But the next day, Han Teng received a report from the spies that the army had withdrawn.

It turned out that after defeating the attack of the Qin army, the Dai army cleaned up the battlefield and collected some weapons, flags, horses, and dozens of Qin army chariots left over from the Qin army, but the losses of the Dai army in this battle were not small.

According to the statistics after the war, a total of 14,177 people were killed in this battle, and another 4,625 people were wounded, of which more than 1,000 were seriously wounded, and the heavy armored cavalry army that fought for the first time, despite its great achievements, the number of dead reached 1,273, 518 were wounded, and about 100 people were seriously wounded.

At the same time, Gao Yuan was also a little lucky, fortunately, he formed a heavy armored cavalry army, otherwise how to deal with the warriors of the Kuabu clan was really difficult to do. Of course, they were also apprehensive about the strong combat effectiveness of the Kwafu warriors, after all, they were able to fight against the heavy armored cavalry with their flesh and blood, and they also caused heavy casualties to the heavy armored cavalry.

However, although the defeat of the Qin army can be regarded as a victory, it has not changed much from the current overall situation, because Yuan Xuan's camp was broken by the Qin army, and now only Jiang Huanwu's army remains. Moreover, in this battle, due to the arrival of the Qin army's reinforcements at the right time, the Dai army did not completely defeat the Qin army, so that the Qin army did not suffer a major blow, its strength was not damaged, and the number of troops that could be used was still more than 150,000, and the total number of Dai troops was currently less than 90,000, so the Qin army must not be underestimated.

In addition, although in this battle, the expression of the heavy cavalry army was very good, and it can be said that it played a role in defending the construction of the battlefield and completely proved that it was correct to establish such a money-burning army in the first place, but Gao Yuan also knew that the heavy armored cavalry could not conquer the world, and there were still many shortcomings that could not be overcome, so it could not be completely pinned on the heavy armored cavalry.

Of course, the Dai army can also mobilize troops from Hongshangsai to reinforce it, but now the goal of the Dai army is not to capture Jingcheng, but to contain the strength of the Qin army, wait for Sima Shang to raid Jijing, and not let the Qin army have enough troops to reinforce the Jijing line. And this goal has obviously been achieved, so there is no need to garrison in front of the well, you can retreat first, waiting for a better opportunity.

So after consulting with the generals, everyone agreed with Gao Yuan's opinion, temporarily retreated from Jingcheng, and waited for the opportunity.

Since all the generals agreed to withdraw their troops, Gao Yuan should not hesitate, taking advantage of the fact that the Qin army had just been defeated, and he was temporarily unable to launch an attack on the large camp of the Dai army, and withdrew his troops as soon as possible, so as not to make the night long and changeable. Therefore, on the second day, the Dai army began to retreat from Jingcheng to Hongshangsai, and three days later, the Dai army was completely evacuated.

And although the Qin army learned that the Dai army had withdrawn, it was really still apprehensive about the Dai army, and the mixed training of the Qin army had not been completed, so it did not pursue the Dai army, so they watched the Dai army retreat.

However, the sudden withdrawal of the Dai army also surprised the generals of the Qin army, but Han Teng was keenly aware that this showed that the heavy armored cavalry of the Dai army was not invincible, and there should be some weaknesses, otherwise the Dai army would not have withdrawn at this time, so he couldn't help but have a little more confidence in Meng Tian's suggestion.

Meng Tian was still unmoved by the actions of the Dai army, and continued to train the chariots, cavalry, and infantry to fight together with 50 chariots, equipped with 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry troops, but in this era, after all, there was rich experience and tactics in chariot combat, and most of the soldiers also had experience in fighting with chariots, so it was not difficult to train.

But Meng Tian still didn't dare to be careless, and commanded the car, cavalry, and infantry troops to carry out two simulated battles, and also brought in three thousand cavalry to conduct exercises on behalf of the army's heavy armored cavalry for training, and the results achieved very good results, because the chariot does not need to be dragged by the war horse, it can drive on its own, although it is much slower than the traditional horse chariot in speed, but there is no restraint of the war horse, the chariot is more flexible and changeable, and the frontal offensive and defensive capabilities are also more powerful, and there are infantry to protect both sides of the chariot, making up for the defensive weakness of the chariot, and the speed is insufficient, It can be made up by the cavalry, so under the coordinated operation of the chariot, cavalry, and infantry army, it has exerted great power, and the cavalry army as a training force is not an opponent at all, and it was defeated.

After Han Teng watched the simulated battle, he also praised the ability of the car, cavalry, and infantry troops trained by Meng Tian, because this combat mode can give full play to the advantages of each branch of the army, and make up for each other's shortcomings, even if it does not rely on the super personal ability of the soldiers, it can also improve the combat effectiveness, not only can fight against the heavy armored cavalry of the representative army, but also can play a great role in other battlefields.

However, in this way, the mixed army with such a chariot and cavalry is a little small, and Bi Jing's current army is less than 5,000 people, so Han Teng allocated another hundred chariots and handed them to Meng Tian, so that Meng Tian could train two more similar armies.

After a few days of training, Meng Tian organized a large-scale confrontation exercise, and the three newly formed mixed armies against the 15,000 cavalry army were used as the most rehearsal exercise for the newly formed mixed army. And specially invited Han Teng, Meng Wu, Li Xin, Xin Sheng, Zhang Han and other generals to watch.

As a result, in this confrontation exercise, the mixed army once again won a big victory. Because in the frontal collision, the cavalry was of course unable to defeat the chariot, and after blocking the cavalry's charge, the cavalry's power was greatly reduced, and the cavalry and infantry accompanying the chariot immediately caught up, and the guns and halberds and swords were all down, and the cavalry was immediately beaten to the ground, and the formation was chaotic, and the whole battle ended in less than half an hour, ending with a great victory for the mixed army.

Although there were more than 500 wounded soldiers in this confrontation exercise, including more than 60 seriously injured soldiers, and more than 200 war horses were also damaged to varying degrees, the result was very satisfactory to Han Teng and others. Although they all knew that the impact of the heavy armored cavalry of the Dai Army was not comparable to that of ordinary cavalry, judging from the course of the battle, the chariot could indeed effectively withstand the impact of the heavy armored cavalry. Therefore, it should be feasible to use a mixed army to deal with a heavy cavalry army.

After the confrontation practice was completed, Meng Tian came to the stage to hand over the order to Han Teng, Han Teng Ha Lu Ha Da Lang smiled, and said: "General Meng is really well trained, with such an army, why should we be afraid of the armored cavalry of the army?" ”

Meng Tian said: "There, there, the general talks too much, in fact, it is thanks to these chariots made by the general, if there are no chariots, it is difficult to achieve such an effect if you still use the previous horse chariot, so the last general will not dare to attack it." ”

In fact, what Meng Tian said was also the truth, the core of the mixed army of chariots, cavalry, and infantry was still the chariot, and only these new chariots made by Han Teng could play the role of the core, and the old-fashioned horse-drawn chariots could not actually meet the needs of the battlefield.

Han Teng nodded, and said: "It's General Meng who is too humble, now that we have stopped our troops and trained a mixed army of chariots, cavalry, and infantry, shouldn't we launch an attack on the Dai army, I heard that General Wang, who captured Jijing, has sent Wang Ben and Yang Duanhe to lead the army to attack and attack on Lushanggu County." This time out of the battle, my Daqin two lines attack, now General Wang Shang has captured Jijing, and our line has not achieved anything, if General Wang Shang decides to take Shanggu County again, and after returning to Xianyang, what face do we have to meet the king, so you think, how should we march to Hongshangsai. ”

Han Teng's words made Li Xin, Xin Sheng, Zhang Han and others quite moved, because the Qin State is the most important military merit, the Qin people are still martial and competitive, and the generals of the Qin army are naturally eager to make meritorious contributions, unwilling to be left behind, and this time out of the war, the Qin army on this line of Jing Cheng is very unsmooth, and the Dai army has repeatedly pulled the distance within a distance of more than 100 miles between Jing Cheng and Hongshang, and now for this reason, the Qin army has lost more than 60,000 troops, including a large number of chariots, and nearly half of the Kuafu soldiers, although the casualties of the Dai army are not small, but on the whole, The Dai army seems to have a little advantage, and compared to the Qin army led by Wang Jian on the other line, it is indeed much inferior.

Although before the battle, he had already formulated the strategy of containing the first line of Jingcheng and the main attack of Jijing, and Wang Jian was able to successfully capture Jijing, there was some element of luck, and he couldn't help but not encounter the obstruction of the Dai army, and it was just in time for the internal turmoil in the Yan Kingdom, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a good luck beggar. However, meritorious service is meritorious service, which also makes Li Xin, Xin Sheng, Zhang Han and others feel somewhat disgraced, and of course they also hope to make some breakthroughs on this front and establish some military exploits. And now that the Qin army still has a total of about 180,000 troops, Meng Tian has trained a mixed army of chariots, cavalry, and infantry, which can basically resist the heavy armored cavalry of the Dai army, so it is time to launch an attack on the Dai army. Don't wait to see Wang Jian make meritorious contributions.

After everyone's deliberation, the Qin army finally made a decision, this time to send troops to attack Hongshangsai, will be divided into two routes, one left and one right march, with the left army as the main attack, a total of 70,000 troops, thought that Li Xin was the main general, Meng Tian was the deputy general, and the three mixed armies were the core; The strength of the right side is 30,000, and the responsibility is to contain the forces that attract the representative army, the main will be Xin Sheng, the deputy general Zhang Han, and the two roads will advance together. Han Teng and Meng Wu led 30,000 troops, and then responded as two ways.