This kind of high platform is used by the army to observe the enemy's situation in the air, similar to the sentry post set up at the camp gate, Zuo Liangyu sent skilled craftsmen to transform it into a wooden platform that is easy to disassemble and assemble, and can be erected in less than a cup of tea. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

Zuo Liangyu stood on the high platform, raised his eyes, and sure enough, seven or eight miles away, three teams of troops came mightily, although there was a levy dust, but it can be seen from the speed of travel, sure enough, there was no cavalry, all of them were infantry, looking at the lineup, there were indeed no less than thirty or forty thousand people.

Could it be that the Qin army has increased its troops again? If these people add those 20,000 cavalry, the Qin army will be no less than 60,000 horses.

Zuo Liangyu felt his heart sink, it seemed that the Qin army was still hiding its strength.

He never thought that Bai Qi would abandon his war horse and turn the cavalry into infantry, a move that no one could have expected.

Zuo Liangyu got off the stage, couldn't help sneering, and ordered his son Zuo Mengeng, with 5,000 cavalry, to guard behind and on both sides, in case the Qin cavalry suddenly killed, according to his thoughts, the Qin cavalry must be ambushed in the valley, and he wanted to see the right time to kill again, and catch himself off guard.

Zuo Mengeng received the order and brought 5,000 cavalry, divided into three teams, to protect the flanks and horses of the men and horses.

Zuo Liangyu personally led 5,000 cavalry in front and slowly approached the vanguard of the Qin army. He thought to himself, the Qin army does not have cavalry, but I have it here, and when the battle starts for a while, let my cavalry rush over first, disrupt the Qin army's camp, and then the infantry will come forward to besiege, and the effect will be the same.

Therefore, he did not change his previous deployment, and still followed the plan and prepared to fight.

Bai Qi sent Wang Bao as the vanguard, with 10,000 horses, and he had already seen the official army.

Wang Bao is the person that Bai Qi took with him very early, after Lei Sheng's death, Wang Bao became Bai Qi's only confidant, so Bai Qi attached great importance to Wang Bao, and usually taught him most of the tactics he was familiar with. Especially this kind of military formation combat method, Bai Qi has watched Wang Bao practice many times with his own eyes, until he is proficient in application.

Therefore, Wang Bao watched the officers and soldiers approach step by step, without the slightest panic, and the 10,000 horses still walked neatly towards the officers and troops.

The two sides were about 300 steps away and stopped at the same time.

Wang Bao rode a horse, stood in front of the team, and looked coldly at the officers and soldiers opposite. His men and horses did not move, which was also taught by Bai Qi.

But show your abilities beforehand.

The military formation is used to kill, not for people to visit, especially against cavalry, and it is necessary to wait until the enemy's cavalry begins to charge.

When the cavalry begins to impact, it can't be stopped, the war horse runs out of speed, it is impossible to stop, even if the front stops, the back of the war horse will swarm up, knocking down the people and horses in front, so when using cavalry, the charge is a very important part, those generals who are good at using cavalry, they were previously called "cavalry generals", and they must be handy with the use of cavalry. Charge when it's time to charge, and save horsepower when you shouldn't.

When to charge, in what formation, and where to charge, this is to test the talent of a horseman, among so many horsemen, there are not many geniuses that have emerged from ancient times to the present. Especially among the Han people, in addition to Wei Qing, Huo Quai, Li Guang and other famous generals of the Han Dynasty, only Li Shimin and Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty who defeated the Turks and Xu Da of the Yuan Dynasty who defeated the Turks can appear on the stage of history.

Zuo Liangyu is also a famous general, but his use of cavalry is far inferior to the above, so his use of cavalry tactics is shallow.

He knew that the cavalry was more powerful than the infantry, and the cavalry rushed up, and the infantry would never be able to stop it. Other than that, there is no more understanding.

At this time, Zuo Liangyu saw that the Qin army had stopped, although the formation was strict, there was nothing unusual, there were no conventional decorations in front of the team, like crossbowmen, pikemen, iron shield soldiers, etc. Standing at the front of the line now were ordinary soldiers, all carrying short weapons such as swords in their hands.

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed in his heart, you must know that using a short weapon to resist the impact of the cavalry is simply a mantis arm as a car.

So he ordered five thousand cavalry and began to assemble in formation, fifty cavalry in a row, divided into a hundred platoons, and attack in unison.

Zuo Liangyu was afraid that the Qin army would hide the crossbowmen in the array, so he ordered all the cavalry to hold shields in their hands, protect themselves, and then charge.

The cavalry of the 5,000 officers was led by an adjutant general and began to advance slowly, this was the way the cavalry charged, at the beginning, the speed was not fast, the horses began to run in small steps, after running dozens of steps, they began to accelerate, and when they rushed in front of the enemy's eyes, they just increased the speed to the fastest.

Five thousand cavalry swept in, and the soldiers did not shout, but the horns behind them whined. The officers and soldiers showed a fanatical look in their eyes, the swords in their hands flashed with cold light, and they stepped off the war horses and stepped on the smoke and dust, gradually forming a torrent, which was overwhelming.

Wang Bao looked at it coldly, and when the officers and soldiers began to attack, he raised his hand, and a Chinese soldier beside him immediately raised a red flag and shook it three times in a row.

Immediately afterwards, the Qin army began to change formations.

This time, the Qin army did not put out three rows of crossbowmen in front and pikemen and shield soldiers in the back to block the impact of the cavalry, but there was a very strange behavior.

The Qin army did not retreat, but moved forward, and the more than 1,000 people in front of each took out something from their arms and threw it at the official army.

These things flew seventy or eighty paces away, fell to the ground, and rolled to the ground, and turned out to be round pebbles, like leather balls, rolling to the ground.

Then the Qin army began to reline the front.

The soldiers in the front row withdrew to both sides, and a group of Qin troops poured out of the formation, each carrying a round shield on his back, and holding a log with the thickness of a calf in his hand, which was sharpened at both ends, very sharp, and there were raised or concave grooves in the middle of the log, which was very regular.

These Qin troops ran to the front, lowered the logs, and quickly formed hundreds of blocking horses. This type of horse has three pointed feet, which are deeply rooted in the ground, and the top is covered with three pointed heads, which can pierce the belly of a high-speed charging warhorse.

These alone are not counted, after the Qin army fought to block the horses, these people immediately retreated, and those who came up behind were strong crossbowmen.

This is the main force of the Qin army against the cavalry of the official army.

The three thousand strong crossbowmen were still working in pairs, one lying down, wound with his feet, and the other aiming and firing.

When the officers and soldiers rushed to within 100 paces, the Qin army was completely prepared to meet the enemy, which was simple to say, without the strict training in peacetime, the soldiers would not be able to do this at all. You must know that the deterrent power of cavalry is too great when charging, and sometimes the arrows are released while charging, in this case, it is not easy to calmly fight to block the horse and prepare a strong crossbow.

The deputy general who led the troops had already seen the actions of the Qin army, he sneered slightly, in his opinion, these blocking horses had no effect at all, and they would fall down as soon as they rushed, and the crossbowmen of the Qin army behind could only shoot two arrows at most, and their own cavalry could rush into the formation and kill these crossbowmen.

Therefore he shouted and led five thousand cavalry and rushed fiercely.

But after rushing for a few dozen steps, suddenly the front rows of war horses slipped under their feet, neighed and fell to the ground, and the war horses behind also tripped a lot.

It turned out that these war horses stepped on the pebbles thrown by the Qin army, and as long as one hoof stepped on them, the war horses would have an unstable foothold. Hundreds of round stones, overturned dozens of horses.

The officers and soldiers behind hurriedly pulled their horses and ran to the side, bypassing the fallen horses and soldiers.

At this time, they had already rushed fifty paces away, which happened to be the best S course for crossbow arrows.

Wang Bao gave an order, and three thousand crossbowmen pulled the crossbow strings, and with a terrifying whistling sound, thousands of crossbow arrows flew out and entered the cavalry of the official army.

The officers and soldiers immediately turned their horses on their backs, and the sound of miserable neighing and screaming became loud.

The crossbowmen of the Qin army are divided into three rows, after the front row S comes out, the second row is S, and then the third row, after the third row of S, the crossbowmen in the first row are ready for the next round of S.

In this way, the Qin army's strong crossbows continued continuously, like pouring heavy rain, and the officers and soldiers of S had suffered countless casualties.

Some of the officers and cavalry dodged the rain of arrows and rushed to the front of the horses, trying to jump over, but the horses were too high to jump, and they wanted to kick them over, but those horses were firmly rooted in the ground, and even if they were kicked over and fell to the ground, they were very hindered.

As a result, the cavalry was held back in the blockade.

The crossbowmen of the Qin army were unwilling to let go of these live targets, and several rows of arrows rained down, and the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded everywhere.

The lieutenant general led by him saw that it was not good, and if he continued to rush like this, the 5,000 cavalry was only afraid that most of them would be lost, so he hurriedly ordered the troops to be withdrawn and not to continue to rush forward.

Fortunately, at this time, due to the blocking of horses and crossbow arrows, the speed of the official army's war horses had slowed down a lot, so there was no major chaos, and the officers and soldiers threw down seven or eight hundred corpses, as well as almost the same number of war horses, and retreated.

Zuo Liangyu had already received a report that his cavalry was blocked in front of the formation and had not been able to break through the Qin army's formation, so he frowned and immediately ordered the cavalry to withdraw. Zuo Liangyu didn't think that the Qin army was powerful, but that he thought that his cavalry was too small to form a large group impact, so he didn't break through into the Qin army's formation. These cavalry also had to guard against the sneak attack of the Qin army, and they could not lose too much.

As soon as he gave the order, the deputy general who commanded the cavalry ran over, sweating profusely: "Dashuai, the Qin army is very cunning, they use stones and horses to delay the attack of our cavalry, and then use a strong crossbow to kill, only one charge, I lost seven or eight hundred horses, please punish the marshal." ”

Zuo Liangyu took out his sword and patted it on his helmet: "The first battle was unfavorable, and he should have been beheaded, but Ben Shuai Nian has an indomitable performance in you, dare to fight, first store your head in your neck, you lead the cavalry to retreat, pay attention to the surrounding movements, prevent the Qin army from sneaking attack, if this matter is not done well, it will not be spared." ”

The lieutenant thanked him for not killing and led the cavalry to retreat.

Zuo Liangyu waved his sword and ordered the infantry to attack.