Horse on the World

Chapter 577
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Qiu Zhi led his [-] elite troops to disregard the furious attack of Hu Zequan Lanshan's troops on the left and right flanks, and went straight in. With the momentum of Mount Tai, they tore through the front line of defense, and went straight to the opponent's base camp.Qiu Zhi believed that King Ning must be on the opposite side of him. The reason why King Ning took such a risk was because he wanted to take advantage of the fact that he had transferred tens of thousands of troops. To equalize the strategic disadvantages, before His Majesty wiped out Li Qing, stand firm, in order to deal with His Majesty's next pursuit of him.

Once Li Qing's Dingzhou Group was defeated, and he was still in such an unfavorable situation in Qingzhou, in the face of His Majesty's fierce pursuit, King Ning would be alone, and it would be difficult for him to survive.King Ning only has this one chance, so he will seize it desperately.

Qiu Zhi, who was riding on a horse, sneered in his heart. For him, the safest thing was to hold the line of defense and wait for His Majesty the Emperor to end the Yizhou Battle and move the whole army eastward, before delivering the final blow to King Ning. As far as I am concerned, there is no benefit, and it does not conform to my personality.Right now, because of my relationship with the Li family, I am in an embarrassing situation in the Tianqi Group. Seeing that Qu Yongjie and other generals have risen rapidly, they have become the most trusted direct descendants of the emperor. Moreover, if he wanted to save the life of his grandson Li Feng after the battle of Yizhou, he had to exchange it with great achievements. Then, the head of King Ning should be enough to exchange for Li Feng's life .

Qiu Zhi sighed inwardly.

"General, the striker has broken through the Southern Army's defense line, and has torn a hole about ten miles from the front." A bloody striker came up on his horse and immediately clasped his fists to report to Qiu Zhi.

"Okay!" Qiu Zhi slapped his palms heavily, "The forward army really lived up to my expectations. I ordered them to charge forward, and the Chinese army immediately followed up and struck deeply along this opening. Split their entire line of defense."

"Yes, General!" Feng Jiang responded loudly, turning around to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Qiu Zhi pondered for a while, and asked, "Did you find anything abnormal during the attack?" Although Qiu Zhi, who had been in the battlefield for a long time, was ecstatic, he still retained a trace of sobriety.

General Feng thought for a moment, then replied: "Returning to what the general said, there is indeed something unusual."

"Oh, what's abnormal?" Qiu Zhi was startled and immediately asked.

"When the opponent's line of defense was about to be broken, a group of enemy troops suddenly rushed in. Although there were only 500 people at one post, they almost blocked the hole that the brothers had torn apart. General Sun Yao couldn't see it. Wonderful, personally led the guards to attack, the guards were almost completely lost, and General Sun was also wounded in many places, that's how we killed the drummer."

"What is the difference between this enemy army and other enemy troops, well, I mean except for their combat power."

"The uniform of this enemy army is different from other enemies, and the equipment is much better, even we can't compare with it." General Feng described the team he saw to Qiu Zhi.

After hearing this, Qiu Zhi couldn't help laughing, "Okay, wonderful, wonderful!"

General Feng looked at the general in bewilderment, could it be that the general was angry, otherwise how could General Sun Yao be wounded in many places before killing the enemy, the general still applauded?

Qiu Zhi applauded, naturally because of the extremely powerful enemy army in the rear. Judging from their attire and equipment, they are definitely the pro-army of King Ning. There are not many pro-army of King Ning, only 3000 people. Now that King Ning's troops are here, so King Ning is also here. Since King Ning sent his own troops to stop the leak, doesn't that mean that King Ning's strength is already stretched?
Waving his hands excitedly, Qiu Zhi said: "Sun Yao is seriously injured, can he still fight, do you want to come down and take a rest?"

General Feng said loudly: "Before the final victory, General Sun Yao asked the late general to tell the general that if the general asked this question, he would only have one sentence: able to fight, dare to fight, and willing to fight!"

Qiu Zhi laughed loudly, "Okay, you are indeed my chief general, tell him that after this battle, he has won the first place, and I will play His Majesty and ask for credit for him!"

The so-called one wrong move, one wrong move, a large army fighting on the battlefield, is like a game of chess players, one careless move, one step behind, the so-called one wrong move, hands tied, this is the truth. The overall situation laid out on the premise of death, because Li Qing is still alive, became the biggest defeat. His idea also affected the generals under him. This is why Zhang Aimin ignored the governor of Minzhou, his hometown, and was determined. The state army closed the door and beat dogs, and the strong men had to cut off their wrists, and climbed the mountain in winter, trying to survive. Only then did Qiu Zhi, a veteran on the battlefield, make a mistake in judgment.

Of course, in addition to Tianqi's misleading guidance, there are also generals' own ideas mixed in, and various factors are mixed together, which finally led to the fact that a famous general under Tianqi's account fell into a trap without knowing it.Losing soldiers and generals is naturally unavoidable.

Qiu Zhi thinks that King Ning has no troops. Indeed, King Ning has no troops of his own now. Of the three thousand relatives, he sent one thousand to die to stop the loopholes everywhere, just to give Qiu Zhi a false impression. Even King Ning's reserve team that Qiu Zhi thought did not exist, because almost all the troops that could be mobilized were sent to Hu Zequan and Lan Shan by King Ning, and by his side, besides his remaining two thousand relatives, was Ma The Qiang soldiers in the tower.

Qiu Zhi's misjudgment caused more than a miscalculation of the enemy in front of him. Mata's joining allowed King Ning to withdraw all his mobile forces and gave them to Hu Zequan and Lan Shan. Qiu Zhi's left and right wings drew but did not send out. Although the offensive wave was higher than the wave, they did not really deliver a fatal blow. They were waiting for Qiu Zhi to step into the trap, and then closed the door and beat the dog.Although the two generals were attacking Qiu Zhi's left and right wings, they kept their eyes on Qiu Zhi.

On the evening of the second day after Qiu Zhi launched the attack, the southern army's defense line in Qingzhou was completely broken. At this time, Qiu Zhi's vanguard army and the Chinese army had penetrated hundreds of miles into Qingzhou, and their target was the southern army's headquarters in Qingzhou.

Seeing Qiu Zhi stepping into the trap deeply, Hu Zequan and Lan Shan gave the order to launch a general attack almost at the same time. Qiu Zhi left the two troops on his flank to protect him, and then faced with the disaster of doom, he faced several times With Qiu Zhi's strict orders on their heads, the generals of the two armies could hardly think of anything other than commanding the remnant army to launch desperate counterattacks time after time in vain, and finally fell one by one on the ground. The only thing a person can do is to send a group of messengers to Qiu Zhi when the last moment comes.

And when the messenger arrived, Qiu Zhi finally reached the decisive point of the battle. When he saw the dark enemy army appearing in front of him, Qiu Zhi couldn't help but gasped, Qiang Bing.

Qiu Zhi was able to recognize the Qiang soldiers at a glance, of course, thanks to the attire of these people. Unlike the Han soldiers, these Qiang soldiers hardly wore armor, and only a few generals wore armor. His arms and face were painted in messy colors, and he stepped on a pair of straw sandals. At first glance, he looked like a group of ghosts drilled out of hell.With a fierce look in his eyes, when he saw the imperial army appearing in front of him, he seemed to see a pile of delicious food, waving a scimitar like a sickle in his hand, screaming and jumping on the snow.

Most of the soldiers didn't know Qiang Bing. Seeing this group of chaotic guys who had no military rules and discipline, screaming and jumping like acting, they all burst into laughter after being surprised, and some generals even sneered and said: : "King Ning is really at the end of the road. Where did you find this group of guys, pretending to be gods and ghosts, and want to scare us away? This kind of stuff, give me 1000 people, and I can beat them to pieces."

The soldiers were infected by the generals, and they all looked relaxed. Such an army without military discipline is just a matter of beating with one drum. After defeating their first bloody courage, all that remains is to flee It's up to you.

The soldiers didn't know how powerful they were, and the young generals in the army had never seen the fighting style of the Qiang soldiers, but Qiu Zhi knew it clearly. Decades ago, when he was a small school, under the leadership of the late emperor I once wanted to conquer this group of disobedient naturalized people in the mountains in one fell swoop, but after several bloody battles, although they were successfully expelled into the mountains, the Chu army also suffered heavy losses. In a rage, the first emperor sent troops to chase into the mountains , In the mountains, suffered a disastrous failure. Most of the [-] elite troops who entered the mountain buried their bones in the barren mountain. There is not even a single bit of record. Over the past few decades, as the old people who participated in this battle passed away one by one, this great defeat was annihilated in the long river of history, and no one will remember it anymore.

The Qiang people, the race that made Da Chu suffer so much, although they have not come down the mountain since then, it is enough to make Qiu Zhi never forget. Qiu Zhi stretched out his hand and stroked his ribs. Under the cold armor, there was a knife about a foot long. The scar was left to him by a Qiang soldier who was dressed almost the same as in front of him in the mountains. Seeing these ghostly faces that only appeared in nightmares suddenly appeared, Qiu Zhi seemed to be watching again. To the horrible grimace that cut himself to the ground that year.

"Oops!" Qiu Zhi's first thought.

"I've been fooled!" Qiu Zhi's second thought.

With the second thought, Qiu Zhi thought of Hu Zequan and the Lanshan Department who were attacking the two garrison troops behind him. Seeing the Qiang soldiers in front of him, the experienced Qiu Zhi thought of the two troops behind him. Fearing that it will not be safe, since King Ning has these Qiang soldiers in his hands, the number of the Hu and Lan armies far exceeds his estimate.

(End of this chapter)