Chapter 190: One Blow
Huai Mu had no armor on his body, and his weapon was only a sword and a small round shield with skin, but he was fearless, and with dozens of Qin soldiers screaming around him, he rushed into the unorganized queue of the Chu people in one go.
It's not the first time he's been a "trapper".
That was five years ago, when he was still a vassal, he was drafted to the front and participated in the war against Korea. At the beginning of the war, he was grouped together with eighteen subordinates and men who had committed capital crimes, and the commander said that they were trapped, without armor, only short soldiers, and they were to stand in front of the whole army and charge the enemy position.
"If you and the other eighteen men can capture the five heads of the enemy, those who should have been executed before will be exempted from the death penalty, and those who were previously subordinate will be restored to their freedom. If anyone cowers, he will be punished with a black face and a slashing nose in front of thousands of onlookers! ”
Only eight of the eighteen men survived that battle, and they stood in the pile of enemy corpses, carrying five heads, bathed in blood. After that, Huaimu was regained from a subordinate to a free body, and for the first time he could walk on the streets without scruples, without wearing wooden tongs and being looked down upon.
But it's not enough, his mother is still working as a city dan, and he has two younger brothers, who are still small ministers in the county. The laws of the Qin State stipulate that if you can behead and get a knight, you can redeem your family. So in the next few battles, Huaimu fought valiantly, just to cut off his head in exchange for the freedom of his mother and younger brothers.
It's a pity that his mother didn't have time to be released, and she died, so the two levels of knighthood returned to Huaimu, and he couldn't wait for the next year when he could apply for a replacement with a knight, so he was recruited again to fight Wei as the head of the tun.
This is the reason why he was the first to die in the Battle of Waihuang.
The knighthood was obtained, and he survived because of Hafu's assistance in bandaging. But the war was far away, and the king had just finished fighting the Wei state, and he was going to fight the Chu state again. Fortunately, Heifu loved the nurses, not only wrote letters for them and sent them home, but also let everyone keep their integrity intact and retreat when the Qin army was defeated, which is a rare thing.
After experiencing so many battles, Huaimu also vaguely understood that it is easier to see the ability of a military official when losing a battle than winning a battle.
It is easy to pursue with the wind, but it is difficult to retreat with the whole division.
Now that they had retreated to the lonely city, they had fallen into a desperate situation, and Heifu's inspiring speech once again united the panicked Qin soldiers. Everyone held their breath, don't stop returning to the teacher, if anyone dares to stop them from going home, just wait to see how Qin Jun is desperate!
We are not reservoir dogs, but tigers and wolves!
Therefore, when Heifu wanted to choose a person to lead the trap, Huaimu and Dongmen Leopard stood up together to fight for this position!
"I once ascended to the outer yellow first, and beheaded the enemy at the third level!" Dongmen Leopard showed off his exploits so much that the birthmark on his face turned red.
But Huaimu's qualifications immediately compared this young man.
"I've been a trapper three times! Once the first to ascend, he was beheaded five levels successively! He lifted the placket of his shirt and stood out with his scars.
After thinking about it, Heifu decided to let the more experienced Locust Wood take on the task. With his men, as well as another short-term guard, a total of 100 people, first threw down the armor at the head of the city to confuse the Chu army, and then went out of the city to line up, and when the drum beaten, launched a fearless charge towards the Chu array!
"If the whole army is a sword, then the person who is trapped in the team is the tip of the sword! Only when you break through the enemy's armor can the blade enter! Heifu said to Huaimu that the people who trapped the team were the key to the success or failure of this breakthrough.
Huaimu happily agreed, in his opinion, the people who are trapped in the team are actually the easiest things to do. Tactics? There is no need at all, just a word, don't be afraid of death, rush!
Moreover, this is probably the least obstructive charge since Huaimu served as a trapper, right?
The Chu people were not prepared to fight at all, the ravines in front of the array were not dug, the archers were not on standby, and the arrows shot in a hurry were loose and loose, only the unlucky people would crash headlong and be shot to the ground, after all, they had no armor, and once they were hit, they would be seriously injured.
But soon, the benefits of not wearing heavy armor were reflected, and the Tun in front of him charged very quickly, and went straight into the Chu archers who were busy drawing arrows and drawing bows.
The archers were also unarmoured, and were rushed into by the trapped, like tigers in a sheepfold. Once the archers were approached, they were completely slaughtered, and they either fled in a hurry, or took out the daggers on their waists to resist, raised their bows in a vain attempt to block the sword, and were soon put down by a large piece of ......
The same is true of the tun led by Huaimu, who are quick and aim at the spear-wielding chu pawn next to the archer. Before the Chu people had time to raise their spears or shields, they were rushed to the ground, and the already unscrupulous array in the front row was instantly knocked into a mess.
Even if Huaimu has no armor, he is not afraid, holding a long sword to kill all directions, harvesting one life after another.
A Chu soldier stupidly rushed straight towards Huaimu and pecked at him. As a result, he stabbed his sword in the chest, piercing his leather armor, muscles, and lungs, killing the man instantly.
But the blade of the sword stuck in the ribs of the opponent's chest and couldn't be pulled out, and two more Chu pawns attacked him on the side. Huai Mu did not panic, immediately lowered his head and picked up Na Ge, swung the enemy's spear away, and suddenly pulled out the sword that was still in the corpse, kicked away a shield that was against his back, and cut the throat of the Chu people hiding behind him.
The surrounding scene was equally chaotic, with fighting everywhere, and the trappers were brilliantly defeated, and in a matter of moments, a squad of archers and a squad of spearmen had been routed.
It's a pity that although the first two formations were defeated, there were only 100 people trapped in the team after all, and the impact force was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and they could no longer move forward, and there was no armor to protect them, and there were many casualties. There were too many Chu people, and the arrays on the left and right were slowly closing over, trying to surround them, but this subconscious behavior made the formation of the Chu people even more chaotic.
At this point, everyone's mission has been completed, that is, to disrupt the enemy's formation and let the robe behind kill in!
In the interval of the battle, Huai Mu looked to the rear, followed by the trapped soldiers, there were six hundred Qin people who walked in neat steps and ran with spears in small steps, and they had reached more than ten steps away......
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"It's broken!"
When he saw that the trapped soldiers led by Huai Mu had broken through the two hundred soldiers of the Chu people and tore a gap, the black man who was walking in the formation slapped his thigh excitedly!
This time, he no longer took the lead like when he was the tun chief, shouting "The second and third sons follow me".
is no longer like being a short-handed general, never leaving the main general......
Because, he is the commander of the Qin army in this battle!
There were only six or seven hundred people under his command, and there was no complicated command of the army when fighting, and the communication basically relied on roaring, so Heifu personally commanded two hundred-man teams, Dongmen Leopard, Zhai Chong, Tu Si, and Man each commanded a hundred people. They went out of the city, and when they had finished their procession, they trotted forward to the beat of the drums beaten by Liham at the head of the city.
Heifu let Tu Si and Man each be on the left and right, and behind Zhai Chong's palace, his two hundred people walked in the middle.
The first 100 men were led by the Dongmen Leopard, all wearing thick armor, in a column of five and in a row of twenty, and the two rows in front were holding spears.
The chief spear, which is a kind of impact spear used by infantry, although the length is not as long as the longest "Yi spear" is two feet and four feet, nearly six meters! But it is also 20 feet, four and a half meters long, and it has to be held by two people to ensure fast movement.
These chieftain spears were all found in the arsenal of the eupon, and as a "heavy" weapon in the hands of the infantry, when the twenty chieftain spears were laid down and moved forward quickly, the momentum was extremely terrifying!
The only thing that can fight with the spear is the spear of the same length, as well as the huge oar shield, and everyone pushes each other to see who can crush whom, which is the normal state of the heavy infantry phalanx after the war began in this year.
However, the Chu people had been overwhelmed by the trapped soldiers, one spearman had been defeated, and the other team was blocked and could not be transferred, so Dou Ran could only assign two hundred sword and shield soldiers to make up the number.
The Qin people were more than ten steps behind the trapped soldiers, and this short distance came in an instant, and with a loud roar from the Dongmen leopard, the Qin soldiers held their spears and struck forward with a horizontal team, just colliding with the Chu sword and shield soldiers who were moving quickly and horizontally, and came to stop them!
The sharp spear tip penetrated through the gap in the shield, pierced the leather armor of an unlucky Chu man, penetrated his stomach and intestines, and broke out of his back, and the blood-stained spear tip was once again inserted into the chest and abdomen of the person behind him......
Not only the two people with spears were exerting their strength, but the three people behind each column were also constantly pushing, just like that, relying on the length and impact of the chief spear, Dongmen Leopard and the others were like a sharp iron cone, and after a while, they actually pierced and crushed the two hundred Chu soldiers......
At this time, the chieftain's spear was already like a sugar gourd, piercing two or three people, and some of them were not yet dead, screaming miserably. But the Qin people could no longer take a step forward with their spears, and the Qin soldiers directly abandoned them, drew out the two-foot sword on their bodies, and continued to rush forward with a howl, engaging the enemy in close combat.
If the Chu Array was originally only pierced by the trapped people, then now, under the fierce push of the chief's spear, a big hole has been broken. Not to mention that behind the Dongmen Leopard, there were hundreds of Qin soldiers, also under the command of Heifu, through this hole, constantly killing in, for a while, the Chu people only had to fill the gap.
Although they were caught off guard, at least 500 people were crushed one after another, but because of the large number of people, the Chu people were far from the extent of the rout of the whole army, and under the command of Dou Ran, they began to counterattack.
The first is that there are people constantly moving to the center on the left and right, trying to stop the advance of the Qin people. In addition, the remaining hundred archers were finally transferred, and the archers put their arrows on the bowstrings one after another, spilling a rain of arrows towards the array behind the Qin people.
Whoosh, the arrows greeted the Qin pawn behind like hail, ten branches, one hundred branches. Beside Hefu, many of the people who held shields to block arrows for him fell to the ground, and their shouts turned to wailing, and even the copper hood above his head was struck with a clanging sound, which frightened Heifu a lot.
At the same time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the side, although the thirty chariots of the Chu people were already stuck in the soldiers at this moment because they were not prepared in advance, and could not get out of the way, so they could only be used as command vehicles.
But the hundred riders were maneuverable, they had already gathered, came around from the wings, stopped dozens of paces away and stationed their horses, and those riders dismounted one after another, took off their bows and crossbows, wound them, and shot arrows at the Qin people......
Zhai Chong in the back came over in the rain of arrows and said, "Heifu, there are too many arrows, some of them can't be stopped, do you want to send people from the left and right wings to disperse them?" ”
Heifu said: "Let Xiao Tao fight back with dozens of bows and crossbows!" ”
"What if those riders come at you!"
"Isn't there still you and others protecting the left and right rear?"
Heifu didn't squint, the cavalry of this year, unless there were too many of them, or their own side had been dispersed, it was not worth worrying too much. Because this class of troops is not yet mature, let alone the cavalry of the Chu State, the horses are short, and the riders are not skilled in riding, they are generally used as scouts, and they can't even shoot a bow on a galloping horse, they must stop, and even get off the horse to shoot on foot, which can't play a decisive role at all.
As for the impact trap? But this is something that even the northern land of Qin and Shangjun Jingqi rarely do, does Chu Qi dare? Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who carried forward the assault cavalry, is still a little doll and has not learned to ride a horse!
Besides, at this moment, Heifu can no longer take care of his wings and back, and his eyes can only look ahead!
That's right, rush forward desperately, and fight without understanding! This is the tactic formulated by the black husband, there will be no strategy, and the soldier will die, so he sharpens his armor and strength, and rushes the enemy formation!
They are outnumbered, and they must not fight with the enemy in numbers and last, but in momentum. With the momentum of mourning soldiers, one blow, two and decline, three and exhaustion, if they are afraid of the head and tail, the momentum of the impact is gone, they will be defeated!
But if you can penetrate the enemy in one breath and disperse, this group of Chu people will basically collapse, don't expect to be able to gather the soldiers again like in the game, the manual generals who are generals. It's impossible, the quality of this group of Chu people is not so high, the army is defeated, and after there is no establishment, it is too late to run, let alone turn around and fight back.
"Rush over!"
So Heifu pointed his sword forward, and after the enemy array had broken through a huge hole, he let his two hundred men follow and kill them, not caring about the arrows constantly falling above his head, and not caring about the cavalry that was waiting on the left and right, harassing them, only staring at the front only twenty steps away, caught by the chaotic formation of the Chu people, and the horses and horses were unmoved!
"Just rush all the way over and give the Chu people a center to bloom!"
At the same time, as if it was Tianzhu Heifu, behind the Chu army array, there was also a huge shouting and killing sound!