Bai Qi said: "You tell me in detail about the terrain of Zhaoping. [Full text reading. Then he commanded the craftsmen of the army to make a sand table according to what the people had said.

About an hour later, the craftsman finished the terrain sand table and placed it in the big tent. Bai Qi stood on the edge of the sand table, and after taking a closer look, he frowned.

The terrain here is too complicated.

According to the sand table show, the Zhaoping area has a radius of dozens of miles, several natural ravines are vertical and horizontal, there are several hills, there are many dense forests in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, about a dozen villages are dotted among them, and there are two rivers through the valley.

In short, there were not many plains in this place, which was not conducive to cavalry combat.

Bai Qi immediately understood Zuo Liangyu's intentions. The left army did not have many cavalry, so it wanted to take advantage of the terrain to eliminate the cavalry advantage of the Qin army.

At this time, Li Yan, Red Lady, Wang Bao and others also arrived in the tent, Bai Qi invited them to see the sand table, Wang Bao clenched his fists: "General, Zuo Liangyu doesn't want our cavalry to rush up." Such terrain is suitable for infantry ambushes, wear C, I heard that Zuo Liangyu brought 50,000 horses, most of them are infantry, and they are well-equipped, we only have less than 20,000 infantry in our hands, and the equipment is not as good as the official army, how to fight this battle, the general has to think about it. ”

Li Yan nodded: "General Wang's words are to the point, Zuo Liangyu fights, ghosts and ghosts, be careful." ”

The red lady asked Bai Qi: "General, this time we are here to fight Zuo Liangyu, we don't have much food, and there are only seven or eight days of food in the army, so it seems that we must fight quickly with the officers and soldiers within these few days." If Zuo Liangyu can't hold on, what can he do? ”

Bai Qi nodded slightly: "Your words are very reasonable." However, I think that Zuo Liangyu will never defend to the death, if he defends to the death, he can completely hold on to Ruyang City, so with a strong city and grain and grass, how can our army be able to gnaw it down in a short time? Since he has sent out the whole army, he will never defend without a fight. ”

When the red lady heard this, she admired it very much, she didn't expect this.

Bai Qi said again: "The two sides are evenly matched, so it depends on the main general's arrangement." ”

He pointed to a relatively flat open space in the sand table and said: "This place, called Zhaotai, is the only place in the entire region that is more suitable for the battle of the army, tens of thousands of horses, only here, can be opened, it is a valley in front and back, and there are two rivers on the left and right, which is almost the middle part of the tic-tac-toe." If there is a war, Zuo Liangyu will definitely choose this place as the main battlefield. ”

Li Yan said: "With Zuo Liangyu's deceit, he will definitely arrange an ambush." Among his infantry, there were many musketeers and crossbowmen, which were obviously against our cavalry. If he was led by cavalry, with musketeers and crossbowmen on both sides, it would not be easy to break through. ”

Bai Qi said: "He will definitely arrange it this way to restrain the impact of our cavalry." But for this battle, I don't plan to use cavalry. ”

Everyone was taken aback, and Wang Leopard said, "No cavalry? But our infantry is less than 20,000 people, and the officers and soldiers are twice as large as ours. ”

Li Yan also said: "Cavalry is the most threatening type of troops on the battlefield, and if you abandon it, it is not easy to win." Bai Qi smiled and said, "What is cavalry?" When you get on a horse, you are called cavalry, and if you don't get on a horse, you are infantry. This time, I'm going to turn all the cavalry into infantry. When our Qin people defeated the Six Kingdoms, they relied on the infantry, although two thousand years have passed, the infantry combat method is still the sharpest weapon of the Qin army. ”

Li Yan was still not at ease: "General, this decision is not trivial, it has a bearing on the overall situation, you have to think twice before acting." ”

Bai Qi said: "Li Gongzi, fighting a war is like playing chess, any step out of the battle will have an impact on the battle situation. On the surface, it seems that if I abandon the cavalry, I will abandon the most advantageous chess pieces on my side, and the strength of the Qin army will be greatly reduced, but you must know that the time of day is different, the geographical advantage is different. The terrain of this place is not conducive to cavalry charges, so the use of cavalry will suffer a big loss. Different classes have different roles, such as fighting in the southern jungles, it is best to use short knives and rattan soldiers, and even spears will be limited, let alone riding horses. Although there is no jungle in this place, the terrain is uneven, so I did not use cavalry, but changed it to infantry precisely to occupy the land. ”

Wang Bao said: "The idea of turning cavalry into infantry is indeed bold, but even so, our men and horses are comparable to Zuo Liangyu's, and the equipment of the Qin army is not as good as others, so what do you rely on to win?" ”

Bai Qi said: "Naturally, it is a military formation. The military formation is like a chariot, which can be attacked and defended, and it is unpredictable, and the military formation of my Qin people is the best among them. This time, let Zuo Liangyu have a good experience of the power of the Qin army's military formation two thousand years ago. ”

Since the rebirth of King Qin and others, there has not been a large-scale military formation battle, it used to be a small battle of thousands of people, Li Yan had seen it, and felt that there was not much surprise, but he had never seen Bai Qi personally command such a large military formation, so his heart was excited: "General, we don't need cavalry, Zuo Liangyu didn't say no." In case he led the cavalry to charge the battle, could the Qin army maintain the formation and not be broken through? ”

Bai Qi said: "Back then, I fought a decisive battle with the Wei army, and the Wei army had a heavily loaded chariot, which was much more powerful than today's cavalry, although it was bulky, but four horses rushed together, and it was very powerful. It was such a chariot, and it was not able to break through the army formation of our Qin people, and finally beheaded 240,000, and the Wei people were greatly injured from then on. I don't believe that Zuo Liangyu's scattered cavalry can be more powerful than the heavy chariots of the Wei army back then. ”

He paused, and then said: "In the past few years, I have built a lot of ordnance in Guanzhong, including many weapons used in battle formations. ”

Seeing that everyone no longer had any objections, Bai Qi ordered that the whole army of 48,000 men and horses, leaving a deputy general, led 5,000 people to guard the camp and guard the war horses, and gave a secret order to this deputy general.

The rest of the people are all used as infantry, still with Wang Bao as the vanguard, leading an army of 10,000 in front, Li Yan leading 20,000 people on the left, and Bai Qizi leading 13,000 people on the right.

More than 40,000 people brought all the equipment, marched together, and came to the Zhao platform, the road was huge, the banner covered the sun, and the dust covered the sky. Countless weapons shone in the sun, and the military appearance was very prosperous.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu had already received a report from the scout, and when he learned that Bai Qi had arrived, he didn't dare to be careless, so he sent a report to inquire many times, and early this morning, someone came to report that the Qin army had been fully equipped and came in the direction of the official army camp.

The place where Zuo Liangyu camped was not far from the Zhao platform, and this was also the place he chose for the decisive battle.

Just when he led his men and horses here, he had already checked the terrain, and Zuo Liangyu also felt that the place of Zhaotai was just right for the army to fight, so he also made some preparations.

In order to prevent the cavalry of the Qin army from impacting, Zuo Liangyu has already thought of a countermeasure, once he goes into battle, he will use five thousand cavalry in front, and another five thousand cavalry to protect the two wings, which is used to protect the infantry, and those infantry, mainly musketeers and crossbowmen, ambushed behind the cavalry, in case the Qin cavalry rushes over, S to attack the rear of the Qin army, he wants to use the method of far S, the Qin cavalry is divided, the people and horses behind can not rush up, although their own cavalry is small, but can still resist.

As long as they withstood the cavalry of the Qin army, their 40,000 infantry could outflank them from both sides, and use the tactics of step-by-step to narrow the encirclement step by step, and finally force the Qin army to retreat.

And the front and back of the Zhao platform are valleys, and there are rivers on both sides, after the Qin army is oppressed, it will definitely retreat into the valley, and at that time, it can be condescending and use dense bows and arrows to kill the Qin army.

Therefore, Zuo Liangyu's tactics are to first resist the cavalry of the Qin army, forming a stalemate, and then suppress the Qin army with infantry to make it retreat, and once the Qin army* enters the ravine, it will win the game.

At this time, as soon as he heard that Bai Qi had pressed over, Zuo Liangyu immediately ordered his troops, and the whole army attacked, facing the Qin army.

Together, the two armies, nearly 100,000 horses, are about to break out into an unprecedented war.

This is a big battle that the Qin army has never fought since its resurrection, and the outcome of this battle will directly determine the situation in Henan. If the Qin army wins, it will advance and retreat freely in the Central Plains, and there is depth to develop, if it is defeated, the Central Plains region can no longer hold a foothold, and can only retreat to Guanzhong.

Therefore, the king of Qin sent Bai Qi to go out in person, and it can be seen that he attaches great importance to this battle.

Not to mention Bai Qi, since he fought in Changping, killed 400,000 Zhao troops in the pit, until he died, he never commanded the battle again, after his resurrection, although there were many battles, but there was no such a large scale, in his opinion, the fight of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of horses is the time to truly reflect his ability.

The two armies marched head-to-head, reaching the Zhao platform almost at the same time, and at the same time saw the dust that covered the sky and the sun in the distance on the opposite side.

Zuo Liangyu led 10,000 cavalry and was marching in, when suddenly a scout ran in front of him and reported to him: "General, the Qin army is approaching, only ten miles away, but, it's only ......" Zuo Liangyu was stunned: "But what?" Say it. ”

The scout said: "But the villain looks at the men and horses of the Qin army, there is no cavalry, it seems that they are all infantry." ”

Zuo Liangyu shouted: "Impossible, the report was reported more than once a few days ago, and the Qin army had at least 20,000 cavalry. Didn't Bai Qi bring it with him? Or did you change the route and go somewhere else, wanting to raid our army? ”

The scout said: "The villain has already seen it, there are no other Qin soldiers within a radius of ten miles, and the villain thinks that the Qin army coming in front is no less than thirty or forty thousand people." ”

Zuo Liangyu frowned, he ordered the men and horses to advance slowly, and then ordered to set up a high platform.