It should be said that at this critical moment, Wang Ben still made the right decision. Because there are only 8,000 cavalry under Wang Ben's command now, if there is not enough time to set up a favorable ambush, it is impossible to resist the attack of the 5,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry troops of the Dai army by relying on frontal combat alone, so instead of fighting the Dai army with a disadvantage here, it is better to retreat the men and horses to join the Qin army, and then the two sides work together to fight the Dai army.

Although Wang Ben didn't know if he could repel the pursuit of the Dai army with such an arrangement, there was no other way now but to try.

At this time, the cavalry of the Qin army led by Wang Ben was only more than ten miles away from the Qin army's brigade, and at the speed of the cavalry, it was only a matter of a few minutes to run a distance of more than ten miles, so after a while, Wang Ben led the cavalry and caught up with most of the Qin army. At this time, the cavalry of the era army was only attacking the left and right sides of the Qin army, and the rear of the Qin army had not yet been hit by the Dai army, but the Qin army did not dare to be careless, and was also prepared in the rear and was ready for battle.

After seeing that Wang Ben led the army to arrive, he immediately ordered the cavalry to be divided into two groups, lined up on both sides of the team, and waited for the arrival of the substitute army, and he hurriedly went to Yang Duanhe to discuss countermeasures.

In fact, at this time, Yang Duanhe had just returned to the Qin army's brigade, and was directing the Qin army to arrange a defensive array to resist the attack of the Dai army. ”

Wang Ben hurriedly said: "General, there is nothing to do behind, I led the men and horses to catch up, and now the pursuers of the Dai army have been pursued, and their troops are too many, so I have to lead the cavalry army, merge with the army, and resist the Dai army together." ”

Hearing that Wang Ben withdrew on his own initiative and was not defeated by the Dai Army, Yang Duanhe was a little relieved, and said: "General Wang, how should we resist the pursuit of the Dai Army now?" ”

Wang Ben said: "How is the situation on both sides now?" ”

Yang Duanhe said: "The cavalry on the left and right, together with the cavalry reinforcements, were defeated by the Dai Army, and retreated into the formation, the Dai Army entered our array many times, although we were defeated, but let us be very passive, fortunately, we did not let the Dai Army disrupt our array, and now we can still support it, but if it takes a long time, it is difficult to say, the tactics of the Dai Army are too ghostly, and we are really unable to guard against it." ”

Although Wang Ben sent two thousand cavalry to the Qin army on the left and right to reinforce, but the Dai army outflanked from the left and right was 8,000 cavalry, and found that after the reinforcement cavalry of the Qin army arrived, he immediately concentrated two or three cavalry armies to meet the reinforcements of the Qin army. Fortunately, the cavalry of the Qin army relied on the main formation to respond to the battle, so they all retreated to the main formation.

Wang Ben asked again, "How many cavalry are left now?" ”

Yang Duanhe said: "There are still more than 4,000 people left. ”

Wang Ben nodded, the cavalry army that he had reinforced, plus the protective cavalry army on the left and right flanks, had a total of six thousand cavalry, although he was defeated by the Dai army, but the Qin army still had more than 4,000 cavalry left, and he still maintained considerable combat effectiveness, so Wang Ben thought for a while and said: "General, I will send another thousand cavalry to reinforce you later, concentrate the remaining cavalry army to fight, and launch an attack on only one cavalry of the Dai Army at a time, and defeat the Dai Army in as short a time as possible, if the Dai Army retreats, it cannot be pursued, Just retreat immediately, and then find a new target to attack, as long as you can defeat a few cavalry armies, you can suppress the attack of the representative army. ”

Yang Duanhe listened, nodded again and again, this is exactly the tactic of centralizing and breaking the dispersion, it is indeed a good way to deal with the scattered and multi-point attack of the army, of course, there is really no other way, so he said: "Okay, I will do what you say, so what should you do?" ”

Wang Ben said: "I want to sit in the rear team and command the attack of the resistance army." ”

Now Yang Duanhe also knows that the Dai army chasing from behind is the main force, and the cavalry on the left and right sides are just holding back and themselves, Wang Ben wants to sit in the rear and command the attack of the Dai Army, which is the most important responsibility to take the initiative to take responsibility, so he said: "Okay, arrange it like this, General Wang should be careful." ”

Wang Ben said: "General, now we are only twenty miles away from Yishui, as long as we can withstand the attack of the Dai army and hold on until the Dai army retreats, we will be able to retreat to the south bank of Yishui safely, so we must hold on to this battle no matter what." ”

Yang Duanhe said: "I'm white, General Wang, don't worry, no matter what, I will command the army, resist the attack of the Dai army, and I must hold on until the Dai army retreats." ”

Wang Ben nodded, and then rushed back to the rear team. And Yang Duanhe also immediately ordered to gather all the remaining cavalry of the Qin army, about 4,300 people, Yang Duanhe repeatedly warned the cavalry that after the attack, as long as they repelled the Dai army, they would come back immediately, and they must not pursue. At this time, a thousand cavalry sent by Wang Ben also arrived, and Yang Duanhe merged them with other cavalry to form more than 5,000 cavalry. At this time, there was a cavalry army on the left side that launched an attack on the main formation of the Qin army, and Yang Duanhe immediately ordered the cavalry to attack and attack the army.

It turned out that this Dai army cavalry found that the Qin army had a loose lineup in one place on the battlefield, so it immediately launched an attack on the Qin army, and sure enough, the Qin army's array was very fragile, and it was quickly killed by the Dai army's cavalry, and the Qin army was killed in chaos. And at this moment, the cavalry of the Qin army also killed from the side.

Originally, the cavalry of the Dai army would not engage in a battle with the Qin army, but once the reinforcements of the Qin army arrived, they would immediately leave the battlefield and find another opportunity. But this time it was the cavalry that was killed, and the speed was much faster than that of the ordinary infantry army, so it also caught the Dai army a little off guard, and as a result, it was caught up by the Qin army, and it could only engage the cavalry of the Qin army at close range.

Although the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Dai army was above that of the Qin army, what entered the array of the Qin army was only a thousand cavalry, which was far inferior to the Qin army in terms of numbers, so after the battle between the two sides, the Dai army was obviously invincible and was killed by the Qin army.

However, the Dai army did not want to fight with the Qin army, and seeing that the Qin army was fierce and numerous, they scattered and fled from the Qin army's array. Since the Dai army was all cavalry, and they fled by their own way, it was quite convenient to retreat in this way, and after a while, they all fled from the array of the Qin army. And the Qin army had Yang Duanhe's strict order not to pursue the fleeing army, so the Qin army did not pursue and let the cavalry of the Dai army escape.

However, this time the Dai army was indeed defeated by the Qin army, instead of retreating on its own initiative, and it did lose a lot of troops, leaving at least hundreds of corpses of the Dai army cavalry in the Qin army's array. Therefore, after the withdrawal of the Dai army, the soldiers of the Qin army also let out a burst of cheers, and the whole morale was also boosted, and they immediately began to rearrange the formation, preparing to meet the attack of the Dai army again.

The whole process of the battle, Yang Duanhe saw it in front of him, and couldn't help but feel refreshed, it seemed that this tactic was really effective to break the dispersion with concentration, so after letting the cavalry trim a little, he ordered the cavalry to attack and attack the cavalry of another army.

This Dai army was at a distance of fifty or sixty paces, firing bows and arrows at the array of the Qin army, and when they saw the cavalry of the Qin army killed, they immediately pulled out their horses and retreated, but the Qin army was not completely killed in the array, and the Dai army ran out.

And the Qin army did not dare to pursue lightly, so they had to retreat into the array of the Qin army. Subsequently, the cavalry of the Qin army made two more sorties, one was also to attack the representative army of the Qin army at a long distance; And the other time was to reinforce the Qin army that was killed into the array by the Dai army.

As a result, these two sorties, the Qin army returned in vain, because the Wei Dynasty army was before the Qin army arrived, the retreat at the extreme time made the Qin army run twice in vain, and because the attack points of the Dai army were too many, after the retreat, they could immediately regroup again and attack the Qin army, so it also made the Qin army's cavalry somewhat tired to deal with, and the current battle situation did not change much.

Of course, Yang Duanhe knew that it was not a way to fight like this, and I was afraid that before the Qin army could hold on to the end, the cavalry army would be tired and lay down first. However, after all, Yang Duanhe is also a military general who is proficient in the art of war and has experienced a hundred battles, so he quickly came up with a solution. So he immediately ordered the cavalry to hide in the array of the Qin army, and then ordered a part of the team, under the bow and arrow attack of the Dai army cavalry, to deliberately make a chaotic appearance, so that the Dai army cavalry felt that there was an opportunity to lure the Dai army to attack.

And the cavalry of the Dai army didn't know what to do, seeing that the Qin army's lineup was lax, they really thought that the opportunity had come, and immediately launched an attack on the array of the Qin army.

The Dai army was indeed unprepared that the Qin army still had this hand, and at this time, it was too late to turn around and retreat, so it could only rush up and engage the Qin army's cavalry at close range, and after fighting for a while, find a way to evacuate from the battlefield.

The cavalry on both sides were facing each other head-on, and they suddenly collided together, and immediately people shouted and neighed, swords and guns, and a large number of men and horses on both sides fell to the ground and died. However, after all, the cavalry of the Qin army is a large number of people, even if the losses of both sides are comparable, and even the casualties of the Qin army are greater, they can also afford it, but the Dai army is different, so after the two sides engaged, they withstood the first round of attacks of the Qin army, and the cavalry of the Dai army immediately turned their horses and withdrew from the battlefield.

However, one is that the two sides are now entangled together, and the other is that the cavalry armies of both sides are hedging against each other, and the Qin army has swept through the array of the generation army, so that there is nothing? You can kill it back by pulling out the horse's head, but the Dai army is different, after passing the cavalry of the Qin army, it will immediately face the infantry of the Qin army, so it is not easy to evacuate from the battlefield. Many soldiers were in a hurry to evacuate from the battlefield, only to be killed by pursuit.

Although the time of this battle was not long, less than ten minutes before and after, the losses of the Dai army were extremely large, and when they regrouped, there were only more than 600 people left in a thousand cavalry troops.