Chapter 575: Not a Confrontation of the Same Level
"Then what does General Ji have to say?" Xiang Yan frowned, and the thing he feared most happened.
"How about letting Chu's Thunder Leopard Army be the vanguard to test the Qin army's movements first, while our Korean army will support us from behind to prevent any unexpected events!" Ji Wuye said.
Fan Yuqi also fell silent after listening to Ji Wuye's words.
He naturally knows Ji Wuye's plan, let the Chu army go first to touch the hard core of the Qin army. If they win, South Korea will send troops to take advantage. If the war situation is unfavorable, they can also preserve their strength and withdraw from the joint forces.
Return to Xinzheng.
Therefore, Fan Yuqi did not object specifically, but looked at Xiang Yan.
Xiang Yan looked at the other two countries and found that their reactions were the same, they just wanted the Chu army to go first.
"Then let the Thunder Leopard Legion serve as the vanguard to test the strength of the Qin army!" Xiang Yan also knew that as the joint commander, if he disagreed, the army would fall into endless wrangling.
"General Yingbu!" Xiang Yan looked at Yingbu, the commander of the Thunder Leopard Legion and shouted.
"Here!" Yingbu walked out of his position and stood in the center.
"It's up to you to lead the Thunder Leopard Army first and test the strength of the Qin army!" Xiang Yan threw out the military order sword.
"Here!" Yingbu took the flying command arrow and turned around to leave the camp. After a while, he heard the sound of neat steps. The entire Thunder Leopard Army broke out of camp and rushed towards the Qin Army's central camp.
Then Xiang Yan also took Fan Yuqi, Ji Wuye and others to the watchtower to watch the small-scale battle between the two armies.
Seeing the Thunder Leopard Legion charging towards them, Li Mu did not panic at all. Instead, he looked at his generals and asked, "The Thunder Leopard Legion, one of the four major legions of the Chu State, is here. Everyone, who is going to fight?"
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"I am willing to go!" In the Chinese army's tent, the generals from Qin and Yan and Zhao all took the initiative to stand up, with only enthusiasm and no fear in their eyes.
"The main cavalry of the Thunder Leopard Legion will be..." Li Mu's eyes wandered between Qin's Qushui Cavalry and his own Wuling Cavalry, and finally chose Wuling Cavalry.
After all, he is one of our own, so he naturally wants to be close to him. He also wants to establish his authority and let the soldiers of Qin know his majesty.
"Li Da, lead 20,000 Wuling cavalry out of the camp and defeat the opponent!" Li Mu gave the order.
"Here!" Li Da took the order arrow and glanced provocatively at Qu Shuiqi's general Li Xin before turning around and leaving the camp.
Li Xin retreated to his seat in disappointment.
"Everyone, let's go on the stage to watch the battle!" Li Mu also led a group of generals to the high platform to watch the battle.
The number of the Thunder Leopard Legion was 30,000, but Li Da only brought 20,000 cavalry, which was obviously an imbalance in numbers.
It was only when Li Xin and others followed Li Mu to the high platform and watched the battle between the two armies that they discovered that Li Da was indeed leading 20,000 Wuling cavalry, but... there were also 60,000 Hu cavalry followers!
Originally they were still hesitant about Li Mu's entrustment, but now they see that this is simply bullying!
"In the State of Zhao, Hu Qi's retinue is not considered a fighting force!" Li Mu said calmly knowing what Li Xin and others were thinking.
Hu Qi's retinue was raised by Wu Lingqi himself, and they did not need the army's logistics to provide supplies, so they were naturally not included in the army's combat strength.
The most important thing is that these cavalry followers followed them shamelessly with their rations and horses, and they couldn't get rid of them even if they wanted to.
Looking down from a high position, I saw that the two cavalrymen collided quickly.
It was not until after the battle that Yingbu realized how big the gap between the two sides was.
The Wuling Cavalry were not only well-equipped, but their war horses were taller than their own, and each Wuling Cavalry was accompanied by at least two to three Hu Qi retinues.
Although Chu State also has horse farms, the war horses they produce are relatively short ponies, while the three major horse farms of Zhao State all produce tall grassland horses, which are superior to the war horses of Chu State in terms of height and strength.
Forget it, Wu Lingqi and Hu Qi's retinue all grew up on horses. Almost everyone can bend a bow and arrow and change weapons on horseback, which is something that the Thunder Leopard Legion cannot do at all.
In addition, both Pang Juan's Book of War and Sima Fa recorded the standard tactics of cavalry, which is for three thousand people to form a group, charging one after another, like a tide, scattering and piercing the enemies in front of them wave after wave.
However, the opponent seemed to have no way of fighting. They pressed all the cavalry up at once, and there was no level of charge at all.
"Is this Wuling Cavalry?" The generals of the Qin Army frowned and looked at Li Mu. This is not the correct usage of cavalry at all!
"The Thunder Leopard Army has won!" Xiang Yan frowned when he saw the number of Qin Army's cavalry, but when he saw the other party's unorganized charge, his frown relaxed again, even though the Qin Army had a large number of people.
So what, it is certain to be pierced by the Thunder Leopard Legion.
"This doesn't look like Wulingqi!" Fan Yuqi and Ji Wuye both frowned. They knew the reputation of Wulingqi very well.
"The purpose of forming a group of three thousand cavalry is to prevent the front army from being unable to break through the enemy's formation and being accidentally injured by the latecomers, but Li Da's heavy armored cavalry is not included in this group!" Li Mu said calmly.
Then everyone's eyes returned to the two warring parties.
Only then did he realize that Li Da's Wuling Cavalry was leading straight ahead, and the Thunder Leopard Legion's successive charges could not do anything to the Wu Ling Cavalry who were armed to the teeth. Instead, the Wu Ling Cavalry's front was always advancing.
"The speed of the cavalry is not limited, so there is no risk of them colliding with each other!" Li Xin suddenly understood.
As long as the front army can keep charging, the rear army cannot collide with the forward army.
This is similar to the use of a chariot. The chariot just rushes forward and there is no need to consider being hit by the chariot behind it, because no one can stop the charging chariot.
"Moreover, Wuling Cavalry can compete with the prairie barbarians on horseback and still win. The Thunder Leopard Corps may be the top cavalry in the Chu Kingdom, but compared with Wuling Cavalry, they are still too immature!" Li Mu shook his head.
On the battlefield, even though Yingbu had extraordinary strength and could withstand the charge of one or two Wuling Cavalry, it could not change the fact that they were about to be pierced.
The opponent's armor was tough, and he could switch weapons at will during the horse fight. In front of Wu Lingqi, the Thunder Leopard Legion seemed like children, letting the opponent slaughter them.
"Retreat!" Before the Chinese army could call for gold, Yingbu also knew that they had lost, even miserably!
Xiang Yan's face was ashen, and they did not expect that the Wuling Cavalry with only one front would be a rock that the Thunder Leopard Army could not break through and crush.
"Ming Jin!" Seeing that the victory was determined, Li Mu did not continue to expand the results, so he ordered the Jin Jin.
When Li Da heard the sound of gold, he decisively reined in his horse and ordered the attack to stop.
At this time, Wu Lingqi's orders and prohibitions also made everyone feel scared. As soon as the ringing sound came out, the entire Wu Lingqi stopped in unison as if they were one person, and then took back the Chinese army camp in an orderly manner like a tide.
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Everyone in the entire coalition camp also saw it. Instead of being happy that the Thunder Leopard Army escaped and ascended to heaven, they felt chills on their backs. Could they really defeat such an army?
Li Xin's pride was also shattered at this moment. He originally thought that Qu Shui Qi was not inferior to Wu Ling Qi, but now it seems that he was a bit deceiving himself.
The two sides are not on the same level at all.
Although the Qushui Cavalry is not weak, it is only slightly stronger than the Thunder Leopard Legion, and there is no way that the Wuling Cavalry can crush the Thunder Leopard Legion like this.