Chapter 247: Ambush in the Wild City
Hundreds of black chariots rushed out of the city one after another, rushing towards the Zhao army, which was not far in front of him, whose formation was slightly messy.
And overwhelmingly, there were at least 10,000 armed troops, who were killing the rear of the Zhao army.
After understanding that this was the enemy's ploy, Zhao Hao roared loudly and decisively canceled the order to retreat, but chose to fight the enemy in place.
Instead of continuing to retreat and letting the enemy take advantage of the situation, it is better to take advantage of the stronghold in the formation and fight the enemy to the death.
Because of the sudden appearance of reinforcements, the morale of the entire Qin army in Yecheng increased a little. Similarly, because of the ambush launched a sneak attack on the back of the Zhao army, the morale of the Wu army also increased a little.
Because the Zhao army in the front had just failed to attack the city, its morale was not high, and its formation was sloppy, so it was no match for the high-morale Qin army's chariot troops. In the rear, they didn't expect the enemy to attack at all, because the Qin army of Shangdang was all forced to defend in the city by 300,000 troops, and outside the city was the world of the Zhao army, so they didn't expect anyone to attack their rear formation.
With a calculating and unintentional situation, the chariot troops of the Qin army easily broke through the infantry phalanx in front of the Zhao army, and then rushed towards the archers phalanx in the middle.
The infantry of the Qin army, which had been following behind the chariot troops, rushed forward in a neat battle formation towards the enemies in front of them, who had no formation to speak of, and stabbed the scattered enemies one by one with a collective long stab.
In the rear, the Zhao soldiers, who were completely unprepared, were easily defeated by the morale-like army, and the two armies made instant contact, and the Zhao army paid heavy losses, and the rear strongholds fell one after another.
10,000 Wu troops and 80,000 Qin troops surrounded the 80,000 Zhao troops in the middle and killed them indiscriminately. At the beginning of the battle, the front and rear formations of the Zhao army were completely defeated, but it was the time gained by the front and rear formations that allowed the Chinese army to stabilize its position, but in the face of the joint strangulation of the two armies of Wu and Qin, Zhao Hao soon couldn't stand it, in order not to wipe out the whole army outside the city, Zhao Hao, who was defeated, had to leave more than 10,000 people behind, and he retreated with 20,000 defeated soldiers.
This battle lasted for more than a day, from day to night, and finally from night to dawn, all the strength of the soldiers on the battlefield was exhausted, Zhao soldiers had no strength to fight again, and Zhao Hao was worried that there was a living force hidden in Bailishi in Yecheng, so he had to choose to retreat.
In this battle, the 80,000 Zhao army suffered 60,000 casualties, as the main force in the later period, the 80,000 Qin army in Yecheng suffered 20,000 casualties.
As a result, Qin Wu's army had the smallest number of soldiers and the fewest casualties, only two thousand.
"Teacher, Zhao Jun is newly defeated, and this is a good time to change cities."
After chasing for a while, watching the Zhao army, which was less than 20,000 people, retreat like a tide, Qin Wu rode a sweaty and bloody BMW and rushed to Bailishi's side.
"Good! I'll help you explain it to everyone. ”
Although he had already promised Qin Wu in the city, but now that he mentioned it again, Bailishi still hesitated for a while before gritting his teeth and making a decision.
Baili Shi took 60,000 Qin troops towards Lucheng and Qincheng, and Qin Wu took the remaining 8,000 soldiers to take over Yecheng, which still had traces of the fierce siege battle a day earlier.
Bailishi rushed to Lucheng with 60,000 troops, and Feng Quji and Xi Qishu, who had already received Qin Wu's orders, immediately led all the 10,000 martial troops and baggage, equipment, and food to withdraw from Lucheng, and under the escort of 10,000 Qin troops sent by Bailishi, they came towards Yecheng.
After leaving 20,000 people and Bai Yibing to guard Lucheng, Bailishi rushed to Qincheng with the remaining 30,000 Qin troops, and after Zhao Ji and Feng Zheng withdrew from Qincheng with 10,000 martial troops, Zhao Ji and Feng Zai came to Yecheng with 10,000 martial arts troops in the starry night.
When Feng Quji and Xi Qishu were heading towards Yecheng with a large army and baggage, they were attacked by 30,000 Zhao soldiers led by Zhao Hao.
However, the Zhao army under Zhao Hao only has 30,000 people, and he is the only powerful historical general. And here are the 10,000 Wu army and 10,000 Qin troops led by Xi Qishu and Feng Quji.
However, Zhao Hao's real purpose was not Xiqishu and Feng Quji, but the wild city where Qin Wu was sitting.
There were only 20,000 people who attacked Feng Quji and Xi Qishu, and there were 10,000 Zhao soldiers hiding in the shadows, waiting for Qin Wu to rescue Feng Quji, and then take the opportunity to take Yecheng.
Qin Wu pretended to be a planner and sent 5,000 soldiers and a military general disguised as himself to pretend to rescue Feng Quji and Xi Qishu, but only 2,000 people rushed to the rescue on the way, and 3,000 people secretly hid in the dense forest not far from Yecheng, waiting for Qin Wu's order.
A C-level historical general under Zhao Hao thought that Qin Wu had a plan, and after the army was gone, he immediately killed 10,000 Zhao troops and went straight to Yecheng.
Standing on the head of the city, Qin Wu smiled coldly, released a sound arrow, and ordered the three thousand soldiers who were in ambush to return to the city.
10,000 Zhao soldiers attacked the city, and Qin Wu directly opened the city gate and let them in. The C-level historical military general who commanded 10,000 Zhao soldiers did not doubt him, and he excitedly entered the city, only to find that the city was empty after a while, and the streets and alleys were all blocked with boulders after a certain distance.
Until now, I still don't understand my plan, then this Zhao Jiang is completely a pig, but it's a pity that it's too late. With a chirp, an arrow flew into the sky, and the soldiers in red armor suddenly emerged from the rooftops on both sides of the street, densely packed, holding longbows, and pouring arrows at the Zhao soldiers who were in a panic below.
The Zhao soldiers who entered the city completely became the turtles in the urn, and were ambushed by the enemy, and their morale dropped a little, while the morale of the soldiers in the city increased by one star because of the success of the ambush.
The morale increased and decreased, and the military army had no intention of calculating and occupying the geographical advantage, and the battle in the city saw the soldiers on the roof ruthlessly slaughtering the Zhao soldiers on the street.
General Zhao, who commanded the army, also wanted to save the situation with personal force, but Qin Wu, who was standing on a high place, discovered his existence, and after confirming that he was a senior general of the Zhao army, he rushed over directly, and stabbed General Zhao to death with a few sharp shots.
After the death of the leading Zhao army, the morale of the Zhao army brought by it plummeted, and soon after, the 3,000 soldiers hidden in the woods outside the city were killed, and the 10,000 Zhao troops who attacked the wild city were suddenly cut off.
Except for a very small number of Zhao soldiers who escaped from the battlefield, 10,000 Zhao soldiers died more than 6,000 people, and the remaining 3,000 Zhao soldiers put down their weapons in despair and chose to surrender after the hope of victory, no way to escape, and Qin Wu's persuasion to surrender.
Killed 6,000 enemies and surrendered 3,000 enemies, the Wu army itself only injured a few hundred soldiers, compared with the 10,000 Zhao soldiers who were almost wiped out, the Wu army only suffered a little wounded.
On the other side, two thousand reinforcements sent by Qin Wu rushed to the battlefield.
Zhao Hao saw that there were only 2,000 enemy reinforcements, and he didn't see the general Qin Wu, so he suddenly realized that he was not good, and chose to accept it when he saw it, and after leaving more than 1,000 corpses of Zhao Bing, he retreated in time.
On the battlefield here, because of the existence of Zhao Hao, the Zhao soldiers only suffered more than 1,000 casualties, while the casualties of the Wu army were fully doubled, and the baggage carts and military ration trucks were also damaged to a small extent. However, compared to the victory of Nojo, this loss can only be said to be drizzle.
In the end, they got reinforcements and repelled Zhao Hao's Feng Quji and Xi Qishu entered Yecheng with a large army, baggage, and food security.
The Qin army, which had completed the escort mission, was ready to return to Lucheng, and the extremely thick-skinned Qin Wu kept the 10,000 powerful Qin soldiers on the grounds that Zhao Hao was still wandering around Yecheng, and it was not safe to return to Lucheng at this time, and he would be defeated by Zhao Hao, a famous general of Zhao State, with superior forces.
At this point, Qin Wu's forces were completely concentrated from the scattered Qincheng and Lucheng to Yecheng, which was located at the junction of Shangdang and Korea.
Yecheng had 36,000 soldiers. Among them, the 26,000 military soldiers, composed of Qin soldiers, Han soldiers and recruits recruited by the Shangdang, have experienced a series of battles and gained rich combat experience, but the frequent battles and mixed formations also made their morale not very high, and they are already very tired, and they do not have the ability to attack in a short time, otherwise their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
After resting for a period of time, recovering from fatigue, boosting morale, and absorbing the experience of several major wars, this mixed army will have the combat effectiveness of the veteran regiment of the Qin army, which is not inferior and fierce.
And the 10,000 Qin soldiers who were forcibly stayed, because they had already had a good "cooperation", Qin Wu was not afraid of being overburdened by debts, so he borrowed it from Bailishi again and scattered it into the Wu army.
In addition, Qin Wu was now in dire need of military strength, and the three thousand Zhao troops captured Qin Wu directly scattered them and incorporated them into the Wu army.
Although Zhao, Han, and Qin were three different vassal states, under the premise of the unification of the Zhou Dynasty, these three vassal states were like three provinces of reading, and the contradictions between the people of the three kingdoms were not strong.
In addition to the 3,000 Zhao captives, Qin Wu also recruited 2,000 young and middle-aged people into the military army in Yecheng.
Anyway, it is necessary to rest and train, this is the time to run in the army, and Qin Wu is not afraid of reducing the morale and strength of the original army because of the recruitment of prisoners and the recruitment of new soldiers.
After a series of actions, in just two days, the military army has changed from 26,000 to 41,000 now. Compared with the 15,000 people at the beginning of the uprising, the expansion has more than doubled in less than 10 days.
And because he reached an agreement with Bailishi and also joined forces to defeat Zhao Hao, a famous general of Zhao State, Qin Wu also eliminated the charge of treason.
From the beginning of the establishment of the force and the army, it was difficult to move an inch, and there were many enemies, to the current 40,000 troops, a stable big city, and the elimination of the unrighteous name, it only took a total of more than ten days, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a new day.
Looking at the prospect of this emerging force, it became stronger and stronger and more stable because of Qin Wu's actions one after another, and for a while, all the civil and military generals in the power force martial arts firmly believed that under the leadership of Qin Wu, the power force would definitely develop into a country.
Then they will become the country's top civil and military generals, and together they will fight for the prosperity and strength of this new country, and finally leave their names and life deeds in the history books.
(To be continued)