30. Died on the way to the charge
This cavalry general was not a vegetarian, and he did not go straight to Gaogang at all, but thought that in the direction of the Qin army's camp, three hundred steps away from Gaogang, there were still five hundred Wei troops to defend, so he bypassed Gaogang and went straight to the Wei army there. Unexpectedly, just after Gaogang, I saw the five hundred Wei troops returning in line. The cavalry general was about to shout, when a brigade commander ran over and reported anxiously: "General! Our boss was captured by the Qin army at the venue! I was about to rush to the rescue. â
The cavalry general asked, "How do you know?" â
The brigade commander was honest and returned directly: "Just now, my army formation was scattered by three hundred chariots of the Qin army. I'll just listen to what Qin Jun said. â
When the cavalry general heard that Gongsun Marting's brigade had not yet passed, and his reinforcements had just rushed over, and there were only three hundred chariots, he was relieved. He immediately gave the brigade commander an order: "Forming a defensive formation, even if the car runs over you, you are not allowed to get out of the way!" â
The brigade commander hurriedly obeyed the order, commanded five hundred sergeants, and immediately lined up the battle formation. As soon as the battle formation was arranged, five hundred light vehicles arrived. As soon as the general of the light car heard that there was still hope, he immediately ordered the light car to line up the defensive battle formation, and ordered: As soon as the leather car arrived, it would be changed to attack the car formation, and the commander must be rescued from the hands of the Qin army. As soon as the light cart was arranged, the leather cart arrived. As soon as General Geche heard that the commander was still in the hands of the Qin army on the high post, he said with great confidence: "The reinforcements from behind will arrive soon." I went to the back to line up the defensive car formation to prevent the Qin army from coming out of the camp and surround us. It's up to you to get ahead! We only need to hold out for a moment, and the army will arrive. After saying that, the general hurriedly commanded the leather cart to go to the hurry.
As soon as the leather cart went around to the back, he saw dust flying in the direction of the Qin army's camp. He knew that the Qin army was coming, so he hurriedly set up a formation. Just as he was busy arranging his formation and preparing to block the Qin army, the Qin army's 300 chariots were already facing off against the Wei army's light chariot army and the mixed army of the horse army and the infantry army.
The Qin army did not have the slightest fear in the face of the mixed army of the Wei army in front of it and the leather chariot pursuit army of the Wei army in the back. Li Baicao, Gao Jingbian, and Pang Shucheng, one person led the hundred chariots, divided into front, left, and right sides to cover the Chinese army. The Chinese army led by Ao Bao with fifty dead soldiers dressed as civil servants, driving a ten-ride leather car to cover Gongsun Marting's canopy car. These ten leather cars are also tricky, and they actually tied the dead soldiers and the captain of the guard to the car, one person on the left and right of each car, and one behind them, a total of thirty of them, and left them on the car as a shield, so as to protect Gongsun Marting's canopy car, and the other twenty dead soldiers were knocked unconscious by them and thrown on the high post.
The canopy was commanded by Ao Bao in front of the chariot and served as Gongsun Marting's personal guard. In the car sat Gongsun Martingale and the tied Gongzi Wei, guarded by two Gongsun Martingale guards. Behind the canopy car, there were three hundred guards commanded by Ying He, driving a hundred light chariots, covering the retreat of the army.
As soon as the cavalry of the Wei army saw the Qin army coming, they scattered in all directions, formed an attack formation of three people, and surrounded the hundreds of chariots of the Qin army. At that time, the cavalry had just been introduced from the Hufu cavalry of Zhao State, and it had no combat effectiveness, so it could only shoot arrows within thirty paces, and there was no accuracy; In the battle, when intersecting with chariots or horses, stabbing him with a long weapon, whether he can kill or injure the enemy depends entirely on luck, so in the Seven Kingdoms, the Zhao State and the Wei State are uniquely blessed, and there are Hu people living together and matching. After the cavalry came, they attacked directly without saying a word. The five hundred horses of the five hundred cavalry army poured over the world, which was still very scary, and it was still very effective in the face of the infantry army or the faint of heart; But they are now facing Ao Leopard's Kotou army.
Under the command of three brave generals, and with the help of chariots, the Ketou army was more stable than the horseback, and when the two armies were thirty paces apart, both sides fired arrows at the same time. Although the bumps on the horse's back caused the accuracy to be unaccurate, there were 600 men on the 300-ride chariot who were shooting arrows, and the cavalry could only shoot one arrow, so they had to beat the horses and run around before returning to shoot a second arrow. The chariot does not have zĂ i, and can shoot arrows in a row, and when the horse is out of range, it can shoot more than three arrows in a row; Therefore, in the first round of shooting, the Qin army won completely, and although the cavalry of the Wei army was not injured less, the horses were shot and injured a lot. In the second round of the attack, there were less than three hundred horses. As soon as Qin Jun saw that this cavalry was like this, so in the second round of attacks, he calmed down a lot and improved his accuracy a lot, and only hundreds of horses ran out. Although there were still hundreds of Wei horsemen on the battlefield who fell to the ground, because the chariot was advancing at high speed, it was impossible to retreat, so they had to be spared.
Although the cavalry attack was inefficient, it still succeeded in holding back the Qin army for nearly half an hour. The Wei army in front has already lined up in battle, and the leather chariot army in the front has already fought with the Qin army who came from the big camp, and the shouts and war drums in front of it are already very lively. The support army that came from the Wei army camp was already less than 500 steps away from the Qin army, and the smoke and dust had already covered the sky and the sun.
When Li Baicao, who was in the vanguard, saw it, he hoisted the flag high, issued an attack order, and rushed over with a hundred chariots. The chariots of the Qin and Wei armies immediately collided and fought. Chariot combat is a comparison of the pilot's driving skills and the strength and skill of the main attacker who stands in front of the driver. Li Baicao, Gao Jingbian, and Pang Shucheng, these three chariots, because of their ability, became the pioneers of the Qin army. There were constantly chariots of the Wei army, which were overturned by them with a long hook, and there were constantly Wei troops who were killed by them. Wherever they passed, it became a blood ditch, and on both sides were overturned chariots, or Wei soldiers who were killed and wounded.
As the saying goes: you can make a few nails with iron. Although these three are heroic and have superior strength, the Wei army is a thousand-ride chariot, and the Qin army is a three-hundred-ride chariot, and there are no less than fifty chariots against these three people alone. And Li Baicao was the first, the first to rush to the Wei army, so he was greeted by three rounds of arrow rain alone, and when he rushed into the Wei army's car formation, the five people in his car, he and the driver were left, after he overturned a dozen chariots, the driver also died unlucky. He himself was covered in wounds, but he didn't even have time to look at the wounds, he just let the war horse drag the chariot forward, forward! After he advanced nearly a hundred steps, his two war horses were also hacked to death by the Wei army and fell to the ground, although the chariot did not overturn, but the collision between the chariot and the chariot, the huge inertia, threw him out at once. Fortunately, he was strong in martial arts, and he stood up after rolling on the ground, but Changge in his hand didn't know where he had thrown it? When he saw it, three more chariots swooped down on him.
Li Baicao immediately drew his sword, faced the fastest chariot, and pounced on it in a few big steps! As soon as the chariot and the people approached, Li Baicao swung his sword and cut down a war horse on the left, but the chariot fell to the ground, and the handlebar of the chariot stabbed him in the right thigh with a pop. He is now an immortal, and he has no power to return to the sky, and when the person is raised backwards, he is smashed on the head by the main battle on the chariot. Li Baicao didn't snort, and died on the way to charge.