Section 217 The Encounter Behind (Part 4)
"Hiss......" Wuli felt a chill in his heart.
The man who made the suggestion continued: "Ten thousand people have been sent, if the real ancestral land is attacked, then these ten thousand people are afraid that it will be difficult to survive, hurry up and catch up with them, and then arrange several teams of scouts to go day and night to investigate. This side must be prepared to return to the army, and cannot be pursued by the Qin people. ”
"Go, go."
In the camp of the Qin army, the observation posts by the river kept coming to report: "Report, the Linhu people are preparing to retreat." ”
King Qin didn't ask Bai Hui this time, and asked Tong Ge and Bai Xiaoying: "What did you talk about?" ”
"Back to the king, Shao Liangzao just reported his name, that's all."
King Qin looked at Bai Hui with a strange expression: "This means that when they hear your name, they will be scared and want to run." ”
Bai Hui pointed at himself, and even Bai Hui didn't believe that his name was so terrifying.
"What's next?"
Bai Hui thought for a while and said, "Prepare to cross the river and attack." ”
King Qin nodded: "Pass the edict of the widows, and each battalion is ready to cross the river and attack." ”
The Linhu people were ready to retreat, and the Qin army was ready to cross the river.
The next day, Sima Jin, who was marching, encountered 10,000 cavalry from Yiqu who were rushing back.
"Report, I found that the Lin Hu cavalry has killed fifteen horsemen and about 10,000 enemy horsemen."
As the vanguard of the Hui army, Sima Jin only brought 3,000 people to the front.
Three thousand against ten thousand.
Sima Jin commanded: "Pass my order, everyone prepares for war, and after half an hour, hedge!" ”
Cavalry hedging is the most brutal style of play.
There is no scheme, no tricks.
What is fought is the number of soldiers, equipment, cavalry formation, comprehensive lethality and other hard indicators.
Sima Jin's forward department stopped.
Half an hour to rest, get ready, and then send someone to inform the Chinese army.
The Chinese army had about 5,000 horsemen, but there were 30,000 horses, including 10,000 war horses. When the Chinese army heard the news, they immediately left 2,000 men to slow down their march, and 3,000 horsemen and horses marched lightly and quickly.
Lin Hu hurriedly rushed back to the 10,000 lightly armed cavalry to find the Qin army, which was about two quarters of an hour late.
Don't underestimate the difference between these two quarters of an hour.
10,000 cavalry, restraining the soldiers to prepare for battle, is not as simple as an order.
With 10,000 cavalry, he opened up the distance and ran, occupying at least five to seven miles in front and behind, and the width of the distance was about two to three miles.
It will take a lot of time to gather these cavalry.
Moreover, these 10,000 cavalry are not elite.
What's more, they are all riding a single horse, which is not as good as Sima Jin riding a double horse.
When Sima Jin had already opened the formation and was ready to attack, the 10,000 Linhu cavalry could have completed the whole army, the formation was not neat, and some people had bows and no arrows, or arrows but no bows.
"Kill!"
Sima Jin would never give the enemy time to rest and reorganize the army, and there was a charge at this time.
Sima Jin drew his two Qin swords from his waist with both hands, raised them high above his head and shouted to lead the charge.
The first round of arrow rain was about a hundred paces closer to each other, and compared to the Qin army, which fired more than 1,000 arrows, Lin Hu's cavalry only rode less than 300 arrows.
The originally elongated cavalry of the Qin army began to retract.
The cavalry of both sides charged, in fact, only the first three rows had a chance to shoot arrows, a hundred paces, in terms of cavalry hedging speed, that is, in a few seconds, both sides would see the red with their swords.
The cavalry of the Qin army began to shrink, turning into a conical charging formation.
Qin Jiwei hit the middle battle.
The embarrassment of the Qin soldiers encountering the elite Korean army turned to the Lin Hu cavalry at this time, and the Qin soldiers could cut a Lin Hu soldier with a sword, and the Lin Hu soldiers only had a little difference in angle and strength, so they could only leave a mark on the Qin soldiers, and they could not cut the Qin cavalry armor at all.
Hedging, there is no chance to turn back or turn around, only keep moving forward, forward, forward.
On average, an excellent Qin soldier could cut seventeen to nineteen swords in the process of this charge, and Lin Hu soldiers could only have seven swords at most.
The two armies clashed, and Lin Hu soldiers left behind thousands of corpses and nearly 1,000 wounded.
The Qin army also suffered hundreds of casualties and hundreds of wounded.
The two armies came out in formation, turned around and prepared to charge again.
At this time, a lightly armed cavalry suddenly appeared behind Lin Hubing, who was turning around, the cavalry threw away all the excess equipment, and everyone only had a sword and a small shield in their hands.
"Kill, the time has come for the light knights of the Qin army to make a meritorious deed."
A veteran of the Qin army shouted, and the soldiers threw away everything that was superfluous and charged the enemy formation at full speed.
"Kill." Sima Jin knew very well that this opportunity was rare, if the flanking double charge formation was successful, this blow would be able to slaughter the Wanlin Hu cavalry.
Sima Jin's subordinates also threw away their bows, arrows, and halberds, and only used the Qin sword and light shield to charge into battle.
Long weapons are easy to hurt the Qin army that the opponent kills, so the light soldiers rushing into battle are the fastest and least likely to hurt their own people at this time.
Except for the first row of cavalry stabbed with halberds, the subsequent cavalry were all lightly armed.
For a while, Lin Hu's 10,000 cavalry, 9,000 cavalry died, and 1,000 were dying.
The next thing is to clean up the battlefield and give priority to the treatment of lightly injured war horses.
In the blink of an eye, a day has passed.
Bai Hui's Qin army camp here.
"Report, there are 300 rafts, please make an order!"
"Grab the beach, form a formation."
"No!"
Bai Hui's order was very simple, but the generals who led the troops knew that this was a plan that had been formulated a long time ago. That is, after setting up heavy crossbows on the riverbank on his side, he first sent a small number of infantry to cross the river to put the rejecting horses on the line, and then sent hoplites across the river to help defend.
Then the cart was wooden and could float in the river, and the cart could be pulled across the river with some equipment and ropes.
Next, send troops to form a chariot formation.
Finally, a pontoon bridge made of rafts was set up to allow the cavalry to cross the river.
This process can take at least five days, or even seven days, but it is relatively safe.
While the first group of infantry was carrying hundreds of horses across the river, a group of cavalry came to the front.
"Report, Yanchi has been captured, General Sima won a big victory, divided the troops into two routes, the main force went all the way north, 10,000 troops went northwest to join the main force of the Wu clan, and after controlling the west bank of the river, go north along the riverbank."
"Good!" Bai Hui shouted happily.
If the salt pond is won, the problem of salt shortage in Daqin will be solved for the most part.
Rongyi has salt, and it is high-quality salt, but it is too far away from Xianyang, the road is too difficult to walk, and the transportation cost is amazingly high, so the salt there can be used to supply Shudi, Shangyong, and Luoyi.
By this time, the infantry on the other side of the river had already set up a defensive formation and began to welcome more soldiers across the river.
A long pole eight feet high was erected, and the white-character flag was slowly raised.
At this moment, I saw that Lin Hu's military camp was in chaos, countless people rushed out of the camp, there was no organization at all, and a chaotic began to run north, some to the northeast, some to the northwest, and only a few ran to the north.
Bai Hui was stunned.
It was Bai Hui's less than a quarter of an hour's work in a daze, and more than half of the people in the Lin Hu camp ran out.