Chapter 559: The Battle
Just when the Qin army was hesitating about how to attack, the Dai army had already solved this problem for the Qin army, because the Dai army took the initiative to attack the Qin army.
However, to the surprise of the Qin army, the first to attack the Qin army was actually the weakest right flank of the Dai army, the 3,000 infantry army belonging to the Jinyong Army of the Yanmen Legion, together with a newly formed infantry army, a total of 8,000 soldiers, jumped out of the formation and advanced to the left of the Qin army.
Since the Dai army took the initiative to attack, the Qin army had no other choice, and Han Teng immediately ordered the Qin army to transfer troops to the left to attack and meet the Dai army. The left route army of the Qin army has 20,000 horses, all of them are infantry, at this time they are lined up in two parallel phalanxes, and the main generals are Shi Wuwei, Yang Wunu, and Mo Wuwu among the ten generals under Han Teng.
The Yanmen Legion is a mixed infantry and cavalry army, with 3,000 infantry consisting of 1,500 pikemen, 1,000 sword and shield soldiers and 500 archers, but the archers use short bows with a range of less than 60 paces, and each person is also equipped with a single sword, which can also be used for hand-to-hand combat. The newly formed infantry army consisted of 3,500 pikemen, 1,000 sword and shield soldiers, and 500 archers.
The 8,000 soldiers were in the center with the Jinyong army, and the new army was separated from the left and right sides, forming three phalanxes, and all of them advanced in the direction of the Qin army according to the arrangement of sword and shield soldiers in front, archers in the middle, and pikemen in the back. The arrays discharged by the Qin army are also roughly the same as those of the Dai army, except that the Qin army has not yet been equipped with a single sword, so the short weapons are still traditional bronze swords or iron swords.
Because all the infantry sent by both sides and in order to maintain an intact formation, the speed of the two sides was not fast, but they were gradually closing the distance.
When the distance between the two sides was reduced to about sixty paces, the archers of both sides opened their bows and fired arrows at each other almost at the same time, and the soldiers in the front also raised their shields to shield themselves and their companions behind them from the rain of arrows.
A rain of arrows like flying locusts flew back and forth between the two sides, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air also broke the calm of the battlefield, taking the lives of enemy soldiers as they fell into the opposing array.
Although many soldiers on both sides were killed by arrows, the other soldiers still fearlessly let their comrades who fell to the ground by arrows, and continued to maintain the queue, steadily moving forward, and the archers continued to shoot arrows forward while advancing, inflicting more blows on the other side. It can be said that both sides showed excellent training results and a fairly high level of organizational discipline, and did not show the slightest panic.
However, the archers on both sides use short bows with short ranges, and both shield bearers are in front of the line to block the arrows, so the bows and arrows do not shoot for a long time, and the damage to the enemy is limited, and the distance is constantly closing.
After five or six rounds of bow and arrow fire, the two sides entered the distance of hand-to-hand combat, and the archers of the Dai army immediately gave up their position to the pikemen, and retreated to the rear, and put away their bows and arrows, drew their single knives, and prepared to engage the Qin army, while the soldiers in the front row also accelerated the speed of their advance, and even trotted forward, and then each raised his weapon in his hand, and hit the opponent fiercely.
The two armies were like two giant Langs, quickly approaching, and slammed together, under the huge reaction force, the broken Lang flowers immediately scattered and splashed, floating and falling.
The spears slammed into the shields, some of the spears were dismantled, some pierced the shields, the soldiers on both sides let out angry roars, the spears pierced into the enemy's bodies, the shields slammed violently, some fell, some rushed, and the battle was very fierce.
However, because the strength of the two sides is roughly the same, and the quality and morale of the soldiers are basically comparable, they are also inseparable and comparable for a while.
And just as the right flank of the Dai army and the left flank of the Qin army were fighting, the left flank of the dai army also launched an attack on the Qin army.
The left army of the Dai army was the strongest, so the left army also dispatched more troops than the right army, and the attacking army was the infantry army of the Qingshuo Army of the Wu'an Legion, and two newly formed infantry armies, with a total of 13,000 troops.
The main generals of the Qin army's right route army were Jin Wuhuan, Xiong Wuweak, and Cheng Wuru, who led a phalanx of 10,000 troops to meet the Dai army.
Xiong Wuli is one of the strongest of the ten generals, and he is tall, reaching more than nine feet, wearing armor all over his body, like a giant, using a pair of double-edged axes, each of which weighs more than 100 catties, which is extremely conspicuous on the battlefield. As the two sides approached, he rushed to the front row of the whole army, and with a swing of his big axe, he cut off both shields, and the soldiers with the shields were also shocked and flew backwards, knocking down five or six soldiers behind him in a row.
Then the bear was powerless to stride forward, the big axe rose and fell, but every blow must be responded, either the soldiers of the Dai Army were hacked to death, or they were beaten backwards and flew backwards, and in a short time, they knocked down more than ten soldiers of the Dai Army in a row, including two chiefs. And he advanced a distance of more than ten steps. Although the Dai army ambushed one after another, constantly rushing up to meet Xiong Weak, no one could stop Xiong Weak. And the Qin army followed behind Xiong Weak, advancing step by step, and soon squeezed into an obvious conein in the array of the Dai army, and it was still constantly advancing forward.
Although it is said that in the battle of such a large army, individual force is not the decisive factor, but on a local battlefield, if a fierce general with superior force takes the lead in attacking, it can still play a significant role. Not only can it boost the morale of its own soldiers, but it can also disrupt the enemy array.
Battles had already started on the left and right roads, and for a while smoke and dust were everywhere, and the shouts of killing were loud, but because there were many trees and hills in the battlefield, the plateau could not see the whole battlefield on the mountain. However, as soon as the battle began, the scouts sent a large number of men to the left and right battlefields, accompanied the army, and constantly reported the situation on both sides of the battlefield to the slopes of the plateau. So that the plateau can understand the situation of the battlefield in the most advanced time.
At the same time, a large wooden table was set up on the hillside, and a general map of the battlefield was placed, with red and black square cone-shaped wooden blocks representing the soldiers on both sides. Therefore, the crowd watching the battle on the hillside did not look at the situation of the battlefield, but gathered around the table.
Among the main people watching the battle on the hillside, in addition to Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong, there were Chun Yu's father and daughter and Ling Feng, and Luo Huan and Jiang Mingxia were also on the top of the mountain, following Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong, as personal companions. The rest of the army waited at the foot of the hillside.
However, on the whole, the two generations of the army were forced by the Qin army to constantly retreat, one is because the current generation army is now fighting in the new army, although most of the new army of the generation army has actual combat experience, and has undergone strict training in peacetime, but after all, it cannot be compared with the professional army, so compared with the Qin army, there is still a certain gap in combat effectiveness, and it is the army that fights on the right side, which is slightly less than the Qin army; Second, there is a lack of fierce generals like Xiong Wuli in the Dai Army, so although the Left Route Army of the Dai Army has invested more troops than the Qin Army, because there is a fierce general like Xiong Wu in the Qin army's formation, it can actually suppress the Dai Army firmly, and it is not easy to occupy half of it.
Of course, although the scene was unfavorable, after all, the army was strictly disciplined and well-trained, so it still maintained a complete formation, retreated slowly, and although it retreated but not chaotically, it was far from the time of rout.
But looking at the red block of the map constantly moving back, it still makes people feel very worried, Chun Yubo's father and daughter are still stable, and they didn't say anything, but Li Yinghong was a little depressed, and said: "The current situation is not very favorable to us, it is not good to go on like this, do you want to add some more troops." ”
Gao Yuan shook his head and said, "No, the current situation is just right, although the Qin army has a certain advantage on the surface, it is too early to defeat us?" Therefore, it is not yet time to increase the number of troops. ”
Li Yinghong said: "Then when will we increase our troops." ”
Gao Yuan glanced at the direction of the Qin army's rear formation in the distance, and said, "Wait until the Qin army increases its strength." ”
At this time, in the rear of the Qin army, Han Teng and his generals were once again in a dilemma, and the reason was that it was very ridiculous, and now the Qin army had the advantage on the scene, but Han Teng and the others did not know how to deal with it.
It turned out that as the Qin army advanced on the battlefield and constantly pushed the battlefield to the side of the army, this result was indeed somewhat unexpected by Han Teng, was it difficult for him to really defeat the plateau in this battle? However, Han Teng and his five god generals did not dare to despise Gao Yuan, so they all agreed that Gao Yuan did this for another purpose, but what was the goal? It becomes a question in everyone's heart.
However, Cao Wuxian was a person who understood the art of war, so he first came up with the answer and said: "My lord, according to my subordinates, the plateau is deliberately retreating, inducing our army to advance and get close to the array of the Dai army. In this way, his cavalry under the mountainous arrangement on the left flank could enter the battlefield and crush our army in one fell swoop; And on the right side, the men and horses he ambushed in the dense forest can also suddenly kill, and hit us by surprise, even if we send reinforcements, but they are too far away, it is difficult to rescue the extreme, once the front army is defeated, the defeated army is crushed for thousands of miles, I am afraid that even the reinforcements will be scattered. ”
Han Teng nodded and said, "That is to say, when the plateau was arranged like this, such a tactic had already been prepared, that is, to lure our army to the vicinity of his array, and then kill us with superior forces and quickly defeat us." ”
Cao Wuxian nodded and said, "It should be like this." ”
Han Teng raised his head and glanced in the opposite direction, and said, "Sure enough, it's a good tactic, so how should we deal with it?" ”