Chapter 605: The Qin Army's Return (2)
After Yang Duanhe and Wang Ben heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked and angry, because some time ago, the Qin army went to challenge the Dai army almost every day, but no matter how the Qin army challenged, the Dai army just closed the camp door and couldn't hold out, and now the Qin army was about to divide its troops back to aid Jijing, but the Dai army ran to challenge the Qin army, which naturally couldn't help but make people feel angry.
However, when the two calmed down, they had to admit that the time point of the Dai Jun was indeed just right, because now that Jijing is lost, the Qin Army is anxious to return to the army to recover Jijing, and only hopes to confront the Dai Army, the more calm the better, at this time it is natural to have no intention of fighting with the Dai Army, so the Dai Jun is now challenging the Qin Army, which also makes the Qin Army very difficult.
In the end, Yang Duanhe, Wang Ben, and Feng Qing briefly discussed, and thought that at this time, the Qin army must not fight, and Jijing could not be saved, so Wang Ben and Feng Qing led 20,000 troops to leave the camp to recapture Jijing, and Yang Duanhe stayed in the camp, led the army to fight, and fought with the Dai army, and after the battle with the Dai army, he sent reinforcements to Wang Ben and Feng Qing to transport grain, grass, materials, baggage and other things.
After discussing and deciding, the Qin army immediately divided its troops, Wang Ben and Feng Qing set off with the army and rushed to Jijing, while Yang Duanhe led the Qin army to battle.
It turned out that after the successful raid on Jijing, Sima Shang immediately used the flying bird to tell Chen Shi, who was leading the army to confront the Qin army. After receiving Sima Shang's summons, Chen Shi couldn't help but be very excited, and immediately informed the whole army. After the soldiers of the Dai army learned of this result, they were naturally excited and their morale was high, and then Chen Shicai gave the order to lead the army to fight and challenge the Qin army.
Originally, some time ago, the Dai army had been holding on without fighting, and the soldiers' momentum was a little unbearable, and now that they learned that Jijing had been raided by Sima Shang, they were even more demoralized, and they all wanted to fight with the Qin army. Therefore, all of them are high-spirited and full of self-confidence.
It can be said that if the Qin army really closes its doors and does not fight, the momentum of the Dai army will be higher, so Yang Duanhe's decision to go to war is very correct, at this time, the news of the loss of Jijing has not yet come out, except for a few people, most of the soldiers of the Qin army do not know, they also want to fight with the Dai army, in terms of morale is not worse than the Dai army, and it is completely possible to fight with the Dai army.
Sure enough, Yang Duanhe led the army to battle, and the two sides launched a fierce battle outside the camp of the Qin army, this time the troops on both sides exceeded 20,000 people, and it was also the first battle that exceeded the scale of more than 10,000 people, and it was also the largest battle since the two armies of the Qin Dynasty engaged on the border of the Yan Dynasty.
However, although the morale of the Dai army was high, but because the soldiers of the Qin army did not know the news of the loss of Jijing, the military spirit was not affected in any way, and the Qin army's strong combat effectiveness was still maintained during the battle, and it was not under the Dai army, as a result, the two sides fought fiercely for more than three hours, and each suffered two or three thousand casualties, and in the end it was still a win, so they each collected their troops and returned to the camp.
After the end of the battle on this day, Yang Duanhe also breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, today finally withstood the Dai Army, I only hope that after the Dai Army sees that the Qin Army still maintains a strong combat effectiveness, it will be prudent to resume the confrontation again, even if it is only for two or three days, it can also free up the Qin Army, after all, the top priority of the Qin Army now is not to defeat the opposing Dai Army, but to recover Jijing first.
But the next day, the Dai army came to challenge the Qin army again, and Yang Duanhe did not dare to be careless, so he had to lead the army to fight again, and fought another big battle with the Dai army. And this time the Dai army invested 30,000 troops, and the Qin army was forced to send more than 30,000 troops to fight with the Dai army, so the battle also escalated again, reaching the level of 50,000 people, which can be regarded as a large-scale war.
As a result, the two sides fought fiercely for another day, and in the end each suffered more than 3,000 casualties, but they still did not win or lose, and they each withdrew their troops again. And Yang Duanhe did not dare to send reinforcements to Wang Ben and Feng Qing, because after Wang Ben led the 20,000 troops to leave, the Qin army was less than 50,000, and after two days of fierce fighting, the casualties of the Qin army exceeded 5,000, and no one dared to guarantee that the army would not come to challenge the Qin army again on the third day.
Sure enough, on the third day, Chen Shi once again led the Dai army to challenge the Qin army. And Yang Duanhe also led the army to meet again, and the two sides fought fiercely for another day, each suffering another three or four thousand casualties, and then withdrawing the troops.
After the two sides fought against each other for more than ten days, they fought fiercely for three days in a row, the scale was not small, and the casualties were more than 8,000, but Chen Zhi had the bottom of his heart, because now he still had more than 60,000 combatable troops under his command, and he did not break his muscles and bones; The Dai army has captured Jijing and occupies the absolute initiative, and there are still 100,000 reserve troops in Dai County, so even if their own army and the Qin army are exhausted, they can be replenished immediately. So on the fourth day, Chen Shi led his army to attack again, and then challenged the Qin army.
And Yang Duanhe is now a little unbearable, firstly, the strength of the Qin army was originally less than 50,000, and after three days of fierce fighting, there are only more than 40,000 remaining combatable soldiers, if it fights like this for another three days, the Qin army may not be able to consume; Second, on the third day, Wang Ben sent a letter to Yang Duanhe, urging Yang Duanhe to send reinforcements.
It turned out that at this time, Wang Ben led the Qin army, and had arrived at the Xiazhai near Jijing, and the army had occupied Jijing, and the four gates were closed tightly, and the city was strictly guarded. And Wang Ben collected hundreds of remnants of the Qin army on the outskirts of Jijing, and dozens of soldiers escaped from Jijing City. After Wang Ben's detailed inquiry, it can now be basically confirmed that the strength of the Dai army's raid on Jijing is not less than 20,000, and Wang Jian is indeed trapped in Jijing City, and he does not know whether he is alive or dead, and some soldiers also told Wang Ben that he saw Wang Jian lead the army back to the mansion and garrison, surrounded by the Dai army, but no one knows whether Wang Jian is alive or dead now.
Wang Ben was worried about his father's safety and was very anxious; Second, he still has a certain hope, if his father was only captured by Dai Junsheng, and not killed in battle, then as long as Jijing is captured, there is still hope of rescuing his father. It's just that although Wang Ben brought 20,000 troops, but because he set off lightly, he didn't bring siege equipment, of course, he couldn't attack Jijing, and even the grain and grass with the army were not much, three days later, Yang Duanhe still didn't see Yang Duanhe sending follow-up troops and baggage, but the grain and grass in his army were almost eaten, so Wang Ben was also a little unbreathable, so he wrote a letter to urge Yang Duanhe, and asked him to quickly send the follow-up army, baggage and siege equipment to himself.
In fact, at this time, Yang Duanhe was also anxious, there was a representative army in front of him who was aggressive, and Wang Ben was constantly urging himself in the back, so in desperation, Yang Duanhe did not dare to send troops to meet the representative army, so he had to give an order to order the Qin army to stick to the camp and not fight with the representative army, and at the same time transferred 10,000 troops, escorting some grain, grass and equipment, and rushed to reinforce Wang Ben.
And the movement of the Qin army's troops, naturally, could not be concealed from the spies of the Dai army, and they immediately reported it to Chen Zhi. Chen Shi immediately announced to the Dai army that the Qin army had learned the news of the loss of Jijing, so he was too timid to send troops to fight the Dai army, and ordered the Dai army to launch an attack on the Qin army's camp and completely defeat the Qin army in one go.
After three days of fierce fighting with the Qin army, it did mobilize the feelings of the Dai army, and now that the Qin army was closed without fighting, it was obvious that the Qin army was afraid, so the morale of the whole army was raised again, and after receiving Chen Zhi's order, he immediately launched a tidal attack on the Qin army's camp.
Because there was no large-scale battle between the two sides for more than ten days, so both sides also had enough time to strengthen their own camps, although some time ago, the Qin army was the party that took the initiative to challenge, but Yang Duanhe and Wang Ben are all experienced in battle, proficient in the art of war, of course, they will not forget their own defense, and build the fortifications of the camp very strong, of course, the defense of the camp of the Dai army is not under the Qin army, so the Qin army does not dare to attack the camp of the Dai army, that is, they are afraid that their casualties will be too great.
However, the Dai army did not have any scruples in this regard, so they fought bravely one by one and launched an attack on the camp of the Qin army. And although Yang Duanhe ordered to stick to the camp and not go to war, it did hurt the morale of the Qin army a little, but Yang Duanhe's secrecy work was very good, at this time the Qin army did not know that Jijing had lost, and the morale of the army was not greatly affected, and at the same time, he also felt that the army was too deceitful and too much, a few days ago, the Qin army had not dared to attack the camp of the army, and now that the shape was reversed, the army actually attacked the camp of the Qin army in turn, which was too indifferent to the Qin army.
Therefore, the Qin army, under the command of Yang Duanhe, relied on camp walls, trenches, arrow towers and other fortifications to resist the attack of the Dai army. Although the strength of the Qin army at this time was significantly less than that of the Dai army, because it was now on the defensive side, it was necessary to have a certain advantage, and it could also make up for the lack of strength of the Qin army from a considerable distance. As a result, under the onslaught of the Dai army round after round, the Qin army always firmly held the camp and did not give the Dai army any chance.
After another day of fierce fighting, the corpses of the Dai army were already covered around the Qin army's camp, but the Qin army's camp was still impregnable, and Chen Zhi saw that it was difficult to capture the Qin army's camp, so he had to order the troops to be withdrawn. The casualties of the Dai army in the first battle were nearly 4,000, while the casualties of the Qin army were only more than 1,000 people, it can be said that although the Qin army could not be regarded as a victory, it did have a certain advantage. Therefore, when the Dai army withdrew, many Qin soldiers made cheers.
However, Yang Duanhe did not have the slightest joy in his heart, because the attitude of the Dai army to resolutely attack regardless of casualties was indeed a bit unexpected by Yang Duanhe, and Yang Duanhe didn't know how long the Qin army would be able to hold out now, as long as the news of the loss of Jijing was announced, the Qin army's military spirit would immediately disperse, and that was when the Qin army collapsed.