Chapter 4 Temporary Security
Although there are rejection horses at the gate of the camp, if there is no trap in the horse pit to block the advance of the war horse, you can use weapons to pick up the rejection horse.
Zhao Xie observed the situation of the Han army, the enemy was not many in number, and did not carry the corresponding offensive equipment, at least ninety percent of the enemy side was likely to be able to hold the camp steadily.
When the enemy cavalry rushed into the firing range, the archers at the gate of the fortress and the arrow tower shot arrows at the enemy one after another.
Dozens of people were immediately shot and fell.
Not only were the enemy soldiers shot by arrows, but also the horses were shot, and several horses fell down, which directly affected the horses behind, causing more than a dozen cavalrymen to turn over on their backs.
In addition to the two hundred archers, the Zhao army had eighty archers in the five hundred defenders, a total of two hundred and eighty people, who concentrated on shooting at the Han army.
The Han army itself was to raid and seize the camp, not to storm it, and now it is forcibly attacking, and the number of casualties is rapidly increasing.
Although the Han army also had archers as cover to suppress it, the Zhao army, as the defensive side, had a big advantage.
Yu Wei was calmly directing the battle.
Ouyang Ling and the six hundred cavalrymen all mounted their horses and stood behind the gate of the camp, in case the enemy rushed in, they would fight with all their might.
The few soldiers of the Han army were rapidly depleting, more than half of the archers were killed and wounded, and the cavalry could not rush to the front of the gate at all.
Guan Ying was very depressed when he saw the soldiers who kept falling, he knew that it was almost impossible to capture the Zhao army camp, and if he didn't complete the task this time, how Han Xin would punish him was only one aspect, and more importantly, it would affect the overall battle situation.
"Retreat ......"
Guan Ying gave the order to retreat, although he was unwilling, he could only do so.
The Han cavalry, which had already rushed to half of the soldiers, immediately turned their horses and retreated, and before they were out of range, dozens more were shot.
"Victorious..."
Zhao Xie exhaled a long breath, and now he could finally be sure that the danger had been lifted.
In this battle, the Han army left more than 700 corpses in front of the Zhao army's camp.
More than 30 people in the Zhao army were hit by arrows, of which 13 died, and the others were fortunately not shot.
Finally safe, after Zhao Xie entered the handsome tent, he sat on the desk, riding a horse for a day and a night, this body was too tired, the feeling of exhaustion was very strong, and he really wanted to sleep immediately.
No, I can't sleep yet.
Nearly 100,000 troops are fighting a decisive battle against Han Xin, and Chen Yu has made a fatal wrong decision that must be remedied as soon as possible.
Zhao Xie stood up and walked back and forth in the tent, his brain running rapidly, thinking about the battle of Jingcheng in history.
In the Battle of Jingcheng, the Zhao army, as the defending side, had the advantage of numbers and geography. The Han army only had 30,000, and Han Xin could only create a chance to win by attracting the main force of the Zhao army.
Because Chen Yu did not use Li Zuoche's strategy, Han Xin found an opportunity, and Chen Yu himself planned to fight head-on with the Han army, and under the continuous attack and harassment of Han Xin's troops, the army poured out.
In terms of morale, the Han army successively won the Wei State and the Dai State, and its morale was strong, and it lined up on the side of the Mianman River, fighting against the water without any retreat, which further stimulated the fighting spirit of the soldiers and greatly increased the combat strength of the Han army in a short period of time.
Even so, even if the Zhao army could not defeat the Han army for a while, it could return to the camp and regroup and fight again. If the Han army could not completely defeat the Zhao army in a short period of time, the morale that had been temporarily stimulated would drop rapidly, and the battle situation would gradually develop in a direction unfavorable to the Han army.
However, the morale of the Zhao army was originally inferior to that of the Han army, and after the frontal battle was unfavorable, the morale was further frustrated. When they returned, they found that the base camp had been captured by the enemy, and if this was the case, it might not be enough to break morale, and they could storm and retake the camp.
The problem was that there were countless Han army flags in the camp, which made the Zhao army mistakenly think that there were many people in the Han army, and the morale finally collapsed.
The Han army was killed in the back, and the Zhao army had no fighting spirit, and either broke and fled, or surrendered.
This is where Han Xin's soldiers are clever, the frontal backwater formation to meet the enemy is one of the links, and another strange soldier is needed, this 2,000 strange soldiers each carry a Han army flag, when the Zhao army poured out of the nest, the surprise attack to seize the camp, the two thousand flags were planted all over the Zhao army camp.
It's not entirely risk-free, but if Han Shin doesn't do it, he won't have a chance to defeat the enemy. In the end, Han Shin succeeded.
Zhao Xie quickly made a judgment according to the situation, now the Zhao army is very likely to have just started a war with the Han army, the Han army has made a determination to die, and the morale is high, at this time it is not conducive to the Zhao army to fight with the Han army, and the Zhao army must be withdrawn as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary losses.
"Yu Wei..."
Zhao Xie shouted the name.
Yu Wei quickly came to the handsome tent.
"The last general!"
"You immediately rush to the side of the army and convey the order to Chen Yu so that he can withdraw his army and return to the camp."
To be honest, Zhao Xie was not sure that Chen Yu would definitely obey the order.
He found a piece of cloth in the tent, ordered someone to prepare pen and ink, picked up a brush and wrote.
Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, people generally knelt and sit, and the tables in this era were shorter than modern tables, and Zhao Xie did not kneel on the pu mat, but squatted to write.
Before Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the six eastern countries each had their own script. After the unification of Qin, the book was the same text, the car was on the same track, and the small seal of Qin was used all over the world. After the restoration of the country at the end of the Qin Dynasty, some countries restored their previous scripts, and Zhao was one of them.
Zhao Xie writes the Zhao script, because he has the memory of the previous owner, of course it is no problem to write, but in Zhao Xie's opinion, this Zhao script is really ugly and awkward.
After writing, he took out the seal of King Zhao and stamped it, and then rolled it up and handed it to Yu Wei.
"You hurry to the front of the army and hand it over to Chen Yu!"
"No"
After Yu Wei took the cloth, he set off with more than a dozen cavalry.
I hope Chen Yu can obey his orders.
Zhao Xie sent someone to hug the calf village again to see if there was a Han army flag.
The Zhao army camp, the cavalry who came here day and night, all have rested.
In the handsome tent, Zhao Xie did not rest, dragging his tired body and continuing to think.
Now that the danger has been lifted, no matter when Chen Yu returns, he must seize the supreme military power.
Under normal circumstances, there are two ways to exercise military power, namely the seal letter and the military symbol.
But this is only a general situation, if some soldiers are loyal to someone, even if they do not have a seal of arms, they will still do what they are told.
Although King Zhao is not a puppet, as a general, more than half of the generals of the Zhao army were promoted by him, and he also served as the prime minister, and held both military and administrative power, and his real power was greater than that of King Zhao.
In order to wrest military power from Chen Yu, it is necessary to hold the seal letter and military talisman in his hands, and to attack Chen Yu's prestige as much as possible.