After completing the pre-battle mobilization, the prince took the battalion and the archers assigned to him and set out first. The rest of the Qin army followed. When they arrived at the river, despite the fact that the river was already icy and biting, the soldiers of the Qin army jumped into the water and quickly advanced towards the opposite bank.

Without the obstacle of the platform, the Qin army quickly went ashore, lined up in formation, and fought with the Zhao army who rushed to one place. This time, unlike the previous days, the Qin army no longer held its position, let alone retreated at the slightest touch, but rushed towards the Zhao army strongly. The Zhao army, who rushed up first, spun to the flanks and tried to get out of the way of the strong front, but was immediately shot back by the bows and arrows from behind. The Zhao army had no choice but to fight and retreat. Seeing this, Zhao Cheng immediately threw the middle battalion into battle. He had the archers shoot at the Qin archers on the waterway, while the phalanx went to the side and flanked the Qin army. Although the Zhao army occupied a variety of advantages, under the battle, it was the Zhao army's position that was the first to be defeated. This group of Zhao troops had not experienced the training after the position was defeated, so they panicked for a while, ran backwards, and retreated with strange soldiers.

Lian Po sensed a change in the tactics of the Qin army from the moment the two sides came into contact. He did not dare to be careless, and immediately prepared the second thousand generals for battle. When the first team pressed all over the line, the second team also set off. Lian Po only had time to briefly instruct the thousand generals on the tactical points.

After the first team broke up, the second team of generals led by a thousand people arrived and collided with the Zhao army head-on again. The two sides were deadlocked for a while, but Zhao Jun couldn't hold on first and retreated. But the third thousand-man general of the Zhao army arrived again.

After three consecutive formations, they finally defeated the Qin army and pursued to the river. But at this time, the second echelon of the Qin army had already landed on the beachhead. The 1,000 men of the third battalion of the Zhao army were more experienced and received more guidance from Lian Po, and he controlled the troops at a distance of one or two hundred steps from the beachhead, and when the Qin army was in a whole group, he immediately rushed forward, and it was a stalemate. After a stalemate, the Qin army was still of high quality, forcing the Zhao army to retreat. Lian Po took the opportunity to have hundreds of Zhao soldiers rush down the river to expel the archers in the river. Zhao Cheng guided the retreating archers to a hidden position at the suggestion of an elder, and let them shoot at Zhao Jun's back. This blow finally broke the balance on the field, and the Qin army could not support it and retreated. At this time, the third echelon of the Qin army had just been launched, and it was too late to enter this battle.

Lian Po quickly withdrew his troops, especially the wounded. In the battle just now, both sides suffered losses, but the losses of the Zhao army were greater, especially Zhao Cheng's troops, more than a dozen people were wounded by spears. They also hit a number of Qin troops, but it probably didn't matter, these wounded were able to follow the troops back independently, without the assistance of their comrades, and did not stay on the battlefield.

Lian Po personally came to the battalions and urged them to quickly assemble their teams and prepare for battle, especially Zhao Cheng's battalion, who was still the first team of Zhao's army. Zhao Cheng's way of sending archers around the Qin army's flank was noticed by Lian Po, who praised Zhao Cheng and asked him to continue to concoct the same method, and allocated a hundred archers he brought to strengthen Zhao Cheng's strength.

Zhao Cheng and the three generals of 500 people discussed that the next time the Qin army came ashore, he could rely on the advantage of his strength and use the phalanx to contain its strength, with a battalion of strange soldiers assisting, and a battalion of strange soldiers quickly rushing down the river, driving away the archers, and then attacking the Qin army's phalanx from behind. Before the plan was over, the third echelon of the Qin army had already rushed to the riverbank.

Zhao Cheng drove the three battalions forward, but deliberately slowed down the pace and let the Qin army attack deeper. His phalanx did not collide violently with the Qin army, but used spears, halberds, etc. to resist the shield of the Qin army and retreated, fighting a stalemate with him. This stalemate especially drained the attention of the soldiers, and while they were preoccupied with the goal in front, a battalion had already crossed him and rushed towards the river; Another battalion crossed him and went around behind the Qin army. Originally, there were archers behind the flanks of the Qin army to cover, but at this time, the strange soldiers of the Zhao army went down the river, and the archers were unstable, and after shooting a few arrows sparsely, they turned around and left; The archers of the Zhao army, who were ambushed in a hidden place, shot arrows at the Qin army.

Due to the blessing of a hundred archers sent by Lian Po, this wave of arrows was particularly violent, and more than a dozen people fell down from the arrows at once. Seeing Zhao Jun appear behind him, the Qin army could no longer hold on to the fight, reversed formation, and rushed back into the river with a dash of rage—not forgetting to drag his wounded companion back, of course.

The change in tactics of the Zhao army seemed to have shocked the Qin army. The fourth echelon of the Qin army, which had already been launched, turned around and went ashore and did not attack again. Zhao Cheng also hurriedly gathered his troops and waited for the battle. Five hundred men from three battalions would gather around Zhao Cheng and were very satisfied with the outcome of the battle just now. Not only because of the victory, but also found a way to win: as long as the Qin army still uses the previous set of tactics to attack, he can use this method to form a counterattack against the Qin army.

The Qin army also seemed to understand this, and did not attack again for the rest of the day, and lined up until the sun went down, and then collected the team and went back.

As soon as the troops returned to the camp, Lian Po immediately gathered all the 1,000 generals into his big tent, focused on today's battle, and praised Zhao Cheng's tactics on the spot.

Using superior forces to force behind Qin Jun, instead of stalemate with him in the front, this opened Zhao Jun's train of thought. In addition, the archers hidden behind the Qin army exerted great lethality, and almost all of the losses of the Qin army were caused by them. Of course, the Zhao army also suffered losses in doing so: the troops that went around behind the Qin army had to withstand the blows of the Qin archers for a certain period of time, and only by quickly assaulting without fear of death could they complete the task of driving away the Qin archers. Summing up these points, Lian Po immediately asked each 1,000 people to adjust their combat plans according to the situation of their own troops, focusing on assaulting the rear of the Qin army. "Although your soldiers are not 1,500 people, they are also twice as large as Qin, and if you hit its flank, you should also succeed!" Lian Po finally concluded.

Zhao Cheng's tactical moves have already been seen by thousands of generals, and they are not stupid people, after getting Lian Po's guidance, they have their own understandings. In view of the fact that Zhao Cheng has been fighting on the front line in the past few days and has achieved good results, Lian Po announced that he will recommend Zhao to become a doctor. - Zhao Cheng is only a scholar due to his distant kinship with King Zhao.

The next day, the Qin army again assembled down the mountain, lined up at the water's edge, and also attacked with a reinforced battalion of about 700 men. Zhao Cheng did not let the strange soldiers on both wings go up first this time, but the three battalions advanced together, and he used the middle battalion to absorb the Qin army, but he did not collide with him strongly, and he could even retreat a little if necessary. The strange soldiers on both flanks broke through to the flanks of the Qin army, and even into the river; At the same time, the archers of the Zhao army also broke into the hidden firing positions. After each army was in place, they launched an offensive according to the predetermined goal, and the Qin army fought very tenaciously, withstanding the offensive from behind, pressing the Zhao army in front with all its might, trying to defeat the enemy in front first, but settling accounts with those strange soldiers. However, although the middle battalion under the personal command of Zhao Cheng was not strong enough to confront the Qin army, it was able to barely maintain a frontal formation. And there are reinforcements coming behind them: the Qin army will never be able to defeat them.

was shot down by a group of archers, and some of them had to turn around and deal with the strange soldiers of the Zhao army, and the only ones who really fought against Zhao Chengzhong's battalion were actually only shields and spearmen. After several battles, the Qin army also felt struggling, and the losses of the rear row of Ge halberd soldiers were particularly huge. Finally they could not hold it anymore, and fought and retreated to the river. Zhao Qi's soldiers who went down the river had completely driven away the Qin archers, and now they had turned back to support another Zhao Qi army, causing a lot of trouble for the Qin army's retreat. The second battalion of the Qin army had to be launched without fully forming its formation, and the first battalion retreated.

Since the Qin army was fighting and retreating, they did not have the spare strength to drag away the wounded soldiers of the Qin army who could not move. Five Qin soldiers were beheaded by the Zhao army. Although Zhao Jun was also injured, some of them were still seriously injured, but they were all rescued in time.

This battle seemed to have really hit the morale of the Qin army, and the next day the Qin army only sent two battalions down the mountain to line up. Seeing this, Lian Po let the other Zhao soldiers except Zhao Cheng rest in place. After a day of confrontation, there was no actual action on either side, the Qin army collected its troops and returned to the camp, and the Zhao army followed suit.

Wang Ling concentrated the elite of the whole army, and the tactics of breaking through in the center did not work, but lost many elite soldiers; Especially the new tactics adopted by Zhao Jun, there is no room for cracking it himself. The skirmishers could pass through ditches and rocky roads, while their own phalanx had to advance along a flat avenue, and it was impossible to completely block the penetration of the opposite flank. At the same time, the area suitable for trekking and convenient landing is also in front of this small section, and 800 people in a formation is already the limit, and it is impossible to increase the number of troops. Battalion after battalion advanced continuously, and the first battalion had to be able to repel the enemy in front of it for a sufficient distance, at least a mile, to make room for the second battalion to go ashore. And the battles of the past few days have shown how difficult it is to break through this mile! What's more, a mile away, there is another Zhao army of thousands of people waiting.

Wang Ling calculated left and right, but could not find a chance to break through. The wounded camp on the back of the hill already numbered nearly a hundred men. Due to the lack of medicine, some of them began to have red and swollen wounds. Wang Ling decided to temporarily suspend the offensive and send the wounded back to Licheng first. It has been more than ten days since I came out to fight in the party, and half of the fried millet has been consumed. Wang Ling felt that he was not capable of breaking through the defenses of the Zhao army in ten days, and he also sent a secret letter to Li Bing, asking him to prepare another month's fried millet and send the camera to the front line.

It should be said that this request was unusual for the Qin army. The Qin army usually only prepared a month's worth of fried millet for the prisoners on the expedition, and the rest of the supplies had to be eaten by the enemy. However, the battle of Shangdang broke this convention, and the two armies held each other for half a year, draining the savings that Zhang Lu had been operating in Hedong for several years. But after all, the battle of Shangdang was personally commanded by Wu Anjun Bai Qi, and the king of Qin was personally in charge, and the final outcome was also surprisingly good, and the Qin State had no complaints. But the king's tomb ......