Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Compared with the infantry, the speed of the cavalry is too fast. Such a fast speed is simply impossible to require a dense formation, and it is impossible for the soldiers to fight in a concentrated manner such as squads, platoons, and companies.

It doesn't matter if a cavalryman is completely separated from his comrades-in-arms and officers during the battle, as long as he can shoot arrows, charge together, and fight together with the large army, and return to the team after fighting.

This is a major internal reason why the ancient nomads clearly had no culture and no art of war, but they were still able to use cavalry to fight inextricably with the Central Plains dynasty.

Infantry is like ants, there are many different divisions of labor.

The queen ant is responsible for reproduction, the princess is responsible for taking over from the queen at any time, the male ant is responsible for breeding offspring with the queen and princess, the worker ant is responsible for daily work, and so on.

The cavalry is like a pack of wolves, everyone just needs to rush with the wolf king, bite the object firmly together and kill the object, there is no other particularity, just do it!Therefore, the infantry cannot retreat, and once they retreat, they will directly mess up. The enemy on the battlefield will not give the infantry time to recover after retreating.

But the cavalry can withdraw, anytime and anywhere, it doesn't matter if it is chaotic or not, anyway, as soon as the arrows and flags are fired, everyone follows and it's over.

After figuring this out, Yi Qu Sheng woke up like a dream, and looked at Li Mu with an expression of admiration in his eyes.

"General Li Mu, you are truly amazing!"

Li Mu laughed, and said to Yiqu Sheng: "Then what is the king of Yiqu waiting for, retreat!"

A loud arrow soared into the sky and shot towards the rear of the army formation.

Afterwards, [-] cavalrymen moved one after another and headed towards the rear.

In the Qin army's main formation, Wei Liao also received Zhao Jun's movements.

"General, the Zhao army didn't react in the front, but they sent out small groups of troops on both wings, each with about 1000 people, and they are attacking the left and right wings of our vanguard army!"

This news didn't make Wei Liao any worried, on the contrary, he was very happy, and smiled at Meng Wu beside him: "General Meng Wu, have you seen it?

Li Mu has absolutely nothing to do with our frontal chariot advance tactics, so he can only use the stupid tactics of two-wing harassment to deal with it. "

Meng Wudao: "Then how is the general going to deal with Zhao Guoren's two wings of harassment?"

Wei Liao waved his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Send the order, and immediately send a thousand more crossbowmen on the two wings of the vanguard! Zhao Jun's attacks are all light cavalry, and our crossbowmen are enough to deal with it!"

Watching the messenger leave, Meng Wu couldn't help cupping his hands, and said to Wei Liao, "Unexpectedly, the trump card of Chi You Army, which has been troubling the princes of the Central Plains for a long time, will be broken by General Wei Liao today."

Wei Liao couldn't help laughing out loud, and said to Meng Wu: "To tell you the truth, before sending out troops, I went to Lord Wu An's Bai Qi's mansion and asked him about such tactics.

Who knew that after hearing my tactics, he would actually say that my tactics are useless, which is really infuriating!After today's victory, I will go back to Xianyang and ask Mr. Wu An why my useless tactics can defeat Mr. Wu Xin's ace troops, but he can only be beaten repeatedly by Mr. Wu Xin's Zhao Kuo! "

At this moment, another scout from Qin State galloped over and reported another new news.

"General, the main cavalry of the Zhao army has retreated ten miles!"

After the news was finished, Wei Liao froze for an instant, and his smile disappeared completely.

Chapter 458 Li Mu advances by retreating, Wei Liao is in a dilemma

When Meng Wu heard the news, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he was overjoyed.

Zhao Jun took the initiative to withdraw his troops. Does this mean that Zhao Jun is already afraid of Qin Jun's soldiers?

But the next moment, when Meng Wu saw Wei Liao's incomparably gloomy expression, he suddenly came back to his senses.

Things may not be that simple.

Meng Wu couldn't help asking: "General, what's going on?"

Wei Liao's stiff face moved slightly, and then he said: "This Li Mu is simply sinister!"

Li Mu retreated ten miles suddenly, which immediately put Wei Liao into an extremely passive situation.

If the pursuit continues, the Qin army may advance aggressively.

If you don't continue to pursue, then Qin Jun will not be able to touch Zhao Jun's cavalry at all, and victory will be impossible to talk about.

Meng Wu came back to his senses and said: "Then what should we do?"

In the current situation, Wei Liao pondered for a while, gritted his teeth, and said: "Send the order, let the vanguard continue to advance, and chase after Zhao Jun's cavalry!"

Meng Wu was taken aback, and said: "This is not good, General, didn't you just say that Li Mu just wanted to use this to make us go deeper?"

Wei Liao said coldly: "Do we have a better way now?

Moreover, who said that my vanguard would advance rashly?

Then send an order, the main force of the Chinese army will press forward and follow the vanguard army, and Li Mu's troops will not be given the opportunity to encircle the vanguard army with cavalry! "

Wei Liao thought that he had thought very clearly. The reason why Li Mu retreated was to lure the vanguard army to pursue alone and put a distance of ten miles away from the main force of the Chinese army. Afterwards, Zhao Jun's cavalry could penetrate the ten miles to attack Qin. The vanguard carried out outflanking.

But as long as the main force of Qin's central army followed suit, then Zhao Jun would have no chance to outflank, and the whole battle situation would be completely different.

Meng Wu still felt a little bad in his heart, and said: "Then what if Zhao Jun continues to retreat?"

Wei Liao sneered: "It is impossible for Zhao Jun to continue to retreat, because Zhao Jun's camp is behind them, where else can they retreat?"

Thus, under Wei Liao's order, the [-] garrison troops moved in unison, with [-] chariots as the vanguard, continuing to advance forward.

The news was reported almost immediately to the main formation of the Zhao Jun cavalry who had just retreated ten miles.

After Yi Qusheng heard it, he couldn't help but gasped.

In Yi Qusheng's initial imagination, the reason why Zhao Jun retreated ten miles was to lure the enemy to go deep, but now [-] Qin troops have come out in full force, and the depth is too deep, and this one can't be swallowed.

Yi Qu Sheng said: "This Wei Liao is really decisive enough, General Li Mu, what should we do now?"

Compared to Yiqu Sheng who was a little flustered, Li Mu was quite calm and composed, and he didn't even forget to ask Yiqu Sheng back: "King Yiqu, you don't really think that I will have nothing to do with them after the people of Qin come out in full force. Bar?"

Standing on the chariot, Wei Liao watched the [-] soldiers of the Qin Army advance boldly under his leadership.

The smoke and dust splashed by countless footsteps obscured Wei Liao's vision in front of him, but the scouts who kept going back and forth were still able to detect various battle situations in time, and then reported to Wei Liao.

"General, the thousand cavalrymen who harassed the left wing have disappeared!"

"General, the thousand Zhao cavalry who harassed the right flank have disappeared!"

Hearing this, the smile on Wei Liao's face became more intense, and he said to Meng Wu who was beside him: "General Meng Wu, did you see that?

After Li Mu learned that our entire army was attacking, he had no choice but to shrink his troops and focus on fighting us to the death. "

Meng Wu nodded again and again, and said: "If it's a fight to the death, with a defense line of [-] chariots in front, our army will undoubtedly win."

Wei Liao laughed loudly, and said: "There are still four miles to go, once our army is allowed to cross the last four miles, it will be Li Mu's death!"

Suddenly, another scout rushed over, bringing news that completely caught Wei Liao off guard.

"General, a cavalry soldier from the Zhao army entered our camp just now, and is now setting fire and looting everywhere in our camp!"

"what?"

Wei Liao was so shocked that he almost fell off the chariot.

After a few seconds, Wei Liao shouted angrily: "Aren't Zhao Jun's cavalry under our surveillance? As long as they are transferred, they will be stopped by our army. Where did the troops come from to attack our army?" camp?"

Meng Wu suddenly understood something, and said in a startled voice: "Could it be the two thousand cavalry who just harassed our two wings and then retreated?"

Wei Liao seemed to be hit by a thunderbolt, and he was completely dumbfounded.

It is true that Wei Liao had placed eyeliner everywhere in front of him, but he ignored the two small groups of Zhao Jun who had been harassing the Qin Army under his nose all the time.

When the [-] Qin army attacked the camp with all their strength, there were only a group of young and strong peasants, and the [-] Zhao cavalrymen were like gods and gods!Wei Liao subconsciously looked towards the back, and sure enough, he saw thick smoke billowing into the sky!Wei Liao suddenly understood completely: "This despicable and shameless Li Mu, that's what he planned from the beginning!"

be cheated!Meng Wu said anxiously at the side: "General, you must return to the camp immediately, otherwise it will be too late!"

Wei Liao took a deep breath, his face was flickering, hesitant.

At this time, Wei Liao was actually a little messed up.

Of course it is easy to withdraw troops, but what about the [-] main cavalry of the Zhao army who are close at hand?

Meng Wu became anxious, and said: "General, there are a lot of food and grass in the camp, if we sit back and watch these food and grass burn out, then we will lose without fighting."

Wei Liao was flustered, but immediately remembered something, and said: "In front of us is the camp of the Zhao army, as long as we can defeat the Zhao army and occupy the camp, we will have new food and grass!

Meng Wudun said: "My good general, the Zhao army is cavalry, and they don't have food, grass and luggage."

If we keep marching, they'll just have to leave an empty camp and flee, and we're all finished without food! "

Wei Liao gritted his teeth and roared angrily, "But what should we do if Zhao Jun's cavalry attack us when we retreat?"

The sound of killing on the battlefield was loud, but the pair of Qin army's chief and deputy generals had fallen into silence.

Wei Liao suddenly felt a deep powerlessness.

The [-] elites under his command have already fallen into this dilemma before they even started fighting Zhao Guoren!Is this the number one general under Wu Xinjun's command?

Seeing that Qin Jun was very close to Zhao Jun, another message came suddenly.

"General, Zhao Jun directly bypassed the camp and continued to retreat!"

As Meng Wu said just now, Zhao Jun gave up his camp without hesitation and handed over the camp to Qin Jun!This sentence hit Wei Liao's body hard like a giant hammer, causing Wei Liao's body to shake violently.

With a bang, Wei Liao slapped hard on the shaft of the chariot, gritted his teeth and said: "Retreat, the whole army retreats!"

Chapter 459 Li Mu defeated Wei Liao's army

Wei Liao had to retreat.

Since Li Mu had given up the Zhao Jun camp, there must be nothing in the Zhao Jun camp.

Wei Liao was even very clear about Li Mu's plan.

The reason why Li Mu has not completely left the battlefield is not because he can't, but because he doesn't want to.

Li Mu is still waiting, waiting for the grain and grass in the camp of the Qin army to be burned!Once the Qin army's food and grass are completely burned, it will be Wei Liao's end!Wei Liao felt extremely regretful at this moment.

You shouldn't take any chances, you should retreat as soon as you hear the news!But it was too late to say anything at this moment, Wei Liao took the lead and returned from a long distance with his three thousand personal guards, rushing towards the Qin army camp.

Behind Wei Liao, the [-] Qin troops were apparently in some confusion after hearing Ming Jin's order to withdraw.

But an order is an order after all, and the Qin army began to withdraw its troops back to the camp in the midst of this chaos.

"The Qin people retreated?"

Yi Qusheng couldn't believe his ears after hearing the news: "How could they retreat?"

Li Mu smiled slightly, and pointed to the distant sky: "King Yiqu, open your eyes and take a closer look?"

Yi Qusheng looked intently, and sure enough, behind the smoke and dust all over the sky, he saw a thick smoke billowing into the sky.

It can be said that Yiqu Sheng has seen too much of this kind of thick smoke during this time, because every city he burned looked like this.

Yi Qusheng immediately came back to his senses, overjoyed: "Is it the Qin army's food that was burned?"

Li Mu laughed loudly: "It's the Qin army's camp that was burned, and Wei Liao is finished! Send the order, and the whole army will attack and harass!"

With Li Mu's order, [-] Zhao Jun cavalry rushed up immediately.

Relying on the speed advantage of the cavalry, Zhao Jun had already caught up with Qin Jun in just a quarter of an hour.

At this moment, the [-] chariots that were at the forefront of the Qin army were at the back of the palace. At this moment, these chariots were no longer in the strict formation that advanced slowly as before, but retreated in chaos.

When Zhao Jun's cavalry was found to be catching up, this retreat directly turned into an escape.

The strength of chariots compared to cavalry lies in the neat formation and heavy armor, but when the chariot enters the escape state, the neat formation no longer exists, and the thick armor will cause the chariot to escape faster. slow.

After the offensive and defensive trend was reversed, the advantage directly became a disadvantage.

Countless Zhao Jun cavalry rode their horses and shot arrows, and the arrows fell like raindrops.

Shoot people first and shoot horses!The horses pulling the chariots fell to the ground with arrows, and the chariots pulled by the horses immediately overturned, and many chariot soldiers standing on the chariots were directly thrown out by the huge inertia , slammed heavily on the ground a few feet away.

Many people in this era think that the cavalry of Zhao State are not the opponents of chariots, but they forget that after King Zhao Wuling presided over Hufu cavalry and shooting in Zhao State decades ago, Zhongshan, which had tens of thousands of chariots, was the first to be wiped out. country!Amidst the loud noise, the Qin army's chariots in front were completely panicked.

The guards frantically beat the horses pulling the chariot, causing the chariot to accelerate crazily, and rushed directly into the infantry formation of the Qin army that was slowly retreating in front.

Of course, the speed of the infantry couldn't match the chariots, so many soldiers of the Qin army were directly crushed by their own chariots!At this moment, the soldiers on the chariot no longer cared about their comrades-in-arms, so let's escape first!Under the ruthless crushing of hundreds of chariots, the already chaotic Qin army turned into a mess.

A large number of soldiers of the Qin army no longer continued to follow the main force to retreat, but dispersed and fled towards both sides.

After more and more Qin troops did this, this retreat became a real rout.

Li Mu watched this scene and couldn't help laughing out loud.

"King Yiqu, have you seen it?

We won this battle! "

No matter how elite the force is, when it completely breaks up and flees, it will have no fighting power at all!On the other side, the chief general of the Qin Army, Wei Liao, returned to his own Qin Army camp with three thousand personal guards.

Looking at the Qin army camp in front of him, Wei Liao was stunned.

Thick smoke billowed, flames shot into the sky, and countless young and strong Qin soldiers and civilians escaped from the gate of the camp in a state of embarrassment. Frightened and desperate cries filled every corner of the air.