Chapter 1184: Reversed Situation
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About two days before Zhao Hongrun led his army to withdraw from Hangu to Lu, Wei general Le Qian led 20,000 Jiaojiao cavalry and tens of thousands of slaves who had retreated from the Wei camp in Jianbei, and retreated to Lu to reorganize the army and prepare to recapture the Lu military camp.
However, when Le Qian led the army to arrive in the vicinity of the Lu military camp, he was surprised to find that this military camp was actually hung with the banner of the Yanling army - this military camp had been conquered by the Yanling army.
This made Wei General Le Qian very happy, after all, his position was the battalion general of the Dangshan Army, and his military rank was equal to the five commanders of the Horn Army, although the military rank of the Horn Army was half a level lower than that of the Wei generals, but this did not mean that Le Kui had the right to order the two commanders of the Horn Army, Chahartu and Coolidan, who followed him back to attack Lu.
In today's Sanchuan grassland, there are only three people who can command the Karma Horn Army: Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, Sima An, the general, and Bo Xile, the commander of the Karma Army.
It is precisely because of this that on the way to evacuate the Jianbei Wei camp, Chahartu and Ke Lidan, the two commanders of the Jiaojiao Army, after gathering some Jiaojiao cavalry, left halfway to re-attack the Jianbei Wei camp that had been captured by the Qin general Wang Jian, ignoring Leqian's orders at all.
In this regard, Le Qian had no choice, although he knew that the two captains of the Horn Army were fighting for merit, but he had no right to accuse the other party of anything.
It's just that the Qin Ling coalition is so easy to deal with?
If you turn around and counterattack like this, you can take down the Jianbei military camp?
Le Qian is not optimistic at all.
But in desperation, the Qiangjiao cavalry ignored him at all, so that when they retreated to the Lu clan, there were only some Dangshan cavalry under Le Qi's men, and tens of thousands of slaves of the original Wuxu tribe who had surrendered to the general Sima An.
And what's worse is that it may be that seeing the defeat of the Wei army, the mood of those slaves was a little uneasy, so that on the way, many people secretly escaped.
It's a pity that this group of slaves, Le Qian can't give orders, because the latter only obeys the orders of the general Sima An, who let the latter be their master?
In this case, if a few Dangshan cavalry wanted to turn the tide, the pressure on Le Qian was very great.
Unexpectedly, a surprise fell from the sky, and when he led the army to arrive at the Lu military camp, he found that this camp, which had been captured by the Qin Ling coalition army, had already been conquered by Qu Cheng, the main general of the Yanling army.
What surprised Le Qian even more was that Qu Cheng, the chief general of the Yanling army, led 20,000 Yanling troops, as well as some other scattered cavalry of the Shan tribe, regained control of this area and restored the logistics grain and grass transportation line.
Seeing this, Le Qian immediately went to meet Qu Cheng.
After meeting Qu Cheng, Le Qian very respectfully told Qu Cheng about the changes in the Wei camp in Jianbei and asked for assistance.
Qu Cheng's military rank is very high, and he can be said to be on an equal footing with Sima An, but because Yanling's army is the army of Shang Shuiyi, this general is not attached to the General's Mansion, so Qu Cheng's general is half a level lower than Sima An.
Of course, this is only in terms of military rank, in fact, with the name of the elite under the command of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, even Sima An will treat Qu Cheng politely, including Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Water Army.
"Sure enough, the target of the Qin general Wang Jian is General Sima An."
After listening to Le Qian's narration, Qu Cheng nodded and said, and at the same time, he admired Jie Ziyuan, the staff member of the Suwang Mansion who was sitting in Luocheng.
After all, Jie Ziyu was far away behind the city, and he could guess the intentions of the Qin army, and this far-sighted talent was no less than that of His Royal Highness King Su.
"In other words, where did Wang Jianjun's Qin army come from?"
During the conversation, Le asked Qu Cheng about it.
In fact, he still couldn't understand how Qin Jun could appear behind him.
You must know that at that time, Jianbei to the Lu clan and the Lu clan to Yichuan were all controlled by their Wei army, and it was hard to imagine that there would be a Qin army behind them.
Hearing this, Qu Cheng pondered for a moment, and took the initiative to carry the black cauldron for Zhao Hongrun very interestingly.
Combined with Jie Ziyu's letter, at this time Qu Cheng already understood that the reason why the Qin general Wang Jian was able to lead a strange army to the back of their Wei army, from Yishan all the way to Jianbei, a certain His Royal Highness King Su had to bear the greatest responsibility.
But obviously, this kind of thing can be rotten in the heart, how could a certain wise and martial His Royal Highness King Su make a mistake?
Therefore, this black cauldron will undoubtedly fall on the Yan Ling army who was in Yishan at that time, in this case, Qu Cheng simply recognized this black cauldron, anyway, this kind of non-war crime did not affect his authority, and even, maybe a certain His Royal Highness King Su will remember his loyalty and try to get him a noble status - of course, this refers to the noble status of the Wei State, not the low-level nobleman of the Lord who excites (pastes) the soldiers of the army.
Thinking of this, Qu Cheng did not hesitate to admit this black cauldron, and apologized to Le Cheng, only to hear that Le Cheng was inexplicable, and said in his heart What does this matter have to do with you Qu Cheng?
But after thinking about it, Le Qian understands, after all, he is not a fool.
When talking about the topic of counterattacking the Jianbei military camp, Qu Cheng was also very straightforward, and immediately ordered troops to attack the Jianbei military camp.
Compared with Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Water Army, who was promoted to general by virtue of his personal bravery and the love of a certain Su King, Qu Cheng is a well-deserved general of the Yanling Army, whether it is command or vision, he is more than a step higher than Wu Ji, and the only thing he is inferior to Wu Ji is that he does not have the strength and courage of Wu Ji who can kill the enemy's main general on a single horse.
Therefore, he understood very well the importance of the great general Sima An on this battlefield, which was the established hero of the Wei State who was created by Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, who could be on an equal footing with His Royal Highness the King of Su in terms of military merits and prestige on this battlefield.
If this general unfortunately died in the battle of Sanchuan, it would not only completely disrupt the strategy of a certain King Su, but also cause a serious drop in the morale of the Wei army.
Therefore, no matter what, it is necessary to support Sima An and relieve the siege for this great general.
Otherwise, if this great general makes any mistakes, I believe that Qu Cheng and other generals will not be able to avoid the wrath of His Royal Highness King Su.
Without further ado, after the decision was made, Qu Cheng immediately ordered to send troops, he returned the Lu camp to Meng Liang, the patriarch of the Meng tribe of the Yi tribe, and he personally led 20,000 Yanling troops to Hengjian.
Le Qian also led nearly a thousand cavalry of the Dangshan Army to follow left and right.
At this time, Chahartu and Ke Lidan, the two commanders of the Qiangjiao Army, were leading their cavalry to storm the Jianbei military camp, trying to recapture this military camp that originally belonged to them from the hands of the Qin general Wang Jian.
But as Le Qian expected, the Karma Horn cavalry was enough to deal with the tribal cavalry in Sanchuan County, because they were both the kind of light cavalry that had no formation to speak of, but when they encountered the regular cavalry of the Qin State Iron Eagle Army, which acted in unison, the chances of victory of the Karma Horn Army were unimaginably low.
The Iron Eagle Cavalry of the Qin State, compared with the Korean cavalry, the only drawback is that they do not have excellent equipment, and the blades and armor are almost still in the Bronze Age.
But to be more honest, bronze weapons are not necessarily inferior to iron blades, in fact, the bronze weapons created by the peak smelting process can actually cut iron weapons, but this is already the end of bronze weapons, and there is no room for improvement and improvement, while iron weapons are different, the extension of iron weapons is steel weapons, it is alloy weapons, it is far from the end.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun gave up bronze smelting technology and vigorously promoted iron smelting technology.
And now, the Horned Cavalry wielded the iron weapons that had been purchased from the Bitatu era or subsequently from the Wei State to face the Qin cavalry, which can be called the pinnacle of bronze smelting technology, and it has to be said that the Horned Cavalry suffered a big loss.
It is undeniable that the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army of Wei State did crush the Qin State army in terms of weapons the year before last, but the problem is that the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army were the top armies of Wei State, and they were the private soldiers of Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, so Zhao Hongrun spared no effort to arm these two armies to the teeth.
And what about the weapons of the Horned Cavalry? Those are almost all second-rate and third-rate weapons of the Wei State, and even if there are some iron weapons among them, they may not be able to crush the peak bronze weapons of the Iron Eagle Army.
As a result, the Horned Cavalry suffered defeat without any suspense, and in front of the Iron Eagle Army, the elite regular cavalry of the Qin State, they were beaten so that they couldn't raise their heads, leaving behind more than a thousand corpses, and fled in embarrassment.
Half a day later, Qu Cheng led the Yanling army to Jianbei, and at this time, the Qin general Wang Jian felt the pressure.
After all, after the one-day battle of Hangu the year before last, as the Wei army that destroyed the 200,000 troops of the Qin State under the command of Ji Run, the Shang Shui Army and the Yan Ling Army became famous in the Qin State, and the Qin people had faintly regarded these two Wei armies as the most powerful forces in the Wei State.
Of course, in fact, it is not bad, after all, in the elite army of the first sequence of Wei State, the Su Wang Army is compared with the Wei Wu Army, but it has not been built for a long time, and it is not as high as the Wei Wu Army in the eyes of the Wei people.
Who made Wei Wujun the trump card army that existed in the early days of the founding of the Wei State, and the origin of the honor of the Wei State infantry soldier in the world.
No, in front of Qu Cheng's Yan Ling army, the momentum of the Iron Eagle Army led by the Qin general Wang Jian was contained.
The soldiers of the Yan Ling army made the Iron Eagle Army under Wang Jian's command understand the fact that our defeat a few days ago was just because of your sneak attack. In terms of head-to-head confrontation, you are no match for my Yan Ling army at all!
And it turned out that in front of the infantry phalanx of the Yanling Army, the Iron Eagle Army was almost helpless, and could only be compressed to the Jianbei military camp step by step.
It's no wonder that the infantry of the Yanling Army are all heavy infantry, unless they encounter heavy armored cavalry like the Horse Army, otherwise, cavalry like the Iron Eagle Army will not be able to tear through the defense line of the Yanling Army at all.
In fact, the Iron Eagle Army is not considered light cavalry, because they also wear bronze armor that protects parts of the body, but most of this armor is concentrated on the body, as if wearing two bronze plates, and the defense of the limbs is very low.
This kind of cavalry is called cuirassiers.
Note: Cuirassiers can be understood as a low match for heavy cavalry. Compared with the high-equipped heavy cavalry of the Horse Army, the advantage of the cuirassier is that it is more flexible and has a more durable combat ability. However, the disadvantage is that the cuirass can only protect the vital points of the body, the protection of the limbs is very low, and there is no horse armor, so it is easy for the enemy to launch tactics against war horses. But in any case, cuirassiers are also a type of heavy cavalry.
In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Yan Ling army, the Qin general Wang Jian finally realized what the Wei general Sima An tasted two days ago, and even his current situation was more dangerous than Sima An's situation at that time.
Although Sima An faced the embarrassment of being attacked by the enemy on his back two days ago, with the narrow terrain of the narrow valley, Sima An could at least hold on for a few days, until the cavalry under his command was so hungry that he couldn't even lift his weapons because of the exhaustion of food.
But the problem is that three or five days of work is enough for the Wei army in the vicinity to detect that something is wrong and quickly rush to support.
Therefore, Wang Jian's only chance of victory was to join forces with the Qian tribe to kill Sima An before the Wei reinforcements arrived.
However, Yan Ling's army arrived quickly on the third day, which was somewhat unexpected by Wang Jian.
But this is not the worst, the worst thing is that Actun of the Antelope tribe failed to break through the defense of the Corn Horn Army on the narrow valley of the sheep intestine last night, so that Wang Jian did not know which side of Sima An and Baturu won at all.
…… If Sima An really hit the Qian tribe hard, it would be all over.
Wang Jian thought worriedly.
The next day, the Qiangjiao cavalry, who appeared on the west side of the Jianbei military camp, announced to the warriors of the Lingling tribe in a very high-profile manner, announcing that the Qiang tribe had become history and that the Yunan Basin Valley had been occupied by them.
After learning of this, the Qin Ling coalition army in the Jianbei military camp was greatly shaken.