Chapter 424: Crossing the Chasm (Part II)

Although there were only more than 2,000 Beiwei troops in the Dai army array at this time, there were still 2,000 Fan warriors in ambush in the nearby woods, which could be killed and reinforced at any time, so the Dai army was not at a disadvantage in terms of strength.

At this time, in the array of the Dai army, the two thousand cavalry commanders of the Fan Yong Army were Pollock and Hu'erban, and after receiving the order from the plateau, the two led their own headquarters to kill in two ways, and rushed up against the Qin army.

Although the number of the Qin army was twice as large as theirs, the soldiers of the Fan Yong Army had no fear, because in the last battle to rescue the Wei State, the Fan Yong Army attacked more than ten times, whether it was a frontal attack on the position of the Qin army, or an assault on the flank of the Qin army, or an attack on the Qin army's reinforcement logistics team, almost all of them were victorious, just looking at the big victory or a small victory, so the soldiers of the Fan Yong Army were full of confidence in their own combat effectiveness, and they didn't care about the number of the Qin army at all.

In fact, the main general of this Qin State is Wang Ben, and what he leads is the 5,000 new cavalry troops of the Qin State.

It turned out that Wang Ben led 5,000 new cavalry troops to raid Xingkou, which achieved great success, and also proved that the combat effectiveness of the new cavalry army was indeed several times that of the old cavalry. After Wang Jian led the army to the front of Daliang City, he immediately exchanged Wang Ben from Xingkou and ordered the number of new cavalry to be expanded to 10,000.

The Qin army also stationed a large number of explorers in Wei, so the news of the arrival of the Dai army in Guiling was quickly discovered by the Qin army and reported to the Qin army's camp, Wang Jian immediately ordered to send Wang Ben to the east of the Liang to garrison, if the Dai army rescued the Liang again, he must try to intercept the Dai army halfway, even if the Dai army broke through the blockade of the Qin army and reached the Daliang, but it was necessary to let the Dai army pay a considerable price. And Wang Ben also brought 5,000 new cavalry, hoping to use the new cavalry to catch the Dai army off guard, and Wang Ben also hoped to compete with the Dai Jun's cavalry to see how much there was still a gap between him and the Dai Jun after changing into a new style of cavalry.

In fact, the Dai army set out from Guiling, and was discovered by the spies of the Qin army, but the area from Guiling to Daliang is basically a plain area, a horse and a flat river, there are not many places where you can set up an ambush to attack the Dai army, plus the Dai army is a full cavalry army, the speed is extremely fast, and the Qin army has no time to fortify, so Wang Ben decided that when the Dai army crosses the chasm, he will attack the Dai army again, and it is also in line with the art of war to attack halfway.

However, although Wang Ben is young, he is also proficient in the art of war, and has also experienced a lot of large battles, of course he also knows that the plateau is not as good as ordinary people, when crossing the river, it is impossible not to do a good job of prevention, and there are only more than 30,000 troops in his own battalion, and the strength does not have too much advantage, and then go to other camps to transfer troops, I am afraid it will be too late, so his own surprise attack may not be able to play much role.

So Wang Ben also came up with a plan, first led by himself to attack, and attacked the Dai army on the north bank of the chasm as a feint. The Dai army will definitely take precautions on the north bank of the chasm, and seeing the Qin army attacking from the north bank, they will fight with themselves on the one hand, and on the other hand, they will speed up the speed of crossing the river, so that chaos will inevitably occur, and the army that crosses to the south bank of the chasm will definitely relax its vigilance, if they send another army to attack from the south bank, and both sides of the strait will advance together, it is expected to be able to defeat the Dai army in one fell swoop. Therefore, Wang Ben immediately ordered that he personally lead 5,000 cavalry to assault the Dai army on the north bank, and ordered the general Wang Li to lead the 5,000 infantry army to meet him, and ordered the general Wang Can to lead 300 chariots, 2,000 cavalry, and 10,000 infantry troops to march from the south bank of the chasm, and wait for the Dai army to cross halfway, and then launch an attack.

It should be said that Wang Ben's arrangement is indeed very thorough, but he didn't expect that his movements had been completely predicted by the plateau, and made corresponding arrangements, and as soon as he led the cavalry out of the camp, he was discovered by the two kestrel on the plateau, so that the army got full warning time. However, as if Wang Ben's wish, the plateau sent the Fan Yong army to meet the Qin army.

Therefore, Wang Ben was also very excited, and he couldn't imagine that his wish to compete with the cavalry of the Dai Army would come true so quickly. Wang Ben's camp was only twenty miles away from the place where the Dai army crossed the river, and for the war horses, running this distance was nothing at all, so Wang Ben also ordered the Qin army to form a formation and prepare for a big battle with the Dai army.

And the soldiers of the Qin army are also high-spirited, because the result of the last attack on the battle of Daliang really made the Qin army feel shameless, because in the past hundred years, the Qin army has indeed not suffered such a big loss in the hands of that army, even if it was at the hands of Li Mu that year, Li Mu also paid a lot of price in each battle, and the Qin army finally defeated the Zhao army and destroyed the Zhao state. And the last time he faced the Dai army in Daliang, it was indeed more of a headache than facing Li Mu, because the Dai army was less than 20,000 people, and it actually made the Qin army disgraced, because it was the cavalry of the Dai army, the Qin army had almost no way to deal with them, and for the Qin army, which had always been brave and warlike, and was accustomed to victory, this was indeed an unacceptable result.

However, now the Qin army thinks that it has found the secret of the strength of the Dai Jun cavalry, and when it is assaulting Xingkou, it proves that it is indeed effective, so this also makes the soldiers of the Qin army more confident and energetic, and they all hope to have a big battle with the Dai Jun cavalry to prove that the Qin army is still the strongest army in the world.

The difference is that the Qin army is lined up in a horizontal formation, each with 300 cavalry troops, divided into 16 columns, and after being spread horizontally, the width reaches more than 500 steps.

The number of the Dai army is only half of the Qin army, not to mention, it is divided into two, respectively arranged into two arrow-shaped columns, the length of these two columns is more than 300 steps, about 200 steps apart, marching together, two huge iron cones, at the same time to the Qin army of the two flanks stabbed, but at the same time as the distance is closer, the second half is gradually expanding.

At this time, the war horses of both sides had begun to enter the stage of galloping at full speed, and tens of thousands of horses' hooves rose and fell sharply, making a series of muffled thunderous sounds, and the earth seemed to tremble.

Gao Yuan stood on the hillside, looking at the battlefield about two or three miles away, although the two sides had not yet started a war, Gao Yuan was greatly relieved, because he had already seen that the Dai army was invincible.

Although at the current distance on the plateau, it is still impossible to see the style of horse furniture used by the Qin army, but the plateau can be sure that the Qin army must have replaced with a new style of horse furniture similar to its own design, because if it is still an old-fashioned horse furniture, it is impossible for the soldiers of the Qin army to sit firmly on horseback in a rapid gallop, and only the new style of horse furniture can achieve such an effect.

But the strength of the cavalry is not only because it only changes into horse furniture, but also because of the tactics of the cavalry. Although the Qin army had been replaced with new horse furniture, the tactics were still the same. This tactic of attacking in a horizontal column like infantry or chariots is not uncommon among cavalry armies, but it is generally only used by heavy cavalry armies. The assault of the light cavalry army is usually in the front of the arrow formation, the rear gradually spread horizontally, so that the arrow first tears the opponent's array, and the rear row of the army is then pressed on a large scale to expand the results. Only when the infantry was scattered in formation, or when there was an absolute superiority in strength, would the light cavalry form a horizontal attack. Moreover, the battlefield environment with a river on one side is not suitable for a horizontal attack formation.

The Qin army used a horizontal attack formation, of course, not because of its own absolute superiority in troops, but also because of habit, it was actually the tactics of infantry or chariots. Of course, this is also understandable, after all, there is no traverser in the Qin army, and it is very good to be able to see one of the powerful factors of the generation army in a very timely manner, and replace it with a new style of horse furniture, which is very good, as for the tactics of the cavalry, it is necessary to slowly explore step by step, just looking at the enemy's battle is useless, in fact, until now, the Qin army and the Mandarin Duck Array have fought many times, but they still can't fully understand the tactics of the Mandarin Duck Formation.

At this time, on the battlefield, the distance between the two sides had been shortened to within a hundred paces, and the soldiers at the front of the Dai army raised their crossbows, which had already drawn their bowstrings before setting off, and first launched a long-range attack on the Qin army.

The cavalry of the Qin army was only equipped with bows and arrows, not crossbows, so they were inferior to the Dai army in terms of range, and could only endure the first round of blows from the Dai army.

The arrows flew out of the array of the Dai army like locusts and shot towards the Qin army, and the Qin soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell off their horses one after another, and some of the war horses also fell to the ground with arrows, throwing the knights on their backs off their horses, and tripped over many companions behind, forming a domino-like chain reaction. The men and horses that fell to the ground in front tripped over the people behind them, and the men and horses behind trampled on the people who fell to the ground in front and continued to move forward.

After two or three rounds of bow and arrow strikes by the Dai army, they finally entered the range of the Qin army's bow and arrow, and the Qin soldiers who were lucky enough to fall past the bow and arrow in front of them also immediately shot back with arrows.

As a result, there were many soldiers in the Dai Army, but the number of casualties was significantly less than that of the Qin Army, and there was no such chaos as the Qin Army, and there were basically very few Dai soldiers who were tripped by their companions who fell to the ground in the front row.

This is the advantage of the arrow formation, because the first to enter the range of the bow and arrow is the arrow part, only a small part of the people, and the arrow formation is gradually expanding backwards, more and more scattered, the soldiers in front of the arrow fall to the ground, the soldiers behind can calmly dodge, and can continue to shoot arrows to the enemy, and in contrast, the Qin army's horizontal formation, it seems to be controlled everywhere, after all, this is a cavalry tactics summed up over hundreds of years, absolutely not unreasonable.

Wang Ben rode his horse with the army to attack the Dai army, but before the two sides officially engaged, nearly 300 soldiers of the Qin army fell to the ground with arrows, or tripped by their companions who fell to the ground in front, and compared with the other party, they were obviously at a disadvantage, so they couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and at the same time, they also had a trace of doubt about their insistence on fighting with the Dai army's cavalry.