Chapter 95: Fierce Soldiers
Sima Jin naturally knew that although Hu Yang's plan was risky, he had a greater chance of success. The only thing needed now was for him to move quickly. As long as he quickly maneuvered in place, launched an attack quickly, and quickly broke through the enemy army, Wucheng would be safe. Otherwise, the enemy army will take advantage of the familiar terrain and miss thousands of people, Wucheng will also be lost, and Wang Yi may not be able to retreat.
Now that he had made up his mind, Sima Jin did not delay any longer, resolutely assembled his troops, and ordered the wounded, sick, over 50 years old, and under 20 years old to go out en masse, under the command of the Central Guard. The rest of the elite were taken away by Sima Jin, including the pro-battalion left by Hu Yang, the Yexian People's Army, and the hundred personal guards trained by Zheng Anping, only Chen Si escorted the documents across the river and was not in the camp. In the process of organizing the team, a military envoy was sent to report to the public doctor on the front line, and the five doctors, General Sima Jin, personally led the army to come.
Hu Yang looked at it, there were always thousands of old, weak, injured and sick people left, knowing that Sima Jin had relaxed the conditions in order to keep more people, but the situation was urgent, and there was no room for more discussion, so he personally rectified this temporary force, appointed the acting public doctor, official doctor and doctor, ordered them to take over the defense of the whole city, and watched Sima Jin go out of the city with a large army.
Sima Jin rushed to the battlefield where the two armies were facing each other, and it was already dark. Fortunately, the sky is clear and the moon is scarce. The public doctor, who had been informed in advance, had already arranged the camp according to the order, and let the battalions enter the camp to rest first. The drums that Gongzi Yiren heard were not battles, but the drums of Zhao's accelerating advance. After the Zhao army advanced to the foot of the mountain, it did not continue to educate and advance, but set up a camp fence and released a vigilance.
Sima Jin led a group of public doctors and official doctors under his command to take advantage of the moonlight to bypass the foot of the mountain from the side of the swamp and observe the camp of the Zhao army. Under the moonlight, Zhao Jun's camp was quiet, and bonfires were lit, guiding the positions of each battalion. Doctor Gong's estimate is good, judging from the size of this camp, there are really about 10,000 people, and the strength obviously has the upper hand. However, limited by the narrow dry area on the side of the mountain, the camp is more than ten miles long and winding.
Sima Jin pointed to this camp and asked the doctor: With your six battalions, kill all the way, how many battalions can be broken? “
Doctor Gong looked at it and said, "It's the head and tail of the battalion who don't care about each other and fight separately." I wish to break it with one drum! “
Sima Jin praised: "Strong! The middle is given to me with its own camp, and I am handed over to you with the middle and my own camp, and it will be the edge and break it. He looked at the sky and said, "Enlighten in a while!" “
Doctor Gong said: "With the power of the minister, it is enough to break it!" “
Sima Jin said: "Choose the front first, and take the pro-camp as it!" “
When everyone returned to the camp, the doctor went to his camp to prepare. When he was young, Sima Jin personally led Ye Ying and his own camp to arrive. Doctor Gong said: "May the five doctors retreat a little, and Rong Chen will take the battle!" “
Sima Jin said: "The doctor is fighting!" The minister should personally lead the rear army and support the doctor! The doctor walked away.
Sima Jin shouted: "Beat the drum and gather the army!" He personally stood on the drum cart and beat the drums of war. The battalions were already in formation, and when they heard the drumming, they quickened their pace.
After the battalions were completed, the public doctor stood in front of the camp and said, "My comrades follow me and break the enemy camp together!" Sunrise and eclipse! "Qin Jun shouted!
The battalions lined up in five horizontal lines and marched in turn. After the front army was exhausted, the rear army had also been reorganized. Sima Jin beat the war drums, and the eighth battalion of the front army went straight to the enemy camp.
The rear army all lit torches, and Sima Jin's chariot walked behind the front army and before the rear army. The banner of the prince was in the first battalion: that battalion was based on his own battalion, supplemented with some sturdy soldiers.
The bowstring sounded, and there was a ping-pong sound of smashing against the shield. The doctor commanded: "Volt! Shoot! Rise! “
The first battalion, after firing an arrow, rushed towards the camp in the middle. Then the two battalions also locked on their own targets, and after completing the shooting according to the password, they launched an attack!
There are only these three camps on the first line of the Zhao camp, and the other camps are behind. The three camps were handed over to the three pro-battalions: Doctor Gong's pro-camp was in the middle, Hu Yang's was on the left, and Sima Jin's was on the right. At a distance of about 100 paces from the camp, the Zhao army carried out archery, but since the first row of the Qin army was all shield soldiers, these arrows were not very lethal. After walking forward for twenty or thirty steps, just as the infantry of the Zhao army rushed out of the camp gate and launched a charge, the Qin army aimed at the camp gate and fired the first arrow. The crowd around the camp gate was dense, everyone was running out to charge, and the defense was not strict, although each person only shot three arrows for a total of 300 arrows, but due to the crossing of the line, there were no less than 100 people who were hit by the arrows. With the command of "rise", one hundred shield soldiers, two hundred spear soldiers, and one hundred spear halberd soldiers changed from marching to fast step, and in only thirty or forty steps, they collided head-on with Zhao Jun. As soon as the Zhao army came out of the camp gate, the formation was not in order, and some shield soldiers were stabbed in diagonally by spears before they were ready to defend, and after being stabbed, they were forcefully pushed away. Several spears pierced through the open opening, and thrust in forcefully, deep into the formation; Then the halberd soldier showed his might and cut down the shield soldier from behind. Zhao Jun, who only went to protect, suddenly became lambs to be slaughtered, most of them fled, and the few who remained to resist were stabbed and cut down, and then beheaded. After receiving the order, the crossbowmen and the crossbowmen got up and shot another arrow at the fleeing Zhao army. Then the army rushed straight into the camp fence and killed the Zhao army in groups of ten and captured the camp.
Almost at the same time, the left and right battalions also used roughly the same tactics to kill and disperse the Zhao army and occupy the camp.
As soon as the confrontation began, the Zhao army lost three camps, and the Zhao army quickly counterattacked. The Qin army, which had occupied the barracks, quickly entered the position and lay behind the barracks, ready to resist the charge of the Zhao army.
Zhao Jun also launched a charge after shooting three arrows. The two sides put their shields against their shields on the barracks and at the gates of the camp. The halberd soldiers in the back pushed hard, trying to break a gap between the shields and reach into the weapons. However, this gap is very difficult to open, and occasionally it is opened, and there is not enough space for sprinting, but the opponent holds the pole and snatches the weapon.
In a stalemate, the battalions behind arrived, and they passed through the open space between the camps and swooped straight to the two wings of the Zhao army. Zhao Jun, who was fighting with the Qin army, saw a new force coming, and suddenly felt that the general trend had gone, and Mingjin withdrew his troops. The Qin army, which broke through from both flanks, followed closely behind, constantly looking for gaps to stab down and cut down several Zhao troops. Finally, the Zhao army could not gain a foothold, and the formation began to scatter, and the Qin army took advantage of the situation and dispersed the troops. At this time, the Qin army, which occupied the first barracks, killed the whole team after leaving the wounded. Later, Sima Jin beat the drum and led the rear army to advance quickly.
When the second-line Qin army pursued the Zhao army into the second camp gate, the reinforcements of the Zhao army had already arrived in front of the camp, and the Qin army hurriedly formed a team and slammed into it. In the stalemate, the three pro-battalions of the Qin army arrived, fought more and fought less, broke through on both flanks, scattered the Zhao army again, and pursued to the third camp fence.
After the Zhao army in the third camp was killed and dispersed, there was no Zhao army to counterattack. When the Qin army that rushed into the camp looked up, the Zhao army was forming a formation in front of the camp in front. A big flag fluttered in the wind, its war drums were beating, and the scattered Zhao troops rushed to the big banner and were led to the back of the formation.
Doctor Gong ordered the whole army to stop the whole team, and counted the number of people slightly, and the casualties were not large. Since Sima Jin reinforced him with two battalions, the actual battalions that Gong Dafu could put into battle were eight battalions, and now only six battalions have been used, and he has already occupied three battalions. This made Dr. Gong's confidence doubled. Seeing that the Zhao army was assembling the rear army array, Doctor Gong decided to launch a resolute assault without waiting for the Zhao army to finish the formation. He ordered: "Burst! ”
The three battalions of shield men left the camp first and lined up in the first column; All the spearmen of the eight battalions lined up behind them. Then there were shields and halberds, lined up in the camp. Doctor Gong gathered the eight battalions into a striking force.
After a "rise", the spear phalanx covered by the shield soldiers slowly moved forward. The rest of the troops followed them thirty or forty paces away in order to be ready for support.
The place where the Zhao army formed the formation was not wide, and it was also the scope of the three camps: three battalions formed in front of the camp, and three battalions formed between the camps, forming a "fish scale array" in which the phalanxes were intertwined. It took only an hour or so for the nine battalions of the front army to fall apart, but it gave the rear army time to form a formation. The twelve battalions of the rear army adopted this intermittent method, barely forming a formation in a limited area. Seeing that the Qin army was coming in formation, the Zhao army also beat the war drums and marched into battle.
The Qin army was eight battalions in a formation, and the command was already difficult to command, so the prince sounded the horn, and the spearmen put their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in front. After more than ten steps, the rain of arrows in the Zhao army's array flew, the shield soldiers raised their shields slightly, and there was a crackling sound on the shield, and a few missed arrows hit a few people behind, some people fell, but most of them pulled out their arrows and continued to move forward.
Seeing that the two armies were only fifty paces apart, Zhao Jun's drums beat loudly, and Qin Jun sounded two trombones, and the two armies ran and rushed towards each other. At the moment of the collision, the shield soldier hung the spear on his shoulder at the seam of the opponent's two shields, and the opponent's shield was slightly less strong, and the spear was inserted into the shield. The spearmen stirred up, squeezed out a gap, and the spear behind him pierced straight in. At this time, the shield army squeezed each other violently on both sides, and the spearmen behind also pushed with their spears. The intact shield city was exposed, and the spearmen entered with spears. The spearmen of the Zhao army struggled to plug the hole, but the shields were already open, and the spearmen rushed straight with their spears.
The biggest misfortune of the Zhao army was that it was arranged into a fish-scale formation, and when the first line met the enemy, the two wings were not as wide as the other side, and the Qin army leaked in from the two wings, and the formation in front was suddenly broken. And when the Zhao army behind caught up, the Qin army, which broke through the middle, rolled up to both sides and killed. Although there were still two battalions on the left and right of the Zhao army here that had not moved, they were unable to change formation, and they were entangled by the strange soldiers composed of shield soldiers and halberd soldiers behind, and they could not roll to the center.
At the cost of more than 100 casualties, the Qin army passed through the first formation and fought in front of the second formation. Although the battalion soldiers here are strong in combat, the spearmen of the Qin army are concentrated in the eight battalions, except for the wounded, there are thousands of people. When the Zhao army was outflanked on both flanks, although it was not afraid of death and resisted desperately, it only increased casualties in vain, and did not support it for too long, and fell into the hands of the Qin army.