Sima Jin naturally knew that although Hu Yang's plan was risky, it had a greater chance of success. The only thing needed now was for him to act quickly. As long as he quickly maneuvers into place, quickly launches an attack, and quickly defeats the enemy, Wucheng will be safe. Otherwise, if the enemy army takes advantage of the familiar terrain and misses thousands of people, Wucheng will be lost, and Wang Lu may not be able to retreat.
Now that he had made up his mind, Sima Jin no longer delayed, decisively assembled his troops and ordered the injured, sick, and those over fifty and under twenty to march out collectively, under the command of Zhong Geng. The rest of the elite were taken away by Sima Jin, including the personal camp left by Hu Yang - the Yexian People's Army and the one hundred personal guards trained by Zheng Anping. Only Chen Si escorted the documents across the river and was not in the camp. During the formation of the team, military envoys were sent to inform the public officials on the front line that General Sima Jin, the fifth official, was personally leading the army.
Hu Yang looked at it and saw that there were always thousands of old, weak, sick and injured people left behind. Knowing that Sima Jin had relaxed the conditions in order to keep more people, but the situation was urgent and no further discussion was allowed, he personally reorganized this temporary army. The acting public officials, official officials and senior officials were appointed and ordered to take over the defense of the city and watched Sima Jin lead the large army out of the city.
When Sima Jin rushed to the battlefield where the two armies were confronting each other, it was already dark. Fortunately, the sky was clear and the moon and stars were sparse. Dr. Gong, who had been notified in advance, had already arranged the camp according to the order, allowing each battalion to enter the camp and rest first. The drumming that Young Master Yiren heard was not a battle, but the drumming of Zhao Jun's accelerating advance. After Zhao Jun advanced to the foot of the mountain, he did not continue to advance. Instead, he set up a camp fence and issued a warning.
Sima Jin led a group of male and female officials under him, taking advantage of the moonlight, to go around the foot of the mountain from the side of the swamp to observe Zhao Jun's camp. Under the moonlight, Zhao Jun's camp was quiet, with bonfires lighting up to guide the positions of each camp. Doctor Gong's estimate is good. Judging from the scale of this camp, there are really about 10,000 people, and the military strength is obviously superior. However, due to the narrow and dry area on the mountainside, the camp was more than ten miles long and winding.
Sima Jin pointed to the camp and asked the official: With your six battalions, how many camps can you defeat by killing them all the way? "
The official looked at it and said: "The head and tail of the battalion do not care about each other and are fighting on their own. I am willing to defeat it with one drum!"
Sima Jin praised it and said: "How magnificent! Zhonggeng gave me his personal camp. I will give you Zhonggeng's personal camp and my personal camp. I will definitely use it as a front and break through it." He looked at the sky and said: " It will start soon!"
The official said: "I can defeat it with my power!"
Sima Jin said: "The first thing to do is to choose the vanguard. I'll do it myself!"
Everyone returned to the camp, and the official went to his own camp to prepare. After a while, Sima Jin personally led Ye Ying and his own camp also arrived. The official said: "May the five doctors retreat a little while I allow you to fight!"
Sima Jin said: "Doctor, let's fight! I should personally lead the rear army and provide support for you!" The official bowed his head and left.
Sima Jin shouted: "Play the drums to gather the army!" He personally stood on the flag and drum cart and beat the war drums. The battalions were already in formation, and when they heard the drums, they quickened their pace.
As soon as each battalion was reorganized, the official stood in front of the camp and said: "Follow me, my comrades, and we will break the enemy camp together! Eat at sunrise!" There was a cry from the Qin army!
Each battalion formed five horizontal lines and marched in sequence. After the front army was all out, the rear army had also been reorganized. Sima Jin beat the war drum, and the eight battalions of the front army headed straight for the enemy camp.
The rear army all lit torches, and Sima Jin's flag and drum chariots walked behind the front army and in front of the rear army. The official's banner was in the first battalion: that battalion was based on his own battalion and supplemented with some strong soldiers.
The bowstring sounded, and there was a ping-pong sound when it hit the shield. The official ordered: "Down! Shoot! Get up!"
After shooting an arrow, the first battalion rushed towards the camp in the middle. Then the two battalions also locked their targets, and after completing the shooting according to the command, they launched an attack!
There are only these three barracks on the first line of Zhao camp, and the other barracks are behind. These three camps were handed over to three personal camps: Gong Dafu's personal camp was in the middle, Hu Yang's was on the left, and Sima Jin's was on the right. When they were about a hundred steps away from the camp fence, the Zhao army started shooting arrows, but since the first row of the Qin army were all shield soldiers, these arrows were not very lethal. After walking twenty or thirty steps forward, just as Zhao Jun's infantry rushed out of the camp gate and launched a charge, Qin Jun aimed at the camp gate and fired the first arrow. There was a dense crowd around the camp gate, and everyone was running and charging outside. The defense was not strict. Although each person only shot three arrows for a total of 300 arrows, due to the intersection of lines, no fewer than 100 people were hit by arrows. Following the command of "rise", one hundred shield soldiers, two hundred spear soldiers and one hundred spear soldiers changed from walking to fast walking. In only thirty or forty steps, they collided head-on with the Zhao army. As soon as Zhao Jun left the camp, their formation was not in order. Some shield soldiers were stabbed in diagonally with spears before they were ready to defend themselves. After being stabbed, they were forcefully pushed away. Several spears were pierced through the open gap and pushed in with force, deep into the formation; then the halberd soldiers showed their power and chopped down the shield soldiers from behind. Zhao Jun, who only went for protection, suddenly became a lamb to be slaughtered. Most of them fled, and the few who stayed to resist were stabbed and chopped down, and then their heads were beheaded. After receiving the command, the crossbowmen and crossbowmen who were lying behind the infantry stood up and shot another arrow at the fleeing Zhao army. Then all the troops rushed straight into the camp gate and killed the Zhao army in groups of ten and captured the camp.
Almost at the same time, the two battalions on the left and right also used roughly the same tactics to kill and disperse the Zhao army and occupied the camp.
Just after the confrontation, Zhao Jun lost three camps, and Zhao Jun quickly counterattacked. The Qin army who occupied the camp quickly entered the position and lay behind the camp, preparing to resist Zhao Jun's charge.
Zhao Jun also launched a charge after shooting three arrows. The two sides pressed shield against shield on the camp and at the camp gate. The halberd soldiers behind were pushing hard, trying to open a gap between the shields and insert their weapons. But this gap is very difficult to open. If it does open occasionally, there is not enough space for sprinting. Instead, the opponent will hold the stick and steal the weapon.
During the stalemate, the battalion from behind arrived. They passed through the open space between the battalions and attacked the two wings of Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun, who was fighting with the Qin army, saw a new force coming in. He suddenly realized that the situation was over and ordered his troops to retreat. The Qin troops who broke in from both wings followed closely behind, constantly looking for openings to stab and cut down several Zhao troops. Finally, the Zhao army could no longer stand and its formation began to scatter. The Qin army took advantage of the situation and dispersed the troops. At this time, the Qin army, which occupied the first camp, left the wounded behind and then came back in full force to kill them. Behind them, Sima Jin beat the drum and led the rear army to advance quickly.
When the second-line Qin army pursued the Zhao army and entered the second camp fence, Zhao Jun's reinforcements had already arrived in front of the camp. The Qin army hurriedly formed a team and slammed into it. During the stalemate, the three pro-camps of the Qin army arrived. They used more troops to attack the smaller troops, and broke through on both wings. They dispersed the Zhao army again and pursued them to the third camp fence.
After the Zhao army at the third barracks was killed and dispersed, no Zhao army counterattacked. When the Qin army rushed into the camp and looked up, they saw that the Zhao army was forming a formation in front of the camp. A big flag fluttered in the wind, and the war drums under it were beating. The scattered Zhao troops swarmed towards the big flag and were led to form behind the formation.
Dr. Gong ordered the whole army to stop and counted the number of people. There were not many casualties. Since Sima Jin gave him two battalions as reinforcements, Gong Dafu could actually put into battle eight battalions. Only six battalions had been mobilized now, and three camp fences had been occupied. This made Dr. Gong more confident. Seeing that Zhao Jun was gathering his rear troops to form a formation, Dr. Gong decided to launch a resolute assault without waiting for Zhao Jun to complete their formation. He ordered: "Surprise the formation!"
The shield soldiers of the third battalion came out of the camp first and lined up in the first line; all the spear soldiers of the eighth battalion lined up behind them. Then came the troops, alternating with shield-bearers and halberd-bearers, arrayed in the camp. Dr. Gong gathered the eight battalions into a strike force.
After a "rise", a phalanx of spears covered by shield soldiers slowly moved in. The rest of the troops followed them thirty or forty paces away for ready support.
The place where the Zhao army formed their formation was not wide, only the scope of three camps: three battalions formed in front of the camp and three battalions formed between the camps, forming a "fish scale formation" with intertwined phalanxes. It only took about an hour for the nine battalions of the front army to collapse, but it gave the rear army time to form their formation. The twelve battalions of the rear army used this staggered method to reluctantly form a formation in a limited area. Seeing the Qin army forming a formation to fight, the Zhao army also beat their war drums and advanced in strict formation.
The Qin army was composed of eight battalions, and it was difficult to command the command, so the official blew the horn, and the spearmen put their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in front. After walking for more than ten steps, Zhao Jun's formation was filled with arrows. The shield soldiers raised their shields slightly. There was a crackling sound on the shields. A few arrows missed and hit a few people behind. Some fell down, but most of them pulled out. Arrows coming, keep going.
Seeing that the two armies were only fifty steps apart, the Zhao army beat drums loudly and the Qin army sounded two trombones. The two armies ran towards each other. At the moment of the collision, the shield soldier put the spear on his shoulder firmly at the seam of the opponent's two shields. The opponent's shield soldier was weaker and had his spear inserted into the shield. The spearmen stirred up the situation and squeezed out a gap. The spears behind them penetrated through the cracks and holes. At this time, the shield soldiers pushed each other hard to both sides, and the spear soldiers behind also pushed with their spears. The complete shield city showed its flaws, and the spearmen rushed in with their spears. Zhao Jun's spearmen struggled to block the hole, but once the shield was opened, the spearmen rushed over with their spears.
The biggest misfortune of Zhao's army was that they were arranged in a fish-scale formation. When the first line met the enemy, the two wings were not as wide as the opponent's. The Qin army leaked in from both wings, and the formation in front was immediately broken. When the Zhao army behind them caught up, the Qin army that broke through the middle attacked on both sides. Although there were still two battalions on the left and right of the Zhao army that had not moved yet, they were unable to change their formation quickly and were entangled by a surprise force composed of shield soldiers and halberd soldiers behind them, and were unable to attack the center.
The Qin army passed through the first formation at the cost of more than a hundred casualties and reached the second formation's flag and drum vehicles. Although the battalions here are powerful in combat, the spearmen of the Qin army are all in the eighth battalion. In addition to the injured, there are a thousand people. When Zhao Jun was outflanked on both wings, although he was brave and resisted desperately, it only increased casualties. He did not last long and fell into the hands of the Qin army.
