Chapter 122 The decisive battle of Zhao Qin
Of course, Li Mu knew that if he wanted to defeat the Qin army, he had to break through the three big villages of the Qin army, even if he only broke two of them, the Zhao army could not be regarded as a victory, and if he wanted to break through the three big villages of the Qin army, he must first break through the two villages on the left and right of the Qin army. Therefore, Li Mu also made an assignment, ordering Sima Shang to lead 40,000 soldiers to monitor the main village of the Qin army, Chen Shi to lead 30,000 soldiers to monitor the right village of the Qin army, and he led another 100,000 troops to attack the left village of the Qin army first.
With Li Mu's order, the soldiers of the Zhao army who attacked for the first time attacked like the tide and attacked the camp of the Qin army. However, the Qin army had already made preparations, and had already arranged 5,000 archers, 2,000 crossbowmen, as well as a hundred large bed crossbows and a hundred stone throwers.
Although the soldiers of the Zhao army raised their shields to cover them, they could stop most of the bows and arrows, but the crossbow arrows fired from the large bed crossbow basically had no effect, and a crossbow gun could penetrate the shields of the Zhao army very lightly, and then pierce the bodies of the soldiers, sometimes even two at the same time, or even the bodies of three Zhao soldiers. And the stone thrower is even more terrifying, a stone weighing dozens of pounds falls from the air, as long as it is a Zhao soldier who is hit, no less than a lot of blood and flesh are smashed, and the muscles and bones are broken.
Despite the fierce blows of the Qin army, the Zhao army was still fearless, still braving the rain of arrows and stones, stepping over the fallen companions in front of them, and bravely attacking the Qin army's Dazhai without the slightest hesitation.
However, the Zhao army was not blindly beaten passively, because the Zhao army also had bed crossbows and stone throwers, which also opened in front of the formation and fired at the Qin army's Dazhai to cover the attack of the Zhao army's soldiers. Although the Qin army had a wall to resist, it also wounded and killed many soldiers.
The farthest range of the bed crossbow is only more than 300 meters, and the stone thrower is even lower, only more than 200 meters, and the number of bed crossbows and stone throwers of the Qin army is limited, so it cannot form a dense firepower network to block the Zhao army from Dazhai. Therefore, for Zhao Jun, this is not an insurmountable distance. In fact, after advancing to a distance of less than 100 meters, the role of the bed crossbow and stone throwing machine is not great, and they can only rely on the bow and crossbow to block the Zhao army, but they can't stop the Zhao army's advance. At the price of nearly 1,000 casualties in the Zhao army, it finally jumped over this distance and approached the Qin army's Dazhai.
The wall of the Qin army is a mixed structure of civil engineering, the height is about two zhang, about four or five meters between the later generations, it is in this era, this is not a tall wall, if it is a soldier who received military training in the later generations, there is no need for any tools at all, only three or four people cooperate, and they can climb up with their bare hands.
However, the soldiers of the Zhao army also brought a lot of wooden ladders, so after advancing to the wall of the Qin army's Dazhai, they immediately erected wooden ladders and climbed to the wall. The soldiers of the Qin army were also stationed on the wall, stabbing the Zhao army who climbed the wall with their spears, and slashing the rope that encircled the wall with their swords, and shooting the Zhao soldiers on the wooden ladder by the wall at close range with bows and arrows.
Although many Zhao soldiers were stabbed to death and shot to death by the Qin army, the soldiers of the Zhao army still desperately climbed to the wall, and also waved the spears and short swords in their hands, fighting fiercely with the Qin army.
As the battle progressed, more and more Zhao troops approached the wall, attacking the wall, and the attack surface became larger and larger, and the defense of the Qin army gradually became a little precarious.
Li Mu watched the battle in the rear, and remained silent, and at this time he was also slightly relieved, at least the battle has been going on so far, it is still very smooth, although he has also suffered some losses, but they are all within an acceptable range, after all, the Zhao army is the party that takes the initiative to attack, so it is inevitable to suffer some losses. Seeing that the first batch of Zhao troops sent had launched a close attack on Dazhai, Li Mu also immediately ordered to add another 10,000 Zhao troops to reinforce it.
On the battlefield on the edge of the Qin army's big village, there were Zhao soldiers who stepped on the wall, although they were quickly blocked by the Qin army, but then several places were broken through by the Zhao army, and the Qin army was also blocking left and right, desperately blocking the gap. After all, at this time in Dazhai, the Qin army only had 30,000 soldiers, and the strength was indeed a little stretched, so it was a little too much to take care of at this time.
At this moment, only to hear the sound of "bang", smoke and dust everywhere, civil engineering splashing, it turned out that there was a walled wall was finally opened by the Zhao army to open a big gap, and then the Zhao army bees poured in, killing into the Qin army's big village. The Qin army hurriedly dispatched troops to intercept it, but at this time the gap had been opened, and it was still blocked, and the two armies were in close contact with each other in the Qin army's big village, so the Qin army had no advantage.
And immediately after the wall, there were several places broken through by the Zhao army, more and more Zhao troops entered, and the Qin army could no longer stop the attack of the Zhao army, so they could only flee off the wall and retreat to the wall.
At this time, the reinforcements sent by Li Mu had also arrived at the battlefield, and after joining the battle, the Qin army was even more defeated, and as a result, they fled from Dazhai and fled to the middle village of the Qin army, leaving Zuozhai completely to the Zhao army. From the time the Zhao army launched the attack, it was only about an hour and a half, and the Zhao army successfully captured the Qin army's left village and completed the first goal of the decisive battle with the Qin army.
The Zhao army was able to attack the Qin army's left village in a short period of time, mainly due to three factors, the first is that the morale of the Zhao army is high and the fighting spirit is strong, while the morale of the Qin army is not high, and it cannot be compared with the Zhao army, and the second is that the strength of the Qin army is indeed insufficient, it was originally a large village that could garrison more than 100,000 troops, and now there are only 30,000 people left to garrison, and the troops are of course overstretched; The third and most important point is that the Qin army does not intend to defend Zuozhai at all, and sends troops to guard Zuozhai, just delaying time, so that the Qin army can carry the materials in the village, if the Qin army is highly moraled, of course, it can fight hard in Zuozhai, but with the current Qin army's spirit, no one wants to defend in Dazhai, thinking that Zuozhai will always give up anyway, why fight here.
The attitude of the two sides towards this battle was completely different, and the result was of course different, and the Zhao army almost did not waste much strength to occupy the left village of the Qin army. And most of the materials of the Qin army in Zuozhai have not been moved, and of course they have all become trophies of the Zhao army.
Of course, only capturing one left village was far from achieving Li Mu's goal, so Li Mu did not stop, only left the 30,000 soldiers who participated in the battle in the village to garrison, and the other armies immediately went to attack the right village of the Qin army.
In fact, the battle in Zuozhai was not completely over, Li Mu had already ordered to transfer large combat weapons such as bed crossbows and trebuchets to the direction of Youzhai, and before these large weapons were transferred to the position, the 30,000 Zhao troops who contained the right village had also begun to attack Youzhai.
Because the victory in the battle of Zuozhai certainly greatly boosted the morale of the Zhao army, so the Zhao army that contained the right village did not have large weapons in place at all, so it immediately launched a fierce attack on the right village of the Qin army.
Although the Qin army stationed in Youzhai used bed crossbows, stone throwers and other weapons to attack the Zhao army, it was impossible to stop the pace of the Zhao army's advance, and the speed of the Zhao army's advance barely slowed down, and they rushed to the edge of the wall, and then set up a wooden ladder to launch a fierce attack on the wall. At this time, the Qin army had no intention of resisting at all, so they just fought with the Zhao army for a while, and immediately retreated, escaped from the right village, and fled back to the Qin army's big village.
But when the Qin army that escaped from the right village arrived in front of the middle village, it was found that the Qin army that escaped from the left village gathered in front of the gate of the village, and the gate of the middle village was closed, and the suspension bridge was also pulled up, and it seemed that there was no intention to let them in, I don't know why?
The Qin soldiers who escaped from Zuozhai shouted on the edge of the ditch: "Open the door, open the door, let us in." "If you don't open the door, Zhao Jun will kill you." "Hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu, don't you rub anything?"
At this moment, I saw a row of crossbowmen appear on the wall, all of them raised their eyebrows, holding crossbows, pointing at the Qin soldiers outside the trench, and the sharp arrows flashed with a cold light in the sun, which also made people shudder.
This time, many Qin soldiers outside the village were also startled, and retreated several steps, but a few bold ones shouted at the top of their voices: "What are you doing? What is this for? We are Qin soldiers, our own people. ”
"Shut up."
With this sound of drinking, I saw Wang Jian in armor appear on the wall, just with an iron-blue look.
Seeing their main general, many Qin soldiers were a little weak-hearted, and the soldiers who were shouting to open the door just now also lowered their heads, not daring to shout again. Wang Jian has always been kind to Qin Jun and rarely gets angry, and now he is indeed rare.
Wang Jian's gaze blocked downward, and he said sharply: "Are you also considered Qin Jun?" It can also be regarded as the strongest army in the world, our warriors of Daqin, is this what you are? ”
Originally, the Qin army outside the village still whispered, but when they heard Wang Jian say this, they all immediately stopped talking, and they were silent.
Wang Jian continued: "It doesn't matter if you lose the battle, victory or defeat is still a common thing in soldiers, my Great Qin has fought with the six eastern countries for a hundred years since Shang Jun changed the law, although the victory is abundant, but the number of times defeated by the six countries is not a few." But even if it is defeated, every Qin army and every warrior of Great Qin will do their best, and there will be no regrets despite defeat. But without that defeat, it was like what you just said, vulnerable, greedy for life and afraid of death, and he couldn't afford to be a warrior of Great Qin at all. And my Wang Jian's subordinates have no soldiers like you. ”