The Qin army in the camp was divided into two groups, one followed to eliminate the archers, and the other stayed near the camp gate to block the Zhao army. They simply slashed and lifted, preventing Zhao Jun from getting close. The Qin army behind them also arrived. The Zhao army was attacked in front and behind, and was restricted to a narrow area in front of the camp gate. It was unable to advance or retreat, and was beaten and bruised.
In the crisis, Zhao Jun's reinforcements arrived. Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the Qin army guarding the camp gate quickly retreated towards the granary. The Qin army outside the door continued to attack Zhao Jun, covering the retreat of his teammates. Since Zhao Jun's archers have retreated towards the granary under the leadership of 500 generals, Qin Jun no longer has the threat of archers. It can rely on its superiority in weapons to tangle with Zhao Jun until Zhao Jun's reinforcements arrive. Having already appeared outside the camp wall, he just gave the command and retreated.
Seeing the Qin army retreating outside the camp gate, the Zhao army rushed into the camp, opened the camp gate, and welcomed the reinforcements. But unexpectedly, arrows fell from the sky, shooting down more than a dozen people at once, and everyone was so frightened that they immediately fell down. The clever man shouted: "He has captured the granary!" Everyone was shocked, and just as they stood up, another arrow fell. It was difficult to see the way in the dark, but the direction from the granary was clear.
The thousands of generals were suddenly sweating all over: if the granary was damaged, everyone from the ten thousand generals on down would be guilty; and the granary itself was also a fortress, with arrow openings for shooting outwards, making it absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. But when the situation came to a close, he had no choice. He ordered the shield soldiers to come forward and hide the halberdiers behind the shield soldiers. The others asked them to stay in place, and only used the halberd soldiers to recapture the granary: the spear soldiers and archers were behind the shield soldiers. If you can't use it in the granary, you will die in vain.
It took some time to form the formation because we had to move down. When they straightened up and prepared to charge to the granary, someone shouted in horror: "The Qin people are here!" When everyone turned around to look, they saw that the dark Qin army had already charged forward, no more than a hundred steps away from the camp fence. The Qin troops who retreated slightly rushed forward again with long bamboo poles.
At this time, thousands of generals did not dare to act rashly. It seems that the Qin army's attack has been prepared for a long time, in waves, and even the attacks in other aspects are covering for this attack. If there is no special turn of events, the loss of the granary is irreversible.
Even so, he was still determined and ordered: "Get up!" "Go!" Although many arrows flying overhead knocked down many people, Zhao Jun still shot out arrows to stop them.
At this time, the Qin army holding long poles was approaching the camp fence. Thousands of people will order the spearmen to come out of camp to fight.
The spearmen and the bamboo pole swords each have their own merits. One is light and the other is very lethal. If the injury is exchanged for injury, the spearmen will definitely have the advantage; but if it is a casual fight instead of a head-on confrontation, the spears will be heavier and heavier, so they will suffer more. The Qin army did not fight the Zhao army head-on, but fought and retreated, entangled and diverted the Zhao army's spearmen.
The archers still braved the arrows on the granary to block and fire outside, and the attack group composed of shield soldiers and halberdiers to regain the granary was forced to stop in the camp and stay put. Suddenly, arrows were shot from all directions. The arrows were extremely accurate. Almost every arrow could hit a soldier. With just one shot, most of the archers were shot down, and many shield soldiers and halberdiers were also taken with them. The archers were "named" by the arrows on the granary and were already frightened. Suddenly they were hit again and immediately collapsed, screaming and falling to the ground, holding their heads in fear.
The second arrow shot through the gap between the shields, knocking down the halberdiers behind him. The Qin army, who was blocked a hundred steps away, shouted and rushed forward. This battalion of the Qin army is obviously different from the first battalion. They have shields, spears, and halberds. They look like they are here to kill people. The Thousand-Man General desperately ordered the remnants to come forward, but no one listened to him. Everyone dispersed and fled in all directions. They became the targets of bows and arrows from above and below. The Thousand-Man General and his 500-man General were abandoned in the center of the camp. , hundreds of generals and dozens of others formed a formation and prepared to fight to the death. The spearmen who rushed up slammed the shield with their spears. The shields were deflected only a few times, and the spears penetrated, picking out the people behind and throwing them to the ground. The group formation collapsed. The last few dozen people still fought to the death, exchanging injuries for injuries, knocking down dozens of Qin soldiers in succession, but eventually fell down due to excessive injuries. The spearmen of the Zhao army who had been attracted by the Qin army saw that the camp was lost and they themselves were slightly injured. Although it was not fatal, it was still painful. They had no intention of fighting, so they dropped their spears and ran down the mountain. The Qin army did not pursue them either.
The fires at the camp gate and lookout post burned for a while and then went out automatically. But the flames at such a high altitude could be seen by almost all of Zhao camp. When Zhao Kuo saw the flames, the military envoys sent by the Ten Thousand People General also arrived. They reported that the Qin army was attacking Liangshan in a large scale. The Thousand People General had already led another battalion to the rescue, and he would then lead his troops there. Zhao Kuo ordered the military envoy to tell the generals that the granary, where the lives of the entire army depended, must be recaptured! The military envoy agreed and left.
Zhao Kuo looked painfully at the fire on Liangshan Mountain, which was bright and dark, and then gradually extinguished; when he heard a burst of shouts on Liangshan Mountain, it returned to calm. He wanted to do something, but he couldn't do anything. In Liangshan, the strength of ten thousand generals is sufficient, and there is no need to send reinforcements at all. The army guarding Liangshan was the most reliable of all troops; its combat effectiveness remained intact. Zhao Kuo never deployed his troops in the early battles or let them participate in other combat operations. but……
He called a retainer and asked him to go to the ten thousand generals guarding the granary to supervise the battle.
At this time, the rooster crowed for the second time.
The sky suddenly darkened, and the stars in the sky lost their light. Zhao Kuo secretly thought: "Good opportunity!" Sure enough, he heard shouts, drums, weapons clashing, wailing and cursing from the mountain in front... Because it was too dark, Zhao Kuo didn't know what was happening over there, but It was obviously a big fight. Then, the bows and strings sounded continuously over there, and the wailing sound replaced other sounds...
Then the shouting started again.
The ten thousand people guarding the granary will have been doing this job since Lian Po became the commander-in-chief. The soldiers under his command changed one after another, but he always stayed in this position.
As soon as Lian Po arrived in Changping, he started excavation and ramming of granaries simultaneously while building the first line of defense in the south. The granary is a huge pit, twenty to thirty steps in length and width, and as deep as two people high. It is filled from bottom to top and can hold nearly a million stones of grain (one stone was about twenty liters during the Warring States Period). A total of five such granaries were built, a hundred paces apart. According to Lian Po's instructions, the outer walls of the granary were rammed with rammed earth, and a sentry tower was built on top. It could accommodate up to thirty or forty people and stacked thousands of arrows. In an emergency, these people alone are enough to last for a long time. But this is a granary after all, not a fortress. There is usually no one on duty upstairs. If you want to go upstairs to fight, you must get an order. This gave the Qin army an opportunity to make a surprise attack. They followed the archers upstairs and captured the granary.
After receiving the report of the Qin army's attack, tens of thousands of people not only reported it to Zhao Kuo, but also immediately ordered all battalions to prepare for battle. He learned from the defeated soldiers that the granary had been lost, that thousands of people would die in the battle, and that tens of thousands of people would be devastated, so he quickly put the two battalions into battle.
The two battalions were sleepy and dilly-dallying, unable to get into formation for a long time. Ten thousand generals were forced to come to the camp to supervise the battle in person, and then the two battalions were driven onto the battlefield. In the darkness, they were ambushed by the Qin army and fought for a while. Unconsciously, they entered the range of the Qin army's bows and arrows. They were hit by a burst of arrows and were knocked upside down and had to retreat.
Seeing that the first attack failed, ten thousand people would immediately launch the second wave of two battalions into battle without waiting for the previous group to retreat completely.
In the darkness, the two battalions were unable to line up, and their formation was loose. As soon as they saw the camp fence, they were shot back by a burst of arrows. The Qin army's arrows were accurate, but the Zhao army's formation was irregular. As they came and went, nearly a hundred people were shot down by the first wave of arrows. The remaining people had no fighting spirit at all and retreated. The Qin army shouted and chased them for a while.
It took a lot of effort to organize the two battalions of the third formation and mobilize them to the battlefield. By the time they were in formation, the sky had begun to light up and the cockcrow was ringing for the third time.
As the visibility increased, the power of the Qin army's bows and arrows became more powerful, and they could inflict serious damage on the Zhao army from almost a hundred steps away. The Zhao army lost more than half of its troops before they could get within fifty steps, and had to retreat again. Thousands of people will have no choice but to remobilize their forces to fight.
After Bai Qi sent everyone away, he personally went to the Qin army in Dongling, selected a battalion with strong combat effectiveness, and transferred it to the back hillside for battle training. He did not let them rest until nightfall. At this time, Qin troops began to attack everywhere. Bai Qi slept with the soldiers in the camp, and his one hundred followers were scattered around to rest. The officers, officers at all levels, and even some of the corps commanders in this battalion were all selected from Bai Qi's relatives in the camp. Seeing Bai Qi's behavior, they all worked hard.
When the sounds of fighting everywhere gradually subsided, Bai Qi called up the doctors and once again explained to them the precautions for attacking. He took advantage of the Chu people's skirmishing formation and used the cover of darkness to approach the Zhao military camp. gate. After breaking in, don't fight with the enemy, but quickly rob the granary, and then shoot arrows from above to control the entire situation. Several doctors, under the auspices of the official doctor, assigned tasks on their own and performed their duties. Seeing that the plan here had been implemented, Bai Qi was very satisfied and led his entourage back to the swordsman camp. Not long after, Bai Qi actually brought a thousand swordsmen, and Sima Jin also followed. Bai Qi waited until the rooster crowed for the first time, then ordered the Nanjun soldiers to take action.
Sure enough, under the cover of darkness, the Zhao army's blocking fire did not cause too many casualties. The Qin army broke into the Zhao camp as planned and successfully seized the granary. At this time, a thousand swordsmen had divided into two groups and approached Liangshan in secret. Hearing the cry of killing from the mountain, which reminded Zhao Jun that reinforcements had arrived, Bai Qi waved his hand and told the swordsmen to start advancing.
The swordsmen's advance was fast and quiet. The archers quickly found a shooting position, and the other swordsmen rushed in quickly. By the time the Zhao army discovered them, the Qin army's shooters had already started shooting at them.
