Chapter 725: Fierce battle in the north of Los Angeles
The two armies, which are almost open, naturally cannot hide from the other side if either side makes a move.
The sudden acceleration of the Qin army was also quickly detected by the Zhao army.
In front of Zhou Qi were nothing more than two roads: first, to accelerate the movement towards Los Angeles and rush to Los Angeles before the Qin army cut off; The second is to choose an area for a decisive battle, move forward slowly, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Qin army.
But unfortunately, neither of these two options is a good option.
First of all, there was the question of speeding up, although there were 20,000 cavalry among the reinforcements, most of them were still foot soldiers, and the speed of the march was limited. Zhou Qi was not absolutely sure that he would be able to rush to Los Angeles to join before the Qin army was harassed by the Qin army along the way.
And the army of Los Angeles obviously can't easily come forward to respond.
Undoubtedly, the danger that needs to be faced when choosing the first plan is the sudden truncation of the Qin army. Then he was bound to have a battle with the Qin army in a marching queue in a strange place.
And the second plan, although you can choose the geographical advantage, but the problem is that although you also have an army of 100,000, there are 40,000 troops who are Tuntian soldiers.
In the face of the 100,000 troops of the Qin army, he does not have much chance of winning, even if he can send 10,000 or 20,000 troops to meet in the direction of Luocheng, he will still be at a disadvantage.
But obviously, under Zhao Wangkuo's guiding ideology of "stability first", the first plan with a slightly adventurous nature was eliminated by Zhou Qi almost instantly.
Since another option has been ruled out, even if he is no longer sure, Zhou Qi can only pinch his nose and prepare the second plan.
Fortunately, Zhou Qi's task was to delay the footsteps of the Qin army, as for it, yes
Procrastination in Los Angeles or somewhere else is not a problem.
In order to maximize the advantages of his cavalry, Zhou Qi also chose a very flat area in the back area of Los Angeles as the next battlefield with the Qin army.
Of course, at the same time, Zhou Qi also informed Handan and Xinzheng of the Qin army's volley and his own decision through flying pigeons and flying horses.
It's just that Zhou Qi also knows that even if Handan's flying pigeon and Xinzheng's flying horse are fast, it will be too late to change the situation in a short time.
You can only get through this level on your own.
Soon, Zhou Qi led an army of 100,000 (20,000 cavalry + 40,000 elite infantry + 40,000 Tuntian soldiers + 3,000 heavy cavalry) and took the lead in reaching the nameless plain north of Los Angeles.
Then set up camp and quietly waited for the Qin army to come.
And Zhao Jun's move naturally quickly reached Meng Fu's ears.
Naturally, Meng Fu already understood the intentions of the opposite general at a glance.
"Want to use the power of cavalry?" Looking at the decisive battle location chosen by the other party, the corners of Meng Fu's mouth couldn't help but rise.
Meng Fu, who was in Zhizhu's hand, immediately ordered the team to move forward slowly, the purpose was very clear, since the opponent had accepted his decisive battle, he naturally had to conserve his physical strength and meet the opponent in the best condition.
In the face of the Qin army's sudden slow march, Zhou Qi was not annoyed, which was obviously also expected. Even Zhou Qi wished that the Qin army could march more slowly.
On the one hand, Zhou Qi was originally here to delay, and from his point of view: the slower the Qin army marched, the more beneficial it was for Zhao;
On the other hand, since Qin Jun chose to be slow
And yes, it means that the Qin army has already acquiesced to the decisive battle location he has chosen.
Now that the opponent has given up the geographical advantage, he can't expect his side to wait for work.
In this way, under the tacit understanding of the two sides, it took five days for the two armies to meet on this nameless plain.
After another night's rest, the whimpering horn resounded throughout the battlefield.
Under the morning sun, Qin and Zhao opened their formations one after another. It is still a tactic of infantry in the middle, and the cavalry protects the two wings.
It's just that because there are many Tuntian soldiers in the Zhao army, Zhou Qi had no choice but to mix 20,000 Tuntian soldiers into the battle array, and the remaining 20,000 Tuntian soldiers and 3,000 heavy cavalry acted together
Reserves.
Fortunately, because the battle formation was long enough, the Qin army couldn't see any problems with the Zhao army's front.
But Zhou Qi knew very well that once the war started, the weakness of the Tuntian soldiers would inevitably be exposed.
At that time, the only thing Zhou Qi could count on was Zhao Wei's heavy cavalry. Of course, if the heavy cavalry does not come out, it will inevitably achieve results as soon as it comes out, otherwise it will be really dangerous to drag it into a protracted war.
Therefore, Zhou Qi must use his existing strength to hold back the Qin army as much as possible.
You can suffer, but you can't lose! This is the task that Zhou Qi gave himself.
And Meng Fu on the other side, facing the long front of the Zhao army, actually did not have the idea of completely annihilating the Zhao army.
After two years of training, Meng Fu also knew that although the heavy cavalry was infinitely powerful, its sustaining power was at most half an hour.
Obviously, in such a large-scale battle, it is difficult to defeat the place in half an hour, except at the end of the enemy's imminent collapse
Moment.
Therefore, all Meng Fu wanted was to attract Zhao Jun's attention and drag Zhao Jun back.
After all, they knew their own affairs, and the most elite troops in the Qin army were either on the frontal battlefield in Xinzheng or recuperating in Daliang City.
The troops in Meng's hands were mostly improvised by the defense forces in various places among the Qin army.
In Meng Fu's expectation, it is okay for these troops to bully more and less, or to bully and bully other countries, and it is difficult to take advantage of the Zhao army with the same strength.
That is, he still has the heavy cavalry he trained with his own hands, otherwise, Meng Yu really would not dare to carry out such a decisive battle.
It can be said that the two armies of Qin and Zhao, like sleeping dragons and phoenixes, seem to have rolled up their sleeves and made plans to fight each other, but in fact, they are all delaying time to buy time for their respective follow-up armies.
It's a pity that some things, once started, can't be easily stopped by manpower.
Just like this battle, although the hearts of the main generals on both sides did not want to fight to the death, as soon as the battle was engaged, the two armies inevitably fought real fire.
The soldiers below don't know the inner drama of their commander, they only know that the enemy is opposite, and this is the battlefield - either you die or I live.
Any distractions will be the cause of one's own death.
As a result, an uncontrolled "decisive battle" finally began.
As a result, on the long array, between the swords and swords, people fell almost every moment, and blood flowed all over the battlefield almost instantly.
In the river of blood, Meng Fu suddenly found that his troops were actually with Zhao in front of him
The army fought five or five times.
Suddenly, Meng Fu understood that this group of Zhao Jun was also second-rate goods.
That's right, his own family is pouring out of the nest, and Zhao Jun must be like this, how can there be so many elites.
Such a situation was naturally seen by Zhou Qi, and Zhou Qi naturally understood that the Qin army on the opposite side was also half a catty.
Immediately, Zhou Qi quietly replaced 10,000 elites with 10,000 Tuntian soldiers, and even after seeing that he had replaced 10,000 elites, the Qin army still had no breakthrough, Zhou Qi was also ruthless, and replaced 5,000 Tuntian soldiers, and the other 5,000 Tuntian soldiers were also ready to rotate at any time.
Zhou Qi's idea is very simple, since the Qin army is not so elite, then you might as well use this Qin army to train and train soldiers, although the loss may be greater, but leaving more elite is better able to cooperate with Zhao Kuo's counterattack.
Which is more important, Zhou Qi obviously thinks very clearly.
Not to mention, as time progresses, the Tuntian soldiers who can stay will gradually become elite.
It's like a "bitter before sweet" tactic.
What was even more unexpected to Zhou Qi was that it was his tactics of first bitter and then sweet that inadvertently made the Qin army suffer.
It's just that under this drawdown, the Zhao Army's infantry front on the front line immediately became 25,000 elite and 35,000 Tuntian soldiers.
Inevitably, the Qin army's combat power advantage suddenly increased.
Fortunately, although the Qin army has an advantage, it is far from being able to form a victory, especially the Zhao army and 20,000 cavalry harassing the Qin army from time to time.
Faced with such a situation, Meng Fu is obviously not in a hurry to show his hole cards, and even he is willing to continue this situation.
Although the Qin army took advantage of it
Not much, but not too much is cheap, as long as it can continue, there will always be a day when a little bit will add up.
It can be said that as the battle continues, the two main generals are very acceptable to the situation on the battlefield.
The only thing that made the two main generals a little unbearable was the speed of the loss of this force, although they were not much better than each other, but looking at the losses in their hands, the two main generals who would only fight alone for the first time at the level of 100,000 still couldn't help but tremble.
In just one day's losses, the losses of both sides have reached more than 4,000 people (Zhao Jun is a few hundred more).
At this rate, I am afraid that in less than ten days, both armies will lose their combat effectiveness.
According to the normal situation, in such a situation, the two main generals should take the initiative to shrink the battle line in order to reduce the speed of the loss of troops.
But neither Zhou Qi nor Meng Fu had the slightest idea of this.
This is not only because both sides have been forced to the precipice, but more importantly, both sides still have a hole card in their hands, a hole card that they think can cause a lore to the other side - heavy cavalry.
Yes, both sides wanted to shed each other's blood in this terrible battle, and then, at the end of the opponent's exhaustion, throw the victorious heavy cavalry into the battlefield, and then completely crush the other side.
As a result, the fierce battle continued.
As a result, Zhou Qi's tactics of first bitter and then sweet gradually confused the Qin army.
Without him, it is also a second-rate team, but it is obvious that the growth of the Zhao army is much faster than that of the Qin army.
It's not that the Tuntian soldiers of the Zhao army are stronger and grow faster than the Qin army, but because the Qin army lost and made up for it
It's still the same Qin army, and it even needs to readapt to the battlefield. And the Zhao army's Tuntian soldiers have been lost, but the ones that have been made up are almost all elites, can the combat power not soar? !
As a result, Meng Fu suddenly found that the Zhao army on the opposite side seemed to be getting more and more difficult to fight......
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