Chapter 767 Two ways to enter the trapped king
It's just that the three Li Mu, who got the news, tacitly didn't make much adjustments, only the Tiandan Division, which was besieging Xianyang, sent more scouts to the north slightly.
But on this vast land, the scouts scattered by Tian Danduo could not be detected at all.
Naturally, Wang Di, who was busy evacuating carefully, didn't realize that his every move was under the control of Zhao Jun.
Wang Di, who was kept in the dark, was even rejoicing in the speed and ingenuity of his actions.
It's just that what Wang Di didn't know was that on the second day after he led his troops out of Lishi Fortress, Li Mu had quietly marched towards Lishi Fortress with hundreds of thousands of troops.
The reason why he had to wait twelve hours before launching an attack on Lishi Fortress was very simple: it was to avoid letting Wang Ji know the news of the attack on the back road as much as possible, so that Wang Yi could go on the road with peace of mind.
Especially after twelve hours of travel, even if Wang Di knew that the back road was attacked, Wang Di had no time to return to help.
In order to have enough troops to break the Zhao army besieging Xianyang, Wang Ji had to take almost all the soldiers and horses on the road, leaving only 3,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people and straw men to decorate the façade in the huge stone fortress.
There was no suspense, and the Lishi Fortress, which was garrisoned by three thousand old and weak, could not even withstand a charge from the Zhao army.
In less than an hour after arriving at the Lishi Fortress, Li Mu had already broken through the fortress.
Without any stop, Li Mu immediately took the Zhao army and the Yiqu army with a total of 180,000 troops, and quickly chased in the direction that Wang Di turned into.
Now that the back road of Wang Di's department has been cut off, the next step is naturally to catch up quickly and wipe out Wang Di on the march.
Of course, it was not only Li Mu's army that acted at the same time. Tian Danjun, who had been watching Wang Di's movements, had already gotten the news more than three hours after Wang Di's expulsion.
Immediately, Tiandan also began to rearrange the troops.
More than 50,000 troops began to be withdrawn from the siege of Xianyang, but these 50,000 troops did not build fortifications in the north of the city.
No way, Xianyang is too big.
Once Wang Ji discovered that the Zhao army was waiting in the north of the city, it was very likely that he would see through the plan of the Zhao army, so as to bypass the east and west of the city and enter Xianyang first.
If Wang Yi's army is allowed to enter Xianyang, it will be even more difficult to break through Xianyang.
Therefore, Tiandan's 50,000 troops were not prepared to passively defend, but ran headlong into Wang Yi's marching route.
Yes, with an army of 50,000, he took the initiative to attack the 150,000 army under Wang Yu's command.
Of course, this is not hitting a stone with an egg, on the contrary, as long as the 50,000 army can hold Wang Di's army for one or two days, the follow-up Li Mu's army can catch up and kill Wang Di's troops with himself.
This plan is of course risky.
The biggest risk is that in this short period of time, there is almost no communication between the two armies of Tian Dan and Li Mu.
Obviously, once Li Mu's department arrives late, or even not, this will be a catastrophe for Tiandan's department.
In this regard, Tian Dan said that he has absolute confidence in Li Mu.
In fact, just as Tian Dan thought, after Li Mu captured Lishi, he immediately waved his army south and began to pursue the Qin army. Xiushu.com
So, on the Guanzhong Plain at this time, the three armies immediately fell into a situation of chasing after me.
However, Hanguguan and Xianyang, these two places that should have been the focus, but at this time, they were dwelling down.
Needless to say, Xianyang didn't need to say much, as Tian Dan led the army away, the Zhao army naturally stopped attacking, and the king of Qin did not dare to go out of the city to fight because of the shortage of troops.
As for Hangu Pass, there is no longer the mountain of corpses and blood in the past.
Because the news of Wang Di's return has also reached the ears of the main general Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi knows very well that Li Mu and Tian Dan will not miss this opportunity, at most two or three days, the battle in the Guannai will be completely launched;
Rather than let the soldiers under his command go to Hangu Pass to die, it is better to wait for the battle in Guanzhong
Outcome.
If Li Mu and Tian Dan can successfully strangle Wang Yu's department, it will naturally be the best. Even if he can't, with Wang Di's withdrawal, Li Mu's department will be liberated, and he can also attack Hangu from the side to relieve his pressure.
It was only a matter of two or three days, and of course Zhou Qi chose to wait.
A little weird, but also a little natural, the entire Guanzhong battlefield immediately fell into a brief calm.
But everyone knew that this calm was only a precursor to the outbreak of the Great War.
Finally, on the third day after Wang Di left the Lishi Fortress, and the day after the Lishi Fortress was taken by Li Mu, Wang Di finally received the news that the Lishi Fortress had been broken.
It's a pity that the historical screenwriter at this time has no choice anymore.
Because, Tian Dan had already led a large army towards Wang Yu.
However, the scouts of the Qin army were elite in the end, and even in such a situation, they still brought a glimmer of life to Wang Yi and his 150,000-strong army.
Ten miles, this is the distance from Wang Yi to Tiandanjun.
50,000 troops, this is the military strength of Tiandan's army that Wang Yi learned.
Wang Yi knew very well that he had lost his stone, and behind him, Zhao Jun must be hurrying towards him, and there was only a dead end when he turned back and bumped into it.
And this distance of less than ten miles and the military strength of 50,000 troops in front of him were Wang Di's only chance.
Rushing over, tearing through the defense line of the 50,000-strong army, defeating the enemy in front of him, and then continuing to turn in the direction of Xianyang, was the only way Wang Yi could think of to get out of trouble.
Without the slightest reason, Wang Yi immediately ordered: "Order the whole army, change the front and arrow, meet the Zhao army, and be sure to defeat the enemy in front of you in the shortest possible time."
"Yes." The herald apparently realized the gravity of the situation, and simply took the order.
Soon, a full 150,000 began to adjust the formation, and a huge arrow slowly appeared on the ground in Guanzhong.
It was also when the Qin army was adjusting its marching formation, and the Zhao army in the front and back sections was not idle.
Needless to say, Li Mu's department still ran towards the battlefield quickly.
And Tian Dan's department obviously realized that the Qin army was already not far away, and immediately Tian Dan also began to adjust the formation.
Of course, in order to delay the Qin army as much as possible, Tian Dan also set up a fish scale formation to meet the enemy.
The fish scale array, as the name suggests, is like a fish scale, layer upon layer, although there is a layer of defense and a layer of defense, the defensive ability in the front is even stronger than the circle array. The most feared thing is that there will be a large army attacking from behind.
However, in the face of the Qin army, which was rushing straight from the front, the Fish Scale Array obviously did not have such a burden.
Therefore, it can be said that this fish scale array is also the best formation to deal with the impatient Qin army - provided that the fish scale array can withstand the strongest blow of the Qin army. Xiu Shu
Soon, the adjusted Qin army began to attack the Zhao army, but the Zhao army at this time slowly stopped.
The distance of less than ten miles, under the gallop of the Qin army, almost instantaneously.
In the afternoon, the final battle finally began.
It's a pity that all the heavy cavalry that the Qin army has managed to accumulate was consumed in the Battle of Yingchuan. Otherwise, the Qin army at this time, led by heavy cavalry, should be able to easily tear apart the line of Tiandan's army, even if those heavy cavalry only mechanically tied people and horses together.
Now, the Qin army, which does not have heavy cavalry, is obviously not easy to tear apart the Zhao army's front that has been waiting for it, even if the soldiers of the Qin army are already like arrows.
The light cavalry has never been a good charge into battle.
Seeing that the first wave of attacks failed to break through the defense line of the Zhao army, Wang Yi was also anxious in his heart, he knew very well that with the start of the battle here, the Zhao army in the rear would not give himself too much time.
In a word, he must complete the breakthrough as soon as possible.
After a cursory observation of Zhao Jun's formation, Wang Yu quickly discovered that Zhao Jun had arranged a fish scale array.
Immediately, Wang Yi also ordered his 80,000 light cavalry to divide into left and right roads and march to the rear of the Zhao army's front
Circuitous.
Obviously, Wang Yi understood the flaws in Zhao Jun's formation almost at a glance, and what he had to do was to break the difficult fish scale formation in front of him from the side and rear.
Of course, this method is effective, and it is indeed the best way to break the formation. Especially when you have enough cavalry in your own hands.
Cavalry, that means speed, and speed can change a lot of things.
It's a pity that you have a good plan, and Tian Dan also has a ladder over the wall.
Seeing that the Qin army began to divide its troops and detour to both sides, Tian Dan released the 10,000 cavalry in his hand to delay the detour of the Qin army, and at the same time ordered the fish scale array to move forward.
Yes, use the fish scale formation, which is not suitable for attacking, to attack the Qin army, and attack the strong forces with weak forces.
This is a bit silly and weird to others.
But if you look at it in combination with the changes in the Zhao army's front, it is very clear.
Because the Qin army emphasized the two sides and the light on the middle of the army, after the Zhao army launched an attack, the resistance received by the center and the two sides was naturally unequal. Ь.
As Zhao's army continued to advance, it was only natural that the middle lane would advance faster and the wings more slowly.
As a result, the line, which had been as smooth as a line, slowly became curled as it advanced.
Rolling and rolling, the original fish scale array became a most suitable defensive circle.
What's even better is that because of the Zhao army's initiative, almost half of this circular formation was embedded in the Qin army's front, which not only made the Qin army's two wings around the rear useless, but also firmly sucked the Qin army like a magnet.
This is also the reason why Tian Dan did not change his formation into a circle before the Qin army launched an attack.
Of course, the price of this was that thousands of Zhao troops died under the swords of the Qin army in the process of advancing.
It's just that the 150,000 troops under Wang Yu's command can be completely left, and the loss of thousands of people is simply not worth mentioning.
Wang Di, who was still rejoicing at the success of his cavalry, finally realized that something was wrong after a long attack.
It's a pity that the staggered front line of the front line can no longer tolerate Wang Di's regrets, and even his own cavalry troops have been completely dragged down by the Zhao army.
Everything seemed to be tilting in a direction that Wang Di didn't want to see.