Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Engagement

As a smart person, Xiang Liye is well aware of a common problem of smart people - self-righteousness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

In his opinion, Zhao Kuo, who was boastful back then, was not exempt from vulgarity, and the ambitious Prince Dan was nothing more than that, thinking that he could manipulate things with a good plan, which was really ridiculous!

How did it end? Isn't one defeated and killed, and the other is used by his father to appease Daqin's anger?

And the opponent of this battle, that kid surnamed Yu is also a self-righteous person! I paid so much attention to it when I first met, but it turned out to be a glamorous donkey outside!

If the previous few superficial strategies still made Xiang Liye have some doubts, then he was completely relieved to see the place where the traitors were encamped.

It's a taboo for soldiers to camp against the water, how can they fight without knowing this?

Is it really this person who sticks to Wu County? Could it be that Qi Mo is using him as a cover? Otherwise, why is there such a big difference?

As the sound of horses' hooves gradually poured into the Chu army's camp, Xiang Liye was even more sure that his judgment was not wrong - the rebels were not prepared to reject the horse stakes at all, and were urgently reinforcing it.

A few hanging baskets brought back all the anti-thieves who had not been able to return to the camp, and no one in the Qin army was in a hurry to move, their expressions did not change, and they controlled the war horses to form a charging formation, waiting for the order of the main general.

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Some people once said that the cavalry was useless before the appearance of horse pedals, and some people once said that the cavalry in the Central Plains started from the cavalry shooting of the Hufu of the Zhao State.

If anyone dares to say this to Yu Zhou, he just wants to throw "Liutao" in the other party's face.

Not to mention the Yellow Emperor and Xia Shang periods, which are rarely recorded in writing, what can be left to be admired from generation to generation is the question between King Wu of Zhou and Jiang Ziya on how to choose cavalry.

King Wu asked the prince: "Why choose a knight?" ā€

Taigong said: "The method of choosing a knight: take the age of less than forty, more than seven feet five inches long, strong and swift, superb, etc., can gallop and shoot, front and back, left and right, circling forward and retreating, crossing the ditch, climbing the hills, adventurous resistance, absolute Daze, galloping strong enemies, chaotic people, known as martial horsemen, must not be thick." ā€

Strong and strong, each with a strong bow, can advance and retreat freely, is extremely skillful on the back of a smooth horse, and faces a big battle as if he is about to harvest a wave of wild vegetables......

This is the opponent of this battle, dressed more rustic than Yu Zhou imagined, but the fighting spirit all over his body is terrifying.

It was also at this time that many Chu army generals suddenly remembered that the ancestors of the Qin people were born to Zhou Tianzi to herd horses......

Xin Lingjun once said that he was the same as the Qin people Rong Zhai and had the heart of a tiger and a wolf. Going back further, there was once the Yellow Emperor who was in danger of Chi You, and used the Central Plains car apprentice to control the knights of Rong Zhai......

So, maybe the cavalry is the origin of the old Qin people's bones, but with the passage of time, the cavalry that needs to be cultivated for a long time is covered by the Qin crossbow.

Without much hesitation, the Jiuyuan cavalry of the Qin people moved, and when the war horse wrapped in four hooves ran up, the dull voice was like an angry and roaring Kui Niu, full of threat.

This was the first time that Yu Zhou had faced a large number of cavalry, although he couldn't see the whole picture clearly in the night, but the feeling of ten thousand horses galloping came to his heart, and people couldn't help but want to blend in, and with them stepping on all obstacles together, or being crushed was more glorious than dying from swords, guns, swords, halberds......

No wonder there is an allusion to the horse leather shroud that has become a wise saying, life and death are accompanied by war horses, and it is indeed the best destination for a general.

The Chu army that was waiting for the battle was not a new soldier, they knew the enemy's distance just by the sound of hooves, and at the sound of an order, countless crossbows roared and shot arrows.

A dark cloud fell, and the cries of pain from outside were very scarce, and the night gave them the best cover, and the crossbow was lost, and the campfire in this barracks became the only most dazzling place, and a little advantage was taken by the enemy back and forth.

Such a result can be imagined, the Chu army is not flustered, after re-hanging the string and loading the arrows, holding the crossbow machine to continue to fire, they know very well that fighting in this environment, luck is also an important part, the key to forcing the Qin army back is whether the arrow rain is dense.

Yu Zhou didn't know how much food Meng Tian needed to support this cavalry, and in some details, he thought that it would cost a lot of money to support his troops.

For example, from time to time to supplement some animal livers to the soldiers, such as the more and more popular simple fine armor, the Qin army attacked at night was something he didn't expect, but since he encountered it, Yu Zhou didn't think that the enemy with many night blindness could please much.

The Chu army had just sent two arrows, and the Jiuyuan cavalry was closer, and Yu Zhou saw that the Qin army was not only a man with a horse wrapped in hooves, but their war horses were even covered with a black cloth, this detail gave him a new understanding of the elite degree of the Qin cavalry.

As we all know, animals have a natural fear of giant fire, and as a war horse, if you want to adapt to the battlefield, you must first be familiar with the sound of soldiers fighting, the sound of drums and horns, and the wailing of the fall of your kind...... When none of this can interfere with its footsteps, a war horse can be considered preliminarily qualified.

This is nothing, the horse is stereoscopic vision, its digital vision is actually very poor, so it is particularly sensitive to some vague objects moving or the light of fire, at night, this situation is more serious, and then there is a most direct way - blindfold the war horse.

The feeling of not being able to see can be imagined, and the advantage of doing this is that it can make the war horse fearless, and even turn its fear into the power of running and catharsis, and the momentum of the charge can be even more even, and it is unstoppable.

But...... Ordinary people don't dare to do this, they can't ride at home, they don't have enough trust with war horses, and they are not familiar with the terrain......

A galloping war horse only needs to fall once, and various joint bone injuries will end its life, which is why only three or four horses can be trained into a war horse.

There are many, many possibilities for such an act to become a form of death.

And now, almost all the cavalry of the Qin army are doing this, Yu Zhou can hardly imagine how much has been paid behind this, and what kind of energy these people will burst out.

Qin Jun quickly satisfied his curiosity, and just as Chu Jun had just raised his shield, one after another the sturdy knights opened their bows and arrows.

Just above the galloping war horse, the whole person, the whole bow, the whole arrow, all were as steady as the undisturbed lake, and only the never-ending sound of horses' hooves told what kind of turbulent waves were hidden under the surface of the lake.

The foot soldiers need to obey the golden drum to know how to advance and retreat, the navy needs the main general to give orders, and as for the cavalry, there is no need at all! They only saw where the leader was heading, just as a pack of wolves had spotted the first wolf, and swooped down on it, tearing apart all the enemies that stood in their way......

It was also at this time that Yu Zhou saw the chief general of the Qin army for the first time, and he could only see that he was not old from a distance, and the BMW under his crotch was snow-white, which also made Yu Zhou more intuitively understand what the night of "Illuminating the Night Jade Lion" meant.

"Whoosh-"

After a moment of stunned work, the surging torrent finally came to the front, and at the same time, countless arrows attacked the Chu army camp.

His subordinates had already erected their shields, but in the wailing of arrows one after another, Yu Zhou still heard that the Chu army had already lost for a while - these people were even better!