"Ps: The end of the year is approaching, and the manuscript has been killed, and I will try to make it more and more continuous, and I will resume one chapter at noon and one chapter at night after the year, and three updates as appropriate, and the updates for these two days are at night, sorry."

It was not surprising that there were deserters among the infantry of the army under his command.

Although the Chu State punished the deserters quite harshly after the fact, even so, if they were asked to attack a camp that was almost impossible to conquer, the infantry in those armies would inevitably choose to flee, especially when someone took the lead.

The law does not blame the public.

If it was in the past, most of the fathers would be full of resentment, gritting their teeth at this, just waiting for the later return to their camp, and then take out the soldiers who took the lead in escaping and execute them one by one, so as to set an example.

But today, he was silent, as if he had not seen the rout of the front-line infantry at all.

The reason for this is that the infantry casualties on the front line have been too heavy so far, and what makes people sigh is that the huge infantry casualties have hardly been rewarded.

You must know that up to now, the casualties of the vanguard infantry of the Chu army have reached nearly 10,000, and the corpses are piled up more and more on the outside of the opposite Wei camp, especially in the area of the spear forest, as if a bunker completely built from the corpses of Chu soldiers has been piled up, which is half a zhang high.

The blood stained the land even red, making the ground outside the Wei camp look like a land watered with red blood from a distance.

And after paying such a heavy price in casualties, did the infantry of the Chu army gain anything?

No!

So far, none of them have managed to climb the wall of the Wei camp.

In the face of this tragedy, not to mention that the infantry of the Chu army on the front line had no intention of fighting, even Zaifu himself gradually lost the confidence to conquer this Wei camp.

According to common sense, if you can't attack for a long time, you should temporarily withdraw your troops and think of other good strategies.

But Zai's father did not give the general order for the whole army to retreat for a long time. There is no other reason, but because the current number of casualties has not yet reached the "hard target" set by the Emperor Xiong Tuo of Xuancheng, a full 30,000 people.

"Attack! Continue to attack the Wei camp! ”

The latest order was given by the Father.

But in fact, he no longer had any expectations for whether he could conquer the Wei camp in front of him.

Because in his opinion, the defensive arrangement of the Wei camp has become more and more defensive with the passage of time. For example, more and more arrows were being fired back at the phalanx of 10,000 longbowmen under his command. The longbowmen have gradually suffered a lot of casualties.

Although the direct casualties caused by these thirty or forty stone-throwing carts to the 10,000 longbowmen were not serious, their deterrent power far exceeded that of thousands of Wei longbowmen.

The most direct manifestation is that in order to avoid the tragedy of being killed by the huge mud thrown by those catapults, the 10,000 longbowmen have gradually begun to avoid this kind of mud thrown by the Wei camp.

Is this a good thing?

No! This is not a good thing at all in the eyes of Zai's father.

Because, even one longbowman managed to avoid the mud thrown by the Wei army's projectile stones. However, the direct impact of this incident was that the Chu soldiers in a small position near the soldier had no intention of suppressing the Wei soldiers in the Wei camp with bows and arrows.

Therefore, from the perspective of the generals, the soldiers' practice of avoiding mud blocks is more serious than being directly stoned to death by one or two soldiers, after all, because of the relationship between those soldiers, the soldiers in the nearby small position have a chaotic formation.

You must know that if the formation is out of order, there is no guarantee that there will be a crowding and trampling of soldiers, which is far more serious than direct casualties.

"Stump, Tread, Tread—"

The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near. Father Zai turned his head to take a look, and saw that the general Zi Cheyu was galloping towards on horseback.

Father Zai frowned. Because he had already guessed the intention of this colleague, after all, not long ago, he had ignored the suggestion that Zicheyu send a herald to come and plead for the withdrawal of troops.

Sure enough, the general Che Yu rode his horse to Zai's father's side, and whispered to the latter: "Zaifu, withdraw the troops." If we continue to fight, it will only add unnecessary casualties...... Without siege equipment, our army would not be able to conquer this Wei battalion! ”

Father Zai's eyes were still on the battlefield in front of him, and when he heard this, he said in a deep voice: "Ziche, you are also aware of Lord Xiong Tuo's orders. Don't make it difficult for someone. ”

Zi Cheyu naturally understood what the so-called 'Xiong Tuo's order' meant, and frowned when he heard the words and said, "Having said that, what good is it to increase casualties like this needlessly? …… Don't you notice? The infantry at the front has fled. You should understand that in my Dachu, the punishment for deserters is extremely cruel, and the soldiers will never dare to run away, but if there are soldiers fleeing on the battlefield, it means that there is no chance of winning this battle......"

Father Zai was silent, in fact, he understood all the truths that Zi Cheyu said, but because of the order of Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, he couldn't choose to retreat right now.

After thinking about it, he sighed wistfully: "Don't make it difficult for you, General Ziche ......"

Hearing the sound of 'General Ziche', Zicheyu's face changed slightly, and he opened his mouth a few times to stop talking.

At this moment, there was a commotion and exclamation from the front.

Zai Father and Zi Cheyu looked up, only to find that a Wei cavalry came out from the west side of the Wei camp and launched a sneak attack on the 10,000 longbowmen, successfully using the horsepower to sprint into the formation of the longbowmen.

Zi Cheyu took a closer look and estimated the number of Wei cavalry.

The number of troops is no more, no less, less than a thousand horsemen.

"Won't you withdraw your troops yet?" Zi Cheyu glanced at Zai Father with slanted eyes, and said coldly: "A thousand cavalry soldiers are enough to disrupt the formation of nearly 10,000 longbow soldiers......"

As soon as the words fell, I heard my father say lightly: "It's just a thousand horsemen, even if there are all longbowmen there, it's not impossible to besiege and kill this Wei horseman." ”

"But at least five times as many casualties!" Zi Cheyu took over the conversation and replied coldly: "Don't forget, our army only has 10,000 longbowmen, and if they are killed or injured in order to snipe that Wei cavalry, more than half of them will be killed or wounded...... It is even more impossible for our army to conquer this Wei battalion! ”

Zai's father was silent when he heard this, after all, what Zi Cheyu said was indeed the truth, just take this battle against the Wei camp, not to mention almost, it is all dependent on the 10,000 longbowmen to make the Wei soldiers in the Wei camp suffer casualties, if there is no longbow soldiers, relying on the infantry alone to attack the camp, it is simply to let the soldiers of the Chu State go to die, and it is not in vain to send them to death without any return.

Because of this, there are far more longbowmen in the Chu army than the infantry, after all, every longbowman is a favorable guarantee for attacking this Wei camp in the future.

Looking at the 10,000 longbowmen and pondering for a moment, the father of Zai let out a long breath, and finally sighed: "That's it, just follow what you say." …… But before that, the infantry still has to complete the final mission. ”

Zi Cheyu was stunned when he heard this, and then he seemed to think of something, and frowned: "A certain personally led an infantry to drive that Wei cavalry, if there is a chance to surround and kill it, it is better, if not, then expel it." Your side ......"

Speaking of this, Zi Cheyu glanced at Zai's father, shook his head and didn't say any more, and rode away on his own.

Not long after, the Chu general Che Yu led his infantry array to support the nearly 10,000 longbowmen, and while ordering them to retreat slowly, the infantry under his command built a defensive line to prevent the nearly 1,000 Wei cavalry from taking the opportunity to kill.

The nearly 1,000 Wei cavalry were the 800 cavalry led by Baili Ba, the general of the Junshui battalion, and he followed Zhao Hongrun's instructions to wait for the 10,000 Chu longbowmen to take the opportunity to kill the 10,000 Chu longbowmen because of the Wei longbowmen on the Wei camp wall and the projectiles of many stone-throwing carts in the camp.

I have to say that this sneak attack was very successful, the reason is that the attention of the 10,000 Chu longbowmen was focused on the south side of the camp wall of the Wei camp, and no one was afraid that there would be a large number of cavalry in the Wei camp, so that Baili Ba led the 800 light cavalry to enter the phalanx of the 10,000 Chu longbowmen without danger.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the Chu people reacted quickly, and it didn't take long for a Chu general to lead an infantry team to build a defensive line, and ordered the longbowmen in front of the defensive line to go around to the left and right.

Previously, because of the small number of cavalry under his command, Bailiba did not dare to lead the army too deeply, but just raided back and forth on the edge of the longbow formation, but now the Chu soldiers have built a defensive line, which makes the 800 cavalry of Bailiba and the Chu longbowmen who are as many as 3,000 in that place immediately distance themselves.

Being distanced in front of a troop of archers can be extremely deadly.

"Who will Chu be?" The nearby Chu army is at his disposal, and this commander is very powerful......

Bailiba didn't know that it was the Chu army general Zi Cheyu who personally led the infantry to build the defense line, so he secretly wondered about the incomparable command of this Chu general. No, the longbowmen of the Chu State, who were obviously killed by the cavalry led by him, gradually became orderly after hearing Zicheyu's reprimand and order, and changed their embarrassment, and neatly divided into two teams, bypassing the defense line formed by the infantry of the Chu army.

Seeing this, Baili Ba, who was originally interested in expanding the results of the battle, immediately changed his direction and led his eight hundred cavalry to retreat to the northwest.

Therefore, if he is not greedy enough and still intends to continue the pursuit with those longbowmen, those crossbowmen who are waiting solemnly behind the Chu army's infantry defense line will let him understand why bows and crossbows have been hailed as the most despicable invention of war weapons in history.

Therefore, whether it was for the sake of the eight hundred cavalry under his command, or for the sake of his own life, Bailiba did not dare to continue the pursuit, in order to avoid the arrow shooting from the opposite Chu army, he had to take the cavalry under his leadership, urgently detoured a big bend, and waited for the Chu army longbowmen to quickly leave the firing range, and then think about whether to continue to peep on the sidelines, ready to wait for the opportunity to sneak attack, or see the good and return to the Wei camp.

But in any case, the purpose of his trip to lead the cavalry out of the camp was achieved, because the 10,000 Chu longbowmen had gradually retreated to the rear, and as soon as this longbowmen withdrew, it meant that the Chu army had given up its intention to continue the battle.

The Chu army finally retreated. (To be continued.) )