Chapter 599: It's a Win Back a City (Second Update)

Outside the camp of Great Qin, for a time all over the mountains were the Seleucian cavalry shouting to kill the earth-shattering, and they had not experienced such an attack on the enemy's camp in the past, but it was all because they were the attacking side, and there were few failed battles, but this time it was different, they were forced by the Great Qin people almost to the point of desperation to make such a hard fight.

Under such circumstances, many Seleucians felt very ashamed in their hearts, and in this shame, they thought in their hearts that no matter whether they could survive this battle or not, the first thing they had to do was to destroy Daqin's trebuchet.

But after destroying the trebuchet, they didn't think like Antiochus III said, they thought that after completing the task, they must kill some of the cavalry of Daqin, if they kill one, it will be enough, if they can kill two, then as a sergeant guarding Seleucus, they will die without regrets.

This was not the idea of one or two Seleuk sergeants, but an idea shared by many people, and even before they set off, many Seleuk sergeants had already drunk the so-called guillotine with each other, in other words, they had no intention of returning alive this time.

In the era when Yinggao came from, there was a saying that it was very good, that is, the horizontal was afraid of being stunned, and the stunned were afraid of dying, and the current Seleucus, that completely belonged to the deathless, Antiochus III did not realize this, and Han Xin and Meng Tian did not realize this, they still knew very well about the fighting power of the Seleucians, but they did not know the character of the Seleucians very well.

The crazy Seleucians rushed into the camp of Daqin, and they were greeted by the Daqin cavalry who had already been dressed neatly, and the two sides fought in one place in an instant, at the beginning, the Seleucets were indeed looking for those trebuchets, and the search for trebuchets involved a lot of their attention, which gave the soldiers of Daqin a certain advantage.

But the size of the trebuchet is not small after all, in this case, it didn't take much time for the location of the trebuchet to be discovered by the Seleucets, just like Han Xin and Meng Tian had expected, they began to rush to the place of the trebuchet like crazy after they found out about it, but there was one thing that Meng Tian and Han Xin did not expect.

Taking advantage of the Seleuc's army to destroy the trebuchet with all its might, the soldiers of Daqin did kill a lot of enemy soldiers, but because the Sergeants of Seleu did not spare their lives at all, they all ignited the trebuchet like crazy, and more than a hundred trebuchets did not last long before they were almost destroyed by the Sergeants of Seleus, which was much shorter than Han Xin and Meng Tian expected.

Not only that, but when the hundred trebuchets were basically destroyed, the Seleucets' cavalry turned around and did not return to the city as their monarch Antiochus III had said before, but faced the Great Qin cavalry rushing from all directions, and launched a desperate battle.

"Grandma, are these Seleucians crazy? Don't they know that they are inferior to us in terms of total strength, and don't they know that the best option for them at this time is to return to their own city? ”

Meng Tian looked at the surrounding situation, and began to curse his mother at that time, he and Han Xin both agreed that after destroying these trebuchets, Seleuc's cavalry would definitely try their best to run into their own city, and this kind of thing must have been inseparable, but now, everything is so abnormal.

The previous Great Qin cavalry followed behind the Seleucian's butt to cover up and kill, and they were killing coolly, but they didn't want to escape at all after they came to their senses, but blindly began to fight with the surrounding Great Qin soldiers.

From this time on, the casualties on both sides began to rise alternately, and for the first time in this war, the soldiers of Great Qin also began to have a lot of casualties.

"The trebuchet of Daqin has been almost destroyed, why don't you organize the men and horses to withdraw! Stay here a little longer, and my Seleuc cavalry will lose an unknown number of them! ”

Although the cavalry under his command paid some costs, in the eyes of Antiochus III, these prices were still within the range of his acceptance, but just as he was about to retreat to his own city with his soldiers, he found that almost none of the soldiers under his command had withdrawn with him, and even a few cronies he brought were still fighting in the military camp of Daqin.

Antiochus III, who found that things seemed to be a little out of his control, hurriedly shouted loudly to one of his cronies, to be honest, he was really scared at this time, afraid that all the soldiers under his command would go up in such a battle, and the result of the top was like the last time he fought with those Great Qin cavalry who knew how to form formations.

"Your Majesty, my Seleucian's soldiers are already looking at death as home, since they have completed the task assigned by the monarch before, let them do more for my Seleuc!"

Obviously, this cronie of Antiochus III still knows what the sergeants below think in their hearts, but they haven't told Antiochus III before.

"You guys are really nonsense, if my Seleuc soldiers die in this battle, you will all be held accountable!"

As soon as Antiochus III heard this, he knew in his heart what was going on, he was angry at that time, but at this time, his cavalry was already fighting with others in Daqin's barracks.

And just when Antiochus III didn't know what to do, suddenly another of his cronies, Pegasus, came to him, although he was already half bloody, but with a very excited look on his face.

"Your Majesty, my Seleucian cavalry did not fall behind in the battle with Great Qin, and suffered a surprise attack in this night, those Great Qin's cavalry are fighting separately at this time, and they can't use the previous formation, this is really a good opportunity!"

When Antiochus III, who was already a little desperate, heard these words, a glimmer of hope suddenly surged in his heart that he would not be defeated in the battle with the Great Qin people, which was not just a simple matter of killing some Great Qin warriors.

What the current Seleucus soldiers lack, Antiochus III knew very clearly, what they lacked was nothing else, it was the confidence in the battle against Daqin, and this battle that he had not arranged before, it was very likely that it would be able to bring confidence to the Seleucid soldiers.

Antiochus III was silent for a long time, and then finally said to his two cronies as if he had made up his mind: "In this case, what does it matter if we fight this night, but this battle is for the sake of my Seleu soldiers to regain confidence, not too much, Daqin has as many as 300,000 troops this time, even if they are each injured 20,000 in such a battle, it is also very unfavorable for my Seleus, from now on, We only fought with the cavalry of Great Qin here for one hour, and after an hour, no matter what happened, we would all withdraw, and we must obey my command this time, otherwise my Seleuc would only have the upper hand in the battle with Great Qin. ”

What Antiochus III said this time, his two cronies had no reason to refute it, because what they had learned before was that their cavalry and Daqin's cavalry fought almost equally, but they did not have much of the upper hand.

In other words, in such a situation, if the Seleucian cavalry kills a cavalry of Great Qin, they may also pay the price of a soldier, so that if they kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, in fact, if they were placed in the previous Seleu battles, they would never do it.

But now they are excited because they have a draw with each other, which is enough to show that in their own hearts, they already think that they are not as good as the soldiers of Great Qin.

In an hour, the cavalry of both sides killed each other on their war horses, and the sky was dark, and Daqin's camp was already stained red with blood.

This time, both sides each sent nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses to fight within a huge range.

In such a battle, Han Xin and Meng Tian were very unhappy, even if the enemy's casualties were not small, but if such a battle lasted for several hours, no matter what the final outcome of the battle was, Yinggao's condition that the loss to Han Xin should not be greater than 50,000 would definitely not be completed.

Therefore, Han Xin and Meng Tian set a goal for themselves that once the casualties exceeded 20,000, they would not say anything, and they would have to withdraw as if the battle was lost this time.

After all, they are not monarchs like Antiochus III, there is an emperor above them, and what the emperor says is what they have to accomplish, and their emperor is still a far-sighted emperor, since he said that the total casualties in this war cannot exceed 50,000, then there must be a reason for him.

An hour later, Han Xin and Meng Tian predicted that their casualties had exceeded 10,000 and were still rising, but at this time, they received good news for them, and the Seleuc soldiers suddenly retreated, and completely retreated, in the direction of their city.

"General, shall we cover up behind them?"

Because this time it was the first time that there had been more losses since the battle with Seleuc, the soldiers who came to report the news were itching with hatred, obviously wanting to chase after them and cover up the killing.

But whether it was Han Xin or Meng Tian, they both shook their heads slightly after hearing his proposal, obviously disagreeing with their proposal to pursue behind.

In this way, in this battle, the cavalry of Seleuc fought in Daqin's camp for a long time after destroying Daqin's eighty or ninety trebuchets, and liquidated it at the cost of more than 10,000 people in exchange for the trebuchet and Daqin's price of more than 10,000 people, and this time Seleuc had the upper hand.

This was also the first miscalculation of Han Xin and Meng Tian, originally they thought that they could use these hundred trebuchets as bait to kill a large number of Seleucians at the cost of almost no casualties, but it turned out that the Seleucets had great courage, and after destroying the trebuchet, they did not retreat, but fought with Daqin on the spot.

Because the cavalry of Great Qin had already shown the power of the formation in front of the Seleucians before, it was impossible for the Seleuks to know that the 100,000 horses they brought out this time would not be able to form a formation, so what was the reason for Antiochus III to make such a decision, until this time the battle was over, Han Xin and Meng Tian did not figure it out.

Although this battle was only a little more than an hour, but it made Daqin lose 12,000 cavalry, plus the number of people lost in the previous battle, Daqin has already paid the price of 15,000 in this war, although these horses and 300,000 troops seem to be nothing, but compared with the 50,000 stipulated by Yinggao, it accounts for a tenth-high proportion.

At this time, Han Xin suddenly understood a little bit about the purpose of Yinggao setting such a ceiling of 50,000 for him, for other purposes, Han Xin naturally had no mood to know, but for him, Yinggao must be exercising his tolerance rate in the war.

If the requirement of 300,000 horses is to destroy Seleuc, then Han Xin will be very relaxed in using troops and strategies without pressure, so that even if there are 100,000 left in the final 300,000 army, and then the Seleu is defeated, it will be regarded as his credit, and now, obviously, such a situation will not work in Yinggao.

Han Xin thought silently, secretly made up his mind in his heart, and at the same time had a new understanding of Seleuc, just as he realized before, Seleucians are not animals, they will not do everything according to what he said.

Unlike Han Xin, Antiochus III and his cronies returned to Seleucus.

Although it cost the lives of many soldiers, every Seleucian who participated in this battle felt that the death of these people was worth it, they needed such an opportunity to fight head-on with the soldiers of Great Qin, and even before they had always thought that they could not defeat the cavalry of Great Qin, and now, such a myth has obviously been completely shattered.