There is no skill in this kind of fighting, only life for life and injury for injury. The dead will be replaced by the living, and the injured will continue to persevere until they die in battle! From injury to death, it usually only takes a few breaths. As soon as you stab the halberd into one person's body, your body will be stabbed by another person. There is no way to escape or dodge. If you survive this blow, as long as you are still standing, you will soon die. More blows fall on you until you fall! What Zhao Kuo wants is this kind of life-for-life. As long as this exchange can continue, the Qin army will eventually be unable to support it, and the Zhao army's military advantage will eventually be brought into play.
The people of Qin and Zhao are fundamentally from the same ethnic group with the surname Ying. During the reign of King Zhou of Shang Dynasty, one of his ministers was named Feilian. Feilian had two sons, one was called Erai and the other was named Ji Sheng (from this name, it seems that Feilian had other sons). Feilian himself was good at long-distance running, and his son was extremely strong. After King Zhou was destroyed, Xilai also died, probably in battle! His father Feilian happened to be sent to the north for work at that time (called "Weishi" in history, probably to purchase jade) and survived. When he came back after finishing his work, he found that King Zhou was also dead, and his son Wei Lai was also dead. Feilian was a die-hard loyalist to King Zhou. He set up an altar to offer sacrifices to King Zhou in Mount Huotai (roughly equivalent to setting up a "grave tomb" in later generations), guarded the garden himself, and died in Mount Huotai.
Ji Sheng's branch defected to King Zhou Cheng (the second generation King of Zhou) relatively early and was granted the title of Gaolang. During the reign of King Mu of Zhou (the fifth generation King of Zhou), he was granted a title in Zhao because of his meritorious service in protecting the emperor against rebellion. Huo Taishan, Gao Lang and Zhao were all in the old Jin area.
The Eilai branch was moved to Quanqiu in the Zhou Dynasty, probably as captive slaves of the Zhou people. Who let Eilai fight with the Zhou army? It was not until the time of King Xiao of Zhou (the eighth king of Zhou) that the King of Zhou was forced to move the capital to Huaili, not far from Quanqiu, due to the intrusion of the Xirong and Zhai people. Feizi from this branch was good at herding horses. He was appreciated by the king of Zhou. The King of Zhou wanted Feizi to be the heir to the clan chief (the clan chief at the time was Feizi's father Da Luo), but he was opposed by the local power Shen Hou. The daughter of Marquis Shen married Da Luo and gave birth to a son named Zicheng. Marquis Shen urged his son to become the clan leader! The King of Zhou did not dare to offend the Marquis of Shen, so he could only retreat and settle for the next best thing, establishing an independent clan of Feizi and enfeoffing him to Qin.
Qin is more than five hundred miles west of Quanqiu, with high mountains and dangerous rivers. It is the place where Rong Zhai gathers. It stands to reason that the living environment is much worse than that of Zicheng. But something unexpected happened. Decades later, during the era of King Zhou Li (the tenth king of Zhou), the Zicheng tribe who lived next to Emperor Quanqiu was wiped out by the army, while Qin, who was among Rong Zhai, grew up. . After King Xuan of Zhou came to the throne, he appointed Qin Zhong, the clan leader at the time, as a doctor and led his clan to attack the Rong people. Qin Zhong fought hard for five years and died on the battlefield. Qin Zhong's five sons fled back to Zhou, and the King of Zhou lent them 7,000 Zhou troops. The five of them fought back to Qin, expelled the Rong people, and ensured the security of Zhou. Qin Zhong's eldest son was appointed as the doctor of Xicui. In addition to regaining the possession of Qin, the Quanqiu granted by his ancestors was also granted to him. Doctor Xicui governed Qin for forty-four years. The political and economic center moved back to Quanqiu, and its strength increased greatly, laying the foundation for the development of Qin. He was respected as Duke Zhuang by the descendants of Qin.
Historically, both Qin and Zhao were ethnic groups that grew up in wars with foreigners (the Gaolang people were also a branch of the Rong people). Their warlike personalities were ingrained in their blood. The more powerful they faced, the more capable they became. Arouse unyielding fighting spirit!
By the time the sun went down, both sides were already furious. At this time, the battle between the two places was already declining. In the battle in front of the Qin wall, the first four formations of the Zhao army consisted of 6,000 men plus an additional 2,000 to 3,000 surprise troops. Now, only two to 3,000 men can still fight. The Qin army's losses seemed to be no less than those of the Zhao army, but the specific situation is unknown. The second batch of four formations of 6,000 Zhao troops and 5,000 elite swordsmen of the Qin army have been fighting fiercely to this day, with the Qin army clearly having the upper hand. As the number of casualties on both sides increased, Zhao Jun's numerical advantage gradually shrank and was now at a disadvantage. Zhao Kuo now still has a fresh army on hand that can go into battle. But he faced a dilemma: Should he devote this force to fighting the Qin swordsmen, or commit it to attack the Qin wall? After a day of combat command, his mind was a little unclear. A rough estimate shows that the first batch of Zhao troops have basically lost the ability to continue attacking, while the second batch of Zhao troops may still be able to deal with the Qin swordsmen for a while. Zhao Kuo gritted his teeth and launched the third batch of Zhao troops into siege operations.
Amidst the sound of drums, six thousand Zhao troops marched to the front line in order. The battle between the two places started right in front of these Zhao troops, and the desperate fighting of the soldiers on both sides seemed to inspire them. This group of Zhao soldiers stepped into the battlefield with their heads held high and their hearts filled with incomparable heroism.
The first batch of capable warriors were not willing to retreat. They asked the lightly wounded to help the seriously wounded to leave, while the remaining people launched the final charge!
Arrows were shot sparsely from both sides, and the Zhao Jun who was hit by the arrow cursed viciously, while the others rushed up the gentle slope like a whirlwind and charged towards the Qin camp as if they had not seen it. On the battlefield, one could only see the Zhao troops being picked off one by one, and the Qin troops who were knocked down by them could not be seen at all from the surface. But there were no weapons in the hands of the soldiers who were picked off. It can be guessed that they must have been left in the body of a certain Qin army.
The attack lasted for a long time, and all the Zhao troops who participated in the charge did not come back. They saw the next batch of Zhao troops rushing up under the cover of shields.
The third batch of Zhao Jun observed the previous round of Zhao Jun's attack for half a day, and had a full understanding of the Qin Army's tactical characteristics. They adopted extremely targeted tactics. What followed closely behind the shield were not the halberd soldiers, but the archers. They rushed to a place about twenty or thirty steps away from the Qin wall and concentrated on firing arrows at the breach; the Zhao soldiers who followed behind shouted and rushed up the gentle slope.
The arrow rain before the impact caused huge losses to the Qin army at the breach. When the Zhao army rushed in, the people around him had no time to fill the positions of the dead and wounded; a large number of Zhao soldiers jumped off the camp fence and attacked on both sides. The Qin army squeezed desperately, but could not close the breach, and Zhao troops kept jumping down. Not long after, about a thousand Zhao troops in the first formation jumped off the Qin wall.
Zhao Kuo was overjoyed and beat drums to urge the second formation to rush forward, while the first formation's shield soldiers and archers retreated.
The distance of a hundred steps was reached in an instant, and the shield soldiers and archers were divided on both sides to cover the halberd and spear soldiers as they rushed up the gentle slope. The archers fired back at those who were still shooting arrows in this direction. Because they didn't know what was going on under the wall, they didn't dare to shoot arrows directly.
About a thousand people in the second group also jumped in. One of the thousand men leading the army went up to the city with a group of shield soldiers and archers to see what was going on, and he saw a scene that broke his heart. The nearly two thousand soldiers who entered were surrounded by a dense formation of shields and spears. No matter how the Zhao army clashed, they could not break through. At the same time, archers seemed to be coming from a distance. The Thousand-Man General became anxious and jumped off the barrier himself, followed by the shield soldiers and archers behind him. Thousands of generals shouted loudly to kill, grabbed a spear, and took the lead in charging towards the Qin army. Where the spear started, a shield was knocked over by him, but he was also stabbed by two spears on the left and right of the shield at the same time. But before the two spears had time to exert force, the spear of the Thousand-Man General spun a second circle and hit the two spearmen, knocking them out first. The moment the Qin army showed an opening, several Zhao soldiers rushed forward and tore a crack into the gap. Thousands of people shouted wildly: "Kill! Kill!" commanding the Zhao army to rush into the crack, trying to completely open it. The spears on both sides came over one after another, and the Zhao troops standing on both sides were stabbed, but at the same time they were stabbed, they smashed the halberds in their hands at the Qin army. Sometimes they hit the Qin army with their spears. Sometimes his arm would be empty, so he would simply let go and let the halberd fly past, no matter what it hit.
Although the breakthrough commanded by thousands of generals caused great chaos and casualties to the Qin army, they gave up the breakthrough. Seeing Zhao Jun retreat, the Qin troops on both wings quickly filled the gap and blocked the breakthrough again. The two thousand people had already suffered heavy losses in the process of breaking through. The remaining ones bumped into the Qin army camp for a while, were lured into a small area, surrounded and rushed, and were shot dead by the archers who came... And those A brave general with thousands of troops did not break out at all and died on the spot.
When the third team arrived, they had to reopen the breakthrough. But this time, the prepared Qin army did not let the Zhao army succeed. Instead, they took inspiration from Zhao Jun's tactics and placed their combat soldiers on both wings. When Zhao Jun began to jump into the wall, they blocked the breach with fierce bows and arrows at close range, almost quickly clearing the troops rushing up the gentle slope. The few Zhao soldiers who were able to jump off the barrier were killed one by one by the Qin army.
Zhao Kuo's heart sank when he saw a large number of arrows from the Qin army shooting out from down the gentle slope. The Zhao army on the gentle slope was almost completely cleared within a few steps. Now he only had a moment left and was unable to attack again. And the sky has turned completely dark. Although there is still moonlight, there is no way to fight anymore!
Looking at the Zhao army further south who was still entangled with the Qin swordsmen, Zhao Kuo had no choice but to order the troops to retreat!
The Zhao army that fought against the Qin swordsmen was able to bring back their wounded companions, but the Zhao army that attacked the Qin wall was almost completely wiped out. The corpses and wounded were lying under the Qin wall. It was impossible to tell who was dead and who was alive. . No one can drag them back.
The last group of soldiers became a cover for the remaining soldiers, deterring the Qin army from taking the opportunity to launch a counterattack. The Qin army was also exhausted and unable to fight back.
Thirty thousand people came out that day, and about 20,000 people did not come back!
Zhao Kuo felt heavy. Today he had put in all his efforts and had broken into the Qin wall, but at the last moment the Qin army blocked the breakthrough. What about tomorrow? Want to do it again?
All the soldiers on the Zhao Jun's fortress witnessed Zhao Jun's brave fighting. They watched with blood boiling and passion. When the wounded soldiers enter the camp gate one by one, the tens of thousands of people at the camp gate will give orders to beat the victory drum!
The sound of drums struck everyone's hearts and aroused intense emotions. I don’t know who started, but the Zhao military camp began to sing "Drum Beating": "Beat the drum and boring it, and use the troops enthusiastically. I will go south alone in the city of Tuguo. From Sunzi Zhong, I will level Chen and Song Dynasty. Without me, I will return, and I will have worries. Angry. Love lives in the place of love? Love loses his horse? How do you seek it? Under the forest. The relationship between life and death is broad, and I tell it to my son. I hold my son's hand, and grow old together with my son. I am sighing for my wealth, but I am not alive. You sigh, I don't believe you." The generosity and sadness last for a long time...
