Chapter Ninety-Five: The Liangzhou Army
Li Wei immediately began to transfer troops when he returned to his military formation, he actually didn't want to fight Qin Hua now.
Originally, he just came to rescue Fan Chou, but he didn't want to wait for him to come to Wuzhang Plain, Fan Chou had already been defeated by Qin Hua, and all he saw was Qin Hua's army.
"Why didn't the spies pass back the news of Fan Chou's defeat, I was so passive."
Li Wei said to the deputy general with some dissatisfaction.
At this time, if you know that Fan Chou has been defeated, then the best way is to retreat to Fufeng County and defend the city.
Judging from the strength of both sides, it would be difficult for Qin Hua to defeat him.
But now fighting in the field, although the strength of the two sides is equal, Li Dao saw Qin Hua's strict military appearance and the black armor that had been unified, and he didn't know why he felt a little weak in his heart.
"No, although there are a lot of recruits in my army, the main force is still the division of a hundred battles with Dong Taishi, and the northern army of the Han Dynasty, it can't be defeated by just Qin Hua, an army that has just been established for a short time."
Li Wei couldn't help comforting himself, although Qin Hua's Liangzhou army had a record of quelling the rebellion of the kingdom, and then fought many times with foreign races, but because of Qin Hua's deliberately hidden relationship, not many people knew the specific battle report.
However, just as Li Dao arranged for the generals to prepare for the attack, he suddenly found that Qin Hua's army was the first to move.
As far as the eye could see, the neatly arranged sword and shield soldiers began to move neatly, forming one phalanx after another.
In the void of these phalanxes, a black-armored knight stepped out, followed by more black-armored knights.
"Qin Hua wants to charge with cavalry first?"
Just as Li Wei was thinking this, the speed of those knights began to pick up, and finally turned into a rapid charge.
"I'm not afraid of fighting cavalry."
Li Wei snorted and ordered his cavalry troops to also go out to meet the enemy.
Li Dao's army is also a soldier in the North, and Qin Hua is really not needed to discuss horse warfare.
It's just that he ignored the gap between the equipment and training of the two sides, and just the first contact, Li Dao found that his army was falling in pieces, while the enemy's losses were not much.
"Bow troops, shoot."
Seeing that his cavalry troops were inferior, Li Dao immediately ordered the archers to shoot, and now the battlefield is close to Li Dao's side, so it is within the range of Li Dao's bow and arrows.
The battlefield of the cavalry continued, and under the indiscriminate arrows of Li and Li Dao, the soldiers on both sides suffered losses, but the Qin Hua army suffered much less losses because of the advantage of equipment.
Just when Li Dao was about to continue to give orders, he was stopped by the adjutant general.
"General, the cavalry losses of our army are too great in this way, and I am worried that the morale of the army will change."
"Hmph, it was because they were incompetent that I ordered the archery, if they could defeat Qin Xuanhu's cavalry, how could I do this."
Seeing that Li Dao didn't care about the casualties of the soldiers, the adjutant general was a little dissatisfied, how could a person like this be a general?
It's just that he was afraid of Li Dao's might, but the deputy general didn't dare to show it.
Li Wei could ignore his soldiers for victory, but Qin Hua couldn't, he didn't want his cavalry troops to continue to suffer from the baptism of arrows, so he let the infantry troops also attack.
Walking in a neat pace, although these infantry were not as good as the trapped camp, they still showed a very strong momentum.
There was a row of large shields in front of them, like an iron wall, and in the gap between the shields, rows of spears stretched out, making people shudder.
Seeing that the opposing army's army began to approach his own position, Li Dao immediately ordered his infantry troops to attack.
But after seeing the military appearance of Qin Huajun, Li Wei's infantry became a little timid.
Most of his new recruits were incorporated into the infantry ranks, and few of the recruits could serve as cavalry or archers, so the quality of the infantry was much worse than that of cavalry and archers.
"Those who retreat, slash. Kill one person and reward a thousand dollars. ”
His morale was a little low, and Li Dao decided to use both rewards and punishments to improve the morale of the army.
Sure enough, under Li Dao's orders, the morale of the soldiers increased a lot, and they began to attack the Qin Hua army.
Both battlefields are full of the sound of fighting, and now most of the troops of both sides have been concentrated on the battlefield, and more than 100,000 people are in a big melee, killing the soul in the dark.
"My lord, is it time for the last general to go out?"
Beigong Che came to Qin Hua's side to ask for battle, and the battle had already begun for a while, but the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry still did not fight, and Beigong Che became a little anxious.
Uploading that battle, the Xuanjia Elite Cavalry was mighty, and Beigong Che wanted to establish greater feats.
"Don't worry, the Xuanjia Jingqi is my trump card, and it can only be dispatched at the most urgent moment, and it will be very damaging if I send it out now."
"Wen Yuan, you go and consume the enemy's combat power."
Qin Hua turned his head to look at Zhang Liao and said.
"The last general commands."
Originally, at Zhang Liao's level, he didn't need to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, but maybe Zhang Liao was also very warlike in his bones, and he took the initiative to apply to command the Iron Eagle Cavalry during this battle.
Not long after Zhang Liao left, the Iron Eagle cavalry rushed towards Li Wei's main formation.
The mobility of the archers was evident, and they easily avoided the two battlefields and came directly to the vicinity of Li Dao's army.
The rain of arrows continued to shoot towards Li Dao's main formation, and even Li Dao's vicinity was affected by the arrows.
"Damn Qin Xuanhu, how can his soldiers be so powerful."
I wanted to fight a battle, no matter whether I won or lost, I retreated to Fufeng County. Now it seems that the chances of winning are low, and it is very likely that it will end in a heavy defeat.
The arrows of the Iron Eagle Cavalry made Li Dao very angry, and his own archery troops wanted to fight back, but found that they had already disappeared.
But this is not the worst, Li Dao got off his horse because he had to dodge the arrows, and then he suddenly felt the ground shake.
With Li Wei's many years of experience in the army, he knew that this was the sound of the cavalry charging, but the cavalry troops on both sides were fighting and did not run fast, and Qin Hua's Iron Eagle cavalry had already left just now, and the number was not enough to cause such a big movement.
Hurriedly climbed onto the horse, Li Dao looked up, and his heart immediately cooled down at this look.
I saw a cavalry dressed in animal skins charging towards Li Dao's side, it seemed that it should not be Qin Hua's army, and this dress looked like a cavalry of a different race.
Looking at them under the banner of Beigong, Li Dao knew at once that this army was very likely to be a Qiang army.
And he has no connection with the Qiang people, I heard that Qin Hua has subdued the Qiang people in Liangzhou, so they are very likely to be Qin Hua's reinforcements.
"General, the size of the enemy army is forty or fifty thousand, we..."
A member of the general said to Li Dao with some trembling.
Qin Hua actually had a reinforcement of about 50,000 troops, which was completely unexpected by Li Wei, and he had already shown his defeat, and now he couldn't find any chance to win at all.
"Withdraw, withdraw."
Li Dao has completely given up struggling, if he continues to stay, then he may also die in battle, he will definitely not let this happen.
Before Beigong Boyu rushed in with the army, Li Dao fled with his own soldiers in the direction of Fufeng County.
Looking back, Li Dao found that his Chinese troops had been crushed by Beigong Boyu's cavalry, and now it was a one-sided slaughter.
The archers of the Chinese army, without the protection of other soldiers, were powerless to fight back in the face of the attack of the Qiang cavalry.
The overall situation on the main battlefield has been decided, and Qin Hua has already begun to order the shouting of "those who descend will not be killed".
Having said that, not all of Li Dao's soldiers will surrender obediently, but they will not continue to resist desperately, seeing that Li Dao himself has fled, these people also began to flee in all directions.
At this time, a scene that made Li Dao desperate appeared, in addition to the direction in which Li Dao fled, he suddenly found that Qin Huajun had come out in the other three directions of the battlefield.
I don't know where these people hid before, but now they all ran out at once.
Li Wei only roughly estimated that there were more than 100,000 troops that suddenly appeared.
If you add the 100,000 troops of Qin Hua's army and the 50,000 Qiang cavalry, Qin Hua's command actually has more than 200,000 troops.
"If you can't beat it, you can't beat it."
Li Dao was disheartened, with this kind of disparity in strength, what else was there to think about, but to flee for his life.
Qin Hua didn't continue to pursue Li Dao, it was still a bit useful for this person to stay, so Qin Hua just ordered to start cleaning up the battlefield.
In the first battle of Wuzhangyuan, the main force of Qinhua's army was 100,000, Beigong Boyu's 50,000 cavalry and Liangzhou's reserve army was 150,000, and 250,000 participated in this battle.
In the face of Li Wei's army of 100,000, he almost won the victory with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai.
In this battle, the main force of the Qinhua army lost more than 5,000 people, seriously injured more than 1,000 people (lost their combat ability and could not continue the battle), and countless minor injuries.
Beigong Boyu's army lost more than 1,000 people.
The losses of the reserve army were less than 100 men, mainly because they only came to capture deserters at a later stage and did not directly participate in the battle.
As for the army on Li Dao's side, more than 30,000 people were killed in the battle, 8,000 were seriously wounded, and more than 40,000 were captured, and only more than 10,000 people fled back to Fufeng County with Li Dao.
This time, Qin Hua did not block the news, and even let the Nighthawk spread it in various places, so the people of the world quickly knew about this war.
The world shook for a while, and no one would have thought that Qin Hua, who lived in Liangzhou, would actually have such a strong strength.
Many people began to change their strategies towards Qin Hua, and those who had never met with talents also began to move the idea of coming to Qin Hua's side to find opportunities.
However, these are all later words, and the most intuitive embodiment of this war is that the combined forces of Bingzhou stopped their invasion of Liangzhou, and they stopped in Pingyang County and did not dare to act again.
The total number of troops of the Bingzhou coalition army was also more than 200,000, including 30,000 for Han Sui, 20,000 for Zhang Yang, 100,000 for Baibo and Yellow Turbans, and 80,000 for the Xiongnu army.
However, Han Sui and Zhang Yang were reluctant to fight the Liangzhou army, so in fact, only the Baibo army and the Huns wanted to attack Liangzhou.
Although there are 180,000 in total, there are a mixture of white waves and yellow turbans, and only half of them can really fight, that is, about 40,000 in scale.
And the Xiongnu army didn't want to lose too many soldiers in the battle with Qin Hua, there were still Xianbei people behind them, and while occupying the land of the Han Dynasty, they also had to guard against the attack of the Xianbei people.
Once the loss of troops is too large, it is very likely to attract the covetousness of the Xianbei people.
After defeating Li Dao's army, Qin Hua asked Zhang Liao to continue the pursuit, but also told Zhang Liao that there was no need to kill them all, just drive them out of Tongguan.
And Qin Hua himself led the army under him to meet the Son of Heaven.