Chapter 611: Withdrawal and Pursuit (5)
Wang Ben left Yang Duanhe and immediately rushed back to the rear of the Qin army, and the army of this era had caught up and launched an attack on the rear of the Qin army. Fortunately, although Wang Ben was not there, the Qin army was still under the command of Feng Qing and arranged a defensive formation to meet the Dai army. And when Wang Ben rushed back, the Qin army and the Dai army had just started a fierce battle.
Because the Qin army had already lined up a defensive formation, the Dai army did not send a cavalry army to attack, but first dispatched 10,000 infantry troops to attack the Qin army.
Although the Qin army had enough time to arrange a complete defensive array to resist the attack of the Dai army, because the Qin army retreated lightly and threw away all the heavy and large weapons, only bows and arrows could be used for long-range strikes, but bows and arrows alone were obviously unable to stop the advance of the Dai army, and the Dai army did not dispatch cavalry, so the Qin army naturally did not dare to use the cavalry to attack, and as a result, the two sides soon entered the mode of infantry melee combat. For the time being, the cavalry of both sides watched from the sidelines.
At this time, Wang Ben rushed back to the rear of the Qin army and immediately took over the command of the battlefield. However, the Qin army's infantry and combat effectiveness were indeed not under the Dai army, and the two sides had just engaged in battle at this time, so they were temporarily evenly matched, and they were evenly matched for a while.
Wang Ben saw it, and was a little relieved, but the Dai army only dispatched 10,000 infantry troops, and there were 20,000 infantry troops and 5,000 cavalry troops who did not move, and the rear soldiers of the Qin army were basically sent out except for the remaining 7,000 cavalry troops. So Wang Ben commanded the soldiers to resist on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also sent people to Yang Duanhe to rescue, asking Yang Duanhe to send an additional 10,000 reinforcements to him.
But now Yang Duanhe was also forced to be clumsy by the Dai Army, if he hadn't concentrated the cavalry army and attacked several cavalry troops of the Dai Army, I am afraid that he would have been unable to resist it for a long time, Yang Duanhe hated to let Wang Ben reinforce himself with thousands of cavalry troops, and there were enough troops to send reinforcements to Wang Ben.
In fact, now the strength of the Qin army has reached 62,300 people, and the total strength of the army dispatched by the army is only more than 50,000 people, in terms of military strength, the Qin army has a certain advantage, but the mentality of the soldiers on both sides is very different, the Qin army is now alone in the depths, there is no base, there is no logistical support, and even the grain and grass left are very little, all the soldiers are thinking about crossing the Yishui as soon as possible and escaping back to the territory of the Qin State. It's just that now it is caught up by the Dai army, and there are many experienced veterans in the Qin army, who all know that once they are eager to flee and retreat, the Dai army will then pursue, and the Qin army will inevitably be defeated, and the casualties will be heavy, so only by resisting and defeating the attack of the Dai army can they evacuate safely.
In addition, although the total strength of the Dai army is less than that of the Qin army, the number of cavalry is far more than that of the Qin army, and the suzhì and combat effectiveness of the Dai army cavalry are far above the Qin army's cavalry. According to the conversion formula of the combat effectiveness of the cold weapon era in later studies, one light cavalry is equivalent to at least three ordinary infantry, so the actual combat effectiveness of the Dai army is stronger than that of the Qin army.
Although this conversion formula is not very accurate, it is more or less the same. As a result, the Dai army only used 16,000 cavalry to firmly contain the infantry of nearly 40,000 Qin troops, and the Qin army was difficult to take care of, and it was impossible to prevent it, if it were not for the Qin army to gather a counterattack team of 5,000 cavalry, it would have been dispersed by the cavalry of the Dai army. The Qin army used less than 10,000 troops to defend the rear. Therefore, letting Yang Duanhe take out 10,000 troops to reinforce Wang Ben really made Yang Duanhe a little relieved.
However, Yang Duanhe also knows that Wang Ben will never rescue himself for no reason, it must be the war in the rear that is tight, so he has to help himself, and Wang Ben has provided a lot of support to the Qin army brigade before, it can be said that now the Qin army brigade can be preserved, thanks to the more than 5,000 cavalry troops, basically after Wang Ben came to help, so now Wang Ben is like his own rescue, Yang Duanhe can't ignore it. In addition, if the rear battle is defeated, the whole army will also not be able to keep it, so Yang Duan and the left and right patches together, and demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, so as not to put together 5,000 troops and send reinforcements to Wang Ben.
After receiving Yang Duanhe's reinforcements, Wang Ben was also a little crying and laughing, and now the first round of attack of the Dai army has retreated, but the Dai army immediately replaced it with 10,000 fresh troops, and immediately launched an attack on the Qin State, while the Qin army was not allowed to rest, and continued to fight, naturally it was a little powerless, and was forced to retreat again and again by the Dai army, so only 5,000 troops were sent, which was really a drop in the bucket for himself.
But Wang Ben also understands Yang Duanhe's dilemma, after all, it is not easy to face the multi-point attack of more than 16,000 Dai troops, although the Qin army also has 5,000 cavalry troops, but Wang Ben of course knows that the cavalry of the Qin army cannot be compared with the Dai army, so Yang Duanhe can make up 5,000 people to reinforce himself, it is very good, if the Qin army's brigade is defeated by the Dai army, even if he blocks the Dai army, he will not be able to save the defeat of the Qin army, and now he can only fight with the Dai army to the end. So Wang Ben also immediately ordered that 3,000 troops be transferred from the 5,000 Qin army and immediately put them into the battlefield to replace the next part of the Qin army.
Although the Qin army was not completely rotated, after all, it was an increase of 3,000 fresh troops, and even the Qin army, which could not be rotated, couldn't help but be in good spirits, and they didn't feel that they had increased their strength, so they gradually gained a firm foothold, and they were inseparable from the Dai army.
Originally, the Dai army advanced step by step, so that Sima Shang and Chen Shi were also very excited, as long as the rear army of the Qin army was dispersed, they could drive straight in and defeat the Qin army's brigade, but after advancing more than a dozen steps, the Qin army actually came to support the army, although the number was not much, but it allowed the Qin army to stabilize its foothold again, and actually fought a close match with the Dai army.
Therefore, the two of them couldn't help but sigh, the tenacity of the Qin army, as expected, is worthy of its name, and the armies of other countries have been replaced by this time, I am afraid that the whole army has already been defeated, and the Qin army can not only hold on, but also fight evenly with the Dai army, and do not fall behind at all, it is indeed not easy to defeat the Qin army, although Li Mu defeated the Qin army twice in the battle of Wei and the battle of Jingcheng, but the Zhao army itself also has considerable losses, and it has not changed the balance of power between Zhao and Qin, the Qin army's combat effectiveness is strong, and the fighting spirit is tenacious, It can also be seen.
And this time, the Dai Army's assault on Jijing went very smoothly, entirely because the planning and arrangement of the plateau was both ingenious and thorough, and the layout began more than half a year in advance, so the Dai Army achieved an almost one-sided advantage. But that's it, although the Qin army was still defeated, it still threw away its baggage and materials, retreated lightly, and after being caught up by the Dai army, it was still able to organize effective resistance, and it was really not easy to defeat such an army.
Of course, the war has come to this point, the Dai army has obviously occupied an absolute advantage, and although the resistance of the Qin army is tenacious, but now it is actually the end of the crossbow, as long as the Qin army puts some more pressure on the Qin army and fights a little harder, it can completely break the resistance of the Qin army and defeat the Qin army.
However, although there are still 5,000 cavalry in the Dai army array, but in this melee situation, the advantage of the cavalry is difficult to fully play, unless it is a heavy armored cavalry, and there are also a large number of cavalry in the Qin army's array, although the cavalry of the Qin army is not as good as the Dai army, but it is enough to contain the Dai army, so that the cavalry of the Dai army can fully exert its ability, so Sima Shang does not plan to dispatch the cavalry, and still contain each other with the cavalry of the Qin army, or send out the infantry army to attack the Qin army in turn.
At this time, there were still 10,000 infantry troops in the army that had not been put into battle, so they naturally became a rotating army. Therefore, as soon as the horn of the Dai army formation sounded, the soldiers of the Dai army in the battle retreated one after another and retreated. But before the Qin army could breathe a sigh of relief, the new 10,000 fresh troops of the Dai army rushed up again.
This 10,000 generations of troops waited for a long time, and saw that the other companions had already gone into battle and fought with the Qin army, and the battle was extremely fierce, so everyone's hearts couldn't help it, and now it was finally their turn to fight, naturally they were extremely excited, and this generation army was a new force, naturally it was extremely brave and unstoppable, each wielding swords and guns and halberds, and rushed towards the Qin army.
And most of the Qin army has already fought two battles in a row, although it is not exhausted, but it is indeed a little overwhelming. After all, people are not made of iron. As a result, the Dai army was beaten violently, and the Qin army could not resist at all, and was defeated and retreated by the Dai army. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Ben couldn't take care of much, so he hurriedly sent the soldiers who had just been rotated to reinforce him. And this time there was not even a rotation.
After adding the four or five thousand reinforcements that came up, the Qin army was able to stand firm and not retreat, but the Qin army was relying on the strength of the people, and now there were less than 2,000 soldiers in reserve, and there were more than 18,000 troops in rotation in the first two battles of the Dai Army, so although the Qin army can still resist now, in the long run, the Qin army is definitely not the opponent of the Dai army.
Wang Ben didn't know this, but now he had no other way but to grit his teeth and continue to hold on.
However, the soldiers on the battlefield did not pay attention to other things, but only cared about the battle in front of them, fighting hard, fighting, and under their feet, many corpses were already lying there, and blood almost covered the entire ground.
The battle lasted for more than half an hour, although the Dai army struggled to attack, but the Qin army knew that if it could not withstand the attack of the Dai army, it would only be a complete rout.