Tens of thousands of generals saw that they repelled the Qin army's attack with just one volley. They felt very proud and couldn't help laughing. Continue to beat the drum and let the first batch of soldiers rush forward. Thousands of people will be even more proud as they watch the Qin army dragging the wounded back in embarrassment. Let the soldiers chase him a hundred steps away and call him back with the sound of the bell. The second batch of Qin troops who attacked added shield soldiers. After they rounded the boulder, ten thousand people fired a volley just like the last time. The shield soldiers were already standing unsteadily on the hillside. A thousand arrows were fired, and the huge impact almost knocked down all the shield soldiers. Fortunately, they reacted in time, raised their shields desperately, blocked most of the second arrows, and then left in a hurry with the support of the halberdiers. This trail separated by huge rocks became a blessed place for the Zhao army. The Qin army had difficulty passing it after several attempts, but suffered a lot of casualties.
An hour later, the supporting Zhao army arrived. The Ten Thousand Generals proudly showed their battle progress to the generals of the Zhao army who came over. Although those generals were a little confused, they couldn't just slap the Ten Thousand Generals in the face, so they all echoed and said some words of praise.
The reinforcements coming over will not have to interfere with the battle at hand. The Qin army seemed to have no special way to break through the Zhao army's defense. They just tried the previous offensive routines over and over again, and naturally they would only get the previous results. At the cost of several Qin soldiers being injured, they retreated. The reinforcements who had risen to reinforce had nothing else to do. They sent envoys to report to Zhao Kuo that they had rushed to the front line for reinforcements. Then the generals watched the battle on the ramparts, while the other soldiers rested in place at the foot of the mountain. Zhao Kuo had no other instructions, and the army maintained its current posture.
When the sun went down, the Qin army stopped attacking and retreated to the valley. The wounded had been evacuated previously. When the Zhao army saw the Qin army retreating, they immediately sent people to report the victory to Zhao Kuo: Danzhu Ridge had repelled the Qin army's attack "with the support of reinforcements". It gave the supporting Zhao Jun a lot of face. Zhao Kuo replied: "Anyone who fights will receive twice as much food!" Since the battle here was stalemate, he did not have the energy to go to Danzhu Ridge. Only one retainer and the military envoy were allowed to go back and convey the order.
From morning to sunset, the twenty-four battalions of the Zhao Army and the eighteen battalions of the Qin Army fought inextricably. Both sides suffered heavy losses; but the soldiers on both sides were red-blooded, and the lightly wounded were bound up and returned to the battlefield. fighting. With the support of fighting spirit, Zhao Jun's formation became more and more skillful, his speed became faster, and he slowly seemed to have some advantages. Zhao Kuo hoped that the sun would not set too early. If it were two or three hours later, the Zhao army might be able to defeat the Qin army.
But the sun still went down, huge mountain shadows covered the battlefield, and the sky became dark. The Qin army retreated with gold, but the Zhao army was unable to pursue it, so it could only retreat with gold.
Zhao Kuo praised the armies participating in the war with extremely inflammatory words: "Qin is tyrannical and poisoning the world. It is up to me, Zhao, to resist it, and we cannot do whatever it wants. Shangdang returns to Zhao, and God is right. Qin is against the sky. If you do it, you will suffer disaster! Heaven will punish you, Heaven will punish you! You obey Heaven and attack those who rebel!"
Zhao Jun waved the weapons in his hands very excitedly and shouted: "God will punish him, God will punish him!"
Zhao Kuo ordered the soldiers of the three armies to eat twice as much tonight!
On this day, five armies had eaten. Zhao Kuo has tried his best to break the deadlock!
At night, Zhao Kuo wanted to bring three troops over, but the narrow southern ramparts could no longer accommodate so many newly arrived troops. Zhao Kuo had no choice but to reorganize the camp first and let twenty-four battalions of 12,000 regular soldiers and ten battalions of 5,000 combat-ready troops come and set up camp in preparation for tomorrow's battle.
When Zhao Kuo was patrolling the camp, he told the generals of the army what he had discovered: Four battalions of the Zhao army were roughly equal to three battalions of the Qin army; if the number of Qin troops going to battle tomorrow is not large, our army can use Overwhelm them with troops above this quota, and try to get as close as possible to the opponent's ramparts, and if possible destroy them.
Finally, Zhao Kuo finally appeared on Danzhu Ridge and listened face to face to the report of the 10,000-strong general and the two 5,000-strong reinforcement generals. The three of them unanimously praised that this time had taught the Qin army a big lesson! The five thousand Qin troops could not take a single step beyond that boulder. Zhao Kuo saw the boulder with his own eyes and went behind the boulder to inspect the blood stains. Seeing that wet bows and arrows could cause serious casualties fifty steps away, I was secretly happy: I can put the archers into battle tomorrow. On the way back, he also relayed the results of the battle of Danzhuling's tens of thousands of soldiers to the generals of each army, telling them that bows and arrows can shoot to a distance of fifty steps, and they can try them out if necessary. Returning to the main tent, he asked the military envoy to convey orders to the Zhao army guarding the southern camp, and prepare a thousand archers to go out of the city to fight.
In the early morning of August 15th, the morning light gradually dissipated, and Changping ushered in a new day with the sound of drums. No one remembers that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the frequent wars have made people’s minds full of fighting. However, the Zhao army, which had been fighting with the Qin army in the south for a whole day yesterday, did not rise up with the sound of drums. Their officers at all levels went to have fun in various shops and restaurants on the hills that night, and they have not returned yet. The double food reward they received at night was exactly what they needed to have fun!
The routine military rollout was over. Each of the three armies that fought yesterday sent envoys to report to Zhao Kuo how many soldiers they had, how many wounded they had, and how many illnesses they had. The only exception was that none of their middle-level officers were currently in the camp. The camp was actually in a disorganized state - a post-war norm not worthy of report.
Breakfast as usual, after breakfast all the armies arrayed themselves for battle.
Zhao Kuo still went to the southern camp to supervise the southern attack operations. He watched the 12th battalion of the first team, four formations, come out and line up. The three battalions strengthened for this unit were battalions that had participated in combat. Their quality was better than the other nine battalions, and they were faster in formation. Zhao Kuo felt more confident: almost all of the twenty-five armies were qualified. Combat experience!
Drawing on the experience of fighting in Danzhuling, Zhao Kuo also centralized the use of a thousand archers instead of spreading them among various battalions.
As the drums sounded, the battle started along the entire bank of Danshui. Due to Zhao Kuo's instructions, the Zhao army sent out to fight this time was one-third more than the Qin army. It was hoped that the advantage in quantity could make up for the lack of training quality. The sound of bowstrings sounded from time to time, which also indicated that bows and arrows were back on the battlefield, and the fighting became more bloody.
Zhao Kuo asked people to control the archers in the last row of the army, preparing to launch a volley when the Qin army's formation was scattered, in order to inflict damage to the strongest Qin army. The strange soldiers are also lying in ambush inside the camp gate, ready to attack at any time.
Zhao Kuo intuitively saw that the Qin army that went out today should be the same army that went out yesterday, and there was no new force. This made Zhao Kuo feel happy. The intensity of the battle yesterday would be difficult to recover from after a night's rest. Today's Qin army can be considered a tired force; but he is a cutting-edge force mobilized from the rear! Not to mention the numerical advantage, in terms of physical strength, our own troops are better than the Qin army!
The battle unfolded as Zhao Kuo expected. The only difference was that the Qin army was also equipped with archers and conducted fire blocking before the two sides charged, trying to disrupt the Zhao army's formation. However, due to insufficient bow power, Zhao Jun's formation only shifted slightly, but he quickly adjusted and launched a violent impact.
Zhao Kuo clearly felt that the Qin army was exhausted: in the battles of the past few days, the first attack usually ended in Zhao Jun's defeat. The Zhao army had to use the second formation to supplement the impact in order to kill the first formation of the Qin army. . But this time, the formations of both sides dispersed almost at the same time!
This was true for three consecutive formations, and the fourth formation almost became the decisive force: it violently collided with the first formation that had just been assembled, and finally defeated this formation! In a one-on-one situation, the Zhao army was able to kill the Qin army for a while, which had never happened before. But the joy did not last long. The second formation of the Qin army also assembled, rushed up, and knocked away the fourth formation of the Zhao army...
At the sound of a command, the archers fired three arrows and chased the retreating Qin army. This also angered the Qin army's archers, who also fired arrows that filled the sky and knocked down a large number of Zhao troops. However, due to the short range of the bows and arrows, they had almost no impact on the soldiers fighting in the entire group. Most of the people killed or injured were soldiers retreating or in formation.
Due to the participation of bows and arrows, the attrition rate of both sides increased rapidly, and the second team had to be sent out of the city to fight in advance.
Zhao Kuo felt that there might be hope for a turn in the war here today, so he sent a military envoy and another army. Since there were fierce battles along the Danshui line, he did not dare to deploy troops from the Danshui defense line. Instead, he transferred an army from the troops tasked with guarding the easternmost barrier that had no defensive tasks for the time being. Zhao Kuo predicted that if it was early, the sun would be gone, and if it was late, the sun would be setting. By the time this army arrives, the Zhao army should have achieved decisive results here and can launch an attack on the Qin army's barrier - this cannot be done by the field troops who have fought hard for a day, but should recruit a new force. In order not to weaken the defense of the eastern barrier, Zhao Kuo transferred another army from the hills to supplement the eastern defense.
It faced a valley to the east and was perfectly shielded by a hill on the opposite side, making it almost impossible to attack. But this is only relative. The terrain here is not dangerous. The hills opposite can only delay the enemy's effect. Without sufficient troops, it cannot be defended. And once this place is lost, the entire side of Changping will be exposed! Therefore, both Lian Po and Zhao Kuo attach great importance to the defense here. Although there has been no fighting here, they dare not mobilize the troops here at all.
But now Zhao Kuo saw the dawn of victory, so he took the risk and mobilized an army to attack; and at the same time, he mobilized an army to strengthen.
After the new troops entered the battle, Zhao Jun's advantage became more obvious, and Qin Jun was obviously passively parrying; Zhao Kuo believed that they could be defeated with just one more force. However, the small battlefield cannot accommodate other armies, and even sending out surprise troops to fight is very crowded. Zhao Kuo could only hope that the Zhao army currently fighting could defeat the Qin army as soon as possible.
