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Chapter 18 Cavalry Attack

When setting out for Feicheng, Huanjue asked each person to bring only three days' rations.

As long as Feicheng is captured, Zhao Jun's food and grass can be occupied, and supplies can be replenished. This is one of the reasons why Huanjue no longer cares about the main camp.

Now that Feicheng has not been captured yet, the main camp is gone, and all the food, grass and baggage have been confiscated by the Zhao army. What will the remaining tens of thousands of troops eat?

Huanjue's first thought was to fight back and take back the main camp.

Now continue to Feicheng, which is further than the journey back to the main camp.

He believed that he must fight back and regain the main camp.

The main force attacking Feicheng quickly changed direction after receiving the military order. They agreed to rest for an hour and then ended the attack by force. The entire army immediately returned to the west.

As soon as Bai Zhong found Wang Li, he received an order from the army to go back. In addition, news that the main camp had been lost gradually spread among the army, and he suddenly became anxious.

"General Wang, we can't go back."

"You mean the ambush?"

Wang Li first thought of this.

Bai Zhong nodded and said: "That's right, you absolutely can't go back."

Wang Li thought about what was happening now and that Bai Zhong had told him right before setting off. He couldn't help but worry that Zhao Jun might ambush him and said, "Let's go find the general."

They quickly caught up with the former army, but before they could meet Huan Jue, a breeze blew by. Bai Zhong's nose picked up, his face changed slightly, and he shouted: "No, Li Mu is coming."

As soon as these words came out, the front army suddenly became chaotic, and soon the whole army stopped and was on guard.

All the soldiers raised their weapons and stared ahead. They saw silence in the darkness and nothing happened. They were suddenly confused. Who was talking nonsense?

"Who said Li Mu is coming after him!"

Huan Jue came back from the front and said angrily.

"General, it's me!"

Bai Zhong stepped forward and was about to explain.

Huanjue was very angry now. He was stunned for a moment when he saw it was Baizhong, and then he was greatly disappointed. Without giving him a chance to explain, he said angrily: "Baizhong disturbs the morale of the army and hinders the march. Let's arrest him first, and then we can beat him back to the main camp."

, and then deal with it by military law."

Several of the commander's soldiers are about to capture Bai Zhong.

Wang Li originally wanted to help explain, but he didn't know that there was a sudden sound of horse hooves in front of him.

"General, Li Mu's cavalry is here."

A lieutenant ran back and said hurriedly.

Even if he didn't need to come back to report, Huanjue had already seen that there were countless cavalrymen rushing towards the front with torches. The long cavalry force was like a fire dragon, rushing straight towards the Qin army.

The sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground seemed to be able to break through mountains and rivers, shocking the hearts of every soldier.

Li Mu really caught up!

Huanjue felt incredible that Bai Zhong was right again.

Bai Zhong's prediction is really that powerful!

The Qin army marched all night, and just after a short rest, they had to march again. After many hardships, many soldiers were already tired and restless, and their morale was low.

At this time, seeing Li Mu's cavalry attacking again, morale could not be gathered, and even the enthusiasm for fighting was not high.

Soldiers are also human beings. No matter how eager they are for military success, they will feel timid in such an environment. They think they are no match and instinctively want to live and escape. Their morale is already in chaos.

"Fight!"

Huan Jue shouted urgently. At this time, he could no longer take care of Bai Zhong and hurriedly directed the battle.

The best way to deal with cavalry is with long-range weapons.

The only long-range weapons available in the Qin army were bows and arrows. Thousands of archers quickly stepped forward, drew their bows and set arrows, and fired large numbers of arrows at the cavalry.

A group of cavalrymen in the front row fell instantly.

"Change the formation!"

A cavalry lieutenant shouted.

The Zhao army's cavalry quickly divided into several echelons and dispersed to attack the Qin army's left and right flanks.

The cavalry led by Li Mu had to fight against the Xiongnu all the year round. They were very skilled in riding, and the elite among them were also good at riding and shooting. While riding their horses, they drew their bows and shot. The arrows from the cavalry came intensively towards the Qin army.

The archers' advantage was immediately broken.

The cavalry was originally the nemesis of the infantry, and this was a plain area. After the Zhao army's cavalry suppressed the Qin army's archers, they immediately attacked the Qin army from the left and right wings.

After a round of charging and killing, the cavalry quickly killed some Qin soldiers and quickly retreated before the Qin army could counterattack.

These cavalry echelons had just retreated, and the cavalry echelons of cavalry and archery quickly replaced them and continued to attack the Qin army.

Another round of arrow rain struck, and another large number of Qin soldiers fell.

The Qin army wanted to pursue the cavalry, but they were not fast enough or flexible enough, and their resistance was weak.

The last remaining morale in the army was almost completely defeated.

The coach Huan Jue saw that the soldiers around him had no fighting spirit, and Li Mu came prepared. When the two sides met here, there was no way they could win.

"Leave a thousand taels of archers behind and take cover with three thousand archers."

"The others leave with me!"

Huan Jue shouted.

After receiving the order to retreat, the army quickly moved into action.

The archers at the rear ignored Li Mu and intercepted him, while the archers covering the enemy immediately took action, dividing their labors and cooperating with each other, constantly drawing their bows and shooting, in an attempt to intercept Zhao's cavalry.

Bai Zhong was not caught, so he found his subordinates as soon as possible and asked them to follow Wang Li and retreat together.

Although the Qin army was in chaos at this time, the people who broke up the rear and covered it still did a good job. They risked their lives to forcefully stop Li Mu's cavalry, but they only stopped it for a while.

After a while, the people behind were broken through, and those who were covering had to give up and follow the army to escape.

"Chase!"

A Zhao Jun deputy general shouted.

"etc!"

Li Mu interrupted: "First give Huan Jue a little hope, and then I will make them despair. General Sima Shang is waiting for Huan Jue in front and play with him slowly."

He has a cat-and-mouse feeling.

——

"General, get rid of the pursuers."

Lieutenant General Pang panted.

Huan Yan's frowned brows finally relaxed a little, and then he remembered what Bai Zhong had said.

Bai Zhong was right about everything that happened now, and Huan Jue couldn't believe it.

If I could have listened to Bai Zhong, I wouldn't have ended up in this situation.

"I was wrong!"

Huanjue sighed and went directly to find Bai Zhong.

At this time, Bai Zhong seemed to have escaped, but it was only temporary. Li Mu would not let them go easily.

"General Bai Bai, Li Mu's cavalry is indeed powerful, but we are not incapable of fighting, so why should we retreat?"

As a new soldier, Zhang Han cannot understand the current battle situation.

They remembered what Bai Zhong said just now, and they were very impressed. Sure enough, there was going to be a fierce battle.

"If we encounter an ambush by Li Mu's cavalry before setting off, we can fight and may even win, but now..."

Bai Zhong looked at the listless colleagues around him, who had no fighting spirit, and shook his head and said: "What Li Mu wants to do is to make us run around and work hard, which wears down our morale and physical strength, and then uses the cavalry to charge and completely defeat our morale. Now the whole army is united

If you can’t get up, you feel like you are enveloped in death, and most people no longer want to fight, so how can you fight?”

Zhang Han seemed to understand and fell into deep thought.

"well said!"

Huan Jue happened to hear these words and bowed his hands in shame: "I regret it, Commander! I'm sorry just now!"

"The general is serious!"

Bai Zhong didn't expect that he would apologize to him, so he could only return the favor.

Huan Ye asked: "How did you know just now that Li Mu was chasing him?"

This is what they want to know most.

"It's simple, a smell!"

"I can often smell the smell of mutton outside Yi'an City, but maybe no one pays much attention to it."

"Li Mu guards the northern border, facing the grassland. His soldiers often eat mutton, or wear sheepskin, wool and other clothes to keep out the cold. Over time, they will have a mutton smell on their bodies."

"A gust of wind blew just now. I smelled the smell of sheep mutton in the wind and concluded that Li Mu was chasing me."
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