Chapter 45: Hit Zhang Chu hard
In late January of the second year of Qin II.
Heavy snow began to fall in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and the Yellow River quickly froze.
And before Zhang Chu could pay attention, the Qin army seemed to have expected that a large number of ships from the upper reaches of the Yellow River would be found in the middle of the Yellow River at night.
The boat was frozen by the river, and it was in the middle of Zhang Chu's army and the Qin army.
Needless to say, the first tentative battle between the Qin army and Zhang Chu's army began.
The Qin army took Wang Li You as a partial army and ordered them to attack Zhang Chu Yingchuan West Road from Sanchuan County.
At the same time, Zhang Han's main force came out of Hanoi County and fought with Chen Sheng's main force on the banks of the Yellow River.
The battle was fought together, the shouts of killing shook the sky, the shouts of the soldiers, the neighing of the war horses, and for a time the entire Yellow River turned into a meat grinder.
The cold wind was howling, Zhang Han was located in the camp of the Chinese army, standing on a high ground, constantly looking at the battle situation of the front army.
With his military knowledge, Zhang Han commanded hundreds of thousands of people like an arm, and he seemed to be at ease.
At the beginning of the war, the Qin army showed great superiority.
For example, to what extent the front army was damaged in battle, the front army replaced the rear army, and they staggered and divided and combined with each other, and hit Zhang Chu with a formation, directly defeating Zhang Chu's peasant army.
In the final analysis, Zhang Chu's army is a group of reckless people, and they are not as good as Zhang Han in terms of using troops, let alone a big war involving hundreds of thousands of people.
"These rebels are really a rabble!"
"There is no difficulty in fighting this battle at all, if this is the case in this Chu rebel army, then my Great Qin will destroy the rebellion very quickly."
A group of generals stood beside Zhang Han and watched the battlefield ahead, while constantly listening to Kuaima report the details of the battlefield ahead, looking quite bored.
Although Zhang Han agreed with it, he was not careless.
Zhang Chu had swept the Central Plains one after another, and in the final analysis, he still took advantage of the rebellious psychology of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms to grow stronger, and won the victory by pressing the county soldiers with great momentum.
Zhang Chu has never fought a few real battles.
However, people can grow.
Moreover, now that both sides are just tentative, Zhang Han doesn't think that there are few under Chen Sheng who really know how to fight.
In addition, at this moment, Zhang Han has always been afraid of the so-called Shenwu Army in Zhang Chu's army, so his nerves have not relaxed for a moment.
The Qin army and Zhang Chu's army fought fiercely for nearly two hours, and Zhang Chu's army retreated again and again.
Finally, after Zhang Chu's army retreated nearly five miles, Zhang Han's former army probed Malai to report, and Zhang Chu's army killed an elite heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry rushed into the vanguard of the Qin army like a wolf entering a flock, and even the forward formation was broken through, and Zhang Chu's army took advantage of this to immediately press the forces on both wings, and the forward of the Qin army began to retreat.
"Is it finally here?"
Zhang Han's face showed a hint of solemnity.
"Herald! Ordered Sima Xin to lead the 3,000 heavy cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry of the Chinese army to press, and ordered Dong Peng to lead the 10,000 group leader of the Chinese army to take the rebellious heavy cavalry, and the former army prisoners opened the rebel army to the two wings according to the plan! ”
"Yes!"
The moment Zhang Han's order was issued, more than a dozen nearby heralds immediately received the order and scattered, and at the same time, there were drummers at the watchtower of the big camp who continued to beat drums to the whole army.
The decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of troops is by no means a short time to determine the winner or loser, not to mention that both sides are still in the tentative stage.
But even if it was a temptation, the troops used by both sides exceeded 50,000.
There are still large armies in the rear of both sides, and the victory or defeat of the front army actually has little impact on the rear.
In this way, the battle between the two sides lasted from noon to near evening, and finally under Zhang Chu's first drumming and retreat, the two sides stopped fighting, and the Qin army did not pursue, but just let the front army camp on the south bank of the Yellow River.
Late at night, in the tent of Zhang Chu's military camp, Chen Sheng's face was as gloomy as water.
Today's temptation, Chen Sheng sent 800 Shenwu troops to attack the Qin army, and the effect was indeed very gratifying at first, but soon these 800 Shenwu troops were repelled by the elite of the Qin army.
Although in the end, the 800 Shenwu army retreated with ease, but they also suffered nearly 100 casualties.
The results of the battle were remarkable, and these 800 people killed at least nearly 5,000 Qin troops.
But, right now, this is a battle of hundreds of thousands of people! The Eight Hundred Divine Martial Army is really too few and too few.
Under normal circumstances, when the ordinary Qin army encounters these eight hundred divine martial army, it will definitely be frightened by its divine power, and even quickly defeated, but this time the opponent Zhang Chu encountered was Zhang Han, who was the elite force of the Qin army in the entire pass.
Among them, there are not only a large number of prisoners and conscripts, but also the elite of the Qin army that has been stationed on the border for a long time by the Qin Dynasty.
These elites of the Qin army were all old Qin people, and their combat power was simply beyond all the Qin troops that Chen Sheng had encountered before.
Although the strength of the Eight Hundred Divine Martial Army is terrifying, it is still a mortal after all, with heavy armor on its body, and it is constantly fighting, and it will eventually be exhausted.
Moreover, this is not the Immortal Hidden Treasure Land, without the Immortal Hidden Treasure Land, which seems to be bathed in the immortal qi at all times, the combat power of these eight hundred divine martial forces has been reduced by at least thirty percent.
The Shenwu Army has weaknesses, and Chen Sheng knows it.
And this weakness is that out of the Immortal Hidden Treasure Land, the immortal qi gathered in their bodies, or what can be called internal force, is always consuming and escaping.
If you want to stay in the best condition, you need to eat the things that the Immortal Hidden Treasure produces at all times.
Whether it's water or meat, in short, the Shenwu Army can't do without the replenishment of fairy qi, and once it exercises vigorously, just eating can't replenish its own consumption for a while.
At the beginning, Chen Sheng sent the Shenwu Army, in fact, he wanted to make a fortune, so as not to make this first battle too ugly, in short, it was also a Shenwu Army that could be withdrawn as soon as possible.
But it's a pity that the elite of the Qin army is not afraid of death, and it is simply a matter of fighting for life.
At the same time, under the siege of the good generals of the Qin army, although the 800 Shenwu army finally rushed out, it still lost nearly 100 people.
Such a loss Chen Sheng cannot be described as heartache.
There are very few people in Zhang Chu's army who are qualified to absorb the immortal qi and grow, so how should the battle behind the hundred people be fought this time?
Stealing chickens does not make rice, this moment is a true portrayal of Chen Sheng.
After this battle, the Qin army must have also discovered the weakness of the Shenwu army, that is, it could not fight for a long time.
This is fatal to Zhang Chu.
For this reason, in the middle of the night, Chen Sheng summoned all his important ministers and generals and began to seriously discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy.
Chen Sheng's previous inflated psychology was just woken up by Zhang Han's heavy slap in the face in the first battle.
Chen Sheng only hates himself for having too little time now, if he is given more time and gives him the use of the Immortal Hidden Treasure Land to screen a large number of qualified talents in Zhang Chu's range, he is absolutely sure to overthrow the Qin Dynasty, but it is a pity that the time is also fate, and now Chen Sheng still has to come up with a strategy to deal with the Qin army, looking for a turnaround step by step.
Compared with the heaviness of Chen Sheng's army, the Qin army can be described as a great joy at this moment.
Although the impact of the Shenwu Army on the Qin Army made the Qin Army lose more today, but there were as many prisoners and conscripts as there were, and there were still many elite Qin troops in their hands, so they could slowly eat all of Chen Sheng's Shenwu Army little by little in the follow-up battle.
Under the pressure of the general trend, Zhang Chu has not had much opportunity to turn around.
For the guarded Qin army, it was impossible for Chen Sheng to rely on the Shenwu Army to directly take the Qin army's central army camp in the midst of ten thousand troops.
The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, which is the true portrayal of both sides now.
Moreover, this was still a battle on the banks of the Yellow River, and in the west of Yingchuan, the partial army led by Li Youwang Li also defeated Zhang Chujie.