Chapter 361: Tragic Light Horse
The appearance of the Loulan hoplites!
Xiang Yu's heavy pupils shrank suddenly, and in his bloodshot eyes, the flame of longing to fight once again burned, and he had to admit that Xiang Yu was a very pure soldier in his bones.
He worships violence.
Appreciating strong people, he disdains conspiracy and trickery, so that he always falls into the trap of his opponent, to put it to a pertinent evaluation, it is the battle of the giant deer that won him a supreme reputation, in the final analysis, it was also the Chu army that fell into Zhang Han's trap, but Xiang Yu's luck was really good at that time.
On the side of the Qin army, Zhang Han and Wang Li had internal strife, so that when the border army was in urgent need of reinforcements, Zhang Han sat still and watched the border army annihilated, and the final result was that even Zhang Han was not spared, but became the biggest background wall figure on Xiang Yu's fame.
If it weren't for that, with the combat strength and strength of the Qin army at that time, even if Xiang Yu broke out of the small universe again, there would be no way to defeat so many Qin army troops.
Of course, that's all in the past.
And now, the situation of the battle of the chasm, for the Chu army, is a time of despair again.
Qin Jun's wave after wave of hidden hole cards shocked Xiang Yu, who had never believed that someone could defeat him, and at this time, he had some experience of Liu Bang's despair when he was defeated again and again.
Just think about it.
When you have tried your best to build a proud army and want to fight a strong enemy for a long time, you suddenly find that the other party has thrown you several streets away.
Faced with such a predicament once, you can still consider yourself unlucky, and you can comfort yourself that there is still a chance to make a comeback, and again and again, again and again, even if you are tenacious, you will lose confidence, Liu Bang after defecting to Chen Yu. It is clear that he has lost his former tenacity in self-confidence.
This is also the reason why Liu Bang did not have the same infinite attachment to life as before in the Zuihou War, in other words, his ambition was gone.
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"Da Chu, Da Chu!"
"Kill the barbarian, kill the barbarian!"
Xiang Yu staggered forward, and behind him, the big flag, which had been damaged in many places, was still fluttering in the morning sun. It is precisely because of its existence that the generals of the Chu army, who have been gradually divided, have not collapsed and laid down their arms.
A Loulan soldier stood out from the queue with a sinister smile, raised his bronze sword and slashed it down, although he didn't know the enemy general with a dark face and strange eyes in front of him, but this did not hinder his determination to cut off his head.
"Porphyry!"
The sound of a hard object penetrating the human body is so simple and direct.
Thinking about the meritorious service, Lou Lanbing's smile condensed on his face, and his sword stopped less than a zhang away from the top of Xiang Yu's head, not that he didn't want to kill the other party, but he suddenly found that he had always been powerful. His whole person is soft, and he can't exert any strength, and what is even more terrifying is his chest and abdomen. Bursts of severe pain are being transmitted.
Loulan soldiers slowly fell.
At the moment when he looked up to the sky and fell down, his pale blue eyes still carried disbelief.
The enemy generals are obviously exhausted. As long as you put a little pressure, you will fall down, but you don't know weishenme. It was himself who fell.
The Loulan soldier, who was no longer alive, didn't know what happened in an instant, but behind him, his companion saw it really clearly, and at the moment when the Loulan soldier raised the bronze sword high, Xiang Yu's body suddenly ejected and crashed straight into the arms of the Loulan soldier.
At the same time, the halberd in his right hand, which he had been hanging down, stabbed out at an incredibly fast speed, and pierced into Loulan Bing's abdomen with the momentum of his body.
Seeing Xiang Yu so fierce, the Loulan soldiers began to give up the idea of personal heroism, and with the overall advantage, they surrounded and beat the Chu army beside Xiang Yu.
A Xiang Yu.
Even if they can fight, they can only deal with a few people at a time, besides, after seeing Xiang Yu's fierceness, the Loulan people are also smart, they began to besiege Xiang Yu in groups of five or six people, with consumption tactics to besiege Xiang Yu, and in order to gradually let Xiang Yu lose a little bit of Zuihou's counterattack strength.
Li Zhongxiang's position was in the middle of the Loulan team, and his prestige and command and dispatch were the key to coordinating the Loulan soldiers and the Qin army.
Seeing that Xiang Yu was temporarily trapped by the Loulan people, Li Zhongxiang finally put his mind at ease. Xiang Yu is the key to the breakthrough of the Chu army, without him as an arrow, the rest of the Chu generals such as Xiang Sheng and Xiang Xiang, in the face of the siege of the Qin army, all they can do is to escape, and they dare not meet and engage in battle.
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The battle lasted until noon.
At the hottest time of the summer day, Xiang Han led his army after two hours of hard and fierce fighting, and finally set foot on the land on the west bank of the chasm.
For this, he paid the price of up to three thousand casualties.
However, when the clear sound of Qin and Chu armies tearing and killing came not far away, Xiang Han felt that all his efforts were worth it, as long as he could rescue Xiang Yu, then he would be a great hero to turn the tide, at least, much better than Xiang Sheng and Xiang Xiang, two guys who only cared about grabbing credit, but had no overall concept at all.
As for the lives of the baggage soldiers.
Xiang Han never considered that the Chu State occupied seven counties in the southeast, and there were Shanyue people in Jiangdong who could be recruited, as long as there was territory, there were not as many people as they wanted.
The Qin cavalry responsible for blocking Xiang Han totaled about 500 cavalry, this light cavalry force had just arrived in the Central Plains from the distant Hexi area, and was not very familiar with the situation in the area around the chasm, and when they attacked for the first time, they received an order only to defeat the Chu army, and this task was successfully completed as early as dawn in the early morning.
After Wuyu was killed, there was not much left of the soldiers' desire to fight, after all, between them and the Chu State, there was more of a symbolic relationship between hiring and being hired, if the price paid was too great, or the soldiers were all dead, then there would be no possibility of the existence of the Fan clan with only women and old and weak.
The tribal conflicts in the mountains and forests of the south of the Yangtze River are not much milder than the struggle for hegemony between countries in the Central Plains, and the rise of one tribe is often the decline of another.
After the defeat of the troops, the light cavalry was about to retreat, that is, they received the news that the follow-up troops of the Chu army tried to cross the river again, this time, they were no longer faced with a small number of soldiers, but as many as 10,000 heavy soldiers of the Chu army.
Compared with the main force, the baggage soldiers are only after three or five simple drills, and then they are pulled onto the battlefield, although these Chu soldiers have no combat effectiveness, but the problem is that Xiang Han completely does not care about the life and death of his generals, with 10,000 against 500, Xiang Han's sea of people tactics put the Qin army's light cavalry in a dilemma.
Advantages of light riding.
It is not to fight in such a rigid position, but to attack by surprise.
The cavalry is like a wild wolf on the steppe, it will show its fangs again and again, and tear a bite from the yellow sheep, but now, they can't do that.
Once they give up, then Xiang Han's support army will quickly appear behind Li Zhongxiang's troops, and then Li's troops, who are under pressure from the Chu army to break through, may collapse immediately.
What to do?
Is it sacrificing oneself and taking care of the overall situation? Or do you want to protect Liliang and let the Chu army rendezvous?
In the face of such a difficult choice, this small Qin cavalry force composed of old Qin people in Guanzhong and the light army that regarded death as their home during the Battle of Changping in that year, with the most critical and dazzling battle in their lives, proved that the Qin army was the most disciplined and sacrificial army in this era.
Five hundred light horsemen.
In the face of more than 10,000 Chu soldiers, they held out for two hours, and in these two hours, they tragically repelled most of the Chu army's attacks more than ten times, and the corpses of Chu soldiers who fell in front of them were piled up.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, he learned from the scout that the Chu army was desperate to increase troops to reinforce the urgent military situation, Li Yuan's face also changed, and he quickly ordered the Qin troops on both flanks not to be entangled, and to speed up and intersperse the route of the Chu army's breakthrough, and be sure to block the possible gap before Xiang Han and Xiang Yu meet.
Breakout and interception.
In the race against time, it doesn't matter who wins Zuihou.
The important thing is that in this decisive battle, the generals of Qin and Chu showed a completely different understanding of the war, which is the most crucial. (To be continued......)