"What! Withdrawal? Mei Wei was a little depressed, how long did he lead the army to arrive, but he was ordered to burn down the camp, cooperate with the defenders of the fort to destroy the fort, and then retreat to Ye County.

This is the first time that Mei Kai has led an army alone! He also had the ideal of a warrior, leading an army to fight the enemy for days and nights, and then standing on a battlefield full of war dead and shouting with his sword in a heroic manner. Unexpectedly, he had just asked for instructions on the front foot if he needed to break through the camp in front of him, which was only more than 5,000 people, and received an order to withdraw the army on the back foot.

After being silent for a while, Mei Wei said: "Prepare firewood and saltpeter." Inform the Vice-Chancellor to prepare for the destruction of the fort. Ordered the marquis to assemble their troops. ”

The herald received the token and went down to convey it.

Firewood is not often brought by the army, and it is basically cut on an improvised basis. Saltpeter is a must-have for the army's march, it can make the firewood ignite quickly, and it is a must-have for burying pots and cooking. At the same time, saltpeter is now also a kind of medicinal material, which is basically used to stop bleeding with several other herbs.

The deputy officer Gao was taken aback when he received the order, and the fort they were desperately defending was going to be destroyed on their own initiative? So much so that he suspected that the herald was conveying a chaotic order. He personally went to Mei Kai to confirm the military order, and heard with his own ears Mei Kai's military order to destroy the military fort.

"This ......" Although the deputy official Gao was puzzled, he could only respond to Mei Kai's face as if he could hang the frost: "Hey! ”

At the beginning of its establishment, the forts were thought of being destroyed, and each fort had its own measures to be left behind. Fort A No. 2 is on the verge of the Han River, and as long as the beams and columns are broken in some of the hollowed-out positions, the entire fort will sink, so there is no need to prepare for long.

It was only a quarter of the morning, and it was time for Mei Kai to withdraw his troops, but it was clear that it was not simply a matter of burning down the camps that had just been established and not having time to consolidate and destroying the forts, and then the army ran south with its feet thrown and finished.

Historically, the retreat of the army has not allowed a little sloppiness, and the slightest careless retreat will turn into a rout. He gathered 20,000 men, including soldiers. After leaving the camp, he began to arrange a simple square military formation, and this movement was naturally discovered by the Qin army not far away.

Shao Ai was notified of the slightest change in the camp on the southern side of the county, and he was hoisted into a nest cart and looked east, and saw about 20,000 enemy troops lined up in formation to the sound of horns. The square army formation can be marched, attacked, and defended, and it is not enough for him to think that the enemy has tested a few times yesterday, and he wants to continue the offensive early this morning.

"Crossbowmen and bed crossbows are ready!"

The camp had been broken yesterday, but the defenders of Nanjun did not leave any troops, and the Qin army reoccupied it and repaired it overnight, probably restoring most of the fortifications.

Shao Ai saw that the enemy army began to advance slowly under the sound of the horn, and he passed on a few more orders.

Sima Xin's reply has been sent to this camp. Saying that today's Shen Shi would arrive, Shao Ai was eager for the enemy to continue the attack, and he had already thought of giving up the first and second camps at the right time to attract the enemy troops deep into the camp, and using this method to create a kind of illusion that the camp might be lost at any time to firmly attract the enemy army. As long as they can hold back the enemy army and wait for Sima Xin's main force to come, it will be the end of the 30,000 enemy troops outside the camp!

I have to say that this strategy is to learn from the fort, and Shao Ai is really angry about the fort yesterday deliberately opening the defense line and introducing more than 3,000 soldiers from his own side. Only less than 200 of the 3,000 Qin soldiers fled back to the camp, and the rest had turned into corpses and were transported to the battlefield by the enemy's carts two miles away, and until now nearly 4,000 corpses were still exposed in the wilderness and could not be restrained for the time being.

There were constantly Qin guards reporting the distance of the enemy's approach, and the crossbowmen who were lined up to shoot arrows shot several arrows one after another. These arrows were sent out one after another, and some Qin dialects were shouting, "The farthest crossbow arrow is 420 steps, the best is 300 steps", "The farthest bow and arrow is 180 steps, the best is 70 steps". This move can be seen as a correction by the Qin army's crossbowmen. Archery has projectile, accumulation, and scattering, which need to be determined before the war, and the current Chinese army calls this "measurement".

Mei Wei frowned when he saw Qin Jun shooting arrows. The advantage of Qin's arrows has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people by now, and every army that wants to fight the Qin army will feel frightened when they see the Qin army shooting arrows before the battle starts. He has also been training the bow and crossbow troops in Nanjun for more than eight months, and the training method is no different from the Qin army, and he is from the Qin army, so he is no stranger to how to set up the Qin army's arrow array in the camp.

The Qin army's arrow array is changeable, not that the enemy will release arrows when they come in the shooting range, it is very often to release the enemy's vanguard into the best coverage area, and then use a continuous band arrow array to fire arrows at the rear of the enemy's vanguard. The intention was to block the enemy's follow-up troops, and Mei Kai most often used this arrow formation mode against Baiyue in the Battle of Yiling.

The front army has already gone up, the army behind is blocked by the arrow array, the troops in the front continue to attack with few people, it is useless, the rear cannot rush up, do the troops in front advance or retreat?

The several modes of the arrow array have their own intentions, even if you know what will happen, unless you can successfully suppress the arrow array, it is useless to know.

Shao Ai frowned when he saw the enemy stop six hundred paces away from the nest car, and the distance of six hundred steps was exactly where the bed crossbow could not reach, and he couldn't guess what the enemy was trying to do without attacking for the time being. It's not that he is not smart and can't see the enemy's intentions, but the troops of Nanjun attacked immediately after they came, giving him the impression that the enemy army wanted to break through the camp, who would have thought that Mei Kai gathered troops to press on in preparation for retreat.

Mei Kai led 20,000 troops to press up, but thousands of people in the camp were busy moving firewood and sprinkling saltpeter and sulfur, and on the side of the fort, the deputy officer Gao led people down to the basement to tie the ropes.

Shao Ai looked at the enemy troops who were not moving, and then looked at the enemy camp where people were constantly running, and was about to think about what the enemy was trying to do, when a horn sound of "woo-woo-" was blown in front of him, and 20,000 enemy troops began to press forward again.

When 20,000 people walked, the footsteps were very loud, the Qin soldiers guarding the barracks listened to the rumbling footsteps and clenched the weapons in their hands, and the trumpeters of the crossbowmen kept shouting "five hundred and ninety steps" and "five hundred and eighty steps", and the rhythm of listening to the number of newspapers slowed down like that, which shows how slow the speed of 20,000 people walked.

"Like...... What's wrong? Shao Ai saw the enemy stop at five hundred and fifty paces, and combined with the actions of the enemy camp, if he didn't think clearly, he wouldn't be worthy of being a partial general: "Gather troops!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Mei Kai had already led the troops to turn around in place, and the rear team turned into the front team and walked in the sound of the horn of "woo-woo", this time it was very fast, and after a while, it withdrew to a position about two hundred steps away from his own barracks, and then stopped and turned around in place at the sound of the horn.

What to do? Shao Ai now has only more than 5,200 troops, sensing that the enemy has the intention of retreating, the troops are ordered to assemble, but the enemy army is not so reckless retreat, he calculated that it will take four hours for his main force to arrive, even if he wants to go out to interfere with the troops, it is not enough!

A dull sound came from the direction of the fort, and tens of thousands of people were attracted by the sound, and saw that the troops of about 800 people had been standing more than 100 meters away from the fort early, and the fort didn't know what was happening, but the whole made a strange movement and tilted towards the Hanshui River.

"Sure enough, it's going to be withdrawn!" It was just a guess just now, but Shao Ai immediately affirmed his opinion when he saw the enemy self-destructing the fort, he asked people to lower the hanging basket and shouted to several military marquis: "The troops are transferred to the east!" ”

Mei Li couldn't see the panorama of the fortress tilting to the Hanshui River, and he took a look at the Qin army camp, where the figures of Qin soldiers were increasing, obviously gathering troops to find an opportunity to pounce.

Although it was a retreat, Mei Kai also had his own plans, he made a move early to let the Qin army realize that he wanted to retreat, the Qin army only had more than 5,000 people, if he knew that he wanted to retreat, there would be some moves, he wanted to see if the Qin army would pounce immediately.

If the Qin army came out of the camp to pounce, it would be too good for Mei Kai, who was unwilling to lead the army to come without achieving any results. As long as the Qin army dared to break away from the camp for 500 steps, he would immediately order the assembled 20,000 soldiers to assault the whole army and bite before retreating.

In order to attract the Qin army to come out, Mei Kai deliberately slowed down the time of burning his own camp, and waited for about two quarters of an hour to see the Qin army push open the camp gate and remove obstacles such as rejecting horses, and he let people set fire with a disappointed mood.

Looking east from the Qin military camp, you can clearly see puffs of smoke rising into the sky, but Shao Ai is hesitant to open the gate of the village and lead the army out.

Mei Li waited for the follow-up troops of the camp to come out, and arranged the garrison of the fort properly, and he personally sounded the horn of withdrawal.

More than 26,000 troops, the officers in the array heard the horn and began to march south with their troops, and at the forefront were the defenders of the original fort, followed by a thousand rattan armor soldiers.

The defenders of the original fort and the 1,000 rattan armor soldiers received an order, if the Qin army came out of the camp to chase them, they would stop and supervise the guest army behind them, and then they would become the rear team, and Mei Kai would look for an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the chasing Qin army depending on the situation.

Shao Ai was still hesitating, seeing that more than 26,000 people on the Nanjun side had left for nearly a mile, he asked what time it was, and it would be noon after two quarters of an hour, he calculated that it would take more than two hours to come from the main force, sighed and waited for the enemy army to leave two miles and then go out and hang three thousand people far away.

Five thousand people is too little, and Mei Hong's withdrawal is obviously leaving the elite in the rear, Shao Ai is not sure that he can rely on five thousand people to pounce on the enemy army of 26,000 for two hours.

Mei Kai led his army for three miles, and when he learned that the Qin army had only sent 3,000 men to catch up at this time, he ordered the whole army to stop with a little expectation. However, the Qin army that caught up with him did not pursue it for two miles, and he sent people to turn back and bully the Qin army and retreat immediately.

"The commander of the enemy army is also a cautious person," probing each other, Mei Kai knew that there was no chance, if the enemy army did not approach within a mile and did not want to pay attention to it, he ordered: "The whole army continues to the south!" (To be continued......)