Chapter 871 Qin Army Counterattacks

Just when the Qin army generals were in a state of excitement, a loud shout of "How dare you!" suddenly rang out from the back of the hall. As soon as the voice fell, the generals saw an old general flash out from behind the screen.

When the generals looked up behind Wang He, they saw an old general with a small head and a pointed chin coming out from behind. It was General Bai Qi. The generals were shocked and said, "Wu'an Jun!"

"Generals, it is my intention to lure the Zhao army across the Dan River and retreat to the Kongcang Ridge." Wu'an Jun said solemnly.

Wu Anjun was about to say more, but drums and horns sounded not far from the city, and a soldier came to report: "Report to the general, thousands of Zhao soldiers are attacking Guanglang City!"

The officers in the tent were all shocked and cried out: "The Zhao army is coming so fast!"

Only Wu Anjun said with a smile: "Why did I retreat again and again? The answer will be revealed soon. You all go and command the soldiers to defend the camp barriers immediately. Without my order, no soldier is allowed to go out of the camp to fight. Those who disobey the order will be punished by military law!"

When the generals heard it, they hurriedly agreed in unison, and then returned to the camp to organize soldiers for defense.

The Zhao army came quickly and resolutely, because Wu Anjun's consistent idea of ​​fighting was to spare no lives of soldiers, whether they were the enemy's or his own.

In order to keep the Zhao army away from the Dan River, Wu Anjun ordered Wang He to recall some of the first-line Dan River defenders, and then ordered the remaining defenders to hold on and not retreat, and at the same time did not send reinforcements, which was equivalent to putting tens of thousands of defenders along the Dan River under the swords, guns, bows and crossbows of the Zhao army.

If you don't sacrifice the child, you can't catch the wolf. If you don't make a real play and let the Zhao army kill tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, how can Zhao Kuo continue to advance.

After all the generals retreated, Bai Qi and Wang He left the general and went to the west tower of Guanglang City. At this time, the top of Guanglang City was already crowded with troops, and tens of thousands of Qin soldiers were waiting for the Zhao army to attack.

As Bai Qi expected, the Zhao army was cautious at the beginning, but after a day and a night of fierce fighting, it captured the Danshui barrier of the Qin army at the cost of 150,000 people, and wiped out nearly 100,000 defenders. Zhao Kuo finally felt relieved and boldly launched an attack on the Guanglang City position of the Qin army.

In Zhao Kuo's view, the Qin army must be short of troops, otherwise how could they let the first line of barriers be destroyed by 100,000 troops, so at this time, even if Bai Qi came in person, what would it matter? Zhao Kuo believed that even if Bai Qi came in person, he would be powerless to save the situation.

It was under this circumstance that Zhao Kuo ordered 40,000 troops to be drawn from the 50,000 troops in the Zhao army fortress on the east side of Danshui and the 20,000 defenders in the Xun's camp in the central army to come to support, and all of them were added to the front army that had almost lost all. In this way, the number of Zhao troops participating in the attack reached 300,000.

Then, Zhao Kuo ordered to gather 10,000 people to launch a swift attack on Guanglang City.

At this time, Guanglang City had nearly 100,000 troops. In addition to the 20,000 Iron Eagles in Bai Qi's central army, there were nearly 50,000 crossbowmen drawn from the central army and the rear army. Huangfu Chaobo's nearly 4,000 soldiers were also transferred to the city head, because they were all elite soldiers equipped with crossbows, and Huangfu Chaobo's 1,000 Yuanrong crossbowmen were also deployed on the eastern wall of the Zhao army in front.

As for the other troops, they were all led by Wang Ling to defend in a series of barriers south of Guanglang City.

On the top of Guanglang City, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops surging like a tide a few miles away, and couldn't help but swallow his breath secretly. He was also a veteran general, and it was not the first time he saw the scene of hundreds of thousands of troops attacking. Thinking back to the time when millions of Yellow Turbans besieged Changsha City, people were much more shocked than now, but now they still feel nervous.

Compared with the offensive momentum of hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops now, the millions of Yellow Turbans were just like playing house, and people could hardly feel the murderous aura, while the hundreds of thousands of Zhao troops in front of them exuded a heart-pounding murderous aura.

As the bells and drums of the Zhao army's central army a few miles away rang, a Zhao army of about 10,000 people came out of the army, stepped on firm steps, and killed towards Guanglang City.

On the top of Guanglang City, the Qin army crossbowmen had already made preparations,

one by one, waiting with crossbows, quietly waiting for the military order of the generals on the top of the city.

Two hundred and fifty steps.

The catapults on the top of the city began to launch stones at the Zhao army on the top of the city, but the stones launched by dozens of catapults did not stop the attack of the Zhao army. Instead, with the sound of the war drums of the central army, the Zhao army accelerated and rushed towards the city wall.

One hundred and fifty steps.

One hundred steps.

Eighty steps.

The top of the city was still silent. With the shout of the leading general, the Zhao soldiers shouted and began to run towards the city wall again.

Sixty steps.

A roar suddenly sounded from the Guanglang city: "Fire!"

"Buzz..."

In an instant, nearly ten thousand crossbow arrows rushed into the sky like locusts, and then flew towards the Zhao army sixty steps away, like a black cloud, rushing towards nearly ten thousand Zhao soldiers.

"Puff..."

"Oh! Ah..."

In a few breaths, tens of thousands of crossbows slaughtered nearly ten thousand Zhao soldiers.

The battlefield with hundreds of thousands of people suddenly became as silent as death. At this point, the commander of the Zhao army knew that he had been fooled. So many crossbowmen were concentrated in Guanglang City, which proved that the Qin army was not short of troops. On the contrary, if there was no large army here, the Qin army would not be able to concentrate so many crossbowmen.

The Qin army had a large army here but did not support the first line of defense, allowing its own army to capture the defense. The Qin army had great ambitions.

When Zhao Kuo thought of this, he was frightened and broke into a cold sweat. Could it be that, as the foreign generals said, Bai Qi and the Qin army wanted to annihilate his army here? Thinking of this, Zhao Kuo ordered the army to stop attacking and prepare to retreat. He was ready to retreat to the Qin army's fortress and make plans.

But Bai Qi did as he wished. Seeing that the Zhao army had stopped attacking, Bai Qi ordered the army to start attacking. At this time, the Zhao army had been fighting for a day and a night, relying on the remaining power of the victory of conquering the Qin army's fortress. The Qin soldiers had indeed rested for a day and a night, and watched the first line of the fortress Ze Pao being killed by the Zhao army. It was the time when morale was the strongest.

With Bai Qi's order, the 300,000 Qin troops in the central army and the rear army left less than 20,000 people to defend Guanglang City and Dongxizhuang City. The remaining 280,000 troops were all dispatched and launched a swift attack on the Zhao army that was slowly retreating.

At the same time, the right army general Wang Ling personally led 10,000 elite Qin cavalrymen, detoured to the Danshui River 20 miles downstream, crossed the Danshui River from a shallow place there, and attacked the Zhao army's center in Xunshi City. Following closely behind Wang Ling were the 15,000 rear cavalry led by Huangfu Chaobo and the 10,000 elite Qin infantry led by Wang Ling's deputy general. The remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses of the right army and the remaining 15,000 soldiers and horses of the left army, in cooperation with the center and rear armies, attacked the Zhao army from both wings.