Chapter 10: The First Defeat Presents Civil Strife
Wei Si reviewed the soldiers of the Three Kingdoms at Hangu Pass, and also asked Gongsun Yan to return to the book of the Qin general's response to the war.
Wei Si originally wanted to supervise the battle at Hangu Pass, but due to the unanimous opposition and persuasion of Gongsun Yan, Zhao Bao, Shen Cha and other generals on the grounds of the safety of the Wei king, he had to motivate the soldiers, left Hangu Pass, and returned to Daliang, the capital of Wei.
And the day when Wei Si returned to Daliang was already the day when the Qin generals fought against the Five Nations Alliance.
On this day, the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Chu army, led by the general Jing Cui, also arrived near Hangu Pass early and camped near the Sanjin soldiers and horses camp, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Yan army finally arrived at Hangu Pass and were stationed near the Sanjin soldiers and horses.
Originally, he thought that this day was a big scuffle, but when the Qin generals saw that the five countries were attacking Qin, he immediately changed his words, and wanted to use his own 70,000 troops to meet the 100,000 troops of the Sanjin Dynasty, otherwise he would defend the Hangu Pass and close his door.
After discussing with Gongsun Yan, Zhao Bao, Shen Cha and the two generals of Chu who had just arrived, Jing Cui and Yan general Lu Maoshou, they felt that the hard attack on Hangu Pass was really worth the loss, and it was better to defeat the morale of the Qin army in one battle.
It was decided to respond to the request of the three Jin Dynasty soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses of the Three Jin Dynasty selected 100,000 elites led by the Han general Shen Cha, and Gongsun Yan, Zhao Bao and other people and Chu and Yan soldiers and horses were waiting for an opportunity nearby.
So the 100,000 elites of the Sanjin Dynasty led by Shen Cha and the 70,000 people led by the Qin soldier Wei Zhang set up a battle formation outside the Hangu Pass.
At this time, the Qin army set up a phalanx, and the two generals in front of the phalanx were Wei Zhang on the left and Gan Mao on the right, who had just been brought to Hangu Pass by Zhu Lijian and entrusted with important tasks.
The soldiers and horses of the Three Jin Dynasty formed a triangular formation under the leadership of the Han general Shen Cha, and the head of the front formation was naturally the main force of the Han army led by Shen Cha, on both sides of the Wei army and the Zhao army.
With the sound of drums on both sides, Shen Cha was very excited and ordered the three army forwards in the triangular formation under his command, and nearly 10,000 people rushed into the Qin army's four squares first.
The Qin army's four phalanxes were naturally strong on both sides and weak in the middle, and soon the formation was broken through a hole by Shen Cha's three army forwards, and the Qin army directly killed and injured thousands of people.
Gongsun Yan, Zhao Bao, Jing Cui and others naturally saw the confrontation between the two armies in the distance at this time, and at this time, Gongsun Yan suddenly found that the Qin army, led by Wei Zhang and Gan Mao, began to shrink, and there were signs of encircling his own forward, so he immediately ordered someone to quickly inform Shen Cha and asked him to send someone to support the striker.
Unbeknownst to him, Shen Cha had already been broken out of his mind by victory, and he didn't listen to Gongsun Yan at all, so he directly ordered the 50,000 Chinese troops to wait for the Qin soldiers to be in chaos, and then rush in.
Unexpectedly, although the Qin soldiers shrank, they were not chaotic, and Wei Zhang and Gan Mao still began to move to the middle in an orderly manner.
At this time, Shen Cha also noticed that something was wrong, so he hurriedly ordered someone to inform the striker to retreat quickly to prevent being trapped.
But at this time, the time had passed, and he didn't expect that the main general of the Qin army, Yu Liji, was actually hiding behind the phalanx, waiting for the arrival of the forward troops of the Three Jin Dynasty.
After the Sanjin forward troops saw the main general of the Qin army who was waiting for them in the phalanx, they were naturally surprised, and suddenly heard the retreat order of their own general, Shen Cha, so they quickly turned around and left.
How could he let this fat slip away, so he personally led his subordinates to start chasing after the Sanjin forward.
The Sanjin vanguard was chased by the main general of the Qin army, and the back road was cut off by Wei Zhang and Gan Mao, and was instantly defeated, and the remaining thousands of people were surrounded by the Qin army in the phalanx.
Seeing this, Shen Cha knew that he was hopeless, so he led the rest of the people to retreat.
After the Qin army captured these thousands of soldiers of the Three Jin Dynasty, they naturally did not dare to chase after Shen Cha's troops, after all, there were other soldiers and horses of the Three Jin Dynasty and the soldiers of Chu Yan behind them.
At the beginning of the battle, more than 10,000 elite forwards were lost, and the other three Jin soldiers and horses couldn't help but be a little depressed, but some people in the Chu and Yan armies began to laugh at the incompetence of the three Jin soldiers and horses.
Naturally, these words were the first to reach Shen Cha's ears.
So Shen Cha naturally wanted to go to the Chu military camp tent and ask Chu General Jing Cui for questioning, but was stopped by Gongsun Yan, and only listened to Gongsun Yan persuade Shen Cha:
"General Shencha, you can't be so reckless, we attack the five kingdoms of Qin this time, everyone should unite as one and unanimously deal with Qin, if this matter is found to be true, I will discuss it with General Jingcui and General Lu Maoshou alone!"
Shen Cha was very annoyed and said:
"We only lost 10,000 soldiers and horses this time, Gongsun Xiangguo, you see the ridicule of the personnel of Chu and Yan now!"
After a while, Shen Cha called a soldier in:
"Now you tell me about Gongsun Xiangguo and General Zhao Bao, how do the people over there laugh at us?"
The soldier glanced at Gongsun Yan and Zhao Bao a little timidly, and then turned his gaze back to Shen Cha:
"General Shencha, do you really want me to tell the truth?"
Shen Cha glared at the soldier a little angrily:
"I tell you to tell the truth, you say, why so much nonsense? Beware of the general's military justice against you! ”
Zhao Bao also said to the soldier:
"Since General Shencha ordered you to say it, you can tell it truthfully!"
The soldier resignedly said:
"Swallow...... When the soldiers of the Yan Army see us Sanjin troops now, they all call us three little sheep! ”
Gongsun Yan sighed:
"The three little sheep don't blame the Yan army for saying about us, after all, we did lose this battle to the Qin army!"
The soldier continued:
"Chu ...... Clear...... Soldiers of the Chu army, see you now...... When I saw our Sanjin soldiers, they all ...... All...... They all call us the three sick cats, and they also call the Wei State ...... It's a big sick cat, Zhao Guo is a second sick cat, and we in Korea are a small sick cat! ”
At this time, Shen Cha said angrily to Gongsun Yan and Zhao Bao:
"Listen, these two countries didn't treat our Sanjin troops as people at all, they said that they would fight Qin with the Five Kingdoms, but now that we have lost a game, we have begun to ridicule us as sheep and sick cats, and this matter must not be put to rest!"
Gongsun Yan glanced at Zhao Bao:
"Yang Wenjun, what do you think?"
Zhao Bao replied:
"These two countries make fun of us like this, and they really look down on us Sanjin, but after all, for the sake of the overall situation of the Five Kingdoms Invasion of Qin, we still have to bear with it, and then ask General Jingcui and General Lu Maoshou, what's going on?"
Gongsun Yan nodded:
"Yang Wenjun is the same as I think!"
Then the three of them went to the Chu army camp first.
At this time, as soon as the three of them arrived at the Chu army camp, they heard a Chu army soldier nearby whispering to the soldier next to him:
"Look...... Look, three sick cats are coming, three sick cats are coming! ”
Naturally, these words were also heard by Gongsun Yan and the others, and Shen Cha was naturally angry and wanted to rush over to trouble the soldier, but was stopped by a Chu army general who suddenly rushed out:
"General Shencha, this is the Chu camp, not your Sanjin camp, where you can do whatever you want?"
Shen Cha ignored the Chu general who suddenly came out, and continued to point to the Chu soldier who had just scolded the three seriously ill cats and said:
"As a general of the Chu army, haven't you heard that some people in your army are insulting our three kingdom generals Han, Zhao, and Wei?"