Chapter 77: A Narrow Encounter

The 10,000 generals who were responsible for capturing the Nanshan camp, thinking about it, there was only one way, that is, to launch an attack with the nearest battalion, and a small number of troops from the mountain to make a feint, involving the strength of the Qin army.

When the task arrived in the Zhao military camp, the 500 people were worried: from here to the camp fence behind, there was only a narrow mountain road to pass, and both people had to turn sideways, how to organize the troops to attack? Fortunately, the soldiers of the battalion that lost the barracks during the night also stayed in this barracks. The 500 men will be powerful and blessed, and say, "If you lose the pavilion, you should be beheaded." Let me make meritorious service for my crimes. Let's attack it. If you take it, you will be forgiven! ”

These people have lost their fighting spirit after last night's horror; Many were wounded, many did not even have weapons, and the most lacking thing was a shield. But the 500 men will simply use this group of people to prevaricate, not listen to their explanations and difficulties, and force the attack.

Feeling the carelessness of the five hundred generals, the soldiers of this battalion also had a way: time-consuming.

They advanced to a stop a hundred paces away from the Qin camp, and each time they sent ten or fifteen men along the mountain road to attack. Twenty or thirty steps forward, but there was a Qin arrow shot and retreated. This kind of false response story was quickly recognized by the Qin army, and later he didn't even bother to shoot the arrow, seeing that he was getting closer, he shot a few shields to wake up, and Zhao Jun retreated.

The frontal attack, on which 10,000 people pinned their hopes on, was made a joke, and the Yamashita back-up attack, which was given the task of containment, became even more of a disaster. After the soldiers left the camp, they came to the vicinity of the Baibu line in a chaotic manner, waving their flags and shouting vigorously, which began to make the Qin army guarding the camp very nervous, and Shicheng also prepared a force to reinforce at any time. But in the end, it turned out to be a challenge, not an attack, but a challenge. A Qin man was a little impatient, so he picked up a stone and threw it down the mountain, and the stone bounced on the mountain and fell into the crowd, causing a burst of chaos, and then everyone dispersed and returned to the camp. Ten thousand people will see it, and there is nothing to do! This 10,000-strong man transferred all the soldiers who were able to fight to the south to form an assault group, and all the old and weak soldiers, wounded soldiers or ruffians who could not fight were transferred to him. These latter people are the most hateful and have a great impact on combat effectiveness, but they have considerable influence among some soldiers, and they often affect the whole body with a single trigger, causing a devastating impact on the order of the whole battalion.

After screening, Zhao Kuo mobilized all the essence to the main battlefield of the battle, and threw the "garbage" in other directions, causing the combat effectiveness of other regions to decline. Stone City is the weakened area. In normal times, it is not obvious, but when there is a war, the evil consequences are revealed. Ten thousand people will see the battle like this, and they can only cry out in vain! He plans to report to Zhao Kuo, but how to report it? Say that your subordinates can't work? …… After thinking about it, forget it, and after dark, he simply reported that although the Qin army did not retreat after repeated attacks, the soldiers were tired, and they decided to suspend their troops and attack again tomorrow. made up his mind, he didn't care about it, and pushed the matter to the people below to do it, and he only found a few soldiers in front of the tent, wrestling for a show.

The public attendant sent by Wang Ji defeated the Zhao army in front of him after only a while, and immediately turned around and attacked the main force of the front army with the Western Route Army.

The three formations of the front army turned horizontally and horizontally, pressing down on the Western Route Army with a wide front, and they seized the characteristics of the Western Route Army with few shields, and forced the Qin army back with arrows all the way. But when the Qin army in the Qin wall defeated the Zhao army, they immediately stopped, turned around, and clashed towards the Zhao array. They shouted and screamed, and rushed over the mountains in a scattered manner. The Zhao army fired several times in a row, but because the Qin army's formation was scattered and the lethality was not large, the Qin army was in front of the formation in an instant. As customary, Zhao Jun stretched out his spear and halberd from between his shields to block them. Most of the Qin troops are long bamboo poles, with a head mounted on the front, long and light, rushing to smash over, or smashing on the shield, or smashing on the weapon, no matter where it hits, there will be a vacancy; The bamboo pole stretched into the void, lifted it violently, or picked up a person, or a weapon, or didn't pick anything, took a half step, and smashed it down violently again. With such a simple smash, Zhao Jun's formation was unexpectedly stirred up a few cracks. Of course, there are also those that can't be disturbed, and the Qin army is stabbed down by an outstretched spear or halberd; And in those places that are stirred up, there will be several Qin soldiers to follow up and expand the breakthrough. Not long after, the Zhao array was divided into several pieces, and each formation itself remained intact, and many Qin troops fell in front of the formation; But more Qin troops tried to break along the breach, circling the back of the Zhao army. Zhao Jun had to focus on blocking the breach. Both sides fought desperately here, and soldiers on both sides fell one by one. Arrows flew sideways around here, taking life after life.

In the midst of the stalemate, the Qin army in the Qin wall arrived, and a burst of arrows came from behind, knocking down the archers at the end of the position. The archers were the core of the whole formation, and as soon as they fell, the whole army was scattered and fled.

At the moment of danger, the Zhao army, which was attacking the flank of the Qin army, arrived, and they fired fierce arrows at the Qin army, which was killing the Zhao army, and then engaged in close combat.

Reinforcements arrived, giving the scattered Zhao army a chance to breathe. Guided by the banner, they retreated to the rear, regrouped, and waited for an opportunity to enter the battle.

The forces that both sides have put into the battlefield are close to saturation, and there is no room for either side to change their formations, only stubbornly confronting them head-on. The tactics of the Chu Qin army and the Shu Qin army are completely different, and the Shu Qin army is still a conventional tactic, mainly based on shield impact; The Qin army of Chu Di was mainly based on Changge smashing. Zhao Kuo consciously transferred the archers to the side of the Chu people, taking advantage of the weakness of the Chu people's few shields, and tried to eliminate the Chu people with bows and arrows. The trouble is that the cover of the bow and arrow is lost, and the ramming battle is repeatedly lost.

The ramming battle takes the shield as the core, and the attacking troops attack the enemy under the cover of the shield, which is the conventional tactics of the Qin and Zhao countries. But the Chu people are different, they have relatively single weapons, few shields, and almost only a symbol of the commander; The archers are basically the captains of the Shiwu; Everyone else is a soldier. This makes their tactics ignore the cover of the shield, relying solely on foot strength and luck to dodge the bow and arrows, and rely on smashing to make a gap. Before there was no obvious gap, the position of the Chu people was uncertain; As soon as there is a gap, the people around you will immediately follow suit. It almost became instinctive for them. This tactic is not familiar to Zhao Jun, and it is very difficult to deal with it, and he often falls into passivity. Fortunately, thanks to the support of bows and arrows, the Chu people suffered large casualties, and the breakthrough power was not so strong, so they could barely maintain the formation without chaos.

In regular combat, there are clear formations, two formations, and three formations, but whenever the shield soldiers are knocked away, the formation automatically turns, withdraws, and the whole army fights again. But fighting against the Chu people, it is difficult to distinguish several formations, and the Chu people seem to be rushing up, but they are self-contained, scattered but not chaotic. Therefore, the Zhao army seems to be fighting with a group of 1,500 people against 5,000 Chu people.

The Chu moved to the flank, forcing the Zhao army to extend the formation to the flank as well. At this time, a drum sounded behind Jushan, and the Qin Army's East Route Army came out.

Zhao Kuo could only reluctantly throw the former army that had just been assembled into the flank to resist the newly arrived Qin army on the eastern route. The Zhao army had two armies with five formations each, about 15,000 people, and the Qin army with three routes, also about 15,000 people. 30,000 people filled the battlefield to the brim, and the soldiers cut down the enemy in front of them, and they were killed by the enemy next to them, and then they were killed by their comrades next to them. The battle unfolded on every inch of land, and there was no longer a battle line or formation, and the only thing that could be distinguished between the two sides was clothing. Whoever is different from my costume will be slain. Both sides were red-eyed, and they didn't know how to stop the fighting, as if they had to wait until everyone died!

It wasn't until the sun went down that the two sides rested like trapped beasts. Almost everyone on both sides was wounded, and each was injured in more than one place. Everyone's front and back were stained with blood, and I don't know if it was their own or the enemy's. The soldiers who had broken through and retreated no longer had the strength to rush forward to fight, panting behind their own positions, their legs trembling, their hands trembling, and they were really unable to fight anymore. There was a rare silence on the front, and both sides gasped and stared at each other, no longer having the strength to pounce.

The main generals of both sides had no choice but to withdraw their troops...... But the soldier didn't even have the strength to retreat, and just sat on the ground, as if he had no desire!

In the center of the battlefield lay countless soldiers, not knowing whether they were dead or alive, and the whole world seemed to be dead. Occasionally, however, there would be a movement and a man drenched in blood would stand up, and you could not tell which side he was a soldier, and only by looking in which way he was going could you tell where they belonged. Whenever a man stood up, the soldiers on all sides called him in their own dialects, as if that would summon them to be their own. The wounded soldier would go to the camp he was familiar with, and the camp would erupt in cheers; The hostile camp did not stop them, let alone kill them, but quietly watched them stagger, stagger, limp and stumble into their own camp. Slowly, more and more wounded soldiers stood up and returned to their camps, causing one cheer after another, as if they had won a great battle......

The soldiers who did not go to battle also saw this scene, and many of them shed bitter tears.

It wasn't until it was completely dark, and no one stood up in the pile of people lying down for a long time, that the troops on both sides gathered up and returned to the camp.

Bai Qi was very irritable. He now feels like a samurai with excellent martial arts, locked in a narrow room, unable to perform his martial arts, he can only exchange injuries for injuries, and life for life, feeling extremely aggrieved! He gave the order almost frantically, pulled out the camp, and approached Zhao Lei to set up camp! Under everyone's persuasion, Bai Qicai reluctantly agreed, among the soldiers of the Eastern Route Army and the Western Route Army who did not participate in the battle today, select half of the strong troops, a total of about 5,000 people, and go to Xiaoshanbao to set up camp, and his general's big tent is set up on Xiaoshanbao.

The five doctors of the Eastern Route Army personally led 2,500 soldiers to arrive and joined the 2,500 people led by Bai Qi. Sima Jin led two thousand swordsmen to serve as a guard throughout the whole process until the camp was basically completed.