188 Besieged
The two armies were fighting fiercely, and the Qin army had an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and tactics, and the Zhao army was defeated and retreated, and there was no way to fight back.
However, not far from this battlefield, a figure appeared very inopportunely on the edge of a forest, this person was the Zhao general Li Mu who captured Huan Qi at the beginning!
"Let's go!"
Li Mu looked at the infantry of the Zhao army who came out of Yiyang on the battlefield, and could only rely on the shield, and the five people formed a phalanx to resist the cavalry of the Qin army, but waved his hand lightly.
With the beating of war drums, countless Zhao troops suddenly appeared on both sides of the battlefield!
Among these Zhao troops, 20,000 elite cavalry of the Zhao army were at the forefront, 40,000 archers followed them, and all of them were Zhao army foot soldiers.
The Zhao army on the battlefield was still resisting with difficulty, but these Zhao cavalry who suddenly appeared on both sides of the battlefield did not charge, but only maintained a relatively balanced speed with the foot soldiers and archers and pressed towards the battlefield, until, until they were close enough to the battlefield, until the entire battlefield was already within the range of the archers on both sides!
"Beat the drums!"
With Li Mu's order, the war drums rumbled!
The archers of the Zhao army, who were already ready, immediately began to shoot indiscriminately towards the battlefield, and at the same time, the cavalry and foot soldiers of the Zhao army also launched a charge!
And the Zhao army on the battlefield, after hearing the sound of war drums in the distance, immediately changed the defensive formation of five people back-to-back to four people holding shields back-to-back to surround one person, and one person holding a hand to block the sky!
In an instant, the overwhelming arrows were like a harvester of life, and the originally murderous Qin army on the battlefield instantly became the one to be slaughtered, with heavy casualties.
"Where did they come from!"
Until this moment, Huan Qi found that he had already fallen into the trap carefully arranged by Li Mu, those Zhao troops who came out of Yiyang were simply bait, and Li Mu did not leave Yiyang in three ways at all, those Zhao troops to the north had already been ambushed on the edge of the battlefield in a circle, and the same was true for the Zhao army to the west.
The moment the arrows fell from the sky, it already heralded the crushing defeat of the Qin army.
The infantry of the Zhao army, who had been slaughtered in the battlefield, used their shields to form a strong fortress that could completely resist the arrows that indiscriminately covered the battlefield.
Although these shields were not enough to resist the impact of the Qin army, how could the cavalry of the Qin army at this moment still have the ability to impact these Zhao troops?
In desperation, Huan Qi could only hastily change his tactics, abandon these Zhao army foot soldiers, and order the troops to charge the Zhao army on the south side of the battlefield!
Surrounded by heavy surrounding, Huan Qi could only concentrate his forces to rush in one direction, only in this way could he have the hope of recovering the defeat.
Soon, the cavalry of the Qin and Zhao armies collided together like a surging tide, and the sound of fighting shook the sky.
At this moment, Li Mu immediately made a new adjustment, the archers stopped shooting, and the Zhao army on the north side of the battlefield immediately launched a charge after joining up with the Zhao army that was originally used as a decoy, and the Zhao army on the south side except for the cavalry that had been fighting with the Qin army, all the troops immediately turned into a defensive posture, strictly defended to the death, and never allowed the Qin army to break through to the south.
"Quick, the whole army will break through to the east!"
After Li Mu adjusted his deployment, Huan Qi knew that there was no way to fight this battle at all, to the west was Yiyang City, to the north was the main force of the Zhao army, and to the south was the defense line of the Zhao army, which was strictly guarded and defended.
From a big win to a heavy defeat, it often takes a very short time.
On the battlefield, in the midst of the chaotic army, far away, Huan Qi and Li Mu's eyes intertwined, he has been in the army for decades, Huan Qi has never been in a panic, even if he fell into the trap and was caught, Huan Qi was not as flustered as today.
Under the command of Huan Qi, the cavalry of the Qin army, which had already suffered heavy losses in the melee with the Zhao army, was struggling to get out of the battlefield, but in the face of the similar Zhao cavalry and the huge number of Zhao army foot soldiers, how easy was it to get out of the battlefield?
"Check the ammo and keep up! Keep up with me! ”
The Independent Regiment of the 38th Army, which was originally in the rear of the palace, advanced instead of retreating when Huan Qi ordered the troops to break through to the east.
Baili Meng killed the independent regiment from the chaos, and directly ordered the whole regiment to gather and huddle, give up the sabre, and use the assault rifle instead, forming a fist, and ignoring the accidental injuries that may be caused by the super penetration of the rifle, he rushed directly to the center of the battlefield to rescue Huan Qi and other generals who were surrounded by the regiment.
As the gunshots rang out on the battlefield, the situation on the battlefield finally took a turn for the better.
Because the rifle was too fierce, and the independent regiment had been twisted into a rope, gradually, everywhere the independent regiment went, not only the Zhao army, but even many Qin troops retreated, for fear of suffering an unwarranted disaster.
"Zhao Onion!"
"The last general!"
"You quickly take 20,000 soldiers to set up a defensive line along the way to intercept it, and make sure that the Qin army can only flee to Feixia!"
"The last general commands!"
After ordering Zhao Cong to lead the troops to deploy and intercept them, Li Mu, who saw through Huan Qi's idea of breaking through to the east, immediately continued to adjust his deployment and forcibly ordered the archers to advance and go deep into the battlefield under the protection of the foot soldiers.
He wants to shoot the independent regiment of the 38th Army, which is the biggest variable and the biggest threat on the battlefield, and he will launch this pincer encirclement battle with more than 10,000 Zhao soldiers as bait, and he will never allow anyone to affect the final result.
The Independent Regiment has been gathered, and he wants to send the archers deep into the battlefield, shoot indiscriminately at the Independence Regiment, and destroy this strange army that can change the battlefield at any cost.
"Meng Tian, let your people give me a surprise attack and rush away the archers of the Zhao army!"
"The last general commands!"
"You come back to me! Just let your people go, what do you do! Come back! ”
Seeing that it was about to converge with the independent regiment of the 38th Army, Li Mu had already discovered the idea of replacing the independent regiment with the limit of archers, and immediately ordered the 54th Army, which was the most elite in training and equipment, to rush out the archers of the Zhao army.
But at the same time, Huan Qi stopped Meng Tian, who wanted to lead the army to charge.
Obviously, Huan Qi completely planned to sacrifice the 54th Army, the soldiers of the 54th Army could die, but Meng Tian could not die.
As the youngest and most promising general of the Qin army, and the only remaining descendant of the Meng family besides Meng Yi, Huan Qi would never allow Meng Tian to die here.
Baili Meng wants to use the independent regiment to rescue the besieged Qin army generals, Li Mu wants to replace Baili Meng's independent regiment with indiscriminate archers at any cost, and Huan Qi wants to replace the Zhao army archers at the cost of Meng Tian's 54th Army.
Bloody slaughter is taking place every minute and every second of the battlefield!