After receiving the news, Li Mu and the three of them had a tacit understanding and did not make any major adjustments. Only Tian Dan's headquarters, which was besieging Xianyang, sent more scouts slightly to the north.
But in this vast land, the scouts sent out by Tian Danduo could not be detected at all.
Naturally, Wang Hao, who was busy evacuating carefully, did not realize that his every move was under the control of Zhao Jun.
Wang Lu, who was kept in the dark, was even congratulating himself on the speed and ingenuity of his actions.
However, what Wang Hao didn't know was that the day after he led his troops to leave Lishi Fortress, Li Mu had quietly marched towards Lishi Fortress with an army of hundreds of thousands.
The reason why they had to wait twelve hours before launching an attack on Lishi Fortress was simple: they wanted to avoid letting Wang Hao know about the attack on their retreat as much as possible, so that Wang Hao could go on the road in peace and quiet.
Especially after twelve hours of running around, even if Wang Hao knew that the retreat was being attacked, Wang Hao would not have time to come back for help.
In order to have enough troops to defeat the Zhao army besieging Xianyang, Wang Hao had to take almost all the troops and horses on the road. In the huge Lishi Fortress, only three thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people and straw men were left to decorate the facade.
There was no suspense. The Lishi Fortress garrisoned by three thousand old and weak men could not even withstand a single charge from Zhao Jun.
In less than an hour after arriving at Lishi Fortress, Li Mu had already breached the fortress.
Without any pause, Li Mu immediately led Zhao Jun plus Yiqu Army, a total of 180,000 troops, and quickly pursued Wang Lu in the direction he turned.
Now that Wang Lu's retreat has been cut off, the next step is to catch up quickly and eliminate Wang Lu during the march.
Of course, it wasn't just Li Mu's army that acted at the same time. Tian Danjun, who had been watching Wang Lu's movements, had already received the news more than three hours after Wang Lu's departure.
Immediately, Tian Dan also began to rearrange his troops.
More than 50,000 troops began to be withdrawn from the siege of Xianyang. However, these 50,000 troops did not build fortifications in the north of the city.
There is no way, Xianyang is too big.
Once Wang Hao discovered that Zhao Jun was waiting in the north of the city, he would most likely see through Zhao Jun's plan, so he could bypass the east and west of the city and enter Xianyang first.
If Wang Lun's army is allowed to enter Xianyang, it will be even more difficult to break through Xianyang.
Therefore, Tian Dan's 50,000-strong army was not prepared to defend passively. Instead, they ran into Wang Lu's marching route.
Yes, the 50,000-strong army took the initiative to attack Wang Lu's 150,000-strong army.
This is of course not hitting an egg against a stone. On the contrary, as long as this 50,000-strong army can hold off Wang Lu's army for one or two days, the following Li Mu's army will be able to catch up and strangle Wang Lu's troops together with him.
This plan is of course risky.
The biggest risk is that in this short period of time, there is almost no communication between the two armies of Tian Dan and Li Mu.
Obviously, once Li Mu's troops arrive late, or even arrive late, it will be a disaster for Tian Dan's troops.
In this regard, Tian Dan said that he has absolute confidence in Li Mu.
In fact, just as Tian Dan thought, after Li Mu captured Lishi, he immediately sent his army south and began to pursue the Qin army. XiuShu.com
Therefore, on the Guanzhong Plain at this time, the three armies immediately fell into a situation of chasing each other.
On the other hand, Hangu Pass and Xianyang, the two places that were supposed to be the focus, were now in decline.
Needless to say, Xianyang, as Tian Dan led his army to leave, the Zhao army naturally stopped attacking, but the King of Qin did not dare to go out of the city to fight due to the shortage of troops.
As for Hangu Pass, there is no longer the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Because the news of Wang Hao's return has also reached the ears of the general Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi knows very well that Li Mu and Tian Dan will not miss this opportunity. In two or three days at most, the battle in the pass will begin completely;
Rather than letting his soldiers go to Hangu Pass to die, it is better to wait for the battle in Guanzhong
result.
It would be best if Li Mu and Tian Dan could successfully kill Wang Lu's men. Even if it is not possible, with Wang Lu's withdrawal, Li Mu's troops will be liberated, and they can still harass Hangu from the side and reduce their own pressure.
It was only a matter of two or three days, so of course Zhou Qi chose to wait.
Somewhat strange, yet somewhat natural, the entire Guanzhong battlefield immediately fell into a brief calm.
But everyone knows that this calm is just a precursor before the war breaks out.
Finally, on the third day after Wang Hao left Lishi Fortress and the second day after Li Shi Fortress was captured by Li Mu, Wang Hao finally received the news that Lishi Fortress had been breached.
It's a pity that the historical screenwriter at this time didn't even give Wang Lu any choice.
Because Tian Dan had already led his army to attack Wang Lu.
However, the Qin army's scouts were elites after all. Even under such circumstances, they still brought a glimmer of hope to Wang Lu and his 150,000 army.
Ten miles, this is the distance that Wang Lu found out about Tian Shanjun.
Fifty thousand troops, this is the military strength of Tian Dan's army that Wang Lu learned about.
Wang Hao knew very well that Li Shi had been lost. Behind him, Zhao Jun must be rushing towards him at a high speed. If he turned back and hit him, he would only die.
And this distance of less than ten miles and the strength of 50,000 troops in front is Wang Lu's only chance.
Rushing over, tearing apart the defense line of the 50,000-strong army, defeating the enemy in front of them, and then continuing to turn towards Xianyang, this was the only way Wang Lu could think of to get out of trouble.
Without any reason, Wang Hao immediately ordered: "Send the order to the whole army, change the front and arrow formation, and face the Zhao army. We must defeat the enemy in front of us in the shortest possible time."
"Yes." The ordering soldier obviously realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately accepted the order.
Soon, a total of 150,000 people began to adjust their formation, and a huge arrow slowly appeared on the ground in Guanzhong.
While the Qin army was adjusting its marching formation, the Zhao army in the front and rear sections were not idle either.
Needless to say, Li Mu's subordinates continued to run towards the battlefield at full speed.
Tian Dan's command obviously realized that the Qin army was not far away, and Tian Dan immediately began to adjust the formation.
Of course, in order to delay the Qin army as much as possible, Tian Dan also formed a fish-scale formation to respond to the enemy.
The Fish Scale Formation, as the name suggests, looks like fish scales, layered on top of each other. Although one layer is broken and another is defended, its frontal defensive ability is even stronger than that of the Circle Formation. The biggest fear is that a large army will attack from behind.
However, facing the Qin army charging directly from the front, the Fish Scale Formation obviously did not have such a burden.
Therefore, it can be said that the fish scale formation is also the best formation to deal with the impatient Qin army - provided that the fish scale formation can withstand the Qin army's strongest attack. Xiu Shuzhu
Soon, the Qin army that had completed its adjustment began to attack the Zhao army, but at this time the Zhao army slowly stopped.
The distance was less than ten miles, and the Qin army arrived almost instantly.
In the afternoon, the final battle finally started.
It is a pity that all the heavy cavalry that the Qin army finally accumulated were consumed in the Battle of Yingchuan. Otherwise, the Qin army at this time, with heavy cavalry as the forerunner, should be able to easily tear apart Tian Shan's army's line, even if those heavy cavalry only mechanically tied people and horses together.
Nowadays, it is obviously not easy for the Qin army without heavy cavalry to tear apart the already prepared Zhao army's line, even if the Qin army's soldiers are ready to return home.
The light cavalry has never been good at rushing into battle.
Seeing that the first wave of attacks failed to break through Zhao Jun's defense line, Wang Hao was also anxious. He knew very well that as the battle here started, Zhao Jun behind him would not give him too much time.
In a word, he must complete the breakthrough as soon as possible.
After briefly observing Zhao Jun's formation, Wang Hao quickly discovered that Zhao Jun had arranged a fish scale formation.
Immediately, Wang Lu also ordered his 80,000 light cavalry to be divided into two groups, the left and right, to advance towards the side and rear of the Zhao army's line.
Take a roundabout way.
It was obvious that Wang Hao understood the flaw in Zhao Jun's formation almost at a glance, and what he wanted to do was to break the difficult fish scale formation in front of him from the side and rear.
This method is of course effective, and it is indeed the best way to break the formation. Especially when you have enough cavalry in your hands.
Cavalry, that means speed, and speed can change a lot of things.
It's a pity that you have a good plan, and Tian Dan also has a ladder.
Seeing that the Qin army began to divide its forces and move to both sides, Tian Dan released the 10,000 cavalry in his hands to delay the Qin army's move, and at the same time ordered the fish scale formation to move forward.
Yes, use the fish scale formation that is not suitable for attack to attack the Qin army, and use a weak force to attack a strong force.
This may seem silly and weird to others.
But if you look at it in conjunction with the changes in Zhao Jun's front, it becomes clear.
Because the Qin army placed more emphasis on the two sides and less on the middle, after the Zhao army launched an attack, the resistance received by the center and both sides was naturally unequal. .Ь.
As Zhao Jun continues to advance, naturally, the center will advance faster and the wings will advance slower.
As a result, the front line that was originally flat as a line slowly became curled as it advanced.
Rolling it up, the original fish scale formation became a circular formation most suitable for defense.
What's even better is that because Zhao Jun took the initiative to attack, almost half of this circular formation was embedded in the Qin Army's line. Not only did the Qin Army's move of surrounding the rear wings become useless, but it also acted like a magnet and locked the Qin Army in place. Firmly sucked.
This is also the reason why Tian Dan did not change into a circular formation before the Qin army launched an attack.
Of course, the price for this was that thousands of Zhao troops died under the Qin army's swords during the advance.
However, if Wang Lu's 150,000-strong army could be completely left behind, the loss of several thousand people would be nothing to mention.
Wang Lu, who was still rejoicing that his cavalry was about to succeed in encircling the rear, finally realized something was wrong after being unable to attack for a long time.
It's a pity that the criss-crossed front line has no room for Wang Hao to regret it. Even his own cavalry troops have been completely delayed by Zhao Jun.
Everything seemed to be tilting in a direction that Wang Lu didn't want to see.
