Chapter 232: Rivalry (3)
"Spread out!"
A powerful array of armored cavalry swept through the crowd of Qin troops, turning all enemies in their way into stumps and blood.
Li Xin's eyes were red at the heavy losses, and he commanded the cavalry behind him to retreat to both flanks.
"Kill!"
As he spoke, he led the guards around him to kill the armored cavalry from the left flank.
"Drink!"
With a loud shout, the halberd in his hand stabbed out.
The halberd pierced the hard belly armor of the war horse, and the heavy force forced the armored horse, which weighed more than 600 kilograms, to retreat a few steps one after another.
"Ahh
Li Nobunaga's halberd picked it up again, stuck under the belly plate armor of the armored cavalry, directly picked it over his head, and slammed into the armored cavalry formation.
Boom!
In a series of collisions and landings, more than 10 armored riders were knocked to the ground, causing a wave of chaos on the edge.
"The thief will look at the knife!"
Just when Li Xin wanted to make persistent efforts, Huang Jingtian, who was walking around the left flank of the armored cavalry formation, appeared in front, and the elephant trunk knife in his hand carried the momentum of Mount Tai to the top.
Boom!
With the sound of violent impact, both of them took a step back.
Refining God Warrior!
Huang Jingtian and Li Xin both showed solemn expressions on their faces at the same time.
"Come again!"
As the existence of the pinnacle of martial artists, the two of them have a sense of arrogance in their hearts, and they didn't use all their strength in a blow just now.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The sound of swords and halberds burst in the air, and the fierce energy escaped wantonly, and the whirling thrust blocked the pace of the cavalry of the two armies that wanted to move forward.
The halberd in Li Xin's hand is as fast as lightning, the halberd is pretentious, and the big knife in Huang Jingtian's hand is as calm as flowing water.
The two of you have been back and forth, and in the blink of an eye, they have fought for dozens of rounds, and no one has taken advantage.
Kill!
Yes!
And just as the two were fighting, the steel array composed of 3,000 armored cavalry had completely chiseled through the military formation of 10,000 Qin troops, and more than 30% of the Qin troops who collided head-on were killed or wounded.
As soon as the countless cavalry of the Qin army who fled and evaded broke away from the tiger's mouth, they immediately faced the heavy cavalry of the Xiao cavalry battalion that was strangled from both wings.
In the collision of iron and blood, the Great Qin Iron Cavalry, which dominated the world, tasted the taste of being crushed for the first time.
In just half an hour of fighting, the Qin army's military formation had completely collapsed, the dead were killed, the wounded were wounded, and only more than 2,000 horsemen remained near Li Xin.
"General! Can't fight anymore! ”
Taking advantage of the gap after the two of them collided violently with another blow, Li Xin's lieutenant rushed forward against the wind and grabbed him.
"Withdraw!"
Li Xin grabbed the reins, glanced at the few remaining cavalry around, gritted his teeth, gave up the unrealistic idea of killing Huang Jingtian, and took advantage of the opportunity that the cavalry battalion had not yet completed the siege, and led his troops to the northwest to start breaking through.
"I want to leave now, it's too late!"
On the wilderness hundreds of meters away from the warring parties, Zhao Yun led the Flying Feather Cavalry to slowly appear on the edge of the battlefield, and said coldly when he saw the Qin army who was only thinking about evacuating now.
"Attack!"
With an order, 10,000 lightly armed flying feather horsemen flew out and surrounded the remnants of the Qin army.
As a general, you should not be afraid of any opponent on the battlefield, but you should not despise any enemy.
Li Xin, because of his contempt and carelessness, buried 10,000 Great Qin Iron Horsemen here.
Ga! Ga! Ga!
At the end of the battle, the shouts of killing on the battlefield had ended, countless stumps and corpses were scattered all over the land, the soil on the ground had been stained with blood and turned a dark red, the broken halberd and broken armor were scattered everywhere, and a black crow hovered and flew in the low sky, adding a bit of desolation to the earth.
Wang Ben stood beside the battlefield under the escort of hundreds of Qin troops, looking at the blood-stained battlefield, his fists clenched, and his face gloomy as iron.
When he received the news that the scouts had sent back Li Xin's disrespectful orders and led the troops to march quickly, he was a little worried in his heart, but he did not expect the consequences to be so disastrous.
Almost all of the 10,000 elite cavalry were killed here, and the life and death of Li Xin, the commander of the army, were unknown.
This is definitely the heaviest loss of Wang Ben's army since the Qin army entered Shu.
What made Wang Ben even more shocked was that judging from the news sent back by the last scout, the battle between the two armies should not exceed an hour.
Judging from the traces left on the battlefield, the other side also dispatched cavalry, first dragging Li Xinjun with a cavalry front, and then outflanking from the rear road, annihilating 10,000 Qin army iron cavalry here.
However, the enemy apparently deliberately cleared the battlefield when they left, leaving not a single corpse of an enemy soldier behind, and no more detailed information about the opponent's equipment was known.
Li Xin is also a battle-hardened general, even if he is in the front and back, in such an open area, it is almost impossible to defeat an elite cavalry led by him in such a short period of time.
Wang Ben expected that there must be something in it that he didn't know, so that Li Xin didn't have time to react at all, and the army had already fallen into a desperate situation.
Li Xin's rapid defeat made Wang Ben realize that the battle was difficult.
That night, Wang Ben did not lead the army to continue to advance, but set up camp a mile away from the battlefield, and at the same time sent thousands of Yizhou city and rural warriors to the battlefield to collect the corpses of the Qin army who had died in battle.
On the second day, the mighty 100,000 Qin troops slowed down the pace of advancement, and a large number of scouts were released in front to explore the road first, and the army on the rear road moved slowly.
10 miles away, the army took two hours before the troops came to the city of Beiguan.
The 100,000 Qin troops turned into countless black-armored and black phalanxes and gathered under the city of Beiguan, and the sky-high aura of the tiger and wolf army shocked the sky.
"Sure enough, it is worthy of being the tiger and wolf division of China!"
Looking at the Qin army under the city, Hu Luguang, Liu Wenxiu and others on the city tower couldn't help but show sincere admiration on their faces.
For this tiger and wolf army that has left a fierce record in Chinese history, no one has ever dared to underestimate the southern Wang Army, from Sima Yu to the captains of various military academies.
It is this army of tigers and wolves in front of us that has laid the national backbone of the Chinese nation and enabled it to stand tall in thousands of years of chaos and turmoil.
Although the two armies were on opposite sides, everyone still retained the respect they deserved.
"Arrays of arrows!"
Looking at the 10-meter-high fortified city in front of him, a look of determination flashed in Wang Ben's eyes, and he ordered in a cold voice.
This is the last barrier that hinders their advance, beyond here, the land of the Three Kingdoms and Five Prefectures is at my disposal, and if it can't be crossed, Great Qin will forever lose this opportunity to raid the Three Kingdoms Alliance Army from behind.
Therefore, even if he uses his life to fill it, Wang Ben must also take the Beiguan City in front of him.
"Arrays of arrows!"
In the high voice of the order, 5,000 Qin soldiers armed with Qin crossbows filled the open space outside Beiguan City, and battled under the city.
During the Warring States Period, there was no doubt about the strength of the Qin State, and the strength of the Qin crossbow arrow array was an important reason why the Qin State was able to dominate the world.
Relying on a powerful crossbow with a long range and high lethality, it strives to break through the armor with one arrow and crush the enemy army.
The Qin and Mongol dynasties were also the only two dynasties in history that relied on bows and crossbows to win the world.
"Put!"
With an order, the arrows that covered the sky and the sun flew towards the head of Beiguan City.