Chapter 251: The Battle of Qin Qi
The soldiers of the Qi army may not be able to feel what this momentum means, but the generals who have led the troops to fight with the Qin and Chu people many times know clearly in their hearts that only the soldiers who have returned from the victory of a hundred battles can have such a magnificent momentum, and the momentum exuded by the 6,000 Qin troops on the opposite side is far stronger than those Yongluan soldiers and horses who have been fighting with them for several years outside Xieyu Pass.
It seems that the soldiers and horses stationed in the party this time are not simple.
Just as the generals of the Qi army frowned and pondered, the 50,000 Qi army and their main generals suddenly became stunned after the solemnity. Their faces showed extremely strange expressions, and then they all burst into laughter.
It turned out that when the monstrous 6,000 Qin troops went out of the city and slowly marched towards the Qi army's array, an army of 10,000 people dressed in various clothes appeared at the gate of the city.
After these people hurried out of the city gate, they stood together in a heap, neither advancing nor retreating, but holding the weapons in their hands in a daze, and slowly and clumsily forming a large formation under the shouts of some low-level generals.
The Qi army in the distance was amazed, but under the march of the six thousand Qin troops, they gradually concentrated on it.
"General Wei, it seems that there are not many soldiers and horses in Shangdang City, and they have driven the people out of the city to fight. It seems that it is easy to seize the party. ”
In the middle of the Qi army, a white-haired man in the middle of the army wearing silver armor was riding on a tall horse, and he looked at the Qin army in the distance and looked at it in contemplation.
As soon as the general beside him said that, the middle-aged general slowly shook his head and said, "Eldest son, don't underestimate the enemy. Look at the city. ”
The young man who was called the eldest son looked at the city when he heard this, and sure enough, he saw a lot of soldiers standing under the banner hunting on the city, but it really didn't look like there was a shortage of soldiers and horses.
With doubts, the young man looked at the strong man in silver armor again, and the strong man smiled and said: "The soldiers and horses who fled back earlier said that the guards here sent people to disguise the city as rebels and tricked the white army marquis out of the city to suppress the chaos, which led to the annihilation of the whole army and the loss of the party. Therefore, the party guard must be a wise general, since he is a wise general, how can he put the truth in your eyes.
I guess he must have led us to attack the city, so he deliberately created the illusion of using the people out of the city to fight.
Eldest son, you must think more and look at the future battles, and you must not be confused by the appearance in front of you. ”
The young general respectfully listened to the words of the middle-aged general, and his face quickly gave birth to a teachable look, and he bowed his head and said, "Oh." It's just that at this time, he suddenly heard the strong young man's "huh", so he looked up at him, and saw that the young man's face was full of doubts.
"Originally, I guessed that they were just creating an illusion and didn't dare to really fight, but now it seems that these Qin troops are really not afraid of death. It's okay, let them taste the power of the Qi people.
If you dare to attack my 50,000 army with 6,000 men, I'm afraid they are all tired of being crooked. ”
After the strong man finished speaking, he snorted coldly, and immediately ordered the front army of 10,000 to step forward to meet the battle.
In his opinion, even though this Qin army was quite strange and looked far stronger than the Qin army under Xieyu Pass, with 10,000 against 6,000, the odds of victory were still in his own hands.
On the other side of the battlefield, the city head sitting on the other side of the battlefield saw the changes on the battlefield, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became thicker.
"Interesting."
Zhu Lihua said softly while looking confidently at the upcoming battle under the city. It seems that the commander of this Qi army is an experienced person, no
There are people who are in turmoil and impulsively raise the whole army to attack.
It's just that in the face of absolute strength, what's the use of being cautious.
Outside the city, 8,000 foot soldiers out of 10,000 Qi troops slowly moved towards the 6,000 oncoming Qin army, while another 2,000 cavalry had already lined up in a conical charging formation and killed in front.
The silver armor and silver helmets of the cavalry on the two thousand war horses glowed with dazzling brilliance in the sunlight.
However, the Qin army only moved forward unmoved, as if turning a blind eye to the cavalry that had reached a distance of a thousand steps. This kind of posture of strengthening the army made the commander surnamed Wei of the Qi State can't help but praise it in his heart.
"It is often said that the elite of the Qin army is among the border troops, and today these Qin troops must be border troops. It seems that compared with Yongluan's Xieyu army, this is the real strength of Great Qin now.
I just don't know if they can maintain such calmness and composure after a while. ”
The general surnamed Wei's eyes were burning, and he looked at it intently as he spoke.
And the young general beside him also looked interested, staring at the battlefield in the distance.
When the cavalry of the Qi State was only five hundred steps away from the Qin army's battle array, the Qin army suddenly began to change formations. I saw that with a wave of the Chinese army's order flag, the marching phalanx stopped in an instant, and began to turn into a small phalanx of hundreds of people.
The small phalanxes were separated by a distance of twenty paces, and thirty of them held shields to keep the barricades airtight. Forty spear-bearers pierced their spears through the gaps in their shields. And there were thirty other people with bows, and they were already with their bows and arrows at this moment, ready to strike a fatal blow at the Qi cavalry that had already taken aim.
The Qi cavalry, who were charging at full speed, looked at the Qin people who suddenly changed formation in front of them and were surprised and delighted, and they were happy to see that the Qin people did not plan to launch a few rounds of fire, so that they would have a lot less risk before rushing to the Qin people's battle formation. But what was surprising was that the people of the Qin State quickly changed their formation in a few breaths, and they were obviously strictly trained, so they must have a backhand.
As for what the back hand is, it is clearly shown in front of them.
Seeing that the "hedgehog" array of the Qin people was getting closer and closer, the military marquis of the cavalry of the Qi State immediately fell into a dilemma at this time.
Either grit your teeth and rush into the hedgehog formation to see if you can disrupt the formation of the Qin people. Either immediately turn around and return to the Chinese army.
In an instant, the cavalry marquis of the Qi army made a choice, he wanted to try to see if he could break the seemingly thin military formation of the Qin people, even if he couldn't break it, he could let the infantry behind them take advantage of the chaos to attack the Qin formation.
But if you turn around and go back immediately at this time, not to mention that the cavalry is gone, how to explain it to the commander is also an extremely troublesome matter.
After the decision was made, the marquis of the Qi army did not give an order, but just whipped on the horse's hips and rushed out first.
The horse is a very spiritual animal, and even if the owner on its back is determined to die and use his own flesh and blood to break through the barriers of steel armor and die with the enemy, it is impossible to achieve this without taking some measures such as blindfolding.
Therefore, after the two thousand Qi troops rushed into the hedgehog battle formation of the Qin State, they immediately diverted out along the gap between the Qin formations.
The cavalry of the Qi State were lying on the back of their horses, holding Changge flat, struggling to find a gap that could be assassinated, and on the other hand, they were on guard against the flying locusts that could be sent out at any time in the Changge and hedgehog formations of the Qin army that could be assassinated at any time on both sides.
Both sides began to have casualties, and unsurprisingly, the casualties of the Qi cavalry seemed to be far greater than the Qin soldiers in the battle array.
The marquis of the cavalry of the Qi State had long expected this, but he was not moved at all, but after the cavalry rushed into the Qin formation, he suddenly threw the Changge in his hand into a hedgehog formation in front of him.
With the inertia of the horses moving at full speed, Changge drew a parabola in the air that passed at an extremely fast speed, and after crossing two or three layers of shields, it fell into the hedgehog formation of the Qin army.
The marquis didn't care whether Chang Ge was injured or not, he just immediately drew his saber from his waist, prostrate on the horse's back and pulled away a sharp arrow that suddenly shot from his side, and quickly rushed forward to prepare to rush out of the Qin people's big array.
The two thousand cavalry behind him saw the main general's actions, and they also followed suit, and threw the Changge in their hands into the battle formation of the Qin army on the side in front of him.
For a while, the Qin army screamed in the array, and the Qi cavalry outside the formation who were exposed because of the throwing of Changge also fell off their horses one after another.
The cruelty of war seems to have just begun.
At the head of the party city, everyone couldn't help but change their faces when they saw the sudden scene. Only Zhu Lihua's face was as usual, but the corners of his mouth still moved slightly, as if he was a little surprised to see the Qi cavalry like this.
The Chinese army of the State of Qi, the general surnamed Wei saw this, and immediately put down his hanging heart. "It seems that Liu Yang, this kid has some fancy intestines, it's not in vain that I cultivated him so much, if I can win this time, I should go to Lian Shuai to ask for a promotion for him."
Just when everyone watching the battle had different thoughts and worries, the 10,000 armed people who went out of the city were pale and frightened under the Shangdang City, which was closest to the battlefield.
Although they had been organized to fight the city's army a month earlier, most of them were only helping to carry weapons and rolling wood and stones, and were not involved in the actual battle.
So today, as soon as they saw the flesh and blood flying on the battlefield, the more than 10,000 people began to tremble collectively in an instant, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the leading generals among them, so the shouting and scolding came and went for a while.
At this moment, there was a sudden change in the Qin army's "hedgehog" array, only to see that the cavalry who had just rushed out of the big formation after throwing Changge was suddenly blocked by the countless horse traps that appeared in front of them, and they were crowded together and chaotic for a while.
It turned out that as early as this month, Zhu Lihua had prepared a way to deal with the cavalry. He asked the people in the city to dig horse pits all over the suburbs of the city, but unlike the horse traps that should have been on the road, these small pits were not wide and deep, but only the size of buckets, densely distributed in some fixed places around the city, and covered them with weeds and dead branches so that the Qi army in the distance did not find it in time.
And because the diameter of these traps was not large, the Qin State infantry was not hindered in the slightest when passing through these traps.
And the hedgehog formation formed by the Qin army just now placed the dozens of passages out of the formation on the edge of the trap pit, which caused the cavalry who could not find the abnormality in front of them until they rushed out of the battle formation at full speed before they suddenly discovered the abnormality in front of them.
In fact, these traps are small and shallow, and if they are on weekdays, they naturally cannot play the role of trapping horses.
But today, when the cavalry rushing at full speed in the front is too late to stop the horse's pace, the horse's hooves are sunk and broken, and at the same time, the cavalry fall off their horses one after another due to inertia.