Chapter Twenty-Five: Breaking the Camp
Xinzhao now has an army of nearly 350,000 people, starting from Nanpi, Li Zuoche attacked the city all the way and plundered the land, armed with an army of nearly 100,000 with armor with the waste weapons stored in the warehouses of the captured counties.
As Julu County, as the ruler of Julu County, there are a large number of worn-out weapons and armor that the Qin army has abandoned or collected later but have not yet had time to transport to Xianyang.
The capture of Julu County immediately doubled Li Zuoche's strength, and the number of armored soldiers surged to as many as 250,000, and although the remaining more than 100,000 did not have enough weapons and armor, Li Zuoche was not worried.
Because there are more or less copper, iron, ordnance and equipment that have not had time to be transported to Xianyang in the various counties of Great Qin, these are the soldiers hidden by the people of the six countries that were collected one after another after the first emperor cast the twelve gold people.
Peng Yue's army of 50,000 had only 30,000 armored soldiers; The 50,000 troops sent by Li Zuoche to Linzi were all elite soldiers who were stubborn and stubborn.
This time, Li Zuoche brought out all the remaining 170,000 armoured troops, and now Julu, the capital of Zhao State, only has more than 100,000 so-called soldiers with incomplete weapons left to defend.
It can be said that if Li Zuoche wins Meng Tian this time, then Handan, Hanoi, and Shangdang, the five counties of the original Zhao State, will change hands in the blink of an eye. Xinzhao will return to the broad situation of being said to be a fortress from Taihang Bacheng Tianwei.
The head of Taihang Mountain begins in Hanoi, from Hanoi to Youzhou in the north, where Bailing is located, and it connects the boundary of 12 states.
Taihang Eight Mountains: The first is called Yiguan, which now belongs to Jiyuan County, Henan Province, and is eleven miles west of the county; the second Taihang and the third Bai, these two are in Hanoi; the fourth Fukou 陉, to Yexi; the fifth Jingcheng, between Handan and Shangdang; the sixth flying fox, a wangduguan; The seventh Puyin is in Zhongshan; The capital of the Eighth Army is in Youzhou.
Therefore, the most important thing is that as long as he can occupy Handan and Shangdang, Li Zuoche can re-establish the Jingcheng fortress that his grandfather Li Mu had blocked the general of Great Qin, Wang Jian for a year.
After the First Emperor destroyed the unification of the Six Kingdoms, the Jingcheng Fortress was ordered to be demolished.
With the Jingcheng Fortress, the throat of the northward and southward movements, Li Zuoche believed that his grandfather could resist Wang Qian's 200,000 army here for a year, so he should be able to do better now under the condition of Xin Zhao's words.
Meng Tian died again, retreated and defended, and entered the south to Sanchuan and Hanoi, looking down on the fertile soil of the Central Plains.
At this point, Li Zuoche made a desperate bet and staked all the armoured armies up. He wants to decide the outcome of a battle, or Zhao Guosheng will be defeated by Meng Tian; Either Meng Tian wins, and Zhao Guo is destroyed.
At the same time that Meng Tian received the scout's discovery of Li Zuoche's army, Li Zuoche also received the news that his scouts had discovered Meng Tian's army. When he heard the scout's report that Meng Tian's army was less than 100,000, Li Zuoche smiled.
Li Zuoche's army of nearly 180,000 has more than 10,000 flying horses, which he imitated his grandfather Li Muzhi's flying horses and tried his best to set up.
Although the thousand-ride chariot is all rags turned out of the treasury of the counties of Daqin, in the pre-Qin period, the chariot can be used as a standard to measure the strength of a vassal state, and it naturally has its role.
Li Mu didn't find much Qin crossbow, but he also formed an archer of more than 20,000 people, Zhao people since Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu cavalry shooting, almost everyone will be able to ride and shoot, and now Li Mu selected more than 20,000 people, although the previous Zhao army's elite knight archers are slightly inferior, but they are already extremely good at shooting.
Except for the flying cavalry, charioteers, and archers, the rest of Li Mu's army were all foot soldiers, with a total of more than 130,000 people. The nearly 40,000 horsemen, chariots, and archers were all wrapped up in the footmen, and from a distance, there was no difference at all.
Although Bai said that it was stronger than at night, and the scouts could observe the movement of the army from a distance, the specific situation in the army was not clear. Now that it is known that Meng Tian's army is false and real, Li Zuoche did not hesitate, but directly ordered the army to swing away with the left, center and right formations, and all pressed up.
Of course, there are more than 130,000 foot soldiers, 50,000 people on the left and right armies, and the Chinese army Li Zuocheya Banner is located.
Li Zuoche's Chinese army seems to be the weakest, but in fact it is the most dangerous, the two wings are quietly hidden more than 20,000 archers, but near the Chinese army's tooth banner is a camouflaged thousand-ride chariot, and behind the Chinese army is more than 10,000 flying horses.
In this way, Li Zuoche just wants to overwhelm people with force, although Meng Tian's army is all elite with excellent weapons, but the biggest drawback is that there are too few troops. And the charioteers are precisely the nemesis of the cavalry.
The three armies are lined up, no matter which army Meng Tian attacks, as long as the Meng Tian army is held for a moment, Li Zuoche's other two armies can immediately surround Meng Tian's army, as long as Meng Tian dies, even if the 180,000 army is lost, Li Zuoche thinks it is worth it.
Scouts constantly move through the two armies, passing on the latest military information.
After Meng Tian learned of the formation set up by Li Zuoche's army, he was silent for a while, and then ordered: "Order the scouts to go out and find out if there are any enemy troops in the twenty miles around our army, and we must find out the truth of Li Zuoche's thief army." ”
"Whoa!"
After waiting for the guards around him to go down to deliver the order, Meng Tian thought for a while and said: "Order Zhang Wujun to attack Zhao Peng's thief army immediately, and order Qian Liang to lead 20,000 cavalry to rush to help, and the tens of thousands of thieves will be wiped out." After destroying the enemy, he immediately rushed to the aid of the Chinese army. ”
"Whoa!"
After a while, 20,000 cavalry separated from Meng Tian's Chinese army and went to aid Zhang Wu.
Meng Tian divided his troops, not advancing but running backwards, and such a large-scale cavalry movement could not be concealed in the wilderness at all. Li Zuoche's scouts soon found out, and the situation was immediately reported to Li Zuoche.
Li Zuoche had just received a military message from Peng Yue and Bang Tuo. At this moment, after contacting Meng Tian to divide his troops, he immediately guessed that Meng Tian wanted to destroy Peng Yue's 50,000 army that was hanging out first, and then do his best to fight a decisive battle after relieving his worries.
To save or not to save Peng Yue? This question made Li Zuoche very entangled.
His army is still thirty miles away from Meng Tian's army, and at least forty miles away from Peng Yue's army, to save Peng Yue, he must cross Meng Tian's army, Meng Tian will definitely not sit idly by, and watch him go to save people.
Then a big battle will inevitably break out in advance, which is inconsistent with Li Zuoche's arrangement in his heart to defeat Meng Tian with all his might. And to save Peng Yue and the others, it is bound to be possible only with more than 10,000 flying horses hidden by himself.
In this way, not to mention exposing the flying horse in advance, but more importantly, to startle the snake, Meng Tian saw that he could hide the flying horse in the army, wouldn't he go to the point that he also hid other strange soldiers?
With the strength of the Jiuyuan Army, if it is found that something is wrong, then Meng Tian can still do it if he wants to break through.
Once Meng Tian breaks through, even if he wins, as long as Meng Tian is still there, Daqin's army will continue to go north. The army is easy, and it is difficult to find a general, especially a famous general like Meng Tian, if Meng Tian dies, it will be an incomparably huge blow to Daqin.
You only get one chance!
But if it is not saved, Peng Yue's 50,000 army will definitely not be able to resist the tens of thousands of Jiuyuan elite soldiers of Great Qin. And once he sees death and does not save him, once it spreads, who will dare to come to him in the future? Who would dare to lead troops into battle?
Li Zuoche was undecided for the first time.
Meng Tian's central army and rear army were not less than ten miles away from Zhang Wu's front army. Qian Liang led 20,000 cavalry to arrive before it was time for tea.
When Qian Liang arrived, Zhang Wu's 20,000 front troops had already repelled Peng Yue's three charges. On the passage deliberately left in front of the main gate of Peng Yue's camp less than ten zhang wide, no less than a thousand corpses were densely piled up, and blood flowed like a river.
The horse traps, tripping ropes, copper thorns and iron nails that were originally used to block the Great Qin cavalry have now become the first obstacle to prevent Peng Yue and the others from breaking through, and the narrow passage in front of the camp has become their own road to death.
It just happened to facilitate the shooting of the Great Qin crossbow.
Peng Yue saw that Meng Tian led the tens of thousands of troops of the Chinese army and the rear army to go straight to the giant deer without stopping, but only left more than 20,000 people and wanted to surround his 50,000 army in this camp, and immediately became angry.
Ignoring Bang Tuo's opposition, he ordered the army to leave the camp three times, wanting to break through the blockade of Zhang Wu's former army. But they were all shot back by the Qin army's crossbows, and they didn't rush out, not to mention, and spent more than a thousand soldiers in vain.
Seeing that more than 20,000 cavalry had arrived at this moment, Bang Tuo hurriedly dissuaded: "General, the Qin people's crossbow arrows are fierce, and the passage in front of our military camp is too narrow. At this moment, Meng Tian divided his troops here again, obviously to annihilate us here.
Meng Tian was a famous general at that time, but he was too arrogant, and it was really stupid to divide the troops during the war, and to fight in both directions. Not to mention the layout outside our military camp, only this rugged mountainous terrain and the elite cavalry of the Qin people are already difficult to move an inch. And there are only more than 10,000 foot soldiers, how to break our army's camp?
Meng Tian's army this time was no more than 100,000 at most, and now there are more than 40,000 people in our army, while Meng Tian's Chinese army is only less than 60,000 people. How to fight against the 300,000 army of the Xiangguo people?
With the ability of Lord Xiangguo, as long as we hold back the Qin army here, Meng Tian will be defeated and die this time. I, Zhao Guoda, am very lucky! In the end, Hamato was overjoyed.
The eyebrows of Peng Yue and the others who said this fluttered, as if Meng Tian's army was already the meat of Li Zuoche's plate at this moment.
Peng Yue and the others here are still concerned, Yinzhong, and Qian Liang over there have already told Zhang Wumengtian the military order, and the two discussed it briefly, and then the 30,000 cavalry except for the 10,000 cavalry who left 10,000 cavalry to retreat to the wilderness 500 steps away, the remaining 20,000 cavalry all dismounted and turned into foot soldiers.
Although the Jiuyuan cavalry could not fight on horseback and on foot like the Longxi army, the enemy army could not come out of the camp now, and there was no need to engage in short-handed combat at all. However, the Qin crossbow is the most commonly equipped weapon in the Great Qin army, and everyone can use it whether it is a foot soldier or a cavalry.
What's more, although the Jiuyuan cavalry is not good at foot combat, it is not that they can't fight on foot, let alone just deal with these incompletely armored soldiers.
Zhang Wu and Qian Liang's method was very simple, using the Qin crossbow far beyond the range of bows and arrows, step by step to clean up all kinds of traps and obstacles outside Peng Yue's camp, and they wanted to use the strong crossbows of 30,000 soldiers to shoot Peng Yue's 50,000 troops in the camp.
And 10,000 cavalry cruising in the wilderness will be the last to ask for their lives.
Peng Yue, Bang Tuo and the others began to be puzzled when they saw that all the Great Qin cavalry dismounted, but then the actions behind the Qin army made their faces change greatly.
The 10,000 foot soldiers originally stationed on both sides of the Peng Yue army camp began to fill in the traps in an orderly manner, cut the stumbling ropes, and pick up the thorns, iron nails and other things on the ground.
Seeing Qin Jun's movements at this moment, Peng Yue and the others knew what Qin Jun was going to do, no matter how stupid they were.
"Quick, archers shoot me!"
(To be continued)