Chapter 178: Qin Jun's Choice
The sound is good, and the breeze is slow.
Meng Yan rode a fiery red "Chi Li" BMW and slowly walked in front of the Qin army's cavalry formation, and in an instant, the eyes of more than 2,600 soldiers focused on Meng Yan's body, and even many seriously wounded soldiers lying on horseback struggled to raise their heads, staring straight at Meng Yan with fanatical and adoring eyes.
The Great Qin Mengshi have been loyal and good for generations, and in Meng Tian's generation, Mengshi's reputation has reached the extreme, and because of Meng Tian's unjust death, Mengshi has won the sympathy and loyalty of the Qin soldiers in the Great Wall Army.
Of course, Montessori's allegiance has never changed, and it has always been Win's.
For a family like the Montessori who is loyal and observant and observes festivals to pass on to the generations, it is unthinkable, Chinese have worshiped their ancestors since ancient times, and for every Chinese, not obeying the ancestral precepts is almost like counting the classics and looking at the ancestors, and they will be scolded by the world, and they will not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave and spiritual hall after death, which will leave a stench for 10,000 years.
In fact, Meng Yan never thought of betraying the ancestral teachings.
Just now, Meng Yan even thought of attacking the Xiongnu in the north to be martyred, and he didn't want to live and abandon the ancestral teachings.
Of course, if Yingzhen married Xiang Zhuang and ordered Meng Zhen and his subordinates to be loyal to Xiang Zhuang in the name of the Lord, it would be a different matter.
Greeting the fanatical and adoring eyes of the soldiers of the Qin army, Meng Yan shouted: "Soldiers, the Great Qin Empire has perished, as an old Qin person, your mission of following the Mengshi to protect the Jiuyuan has also been completed, and now, I, Meng Zhen, in the name of the general, officially disband the Great Wall Legion, and at the same time allow you to leave the Jiuyuan ......"
Before the words fell, the soldiers of the Qin army had already made a noise.
"No, General Meng, if we don't leave, we'll follow you!"
"Yes, General Meng, where you go, we will go with you!"
"That's right, even if you die, you have to die with General Meng!"
"General Meng, don't say anything, we will never leave you!"
"That's right, if the general insists on driving us away, we will die in front of you!"
As he spoke, the emotions of many Qin soldiers began to get out of control and shouted one after another.
Dozens of soldiers of the Qin army even drew double-edged heavy swords and put them on their necks in one fell swoop, if Meng Yan insisted on disbanding the Great Wall Legion, they would definitely not hesitate to slit their throats.
Not far away, Bai Lixian witnessed all this, and his heart was also full of emotion.
Although Bai Lixian is friendly with Meng Zhen, and the two are also known to each other, he really didn't expect that in the minds of the Qin soldiers of the Great Wall Army, Meng Yan actually has such a lofty status, of course, Bai Lixian also knows very well that the reason why the Qin soldiers of the Great Wall Army support Meng Yan so much is more because of Meng Shi and Meng Tian.
Meng Yan also sighed in his heart, but he couldn't say the rest of the words.
At that moment, Meng Yan rode his horse again to Baili Xian and said, "Brother Ziliang, you have also seen that this is the choice of the soldiers, and they are not willing to leave Jiuyuan......
"They just don't want to leave you." Baili Xiandao.
"It's all the same." Meng Yan said lightly, "Anyway, they don't want to return to Chu......"
Bai Lixian interrupted Meng Yan again and said, "Brother Tianfang, do you know that Princess Yingzhen was not killed?" β
"Huh?!" Meng Yanyan's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice, "Brother Ziliang, what did you just say, princess, she ......"
Bai Lixian nodded, and said solemnly: "Princess Yingzhen got the desperate protection of more than ten guards, and escaped from Linhe while the chaos, but in order to protect Her Royal Highness the Princess, the more than ten guards were all killed, although Her Royal Highness the Princess was not lightly frightened, but at the last moment was rescued by a patrol cavalry of my Dachu. β
"Is Her Royal Highness really okay?" Meng was surprised, happy, suspicious and confused.
Baili Xian said: "The princess is in Jiuyuan, and Brother Tianfang can go back to see her now." β
"Okay, little brother, I'll rush back to Jiuyuan." Meng Yan said that, and called the deputy general Meng Keng to him, ordered him to temporarily command the troops, and told Meng Keng to obey Bai Lixian's instructions, cooperate with the Chu army as much as possible, and arrange everything, Meng Xun left the army with more than a dozen cavalry soldiers, and hurried back to Jiuyuan over the mountains and mountains.
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The Chu army has already set up its position and is facing off against the army of Xiu Tu.
In the pro-army camp, Xiang Zhuang has already let Jin Xiang spread out the map of Jiuyuan, and is discussing tactics with Wei Yu and Wu Shi around the map. , Wei Yu patted the map, and said in a deep voice: "General, based on the news sent back by the horses in front, the old man is sure that the old and young women and children, cattle, sheep and livestock of the Hugh slaughterer are not far from Gaoque, Gaoque is less than two hundred miles away from here, and if the cavalry raids, they will be able to arrive before dawn tomorrow!" β
Wu Shi changed color slightly: "The military advisor is saying that the sneak attack on the old and young women, children, cattle, sheep and livestock left by the Hutu people in Gaoque?" β
Xiang Zhuang said: "Even if the sneak attack fails, we must force the Xiu Tu army back to outside the Gaoque Pass, otherwise, let such a huge Xiu Tu cavalry stay in the Hetao, we have to be vigilant all day long, what kind of soldiers do we train?" β
Wei Yu said: "The problem is that Hugh Tu has left at least 20,000 cavalry in Gaoque!" β
"It's a big problem." Xiang Zhuang pondered for a moment and said, "Our cavalry has not yet been trained, and now we must not fight hard with the Hugh Tu people, it seems that we can only ride on foot against foot, use the chariot array as a barrier, and advance to Gaoque step by step, if the Hugh Tu people don't want to fight with us, then we can only obediently withdraw from Gaoque." β
Wei Yi frowned and said, "But this must be done with the cooperation of cavalry." β
Xiang Zhuang nodded thoughtfully, the heavy armored infantry against the light cavalry, just defend on the spot, you can put an absolute defensive tortoiseshell formation, no matter which direction the enemy cavalry attacks, it will be attacked by the infantry of its own side, in this way, even if it is 5,000 infantry against 100,000 cavalry, before the defender's arrows are exhausted, the cavalry does not want to get close.
But if the infantry wants to attack in reverse, it is complicated, since it is an attack, it must be pushed forward.
Since it is necessary to move forward, it is inevitable that the two wings and the weakness behind them will be exposed, because the light cavalry comes and goes like the wind and can quickly change the direction of attack, while the heavy infantry must rely on strict formations and chariots as barriers, and when changing formations, it is already slower than cavalry, and it is even more difficult to keep up with the rhythm when advancing forward.
In this way, the cavalry could easily find the flaws in the infantry and launch an attack.
But if you also have the protection of light cavalry, this concern does not exist.
Because no matter which direction the enemy cavalry launches a surprise attack, it will be the first to be intercepted by its own cavalry, and during the period of its own cavalry interception, your infantry can change formation in time and point the attack arrow at the enemy cavalry.
Although today's Chu army has enough war horses, it is not possible to become cavalry when riding on war horses.
If Xiang Zhuang let the Chu army ride a war horse as a cavalry to protect the flanks and back of his infantry, then the final result is that not only can he not protect the flanks and back of the infantry, but it is even possible to disrupt the formation of his own infantry in turn, which is not impossible, so Wei Yu will have something to say.
As soon as Wei Yi's words fell, Baili Xian hurriedly returned to the pro-army main camp under the escort of Baili Mao and You Yuan.
Xiang Zhuang and Wei Yi immediately got up to greet each other, but Wu Shi was far behind, and to this day, his prejudice against the old Qin people has not been completely eliminated.
"Ziliang, how is it?"
"General, fortunately not dishonored!" Bai Lixian arched his hand, turned around and said, "General, this is General Meng Keng, the deputy general of General Meng Xuan." β
"General Meng Keng." Xiang Zhuang smiled.
Meng Keng only returned the salute lightly, and tilted his head sideways, without looking at Xiang Zhuang.
Gao Chu, who was standing behind Xiang Zhuang, was furious, and he stepped forward to reprimand, but was held back by Xiang Zhuang, it is normal for the soldiers of the Qin army to have emotions in their hearts, no matter what, they all lost their parents, wives and children not long ago, when such a thing happens, who can be in a good mood?
Bai Lixian patted Meng Keng's shoulder and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General, General Meng Yan has already said that the cavalry of the Qin army will fully cooperate with our army in battle. β
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Jiuyuan, the princess Xingyuan.
Meng Yan knelt on the ground and said miserably: "The last general is incompetent, and Her Royal Highness the princess is in danger, a capital crime!" β
Ying Zhen hurriedly stepped forward to help Meng Yan up, and said in a low voice: "General Meng, please get up quickly." Saying this, Ying Zhen sighed softly again, and said in a quiet voice, "However, this palace really didn't expect to see the general again." β
Meng Yan refused to get up, and said miserably: "The last general is incompetent, which has affected the princess, and even killed the old and young women and children in Linhe City." β
Ying Zhen shook her head and said: "No, General Meng, you can't be blamed for this, this is all the sin of Lou Furen, Lou Furen is not a person." β
"Your Royal Highness the Princess, rest assured, Lou Annoying has been killed by our old Qin people!" Meng Yan said word by word, "Including the King of Lou Fu, all the Lou Fu people have been ambushed." β
"In this way, the old and young women and children in the river city can rest in peace." Ying Zhen couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief when she heard this, as long as King Lou Fu died, no one in this world would know that the tragedy in Linhe was arranged by her Ying Zhen, because all the people who knew the inside story had all died, and as for King Hutu, he didn't know anything at all.
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The northern foot of Yin Mountain.
The battlefield of the fierce fighting during the day was already dead silent at this time.
Lou's annoying corpse is still lying on the battlefield, although the Qin army cleaned up the battlefield, but they just took away the corpse of the old Qin people, and naturally they don't pay attention to Lou's annoying corpse at all.
All of a sudden, an annoying corpse moved strangely.
Then the head that the uncle said came out from under the annoying corpse of the building, and there was a human-shaped pit under the cover of this corpse, which was just enough to hide a person, plus there were several corpses overlapping the cover, the uncle said that he had escaped the Qin army cleaning the battlefield, and took a greedy breath of air, and the uncle said that he limped to the north again in the night. γProvided by Sailingγ