West Sima sent people to send a letter of engagement to extend the use of ancient rituals, and Chu Chaohui two armies against the enemy, is slowly in front of the enemy troops lined up in front of the formation, to see Chu Chaohui heart itching to let the soldiers immediately launch a charge.
The armies in this time and space have to give the other side a letter of war, that is, a diatribe, stating the reason why I am fighting against you, which is called "the master has a name". Before his death, Duke Guang requested Wang Jie, a famous scholar with literary talent, to write a diatribe, in order to make his reason for crusade more convincing and righteous. This procedure has been done meticulously by both Wang Du and Ulsan.
The way of war of the Qin lords is still the same as that of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which emphasizes on the formation and drums, that is to say, to make a good position and then start to beat the drums to launch an attack. Before the start of the war, it takes quite some time to arrange the troops, once the war starts, it is similar to the street group fight, not pay attention to the tactics and strategies, people's thoughts are also valued on the battlefield and despise the use of tactics.
Chu Chao Hui trained officers are valued strategy, but when the West Sigma under the letter of appointment, Chu Chao Hui had to give up strategy to win, he must be at the request of the West Sigma, to come to a hall array of two armies against each other.
All of Wu and the neighboring vassals are paying attention to the war between Gong Zi Ming and Yi Ji, the more the Ulsan army shows manners in this war, the more the victory will show Zheng Yuming's gentlemanly demeanor, and the more it will prove that Zheng Yuming's body is flowing with the noble blood of the royal family.
The place of the appointment for the battle at West Sima was the land of the plains south of Daokou, and the time was eight o'clock in the morning. After Chu Chao Hui arrived with his army, the 3,000 valley and nambu troops under his own leadership took ten minutes to set up their formation. The Huben led by Wei Ren took half an hour on the two flanks, and the miscellaneous army led by Guo Si was still staggering behind the camp. As for Wangdu's forty-eight thousand troops, after the entire army of Ulsan had set up their formation, they were still in disorganized formation, and Chu Chaohui had watched the other side's formation for a lonely hour.
"My lord, the enemy formation is now unsteady on its feet, can we charge?" The battalion commander of the cavalry, Zeng You, asked Chu Chaohui for orders, the Wangdu army's formation was slightly molded, and now it was broken everywhere, which drew a leap of faith in his heart. Wei Qing's military achievements spurred this soldier who was once a mountain bandit.
Wei Qing Road mouth to receive the victory of the war, for him to win military honors, but also won the qualification of promotion, this seventeen-year-old young man, now has been promoted to the battalion commander of the infantry battalion, before the start of the appointment today, was Chu Chao Hui authorized to lead a thousand Huben to take the trail to carry out the task of the zhakou.
"Wait a little longer." Chu Chao Hui's hands were also itching for attention, and it took a great deal of perseverance to carve out a way to not launch himself at the other side during this hour.
"My lord, the enemy formation has abandoned some chariots and used cavalry." Zhou Cheng dialed his horse and came to Chu Chao Hui to report.
"I like this kind of cavalry." Chu Chao Hui put down the binoculars in his hand, he had already observed the details reported by Zhou Cheng. "Zhou Cheng, push up our good guys, and when the enemy battalion comes with their drums, add some buzz to them.
When Han Xin in the Han Dynasty ordered his soldiers to form up, he just ordered the head of the army and ended it hastily, and this was still an army led by a very famous general, so the speed with which the army of Ulsan formed up was very astonishing to Xisima, who could not imagine what method could be used to get several thousand people to form up in the blink of an eye. After he studied it for half a day, he could only attribute the swiftness of the formation to the fact that the number of soldiers was too small.
Wang Du's Huben had a full meal this morning, one by one, they were very energetic, the 30,000 auxiliary soldiers behind the Huben army formation were on the contrary, one by one, they were depressed, and some of them couldn't even stand up, these auxiliary soldiers were originally in a half-starved situation, two days ago, they couldn't enjoy their half-starvation and half-feeding, and they were only given a little gruel and soup to sustain their lives, and this morning, they were even more unable to enjoy their gruel and soup.
The head of the army declared to them that after Wangdu Huben defeated the Ulsan army, the auxiliary soldiers would be able to eat dry rice. Now these starving auxiliary soldiers, the strongest wish in their hearts was that Wangdu Huben quickly defeat the Ulsan army, quickly end the battle, and search the grain and grass in the Ulsan army to let them have a full meal, and the idea that Wangdu Huben would lose did not appear in their minds at all, from the number of people lined up by the army, how is it that the number of people of their side is more than twice the number of people of the other side, and with such an advantage, none of the auxiliaries thought that Wangdu army would not be able to win the war.
It took nearly two hours for the army of the Western Sicilian to line up before it was ready. The front army didn't line up the chariots first according to the old rules, but arranged the cavalry who tied their bodies to the horses, and there were more than three hundred such cavalry. Cavalry followed by the chariot, the king's capital army this expedition brought out a total of three hundred chariots, most of the chariots are two horses pulling the car, in order to free up horses to form the cavalry, chariots were unloaded one hundred, empty two hundred horses to serve as cavalry horses, only two hundred chariots to form the chariot fleet.
Chu Chao Hui's own trained army had no chariots, except for the cavalry which was the infantry, Wei Ren's army had one hundred chariots, and these one hundred were now separated on both sides of the army. The chariots of Weishan's army were also only half the size of Wangdu's army.
The distance between the two armies facing each other was a bit far, and when Xisima looked far away, he could only see that the front of Ulsan's army was a few hundred cavalrymen, and in front of the cavalry formation there were five racks of black things, with a few soldiers crouching next to each of the black things.
After realizing that the Ulsan army had fewer chariots, fewer soldiers, and only a few more cavalry, Xisima's confidence in winning the battle was high, and he waved his hand towards the commander and gave the order to attack. After the order for the center army to attack was given to the whole army, the military drums of the Wangdu camp were immediately sounded, and the Huben tied to the back of the horses and the chariots and infantrymen listened to the sound of the drums as they approached towards the direction of the Ulsan army.
After the king's capital army beat their drums in action, the Ulsan army did not move at all, only a few soldiers by the black thing looked beginning to tense. The black thing had two wheels, and on top of the wheels were honeycomb-like wooden launchers filled with rockets, with only the front half of the rockets in the launching holes, with arrows and bundles of medicine packets emerging from the front, and long pilot ropes trailing behind the launching blanks.
"Ready!" Zhou Cheng's crier commanded the soldiers next to the black thing.
When the Wangdu army had marched forward for a third of the distance, the hand of Zhou Cheng's herald officer was violently lowered downward, while the iron whistle in his mouth was blown, and at once, sparks shot out from the black honeycomb frames, and accompanied by continuous swooshing noises, a red trailing flame rushed towards the Wangdu cavalry and chariots like a fiery dragon, and at once, the front of Wangdu's front line was splashed with flames, and white smoke rose up in all directions, as if it were a grand exhibition of fireworks.
These rockets are the work of Chu Chao-hui for most of the year, scraping the outhouses and pig and cow houses in Nambu and the valley to make them... Fireworks. Not bad, these rockets in the twenty-first century is fireworks, can not be considered a weapon, if it is not close to the centralized launch, there is little lethality to people. Similar to the fireworks of weapons, although there is no great lethality to people, but to the horse has a frightening effect, Chu Chao Hui launched rockets, the purpose is to be the king of the army's horses and chariots frightened and chaotic, disrupting the king of the line formation, so that the enemy army not war since the chaos.
Chu Chao Hui's stratagem played a role much more than expected, this round of rockets not only let the horses in the Wangdu army frightened, Huben also scared to death, they have never seen this kind of strange things, not only hissing, sparks splash on the body of the people hurt like hell, the air is also filled with a stimulating flavor.
Unknown things make the king's army exploded camp, nearly two hours to arrange the formation immediately mess, the cavalry's horses have not been trained, these speedy cavalrymen are not people control horse, but horse control people, they simply can not drive the broken horses running around and stepping on the panic. At the same time, the well-trained chariot horses also do not listen to the command, chariot horses panic regardless of the direction of the run, the result is that many chariots because of the turn does not work sideways, sideways and overwhelmed many Huben, heavy chariots will be Huben crushed to death and injured, the army cried parents cried out endlessly.
Seeing that the enemy army was in great disarray, Chu Chao Hui immediately gave Zhou Cheng the order to charge, and with the sound of the charge horn, five hundred cavalrymen raised their greatswords and charged the enemy like arrows, with two thousand and five infantrymen following closely behind. After both the cavalry and infantry of the Ulsan center army charged out of position, Wei Ren and his Huben on both flanks were stunned by the scene before them, so much so that when the center army charged and emptied its position, Wei Ren reacted to the fact that he should follow and cut down the enemy.
"Hold formation! Re-form the line!" Sisma hissed as he tried to control his frightened mount, but there were not many officers gathered around as his ordering officer ran off somewhere because of his frightened horse. The infantry Huben, in a state of panic, instinctively fled to the rear of the army when they saw the overwhelming force of the Ulsan cavalry.
The two armies are fighting than the momentum, one side of the momentum of a diarrhea, that will be in the state of collapse of the whole army, now, Wang Du's 18,000 Huben is in such a state.
The fear of the front army soon swept to the rear auxiliaries, these hungry and strengthless auxiliaries didn't see what was happening in front of the army, but the atmosphere of fear infected them, when they saw the Huben turn their heads and run towards the rear without any consideration, they immediately turned around and retreated after them, but these auxiliaries didn't have the physical strength, and during the running process they were always knocked down by the strong and healthy Huben soldiers, trampled down by cavalrymen, and rolled over by the chariots, and the auxiliaries who fell down couldn't get up fast enough, and then they were swarmed over by the The consequence of not being able to get up is that countless pairs of feet trampled on them, and countless auxiliary soldiers were trampled to death and injured, and the Wangdu military formation became a Shura field.
The fastest Huben ran to the entrance of the road, just want to catch their breath, do not want to flash out from the entrance of the road a team of Azure Mountain Huben, bow riding shot, the entrance of the road immediately fell a piece. Wei Qing according to Chu Chao Hui's instructions, with defected Huben from the flanks around here to set up pockets, the entrance of the road is easy to defend and difficult to attack, already have no will to fight Wangdu Huben simply do not want to fight, found that the entrance of the ambush of the enemy ferocious, and hurriedly turned around and ran back to try to re-find a way out of the situation, resulting in the retreated flow of people collided with, and caused a mess, in the confusion, trampling dead more and more soldiers.
Chu Zhaohui carrying a large sword simply can not meet the stubborn resistance of the enemy, beside the soldiers are still chasing and hacking no fighting spirit of the deserters, those who do not want to resist and want to surrender the defeated soldiers, do not know to let go of the weapon crouch down, stupidly stood there to let the chasing Ulsan soldiers to swing their weapons on them. Seeing this, Chu Chao Hui hurriedly let the messenger issue an order for the whole army to shout slogans, as long as the soldiers of the royal capital crouch on the ground and surrender, they will be spared from death, these stunned and stupid soldiers are the labor force of the Wu Kingdom, and they can't be wasted for nothing.
After Chu Chao Hui's order was given, the battlefield resounded with a 'let go of weapons, crouch down and don't kill' sound. The deserters heard the slogan, hooting and hollering crouched down a piece, was killing the cavalry battalion commander Zeng You, a knife down the wheel of an empty, his pursuit of the target let go of the weapon, the body half-creeping to the ground, and then look around, the ground is all squatting and creeping Wangdu generals.
The forty-eight thousand soldiers of the royal capital thus surrendered in full, and the battle, as the auxiliary soldiers of the royal capital had hoped, was over in less than half a day.