Chapter 233: The Decisive Battle of Qin and Chu (6) Happy New Year
Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew led 20,000 elites of the Chu army, and after a day and night of running, they finally arrived at the only way to ambush the Qin army's escort of grain and grass. After arriving at the ambush site early, Xiang Liang sent spies to investigate the Qin army's team transporting grain and grass, and then the army rested on the spot, waiting for the Qin army's team to carry grain and grass.
The Qin army's team of transporting grain and grass was almost uninterrupted, because the daily consumption of grain by the 600,000 army could be said to be a very large number, so the Qin army's team of transporting grain and grass almost every day, sending grain and grass from Xianyang City and all parts of the Qin State to the military camp in a steady stream.
After a stalemate with the Chu army for more than a month, there has been no situation on this road to transport grain and grass, so this also makes the army responsible for escorting grain and grass slack, after all, there are its own 600,000 troops in front of it, how can the Chu army make a detour here?
It is precisely because of this that when the team escorting grain and grass arrived at the ambush site of the Chu army, 20,000 Chu troops rushed out of the mountains on both sides of the road, and stunned this grain transportation team that was about the same number as the Chu army. Before the grain transporter who was at the forefront on horseback could react, he became the first soul under the newly arrived formation-breaking spear in Xiang Yu's hands.
In fact, the number of people in the Qin army's team to transport grain and grass was not less than that of the Chu army, and even a lot more than them, because there were still many people from the Qin State who were drawn to follow the Qin army to transport grain and grass to the barracks. If the grain transport officer commanded properly, there was no need to go to the barracks for help, and they would be able to compete with this Chu army.
It's a pity that this time it was Xiang Yu who came, when Xiang Yu rushed down, a loud shout was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and hundreds of people of the Qin army in front of Xiang Yu were shocked on the spot, and when everyone came back to their senses, the general who was riding a horse and walked in front had been provoked by a spear in Xiang Yu's hand and flew out from the horse.
Xiang Yu rushed into the crowd and saw that the person wearing the clothes of the Qin army was a shot, and even the general was killed by Xiang Yu with a single shot, not to mention those soldiers with mediocre martial arts. Xiang Yu held a spear, like a fierce tiger rushing into the flock, everywhere he went, people turned on their backs, and no one was his enemy at all.
Xiang Liang was also fighting with the Qin army, and seeing that many Qin troops had already fled into the distance, Xiang Liang knew that it would not be long before the reinforcements sent by Wang Jian would arrive here. He shouted to Xiang Yu, who was about to kill, and told him to stop killing and quickly burn the grain and grass of the Qin army.
Xiang Yu has never fought so happily since he was defeated by Meng Tian, so he couldn't control himself at all when he killed him, his eyes were red, and his face and armor were covered with the blood of the Qin army.
Xiang Liang saw that Xiang Yu didn't pay attention to him at all, sighed, and quickly ran behind Xiang Yu to stop him. Xiang Yu was stopped on the head, and he was almost about to stab the person who stopped him, and only after seeing that it was his uncle did Xiang Yu withdraw the broken formation gun, otherwise Xiang Liang would be seriously injured if he didn't die under one blow.
"Okay, Yu'er, don't patronize and kill, have you forgotten the mission that your grandfather sent you this time?" Xiang Liang's words made Xiang Yu wake up, he hurriedly apologized to his uncle, and then set fire to the grain and grass of the Qin army.
However, as soon as they lit a few carts of grain and grass, reinforcements from the Qin army had already arrived.
"How can it be so fast?" Xiang Liang said in surprise at the sight of dust raised in the distance of the road and the deafening sound of horses' hooves.
"What's the matter, uncle?" Xiang Yu came to his uncle and asked him.
Xiang Liang didn't know that all the cavalry sent by the Qin army this time would not have made what he regarded as the most wrong decision in his life.
Xiang Liang said to Xiang Yu: "Yu'er, order the army to stop burning grain and grass, prepare for battle, the reinforcements of the Qin army are coming!" It is no wonder that Xiang Liang will miscalculate, after all, except for the Zhao State that was not destroyed by the Qin State before, no country can take out so many cavalry at once, after all, the cavalry on the battlefield is invincible, and at that time, there was no heavy infantry on the battlefield It was simply a killer weapon.
"Yes, uncle. Xiang Yu said, "Everyone formed a formation to resist the enemy, and the enemy's reinforcements came." ”
Meng Tian led the two thousand elite cavalry of the Mengjia Army Cavalry Tianzi Group out of the Qin army camp and rushed forward along the grain road. After half a pillar of incense, he faintly saw smoke rising in front of him, Meng Tian secretly said in his heart that it was not good, he didn't expect the Chu army to directly set fire to the grain and grass, if they burned these grains and grass, the army would definitely lose two days of grain and grass, if the Chu army took advantage of this time to fight, how could the Qin army be an opponent?
When he saw that the Chu army in front of him had been assembled and was ready to meet him, Meng Tian just shouted: "Hold the crossbow!"
The two thousand elite cavalry stretched out one hand behind their backs at the same time, and took out a pair of crossbows with three crossbow arrows behind their backs.
The five hundred cavalrymen riding at the front shot the three crossbow arrows in their hands in the blink of an eye, then put the crossbows back behind their backs, and at the same time all bent down, withdrew their hands holding the crossbows, grabbed the spears hanging from the horse's belly, and continued to sprint forward. They were also in groups of 500 with the 1,500 cavalry behind them, doing the same thing, except that their crossbow arrows were shot slightly upward. By the time the last 500 people shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, the 500 people who were leading at the front had already arrived in front of the Chu army that was forming a formation to meet the enemy.
In this way, the power of the cavalry of the Mengjia army was displayed in front of the world for the first time.
The two thousand Chu troops who were originally standing at the forefront of the formation to meet the enemy were almost like pieces of paper and were rushed by the cavalry of the Qin army without pause. Of course, when the cavalry of the Qin army rushed over, almost each of the two thousand Chu troops had at least two crossbow arrows stuck in their bodies, and there were almost no less than ten crossbow arrows stuck in the bodies of many people. Love Book House
This scene had almost frightened the Chu army behind, but before they could recover from the shock of the almost instantaneous death of the two thousand, the cavalry riding on the war horse had already raised the sharp spear in their hands to them......
Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were in the middle of the Chu army, but the picture of the two thousand Chu troops in the front being scattered by the cavalry of the Qin army still made him feel too incredible, and then he regretted it, because he knew that this time the ambush was a complete failure, and the 20,000 horses he brought were estimated to be all explained here.
"Everyone give me up, let me block them!" Xiang Liang almost shouted with a roar, ordering the soldiers behind him to rush forward, and they must block the hooves of the Qin cavalry, otherwise everyone will not survive.
Xiang Yu was about to rush up, but before he could take a step, he was stopped by Xiang Liang.
"Uncle, what are you doing here?" Xiang Yu asked puzzled as he looked back at his uncle who was pulling the cloak behind his back.
"Let's get out of the way, Yu'er. Xiang Liang said.
"What. Retreat?" Xiang Yu pointed to the Chu army in front of him who was blocking the cavalry charge with his life, "We haven't failed yet, why should we retreat?"
Xiang Liang slapped his palm on Xiang Yu's helmet fiercely, and he said, "Don't you see that rushing up is death?" Here, unless you take your life to fill it, when all the cavalry rushes over, everyone will die. Yu'er, you are the hope of my Xiang family, my father, my eldest brother, and me, and the hope of the entire Xiang family, so you can't afford to lose, hurry up and follow me, the role of the cavalry in the mountains will not be able to play, go quickly. ”
Xiang Yu reluctantly glanced back at the Chu army who were still rushing forward one after another, almost no different from sending them to death. "Ah~~" Xiang Yu yelled angrily, and had to follow his uncle towards the mountain road where he came, and there were only two thousand people who followed them.
Looking at this wave of Chu troops rushing over like sending them to death, Meng Tian was also not afraid, and took the lead in rushing to the front, and the Chu army in front of him was either directly hit by the war horse and killed, or was killed by the sword in his hand that cut through the armor with a sword. Although the speed of the charge was a little slower, the end of the cavalry charge continued.
Meng Tian was rushing back and forth among the Chu army, Leng Buding heard an angry roar from the front, Meng Tian cut down a Chu army with a sword, looked ahead, and only saw that at the back of the Chu army, there were two people wearing general armor running towards the mountain roads on both sides under the protection of many Chu troops.
Meng Tian immediately knew that the two people must be the generals of this sneak attack by the Chu army, and if they could capture or behead these two people, it would definitely be a great achievement, and it would also be a great help to hit the morale of the Chu army.
Thinking of this, Meng Tian grabbed the belly of the horse, brandished his sword and rushed forward, Meng Li followed closely behind Meng Tian, and at the same time, there were dozens of cavalry around the two of them to protect them. After seeing Meng Tian rushing forward, Meng Li led the people to hurry up.
It's just that although the 20,000 Chu army has died a lot in the previous battle, the current Chu army is still much more than the 2,000 Qin army cavalry, and many of the 2,000 elite cavalry brought out this time have been killed, and Meng Tian and their front and sides are almost surrounded by the Chu army.
Although he didn't know why Meng Tian insisted on rushing forward, Meng Li said loudly behind him: "General, we are about to be surrounded, do you want to stop the charge?"
By the time Meng Tian looked forward again, Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu had already run to the top of the mountain road and disappeared without a trace. Meng Tian looked at the Chu army in front of him who was almost all rushing over, and it was true that the war horse could not rush any further, after all, there were too many Chu troops in front.
Meng Tian just wanted his soldiers to dismount and fight against the Chu army, when suddenly there were shouts from front and behind, and it turned out that the Qin army's men and horses had arrived and came to support them.
There is a post station on the grain road, and the soldiers and people of the Qin army who fled back and fled towards the barracks just now have already contacted the reinforcements of the Qin army, so they surrounded the remaining thousands of Chu troops one after another.
The Chu army, which had lost its commander, had no choice but to surrender.
When the grain and grass and the Chu army all arrived in the Qin army camp, Wang Jian saw that nearly 6,000 captured Chu troops wanted to kill them directly, but a general came up with a clever plan, so Wang Jian ordered people to remove all the armor of the more than 6,000 Chu troops, leaving only a pair of close-fitting underwear on each person, and then drove them all back to the Chu camp.
When Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu returned to the Chu army camp, Xiang Yan had not taken a breath for a while from the six thousand Chu troops that had been put back by Wang Qian, and fainted directly.
Brothers, the first decade of the 21st century has come to an end, I wish you all a happy new year!