Chapter 252: The Posture of a Strong Army

Even if most of the cavalry were able to stop their horses, the horses hesitated in the face of the dense pits, and most of the cavalry were still crowded in the Qin army's formation, unable to advance or retreat.

Seeing this, the cavalry instantly felt that something was wrong, and sure enough, before they could make their next move, they saw that the hedgehog formations of the Qin army on both sides began to slowly press towards the cavalry in the passage. The arrows in the air also shot accurately at the stunned Qi soldiers on their horses.

In a moment, I saw that the Qin army's battle array was running at a rapid pace like a grinding disc, and they were dedicated to killing the cavalry huddled together instead of killing the horses, lest the injured horses jump around after suffering and hinder their pace of killing.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Qi troops who were on the edge of the battle formation resolutely jumped off their horses and strode on the dense shallow pit to get away from the battle formation immediately, but the sharp arrows behind them kept shooting them to the ground.

In the battle array, there are naturally some soldiers who are unwilling to be captured, they either wield their sabers on their horses and constantly flick the flying arrows, or jump off their horses and rush towards the small hedgehog formation beside them, but those defenses composed of shields are not what the sabers they hold can break through.

It was only then that they felt a hint of remorse for the way they had just thrown the spear in their hands, leaving only the short blade by their side.

The carnage did not take much time. Soon after, he saw that the eight thousand Qi infantry in the distance had already reached a distance of three hundred steps from the Qin State battle array.

Under the waving of the Ling Flag, the foot soldiers of the Qin State stopped their slaughter, and turned around one after another to form a dense phalanx to take the initiative to kill the Qi State foot soldiers who had rushed over.

Just now, because those Qi State foot soldiers took care of the cavalry in the Qin army's formation, they didn't release arrows until they came to the Qin army two hundred paces. When the Qin army turned around and rushed over, they suddenly realized that it was too late when they released their arrows again.

In this way, more than 5,000 Qin troops fought with 8,000 Qi infantry soldiers who had just arrived.

And those surviving and undead Qi cavalry where do they dare to fight again at this time, except for some cavalry who are still entangled with the Qin soldiers who can't escape and stay in place, the cavalry who are left behind on the suddenly empty battlefield don't even have time to take care of their war horses, and they all spread their legs and fled towards the no-man's land on both sides.

The Zhu Lihua and a group of nobles at the head of the city saw clearly that in less than a quarter of an hour, the two thousand Qi cavalry left at least more than a thousand corpses, but the Qin army lost their lives rarely on the battlefield.

Everyone smiled happily for a while, and there was a whispered praise in the direction of Zhu Lihua.

And Zhu Lihua naturally ignored the chatter of the people behind him, he still looked intently at the soldiers and horses under his command who were fighting with twice the strength of Qi State.

After a few moments, he lost interest in continuing to watch, waved his hand to the herald, and whispered a few words to him.

In the distance, in the middle army of Qi State, a cadre of generals looked at the battlefield that made them feel unbelievable and was speechless for a long time.

Although the fiasco of the cavalry was unexpected by them, after all, they were the side defending the city and occupied the advantage of geographical and people, so it was normal to do some traps or something.

However, when his 8,000 foot soldiers rushed to the front of the Qin army to prepare for a surprise attack, they did not expect that the Qin people would take the initiative to give up the besieged cavalry and turn their heads to engage the foot soldiers, and the quick and accurate reaction made them surprise and open their eyes at the same time.

You know, originally

In the battle between the countries, the two sides had to be in formation before they started, but in order to rescue the cavalry and make a surprise attack on the Qin army that was fighting, the infantry of Qi took the initiative to give up the formation, but they did not expect to fall into the hands of the Qin people.

When the Qi infantry arrived at the battlefield, they had already run a distance of nearly a thousand paces at full load, so a surprise attack turned into a leisure for the Qin people in an instant.

All the generals have been in the army for a long time, so they naturally understand that the fundamental reason for the instantaneous reversal of the situation is entirely due to the super combat effectiveness and execution of these 6,000 Qin soldiers on the battlefield.

They didn't know that the Qin soldiers who fought against them were developed by the veterans who were guarding the Yuxiao Pass back then. In the past two years, this army of soldiers and horses, the Rong people and the rebels have fought one after another, and I don't know how many times they have experienced glory and adversity. Therefore, the changes in the battle formation, the obedience to military orders as if engraved in their bone marrow, there will be no pause.

This elite army of a hundred battles is not comparable to these soldiers who have not fought in the Qi country for a long time.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army is obviously beyond the scope of their cognition. For the men on the battlefield who kept killing people and taking off their heads and pinning them around their waists, they had begun to develop a trace of fear in their hearts.

The generals are already like this, and how much better will the Qi army that really fought face-to-face with the Qin people be, although they all fought hand-to-hand with the fierce Qin people in front of them, but there was more despair and fear in their eyes.

Although the number of Qi troops was nearly twice that of the Qin army, the Qin people wearing black battle clothes on the battlefield suppressed the Tsing Yi Qi soldiers, who were obviously much more numerous, on the battlefield.

After nearly an hour of hand-to-hand combat, both sides of the battle on the battlefield had already killed red eyes, and the commander of the Qi army, who was looking directly at the formation, had a gloomy face and a solemn gaze.

"General, send reinforcements up, otherwise I don't think the soldiers will be able to resist."

At this time, the young man next to General Wei suddenly spoke, and General Wei turned his head to look at the young man, feeling that what he said coincided with his own thoughts. So just as he was about to nod his head in agreement, he suddenly saw that the 10,000 Qin people under the city began to move, as if they were going to join the war group, he pondered for a moment and said slowly:

"Order, collect the troops."

In the puzzled eyes of the young man, the general surnamed Wei quickly left the Chinese army's tent after giving the order, and left west with some personal soldiers on horseback.

The warring Qi army suddenly exploded like a blown skin after hearing the sound of gold from the Chinese army.

In a burst of miserable screams, they turned around and ran one after another, not even wanting to look at the Qin people who had just fought with them in front of them. And those Qin people who had already killed their upper bodies and had one or two heads pinned to their waists were stunned when they saw this.

Once upon a time, apart from the vaguely similar scenes they had seen when they encountered those rebels, where had they ever seen such a chaotic rout of the official army.

It's just that after a while, the Qin people who have reflected it understood what was happening in front of them, and they smiled and raised their weapons again to chase and kill the fleeing Qi people.

Looking at this situation, the head of the city shook his head with a look of pity and smiled bitterly for the first time, and after a while, he whispered to the soldiers behind him: "The commander of the Qi army has discovered our ambush, let them all come back." ”

After finishing speaking, it was the reverent gaze of the nobles

, let his soldiers push his bamboo chair and walk down the city.

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"General, the rise of our army's whim-of-the-moment killing, the sons and daughters really didn't hear the sound of Mingjin withdrawing troops, and asked the general to punish him."

Half a day after the end of the war, in the meeting hall of Shangdang City, Zhu Lihua looked at Xu Xiaoyang and other twenty or thirty generals kneeling in the hall with a gloomy face.

This made the local nobles who were happy because of today's victory put away the smiles on their faces and looked at the young general sitting in the hall in surprise.

When Zhu Lihua ordered the troops to be collected, Xu Xiaoyang and others actually heard the sound of gold, but at that time, the soldiers under their command were chasing and killing the Qi army like chopping melons and vegetables, and they also rushed directly into the Qi army's large array with the rout, causing the Qi army to retreat in a hurry.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Lihua hurriedly sent 2,000 soldiers to support and protect the left and right wings while supporting them, the Qin army that had entered the Qi army's large array would have withdrawn back in time under the leadership of Xu Xiaoyang and others, I am afraid that these soldiers who went out to fight today would never return.

Therefore, when the soldiers and horses who went out of the city to fight returned to Shangdang City, the anger in Lihua's heart suddenly erupted.

"Xu Xiaoyang, you are the old man who came down from Yuxiao Pass with me, do you think that Ben Jiang is weak and can be bullied when he sees that Ben Jiang has never been harsh on you in the past two years?

Putting aside the matter outside the Shangdang City the month before last, today's battle between the two armies and you disobeyed the military order and pursued without authorization, it can be seen that the Qi army has deployed cavalry and is ready to copy your back road.

At that time, not only will you be the one to be slaughtered, but even the cadres of our Shangdang County will also be killed by you and others, not to mention that the eight county generals behind us will be leaderless and immediately in danger. ”

Zhu Lihua said coldly to his subordinates who knelt on the ground, and while talking about the pros and cons to Chen, who was furious, he slapped the case in front of him with a shocking sound.

Xu Xiaoyang and the others saw that Lihua was really angry, so they all bowed their heads and didn't dare to distinguish half a sentence.

As Lihua said, these generals who have been by Lihua's side for a long time have really never seen Lihua get angry, so when I saw him so angry today, I knew that I had almost caused a big disaster.

When the nobles in the hall saw this, they all felt in their hearts that there was a bit of a fuss in Lihua. Because after all, today's battle is the winner of his own side, although what Li Hua said just now is right, but didn't that kind of thing happen after all?

Moreover, Zhu Lihua mentioned the matter outside the party city the month before, although he did not elaborate, but everyone understood in their hearts that most of them were referring to the massacre of nobles' families by those "rebels". But this is obviously not the time to pursue the past, and everyone will naturally not follow Zhu Lihua's words to touch this mold.

When everyone was thinking about it, they listened to Lihua continue:

"In today's battle, although you and others returned triumphantly, in my opinion, it was also caused by the hesitation of the main general of the Qi country and the loss of the fighter plane. If the lord of the other party will be replaced by the big single Yu of the Rong people, I am afraid that what I see now will be your big and good heads.

So each of you goes to lead the army for thirty, but there are those who are not convinced to stand up and speak! ”

After Li Lihua finished speaking, Xu Xiaoyang, who was kneeling in the hall, immediately straightened up his waist and clenched his fists and said: "General, today is indeed our disobedience to military orders, and there is nothing to say about our humble duties." If you meet the Rong people, I am afraid that today we will miss the general's major event.

The general did not put us to death, which is the most forgiving, so he should admit the punishment of his humble duties, and go to receive the stick! ”