Chapter 60: Unexpected
In the deepest darkness before dawn, warriors from the two ancient peoples of the East were fighting for their lives. No formation, no light. Everyone is fighting in the dark, and the war at this time is no longer a contest between the two armies but a contest of wills. If you cut off my arm, I'll bite your throat. Everything is about who is more ruthless and who is stronger! Only the most ruthless and strongest people can survive such a bloody tear.
In the dark night, Wei Peng desperately recruited his own people, and who could hear the call of the leader on the battlefield that could be torn apart. The moon retreated when it was most due. The entire battlefield became a chaotic slaughterhouse, and the soldiers on both sides were only fighting by feeling. Those who rode horses were Donghu people, and those who fought on foot must be Qin people. The Donghu people who fell off their horses killed many Qin troops, and were finally hacked to death by their own people. The Qin army on horseback also killed many Donghu people, and was finally pierced by their own spears.
The bow and crossbow have lost their effect, everything is going on in chaos, God knows where their own people are and where the enemy is. At this time, the command system of the Qin army showed its might. In the dark, the only thing that could be discerned was the sound. The sound of war drums, trumpets and gongs and horns. Each voice represented a different meaning, and the trained Qin Jun certainly knew what the next order would be. Forward or backward, it becomes orderly.
Wei Peng had no choice, because his army was a rabble. On weekdays, communication basically relies on roaring, and a loud voice is enough. But today in the army of 10,000 horses, the loud voice no longer has any power.
Just as the light of day was about to appear, Wei Peng decided to abandon the raid. Because he found that there were already enemy troops rushing to his horse. This shows that the people in front of them are almost dead, and the halberd infantry is the nemesis of the cavalry. Fighting with such a person with cavalry, Wei Peng felt that his head had been kicked by a donkey for most of the past half of the hour.
Cavalry against infantry has this advantage, no matter if you win or defeat yourself, you can walk when you want to go. Ensure that the infantry can't catch up with you, and run out of professional players like Bolt Liu Xiang. In the competition of men and horses, most people will lose.
The cyan sky finally appeared in the eastern sky, and Qin Jun shot a crossbow arrow at the distant back. The distance seems to be a little far, and I haven't seen anyone fall off the horse. So he also lost the interest of continuing to fight, and began to **** wounds to prepare a few retreats. The infantry against the cavalry on the plains was a very disadvantaged thing. These are all old pawns, so they naturally understand this truth.
The guys who kicked the flatbread in their arms began to take it out and chew it, and it was the old soldiers who scoffed at the smell of blood, and ate around the dead without a sense of disobedience. Anyway, the guy who fell is done with this life, and he doesn't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing to never have to eat again.
As for the new Ding who vomited "sloppy", no one cared. Anyway, Lao Tzu also vomited this virtue back then, and there were no dead people on the battlefield. If you vomit when you see a dead person, then you can't fight. I vomited so much that I didn't have anything in my stomach, so I didn't vomit.
When the blood-red sun first rose, the heavens and the earth were covered with a layer of blood. Permanent Tooth looked at the tragic scene in front of him, and the casualties on both sides were not small in the fierce battle all night. However, it is clear that the casualties of the Donghu people were greater. Their cavalry was restrained to death by the halberd soldiers of the Qin army. The casualties are not ordinarily large!
"General, the general replied to the letter." Since the advent of paper, the official documents of the imperial court have not used silk cloth very much. But the military orders on the battlefield are exceptional, and the silk cloth is very strong and not easy to damage. And even if there is some blood, it will not affect the handwriting.
The permanent tooth snatched the silk cloth from the herald's hand, and after inspecting the fire paint, he opened it with a roar. He wondered if he should retreat or snipe here. After a night of bloody fighting, he found that the combat strength of the Donghu people did not seem to be very good.
But when he opened the silk cloth, he was surprised by the letter from the Duke of Qi.
Just last night, when he was fighting bloodily, the Duke of Qi, twenty miles away, was also attacked at the same time. Nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses were attacked by the iron cavalry of the Donghu people in turn, and the scouts with constant teeth warning were killed by the Donghu people before they reached the Duke of Qi. Therefore, Qi Gong was attacked by the Donghu people without being prepared at all. The losses can only be described as extremely heavy, but fortunately, there are more than 90,000 men under the command of the Duke of Qi. When suffering heavy losses in the early days, the Qin army quickly assembled into a dense phalanx, which was able to block the iron cavalry of the Donghu people.
What made people feel even more frightened was that a huge Donghu cavalry was inserted between the gap of more than 20 miles between the Lugong Brigade and Yongdu. In other words, the army that went out to prepare a sneak attack on the Donghu people was ambushed by the Donghu people. Now that he has been besieged by the Donghu people, the order of the Duke of Qi is that Hengya needs to move closer to him immediately.
It's better to huddle together for warmth than to be separated by people, forming two unrelated encirclements.
The permanent teeth feel a chill that penetrates through the bone marrow, and the dripping and icy morning is not worth mentioning compared to this cold. He felt a fear of death overwhelming him, overpowering him. This feeling of being suffocated by fear is so familiar, and it seems that there was once in Pingliang back then.
"No, we can't go back. You go back and tell the Duke of Qi to draw closer to me. Since he couldn't go back, he simply went into the forest in front of him. It is only five or six miles away, and there is no charcoal burning in winter, which is even more difficult to endure than not having food. "Permanent teeth can't forget the last days of the year, obviously there is food, but there is no firewood. It was the middle of winter, and far more soldiers froze to death than died in battle. Not to mention that after the war, many soldiers had rotten hands and feet, and it was not for nothing that their limbs were chopped off and they died of pain. Thinking about that tragic scene, Heng Tooth made up his mind that he would never go through it again.
"General, the general's military order is ......," the herald was stunned, although he agreed with Hengya's words. However, discipline was strict among the Qin army, and few people dared to disobey the military orders issued by the superiors. Especially between the permanent tooth and the koji, who are different from each other on weekdays, and there is no incense, this is especially true between the superiors and subordinates. He didn't expect that Gong Qi's order would be rejected by Heng Tooth.
"It's something that can't be helped. It's too late to write a letter, so you go back and tell the princess. No firewood in winter is worse than no food. If we go into the woods, we can not only have firewood to burn. We can even use the mountains and forests to fight against the Donghu cavalry, as long as we hold on for a few days, General Wang Qian's army will come from Xianyang to save us. "When Hengya was in Xianyang, the army led by Wang Jian was almost in Lantian, and he could reach Yongdu in these few days.
It's cold and snowy, although there is no food, but as long as there is firewood to support it for three or two days, it shouldn't be a big problem.
"Whoa!" When the captain of the herald saw that he could not move his permanent teeth, he had no choice but to beat his horse and go back. There's no time for mushrooms now, and three brothers have already died on the way here. I hope these two generals don't talk about it, otherwise they will definitely be killed on the way back and forth.
Gong Qi was also shocked when he heard Hengya's words, and the attack on him at night had already made him a little panicked. Looking around, there is a cold and snowy field, and there are not many weeds on the withered yellow earth. Except for the shady places, there is not even a little snow. If you are trapped in such a place for a day or two, not to mention hunger or thirst, you can die of thirst. There is still a little snow in the forest that can moisten my throat, why didn't I think of it, since when did I actually panic like this.
Since the Donghu people intend to fight their own ambush, they will definitely deploy heavy troops on the way back to Yongdu. I thought that it was impossible to return to Yongdu after walking these twenty miles. It is better to expect the sow to go out of the city to pick up him, than to expect the sow to go up the tree.
"The whole army moves forward to meet General Perpetual Tooth!" There was no hesitation, the sun had just risen, and it was only three feet high. The red face had not dispersed, and the Qin army, which had fought bloodily all night, rushed forward in embarrassment. The journey of more than ten miles is full of difficulties and dangers. I just hope that the Donghu people will react slowly and give themselves enough time to burrow into the woods.
When the Duke of Qi rushed forward and wanted to drill into the grove. Lao Jin and Murong Tuoba are smug about the success of their treacherous scheme.
As Yun Yue guessed, this was a serial plan. First bought the Huns to spread rumors in Xianyang, bluffing the Great Qin government and the public. forced the Duke of Qi to come out to fight, and then surrounded and annihilated the Qin army that went out of the city. Murong Song and Murong Ao were placed in the forest at the mouth of the valley above, waiting for the Qin army to attack the Hu people in the middle of the valley. Like a sharp knife, it plunges into the enemy's formation from behind. The Qin army, which was not in formation, could only be slaughtered like sheep.
This chain of calculations can be said to make the slightest bit of a coincidence, and there is only one accident. That is, according to Murong Tuoba's plan, in order to annihilate more than 10,000 Donghu people. The Qin army was enough to dispatch twenty or thirty thousand people at most, and he didn't expect that Duke Qi would give face to the Donghu people like this. Unexpectedly, a nest was dispatched, and more than 100,000 troops were dispatched at once. Since there are surprises on both sides, this battle will certainly not continue as originally envisaged.
When the Duke of Qi fought all the way to the west, the Donghu people were waiting for him on his way back to the east. Prepare to meet the desperate fight of the Duke of Qi, and want to return to Yongdu, this is the only way.
"Big head, the Qin people are starting to move." A horse galloped in the distance, and the knight on the horse roared loudly as he shook his whip, and he could hear it clearly for a mile.
"Great Elder, it seems that you expected it right. The Qin people will really rush to Yongdu City desperately, as long as we kill these Qin troops. Yongdu City, hehe! It's what we've got in our pockets. Murong Tuoba said happily to Lao Jin.
Lao Jin, who had been tortured a lot along the way, finally showed a rare smile, as long as he won this Qin army, he could win a big victory in this westward expedition.
"Big head, big elder. The Qin people went west, and it seemed that they were still going to attack the upper valley! The scout cavalry ran back out of breath, but the news it brought surprised Murong Tuoba. Even Lao Jin was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. (To be continued.) )