Seeing that Zhao's Chinese army was steadily advancing, Gao Yuan, who was commanding on the rear chariot, also showed a pleased smile on his face. It seems that his hard work in the past few months has really not been in vain, and now the cavalry and infantry troops he trained have already begun to bear fruit.

As a matter of fact, the cavalry and infantry that Li Muba assigned to his subordinates were not newly enlisted grass birds, but well-trained veterans with rich experience in actual combat.

Of course, Gao Yuan didn't dare to be careless now, after all, now the Zhao army can only be regarded as having a slight upper hand, and it is still far from winning. Moreover, at this time, after the reinforcements sent by the Qin army to the left and right armies arrived at the battlefield, they gradually stabilized the situation on the left and right battlefields. However, at this time, the war returned to the traditional vehicle-versus-chariot model.

After carefully observing the situation of the left and right armies, Gao Yuan finally issued another order to let the cavalry troops who had retreated from the battlefield rejoin the battle. However, this time the cavalry did not directly return to the battlefield, because at this time, it was not only the chariots that were torn and killed on the battlefield, but also the infantry accompanying the chariots also participated in the battle. At this time, if the cavalry directly participates in the battle, it will be difficult to achieve the results just now, after all, there are still a large number of old-fashioned cavalry in the cavalry of the Zhao army. Therefore, this time the cavalry was outflanked from the periphery of the battlefield and attacked the flank of the Qin army.

However, the Qin army has also been paying attention to the movements of the Zhao army's cavalry, and as soon as they saw the Zhao army's cavalry dispatched, although they did not enter the battlefield directly as before, they also immediately dispatched to meet the Zhao army's cavalry. Therefore, if the cavalry of the Zhao army wanted to outflank the Qin army, they had to defeat the cavalry of the Qin army first. The cavalry of both sides immediately began to fight again.

The battlefield on the two flanks was still in a stalemate for the time being, but in the middle of the road, the Zhao army had already advanced a distance of fifty or sixty meters.

In fact, the Qin army who was fighting in the middle was very depressed, because they found that the number of the Zhao army was not more than their own, and their personal combat effectiveness was not stronger than their own, but somehow, they just couldn't stop the Zhao army's advance, and they also fought awkwardly.

However, at this time, the battle in the middle also lasted about thirty or forty minutes, and the soldiers of the Qin army also somewhat figured out the routine of the Zhao army, and understood that the role of the two shield bearers and the two halberd soldiers in front of the Zhao army was mainly to block themselves, so that the pikemen and crossbowmen behind could attack them without threat. Therefore, if you continue to fight like this, you will definitely suffer from it, so you must have this change.

After all, the middle and lower-level officers of the Qin army have a lot of actual combat experience, and they know that if they want to break this tactic of the Zhao army, they must break the defense line of the Zhao army's squad, but the defense line composed of four Zhao soldiers is very tight, and they blindly defend, even if they have the opportunity, they will never attack, and it is not easy for the Qin army to break the defense of the Zhao army. Moreover, the four pikemen and four crossbowmen behind the Zhao army would not let the Qin army attack their companions without scruples, as long as the four people in front could block it for a while, the people behind could immediately attack the Qin army.

Even if the Qin army was sometimes able to kill one or two defending soldiers, there would be people who would immediately pounce on them to keep the defense line intact. Therefore, many Qin soldiers tried to forcibly break through the defense line of the Zhao army, but they either fell under the spear of the Zhao soldiers, or were shot by the bow and crossbow, and either died or were injured and withdrew from the battle, although other Qin troops immediately filled up, but it was difficult to form a continuous offensive against the defense line of the Zhao army, and of course it was difficult to break through the defense line of the Zhao army.

Of course, there are also some Qin soldiers who see that it is difficult to break through the front, so they also plan to bypass the front defense line of the Zhao army and attack to the side, but the distance between each Mandarin Duck Formation squad is only more than three meters wide, and there is almost no space to break through the side of the attack, and even if a small number of Qin soldiers can break through the front row of defense lines and attack the flank of the Zhao Army, but there are also two double-edged axemen in each of the Zhao Army's Mandarin Duck Formation squads. When attacking the flanks of the Mandarin Duck Formation, the task of these two double-edged axemen is to protect their flanks. Therefore, it did not leave a little space for the Qin army at all.

As a result, although the Qin army was also fighting hard, it was still difficult to resist the advance of the Zhao army, and could only be forced to retreat gradually by the Zhao army, but after all, the Qin army was large in number and well-trained, and at this time, the Zhao army was only advancing steadily, and did not disrupt the formation of the Qin army, so although the Qin army retreated, it was far from the time of rout. Of course, if the fight continues like this, the defeat of the Qin army will be a matter of time.

However, at this time, the battle on both flanks changed. After the cavalry of both sides joined the battlefield, the cavalry of the Qin army had a significant gap with the Zhao army in terms of number and combat effectiveness, so after the two sides engaged, it did not take long for the cavalry of the Qin army to be defeated by the Zhao army without any suspense, and then the cavalry of the Zhao army launched an attack from the flank of the Qin army.

At this time, Wang Jian and Meng Wu, who were commanding the battle in the rear of the Qin army, were also clear, and the general trend of the Qin army was gone, and if they continued to fight, it would be a rout. Of course, the Qin army still has reserve troops, and now in addition to a hundred chariots, there are about 10,000 reserve troops, including 5,000 crossbowmen, and the other 5,000 are infantry, and the Zhao army has all the other troops in addition to a hundred chariots.

The number of chariots can be dismantled from each other, but if the Qin army throws these five thousand infantry into the battlefield, the Qin army can hold out for a while longer. If it is used well, it is not impossible to win.

But Wang Jian did not choose to continue the war, but ordered the troops to be withdrawn. Because Wang Jian knew very well that the Qin army could increase reinforcements, and the Zhao army could also transfer reinforcements from the camp. And so it goes on and on.

In addition, the purpose of this battle is not to defeat the Zhao army, the main thing is to let the soldiers of the Qin army move and maintain a tense state, and the other is to touch the bottom of the Zhao army, and now these two goals have basically been achieved, so when the Qin army has no obvious defeat, it can also be regarded as a situation of no victory, and the morale of the Qin army is not a big blow. If you really have to be defeated by the Zhao army, it will not be good. After the troops are collected, discuss with the generals how to deal with the cavalry and infantry of the Zhao army.

So as the horn sounded in the rear of the Qin army, the fighting Qin army also began to withdraw from the battlefield.

Although the Qin army had fallen into a significant disadvantage at this time, it had not yet reached the point of rout, the formation and formation of the Qin army could basically remain intact, and the Qin army was basically veterans of the battlefield, so when retreating, the Qin army still maintained a relatively good formation, and all the armies retreated in turn according to the order, without any confusion. Although the Zhao army also pursued, it did not achieve much success.

At this time, Wang Jian also ordered the five thousand crossbowmen left behind in the Qin army to attack and cover the retreat of the Qin army. Although the Qin army was now retreating, blocking the archers' firing routes, the archers could use the projectile method to jump directly over the retreating Qin soldiers and hit the Zhao soldiers who were pursuing behind. This is also the first time that the crossbowmen of the Qin army have room to play in this battle.

A rain of arrows fell from the sky, and many people in the pursuing Zhao army suddenly fell to the ground with arrows, but at this time, the two sides retreated and chased, and the tails were connected, and some of them were staggered, so the rain of arrows shot by the Qin army also injured many companions by mistake, but in general, the casualties of the Zhao army were much greater than those of the Qin army.

After the second batch of arrows fired by the Qin army fell, in the rear of the Zhao army, the horn of withdrawal also sounded. As a result, the Zhao army also quickly retreated from the battlefield, and the two armies quickly distanced themselves. By the time the fourth batch of arrows of the Qin army fell, the Zhao army had basically withdrawn from the range of bows and arrows, and almost all the arrows were slanted into the ground.

Gao Yuan couldn't help but secretly blame himself, if he had ordered the withdrawal of the army earlier, the Zhao army would not have been hit by these batches of arrows, just because he had hesitated for a while just now and wanted to take another look. Therefore, he was unable to give the order in time, and as a result, Zhao Jun increased the casualties by hundreds of people. It seems that I still need some training.

However, this was only a small detail of this battle, at this time, the distance between the two sides had been stretched to a distance of more than a hundred meters, and it was no longer within the range of the crossbows, so the crossbowmen of the army also stopped shooting arrows to cover the retreat of their companions, so the first official battle between Zhao and Qin was also declared over.

At this time, the Qin and Zhao armies had already returned to their respective teams, but they left corpses all over the ground, dead horses, broken chariots, broken armor, dismantled weapons, and so on. Gao Yuan also let out a long breath, anyway, his first independent command of the operation, finally completed, from the perspective of the situation, this ending is not bad, of course, the gains and losses of the body, still have to wait for the camp to summarize.

But it was not possible to return to the camp immediately, because the battlefield still needed to be cleaned up, and after the soldiers on both sides returned to their respective teams, they each sent hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers to collect the corpses of the battlefield, and at the same time to search for seriously injured comrades.

Only when the battlefield is cleaned up can the soldiers on both sides get along with each other with a relatively gentle attitude, each looking for the corpses of their own companions, packing up weapons such as swords, guns, halberds, etc., collecting lost horses, and chariots with losses that are not strict, and basically looking for each other, and will not take each other's.

In fact, the Qin army and the Zhao army have been fighting for decades, and many soldiers on both sides are old dealers, and they are miscellaneous servants who collect corpses, because they are not formal soldiers, the death rate is not high, and the changes in personnel are not big, and some people have already known each other, so while collecting the corpses of their own soldiers, some people do not forget to say hello, such as "You are here again this time", "How are you mixed recently", "Why didn't the one I saw last time come", and sometimes, they will remind each other," There's another person here who hasn't lost his breath over there, carry him back quickly, maybe he can be saved", "This guy is a big official over there, this armor is not a small soldier" and so on.

But this time, the corpses left by the Qin army on the battlefield were obviously more than those of the Zhao army, and by the time the corpses of the Zhao army were almost cleaned up, the corpses of the Qin army were not half cleared.

At this time, Gao Yuan also ordered, and all the armies of the Zhao army also returned to the camp in turn, but the Qin army could only wait on the battlefield for a while, and only after collecting all the corpses on the battlefield could they withdraw to the camp.