Chapter 36 The Beginning of the War
The next day, Jing Ran's cavalry was also ready and began to advance towards the intended target, and the news that made Jing Ran happy was that Daniel Zhang led the new army, with the help of Li Ren, and the overnight march had arrived at the designated place an hour earlier than the scheduled time.
"This Zhang Daring is okay."
Jing Ran said with a smile.
"Multi-platoon reconnaissance horses, always be vigilant, and the specific actions of the enemy must be the first to know."
"Yes!"
Fast horses were on guard everywhere around the march, and all the scouts in Jingran's army had been lined up, and today was the decisive battle.
And a lot of strange things have happened in the Northern Chu Army relative to them, and the funniest thing is that Suzhou, the capital of the Northern Chu Army, has disappeared!
For a time, the crowd in the barracks was excited.
It turned out that after Suzhou learned the news that it was going to break through, he knew what he would encounter as a literati on such a chaotic battlefield, so he stole three fast horses overnight and escaped with his own guards, and he didn't know which route he was taking, and he was not afraid of being caught by Jingran's scouts.
"How daring!"
After the general surnamed Zhang knew about this, he had already said these words no less than a hundred times, and he really couldn't figure it out, as the head of an army, he actually said that he would run, and the more than 30,000 people in the entire army said that they would not care.
"Is it because the general king has a bad eye that he picked such a piece of the prince!"
In the camp, the same words have been preached more than a hundred times.
Now the situation is worse than before, now the main general has fled, the army is suddenly in a state of leaderlessness, although the order has been ordered to block the news, but the rumors still spread to the barracks like long legs, and now it is out of control.
"General, what now?"
General Zhang, surnamed Zhang, has never seen such a situation in the army for nearly 20 years, and a large group of army commanders gathered around the door of his big tent early in the morning to let himself come up with a charter.
"Charter? There's a fart charter! ”
He finally couldn't help it anymore and burst into a foul mouth.
But it's enjoyable, but the current problem still has to be solved, and the biggest question is, is this battle still fought?
He thought for a while, and finally made a decision: "Break through according to the original plan!" ”
The generals were silent this time, because no matter what, breaking through was a must.
"The last general waited and prepared ......"
"Hmm."
Now he has no choice, all he can do now is wait for time......
At the same time, Jing Ran visited the horses in the army, and the messengers came and went like the wind. Soon Jing Ran, Daniel Zhang and other generals received a particularly strange news:
The Northern Chu army is in chaos!
Although everyone was puzzled for a while, but under such a God-given opportunity, wouldn't it be better to carry out their own plans?
This is also the consequence of information asymmetry, if Jing Ranjun knows that the enemy's commander will flee overnight, he will definitely look for it at all costs, as long as the enemy commander is caught, this battle will not need to be fought.
It's a pity that this is the case, Jing Ran's army and the Northern Chu army fought hard, but Suzhou could take advantage of this to run farther and be safer. It can be said that more than 40,000 people in the two armies served him as a disguised escort.
The time soon came to dusk, and all the departments in the Northern Chu army were worried, not knowing what the outcome of this one would be, and how their lives would end, but as long as there was a little hope of life, they would fight with their lives to give themselves a chance to live.
The general surnamed Zhang looked at his more than 10,000 generals, his face was full of sadness, and it is estimated that most of his 10,000 people will never see tomorrow's sun after tonight.
But that's war!
"Let's go!"
With his own order, more than 10,000 people set out as the opening army, and according to the plan, the remaining divisions would set off in turn after an hour, so that the forces that broke through would not be stagnant due to the defeat of the forward, and all the men would continue to advance on the corpses of the vanguard troops until a bloody path was made.
And Jing Ran's side, originally planned to divide into two encirclements and block in sections, but because of his limited numbers, the consequence of blocking in sections can only be to keep his strength consumed, and in the end he may not achieve the expected goal, and he will put himself in, so he can only use his cavalry as the main force to break through, take advantage of his strong mobility, and effectively kill and injure the enemy's vital force, supplemented by the strange soldiers on the left and right wings, kill and injure the enemy in the shortest possible time, even if the enemy can break through in the end, he will suffer the greatest damage.
Jing Ran's goal is very simple, that is, these 30,000 people, at most, can only survive 5,000 people, this is the bottom line!
With a thought in his heart = stop, he led the army to move forward quickly.
"Report to the king, the scouts in front have come to report that more than 10,000 enemy troops are less than three miles away from our army!"
Jing Ran was overjoyed, walked for a long time, and finally waited!
Jing Ran Ling Ran said: "Pass the order, all the departments are ready for battle, order the left and right wings, cut off the back road of these 10,000 people, and the widow wants to leave these people behind!" ’
Jing Ran finished the order, touched the matching knife on his waist, looked back at the two thousand cavalry that had been prepared, and was full of confidence in his heart.
It's not easy to come this way, from more than 30 people fleeing, to capturing the little prince alive in the territory of Qin, to defeating a thousand cavalry in Xicheng, to beheading enemy generals on the battlefield, and now he has to lead tens of thousands of people to fight, this change is a heartfelt excitement for a person with war blood in his heart!
"The whole army is ready!"
Although the battlefield is solemn and quiet, the hooves of the scouts back and forth are telling everyone that the big war is coming!
After a while, the sergeant at the front of the battle formation could already see the Northern Chu Army, the footsteps of more than 10,000 people, dusty, and the footsteps hit people's hearts.
"Generals! It's time for the Great War! You don't need to look at the 10,000 army in front of you, you just need to charge with the widows! ”
"Charge! Charge! ”
As soon as the words fell, the two thousand cavalry were like feathered arrows shot, directly inserting into the Northern Chu army.
The vanguard of the Northern Chu army broke through when they saw this formation, they were really taken aback, the cavalry attack of this era is an invincible existence, and now there is no cavalry on their side to make an appointment with the Jingran army, and they can only rely on the current infantry to resist, but their own people are all breaking through the army, and they don't even have heavy equipment at all, how can they resist the menacing cavalry brigade.
And the biggest problem is that the infantry of the Chu State does not have the ability to break the cavalry with foot like the Qin army!
The Qin army of the four major countries of Zhongzhou is proud of the world with its cavalry strength, the Zhao army is invincible to the countries in battle, and the Qi country is the advantage in equipment, as for Dachu, the heavy infantry is proud of Zhongzhou!
But looking at the current troops, where did the heavy armor come from? They were all starved for seven days, and they couldn't wear even heavy armor.
Is it only for the sake of closing one's eyes and waiting for death?
No, this is not the army of the state of Chu!
"Herald! The shieldman comes forward, and the crossbowman strikes from a distance! ”
And at this time, it can finally be seen what the army of Chu has become, the infantry of the Qin army is on the flank of Northern Chu, and they can see it very clearly, only to see that the army of Chu State, with the order, began to change rapidly, even if it has been hungry for seven days, but this powerful army still has no timid performance, this is because the war has melted into the blood of all the soldiers of Chu State!
With the order given, all the soldiers of the Chu State were ready for battle.
Crossbowmen, shieldmen, lined up in layers, waiting for the onslaught of the enemy.
"Roar!"
All the Northern Chu sergeants, with a loud roar, the crossbowmen went out first, ready to aim, as long as the cavalry of the Jingran Army entered the firing range, they were confident that they would shoot this group of people off their horses!
But the Jingran cavalry seems to be deliberately going around in circles with them, the Chu army's bow and crossbow are in Zhongzhou, which is not a good thing, that is, it is decent, and the range is not as good as the first-class Qi crossbow arrows, plus the current Northern Chu army is hungry to the battlefield, many archers can obviously see that the hand pulling the bow has begun to tremble slightly.
"Hehe, I'd like to see how long they can endure!"
Jing Ran looked at the Northern Chu Army in front of him and smiled contemptuously.
It's not that he doesn't want to fight, but he's waiting for an opportunity, a chance to crush the enemy one at a time.
"Report! King, our scouts are coming! ”
"What's wrong!"
The scout said, "My lord, more than 5,000 enemy troops have left the camp. ”
"Good!"
What Jing Ran is waiting for is now, and the result he wants is to use the fast horse cavalry and the infantry on both wings to defeat the 10,000 people in front of him, so that they can be mixed with the later Northern Chu army.
"Hehe, the rout of 10,000 people is enough for him to storm his own camp!"
Jing Ran listened to the scout's words and began to move forward quickly. It's time for the game of going in circles!
"Kill!"
More than 2,000 cavalry rushed to the enemy, the Northern Chu army saw that the cavalry of the Jingran army was killed, and they began to release arrows, but the physical weakness was manifested at this time, the Northern Chu crossbowmen did not have a second chance to pull the bow, and when they were ready to release the arrows for the second time, they found that the Jingran army had been killed in front of them, and the poor more than 2,000 crossbowmen broke away from the large array to block the cavalry from a distance, but the Roman cavalry was less than 30 people, but they were rushed to the cavalry in front of them, and they were cut and killed!
"Ah, defeated!"
With the rout of the crossbowmen, as for the shield men in front of the formation, where can they still be stationed with peace of mind.
"Drive them into the middle of the formation!"
Jing Ran ordered that he was going to drive all the more than 2,000 bows and crossbows into the enemy's array.
Sure enough, as soon as the shield men of the Northern Chu Army saw the bowmen and crossbowmen who had retreated, they immediately became a mess, more than 2,000 people, and the chain reaction caused by the retreat was even more than the enemy troops who were really killed and wounded on the battlefield!
The leading generals saw that the shield bearers and crossbowmen were all in chaos, and these two troops were nearly 4,000 people, and as soon as they were in chaos, the entire large array had begun to be turbulent.
"Defeated ......"
The leading general already knew the outcome when he saw the situation, but at this time, worse news also arrived:
The second breakthrough force of the Northern Chu army had also approached.
"Quick! Order, let them go back! ”
Obviously, he was about to retreat, and if he met the five thousand people at this time, the result would be like two stone grinders colliding together, and the result would be that both sides were pretending to be smashed.
"Hahaha, cavalry army! Keep on the pursuit! But keep your distance. ”
Jing Ran's order was like this, to drive them behind the back of the Northern Chu army, instead of killing and wounding the enemy army, and let them "kill each other" by themselves.
Gongsun Yu on the mountain was already stunned, he didn't expect the cavalry to be used like this, his side only needs to drive the enemy to make more than 10,000 people trample on each other and make a mess!
Jing Ran: "Capture the enemy generals alive, seal the generals!" ”
When all the cavalry heard such a reward, they all became murderous.
At this time, the leading generals in the Northern Chu Breakthrough Army had already committed suicide......