Chapter 390: The First Dead
The three big countries in the north, Qin and Zhao and Wei, are now in the same situation, among which Zhao is the most powerful, after all, the Jizhou he occupies is the richest state and county in the world, although Cao Xing occupied Si Li, which used to be the most important place in the world, but then again, whether it is Luoyang or Chang'an, they were all looted at one time.
The people's livelihood withered, the people moved, and the merchants and wealthy all moved away, so it will take a long time to recover, and it can be referred to Cao Cao who moved the capital to Luoyang in the later period, so it takes a long time to restore Luoyang.
In terms of comprehensive strength, Zhao is still the most powerful, so under Yuan Shao's high spirits, he doesn't mind fighting on both sides, isn't it just a Qin State and a Wei State? What is there to fear, just fight.
However, at the beginning, the war did not directly send hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides to fight in one place in an earth-shattering battle, and then declare one side victorious and the other side defeated, as people imagined.
Just because no matter which side of the two sides, there are more or less scruples, even if Yuan Shao has some arrogance, but he is not a fool, before carrying out a full-scale general attack, he must always carry out several tentative attacks, and now Xu Yu's intelligence forces have all been transferred to the south of their Zhao State, just to deal with Cao Cao and others.
As for the Qin State to their west, Yuan Shao also unceremoniously sent troops here, and the person he sent was his general Ju Yi.
This Ju Yi is indeed a character, Chen Hu fought with him, and the final result was that Ju Yi led more than 30,000 soldiers, first sent more than 10,000 people to play the vanguard, Chen Hu saw this, carried his Xuanhua axe, personally charged into battle, led 20,000 troops, with the momentum of thunder, directly impacted the phalanx of 10,000 troops.
Chen Hu took the lead in the charge, like a fierce tiger, plunged into the enemy's military formation, and then engaged in a frantic battle. After years of improvement of the cavalry of the Qin State, although I dare not say that everyone is in that state of being strong and strong, most of the cavalry led by Chen Hu are the elite of the cavalry, so under Chen Hu's leading charge, the Qin army behind him is all fighting bravely to kill the enemy.
The 10,000 soldiers and horses sent by Ju Yi were quickly defeated and scattered.
Looking at Ju Yi's soldiers and horses who retreated in a hurry, Chen Hu knew that the so-called war is not that you defeat others once or twice to achieve victory, and if you really want to achieve victory, you should focus on destroying the opponent's living force, after all, as long as the opponent has soldiers in hand, you have not defeated others, so Chen Hu also began to order the pursuit.
However, Chen Hu was also afraid that Ju Yi would have an ambush in the rear, so the speed of his pursuit was very slow, but when he got to the back, Chen Hu watched, if he didn't run faster, it was estimated that those Ju Yi's soldiers and horses would flee back, and there was no ambush after running so far, so Chen Hu also put his mind at ease and directly and boldly commanded his soldiers to advance.
However, when Chen Hu and the others went deep into the hinterland, suddenly from the bushes on both sides, there were countless people shouting that the horses were lost, only to see the bushes on both sides rushing out, countless Zhao State sergeants, seeing this, although Chen Hu was surprised, but he quickly calmed down, after many years of military career, Chen Hu had already known how to use the trick of ambush, before the pursuit, he had already expected this.
However, looking at the team that Ju Yi rushed out, Chen Hu still sneered, Ju Yi was inevitably too careless, this place has missed the excellent ambush range, because there are plains all around here, there is no time and place to use it, Ju Yi set up an ambush here, completely just to have a hard-fought field battle with Chen Hu.
Therefore, Chen Hu did not have any fear, and directly ordered his troops to be here, and launched a fierce confrontation with Yuan Shao's army.
The vast majority of the soldiers led by Chen Hu are cavalry, and most of the soldiers who are in ambush in Ju Yi are infantry, and the cavalry and infantry should be the one that wins completely, which is also Chen Hu's greatest confidence, but what Chen Hu didn't expect to kill was that when his cavalry was completely engaged with these infantry, he realized that these infantry were really unusual.
For example, a knight of the Qin army saw an infantry of the Zhao State, directly held up his spear, and charged towards his horse, the power of the horse charge and the power of the spear thrust are not something that ordinary people can bear, basically being hit by these two things on the battlefield, it is a certain death.
However, what this Qin knight didn't expect was that when his horse was about to approach the infantry of Zhao State, the infantry of Zhao State obviously also discovered the knight of Qin State, but the infantry of Zhao State could not see any panic on his face, he made a very strange posture, if it was said that the cage was unified, it was equivalent to half squatting on the ground, with one hand behind his waist, when the knight of Qin State was still twenty steps away from this infantry of Zhao State, the infantry of Zhao State suddenly burst into a shout, jumped high from the ground, and took out his hand from behind his waist. An axe was thrown directly at the knights of the Qin State.
The knight of the Qin State was unexpected, and was pierced into the chest by the axe like this, and the blood continued to splatter outward, and the knight of the Qin State didn't even have time to let out a scream, and fell to the ground like this.
The axe used by this Zhao infantry is actually not a special axe, but a wood-splitting axe. This type of axe is not suitable for battlefield warfare because of its short blade and large weight, although it is very large. It can only be a tool for chopping wood by man, and this kind of weapon will never appear in ordinary battles, but it is used on this group of soldiers, and they directly use this axe as a hidden weapon to fight.
Twenty paces away, this distance is really not too far, for well-trained sergeants, it is a hundred shots, these axes themselves are also very powerful, and they are thrown out, so the damage to the body can be imagined, even if it is thick heavy armor, it will also split for you.
This infantry of the Zhao State relied on this method to directly kill a cavalry of the Qin State, although the cavalry of the Qin State fell, but the horse of his heavy horse charge, did not stop because of this, the horse lost control, and continued to charge forward, the target was the infantry of the Zhao State.
Zhao's infantry was trying to dodge the onslaught of the horses, and it was obviously a little late, but he still didn't hurry and just crawled on the ground, carrying a heavy round shield behind him. The four kicks of the horse actually stepped on the circular shield like this, and the soldier of the Zhao State could be seen to fall to the ground with four kicks, his face was a little swollen, and it was obvious that it was obviously impossible to bear the weight of a horse with the body of a person.
But the amazing thing is here, even so, the soldier of the Zhao State still stood up like this.
If ordinary people see this, they will definitely say that this soldier of Zhao is very strong and brave, if all the soldiers of Zhao are the same as this soldier, then the army of Zhao is not invincible.
But the reality of the battlefield tells everyone that this is not an if but a real one, like this soldier of Zhao State, he is not just fighting alone, there are tens of thousands of people who are exactly like him who are following him, all equipped with flying axes, shields and scimitars and other strange-shaped weapons.
These Zhao infantry looked for targets on the chaotic battlefield, looked at the Qin knights, and went directly with a flying axe, everything was solved, and if they encountered too strong opponents, they could directly use the shields on their backs to resist the attack.
In this way, the advantage of the knights of the Qin army, it seems that in front of the infantry of this Zhao State, they have completely lost their advantage, and a tragic massacre began, there is no doubt that the cavalry of the Qin State was directly beaten by this group of infantry of the Zhao State and screamed, and it can even be said that there was no power to fight back at all, Chen Hu saw this and personally charged into battle, but in the face of the siege of several Zhao soldiers, he was also very embarrassed, and finally returned wounded.
After fighting for a whole day, when this group of Zhao soldiers watched the Qin soldiers prepare to retreat, they directly took off the bow and crossbow on their waists, and the bow and crossbow on their waists had reached the same level as the Qin army, shooting one hundred and fifty steps away, there was absolutely no problem, so when the retreat tide completely receded, the Qin army left thousands of corpses on the battlefield, and in this way, the first charge of Chen Hu and others could be described as a fiasco.
As the main general of this battle, even if Chen Hu was seriously injured at the moment, it was difficult to hide the indignation on his face. When he returned to the barracks, Chen Hu was furious and asked his men to investigate what the origin of this Zhao State's troops was, but only four words came back from the investigation, and the first to die.
When the name of this unit reached Cao Xing's ears, Cao Xing also smiled helplessly, this famous general in the Three Kingdoms period is really not to be underestimated.
Che Wu handed a piece of information to Cao Xing, and Cao Xuan opened it and had to admire Ju Yi.
According to the above records, Ju Yi was born in a small family since he was a child, but in their family, because he is a side disciple, he is not reused, but Ju Yi has enlisted in the army at a very early stage, and he has climbed up step by step from a small soldier.
Ju Yi fights, eclectic, likes to use strange tricks to win, he now has more than 10,000 first dead soldiers, but these tens of thousands of first dead soldiers, their selection process is extremely complicated, it is said that Ju Yi is selected one by one by one.
These more than 10,000 first-timers, as their names say, have already made up their minds to die, as long as a person overcomes the fear of death, then he will become very strong, at least ordinary people cannot defeat, this is already a great advantage.
In addition, Ju Yi used to guard the north to resist Karasuma, most of Karasuma are some cavalry, and Ju Yi is the sequence of infantry, and the infantry is always pressed and beaten by the cavalry, which also makes Ju Yi very distressed, so Ju Yi began to study, how to defeat the cavalry with infantry, and finally he successfully searched for a set of training methods, this set of methods was used on his first death soldiers, so as soon as his first death soldiers came out, he could beat the white horse Yi in the civilized world. It can be said that the first deceased is the nemesis of the cavalry.
It's no wonder that Chen Hu will lose so badly, but since something happened, it is always necessary to deal with it, Cao Xing anxiously discussed with everyone to see how to deal with this first death soldier.
The cavalry of the dead man was the first to ascend. Even if you are a heavily armored soldier, it will have the same effect, so everyone discussed the past, and the final result is that I am afraid that only Cao Xing's Shenji Battalion can fight against it.
So Cao Xing did not hesitate, directly led by Xu Shu as the commander, the sergeant of the 3,000 Shenji Battalion, to meet Ju Yi's troops, at the beginning, under the leadership of Xu Shu, the 3,000 Shenji Battalion advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and it was indeed a surprise to the first dead soldier, but Ju Yi is also worthy of his name as a general.
Even if he failed once or twice, he was not discouraged by this, but dived into the tactics of the Shenji Battalion, and finally he also summed up a problem, that is, the most feared thing of the Shenji Battalion is nothing more than the close station, although the sergeant of the Shenji Battalion is equipped with bayonets on the guns, but then again, the Shenji Battalion Army is most of the training time, all used to train shooting, even if they know how to fight in close combat, but how can the technology be compared with the infantry.
Therefore, Ju Yi summed up the law, whenever there was a war, his first battalion was not based on attack, but on defense. Slowly approaching the Shenji Camp in this way, once the distance from the Shenji Camp is close, he directly throws the flying axe on his back, and in this way, the Shenji Battalion also suffers a great loss.
The Shenji Battalion is Cao Xing's direct trump card unit, Cao Xing can't bear to see him lose like this, so he still recruited him back, but in the face of Ju Yi's attack on Cao Xing, they can only use one method in the end, that is, to focus on defense and clear the wilderness.
Chen Hu led the sergeants to guard the city at all times, and as long as the army dared to approach, they would shoot arrows indiscriminately, so that the pace of the first camp was slightly blocked.
However, in the face of Chen Hu's weakness, Ju Yi was even more crazy, generally in his opinion, he was a general of Zhao State, but this was not enough, he wanted to establish a greater career. If he can conquer the prime minister of Qin, it will be a miracle, and he will also be famous in history, so he is not ambiguous, and directly leads his soldiers and horses to the border of Qin, and now he has launched a crazy attack.
Every time, whether it was Qin or Zhao, it could be said that there were heavy losses, Chen Hu was under great pressure, and he could only ask Cao Xuan for help, and Cao Xuan had no choice but to send soldiers to support him constantly.
In this way, the situation in front of them has stabilized a little, but if you talk about the overall situation, the losses on the Qin side will still be a little heavier, after all, Ju Yi in front of them is like a madman, constantly attacking.
Zhao fought on both sides, but it did not fall behind at all, and the local war was fought here, and Zhao was infinitely beautiful, which also greatly strengthened Yuan Shao's confidence.