Chapter 291: A Great Victory
As soon as the Tiger Ben Army came out of the situation, it completely fell to Liu Yuetian's side, and if it continued to fight like this, its 20,000 heavy cavalry would probably have to be explained here, and the casualties of the other party could not meet their expectations at all, even if they fought to the end, the Hongnong Army would not hurt its roots.
"What should I do?"
Wang Jian couldn't help but think about it, at this time he had to admit that the opponent's combat effectiveness was completely beyond his expectations, and even General Bai Qi would not have thought that the strength of the other party had surpassed that of the Qin army, especially the army led by Liu Yuetian, whose strength was far stronger than his own.
"The strong man broke his wrist, retreat!"
Wang Jian is also a resolute person, and his army must not be wiped out here.
The will of the Qin army also began to waver at this time, and since the commander gave the order, all the Qin troops immediately turned their horses and ran backwards.
"I want to run, just what I want!"
Of course, Hongnong's soldiers would not let go of each other easily, and the main force of the Qin army was still two hundred miles away, so they didn't have to scruple at all, and they chased and killed them one by one.
The defeat is like a mountain, in the absence of backup, once an army retreats, it will be very dangerous, because if you retreat, the other party will pursue without any worries, especially like now, the Qin army is not retreating, but routing, it is even more dangerous, almost all of them have the possibility of annihilation.
But the Qin army is the Qin army after all, and the large army retreats without dying, and the front army that was charging ahead just now has become the rear army, but these soldiers are not moving at all, not retreating and counterattacking, almost rushing towards the Hongnong soldiers who swept in with a suicidal attack, and they have already held the idea of sacrificing themselves to block the other party.
The idea is one thing, but the strength is another, Liu Yuetian's tiger army was already loose after a melee formation, but they were fourth-level soldiers, Liu Yuetian could control them with one thought, everyone jumped on the war horse in unison, and then quickly formed an impact formation and crushed the Qin army.
The heavy cavalry is the most powerful type of troops in this era, but the Qin army did not play this time, and all of them were stopped by trebuchets, and now, Liu Yuetian's tiger army rushed up, and these thousands of people were like one, giving full play to the impact of the heavy cavalry.
"Boom!"
These thousands of Qin troops who were determined to die only symbolically resisted for a moment before being crushed into pulp by the speeding Tiger Army, and the Tiger Army did not even slow down much.
"Wang Jian is leaving!"
The Tiger Ben Army led Han Baohu and Feng Yi's cavalry to chase the Qin army and keep slashing, and Wang Jian couldn't care about his ass at the moment, so he fled to the front with his life.
This pursuit has been killed for a distance of thirty miles, Liu Yuetian stopped, looked at the Qin army in the distance and laughed, and everyone behind him also looked up to the sky and smiled, this battle was a complete victory, and the long-suppressed emotions in everyone's hearts were all released, it was too happy.
Everyone looked back, and there were all kinds of baggage covering a distance of thirty miles from the foot of Hongnong City to their feet, and there were countless corpses, war horses, weapons, armor, and grain and grass.
Tens of thousands of people joined the battlefield in Dacao, and after an hour, the battlefield was quiet again, but the city of Hongnong was filled with laughter and laughter.
The casualties of the soldiers on the Hongnong side in this war are more than 2,300 people, of which more than 1,000 people died, which naturally made Liu Yuetian very sad, more than 1,000 people represent more than 1,000 families, they have lost their relatives forever, and he can only use the best treatment to make up for such people, these families are fully responsible for their lives from now on, if there are children, the government is also responsible for finding jobs for them, and the wounded are similar, which is why Liu Yuetian is much stronger than those county guards before, For example, Huan Wen, he treats those sacrificed soldiers with a pension at best, and he will never care about the rest.
As for the Qin army, the number of casualties greatly exceeded that of Hongnong's side, and the corpses left outside the city alone were as many as 3,000, and there were more than 2,000 wounded, and the Qin army had no time to take these people away when they fled, and in the end they could only be reduced to prisoners, and there should be more than 1,000 wounded who struggled to escape back, so that the number of casualties of the Qin army exceeded at least 6,000, and even reached more than 7,000, and the comparison of the casualties on both sides was basically three to one, which was enough to be called a complete victory.
What's more, the Qin army's 20,000 troops lost 7,000, almost half of the strength, and the remaining people have suffered a great loss in morale through this soldier, if they meet on the battlefield next time, their combat strength will be much worse than before, and the morale of Hongnong's side has been greatly boosted, and the Qin army is nothing more than that, and the invincible reputation of the King of Qin will no longer exist from now on.
"Okay, let's celebrate tonight, everyone can enjoy themselves, don't get drunk and don't go home!"
Liu Yuetian issued an order, and all the soldiers cheered again, and everyone's confidence in this battle rose, and their support for Liu Yuetian reached its peak.
Hongnong was jubilant here, Wang Jian and the remnants of the defeated army finally joined Bai Qi, Bai Qi was shocked when he saw this scene, and immediately set up camp and the whole army was on guard.
"Wang Qian, what the hell is going on?"
Bai Qi's angry eyebrows were upside down, and he almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood, these 20,000 heavy cavalry were his elite, and now he has lost more than 5,000 people, of course, war means casualties, life and death are not important at all, the important thing is whether you have achieved victory, if Wang Jian loses 5,000 and the other party loses 10,000, then these 5,000 people are worth dying.
However, the soldiers who fled back were all disgraced and completely devoid of the invincible spirit of the Qin army, and it was obvious that this battle had a very big blow to their morale.
"General, I'm guilty!"
Wang Jian knelt on the spot with a pout, and cried and told what had happened.
Bai Qi listened like this, and the more he listened, the more gloomy his face became, and the more he listened, the more he felt bad in his heart.
If according to what Wang Jian said, there is actually nothing wrong with his side in this big war, he did not receive any sneak attack, and Wang Qian's response to the enemy was also very timely, but in the end it failed, the reason is very simple, that is, the combat effectiveness of Hongnong's soldiers has exceeded his heavy cavalry, to put it bluntly, he can't beat the other party.
"A trebuchet capable of exploding! A weapon that is enough to penetrate armor! Repeater! And the soldier who was dressed in heavy armor and ran like a flying with a sharp weapon in his hand, this ...... What the hell is going on? ”
All of this made Bai Qi puzzled.
Soon, someone brought a few pieces of armor to Bai Qi, with a few crossbow arrows on them, and several holes the size of soybean grains.
"The crossbow arrows, and this iron lump are the other party's weapons?"
"That's right, especially this iron lump, which can shoot through the armor of our soldiers from fifty feet away, can't resist it at all......... Especially the kind of stone that can explode......... It's horrible! ”
Wang Jian still has palpitations when he recalls the scene of the stone bomb explosion, this weapon can't stop it at all!
"No wonder Liu Yuetian has done so many things in a short period of time, it turns out that he is relying on these weapons!"
Is this battle still fought? If you want to fight, can you win? Bai Qi has no confidence now.