Chapter 1548: The Suspicious Soldier's Plan (Part 2)
Chapter 54: Suspicious tactics
Seeing the Qin army withdrawing, Han Xinxin was relieved. He immediately called Zhang He and other generals and ordered: "Junyi, lead the cavalry to pursue. Remember not to pursue too close. After chasing for thirty miles, pull back."
Zhang He was stunned and asked doubtfully: "My lord, the retreat of the Qin army is the perfect opportunity to pursue and defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop. Why do they only pursue for thirty miles?"
Zhang He's words also revealed the doubts of the generals. After all, the Qin army, which had risked its life and was finally repelled, could not take advantage of the victory to pursue it?
Han Xin sighed and explained: "If the Qin army could really be defeated, how could I not pursue it? But although the Qin army has retreated and the army is tired, the casualties are not large after all.
The infantry cannot catch up with the cavalry, and our cavalry has less than ten thousand people, so how can we defeat the Qin army?"
Hearing what Han Xin said, Zhang He immediately said: "Didn't Lian Po send 20,000 cavalry to support our army? Our army's 10,000 cavalry, plus the 20,000 Zhao army's cavalry in full strength, are enough to defeat the exhausted Zhao army." The Qin army's cavalry is exhausted."
"Haha, do you really think Lian Po would put Yuan Shao's precious cavalry at risk for the sake of our lives?" Han Xin asked with a sneer.
The generals were stunned when they heard this. Nangong Chang Wanze asked: "My lord, you mean you are here to support, not the Zhao army's cavalry?"
"Of course, although we and Yuan Shao have formed an alliance and should help each other offensively and defensively, this battle is too risky after all. If Zhao Jun is not careful, he may face a flanking attack by the Qin army. Lian Po cannot take risks for us." Han Xin said coldly. road.
"So, there are no reinforcements at all?" Zhang He asked with wide eyes.
"That's right, that's just a trick that I laid out in advance to deceive the troops. There were only three thousand cavalry pretending to be powerful.
If the 80,000 infantry cavalry cannot defeat the 40,000 Qin army's iron cavalry, this group of suspicious soldiers will be our army's last trump card, but we still managed to bluff Zhang Liao."
Han Xinxin said with lingering fear that this battle was really the most thrilling battle he had ever experienced since joining the army. He hated this feeling of not being under his control.
Ten miles away from the battlefield, Gao Lan was commanding three thousand cavalry, trying to stir up as many people as possible, and at the same time, he had to be on guard and shoot the Qin army's spies.
"Military advisor, can this trick really deceive the Qin army?" Gao Lan asked worriedly to Jushu on the side.
Jushou frowned, but said with great determination: "I can, I will definitely do it. I may not be able to deceive Guo Jia, but I will definitely be able to deceive Zhang Liao. He doesn't dare to bet."
Under the leadership of Gao Lan and Jushu, 3,000 Korean light cavalry pretended to be 20,000 cavalry and rushed towards Han Xin's office at an unhurried pace.
The eyes returned to Han Xin. After hearing Han Xin's answer, the generals looked at each other. Apparently, they did not expect that the lord, who never fought an unprepared battle, would one day place his hope on gambling.
"My lord, if the strategy of suspecting soldiers does not work and the Qin army does not take the initiative to retreat, then won't our army be completely annihilated?"
After hearing Zhang He's question, Han Xin's eyes flashed with a hint of thought, and then he said something similar to Ju Shou's.
"No, it won't happen. Guo Jia may have the courage, but Zhang Liao certainly doesn't. He wouldn't dare to gamble with me with 40,000 Qin cavalry." Han Xin said firmly.
Zhang He led less than 10,000 horses and pretended to chase away, but he did not dare to pursue him too close. If the Qin army came back and killed the cavalry, it would be difficult to leave. At the same time, he did not dare to go too far away. After all, this would make it easier for the Qin army to escape. Saw the truth.
As soon as Zhang He left, Han Xin didn't even order the battlefield to be cleaned, but he couldn't wait to lead the entire army and evacuate to the nearest city.
Before leaving, Han Xin looked at the bloody battlefield with broken limbs and arms everywhere, and most of them were in the uniforms of the Korean army. This made Han Xin hate Guo Jia deeply for the plot. After all, if it weren't for Guo Jia,
The Tiger-Korean army would never pay such heavy casualties.
"Guo Jia, I was careless this time. If you want to plot against me next time, it won't be so easy."
Han Xin snorted coldly and ordered: "The whole army retreats."
"promise."
At the same time, Zhang Liao, who also withdrew his troops, made a rough estimate of the casualties and found that the Qin army's losses were not large, with less than one-tenth of the casualties. He was secretly relieved, but what he didn't know was that he
Missed the only chance to defeat Han Xin.
"General Zhang Liao, the cavalry of the Han army is chasing us, and the cavalry of the Zhao army is also chasing us."
After hearing the report, Zhang Liao said decisively: "Don't pay attention. If the Han army cannot catch up, it will retreat when it is exhausted. Our army only needs to guard against the Zhao army."
"promise."
After retreating, Guo Jia was the first to notice that something was wrong.
If the Korean army has already gone through a big battle, the physical strength of the war horses is very exhausted, so forget it if they can't catch up.
However, the Zhao army's cavalry had never participated in the battle. They were at their peak while waiting for work. How could they not catch up?
At this moment, a carrier pigeon landed on Guo Jia's shoulder. Guo Jia took it out and took a look and found that it was Long Qie's military report, but the content on it made Guo Jia's pupils shrink sharply.
"No, it's just a trick."
Guo Jia screamed, and then hurriedly said to Zhang Liao: "General Zhang Liao, the news from Long Qie has come. Lian Po has been holding back his troops and has not sent cavalry to support Han Xin at all. It must have been a trick by Han Xin just now.
We were lied to."
After Zhang Liao took the letter and looked at it, his expression suddenly became extremely ugly, and he shouted: "Change the direction quickly, let's fight back."
"promise."
The Qin army ordered the ban to be carried out. After the military order was conveyed, tens of thousands of cavalry immediately turned around.
Zhang He and Gao Lan in the distance couldn't help but smile at each other after seeing this. Zhang He said: "Zhang Liao is quite alert, he showed up so quickly."
"But it's still too late. The Lord's side should have already entered the city."
"Let's retreat quickly, don't get caught up by the Qin army."
"Um."
Under the command of Zhang He and Gao Lan, more than 10,000 Korean cavalry retreated in two groups.
Seeing this, Zhang Liao was even more sure that he had fallen into a trap, but he did not send troops to pursue them. After all, they were cavalry and it was not easy to catch up. It was more important to deal with the main force of the Korean army.
After the Qin army returned to the previous battlefield, the Han army naturally disappeared long ago, leaving only corpses everywhere.
Seeing this, Zhang Liao couldn't help but clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said: "Sweep the battlefield quickly, then take the bodies of the brothers who died in the battle and retreat."
"promise."
After counting, it was found that the Qin army's casualties in this battle were only more than 3,000 cavalry, which was less than one-tenth of the total number of the entire army. Among them, 500 of the heavy cavalry of the broken army were lost.
As for the Han army, because it was facing a surprise attack by the Qin army and had been passively beaten, it did not have many effective counterattacks. In the end, it relied on the trick of suspecting soldiers to deceive the Qin army into retreating.
Therefore, the Korean army suffered extremely heavy casualties in this battle, with the total casualties reaching more than 20,000, accounting for a quarter of the entire army.