readx;?readx; Chapter 533 If you don't see the devil, you don't hang the strings

Generally speaking, successful people have to write books and say that an idol in the army who is admired by tens of thousands of people like Zhao Wuyi is naturally not exempt from vulgarity. The old man Zhao originally planned to write www.biquge.info book "The Art of War of Zhao Zi", but he was too busy with mundane affairs to calm down to sublimate the theory, so he had to retreat to the next best thing, and wrote down the practical experience of his military career over the years, and compiled it into a textbook that taught people in detail how to recruit soldiers, give orders, camp and fight, called "General Strategy of the Martial Arts". For martial artists, it is more practical than "Sun Tzu".

The book also contains a detailed account of the weapons and equipment of the time, including a description of the 'Underground Thunder'...... First dig a large pit on the enemy's path, bury gunpowder made of 'one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoals', cover it with gravel, and detonate it with incense in wartime. 'Stone chips are all over the sky, mighty, and those who touch it are either dead or disabled, especially good at restraining cavalry. ’

However, in Yum's understanding, this thing is extremely susceptible to moisture, rain, snow, frost and dew, and is useless. And "it can't be moved, it only explodes once", so it is not recommended.

But Qin Lei is going to win a hundred battles today, and Lord Gong really learned a lesson, telling him that landmines are not necessarily afraid of water; Although defects cannot be avoided, the key is to see how to use them.

After the initial shock, Bai Shenggong quickly regained his composure, and upon closer inspection, he discovered that the Qin army's mines were not ignited...... Although the rain stopped, the ground was still extremely wet, and no lead could burn a distance of dozens of feet.

Although he didn't know the principle, he guessed that the mines of the Qin army should be stepped on or mixed with them to detonate, so he ordered people to pick some old, weak, sick and disabled people among the captured Qin ** horses, and ordered people to drive them behind, wanting to drive away the mines in front of him......

In fact, bypassing this minefield is the wisest choice, but since the start of the war, he has retreated to the limit and let it come to an end. Now that the picture is poor and the victory is in hand, how can the pride of being the world's number one general allow him to escape the challenge of the hairy boy opposite?

The effect of the 'Hundred Horse Formation' looked good, and the military horses detonated the mines from time to time, and the closer they got to the front of the Qin army, the more dense the explosions became. But the horses were frightened by the rumbling explosions, and it was inevitable that something would be missed.

After more than 300 horses were dead, running away, and running away, and the mines were cut off, Zhao Wuji ordered the Yuyu troops, the garrison troops, to attack in formation. In the "General Strategy of the Martial Arts", the role of the garrison is characterized as 'suppressing bandits and quelling chaos internally, and opening the way for the army outside', and the large army is the Baisheng Army and the border guards. It can be seen that in Zhao Wuji's military thinking, the garrison is just some consumables.

Taking this Qin-Qi War as an example, from the beginning of the war to the present, the Qi State has lost a total of about 130,000 soldiers, including 110,000 garrisons......

Naturally, the 'consumables' have no morale at all, and in order to make them obedient, they must be monitored and coerced with a considerable number of troops. In this kind of mine-stealing work, the ratio of the number of combat supervisors has reached an appalling one-to-one!

The five thousand garrisons opened the way in front with trepidation, and walked on tiptoe cautiously, as if they were afraid of stepping on ants. The 5,000-hundred-win army was escorted behind with swords and guns...... Oh no, Yum said it was 'Pressing the Formation', and once again stepped on the already messy minefield.

After two tramplings, the minefield was naturally much less powerful, and apart from sporadic explosions, most of the garrison was unharmed.

Seeing this, the Baisheng Army was also relieved to follow up in a bold formation, without any scruples......

Although the explosion intensified again later, he gritted his teeth and rushed over. At the cost of only three to five hundred people, the garrison successfully passed through the minefield! The soldiers were overjoyed, screaming and raising their guns to rush towards the Qin army, as long as they defeated each other, they would all be promoted to border guards...... This means higher salaries and a greater chance of survival. Under this temptation, from officers to soldiers, all broke out with unprecedented fighting spirit.

"Meet the enemy!" With the orders of the captains of the Jingshan Army, the soldiers wrenched the crossbows in their hands...... When it rained just now, their crossbows were all wrapped in oilcloth and placed in the waterproof and moisture-proof boxes of the baggage team, which were not intended to be used in this battle, but who let the sky clear?

The dull sound of bowstrings rang out continuously, and countless sharp crossbow arrows shot out. The Jingshan army is an armor-piercing crossbow, although the humid air affects the strength of the excitation, but against the Qi army that lacks armor and protection, it is already a knife to kill a chicken.

I thought that everyone didn't use bows and arrows today, because the protection of the Qi army was not enough, and they were caught off guard, so they cut wheat and poured a piece of wheat, but under the deterrence of the overseers and the encouragement of the 'promotion of border guards', they still rushed forward regardless of their heads.

Qin Lei had no doubt that the sons would easily defeat these rabble, so he looked beyond the garrison of the Qi State and threw his gaze at the Xuanjia infantry army that was not far away and followed behind, that was the essence of the Qi State.

Seeing that the Baisheng Army was already in place, Qin Lei breathed a sigh of relief and raised his right hand with chain gloves.

"Brother, you're really enjoying these things!" Looking at the dense Qi army in front of the formation, the eldest prince also thought that the 'underground cannon' had been released, so he took off the cotton that stuffed his ears.

Qin Lei had cotton stuffed in his ears, he didn't hear what he said at all, and suddenly put down his right hand to himself.

Not far behind him, there was a black-clothed guard who had been waiting for a long time, lighting the lead in the bamboo pipe......

According to the top-secret military archives of the Jingshan Army, there is a powerful mine called the 'Random Mine Cannon', which is made of pig iron cast into a circle, the large one can be filled with gunpowder, and the small charge varies from three to five liters. After charging, plug the mouth with hardwood made of 'fama', divide three leads into a long bamboo pole, select the place where the enemy must go in advance, bury it in the ground and expose the bamboo pole to our side, and when the enemy enters this area, ignite and detonate according to the order, so that it can achieve a precise strike.

There is also a kind of 'invincible mine array', which is to put all kinds of mines and even gunpowder into boxes in advance, and then bury them three feet deep, and use the method of 'free mine cannons' to link several rings in the ground, once the seal is lit, all the fires will be fired in an instant, and the explosion sound is like thunder, which can kill and injure a large number of enemy groups.

This time it was Qin Lei who designed it himself, and he mixed two large carts of munitions with a large amount of sand and gravel and packed them into more than 20 boxes. The bamboo pipes that protect the fuse alone are as complex and dense as a spider's web, and only Qin Lei can handle this complicated work at present.

Because the 'invincible minefield' was placed in the soil three feet below, it was inevitably affected by the explosion on the surface......

The soldiers of the Yum Army were confidently and boldly advancing, only to feel a sudden tremor under their feet, and the incandescent light that made the heavens and the earth lose color suddenly deprived everyone of their vision! Immediately after that, there was an earth-shattering loud bang, and a wave of air exploded, lifting the entire ground!

Then there were flowers everywhere, iron filings flying everywhere, flames soaring into the sky, and they could not stop for a long time......

The 5,000 border guards in a dense formation were blown up 800 and 2,000 were seriously wounded, and the rest of the people also lay down on the ground like wheat straw......

Looking at the scene of severed limbs and flying flesh and blood, Zhao Wuyi's brain was buzzing, and his heart was pounding, but he felt that the sky was spinning, and he fell backwards suddenly.

The people around him shouted at him, but Zhao Wuyi's mind was confused and he couldn't listen to anything. As soon as I felt the nostrils be hot, two lines of nosebleeds flowed out......

The terrifying wave of qi not only tore apart the body of the Qi army in the formation, but also shook the Jingshan army to the ground, some of them were unstable, and even fell to the ground...... Fortunately, the dense garrison in front of them blocked most of the shock wave, otherwise casualties were inevitable.

The black-armored cavalry hid far away, and when they heard the explosion, they urged their horses to sprint forward, and after a while, they came out from the two wings of the military formation, stepping on the hot ground full of corpses, and launched a resolute counterattack on the Qi army.

The Long Xiang cavalry had already been ordered by Qin Li to obey the deployment of the Jingshan army, and they also followed closely behind the black-armored cavalry, and swept over.

The Qi army had been shocked and demoralized by the successive explosions. Looking at the Great Qin cavalry that was rolling in, he couldn't help but retreat, and he no longer had the initial arrogance.

Because Yum Gong was temporarily stunned, Wu Zhilong took over the command. As a master of contemporary warfare, Wu Zhilong knew that the army at this time was extremely lacking in cohesion and sense of mission. The Qi army is not like the Qin army, which has severe punishment and strict laws to deter. Therefore, the battle is often fought with great success, but once it encounters heavy casualties or blows, it is very likely that it will not be able to hold its foot, and it will be jaw-dropping and scattered.

Looking at the soldiers with earth-colored faces, Wu Zhilong knew that his mind was taken away, and his fighting spirit was completely lost, if he wanted to go head-on, it was likely to lead to the battle formation being broken and causing a rout. He didn't have as many decent scruples as Zhao Wuji, so he ordered the three thousand spearmen at the front to temporarily step forward to resist, and the large army regrouped in place.

The black-armored cavalry took out their crossbows from their arms one after another fifty zhang away, and shot at the Qi troops who rushed over without stopping, scattering the Qi troops who lacked shield protection.

Seven or eight zhang away from the enemy, the Qin army put away the crossbow, held the iron lance in the arm socket in his hand, and after a little adjustment, he stabbed at the Qi army, and the white-knuckle battle began...... The Qin army's iron lance halberd was longer than the Qi army's spearmen, and it had unparalleled impact. And the Qi army still lacked the courage to fight hard, and the battle situation was unsurprisingly one-sided.

Facts have proved that although the spearmen can restrain the cavalry, they must form a military formation, rely on the collective strength, and fight separately like scattered sand, which is simply impossible to compete with the cavalry.

The black-armored cavalry and the Longxiang cavalry who followed up launched a near-perfect slaughter against the loose Qi army. It didn't take long for more than 500 of the 3,000 pikemen to be killed, and the rest fled in a rout.

The cavalrymen who were ready to kill were about to chase after them, but they heard the sound of 'bells and bells' behind them. The black-armored cavalry did not hesitate to rein in the reins of their horses and swaggered back to the front of their own military formation. Although Long Xiangjun felt a pity, how could he lose face in front of his allies? He also withdrew with him.

"Brother, how did you let them withdraw?!" The eldest prince yelled with all his might.

Qin Lei, who had already taken off the earbuds, covered his ears and shouted, "Be quiet, I can hear it." ”

"I can't hear what you're talking about......" the eldest prince said hoarsely.

Qin Lei said in his heart: "Why is this line so familiar...... and dispelled the idea of dividing it, pointing to the distance, and letting Qin Li see it himself.

Following Qin Lei's guidance, Qin Li saw that the Qi army's originally scattered banners had stabilized again, and the chaotic scene of crowds was gone, and only then did he know that the other party had recovered from a brief panic. He yelled, "So what now? ”

Pointing to the gradually darkening sky, Qin Lei also shouted, "Withdraw." "Even if the ground is not so muddy, Qin Lei doesn't want to try to use 30,000 cavalry against an infantry formation ten times his own...... Fang Cai relied on the new weapons to make Zhao Wuyi suffer a loss, and now that the mines have been used up, why don't you run away and wait for Yum Gong to invite him to dinner?

It was completely dark, there was no moon, only a little starlight.

Qin Lei rode on a horse and stood on the high slope, quietly watching his subordinates retreat in an orderly manner. There was an intermittent fire dragon in the north, which was a torch lit by the Qi army, and they were approaching step by step, but they did not rashly pursue.

The boss has regained his hearing, but his voice is still very loud: "Brother, you are God, I said that as long as I keep it until dark, I can get out of danger safely, and I will comfort me." ”

Qin Lei gritted his teeth and smiled: "No way, the living conditions of the Qi army are too poor. "In this era, the gap between the rich and the poor was quite huge, the poor people could not even eat enough, and night blindness was very common.

But Qin Lei knew the harm very well, and Jingshan Jun's recipes often included foods such as apples and liver, which completely eliminated the 'blindfolded birds'. Although the eldest prince didn't know how to treat it, he loved soldiers like a son and tried his best to improve the food for his subordinates.

"Why don't you mess with them?" After listening to Qin Lei's explanation, Qin Li said in a rough voice.

"Our goal is to retreat safely, and we must refrain from attacking." Qin Lei said in a deep voice: "And the Baisheng Army will not be night blind...... The eldest prince looked carefully when he heard this, and sure enough, he saw the Baisheng infantry dressed in Xuanjia, standing in the front row of the Qi army......

Under the cover of night, the troops of the two princes smoothly broke away from their positions and retreated towards the great river to the south. According to the plan, they will cross the bridge there and cross the river, and then burn the pontoon bridge and say goodbye to the pursuers completely...... Of course, if all goes well.

Several flowers bloom, one for each flower.

Rewind the clock to this morning, before the Qin army was attacked.

Emperor Zhaowu sent the second army to serve as the vanguard. Because the Qi State mainly attacked the middle of the Qin army, this gave them valuable time to react.

Among Shen Wei's ironclad army, there are 10,000 hoplites, these people usually do not have a high status, but now they have become the protectors of the 60,000 former army...... They formed a thick formation, sheltering the light and heavy cavalry behind them, allowing the whole team to escape from the panic.

After the formation was completed, the two commanded their subordinates and wanted to rescue the Chinese army. However, Emperor Zhaowu's hasty escape made the situation completely collapse, and the two knew that they had no power to return to the sky, and they did not dare to get closer, so they had to move forward and continue to march north.

To the north is the hinterland of the Qin State, are they dizzy? Of course not, the two of them were very sober, and they guessed that in order to ensure the suddenness of the battle, the other party did not alarm the two forbidden armies in Makino City. And they also did not believe that the Qi army was capable of fighting in two theaters at the same time.

So they deduced that it should be safe to the north, and prepared to go north to join the army of Makino Castle...... An army of 100,000 with sufficient food should be able to decide its own fate.