The real soldiers were only 150,000, and they were attacked by an enemy army twice their own size, and then detoured by one-fifth of the cavalry of the whole army, the situation was not optimistic, and the collapse of the six newly formed divisions was even worse, aggravating the disadvantage of the Chu army and causing greater casualties. Fortunately, the Qin army was unable to defeat the shrinking array of its own divisions and brigades in a short period of time, so it did not approach the whole army like the six newly formed divisions.

In the midst of the snowflakes, one division and brigade after another reported the number of soldiers who could fight, and in the end, the number of soldiers who could fight without injury was only 70,000, the number of casualties was as high as more than 29,000, and the number of soldiers killed in battle was close to 5,000. These people plus ten Chu army divisions, 50,000 Zhao troops, plus the remaining battleable pawns of eight new divisions, plus more than 10,000 cavalry, the strength is about 180,000.

The Chu army did not have any advantages, the Qin army was exhausted for a long time, and the ten divisions and 50,000 Zhao troops reinforced were also exhausted for a long time; In terms of numbers, the Qin army could not at most throw down 20,000 seriously wounded soldiers and nearly 10,000 corpses, and the number of the whole army would not be less than 270,000. The cavalry was also superior to the Qin army, and the number of cavalry of the Qin army was twice that of the Chu army.

Getting this data, Xiong Jing had a feeling of remorse in his intestines. He should not have a premature confrontation with the Qin army, but should wait for the forces of Runan to be assembled, so that he would have 260,000 soldiers in battle, which was not much different from the Qin people. Now the first time with 150,000 troops, the second with 180,000 troops, each time less than the Qin army of more than 100,000 people. And the Qin army did not have only 200,000 elite soldiers like last year, these 400,000 people were all elite soldiers.

Dou Yu Pheasant, Sima Shang, Dongye Gu, Cheng Tong, Deng Sui, Peng Zong, Zhuang Wudi ......, all the generals stared at Xiong Jing, waiting for him to make a final decision. The 400,000 Qin troops were all elite soldiers, and the 40,000 cavalry were all in Yingchuan County, which was the reason why Wang Jian only commanded 150,000 people to attack the Qi State, and he only had 150,000 good soldiers. The country of Qi is worry-free, and the main battlefield is north of Fangcheng.

The casualties of the teacher's brigade were nearly 30,000, and the casualties of the six newly formed divisions and the Zhao army on the left flank were even heavier, plus their losses, plus the losses of the two new divisions of Youque, it is initially estimated that the two armies of Chu and Zhao suffered 80,000 casualties and more than 20,000 casualties in this battle. If there are a few days of rest and recuperation, at least more than half of the lightly wounded can be rebuilt, and the number of people who will fight the Qin army again will not be less than 220,000.

"The minister thinks that our army can chase the Qin people, but it is not appropriate to fight again." Zhuang Wudi still means just now.

"What's the use of chasing without fighting?!" Dou Yu Pheasant completely disagreed with his statement. "At this time, the Qin people are panicking, when will they fight again if they don't fight at this time? The king must not be stingy at this time, and there is not much chance for me to fight with the Qin people. ”

"The enemy cannot be faked, and the time must not be lost. This should be chased, but if it can be fought, it will be fought. "The Zhao army was arranged on the left flank, and because the left flank was too far away, You Que had no time to protect it in a hurry, and most of the nearly 30,000 Zhao troops were exhausted. Under the old hatred and new hatred, Sima Shang had fire in his eyes but always restrained himself.

"The Qin people have become a defeated army, and the defeated army cannot be taken lightly." Higashino Guya said.

"This battle is like this, but the artillery is not effective." Deng Sui said. "If the cannon is powerful......

Adding fuel to the tactics was a strategic mistake, and it was a tactical mistake for the artillery to not play its intended role. Xiong Jing knows the use of naval artillery, but he doesn't know much about the use of army artillery.

Unlike artillery, which became the decisive force in naval warfare as soon as it appeared, in the first few hundred years of military use, whether in the East or in the West, the main use of gunpowder was for siege and fortification, or similar usage, and most of the kills and injuries to non-commissioned soldiers were bullets rather than shells. It is almost arbitrary to assume that before the nineteenth century, field artillery was not considered a force that could alone decide to defeat the defeat. Even if it is, there is no war example to prove that it is.

An important factor influencing the use of artillery in field battles was the weight of the artillery. Gustav's leather cannon allowed artillery to enter the battle as a regimental artillery, and the rise of mule and horse artillery later led to the participation of larger caliber artillery in field battles, but artillery still played a supporting role. It was not until the Battle of Friedland in 1807 that artillery was considered the main attacking force of the battle, which could determine the outcome of a battle.

In the four or five hundred years of development, artillery manufacturing has experienced three stages of forging, casting, and boring in the West, and there are twists and turns in casting, forging, and recasting in the East; The repeated review of caliber, double diameter, and ammunition ratio, and the influence of the French Vallière gun tube system, led to the creation of the first artillery system: the Lisis Theenstein system, which was soon replaced by the Gleebauvre system.

The development of the artillery itself, the artillery system, the gun carriages and gun carriages that facilitate the use of mules and horses, the tactics of field artillery, and the experience of artillery command ...... all the advances in many aspects that made artillery finally a force that could decide the outcome of a campaign. In addition to the defects in gunpowder, the Chu army had all the hardware, but it lacked combat experience, and even more so the famous words of General Maximilian Sebastian Foy about mule and horse (field) artillery.

Without the right strategic thinking, artillery is only an auxiliary force for battle. Deng Sui, as an infantry general, only felt that the artillery did not play the existing role, if the artillery could collapse the Qin army's array before the engagement, the Yingshi would kill the shogunate behind the Qin army's formation as soon as the troops were handed over.

The artillery general did not agree with his words, and he hurriedly said, worried about Xiong Jing's accusations: "It's not that the artillery is used improperly, but that the Qin army's formation is weird." It is two miles inside the artillery formation, and the effective killing and wounding of the fifteen-pound cannon is also two miles. The Qin people avoided this section, and after two miles, the shells were exhausted, and they could kill people, but not much. ”

How the Qin army avoided artillery strikes, Xiong Jing saw it. In short, the array facing the artillery was two miles back from the main formation. How do you make up for these two miles? When it was fifty or sixty steps away from the Chu army's formation, the retreat of the Qin army's main formation attracted the Chu army to step forward, and while the main formation retreated, the array two miles away rushed forward. When the Chu army chased after the Qin army, it was about a mile forward, and the Qin army that was making up the formation also ran forward for about a mile, retreated one mile and advanced one mile, just enough to make up the distance of two miles.

More than 800 meters in two miles, with the charge of a 15-pound cannon, this distance can only kill and injure 10 people at most, but at a distance of 50 or 60 paces, the 15-pound cannon can shoot a blood groove and kill and injure 40 or 50 people.

"I should break it with cavalry!" Yang Yu also saw the retreat of the Qin people in the decisive battle just now, and his first reaction was that this vacancy should be attacked by the cavalry of Fu Jing. "If the cavalry breaks through this formation, the Yingshi can attack again."

"It can be attacked by cavalry before, and it will be better to fight again." Zhuang Quji also saw the retreat and decisive battle tactics of the Qin people. As soon as he spoke, everyone looked at him, not knowing what he was thinking. "If I am Li Xin, my cavalry is twice as strong as the enemy, and I should make the cavalry stop it. After the cavalry, Fang supplemented the formation with foot soldiers. ”

Zhuang Wudi said as he drew an array on the snow. On both sides of the broken Qin army array, there is a longitudinal military formation about one and a half miles long, and when the two armies are close to the battle, these two longitudinal military formations can close the gap more than three miles long like closing a door. If there was still a cavalry in front of him to interfere with the attack, the Ying division might not be able to rush behind the enemy formation through this gap.

Everyone looked at the array drawn by Zhuang Wudi and was silent, this kind of array is not impossible. Xiong Jing was silent, and he suddenly didn't want to discuss the war anymore. He wanted to put the war aside and empty his mind of distractions before going to war. The Chu army was not completely defeated in the battle just now, but the defeat was already complete. If you just want to save face urgently, then this battle should indeed be fought after resting for the time being, as Zhuang Wu said.

"How's the pontoon?" Xiong Jing coughed and asked about the pontoon bridge on the tributary. The Qin army was well prepared and retreated in time, and the pontoon bridge was completely destroyed. But the timber for building the bridge is still there, and it is not difficult to pick up and repair the bridge and rebuild it.

"Your Majesty, it will take half an hour." Gong is not only the general of artillery, but also the general of engineers. When he replied, Xiong Jing suddenly had a realization that artillery should be more professional, and only by being more professional can it mature faster.

"The Qin people must chase them, and if they chase them, they will fight." Xiong Jing looked around at the generals and said. "Yes," he slammed his fist into his palm, "our army is in a hurry." Rushing and forgetting the tactics of war; The widow is also in a hurry, too hasty and early to decide with the Qin people......"

The last sentence came out, because Xiong Jing decided to pursue Dou Yu Pheasant and the others whose eyes were shining, their eyes darkened. This battle was indeed fought too quickly, one was reflected in the immediate formation and confrontation with the Qin army, and the other was reflected in the retreat of the Qin army and the artillery was in hot pursuit, and the artillery could not play.

But what can be done about it? The Chu people were originally in a fiery temper, and they were invincible before, and they were extremely contemptuous of the Qin army. Unexpectedly, after the Qin army obtained the stirrups, the cavalry strength was already stronger than that of the Chu army. Putting this force into battle, the Chu army was not invincible.

"This is a blessing for our army." The general was silent, and Sima Pengzong's views were different from others. "In this battle, our army has been defeated, if it is not for the rapid arrival of reinforcements, the army will be exhausted."

The people who Peng Zong said were sweating on their backs, and if they didn't pretend to be wrong, the Chu army had already lost this battle. If there are no reinforcements, there is a chance that the stalemate will be defeated, and once defeated, the cavalry will not be able to compete with the cavalry of the Qin army, and it is extremely likely that they will be exhausted.

"What's the point of fighting again?" Xiong Jing also sweated slightly on his back, it was all his fault, at least it was his fault for underestimating the enemy.

"I don't know." Peng Zong shook his head. "The minister only knows that he will not be defeated if he fights again."

Just now, 150,000 people were defenseless and not defeated, and now 180,000 people have been prepared against the cavalry of the Qin army, of course, it is impossible to be defeated. Undefeated is not the answer Xiong Jing wants, what he wants is a big victory, and what he wants is to wipe out Li Xin's troops or half of them - assuming that Wang Jian still has 150,000 elite soldiers, then Li Xin's troops will have to eliminate at least 100,000 people, so that the strength of the two sides can barely be balanced.

But how can we wipe out another 100,000 Li Xin?

The snow continued to fall, and when the pontoon bridge was repaired, the broken Yingshi took the lead in crossing the Yingshui tributary and chasing the Qin army more than ten miles away. In an hour and a half, the Qin army could not retreat far, in fact, not far behind the Qin army were Fen Chengsai and Yingshui, and they had no way to retreat.

Like Xiong Jing, Li Xin did not build a shogunate, let alone enter the Fencheng Senei - he did not dare to let the Qin pawn not see himself, if the Qin pawn could not see himself, his morale would collapse; If the morale collapses, the whole army will be slaughtered by the Chu army, so his chariot is not before the soldiers, but after the soldiers.

He had Mide run from east to west and from west to east, and had people constantly shout 'Shogun Patrol' to stabilize the morale of the army. Peng Zong said that the Chu army had been defeated, and the Qin army had no such idea from the generals to the soldiers, and they thought at most that they had beaten the Chu army by surprise, broke the Chu army array, and then fled in disgrace.

The Fencheng plug is in front of you, and the mountains on both sides of the Yingshui are also in front of you. If the Chu army chased after him and he did not enter the Fencheng fortress in time, the result would have been predictable. Looking at Li Xin, who was east and west for a while, most of the generals were not grateful, but faintly resentful-

If it weren't for Li Xin's anti-plot of the Zhao people, if it weren't for Li Xin's order to cross the Rushui, he would have been north of Fen Chengsai. At least 100,000 soldiers were lost in the two battles, and it was good that the Jing people didn't chase them, but if they did, it was estimated that they would have to die 100,000 people before they could enter the fortress.

Li Xin could only turn a blind eye to the difference in the gaze of the general, and his only hope at this time was that the Chu army would not pursue, at least not today. If the baggage chariots and horses are abandoned, and the soldiers obey the orders in an orderly manner, about 60,000 people can enter the fortress every hour, and 400,000 troops can enter the fortress in seven hours. Counting more than 40,000 cavalry, the whole army can enter the fortress in a maximum of nine hours.

At present, the Qin army still has 270,000, excluding the wounded, there are only 25 or 60,000 left, and the whole army can enter the fortress in seven hours at most. Seven hours, and he only had seven hours.

"Report ——!" The sound of the military report sounded far away, and there was no need to hear the military report, Li Xin had already seen the Chu army appear north of the tributary, and the phoenix banner took the lead to drive the Qin army away.

"What is General Bai's plan?" Feng Zheng is dead, but Zhao Wan is still there. But Li Xin didn't ask his generals, didn't ask his heart, but asked Bai Lin.

"The last general will not dare." Bai Lin was only a lieutenant and did not dare to be called a general.

"Ben will say that if you are a general, you are a general." Bai Lin's actions Li Xin saw clearly, if it wasn't for Bai Lin's reorganization of the array, the losses of the Qin army would have been even more serious, and the Chinese army was probably lost not two lieutenants in Runan, but six or seven lieutenants.

"The last general thinks that our army must be delayed until dark, and only when it is dark can we discard our baggage and enter the fortress as quickly as possible." Fencheng Sai is an old stopper, the plug door is only three tracks, two zhang and four feet wide, and only four people can be parallel or two horses in parallel when passing quickly. Just by making a tacit calculation, Bai Lin knew how much time it would take for the whole army to pass through the Fencheng Fortress.

"It's just after noon, and it's three hours before dark." Li Xin said with a frown. "And the dark thorns will also attack me, what if so?"

"The last general thinks that it is necessary to keep people outside the fortress to repel the Jing people." Polemic with war, Bai Lin replied very seriously.

"General Bai thinks that it takes soldiers to resist Jing people overnight?" Li Xin asked.

"It has to be 50,000." Bai Lin replied without hesitation. "The chariots and heavy vehicles should be left in front and guarded by the chariot array."

"Good!" Li Xin nodded again, "I want to take General Bai as my right general, and I will command 50,000 troops to resist the Jing people's ......."

Feng Zheng and the right army were wiped out on the south bank of Rushui, and Li trusted Bai Lin as the right general, which was a promotion, but he was asked to command 50,000 troops to cover the retreat of the army, which was to make him die.

Bai Lin's heart shook violently, he looked at Li Xin, then at Zhao Wan, and finally at Yu Fen, who had a personal enmity with him, and finally gritted his teeth and nodded: "The last general respects the promise, and I wish the commander 50,000 to reject the Jing people." ”

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