The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 694 Crushing [Subscribe*Monthly Ticket Request]

"What we should worry about now is how to explain to the king!" sighed the handsome general.

Shouchun's request was to let them return to attack Yingchuan, forcing Qin to divide its troops and preventing Qin from having too many troops to attack Wei.

As a result, they now rashly attacked the Bingzhou army. Once Emperor Xuanwu issued a document to question them, they would be tantamount to provoking Bingzhou to the State of Chu.

If the night attack was successful and the Bingzhou army suffered heavy casualties, Bingzhou would have to suffer in silence.

Unfortunately, their night attack failed despite their good intentions.

It was hard to imagine how they would respond when Li Ren sent an envoy to question them after dawn.

The marching army fell into silence. When daybreak came, Li Ren would surely send someone to question them.

"I don't understand. We have an army of 150,000, so why should we be so timid? No matter how powerful Bingzhou is, this is Chu and Qi. Can Bingzhou still come here across thousands of miles to hold us accountable?" the young general said dissatisfiedly.

Ji Bu and Xiang Liang both sighed. If they only cared about things on the battlefield, they would naturally not be afraid of Li Ren, who only had 30,000 troops under his command.

But war is just a political means. Bingzhou cannot come, but they can ask Qin to take action.

Moreover, Bingzhou is a group of lunatics. If they really leave these 30,000 troops here, who knows if Bingzhou will go crazy again?
The blood of the Xiongnu King Xutu, King Hunxie and the Dayuezhi has not yet dried!
For the sake of six thousand blood cavalry, Bingzhou dared to mobilize the whole country to fight across thousands of miles. This is 30,000 people. Bingzhou may not be unwilling to fight again for these 30,000 people and cross the Central Plains to kill them.

"Let's say tomorrow that it was Xiang Ying who acted on his own initiative!" Xiang Liang and Ji Bu ignored the young man's words and discussed how to reply to Li Ren.

As for Xiang Ying? He had been burned in the mountains by a fire in Bingzhou. It didn't matter whether he was dead or captured.

I don't think Li Ren would go into direct battle with them just for this surprise attack.

After all, the number of troops they have is several times more than Li Ren's.

At dawn the next day, the Bingzhou camp did not move forward, but rested on the spot and sent out a large number of scouts to patrol the surroundings, even including the rear of the road they came from.

Only after confirming it was safe did Li Ren order the army to continue moving forward and station the troops at the foot of Yangdu City.

"Tenglong, Yinghu, Leibao, the three main armies of the Chu State are all here!" Looking at the three military flags on the Yangdu City, Li Ren said lightly with a playful smile.

Li Ren did not send any envoys to question the situation, nor did he attack the city. He just deployed his troops outside Yangdu and quietly watched the city.

"What are they going to do?" On the city wall, Xiang Liang and Ji Bu looked at the Bingzhou army below the city, frowning in confusion.

They thought Li Ren would send an envoy to question them, but Li Ren just quietly set up camp under the city.

What was even more unexpected for Xiang Liang and Ji Bu happened again. The gate of Yangdu city was opened without them receiving any intelligence. A large and elite army filed out and headed straight for the Bingzhou camp.

"How dare you! Are you going to fight us to the death?" Li Ren was also a little surprised.

He thought that last night's night attack would make the Chu generals retreat.

However, he didn't expect that when he arrived at the city of Yangdu, the Thunder Leopard Legion would actually launch an entire army to attack them head-on.

"The Shesheng Camp is covered with rain of arrows; the heavy armored cavalry is charging in full force; the shield guards are following and killing..." Li Ren also began to give command and dispatch at the first opportunity.

The number of Chu's Thunder Leopard Corps was about 30,000, which was comparable to the army brought by Li Ren, but the army was relatively single-soldier, mainly infantry, unlike Li Ren's army which had all kinds of arms. "Another rain of arrows!" Bambu frowned and ordered the shields to be raised.

They have all studied Bingzhou's tactics: rain of arrows, cavalry charge, cavalry charge, infantry charge, and so on.

It was this unchanging fighting style that turned the entire grassland upside down.

But Bambu was not afraid of this. He didn't believe that Bingzhou's arrows could penetrate his shield and disperse his army.

"Huh?" Li Ren was a little surprised when he saw the Thunder Leopard Legion raising their shields to the sky to block the rain of arrows from the Shesheng Camp.

But it was only a brief surprise.

He could command an army of 500,000, and he could divide an army of 30,000 into dozens or even hundreds of battle lines for precise command.

The purpose of a rain of arrows is not to kill, but to disrupt the enemy's formation.

So, when the rain of arrows covered the area, Li Ren accurately commanded the heavy cavalry to launch a fierce attack on the Thunder Leopard Legion that had found a flaw.

Bambu looked at the heavy cavalry charging into the formation and also looked around the battlefield, trying to force the heavy cavalry to slow down and not give them a chance to break through them.

But the Chu State, located in the water town of Jiangnan, had never seen such tall and powerful horses, let alone heavily armored cavalry armed to the teeth.

The heavy cavalry advanced straight in, and even the most elite Thunder Leopard Corps of the Chu State was unable to stop the enemy's breaking through.

What frightened Bambu the most was that every one of his orders seemed to be guessed by the enemy. Even though they had an advantage in terms of manpower, they were always outnumbered and were led by the enemy.

He and the central army were also restrained by a shield guard of less than a thousand people.

"The gap is too big!" Ji Bu and Xiang Liang on the city wall looked at each other.

The battle had only lasted for less than an hour, and Bambu and the Thunder Leopard Legion were suppressed and led by the nose, completely falling into the opponent's rhythm.

If there were no new forces joining in to lead Bambu and the Thunder Leopard Corps out of the opponent's rhythm and the quagmire of war, if nothing unexpected happened, the Thunder Leopard Corps and Bambu would be played to death by Li Ren.

Xiang Liang and Ji Bu looked at each other, and saw the solemnity in each other's eyes. Then they nodded and ordered the Tenglong Legion and the Yinghu Legion to attack as well, to lead the Leibao Legion out of the quagmire.

Seeing the Tenglong Legion and the Yinghu Legion leaving the city, Li Ren did not dare to be careless. He ordered the formation to change again and began to shrink the army for defense.

The original intention of the Tenglong Legion and the Yinghu Legion was just to bring back the Leibao Legion, so after seeing that the Leibao Legion and the Bingzhou Army had escaped from the battle, they also withdrew from the battlefield and escorted the Leibao Legion back to the city.

"The gap is too big!" Bambu's fingers were shaking when he returned to the city.

As the commander of Lei Bao Corps, one of the three major legions of the Chu State, he had never thought that one day he would be suppressed and beaten like this.

Even in the State of Chu, he often played chess and battled with Lian Po on the sand table, but he had never lost so miserably.

As soon as the two sides engaged in battle, he felt that he had lost control of his army and was completely led by the enemy. Then he inexplicably commanded his non-shield guards to attack the enemy's heavy armored cavalry and let the enemy's swordsmen and axemen kill his own archers.

Their arms were restrained and their forces were suppressed. Although they were equal in numbers, they were always outnumbered and had to block their own comrades' steps, completely failing to bring out the advantages of the Thunder Leopard Corps.

(End of this chapter)