A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 122 The Turning Battle
"Yingbu, Puba!" Xiang Yu ordered from his seat in the main tent of Xiang Yu's army.

"The general is here!"

"Let you two lead 10,000 soldiers to cross the river first and harass the Qin army's food route!"

"Order!"

"The rest of the generals, train your soldiers carefully, the battle is not far away!"

"I will obey the general's order!"

Let us say that Yingbu and Puba led ten thousand soldiers to cross the river quietly at an unmanned ferry.

A few hours later, when all the soldiers had crossed the river, Yingbu and Puba discussed dividing their troops into two groups. One person would lead five thousand soldiers, and they would attack the grain road in batches day and night without stopping.

"Gululu!" "Pah!" "Hurry up!"

This is the sound of whips made by the Qin army to drive the civilians to push the grain carts.

In order to maintain food and grass, Zhang Han issued an order to local officials to recruit civilian laborers to transport grain and grass. In order to ensure the food and grass supply for the 400,000-strong army, local counties and counties recruited nearly 200,000 civilian laborers.

This caused an endless stream of grain trucks on the section of the road from the Yellow River to Julu City. The Qin army guarded the road on both sides to prevent the rebels from attacking. In addition, a military camp was set up every five miles with 3,000 Qin troops inside for ready support.

An unknown road.

"Kill!"

Five thousand Chu troops led by Yingbu fought out of the mountains and forests. The Qin soldiers guarding the grain road were unable to resist and were quickly killed.

"Quick! Torches! Bring enough food for three days, and the rest will be burned by me!" Yingbu kept giving orders.

The civilians who were hiding under the grain carts saw that the rebels were trying to burn the grain carts, so they grabbed some grain and fled.

"puff!"

An arrow hit a Chu soldier, followed by more arrows.

At this time, Qin army reinforcements arrived.

"Withdraw! Everyone withdraw with me!"

Seeing that the Qin army arrived too quickly, the remaining grain carts that had no time to burn had to be abandoned.

When the Chu army was about to enter the mountain forest, the Qin army on the other side also arrived. "No, it's blocked!" Yingbu cursed secretly.

Five thousand Chu troops were attacked from behind by six thousand Qin troops.

Just as the Yingbo army struggled to resist, "Come with me!" A group of cavalry rushed in from behind the Qin army.

The Qin army's formation was immediately disrupted, and Yingbu also seized the opportunity and led his personal guards and cavalry to attack back and forth.

Six thousand Qin troops were defeated.

Yingbu came to the cavalry and shouted: "I wonder where your army is coming from?"

Bai Wei, who was covered in blood, came to Yingbu's eyes on horseback, turned over and dismounted and said: "Bai Wei from Bai Guo!"

Ying preached: "Under the command of Bai Wang Bai Qing?"

"Exactly!"

"Thank you so much for your rescue, Yingbu is very grateful!"

"General Yingbu's words are serious. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's withdraw first!"

Yingbu agreed, and immediately ordered his men to stop cleaning up the battlefield and seize the time to retreat.

A quarter of an hour later, two groups of Qin troops arrived. Seeing the mess on the ground, they suddenly became angry.

In the following days, three thousand Bai's cavalry continued to cooperate with the troops of Yingbu and Puba. They burned the Qin army's grain carts many times and escaped unscathed. By the way, they also killed and wounded many Qin army soldiers.

Zhang Han, who was besieging the city, found that the food supply in the army had dropped recently. He asked the grain officer, who said that a bandit army had been attacking the grain road in recent days, causing the food to often fail to arrive on time. In order to save the remaining food, he had to reduce the amount of food per day. daily quota.

After hearing this, Zhang Han summoned the generals to ask for a solution. He learned that the reason why the rebels were able to retreat every time was because they had an elite cavalry army. So Zhang Han thought of building a corridor, that is, setting up wooden boards on both sides of the road to block the cavalry. Charge recklessly.

Soon, the Qin army asked the civilians to cut down trees and erect low walls on both sides of the road.

Since the Qin army built the corridor, it has been difficult for Bai Wei's cavalry to play its role. They can only serve as the rear for the Yingbu army and Puba army, making them almost harmless to the Qin army's food road.

The Qin army's offensive gradually slowed down in the days when the food road had problems. However, since the food road was safe, the Qin army's offensive against Julu resumed. Zhang Er had to write to Xiang Yu, Bai Qing and other rebel leaders again. , requesting them to send troops quickly.

After Bai Qing got the letter, he immediately led the remaining 40,000 Bai troops out of Luguan from the Taihang Mountains and arrived in the west of Julu City. Zhang Han had to divide the 50,000 Qin troops to fight against and monitor the Bai troops.

At this time, the Qin army attacking Julu in the south of the city only had 150,000 soldiers left.

On the other side, after Xiang Yu received Zhang Er's letter, he did not cross the river immediately. Instead, he sent Chen Ping to the other side to investigate the distribution of the Qin army.

A few days later, Chen Ping returned and told Xiang Yu: "There are only 150,000 Qin troops on the other side left, and 50,000 of them are still attacking Julu City."

After knowing the information on the other side, Xiang Yu decided to cross the river and immediately ordered: "Send the order to the whole army to get up and start fighting. An hour later, the whole army was lightly equipped and only carried three days of dry food to cross the river!"

Zhang Han also got the news that Xiang Yu was crossing the river and learned that 60,000 Chu troops were crossing the river. However, he did not take advantage of Xiang Yu's army to cross the river and attack them. He wanted all Xiang Yu's troops to cross the river and annihilate them all.

Xiang Yu got off the boat and combed Wu Zhui's hair. Seeing that the Qin army didn't move, he snorted coldly after knowing what Zhang Han was thinking, and said to the general next to him: "Zhang Han wants to eat this general in one bite, so let's see Does he have such a good appetite anymore?”

Bai Qing also knew that Xiang Yu's army was about to cross the river. In order to help Xiang Yu, he ordered Bai Wei to abandon the Qin army's food road, sneak into the mountains and forests near Xiang Yu's army to cross the river, and take the opportunity to help.

On the second day, all Chu troops had crossed the river.

When Xiang Yu saw this, he ordered people to burn the ferry. The general stopped him and said, "General, you must not do it. If the ferry is burned down, our army will have no way out!"

Xiang Yu said: "Retreat? If we really fail this time, even if there is a retreat, what's the use of retreating to Jiangdong?" After saying that, he pushed the general away, grabbed the torch from the hands of the soldiers on the side, and threw it on the ferry. Soon, the ferry was on fire.

"Burn! Are you going to disobey my military order?"

Others had no choice but to burn all the remaining ferries. The soldiers stood by the river, looking at the sinking ferries one after another, feeling a little sad in their hearts. Xiang Yu called the grain officer again and asked him to destroy all the cauldrons.

After everything was done, Xiang Yu walked to a huge rock and said to the soldiers: "Brothers, why did we leave our hometown and travel thousands of miles to a strange place?

It’s all because of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty! He makes it impossible for us to establish ourselves in our hometown and live our lives stably. Now, the cause of resisting the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty has reached the most critical place, and whether it succeeds or not lies in our hands.

If this battle is won, the Qin Dynasty will no longer be able to survive. If this battle fails, then we are the ones who cannot survive, so I will burn the boats and dig the cauldrons.

Brothers, there is no other way. Now, the world can only rely on us. If we win, Jiangdong will win and the world will win. If we win, Jiangdong will lose and the world will lose. The last fight is today! "

"The last fight is today!"

The soldiers all knew the importance of this battle, so they were all prepared to sacrifice, because if they lost, they would die. On the other hand, it was also for the sake of their relatives back home.

Zhang Han learned that Xiang Yu's army had all crossed the river and even burned the ferry. He couldn't help laughing and said to the general next to him: "This victory means that the world will be determined!"

After saying this, he left 50,000 troops behind to prevent the Zhao army from leaving the city. He personally led 100,000 elite troops to the bank of the Yellow River.

Half a day later, the two armies met in an unknown wasteland. Sixty thousand Chu troops and one hundred thousand Qin troops stood opposite each other.

There was no communication between the two sides and they started fighting as soon as they met.

Zhang Han remained on the defensive as usual, waiting to attack. Xiang Yu ordered Fan Zeng to lead the infantry, and he led 3,000 Xiang family cavalry to break through the Qin army's formation.

The Chu army pressed forward with infantry first, and knew the Qin army's strengths and weaknesses, so the Chu army prepared wooden shields to guard against the Qin army's arrow rain.

Sure enough, after reaching the bow and arrow range, the Qin army's arrow rain came as expected.

Although protected by wooden shields, many soldiers were lost, but they did not stop the Chu army's advance.

The two armies were in close combat, and the Qin army had a tight formation. Although the Chu army's soldiers were brave, they could not break the Qin army's formation.

Upon seeing this, Xiang Yu immediately mounted his horse and galloped forward, followed by three thousand cavalry behind him.

He had long known that Xiang Yu was going to charge head-on, so Fan Zeng asked the soldiers in the middle to retreat to both sides, leaving a path for the cavalry to pass.

While the soldiers of the Qin army were closely defending, they suddenly found that their front was empty and the enemy troops retreated to both sides.

The Qin soldiers in the front row were very puzzled. A Qin soldier bravely looked forward and saw a burst of yellow sand sweeping in from a distance, followed by a "rumbling!" sound.

The commander of the Qin army suddenly changed his face and shouted: "Cavalry! Cavalry!"

After the Qin soldiers heard this, they immediately inserted their shields into the ground and held them firmly against their shoulders. The spearmen placed their spears on their shields at an angle, with the tail of the spear pressed against the ground, as if resisting a horse.

Time seemed to have frozen, and the Qin soldiers hid under their shields, as if they were being judged by heaven.

The Xiang family's cavalry came quickly. Xiang Yu saw the Qin army's defensive formation and pulled Wu Zui's reins hard. Wu Zui jumped up. In mid-air, Xiang Yu slammed his spear downwards, smashing the Qin army in front of him to pieces. crack.

The defense line was broken, and Xiang Yu broke through it with his own strength. The Xiang family's cavalry behind them also followed the gap opened by Xiang Yu and filed in. Then the gap became wider and wider, followed by the Chu army's infantry.

Without the support of the battle line, the Qin army's combat effectiveness soon became equal to that of the Chu army. Xiang Yu kept weaving in and out of the Qin army's formation, but he could never find the Qin army's banner.

It turned out that Zhang Han had already learned the previous lesson and no longer set up a large banner. Instead, he relied on the messenger cavalry to deliver military orders to prevent Xiang Yu from being beheaded.

As time passed, the cavalry led by Xiang Yu scurried around the Qin army like headless flies. Although no one could resist his charge, it did not destroy the Qin army's command system, allowing the Qin army to remain in order.

Xiang Yu's current role is to help the infantry who are unable to break through the Qin army's defense line to break through the defense line. If the attack there is delayed, Xiang Yu will lead his troops there.

But this didn't work, the Qin army never collapsed.

The two sides were in a stalemate. The Chu army could not destroy the Qin army's order, and the Qin army could not defeat the Chu army, which had already sacrificed its life.

The battle lasted for two hours, and both the Qin and Chu armies were at the end of their strength. However, because the Qin army was more numerous than the Chu army, if it continued like this, the Chu army would definitely be defeated.

Xiang Yu was so anxious that he kept attacking the Qin army, but he couldn't destroy the Qin army's line.

The Qin army was thrown into chaos, but after a while, the Qin army's line returned to its original state.

Just when the Chu army was about to lose its support and was retreating, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared in the woods behind the Qin army.

He slammed into the Qin army's rear formation.

Seeing that the time had come, Bai Wei attacked decisively and disrupted the Qin army's rear formation.

Xiang Yu was overjoyed when he saw this, and quickly led his troops to charge back into battle.

"Where did the cavalry come from?" Zhang Han asked in disbelief.

Seeing that the Chu army was about to be defeated and the unparalleled power of pacifying the world was about to be achieved, the result suddenly became an unattainable dream. Zhang Han suddenly became so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted.

As soon as Zhang Han fainted, the Qin army immediately lost its command center and was in chaos. The generals of the Qin army quickly led the remaining troops and retreated towards Julu with the fainted Zhang Han.

Xiang Yu and Bai Wei led the cavalry to pursue and kill them until the 50,000 Qin troops who stayed in Julu City came to support them.

When Xiang Yu saw Bai Wei, he hugged Bai Wei and said gratefully: "Thank you so much, general, for your helping hand. Xiang Ji will definitely remember this great kindness!"

Seeing Xiang Yu's enthusiasm, Bai Wei felt embarrassed and said: "I've heard about General Xiang's bravery for a long time, and he can take the heads of enemy generals from thousands of troops. It's true when I see it today. Wei is fighting with the general today. I'm so lucky!"

Xiang Yu kept patting Bai Wei on the shoulder and said nothing more, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that he admired Bai Wei very much.

"You dare to charge into the battle with me!"

Bai Wei said: "This is my honor!"

(End of this chapter)