Chapter seven hundred and ninety-two Qin army defeated
Sima Jie was very depressed now. In his expectation, there were several ways to annihilate the Chen County rebels, but he did not expect that the rebels would actually abandon the city and flee.
Judging from the performance of the rebels holding on to the city wall in the past few days, they don't look like a large army that will flee.
Did the power of the bow chariot scare them just now?
After thinking about it, Sima Jie only found this reason.
Well, it's all to blame for the Shaofu's general's high level of ordnance production. The rebels actually lost the courage to resist.
After chasing for a while, Sima Jie suddenly saw hundreds of large trees with lush foliage lying scattered on the road. His face was ashen and he said: "Come here, clean up the trees, and be quick."
Hundreds of soldiers of the Qin Army were ordered to move forward, drew out their long knives, cut off the large branches that were connected together, and moved the tree trunks to the side of the road, clearing a path out.
Sima Jie took the lead and once again led the army to pursue the rebels in the direction they left.
After chasing for a while, Sima Jie stopped in front of a large ditch. Looking around, there were large ditches more than one foot wide on the road ahead, some of them hundreds.
"Come here and fill up this ditch. I still don't believe it today. Can these rebels escape my pursuit?"
After a while, Sima Jie stepped over the filled ditch and continued to move forward.
A quarter of an hour later.
"Come here, build three bridges. I want to cross the river."
Half an hour later.
"Come here, move these stones away. I want to cross this mountain."
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In terms of eliteness, the rebels are far inferior to the Qin army.
Even though Cao Shen used many methods to hinder the Qin army, he could not make up the gap between the two sides.
Or maybe Huang Tian paid off and kept chasing for two hours, and Sima Jie finally saw the tail of the rebels.
Seeing that the Qin army appeared five miles away and would soon catch up, Cao Shen sighed softly and could no longer escape. If the Qin army caught up and pursued him one after another, the 35,000-strong army would probably collapse at the first touch.
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So Cao Shen ordered the army to stop and built fortifications based on a hill, trying to resist the Qin army by relying on the geographical advantage.
The five-mile area was really not long. Cao Shen and his men built two earthen walls and arranged their positions. Sima Jie led the Qin army and appeared 300 meters away from the rebels.
Cao Shen decisively ordered that 10,000 troops be in the front, ready to meet the enemy, 10,000 troops in the middle, ready to support at any time, and the remaining 15,000 troops behind, continuing to build fortifications to resist the Qin army.
Sima Jie has been familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and he still has some experience in how to lead troops in battle.
Three hundred meters away from the rebels, Sima Jie tried hard to rein in his horse, stopped, and then without saying a word, ordered to fire arrows.
To say too many cruel words at this moment would seem too stupid. Only strength can prove everything.
There were 3,000 archers in the 20,000-strong army. Although they were moving in a hurry, each person carried at least three pots of arrows, each with twelve arrows. These three thousand archers alone brought nearly 100,000 arrows.
Each time, three thousand feathered arrows formed a rain of arrows and fell on the rebels.
Cao Shen stood among the rebels and faced the "rain of arrows". He calmly taught the rebel soldiers how to avoid stray arrows.
After pouring more than 50,000 arrows in a row, Sima Jie signaled the archers to retreat, issued another order, and shouted loudly: "Follow me and kill."
After saying that, he rushed towards the rebels led by Cao Shen and killed them.
The Qin army was more elite than the rebels, but the rebels had an advantageous location, and the two sides were inextricable from the moment they fought.
But as time went by, the Qin army gradually gained the upper hand and gradually suppressed the rebels.
In less than half an hour, the rebels responsible for defending the first line of defense suffered more than half of their casualties and retreated involuntarily.
In order to prevent the defeated troops of the first line of defense from attacking the second line of defense, Cao Shen immediately ordered: "Brothers who are affiliated with the first line of defense, withdraw to rest and build the third line of defense."
"Brothers on the second line of defense, move forward and prepare to fight."
Cao Shen's defensive method is completely correct from a certain perspective.
However, there was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides. No matter what methods Cao Shen used, he was unable to change this fact.
When a quarter of the 20,000 Qin army suffered casualties, the rebels no longer offered too much resistance. It wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they really didn't have any more.
Because the 35,000-strong army was almost extinct.
In order to preserve the remaining rebels as much as possible, Cao Shen could only retreat again and again, and finally retreated to the top of the mountain with no way out.
Sima Jie, who was originally a little depressed, was now in a good mood. He slowly walked up to Cao Shen and asked, "Did you come up with the method to block traffic?"
Cao Shen replied with a smile: "Some unfashionable little tricks are beyond your eyes and make you laugh."
Sima Jie was very satisfied with Cao Shen's attitude, and said a little arrogantly: "I am a beautiful lady, why do you want to be a thief? I cherish your talents very much. You can lead the army to surrender."
Cao Shen didn't feel dissatisfied and pretended to think for a while, then said, "Can you please give me more time so that I can think it over carefully?"
Sima Jie glanced at the top of the mountain. There were very few rebel soldiers left and could be destroyed in an instant, so he pretended to be generous and said, "How about I give you a moment to think about it?"
Cao Shen smiled softly when he heard this, bowed and saluted, and said with a smile: "Thank you, Marshal, for your understanding."
Sima Jie immediately ordered the Qin army to retreat one hundred meters to give the opponent a little space.
At first, Sima Jie was so angry with the rebel general that he wished he could order his people to be cut into pieces. Until he just won the battle, he felt much better.
It's not an ordinary person who can think of hundreds of ways to block traffic.
In order to accept Cao Shen as a disciple, Sima Jie was extremely thoughtful and well-intentioned.
For Cao Shen, the time Sima Jie gave him to consider could be regarded as delaying time.
You can't give up until the last moment, right?
More than half of the time passed quickly, and suddenly, the small mountain peak began to shake continuously.
Cao Shen looked surprised. Could it be that the ground was moving?
At this moment, the Qin army's scouts arrived and shouted to Sima Jie: "Commander, we have found a large army in the north, about 50,000, less than three miles away from here. The origin is unknown. Please be careful, Commander."
Sima Jie was stunned when he heard this: "North? Could it be the reinforcements sent by Liu Ji?"
Then Sima Jie smiled: "We've come just in time, here are the people, array them up, and prepare to fight."
Then Sima Jie looked at Cao Shen and asked in a deep voice: "What are your thoughts?"
Cao Shen smiled and replied: "Now that reinforcements have arrived, how dare I surrender so easily?"
Sima Jie laughed angrily and said, "Did you think that a mere fifty thousand rebels would be my 20,000 elite rivals?"
Cao Shen said indifferently: "Yes or no, your Excellency, you will know after a moment, right?"
Sima Jie showed a fierce look on his face: "In this case, I can't keep you here."
After saying that, he will move forward to take Cao Shen's life.
Cao Shen calmly took out a talisman from his arms.
The talisman opened and formed a protective shield, protecting Cao Shen inside.
There are not many other things in Confucianism, but there are not many life-saving things like this.
Liu Ji specially wrote a letter to the Confucian sage and asked for many such secret treasures.
As an important minister of Liu Ji, Cao Shen was fortunate to receive some.
Sima Jie tried his best, but the shield shook a few times and was completely unable to break through.
At the same time, an army of 50,000 people whose origin was unknown had arrived and without any explanation, they rushed towards Sima Jie's army.
"You don't overestimate your capabilities," Sima Jie said casually with a smile on his face.
What surprised Sima Jie was that the 50,000 unknown troops easily tore through the 20,000 Qin army's defense lines and harvested their heads.
It was almost a crushing defeat. The 20,000 Qin troops retreated steadily, and the formation was in chaos.
Sima Jie roared in disbelief: "There is no way you are rebels."
The whole person rushed forward, hoping to use the peak strength of the Divine Soul Realm to restore the decline.
From the unknown army, two people immediately flew out and blocked Sima Jie, making him completely unable to support the Qin army.
The two of them even joined forces, putting the panicked Sima Jie in danger.
A quarter of an hour later, Sima Jie managed to escape at the cost of an arm.
The 20,000-strong army had no such luck and were all left on the hillside.