Chapter 315: The Battle of Song and Chu (Part II)

A real famous general not only knows how to lead troops to the maximum extent and rank the formation to command the battle, but also understands the specific situation of the army and makes real countermeasures according to the specific situation. This is the most difficult of the famous generals: confidant.

During the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling, why didn't Sun Bin use Qi troops to confront the Wei army head-on, but used a roundabout way to outflank and ambush the Wei army? Of course, there are deep considerations at the strategic level, but I am afraid that the biggest reason is that the frontal combat effectiveness of the Qi army's technical fighters is not as good as that of the Wei army. As soon as the Qi army heard about the battle with the Wei army, almost immediately some soldiers were frightened and fled, and in such a situation, letting the Qi army go up and fight it was completely a move to find death!

Therefore, by constantly retreating, and even luring the opponent's army, attacking the opponent in an ambush, and achieving victory, it is a tactic that perfectly adapts to the character of the Qi army. This is the reason why Sun Bin can be called a famous general in the world!

As a nobleman of the Chu State, Zhao Slip is a person who has dealt with Tian Ji and even Sun Bin. He naturally also learned the mystery of this art of war from Sun Bin: use the tactics that are most suitable for the Chu army to fight!

In his opinion, the Chu people are very strong in spiritual power, which can quickly improve morale and burst out with incomparably powerful strength when fighting face-to-face, and it is also possible to fail quickly when morale is low! This nature of the Chu people caused the combat effectiveness of the Chu army to often remain unstable. In history, the Chu army has had great victories and defeats, and there is almost no law at all in this kind of victory and defeat, and the biggest reason lies in the unstable morale of the Chu army!

And what Zhao Slip has to do now is to put an end to this instability of the Chu army, and force them to a dead end, so that they can burst out with powerful power to directly destroy the strong Song army formation on the opposite side!

How powerful can the Chu army burst out when it is overwhelmed? In later generations, when the capital of Chu had been destroyed by the Qin State, Xiang Yu, a young nobleman of the Chu State, led tens of thousands of Chu army soldiers to fight to the death, and beat nearly 400,000 Qin troops who crushed various countries to the ground!

Of course, Zhao Slip didn't know what Xiang Yu did in later generations, he just followed the art of war in "The Art of War" to oppress the Chu army to fight, and immediately achieved excellent results!

These more than 6,000 Chu army who were forced to a dead end rushed towards the Song army's big array with an extremely strong killing intent!

The character of the Song people is different from that of the Chu people, they have strong religious beliefs, have a fear of ghosts and gods, are not good at slippery things, are more obedient to the rules, and generally look like honest people. After being trained by Dai Yan for several months, he was able to carry out orders on the battlefield relatively calmly. When the Chu army rushed over, these soldiers still followed the previous orders, they should control the bed crossbow of the bed crossbow, and those who should use the crossbow arrows should use the crossbow arrows!

After the Chu army withstood the attack of bed crossbows and crossbow arrows, most of the soldiers rushed directly in front of the Song army's large array. And these Chu soldiers with strong killing intent, once they fought against the Song army on the front line, they would immediately have the upper hand!

In terms of weapons, the Chu army used iron swords and wooden shields, which were no worse than the Song army. And their biggest advantage is that they have been driven to a dead end and have incomparably strong spiritual strength! And the Song army, an honest and ordinary Mu Ne army, is naturally inferior to the Chu army in spirit!

As soon as the two militaries fought, the Song army that engaged in the battle was intimidated by the indomitable momentum of the Chu army! Once a person is psychologically intimidated by an opponent, he will be weaker than his opponent in terms of strength and reaction. And the performance on the battlefield at this time is that the Song army that is fighting on the front line is already at a disadvantage!

Faced with such a scene, Dai Yan was stunned. He didn't expect that the second round of Chu Jun's attack would be so different from the first round!

On the current battlefield, every time a Chu soldier is killed, almost two Song soldiers are killed! Those Chu soldiers who were slashed by the steel knives of the Song army would rather die than pull a Song soldier on their backs! It was as if they had forgotten their fears, forgotten their pain, and had only the only belief in defeating their opponents!

This kind of collective spiritual power made the entire attacking Chu army Xuanfeng turn into an incomparably sharp knife, and it stabbed straight into the originally incomparably strong Song army array, stabbing this seemingly solid array out of a big hole!

At the entrance of the entire big cave, there were the fearful faces in the eyes of the originally honest Song army, and the excited and furious eyes of the soldiers of the Chu army! In the process of the continuous retreat of the Song army and the continuous forward of the Chu army, Dai Yan could clearly feel that the entire Song army was in danger of collapsing!

This dangerous conscription immediately alerted him to the extreme! He knew that at this time, he had to suppress the violent Chu army! I used to deal with the Chu army in a completely defensive-counterattack way, and in the current view, this is a completely wrong approach!

Although he had defeated the Suiyang army in this way before, he ignored the biggest difference between the Chu army and the Suiyang army: the Chu army was an extremely powerful army!

The most important part of the defense and counterattack strategy is to be able to defend the opponent's attack first, and then counterattack the opponent! If you can't even defend it, you will be directly defeated by the opponent, it will be too sad!

You can no longer use purely defensive soldiers to deal with this group of Chu army who are like crazy! Dai Yan thought silently in his heart. Then, he issued an order, and the entire Song army's large array immediately changed, and the spearmen and crossbowmen who were originally behind the sword and shield men began to retreat continuously. In its place, an army came out of the great array of the Song army!

This army has only more than 10,000 people, but everyone is in armor! The officers and some of the wealthy soldiers wore a kind of "thin" steel armor like a vest, while the rest of the soldiers were all wearing rhino armor and whaleskin armor!

And the one who led this army forward was Tang Ying, the first fierce general under Dai Yan! This army is the most powerful Xuanniao army in the entire Taoqiu and even the Song Kingdom!

Not only does the Xuanniao Army have an advantage in equipment, but its officer corps and soldier source structure are completely different from the other legions of the Song Army! The officers of the Xuanniao Army, except for a very few fierce rangers, are all excellent disciples of the Mo family!

These disciples of the Mo family, once they go to the battlefield, uphold a spirit of "death does not spin their heels"! And it is this spirit that is completely integrated into the hearts of all the soldiers of the Xuanniao Army, and it has thus become the military soul of the Xuanniao Army!

The Xuanniao Army, the most powerful unit of the Song army, came out of the horse, and as soon as it came into contact with the Chu army's Xuanfeng Fang, it was like Mars hitting the earth, and the fiercest battle broke out!

On the one hand, the two sides are the army with firm beliefs, and on the other hand, they are the dead soldiers who are forced to the limit by death and burst out with strong combat effectiveness. There are only soldiers who have fallen by death, and there are no cowards who retreat to survive!

Those soldiers who did not participate in the battle, whether it was the Chu army or the Song army on the side, were stunned by such a fierce battle! And such a battle also directly ignited the fighting spirit of the soldiers on both sides!

Under the leadership of Zhao Hua, the soldiers of the Chu army were deeply inspired by the Xuan Feng soldiers and began to launch a full-scale attack on the Song army's large array!

And the Song army, which has always been like an honest man, was also inspired by the courage of the Xuanniao Army that would rather die than retreat, and was originally taken by the offensive of the Chu army, and the Song saber shield soldiers and spearmen who had to retreat also became high-spirited one by one, and they seemed to be full of infinite courage, and went straight to the Chu soldiers who rushed over!

From the ground, the collision of two armies is like the impact of two great rivers! Under this kind of impact, any single individual is insignificant, and every moment, countless Chu soldiers fell, and countless Song soldiers were killed!

And the flags of the commanders of both sides, as well as the rumbling war drums of both sides, are the strongest source of strength for the soldiers on both sides! In this kind of big war, as long as the flag does not fall and the drums of war do not stop, there is no possibility for the soldiers on both sides to retreat!

Outside the battlefield, the cavalry of the Song army, which had been cruising all the time, had not been able to find a good breakthrough until now, like the opportunity to annihilate the Chu army in one fell swoop in the last battle! As this war continues longer and longer, the entire battlefield has become a complete war of attrition - a war that simply consumes the lives of soldiers!

Seeing that the two sides had been evenly matched, Le Yi knew that he couldn't wait any longer! Since the infantry of the Song army cannot achieve an advantage in strength, suppress the Chu army, and create opportunities for themselves, then let their own cavalry open up the situation and create opportunities for the lord!

However, just when he wanted to throw all the cavalry into the battlefield and attack the Chu army, he suddenly remembered the sound of a gong on the battlefield!

This kind of sound was knocked out by the Chu army, which means that the Chu army has retreated!

Sure enough, after this sound came out, the entire Chu army began to break away from the battle with the Song army and retreated in an orderly manner one by one!

Among them, the most exciting thing is the more than 6,000 selected forwards who were selected to attack the Song army! At this time, there were less than five hundred Chu State Election Warriors who could still retreat from the battlefield!

This shows how fierce the battle is!

Regarding the retreat of the Chu army, Dai Yan was also a little stunned. However, he did not order the pursuit, he knew very well that if it weren't for the strong combat power of the Xuanniao Army to block the attack of the Chu army's selected warriors this time, the entire Song army's large array might really collapse under the fierce offensive of the Chu army!

The strength of a big country like the Chu State is really far from being comparable to the original Suiyang and even the Song State! Dai Yan thought silently in his heart.

The soldiers on both sides disengaged and withdrew from the battlefield and began to lick their wounds in order to fight again in the future!