At this time, the main general Dong Peng came over, knelt in front of Meng Wu and Xin Sheng, and said: "It's all incompetent, let the Zhao army enter the camp, lose the troops and dismantle the generals, frustrate the morale of the army, and ask the general to punish the crime." ”

In fact, Meng Wu also knew that Dong Fei was a little wronged, because no one thought that Zhao Jun would rush over from such a far away to raid, and it would be the same for everyone, but this time it was Dong Fei who was unlucky, but defeat is defeat, and there is nothing to say, so he said: "General Dong, you will remain in office for the time being, and immediately clean up the mess, and when General Wang arrives, I will tell him truthfully, and how to send you down will be decided by General Wang." ”

Only then did Dong Fei get up and said, "Yes." ”

Meng Wu said again: "The whole army is ordered to strengthen vigilance, and send more reconnaissance cavalry teams to patrol and investigate fifty miles away, in case the Zhao army attacks again, there must be no mistake." ”

The other generals hurriedly replied in unison: "Honorable Order." ”

Meng Wu nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back to the camp and set it up." ”

At this moment, a general stepped forward and said, "General, is this the end of this time?" ”

Meng Wu saw that this Qin general was called Zhang Han, who was not yet thirty years old this year, fought bravely, and was a rising star in the Qin army, and said, "General Zhang, what do you think we should do?" ”

Zhang Han said: "General, although our army lost this time, it was only caught off guard by the Zhao army, not how powerful the Zhao army is, and this time the Zhao army is running from afar, there will never be many people and horses, although it has been successful, but it is bound to be exhausted, and it must not have gone far now, so as long as we send thousands of cavalry to pursue, we will definitely be able to return the color to the Zhao army, and let the Zhao army know that our Qin army is not easy to mess with." The last general is not talented, and he is willing to personally lead 5,000 cavalry troops to pursue. ”

After listening to Zhang Han's words, Meng Wu was also silent, and Xin Sheng couldn't help it, and said: "General, I think Zhang Han's words make sense, if Zhao Jun is allowed to run away like this, then our Qin army is too useless and should be pursued." ”

Xin Sheng's words, Dong Fei also said: "General, the last general led the army to pursue with General Zhang, and made meritorious contributions. ”

Meng Wu frowned slightly, from his heart, he didn't want to pursue, because Meng Wu was cautious, knowing that Li Mu's use of troops had always been changeable and unpredictable, and he was good at setting up ambushes to attack. If he dared to send cavalry to attack the Qin army, he would definitely think that after the surprise attack was successful, the Qin army would follow suit, and he might have sent a receiving force halfway, maybe he would ambush the army and wait for the Qin army to pursue. And the raid of the Zhao army did not cause much loss to the Qin army, only a small loss, the Qin army only had to strengthen its own defense, and then send more scouts to investigate, just guard against the Zhao army to attack again, wait for Wang Jian's army to arrive, and then march to Jingcheng, there is really no need to pursue, in case of Li Mu's ambush, another defeat, the blow to the Qin army is not small.

But now most of the Qin generals advocate pursuit, which also makes Meng Wu embarrassed, after all, the Qin army has suffered a loss, if it is just like this, it is too weak, even if the Qin army was defeated by Li Mu twice before, but when it is time to fight, the Qin army will never be soft, but it has never swallowed its anger like this. Even if the other party ran away, he didn't dare to catch up, and it was really unreasonable. Moreover, Meng Wu is only the acting chief general now, not the official commander of the Qin army, and all the generals asked to chase after the Zhao army, and Meng Wu was not easy to refuse. In a certain sense, even if it didn't catch up with the Zhao army, as long as the troops were sent to chase it, it would be easy to hold it.

So Meng Wu nodded and said, "Okay, Zhang Han and Dong Peng, I will send the two of you to lead five thousand cavalry to chase after the Zhao army." But Li Mu has always been unpredictable, and it is very likely that there will be ambushes on the way, so you must be cautious during the pursuit, and send more scouts and cavalry patrols along the road to prevent ambushes, understand? ”

Zhang Han and Tong Fei immediately said in unison: "Yes." Then the two of them clenched their right hands into a fist, struck in the left chest, and immediately retreated to gather the men.

Watching the two leave, Meng Wuluo pondered for a moment and said, "Sima Xin." ”

Another member of the Qin general came out of the queue and said, "Not yet." ”

Meng Wu said: "You bring 200 chariots, and then pick them up." ”

Sima Xin hurriedly said: "Yes." ”

In this era, chariots could not be dispatched alone, in the early Warring States period, the number of various infantry equipped with a chariot ranged from seventy to one hundred, although at this time, the chariot was no longer the absolute weapon of the battlefield, and the infantry equipped with it was greatly reduced, between forty and fifty people, so the actual number of troops dispatched by two hundred chariots was about nearly 10,000.

After Zhang Han and Tong Fei received Meng Wu's order, they immediately gathered 5,000 cavalry and pursued them in the direction of the retreat of the Zhao army.

At this time, the time from the retreat of the Zhao army was not long, only more than half an hour, and the Zhao army ran from a distance, and the horsepower was lost, so the speed of retreat was not fast, but the Qin army was abundant, Zhang Han and Dong Fei estimated that at most two or three hours, they could catch up with this Zhao army.

However, the two also remembered Meng Wu's reminder to prevent Zhao Jun's ambush, these two people are also people who have been in battle for a long time, of course, they also know that Meng Wu's reminder is very reasonable, and no one dares to be careless about Li Mu. Therefore, the two also sent dozens of scouts to probe on both sides of the front of the army to see if the Zhao army had ambushed the ambush army.

After chasing for more than an hour, chasing a distance of about forty miles, and did not find the ambush army of the Zhao army, but at this moment, Zhang Han received the return of the reconnaissance cavalry, and the Zhao army lined up about five or six miles ahead, and it seemed that they were going to line up with the Qin army head-on and have a big battle.

It turned out that after Gao Yuan led the army to evacuate the Qin army's camp, he returned to the hiding place of other war horses, but Gao Yuan did not rush to retreat, but ordered the soldiers to rest in place, first restore the body, and then send spies to investigate the movements of the Qin army. More than an hour later, Gao Yuan also learned that the Qin army had sent a cavalry army to pursue him.

Gao Yuan immediately began to estimate the strength of the two sides, this time in the raid on the Qin army camp, the Zhao army only lost eleven cavalry, and more than 30 soldiers were injured, but they were not seriously injured, and their strength was basically undamaged. The war horses left here have rested for more than two hours, and they have unsaddled and slowed down, they can gnaw some grass and leaves, and their horsepower has all recovered, and there are still a thousand new cavalry troops in the Zhao army, so now the Zhao army can also fight another battle, even if it is not defeated by the Qin army, it can retreat calmly. Therefore, Gao Yuan also decided to find an open place to engage the cavalry of the Qin army. Give the Qin army another blow.

And after the whole army learned about it, they all grinded their fists and were eager to try, because although the raid on the Qin army camp just now was successful, it was not long, so many soldiers felt that the killing was not enough, and when they learned that the Qin army had caught up, of course, they all wanted to fight with the Qin army again. So Gao Yuan immediately led the men and horses, retreated back for more than twenty miles, found an open place, replaced the war horses, lined up the array, and waited for the enemy to catch up.

After Zhang Han and Dong Fei learned about it, they couldn't help but be surprised and happy, they didn't expect Zhao Jun to have such courage, and he actually dared to stop and set up a battle with himself, which also showed that the other party had full confidence in his combat effectiveness. However, Zhang Han and Dong Fei are also confident in the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, and they fight the Zhao army head-on, but the Qin army has never been afraid, and the purpose of their troops this time is to catch up with the Zhao army, fight with the Zhao army, and regain the face of being attacked by the Zhao army. Now that the Zhao army has stopped, preparing for a decisive battle with himself, it is exactly what the Qin army cannot ask for.

So Zhang Han also immediately ordered to adjust the array, and the whole army was ready to fight.

The distance of five or six miles was only a few minutes at the speed of the war horse, and soon the Qin army discovered the array of the Zhao army. Of course, at the same time, Zhao Jun also discovered Qin Jun.

Gao Yuan raised the spear in his hand and shouted, "Sons, kill." As he spoke, his legs clamped between the horse's belly and rushed towards the Qin army.

And the cavalry of the Zhao army also destroyed their horses, and they all raised their weapons and rushed out together.

Although in this era, the cavalry is not the main force on the battlefield, and large-scale cavalry battles have not yet appeared, but there are still many small-scale cavalry battles, but they are basically hundreds of people, and it is still very rare to fight with cavalry troops on both sides that add up to nearly 10,000 people. Most of the time, soldiers arrived at the battlefield on horseback and dismounted to fight, or fought with chariots.

Although Zhang Han and Dong Peng have experienced a lot of battlefields, they have not yet commanded a cavalry battle of thousands of people. But the two of them thought that Zhao Jun was the same, wasn't it? Since the Zhao army can use the full cavalry to fight, then the Qin army can also use the full cavalry to fight, so it also urged the war horse to meet the attack.

The distance between the two sides is gradually narrowing, and the formation of the Zhao army is also deformed, with a thousand new cavalry and other cavalry troops opening up the distance, and changing from a horizontal array to more than a dozen cone-shaped assault arrays, while the other 2,000 cavalry still maintain a horizontal formation.

This change also surprised Zhang Han and Dong Peng, because the two had never seen such an array before, but now they were not allowed to think, and the two sides had entered the dodge of the bow and crossbow. The knights of the Zhao army raised their crossbows and crossbows one after another and shot at each other. And the cavalry of the Qin army also bent their bows and arrows and shot at the Zhao army.

For a while, the sound of breaking the sky was non-stop, and the arrows fell on the heads of the soldiers on both sides like flying locusts.

However, the formation of the Qin army was a horizontal column, while the formation of the Zhao army was a conical column, so in the mutual attack of bows and arrows, the casualties of the Qin army were still more than those of the Zhao army, and some Qin soldiers were unable to sit on the back of their horses and fell off their horses. But both sides are already running at full speed at this time, and the distance is also rapidly shortening, each person only has time to shoot one or two arrows, casualties are not enough to affect each other's combat effectiveness, and the final victory or defeat still depends on the melee ability of both sides.