Chapter 238: Reinforcements Arrive
August 24 of the first year of Great Qin II.
Xianyang, Xianyang Palace Council Hall.
Hu Hai stood in the main hall in a black robe, his eyes staring at the huge map of the northern frontier of Great Qin.
Meng Tian has a letter every day, but there is no news so far. The letter that came yesterday was the war report of the day before yesterday. Yesterday's letter and what happened in Jiuyuan County today, Hu Hai did not know.
But he believed in the Jiuyuan Army, and he also believed that Meng Tian could save the situation in Jiuyuan.
Standing beside him was Wei Yu.
"Old Aiqing, what do you think of what I just said?" Hu Hai didn't look back, as if he was talking to himself.
"Back to Your Majesty, are you going to wait?" Wei Yu hesitated.
"I can't wait!" Hu Hai turned around suddenly, looked at Wei Yu with burning eyes, and said, "In more than ten days, I will go south!" ”
When Wei Yu heard Hu Hai's words, he looked up at the map, bowed and said, "The old minister obeys the order!" ”
"Then, go ahead!" Hu Hai turned around and looked in the direction of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and said lightly: "This time, you can recruit the people of Xianyang, and the people of Inner History!" However, you must not be beaten and scolded at will, and you must not deduct your wages! The soldiers of the Caishi battalion were exhausted, and the Black Ice Platform dispatched a thousand people to take charge of this matter. ”
In the past two months, the number of people on the Black Ice Platform has nearly doubled compared to the original.
"Whoa!"
"Pass the edict to Meng Aiqing!"
"Whoa!"
The calm Guanzhong boiled again because of an edict from His Majesty the Second Emperor.
August 26 of the first year of Great Qin II!
Nearly 20,000 large and small carriages of all kinds drove out from Shangfang, Bashangcang, Liyang Cang, Xianyang Cang and other places in Shangfang and Neishi County, and then gathered like a hundred rivers, and embarked on the galloping road to Xianyang to Jiuyuan, Xianyang to Bashu, and Xianyang to Wuguan. Nearly 100,000 people in Neishi County and Xianyang City were recruited.
In the mighty traffic on the three roads, there were only a small number of soldiers from the material battalion and soldiers from the Black Ice Terrace. The rest were all nearly 100,000 people who had been re-recruited a few months later from all parts of Neishi County and Xianyang City in two days because of the edict of His Majesty the Second Emperor.
However, this recruitment of people not only did not lead to the boiling of public resentment in various parts of Guanzhong. And to the great regret of all those who were not drafted. Because Hu Hai was a paid call-up.
Neishi County itself has 600,000 people who were released by Hu Hai and stayed in Guanzhong as a cultivator! If Hu Hai really wants to be recruited, he can recruit hundreds of thousands of people at any time.
There are countless copper coins minted in Shangfang, and the only thing Hu Hai needs to pay is to eat and drink on the three roads of more than 100,000 people.
Now that the people have been recruited, Hu Hai naturally wants to be in place at once. Zhang Han's 200,000 tiger army said that the usual consumption of weapons, as well as grain, grass, medicine, and the Xuanwu army heading south, all replenished grain, grass, baggage and other materials by the way.
There is only the Xuanwu Army, because the equipment is too heavy, and there are only 50,000 people. When they left the customs, except for the necessary weapons, the rest were used to bring grain and grass, and they also needed the most ordnance and baggage support.
Nearly 20,000 donkeys, horses, and ox carts of all kinds drove out of Xianyang in three directions and headed for their respective destinations. Although the imperial court did not say much when recruiting people, everyone knew that it was obvious that the emperor was going to make a big move.
It is understandable to go north to Jiuyuan and go south to Wuguan. After all, there were already two armies in front of them, going north and south, respectively. So this westward seems to have the largest number of carriages among the three routes, and what is this for? Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of troops that came out of the west a few days ago, what is Your Majesty going to do?
What Hu Hai wants to do, it must not be long before they will know, and the whole world will know.
…… The cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, which suddenly accelerated, cut through the rear formation of 60,000 Donghu cavalry in less than a moment, and broke out of the rear formation of the Donghu cavalry. At this time, the cavalry of the 10,000 Yuan Army of the Ignorant 19,000 Yuan Army, which broke into the front, also cut through the front of the Donghu cavalry that was cut into two sections at the same time.
The front formation of the Donghu cavalry that cut through the 60,000 main attack, and the rear formation that was chiseled through by the 20,000 Jiuyuan troops who joined forces in one place has been closed. Ignorance did not pause at all, leading the 10,000 Jiuyuan army elite cavalry to turn around and rush towards the empty left wing, from the time it was cut off by the Jiuyuan army that broke into the left and right wings, the left and right wings of the Donghu cavalry have always been the emptiest places.
The cavalry of the 10,000-9 Yuan Army, who suddenly turned around, had already come out of the left flank in less than ten breaths.
At this point, the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Donghu Cavalry Formation, which broke through the 60,000 main attack, had all broken out. Leaving behind the corpses of the Donghu cavalry and the fragmented Donghu cavalry formation.
Li Gang saw that the 30,000 Jiuyuan troops that broke into the army formation all broke out, and then looked at the 40,000 Donghu cavalry who were about to arrive in more than 100 steps and the tens of thousands of Hun cavalry less than a mile away from the battlefield, turned the horse's head and took the lead in galloping out of the battlefield.
Although Li Gang is good at talking and doing things, he is not good at all in marching and fighting! Otherwise, it would be impossible to sit on the post of cavalry captain of the Jiuyuan Army.
Although the formation of the 60,000 Donghu cavalry has been shattered by the 30,000 Yuan Army, there are not many casualties, almost more than 10,000 casualties. Now there are tens of thousands of Hun cavalry who have been recuperating for half a day to kill, if the Jiuyuan Army continues to stay on the battlefield to fight with them at this time, it is that the head is caught by the door panel.
Fighting with these more than 100,000 Hun cavalry, the 40,000 original army will not necessarily be defeated, but it is not so easy to win. The best outcome is a lose-lose situation. If Meng Tian hadn't come, maybe Li Gang and others would have had to take this step. But when Meng Tian was about to arrive, it would be foolish to have a hard time with the Huns.
Just after a charge, the 30,000 Yuan Army suffered limited casualties, less than 2,000 people.
The three elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army walked away without looking back, and they didn't even look at the tens of thousands of Hun cavalry and 40,000 Donghu cavalry chasing over.
At this moment, this battle that started from the morning has been going on for more than an hour!
The shield wall of the 80,000 Yuan Army foot soldiers, which was still in the center of the battlefield, had already been broken through by the Donghu cavalry in two places. The original concentric circle formation of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army also turned into a solid circle at the same time as the shield wall was broken.
The two sides fought desperately at these two gaps. The infantry of the Jiuyuan Army in the circle formation quickly formed a shield wall again behind the gap. The large array that was originally round became concave and convex, but as time passed, the two gaps were gradually shrinking.
Every time the gap widened, it was accompanied by the fall of dozens or hundreds of soldiers of the two armies. The soil in the two gaps was completely soaked with blood and had become muddy.
The other two shield walls that were attacked by the Donghu cavalry were also crumbling, and it seemed that they would be broken in the next second.
All the foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, especially the outermost foot soldiers, were exhausted. If it weren't for the belief that the general would come, I am afraid that someone would have fallen down long ago. The power of belief is powerful.
However, everyone knows that once the other two shield walls are broken again, it is likely that the shield wall will be completely useless. At that time, the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army could only use flesh and blood against hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry.
Mohuer's 100,000 Donghu cavalry and the 40,000 Hun cavalry of Subu Baye gave up the pursuit after chasing the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan army for several miles, and rushed towards the center of the battlefield.
Su Bu Baye turned around and returned, and Li Gang, Meng Wu and others immediately mounted their horses and followed them for miles, wandering like ghosts. Neither far away nor too close, he always maintained the appropriate pressure on the cavalry of the Subu Page, and even chased after it from time to time, so close that the more than 100,000 cavalry of the Beard Page, who were ready to return to assist the Donghu cavalry to break the formation, were less than 200 paces, and then put a burst of crossbow arrows.
When Su Bu Baye turned around and wanted to catch up, Li Gang and the others turned around and ran away. The already hot Su Bu Ba page was angry like thunder. But there was nothing he could do with the 40,000 cavalry of the Ninth Yuan Army led by Li Gang, Meng Wei and others.
He didn't dare to lead these more than 100,000 cavalry desperately to chase the 40,000 cavalry of the Ninth Yuan Army, not to mention that everyone was a question of whether the cavalry could catch up. He didn't dare to go too far from Maudun's main formation. And from his pig's head, it can be seen that this Jiuyuan Army Elite Cavalry is deliberately luring him away from the battlefield.
In desperation, Su Bu Baye had no choice but to lead tens of thousands of thunderous Hun cavalry to stare at this cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, which was far away and sometimes near, and ordered the Donghu cavalry to kill in the direction of the notch where the shield wall had been broken by the Donghu cavalry.
Take advantage of your illness to kill you, regardless of nationality and country, you all understand! By the time they arrived, the Hun cavalry besieging the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army would reach an astonishing 300,000 people. Obviously, that time will also be the time when the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army will be completely exposed to the hooves of the Hun cavalry.
watched more than 100,000 Hun cavalry divided into two routes, monitoring themselves and others all the way, and killing all the way to the battlefield. Li Gang, Meng Yu and others, who were originally slowly teasing Xu Bu Bapage, changed their faces in unison.
The Huns are not stupid!
"General Meng! Do you want to do it again? Li Gang stopped his horse and looked at the Hun cavalry who stopped in place and stared at himself and the others, and said loudly.
"Since General Li has a heart, Meng should accompany him!" Ignorance heard Li Gang's words and said. The son of Meng Hong, who is ignorant, should be called Meng Tian as his cousin. He wasn't very old, but his voice was rough and tight.
"Haha! Good! Li Gang laughed. Zhao Zhan, the two of them did not speak, glanced at each other, and with a flick of their arms, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, which was originally scattered under their respective commands, had already been lined up in a moment.
Li Gang is the commander of the cavalry! Everyone is waiting for Li Gang's order!
At this moment, the thunderous roar of horses' hooves from the direction of Jiuyuan City came from afar.
Whether it was the battlefield where they were fighting, or the people of Maodun, Mohuer, Sububa, and Li Gang, they heard the roar of the horse's hooves. Qi Qi's complexion changed drastically. However, Li Gang and the others were overjoyed, but Mao Dun was surprised or frightened.
A long black line with billowing smoke and dust is rapidly approaching the battlefield!
First, a huge black brocade "Qin" character flag, fluttering in the wind! (To be continued)