Chapter Thirty-Eight: The First Battle of the Marquis and the Qin Army
"Huh? How could there be so much smoke and dust in the camp of the Yulin Army and the Northern Army in the west? A scout in a Song army uniform looked at the western sky and asked puzzled.
"You kid just transferred scouts to inevitably understand, this is called war clouds are usually only available when large troops are assembled and marching. Now you go back and report to the general, and I'll find out where the army came from and how many people have come. With that, the scout rode his horse in the direction of the west.
Lu Zhan, who was standing in front of the camp gate, saw the Qin army with flags fluttering, and couldn't help but sigh Sure enough, people called the Qin army the division of tigers and wolves, and this strength could only be achieved by a few soldiers of the Northern Army.
Under the fluttering Qin army was a team of elite heavy armored cavalry surrounding Gao Gong, the main general of the Shaking Mountain Army, and seeing Lu Zhan standing at the gate of the camp to greet him, Gao Gong said: "Lu Gongzi, now I can tell Gao how my Qin army should act."
"His Royal Highness General Gao Crown Prince has been waiting in the military tent for a long time, and he will first go with Lu to meet the Son of Heaven." Lu Zhan looked at Gao Gong, who was riding on a horse and did not mean to get off the horse and walk, and couldn't help but sigh that this Qin country was really arrogant. There is no way to make the gun of the Qin State hard, the size of the fist is the last word.
The prince sitting in the big tent in the army also couldn't help but be angry when he heard the words from his subordinates, but he still suppressed his emotions and saw Gao Gong enter the military tent with Lu Zhan, and the prince pretended to be happy.
"The last general, the main general of the Qin State Shaking Mountain Army, Gao Gong, has seen His Royal Highness the Prince, and the ministers are in armor and can't pay full salutes, and I hope His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will forgive his sins." Gao Gong just made a gesture and went through the motions, without the slightest gesture of pleading.
Seeing the flying and domineering high arch, the prince had to pretend not to care about the high arch's actions and said: "The general is free and easy and doesn't care about the subtleties, how can this palace blame the general." I also hope that General Gao will go to the capital as soon as possible to rescue King Qin. ”
"This is natural, but whether the conditions for sending troops that Gongzi Lu discussed with me before can be fulfilled by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
"This is nature, and the meaning of Lu Gongzi is naturally the meaning of this palace."
"In that case, the last general will go to rescue Your Majesty." After speaking, he walked out of the military tent without looking back.
Seeing Gao Gong go out, the prince's anger was revealed, and he looked at Prince Lu Zhan, who was standing in place, and said in an angry tone: "This Gao Gong is so rude, there is no difference between my prince and not in his eyes."
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the reinforcements that have been brought to the Qin State are really unavoidable, but in a few days, the garrison of the Western Front to defend the Qin State will be able to arrive. When we have troops in our hands, we don't have to look at Gao Gong's face anymore. ”
After hearing Lu Zhan say this, the prince also lost his anger a little, and his originally angry tone turned into a soft tone and said to Lu Zhan: "There is no one here, brother-in-law, you are really Wang Zuozhicai, you are both talented and strategic, and you are also familiar with military affairs."
Seeing the intimacy in the prince's words, Lu Zhan learned the lines on the TV series and said: "Weichen is willing to go to the soup for His Royal Highness the prince, and he will not give up."
"I don't want my brother-in-law to go to the soup to fight the fire, and wait until the crisis in the capital is lifted after the palace plays the father, let the father reward you with a fief, and let the brother-in-law go to the shepherd's side to guard the side." The crown prince drew a huge pie towards Lu Zhan.
It seems that this prince wants to completely pull himself to his side, and it is a great benefit to seal a piece of land for himself, and he can start to slowly farm and develop with his own territory.
Seeing Lu Zhan's reaction, the prince continued: "Brother-in-law, you are the Lu family's Lu Gong (Lu Zhan's father), no matter how big the Lu family's fief is, it has nothing to do with you. But after my father gave my brother-in-law a fief, your branch can be considered completely independent. ”
Since ancient times, China has attached great importance to clan inheritance, and the benefits of the crown prince are not small. However, Lu Zhan is concerned that with a fief, he can start farming, and with the various social reform plans in his mind, he will definitely make his fief a royal paradise.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Northern Army of the Capital and the Song Army were eating breakfast in a place where they could see each other, and the battlefield at this moment was surprisingly quiet, while the people in the capital closed their homes for fear that the war would affect the fish in the pond.
Tang Liyi, who was sitting in the courtyard, looked at the master who was playing against him in front of him and said with a smile: "The Qin State finally intervened."
"The Qin army has always been brave and good at fighting, and the Song army is afraid that it is not an opponent. However, seeing that Hou Ye was so calm and calm, he already had a way to deal with it. ”
The Shaking Mountain Army was basically composed of cavalry, and the Shaking Mountain Army naturally did not join the street battles in the capital, and their goal was to defeat the main infantry of the Song Army in the field. Past combat experience taught the Qin army that after the cavalry had broken the enemy's formation, the pursuit and capture of the head was much greater than the head-to-head battle.
The main force of the Song army is basically light infantry, so Gao Gong is confident that with the cavalry of the Qin State on the plain, he will teach these Song troops a good lesson.
The high-arched Shaking Mountain Army looked at the formation on the plain, and the Song Army had a fanatical look in his eyes, military merit is the fastest way to become an official and become a knight, as long as he kills enough enemies, the life of himself and his family will be greatly improved.
The Qin army did not fight with blood and bravery, and would not be stupid enough to use cavalry to forcibly break through the formation formed by the infantry. Even if you can forcibly break through the Qin army, how many people will die, these soldiers are the heart and soul of Gao Gong, and they are the foundation of Gao Gong's foothold.
Looking at the high arch of the Song army's military formation, I felt a little weird, but there were hundreds of tightly wrapped carts in the infantry formation. Could it be that the Song army wanted to put the chariot in front of the battle, and then the pikemen guarded the chariot behind the chariot and equipped with archers, so that the Song army could be like a hedgehog.
Gao Gong sneered and said to the deputy general beside him: "The generals of the Song army still have some skills, and I am afraid that I will lose a lot of brothers today."
The lieutenant general replied: "Fighting is meant to kill people, and we Qin people have never been afraid of death."
"The herald is ready to march." Gao Gong said to the herald.
After the herald left, Gao Gong said to himself: "But if the Song army's tightly wrapped cart is a chariot, then why is it wrapped so tightly."
With the beating of war drums, the light cavalry of the Shaking Mountain Army made way for the charging main heavy cavalry, which had been emperors on the battlefield until the official spread of firearms. Their cost is the highest, and their combat effectiveness is beyond doubt.
The Song army, which was fighting against the Qin army, could clearly feel the trembling of the earth, and the soldiers in the first row held the spears in their hands trembling with trembling hands. And the heavy cavalry of the Qin army who charged over clenched the weapons in their hands and accelerated, and their military exploits had to be exchanged for their lives.
Observing the high arches of the battlefield, as a battle-hardened veteran, he found that these heavily wrapped carts were not protected in front of the infantry as expected. Even if there were doubts in his heart, but the cavalry had already begun to charge, and there was no turning back at all, Gao Gong had to deceive himself, these were all to scare himself.
Suddenly, the cloth on the tightly wrapped carts was lifted, and the carts were loaded with huge crossbow machines that were braving the cold light.