Chapter 150: Wei Wushu (Second Update)
This timing of the attack, but Sima Terrier had already thought about it from the beginning.
Sima Terrier just wanted to take advantage of the short time difference when the Wei army was not firmly grounded and take the lead in attacking, so as to use this time to gain a certain advantage.
Don't underestimate such a small advantage and first move, for such a big battle, any small change is likely to lead to a difference in the final outcome of the battle.
Sima Terrier gave an order, and the flag officer beside him immediately waved the flag.
"Tong, Tong, Tong!" Under the vigorous beating of the wrestlers, the rumbling war drums sounded, like angry thunder from the sky, hitting everyone's eardrums heavily.
In the midst of this rumbling war drum, the Qin army took the lead in launching the first wave of attacks.
One hundred and fifty military vehicles protruded from the front of the Qin army, followed by a full eight thousand Qin soldiers, lined up in an extremely neat attack formation, and headed towards the right flank of the Wei army.
The center of this vanguard formation was not commanded by a Qin military captain as previously configured, but was directly commanded by the Qin army's deputy general, Meng Fu.
Obviously, Sima Terrier didn't plan to have any temptation this time, and he wanted to play with Wei Wuji for real.
Since this time it was the Qin and Han coalition forces fighting together, the Qin army was not facing the Wei army head-on, but forming a situation of flanking the Korean army left and right.
Generally speaking, the flanks are weak and easy to break through.
Of course, Sima Terrier knew very well that with Wei Wuji's reputation and ability, he should be able to perceive his intentions and be able to respond in a very timely manner.
Sima Terrier was not wrong at all.
At the moment when the vanguard group of the Qin army rushed out, the Wei army's position also resounded with rumbling drums, and the red Wei flag, which looked quite dazzling in Sima Terrier's eyes, also began to wave regularly.
The formation of the Wei army began to change. Three vanguard legions of the Wei army poured out neatly from the main formation of the Wei army, one in the front and two behind, forming a "pin" shape, and greeted the vanguard of the Qin army led by Meng Fu without showing weakness.
In each of the vanguard legions of the Wei army, fifty chariots rushed forward, supplemented by three hundred cavalry, and the knights were followed by a full four thousand infantry.
The 4,000 Wei infantry did not advance in accordance with the wild goose formation or the square formation, but lined up in four separate square formations of 1,000 people in the front, back, left and right, advancing in the shape of a diamond, each of the four square formations formed a corner of the diamond, and the middle of the diamond was empty.
This is the original Wei State of the "Wei Shu Formation", when the Wei army is marching in peacetime, the Wei army is advancing all the way in this formation, although it looks strange, but when facing the enemy, it can quickly spread the formation and start the battle, just in response to the current situation.
If you look closely, you can also find that the thousand-man phalanx at the front of the first Wei army's vanguard corps is significantly different from the other three phalanxes.
Each of the Wei soldiers in this phalanx was wearing iron heavy armor, wearing a bright iron helmet, holding a twelve-stone Wei crossbow in his hands, and a full fifty crossbow arrows in the arrow bag behind his back.
This is the elite army that was once created and trained by the great military strategist Wu Qi, so that the Wei State in the early years of the Warring States period once relied on to dominate the world - Wei Wushu!
Wei Wushu, one of the four ace troops of the Warring States period, is also the only heavy infantry unit among the four major troops.
In the early days of its establishment, this Wei warrior could be said to be invincible all over the world, especially for the Qin State at that time.
Wu Qi led these 50,000 Wei warriors, large and small, after 64 battles without defeat, successfully captured 600 miles west of the Qin River, and compressed the territory of the Qin State to the lowest point of the entire Warring States Period.
In the famous battle of Qin, Wei and Yinjin, Wu Qi led 50,000 Wei soldiers, 500 chariots and 3,000 cavalry to defeat the 500,000 national army of Qin, which shook the world, and it was also the most famous battle of winning more with less in the Warring States Period.
It was under the strong pressure of the overlord Wei for decades that Qin Xiaogong, who was facing the crisis of national destruction, had to make a desperate bet to use Shang Yang to change the law, and the Qin State finally grew step by step from the little weak chicken who was pressed in the pass and breathless to the first power of the Warring States today.
If it weren't for the premature death of the wise and martial Wei Wenhou Wei Si, and the successor Wei Wuhou listened to the rumors and drove Wu Qi away, then the Qin State would not even be able to hold out when Shang Ying changed the law, and Wu Qi should have led this Wei warrior to level the Guanzhong and completely destroy the Qin State.
After Wu Qi left, Wei Wushu was still active on the stage in the early years of the Warring States period for a long time.
In 350 B.C., the Wei general Pang Juan first led Wei Wushu to break through Handan, the capital of Zhao, in the famous battle of "besieging Wei to save Zhao", and then waved his army south to fight a decisive battle with the Qi army, and was defeated by the golden partner of Tian Ji and Sun Bin in the next battle of Guiling.
It was also from the Battle of Guiling that Wei Wushu and Wei went into decline together.
Nine years later, in the Battle of Maling, the Wei army led by Pang Juan once again suffered a super defeat at the hands of Tian Ji and Sun Bin, Pang Juan died in battle, and the main force of Wei Wushu was completely lost in the first battle, and never recovered to the scale of 50,000 people.
But even so, each generation of Wei monarchs still tried their best to rebuild Wei Wushu, because it symbolized the former glory of Wei and the invincible glory of the world.
However, when the time came to 294 B.C., the 20,000 Wei warriors that Wei had cultivated again after decades of hard work were lost to Bai Qi in the Battle of Yique and the main general Gongsun Xi, and the Wei warriors declined again and almost died out.
Today, the invincible army that once shook the world is only a thousand people.
But even so, these 1,000 Wei soldiers were sent to the forefront by Wei Wuji, the commander of the Wei army, in today's great battle that is destined to go down in history, and became the vanguard of the 100,000 Wei army.
There was only one reason why Wei Wuji did this, because they were Wei Wushu.
It was the Wei warrior who once swallowed Zhongshan in the north, rejected Qin Rong in the west, fought Qi Yi in the east, resisted Chu Barbarian in the south, and laid the foundation for the hegemony of the Wei State!
Now, a full hundred years later, the invincible Wei warriors in the world once again met the people of Qin like fate.
Will they be able to achieve a victory that shakes the world like they have done in a hundred years?
Amid the thunderous hoofs and the smoke and dust in the sky, the forward cavalry of the two armies began to make contact.