The altar where the Triple Alliance was held was a square, divided into three layers, the upper middle and the lower layer, with the side length of the lower layer being 36 zhang 8 feet and the height of the lower layer being 2 zhang 8 feet; The side length of the middle layer is 18 zhang 4 feet, and the height is 1 zhang 4 feet; The side length of the third layer is nine zhang and two feet; Seven feet six inches tall, it looks a bit like a pyramid structure. The total area is slightly larger than a standard football field. The altar faces the water, so it only needs to be held in three directions.

There are a total of 9,000 soldiers in the Three Kingdoms, and each of them brought a hundred chariots, but the chariots of Qi and Chu are all traditional four-horse chariots, while the chariots of the Han Kingdom are new designs and can drive the chariots of battle by themselves, respectively, forty arrow chariots, forty thunderbolt chariots, and twenty Ruyi chariots, but in the usual march, they still use war horses, and only when it comes to battle, they use self-power.

Gao Yuan immediately ordered the armies of the three kingdoms to defend one side, the Han army to defend the north, the Chu army to defend the west, and the Qi army to defend the east. He also ordered the armies of Qi and Chu to line up the chariots in front of the altar, spread them horizontally, and divide them into two columns, and untie the horses that pulled the chariots to the rear, and fix the chariots on the ground, and each chariot was equipped with fifteen soldiers in addition to the three soldiers who drove the chariots, and arranged them into a defensive line with the chariots as the basis, totaling 1,800 people, while the remaining 1,200 soldiers were arranged on the middle and lower altars, and the archers were arranged on the lower altars.

The military structure of the Han army was different from that of Qi and Chu, each chariot was equipped with five soldiers, and in addition to a hundred chariots, there were also five hundred cavalry, so Gao Yuan ordered that the chariots be placed in front of the altar, but only in a row, and each chariot was equipped with ten soldiers to assist in the defense, and ordered the five hundred cavalry to go out immediately, hide in the southeast direction, and wait for the order of the plateau, and the remaining 1,000 soldiers were lined up on the altar.

At this time, the kings of the three kingdoms, the main ministers of the three kingdoms, and others had all retreated to the third layer of the altar, and a row of shields was set up around the altar to protect everyone.

When the Three Kingdoms received the report of the Qin army's attack, the Qin army was only fifteen miles away from the altar, and at the speed of the cavalry, it was only a few minutes, but the Qin army came from afar, and it was one person with two horses, and when launching the attack, it still needed to make some adjustments, such as changing horses, dressing up, etc., so it also delayed a lot of time, and it took almost half an hour for the Qin army to kill the altar closer.

However, at this time, except for the Han army, the armies of Qi and Chu had not yet arranged a defensive array, firstly, because there was still a considerable gap between the armies of Qi and Chu and the Han army, and naturally they were not as clean as the Han army; Second, the arrangement of the plateau also greatly violated the ordinary training and deployment habits of the armies of Qi and Chu, so the arrangement was naturally much slower.

However, the arrangement of the Han army in the north of the altar is exactly the direction in which the Qin army has come to kill, so it can first face the attack of the Qin army with a properly arranged defensive array, which is naturally calculated by the plateau a long time ago.

Although Wang Zhang, the chief general of the Qin army, is not as good as Wang Ben's military ability, he is also a general who has experienced a hundred battles and has been on the battlefield for a long time. Moreover, in Wang Ben's training of cavalry, Wang Zhang was also Wang Ben's main assistant, because in terms of using cavalry to fight, Wang Zhang could be regarded as the second person after Wang Ben in Qin, so after Wang Ben received the order of Qin Wangzheng to prohibit himself from personally leading the army to raid Taoyi, he appointed Wang Zhang as the leading general of the army this time.

Wang Zhang has been training the cavalry for nearly two years, although he has carried out several training operations, but it is the first time to participate in the actual combat of the cavalry, although the appearance of the cavalry in the training confrontation is very good, but what is the effect of the actual combat, Wang Zhang's heart has no bottom, after all, this time to run more than 200 miles of long distances, but also to cross the Qin-Qi border, in case of being discovered by the border guards of the Qi State, ambushing the Qin army halfway, the consequences are naturally very strict. In the history of the Qin State, something similar happened.

In the twenty-fourth year of King Xiang of Zhou (628 BC), Qin Mugong learned that the kings of Zheng and Jin were newly mourned, and did not listen to the persuasion of the minister Jian Shu and others, and insisted on sending the generals Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing to lead a large army, cross the territory of the Jin State, and attack Zheng State from afar.

When the Qin army arrived in Huaguo (now Yanshi Town, Yanshi County, Henan), the merchant of Zheng Guo happened to meet Zheng Guo's merchant Xiangao pretending to be Zheng Guo's envoy to reward the Qin army with four cowhides and twelve cows, and at the same time Xiangao sent people back to China to call the police. Meng Ming thought that Zheng Guo was prepared and did not dare to enter again, so he attacked and destroyed the Slippery State and returned with a load of spoils.

However, the Qin army was ambushed by the Jin army when it went to the Kunshan Pass, and the whole army was annihilated, Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, Bai Yibing and other three marshals were captured, this is the famous battle of food in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it is also a rare tragic defeat in the history of the Qin State, although more than 300 years have passed, the Zheng State has long been destroyed, and the Jin State was divided by the Zhao, Wei and Han families, and has been incorporated into the Qin State, but this defeat is still regarded as an important lesson in the Qin State.

Wang Zhang, as a family of military generals of the Qin State, naturally knew the battle of the cuisine, so when he crossed the Qin-Qi border, he was also worried, for fear of being ambushed by the Qi army, but the speed of the cavalry was far from being comparable to the previous chariots, although when crossing the Qin-Qi border, the Qin army was only less than fifteen miles away from the camp of the Qi garrison, but because the Qin army was too fast, the Qi army did not find the movement of the Qin army that was close at hand. As a result, the Qin army crossed the border for most of the day, and the Qi army found a large number of traces of horses' hooves, but it was too late.

After successfully crossing the Qin-Qi border, Wang Zhang couldn't help but increase his confidence, because after crossing the Qin-Qi border, it was only more than 50 miles away from Taoyi, and at this time he learned from the spies that now the three kingdoms are holding an alliance ceremony outside Taoyi, and each country only brought 3,000 troops, a total of only 9,000 people, and there is no city wall to garrison, so Wang Zhang was overjoyed, this is a rare opportunity, so he also changed the route of the Qin army, went around to the southwest of Taoyi, and cut off the return route of the people and horses of the three kingdoms to Taoyi. Then he went in the direction of the altar.

When it was about ten miles away from the altar, Wang Zhang ordered the whole army to rest temporarily, replace the horses, and throw down the baggage, reorganize the team, and go into battle lightly.

After a short rest, the Qin army lined up the battle formation, restarted again, and rushed in the direction of the altar.

At a distance of more than ten miles, even if the war horse did not gallop at full strength, it would not take much time, so after a while, the altar appeared in Qin Jun's field of vision.

Although at this time, the Han army had relied on the chariot and lined up the defensive formation, but Wang Zhang had been in the battle formation for a long time, and naturally saw that the defensive force was not much, but more than a hundred chariots, plus the soldiers equipped, at most about 1,500 people, and he commanded 15,000 cavalry, the number was far more than the opponent, in the usual training of the Qin cavalry, under the same number of circumstances, the infantry could not resist the cavalry assault at all, although the enemy still had a hundred chariots, but the cavalry of the Qin army had also specially practiced and chariot battles, Therefore, Wang Zhang was full of confidence in breaking through the enemy's defense line, believing that with just one charge, the enemy's defense line could be completely destroyed.

However, after the distance was closer, Wang Zhang also saw that there were still some soldiers stationed on the high platform, of course Wang Zhang knew that it was impossible for the cavalry to attack the high platform, so Wang Zhang immediately made a decision and ordered the whole army to be divided into three parts, first send 5,000 cavalry to attack the enemy's defense line, and 5,000 cavalry dismounted to follow, once the cavalry broke through the enemy's defense line, the infantry immediately launched an attack on the high platform. The remaining 5,000 cavalry troops were used as reserves, waiting for the opportunity to move. Although Wang Zhang had always taken the lead and charged into battle in the past, he now had to command the whole army to fight, so he could only stay in the rear.

However, it should be said that Wang Zhang's arrangement is quite thorough, and it is deeply integrated with the art of war, although the defense line of the assault Han army is only 5,000 cavalry, and it seems that the strength is scattered, but because the defense line of the Han army is not large, the combat surface is very limited, even if all the 15,000 cavalry troops are sent, it cannot be fully developed, and the effect is actually no different from dispatching 5,000 cavalry. Therefore, Wang Zhang was also very satisfied with his arrangement, and after mobilizing the five thousand cavalry, he immediately raised the halberd in his hand and shouted: "Kill." ”

The 5,000 cavalry who were the first to go to battle immediately urged their horses, raised their weapons high, lined up in a dense horizontal formation, and rushed towards the Han army's defense line.

The dense impact of the 5,000 cavalry army is also quite amazing, and the rapid rise and fall of 20,000 horses' hooves trampling on the earth, making a dull sound like rolling thunder, and the dust raised covers the sky and the sun, which is indeed a great shock for people who rarely see the dense charging scene of the cavalry in Qi and Chu.

Qi Wangjian's face was pale, and even his lips trembled, if it weren't for the two attendants around him to support him, he would almost not even be able to stand steadily; And although the appearance of the king of Chu is better than that of the king of Qi, it is not much better, his face is stiff, his throat is dry, and he opened his mouth several times, but he can't say a word.

And the ministers of Qi and Chu, although some people have also seen cavalry battles, such as Xiang Dong and Xiang Liang brothers, and some have not seen them, such as Tian Kezang, but at this time, they are all dignified, and they don't even dare to come out. Only Xiang Yu looked excited, and actually squeezed to the edge of the high platform, staring intently at the audience, his hands clenched into fists, as if he also wanted to go down to the battle. Only the ministers of the Han State, such as Chun Yubo, Chun Yu Zhongxiu, Zhang Liang and others, looked calm, and Chun Yubo and Zhang Liang also exchanged heads and ears from time to time, and pointed at the audience, as if they were evaluating the Qin army.

At this time, some people suddenly remembered, why didn't they see the plateau this time, and then looked closely, it turned out that the plateau was not on the high platform at this time, but went down to the east under the platform to command the deployment of the Qi army.