Chapter 112: Attack Tactics
The first to strike at the Qin army was a rain of arrows, because at this time the battle line of the Zhao army was extremely open, almost along the ranks of the Qin army, on both sides of the mountain road rampant spread out into a column, so every soldier was able to open the bow and release arrows, and for a while the arrows rained down, all shot at the Qin army's grain transport team in the mountain road.
The Qin army's grain transportation team really did not expect that it would encounter an ambush by the Zhao army on the way, and the 5,000 Qin troops accompanying it were not so much to protect the grain transportation team as to supervise and urge the grain transportation team. It was indeed unprepared, but when the arrows flew out of the woods on both sides of the mountain road, the soldiers of the Qin army were completely stunned, until the first wave of arrow rain fell, and hundreds of Qin soldiers and civilian servants fell to the ground and were injured by arrows. The others came back to their senses and hurriedly dodged.
Fortunately, the grain carts of the Qin army were divided into two or three columns, so there was still a place to hide.
At this time, Gao Yuan pulled out his saber, roared, and the horse was killed from the woods, and the sword flashed, and the two Qin soldiers were cut to the ground, and behind him, Li Yinghong, Wu Hongyan, Zhong Sun Qi, Wu Zhanpeng and others also followed and killed, and for a while, the guns and bayonets were cut, only to kill the Qin soldiers to the ground, of course, at this time, Zhao Bing couldn't care a lot, not only killed the Qin soldiers, but even the accompanying civilian servants also assassinated a lot.
Although the Qin soldiers also fought hard with the Zhao army at this time, because the Qin army was too scattered, and there was a lack of unified command, and the infantry was indeed unable to compete with the cavalry, and the Zhao army was also divided into ten sections to kill the volley, so the Qin soldiers and civilian servants did not know how many people and horses the Zhao army came for a while, and they did not have a bottom in their hearts, but the resistance of the Qin army did not last long, and they immediately collapsed and collapsed, and fled in all directions.
However, after the Qin army fled, the Zhao army did not pursue, and continued to attack other Qin soldiers, and at this time, the other eight hundred other cavalry troops also came out of the woods one after another, until they were killed by the grain cart where the Zhao army broke up the Qin soldiers' civilian service, and began to burn grain.
When each Zhao soldier set off, he brought a can of grease, and Zhao Bing first poured the grease on the grain cart, then lit a fire and quickly set the grain cart on fire. And whether it is grain or horse feed, it is a very flammable thing, so once a fire is burned, it is difficult to extinguish. At first, it was only one or two, but as the advantages of the Zhao army expanded, more and more grain trucks were ignited, and soon the situation was controlled by the Zhao army.
But there were too many grain wagons of the Qin army, there were more than 7,000 of them, almost three times the number of the Zhao army, so it took more than two hours to set all the grain wagons on fire, and at this time, some of the earliest grain wagons that were lit had been fully burned, forming a fire dragon that was more than ten miles long. The horses and donkeys that accompanied the cart could not be spared, and Zhao Jun only left 3,000 horses, and then slaughtered all the other donkeys and horses.
The plateau saw that all the grain trucks were set on fire, and the Qin soldiers and civilian servants were basically run out, and the donkeys and horses were all slaughtered. Therefore, Gao Yuan ordered the army to be gathered and quickly evacuated from the battlefield.
When the Qin army received the news and sent troops to the scene, almost all the grain and grass carts were burned to ashes, and the accompanying Qin army and civilian servants all ran ahead. But that was five days later.
After returning to the hidden place of the Zhao army, the plateau counted the people, and the Zhao army only lost seventeen people in this battle, and another thirty-three people were wounded, and this operation can be said to be a perfect success. And Gao Yuan did not dare to stay in place, and immediately led the Zhao army to evacuate the station.
Because the speed of the Zhao army was very fast, by the evening, it had already jumped over a mountain beam, retreated for more than 50 miles, and found a new place to be stationed. After Zhao Jun rested for the night, he immediately began to look for a new target.
There is not only one road from Qiu You to Jingcheng, one of the roads that attacked the Qin army on the plateau, and it is also the largest road, and there are several other small roads, and the Qin army also makes full use of each road in order to transport supplies to the Jingcheng camp, of course, the plateau does not worry about finding a target.
In the following three days, the plateau attacked two more Qin army's baggage teams in succession, although the scale of these two baggage teams was much smaller than the grain transportation team, but they carried ordnance, iron, leather, cloth, wood and other military supplies, from which there were tens of millions of arrows for bows and crossbows and crossbows for bed crossbows. Of course, in the end, they were all attached to Zhao Bing. And all the donkeys and horses that pulled the carts were slaughtered.
The Qin army has always been good at using bows, but this has also caused the Qin army to store arrows and crossbow guns in great demand, so after attacking these two baggage teams, it can also deal a lot of damage to the Qin army.
At this time, the Qin army's Jingcheng camp also got a neutralization point, and after Wang Jian knew about it, he was indeed very shocked, Zhao Jun's move was too ruthless, if the Qin army did not take action, it would not take two or three months, and the Qin army would be forced to retreat. Therefore, Wang Jian also immediately mobilized 30,000 cavalry troops, divided into six roads, each with 5,000 people, to find this Zhao army.
But between Qiu You and Jingcheng, it is more than 150 miles long, and the horizontal width is more than 100 miles, and the terrain is mountainous and forested, very complicated, Zhao Jun is also very familiar with the terrain in this area, plus Zhao Jun is now one person and three horses, and the speed of action is extremely fast, so the Qin army has been looking for three days, but has not been able to find Zhao Jun, on the contrary, Zhao Jun seized the opportunity to ambush the Qin army twice in a row, and the result was that the Qin army was defeated twice, killing more than 3,000 Qin soldiers in total.
By the time several other Qin armies reacted and rushed over to besiege the Zhao army, the Zhao army had already withdrawn from the battlefield and had already run away. It also fully exerts the characteristics of the cavalry's flexible movement and coming and going.
At this time, Gao Yuan saw that this sortie had achieved a perfect victory, and the food that Zhao Jun had brought with him was almost eaten, so he decided to return to the Jingcheng camp. Now the soldiers of the Zhao army are one man with three horses, so the speed of action is extremely fast, after a day and a night of rapid marching, and then bypassed the camp of the Qin army, and returned to the camp of the Zhao army.
However, although the Zhao army went back, the Qin army still did not dare to be careless, and continued to search on the battlefield for several days before it could be regarded as collecting troops and returning to the camp.
In this sortie, the Zhao army intercepted three Qin army's transportation and supply teams, ambushed two Qin troops, burned a large amount of grain, forage, and military supplies of the Qin army, killed nearly 6,000 Qin soldiers and civilian servants, and killed more than 15,000 horses and donkey livestock, with a total value of more than 4,000 eridium gold. It did deal a rather heavy blow to the Qin army and the state of Qin.
In addition, the Zhao army's attack on the Qin army's replenishment line also brought sequelae to the Qin State until the end of this war, because according to the Qin State's decree, the transport team was robbed, and the Qin soldiers who protected the transport team, as well as the escort civilian service, were all punished, but this time the scope of involvement was too wide, involving a total of tens of thousands of soldiers, hundreds of thousands of civilian service, whether to punish this group of people, and indeed gave the Qin State a big problem, and this problem has affected the Qin State for several years. It can also be said to have a far-reaching impact.
Of course, these things are later, and as far as the current situation is concerned, Qin's national strength is strong, and the loss this time is completely affordable, and the Qin army's camp has also accumulated a lot of grain and grass materials, and there will be no shortage of materials for the time being, but Zhao Jun's attack this time still gave the Qin army a wake-up call, after all, the Zhao army can attack the first time, and then attack the second time, if it really comes back a few times, the Qin army really can't stand it. But Wang Jian also knew that Zhao Jun would never give up such an action, and this time he returned to the Zhao Jun camp, just going back to repair it.
Therefore, Wang Jian first ordered Jing Cheng to take advantage of the Zhao army's retreat to the camp, and immediately send supplies to the Qin army's Jing Cheng operation, as much as possible to collect as many materials in the camp as possible, and at the same time, Wang Jian also gathered the generals to urgently discuss how the Qin army should respond if the Zhao army attacked the Qin army's reinforcement line again.
However, the generals of the Qin army discussed for two days in a row, and did not come up with a good solution, because Zhao was the first country among the nations to establish a cavalry army, and the cavalry was so strong that it was the best among other countries, and now there was a cavalry army with super combat effectiveness. In fact, after these battles, the Qin army also captured a few pieces of Zhao Jun's new horse furniture, but the Qin army did not take this seriously, only thought that this was a special decoration of the Zhao army's cavalry, but no one thought that the improvement of the Zhao army's combat effectiveness was mostly due to the role of these new horse furniture.
However, there is one thing that the Qin army is aware of, that is, the tactics used by the Zhao army are completely different from before, but they are to give full play to the characteristics and advantages of the cavalry, and the cavalry is fast, mobile, flexible and changeable.
But it is one thing to understand the tactics of the Zhao army, and how to deal with this tactic is another thing, although the generals of the Qin army have their own opinions and suggestions, but they are not a good way, although they complain that on the way to the army, the Qin army used some strategies, and it was very suburban to deal with the attack of the Zhao army, but these strategies are obviously not used in the baggage transport team, so this time even Wang Jian is a little helpless.
Of course, the Zhao army would not let go of the Qin army because the Qin army had no way to deal with it, and soon launched a second attack like the Qin army.