Chapter 214: Courage to move forward
The fire horses rushed to the ranks of the Qin army, and immediately ignited the flammable items that the Qin army was carrying, and the sound of the Qin army crying for his father and mother kept coming, and there was no way to continue to run forward to kill, and these fire horses still rushed towards the Qin army, and rushed straight into the camp of the Qin army!
At this time, Chen Le passed the order again, and all the troops that had been ambushed in advance appeared, and then began to advance slowly!
The Qi army had to advance slowly, because the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Qin army in front of them were dead and wounded, and this road had been blocked, but fortunately, Chen Le had ambushed the soldiers and horses more than ten miles away on both wings of the camp, and these soldiers and horses were the same as the Qin army, bringing flammable items and rushing to the Qin army camp!
The Qin army's camp was also in chaos at the moment, tens of thousands of fire horses rushed in was simply a disaster, and the most terrible thing was that the Qin army in order to prepare for this fire attack, all the flammable items were stored in front of the camp, after these fire horses rushed in, they instantly ignited the items that the Qin army was originally preparing to attack, and the Qin army's camp immediately became a sea of fire!
Even if the Qin army has the heart to rush out at this moment, it is not enough to have more than enough strength, there is a sea of fire ahead, it is almost impossible for a million army to rush across the sea of fire and kill, even if it can rush over, it is almost the fate of sending people to the head, and it has no value at all, so the Qin army chose to retreat!
However, how huge the joint venture of a million troops is can only be understood by seeing it with your own eyes, and the Qin army suddenly made a mess under this retreat, and at this moment, the direction of the wind suddenly changed!
The direction of the wind was originally uncertain, and there was some meaning of blowing in the sky, but at this moment, the direction of the wind in the sky suddenly became the east wind!
Seeing this, Chen Le laughed and said, "Okay, sons, beat the war drum!" ”
As the drums of war sounded, the wind blew louder and stronger, and the fire rose higher and higher with the east wind, and finally the fire spread to the west with an outrageous speed!
The speed of the Qin army's retreat at this moment is not at all comparable to the speed of the spread of the fire, once the fire breaks out, accompanied by bursts of smoke, it is impossible to distinguish the southeast and northwest within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the millions of Qin troops are all drowned in the sea of fire except for those on the edge of the joint venture!
Seeing this scene, Chen Le immediately sounded the gong to collect the troops, at the moment, it is no longer realistic to send a large army to chase and kill, not to mention that the army can't rush this sea of fire, so he can only wait for the fire to be extinguished before making plans.
Although it was basically certain that this fire attack would win a complete victory, Chen Le did not dare to take it lightly, and always sent nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses to monitor the front.
The fire continued to burn overnight, and it was not extinguished until the next day when it was close to noon, which is also the lack of trees and mountains and forests ahead, otherwise this fire does not know where to burn, Chen Le received the news that the fire was gradually extinguished, and immediately issued an order, pull out the camp and set up the village, and the whole army chased and killed the Qin army!
The nearly two million army of Qidi, leaving only more than 100,000 people to transport the grain and grass in the rear, all the rest chased and killed, passing by the Qin army joint camp, the scene was miserable, according to the statistics of the army, the Qin army lost at least half of the soldiers and horses in the joint camp!
The Qin army is only a little more than a million, and half of the soldiers and horses are five or six hundred thousand, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the Qin army was burned by this fire and lost its fighting spirit, like a lost dog, in fact, think about it, no matter how capable of conscripting and fighting the army, after such a fire, I am afraid that the fighting spirit can not be slowed down in a short time!
Chen Le led the army to advance into the Qin realm, he divided his troops into three ways to chase and kill the fleeing troops of the Qin State, the speed of the three-way army and horses was fast, it was not at all comparable to the fleeing Qin army, and the men and horses led by Chen Le only caught up with the main force of the Qin army in less than an hour or so.
At this time, the fleeing troops of the Qin army had already come to the front of a county town, and when they were just about to enter the city, they encountered Chen Le's army chasing after them, and this army had no time to enter the city again, so they could only be forced to turn around and fight with Chen Le's army.
There are not many soldiers in this county, only more than 3,000 people, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they all went out of the city to face the battle, but Chen Le's army came with momentum, how could they resist it, and under the rush and killing, the Qin army routed and wrapped these more than 3,000 people all the way to the west!
Chen Le led the army to chase and kill for three days and three nights in a row, and then slowed down the pace, and the Qin army almost lost the county and lost the county along the way, and there was no bottom line in defeat, even if the part of the people and horses brought out from the states and counties along the way, there were already less than 300,000, and only about 200,000 were left.
Chen Le's three-way army has already converged together, because there are too many burdens obtained along the way, and in the end they can only choose the good ones to be retained, and all the bad ones can be destroyed on the spot, as for the official gold and silver obtained in Qinguozhou County, there are not a few, and these things cannot be sent back to Qidi, Chen Le gave an order, and all of them were rewarded to the million army, and he did not keep anything at all.
The route taken by Chen Le did not pass through the original Daliang Prefecture, but had to go down slightly, so that he could only directly hit the original Qin-Zhao border area, avoid the mountains, and then turn around and go north and enter Jingzhou.
After more than ten days of marching and killing, Chen Le's army had almost no damage, the food was abundant, the soldiers were full of spirit, and they won the battle for several days, and they shared a large amount of gold and silver.
On this day, Chen Le finally came to the original Qin-Zhao border with his army, where a Xiongguan stood in front, as long as he crossed this pass, and then went north, he would directly enter the Jingzhou area!
This Xiongguan is called Tiger Prison, Tiger Prison!
Legend has it that this Xiongguan was the place where the great Xu Taizu imprisoned the tiger, so it was named so, this pass has always had the title of the first pass in the west!
The original territory of the Qin State is not the same as the territory that occupied the territory of the Great Zhao, and the most obvious difference is that the city fortifications of the original Qin territory are extremely powerful, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Chen Le ordered his subordinates to set up a camp in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the camp of nearly two million troops was endless, and then Chen Le rode a horse and brought the generals around him to the front of the pass to look!
Chen Le has long understood about this Xiongguan, and the main general of this pass is Wang Yanzhang, the general of the Qin State who ranks thirteenth on the Wuying list!
This iron spear general Wang Yanzhang, although ranked thirteenth on the Wuying list, but the reputation is not much weaker than the top ten Wuzun, this Wang Yanzhang is known as the person who fights the most on the Wuying list, he was six years old to teach marksmanship, twelve years old down the mountain, so far with people on the horse no less than hundreds of battles, the combat experience is extremely rich, and even someone has long said that although Wang Yanzhao's martial arts may not be as good as the top ten martial arts, but his experience can make up for the lack of martial arts, just by virtue of this, you can be included in the martial arts!