Chapter 735: The Decisive Battle Before the Decisive Battle (IV)

The Qin Wang Army, which seemed to be in full force, suddenly slowed down when they rushed to Liang's army two hundred steps away, which surprised the Liang army archers who were already waiting for it. Many people subconsciously let go of the bowstrings, but the Qin Wang Army did not continue to rush forward at all. The feather arrow flew over and was easily pulled down by someone, or hit the shield of the Qin Wang Army's infantry and landed dejected.

This made Xu Xuanche, who was personally commanding, feel a little confused. It was not just him, but also the Chief Secretary Guo Hua and the Deputy Commander Zheng Wenxiu, who was not clear about what Qin Wangjun was doing.

"What's wrong? Why don't we attack while we are unstable?"

Guo Hua subconsciously glanced at Xu Xuanche and murmured.

"If something goes wrong, there will be a demon... order the entire army to be on guard."

Xu Xuanche waved his hand and ordered: "Take aside when we are unstable, the person on the other side will be let go of such a good opportunity. There must be other plans. Come and send orders quickly... transfer all heavy armor to the guard team's baggage camp. Zheng Wenxiu, you personally lead the cavalry to support the flanks. If the enemy attacks, follow my orders!"

"Here!"

Deputy Commander Zheng Wenxiu responded, strode away and rushed towards the cavalry camp.

"Sun Ying looked at it!"

Xu Xuanche ordered again: "Go to the front to supervise the battle and tell the archers not to shoot arrows randomly. If the enemy attacks, draw the bow again within 120 steps! Let the spearmen line up behind the enemy, and the archers will retreat immediately after the three arrows, and the shield and spearmen form a formation to fill up."

"Come!"

He shouted loudly: "Stand up the war drum for me and cheer for me!"

"Here!"

His personal soldiers rushed to pass the orders. Soon, dozens of huge cowhide drums were built up. In front of each drum, a burly man with shirtless hands stood in front of him, holding heavy drumsticks. Hearing the order, the dozens of people beat the drums at the same time, and the rumbling sound was deafening. Amid the drums, Liang Jun quickly completed the array.

Although they were exhausted, they were all the most elite soldiers in Daliang today. As soon as the horn sounded, they quickly changed the array under the command of low-level officials.

"The people on the other side are also in the array!"

Guo Hua pointed to the camp of the Qin King's Army opposite and said in confusion: "It seems that there is no intention to attack!"

"No hurry!"

Xu Xuanche calmed down at this moment. He looked at the Qin Wangjun and said lightly: "Anyway, we must fight a war. Since Li Shimin's soldiers came to the door by themselves, we can save ourselves from rushing over. Although it is still a distance away, as soon as the drums of war sounded, His Majesty naturally knew that we were back in the city."

"Masterman means, wait?"

Guo Hua asked subconsciously.

"Wait!"

Xu Xuanche nodded and said, "Respond to changes with the same change, I want to see what Li Shimin sells in this gourd. If Li Shimin's men just lined up to face each other and did not attack... Then the rumors that Li Shimin was seriously injured..."

"bluff!"

Guo Hua suddenly reacted, his eyes suddenly filled with glory: "Master General said that this team is just bluffing? It's just a gesture? Li Shimin was really injured, and it was extremely serious! He was helpless and would have done this way! If not, why would the enemy just stop attacking?"

Guo Hua clenched his fists hard and said, "Because the morale of the enemy is unavailable!"

"There are some possibility, but you and I still need to be cautious."

Xu Xuanche nodded and said, "The soldiers also need to rest. Since he wants to confront each other, then confront him for a while. If no one attacks the back team, it only means that Li Shimin is really bluffing. At that time, the army will attack with all its might. Seeing that the opponent is about 50,000 troops, I have an army of 160,000, can I still lose?"

At this moment, a messenger suddenly came from behind on a hurried horse: "Report! The rear camp was attacked!"

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Standing in the military formation, Li Shimin looked at the dark Liang army reinforcements opposite, frowned slightly: "It seems that the scouts have come in to find out good news. There are at least 150,000 reinforcements from Liang army. Although they are tired from afar, these people are elite soldiers under Xiao Xian's command and should not be underestimated."

"I don't know if I'll be fooled!"

Yuchi Gong nodded and said with some concern: "Si Shisan raided the Liang army's rear guard with 10,000 light cavalry... It seemed that his strength was a little weak. If the raid was successful at the beginning, the light cavalry would be unstoppable, and this battle would be easy to fight. But if the Liang army was prepared, it would be difficult for those ten thousand light cavalry to get in if they were in trouble!"

“Not thin!”

Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "And... I didn't give him ten thousand people, it was six thousand."

"ah?"

Yuchi Gong was stunned and looked at Li Shimin in confusion.

"The key to the word "shock" is the word "shock". What you need is extreme abruptness. If there are too many troops, it is useless. Gu only has more than 20,000 cavalry under his command. How could he draw half of it and hand it over to Si Shisan? Although he did not show anything, do you really think Gu can't see it?"

Li Shimin sneered and said, "Si Shisan stayed in the camp with hundreds of cavalry, saying that he was ordered by Li Daozong. In Gu's eyes, it was just a lie that could not be on the surface. He would have to make some plans. But Gu still couldn't see what he was planning... Gu used him, so he had to do it. If he made another military merit in this battle, it would not be too late for Gu to believe him anymore... If he really had other intentions, then the six thousand cavalry would be regarded as the burial of Gu for him. However... even if he was defeated, the Liang army's rear team would still be disrupted. Si Shisan died of immortality, which was irrelevant."

"But...if Yisi Shisan defeated, the morale of Liang's army will be greatly boosted, and then the attack will not be able to stop it."

Li Shimin sneered and said, "If you can't stop it, you will run away. Some people will always die... Gu ambushed all the remaining people and horses in the east of Xiangyang City. The front three armies were defeated, and the Liang army will inevitably pursue them. Xu Xuanche will relax and will be careless! Gu ambushed people and horses will come out from one side again, how can he be invincible?"

"The Former Three Army..."

Yuchi Gong opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

"Most of these people are Han Shi'e's close friends. Death is not necessarily a bad thing for Gu. Today's battle is to burn the boat. Although Liang's army is tired, they are strong. If they don't show weakness first, how could Xu Xuanche be deceived? In a while, you can dispatch our troops to retreat slowly to the back team. Don't be in chaos when retreating!"

Li Shimin glanced at Yuchi Gong and said, "If the Liang army's rear camp is really defeated, you will lead the army to attack fiercely. Ruosi Thirteen is defeated... The Liang army will definitely attack fiercely. At that time, you will lead the troops to resist for a while and then order to retreat. Even if the front three armies are defeated, it's okay! With the determination to die, I can only go this way today!"

Yuchi Gong only felt sweat in his palms, and even his back was soaked with cold sweat.

No matter what, he never expected that the King of Qin would have planned so!

"Si Shisan is a general, but Gu doesn't dare to really use him now. Gu also knows that doing this is a bit darker... But Yuchi, you should understand that now, Gu can only trust anyone except you."

Yuchi Gong nodded confusedly, but a hint of pain flashed in his eyes. To be fair, he had some appreciation for Si Shisan. At the most critical moment, he took only a few hundred cavalrymen to kill Han Shi'e, which required not only courage, but also precise eyesight.

The timing is just right, not everyone can do it.

"Yuchi."

Li Shimin patted Yuchi Gong on the shoulder and said, "I am going to return to the back army, so I will leave it to you here. Remember Gu's words, it's nothing to die. As long as I can win this big victory, what can I do if there are many people? If the reinforcements of the Liang army are defeated, the soldiers and civilians in the city will no longer have the will to resist. It is just around the corner to break Xiangyang. Gu's life and death are all in today."

"I understand!"

Yuchi Gong nodded and tightened the long spear in his hand.

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The cavalry rushed directly from the flank with the sound of rumbling war drums, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion of the Liang army's rear team were in chaos. They walked at the end of the team, which was the safest. But who would have thought that the tens of thousands of people in front of the Qin King's Army were just a cover, and the knife that was actually stabbed was on their side!

"Arrowman!"

He Shan, the general in charge of detaining the baggage camp, shouted loudly: "Line! Scare!"

The soldiers gathered together in a hurry to send the feather arrows out, but the first round was not allowed to shoot volleys at all. The scattered feather arrows shot out 150 steps away from the enemy cavalry. Occasionally, feather arrows hit the enemy but could not hurt their lives. What really showed its power was the archer's second round of volleys. This round of feather arrows was much denser than the first round. The feather arrows were like locusts flying in the sky, pressing towards the Qin King's cavalry in black.

The cavalry in the front was hit by feather arrows for a while, and there were hundreds of people who fell off the horse. The cavalry behind couldn't dodge and hit them again. The sound of neighing and horses immediately resounded over the battlefield. The soldiers who fell to the ground and didn't have time to stand up were hit by the war horses coming from behind, and soon they were stepped into a pool of meat mud.

Si Shisan took a spear and took off a fallen horseman who was blocking him. If he didn't kill someone, the war horse would hit him heavily, and even he might be trampled to death.

"Kill me and set fire to the camp!"

Si Shisan shouted loudly, then pulled down his face armor. He flattened his long spear and then drooped slightly, and the spear tip reflected a strange color in the sunlight.

With a puff, the long spear lifted an archer who had not had time to retreat. The spear tip easily tore the archer's thin leather armor, and then cut his heart into two pieces. The corpse, which was shot by the horse spear, fell into the spear camp behind, and was poked in an instant. The corpse hung on the spear, like a lamb waiting to be roasted.

"kill!"

The light cavalry of the Qin King Army stabbed into the Liang army's gun formation like a fast knife. Because there were not many people in the baggage camp, the gun formation seemed a little thin. Although it reduced the speed of the Qin King Army's cavalry a little, there was no doubt that the thickness of the gun formation would definitely not stop the cavalry from entering the formation.

Just as Si Shisan was about to kill the enemy formation with his cavalry, a horn sound suddenly came from the Liang army's baggage camp. Then another rain of arrows shot over, which was much denser than the previous feather arrows! Not only the cavalry under Si Shisan's command, but most of the remaining Liang army spearmen were shot to death by feather arrows! The cover-style attack, although fierce, successfully stopped the speed of the Qin King's cavalry.

After two more rounds of volleys, three square formations slowly came to meet here.

Si Shisan, who had lost more than a thousand men, saw the three square formations, his eyes instantly opened wide.

"Heavy Armored Infantry!"

The cavalry who were forced to stop let out a wail, and everyone's face became ugly!

The light cavalry without speed faced the heavy armored infantry that had been arranged... It was like waiting to be slaughtered! The generals who commanded the Liang army must be a cruel man, and they were willing to slaughter hundreds of spearmen on their side, and they also wanted to stop the speed of the Qin King's cavalry.

Si Shisan had a solemn expression, and he had never been solemn before.

"General, what should I do?"

He Ping asked in a low voice.

Si Shisan shook his head: "It's not our soldiers, there's no need to feel sorry for you! Let the cavalry divide into three teams, each team of one thousand people attack a heavy armored formation, and everyone else goes around and sets fire! He Ping... Remember, let our brothers be at the end, and no one is allowed to rush forward without my order!"

"Oh shit!"

Si Shisan spat and cursed: "Only give me five or six thousand cavalrymen, Li Shimin, your heart is so fucking cruel!"

PS: I only had these two updates today, and I was a little dizzy. It was the most critical time. I couldn’t write qualified words in this state. If I don’t burn tomorrow, I’ll be more clear and I’ll burst out again. I won’t ask for anything, I won’t be able to update, and I have no face to ask for it.

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