Chapter 18: The Cavalry Strikes

When he set out for Feicheng, Huan Qi asked each person to bring only three days' rations.

As long as Feicheng is taken, the grain and grass of the Zhao army can be occupied, and the materials can also be replenished, which is one of the reasons why Huan Qi no longer cares about the main camp.

Now that Feicheng has not been defeated, the main camp is gone, all the grain, grass and baggage have been collected by the Zhao army, and the remaining tens of thousands of troops, what to eat?

The first thing Huan Qi thought of was to fight back and snatch the main camp back.

Now continue to Feicheng, which is farther than the journey back to the main camp.

He thinks he must fight back and regain the main camp.

The main force attacking Feicheng quickly changed direction after receiving the military order, and said that it would rest for an hour, and it was forcibly ended, and the whole army immediately went back to the west.

As soon as Bai Zhong found Wang Li, he received an order from the army to go back, and the news of the loss of the main camp gradually spread among the army, and he suddenly became a little anxious.

"General Wang, we can't go back."

"You mean the ambush?"

Wang Li thought of this first.

Bai Zhong nodded and said, "That's right, you definitely can't go back." ”

Wang Li thought of what was happening now, and before leaving, Bai Zhong was right, and couldn't help but worry that Zhao Jun might be ambushed, and said, "Let's go find the general." ”

They hurriedly caught up with the front army, but before they could meet Huan Qi, a breeze blew at this time, Bai Zhong's nose was picked, his face changed slightly, and he shouted: "It's not good, Li Mu is here." ”

As soon as these words came out, the front army suddenly became chaotic, and soon the whole army stopped to be on guard.

All the soldiers raised their weapons in their hands, and then stared ahead, only to see that there was silence in the darkness, nothing happened, they were suddenly confused, who was talking nonsense?

"Who said that Li Mu is chasing after him!"

Huan Qi came back from the front and said angrily.

"General, it's me!"

Bai Zhong stepped forward to explain.

Huan Qi was very angry now, and when he saw that it was Bai Zhong, he was stunned for a moment, and then he was greatly disappointed, and did not give a chance to explain, and said angrily: "Bai Zhong disturbs the morale of the army and hinders the progress of the march, so he will be arrested first, and then he will be dealt with by military law when he returns to the main camp." ”

Several of the commander's short soldiers are about to come to capture Bai Zhong.

Wang Li wanted to help explain, but he didn't know that there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves ahead.

"General, Li Mu's cavalry is here."

One of the generals ran back and said hurriedly.

Even if he didn't need to come back to report, Huan Qi had already seen that there were countless cavalry rushing over with torches in front of him, and the long cavalry troops, like a fire dragon, rushed straight towards the Qin army.

The sound of horses' hooves stepping on the ground seems to be able to break through mountains and rivers, shocking the hearts of every pro-soldier.

Li Mu really caught up!

Huan Qi felt very incredible, and was actually right by Bai Zhong again.

Bai Zhong's prediction is really so powerful!

The Qin army hurried overnight, just rested for a while, and had to march again, after several tosses, many soldiers were already sleepy and uneasy, and their morale was insufficient.

At this time, seeing Li Mu's cavalry attacking, the morale could not be condensed, and even the enthusiasm for fighting was not high.

Soldiers are also human beings, and even if they are eager for military exploits, they will feel timid in this environment, thinking that they are not opponents, and instinctively want to live and escape, and their morale has been disrupted.

"Fight!"

Huan Qi shouted hurriedly, at this time, he couldn't take care of Bai Zhong, and hurriedly commanded the battle.

The best way to deal with cavalry is with ranged weapons.

The only long-range weapon that could be used in the Qin army was bows and arrows, and thousands of archers quickly stepped forward, drew their bows and arrows, and a large number of arrows shot at the cavalry.

The cavalry in the front row fell in an instant.

"Change formation!"

A cavalry lieutenant shouted.

The cavalry of the Zhao army quickly divided into several echelons and scattered to attack the left and right flanks of the Qin army.

The cavalry led by Li Mu has to confront the Xiongnu all the year round, and the cavalry is very strong, and the elite of them will also ride and shoot, while riding a horse and galloping, while pulling a bow and shooting, the arrow rain from the cavalry is intensively shooting towards the Qin army.

The advantage of the archers was immediately broken.

The cavalry was originally the nemesis of the infantry, and this is the plain area, and after the cavalry of the Zhao army suppressed the archers of the Qin army, they immediately rushed to the Qin army from the left and right flanks.

After a round of killing, the cavalry quickly killed some of the Qin soldiers, and before the Qin army could counterattack, they quickly rode their horses back.

As soon as the echelons of these cavalry retreated, the cavalry echelons of cavalry quickly made up for it and continued to charge the Qin army.

Another round of arrow rain struck, and a large number of Qin soldiers fell.

The Qin army wanted to pursue the cavalry, but it was not fast enough or flexible enough, and the resistance was very weak.

The last remaining morale of the army was almost completely routed.

Coach Huan Qi saw that the soldiers around him had no fighting spirit, and Li Mu came prepared, and the two sides met here, and they couldn't win at all.

"Leave a thousand two archers to break off, and three thousand archers to cover."

"The others come with me!"

Huan Qi shouted.

Given the order to retreat, the army was moving quickly.

The archers after the break, regardless of Li Mu's interception, the covering archers also acted immediately, divided labor and cooperated with each other, and constantly pulled their bows and shots, trying to intercept the cavalry of Zhao State.

Bai Zhong was not captured, so he found his subordinates as soon as possible and asked them to follow Wang Li's side and retreat together.

Although the Qin army was very chaotic at this time, the people who broke off and covered still did a very good job, fighting with their lives to forcibly stop Li Mu's cavalry, but it was only for a while.

After a while, the broken man was broken through, and the covering man had to give up and flee with the army.

"Chase!"

A deputy general of the Zhao army shouted.

"Wait!"

Li Mu interrupted: "Give Huan Qi a little hope first, and then I want them to despair, General Sima Shang is waiting for Huan Qi in front and playing slowly with him." ”

He had a cat-and-mouse feel.

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"General, get rid of the pursuers."

The lieutenant general Pang panted.

Huan Qi's frowning brows finally relaxed a little, and then remembered what Bai Zhong had said.

What happened now made Bai Zhong right, and Huan Qi couldn't believe it.

If he could have listened to Bai Zhong's words at the beginning, he would not have ended up like this.

"Ben Shuai is wrong!"

Huan Qi sighed and went directly to Bai Zhong.

At this time, Bai Zhong looked like he had escaped, but it was also temporary, and Li Mu would not let them go easily.

"General Bai Bai, Li Mu's cavalry is certainly powerful, but it's not that we can't fight, why retreat?"

As a new recruit, Zhang Han can't understand the current battle situation.

They remembered what Bai Zhong had said just now, and they admired it very much, and there was really going to be a fierce battle.

"If we encounter an ambush by Li Mu's cavalry before we set off, we can fight, and may even win, but now we ......"

Bai Zhong looked at the listless colleagues around him, had no fighting spirit, shook his head and said: "What Li Mu wants to do is to let us run around and work hard, consume our morale and physical strength, and then use cavalry to rush and kill, completely crush our morale, now the whole army can't be gathered, as if shrouded in death, most people don't want to fight, how can we fight?" ”

Zhang Han seemed to understand and fell into deep thought.

"Well said!"

Huan Qi happened to hear these words, and bowed his hand in shame: "Ben Shuai regrets it!" Just now, I'm sorry! ”

"The handsome man is serious!"

Bai Zhong didn't expect him to apologize to himself, so he could only return the gift.

Huan Qi asked, "How did you know that Li Mu had chased him down?" ”

That's what they want to know most.

"It's simple, a smell!"

"The smell of mutton, outside Yi'an City, I can often smell it, maybe everyone doesn't pay too much attention to it."

"Li Muzhen guards the northern border, facing the grassland, and his subordinate soldiers can often eat mutton, or wear sheepskin, wool and other clothes to keep out the cold, and over time there will be a smell of mutton on their bodies."

"A gust of wind blew just now, and I smelled the smell of sheep in the wind, and concluded that Li Mu was chasing after me."

Bai Zhong explained.