Chapter 786: The Crazy Offensive of the Qin Country
There is no doubt that in the left-wing battle situation, the Wei and Chu coalition forces encountered great trouble, but at the same time, in the center of the entire battlefield, the main force of the Zhao army led by Lian Po also encountered trouble.
This time, Zhao State dispatched not many cavalry troops to Suiyang. Apart from armored cavalry, there were only a few thousand light cavalry, which could not be as aggressive as armored cavalry on such a battlefield of thousands of troops. Therefore, Lian Po simply waved his hand and drove all the light-armored cavalry to the left wing, so that the two cavalry could cooperate with each other and defeat the enemy's right wing as quickly as possible.
In addition, in order to strengthen the attack on the Wei and Chu coalition forces, Lian Po also handed over 200,000 Central Army's 100,000 to Le Cheng to attack the Wei and Chu coalition forces, while the remaining 100,000 Central Army were placed in the middle and right wing respectively.
In other words, except for the 50,000 Central Army led by Lian Po, the remaining 100,000 are all county soldiers and young men from all over Zhao State.
If you are facing ordinary troops, this combination is actually a battle, but now it corresponds to the main force of the Central Army of Zhao State, the total 150,000 Qin army.
It is precisely because of this that although the two sides seem to be of equal numbers, the situation gradually changed in an unfavorable direction from the moment they entered the battle.
"Shoot!" A Qin army officer roared. Hundreds of Qin crossbowmen who had completed the formation pressed the trigger at the same time and shot a wave of extremely dense arrows at the Zhao army swarming in front of them. Hundreds of Zhao soldiers were shot by arrows and fell to the ground with screams, causing the entire advance queue to stagnate.
After shooting a wave of arrows, these Qin army crossbow soldiers began to retreat and tread again with discipline. At the same time, many Qin soldiers wielding swords surged out from behind them, and rushed up and strangled them with the Zhao army soldiers.
In addition, hundreds of Qin army's chariots were also storming in the Zhao army's positions. The chariot's chariot controlled the reins with both hands, and the left side stood on the chariot and kept bent his bow and arrows. Every time he shot the officers of Zhao, the command of the Zhao army suddenly became chaotic. The chariot held a long spear in his right hand and kept sweeping forward. Each spear would inevitably lead to several Zhao soldiers screaming and falling to the ground.
Hundreds of chariots led thousands of Qin soldiers as vanguards to advance continuously, and crossbow soldiers were assisting on their left and right wings. The momentum was extremely strong, causing thousands of casualties in a short period of time, which immediately caused heavy losses to the Zhao army.
This situation was naturally seen by the Zhao army commander Lian Po. General Lian Po was as deep as water. He waved his hand vigorously: "Send the order, push the Eight Niu Crossbow up, and bombard the Qin army's chariot!"
At Lian Po's order, dozens of huge Eight-ox crossbows that had shown power in the battle of Suiyang City immediately pushed to the front line with the shouts of thousands of strong men, and slowly aimed at the Qin army chariots that were killing all directions hundreds of steps away.
At this moment, the Zhao soldiers on the front line were defeated by the Qin army and retreated towards the Baniu Crossbow's position.
The two or five hundred masters of the Zhao army led by the leader shouted with all their might: "Everyone can dodge, and they can dodge to both sides!"
However, no one listened to him. The dispersed Zhao soldiers ran around like flies without heads, causing a small chaos to appear in the Baniu Crossbow's position.
At this moment, a general of Zhao rushed over and shouted, "Why haven't you launched yet?"
The 2500 master saw sweat on his forehead and hurriedly said, "There are defeated soldiers in front of him who retreated, but they really cannot launch them."
"Bang!" A heavy slap sounded. General Zhao took back his hand and shouted sternly at the 2500 Lord who was covering his cheeks in front of him: "This is a military order! Since the defeated soldiers fled at the battle, they cannot do without the end of a military law. If you look forward to it, I will deal with you with military law!"
The Lord of Two Five Hundreds pointed, finally stopped hesitating, shouting loudly: "Start!"
The next moment, dozens of eight-ox crossbows were fired at the same time. Huge crossbow arrows as thick as arms roared through the air, penetrated through several Zhao army defeated soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, and then shot into the Qin army's chariot formation.
The crossbow arrow shot heavily into the horses pulling the chariot, piercing the entire horses through, and then hit the baffle in front of the chariot.
With a loud bang, the entire baffle split in an instant. The three soldiers behind the baffle were immediately exploded, and the driver in the middle was directly penetrated by the crossbow arrow. The entire chariot directly overturned, and a series of loud noises were made. I don’t know how many Qin soldiers had overwhelmed before stopping and scattering into fragments.
This wave of the eight-ox crossbow scattered volley was extremely successful, instantly destroying nearly twenty Qin troops, and killing hundreds of Qin soldiers, slowing down the Qin army's sharp offensive.
After such a slight delay, Lian Po finally had the opportunity to mobilize the Central Army of Zhao and bet on this gap that had just been dispersed by the soldiers of Zhao's county.
The combat effectiveness of the Zhao army's central army was not comparable to that of the county soldiers. After organizing the formation, they pulled out the bowstrings and stepped on the crossbow strings. Countless powerful bows and crossbows shot towards the chariots. Most of the targets were not aimed at the people standing on the chariots, but at the horses on the chariots.
Although the war horses that the Qin army pulled the cart were all covered with leather armor, these leather armors were not iron armor like the armored cavalry of Zhao army, and they did not have much protective effect when facing the powerful crossbow of Zhao army at close range.
After several rounds of volleys, many of the Qin army's chariots were shot and fell to the ground, and the entire chariot formation was destroyed. The original three chariots were rushing forward, and the momentum of the Qin army, which was originally combined with crossbow steps, was finally temporarily curbed, and the two sides were trapped in an extremely fierce strangle.
Zhao Dan stood on the chariot and looked at the battle situation in front of him, with a very serious expression.
To be honest, Zhao Dan never expected that this battle would be so fierce that the fierce Qin army completely deviated from the state that Zhao Dan had thought he could be beaten arbitrarily, becoming extremely fierce, like a vicious wolf, constantly showing his sharp teeth and claws, trying to completely tear Zhao Dan and Zhao Jun apart.
The Qin army, who was able to survive until now and once dominated the world in this extremely cruel war, was indeed not comparable to other weak men.
Through the scenes he witnessed, Zhao Dan finally fully recognized Lian Po's evaluation of this four-nation coalition in advance. Although these countries were beaten one after another when facing Zhao, their strength was actually only one level weaker than Zhao. As long as they were given a chance, they could make a comeback at any time.
It is precisely because of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, which are as strong as a small force and the essence of giving some sunshine that they were able to fall in love and kill each other for hundreds of years until now.
But even so, Zhao Dan still had absolute confidence in his Zhao army, because this was the era-strong army that had fought for Zhao in the east and west for decades, destroyed Zhongshan and won Lin Huloufan, and defeated the overlord Qin several times in a row, and then captured a huge territory for Zhao in the Central Plains.
Even though there are not many main forces in the Zhao State Middle Route, Zhao Dan still believes that he can block the Qin army's offensive.
After losing the chariot, which was like a destruction, the Qin soldiers could no longer break through the Zhao army's position as fiercely as before, and the front lines of both sides began to fall into a very fierce hand-to-hand combat.
The two armies were like two extremely surging waves, constantly beating each other. Each time they were beaten with hundreds of weapons waving and falling in the air, each time they were accompanied by the screams and roars of countless people. Every moment, the lives of hundreds of soldiers passed by under the bright sunshine of this summer.
Countless blood stained the earth red, and a strong smell of blood filled the air, but no one would pay attention to these things. Everyone had only one thought in their hearts, that is, kill all the enemies in front of them!
At this time, the whole battle has actually just passed.
Time passed by minute by minute, and right in the Qin army's main formation opposite the Zhao army, Wang Feng frowned, and seemed to be quite dissatisfied with the current situation of the battle.
And it is not only these that made Wang Yu dissatisfied.
Wang Yan said to a very anxious general in front of him with a gloomy face, "Go back and tell Chunshenjun that I had told him before that he would give me two to three hours no matter what. He agreed himself. But now it's only only one hour, and he is going to ask for help from this general?"
The anger in Wang Yan's words was obvious. At present, the Qin army was attacking Zhao's central army with all their might, fighting for the hope of victory for the four-nation coalition forces. However, at this time, it would be fine if Wei and Chu could not help, but they kept sending people to demand reinforcements.
This was the most critical moment of the entire war. Wang Yan wanted to put all his troops in to fight against the Zhao people. If reinforcements were drawn to support the right wing, the attack on the Zhao army in the middle was insufficient and the final breakthrough could not be achieved, then how could the four-national coalition forces win this battle?
So Wang Wei angrily rejected another request for help from the right-wing Wei and Chu coalition forces: "You go back and tell Chunshenjun and General Tian Chong that they will hold on for another hour, so that I can take down the middle army of Zhao! Otherwise, then wait for everyone to defeat together!"
After the envoy of Wei State left, Wang Ling couldn't help but say, "General, do you really think that Wei and Chu can last for an hour?"
Wang He snorted and said, "Although Wei and Chu are all fools compared to the Qin Dynasty, this is related to their national destiny after all, and I believe they can still hold on."
Wang actually didn't say anything, that is, those who want to save themselves must first save themselves. If the Wei and Chu coalition forces cannot even do such a thing, then save them. What's more, the Qin army's fierce attack on the middle army of Zhao State is to save the lives of all the four-nation coalition forces, including the Wei coalition forces!
Wang Ling shook his head and said, "General, I think it may be time to dispatch the reserve team."
Wang Yan thought about it and agreed with Wang Ling's opinion.
So Wang's eyes fell on Wang Jian who was beside him: "Wang Jian, you will immediately bring 300 Qin Ruishi into the battle. I will give you another 20,000 troops. You must break through the defense line of the Zhao army's Central Army within one hour. Can you do it?"
After hearing this order, Wang Jian was naturally overjoyed, bowed to Wang Yan, and then said loudly: "General, please wait for news of Wang Jian's victory here!"
A quarter of an hour later, Wang Jian led his 20,000 Qin's new forces to the battlefield.
Two quarters of an hour later, Zhao Dan and Lian Po, located opposite Wang Jian, began to notice something was wrong.
You should know that after resolving the charge of the chariots, the central army of Zhao had already controlled the situation and firmly defended the defense line, and did not allow Qin to advance much distance.
But at this moment, the Zhao army's originally extremely stable defense line once again became shaky, and even became shaky.
Lian Po was puzzled and looked to the front of the entire front line. Then he saw many Qin soldiers wearing helmets active on the front line like monkeys.
Every time they leaped and slashed the sword light, it represented the death and death of a Zhao soldier. It was like a sharp sharp knife stabbing the front line of Zhao, making the soldiers on the front line of Zhao unable to resist and could only retreat step by step.
Lian Po's face changed and he said in a deep voice: "This is Qin Ruishi!"
Then the old general immediately thought that since the Qin people chose to invest in Qin Ruishi at this time, it could only represent this matter-The Qin people had made up their minds to launch the final general attack.
When he thought of this, Lian Po subconsciously looked up at the sky. It was just after noon, and the sun above his head had just shown signs of falling, and there were at least two hours before dusk.
The period of this general attack was one full hour earlier than the time of the Qin army's overall attack as judged by Lian Po.
When she thought of this, Lian Po's face immediately showed a solemn expression.
This old general was actually not worried about the Qin people and himself. After all, no matter what, the current Zhao Central Army has a total of 150,000 people, which is equivalent to the number of people in the Qin army. As long as the proportion between the county soldiers and the main force is appropriately allocated, the consumption is completely affordable.
What Lian Po was most worried about was that Wang He sent all the elite troops to suppress the entire army and tried to break through the Zhao army's defense line in one fell swoop.
Under such circumstances, since only 50,000 Central Army defended in the middle, Lian Po was really not sure that he could defend the fierce offensive of the Qin army three times his elite.
Now, what Lian Po was most worried about happened. As expected, Wang He was still as violent as the Battle of Changping six years ago. After only one hour of the battle, he brazenly ordered the entire army to push forward and launch the most fierce and unreserved attack on the Central Army of Zhao.
Such an attack soon showed effect. The Zhao army's defense line was compressed step by step under the full attack of the Qin army. After almost half an hour, it had retreated to a range of only three hundred steps away from Zhao Dan's king's position.
Seeing this, Lian Po finally couldn't help but speak, "Master, it's time to retreat!"
Chapter completed!