Chapter 545 He will spend his whole life repaying this magnificent imperial favor!
"kill!"
Li Xin's eyes turned red, and he gave the order to attack with all his strength regardless of casualties. He went to the front line with weapons in hand and took the lead.
The thousands of Qi soldiers who disappeared did not swim across the Deshui River, but they did not know when they got behind the Qin army! Taking advantage of the Qin army's entire army to attack from behind, it was now the Qin army that was surrounded and attacked from behind!
For this chance of survival, only by breaking through the backwater formation, killing all the remaining 1,560 Qi soldiers, and driving them to Deshui to drown, can the situation of this battle be reversed and return to the Qin Dynasty.
Li Xin, who had been overlooking the battlefield from the rear, led his personal guards into the battle and charged fiercely.
The general joined the battle, and the morale of the Qin army was shaken again. The combat effectiveness suddenly increased, and they advanced three steps!
[The overall situation has been decided! This victory is won!]
Facing the explosive Qin army, Han Xin was not worried but happy. With the Qin army in his sight, he could not see the sky-blue "Qi" flag behind the Qin army, but he could judge the situation through the Qin army's crazy performance.
He was covered in blood, and the beautiful Zhang Liang next to him, who was also covered in blood, looked at each other and laughed.
The sharp weapon in his hand pierced the throat of a Qin soldier. When he retracted the gun, a pool of blood came out, and some of it splashed into Han Xin's mouth.
This young general, who regarded Li Xin as a stepping stone, was so angry that he swallowed the enemy's blood and his voice shook the battlefield!
"Our Daqi reinforcements have arrived! Those who surrender will not be killed!"
The noisy battlefield seemed to have stopped at this moment, flying dust floated in the air, the splashing blood did not fall, and the movements and expressions of the Qin and Qi armies seemed to have stagnated.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
"Those who surrender will not be killed!"
The troops of one thousand and fifty-six soldiers shouted out the momentum of ten thousand and fifty-six soldiers!
The heels of the soldiers in the last row of the backwater formation were already soaked through. After holding on for so long, reinforcements finally arrived! The turning point the general mentioned came!
A last-ditch fight!
If you don’t advance, you will die!
They roared angrily, erupting with energy that made the heaven and earth lose their color. Regardless of life and death, they formed a formation to counterattack! Pushing back the Qin army seven steps!
Qin Ruishi is not as good as Qi in martial arts, they won this battle!
Han Xin felt so refreshed that the originally heavy spear became much lighter and he became more comfortable in using it.
[Who else but me, Han Xin, can defeat ten thousand Qin soldiers with three thousand soldiers?]
He led three thousand Qi's elite cavalry to escape to the diversion of the Yellow River. Using the distance created in the woods, he immediately dispersed a thousand elite cavalry to ambush outside.
Who would have thought that he would dare to divide the Qi army, which only had 3,000 men in total? Moreover, the Qin army had nearly 10,000 people, so what would be the use of dividing more than 1,000 Qi troops?
This is neither logical nor consistent with military ethics. It is like two people fighting guns and one person suddenly unloading the magazine and throwing it away. This is a stupid move that seeks death.
A thousand Qi troops, including men and horses, successfully hid at the location designated by Han Xin before the Qin army arrived, less than 500 steps away from the pass where the Yellow River diverted its course.
If no one can think of it, no one will investigate it carefully.
As long as these thousands of people don't run away on horseback and make the ground tremble with the sound of hooves, they will not be exposed.
In order to prevent Li Xin from noticing the lack of men, Han Xin lined up the remaining two thousand horses at the front. Even if the weather was not good and night fell, it would be difficult to see that one-third of the three thousand men were missing.
Li Xin has been attacking like crazy since he came to the front line, leaving him very little time.
If there are a thousand Qi infantry behind them, it would be a joke to attack the Qin army from two sides. The Qin army's hard power is here, and its overall strength is higher than that of the Qi army. Why should 3,000 soldiers in a frontal battle attack 10,000 soldiers from a flank?
However, the thousands of cavalry behind them are a sharp blade for the Qin army, which is blocked by a formation of Qi troops in front of them!
If that's all, this battle is not without a chance of winning, but don't forget that Qin's 10,000 horses also stayed in place.
Li Xin, who had experienced two thousand flaming horses rushing into battle, had no doubt that the Qi cavalry behind him, who did not care about the casualties of the horses, would do it again!
If you stand in this notch and fight the Qi soldiers with your back facing the galloping horses, you will definitely die! These Qi soldiers blocking the De River must be cleared out, so that the Qin army can have a glimmer of hope!
The morale of the Qi soldiers suddenly increased a hundred times, and the slogan "Reinforcements have arrived, surrender without killing" did not lower the morale of the Qin army. Under the leadership of Li Xin, they attacked frantically.
But sometimes manpower is exhausted.
They were fighting against Qi soldiers who also had no regard for life and death and were highly skilled in martial arts. It was extremely difficult for them to take a step forward. However, the horses behind them were just galloping wildly, passing a hundred steps in an instant.
When the sound of horse hooves sounded like a sudden rain, Li Xin, who was on the front line, was in a trance. In frustration, a bronze spear pierced in.
"General!"
The guard at the side roared angrily, and with one hand he pulled out the Qin Jian, the secondary weapon from his waist, and blocked it skillfully. The spear grazed Li Xin's armor and set off a string of sparks, which pierced the gap.
At this moment, the body's instinctive reaction was stronger than the nerves.
Li Xin stretched out his right arm and held the gun under his arm to control the attacking Qi soldier. The personal guard slashed his sword in front of his chest, and then kicked him away with a sudden kick.
Li Xin was unaware of all this. He seemed to have returned to a few years ago, when he was chasing Xiang Yan in high spirits, and Lord Changping suddenly appeared from behind with a flaming red "Chu" flag.
It was the most tragic battle that Qin had lost in fifty years.
It was the same rash advance, the same attack from both front and back, but he was defeated again.
The last time he was escorted by his personal guards to the death, he fled back to Qin.
This time, he was still surrounded by fierce personal guards who were not afraid of death, but he did not want to survive.
He knew that the Qi army only had 3,000 men, so it was no longer a problem for his personal guards to protect him and escape. But he commanded 10,000 Qin soldiers and lost to 3,000 Qi soldiers. What could he do with his life?
"kill!"
He roared, only defending but not attacking, like a trapped animal trapped in a heavy siege with no way to escape.
Even if you die, you have to die on the way to charge and earn more soldiers!
"Your Majesty has an order! The whole army forms a formation! Retreat!"
"Your Majesty has an order! The whole army forms a formation! Retreat!"
"Your Majesty has an order! The whole army forms a formation! Retreat!"
One sound is higher than the other, and one is closer than the other.
The order that started from behind the Qin army quickly spread to ten thousand people. The Qin army, who was following the orders with red eyes, lined up neatly to defend against the enemy and stepped back.
The crazy Li Xin was forcefully dragged back to the Qin formation by his protégés.
Covered in blood, with both enemies and himself, he turned around and looked into the distance, his face covered in blood was full of disbelief.
He saw war horses, and those sitting upright were not Qi soldiers in blue armor, but Qin soldiers in black armor.
He saw the second emperor, who was dressed in silver armor and without a helmet, casually discarding the sky blue "Qi" banner and riding towards the Qin formation astride a war horse.
Wherever they passed, the Qin army divided like sea water and automatically made way for their king.
The Qin army divided quickly, but the horses did not move quickly.
When the second emperor arrived at the front line, Li Xin had already lowered his head in shame, not daring to raise his head to see the king.
The bodyguard next to him stared intently at the long sword in his general's right hand, and even the second emperor did not dare to cast an admiring glance at him. If he hadn't been so careless just now, his general Li Xin would have used this sword covered in blood.
He killed himself with his long sword.
Ying Chengyu jumped off his horse and stood in front of Li Xin, holding the head of the famous Qin general who was obsessed with death with both hands, and his solemn face suddenly smiled.
"What's going on? Are you frightened by this flag with the word 'Qi'?"
Li Xin opened his mouth, his tongue tied, not knowing what to say, but the raging will to die that had arisen at first disappeared a lot.
Patting Li Xin on the shoulder, Ying Chengyu said with great care:
"Victory or defeat is a common thing for a soldier. Just keep it in mind, not on the sword. Only a coward will escape. Death is the simplest thing and the most incompetent sign.
"Live and remember today's battle. The attack on Chu was defeated. The late king did not blame you and gave you a chance. I believe in the late king's vision and I will also give you a chance.
"In the future, you should be aware of your shame and then be brave. I don't like the words 'knowing people without understanding', and I don't think the late king would like it either."
The blood on his face mixed with the tears, and Li Xin cried silently, his voice hoarse.
"The letter will bear this defeat deep in my heart! I will never disappoint His Majesty again!"
After the Battle of Deshui, Li Xin never lost again. After the Wang Jian era passed, he truly became the representative of the new generation of generals in the Qin State and one of the four generals. The enemy was frightened when they heard Li Xin's name.
He obeyed everything the two emperors said, never flattered him in his words, and absolutely obeyed in his actions. The enemies in the court said privately:
"Even if His Majesty asked him to chop off the heads of his parents, wife and children, he would not hesitate at all."
Because of his characteristic of obeying everything the second emperor said, people at the time ranked him alongside Liu Bang, a rogue general who was second-rate in fighting but first-rate in worldly sophistication.
Ying Chengyu smiled and said:
"Where did the defeat come from? Da Qin clearly won this battle."
He moved his eyes away from Li Xin's face and looked at Qi Jun in front of him whose sky blue armor was stained red with blood.
The Qi army lined up to wait.
Everyone was panting, and many people's hands and feet were shaking involuntarily. This was a sequelae of the war.
When you are working hard, you don't feel tired. When the life-and-death crisis is over and you have a chance to breathe, the tiredness suppressed by hormones will come back all at once.
When the second emperor's order was conveyed to the Qin army, the Qi army also retreated into formation under Han Xin's order and did not pursue or cover up the enemy.
"Cough cough cough cough cough!"
At a glance, Zhang Liang, who was Ying Chengyu, was seen squatting on the ground, as if he wanted to cough out his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
With her five fingers gripping the sand on the ground, the beautiful man frowned and closed his eyes, his heart filled with gloom and no hope.
He had long thought about the possibility of Qin's reinforcements, but he never asked Han Xin how to solve it because there was no solution. From beginning to end, their chance of winning was only based on the situation of only 10,000 Qin troops.
This feeling of placing your victory or defeat on others and having no control over yourself is exactly the same as the feeling a year ago...
“Long time no see Zifang!”
Ying Chengyu looked excited, opened his arms like a hug, and was about to rush over.
The doctor Ling Yuenu, who had been accompanying the horse, and was very inconspicuous in the light of the second emperor, and the imperial physician Ling Xia Wu were both lying in front of Ying Chengyu.
Ying Chengyu is not afraid of anything because of his high martial arts skills, but the two of them don't think so.
At such a close distance, thousands or hundreds of Qi troops whose aura has not dissipated are watching eagerly. In such a dangerous situation, Your Majesty must not be put in danger!
No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you can't fight against an organized army. A master of martial arts is only a master of martial arts.
Ying Chengyu had no choice but to stop talking, and glanced at Yue Nu with a resentful look. His enthusiasm did not diminish, and he waved his hand to greet Zhang Liang.
"Zifang! I'm Ying Chengyu! We've met before! I said I wanted to steal Korea from you, do you remember?"
"Cough cough cough cough!"
Han Xin patted the back of Zhang Liang, who suddenly started coughing violently. If he hadn't seen the undisguised hatred in Zhang Liang's eyes, he would have thought that Zhang Liang was a stranger.
[The King of Qin is too familiar with the ovary... It’s just a matter of a few seconds. If the King of Qin had come a little later, the battle would have been won!]
Seeing Han Xin helping Zhang Liang, Ying Chengxuan knew in his heart that these two people should be of the same level.
The entire Qi army was covered in blood. Except for their differences in height, shortness, fatness and thinness, they were all the same as if they were carved from the same mold. At this point in the battle, it was impossible to tell who was who.
If Zhang Liang hadn't been lying on the ground coughing, Ying Chengyu wouldn't have recognized him.
[A last-ditch battle...]
He looked Han Xin up and down, but saw nothing but blood.
Ying Chengyu suddenly smiled and said:
"I have long admired the name of Mr. Han Xin."
Han Xin's movements were obviously slightly paused. He had a feeling that he was a stranger. It was clear that he had never interacted with King Qin.
He supported Zhang Liang and raised his head to stare at King Qin.
He has starry eyes and sharp eyebrows, a handsome appearance, and a warm face, like a humble and jade-like young master.
From the king's point of view, it was extremely lacking in majesty.
"King Qin knows about me?"
Han Xin asked, the fact that he entered Qi and was worshiped as a general was not even known to the neighboring Chu and Zhang Chu, so it was spread to Qin?
"of course!"
Ying Chengyu turned his head, widened his eyes, spread his arms to both sides, and almost hit the Qin soldiers beside him.
"Sir, your name has been passed down to the world for a long time. Who in the world doesn't recognize you?"
Han Xin: "..."
He once again thought that he was a stranger, and had a slight suspicion that he had lost his memory.
"King Qin."
Putting his hands on the ground, Zhang Liang gasped for breath, and the raging coughing consciousness was finally blocked for a moment.
He stared at Ying Chengyu coldly.
"Put away your hypocritical enthusiasm. You have been here a long time ago, and those thousands of soldiers have been captured by you!"
Ying Chengyu applauded and praised:
"Zifang has no clue. I was already there when Li Xin was confronting you."
Han Xin clenched his fists and asked as calmly as possible.
"Then why didn't King Qin show up? If King Qin had shown up earlier, I would have done nothing and wouldn't have destroyed the two thousand horses."
Ying Chengyu glanced at Li Xin, glanced at Qin Bing who was looking at him with admiring eyes, and said seriously:
"How can I compete with my soldiers for credit? I'm here just in case."
The eyes of the Qin soldiers who heard this became even brighter. Others said they didn't believe this, but Ying Chengyu said they believed it. This was the king who could save them from committing suicide!
Li Zhenxin, who had stopped crying, looked up at the sky to prevent the tears accumulated in his eyes from flowing out again.
The second emperor glanced at him when he answered.
Some words cannot be announced to the public. The two thousand war horses are strategic materials wherever they are placed.
The second emperor showed up to take command, but the soldiers who attacked and killed were still Li Xin's 10,000 soldiers. How could the military merit be taken away from him?
The delay in showing up was obviously to train him.
The second emperor did not care about his previous confrontation, but had high hopes for him.
Tears still flowed down, and Li Xin swore in silence.
He will spend his whole life repaying this magnificent imperial favor!