The defenses that the Qin people had worked so hard to dug could only stop Zhao Qi from approaching during the day, and they would be useless as soon as the sun went down, because even in the name of Zishun’s good archery, it was difficult to aim and shoot with a bow and arrow in the dark night. In the dark, they are in the light, and they are completely passively beaten.

Therefore, in order to avoid losing morale, Zi by the way, desperately ordered his colonel, with thousands of Qin soldiers, to leave the camp in three groups, and quickly pass through the trench filled by the Zhao army, wanting to meet the Zhao cavalry.

Seeing the Qin army leaving the camp, Yu Xi looked a little surprised. When he saw the Qin people lighting the dense torches, he couldn't help but scolded: "Smart man."

Since he can remember, he has been raising horses for the Zhao family in the stables of the lower palace. Later, he was promoted by Zhao Wuxi as a general and created a cavalry. For more than ten years, he has been dealing with horses, taking care of them, manipulating them to travel long distances, and charge into battle. There is no better understanding of the temperament of this animal.

Daibei's veterinarian once told him that compared to eagle owls or even human eyes, horses' eyesight is not very good. Because the horse's eyes are located on both sides of the head, although it can detect left and right movements very alertly, it is not good at judging the distance between the front and rear. When jumping over a trench or crossing an obstacle, it is often afraid of the head and tail, and there is a phenomenon of fear of jumping. If it is on the battlefield, the horse will be in the "Fleeing" in the face of the enemy. Therefore, Daibei cavalry needs to spend a lot of time to help the mounts judge the distance and let them overcome their fears. Only a horse that can do this is a qualified warhorse.

In addition, horses are good at catching moving targets, but they often fail to detect surrounding static objects such as snakes, rabbits, and people in ambush. When these things appear suddenly, they will often frighten the horses. The grazing horses will blow up the herd, the horses will be shocked, and the horses will lose control, and even cause casualties to the riders, especially male horses.

This situation is more obvious in difficult terrain and night operations, and the rider needs to constantly soothe them with vocal body language.

However, there are shorts and longs. Horses have better night vision at night than humans, and can clearly distinguish the road and the surrounding environment in the dark night. For this reason, people from Linzhang Academy have debated. Some people say that it is because the horse has "night eyes" on its knees. Some say that horses do not see at night, but act by hearing...

In short, it is precisely because of this that the cavalry can walk at night, but unfortunately this is only possible in low light conditions. Strong light is a kind of stimulus to the horse and often causes the horse to be uneasy. Once the opposite side is approaching with dense torches, the horse will start to panic again, which is why the cavalry try to avoid night battles...

The number of Qin people holding fire was a bit large. For a time, Zhao's horses were constantly snapping their noses and moving their hooves uneasily. This was a sign of their fear. At this time, they manipulated the horses to face them, as if they were going to break somersaults.

"What should I do?" Youcheng's experience is not as rich as Yu Xi's. Seeing Qin people swarming out desperately, he hurriedly asked this senior.

"Don't panic." Yu Xi made a decisive decision and ordered: "Let the cavalry of Rong and Di continue to walk around and shoot at the Qin people, and the cavalry of Shangjun retreat a hundred paces to stand by on horseback, and ride off the horse on behalf of the county..."

He glanced at the Daibei cavalry and said loudly: "We, let's fight on foot!"

...

Zishun had just become an adult and had become the royal army of the monarch, so he also knew his temperament, so he dared to take most of the Qin army out to meet the enemy in a decisive battle.

The Qin state also had cavalry, whose main feature was fast maneuvering, with a strong and violent assault force, which was especially beneficial for mobile operations in the plains and wilderness, as well as in general mountains and hills. When performing detours, surprise attacks, cutting off the rear, and harassing the enemy's rear, it can often play an unexpected effect. However, cavalry combat is not suitable for the narrow and swampy land, and it is not conducive to sieging cities and seizing fortresses. This is its weakness, and if the night battle is added to the weakness, it will be even more disadvantageous.

In his opinion, the Zhao family wanted to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so as to avoid being hit hard by the Qin people when they attacked the camp during the day, but at night, as long as he mustered up the courage to get close to the past, Zhao Qi would be helpless. set.

Night battles are melee battles. In melee battles, cavalry with a single type of arm will not benefit.

However, when they crossed the ditch filled by Zhao Qi, they were completely stunned when they looked forward.

I don't know when, there was an infantry phalanx of two or three thousand people in front, and it was solidly blocked in front of...

It was the Daibei cavalry. They acted accordingly, dismounted decisively, and formed a formation to defend against the enemy.

Since the Qin people have plucked up the courage to leave the camp, if they want to turn back at this time, their morale will plummet, not to mention that in the dark night around, there are countless rangers traveling back and forth, looking for opportunities to shoot arrows at the Qin people's formation. Make a decision, make a quick decision!

"Come on! There's nothing to fear from the dismounted cavalry!" Zishun knew he couldn't wait any longer, so he ordered the Qin soldiers who had left the camp to charge at them.

However, although Zhao Qi dismounted, he could not underestimate their combat effectiveness.

"Or the arm group card, dismount and shoot. If you hit a dysprosium in one step, then both sides will collapse. If you collapse, you will be in chaos. You will enter from chaos." , temporary dismounted cavalry, for them it is just commonplace.

So when the Qin people rushed over, they didn't take advantage as expected, but bumped into a hedgehog.

More than a thousand cavalry archers stood on their legs and opened their bows to aim at the Qin people who were fighting with open fire. They became foot archers. Although the horse bow was not as powerful as the foot bow, the rate of fire was faster. Thousands of Qin people rushed out immediately. Encountered a mass shooting.

The one-zhang cavalry of the sudden cavalry turned into a flat spear, and they became spearmen. Although they did not have the terrifying impact of charging, standing still and constantly stabbing with spears were also their training items. one.

The remaining 1,000 people held the ring-headed sword, with a regimental card on their left arm, and they suddenly became swordsmen. Weapons can't be against it at all, and the armor is easily torn apart.

In this way, due to the huge advantage of the equipment, a full quarter of an hour passed, but the Qin people who were in a hurry did not impulse the temporary formation formed by the Zhao cavalry. flaw. The Qin people are scattered and fighting, and it is difficult to break through when they encounter a strong formation.

At this moment, the Shangjun cavalry, who had been on the sidelines for a long time, started!

The young general Youcheng admired Yu Xi's ability to adapt to the situation, but also gave birth to a sense of arrogance, he must not be allowed to specialize in beauty!

Although the Shangjun cavalry was formed relatively late, it also had a certain foundation. When the enemy was in a strong position, the archers and rangers who dismounted from their horses would make the enemy's formation chaotic. If they moved, the front team crossed, and the rear team rushed again. For a while, the Qin people's formation collapsed, and they didn't even have time to escape back to the camp.

Zishun went out to the camp very risky, but ended in failure. Even if Qin Bing was surrounded, he would not dare to send anyone out to rescue him.

An hour later, thousands of Qin people were annihilated outside the camp. Although Zhao Qi also suffered some casualties, he could still surround the Qin camp, take turns to rest, and harassed by shooting arrows from time to time. After staying up like this for most of the night, the Qin people couldn't support their morale or physical strength for a long time, and then thousands of Zhao Qi launched a general attack.

Zhao Qi removed the antlers, pulled down the camp wall, entered the camp from six or seven entrances, set fire everywhere, and rushed left and right. Qin Bing panicked and was disturbed for a day and a night. For a while, Zhao Cavalry galloped across the camp, holding fire like stars, shouting loudly, killing everyone. Although Zishun also brought his own soldiers to resist to a certain extent, it didn't help.

The fire of shouting and killing in Hexi continued all night. When dawn came, Linghu Bo, who had also spent a sleepless night in the chaotic city of Puban, looked around, but saw that the entire Qinying camp in Hexi had been burned. It became a piece of white ground, with black smoke bursting, Qin people were either dead or injured, and the rest fell to the Zhao family in dejection. Zishun also died in the chaos of the army, and Zhao Cavalry casualties were only more than a thousand, and many of them were still in Accidentally fell into a ditch during a night battle and was injured.

The protection on the other side is gone. Now even if the army from Hedong arrives in Puban, they will be blocked by Zhao cavalry and unable to cross the river. Moreover, once this Qin army is defeated, Qin State in Hexi will no longer have the strength to stop Zhao cavalry from attacking the city.

"Hexi is over..." Linghu Bo closed his eyes in despair. Although Zhao Jun's offensive was tepid, Pubancheng's morale had fallen to a low point. When the sun rose again as usual today, it was a good idea. The Qin, Wei and Hedong coalition forces that arrived today are still nowhere to be seen...

What Linghu Bo didn't know was that in the Zhao army camp north of Puban, the coach Mu Xia had been looking eastward.

"It seems that Shangqing's strategy to lure the enemy into a decisive battle in Puban has been seen through..."

Behind the 20,000 Zhao army ~lightnovelpub.net~ there are actually 20,000 people. In addition to cutting off the enemy's retreat this time, this attack on Puban was also an attempt to encircle the point and fight for reinforcements.

In the seven or eight days after the Hancheng War, Mucha's right wing has been greatly strengthened. The 100,000 Zhao army on the Hedong battlefield has fully divided him in half, trying to give the right wing a greater advantage and turn Qin Wei into a turtle in a urn. .

Mucha divided 10,000 people to take over the cities and towns north of Jiang Sushui: Linghu, Xieliang, Zhang Mengtan's hometown Zhangcheng, and Zhicheng that was overthrown by the Wei clan.

He attacked Puban with 40,000 people, but the plan to encircle the point to help them came to nothing. The main force of Qin and Wei who had retreated from Anyi a few days ago did not come to Puban. This Puban City may be just a pretense.

"Dragon Gate has been broken, and Hexi is about to fall. Where else can Wei Ju and Zihu go?" Yan Gao, who was in command of the bowmen, frowned.

There is only one answer. He and Kuai raised their heads and said in unison with Mu Xia, "Fenglingdu!"

PS: There is another chapter in the evening

(To be continued.)