Chapter 64: Defeat is like water

Not everyone wanted the fight to last like this, at least that was the case with Hiroshi, but he hid it deeper.

The addition of the Fish has strengthened the offensive of the coalition forces, if at the beginning, the attacks of the coalition forces are still layered, then as the battle has reached the most critical juncture, all the people have forgotten the rhythm and have fallen into pure fighting. One corpse after another was casually abandoned under the gate, and the number was still increasing; Ladders were smashed by gravel and rolling logs, and the wreckage was left there, and his sacrifice was forgotten. There is only one thought in everyone's eyes, attack, attack again, the city is in front of you, and there is still one step away. And the moment they stepped on the tower, it was not a banner of victory, but a bloody blade.

The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. If you look at it from the perspective of a party, the Qin State is barely supporting the offensive of the coalition army, and the coalition army is only one small step away from victory; If you look at it from the perspective of a bystander, you will find a strange problem, that is, the people of the Qin State seem to suppress their attacks every time, just a little higher than the other party, and they will be surpassed at any time, but they can always be controlled.

Shen Cha, Storm Kite, Gongsun Xi, and even Yu Kun, everyone is experienced in a hundred battles, even if it is the city quilt of the Yan army, they are also familiar with military affairs. These people were not aware of this characteristic of the Qin army at first, but as the proportion of casualties increased, and the seemingly crumbling city was still firmly controlled by the Qin army, they became suspicious of their own judgment.

"General, this doesn't seem right." Storm Kite said to Shen Cha.

"Yes." He nodded, "The Qin army doesn't seem to be as fragile as it seems, our tens of thousands of people have been attacking for two or three hours in a row, and the other side has not been defeated, which is indeed extraordinary. Shincha also doubted his own judgment.

"Could it be that this is the tired tactic of the Qin people?"

Shen Chawei nodded imperceptibly, "I thought that when I told the prince and the rhino head, I quietly retreated." ”

Storm Kite also nodded, agreeing with Shencha's statement. Shen Cha immediately sent people to secretly report to Prince Huan and Gongsun Yan, and organized the troops to retreat in an orderly manner to prevent a rout. When Prince Huan heard the news, he looked at Gongsun Yan in surprise, Gongsun Yan no longer hesitated, nor did he ask Prince Huan, and ordered the city to be quickly organized by the Yan army to begin to withdraw from the battle, and the Wei army and the Han army each arranged a team of foot soldiers and cavalry to act as a rear army, responsible for covering the retreat of other troops. Soon after the order was issued, the coalition army, which was still full of momentum just now, began to slow down the pace of the attack, and the Yan army was the first to be cleaned up and retreated back to the camp. Due to his late entry into the war, his combat effectiveness was relatively strong, and a team of soldiers in charge of the Wei State was responsible for breaking off, and Storm Kite and others also began to purge the troops, and at the same time ordered all the archers to concentrate in front of the formation and fire bows and arrows to Hangu Pass to suppress it.

He immediately felt the slowdown of the coalition offensive, he lay on the lookout, watched the coalition army begin to change formation in an orderly manner, and knew that the other party began to organize a retreat. Suddenly slapped on the city wall, "God help me, come and go with me!" With that, he was the first to walk down the city tower, looking at the soldiers of the Qin State who were already ready to go, he stepped on the war horse, calmed down, and roared: "Open the city, meet the enemy, kill!" ”

"Kill!" Behind him, the cavalry and chariot soldiers of the Qin State, who had been aggrieved for a long time, shouted the word "kill" loudly, roared out of the cramped city gate, and their vision suddenly opened up, and then they saw bursts of arrow rain falling from the sky. Many soldiers had just rushed out of the city gates, and before they reached the moat, they were immediately killed, and they died on the spot, and some of the horses were also hit and fell to the ground. And the old Qin people who are not afraid of death, they are not afraid of this bloody rain of arrows at all, their leather armor is very simple, there is almost no defense, the war horse under their feet is stepping on the corpse, and it does not distinguish whether they are from the Qin State or the coalition army, they only know that everyone who stands in front of them will either die under their own swords or be killed by the other party. The proposition of life and death, which the saint could not solve in his life, was just a distance in their eyes.

The sudden counterattack of the Qin army really caught the coalition forces off guard. Everyone was retreating step by step, and before they could organize themselves, they encountered the Qin army, and they could only defend on the spot. As the last unit to participate in the war, the combat effectiveness of the fish is the best. Apparently a little surprised by Qin's counterattack, his years of combat experience allowed him to quickly settle down, and he ordered his infantry to form a formation to intercept, and crossbowmen and archers to shoot alternately.

As mentioned above, I am afraid that in addition to the current Zhao State, countries with tens of thousands of cavalry like Qin and Chu are equipped with crossbow arrows, but they all stop to shoot and then pursue, rather than shooting in the march of horses, and are equipped with different long and short weapons. This time, because it was all pursuit, he gained some inspiration from the battle of Gongzi Huayan Ling, and asked all the pursuing cavalry to be equipped with bows and arrows and short weapons, and to abandon the long weapons used before. However, a crossbow is absolutely impossible, after all, it is time-consuming and has a large impact.

At such a short distance, the impact of the cavalry was undoubtedly revealed, and as soon as the first round of shooting of the Korean army ended, the Qin army had already killed in front of them. In the face of the frightened Korean army, the terror of the Qin army was vividly and exquisitely displayed, and the Qin cavalry in the charge relied on the impact force to disperse the archers' formation, so that they had no time to shoot, and although the crossbowmen behind them were very deadly to the cavalry, they were scattered before the crossbow arrows were installed, and they could not stop the charge of the opponent's cavalry at all. And when the Qin cavalry rushed into the formation of the Han army, they pulled the reins and waved the bronze sword, and the Han army suffered countless casualties.

Seeing that the crossbow shooting had no effect on the Qin army, he hurriedly arranged for the infantry to form a formation while allowing the cavalry to harass the Qin army from both flanks, trying to control the counterattack as much as possible. Naturally, he knew that the most important thing at this moment was to impact the enemy, not to get caught in the battle, so he ordered the cavalry to charge the Korean cavalry and avoid the opponent's infantry phalanx. The cavalry on both sides no longer had time to take counter-fire attacks, so they directly engaged in hand-to-hand combat and began a white-knuckle battle. However, how did the Korean cavalry compete with the Qin cavalry who had been tempered by the Rong people? This cavalry made the blood of the old Qin people dripping with exquisiteness, and it was about to break free from the encirclement of the Korean army.

He was very surprised by the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, but he didn't expect that the people of the Qin State were really not afraid of death, and there was no other way, so he could only constantly arrange cavalry to harass, and the foot soldiers followed up and surrounded this cavalry. At this moment, he saw that the chariot troops of the Qin army had already rushed out of the city gate and rushed towards the two warring sides with an indomitable momentum. The chariot of the Qin army was also Sima Yi, three people and one car, and at this moment there was no chance to shoot arrows, so he directly joined the war group and rushed towards the Korean foot soldiers.

The chariot of the Qin State was like the last straw that crushed the Korean army, and finally broke the last trace of tenacity of the broken Korean army, and the Korean army began to rout, leaving those military orders and punishments behind, and now only thinking about how to save their lives. I don't know which soldier began to throw down his weapons and ran towards the camp, everyone also began to throw down their weapons, the last attachment to life broke their will, but also brought the greatest support to the Qin army, the Qin chariot and cavalry troops finally broke through the cage, and rushed to the camp by the scattered Korean army.

Storm Kite originally commanded the troops to rush to the camp quickly, ready to organize a defense on the spot, but he didn't think that the sound of shouting and killing came from behind him, he looked back and was surprised, the Korean soldiers who were still blocking the Qin army just now had already begun to rush towards their camp, followed by the roaring chariot troops of the Qin State, and the cavalry of the Qin State also followed this rout to the camp again. The storm kite subconsciously ordered to organize a defense, but saw that his soldiers were already stunned and didn't know what to do. The storm kite struck his horse fiercely, and the neighing sound of the war horse in pain woke up the soldiers, and everyone looked at the storm kite, but the storm kite roared: "Formation! Fast! Formation! Defend, defend! Only then did Han Jun remember what he was going to do, and hurriedly began to form a formation to defend himself.

But at this time, the troops of the Storm Kite were facing not only the troops of the Qin army, but also the scattered soldiers of the Korean army. And the soldiers of the Han army, who were already mentally afraid, looked at the comrades who fled to their eyes, looked at the vicious soldiers of the Qin State, and the weapons in their hands began to tremble, if the Qin army and the collapsed Korean army were the tide, then they were the dam that stopped the tide. Behind the dam, Shen Cha, who hurriedly organized soldiers to prepare to rush over for reinforcements, was Gongsun Xi, who had ordered Wei Wushu to form a formation to defend himself, and the Chinese army in the distance, such as the mourning of the prince, and Gongsun Yan with a solemn face. Storm Kite can't see the expressions of these people, he doesn't have time to imagine these things, his expression is only focused on what is in front of him, even he himself is not sure, he can stop an enemy several times his own, he is just a general, not an immortal.

From this time about 100 years ago the sage Lao Tzu once wrote the "Tao Te Ching", in which for water, he is very fond of water, there is a sentence in the five thousand moral sayings: the softest in the world, the strongest in the world. For water, although it is weak, it can still cleanse the hardest things in the world, and it is fearless. Just like the Qin army and the Korean rout at this moment, although they are routed soldiers, when they gather together drop by drop, that kind of energy is enough to impact anything that dares to stop them. Whether or not Storm Kite read this sentence is unknown, but the fact that he chose to do so with his flesh and blood is enough to make us admire.

However, no matter how strong the storm kite is, it is nothing more than one person, one person may be able to infect some people, but it cannot make everyone stand by their side. In the face of the rout of the tide, the defense line he organized not only did not stand the test, but from the moment the tide slapped on the dam, the dam itself also had a loophole, such a momentum, but also crushed the defending Koreans, just like the rout of the fish, the troops of the storm kite also began to rout, the storm kite looked at the tide that hit him, and knew that this battle was not only lost, but also doomed to be defeated.

The momentum of the tide is getting bigger and bigger, just like all the way, there are constantly tributaries injected, and finally the momentum is enough to destroy the world, the Qin army has only more than 50,000 soldiers out of the city, and at this moment, counting the defeated Korean soldiers, there are nearly 100,000 people. In the face of such a form, Shencha's chariot army phalanx could not stop it, and Gongsun Xi's Wei Wushu was also powerless, and everyone became a drop of water in this tide, and no one could stop it, so they could only take advantage of the trend.

Gongsun Yan had already begun to arrange a retreat at the beginning of the impact of the storm kite, and by the time the rout was a foregone conclusion, the Yan army had already begun to retreat and march towards the Kunshan Road. And the troops of Wei and Korea were also in the process of gathering there, when the Qin army had already pursued to the Zhongjun tent, Gongsun Yan and Prince Huan had already entered the Kunshan Road and marched towards Yiyang.

However, they forgot one thing, why did they delay until this moment before starting to attack the coalition forces? He had so many opportunities before, but he let them go one by one, but at this moment, it was what he wanted. Although the people of the Qin State were also engulfed in the rout, they who had always been disciplined quickly found their own formation, and several lieutenants surrounded the Han and Wei coalition forces around them, looking at the Han and Wei coalition forces that were still dispersing around them, and asked them if they were chasing or going back.

He looked at the sky that had begun to snow again, and the heavy snow of the previous two days covered the mountains, and it was covered in snow. He said coldly: "Chase!" ”

(End of chapter)