Chapter 59: The Battle of Xuzhou (2)

"Bang", the two swords struck each other, and Wang Rong was hit back by Gao Yang's sword. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The continuous retreat filled Wang Rong's heart with shame, he was the royal teacher of the Chu State, and he was himself a carefully selected soldier. In the Wang Division, he is known as the scout of the "top of the best"!

In later generations, there was a saying that "ranked among the best", which means that the ranking is in the forefront, and Wang Rong is a real "top". This kind of soldier was rare even among the Chu king's division, and now he was forced to retreat here by a Qi swordsman, which made him unbearable.

Then another sword slashed at him, slashing out a wound in his left arm. Stimulated by this, he didn't compete with the Qi National Skill Fighter on the opposite side sword by sword, and rushed forward directly, constantly attacking in a fierce and death-defying way!

Gao Yang was also shocked by the bravery of the two horses of the Chu army opposite, he came to fight to make money, but he did not give his life to the battlefield. So he had to constantly defend to deal with the opponent's attacks.

Gao Yang's side fought to a draw with Wang Rong, but the way the rest of the people fought was different from the situation of the two of them.

A certain military strategist of later generations once said a very classic sentence about the strength and weakness of a country: I have discovered a fundamental principle in the rise and fall of nations in the world, that is, those who live and fight in the same conditions are close, those who are far from each other are weak, and those who are opposite die.

Qi and Chu are both agricultural countries, and their living and fighting standards are inconsistent, and they can barely be regarded as separaters. However, these two countries are countries that have not long entered the era of civilization from the tribal era, and there are still a large number of uncivilized "barbarians" in the country, and the citizens of both countries have a strong martial spirit, but the domestic atmosphere of Qi is different from that of Chu. The domestic private fighting in Qi is very strong, and the people are "cowardly in the fight and brave to hold the thorn". Therefore, the ability of the people of Qi to fight alone is the top among the nations.

In this skirmish, the advantages of the individual strength of the Qi State Martial Fighters were quickly brought into play. Soon, one of the Chu scouts was killed. And among all the people in the Chu army, except for Wang Rong, who could also confront Gao Yang head-on as the two Simas, the others were defeated by the Qi army.

Wang Rong couldn't help but be secretly anxious when he saw such an unfavorable situation, and then he made up his mind and decisively ordered his subordinates to retreat collectively, and Gao Yang did not chase, and took his subordinates to cut off the heads of the dead Chu soldiers, and then returned to the Qi army camp after patrolling for a while.

Such scout battles, large and small, broke out constantly on the land between the camps of the two armies of Qi and Chu.

In the camp of the Qi army, Kuang Zhang was in a very happy mood at this time. Since the outbreak of the scout war between Qi and Chu, the technical fighters of the Qi army have frequently attacked, but many of the scouts of the Chu army have been killed, and the losses of the technical fighters of the Qi State are minimal.

People say that the Chu people are brave, and now it seems that it is nothing more than that. It seems that on the battlefield, it is still necessary to rely on personal force to decide the victory, Qi people are all aggressive warriors, can Qi Guoan be strong?

With this in mind, he reported all the results he had gained in the past few days to Shen Bin, and Shen Jian got such accurate information, and remembered that the Song army had a precedent of defeating the Chu army with one enemy and five enemies. So he decided in his heart that the people of Chu were unbearable, and then he asked the king of Qi for instructions, asking for an attack on Chu!

A series of small victories in Xue Yi made the whole Qi State believe that the people of Chu were not as brave as the people of Qi. And the State of Qi was fighting on its own home turf, and there was no reason why it would lose to the State of Chu, so the King of Qi naturally approved the attack of Shen Bind.

Unlike the optimistic attitude of the Qi side towards the war, the King of Chu had a terrible gloomy face after hearing the list of casualties. All the summoned generals and feudal monarchs of the Chu army did not even dare to speak loudly, for fear of annoying the king of Chu.

In this atmosphere of failure, the people with the most pressure are the Chu State Grand Sima Jingcui and the Chu Army Zuo Sima Zhaohua, the Chu State has a tradition of killing generals, if they continue to fail, what awaits them may be suicide and apologize.

Under this tremendous pressure, Jing Cui forced Zhao Hua to send the most elite Wang Division to start attacking the Qi army! And at this moment, the commander of the Qi army, Shen Lian, also ordered Kuang Zhang to lead his brave warriors to attack the Chu army!

The best future generals of Qi and Chu met on the battlefield for the first time. The two generals were both young people at this time, and they both had a positive and enterprising spirit, and the orders they received were all to attack, and the duel between the two sides was extremely fierce from the beginning!

Zhao Hua selected the most elite 30,000 Chu warriors from the Chu army's royal division to fight with him, and among them, all 5,000 of the Chu army were the vanguard. Kuang Zhang selected a total of 30,000 men from the short sword battalion, halberd battalion and bow battalion among the skilled fighters to fight, and then Shen Jian mobilized 200 chariots from the Wudu army as an auxiliary.

The two armies faced each other on the plain, lined up against each other. Kuang Zhang sent an envoy to ask for a fair duel between the two sides, and Zhao Slip agreed.

In Kuang Zhang's idea, since the two sides were fair to each other, then they should follow the method of hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, first using chariots to duel, and then everyone using infantry to attack each other, but Zhao Slip's response made him extremely puzzled.

Zhao Slip did not send any chariot soldiers, and he gathered all the Chu army leaders in one go. Subsequently, when the Qi army's technical fighters were arrayed to fight, he personally led these Chu army leaders to directly charge the Qi army's large array!

Wang Rong was also in these teams that followed the charge, and on the way to the charge, his mind recalled what Zuo Sima had said to them.

"The country raises soldiers for a thousand days, and uses them for a while. You usually have a lot of benefits in your family because of your status as a royal teacher. Now that the country is in trouble, it is time for you to be loyal to the country! We've suffered some defeats at the hands of the Qi people these days, but it doesn't matter! Our Chu State was also defeated by the Jin State back then, but our Chu State is still a big country in the south now, and the Jin State is safe? As long as everyone is determined to die and follow me to charge, we will definitely be able to defeat the Qi people. ”

Wang Rong agrees with these words. In this era, there is a strong idea of "the scholar dies for his confidant", and his whole family is exempt from paying taxes because he became the king of Chu. Regarding the affairs of the Jin Kingdom, he has shallow experience and does not know the details. However, in his opinion, it is absolutely true that the soldiers who had been with him for several years died at the hands of the Qi people, although these soldiers were his subordinates, but in fact they were like brothers!

My brother was killed by someone's enemy, can I not repay this revenge? He couldn't help but have a deep hatred for the Qi people, and this hatred made him forget about death when he charged on the battlefield.

Zhao Slip's idea of using the elite infantry of the Chu army to charge directly is still related to Dai Yan's use of short swordsmen to attack Yang Lingjun's big array, and in that big battle, Zhao Slip can be said to have witnessed it with his own eyes. In addition, he was extremely talented in military affairs, and after returning home, he carefully figured out the course of the great war, and also learned a lot of useful knowledge from it.

Kuang Zhang was extremely puzzled after seeing the Chu army directly attacking the chariot formation with infantry, but since the other party wanted to violate the "common sense of war", of course he would not take advantage of it, and then he ordered the Qi chariot team to charge!

The chariot troops facing Qi at the forefront of the Chu army were not timid, and directly faced the difficulties. The charge of 5,000 of the bravest Chu troops caused the chariot troops of the Qi State to collide head-on!

The result of this impact was very different from the result of Kuang Zhang's imagination of the chariot sweeping everything, and the leading units of the Chu army did not collapse in the face of the impact of the chariot. Because the infantry has a strong flexibility on the battlefield, the Chu army quickly wiped out the chariots of the Qi State one by one with their high morale and the bravery of the soldiers!

Kuang Zhang couldn't understand this result, but the collapse of the chariot unit had become a fact, and he was also sighed when he saw the front of the Chu army so brave. However, he was a gifted general after all, and he had heard of Cao Di, a native of Lu, on war: one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion! Now the people of Chu are using the most elite troops to give him a "blow", and he must break up the other party's encouragement!

So he also went into battle in person, leading the most elite short sword battalion among the skilled fighters and began to launch a counter-charge against the front of the Chu army! The most elite troops of Qi and Chu fought together!

Wang Rong seemed to have inexhaustible strength in his whole body after following Zuo Sima to charge, he had just teamed up with his companions to wipe out a chariot of Qi and the infantry behind it, and then he saw a general in the Qi army camp start to fight with soldiers and horses!

Behind the tiger-backed general were countless soldiers armed with short swords, all of whom looked arrogant and rushed towards them with a roar!

Wang Rong looked at Sima's handsome banner and continued to move forward; And the drumming of the attack on the battlefield still did not stop, so he continued to charge forward more rapidly, and soon collided with the Qi people!

With hatred for his brother's killing, Wang Rong became extremely brave. At this moment, he didn't think about how sad his family would be if he died, he just wanted to kill the people of Qi to avenge his brother!

Just as he had killed another Qi State Martial Warrior, he saw the Qi State Commander who was sweeping the battlefield with him! So he resolutely left his opponent behind and rushed towards the chief of the Qi country!