It was precisely because of the well-trained Zhou army that they suffered greater casualties in this tentative attack.

When the 500 cavalry rushed to the front of the ditch and threw the grappling hook, the two teams of 1,000 cavalry each behind had already begun to charge, so that they could rush in and tear the defense line at the first time when they crossed the sand wall.

It's just that they didn't expect the first step to go wrong. Two thousand cavalry charged from two directions, barely leaving room to hide, and the first group of five hundred cavalry was almost completely annihilated, most of them killed under the iron hooves of their own men.

The cavalry of the Zhou State has been unable to stop, the cavalry in their hands is frequent, the Shuo soldiers on the earthen wall are also frequent bows and arrows, in the rain of arrows, more than 2,000 cavalry crossed the trench, some fierce cavalry horses crossed several gaps that were pulled out, ready to rush madly, what made them desperate was just rushed through the sand wall, behind the sand wall is the second trench two zhang wide and two zhang deep.

Tsk tsk, the law of conservation of mass, the sand wall two zhang high in front and the trench two zhang deep in the back are very reasonable.

More than 1,500 Shuo soldiers with spears in their hands stood behind the trench and stabbed to death the Zhou cavalry who fell into the trench one by one.

Captain Ding of the Zhou army charged with the army in the second batch of 2,000 cavalry, as a grassroots officer of the Zhou State, this kind of charge is already commonplace, but today is the most desperate one, he never thought that the cavalry of the Zhou State galloping the world was beaten so badly by the infantry on the plain!

Before falling into the trench, Captain Ding jumped off his horse, killed seven or eight Shuo soldiers on the earthen wall, hurriedly jumped off the earthen wall, found a horse and drove the horse away while firing arrows, and was shot in the left arm by the captain from Neixian County, and fled in embarrassment.

The 1,500 cavalry of the Zhou army in the rear saw that the battle in front was ineffective, but they continued to suppress with bows and short crossbows to cover the escape of their former comrades.

In the end, Captain Ding and Captain Li counted the number of people, and the Zhou army lost nearly 1,500 people in this battle.

The two of them looked back at the town of Santong, two miles away, where the battlefield had been cleaned, the trenches and earthen walls had been repaired, and the prisoners had been captured, and some apprehension rose in their hearts.

Now, there is no way back!

…

Zhao Yingqi found that he might have a little perverted gene in his heart, and for the first time in his life, he faced such a large-scale cold weapon battle, and he actually watched it with relish, and once thought that if it was this kind of map in the game, what would he do later?

At this time, the captain who was transferred from Neixian came over, and looking at the respectful appearance of Zhao Yingqi, it seemed that this battle was also very refreshing.

"Mr. Qiqi Zhao, in this battle, our army killed more than 800 Zhou troops, captured 745 people, and the brothers lost less than 200 people, so they won a complete victory! I wonder what to do with this captive? ”

This captain is really impressed by Mr. Zhao at this time, he has served in Neixian, a border military city close to the Zhou State, for almost five years, and he has never fought so happily with the elite cavalry of the Zhou army.

Zhao Yingqi was still thinking about the tactics behind him at this time, and looked thoughtfully at the town under his feet. The captain saw Zhao Yingqi squinting his eyes and looking around, knowing that he was considering a strategy against the enemy, and he didn't dare to disturb him, so he had to stand aside and wait for instructions.

After a while, the maid Zhao Tong spoke up, not to call her husband, but to ask the captain how her husband's meal was prepared.

Zhao Yingqi came back to his senses and saw the captain, and asked, the captain spoke again, Zhao Yingqi asked the captain to send someone to send the prisoners to Neixian, strictly guarded them, and instructed the direction of Neixian to investigate the news of the direction of Zhou Guo and report it at any time.

After the captain was ordered to leave, Zhao Yingqi went to dinner with Zhao Tong.

Eating and eating, Zhao Yingqi looked at the thing in his hand that was similar to the meat bun in his previous life, and inexplicably thought of the scene of flesh and blood flying on the battlefield today, and vomited.

Yes, spit ...

Zhao Tong hurriedly handed the water bag to Zhao Yingqi, and after Zhao Yingqi's pale face rinsed his mouth, he took out a handkerchief from his chest and wiped Zhao Yingqi's mouth and nose.

Zhao Yingqi, who smiled bitterly, said to Zhao Tong: "It's a normal person after all, it's okay." ”

Zhao Tong just pursed his lips and smiled, and began to clean up the filth on the ground.

…

"What? The Shuo army is building a city? When Wang Lin heard this, he immediately jumped up: "How is it possible, the entire Chunnei Road is loose, except for the county seat of Neixian, no other place can build a city, how can it be a city!" ”

"No, no, it's Captain Li who didn't make it clear that the Shuo army built an earthen wall in front of Santong Town, which was built with sandbags." At this time, Captain Ding's left arm was tied with a bandage around his neck, so he was not embarrassed.

"It's not unheard of sandbags building walls, why are there so heavy losses!" Wang Lin is dripping blood in his heart, at present, they have lost more than 4,000 horses without any gains in Jia and Nei counties, which is all the family foundation that the second prince has managed to save!

"The last general and Captain Ding also tried to use the grappling hook to pull down the earthen wall, but for some reason, the earthen wall of the Shuo army seemed to have taken root, and it couldn't be pulled at all!" Captain Li tried his best to explain that he was not as hard as Huangfu Qin's neck, and if he lost so many men and horses, if he couldn't explain it clearly, he would probably be involved in military law.

Wang Lin suddenly found that he still underestimated this Zhao Yingqi, Wang Lin knew very well that Guan Zhengnong was just a mediocre talent who wanted to get oil and water from the caravan by virtue of his status as a relative of the emperor and a certain position in Jia and Nei counties.

But now this Zhao Yingqi who came out of nowhere actually defeated the Zhou army twice in a row, and nearly 4,000 people were lost in his hands before and after, and the news came a few days ago that the third prince won a big victory in the north of the Jin country, and if the second prince suffered a defeat here, the blow to the second prince would be too great.

Thinking about this, Wang Lin was ready to go to Santong Town to take a look in person.

The next day, Wang Lin and Zhang Han took a thousand cavalry to a short distance from Santong Town, and Wang Lin looked at this town from a distance, a completely changed town.

Chunuchi Road is a gap between Chunling and Neilan Mountain, originally a river channel through the river, there was a major earthquake three hundred years ago, after the river was diverted to the current location, this river channel has become what it is today, the Chunuchi Road on both sides of the mountains and mountains, only the Chunuchi Road terrain is very low, and it used to be a river, so the rain and melted snow on both sides of the Chunai Mountain and the Neilan Mountain will gather in the Chunuchi Road very slowly will penetrate into the ground, making the Chunuchi Road soil loose and serious, not suitable for building a city, More than 100 years ago, the two parts that were split from the Zhou State and the Wu State each formed the Shuo State, and after the founding of the Shuo State, in order to resist the Zhou State, many searches were made, and finally found an area that was basically a sandstone ground in the middle of the Chunnai Road, which is where the current county seat of Neixian is located.

Wang Lin has done a lot of homework for this war, so he is very familiar with Chunnai Road, the exit of Chunnai Road on the side of Santong Town is only less than four miles wide, and Santong Town is just north of the exit, as if the mouth of a milk bottle is half blocked.

Now a four- or five-mile-long earthen wall outside Santong Town blocks the exit of Chunnei Road, and many soldiers can be seen walking around on the earthen wall from afar, and the houses in Santong Town are made of sandbags to make some simple reinforcements, and there are two people on a five- or six-zhang high watchtower in the center of Santong Town.

These two people are Zhao Yingqi and Zhao Tong, in fact, Zhao Yingqi is a little afraid of heights and doesn't want to come up, but he is still building a second line of defense behind the first earthen wall, which is very important, and he still came up hard.

Just as Zhao Yingqi loudly commanded the soldiers below to dig trenches and arrange earthen walls, he seemed to feel something, turned his head and saw that there was a dark red almost five or six miles away, which was the cavalry of the Zhou State, at this time Zhao Yingqi seemed to look at Wang Lin, and a smile appeared on his face.

On the other hand, Zhao Tong, who had already found out, asked if he wanted to take the cavalry out to beat them, but Zhao Yingqi did not respond, so Zhao Tong naturally just followed Zhao Yingqi to look at these Zhou cavalry.

Zhang Han on the Zhou army's side is also a master of the first armor, and naturally has extraordinary eyesight, and asked Wang Lin: "General Wang, the other party has discovered us, do you want to withdraw first?" ”

Wang Lin just said to wait. After a while, a soldier rode over from a distance and reported: "General, my subordinates climbed to the south of Chunling and took a look from afar, the Shuo army of Santong Town is building a second earthen wall, and the earthen wall is directly topped from the periphery of Santong Town to the stone wall of Chunling. ”

"How many people have seen it?" Wang Lin didn't turn his gaze and asked, still staring at the lookout in Santong Town.

"The subordinates have taken a look at it, judging from the camp tent, there should be no less than 5,000 people, and there are many stables, which should include 1,000 cavalry!"

Wang Lin waved off his scouts and said to Zhang Han next to him: "The situation is not good, I miscalculated!" ”

"Why did the general say that?" Zhang Han was very surprised.

"This inner county is a military city, there are not many people inside, and the water and soil in Chunnei Road are fertile, as long as there is a little military tun, it is impossible to lack food!" Wang Lin grabbed his horse whip vigorously: "The first few times Zhao Yingqi's grain transportation operations were not transporting grain or materials at all, but just transporting the sacks needed for the earthen wall and mobilizing the soldiers of Jiaxian County under the pretext of transporting grain, the defenders of the inner county will not exceed seven thousand, and there are five thousand here, which means that they are all grain transporters from Jiaxian!" ”

Zhao Yingqi's action of transporting grain is not only to test the situation of the Zhou army's grain and grass, but also to secretly transport troops across the sea without concealment!