Chapter 361 Tragic Light Riding
The emergence of the heavy infantry in Loulan!
Xiang Yu's double pupils suddenly contracted, and the blood-filled eyes burned again with flames of desire for battle. I have to admit that Xiang Yu was a very pure soldier in his bones.
He advocates violence.
Appreciating people with strong force, he disdains conspiracy and tricks, so he often falls into the trap of his opponent. To put it simply, the Battle of Julu, which won him the supreme reputation. In the final analysis, the Chu army fell into the trap of Zhang Han. However, Xiang Yu was lucky at that time.
On the Qin side, Zhang Han and Wang Li had an internal conflict, which caused Zhang Han to hold on to the frontiers to be destroyed when the border troops urgently needed reinforcements. The final result was that even Zhang Han was not spared, but instead became the biggest figure in Xiang Yu's background wall.
If it weren't for this, with the combat effectiveness and strength of the Qin army at that time, even if Xiang Yu burst out into a small universe, he would not be able to defeat so many Qin troops.
Of course, all these are gone.
Now, the situation of the Battle of Gangkok is a time of despair for the Chu army.
The Qin army's hidden trump cards made Xiang Yu, who had never believed that anyone could defeat him, also felt sad. At this time, he felt a little despair when Liu Bang was defeated again and again.
Just imagine it.
When you try your best to form a proud army and want to compete with the strong enemy, you suddenly find that the other party is far away from you.
Once in the face of such a dilemma, you can still claim to be unlucky and comfort yourself that you have the opportunity to make a comeback. If you say it again and again, even if you are a person with a tenacity in your mind, you will lose confidence. After Liu Bang defected to Chen Yu, he obviously lost his previous tenacity in self-confidence.
This is also the reason why Liu Bang was no longer as attached to living as before in the last battle. In other words, his desire to compete for success is no longer there.
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"Big Chu, Big Chu!"
"Kill the man, kill the man!"
Xiang Yu staggered forward with great strides, behind him, the flag that had been damaged was still flying towards the sun. It was precisely because of its existence that the gradually divided generals of the Chu army had not yet collapsed.
A Loulan soldier smiled and stood out of the queue, raised his bronze sword and slashed it hard. Although he did not know the enemy general with a dark face and weird eyes in front of him, this did not hinder his determination to cut off his head.
"Bor!"
The sound of hard objects penetrating the human body is so simple and direct.
The Loulan soldier, who was thinking of making merit, had a smile on his face. His sword stopped less than ten feet above Xiang Yu's head. It was not that he didn't want to kill the other party, but that he had always been powerful in Kong Wu, he suddenly realized that he was soft and could not use any strength. What was even more terrifying was that his chest and abdomen were conveying severe pain.
The Loulan soldiers fell slowly.
When he fell to the sky, his light blue eyes were still disbelief.
The enemy general just now was obviously exhausted. As long as he gave a little pressure, he would fall down. But for some reason, he was the one who fell down in the end.
The Loulan soldier, who had no longer lived, was not very clear about the changes that happened in an instant. But behind him, his companions saw it clearly. Just as the Loulan soldier raised his bronze sword high, Xiang Yu's body suddenly ejected out and crashed into the arms of the Loulan soldier.
At the same time, his right halberd, which had been hanging, stabbed out at an incredible speed, and plunged into the abdomen of Loulan soldiers with the force of his body.
Witnessing Xiang Yu's fierceness, the Loulan soldiers began to give up their idea of showing off their personal heroism and relied on their overall strength to siege the Chu army beside Xiang Yu.
A Xiang Yu.
Even if they can fight, they can only deal with a few people at once. Moreover, after seeing Xiang Yu's fierceness, the Loulan people learned to be smart. They began to besiege Xiang Yu in groups of five or six, using tactics to siege Xiang Yu, and gradually made Xiang Yu lose the last little counterattack power.
Li Zhongxiang's position is in the middle of the Loulan team. His reputation and command and dispatch are the key to coordinating the Loulan soldiers and the Qin army. Without his orders, the two teams that were not verbalized may have coordination differences.
Seeing Xiang Yu being temporarily trapped by the Loulan people, Li Zhongxiang finally felt relieved. Xiang Yu was the key to the Chu army's breakthrough. Without his arrow, the rest of Xiang Sheng, Xiang Xiang and other Chu generals, facing the tide-like siege of the Qin army, all they could do was escape, and they did not dare to come forward to fight.
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The battle is till noon.
When the sun was the hottest in summer, Xiang Han led his army to the west bank of the Great Valley after two hours of hard fighting.
For this, he paid the price of as many as 3,000 casualties.
However, when the clear sound of the Qin and Chu army fighting between them came not far away, Xiang Han felt that all his efforts were worth it. As long as he could rescue Xiang Yu, he would be a great hero who turned the tide. At least, he was much stronger than Xiang Sheng and Xiang Xiang, two guys who were only concerned about robbing credit but had no idea of the overall situation.
As for the lives of the baggage soldiers.
Xiang Han never considered that the Chu State occupied seven counties in the southeast, and the Shanyue people in Jiangdong could be recruited. As long as there is territory, people should still have as much as they want.
The Qin cavalry responsible for blocking Xiang Han had about 500 cavalry. This light cavalry unit had just arrived at the Central Plains from the distant Hexi area and was not very familiar with the situation in the Honggou area. When they first attacked, they received the order only to defeat the Chu army's foreign soldiers. This task was successfully completed as early as the dawn of the morning.
After Wuyu was killed, the foreign soldiers had little desire to fight. After all, there was more symbolic relationship between them and the State of Chu. If the price was too high, or the foreign soldiers were all dead, there would be no possibility of the foreign soldiers who were left with only women, old and weak.
The tribal conflicts in the mountains and forests of Jiangnan are not much more moderate than the battle between the Central Plains. The rise of one tribe is often the decline of another tribe.
After the foreign troops collapsed, the light cavalry was waiting to retreat, and then received news that the Chu army's follow-up troops tried to cross the river again. This time, they were no longer facing the small number of foreign troops, but the Chu army's baggage troops with as many as 10,000 people.
Compared with the main force, the baggage soldiers were just young and strong who were pulled onto the battlefield after only three or five simple trainings. Although these Chu soldiers had no combat effectiveness, the problem was that Xiang Han completely ignored the life and death of his subordinates. With 10,000 to 500, Xiang Han's human sea tactics put the Qin army's light cavalry into a dilemma.
Advantages of light cavalry.
It is not about fighting in such a rigid position, but about surprise attacks.
The cavalry are like wild wolves on the grassland, showing off their fangs again and again, and biting them hard from the flock of yellow sheep, but now, they can't do that.
Once they give up, Xiang Han's reinforcement army will quickly appear behind Li Zhongxiang's troops. Then, Li's troops, who are under pressure to break through the Chu army, may collapse immediately.
what to do?
Should we sacrifice ourselves and take the overall situation into consideration? Or should we preserve our strength and let the Chu army meet?
Faced with such a difficult choice, this small Qin cavalry unit composed of the old Qin people in Guanzhong, like the light army that was ready to die in the Battle of Changping, used the most critical and dazzling battle in their lives to prove that the Qin army was the most disciplined and sacrificial army in this era.
Five hundred light riders.
Facing more than 10,000 Chu soldiers, they persevered for two hours. During these two hours, they tragically repelled more than dozens of attacks by the Chu soldiers, and the bodies of the Chu soldiers who fell in front of them were piled up like mountains.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, when he learned from the scout that the Chu army had been recklessly increasing its troops to aid, Li Yuan's face changed suddenly. He quickly ordered the Qin army on both sides not to fight and speed up the way to penetrate the Chu army's breakout route, and must block possible gaps before Xiang Han and Xiang Yu meet.
Breakthrough and interception.
In the time race, it doesn’t matter who is the final winner.
What is important is that in this decisive battle, the soldiers of Qin and Chu showed a completely different understanding of the war, which was the most important thing.
Chapter completed!