The whole army of the Chu army beat the drums, left, center, right, and rear, the flags of the four armies swayed non-stop, and the shouts were heard all day long, Li Xin could see it, and the generals and main generals of the other armies, Meng Wu, could also see it. In particular, the left and right armies, which had only 20 lines of flags standing under the silence of the flags, suddenly appeared with 50 marching flags and joined forces with the Chinese troops who had retreated 60 or 70 paces.

Seeing this scene, Meng Wu was so shocked that he couldn't even hold the mirror, and when this bronze object fell, the objective lens was facing downward, and the lens was broken immediately when it touched a hard object, and it was no longer used. Lu Lijing is broken, it is broken, and at this moment, there is no need for Lu Lijing and Meng Wu to know the position and intention of the Chu army. He may not know about the Battle of Lu hundreds of years ago, but the Battle of Chengpu in Jinchu knows it clearly.

At this time, unlike the Battle of Chengpu, the right flank of the Jin army, which lured the enemy deep at that time, became the current Chu army. The right flank of the Jin army feinted to retreat, and the left army of the Chu army immediately pursued, not wanting the middle army of the Jin army to suddenly attack to the right, and the left army of the Chu army was attacked from both sides of the front and side, and naturally collapsed.

At that time, the Chu army was only the left army was attacked by the Jin people, and now the central army of the Qin army was attacked by the left and right armies of the Chu army, one was attacked on two sides and the other was attacked on three sides; And the battle of Chengpu was only a battle of tens of thousands of people, and now it is a decisive battle of 500,000 people, and the command level is completely different. The same retreat, tens of thousands of people may be able to complete it neatly, but the retreat of more than 200,000 people is likely to turn into a rout.

"General Meng, what should our army do?" Sikong Ma also saw something unusual, the left and right armies of the Chu army were originally thin in flags, but now there are so many military flags all of a sudden, and they can't see the end at all. "How can there be so many people in the two armies on the left and right of the Jing people?"

"I'm afraid that the Jing people have already laid down tens of thousands of people on the left and right, luring our Chinese army to go deeper, and then attack them left and right." Meng Wu's heart trembled, but he could speak confidently, and he trembled slightly, and no one knew except Meng Wu himself. "Doctor Protector, in this battle, our army should withdraw."

"Retreat?" Sikong Ma glared at Meng Wu, his eyes seemed to bulge.

"Exactly." Meng Wu squeezed out a smile and said that the situation was still salvageable. In order to let Sikong Ma know the current situation, he immediately used bamboo slips to lay out a simple military formation on the case, and said: "At the beginning of the war, we saw that the Jing people's battle formation was 6,000 columns wide and 20 lines deep. And the Chinese army ......"

Meng Wu took a breath, "The depth of the twenty lines of the Chinese army, as well as the banner of King Jing, are the strategies to lure me into pursuit. As soon as our army penetrated deep into its formation, the left and right armies immediately attacked it, just like what was in front of them. Jing people are very deep-minded, but the whole army array is too wide, although our army enters its formation, but the entry into the formation is very shallow, only fifty or sixty steps. If you retreat at this time, most of them should be preserved. ”

"Most of them should be preserved?" Sikong Ma's eyes blinked, not knowing what he was thinking.

Meng Wu ordered sideways: "Come on, quickly Mingjin, the whole army retreats!" ”

"Wait!" Sima Kong immediately stopped. "Our army must not retreat!"

"Doctor Protector, why is that?" The military officials have already arrived, and the retreat of the Qin army cannot be delayed, even if tens of thousands of people will be lost in the retreat, it is still stronger than the entire army.

"May I ask General Meng, what is the formation of the Jingren Chinese army?" Sikong Ma asked, pointing to the bottom of the pocket array.

"Xu ......" Meng Wu thought for a while, "At this time, the rear army of the Jing people has stepped forward, and there are probably twenty or thirty lines. ”

"Twenty or thirty lines," Sikong Ma asked. "Why didn't our army break it in the twentieth or thirtieth march?"

"Break?" Meng Wu looked at Sikong Ma and finally understood that he didn't want to give up and wanted to bet against Jing Ren.

"Exactly. The chariot that broke the formation has arrived in front of the battle, even if the sharp warriors can't break the formation of the Jing people, I can also break the chariot. The Jing people's army is broken, what is the use of attacking left and right? Sikong Ma said, he saw that Meng Wu was silent when he heard this, and said: "General Meng, if our army retreats in this battle, what should the Jing people pursue?" ”

"If our army retreats, we should retreat into the camp to regroup and fight again. Reinforcements from the rear are endless, and our army ......," Meng Wu replied. The odds of winning are too small, and he really doesn't want to gamble in this situation.

"General Meng thinks that the Jing people's fire-throwing weapons can't throw fire bombs into the camp?" Sikong Ma asked rhetorically. "Jing people can smash our army's nest car, but why can't they destroy our army's camp?"

"But ......" Sikong Ma was speechless when he mentioned the trebuchet, and he had personally experienced the power of the trebuchet. This kind of equipment can not only fight in the field, but also break through cities. As soon as this thing comes out, it will be difficult for all the cities to defend in the future.

"General Meng, this escort army will tell you again," Sikong Ma said again, "Our army reinforcements will not come." ”

"Reinforcements won't come again?" Meng Wu looked at him puzzled, "Doctor Protector, what does this mean?" ”

"This protector said that if this battle is lost, reinforcements will not come again." Sikong Ma added another 'if this battle is lost' this time, but Meng Wu felt that this was not what he meant just now, but that no matter what the battle was, the reinforcements would not come again. "General Meng should know the Qin law, as the main general, the field battle is defeated, it is inevitable to cut the knight, and it is unknown if he will be imprisoned. As a protector, he should be responsible for the same as the general, and if the court captain asks why this battle was lost, this protector should tell him so at this time. ”

"You ......" Meng Wu's face suddenly darkened, not frightened, but angry. Sikong Ma's words may be a word of shirking responsibility, but the 5,000 military camps are on both sides of the shogunate, and if he uses his own avoidance of war as an excuse, it is not impossible to take himself.

"Protector Doctor," Meng Wu pointed to the bamboo slip array again. "From what I saw before the war, there were thousands of columns on the left and right armies of the Jing people, and Xiang Yan must have already arranged them, the first 20 lines of the two armies were either facing the enemy positively, but the last 30 or 40 lines were facing the enemy horizontally. Our Chinese army is facing the enemy in the front, and there is no equipment on the flank, and if the Jing people attack horizontally, our army will be chaotic.

Previously, the sharp soldiers may be able to break the twenty or thirty lines of Jing people, but this is not that time, the heart of our army has fallen, the array has been chaotic, and it is difficult for the sharp soldiers to break the formation; Jing people know that our army is in ambush, and the morale is high, even if they rush with a chariot, but the enemy and us are shoulder to shoulder, how to clean up the corpses in front of the battle? For the sake of today's plan, there is no other way but to retreat the whole army. ”

The situation was extremely urgent, and countless soldiers died in Huangquan every moment of delay, Meng Wu finished saying the reason for his withdrawal as quickly as possible, and then shouted again without waiting for Sikong Ma to agree: "I have made up my mind!" Mingjin, withdraw your troops! ”

"Who dares?!" Sikong Ma's reaction was no slower than Meng Wu's, and Meng Wu shouted and he shouted.

"Sikong Ma, what do you want?" The officers were at a loss and did not know whose orders to follow. Meng Wu's face changed again, and he was angry at Sikong Ma.

"My intention is to advise the general not to withdraw his troops, and to quickly break through the Jingren Chinese army to win this battle!" Sikong Ma is-for-tat, not afraid of the wrath of Mengwu.

"There is no chance of winning this battle, and if you don't retreat, the whole army will be in vain!" Meng Wu argued, and he added: "Doctor Sikong, don't forget that this is the king's Qin army, not the Qin army of Xiangbang." ”

"It is precisely because this is the king's Qin army that the army must not retreat." Sikong Ma was very sharp-tongued, "If General Meng causes the king's soldiers to be damaged and returned with a great defeat for his own benefit, I will follow the Qin law to collect your tiger talisman and cure you of the crime of fear of war!" ”

"You dare?!" Meng Wushou had already touched the hilt of the sword, but he didn't pull it out.

"General Meng can try it." Sikong Ma knew that Meng Wu wanted to draw his sword, but he glanced at the guards standing on both sides, and he was not afraid at all. According to the Qin law, the protectors were all responsible for the security of the shogunate during the war, and at this time, the rear army was sent to the front, and the entire Qin army was thrown into battle, except for the 5,000 protectors of Sikong Ma. Meng Wu wants to use force, and he is not afraid at all.

"Hurry up and invite General Yang and General Xin." Meng Wu's hand put down the hilt of his sword, and he took out the talisman to summon the generals of the left and right armies. Sikong Ma didn't stop this matter, what he wanted to stop was Meng Wu Mingjin's withdrawal of troops.

A battle of 200,000 or 300,000 people must be managed in a decentralized manner, and a single general simply cannot command so many troops. In wartime, it is completely contrary to common sense to summon other generals to come - Mengwu cannot leave the shogunate, and the generals of the left and right armies naturally cannot leave the shogunate, but the stalemate between withdrawal and entry is deadlocked, except to summon the left and right generals to the shogunate to discuss, Mengwu has no other way. The car galloped, and the two summons were quickly sent to the front line, watching the car go away, and then listening to the shouts and killings from the front line, Meng Wu couldn't bear to look at the front line anymore.

Mengwu couldn't bear to look at the front line anymore, and the Chu army cheered. The shouts of 'the Qin people are in ambush, this battle will be won' shouted from the left army to the right army, and in the sound of drums, whether it is a soldier or a general, everyone has a smile on their faces that they will win. Even those who were injured and fell to the ground and sent to the back of the battle were also cheering again and again, and after a fierce battle for half a day, the battle was finally won by the Chu people.

However, the Chinese army is only consolidating the front at the moment, and is not advancing, and it is the left and right armies that really hit the Qin army hard. The left army struck to the right, and the right army struck to the left, and every time they took a step forward, the Qin army in the pocket array tightened a point, and the people's hearts became more panicked. Most of the Qin soldiers began to form a formation to protect themselves, and a few people turned around and withdrew, but the rear commander had not yet fired gold, and the officers behind the formation had to kill all these deserters.

"Why didn't the Qin people withdraw their troops?" Jun Sima looked at the immovable Qin army and the Chinese army was a little puzzled, the Chu army without cavalry could only surround the enemy on three sides and not on all sides, according to the Qin army knew that it was in ambush at this time, but why not make a countermeasure? The more than 10,000 Xiang divisions left by Xiang Yan and nearly 10,000 kings were used to pursue the Qin army when it retreated.

"Jun Sima wants the Qin people to withdraw their troops?" Xiang Yan had no doubts, he was concerned about the speed of the advance of the left and right armies, not the reaction of the Qin people. Although the 4,000 columns of the Chinese army are wide, the left and right armies advance side by side, and they can each march 50 paces in a quarter of an hour. It took three hours to complete the 4,000 columns at this speed, but the collapse of the military formation was a chain reaction, once the squeezing on both sides caused the Qin people close to the left and right armies to collapse and flee, the 3,000 columns of Qin troops in the middle would also flee.

Three hundred steps! Whether it was the shogunate strategists or the Great Sima Mansion War Bureau, they all believed that as long as the left and right armies could attack 300 paces each, the Qin army in the pocket array would collapse and flee. Now the ruler on the leaky pot has only passed a moment, and an hour has six and a quarter of a moment, which means that as long as there is no accident, it will not take an hour, and the Qin army will collapse the whole army.