Chapter 2048 stalemate
This battle is probably the most difficult battle that the Wei army has fought since the Southern Expedition. The war is so fierce and the situation is stalemate. The Wei army has not fought such a bad battle for a long time.
Since gaining an overwhelming advantage over the Sima army after the Battle of Jizhou, Cao Liang's army has been in a state of smooth sailing. They swept across the world from east to west, from south to north, almost swept away half of the world with the attitude of the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
In this process, the arrogant spirit of the Wei army was naturally invisibly encouraged, believing that they were incomparable in the world. To pacify Wu and destroy Shu was just like taking things out of their pockets. Without any pressure, they could not bear any challenge.
But this crossing of the river gave them a lesson. Although they had the help of the navy battleships like gods, the Wei army still fought very hard after landing. The strong side of the Shu army showed made the Wei army soldiers realize that they really had no cost of pride and complacent. If they could not show some fighting spirit of fighting tonight, the battle tonight would probably become the bottomless abyss of the Wei army.
Shi Bao was known for his bravery and was one of the few generals in the Wei army who could personally charge into battle. Therefore, when he appointed the Tunqi Captain, Cao Liang's first choice was Shi Bao, because Shi Bao could wear a strong and hold his own strength and lead the way. As one of the main forces of the three major cavalry of the Bingzhou Army at that time, he really needed such courage to take charge in the future.
Now more than ten years have passed, Shi Bao has been promoted from the Tunqi Captain to the Deputy Governor of the Right Army and the General of the East. He has a high position and a heavy weight, but his true nature has not decreased. In this landing battle, he can stay in the police or like Wang Jun, board the flagship to command the battle. However, seeing the urgency and severe situation, Shi Bao immediately took the risk and went directly to the front line to command the battle.
Shi Bao's arrival indeed greatly boosted the morale of the Wei army. The Youwei Camp was at least an early infantry battalion established in the Bingzhou Army. It has been good at fighting and has made outstanding achievements. Such a heroic army will naturally not be frightened by the difficulties in front of you.
Under the leadership of Shi Bao, the Right Guard Camp fought extremely tenaciously, resisting the attack of the Shu army many times, leaving the war in a stalemate.
Faced with the crazy counterattack of the Shu army, Shi Bao did not act intentionally, but calmly adopted the tactic of steady defense and defense. Although the Wei army was stronger than the Shu army in terms of overall strength, the Wei army was still at a relatively obvious disadvantage in this local battlefield of landing operations. The troops could not be fully invested, and the military equipment was also stretched.
The long-distance battles between the two sides are basically dominated by bows and crossbows, among which the continuous crossbows account for a large proportion. In the battle for trenches, both sides use continuous crossbows, and the dense rain of arrows has made the opponent's soldiers unable to lift them up.
Usually, the Wei army's supply of crossbows was completely sufficient, so there would be no shortage of weapons. However, in today's landing battle, the Wei army first guaranteed the transportation of troops. Naturally, the transportation of weapons and food, supplies and supplies was a little lacking.
Therefore, when the two sides fought, the Shu army had sufficient weapons, and they could use crossbow arrows without fear of consumption. However, the Wei army was much short of using crossbow arrows. Basically, the crossbow arrows carried by each crossbow soldier themselves. Once consumed, they would be in a state of no arrows available.
The power of the crossbow is quite amazing, but the requirements for logistics support are also quite high. After all, a single shot of ten arrows is too much. Of course, it is impossible for the crossbow soldiers to carry it themselves. Therefore, the crossbow soldiers usually need a special person and a car to transport it.
However, this time the crossing of the river war was relatively difficult to transport materials. The Wei army first ensured that more people would be sent to the front line, so the transportation of materials was relatively lagging behind, which directly led to the Wei army's crossbow soldiers not many crossbows available and were constantly being suppressed and beaten by the Shu army.
Shi Bao saw that this situation was not good. Their previous strategy of simply transporting troops was indeed a small problem. Fortunately, the Wei army's warships continued to sail at night and continued to travel across the river. Shi Bao immediately suspended the transportation of troops and transported a batch of weapons and materials first, especially the bows and arrows used by archers and crossbows used by archers and crossbows. They should transport a large number of them as much as possible to ensure the needs of actual combat.
The battle in the first half of the night was difficult. The Shu army attacked like crazy. The Wei army even lost two trenches to barely block the Shu army's offensive. If the last trenches were lost, the Wei army would likely be driven into the river and there would be no more cone on the shore.
However, in the second half of the night, a large number of reinforcements from the Wei army arrived again and brought a group of crossbow arrows that were urgently needed on the front line of the Wei army.
After a day and night of confrontation, even if the Wei army's crossbowmen were saving, these crossbows were still exhausted. They fought until midnight. The Wei army's archers shot the last arrow, and then all the crossbow soldiers fell into silence, and their duty to stick to their positions fell into the hands of the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers.
However, the Wei army was very energetic at this time. They fought desperately with the Shu army rushing up. The entire battlefield was full of corpses and blood flowed into rivers. Every step the Shu army advanced would cost blood.
With the delivery of logistics supplies and the support of the new forces, the entire battle situation was reversed again. The Wei army crossbow soldiers and archers regained their vitality and kept shooting the rushing Shu soldiers. The two sides went back and forth, fighting from night to dawn.
The Shu army was not all iron-clad. After such a long battle, many soldiers of the Shu army were exhausted. This high-intensity battle really made the Shu army exceed their usual limits.
If the Shu army could make a profit at this time, it would inevitably fundamentally solve the problem of fighting spirit. However, in fact, although they still had a trench that had not been broken, the Shu army was at the end of its strength at this moment.
In addition, the Wei army had a steady stream of new forces to the beach, and the Shu army's attack became much weaker. Jiang Wei finally lamented that the Shu army's attack failed in the end. After dawn, the situation on both sides was completely reversed. The Wei army began to take the initiative on the battlefield, and the Shu army's operations would become more and more difficult.
Chapter completed!