How to set traps on the beach, the Han army has practiced many times, and has created a number of special tools. The sand is very soft and easy to excavate, and after it has been reinforced with something, it is covered with sand, and even if there is no cover from fog, there is no trace of it without paying special attention. The Han soldiers moved quickly, and in less than half an hour they had completed the work of setting the trap and retreated behind the beach.

An hour passed, and there was no movement on the sea. Two hours passed, and Qin Jun was still nowhere to be seen. The sun will soon rise, the fog will slowly dissipate from thick to light, and today's preparations will be in vain. Suddenly, there were several screams on a beach, followed by faint cursing.

Needless to say, someone fell into the trap by mistake. It is the widest beach in Asia, and if it is packed for 200,000 people, it is indeed an excellent place to land. Xu Huang has always regarded this place as the focus of defense, and ambushed 100,000 elite soldiers around the beach, just waiting for the Qin army to take the bait.

Time passed little by little, and occasionally there was a scream or two on the beach. There is no doubt that the Qin army has landed on this beach, but the fog is too thick to see anything, and no one can be sure how many enemies there are on the beach.

Soon, news came that on a beach more than thirty miles away, there was also a trace of the Qin army. The Qin army chose two locations to land at the same time, which was originally expected by Liu Xin, and it was not surprising that the Han army, which had been prepared for a long time, surrounded it with another group of men and horses.

Probably because the fog was too thick, it also obscured the sight of the Qin army, and the Qin army did not rush to attack after landing, and gradually, even the screams could not be heard.

The sun slowly rose, the fog turned from thick to light, and you could vaguely see the swaying figures on the beach. Xu Huang put down the Qianli Realm in his hand, according to his calculations, there were at most more than 10,000 people gathered on this widest beach, and there were only more than 100 sailboats parked on the seaside. Could it be that his judgment was wrong, and Qin Jun chose another beach as the main direction of attack? Or are these 10,000 servants just the vanguard?

Now that the fog was still thick, it was not clear whether there were other ships on the sea at all, so Xu Huang hurriedly called Pang De and ordered him to continue to stare here, while he got on his horse and hurried to the beach thirty miles away.

The situation on the other beach was similar to here, and although the Qin army that landed was a little denser, it would definitely not exceed 30,000 men. In order to prevent the Qin army from taking advantage of the fog to attack, the Han army had gathered 170,000 men on these two beaches, and almost all the infantry was used, and the cavalry was not suitable for fighting on the beach.

Just when Xu Huang was puzzled, suddenly a personal soldier galloped over and said loudly: "General, Your Majesty sent someone to send an urgent letter!" ”

It turned out that on another sea more than 100 miles away, the shadows of a large number of Qin ships were found, and that was the main landing battlefield chosen by the Qin army.

After years of foreign expansion, the Qin army has long been perfect for landing operations, and for hundreds of miles of coastline, it is easy to find a suitable landing ground. Under the cover of the fog, they succeeded in attracting the Han army to two other places, and this was their real focus.

The beach was narrow, but they didn't need to put all their soldiers at the mercy of the beach, as long as they captured a beachhead, they could push all the way to depth. They have done this in the past, with brilliant results, and now they are just repeating the same thing.

Liu Xin handed over all the command of the front to Xu Huang, and he himself and Zhao Yun led the 50,000 cavalry of the Sixth Army to deal with it. Because walking along the coastline, there are no roads in many places, and it is faster for the various outposts to report the situation observed by the various outposts to Liu Xin first, and then to Xu Huang.

Knowing this, Xu Huang was shocked, but he didn't dare to send a large number of people to the beach. Because the ships are very maneuverable in the sea, maybe they appear on the surface of the sea, and by the time you transfer the troops and horses, they have already turned around and turned to other beaches, and the only countermeasure is to keep an eye on their movements.

The Qin army didn't play any more tricks, and drove straight towards the empty beach. There was a strong wind on the sea, and the ship was moving very fast, almost in the blink of an eye, and the Qin military ship that was the vanguard had already reached the shore. The huge sea ship did not drop anchor, but washed directly onto the beach by the sea.

On the beach by the sea, the Han army also set up a lot of traps, but they could not bear the weight of the sea boats, and collapsed one after another, not playing the expected role at all.

The Qin army obviously often encountered situations where the enemy set traps on the beach, and had a whole set of mature countermeasures. Disembarking from the forward ship were not heavily armed soldiers, but sailors carrying huge planks. The planks were laid flat on the beach, like pontoon bridges on the river, so that the traps carefully prepared by the Han army were completely useless.

Liu Xin saw Qin Jun's movements clearly through the clairvoyant mirror and nodded secretly. This is clearly the principle of reducing pressure by increasing the contact area in physics, and it seems that he has been underestimating Caracalla. The Qin army was wearing heavy armor, and with these planks, they could run more easily, without worrying about getting stuck in the sand.

Several horses galloped over, and one of them arched his hand on the horse and said, "Your Majesty, General Zhang ordered me to come and ask for orders, do you want to attack?" ”

This area was guarded by Zhang He, who had only 30,000 men under his command and were distributed on two beaches, because of the limited number of troops, he wanted to take advantage of the Qin army's unstable foothold to destroy some of the enemies first.

Liu Xin groaned: "Go back and tell Jun Yi, tell him to calm down, let the enemy in and fight again!" In this battle, the main force of the Qin army must be completely annihilated, and it is best to be able to capture all the boats that washed up on the beach. ”

Liu Xin believed that Xu Huang learned of this situation and would soon transfer troops from other beaches. The Han army fought bravely and with a strong will, and they could arrive in half a day on this more than 100-mile road, so they should be in time. It's really not good, he can still send the 50,000 cavalry around him to stand up.

Over there, Xu Huang couldn't make up his mind, and hesitated for a long time before ordering 30,000 people to be sent for reinforcements. In fact, it is no wonder that it is the Great Qin fleet that now has super mobility, and they can only be led by the nose by the Qin army on land. In case he had just transferred his troops, but the Qin army had returned to the horse gun and re-selected this place as the main landing ground, it would have been too late.

In fact, the Qin army did have preparations in this regard. The main task of the forward ships was to seize the beachhead and lay the planks, and if the follow-up attacking troops were not strongly blocked, a large number of Qin troops would land later. As soon as they found that there were many defenders on the shore, they would pull up the sails and turn to the next landing field, and even if the defenders were able to rush through, they could calmly turn back. After repeated attempts, the defenders must have been exhausted and could no longer stop their attack.

Sure enough, hundreds more ships sailed to the shore. This time, the people who came down from the ship were all Great Qin warriors in heavy armor. One by one, holding broadswords and heavy axes, lined up in a neat phalanx, stepping on the planks and slowly advancing towards this side.

Against the heavy cavalry, bows and arrows were of little use, and Zhang He ordered the crossbowmen to attack. Iron arrows broke through the air, shooting through the large shields and iron armor of the Qin army, and the Qin troops who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, while the Qin troops behind continued to advance on the corpses of their comrades.

On a large ship on the sea, several Qin generals pointed to this side, they were subordinate to Caracalla and Gaita, and it was very rare to be able to fight side by side this time, and everyone's opinions were surprisingly unanimous, thinking that the Han army had fallen into their plan to attack the east and west, and could order a full-scale attack.

The horn whimpered, and more and more ships suddenly gathered on the sea, and from a distance, there were as many as three thousand. It turned out that the Qin army was only a third of its navy ships anchored off the shores of Macedonia, and many more ships were anchored elsewhere, and soldiers were also embarking from other places. It wasn't until they received the signal that they would gather from all over the place. In the era when communications were extremely underdeveloped, it was not easy to do this, which shows that the Great Qin Navy was well-trained.

Letting Zhang He fight against the Qin army of 400,000 with 30,000 infantry, and having no city to rely on, is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. But at this time, they could not be allowed to retreat, because these provinces, including Asia, had just declared their independence, and whether they could withstand the first wave of the Qin army's attack was related to whether they could firmly stand on the side of the Han Dynasty. These people are simply grass on the wall, they can surrender to Dahan today, and they can surrender Daqin tomorrow, and they will even stab Dahan in the back.

At this time, Zhao Yun had already jumped off the horse, holding the spear in one hand and the sword in the other, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please allow the last general to take his brother to rush!" ”

For the Han Dynasty, cavalry is extremely valuable, especially the cavalry like the Sixth Legion, which has been trained on the grassland for many years, and is the treasure of the army, how can Liu Xin be willing to let them go to the Qin army's heavy infantry like infantry for hand-to-hand combat, he couldn't help waving his hand and said: "Let's take a look first!" ”

The Qin army braved the rain of arrows and kept attacking forward, and rows of soldiers fell, and rows of soldiers came up. The strength of the Han army was already limited, and the loading of iron arrows was very troublesome, but the trap that had been pinned on high hopes did not work at all, and could only watch the Qin army get closer and closer.

In addition to the first batch of Qin forward ships that washed up on the beach, which were still parked there, the second group of troop carriers had already begun to leave, the third group of troop carriers was docking, and tens of thousands of Qin soldiers stepped on the planks and began to form formations. Not far away, on the sea, the fourth, fifth, and even more troop carriers are quietly waiting.

There will be more and more Qin troops on the beach, as long as the two sides engage in hand-to-hand combat, Zhang He's 30,000 foot soldiers will only fight less and less. Liu Xin was faced with a difficult choice, ordering Zhang He to retreat to preserve his strength, or ordering them to defend to the death, with one fight two or even one fight three, sacrificing the lives of tens of thousands of people to buy time for the reinforcements to arrive.

At this moment, one of the guards in charge of the lookout suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, look! ”