The use of cavalry to attack and disturb the logistics of the Chu army not only restrained some of the opponent's elite forces, but also dealt a big blow to the morale of the Chu army.

The number of the Chu army was relatively large, and Zhao Slip did not deal with these cavalry in the first place, but used various arms to confront each other, and failed several times in succession. These defeats, for such a large army, naturally cannot be concealed. From this, everyone in the Chu army knows that the Song army has a strange type of troops, the soldiers are riding on horses, coming and going like flying, the other party wants to attack themselves, and they arrive in an instant, and they want to fight back, but they can't even touch the corners of the other party's clothes!

For the romantic Chu people, they are not afraid of brave opponents, because the Chu people themselves are a martial nation. They are not afraid of a well-organized army, and they can be disciplined as long as they need to. However, for the cavalry, which can only silently withstand the opponent's attack and cannot attack the opponent's opponent, the Chu army is a little afraid.

Because in their opinion, if they had a sufficient number of cavalry, wouldn't the Song army be invincible forever?

In fact, in the era of cold weapons, such an understanding is not wrong at all! As long as there is a sufficient number of cavalry, and a sufficient number of logistics are guaranteed, and the battlefield is on the vast plains, the cavalry is almost incomprehensible for the infantry! This can be seen from the fact that the Chinese dynasties have always been helpless against the northern nomads!

The cavalry attack made the Chu army fall into disadvantage. Zhao Slip, who commanded this army, also knew that the situation could not be allowed to continue to deteriorate like this. Then he gave up the practice of sticking to the Xiangyi coal mine and industrial zone, led the army, and camped near the Song army's camp, intending to fight a real battle with the Song army!

Dai Yan, who was in the camp, soon received a war letter from Zhaohua. According to Dai Yan's original intention, he didn't want to agree to a decisive battle with the Chu army so easily, after all, such a war can be called a national battle for the Song State, which is tantamount to a war that gambles on the fortunes of the country!

However, the information received from Tian Buli behind Taoqiu became more and more unfavorable, and Taoqiu City had lost other sources of coal and iron at this time, except for transporting a small amount of coal and iron by land to Taoqiu through Weiguo. The situation in the city of Taoqiu was now extremely serious, except for a few wealthy merchants who were able to buy enough coal, and the rest of the common people began to resume their previous activities: cutting wood from outside the city for firewood.

Fortunately, Taoqiu City has not long entered the "Coal Age" in this era, and the ability of civilians who come to Taoqiu from all over the world to collect firewood in their bones has not been lost. In addition, outside the city of Taoqiu, on the other side of Heze and in Onozawa, there are still many forests, which can supply sufficient fuel for Taoqiu. Otherwise, the impact of this coal supply interruption on Taoqiu is no less than the impact of large-scale power outages on the city in later generations!

Tao Qiu is the foundation of Dai Yan's power, and it is impossible for him to let his power base be shaken. Therefore, even if he knew that the decisive battle with the State of Chu was now a gamble with the national fortunes of the Song State, he didn't care at all!

As a qualified politician, is the future of the country, the future or something, really important to you? Regarding this problem, Dai Yan understood it when he was assassinated by Tian Ying: everything is not as important as his own life and power! Those things that seem important must be placed behind power, and if you can't train your mind to this point, you don't deserve to be a qualified politician at all!

He didn't hesitate for too long, and agreed to a decisive battle with the Chu army!

Once he decided to make a move and had a decisive battle, Dai Yan didn't have the slightest hand! In addition to the tens of thousands of Taoqiu troops who stayed in the Song State and monitored the movements in the Song Kingdom, near Suishui, the 200,000 troops on both sides of the strait were quickly assembled and placed in front of the Chu army!

The most important thing in the duel between the two armies is to know oneself and the other. The situation of the previous party can basically be under his control, and he can't let the situation of the Chu army out of his control at all! Fortunately, he has a large cavalry, and he has a natural advantage in reconnaissance!

He asked the cavalry to monitor the entire vicinity of the battlefield and all corners within a radius of two hundred miles, so as to prevent the Chu army from having ambushes in the background. Then, he made the army of 200,000 ready, and then after the agreed time, the two sides began the official battle of the array!

After experiencing the battle with the Suiyang army, Dai Yan was full of confidence in the battle of the Song army. In his opinion, with incomparably powerful long-range weapons such as bed crossbows, ballistas and even standard crossbows, and an infantry formation composed of swords, shields, and spearmen, in the great array of this era, it is invincible!

And such a large array, when used as a defensive array, the effect is even more powerful! Didn't he just defeat the army of more than 100,000 people in Suiyang with an army of tens of thousands through defense and counterattack? Now that the army of the other side is more than twice as large as before, there is no reason why the Chu army, which is not superior in numbers, cannot be defeated!

According to the experience of the last time, Dai Yan once again put out a big array. And is it similar to this kind of military formation training, Dai Yan has been training Taoqiu's army for a long time in the past two months, so once again put it out, it is still a pattern of sword and shield soldiers in front, pikemen in the center, crossbowmen in the back, bed crossbows and ballistas protected by large arrays. As for the cavalry, Dai Yan still let Le Yi lead it, stay on the periphery and wait, ready to find a flaw and deal a fatal blow to the Chu army!

In the camp of the Chu army opposite, Zhao, who only had one hand, looked at the strict Song army formation on the opposite side expressionlessly, and then looked at Hua Rong, who looked flattering beside him, and asked: "In the last battle in Xiayi, you failed, because this large array laid by Ziyan was both offensive and defensive, so that you had no chance to take advantage of it, and gave his cavalry flaws, which led to the collapse of the army?" ”

Hua Rong, who now had almost nothing, heard Zhao Slip's question, and quickly nodded and said, "Yes, Lord Sima!" You must not underestimate this big array of Ziyan, it is really necessary to guard against it! ”

Zhao Slip nodded, and the expression on his face never changed much. Since the last time he lost a hand in the attack on the Xiangyi Industrial Zone, he has begun to become more and more calm on the battlefield. The biggest impact of losing a hand on him was to make him understand that on the battlefield, any leakage of emotions may cause unpredictable serious consequences!

Only on the battlefield, train yourself to be absolutely ruthless, and not regard the life of a soldier as life, but as a simple calculation of death, can you have enough odds of victory! With such a cold psychology, he is a real celebrity!

Just like the Qin State in later generations, he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops under one order, what a cold heart can only be done! And it is with this absolute ruthlessness and disregard for life that Bai Qi can become the most powerful peerless general in the Warring States!

Now that your opponent is on the defensive, let's try your opponent's defense first. Zhao Slip gave an order, and selected more than 5,000 brave and skilled fighters from the Chu army, and let them hold shields and short swords, as people in battle, and personally go to the front of the Song army to attack the Song army's large array!

When Zhao Hua personally received these selected soldiers, the selected soldiers were all boiling! This is the commander of the 200,000 Chu army, the great Sima of the Chu State, such a big man practices for himself, he must perform well on the battlefield!

Chu people have a romantic personality, and once the emotions come up, they are immediately excited! And after Zhao Hua received them, even more so, everyone shouted and said that they were willing to go to the Song army's main array, cut off the head of Ziyan, the leader of the Song army's rebels, and bring it to Sima!

Zhao Slip still maintained a coldness like ice, waved his hand, and made people beat the drums, and these commanders began to shout and charge towards the Song army! Some of them had fierce temperaments, and even took off their shirts directly, shouted shirtless, and rushed towards the Song army's big array!

In the face of this attack by a small number of trappers, Dai Yan became more and more handy. He immediately ordered the army to be on guard, and at the same time, the bed crossbow, which was protected by the army, immediately began to draw and wind its bow!

As soon as Chu Jun Xuan Feng Fang walked within the attack range of the bed crossbow, he was immediately attacked by an overwhelming array of crossbow arrows! Although these Chu army commanders were armed with shields, they were never able to defend against the attacks of the bed crossbows!

However, the fall of the comrades beside him, and even the blood splashing caused by them, not only did not make these Chu troops who came from the impact feel afraid, but made them extremely angry! The entire Song army array could feel it, and the roar of the charging Chu army began to get louder and louder!

One by one, the Chu army fell, and the Chu army that was able to rush to the front of the Song army was already only more than 3,000 people. At this time, the crossbowmen in the back row of the spearmen began to exert dense crossbow arrows, flying towards the Chu army like locusts!

And this time, the attack effect of the Song army was not so good, and the shield held by Chu Jun Xuanfeng had no effect on the crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow, but for the crossbow arrows fired by the crossbowmen, the defensive effect was very good. But if the crossbow arrows hit the shield, they can rarely directly injure these Chu army commanders!

The shields held by these Chu troops seem to have come specifically for the standard crossbow arrows of the Song army! And the Chu army was able to do this, it was completely because Hua Rong brought the bloody experience to the Chu army with his own defeat!

These more than 3,000 Chu soldiers quickly rushed to the front of the Song army's main array, and without the threat of crossbowmen, they began to face the Song army's sword and shield men and spearmen. These blade pickers all held iron swords, and in this way, they started hand-to-hand combat with the Song army sword and shield hand-to-hand hand, who also held iron swords and shields!

The entire battlefield immediately became a Shura field, and it became extremely cruel! Every second, countless heads fall, and stumps fly everywhere! On the front line of the battlefield, a gorgeous and tragic picture was spilled with blood in this way!

This kind of cruel scene in the era of cold weapons, Dai Yan has seen it many times. Every duel makes his heart surge! This is a pure flesh and blood competition, and those who see it for the first time may be intimidated by this cruel scene, but Dai Yan has seen too much, but he has a sense of excitement in his bones!

It seems that I also have the potential to become a famous general, Dai Yan thought silently.

After all, the Song army has a large array, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, and behind the sword and shield hands, it is assisted by spearmen. Therefore, the attack of the Chu army was like a wave, this wave failed to break the strong embankment of the Song army, and after knowing that it was pointless to continue to consume like this, they quickly retreated and returned to the Chu army's main array!

"Lord Sima, the Song army's great array really can't be attacked, and the last general is really ashamed of your teachings!" A Chu army commander with a bloody body came to Zhao Slip, knelt down and said to Zhao Slip.

The Chu army had more than 5,000 Fengxian soldiers and formed an army of two divisions. Among them, there are less than 1,500 people who can return, and one of them even has a division commander who fell on the battlefield, which can be described as an extremely tragic battle!

However, as soon as Zhao Hua saw this division commander, he immediately asked him coldly: "Our army did not have Mingjin, why did you retreat when you waited for the front line to attack?" ”

"Lord Sima, the enemy is really fierce, in the next thought, if I continue to attack, it will be in vain to consume the lives of the soldiers, so let the sons and daughters retreat first, and then make a decision after repairing......"

Zhao Hua directly interrupted the speech of the division commander: "Zhao Han, Cai Yi Pioneer Army selects the commander of the front battalion, fears the enemy in battle, and beheads!" ”

As soon as he heard Zhao Slip's verdict, the faces of the surrounding Chu army generals immediately changed greatly. There were even generals who directly persuaded Zhao Hua: "Sima, look at the injuries on Zhao Han's body, they are all left by fighting with the Song army, it's not that he doesn't do his best, but the Song army's large array is too strong, and this is not a crime of war..."

Zhao Hua didn't follow the advice of his subordinates at all, but said again: "Zhao Han, you won't go on the road alone!" ”

He walked up to the soldiers who chose the blade, and said in a loud voice: "In this attack, you are afraid of the enemy and retreat, all of them are guilty!" All centurions and above, slash! The rest of the people have also listened to me, and then you have another chance to make meritorious contributions, if you continue to retreat in fear of the enemy, your leader will be your fate! ”

Subsequently, before the Chu army array, more than 20 heads fell to the ground, and the entire Chu army camp suddenly fell into silence!

After this silence, there were 5,000 new Selectors, plus Selectors who had just retreated from the front line, and launched a decisive charge towards the Song Army camp opposite!