As the elite cavalry of the two countries, the cavalry of the Zhao army has experienced many battlefields and has a lot of experience in giving full play to their advantages. Light cavalry like Zhao Guo is impossible to fight close combat with the enemy, and only by constantly adjusting their formations and annihilating the enemy army in cavalry shooting is the right way.

The warriors of Qi are more like martial arts masters, emphasizing the bravery and skill of individual combat, so they are called warriors of martial arts. Each fighter is armed with a halberd, which limits the movements they can make on the horse, and when the horse is running, they can only passively tighten the horse's belly, and cannot move casually, otherwise it is easy to fall off the horse. In comparison, the low bridge saddle used by this Zhao cavalry, although it is not as stable as the high bridge saddle, is already very good for the cavalry who are used to eating and living with horses.

In this way, the skilled fighters chased behind, and the cavalry of Zhao State used the formation to change their formation and adjust the direction of attack in front, and every time the people of Qi just touched the formation of the Zhao army, they were thrown away by the Zhao army using the speed advantage. Speaking of which, although the Qi State is rich, it is not a big horse breeding country, and it is mostly dependent on the provision of Zhongshan to be able to form such a cavalry. The horses of the cavalry of the Zhao State have shifted from Daijun to Yangyuan, and in this kind of running battle, the grassland horses are more durable than the Central Plains horses of Qi and Zhongshan. This made the people of Qi very angry, this kind of escape game-like play, it was the first time I had seen it!

Kuang Zhang received the news that the cavalry of the Zhao army appeared not far from Zhuoxian, and knew that this was the use of the other party to stop the enemy, so he ordered the rest of the troops to directly attack Zhuoxian except for the technical attackers, and not to chase the enemy.

The cavalry of Zhao and the skilled fighters of Qi were in full swing, and the battle was also very fierce in Zhuo County. The guards of Zhao and Qi are even more reluctant to give up an inch of land, you come and go, and the two sides are fighting for me in the small city of Zhuo County.

After all, Qi is a military power, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is much higher than that of the Yanzhao coalition army, and many times the coalition army rushed to the city, but they were all beaten back by the Qi army. After all, the coalition army is dominated by Yan people, and most of these Yan people are temporary defectors, compared to the soldiers of Qi State, one is not enough training, and the other is insufficient weapons. Naturally, it will be very difficult to fight.

Ji Zhi stood on the chariot and watched the attacks of the coalition forces rush up the city wall again and again, and were repulsed again and again. His heart went up and down. This is the first time he has participated in commanding such a battle, of course, he is just a spectator, and the core of the command of the army is the orchestra pit and the city quilt.

"General, the defense of the Qi army is very stubborn, and our army has been beaten down for the third time." Looking at the corpses that were gradually piling up under the city walls, Ji Zhi felt very uncomfortable. This kind of bloody scene was much more brutal than the battlefield he had heard of.

"Well, it's not that the Qi army is stubborn in defense, but it's trying to delay time. If he defends strongly from the beginning, then our army will think that this is a hard bone and will definitely attack another day. On the one hand, the opposing master will attract us to attack, and on the other hand, he will make several false appearances that he cannot support us, so as to attract us to continue attacking him. It must be hoping to hold us back and wait for the large army of Qi to come. ”

"How can you see this? Is it really not that the Qi army is physically exhausted? ”

"Childe, please take a look." Le Chi pointed to the coalition forces on the city wall that had been repulsed again, and said, "Every time our coalition forces are repulsed, the Qi army is always able to quickly seize the places they have just lost, especially the city towers, and they have not changed hands once. The archers on the tower do not shoot in peacetime, and only after our troops have climbed the city walls will they assist the defenders in counterattacking. Isn't that a big surprise? ”

"It could also be that the manager is trying to retain his strength." Ji Zhi retorted.

"If that's the case, then we can't even let our army attack the walls. The walls did not change hands once, and the blow to morale was huge. A general, it is appropriate to be in danger of his troops, but there is still a degree, and if he exceeds this degree, he does not have enough control over the army, and he often plays with fire and burns himself, crying out in vain. ”

Ji Zhi nodded, this is a real experience.

"General, Lone looks at this battle so anxiously, do you think we ......?"

"Childe, the so-called overnight, suitable for field warfare, the siege of the city is a confrontation between the two sides, each with their own ability, without far exceeding the strength of the other party, it is impossible to do it in one go."

"It's just that the casualties are getting bigger and bigger, and I feel that if this continues, I'm afraid that before Zhuoxian County is attacked, our army will already suffer heavy losses and be counterattacked by the other party."

"Childe rest assured," Le Chi said, pointing to the Qi army at the head of the city and said, "What Childe saw was that the Qi army drove our army down the city one after another, but he couldn't see that even the Qi army itself was exhausted. Because of this, our military cannot slack off, otherwise morale will suffer. The more times like this, the more you have to calm down, otherwise, the previous casualties will be missed in vain. ”

"However, this place is so close to Jidu, if the Qi army rushes over from Jidu, won't we have time to retreat."

"Childe, don't worry, the cavalry of Zhao State is not so easy to be defeated." The orchestra pit said meaningfully.

On the vast plain, the pursuit game continued, and the cavalry of the Zhao State was still leading in front, followed by the cavalry and skilled fighters of the Qi State. Both cavalry units, although their speed was decreasing, had to fight to the death. At this time, whoever admits defeat first will die without a place to be buried.

Yan Zhou glanced back at the Qi cavalry who followed closely behind him, and took a sip of the dust that drifted into his mouth, and began to blame these Qi people for being really tenacious, and they could still catch up with this time, and they really couldn't underestimate the people of the world. But even so, it didn't make him look at the Qi people.

"Captain, captain." Pang Xuan patted his horse and caught up with Yan Zhou, who was leading the team in front, and said breathlessly. "Something doesn't seem right."

"What do you mean?" Yan Zhou was a little stunned.

"Captain, if the Qi army really has the intention to encircle and suppress us, why did you let my army run straight to the southeast? Just send a large army to scatter and surround it. Maybe you didn't notice that every time our army wanted to go in other directions, the Qi troops behind would chase a little more urgently, and when we ran to the southeast, they would relax. ”

"In this way, it is not that we are waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the Qi people, but that the Qi people are driving us. They just want us to follow the route they designed to escape. ”

Yan Zhou also discovered this feeling just now, but he thought it was a coincidence and didn't take it to heart. At this moment, after Pang Xuan's reminder, he remembered that he really seemed to have other intentions.

"You mean, the Qi army may arrange an ambush in the southeast?"

"Nine times out of ten." Pang Xuan said cautiously, "What's more, captain, I can't continue to attack." The Qi army only arranged cavalry to pursue us, and looking at the formation, its main force had already rushed towards Qi'er Liang. Although Qi'er Liang has an ambush force of our army, in the face of such a large number of Qi troops, I am afraid that it will not be able to do it. ”

Yan Zhou nodded, Pang Xuan's analysis was not unreasonable, "In this case, you first lead the team to Qi'erliang to support, and then block the enemy when the Qi army arrives at Qi'erliang." ”

Pang Xuan hesitated for a while, and said to Yan Zhou: "Captain, I have a plan, I don't know if it's feasible." ”

"Oh? Will the plan be settled? Yan Zhou's eyes lit up.

Just when Zhao Jun, who was being chased by the skilled fighters of the Qi State, was very happy, he found that Zhao Jun had turned a corner, and no longer fled in the southeast direction, but ran towards the northwest. This was unexpected by the Qi army, because according to Kuang Zhang's estimate, when the cavalry of the Zhao army encountered the pursuit of the skilled attackers, they either retreated or attacked in the southeast direction, and the speed of the Qi army's attack was contained in the attack, so he arranged a Qi cavalry in this direction, which was specially used to encircle the Zhao cavalry, hoping to use the two cavalry, one positive and one strange, to flank and annihilate the Zhao cavalry.

Now that the plan has failed, Zhao Jun is mainly anti-guest, and takes the initiative to break this plan, which makes the pursuing Qi army a little at a loss. I saw that after the Zhao army turned the corner, it began to charge the Qi army troops, and the two troops fell into a fierce battle at the moment of engagement.

Before engaging in the battle, the cavalry of the Zhao army still fired two volleys at the Qi army according to custom, and then took the opportunity to kill into the cavalry formation of the Qi army. Before Qi Jun, who had just dodged the rain of arrows, came to his senses, he saw that Zhao Jun's machete had arrived in front of him.

The knife was not the first weapon of Zhao State, but the first to be used by the Hu people. Although the Lou Fu and Lin Hu people are very enthusiastic about bronze blunt weapons, there are also some ethnic groups who use knives. When Zhao Yong discovered the weapon of the knife, it was like a treasure, because he had not noticed that the cavalry of Zhao used a bronze sword, but when fighting on horses, if it relied on the speed and impact of the horse, it was obvious that the knife could be more lethal.

However, the shape is easy to make, and its practical effect is still greatly reduced, because the bronze itself is too brittle, and the knife must ensure hardness in order to create a strong slashing effect. That's why knives are made in every country, but they don't have practical use.

It can also be regarded as Zhao Yong's luck, the Zhuo family and the Guo family of Zhao State are becoming more and more difficult to survive because of the increasingly difficult survival, and they used to rely on ministers to survive, but now they can only beg Zhao Yong for mercy. Zhao Yong is very concerned about iron smelting, on the one hand, he is preparing to build Zhao's own national smelting department, and on the other hand, he is also knocking and wooing the Zhuo family and the Guo family. The extremely low practicability of iron tools in actual combat also made Zhuo and Guo gradually strip off this work and hand it over to Zhao Yong to concentrate on the development of civilian and small military products.

With the support of the two major iron-smelting families, coupled with the skilled craftsmen who were either coerced or lured from Yan, Chu and Korea, Zhao finally figured out a set of minimum steel smelting techniques. Why do you say low? Because of the fact that only 2,000 knives are produced in a year, you can see how precious they are. And these two thousand steel knives finally played a huge role in this battle.

According to the unearthed cultural relics in the past two years, especially the steel swords excavated from the ruins of the lower capital of the Yan Kingdom, it can be preliminarily determined that steel smelting technology has appeared in the Warring States Period. However, it is not only time-consuming, labor-intensive, but also expensive, which may be why steel weapons cannot be popularized.

In the past two days, there has been a problem with the thinking, and the update is slow, so please bear with me.

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