Wang Min ordered the whole army to attack the Rong army.

The 15,000-strong army, against the backdrop of the mountains behind them, slowly marched towards the 8,000 foot soldiers of Lu Chang.

For Lu Chang, it was also the first time he led so many soldiers to command a field battle, but he was also shocked to see Qiu Mo and his cavalry destroyed in an instant.

Countless times, there was fear and retreat in his heart. But thinking about the fate after surrendering, thinking about the inky water that the soldiers of the people of Xiaoguan saw that day, they instantly regained their composure.

"The order, Changge soldiers first, stick and axe soldiers second, archers last, the whole army advances."

Lu Chang gave the order to the herald soldier.

As the Ling Banner flew up and down, the Eight Thousand Xia Army also quickly adjusted its formation and headed towards Wang Min's army slowly coming in the distance.

At this moment, there were no cavalry on either side to help, except for the scouts and commanders running back and forth, only a few generals could ride on horses.

Sitting on their horses, they could clearly see that the soldiers and horses of the two sides were lined up in a neat array and marched towards the place where the center of the two armies was about to be contested.

When the two armies were four hundred paces apart, both sides simultaneously ordered the archers to fire arrows and the infantry to charge.

Although there were far more archers on the Qin side than there were on the Rong side, the infantry in the front row all held their shields high, and after several rounds of archers fired, they did not inflict many casualties on the infantry on both sides.

The archers of the two armies then stopped firing, for the infantry of both sides had already met and were in a scuffle.

Wang Min in the distance frowned, looking at the soldiers of the rebels on the battlefield who were not afraid of death, he was a little puzzled, why the rebels who had no combat power a few days ago were so brave in battle today.

He didn't expect that it was precisely because of the killing of prisoners by him and his generals that the rebels' back roads were cut off, and it also made them realize that only by winning this war was the only way to survive.

Originally, most of these rebel soldiers were just Rong people who were forced to surrender due to the situation, but these days they realized that for themselves, there was no turning back.

Around the battlefield, scouts on both sides galloped back and forth on war horses to convey military orders, and the gadfly was one of them.

As the leader of the scout team, he didn't have to personally convey Lu Chang's military orders, but he did not choose to stay in the Chinese army, but wandered on the edge of the melee between the two armies, and saw the opportunity to give the other party's herald scout a fatal blow at any time.

He had already hung Changge on the saddle, and at this moment he stood up on the horse, holding a strong bow, aiming at the Qin soldiers scouts a hundred paces away with an arrow.

The attention of the Qin scouts was only in the scuffle, and he didn't notice the gadfly on the other side, and it was the carelessness of this moment that made him give his life, and he fell off the horse as the arrow pierced through the armor, and his life whimpered.

And in the melee of the foot soldiers, those soldiers who were already frightened also recovered from fear and panic at this moment. They looked at the Qin people in front of them who were fighting in formation, and they couldn't help but admire them.

These Qin people, who would only bow their heads when they saw themselves, and were beaten and scolded to be submissive, were so tough on the battlefield, they were not as cowardly as they were when they were captured in the first place.

Although they didn't know why, the Rong people were finally aroused to fight, and they rushed up from the gap in the Qin people's array in front of them.

The rebel foot soldiers, who were originally at a disadvantage because of their small numbers, were joined by the Rong people, and the situation changed in an instant, and the two sides were stalemate on the battlefield for a while, unable to distinguish between winning and losing.

One side won one after another, the momentum was like a rainbow, the other side begged for life in death, bravely resisted, and the two sides fought around the core of the war.

At this moment, Wang Min, who was staring nervously at the battlefield, heard a shout of killing behind him, he couldn't help frowning, and turned to look in the direction of the Yinyangou Chidao where the sound came.

To his surprise, the source of the sound was the Rong army on the high ground on both sides of the gallop road launching an attack on the five thousand Qin troops deployed on the gallop road.

Wang Min sighed in his heart, it seemed that he could not win today, and he still didn't understand why these rebels were like two armies from what they encountered some time ago.

But thinking about it, Wang Min still ordered the warring Qin army to slowly retreat and retreat into the Yinyan Gully.

The reason why the Great Qin army was able to win repeatedly in more than 500 years of battles with the Rong people and the other three kingdoms was due to strict military discipline and strict marching guidelines, which included not only attacking but also retreating.

After the herald gave the order to withdraw to the army, the Changge soldiers who fought with the Rong people did not immediately turn around and leave, but fought more desperately with the Rong people in front of them. And the five thousand archers in the army also raised their strong bows and fired round after round of fire towards the middle of the battlefield.

Those rebels naturally knew that this was the Qin army's tactics to retreat, so they did not continue to fight with those Qin soldiers who were eager to get rid of it, but quickly raised their shields and squatted on the ground to avoid the flying arrows in the sky.

However, those Rong people who continued to fight did not know why, and they were shot down by the bows in the sky under surprise, so they all learned the appearance of the rebels, no longer entangled with the Qin soldiers in front of them, and retreated and raised their shields.

Although these rounds of arrows also killed some Qin troops by mistake, they finally let the two armies out of contact.

After the archers on both sides exchanged fire, the two armies stopped firing when the infantry was out of range of the bows. Lu Chang also then ordered the whole army to repair the array again and followed Wang Min's army.

Although he was able to hold back the excitement in his heart, Lu Chang held back his eyes, this was the first time he led his troops to fight, and with eight thousand against a double enemy, Wang Min, who was known as the spirit fox in the Qin army, led the troops, but let himself win.

How can Lu Chang not be happy, how can he not be excited. This is the dream of every soldier, even if he is over forty years old, he is still excited and can't help himself.

At this moment, there is only one voice in his heart, and that is "Calm down, calm down, this battle is not over." ”

While closely following Wang Min's retreating army, while counting the lost men and horses, when the gadfly came to Lu Chang's side and told him that he had suffered 1,600 casualties in the battle, and that the Qin army had left more than 2,500 corpses on the battlefield, Lu Chang became excited again.

But he looked at the orderly array when Wang Min's army retreated, and resisted the urge to step forward for a decisive battle again.

The purpose of leading the troops this time is to support the defenders of Yinyangou, and he must not lose a big one because of a small one. What's more, if you go to fight again, even if there are highland defenders to cooperate, but the Qin army that is merged in one place with 8,000 pairs will not have much chance of winning, and God knows how many Qin troops are in the galloping road.

As the sun set in the west and night fell, Wang Min's army still retreated from the Chidao, and Lu Chang also led his troops to join forces with Wang Jia's army.

After discussing with Lu Chang, the two of them wrote military reports separately and sent them to Mo Nanhu, the commander of the army commander Xiao Guan.

At the same time, the two of them also wrote a private letter to Qiuzi, explaining the fall of Qiumol during the day, but the two did not mention his disobedience to military orders, only how brave the young warriors of the Naqiuz tribe were and worthy of the favor of the Immortal Heaven.

After doing these things, Wang Jiacai expressed his gratitude to Lu Chang for leading the troops to help, and also told Lu Chang that it was not that he was unwilling to cooperate with the reinforcements to fight today, but that the Qin army sent 5,000 men and horses to guard the east side of the high ground.

And Lu Chang only smiled and didn't blame Wang Jia, although he didn't believe Wang Jia's nonsense.

However, the two still agreed on the matter of continuing to go east to aid Minglu, that is, with these military horses of their own, they were simply unable to recapture the highlands seized by the Qin soldiers in the east, and maybe they would fall into the Qin army's plan to encircle and send reinforcements if they insisted on advancing eastward.

Therefore, holding the two heights on the west side is the key to ensuring the gains and losses of Xiaoguan. As for Minglu, there is no longer any meaning to defend, and it is too dangerous for the lone army to hang in the encirclement of the Qin army.

Therefore, the two suggested that Minglu abandon the eastern high ground and withdraw overnight is the right way.

Sure enough, after Minglu received the letter from the two, he also knew that the situation he was in was really not good, so he discussed with Lu and Wang about the retreat and the route of the response, and then withdrew from the south camp on the east side the next night.

In the next few days, after repeated discussions and obtaining Xiao Guan's consent, Minglu, Lu Chang, and Wang Jia picked two more highlands from north to south and divided their troops to garrison.

The original defense system along the Chi Road from east to west was changed to a defense system that held the east exit from the south to the north, and the reason for this was to prevent the risk of the Qin army bypassing the flank attack of the high ground on both sides of the Chi Road.

At this point, the first line of Yinyangou was once again deadlocked.

And Wang Min's plan to march west to seize Chidao also completely failed.

However, the seven-day battle still allowed Wang Min to achieve certain results, capturing at least nine highlands of the Rong people and killing 12,000 Rong rebels.

From this point of view, in addition to not achieving the expected results, it is not a defeat. At least that's what most people think.

The only ones who did not approve of this battle were Zhao Zhihai, the supreme military commander of Yuanzhou, the general of the Central Guard, and Zhu Lihua, who was with Wu Meng and Chen soldiers on the shore of Qingshui.

After Zhao Zhihai held the military report sent by Wang Min in his hand, he was also curious at first why the combat effectiveness of the Qin rebels would change so much in just a few days, and it was not until Wang Min returned to Xiaoguan four days later that he understood the reason, and he couldn't help but be furious and reprimanded Wang Min.

Wang Min also felt aggrieved, he just let the front-line generals act expediently, and killing the prisoners was just what the front-line generals did in accordance with Qin's law, but the only thing he didn't expect was that those generals actually detained all the prisoners to the Qingshui side and beheaded them collectively in order to vent their anger.

Although he also felt that it was not appropriate to do so, he thought that the matter had come to this point, and maybe it could deter the other Qin soldiers from surrendering to the enemy.

Zhao Zhihai sighed, he knew that it would be more and more difficult to fight the rebels in the future, and after careful consideration, he ordered the counties and Wang Min, Zhao Zhiliang, Yin Fang, Wu Meng and others to capture the rebels in the future, and remember not to kill them in front of the battle.

When Wu Meng returned to the camp and explained the matter and the general's order to the soldiers under his command, Zhu Lihua sighed deeply in his heart, just like Zhao Zhihai.