Chapter 61: The Battle of Xuzhou (4)
Hundreds of thousands of armies begin an official showdown!
Both kings attached great importance to this duel. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe king of Qi took out 100,000 gold from the treasury as a reward to distribute to all the soldiers who participated in the battle before the soldiers went to war, which made the morale of the Qi army that had just been defeated and low to be revived.
Subsequently, the king of Qi announced that the rewards of the soldiers of the Chu army had been raised. Originally, the Qi army fought against the enemy, and each level of beheading could get a gold. In this decisive battle, King Qi deliberately greatly increased the reward of the Chu army! beheaded an ordinary soldier of the Chu army, and a reward of two golds; behead one of the chiefs and reward hardware; behead a centurion and reward a hundred gold; behead a brigade commander and reward a thousand gold; behead the commander and reward 10,000 gold; Behead the generals and candidates of the Chu State, and the king of Qi will divide the land into a feudal monarch!
The promulgation of these rewards has greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Qi army, and those who kill the generals can directly get the fief and become a real feudal noble! In this era, becoming a feudal lord is people's greatest pursuit, and no one can resist this temptation!
The morale of the soldiers of the Qi State began to explode, and most of the fighters were from the common people at the bottom of the Qi State, and a few were some declining nobles. They came to join the army, the biggest purpose of coming to fight was to make a fortune, and now their dream is in front of them, it seems to be within reach, and everyone has begun to fight for their own ideal of making a fortune!
On the other side, the soldiers of the Chu State also cheered because of some of the actions of the King of Chu. After the first great victory, the king of Chu gave all the top soldiers who participated in the attack a knighthood, and all the soldiers who killed the soldiers of the Qi army were rewarded. The soldiers of the Chu army, who did not personally participate in the battle, were envious of the soldiers who had been rewarded, and the belligerent atmosphere in the Chu army began to rise.
In the continuous rise of the morale of both sides, the armies of Qi and Chu collided again.
This time the offensive was spearheaded by the defeated Qi army.
Gao Yang was once again in the ranks of this attack. Although the death of his good friend Dong Guojing touched him a lot, he truly realized the danger of the battlefield. He originally thought that he would just run back to Linzi, but when King Qi's reward was announced, he stayed again.
It had always been his dream to restore the glory of his ancestor Gao, a dream that had not been seen before, but now he could see through the cracks that this dream could come true.
Now he is following behind the main general Kuang Zhang, and following the main general to start an attack on the Chu army's big array!
Kuang Zhang learned from the last failure, and he realized the power of a single blow! So this time he didn't give the Chu army a chance to attack first, he asked the general Shen Tie to fight, and took the lead in attacking the Chu army!
This time, he also selected a total of 5,000 warriors in the Qi army who had the greatest courage, the highest martial skills, and the most desire to make a fortune, and he personally led them to personally attack the large array composed of more than 100,000 people in the Chu army!
The Chu army also found the shortcomings of the chariot in the defeat against Dai Yan and the success against Kuang Zhang, so when the large array of more than 100,000 people was opened, the Chu army did not take out the chariot, but directly put the halberd and pikemen in the front.
In this way, Kuang Zhang led a group of Qi warriors and began to attack the firm Chu army array. This group of people is worthy of being the most courageous elite of the Qi Kingdom, and a single impact directly tore a hole in the large array composed of halberders and pikemen!
Gao Yang also followed the main general into the Chu army's great array in this way. In this attack, he almost had the thrill of following General Tian Ji to participate in the Battle of Maling! The attack went too well! With the joint efforts of everyone, the first formation of the Chu army was constantly cut and torn apart by these warriors, and soon the entire army of nearly 15,000 people in the first formation of the Chu army was completely defeated by the Qi army!
Seeing that the soldiers led by Kuang Zhang were so brave and the results were so amazing, Shen Lian, the main general in the big tent of the Qi army in the rear, couldn't help it, and directly began to launch the Qi army to start the general attack!
On a high ground near the battlefield, Dai Yan took his retainers, as well as the Mo family giants and Li Shuai, to watch this unprecedented decisive battle.
"Giant, which of the two sides do you think will win in the end?" Dai Yan asked Tian Jiu, who was observing the battle situation on the side.
"The Chu army wins, the Qi army loses!" The giant said affirmatively.
"Why? I see that the momentum of the Qi army's offensive is very fierce now, and with one blow, the Qi army is very likely to collapse the entire Chu army array! Dai Yan asked puzzled.
"The momentum of the Qi army is indeed very brave now, but the Qi State Technician is a temporarily recruited mercenary, and the Chu King's Division is a standing army trained by the state for a long time. Although the individual combat ability of the Chu army is not as good as that of the Qi army, the endurance of the Chu army is definitely far greater than that of the Qi army. Now, although the Qi army has broken through the first big array of the Chu army with courage, its stamina is insufficient, and the subsequent big array will definitely not be able to break through! Tian Jiu said.
At this time, Kuang Zhang, who led the warriors of the Qi State to attack the Chu army's array, was extremely painful!
Because once again he met his opponent: Zhao Slip.
After breaking through the first major formation of the Chu army, he continued to attack and soon encountered the impact of the short swordsmen of the Chu army, and the leader of these swordsmen was the general of the Chu army who had defeated him, Zhao Slip!
Kuang Zhang is not a person who is afraid of fighting, and he doesn't think that he can't beat Zhao Slip. However, now he is going to lead the soldiers to constantly attack the Chu army's big formation and break the formation, he doesn't want to be entangled by Zhao Slip at this time!
Zhao Slip didn't dare to despise this general of the Qi army who had been defeated under his own hands! This general of the Qi army, who had just been defeated by himself, pulled out another army of warriors in a short period of time, which surprised him greatly! And after the soldiers led by Kuang Zhang broke through the first formation of the Chu army, he only felt deep fear!
King Chu is in the third formation! If the second formation he is in can't stop Kuang Zhang, let him directly impact in front of the King of Chu, and the only thing waiting for Zhao Slip is to apologize with death!
So Zhao Slip showed extraordinary courage and led the most elite soldiers in the Chu army to fight with Kuang Zhang. No matter how brave Kuang Zhang and his Qi soldiers were, they were all firmly blocked by the second line of defense of the Chu army, and they couldn't go any further!
Not only was Kuang Zhang blocked by this line of defense, but the soldiers of the Qi State who followed him to launch a general attack also quickly came to the front of this second line of defense. However, with Zhao's blockade, the armies of the feudal monarchs of the Chu State, which had been in the third line of defense, began to move forward, and they soon fought with the attacking army of the Qi State!
As a result, the battlefield has fallen into a stalemate, and the entire battlefield has become a huge meat grinder! Countless soldiers of Qi and Chu were easily crushed by this meat grinder!
When the battlefield was in a stalemate, the advantage of the strong endurance of the soldiers of the Chu State was quickly brought into play! Throughout the battlefield, the soldiers of the Qi army were just beginning to be motivated by the high bounty, and everyone was hot-headed, dreaming that they could also become the son of ten thousand gold, and the glorious days of becoming a feudal king, forgetting about death and starting to attack continuously!
However, when the death toll began to rise, even the hot-headed Qi soldiers began to calm down. Is there a chance that I will return home alive? This is what most Qi soldiers think in their hearts!
The huge casualties not only affected the morale of the Qi army, but also the morale of the troops of the feudal lords of the Chu State began to decline. Some of these feudal monarchs' troops also began to flee continuously, including the soldiers of the Yangling Jun clan who had been defeated under Dai Yan!
Under this huge casualty, both countries are uncomfortable!
At this critical moment, the King of Chu began to exert his strength! He personally drew his sword, stood on the chariot of the Chu State, and led the last remaining chariot soldiers of the Chu State to begin to attack the flank of the Qi army!
Most of the flanks of the Qi army were composed of the five capital armies of the Qi State. These conscripts themselves do not have the same impulse as the skilled fighters who are not afraid of death for the sake of money and status; On the battlefield, I saw people around me constantly falling and dying, and I was already on the verge of collapse.
When the king of Chu personally led the chariot to attack them from the flank, this army was like putting down the last straw on the heavy camel, and the entire flank of the Qi army was completely scattered!
The collapse of the flank of the Qi army soon triggered a chain reaction, and the Qi army technicians who were attacking the Chu army's large array also collapsed, and Kuang Zhang, who had been fighting with Zhao Slip for a long time, saw this scene of being powerless to return to the sky, and immediately abandoned his opponent and ran back!
All the Qi soldiers were running for their lives, and the Chu army was greatly impacted by the great victory, and everyone was in high spirits and began to attack forward, constantly chasing those Qi soldiers who were running slowly.
Wang Rong also followed this torrent of pursuit, extremely excited! Although he was not able to kill the Qi army commander who had killed his brother, the complete defeat of the Qi army made the hatred of the Qi soldiers in his heart also fade, and he decided to spare them!
Only the victor is qualified to speak of mercy and forgiveness!
On the high ground in the distance, Dai Yan watched as the 100,000 army of the Qi State collapsed in one fell swoop! He knew that the hegemony established by the Qi State had just been established by defeating Qiang Wei in the two battles of Guiling and Maling, and it had declined!
Spies from various countries who closely followed the outcome of the war also began to act frantically, sending the results of the war back to their own countries as quickly as possible.