After driving away the Qin army's patrol posts, 500 Zhao soldiers also climbed up the hillside and occupied the ridge. The Gaodu East Route Army army spread out before our eyes.
About five miles behind the Qin army's sentinels was the forward line of the Qin army's 1,000 men, who were arranged in ten columns; ten miles behind, there were 3,000 men in six columns. Behind the column is the Qin army's camp. Soldiers are lining up, all leading a large number of animals. Obviously, the Qin army is moving its camp to the mountainous area where it is located!
The 500 Zhao soldiers will immediately send someone to report to the 10,000 soldiers behind them: A large number of Qin troops are invading. There are ten teams of about a thousand people in the front, and a large number of six columns behind them. At the same time, there are Qin troops moving in the distance. The purpose is unknown.
Thousands of people will notice that the situation has changed and immediately stop leaving the camp and send someone to report to Zhao Kuo.
When the Qin army five miles away received the report from the sentinel, they also saw the Zhao army on the ridge. They immediately changed the ten columns into five horizontal lines as they marched, and surrounded them on both sides of the ridge. Before the envoys sent by the Zhao army of 500 people ran back to the camp, the Qin army had successfully changed their formation, advanced to the foot of the mountain, and began to advance toward the top of the mountain from both sides. The Zhao army only had a hundred archers. The Qin army moved away from the front and attacked both sides, making it difficult for Zhao's 500 men to decide whether to use their archers separately or to attack one group.
After a moment's hesitation, the Qin army had already climbed halfway up the mountain. There is no need for Zhao Jun's five hundred generals to hesitate. He ordered the front to be bent over, facing the oncoming Qin army, and when it reached a distance of a hundred steps, he ordered to shoot.
The Qin army wielded long bamboo poles, which seemed much easier than wielding wooden spears of the same length. They didn't have many shields. When they saw the arrows coming, they flexibly spread out or lay down to avoid them. After dodging the first round of arrows, they ran and rushed forward.
The Qin army was already more numerous than the Zhao army. When they were added to the fight, the Qin army naturally formed two horizontal lines. The remaining soldiers naturally moved to both sides and immediately surrounded the Zhao army's flanks. The Zhao army formed a five-row formation, folded into two fronts, each with only fifty men. After being outflanked, the formation was completely scattered and they could only fight on their own.
In one-on-one, face-to-face hand-to-hand combat, the Qin army's weapons took a big advantage: compared to the heavy and clumsy spear, the bamboo spear was more agile and could move forward and retreat flexibly; for the equally light halberd, the bamboo spear The sword is longer because it is longer; against the shield, of course it is a unilateral suppression! Not to mention that the Qin army still has a combat advantage. Soon after the fighting started, Zhao Jun was in great difficulty and injured many people. Seeing that the situation was not good, the five hundred people immediately ordered to break out in one direction. He took a dozen people around him and rushed out. Others who could follow also rushed out; other small groups of soldiers were separated. , seeing the master rushing out, he also rushed out bravely. With bows and arrows clearing the way, most of them ran out after several volleys. Five hundred people will quickly gather people and want to rescue the soldiers surrounded inside. But the Qin army turned around and outflanked them again. The five hundred men did not dare to fight, so they had to lead their troops to retreat, using bows and arrows as cover to prevent the Qin army from approaching. Seeing that the Zhao army had reorganized their formation, the Qin army retreated with all their heart. In addition, they saw Zhao troops gathering in front of the Zhao wall. They thought they were reinforcements and did not dare to pursue them. They only eliminated the hundreds of Zhao troops who had surrounded them. Just make some adjustments on the mountain and prepare a defensive position.
When there was a fierce battle at the top of the mountain, tens of thousands of people would just send people to report to Zhao Kuo. Everything that happened on the ridge was seen by him and his soldiers. The battle did not last long, maybe only a moment, but the thrills involved were still impressive. The most difficult thing for thousands of people is that today's attack may come to nothing.
About a moment later, the military envoy reported back, and the general ordered that the ten thousand people would not attack the Danshui Qin army, but instead drive away the Qin army invading from the mountains to the east, and if possible, drive away their reinforcements as well.
After receiving the order, the general of ten thousand people summoned the five hundred generals to inquire about the enemy's situation. At the same time, he ordered the entire army to continue to march out of camp, but to turn the front to the east instead of the south. During the formation process, the 10,000 generals will call the 5,000 generals and the 1,000 generals to their side. While listening to the 500 generals' reports on the enemy's situation, they will also indicate the route of attack. According to the opinions of the 500 generals, if the Zhao army gathers together and attacks with bows and arrows, the Zhao army can gain the upper hand; if it is dispersed and enters a melee, the Qin army will be difficult to deal with, and the bamboo sword in their hands is too powerful. There are advantages.
The five thousand regular soldiers were assembled, and the five thousand odd soldiers were scattered on both sides and between the formations. They marched towards the mountain amidst the sound of drums. Ten thousand generals, five thousand generals, and one thousand generals will all supervise the battle from their own camps. Anyone who flinches will be killed in formation!
After repelling the Zhao army's first battalion and occupying the ridge, Qin Jungong reported the results to the rear army and the situation of Zhao army's troops coming out to fight. Gongcheng, who led the front army of 4,000 men, ordered the forward officer Gong Dafu to hold on to the ridge and wait for the arrival of the army.
When the order arrived, Dr. Gong looked at both sides of the mountain. The two teams of Qin and Zhao were only four or five miles away from the mountain. However, since the Qin army was in a column and the Zhao army was in a horizontal formation, the Qin army's marching speed was obviously faster than that of the Zhao army. If he had just stayed on the mountain, he could have waited until the large forces arrived.
But Dr. Gong decided to take the initiative. He called all the doctors together, explained his ideas to them, and decided to divide his troops into two groups and attack the strange soldiers on both sides.
The surprise soldiers on both sides are basically halberdiers, without bows, arrows and shields. Although the Qin army has fewer shields, it has many archers: even the commanders of the army hold bows and arrows. Dr. Gong believed that if the surprise soldiers on both wings were defeated, the regular soldiers would not dare to ignore them and go straight up the mountain. Instead, they would change direction and attack them; while they would fight and retreat, moving to both sides. ——This buys time for the large army. He told the officials to be flexible and only fight with surprise soldiers to contain the regular soldiers; try to avoid fighting with regular soldiers.
After deciding on the strategy, the official led a battalion on the left, and an official led his battalion on the right. They went down the mountain to meet Zhao Jun.
The actions of the Qin army were immediately discovered by the Zhao army. Tens of thousands of people were very surprised and feared there might be some trap. They ordered the troops to stop advancing and used 500 surprise troops on each side to fight.
Doctor Gong didn't expect that his attack would have such a good result, and he was overjoyed. The troops were ordered to open up horizontal lines and attack Zhao Jun's surprise troops.
Both sides have 500 men. The Qin army has the advantage of archers and long swords, so the battle is almost without suspense. At a distance of a hundred steps, the Qin army basically repelled the Zhao army's first attack with a hail of arrows.
Zhao Jun saw clearly the reality of the Qin army, and sent a thousand strange troops to drive away the Qin army. After firing three waves of arrows, the Qin army broke up the Zhao army's dense formation. The combat soldiers repelled the Zhao army with a single charge.
In both battles, the Qin army did not stop advancing. After pursuing for a hundred steps, the Qin army reorganized their troops. The Zhao army was already close at hand, but only one mile away from them. The Qin army had a lot of time to organize, and while reorganizing their troops, they harvested the heads of the Zhao soldiers who were shot down, without forgetting to recover the fired arrows and use them again. Zhao Jun's ten thousand people will be even more suspicious and will never dare to take a step forward. If you send out surprise troops, you will have to sacrifice your life, so you don't dare to send troops to fight. The two armies strangely stopped at a distance of a mile!
Doctor Gong originally wanted to just spend it like this, so the large troops came up. Unexpectedly, the right-wing Qin army took the initiative to attack Zhao Jun. Duke Gong cursed his stupidity in his heart and could only order the Zhao army to advance.
Zhao Jun was still unwilling to turn the front and only used surprise troops to meet the enemy. The strange troops only advanced to about a hundred steps away from the Qin army, and then stopped advancing; while when the Qin army advanced, they moved to the two wings. Dr. Gong was so angry that he had to order to stop advancing and instead move laterally to the left wing to avoid being attacked on the flank. And Zhao Jun also extended the front in that direction, and Qin Jun moved further and further away from the top of the mountain, turning to the rear of Zhao Jun.
At this time, the Zhao army's surprise troops came out and blocked the Qin army's road to the mountain ridge. The doctor secretly screamed that something was wrong, so he had to retreat, and then move to the left wing, trying to get back to the mountain.
The Qin army was mobilized from left to right, its front was stretched, and it was driven back. Seeing that there was no other movement from the Qin army, tens of thousands of people ordered their troops to rush forward. So there were about 2,000 Zhao troops on each wing, and they rushed towards the 500 Qin troops. More than a hundred archers tried their best to shoot, but each could only shoot ten at most. Although it caused some casualties to Zhao Jun, the battle still entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat.
The archers put their bows on their backs, drew their short swords, and directed the soldiers to fight.
In the hand-to-hand combat stage, the role of the commander is much greater than that of the doctors. They shouted loudly and gathered or dispersed with their soldiers to fight separately. Although the Qin army had the advantage in weapons, it could not withstand the overwhelming number of Zhao soldiers. Several people surrounded one person to fight, and they were completely at a disadvantage. While the official was fighting, he ordered to retreat. After withdrawing for two or three miles, Zhao Jun also called for gold to withdraw his troops. The Qin army also rushed forward to prevent them from harming the injured Qin soldiers during their retreat, and did not even give them a chance to pick up arrows. The commanders put their daggers back into their waists, drew their bows and fired arrows, forcing Zhao Jun to return as quickly as possible. Of course, when Zhao Jun retreated, he also took away all the wounded.
After the strange soldiers drove away the Qin army on both wings, the main soldiers of Zhao army immediately moved towards the mountains. When the official saw it, he simply counted the number of people, left the wounded soldiers behind, led the remaining troops, and continued to attack Zhao Jun's flank. The Zhao army's surprise troops repeated their old tricks and spread out towards the Qin army's two wings. This time, the Qin army ignored it and charged in the direction of the Zhao army's main force. Qi Bing had no choice but to give up his plan of outflanking the Qin army and launch a frontal attack on the Qin army.
The Qin army was not mobilized and maintained the thickness of the formation, firing fierce arrows at the charging Zhao army. Duke Gong's personal camp also went into battle, specifically selecting those Zhao soldiers who were approaching to shoot directly. The approaching soldiers were knocked to the ground or sent flying into the sky by rows of enemies. Several attacks failed to break through the Qin army's position. Zhao Junqibing's psychology finally collapsed and he retreated downwards. Ten thousand people will have no choice but to turn the front of the main soldiers and prepare to fight.
