Chapter 275: Chu Ge and Qin Feng
Heifu's distance can't see the details of the battlefield, but the Chu army's "seeing the sun" Zhou Wen can see it really!
The so-called observation of the sun, there are two duties, one is to observe the shadow of the sun, calculate the time and the auspicious and bad, belong to the ranks of the "soldiers of the yin and yang", on the other hand, they also have to use their good eyesight, observe the movement of the enemy, and report to the general.
So Zhou Wen was fortunate to witness the contest between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan, two famous generals in the world.
Xiang Yan's army in the east, a total of 90,000 people, roughly "Wang Zhiguang" 10,000, Xiang clan soldiers 10,000, Qu clan, Zhao clan soldiers 10,000 each, in addition to 30,000 Huaibei, Huainan, Jiangdong county soldiers, 20,000 small feudal monarchs from all over the country composed of miscellaneous troops.
The Qin army is in the west, there are about more than 100,000 people, Zhou Wen is not very clear about their composition, only knows that Wang Jian is most listed in the forefront, is a 30,000-person corps, under the banner of the Qin army's Guanzhong troops, there are thousands of chariots on the left and right to protect the wings.
At the beginning of the battle, Xiang Yan ordered Zhaohua, who had the strongest execution, to lead the Zhao clan soldiers to attack the Qin army, led by chariots and followed by infantry, trying to attack the junction of the three corps of the Qin army's forward.
The Qin army first shot in turn by the crossbowmen who stood upright and knelt to shoot, and after the 10,000 arrows were fired, the crossbowmen dodged and retreated to the two wings, the Chen Gate was opened, and the infantry followed up, breaking into the Chu army formation. Just as the two infantry were fighting, the assembled Qin army chariots also quickly pounced from both flanks and attacked the Chu army from the flank......
The Zhao soldiers were defeated and returned, and the three corps of the Qin army's vanguard also began to pursue, entangled with the Zhao soldiers, and their position of battle was northern.
"The general is done!"
Looking at this scene, Zhou Wen was not worried but happy. According to Xiang Yan's plan, because his own troops are slightly small, he must fully mobilize the enemy army, and after the battle begins, it is necessary to deceive Zhaohua to lure the enemy and contain the main force of the Qin army to the northern section, while the main force of the Chu army will march towards Wang Qian's army and give a decisive blow!
However, the course of the battle was unexpected by the Chu army, and the three corps of the Qin people attacked so violently that they quickly really defeated the Zhao clan soldiers, and even threatened the overall situation on the northern side.
In order to stop the Qin army from making a detour to the flank and rear of the Chu army in the southern section, stabilize the defensive position, and at the same time attract more Qin troops to invest in this direction, Xiang Yanjing waved his banner, and he ordered that the 10,000 Huaibei county soldiers and 10,000 Fengjun troops deployed on the second line of the northern section should quickly enter the battle and surprise the enemy's left rear from the northeast.
Due to the sudden fierce counterattack of the new forces of the Chu army, it was difficult for the three Qin army corps to break through for a while, so the Qin army mobilized 10,000 foot soldiers from the center to throw in, and the battle situation seemed to be frozen on the northern front......
Attack, defense, counterattack, bluff, real defeat, battle, stalemate, increase troops, and then tug-of-war, Wang Jian and Xiang Yan are like two cautious chess players, just this series of moves has lasted for a whole hour, and thousands of people have died in the wilderness!
As a result, the 40,000-strong corps of the Qin army was dragged on the northern front by more than 30,000 Chu people, and at the same time, in the south, there were also 10,000 Chu Qu clan's divisions stepping forward, entangled at least 20,000 Qin people.
Wang Jian played the number of ways to outflank the two wings, and put the elite of Guanzhong on the left and right, and now they are gradually gaining the upper hand. But in this way, too many troops were invested in the north and south, which made the central part of the Qin army show a flaw! In front of the Chu army, there were only tens of thousands of people in an irregular array, holding the banners of Hedong and Sanchuan soldiers.
This is the fighter that Xiang Yan has been waiting for for a whole hour!
Zhou Wen was overjoyed, after reporting the situation, Xiang Yan's banner of the Chinese army suddenly beat the drums!
There are 50,000 people in the Chu army, except for 10,000 Fengjun troops who are a little disheveled, the rest are the soldiers of the Xiang clan, Youguang, Jiangdong, and Huainan.
After receiving the order, the king of Chu, who was dominated by chariot soldiers, was the vanguard, the soldiers of the Xiang clan were the core, and the soldiers of Jiangdong and Huainan were on his left and right, and began to take steps, like an overwhelming red wave, moving forward!
Wang Jian also sensed the intentions of the Chu army, waved the flag, and drove out of the Qin formation in a thousand chariots, launching a counterattack against the Chu army!
"Carpool battle with the Chu army?"
Zhou Wen felt ridiculous, and immediately let people report what he had noticed to the general.
Although the state of Chu is located in the south, there are fewer good horses, but the chariot is not weak, in the Spring and Autumn period to compete for hegemony in those years, thousands of Chu chariots across the Central Plains!
"Wu Gexi was rhinoceros armor, and the car was wrong and short-handed!"
With a loud Chu Song as the beginning, in the great array of the Chu State, Youguang, the king of Chu, who had carried four hundred years of glory, drove thousands of chariots, and horses wearing tiger skins or cowhide armor neighed, staggering forward with the speeding Qin chariots.
In the chariot era, when two chariots meet, they do not confront each other head-on, but must stagger and fight on the side, with bows and arrows for long distances, and "five soldiers of the rooks" such as Ge, Zhen, spears, and halberds for short distances, and swords for hand-to-hand combat. This so-called "wrong hub" and the battle also.
When it comes to chariot warfare, Chu is an expert, and they also specially equipped their chariots with long-bladed hubs, and when the chariots start, the long-bladed hubs also roll rapidly. When the two chariots are staggered, not only can the legs and feet of the horses passing on the side be completely severed, causing the stumps to fly on the battlefield, but also through the master's superb skills, they can hit the enemy's wheels and destroy their axles and spokes.
After a fight, Chu Che was only destroyed more than ten times, but hundreds of Qin cars fell to the ground with a bang, and even if the emperor, the left and right of the car were lucky not to die, they were quickly mended by Chu pawns.
Seeing that the chariot had the upper hand, the morale of the Chu army was even more boosted, and the pace of the foot soldiers also accelerated!
"The sun is like a cloud, and the arrows are falling for the first!"
After Youguang, the soldiers of the Xiang clan also sang "The Death of the Nation", even though the number of Qin troops on the opposite side was almost the same as their own assault troops, even if their banners covered the sky and the enemy was like a cloud, even if the arrows fell like raindrops, but the Chu people mourned the soldiers, but they still fought bravely and kept moving forward!
The soldiers of the Xiang clan who were taught by Xiang Yanyan were often inspired by him with the national humiliation suffered by the Chu people in the past hundred years: from the fiasco of Chuisha and Lantian, from the detention of King Huai of Chu by Qin and not returning, to the death of hundreds of thousands of Chu people in the Battle of Yanying, to the humiliation of King Qingxiang moving eastward, and finally Qu Zi threw himself into the river full of grief and indignation.
In the past 100 years, for the Qin State, it was a road to rise with high morale, but for the Chu State, it was a road of falling and failing again and again, and most of the Chu nobles were deeply ashamed......
"A hundred years of national shame, a war of snow! Replace Ben will take the banner of Wang Qian! ”
Xiang Yan's order reached everyone's ears, and under the leadership of the noble generals, although they were a little ignorant of the "national shame", they also believed that the Qin people were invading their homeland and wanted to take away their wives and children's fields.
"When the sky falls, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned."
"You can't get in and out, and you can't go back, and the plains are so far away."
Tens of thousands of people ran and trampled, making the battlefield dusty, and the wind and dust raised by the chariots and horses and the two battlefields in the north and south converged together, covering the sky that had just cleared.
This is destined to be a battle-shaking battle, perhaps after this battle, the soldiers of the whole army sacrificed their lives in the vast wilderness, but even if they never returned, they never regretted it!
With this momentum, the soldiers of the Xiang clan, Huainan, and Jiangdong shouted, charged forward, and hit the weak Qin army array heavily! And defeated this Qin army in one fell swoop!
However, when the Qin army in front of him quickly "retreated" to both sides, and when the smoke curtain clouds covering the battlefield in the rear completely dissipated, Zhou Wen, who was close to the battlefield and observed the battlefield, couldn't help but gasp!
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Wang Qian's big banner and dragon banner are clearly visible, but between him and the Chu army, there is actually a phalanx of tens of thousands of people, and with the cover of the army in front, they have already completed the formation!
This Qin army, about 40,000 people, divided into four divisions, arranged in two formations, front and rear, three forward armies, the right army relying on the hill to set up, the left army next to the stream to set up the formation, the left and right army in the middle, the middle of the middle army, the middle of the middle army.
At the front of the phalanx was a column of crossbowmen, hundreds of men in each column, a total of thousands, and the sergeants did not wear armor, but held long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, and quietly knelt on one knee on the ground.
After that, it is a foot pawn, according to the formation of long soldiers in front and short soldiers in the back, taking into account both offense and defense, and not leaking. In addition, on the left and right sides of the array, there were several columns of crossbowmen, arranged outwards to prevent enemy attacks from both flanks. The formation is complex, the large formation sets the small formation, combined together, and can be changed freely.
After the three forward armies, the first guard army gathered at the junction of the three forward armies to support and support, and it was also the location of Wang Jian's military curtain command post. Its guard of honor is distinct, the guard is strict, the knights are ordered to enter and exit, and the golden drum banner changes in an orderly manner, like a hand behind the scenes in the lantern and shadow play, directing the movement of each legion and each army formation, like a shadow.
The elite of the Qin army shocked Zhou Wen, and the formation of the Qin army made Zhou Wen confused, and he realized that the Qin army in front of him was extraordinary, and it should be the elite of the elite!
What made Zhou Wen shudder even more was that he found that this Qin army was carrying the banner of tens of thousands of "Guanzhong soldiers" that should have been attracted to the northern front!
"Which is true and which is false?"
Zhou Wen faintly realized that everything before seemed to be a trap, so he immediately asked someone to inform Shangzhuguo!
However, there was no turning back from the bow, the pace of the army in front did not stop, although the Chu people were slightly stunned, but under the order of the general, they continued to move forward, wanting to break this Qin army and capture the enemy's main general as they did just now!
In the face of the Chu army surging like a wave, these Qin people were not afraid, they stood side by side, shoulder to shoulder, as if they were one!
I don't know who took the lead, opposite Chu Ge opposite, a song of Qin Feng was sung from the tens of thousands of Qin troops.
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers, and go with my son! ”
Qin Feng is high-pitched, and compared with the tragic Chu Ge opposite, he is not inferior at all!
This is the Qin sound of the correct and round words, and it is the Guanzhong dialect of the Eight Classics.
Zhou Wen understood that these people were the children of Guanzhong recruited from Neishi and Longxi, that is, the so-called "Old Qin people"!
Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, they have gone through six or seven generations of military lordship inheritance and war baptism.
After a hundred years of accumulation of military merits for generations, among the 50,000 people, all of them are knights, and the lowest is also a public scholar.
These 50,000 people are all young and strong, and they have been instilled by their parents since they were young, they are ashamed of private fights, and they are proud of public wars.
They are proud of their identity, they are proud of their merits, they are the core force of the Qin army, their will is extremely firm, and they will not move in the face of the stormy attack of the Chu army!
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear, and have the same enmity with the son! ”
The kneeling crossbowmen fired thousands of arrows, killing and injuring a large number of Chu people, and then scattered to the two wings, and the Ge spearmen in the rear stepped forward in an orderly manner, and after shouting angrily, they put the Ge spears horizontally, stopping all the footsteps that tried to approach, and the archers arranged by the Qin people in the formation were also constantly firing arrows.
With this elite guarding the gentle slope, Wang Jian Shuaiqi did not move half a step, but the Chu army attacked like a wave, as if hitting the immovable black reef, without any effect......
"This is really a temptation!"
Zhou Wen felt a little desperate, General Xiang Yan slowly involved the layout for an hour, the soldiers paid countless sacrifices, with great courage to create the opportunity, the raging fire in their hearts was almost trampled by this Wang Qian's last killer weapon!
But what was even more frightening was that on Zhou Wen's side, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded......
During the entire battle, the three thousand cavalry of the Qin army, who had disappeared, made a big circle and appeared on the side! Those Qin troops who had just been defeated and scattered in hundreds of chariots also joined them and killed in the direction of the central army of Chu State!
Xiang Yan has released the last reserves, pinning his hopes on breaking through the Qin Zhong army in one fell swoop, and at present, there are only 10,000 feudal monarchs around him, and those are the miscellaneous armies of the Chu State, and they can't have high hopes, if they are ridden closely, they will definitely fall apart.
Fortunately, Youguang, who had already gone through a battle, regrouped to Xiang Yanzhong's army, and he couldn't take care of resting to replace the injured horses, so he could only kill from the formation again.
Five or six thousand war horses, twenty or thirty thousand legs, galloped across the field, like rolling thunder, which made the foot soldiers feel shaken! The bikes were riding very fast, and soon the enemy and the enemy were rushing together, and the carts were overturned and caught in a scuffle. The long-bladed chariot of the State of Chu had a miraculous effect on the chariot of the Qin State, but the nimble cavalry did not eat this set, but could use their flexible body to besiege a chariot with several horses, and for a while, the two sides were inseparable.
Zhou Wen was a little stunned, his eyes left the chariot, looked at the southern and northern lines, the Qin army that gradually gained the advantage, and then looked at the Chu pawns in the middle, who were struggling to break through the Qin army's defense line in Guanzhong.
The current situation is stalemate again, if the Qin army's chariots and left and right flanks first break through the Chu army, and complete the encirclement of Wang Qian's plan, then Qin will win; If the main force of the Chu army breaks through the elite of Qin Pass first, Chu wins.
"Zhou Jun, look over there!"
However, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the accident happened again, under the shouts of his soldiers, Zhou Wen turned his head and looked at the southeast direction of the battlefield, and suddenly looked horrified!
Xiang Yan's hope of blocking the reinforcements of the Qin State was pinned on the 20,000 Jing clan soldiers, and only a small sentry force of more than 100 people was arranged in the southeast, but now it has been defeated and scattered.
A Qin army of more than 1,000 people was already standing there, and a tiger and bear flag was firmly planted at the highest point of vision! And it's still in formation, and it seems that it may rush down at any time!
The Chu people who discovered this scene couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts.
Even Xiang Yan of Shangzhu State couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Brother Jing misunderstood me, the reinforcements of the Qin army were not stopped?" ”
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In the southeast of the battlefield, after running for more than ten kilometers, his feet were covered with mud and he was tired enough to choke on the head of the team, and finally breathed a sigh of relief and puffed up his chest on the small slope.
He stood on the edge of the battlefield of the fierce battle, listening to the noisy Chu Ge Qin Feng in his ears, and his eyes were staring at the large army camp of the Chu State that was just two miles away, and there were only 10,000 Fengjun troops left to protect the wings!
Heif's gaze grew eager, as if he was thrilled to be so close to the center of the times for the first time.
He raised his hand high, as if he was about to give the order for the whole army to assault despite his thirty miles of profit, and despite the fact that there were only a thousand men under him! Doing that will make a thousand bones dry!
But after turning around, Heifu just smiled at the soldiers of An Lu, who were so tired that they couldn't even straighten their waists out of breath:
"Second and third sons, plant all your flags on the top of the slope, so that both sides can see at a glance, but rest in place and wait for friendly troops!"