"These despicable bastards, you can run away so fast!"

On the way to chase the Wei cavalry in front, Xin Xi, the general of the Qin army, stood on the chariot and cursed angrily.

He was ordered by Bai Qi, the commander of his Qin army, to pursue the Wei cavalry in front, but after chasing for a full hour, he could not catch up with the other party.

But whenever he tried to give up the pursuit, the despicable fellows of the other side turned back and chased after them, and shot arrows at them while riding their horses, so that by now more than twenty people had been wounded and seven or eight dead.

Obviously, he was ordered to pursue the other party, but he didn't even touch the corners of the other party's clothes, but he killed and injured more than 30 people, which is simply a great shame.

What's even worse is that the group of despicable guys in front of them still stop to laugh at them from time to time.

Every time he thought of this, Xin Xi felt that the liver in his abdomen was on fire.

"If you have the guts, stop!"

He cursed through gritted teeth.

"Commander."

A soldier riding in the same chariot reminded: "Our foot soldiers have been left far behind. ”

“……”

Xin Xi pressed his hand noticeably, signaling the chariot to slow down.

At the same time, he glanced back.

As the soldier had reminded, the five hundred foot soldiers he had led in pursuit of those bastards had been left far behind at the moment, and he could not even see a shadow, and the only ones who could keep up with the team at this moment were a hundred chariots and the soldiers on these hundred chariots.

After removing the seven or eight dead bodies that had been shot by Wei with crossbow arrows, there were about three hundred people.

『…… Do you want to continue the pursuit?'

Xin Xi glanced at the group of Wei bastards who were only a few dozen zhang away from them in front of him, and his heart fell into deep thought.

And at this moment, a crossbow arrow flew past his face, and it hit the Qin pawn driving the war horse on the chariot behind him, right in the middle of the door.

It turned out that after their chariots slowed down, the group of Wei cavalry in front also slowed down, and during this time, about dozens of cavalrymen stopped their horses, raised their crossbows and shot arrows at them, causing them to suffer about ten casualties again.

To be honest, this casualty loss was nothing, but the point was that the Wei bastards cheered with joy after shooting them, which was especially harsh to Xin Xi's ears - it was like a mockery of them.

"A group of weak people who only dare to shoot arrows from a distance!"

Xin Xi clenched his fists and scolded.

These words reached the ears of the Wei cavalry in the distance, and instead of making any trouble, the latter group laughed loudly, and laughed at them in the distance—because of the distance, Xin Xi could not carefully discern what the Wei cavalry were doing, but they were generally laughing at them and teasing them.

"Damn! Damn!'

Cursing secretly, Xin Xi's right hand, which was clenched into a fist, slammed on the baffle in front of the chariot, and scolded through gritted teeth: "Chase!" Give me chase! ”

Hearing this, Qin's 100 chariots continued to chase the Wei cavalry in front, and the latter exclaimed in surprise and immediately turned his horse and fled again.

"Very good, the soldiers have gradually adapted to the tactics of dealing with the pursuers."

On the flank of the team, Meng Hu witnessed the various actions of the cavalry under his command, and turned to the deputy general Cao Chun and said.

Stopping horses and archery, although this is the most basic tactics of cavalry, but considering that these Wei Wushu have only been transformed into cavalry for six or seven days, they can do this, Meng Hu is already very satisfied.

Although when the Qin army was chasing them behind him, he had fantasized more than once that he would lead a group of elite knights who were no less brave than the cavalry of the Zhao State to break the pursuers behind him in one fell swoop, instead of procrastinating and continuing this pursuit battle like now—this was simply a waste of time.

But who made this a teaching war?

"The cavalry is weak...... This is the common perception of cavalry, that cavalry only has the advantage of 'running fast', but in reality this is not the case. ”

Pointing to the Qin army's chariot that was chasing them, Meng Hu turned the horse's head with the reins and said to the deputy general Cao Chun: "Running fast, this is actually a very powerful talent, in the words of the art of war, it can make our side invincible...... The enemy army can't even catch up with us, so how can we defeat our army? ”

Cao Chun nodded in agreement, and then couldn't help but ask, "The brigade commander has also seen the art of war?" ”

"How?" Meng Hu joked: "I think I'm from a small town, so I think I can't read and write, and I haven't seen the art of war?" ”

Cao Chun naturally saw that Meng Hu was joking, so he joked along the way: "That's not it, it's just that I feel the character of the brigade commander, and most of them can't bear to carefully watch the parade method......

"Uh......"

Hearing this, Meng Hu was a little speechless.

After all, in fact, he really hates to read, obviously his two brothers Meng Zhong and Meng Sui are well-read, but he is not interested in it, and he has not even read a "Wu Sun Tzu (Sun Tzu's Art of War)" for a few years, let alone "Sima Law", "Wu Zi", "Qi Sun Tzu (Sun Bin Art of War)" and other other art of war.

"I trust my instincts."

Meng Hu used a rather serious expression to hide his weakness.

Cao Chun didn't speak, but just glanced at Meng Hu with a smile.

This made Meng Hu feel a little embarrassed, and he coughed and said, "Okay, it's almost ten miles away, it's time to deal with these chariot pawns......

Hearing this, Cao Chun's face showed a little interest, and he was very curious about what way Meng Hu was going to use to deal with the Qin State chariot behind him.

Don't look at them just now, they seem to have the upper hand along the way, from time to time they stop their horses and shoot a wave of arrows at the pursuers behind them, and laugh at each other, but Cao Chun knows very well that these cavalry are actually very weak, and in terms of head-to-head confrontation, they are not the opponents of the hundred chariots behind them at all.

It may be just a wave of charges between each other, and their more than 300 cavalry will lose half of their soldiers, and the casualties of the other side are probably negligible.

And the young brigade commander in front of him actually said that he wanted to lead such a weak cavalry and annihilate the chariot behind him?

I have to say that Cao Chun was more or less suspicious in his heart.

And at this time, he heard Meng Hu smile and say: "That's it, it's very suitable there......"

Cao Chun raised his head, only to find that Meng Hu was raising his hand and pointing to a forest in the distance.

"Give the order to go down and go into the forest, and tell the soldiers to pay attention to their feet, so that the war horses will not be tripped up."

After Meng Hu gave the order, more than 300 cavalry under his command quickly turned into the forest in front.

Isn't cavalry, perhaps, unsuitable for fighting in the woods?

In fact, otherwise, the cavalry should not enter the woods, that is just considering that there may be an ambush of foot soldiers in the woods, after all, compared to the foot soldiers, the cavalry is indeed not suitable for fighting in the woods, but the problem is that the Qin army chariots behind them are even more unsuitable for fighting in the woods - if the spacing of the trees in the woods is denser, those chariots simply can't even enter the woods, how can they fight and kill the enemy?

"Huh? These shitty bastards have gone into the woods?'

In the distance, Qin general Xin Xi, who was in the rear, saw the despicable Wei cavalry entering the woods in front one by one, so he immediately pressed his hand and signaled his chariot to slow down the pursuit.

Although Xin Xi was a civilian from the Qin State and had never seen any art of war, he more or less knew the truth of "don't enter the forest", and since ancient times, because of the blind pursuit of the enemy army, he ended up in the woods and was ambushed by the enemy.

Of course, what is more important is that the woods in this forest are quite tight, and the cavalry can still come and go freely, but the huge chariots, this is very reluctant - you may not even be able to turn around when you enter the forest.

"Division commander, the enemy army has entered the forest, will it enter the forest to pursue?"

The subordinate general with Xin Xi approached in the chariot and asked the former.

Xin Xi pressed his hand to signal them to be calm, and then he jumped out of the chariot and took a few steps closer to the forest, peeking at the situation in the forest.

He could faintly see that the despicable Wei cavalry was in the forest at the moment, some were drinking water with water bladders, and some were gnawing on dry food, seeing this, he looked up at the sky, and couldn't help cursing again in his heart.

It turned out that early this morning, his Qin army began to attack the city of Fox after breakfast, and when it was around noon, the despicable Wei cavalry came, and then he Xin Xi was ordered by the commander of the Qin army Bai Qi to pursue and expel this Wei cavalry, and the two sides chased me and fled for nearly half a day, so that at this moment the sky was approaching dusk, and Xin Xi, who had only eaten one breakfast, was hungry and thirsty.

"Poof!"

A cold arrow shot out from the forest, hitting the chest of the Qin pawn on Xin Xi's side.

Xin Xi saw the Qin soldier's eyes widen in horror, and his hands tried to pull out the arrow that pierced his chest, but in the next breath, he slowly fell to the ground with his eyes open.

Xin Xi looked back at the forest, but saw that behind a tree more than ten zhang away, a Wei pawn poked out his head and shook the crossbow in his hand at them, his face full of ridicule and provocation.

"Fuck it!"

Xin Xi's face turned red with anger, but reason forced him to calm down, and he withdrew from the forest with the rest of the soldiers.

Tell the soldiers to get off the chariot and go into the forest to pursue?

This kind of order will not be given unless Xin Xi is dizzy - once the charioteer gets off the chariot, what is the difference between this and the foot soldier?

"Master Shuai!"

"Handsome."

Seeing Xin Xi withdraw from the forest, his generals surrounded him one after another.

I saw Xin Xi ponder for a moment and said, "Tell the soldiers to use some water and rice first......

Or a general asked, "What about the Wei pawn in the forest?" What to do? ”

『…… What to do?'

Xin Xi glanced back at the forest behind him with some melancholy.

To be honest, he didn't know what to do with that despicable group of Wei cavalry, but when he returned to the army like this, he thought to himself that he had no way to give his life to the commander - he pursued this Wei army for half a day, and instead of killing a single Wei pawn, he suffered thirty or forty casualties? How does this make him speak?

"Wait...... Wait until the footmen come and join us. ”

After thinking for a while, Xin Xi said to his generals unconfidently: "When the time comes, the chariot surrounds the forest, and then calls the foot soldiers to enter the forest to pursue, and the inside and the outside should be combined." ”

Hearing this, the generals joined each other, after all, they couldn't think of a better idea.

At the same time, Meng Hu and Cao Chun were also in the forest to pay attention to the pursuit of the Qin army outside the forest.

After the other party did not chase into the forest, Cao Chun turned his head and asked Meng Hu: "Brigade commander, the other party has not chased in, what should our army do now?" ”

"That's a ......"

Meng Hu stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and said with some annoyance: "That Qin general, the land is not very good, but he is still quite cautious, just now I was still thinking that it is not conducive to chariot combat in the forest, if you dare to chase them in, you will wipe them out here...... It's a pity. ”

But speaking of this, a little confident smile appeared on his face again, and he said with a smile: "But it's okay, it's not a bad thing that the other party doesn't dare to chase in." …… I'm guessing they're ready to wait for the foot soldiers to arrive and deal with us. ”

As he spoke, he whispered a few words to Cao Chun, and Cao Chun nodded again and again.

At this time, Xin Xi and his chariot team had also retreated to a position about fifty zhang away from the woods, and all the chariots were parked in the same direction to the woods, which was conducive to evacuating as soon as possible when they were attacked by the Wei army in the forest—Xin Xi did not know how many Wei soldiers were hiding in this forest.

After the arrangements were made, Xin Xi ordered the soldiers to replenish food and water.

The grain and grass of the Qin army were actually exhausted as early as more than ten days ago, and in the days that followed, the Qin army survived by looting in Korea.

For example, in Xingyang, Zhaiyang, Zhengcheng, and Yangcheng, every time the Qin army captured a city, they let go of looting in the city, looting food on the one hand, and looting property on the other - of course, the looting of property was spontaneous by the Qin soldiers, but it seems that Bai Qi, Ji Hong and other Qin generals turned a blind eye to this.

I have to say that it is precisely by allowing these Qin soldiers to wantonly kill and loot in the captured cities that they have ensured that the 50,000 Qin troops under Bai Qi have maintained a high level of morale so far.

Because of this, there were a few traces of blood on the rice balls that some Qin soldiers were gnawing on at this moment, which was obviously the blood of those Korean civilians.

"Puff puff—"

A series of arrows shot out of the forest, and more than a dozen of the Qin pawns who were caught off guard immediately fell to the ground with arrows.

Hearing the movement, Xin Xi subconsciously stood up, and then saw that in the direction of the woods, there were about dozens of Wei cavalry who had come out of the forest at some point, and were shooting at them with crossbows.

"Watch out for arrows!"

Xin Xi immediately ordered all his soldiers to bend down in the carriage and use the carriage of the chariot to resist the Wei army's arrow attack.

Suddenly, he heard a neighing of horses, and immediately, the panicked voices of several Qin soldiers sounded, Xin Xi poked his head out to take a look, and immediately understood: the crossbow arrows of the original Wei army hit the war horses they were pulling, causing the war horses to try to flee because of the pain, thus causing their formation to be chaotic.

Fortunately, the Wei army on the opposite side were all weak cavalry, otherwise, if the other side also had a chariot convoy, they would definitely die this time.

"Don't we have crossbows?"

While dodging the arrows, Xin Xi asked eagerly.

After half a ring, his subordinate general not far away whispered: "Crossbows, all of them have been collected by the army to attack the city......

Hearing this, Xin Xi remembered.

It is similar to the situation of the Wei army - I still remember that when the main force of the Wei army approached Xinzheng a few days ago, the crossbow arrows of the Wei army were almost consumed, so Meng Zhong asked Gongzhong to ask for a batch of crossbows and crossbow arrows from South Korea, and the Qin army was similar, although they did not forget to capture the warehouses in the city and rob the ordnance in the warehouses when they captured Xingyang, Zhaiyang, Zhengcheng, and Yangcheng along the way, but because the crossbows were consumed too quickly, Bai Qi had already ordered the crossbows and crossbow arrows in the generals to be collected and equipped with the main force. It is used for sieges, such as this attack on Fox City.

This led to the fact that Xin Xi's Qin army pursuing Wei cavalry had almost no crossbows and crossbows - in fact, even if there were crossbows and crossbows, the situation was actually not much better, after all, the Wei cavalry on the opposite side was shooting at them by the woods, and once the Han army counterattacked with crossbows, the other party could immediately retreat to the forest, and they had those trees to resist the crossbows of the Qin army for them.

But in any case, it was also a means of counterattacking, and it was always impossible to shoot many Wei pawns, but at least it could make them throw rat traps, so that they would not be passively beaten like they were now.

"Huh? These Qin troops do not seem to have bows and crossbows or the like. ”

No, the Wei cavalry, who was still a little vigilant, gradually noticed the embarrassing situation of the Qin army, and told Tong Ze about it with a smile, so that more and more Wei cavalry participated in the ranks of "target shooting".

In the absence of long-range counterattack means, aren't those Qin pawns just live targets that can move?

"Puff puff—"

Under the wave after wave of arrows, the Qin soldiers under Xin Xi suffered heavy losses.

"How do these bastards shoot so accurately?" Xin Xi leaned over and cursed secretly in the carriage.

In fact, this is not surprising, after all, these cavalry under Meng Hu are all cavalry transformed by Wei Wushu, although they are still inexperienced as cavalry, but they are not good at archery...... The crossbow is a combat skill that every Wei warrior must master.

"Hah! I shot another one. ”

"Come on, I've got three of them here......"

"Three remarkables, huh? Hey, I've got three too! ”

In the midst of talking and laughing, those Wei cavalry were like shooting targets, slowly reaping the lives of the Qin soldiers on the other side.

Although they also consumed a lot of crossbow arrows for this purpose, considering that each cavalryman carried fifty crossbow arrows, they were not bothered by this consumption - not to mention that some of the crossbow arrows could be recovered after they were fired.

"Withdraw! Retreat! ”

Seeing that there were more and more Wei cavalry shooting arrows at them on the opposite side, Xin Xi could only choose to retreat after weighing it again and again.

There is no way, the chariot can't enter the forest, and he orders to kill it, as long as the other party hides in the forest, they still have no way to take the other party, so it is better to simply retreat.

"Want to go? Catch up! ”

Seeing this, Meng Hu immediately ordered a pursuit.

As a result, these Qin chariot convoys that had just pursued the Wei cavalry were now being pursued by the Wei cavalry under Menghu's command.

During this period, Meng Hu also demonstrated mounted archery to the soldiers on the way to gallop on horseback, only to see him hold the reins with his left hand and pull to the right side of his body to balance his body, and at the same time, put the crossbow held in his right hand on his left arm, using this arm as the fulcrum of the crossbow.

As for loading crossbow arrows, slow down the horse's speed, lean forward, and hit the horse's belly with both legs, so as not to be thrown off the horse during the process.

Under Menghu's words and deeds, his cavalry gradually mastered this way of pursuit, sometimes slowing down their horses to reload their crossbow arrows, sometimes speeding up their horses and shooting at the fleeing chariots ahead.

For the rogue tactics of this group of Wei cavalry, the chariot under Xin Xi was helpless.

Finally, when the casualties in the team reached nearly 100 people, one of Xin Xi's generals couldn't help it anymore and roared angrily: "Master Shuai, just fight with these bastards!" ”

"......," Xin Xi pondered for a moment.

He did not think that on flat ground, the weak cavalry was a match for their chariot.

"Good!"

With his order,

The soldiers driving the chariot turned their way and rushed towards the oncoming Wei cavalry.

But unfortunately, these Wei cavalry did not confront them head-on at all, and when they noticed that the Qin army convoy in front of them turned around and killed themselves, the cavalry under the command of Meng Hu immediately stopped shooting arrows, concentrated on driving the war horses, and turned to the left and right sides respectively.

The Qin army's chariot convoy was eager to catch up and slaughter all those cavalry, but the problem was that the chariot was far less mobile than the cavalry, which made it easy for the Wei cavalry to go around the flank and back of the chariot and shoot at them again.

"Damn!"

"Get around! Get around! ”

"Stop! Those damn guys are behind our back! ”

The Qin soldiers became more and more frightened and desperate.

It is undeniable that the Wei cavalry on the opposite side is indeed very weak, so weak that as soon as they get close, the other party will flee and retreat one after another, but the problem is that they can't catch up with each other at all, even with the speed of the chariot, they can't catch up with each other.

The other side, on the other hand, can always go around their flank, or follow them behind them, and shoot at them.

Helpless!

Finally, after chasing and escaping for a few miles, there were only about 20 chariots left in the chariot under Xin Xi's chariot, and the rest of the chariots were either killed by Wei cavalry with crossbow arrows, or the war horses were shot dead - Qin pawns who lost their chariots naturally couldn't escape being shot by those Wei cavalry.

And those Wei cavalry were unscathed.

How can there be such a despicable method of warfare in this world?!

Just when Qin General Xin Xi and others scolded this, Menghu's deputy general Cao Chun was also secretly frightened.

He was in disbelief.

The hundred chariots on the opposite side were killed by our side so that there were only about two dozen chariots left?

And we didn't have a single casualty?

Although this result is directly related to the fact that the opponent did not carry a crossbow, in any case, this cavalry is also a little too strong, right?

That's a hundred chariots!

A hundred chariots that can easily defeat an army of 1,000 men, and even turn the tide of the battlefield!

But why do you seem so weak before me? Our...... Just a bunch of weak cavalry......

"Cavalry...... It turned out to be so strong. Cao Chun said to Meng Hu in a trance.

"Ahh Meng Hu chuckled and snorted.

He suddenly remembered that he had been in the Zhao State, when he heard that the reason why the Zhao State had formed cavalry was because the chariots of the Zhao State were vulnerable in front of the Hu cavalry—at that time, he also thought it was incredible, how could a weak cavalry defeat a strong chariot?

It wasn't until later that he gradually understood the horror of cavalry, and he realized that the seemingly weak cavalry was actually very powerful, so strong that even the combat convoy, which was a terrifying opponent on the battlefield, seemed vulnerable in front of them.

"Hurry up and get rid of them."

Clapping his hands, Meng Hu urged the cavalry under his command: "After finishing the battle, we have to deal with the five hundred foot soldiers next." ”

"Oh-"

The cavalry under his command excitedly complied, and pursued the remaining twenty chariots.

By the time the sun set and dusk, only Qin General Xin Xi was left in the hundred chariots.

At this time, the two soldiers in his chariot had also been killed, and he held the reins in his hand and drove the warhorse, looking around numbly.

Around him, there were more than 300 Wei cavalrymen staring at each other, although they all looked tired, but there were eyes in their eyes like a pack of wolves looking at their prey.

There was even Wei Pawn licking his tongue at him despicably.

"Abominable ......"

With a little shame and resentment on his face, Qin General Xin Xi charged towards these Wei cavalry, shouting in his mouth: "A group of despicable Wei people, if you have the guts, don't dare to only shoot arrows from a distance, and fight with me, I am Xin Xi, the commander of the Qin army......"

However, in the next breath, he was thrown out by Meng Huce who immediately swung his spear forward, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Hey, the commander of the Qin army, it's nothing."

Slowly stepping forward, looking down at Xin Xi, who fell to the ground and couldn't get up, Meng Hu said lightly, and pierced the opponent's chest and abdomen with the spear in his hand.

As he himself said, he was not the rookie of the cavalry around him, but only knew how to shoot arrows on his horse.

He is an old horseman who has been strictly trained by Master Zhao's father.

"Clean up the battlefield, then rest for a while, let's go and get rid of those five hundred Qin army foot soldiers!"

"Wow!"

More than 300 cavalrymen raised their arms and cheered.