462. Episode 462
Shi Hong urged the war horses to supervise the battle back and forth on the position, showing his courage in his eyes. The Qin soldiers were inspired by him and assembled a team of about 2,000 people. They risked their lives to approach the frontier position, bent their bows and arrows, and prepared to launch a round of crossbow arrows to the coalition's position.
Su Qin had long seen Shi Hong's actions. When he saw the Qin army start to counterattack, he hid his soldiers behind the chariots. The Qin army's arrows shot towards the coalition positions like raindrops, but because the Hezong army had chariots as cover, there were very few casualties.
Shi Hong directed the Qin army's archers to shoot for a while, and he found that the opponent had no movement. He didn't know whether the arrows shot by his side were effective or whether they had suppressed the troops of the Hezong Army.
Shi Hong observed for a long time, but still no action was seen by the coalition forces hiding behind the chariots. He decided to stop shooting. The positions of both sides fell into temporary tranquility.
After about half an hour, the Qin army finally couldn't stand it anymore. Sima Cuo also rushed up from the rear. He inspected the formation and tried to figure out what was sold in Su Qin's gourd.
Su Qin was hiding behind a tall military vehicle from Zhao State at this time. His eyes were through the gaps on the shaft of the military vehicle, looking at Sima Cuo, Shi Hong and the Qin army's behavior, and judging their next action plan.
The Hezong coalition is now in an active position, so Su Qin of course has to use his own initiative to kill and injure the Qin army as much as possible. The Hezong army encountered Sima Cuo's ambush before, and the losses were quite heavy. Nearly one-quarter of the people and horses were injured and killed. General Zhou Shao is now half dead. How could Su Qin be willing to accept this revenge?
Sima was stumbled for a long time, and he stared at the chariots lined up by the coalition forces, thinking: "Did the opponent hide? Or have you scared the Qin army, and you actually ran away and crawled?"
Sima Cuo ambushed the Hezong coalition led by Su Qin on the tortuous and narrow Mianchi path, and beat the opponent to a huge blow. Sima Cuo was very proud of the arrangement of troops in this battle. Therefore, he certainly had reason to think that the Hezong coalition was fleeing in a panic because of fear.
Sima Cuoheng made up his mind and decided to take the risk of launching another attack. He selected more than 10,000 strong soldiers from the remaining Qin army, and ordered them to reorganize their troops and advance again towards the coalition's position.
Seeing that the Qin army stopped the counterattack of the crossbow arrows and was preparing to charge again, he would not give in. Su Qin waved the flag in his hand and ordered the archers ambushing behind the chariot to leave the line and shoot.
The archers of the coalition forces had been ambushing the soldiers for a long time, waiting for a long time, and suddenly heard Su Qin's order. They flashed out from behind the soldiers like calcium carbide, and launched a new round of feather arrow attack before the soldiers.
At this time, the entire team of tens of thousands of soldiers in Qin who were trying to charge forward suddenly encountered the attack of the feather arrows from the coalition forces. The density of feather arrows was beyond imagination, like a storm. The Qin army suddenly ran away in a panic like a poor worm exposed to the outside and was exposed to attack.
The crossbow arrow position that the Qin army was originally preparing to stop was also shot in this new round of dense arrow rain, and the Qin army's position once again fell into a state of extreme panic.
Neither Sima Cuo nor Shi Hong could be calm. Their first instinctive reaction was to quickly leave the dangerous area of arrow rain.
They rode their horses back and dodged, but they still didn't have time. Both the generals, the chief and deputy, were shot several arrows, and fortunately they were shot in the back and shoulders, and their lives were not hindered.
Sima Cuo finally escaped to a safe area. He held his horse and looked at the frontier positions that were destroyed by the joint bows and arrows, and was very angry. After the attack of the two arrows, nearly one-third of the Qin army had been damaged, and countless people were injured.
Sima Cuo was so angry that he jumped and scolded: "Su Qin, you are so vicious. You can do something evil. If you have the ability, you can do it with a clear sword and a gun. What kind of hero is this hero!"
Su Qin hid behind the chariot and faintly heard Sima Cuo's scolding. He was happy and thought to himself: "You know the feeling of being ambushed too. You will be more beautiful in a while!"
Su Qin was unwilling to show his head to pay attention to Sima Chou at this moment. He said to himself: "You Sima Chou scolded me a few times and I will be fooled by you. When it's time for me to show up, I will naturally appear. Just wait."
After the Qin army escaped from the Arrow Rain Area, Su Qin immediately stopped shooting from the coalition forces. He also wanted to save feather arrows and wait for Sima Cuo to come and die in the next round!
The coalition's chariot positions returned to peace. Sima looked there in his mouth and thought urgently what to do? Should he launch the next round of attack or stop.
At this time, it was already afternoon, and it became completely dark after more than an hour. Sima Chuo felt that he could not stay in Xipi for too long, because once it got dark, who knew what kind of new tricks Su Qin would have to think of.
Sima Cuo originally arranged for Ji Fen to lead more than 30,000 Qin troops from Jiaoyang City to intercept the Zong army in Xibei, but now Ji Fen has no shadow.
Sima Cuo initially thought that Ji Fen led his army to act unfavorable, and was delayed by the rugged mountain roads of Luming Valley. The reason why he insisted on retreating was that he had to wait for Ji Fen to leave Luming Valley and attacked him together. Then wasn’t Su Qin still in the jar?
However, it was already at this time that Ji Fen's figure was still missing. Sima Cuo vaguely felt that Ji Fen was surrounded by the Hezong Army.
He ordered Shi Hong to say: "Come me some soldiers with good eyesight, and I want to take them to the frontier to see. Wherever Ji Fen died, why is there no trace?"
Shi Hong volunteered and said, "There is danger ahead. The Hezong Army may launch feather arrow shooting again at any time. Should I go on the mission?"
Sima Cuo snorted and looked at Shi Hong with great dissatisfaction. He was still angry with Shi Hong, and he still secretly hated Shi Hong for his misunderstanding. Sima Cuo said: "You organize the troops on the spot, gather all the wounded, and then create a new assault force and a crossbow arrow unit. I might want to use it later."
Shi Hongkou said, "As for the order!" He immediately went to prepare, and in a short while, he brought more than 20 sergeants. They were tall and claimed that they had very good eyesight.
Sima Cuo nodded at the soldiers and said, "You can follow me to the frontier high ground to look at the Xipi Valley. Let's see if there are any traces of battle there?"
After hearing Sima Cuo's order, the soldiers replied: "Abide by the general's orders! Please order General Sima to leave at any time."
Sima Cuo was very satisfied with these soldiers. He activated the war horse and ordered: "No need to delay, let's act immediately. You must be careful and don't panic when you act, just like walking on the frontier high ground."
Chapter completed!