Chapter 109: Central Breakthrough
After a general understanding of the battle situation, Bai Qi asked, "Why the battle?" ”
Wang Yi said: "If he wants to eat, I will tempt him with food." Zhao has 5,000 people, and he said that he sometimes took two battalions. If I lose another battalion, reinforcements will come. Attacked from all sides, the Zhao army was defeated. ”
Bai nodded and said, "You will supervise the battle, and I will watch it." "Lean your head against a large, cold rock.
Wang Ji knew that only one-fifth of his men could still fight, and there were only about 1,000 of them at present; In order to cover these people, Wang Di did not organize them independently, but let the sick and the non-sick go out together. But the first battalion was hard-hitting, and lost hundreds of people at once - those who could do it were naturally not sick yet. Although the losses of the second battalion were smaller, after several back and forth charges, it was already clear who was sick and who was not, and those who were not sick were basically unable to keep up with this rhythm of battle, and were dragged behind the formation, and opened a long distance from the forward.
After the second camp was occupied by the Zhao army, Wang Yu retreated this battalion to the flank to protect the hill from the flank.
Ten battalions were raised in Baiqi, four spread along the Danshui at the foot of the mountain, three in the middle of the mountain, and three behind the mountain, forming a ring of defense facing the southern camp. Wang Ji planned to completely abandon the camp under the mountain if necessary, and attract the Zhao army to attack the mountain; Then the mountain and the mountain are flanked together.
To the east of Danshui, under the East Ridge, there are another 5,000 men of the Nanjun Army, less than ten miles away from here, and the middle is all flat land. When the Zhao army came to attack, Wang Yu had already sent someone to inform the commander of the other side, Nanjun Lieutenant, and Nanjun Lieutenant had been reminded by Meng Fu before, and secretly began to concentrate the soldiers who could fight, and now they were arraying and preparing to enter the battle here.
Thirty miles to the northeast is the camp of the Northland Army. The 2,500 men of the Northland Army have been assembled and are marching on this side. Due to the long distance, it is estimated that the battlefield will not be reached until the afternoon or evening.
A dozen miles to the northwest was Wang Di's Gukou camp, and at dawn Wang Di had ordered all the warriors there to be sent out to reinforce the Danshui line. It is estimated that two or three thousand people can be sent. This force was relatively close and could be brought into battle by about noon.
It took an hour for the Zhao army to snatch the two nearest camps. It is not a big problem to give him two more farther ones, and it will take an hour. At that time, the two support armies of Nanjun and Taniguchi arrived, and they gave Zhao Jun a powerful one.
What is not known now is how many troops the Zhao army sent. In terms of geography, 10,000 people is enough. But the Zhao army has always been a pile of people fighting in Changping, and it is not impossible to send 20,000 or even 30,000 people. But after seeing the offensive of the Zhao army, Wang Yi was confident that even if the Zhao army sent twenty or thirty thousand people, he would still be sure to hold this mountain bag: the Zhao army's movements were too slow! Where is this war, it is clearly a food grab!
The third battalion was further away from Danshui. After Zhao Jun crossed the river, he also formed a whole team before rushing over. The soldiers guarding the camp also abandoned the grain and retreated, but this unit was more disciplined, and no one went to grab the food, but continued to fight the Qin army. The Qin army fought and retreated, and because there were a large number of sick and weak personnel, the speed was not fast, and the personnel losses were very large.
After driving the Qin army away from the camp, the Zhao army also stopped the attack and began to rest. At this time, the fourth wave of Zhao Jun also came out to line up. This wave of Zhao troops seems to be relatively elite, and the formation is very fast, although it is also a strange formation, but it is obviously relatively neat. When Wang Yi saw it, he secretly said in his heart, it's time to see the real chapter!
The Zhao army, which was the last to go out, directly crossed the Danshui and came to Xiaoshanbao. Wang Yi suddenly realized that there was no need for the Zhao army to take the four battalions under the mountain first and then attack the mountain. The fourth wave of Zhao troops directly passed through the camp occupied by the first three waves of Zhao troops and drove towards the camp on the mountain.
Wang Yi secretly complained. The fourth wave had five battalions, while the Qin army in the middle of the mountain had only three battalions in total, and most of them were sick. If the most elite Zhao army rushes over, it is very likely to break through the defense of three battalions in one fell swoop.
Wang Yi could only beat the drum to warn, and at the same time sent military envoys to the officials and doctors in the middle of the mountain to give an order that the attacked battalion must defend the camp to the death, and the other two battalions cooperated. He also sent an envoy to bring two battalions behind the mountain up the mountain as a third line of defense.
Wang Ji looked east, and the 1,000 people reinforced by the Nanjun Army had almost arrived at the Danshui River. Looking west, Taniguchi's reinforcements were already halfway there. But Wang Di now didn't know how to let the reinforcements move. The three Zhao armies that occupied the Qin army's camp completely blocked the way for the Qin army to reinforce, and the Qin army could only attack the Zhao army on the mountain after storming the camp gate of the "Qin army" first.
Wang Di had a feeling of being deceived. Could this be General Zhao's true intention?
More than 100 archers led by Meng Fu fought between the battalions. Meng Fu also noticed the movement of the fourth wave of Zhao Army, which was directly pointing to the top of the mountain, and was also aware of the coming crisis. He immediately asked the more than 100 people to count the arrows. There were also about seventy arrows per person. Meng Fu selected ten archers with good archery skills, and led them around to guerrilla; The rest let them go up the hill first, and enter the camp to wait.
This force split into two roads and passed through both sides of the Qin camp in the very center of the occupation. Meng Fu led ten men to shoot at them from a hundred paces away. Meng Fu's bow was hard, the range was long, and the accuracy was good, and ten arrows passed, shooting down six or seven Zhao troops; The others were either too far away or missed the shots, and only two or three out of ten arrows hit. Even so, watching the people around you fall to the ground one by one is also a feeling of horror. However, the force seemed unmoved, moving steadily forward, and even the pace did not change. Seeing that the harassing shooting had little effect, Meng Fu could only stop shooting and wait for Zhao Jun to enter a closer distance.
Zhao Jun calmly crossed the path, lined up in the open field in front of the camp, and then drove towards the westernmost Qin camp halfway up the mountainside. Meng Fu and the others waited on the road leading to the middle camp, and Zhao Jun turned east, leaving Meng Fu's idea of waiting for the rabbit to come to naught. He had no choice but to change his mind, retreat directly to the middle of the mountain, transfer out the archers arranged in the middle of the barracks, and rush to the west barracks.
At this time, Wang Di, who was observing and commanding from the top of the mountain, also saw the movement of the Zhao army, sent an envoy down, and ordered the camp gate in the middle and east to send troops to attack the rear of the Zhao army. The soldiers of the Qin battalion in the middle were in a hurry and deliberately walked behind them.
Meng Fu only caught up with the rear tail of Zhao Jun. There was a burst of heavy fire, killing dozens of people, and the Zhao army had already launched a charge. Five battalions of Zhao troops pounced on the Qin army camp from three sides. Meng Fu secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and beckoned the archers to recall the pace and catch up.
Around the barracks, the formation of the Zhao army became dense. Meng Fu naturally did not let go of this opportunity, and shot at Zhao Jun fiercely from behind, and Zhao Jun fell almost in pieces. But the people next to him didn't seem to see it, and they just rushed desperately into the barracks. After only a few breaths, he rushed into the Qin army's camp and began to fight with white knives. This group of Zhao troops has relatively high military quality and good martial arts, not blindly desperate, but very clever to dodge the Qin army's attack and seize the opportunity to assassinate the Qin army.
However, the Zhao army was hungry for a long time, and the disadvantage of declining physical strength became apparent: many soldiers almost exhausted their physical strength with just one thrust, and after stabbing the Qin army, they themselves were also dizzy and unsteady on their feet, becoming the target of harvesting by the Qin army next to them. At this time, the Qin army from the adjacent military camp also rushed up from behind. The sound of gold sounded in the Zhao military camp, and the Zhao army retreated.
At the time of the Zhao attack, reinforcements from the Nanjun Army in Dongling prepared to cross the river, but were blocked by the Zhao army and were forced to retreat downstream, crossing the river from the area controlled by the Qin army. This delayed the arrival of reinforcements into battle.
Meng Fu stopped the Qin army from harvesting the heads, and he asked the lightly wounded Zhao army to carry back the seriously wounded and the corpses of the fallen Zhao army.
Looking at the staggering gait of the soldiers of the Zhao army, Meng Wei told the soldiers of the Qin army that after seeing the Zhao army, they should not bump into them, and wanted to go around in circles with them, coming and going to consume their physical strength. Zhao Jun has been hungry for several days, and his physical strength will definitely not be able to keep up, as long as he spends time with them, they will definitely be dragged down.
Seeing that the Qin army had put back the bodies of the wounded and the dead soldiers, the Zhao army also stopped moving. At this time, the dust in the northwest direction is also getting closer.
The Zhao army in the central camp formed a team again, and this time, they drove towards the Qin army's mid-mountain camp in the center. Meng Fu told the soldiers who went to reinforce not to touch hard, and tried to consume their physical strength; He led the archers to meet him and rushed to a distance of fifty paces from Zhao's army to shoot arrows. When the Zhao army sent a hundred men to expel them, they ran back. The Zhao army chased a few steps, stopped to catch his breath, and Meng Fu stopped the archers and let the archers shoot at the pursuing Zhao army. When Zhao Jun chased again, they ran again. Due to Zhao Jun's lack of physical strength, he would be panting and sweating after running a few steps, so he had to stop; And if you stop, you will be shot by the Qin army. In a short time, only one or twenty of the 100 people were left without being hit by the arrow, so they had to retreat.
The expulsion of this hundred people was not meaningless, and by taking advantage of this undisturbed time, the Zhao army had already reached the starting position; And the reinforcements of the Qin army have also arrived. Two hundred reinforcements took the initiative to charge the two thousand five hundred Zhao troops. The Zhao army sent 500 men to block it, while the others continued to attack the Qin army's camp.
By this time, Meng Fu had retreated into the barracks. He said loudly to Qin Jun: "Don't be afraid, he will be hungry for a few days, but he will be tired after three or five thorns!" He threw down his bow and arrow at his waist, took a bamboo pole from a soldier, and led the way out of the camp.
The Qin soldiers were in different conditions, with severe coughing and wheezing, mild headaches and brain fever, different running speeds, and different physical strengths.
With a twist of his long pole, he knocked a Zhao soldier's halberd into the sky, and when it fell, it hit a Zhao soldier on the cheek, and Zhao Bing was knocked down heavily. Changge swept the opponent's lower three lanes, and Zhao Bing, who was running, was hit on the foot and fell hard. Meng Fu shouted loudly: "Do you know? But it can also hit its legs and feet. When Zhao Jun pounced, Meng Fu had already retreated.