At this time, Yang Duanhe also saw Wang Ben's embarrassment, so he said: "General Wang, I think I will leave you another 5,000 troops." ”

Wang Ben thought about it for a while, and finally nodded, after all, he reduced his troops by one-third, and he really needed to replenish it, although the combat effectiveness of the infantry army was not as good as that of the cavalry army, but it was always good to have five thousand more troops.

Yang Duanhe was just about to set off, only to see another horse galloping over, the knight on horseback rolled the saddle and fell off the horse, and he didn't have time to salute the two, so he hurriedly said: "Report to the two generals, and another cavalry army of the army will kill from the right side of our army, please send reinforcements to the two generals quickly." ”

Wang Ben and Yang Duanhe couldn't help but be taken aback, there were still people in the Dai Army, what should they do now? Do you need to send more cavalry to support you? Now there are 8,000 cavalry left under Wang Ben's command, if reinforcements are sent to reinforce it, then how many cavalry troops can be used to set up ambushes?

And just when Wang Ben hadn't come up with a decision, he saw two more war horses galloping to the left and right, and reported to the two that on the right side of the Qin army, an attacking cavalry of the Dai Army was found, and on the left side of the Qin Army, there were also two cavalry troops of the Dai Army who came over.

At this time, even Wang Ben was a little panicked, how many cavalry troops had been sent by the Dai army to attack on both sides of the Qin army, and how would the Qin army respond to the battle, and whether to send more reinforcements?

It turned out that Yang Duanhe gave up the camp and led the army to retreat overnight, and after the Qin army's acting army commander Chen Zhi only left the wounded soldiers and logistics soldiers to pack up his own and the Qin army's camp, and led about 50,000 troops to set off lightly, rushed to Jijing, and joined Sima Shang.

At this time, Sima Shang, who was in Jijing, sent an army to pursue the Qin army of Wang Ben's department, but was ambushed and defeated by Wang Ben, so he discussed with Chen Shi how to pursue the Qin army, and the Qin army must not be allowed to retreat to the south bank of Yishui so lightly.

After the two joined forces, the total strength reached more than 75,000 people, of which about 23,000 were cavalry, which can be said to be sufficient troops. However, the failure of the pursuit of Wang Benbu also made the two more vigilant, after all, the Qin army is well-trained, and the main generals of the Qin army are proficient in the art of war, so they will naturally guard against the pursuit of the substitute army, so it is not easy to pursue the Qin army, and if you don't get it, you will be caught off guard by the Qin army's backhand.

However, the advantage of the Dai army lies in the large number of cavalry, and because of the guidance of the plateau, the tactical use of the cavalry by the Dai army is also a level higher than that of this era. Launched multiple and multiple attacks on the Qin army, not seeking to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop, but mainly harassing and fighting tactics, so that the Qin army was tired of coping.

Sima Shang and Chen Shi personally led the remaining 5,000 cavalry troops, plus 30,000 infantry troops, to chase after the Qin army, on the one hand, to attract the attention of the Qin army and cover the roundabout cavalry on the left and right; On the other hand, after the cavalry on both sides launched an attack on the Qin army, when the Qin army was exhausted, a full-scale attack was launched from behind the Qin army.

Sure enough, after a wide range of detours, the cavalry of the Dai army bypassed the broken Wang Benbu cavalry and entered the positions on both sides of the Qin army, but the Qin army arranged a thousand cavalry on each side to protect it, so the Dai army on both sides coincidentally sent a cavalry army composed of two or three thousand cavalry teams to fight with the cavalry of the Qin army, and dispersed the other cavalry into a thousand cavalry units, from multiple directions, to attack the Qin army.

Therefore, when it came to Wang Ben's side, he didn't know how many cavalry troops the Dai army had sent to attack the Qin army, which made Wang Ben feel at a loss for the other.

Although Wang Ben is proficient in the art of war, and has also experienced the battlefield for a long time, and has realized the importance of the cavalry, after all, he has not used the cavalry for a long time, and he is not familiar with the tactics of the cavalry, and he still needs to explore, so when formulating the battle plan, he still unconsciously applies the traditional tactics of the chariot and infantry, and in the tactics of the chariot and infantry, the pursuit operation is basically a straight line pursuit from behind the enemy, and after catching up with the enemy, a small number of troops are divided into a small number of troops, and the attack is flanked from both sides, and there is no large-scale at all. Large-scale roundabout outflanking concepts.

When Wang Ben formulated the tactics to deal with the pursuit of the representative army, he also considered it on the basis of passing the first skill, focusing on dealing with the straight pursuit of the representative army behind him, and the protection of the two sides was obviously insufficient. Of course, the army of the Dai Army has been hanging behind the Qin army, which has also strengthened Wang Ben's idea, and now in the face of the multi-point attack of the Dai army from both flanks, Wang Ben really didn't know how to deal with it, and he was a little at a loss for a while.

However, the attack of the Dai army will not stop because of the hesitation of the Qin army, although the Dai army on the left and right sides of the army each divided a part of the cavalry to fight with the Qin army, but the remaining cavalry army is enough to divide into four or five thousand cavalry teams to attack the Qin army.

Although because of the protected cavalry, the Qin army had a certain amount of time to prepare, so the Qin army also lined up the array and was ready to fight, but who would have thought that the Dai army would actually divide the troops into several ways and launch a multi-point attack, which is indeed a bit of a loss for the other; And the Dai army is not indiscriminate, to the Qin army's array to launch a strong attack, but to use the tactics of guerrilla, once found that the Qin army has arranged the array, of course, will not charge melee, but far away with a bow and arrow, and once found that there is a loophole in the Qin army's array, it will not hesitate to attack, a burst of fierce killing, the Qin army's array to disrupt, if there are other Qin troops to come to the rescue, immediately withdraw from the battlefield, attack with bows and arrows, and patiently look for the next opportunity to attack.

In the face of such an almost lazy style of play, the Qin army has no choice, because the speed of the cavalry is too fast, coming and going like the wind, the Qin army can only deal with it passively, even if the representative army leaves, it does not dare to have any slackness, as long as it is a slight negligence, the cavalry of the representative army will immediately come back and attack the Qin army, and every assault of the representative army will make the Qin army suffer dozens of casualties and still more than 100 people, and the representative army will only suffer a few casualties at most.

Repeated killings like this, although the formation of the Qin army can not be scattered all at once, but it makes the Qin army tired to deal with, extremely passive, like a group of wolves pounced on the giant elephant, although the size of the two sides is far apart, the wolf can not bite the giant elephant to death, but every attack, can bite off a piece of meat from the body of the giant elephant, although it can not cause fatal damage to the giant elephant, but after a while, the giant elephant will be bitten all over the scales, bloody, although the body of the giant elephant is huge, but if it is a long time, it can also not stand it.

The Qin army could only passively respond to the battle on the one hand, and constantly send people to ask Wang Ben for help. Because to deal with such guerrilla tactics as the Dai Army, the infantry obviously has no good way, and only the cavalry can fight against the Dai Army, and now most of the cavalry of the Qin Army is concentrated under Wang Ben's command, who will not go to Wang Ben's rescue?

But now Wang Ben also has a hard time, at the beginning, Wang Ben can still separate troops and reinforce the Qin army everywhere, but with the full development of the attack of the Dai army, there are too many points of attack, the left and right wings combined, there are no less than ten offensive positions, Wang Ben does not know how to arrange troops to rescue.

If it is a mediocre commander leading the army, at this time, it may be necessary to adopt the same tactics of dividing troops to deal with it, that is, how many armies the enemy army is dispersed into, and how many armies he himself is scattered into to respond to the battle, although this way of dealing with it is not the best way, but at least it can withstand a while. However, Wang Ben is a person who is proficient in the art of war, and naturally knows that concentrating troops is the right way to use troops, and such a bold dispersion of troops by the representative army is obviously against the common sense of the art of war.

However, what made Wang Ben puzzled was that the tactics of the Dai Army, which obviously violated the way of using troops, seemed to be very effective, at least it made the Qin army tired and unable to prevent it, I don't know what the truth is, but of course Wang Ben will not draw a gourd in the same way, and it will be wrong.

The concentration and dispersion of its practical troops is not absolute, but should be decided according to the actual situation of the battlefield and the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, because the representative army is a cavalry army, with strong mobility, fast and flexible, and can fight if it wins, and run away if it can't be beaten, and there is no need to be afraid of being divided and surrounded by the enemy, even if it is scattered by the enemy, it can quickly leave the battlefield, reorganize the army, and engage the enemy again, so that the troops can be calmly dispersed.

Of course, Wang Ben did not think about it, using the tactics of centralized destruction and dispersion, that is, to concentrate the cavalry under his own command to attack the scattered forces of the representative army, if he can completely break one or two cavalry armies of the representative army, so that he may be able to suppress the offensive forces of the representative army, then the outcome of this battle may not be known.

However, the pursuit of the Dai army is not only a roundabout outflanking on the two flanks, but also a strong concentration of troops in the middle road, including 5,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry troops, in terms of strength alone, it is twice the strength of the left and right wings, and it is also led by Sima Shang, the two main generals of the Dai army, personally commanded, so the attack on the two wings is actually only to contain and consume the Qin army, and the straight pursuit in the middle is the main force of the frontal attack on the Qin army.

Just when Wang Ben was about to lead the army to reinforce the Qin army on the left and right flanks, Sima Shang and Chen Shi led the Dai army brigade that had been behind the Qin army in the middle, and finally began to accelerate their efforts and chase after the Qin army.

And after Wang Ben learned about it, he not only smiled bitterly, but also knew the general trend of the Qin army and left, because at this time, Wang Ben only had 8,000 cavalry left, not to mention that it was too late to set up an ambush now, even if it was an ambush, I am afraid it would be difficult to stop the pursuit and attack of the Dai army, and even if it blocked the Dai army, what could it be, on the left and right flanks of the Qin army, it was being attacked by the Dai army in turn.

Therefore, Wang Ben immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, immediately catch up with the Qin army's brigade, and after joining the Qin army, then engage the Dai army.