Chapter 23, a sword light cold
The Qin army has always been rewarded for military merits, and military merits are recorded by the head of the enemy army, and a person who is killed will be rewarded with a first-class title. Therefore, every time the Qin army goes into battle, it treats the enemy's military heads as treasures, and Bai Qi knows this very well. But now he wants to fight a war of annihilation, and once the army only cares about taking heads, it will inevitably let the rest of the enemy go. Besides, there are a large number of thieves, 4,000 people, and once everyone fights for the head, they are afraid that they will be counterattacked. Therefore he ordered that only people should be killed, not heads.
Bai Qi fought all his life, and his creed was very simple: it is better to attack a city than to kill a soldier, and it is better to kill a soldier than to kill a general.
He never cares about the gains and losses of one city or one pool, he focuses on the number of enemy soldiers killed. Because no matter how strong a city is, it must be defended by soldiers, and when the soldiers are killed, the city will naturally be captured.
This principle can be summed up in today's words, that is, the annihilation of the enemy's living force.
Bai Qi instructed Wang Qian: "You take two phalanxes to attack the southeast and southeast directions, and I will take two phalanxes to attack the northwest." I will carry three torches as a trumpet, and I will attack together. Wang Jian arched his hand and said: "Take the order!" ”
With Bai Qi's order, the four phalanxes began to set off, and while marching, they still maintained a strict formation, and they were really well-trained and not chaotic at all.
The entire Qin army, without a single torch or a single person speaking, was like a black snake, swimming among the grass, quietly approaching its prey, and then suddenly attacking.
The neat king is indeed neat, at least well-dressed. He was dressed in brocade clothes, with Zhu Zi shoes on his feet, and the scabbard on his waist was inlaid with gold and jade, which was very gorgeous. At this time, he was sitting in his big tent, and he set up a table of wine, and invited his important leaders to discuss the battle for tomorrow.
In fact, there is nothing to discuss, he and the lantern have worked together, the two sides have always maintained contact, and after the lantern made a big profit here last month, he proudly showed off, which made him very red. lit the lamp and didn't hide it, telling him that there were not many defenders in Huayin City, and they didn't dare to go out of the city to fight, so those villages outside the city were like pig's heads and three animals on the table, let them take them.
Hearing this, King Qi didn't hesitate at all, and brought all the people over. At present, he has found out that the villages that Lamp Lamp attacked last time have recovered at this time, and many villagers have recently returned from buying grain, and the whole village seems to be very prosperous.
Therefore, while he was drinking, he consulted with several of his leaders who would fight which village and how many people to bring, and when the discussion was settled, and the wine was drunk, the king ordered the people to rest for the night, and to prepare for a killing spree tomorrow.
And they went to rest, every man to his account.
After another hour, the fire in the camp gradually dimmed, and even the guards of the night vigil took a nap by the fire.
In the silence, Qin Jun quietly touched up.
Wang Jian took the lead, walked in the front, and when he was a hundred paces away from the camp, he bent down and hid behind a tree, and looked into the distance, he knew that Bai Qi's army was opposite.
He attacked the southeast and south, and Bai Qi attacked the northwest, so Bai Qi's army had to make a detour, so he went to the camp first and waited for Bai Qi's signal.
After a while, there was finally a fire in the distance, three fires. That's the signal from Bai Qi.
Wang Jian slowly drew his long sword and ordered: "Crossbowmen prepare to ......"
The front row of the three rows of crossbowmen behind him raised the crossbow, and Wang Jian waved his long sword: "Release!" ”
The sound of the crossbow strings trembling sounded, like thousands of poisonous bees flapping their wings, the first row of crossbowmen shot out, then this row of crossbowmen retreated, the second row of crossbowmen came up, and the arrows that had already been wound were sent out, and when the second row of crossbowmen finished shooting, finally the row of crossbowmen fired continuously. After they fired, the original first row of crossbowmen came up again......
Three rows of crossbowmen took turns firing arrows, and the crossbow arrows were like waves of rage, rushing towards the enemy's camp. Wave after wave is like a wave, and there is almost no non-stop effort.
On the battlefield, such a dense lethality is very terrifying.
Not only Wang Qian's side, but Bai Qi on the opposite side also concocted the same method, and thousands of crossbow arrows flew into the camp.
The soldiers outside the tent were napping, and suddenly they heard a whistling sound in the sky, and thought it was a flock of birds passing through the forest, but when they looked up, they found that the whole sky was almost full of dense black lines, reflecting the light of the fire and emitting a throbbing cold glow.
Then the rain of arrows fell.
All the soldiers outside the tent were shot by the campfire, and each of them was shot by the campfire, and each of them was hit by at least a dozen arrows.
And the people sleeping in the camp tents are not safe, those camp tents are not houses after all, and no matter how thick the cloth is, it can't stop the Qin army's arrows. Countless tents were shot into sieves, and the people inside were crucified to the ground while they were still sleeping under the quilts.
For a while, there was chaos in the camp, and some people began to shout: "Enemy attack, enemy attack......
In the chaos, many people rushed out of the camp, only to be knocked down by a rain of arrows.
The Qin army's arrows were exhausted, and each crossbowman had only the last arrow left. This arrow is a rocket. There was a rag wrapped under the tip of the arrow, and the cloth was already stained with oil, so it lit the torch and shot out.
Thousands of rockets flew into the air, like countless fiery snakes, falling into the camp. Almost all of the tents were left untouched, and they were all burned.
At this moment, all the people's troops got up, many people were on fire, rolling miserably, some of their whole bodies were on fire, and they stopped moving after a few flutters, and more people were rolling and undressing at the same time. For a time, the camp was in chaos.
All the arrows have been shot, Wang Jian shouted, change formation!
Then the crossbowmen quickly retreated, and the spearmen behind stepped forward, striding forward with the spears in their hands, which were more than two feet long.
They were in a tight formation, like swords and axes, and the spearmen held spearheads that stretched out two feet, which could resist any enemy who rushed to the front of the formation, even if the enemy dodged the spears of the first row of spearmen, and the second and third rows, but the spearheads were like a forest, and the phalanx was like a mountain, and they pressed like a mountain.
Four squares, divided into four directions, surrounded the enemy in the center with nowhere to run.
At this time, the king of neatness had run out of his big tent, and his big tent had become a torch that rose to the sky, burning miserably, and he also had many burns on his body and face, but fortunately the injuries were not serious, and he was still very conscious.
The king knew that he had been careless and had been attacked by a surprise attack by the enemy. He gathered his generals who were still alive in one place and commanded them to resist desperately.
There are really a lot of outlaws among these people's army, extremely fierce, they are organized together, swords and guns are raised, howling to meet the Qin army, although many people are pierced by spears into grasshoppers, but there are still people who dodge the spears and pounce into the phalanx.
As soon as these people entered the formation, they raised their swords and spears to kill the spearmen, but their weapons were blocked by shields, and the spearmen of the Qin army held spears in both hands, so they naturally could not use shields, and it was the halberders, spearmen, and swordsmen behind them who blocked the attack.
The length of the phalanx of the Qin army was seamless, and the soldiers behind the spearmen held shields in one hand and weapons in the other, all of them were good at hand-to-hand combat. The movements are clean and neat, blocking the enemy's swords and guns with one hand, and the weapon in the other hand has pierced the enemy's front heart.
Only a few rose and fell, and none of the thieves who attacked the phalanx survived.
The phalanx of the Qin army did not stand still because of this, but still advanced steadily, and with every further push, a corpse would fall. And with each push, the encirclement shrinks by one step.
The People's Army has begun to slowly converge towards the center, not because they want to, but because they have no choice. In general, they were still a rabble, without rigorous training, and there were no military talents to arrange military formations for them, and to organize attacks and defenses.
They will only fight for themselves, and when they win, they will rush up, and when they lose, they will scatter in a hurry.
Such an army, among the civilian army, is only a third-rate.
With a first-class military formation, against third-rate stragglers, the result is self-evident.
The King of Neatness knew that he was finished. He beckoned a group of pro-soldiers, mounted his war horses, and broke through to the north. But what greeted him was the indestructible military formation of the Qin army.
Bai Qi supervised the formation in the back, and when he saw dozens of cavalry rushing in, he expected the other party to break through, but he didn't give an order, just a sneer.
There was no need for him to give orders, every soldier of the Qin army had dealt with this situation.
Just as King Qi led his own soldiers and horses to rush into the phalanx, the spearmen in front of the phalanx suddenly picked out their spearheads, the original spears were flat-ended, which was against the infantry, but now the cavalry was changed, so the spearhead went upwards and stabbed at the head of the war horse.
As soon as the war horses that rushed in front saw that the spear was stabbed in the head, where did they dare to rush forward, they all reined in their momentum, and with a long neigh, people stood up.
The spearmen waited for this opportunity, and they shouted in unison, and their spears pierced into the stomachs of their horses.
Blood splashed, the horses neighed, and fell down. Throw the horsemen off the ground.
Before these knights could stand up, the spearmen were holding swords behind them, and the Qin army with spears had already rushed up and stabbed them to the ground one by one.
The front chest of the King of Neat was rubbed with four or five transparent holes, and he died cleanly and neatly.
At this time, the four phalanxes of the Qin army had already converged and tightly surrounded the remnants of the people's army. There were more than 1,000 people in those people's troops, huddled together like rats in iron buckets, unable to escape any longer, and most of them had already thrown away their weapons, knelt down with their heads in their hands and surrendered.