Chapter 63: The Fall of the King (I)
The smell of blood in the air is getting stronger and stronger.
On the command platform of the Yan army, the horn sounded and the flag flew.
The array in front of the command platform was lined up in a neat formation, stepping on a neat pace, pressing up.
Rong Xuan saw Zhao Jun Wang Xu moving in the telescope, and he was coming to the place where the two armies clashed.
All of a sudden, the Yan army, which was fighting with the Zhao army, was actually forced to retreat by the Zhao army.
Ji Kang also saw this situation and suddenly stood up.
"Your Majesty, the Zhao army has attacked with all its troops." Seeing this, Rong Yan said to Ji Kang.
After pondering for a while, Ji Kang said to Rong Gan: "General Rong Gan, you can decide for yourself when the army fights. If necessary, the widow can also lead the palace guards and personally go into battle to kill the enemy. ”
"There is no need for the king to kill the enemy personally, our Yan army will definitely be able to defeat the Zhao army." Rong Yan replied with a fist.
"Where is Liu Sheng?" Rong Yan gave an order.
"The last general!" Liu Sheng heard Rong Yan's order and responded loudly and stood up.
"Order your whole army to press and give me the defeat of the Zhao army."
"The last general obeys!" Liu Sheng shouted, looking extremely excited. Liu Sheng's favorite thing is that he is dripping with bloody charges, but after becoming a general, it is rare to fight in person.
Liu Sheng came to Ji Kang again, knelt on one knee, and saluted with a fist.
Ji Kang bowed, and bowed slightly in return.
Liu Sheng stood up, got off the command platform, and led his Eighth Army to attack.
After giving the order to Liu Sheng of the Chinese army, Rong Yi turned around and ordered loudly:
"Order the left and right armies, the whole army to attack, and give me the defeat of the Zhao army."
"Kill! Kill! Kill! The left, center, and right Yan troops shouted in unison.
Ji Kang saw that on both sides of the command platform, one after another Yan infantry phalanxes were slowly moving forward.
Except for the remaining reserve army, almost all the troops began to press forward.
The Yan army in the middle was approaching, and on the left and right armies, it was the neighing of war horses, and the reserve cavalry of the Yan army galloped rapidly, dusty, and began to charge. The sound of hooves shook like thunder.
Over the years, with the continuous improvement of the Yan army's weapons and equipment, the cavalry units were more equipped with light cavalry.
In this decisive battle with the Zhao army, the Yan army in the middle was dominated by infantry, while the left and right armies were dominated by cavalry.
Liu Shou, the Yan army on the right, dressed in fine armor, rode his horse forward.
In front of him, the infantry phalanx of the Zhao army was lined with guns.
"Hand fire thunder." Liu Shou shouted loudly.
Today's cavalry of the Yan Army each carries three hand fire mines.
The cavalry of the Yan Army, who rushed to the front row, like Liu Shou, took out a hand fire mine from the cloth pocket on his body.
"Ignition." Liu Shou ordered again.
The horses galloped and continued on their way.
"Lost!" Liu Shou followed the horsepower, threw the fire thunder in his hand and threw it towards the Zhao army array in front.
The sound of "boom" sounded in the Zhao military array, and the Zhao military array suddenly flew flesh and blood and exploded.
"Give it to me, kill it!" Liu Shou drew his saber and roared loudly.
The cavalry behind Liu Shou on both sides shouted and killed Liu Shou as he rushed up.
The cavalry charged at high speed, and the head was stable on the horse, and the cavalry of the Yan army was equipped with this equipment since its formation.
Liu Shou and all the cavalry officers and soldiers, holding the reins of the war horse tightly with their left hand, and wielding a snow-bright saber with their right hand, formed a wave of red shock torrent, rolling in.
The phalanx lined up by the Zhao army was already in a panic under the blow of the Yan army's hand fire and thunder.
At this time, it was attacked by the cavalry of the Yan army, and it was impossible to parry it at all, and it began to be unable to maintain it.
"Kill!" The cavalry of the Yan army shouted, narrowing the momentum of the war horse charge, and rushed into the enemy formation.
Everywhere he passed, the horses neighed, the swords flashed, blood splattered, and the earth turned red.
The sound of horses' hooves shook the entire battlefield, and the muffled sound of the war horse colliding with Zhao Jun's body, as well as the sound of the saber waving, continued to echo in Liu Shou's ears.
The Zhao army formation in front of Liu Shou was penetrated by the Yan cavalry in the blink of an eye.
The cavalry of the Yan army was already very experienced, and at this time, they did not immediately continue to attack.
Instead, they converged again to form a new shock phalanx.
Liu Shou pointed to a Zhao military formation in front of him with a saber dripping with blood in his hand, and shouted: "Charge!" ”
"Hand fire thunder!"
The sound of "boom, boom" sounded again in the phalanx of Zhao Jun.
Here, Zhao Jun's prescription array began to panic again.
Situations like Liu Shou's began to occur in the entire confrontation between the Yan army and the Zhao army.
Zhao Jun finally couldn't hold on anymore and began to collapse.
"Kill it!" Everywhere on the battlefield, the shouts of the generals of the Yan Army were heard.
The cavalry of the Yan army launched a new wave of charge, and instantly rushed into the large array of the Zhao army, running through the entire Zhao army, and the larger Zhao army began to collapse.
The battle has been going on so far, and the rhythm of the entire battlefield has fallen into the hands of the Yan army.
"Drive them away!" The generals of the Yan army ordered again.
At this time, it is better to kill the enemy directly, than to defeat them; It is better to crush the enemy than to drive them away.
The larger-scale chaos of the Zhao army was created by the Yan army in this way.
Seeing this situation, the veteran Lian Po knew that the defeat of the Zhao army was inevitable.
As a famous general, Lian Po's military strategy and battlefield command ability are quite outstanding. Whether it was the Battle of Changping or the Battle of Handan afterward, the Zhao army, under the command of Lian Po, dealt a heavy blow to the enemy.
Later, in the battle with the Yan army in the Central Plains, Lian Po once caused great passivity to the Yan army, almost making the overall deployment of the Yan army come to naught, and also caused great casualties and losses to the Yan army.
In the early days of the campaign, the Zhao army laid out in advance and blocked the Yan army, which was twice as many as itself, under the city of Xindu, on the banks of the mainland.
If it weren't for the Yan army burning the grain and grass supplies of the Zhao army, I am afraid that this battle would really last for several months, holding out until the arrival of Qin and Wei reinforcements. But at this moment, in the face of the overall situation of the defeat of the Zhao army, Lian Po is really powerless.
Riding a horse to the chariot that Zhao Wangdan was riding, Lian Po reported to Zhao Wangdan bitterly: "Your Majesty, the defeat of our army has been determined and cannot be reversed. Please hurry back to Handan as soon as possible, and you must not stay here any longer. ”
Zhao Dan looked around the battlefield, and what appeared in front of him was the scene of the Yan army driving the Zhao army.
"General Lian Po, you let the widow go back to Handan, what should you do?"
"Your Majesty, the last general has been deeply favored by the king for decades, please let the last general lead his troops to fight the enemy to the death."
"General Lian Po, our army has been defeated here, do you think the widow can still hold Handan when he returns to the capital?"
"The King's ......"
Zhao Dan was in the car, waved his hand, and stopped Lian Podao:
"The widow knows that Yan Wangkang will not kill the widow, but the widow does not want to be captive by him and spend this life in humiliation. General Lian Po, would you like to charge with the widow and go to Huangquan together? ”
Lian Po dismounted, knelt on his knees, and burst into tears: "Your Majesty, the old minister is willing!" ”
"Good. General Lian Po, our monarchs and ministers will gather in the underworld, gather the heroic souls of our Zhao soldiers, and then go to lay down a big country. Zhao Wangdan said to Lian Po with tears.
"Obey the edict." Lian Po stood up, and he was also in tears.
On the command platform of the Yan army, Rong Yan saw that Zhao Jun had begun to be in full chaos, and his heart was overjoyed.
turned around, came to Ji Kang, and knelt on one knee:
"Your Majesty, please allow the last general to lead his troops to charge into battle and defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop."