Chapter 101 Heavy Casualties
Ji Lin frowned slightly:
"Brother, you are the leader of the army, how can you rush into battle rashly?"
Ji Xiu shook his head and tightened his armor and got ready.
"The Xu Kingdom cavalry is well-equipped and powerful, and Anyue's soldiers have suffered heavy casualties."
"General Fan has died in battle. All the generals now have their own areas of responsibility and are fighting desperately."
"I have to get on top and defend the left line!"
Ji Lin stopped Ji Xiu.
"Brother, if you trust my third brother, let him go first!"
Ji Lin looked confident and serious.
Ji Xiu scolded him:
"Third brother, you are very talented and intelligent since childhood. Father has high hopes for you!"
"But you are still young and inexperienced. I also promised my father in the letter that I would not let you go to the front line easily!"
Ji Xiu was about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, while Ji Lin was only seventeen years old.
Ji Lin wanted to say something else.
"Besides, I'm your big brother! And the commander of an army!"
"It's not your turn until I fall!"
Ji Xiu stopped Ji Lin and didn't allow him to stop him.
Then he strode out of the tent.
Ji Lin frowned and finally sighed:
"But I don't want the so-called high expectations..."
The battle was extremely brutal.
The Snake Armor Army of the Xu Kingdom was well-trained, and their battle formations were varied and strange. They were like a sharp knife on the battlefield, completely cutting the left line of the battlefield.
The Snake Armor Army charged all the way, aiming to take the Qian State Pass.
But taking advantage of the geographical location of the pass, Ji Xiu led the troops and forced the Snake Armor Army to retreat again and again.
But the armor of the Snake Armor Army was very hard, and ordinary arrows could not penetrate it at all.
But if you throw spears, the consumption of weapons will be too great.
Therefore, whenever the Snake Armor Army approached and wanted to attack the city gate, Ji Xiu could only use a large number of arrows dipped in kerosene and fire rockets to drive them back.
The battlefield was a vast mountain range, covering thousands of miles.
Anyue is in charge of the left battlefield, and Qian Guo is in charge of the right battlefield.
The powerful Xu Kingdom directly took on two enemies at once without any sign of weakness.
This is a battle for the nation's destiny, and no one is willing to weaken.
More than ten miles away on the right front battlefield, the Qian army was defeated and beaten back.
The invasion and plundering by the Xu Kingdom over the past two years has greatly weakened the fighting spirit of the Qian Kingdom’s army.
When faced with a losing streak, the Qian army would panic, with even most of the sergeants wanting to lead the escape, not to mention the ordinary soldiers.
Those who went into battle first were the rebels who had previously followed Wang Xiang.
Now, after fighting the enemy, it can be considered as atonement.
Seeing that the Qian army was in chaos, Emperor Qian stood on the top of the city wall and supervised the army personally.
The commander-in-chief of the Qian Kingdom was a brave middle-aged man. With a single command, he ordered 100,000 elite soldiers to attack!
This elite force has been hiding its strength until now, but now it rushes into battle with unstoppable force!
As soon as the elite troops of the Qian army appeared, the disadvantage was reversed in an instant.
The right side of the battlefield was pushed back.
But how could Xuguo remain indifferent?
The Emperor of Xu simply instructed his commander-in-chief:
"I want to break the morale of the Qian Kingdom's army!"
The commander-in-chief of Xu State understood and sent out another 50,000 elite cavalrymen to crush Qian State's will to fight!
As soon as the elite cavalry appeared, the originally brave elite soldiers of the Qian Kingdom suddenly faced greater resistance.
The iron cavalry roamed the battlefield and had no rivals.
This is one of the reasons why Xu State dared to invade other countries wantonly, and it is also Xu State’s powerful capital.
Mature shield-armored troops and heavy spearmen can restrain these cavalrymen, but due to limitations in materials and steel forging technology, Qian State has not been able to train them.
Poor quality shields and heavy weapons were not enough to stop these well-equipped cavalry.
Seeing that the situation on the Qian Kingdom's front line was tense, a certain General Anyue who was closer immediately sent a message and rushed to provide support with his soldiers!
The battle line he was in was located in the center right, and as he was not facing cavalry and armored troops, the pressure was less.
However, this move of support fell into the trap set by the Xu Kingdom.
The Xu Kingdom once again sent out a light cavalry, with only 5,000 men, but they were extremely fast.
The light cavalry rushed out from a corner of the mountains and approached the general's camp outside the Qian State Pass with lightning speed.
If the camp was destroyed, regardless of the casualties, at least the morale of the army would be severely affected.
The Xu Kingdom has a strong military force, so this way of fighting is a strategy of forcing them.
Without support, the Qian army will be defeated and the defense line will be lost.
If we go to support, the middle area will be empty again!
Ji Lin stood in the tent and gave orders directly on behalf of his brother.
"Send 30,000 elite soldiers to attack immediately!"
"No need for a fierce battle, use all your bows and arrows, throw all your spears! Destroy this light cavalry for me!"
"Order all the soldiers in the camp to raise their flags to confuse the enemy!"
Ji Lin spared no effort to quickly destroy this light cavalry and restore morale!
The two sides began to constantly test and attack each other, fighting back and forth, using open and covert strategies, and the fight was very fierce.
This war lasted for half a year!
This vast mountain range on the border of Qian State was stained with blood and corpses were scattered all over the ground.
Of An Yue's 200,000-strong army, 140,000 were directly killed in the past six months.
Ji Lin replaced Ji Xiu as the head coach. He was not afraid of the battle and calmly coordinated the overall situation in the tent.
As others have said, Ji Lin is truly a man of extraordinary talent.
It was the first time for him to command a large army, but he was able to arrange it in an orderly manner.
It even reversed An Yuefang's decline a bit.
Of course, this has a lot to do with Ji Xiu fighting desperately at the front.
The hard-armored army known as the Long Snake Army had very strange combat tactics.
Fortunately, Ji Xiu led the troops personally and greatly boosted morale, which prevented this hard-armored army from breaking through the front line.
However, Ji Xiu's outstanding performance also caught Xu Guo's attention...
Not long ago.
Ji-soo is missing...
During a certain charge, a team of armored soldiers ignored casualties and charged forward under a hail of spears and arrows, separating the area where Ji Xiu was.
Afterwards, Anyue's army lost contact with Ji Xiu, and his life or death was unknown.
Ji Lin was extremely worried, but he could only force himself to stay calm and continue leading the team.
Fortunately, the armored army forced a charge but was killed and fled, and did not enter the battlefield again.
Xuguo was obviously in pain.
The Qian army and Anyue army were determined to fight and not retreat, and they fought against the Xu army.
If the weapons are broken, just rush over and fight hand-to-hand.
If the armor is cracked, then continue fighting while wearing linen clothes.
When all the dry food is gone, just dig up the blood-stained grass roots and tree bark, eat them with the blood, and continue fighting!
If someone has broken limbs, I will bite them with my teeth or butt their heads with my head! If someone is seriously injured and dying, I will tear off a piece of their flesh with red eyes!
If we give in, our homes will be stained with blood, our relatives and friends will suffer, and our country will be lost!
But the soldiers of Xu State are different.
They were the invading party and felt that they had already plundered a lot of wealth and there was no need to fight to the death.
An Yue and Qian Guo fought bravely, and everyone rushed forward like crazy, and kept following...
Encountering these "crazy" An Yue and Qian country soldiers, the Xu country soldiers gradually became a little afraid and no longer wanted to risk their lives.
The Emperor of Xu State also felt a little distressed. He was reluctant to give out the 10,000 heavy cavalry, which were the core of the 300,000 cavalry he had trained.
The other light cavalry and elite cavalry suffered heavy casualties, with more than 100,000 killed or wounded.
Even though this was the result of the lives of more than 400,000 soldiers from both the An and Qian sides, the Emperor of Xu still felt it was a loss.
In his opinion, Qian Kingdom was rich but Anyue was just a barren land.
How could they kill the 100,000 cavalrymen of the Xu Kingdom?
"armistice!"
Xuguo was the first to make the call.
Half a year of fierce fighting.
Anyue only had 70,000 soldiers left, most of whom were injured.
The Qian Kingdom had completely exhausted its national strength, and the entire country could not even muster an army of 100,000.
However, this is the case in the dark.
On the surface, Anyue and Qianguo both held up their military flags, as if they had reinforcements.
Xuguo could only roughly estimate the situation of Anqian and Anqian. Without knowing the exact number, they didn't want to fight anymore.
The entire vast mountain range, stretching for hundreds of miles, was covered with corpses.
Broken limbs and arms were scattered all over the ground, heads were separated from bodies, torsos were cut straight in half...all kinds of tragic deaths were scattered all over the land.
The breeze blows quietly and passes by, and when it leaves, it carries with it a strong fishy smell.
Occasionally, rain fell, but the land was not cleansed, but instead tiny "blood rivers" condensed...
The bodies of those soldiers were left exposed in the wilderness, being washed away by the rain and buried by the dust.
There was a faint whimpering sound between heaven and earth. I didn't know whether it was the heaven expressing regret and sorrow, or the souls of the dead soldiers wailing and crying.