rushed to the water and spat hard, "Coward!"
There were hundreds of rafts on the river. When they saw something was wrong, they rowed back in the middle of the row.
A tense battle across the river came to an end.
Wei Shan's armor was stained with blood, and he returned to Li Yue, with a look of dissatisfaction on his face, "The other side is so unhappy, our army hasn't had enough fun, they turned around and ran away."
Han Xu, Zheng Hui, and Du Fan next to them opened their eyes wide.
The fierce battle just now made them frightened, and they had a new understanding of the combat power of Heiyun Mountain.
Half of this battle is for them to see, so that they can experience for themselves the power of the Black Cloud Army.
The other half was called to Zhang Yu, asking him not to jump over the wall in a hurry.
If it goes on like this, it will be good for you and me.
There are deep ditches and high bases on both sides, separated by Lishui River. Whoever takes the initiative to attack will be unlucky.
However, Zhang Yu obviously did not understand the information revealed by Li Yue. After two hours, he organized his soldiers to attack from upstream, and more than 300 rafts floated down.
This time Li Yue was not polite. The archers in the middle fired a thousand arrows and smashed them into the Jishui together with the catapult.
Before more than 300 rafts could reach the shore, more than 600 to 70 rafts capsized in the river, flushing with blood.
The enemy troops who rushed to the north bank were unable to break through the antlers and ravines. After leaving behind four to five hundred corpses, they were driven down the Mishui River in embarrassment.
After these two battles, Li Yue had a new understanding of the combat power of Black Cloud Mountain.
After undergoing ideological transformation, the soldiers became more brave and fierce than before.
People who know what they are fighting for are usually not timid.
Regardless of national justice, once Zhang Yu broke through the Jishui defense line, the food he had worked so hard to cultivate would be in vain.
Even if the two armies faced each other, Honglu Cao's people were not idle.
Zhang Yu was rich and powerful and lost six to seven hundred men without even frowning. He launched a new attack the next day, making long-distance detours from upstream and downstream.
But none of these tricks could escape the eyes of the scouts.
There were suspected soldiers of Cui Jin and Xu Cheng in the upper reaches of the west. The scouts in the lower reaches set up an ambush. Without Li Yue taking action, three hundred scouts defeated more than a thousand people on the opposite side.
Every small victory continued to increase the confidence of the soldiers.
Li Yue was firmly blocked on the Wei River defense line, and Zhang Yu could not advance even an inch.
The war returned to a stalemate.
This stalemate is naturally beneficial to Li Yue.
No matter whether this battle is won or lost, it will be harmful to Heiyun Mountain at the political level.
Unless we can kill Zhang Yu and swallow Xuchang in one breath.
But after seeing the continuous forts on the other side, Li Yue gave up this fantasy.
Zhang Yu was not injured. He couldn't attack him, and Li Yue couldn't beat him either.
