The time goes back to one day ago, that is, the last day of September.
There were still about two days before Zhao Hongrun led his army to withdraw from Hangu to Lushi. Wei general Le Kui led the 20,000 Jiejiao cavalry and tens of thousands of slaves who had retreated from the Northern Wei camp in Jian, and retreated to Lushi to reorganize the army.
, preparing to take back the "Lu's Military Camp".
However, when Le Kui led his army to the area around Lu's military camp, he was surprised to find that the military camp was actually hung with the flag of the "Yanling Army" - this military camp had been captured by the Yanling Army.
This made Wei General Lezu very happy. After all, his position was the "camp general" of the Dangshan Army. His military rank was equal to the five "ten thousand captains" of the Jijiao Army. Although the military rank of the Jijiao Army was higher than that of the generals of the Wei Army.
Half a level lower, but this does not mean that Le Qun has the right to order "Chahartu" and "Kelidan", the two captains of the Jiejiao Army who followed him to return to attack the Lu family.
In today's Sanchuan grassland, there are only three people who can command the Jiejiao Army: King Su Zhao Hongrun, General Sima An, and the commander-in-chief of the Jiejiao Army, Bosile.
It is precisely because of this that on the way to evacuate the Northern Wei camp in Jian, the two Jiejiao army commanders "Chahartu" and "Kelidan" gathered some Jiejiao cavalry and left halfway to re-attack the troops that had been defeated by the Qin general.
The Northern Wei camp in Jian, which Wang Jian captured, ignored Le Qu's orders at all.
Le Kui had nothing to do about this. Although he knew that the two captains of the Jiejiao Army were competing for credit, he had no right to accuse each other.
But, is the Qin Ling coalition so easy to deal with?
Can the Jianbei military camp be captured with such a chaotic counterattack?
Le Qun is not optimistic about it at all.
But it was helpless that the Jiejiao cavalry ignored him at all. So when they retreated to Lu, Le Kui had only some Dangshan cavalry and tens of thousands of former Wuxu tribe slaves who had surrendered to General Sima An.
What's terrible is that maybe seeing the Wei army's defeat made the slaves a little uneasy, so many of them escaped secretly on the way.
Unfortunately, Le Qun could not give orders to these slaves, because the latter only obeyed the orders of General Sima An. Who made the latter their master?
Under such circumstances, Le Qu was under great pressure to turn the tide with just a few thousand Dangshan cavalry.
What he didn't expect was a surprise from heaven. When he led his army to the Lu's military camp, he found that the camp that had been captured by the Qin Ling coalition had already been captured by Qu Cheng, the commander of the Yanling Army.
What surprised Le Qun even more was that Qu Cheng, the commander of the Yanling Army, led 20,000 Yanling troops and some scattered Yi tribe cavalry to regain control of this area and restored the logistics and food transportation lines.
Seeing this, Le Qu immediately went to see Qu Cheng.
After meeting Qu Cheng, Le Qu told Qu Cheng very respectfully about the changes in the Wei camp in Jianbei and asked for assistance.
Qu Cheng's military rank is very high, and he can be said to be on par with Sima An. However, because the Yanling Army is the army of Shangshui County, this general is not affiliated with the "Shangjiang Mansion". Therefore, Qu Cheng's general
, half a level lower than Sima An in terms of grade.
Of course, this is just in terms of military rank. In fact, with the name "Yanling Army is the elite under Su Wang Zhao Hongrun", even Sima An would treat Qu Cheng politely, including the general of Shang Shui Army.
Wu Ji.
"Sure enough, Qin General Wang Jian's target is General Sima An."
After listening to Le Qu's story, Qu Cheng nodded and said. At the same time, he admired Jie Ziyu, an aide of Prince Su's Mansion who was stationed in Luocheng.
After all, Jie Ziyu was far behind Luocheng and was able to guess the Qin army's intentions. This far-sighted talent was no less than that of His Highness Prince Su.
"By the way, where did Wang Jian's Qin army come from?"
During the conversation, Le Qu asked Qu Cheng this question.
In fact, he still can't figure out why the Qin army appeared behind him.
You must know that at that time, Jianbei to the Lu family and Lu family to Yichuan were all controlled by the Wei army. It is hard to imagine that a Qin army would get behind them.
After hearing this, Qu Cheng thought for a moment and took the initiative to take the blame for Zhao Hongrun.
Combining Jie Ziyu's letters, Qu Cheng already understood that the reason why Qin General Wang Jian was able to lead a surprise army behind their Wei army and kill them all the way from Yishan to Jianbei was that His Highness Prince Su had to bear the greatest responsibility.
But obviously, this kind of thing can be done in the heart. How could a certain wise and mighty King Su make a mistake?
Therefore, the blame will undoubtedly fall on the Yanling Army who was in Yishan at that time. In this case, Qu Cheng simply accepted the blame. Anyway, this kind of non-war crime did not damage his authority, and maybe even a certain King Su
Your Highness will still consider his loyalty and try to get him a noble status - of course, this refers to the serious noble status of the Wei State, not the Lord who inspires (confuses) the army officers and soldiers.
Low-level nobles.
Thinking of this, Qu Cheng admitted the blame without hesitation and expressed his apology to Le Kui. Le Kui was confused and thought, "What does this matter have to do with you, Qu Cheng?"
But after thinking about it carefully, Le Qun understood that he was not a fool after all.
When the topic of counterattacking the Jianbei Military Camp came up, Qu Cheng was very straightforward and immediately ordered troops to attack the Jianbei Military Camp.
Compared with Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, who was promoted to general based on his personal bravery and the love of a certain King Su, Qu Chengna was a well-deserved general of the Yanling Army, both in terms of command and vision.
Wu Ji was more than a step above him. The only thing he was not as good as Wu Ji was that he did not have Wu Ji's strength and courage to defeat the enemy's general on his own.
Therefore, he fully understands the importance of "General Sima An" on this battlefield, which King Su Zhao Hongrun worked hard to shape. On this battlefield, in terms of military merit and prestige, it has been established that he can be on an equal footing with His Highness King Su.
"Heroes of Wei".
If this general unfortunately dies in the Sanchuan battlefield, this will not only completely disrupt the strategy of His Highness King Su, but also cause a serious drop in the morale of the Wei army.
Therefore, no matter what, we must support Sima An and relieve the general.
Otherwise, if something goes wrong with this great general, I believe Qu Cheng and other generals will inevitably suffer the wrath of a certain His Highness King Su.
Without further delay, after the decision was made, Qu Cheng immediately ordered the dispatch of troops. He handed over the Lu camp to Meng Liang, the leader of the Meng tribe of the Yi tribe, and personally led 20,000 Yanling troops to Hengjian.
Le Qu also led nearly a thousand Dangshan army cavalry to follow him.
At this time, "Chahartu" and "Kelidan", the two captains of the Jiejiao Army, were leading their Jiejiao cavalry to storm the Jianbei military camp, trying to seize the military camp that originally belonged to them from the Qin general.
Take it back from your hands.
But as Le Qun expected, the Jiejiao cavalry was enough to deal with the tribal cavalry in Sanchuan County, because they were both light cavalry with no formations to fight in chaos, but when they encountered the Qin State Iron Eagle Army, a regular cavalry that acted in unison,
The Jiejiao Army's chances of winning were unimaginably low.
Compared with the Korean cavalry, the only shortcoming of Qin's Iron Eagle Cavalry is that they do not have excellent equipment, weapons, and armor, and they are almost still in the Bronze Age.
But to be more serious, bronze weapons may not be inferior to iron weapons. In fact, bronze weapons made with peak smelting technology can actually cut off iron weapons. However, this is the end of bronze weapons. There will be no more
There is room for improvement and improvement, but iron weapons are different. The extension of iron weapons is steel weapons and alloy weapons. It is far from ending.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun gave up bronze smelting technology and vigorously promoted iron smelting technology.
But now, the Jiejiao cavalry wielded iron weapons made from the Bitatu era or purchased from the Wei Kingdom later, and faced off against the Qin cavalry, which was the pinnacle of bronze smelting technology. It must be said that the Jiejiao cavalry suffered a big loss.
It is undeniable that the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army of the Wei State did crush the Qin Army in terms of weapons the year before last. But the problem is that the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army were the top armies of the Wei State, and they were the private soldiers of King Su Zhao Hongrun.
, Therefore, Zhao Hongrun spared no effort to arm these two armies to the teeth.
And what about the weapons of the Jiejiao Cavalry? They are almost all second-rate or third-rate weapons that have been eliminated from the Wei Kingdom. Even if some of them are iron weapons, they may not be able to crush the pinnacle bronze weapons of the Iron Eagle Army.
As a result, the Jiejiao cavalry was defeated without any suspense. In front of the Qin Dynasty's elite regular cavalry, the Iron Eagle Army, they were beaten so hard that they could not lift their heads. They left more than a thousand corpses and fled in embarrassment.
Half a day later, Qu Cheng led the Yanling army to Jianbei. At this time, Qin General Wang Jian felt the pressure.
After all, after the "One-day Battle of Hangu" the year before last, as Wei Gongzi Ji Run's command, he destroyed Qin's 200,000-strong Wei army, and the "Shangshui Army" and "Yanling Army" became famous in the Qin State.
People have vaguely regarded these two Wei armies as the most powerful forces in the Wei state.
Of course, there is no difference in fact. After all, among the first-order elite armies of the Wei State, King Su's Army is not as high as Wei Wu's Army in the eyes of the Wei people because it has not been established for a long time.
Who made Wei Wujun the ace army that existed in the early days of the founding of the Wei State, and the origin of the honor "The infantry of the State of Wei is the best in the world"?
No, in front of Qu Cheng's Yanling Army, the momentum of the Iron Eagle Army led by Qin General Wang Jian was curbed.
The soldiers of the Yanling Army used the Wei Crossbow, a powerful weapon that can be called "the first crossbow in the Central Plains", to make the Iron Eagle Army under Wang Jian understand the fact: Our defeat in the past few days was only because of your sneak attack.
That's all. In terms of head-to-head confrontation, you are no match for our Yanling Army!
Facts have proved that in front of the infantry phalanx of the Yanling Army, the Iron Eagle Army was almost helpless and could only be compressed step by step to the Jianbei Military Camp.
It's no wonder that the infantry of the Yanling Army are all heavy infantry. Unless they encounter heavy armored cavalry like the Youma Army, cavalry like the Iron Eagle Army will not be able to tear apart the Yanling Army's defense line.
In fact, the Iron Eagle Army cannot be regarded as light cavalry, because they also wear bronze armor to protect parts of the body. However, most of these armors are concentrated on the body, as if they are wearing two bronze plates to protect the limbs.
The intensity is very low.
This kind of cavalry is called "cuirassier".
"Note: Cuirassiers can be understood as low-end heavy cavalry. Compared with high-end heavy cavalry such as "Yuma Army", cuirassiers have the advantage of being more flexible and more durable in combat capabilities because they carry heavy loads.
The sacrifice of speed has maximized the safety of the knight; but the disadvantage is that the breastplate can only protect the body's vital points, and the protection of the limbs is very low, and without horse armor, it is easy for the enemy to launch tactics against horses. But no matter what,
, Cuirassiers can also be considered a type of heavy cavalry.』
Facing the Yanling Army's aggressive offensive, Qin General Wang Jian finally experienced what Wei General Sima An had experienced two days ago. In fact, his current situation was even more dangerous than Sima An's situation at that time.
Although Sima An faced the dilemma of being attacked from both sides in the past two days, with the narrow terrain of the Yangchang Valley, Sima An was able to defend for at least a few days, until the cavalry under his command ran out of food and were so hungry that they could not even lift their weapons.
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But the problem is that three to five days are enough for the Wei troops in the nearby area to notice something is wrong and quickly rush to support.
Therefore, Wang Jian's only chance of winning was to join forces with the Jie tribe to kill Sima An before reinforcements from the Wei army arrived.
However, the Yanling army arrived quickly on the third day, which was somewhat beyond Wang Jian's expectation.
But this is not the worst. The worst thing is that Actun of the Ling tribe failed to break through the Jiejiao Army's defense of the narrow valley last night, so that Wang Jian didn't know what Sima An and Batur were at all.
Which side will win?
"...If Sima An really inflicts heavy losses on the Jie tribe, it will be all over."
Wang Jian thought worriedly.
However, the development of the situation turned unfavorable to Wang Jian. The next day, the Jiejiao cavalry appeared on the west side of the Jianbei military camp and announced to the soldiers of the Ling tribe in a very high-profile manner that the Jie tribe had become history.
The South Basin Valley has been occupied by them.
After learning about this incident, the morale of the Qin Ling coalition forces in the Jianbei military camp was greatly shaken.