Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 362
Chapter 362
It's a pity that Long Qi didn't know that this Qin army was very different from other cavalry in Qin?

Of course, Sun Ce can't beat Tao Ying if he is patient. These cavalry are originally built for field battles. Apart from bows and arrows, food and horse feed have very low requirements for logistics supplies. Milk is drinkable, and it is simply invincible in a protracted war of attrition in the wild.

As for the poor Chu army, soldiers need military rations, war horses need refined horse feed, consume huge amounts of food and grass every day, and there is no logistical supply, food and grass eat a little bit less, how can they fight against the Qin army that even produces food for war horses? .

So after a few days of fighting like this, the Chu army began to lose their temper. The cunning Qin army no longer directly attacked and harassed this time, but indirectly harassed through flags, slogans and war drums, which not only saved precious bows and arrows, They were also forced to slow down, consuming a lot of food and grass needlessly during the march, and they hadn't walked 150 miles in three days.

The anxious generals of the Chu army repeatedly asked for orders to pursue them, but Long Qie and Yingbo were afraid of the terrifying mobility of the Qin army, and refused to agree to anything, biting the bullet and continuing to march at a slow pace.

In addition to the huge consumption of food and grass, what worries Long Qie and Ying Bu even more is the poisonous arrows of the Qin army. They don't know what kind of ghost poison they fed on the arrowheads. The pus kept bleeding, and the soldiers suffered from constant fever and convulsions in their limbs. They died in extremely painful misery, and the army doctor was helpless.

Fortunately, the Qin army avoided large casualties and did not dare to rush in and shoot arrows, so the Chu army's casualties did not continue to expand.

Ying Gang did not give up his plan to attack.

If forced attack is not enough, they will use poison.

Those soldiers died tragically after they shot them with poisoned arrows.

The so-called poison is the horse dung produced by war horses every day.

In this era of extremely backward medical treatment, once there is a bacterial infection in the wound, it is basically a death situation.

At first, these Chu troops could hold on, but after a long time, they finally couldn't hold on.

Long Qie finally announced to everyone: "Order the whole army to advance at a faster pace. Soldiers cannot stop, horses cannot stop, and rush to Shouchun at full speed!"

All the generals sang promises, and Long Qi looked at Yingbo again and said, "General Yingbo, from now on, I will hand over all the cavalry to you. Suppress his bow and arrows and drive him away. But remember, the pursuit should not exceed ten miles. After ten miles, return to the army immediately. As long as you restrain the Qin army, our infantry can take the opportunity to march." Yingbu clasped his fists and sang his promise loudly.

The order was conveyed, and the Chu army finally gave up the heavily guarded tortoise formation, and they marched eastward at full speed. The scouts of the Qin army fed back the news to Ying Gang. Ying Gang was overjoyed, knowing that the Chu army finally could not hold back. Price marched at full speed, and immediately led the Qin army to attack.

This time they harassed the flanks of the Chu army, and the Chu army cavalry who had already been waiting for battle quickly attacked under the leadership of Ying Bu, launching a cavalry battle in the open area.

To be precise, it should be a cavalry war that transcends this era. There is no single-handed generals that are common in this era, and there is no cavalry melee. Interspersed, looking for opportunities to win in sports battles.

To fight this kind of cavalry warfare that transcends the times, the Qin Army, which has been trained to fight this kind of cavalry warfare since the day it was established, is of course a big advantage.

Although they don't have armor now, it is enough to deal with it.

Even if the strong crossbows of the cavalry of the Chu army did exceed the hand crossbows of the Qin army, they could still hold the rein in one hand and lift the crossbow with the other hand to shoot, but the shooting frequency of the strong crossbows was too slow, and they had to rein in the horses and load the arrows with both hands. , far less flexible than Qin Jun's bow and arrow.

In addition, they did not dare to run too fast, otherwise they would be overturned by the horses and fall to the ground.Therefore, the Qin army basically only needs to dodge the first wave of shots from the Qin army's powerful crossbows, and then they can confidently and boldly approach and fire arrows to kill people. After the first cavalry battle, Long Qie's army paid the price of nearly a hundred cavalry to defeat the Qin army. They were driven out ten miles away, but the loss of Junzi's army was only a few people.

He suffered a loss in the range gap of the bow and crossbow, so Ying Gang would naturally not be fooled again.

When the cavalry battle was launched again, Ying just divided his troops into two groups. First, let a group of Qin troops attract the cavalry of Chu, and then transferred the tiger away from the mountain to lure Yingbu away.

The other team took the opportunity to attack the infantry of the Chu army. While ants gnawed their bones and shot the infantry of the Chu army, they slowed down the speed of the Chu army's advance, forcing the Chu army to stop advancing and fight back.

At the same time, the plan to equip part of the Qin army with strong crossbows to make up for the lack of range of the horse bow also began to appear in Ying Gang's consideration plan.

In this way, you came and went back and forth, each with casualties and fought for two days. After the Chu army entered the border, all the feather and arrow reserves of the Qin army were also exhausted, and they were forced to end this not very successful guerrilla operation.

Qin Jun retreated.

But Chu Jun was completely ashamed and thrown home.

After several days of fighting, their casualties reached an extremely terrifying number.

By the time the few soldiers actually returned to Shouchun, there were more than [-] casualties.

Moreover, there is still Yingbu who is constantly supporting and blocking the Qin army, otherwise the number will have to be doubled at least.

Even so, none of the Jiangdong cavalry returned alive, and most of the soldiers died tragically on the road.

Long has no face, and the first time he returned to Shouchun, he resigned from all positions and hid in the house without face to face Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu was also taken aback when he heard about the casualties of the army this time.

Since he started to fight against Tyrant Qin, he has never lost so badly.

From the [-] troops formed at the beginning of the alliance to the [-] elites brought by Yingbu, Chu State immediately invested [-] troops.

And it doesn't count those Baiyue soldiers.

But in the end, there were less than 4 people who came back.

Such a loss made Xiang Yu feel distressed, and made him understand a truth.

Destroying Qin is by no means an easy matter.

If you want to destroy Qin, you have to fight.If it is delayed, it will only make this battle more confusing.

After the armies of South Korea and Qi arrived in Shouchun safely, they also resigned to Xiang Yu one after another.

The chasing and fighting like Ying Gang happened, which made their desire to destroy Qin suddenly drop a lot.

Especially Tian Wen, in his heart at this moment, the fear of the Qin State is constantly rising, and has even put the Qin State to an unattainable level.

And Zhang Liang also understood a truth after this big defeat.

The countries are afraid of their hands and feet, and if they want to join forces to destroy Qin, they have to find other ways.

(End of this chapter)