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

Chapter 944: The Final Battle [Subscribe*Subscribe for monthly tickets]

At the same time, Han Xin and Meng Tian both received secret reports from Bai Qingshan.

"Wipe out the entire Donghu royal court's main army and disintegrate the Donghu army alliance!" Meng Tian pondered while tapping the table.

Bai Qingshan explained his ideas in detail and told them explicitly that the royal court's army would take the initiative to attack and would be the first to take the lead.

Meng Tian and Han Xin only need to concentrate the main force of the army to swallow up the royal court's main army, and the rest of the coalition forces will flee and choose to surrender.

"Send a message, the vanguard army stops marching and waits for the main force of the central army to arrive!" Meng Tian thought about it and decided to act according to Bai Qingshan's plan.

Han Xin's vanguard army alone can defeat the main force of the Donghu royal court, but it is absolutely impossible to annihilate the enemy completely, so it is still necessary to wait for the arrival of the main force of the central army.

What they have to do is to follow Bai Qingshan’s plan and start a decisive battle with the main force of Donghu!

"We have to march quickly and then stop attacking. What are we doing?" The soldiers of the vanguard Red Flame Cavalry all complained.

However, the Red Flame Cavalry was Bingzhou's top military force after all. Although they complained, they still obeyed orders and set up camp on the spot, waiting for the arrival of the central army.

"It's time for a decisive battle!" Han Xin also knew that he couldn't let morale drop or let the soldiers complain before the decisive battle, so he took the shogunate's advisors to visit the military camps and explain the reasons.

Compared to the decisive battle, this temporary change of order is not worth mentioning.

Since it is a decisive battle, there is nothing wrong with suddenly stopping the march.

If they did not obey the order and continued to march, they would be alone in the deep.

The Red Flame Cavalry is capable of fighting, but they are not yet capable of taking on the hundreds of thousands of Donghu troops alone without backup, especially when the elite troops of the Donghu royal court are among them.

Therefore, after the explanations from Han Xin and the counselors, the vanguard camp stopped complaining and instead looked forward to the upcoming decisive battle.

The main force of the Red Flame Cavalry also advanced rapidly, appearing behind the vanguard camp in just two days.

Bai Qingshan also led the entire Donghu army forward.

Now, the entire Bingzhou East Army and the entire Donghu Army are less than thirty miles apart. Looking around, one can see that on the wide and flat grassland, large and small military tents are connected to the sky and the ground, but they are clearly divided into two factions that may collide at any time.

"The Bingzhou East Route Army has no more than 150,000 soldiers, while my Donghu royal court has an army of 100,000 soldiers plus the tribal coalition forces, with a total number of nearly 300,000, twice that of the enemy. The advantage is on our side!" Bai Qingshan also held a pre-war mobilization meeting in the Donghu headquarters camp.

He also didn't expect that the main force from Bingzhou would arrive so quickly.

Originally, I was thinking of having a small battle with Han Xin first, gaining a small victory, and then fostering the arrogance of the Donghu army, so that these people would not be afraid of fighting and run away.

However, he did not expect that Meng Tian was still too cautious. He was even unwilling to let the Red Flame Cavalry suffer any losses, so he directly brought the main force of the central army.

"The advantage is with me?" The corners of the mouths of the tribal leaders twitched.

It seemed that they had the advantage in numbers, but they had all seen the bravery of the Red Flame Cavalry under the city of Danlin. At that time, they had more than twice as many people as the enemy, but they were still beaten by the Red Flame Cavalry and fled in panic. This made the Red Flame Cavalry famous all over the world.

The reason why the Red Flame Cavalry became famous throughout the world is that they became famous by stepping on their corpses.

"Pass on my order. Rest here for two days. At dawn three days later, the entire army will attack and engage in a decisive battle with the Red Flame Cavalry!" Bai Qingshan continued.

"Yes!" The generals were helpless. Now that the main force of Bingzhou had arrived, they might not be able to outrun the Red Flame Cavalry even if they wanted to run, so they had to bite the bullet. However, the clan leaders of the tribal coalition were not stupid either. They arranged their own camps behind the Wangting headquarters, waiting for the Wangting headquarters to fight the Red Flame Cavalry first, and then they would decide whether to fight Bingzhou to the death or to stall and prepare to surrender and run away.

"General!" Han Xin also brought the generals of the vanguard army to the central army to participate in the meeting before the decisive battle.

After the generals of each army arrived, Meng Tian raised his head and walked to the sand table to assign tasks.

As for mobilization, it is not necessary!
After a long winter of hibernation, the entire Eastern Route Army is clamoring to move its arms and legs.

"In this battle, the goal is to annihilate all the Donghu troops!" Meng Tian pointed at the Donghu camp on the sand table.

They not only want to defeat the opponent, but also want to surround the opponent and not give him a chance to escape.

Bai Qingshan also deliberately led the entire Donghu army to a terrain suitable for siege.

As for why he was not opposed by the Donghu, the reason was very simple. Bai Qingshan's explanation to the Donghu was that it was better to burn their boats and fight a desperate battle instead of dying slowly, leaving no way out for themselves and dispersing the military strength of Bingzhou.

In addition, Bai Qingshan has the elite troops of the royal court under his command, and he will not allow others to object.

Therefore, Meng Tian commanded the troops almost with his eyes closed, arranging two large armies to go around and block the retreat route of the Donghu army.

As for whether a trapped beast will still fight, that also depends on the combat power comparison of both sides.

No matter how ferocious a trapped beast is, it can do nothing when faced with an iron wall.

The task of the main attack naturally fell to the vanguard battalion, the front battlefield was also taken over by the Red Flame Cavalry, and the rest of the garrison troops cooperated with the Red Flame Cavalry to provide cover.

After the mission was issued, the generals of each army returned to their own barracks and carried out the mission in an orderly manner.

"There's nothing much to say. We can't beat Bingzhou in tactics and formations. We have no choice but to fight to the death!"

At dawn three days later, Bai Qingshan did not make any tactical arrangements at all. He just sent the entire army to attack, charge, and charge again. It was either life or death, there was no other way.

The rising sun pierced through the morning mist. It seemed that both sides had agreed on the time to attack. When the mist dissipated, neither side had any skills to speak of. Hundreds of thousands of troops advanced slowly towards each other according to their formations, and their speed became faster and faster, until they finally collided with each other. You are in me and I am in you.

"Is the Royal Court Headquarters so brave?" The clan leaders of the Donghu coalition army couldn't help but be amazed when they saw the Royal Court Headquarters colliding head-on with the Red Flame Cavalry.

How dare the Royal Court Headquarters fight to the death with the Red Flame Cavalry?
But there was no way. Just as a defeated army could drag along the entire army to flee, the powerful royal court headquarters could also drag along other coalition forces to charge towards the Bingzhou army.

What's more, behind them are military supervisors sent by the royal family.

If they didn't go, the military supervisor would force them to go with a knife.

As a result, the entire Donghu army also launched a charge towards the main force of the Bingzhou East Route Army.

"Fire!" Under the central army's banner, Meng Tian watched the entire Donghu army attack, and finally ordered the Shesheng Camp to fire thousands of arrows.

The reason why the Shesheng Camp was not sent into action before was because we were worried about hurting Bai Qingshan and other Bingzhou people, so we didn't dare to cover them with a rain of arrows.

Now it is possible. As long as the spy colleagues are not stupid, they will find a place to avoid the rain of arrows when the whistling arrows of the Shesheng Camp sound.

(End of this chapter)