Chapter 667: Partial (II)
The 2nd Mixed Army of the Han Army came face to face with the current enemy army 27 days ago, and the enemy army launched an attack on all fronts, but the prepared Han army collapsed before the enemy army could form a full-scale offensive.
One of the primitive ways to deal with cavalry, digging holes in the ground that could trap horses' hooves, or throwing a lot of thistle thorns, these things were simulated countless exercises for the Han army.
The battle process was a bit boring, and the Donghu cavalry, which was the first to charge, had a strange situation in the middle of the horse, running and suddenly falling forward, and every horse that fell forward was because of the small round hole dug out by the Han army.
The Donghu cavalry stopped halfway through the charge, only to find that the road was full of holes after dismounting, and as a result, the offensive to charge the Han army was forced to stop before it began.
When the infantry army attacked, they were first attacked by thistles, and I don't know how many soldiers were hit by the soles of their feet, and finally passed through the area full of holes and thistles, but before they had time to cheer, they were blocked by a trench four meters wide and three meters deep, and low with sharp wooden stakes. And this is not over, some unlucky people were pushed down by the robe behind him before he had time to contain the momentum, and he died on the spot without any screams, and those soldiers who did not fall had nothing to rejoice about, they encountered the endless archery of the Han army crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time.
Trenches have never been lacking in the history of warfare, and the use of trenches for defense was still widely used until World War II, and trench warfare in World War I was used to the extreme.
The trenches set up by the Han army were not very complicated, but they were arranged in three according to the range of the bow and arrow, and then they were hindered by obstacles and so on.
It took the Allied army half a month, and it also cost more than 10,000 casualties when filling the holes and cleaning up the thistle thorns before they had a route that could be attacked.
But to be honest, the momentum of coming is long gone. Filling in those holes would be shot by Han crossbowmen, and thistles would be shot by Han crossbowmen, in addition to being shot while carrying dirt bags to fill trenches.
Under the constant passivity and troublesome interference, the Qi army still retains a certain morale because of the unfavorable state form, and the situation on the side of Yan Jun, Donghu and Chen Sheng is often that kind of coping appearance.
Today is the 27th day, with a disgruntled army of 70,000 auxiliaries coordinated to hold off nearly 300,000 enemy troops for almost a month, and the enemy army has not organized a decent offensive since this month, as the commander of this local war, that is, the commander of the second mixed regiment of the Han army, He Yi, he really can't think of any reason why the Han State will not seize the world.
Very plain facts. Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao, who have been fighting for three or four years, are exhausted at first glance, and even if there are any elite troops after the restoration of the country, it is estimated that most of them are lost on the battlefield of fighting each other.
Look at the helpers brought by Qi from all over the country, the Han army on the Xiongnu side has not yet encountered it, but it has encountered Donghu and Chen Shengjun...... He Yi said a very real feeling, that is, one group does not have a strong sense of existence, and the other group is purely a rabble.
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was approaching, and if the Han army itself did not have cavalry, it would be the kind of army that encountered tens of thousands of cavalry for the first time. Encountering such a scene may be a panic. However, if the Han army was a legion, which one of them had not conducted exercises with the cavalry? They have long been accustomed to such scenes, and they have also found many measures to deal with them from the constant exercises.
"Finally need us!" Cao Shen glanced back at the back. He said to the robe next to him: "Let the bed crossbow be ready, and as soon as the enemy cavalry comes into range, the first sequence will be fired immediately!" â
Behind Cao Shen were rows of bed crossbows, and the total number would never be less than two hundred. Three-shot bed crossbows account for the majority.
One of the military marquis commanding the first sequence of bed crossbows, he personally operated the bed crossbow to shoot three thick crossbow arrows that were specially painted black, after a string sound. Three bolts are fired out of the chute.
That's a calibration shot, where the bed crossbow at the front predicts the maximum firing distance, and then the bed crossbow at the end also fires crossbow arrows to detect the range.
In fact, the officers of the Han army's bow and crossbow units and equipment units have been trained, and they are not talking about pre-war school shooting, but a kind of drawing a grid on paper, and then marking the serial number, and agreeing on the coverage area with the long-range troops of each branch in advance. This set of knowledge that has been applied to the setting of artillery elements in modern times is, of course, from Lu Zhe's handwriting, and he is now taking out such a set of knowledge to have little effect on the crossbowman, after all, the range of the crossbowman is also like that. At the same time, the Zhuyuan setting is almost no help for the equipment troops, and there is a very realistic factor here, that is, the bed crossbow does not have a zĂ i accurate head at all......
A bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield, the Han army is located in the south, the aspect they built stretches for more than ten miles, the front of the battle is covered with various types of obstacles, and the Han army dug at least three trenches four meters wide and three meters deep in the back position. At present, the trench has basically been filled, and the Qi army wearing white uniforms in the east side of the battlefield is still attacking a certain breakthrough, and the 10,000 cavalry of Donghu in the rear direction is also moving towards this breakthrough.
If the field of vision is widened, the line of sight is stretched back from the battlefield for about seven or eight miles, and in a withered yellow forest, ignoring the trees that block it, it is full of Han soldiers leading horses. This force should have numbered 10,000 men and 20,000 horses, and they had been here for more than seven days.
The field of vision turned again, and the line of sight was drawn to the east of the second mixed army of the Han army, twenty miles to the east, six pontoon bridges had been erected in a certain section of the Jishui River, and teams after teams of Han sergeants were trotting across the bridges. At the same time as these troops crossed the river, the north bank was already full of people, they were soldiers who had already crossed the river, and they were forming a formation in the sound of passwords.
Perhaps to broaden the horizon, in the Julu Wilderness, about one hundred and thirty miles away from the battlefield between the Second Mixed Army and the Allied Army, a 50,000-strong Zhao army flying the banner of Zhao Guojing was marching eastward under the leadership of Sima Ang.
Two hundred and seventy miles away from Jibei County, at the junction of Surabaya County and Xue County, a huge royal flag was waving in the wind in the center of a banner embroidered with the word "Han" in Lishu, and its perimeter was the headquarters of the Han forbidden army marching forward, they had stepped into the boundary of Xue County, and were advancing northward along the route taken by several legions.
At the same time, about 200 miles away from Xue County, the 4th Mixed Regiment and the 6th Mixed Regiment of the Han Army, they were relying on the four cities of Xiangxian, Xiayi, and Danfu, some of them were in the field, and the other part was in the city, and they were fighting in various places with the Tian Rong Corps that had returned to the east.
Because Tian Rong's corps returned to the north, the Zhao army also retreated early, and only the 70,000 Yan troops led by Zang Di were left on the front line of Sanchuan County to confront the Qin army.
After the Zhao army and the Qi army gave up the confrontation and ran away one after another, Zang Di had no choice but to lead the army to leave before the Qin army reacted. The direction he chose was different from Tian Rong, who had to go east in order to share the pressure of Linzi, but Yan Jun chose to go straight to Dongjun after a period of confusion.
Because of the blockade of the news channel, the information that Zhao State had left the alliance was not delivered to the Sanchuan line at all, and Tian Rong and Zang Di naturally did not know that Zhao State had joined the side of Han.
Zang Di led the army north at the beginning of nothing special, but when they stepped into the territory of Dongjun, they were unlucky, they first encountered part of the cavalry attack of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Han Army, and then it happened that the Zhao army also launched an attack.
It is just a matter for the Han army to attack the Yan army, after all, the two sides have actually entered a state of war, but is it a mistake for the Zhao army to attack the Yan army? For this reason, Zang Di angrily sent someone to question, and after being told that Zhao was no longer an ally of Yan, but an ally of Han, not only Zang Di, but any Yan soldier who heard this information was stupid.
And at this time, the Qin army that had been staying on the front line of Sanchuan also took action, and the Qin army of 70,000 did not chase the Qi army, they followed the road that the Yan army had walked directly to Dongjun, and fate seemed to be a naughty child at this moment, and the Qin army and the Zhao army, who had been killed earlier, actually joined together to beat the bewildered Yan army.
Tian Rong only noticed something when he found out that the Han army, the Zhao army, and the Qin army were all besieging the Yan army, and at this time, the 350,000 Qi army had been blocked on the road to the east for two months, and their remaining military rations should be empty after another three months.
"In other words, Han, Qin, and Zhao became allies?" Tian Rong asked about Zang Tu, who successfully broke through with less than 300 people, and rushed into the mountains under the continuous pursuit of the Han cavalry, and crossed the mountains with great difficulty before running to the side of the Qi army.
"It's like in a dream...... Zang Di said about his feelings: "At the beginning, it was just the Han army, and then the Zhao army, the Qi army, the Wei army, and the Han army all joined in. â
The 70,000 Yan army was surrounded and beaten by the armies of so many different countries, and the first thing to collapse was the psychology, and when they saw so many enemy troops of different banners attacking them, they would inevitably feel abandoned by the whole world, and the result was that the Yan army only lasted for seven days before it completely collapsed.
"The Han army was chased by cavalry first, and then pursued by a very fast moving force in the mountains and forests, and they caught us," Zang Di pulled out a crumpled piece of paper and showed a smile that was more ugly than crying: "It was simply a nightmare, a nightmare that can never be forgotten." â
Tian Rong had a very bad feeling, he took the paper and spread it out and looked at it, and wrote a few short words on it: "Return to surrender and avoid death" The person who paid the money was Han Wangzhe. (To be continued......)