Volume 5, Chapter 23: Reunion on the Battlefield (1/2)
Volume 5, Chapter 23: Reunion on the Battlefield
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On the twenty-fifth day of the third , the fifteenth year of the sixty-year cycle, Prince Li Xian of Qi led an arfei The Northern Han ar army had forty thousand However, the majority of the Northern Han arfei endured silently without battling
— Records Volu his lance to kill a Northern Han soldier, Li Xian switched his lance to his left hand His right wrist was already feeling souards, Li Xian returned to the army’s center This was already the third tied into the fray This kind of hearty slaughter truly caused Li Xian’s entire body to feel refreshed Although the Yong army was outnumbered, the Northern Han army had only mobilized sixty to seventy thousand troops In addition, with the veterans and new recruits intered for half a day, the Yong troops had yet to show any signs of defeat However, it was ifei had the saed into the fray three tifei had done so five tifei led the new recruits to charge into the Yong formation, he would expose holes in the Northern Han lines After being teradually become familiar with battle Li Xian could feel the pressure becoly heavy ht Li Xian as he issued orders, directing the Yong ars The core of both armies were composed of elite horsemen ere veterans of over a hundred battles and were easily le
Long Tingfei sole ar horse mutual support Frequently, when one formation attacked, the other tould provide support and backup The Yong army’s ar holes in the Northern Han ar a sufficient harvest, the Yong cavalry for defeat suffered at Zezhou where the Northern Han arfei siht cavalry to cruise beyond the Yong for formations with bows and arrows to li elite troops to prevent the possibility that the Yong arh the Northern Han formation
In this way, the battle fell into a deadlock The Yong army could not break the Northern Han formations, while the Northern Han arfei both understood that if this continued, the victory would be a Pyrrhic one However, because there wasn’t too much difference in their tactical coain a rapid victory with the basic parity between the two forces As a result, both sides could only fight a battle of attrition Whoever made the least mistakes would be the victor
If before, Li Xian and Long Tingfei would rather seek to avoid battle under these circumstances However, both commanders-in-chief had their own calculations As a result, neither illing to stop In addition, having battled for half a day, both sides were fully absorbed by the exhausting struggle In these circuers of lowering their ar for a retreat
Li Xian’s broere tightly knit Sofei’s leadershi+p before When had Long Tingfei ever allowed hiet embroiled in a difficult battle when the outcohty percent certainty of victory, Long Tingfei would definitely not attack Seeking survival froy Li Xian frequently used However, of late, he had long ceased to do so After all, Li Xian had the confidence that he would be able to fight squarely with Long Tingfei If that was the case, then Long Tingfei definitely had a trick up his sleeves
At this alloped over and reported loudly, “Your I is twenty uard has already come into contact with our scouts”
Li Xian rejoiced Within the dofei definitely was better infor that went on Since that was the case, Long TingfeiChi was about to arrive That hy Long Tingfei was in such a rush to annihilate the Yong are tactics, concentrating troops asback, the Northern Han lines extended even further as their attacks beca tide sainst a tall cliff Li Xian ordered troops to continue to engage Long Tingfei to ensure that the Northern Han ar as the Northern Han arht in a pincer attack and be heavily defeated
Twenty ht for the battlefield with his elite cavalry Although they had advanced with irresistible force, there were still plenty of Northern Han soldiers and coh they were all crushed, the Yong ar Chi hi Chi’s youth, the Central Plains had erupted into chaos, the co Chi had an innately vicious te to be hue, he beca radually beca as a bandit was not a solution even though he did not have a forthright te army Because of his immense martial arts skills, he was considered one of the army’s best warriors within half a year Afterwards, he was placed in an i and became one of the prince’s trusted lieutenants Naturally, no one brought up Jing Chi’s past Military regulations in Li Zhi’s army were strict and ihter Out of fear ofChi had restrained his unruly nature
However, ever since taking solo command of an army, the pressure on him was enormous Combined with the Northern Han population’s tenacious resistance, this bandit general had becoan to openly co Chi didn’t find this problematic However, as he neared the rendezvous point with the Prince of Qi, Jing Chi suddenly thought of his own conduct and could not help beco somewhat anxious Ultimately, he steeled his heart If they could defeat the Northern Han army, he probably wouldn’t be executed for his violations As a result, although Jing Chi knew that the Northern Han ar, only deciding how to advance froalloped back and succinctly explained the h sketch that he had personally drawn
Jing Chi ordered his ar at the side of the road, he looked at the rough sketch that the scout had drafted upon hisChi’s appearance was a bit miserable His hair was not tied up in a bun and instead scattered all over the place His helly been lost sooas in tatters and stained Some of the stains were from yellowish, muddy water; so Chi’s officers and bodyguards to secretly find it ridiculous However, none dared to raise thisthe entire journey filled all of these proud soldiers and fierce generals ariness and fear
In the past, when Jing Chi followed the Prince of Yong, he naturally never revealed his intense crudeness In addition, under the Prince of Qi, Jing Chi had always been on his guard and never exposed any weaknesses for others to exploit Only this ti Chi’s true nature hidden behind his forthright façade revealed for all to see Therefore,extre to joke around like before
It’s i Chi had personally beheaded more than a dozen soldiers who had been intoxicated by the slaughter and forgotten to return to their units These changes allowed everyone to clearly see Jing Chi’s long hidden vicious do Chi studied theto reinforce the Prince of Qi in a timely manner, no one dared to speak a word
After absent Chi finally raised his head and said, “All right At present, the Northern Han arhness, the Prince of Qi This is the best moment to attack We will definitely be able to smash the Northern Han formations into smithereens When the time comes, ill be able to pulverize an already defeated enemy Relay my orders and attack the enemy’s eastern flank and directly penetrate to the center, following your elder’s banner”
Finished speaking, Jing Chi let out a loud yelp and spurred his horse down the hill He thought to hi if the Northern Han army did not know of my approach However, it e theents that your elder ran into during hly ence, theyto launch my assault However, if they can’t even retreat, they will be truly useless If your elder didn’t know that there are no enemy reinforcements, I would not dare to attack withorders, Jing Chi took the lead and galloped forward Each of the officers were invigorated and returned to their respective units On thearmy’s crack cavalry were composed of elite troops ere veterans of over a hundred battles There was no disorder for a forly orderly and in tinificent arular horsealloped up a hill Beloas a plain that was several tens of hting with Long Tingfei Not far off was the city of Qinyuan and the Qin River swollen froestured with one hand One of his bodyguards handed hile horns sounded frole horns were like a thunderbolt who streaked through the air, reverberating continuously Jing Chi waved his hand and shouted loudly, “Followone of his co Chi held it up high using his left hand, urging his horse to leap down the hill The officers and soldiers behind hi him A muddied flood of blackened water thrust into the eastern flank of the Northern Han’s formation
The end of the banner was a sharp spearhead Brandishi+ng the banner, Jing Chi stabbed and killed a Northern Han soldier Like a steel saber, the Yong cavalry arht flank of the Northern Han ar reinforcefei’s eyes He sternly said, “Wudi, block the Prince of Qi’sreinforcements” Afterwards, he softly said, “Wudi, you only need to hold out for four hours”
After that, Long Tingfei led his bodyguards to ht flank towards the ar flashed across Duan Wudi’s eyes as he took co attacks would be increasingly fierce
Northern Han’s right flank was pri Chi had selected this location to attack because he had received the scout’s report This veteran scout could easily discern the difference between veterans and recruits For Jing Chi, although it was a pincer attack, the discrepancy in nureat In order to attain victory, Jing Chi knew that he could only attack where the enemy was the weakest The assault went off relatively sht flank was quickly penetrated by Jing Chi
Jing Chi was deeply puzzled Looking around, he saw red ahead of hiowns blocked Jing Chi’s advance Jing Chi was greatly startled However, at thishis teeth, Jing Chi tossed the banner to one of his bodyguards behind hi up his lance, he pointed at the Northern Han co Chi’s army collided with Northern Han’s ht flank began to pepper Jing Chi’s center and rear with arrows Long Tingfei advanced bravely, forcibly stopping the Yong arrew chaotic and the two arround, slowly converging on the Qin River The trickling river water that ran red with blood flowed downriver, taking with it countless lives and everything else
The Prince of Qi and Jing Chi both knew that the outcoed on this moroup, the battle would likely be protracted and bitter As a result, both co ar Tingfei re Chi’s offensive Using a tight defense, Duan Wudi coradually fell into a deadlock, although Li Xian and Jing Chi were gradually gaining the advantage After all, the Northern Han army was more proficient at surprise attacks and pursuit, but lost their advantage in this large-scale cavalry battle
Slowly, both Jing Chi and Li Xian felt intense unease well up However, separated by rank upon rank, it was impossible for the two to coordinate In addition, they could not rashly order a retreat Neither of the Yong co to be the first to order a withdrawal, as it would likely lead to all the pressure falling on the other ar ar Northern Han ar Chi and Li Xian had pained and suspicious looks on their faces
Jing Chi had led his elite troops to directly and violently assault Long Tingfei’s personal troops several tih the Northern Han forfei’s dancing halberd was like a black panther charging forth fro thick killing intent, and actually repelled Jing Chi, who only escaped with the sacrifice of a dozen of his bodyguards
Li Xian increasingly becaht sight of two goshawks circling overhead Treoshawks for me!”