Chapter 241 The power of the new iron cavalry
In the Wei army camp, the whole army was in chaos.
Sima Yi's legs were still a little weak, but he still stood up and tried to stabilize the morale of the army.
Suddenly, there was a loud drum sound outside the camp. This was the Qin army taking advantage of the opportunity to kill Xu Chu, and the entire army was dispatched to attack the camp.
Sima Yi gritted his teeth. Although he lost Xu Chu and his army was in turmoil, it was impossible for the Qin army to attack the camp with this and defeat him. So he organized the camp to defend.
Zhao Yun watched Xu Shu and Zhang Liao lead troops to attack the Wei army camp. He immediately ordered to start a fierce attack on the Wei army camp.
"Kill!" Zhao Yun pointed his silver spear forward and ordered the infantry to carry out the first wave of strong attacks.
The combat effectiveness of Qin army infantry was within Sima Yi's estimate. Sima Yi personally organized the defense, so of course it was impossible for Qin army infantry to break through.
In the second wave of strong attacks, Zhao Yun still ordered the Qin army infantry to attack.
Similarly, he failed to break through the defense organized by Sima Yi and entered the Wei army camp. Instead, the Qin army infantry suffered nearly two thousand losses.
Seeing that the second wave of Qin's attack gradually weakened, Sima Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and the other generals of the Wei army also breathed a sigh of relief.
The so-called "one-strike" is a battle, two declines and three exhaustion, not only a frontal battle, but also a strong attack on cities and camps. Normally, Xu Chu's death caused the Wei army to be in turmoil, and the camps were in chaos. The first wave of Qin's attack was the most dangerous. Sima Yi was nervously commanding the front line, for fear of being broken into by the Qin army.
Now that the Qin army has successfully blocked the first and second wave of attacks, the Qin army will either give up the strong attack and retreat. Even if the Qin army still launches the third wave of attacks, Sima Yi will not worry, because normally, even if the Qin army conducts the third wave of attacks, its agility will definitely be much weaker than the first and second waves, and the probability of breaking through the camp is small and small.
However, Sima Yi miscalculated again. The first time he miscalculated Zhao Yun's strength, which made him carelessly lose Xu Chu. This second time, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army would undoubtedly cause Sima Yi to suffer greater losses.
Taking advantage of Sima Yi and the Wei army's resistance to the first and second wave of strong attacks, Zhao Yun ordered the Qin cavalry to attack on the entire line and began to launch the most fierce attack.
"Kill!" This is the first real battle to show its power after the Qin cavalry was fully nailed to the horseshoe and replaced with iron stirrups.
This will also be the beginning of the cavalry becoming the king of cold weapons war in the true sense.
Rumble...
After nailing the horseshoe, the sound of the four hooves of the war horse treading on the ground was significantly different, which was even more shocking.
As a top strategy, Sima Yi had a very extraordinary premonition. He heard that the sound of horse hooves was different from the past and was much more shocked. He felt a little uncontrollable and his expression changed a little.
It's not waiting for him to figure it out or he will react.
The Qin cavalry had already attacked the camp and began to attack the outside of the camp.
"Kill!" This new Qin cavalry has put the power of the cavalry to the limit, making the cavalry the true king of cold weapons war.
The Wei army was caught off guard by the fierce combat power of the Qin cavalry.
If Sima Yi's defensive deployment, based on the previous combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry, had almost no possibility of breakthrough, then the combat effectiveness of the new Qin cavalry was increased by nearly 50% compared with Sima Yi's perception of the previous cavalry of the Qin army. Sima Yi's seemingly impregnable defense deployment became a lot of flaws.
In addition, the Wei army resisted the first wave of the Qin army and the second wave of attacks, subconsciously relaxed.
Being caught off guard, the Qin cavalry directly rushed into the Wei army camp in one fell swoop.
Seeing the Qin cavalry breaking through the camp like thunder, the Wei army was stunned and the reaction was slower. The Qin cavalry had entered the Wei army's camp for nearly a hundred meters in an instant, and it was almost impossible to drive it out.
"Kill!" After entering the Wei army camp, the Qin cavalry began to massacre Wei soldiers, attacking the dense areas of the Wei army, killing Wei soldiers everywhere and running in panic.
"This, how is this possible!" Sima Yi's face turned pale and his eyes were frightened.
Xiahou Yuan was also panicked, but after he reacted, he roared and summoned the Wei soldiers around him to fight back frantically.
"Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao is here!" Zhang Liao happened to run into Xiahou Yuan, so he rushed towards Xiahou Yuan.
The two fight!
The Qin soldiers led by the two also fought together with the Wei soldiers.
Zhang Liao burst out with all his strength. Originally, Zhang Liao's strength was half as strong as Xiahou Yuan, but Zhang Liao rode his horseshoe and replaced it with a sweat-blooded horse made of iron stirrups. His cavalry strength suddenly surpassed Xiahou Yuan.
At the same time, the Qin soldiers were full of morale, while the number of Wei soldiers summoned by Xiahou Yuan was small, the army was in turmoil and the morale was extremely low. First of all, the Wei soldiers gathered by Xiahou Yuan were soon defeated by Zhang Liao's Qin soldiers.
Xiahou Yuan was panicked and injured by Zhang Liao, and fled in fear.
On the other hand, Zhao Yun led a Qin cavalry and took the Wei army's central tent, trying to find Sima Yi's traces and kill Sima Yi!
However, when Zhao Yun killed the Wei army's central tent, he did not see Sima Yi's traces.
It turned out that Sima Yi saw the defeat of the army, and fled directly to Jinan City without any hesitation. When Zhao Yun reached the central army's tent, Sima Yi had just entered the city of Jinan County.
At the same time, Sima Yi ordered the abandonment of camps outside the city and retreated into the city of Jinan County.
The Wei army was defeated in a crushing defeat, with 80,000 troops being killed or captured nearly 40,000, thousands fled, and only less than 40,000 were defeated and fled into the Jinan County City.
After the great victory, Zhao Yun led the Qin army to take advantage of the situation to attack the city of Jinan County.
After a fierce attack, Jinan County City was in danger. Sima Yi gave up Jinan County City without hesitation, fought and retreated from the east gate, and retreated to Le'an Country.
Zhao Yun led the Qin army to pursue the country and attacked Le'anguo.
Three days later, Sima Yi once again gave up Le'an Kingdom and retreated to Qi County.
After abandoning the two counties in a row, Sima Yi finally stabilized the defense line in Qi County with the strong Linzi City, and did not allow Zhao Yun to capture Qi County. The two armies reconciled in the Linzi area of Qi County.
Outside Linzi City, Qin army camps.
Xu Shu admired: "Sima Yi is indeed powerful. With such a defeat, he can still protect tens of thousands of Wei soldiers and stabilize the defense line in Qi County. No wonder the king once said that only by killing Sima Yi could he possibly conquer the entire Qingzhou territory with a hundred thousand troops."
Zhao Yun looked at the tall and strong city walls of Linzi and sighed: "It's a pity that my only 100,000 troops entered Qingzhou. Although I have won the Wei army in a row in the past few days, killing and capturing Wei army as many as 60,000, our army has also lost nearly 30,000. We still have to leave our troops to defend and attack the Le'an Kingdom of Jinan County. There are only about 50,000 soldiers who can continue to attack the city. Sima Yi has nearly 100,000 people and 30,000 defenders in Linzi, so it is extremely difficult to attack."
Linzi was the capital of Qi at that time, and it was also the largest and most populous city in Qingzhou at present. Only by conquering Linzi can it be possible to conquer the entire territory of Qingzhou.
However, there are nearly 30,000 Wei troops in Linzi City and nearly 100,000 people who can collect support to defend the city at any time. Without Sima Yi, at least more than twice the strength of the defender can break the city. With Sima Yi, at least three times the strength of the defender can break the city. Zhao Yun obviously does not have three times the strength of the Wei troops, so he can only sigh at the city.
Zhao Yun pondered for a moment and said, "Compared with Qingzhou, my elder brother wants to capture Luoyang more. I defeated Sima Yi in this battle. Although I failed to kill Sima Yi and captured the entire Qingzhou territory, the Wei army in Qingzhou could no longer support Luoyang. I believe my elder brother will be able to successfully capture Luoyang."
In Linzi City...
Sima Yi was also thinking about the reasons for the repeated defeats in the past few days, and even more thinking about how to explain to Cao Cao.
Chapter completed!