Chapter 130: Is It Worth It?
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The muffled snorts, moans, and screams of the arrows were muffled by louder shouts, and the Baiyue people with uneven clothing were cut in two, and there seemed to be hesitation, and most of them slowed down, and only a few of them were still rushing forward.
The Baiyue people, who did not slow down, could see the faces of the Qin soldiers on the opposite side during the run, and they roared loudly in their mouths, and they might wonder in their hearts: "Shouldn't war be a bloody shout?" Why did the people on the other side keep their mouths shut and keep silent. β
The spearmen, who were still calmly accelerating their charge, did not know what the enemy was thinking, and they kept a straight line of maneuver and calmly stepped forward, their arms ready to adjust the direction of their spears.
Looking down from the sky, the speed of the Baiyue people who were cut into two sections was slowing down, but the speed of the Qin army was not decreasing. On one side, the Qin army, which formed a straight line with a diameter of about three hundred meters, kept speeding up, and the spears that stabbed out were slightly undulating as they ran. After the other party hesitated, the charge seemed scattered, some people turned around and ran back when they saw that the people behind them did not follow, and some stopped in place.
The six-meter spear has a strong inertial penetration power in the run, and the spearmen of the Qin army finally roared in unison when they were about to meet the enemy, "Hey! The sharp spear tip bursts out one by one when it comes into contact with the enemy, blooming when the spear tip penetrates the enemy's body.
The spearmen in the first row were like hedgehogs crashing into the unhindered balls of fur, staggering and slowing down.
The first platoon of spearmen, who had no losses, slowed down, and some of them had their spears pierced the corpses of the enemy, which was the reason why the whole platoon slowed down.
The spearmen in the second row heard the "Hey! Immediately aware of what had happened, they quickened their pace as they passed by the robes in the first row.
The third row also continued through the first row where it stopped, followed by the fourth and fifth rows.
The soldiers behind could be seen cleaning the corpses from their spears as they ran by. They did this by pushing the spear directly through the entire pole through the corpse, staining the entire spear with blood, and then taking out the dagger at their waist and cutting off the enemy's head and tying it to the leather belt around their waist.
It was described as slow, but in fact the soldiers were doing some of the movements very quickly, and when they were done, they would regroup and keep up with the robes in front of them. At this time, the soldiers who were supposed to be in the first row would become the last row, about ten meters ahead of the spearmen who came up from behind.
There were also constant battles ahead, and on the death line of the six-meter spear, the scattered Baiyue people became lambs to the slaughter. Under the alternating charge of the Qin army, the wool was sheared layer by layer, and the head became a trophy hanging from the waist of the Qin army.
Repeatedly, repeatedly, the spearmen's physical strength decreased, and the spearmen who followed with a steady pace replaced the front of the entire charging formation. became the forerunner of the 2,000 Qin army.
Lu Zhe, who is in the position of the Chinese army, does not see it very clearly, and from his position, it is a straight line and cannot look at the overall situation. That's the disadvantage of not having a nest car ready.
Still. Yiling didn't have such a thing as a nest car, and then the Baiyue people came suddenly, even if they wanted to build it, there were no craftsmen, so don't expect it.
Lu Zhe aimed at the high ground above the battlefield, and it became an urgent matter to occupy a high ground without a nest car.
Once the master will not be able to visually see the battlefield, he will judge the situation in the fastest time. That would be a very bad thing.
"Yan Bi! Yan Biβ"
Hearing the call, Yan Bi hurriedly ran over.
"You take the headquarters, and I'll give you another three hundred archers," Lu Zhe raised his hand and pointed at an enemy force in the northeast. "Lean in and force this group of Baiyue people down. Take over there! β
Yan Bi visually checked, that small slope was about two miles away from here, and he immediately understood Lu Zhe's intentions.
Sure enough, I saw Lu Zhe ordering to the others: "Let the communist lieutenant take the main Li Yuncong as the deputy, and temporarily lead 3,000 soldiers to prepare to go over to intercept the reinforcements of the Baiyue people." β
The two flag bearers should respond to the "Hey! "Go down and convey, one gallops to the soldier directly behind, and the other gallops to the position of the archer on the right side of the lun.
Yan Bi took the order and shouted to the mountain soldiers.
Lu Zhe looked at Su Lie next to him, and then looked at the flag bearer holding the military flag: "The whole army is advancing again!" β
"Woo-woo-woo-"
The desolate horn sound was blown, and after a slow delay of about three seconds, the Qin army of the main formation, who heard the horn sound, let out "Hey! The soldiers of the six countries who received the order to advance again also shouted.
The co-lieutenant and Li Yuncong, who received the order, were a little surprised, and they were ordered to lead 3,000 soldiers to intercept the possible reinforcements of the Baiyue people.
Their surprise did not mean that they would lead the army into battle, and they could understand the intentions of the main general Lu Zhe, but they looked a little unconfident when they looked at the soldiers they were about to lead.
The lieutenant was thinking and didn't know what to say, but Li Yuncong was very skeptical that these soldiers who had not fought for a long time would collapse at the touch of a button.
Lu Zhe looked at the flanks, he saw the sluggishness of the three thousand soldiers, and his heart was actually very uncomfortable. There is no way to do this, even if he has thousands of tactics, he can't play without the corresponding generals.
Opposite β
Yi Huze heard the shouts of the Qin army's main formation and looked up, he saw that a Qin army of about 1,000 people rushed to a high ground, and the Qin army's main formation once again divided a group of 3,000 soldiers to break away from the main formation, and the entire Qin army's main formation pressed forward.
The leader of the Yue people, who looked rough and had a kind of leaning spirit, immediately ordered to prepare to support the high slope that was about to be attacked, and then let the drums of war beat and press them all.
"The commander of this Qin army is a bit weird, unlike the previous Qin army!"
It seems that Yi Huze has fought with Qin Jun more than once?
In fact, since the Qin army began to march to the south, perhaps other Yue people have been routing and retreating in great strides, although Ouyue has been in rout in the early stage, but has not retreated in great strides.
Ouyue repeatedly fought with the Qin army, although they suffered heavy losses, but they chose to escape into the deep mountains and old forests to continue to resist, and later united many Yue people from other tribes, and when the Qin army's logistics could not keep up, they invaded a lot of Great Qin's territory. This made the Qin State, which originally thought that the south was easy to fight, have to pay attention to the so-called 500,000 southern Xinjiang army being formed.
The Qin army has always had several commonalities in the wars with Baiyue, that is, they basically do not fight battle-level battles. That is, a large war of tens of thousands against tens of thousands. This may be that the Qin State does not have many troops in the south, or it may be that the logistics cannot afford it.
When the Baiyue people gathered tens of thousands of troops, the Qin army mainly intercepted the important places and built a fortress for defense, and used time to drag the Baiyue people to disperse by themselves. After all, the Yue tribes are too mixed to form an army for a long time, and the Yue people can't stand it in terms of logistics.
When the Yue army dispersed, the Qin army became active, and the Qin army from all over the country would gather, and then pounce on the scattered Yue people, annihilating or killing them one by one.
This tactical choice worked for a time. But after seeing each other for a long time, the Yue people will also learn their lesson, and the Qin army was ambushed several times and suffered slight losses. Considering that the Qin garrison in the south needed to suppress possible rebellions or turmoil, the Qin army began to focus on static braking, and the war with the Yue gradually lost the initiative.
For such a long time, the Qin army was in the defensive strategy of the Yue attack. When Lu Zhe led the army to meet him, the convention was broken. It is no exaggeration to say that this will be the first battle above the level of the Qin army and the Baiyue people.
When the Qin army and the Yue people pressed at the same time. The battle between the Qin army and the Baiyue people who charged each other in the early stage continued. 1,000 spearmen and 1,000 spearmen were unsurprisingly pressing nearly 5,000 Yue people to fight.
At this time, Yan Bi also took his headquarters to gradually approach the target of the attack.
Each of Yan Bi's mountain soldiers has a Teng shield in his hand, and the training mode they receive is not based on large army formations, but in the cooperative combat mode of Wu and Shi teams. Therefore, the charging posture of these more than 700 mountain soldiers did not look as neat and gorgeous as the Qin army, but looked a little similar to the chaos of the Baiyue people.
Perhaps it was because he saw the chaotic marching method of the small force led by Yan Bi, Yi Huze did not pay too much attention to it, and only sent 2,000 people with the intention of intercepting it. Later, when the co-lieutenant and Li Yuncong came up with 3,000 people as the second echelon. Yi Huze sent another 3,000 reinforcements. A total of 5,000 reinforcements will unsurprisingly crash into the troops led by the 3,000 lieutenants and Li Yuncong who are responsible for interception.
Yi Huze has the advantage of troops, and he has been very cautious in dispatching with double the number of troops.
On this battlefield, this approach cannot be said to be anything wrong with the translation. But it was clear that he did not have insight into Lu Zhe's intentions. I thought that the goal of the two echelons of the Qin army was all that high slope.
When Yan Bi led a thousand people to approach the high slope, the Baiyue people who occupied the favorable terrain were already constantly releasing arrows, and the mountain soldiers held Teng Dun high to defend against the arrows from the overhead, and the sound of "popping" continued to come out in Teng Dun.
"Close, draw close to each other, form a shield wall!"
It's not difficult to get close to each other, but the constant arrows will still cause damage to the mountain creeps if they don't take care of their protection while running.
When the mountain soldiers approached each other to form a shield wall, the three hundred archers who followed behind were hidden under the shield walls, and some of the soldiers who kept advancing with their heads down would see the arrows on the ground, and they found that the arrows of the Baiyue people were basically animal teeth, bones or sharp stones.
After all, only a small number of Yue people have good metallurgical techniques, and most of the rest of the Yue people, such as Guiyue, Minyue, Shanyue, Ouyue, etc., basically do not have metallurgical techniques.
The constant wailing and groaning of the wounded who fell to the ground after the arrow also showed that the arrow did not penetrate the body after the arrow was hit, indicating that the penetration of the arrow was not very good, and if they did not hit the vital part, they would only be injured and not killed immediately.
Yan Bi observed the distance from Teng Dun's small gap, and kept shouting in his mouth, "One hundred and fifty steps!" "One hundred and thirty steps" and "one hundred and ten steps". He turned his head to see that the lieutenant and Li Yuncong's troops in the rear had already made contact with the Baiyue people who had come up from the rear, and the two sides were fighting together.
Waiting for the "ninety paces" to be counted, the Baiyue people on the high slope had stopped shooting, and many of them rushed down at the shouts of a man about forty years old, dressed in animal skins with deer tattoos on his cheek.
"Bowβ"
The shield wall of the mountain soldiers continued to advance, and the three hundred archers stopped where they were, and their bows and arrows were raised.
"Rapid Fire!"
The sound of bowstrings fluttering and breaking through the air continued to resound, and one arrow after another rose into the sky, and they trembled and flew over the heads of the mountain soldiers, and then plunged headlong into the bodies of the Baiyue people who launched a counter-charge.
Constant archery shooting, constant screams rang out, and the three hundred archers had already shot at least five arrows by the time the mountain soldiers came into contact with the Baiyue people. There were at least three or four hundred Baiyue people who fell on the way to counter-charge.
The archer officer in charge of leading the team observed the battlefield, and when he raised his eyes, there was only a small hill with weeds, because the counter-charge strength of the Baiyue people was less than 200 left in place, and the Baiyue people who came up from the side reinforcements were intercepted again. He decided to make a small detour when the Baiyue people on the hillside were attracted by the mountain soldiers.
The whole army was still in the Qin army's main formation, Lu Zhe could see the small black spots of the mountain soldiers and the Baiyue people fighting on the half-slope, the mountain soldiers were from the low place to the top, and the Baiyue people were coming down from the high places, so the Baiyue people occupied the advantage of height, and the mountain soldiers seemed to be being pressed to retreat.
The speed at which the entire army formation was pushed forward was not fast, and when the army formation was about to be distorted due to the terrain restrictions, Lu Zhe had to order the whole army to stop.
The Qin army's main formation stopped again. Yi Huze didn't want to stop, what he wanted to do now was to take advantage of the Qin army's headquarters to stop, and then advance some distance to put pressure on the Qin army that was still fighting.
A thousand spearmen and a thousand spearmen were still fighting, and in the face of five thousand enemy troops, this Qin army did not stop, and many of them hung the enemy's head from their waists. Under the instructions of the hundred generals, they continued to charge, pause, charge again, and pause again, like a never-ending wave crashing against a thinner and thinner reef. Smash the fragile reef to smithereens.
The Qin army fought stubbornly out of the expectations of the Baiyue people who had fought against them in the early days. If it weren't for the continuous advancement of the main army in the rear, this group of Baiyue people with less than 3,000 people left is estimated to collapse.
Lu Zhe frowned immediately when he saw that the Baiyue army was still advancing, he turned his head to look at the position of the mountain soldiers who attacked the high slope, and unexpectedly found that the mountain soldiers had been squeezed down, and a group wearing gray and black robes was constantly shooting at the Baiyue people on the high slope from the side of the slope.
"Who is the lead officer of that archer?"
"The lord general, it's Mei Kai."
Lu Zhe remembered the short Five Hundred Lord. Before his words of appreciation could be uttered, the archers who had been shooting at each other were actually charging while shooting arrows amid Mei Kai's shouts.
The 300 archers led by Mei Kai had already lost dozens of people in battle, but most of them were wounded and killed, on the contrary, the 200 hundred Yue people on the high slope after a burst of fire were less than 100.
"All the robes. Meritorious service is in the present day! β
took the lead in pulling out the dagger at his waist, and Mei Kai led forward. Behind him was a robe that was shooting arrows as he was advancing.
The mountain soldiers led by Yan Bi were more difficult to fight due to the terrain restrictions, and they were pressed back by the enemy troops who rushed down, and finally retreated to flat ground.
Seven hundred against one thousand, after a short month of training, the mountain soldiers were not actually proficient in the art of combined attacks, but they retreated to the flat ground to fight and relied on their physical advantages to equalize the battle.
The height of Baiyue people is generally about 1.6 meters, and some are only 1.4 meters; The mountain soldiers are mostly 1.7 to 1.8 meters.
The mountain soldiers are monotonous in their tactics, pushing their shields out, knocking oncoming enemies unsteady and stabbing their short spears. Short spears that pierce the body sometimes pierce the air, but more often they stab the enemy's body and bring out blood.
After constantly pushing and stabbing out the short spear, and gradually pressing the enemy back to the slope, the mountain soldiers unconsciously became a human wall, and the action of pushing the shield and stabbing the short spear subconsciously became a uniform action, which was extremely oppressive.
When Yan Bi breathed a sigh of relief, he saw a fight on the high slope out of the corner of his eye, and what he saw was a short Qin army wearing armor with five hundred masters, who had three arrows stuck in his body and stabbed the dagger at the leader who was obviously the Baiyue people, and did not stab the two of them, and twisted their bodies and fell to the ground and disappeared.
Finding this, Yan Bi immediately became anxious. They are the main force to capture the slope, and the mountain soldiers are the protagonists, so how can they become archers who were originally used as support troops to kill on the slopes?
Lu Zhe didn't know Yan Bi's mood, and he didn't bother to think about Yan Bi's anxious state of mind.
As the chief general of the whole army, Lu Zhe is now focusing on the frontal battlefield, where less than 1,500 Qin soldiers are still fighting with more than 2,000 hundreds of Yue people, and on the side, there are less than 2,000 soldiers from the Six Kingdoms and more than 3,000 Baiyue people fighting in a melee.
The soldiers of the Six Nations led by Gongwei and Li Yuncong already showed signs that they could not support it, which made Lu Zhe turn his head to look at the position of the slope.
On the slope, Mei Wei held a head high and roared, and behind him were nearly two hundred soldiers who also held daggers and cheered loudly.
"Good!"
Lu Zhe ordered the horn to be sounded.
"Woo-woo-woo-"
The 1,500 Qin troops and less than 2,000 soldiers who were fighting in the frontal battlefield heard the sound of the horn, and the 1,500 Qin troops began to leave the battlefield in an orderly and planned manner, and less than 2,000 soldiers of the Six Kingdoms who were fighting with the Baiyue people wanted to break away but could not.
Lu Zhe was already prepared in his heart, and immediately ordered: "The left flank slowly presses up to meet the spearmen and spearmen!" β
A flag-bearer: "Hey! He rode down and gave the order.
The leader of Baiyue stationed on the slope was killed in battle. The rest of the Baiyue people finally retreated, and when Yan Bi climbed the slope with less than 500 mountain soldiers, he saw Mei Kai and less than 200 soldiers cutting off the enemy's head.
The Qin people had the habit of cutting off the head of the enemy army and tying it around their waists in every battle, and the enemy's head was a title for them.
The mountain soldiers who were once a member of the Six Nations Army naturally saw the picture of the Qin army cutting the head, and they used to be afraid and hateful, but at this moment, the fear in the heart of seeing the archers cutting the heads of the Baiyue people still exists, and the hatred has turned into admiration.
The sound of the horn of "woo" also reached here, Mei Li stood up and glanced at Yan Bi, and turned his head to look at the battlefield together.
What they saw was a black shadow fighting and retreating, and the direction of retreat was the left flank of the formation. On the side is a fierce battle scene with intertwined figures.
Looking at the entire battlefield, it is difficult to say which side gained the advantage, after all, the main forces of the two armies only moved forward tactically, and the whole army launched an attack.
"The spearmen and spearmen can get out of the battlefield, and ...... over there," Mei Kai pointed to the place where the battle was still fighting, "where ......" said this, only to find that the army of the Baiyue people had stopped advancing. And the troops of this formation also shrank back after successfully receiving the spearmen and spearmen on the left flank, "Commander...... It's not like leading a battle for the first time. β
There is a reason for that. The reason for this is that Lu Zhe did not send troops to meet the commanders and Li Yuncong's subordinates who were fighting fiercely. Once LΓΌ Zhe sent reinforcements again, Yi Huze would inevitably be reinforced, and the form of the battlefield would become a stalemate, which would not do the Qin army with a small number of people at all.
Yan Bi hesitated for a moment: "They can't hold it anymore." β
"yes!" Mei Kai agreed with this, and he looked at Lu Zhe's position, "Many times it is necessary for a strong man to break his wrist. β
The sun is about to set. Lu Zhe knew that the troops of Lieutenant Lu Dao and Li Yuncong were about to collapse, but he couldn't move lightly. There is only one choice now, and that is to see if the troops on the verge of collapse can hold on, as long as the sky gets dark, the two sides will naturally break away on their own.
Lu Zhe's eyes looked at the high slope that had been successfully captured. Looking at the Baiyue army again, he didn't find that the Baiyue people had the intention of sending troops to recapture Gaopo.
In fact, this is normal, the night battle in the era of cold weapons is not reliable at all, it is better to say that it is a night war than a chaotic war, in the dark environment, the soldier will only cut at all those who approach him, and he will not distinguish whether he is friend or foe, and he will hesitate to give away his life.
Therefore, when the sky is about to get dark, unless it is a last resort, there is no main general to continue to add troops to the battlefield, and the more troops are sent, the greater the losses, which will only cause great losses and get very small results.
At this moment, Lu Zhe chose to remain motionless, not even to transfer troops to capture Gaopo.
The so-called pulling a hair and moving the whole body, there are still troops on both sides fighting in the middle of the battlefield, as long as the Qin army moves here, Yi Huze has to move, then there is only a fierce battle overnight.
And this is the first day, and the balance of victory is not very clearly tilted in favor of one side, so anyone who is reasonable will think that it is not worth it. No one wants to get a victory that pays a terrible price, Lu Zhe doesn't want to, and neither does Yi Huze.
The lieutenant and Li Yuncong, who were in the middle of the battlefield, didn't have time to think about what their own camp would not support, and they didn't even notice that night was coming, so they only shouted as hard as they could to mobilize their troops to retreat.
One side wants to retreat, the other side is entangled, does the side that wants to retreat still have the will to fight? No, the more they tried to retreat, the faster they collapsed, and apparently the lieutenants and Li Yuncong, who were the chief and deputy leaders of the troops, did not notice this.
The battle situation on the side battlefield has been broken, and Lu Zhe understands this. However, for him, as long as the mountain soldiers successfully captured the high slope, then the combat intention was achieved. The 3,000 soldiers who were sent to intercept the force would suffer heavy losses, but they would never be wiped out, he understood this.
The later development also fully illustrates the correctness of Lu Zhe, who couldn't support the complete rout of the soldiers who dropped their weapons and ran back, and the Baiyue people behind them shouted and chased wildly, catching one of them is blunt weapon and smashing it, and the head of the soldier who fell to the ground was like a broken watermelon mixed with tofu brain.
The sunset in the west had completely set, and Lu Zhe did not look at the battlefield again, but ordered all the archers to move forward to prepare for defense, and at the same time ordered people to start lighting torches, and the auxiliary troops also began to cut down the woods to establish a rudimentary camp. He now needs to ride his horse in the camp to boost morale and counteract the decline of his 3,000 soldiers.
After night falls completely, Lu Zhe must also make appropriate arrangements, at least the captured high slope must increase his troops, and he will also go forward.
At dawn tomorrow, the position of the Qin army will no longer be in the north, but in the northeast and southwest.
The lieutenant and Li Yuncong, who fled wildly, were stunned, and when they found that the soldiers could not bear the pressure and discarded their weapons and fled, they knew that they were defeated. At this moment, they looked at the formation and hoped for reinforcements, but the formation only mobilized archers to prepare for defense.
"Why are there no reinforcements!?"
Tired, innocent, and very confused, the three thousand men and the five thousand Yue fought hard, although the battle was a stalemate, but it also lasted for almost half an hour, if there were more people, they would definitely be able to defeat the enemy.
Lu Zhe would tell them that there were no reinforcements for Lu, but not now.
The archers lined up in front were already firing rockets at school, and one of them was shot out and landed on the ground, emitting fire.
Upon discovering this, Yi Huze ordered the drums of war to be beaten to allow the pursuing troops to retreat.
Of the 3,000 soldiers, only 1,200 fled back to their main formation...... (To be continued......)