Chapter 122: The Rhythm of the Counterattack
Xiong Jing, who was running back, had just arrived at the southern end of the Chinese army at this time, and the nearest Qi army array at the southern end of the Chinese army was still separated by an array of 750 meters between the Wei and Zhao armies. Sure enough, the light cavalry shot a rain of arrows from the sky, followed by the gray-armored domain riders who had no queue, and these domain horses were wedged into the city soldiers standing in their backs.
There were only more than 10,000 soldiers in the city, and the number of domain cavalry was far greater than before, and the fatal blow of 3,000 domain cavalry instantly caused the city soldiers to collapse. Once the infantry array collapsed and scattered, it was no longer a match for the cavalry, but these cavalry consciously drove them away, forcing them to attack the fighting Chinese array to the east.
"Ahh Seeing this, Xiong Jing shouted angrily and hurriedly urged the war horse under his crotch. The cavalry of the Chu army also often did the thing of driving away the rout, and it was harmless when the crowd was orderly, but it was fatal once it was panicked. The heavy casualties of the defeated side were not so much the pursuit of the enemy as the stampede of their own side. Now the more than 10,000 city guards are rushing east in the midst of hissing and shouting, rushing towards the Chinese army formation dozens of paces away.
The depth of the Qi army array was fifty lines, nine lines more than the Zhao Wei army array. This is also the reason why although its number is large, the width of the formation is only 700 columns (one column per meter). At the same time that Qu Guang shouted to the city guards to line up, the twenty lines of Qi soldiers at the end of the formation had slowly turned around under the command of the Chu people. However, even if they had turned around and saw that it was their comrades who were coming, they could not stop them from assassinating them. At the front, a wave of city guards rushed into this 20-line military formation, and the entire left flank of the Chinese army was shaking in the midst of shouting and neighing.
"Stop! Stop......" Refractive stood between the city guards and the Qi army's formation, watching the chariot being submerged by the rout. Watching the chaotic city guards rushing into the military formation, he kept shouting, but it was useless, the city guards couldn't understand what he was shouting at all. When he saw that Yang Tuhai was also mixed with the rout, he used all his strength to hiss: "Yang Tuhai——! His hand pointed sharply to the west.
No matter how brave a person is, once he is at a loss, he will be no different from the sheep, the refractive scream woke Yang Tuhai up, and at this moment he realized what he was doing, although he stopped and turned to shout, but he was swept away by the tide of crowd without shouting two words. Qu Guang saw that he was washed away, and he regretted and resented in his heart. Needless to say, the resentment lies in the fact that all the generals despise the city soldiers and deliberately let them be placed behind the battle, and his suggestion is to put the city soldiers in front of the battle, only in this way can they be forced to play their role.
Refractive couldn't find Yang Tuhai and wanted to die with his sword, just as he drew his sword, a shout in the Jimo dialect suddenly sounded in the retreating crowd, and Yang Tuhai climbed up from the torrent-like crowd, looking at the surging robe Ze raised his right arm.
"Qi people——, array!" He shouted.
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Snow and dust shrouded the battle line between the two armies, and the Chu army could not see the rear of the Qin army's array, and the Qin army could not see the rear of the army array. However, the Qin cavalry who hooked up the snow and dust in the sky, looking at these snow dust, Liu Chi and others at the rear and Bai Lin who was at the forefront knew very well that this was their own cavalry breaking through the barrier of the enemy's two wings, and finally began to attack the enemy's flank.
Any military formation has weaknesses, and the weakness of the coalition army, at least in the eyes of the Qin shogunate, is the Qi army. It was agreed during the military discussion that after the left flank cavalry broke through, it was necessary to hook the flank of the right army of the coalition army or attack the artillery position of the right army of the Chu army, and mobilize the Chu army to reinforce Youque. The stronger right-wing cavalry with the domain cavalry saw the left-wing cavalry more than ten miles away hooking attack, and they would quickly break through the blockade of the Chu cavalry and suddenly unite the back of the army.
On the battlefield, the two armies could not communicate, but 'the dust is high and sharp, and the car comes; Only by virtue of the sharp snow dust stepped on by the cavalry on the left flank, Zhao Teng, the cavalry general on the right flank, knew the location of his comrades on the left flank. The snow and dust rose, and the cavalry that had been standing still in the rear rushed out in formation, and although the left wing of the Chu army abandoned the heel of the heel, although most of them were dragon horses, they could not be dispersed by the domain cavalry. The fierce battle consumed more than an hour, and the tired Ryoma could no longer catch up with the Qin Horse, who had been accumulating horsepower.
However, the plans of the shogunate's mastermind of the art of war, Takego Bei and others, did not end there. At the same time that the Qin cavalry hooked the back of the Qi army, the Qin army's foot soldiers also slammed the front of the Qi army, and attacked back and forth, and the Qi army, which had never had a strong will to fight, was about to collapse.
Bai Lin, the general of the former army, should have been consumed an hour ago, and the general of the rear army, An Qi, and even the general Wang Jian should directly command the frontal onslaught of the Qin army. This is not to consume the Qin soldiers of the first three formations, but the cavalry battle on both sides must go through more than an hour and nearly two hours of fierce fighting before the Chu army's dragon horse knights can be beaten and tired. The attack was determined by the degree of casualties and fatigue of the Chu knights, and it was the cavalry battle of the two armies that determined the rhythm of the Qin army's counterattack, not the infantry battle.
Bai Lin's mobile replenishment and flexible use of retreat tactics saved the fate of 300,000 Qin soldiers, who were consumed less and slower than the shogunate's advisors had anticipated. Although the Chu army's artillery bombarded, the 60-meter target was flanked by the Chu army's spear array, and even if it was a ten-pound long-barreled cannon, it was scattered several meters in the horizontal direction from a few hundred meters. Because of the double diameter, the horizontal dispersion of the short-barreled cannon is as high as more than 10 meters or even more than 20 meters. The real targets that the artillery could hit were only a dozen or twenty columns in the middle of the 60 columns. For a military array that was eight or nine miles wide, it was nothing more than a narrow slit.
Because of this, the shogunate changed the pre-war military discussion and handed over the actual command of the 470,000 infantry to Bai Lin, who commanded the long-awaited counterattack instead of the unconscious Wang Qian.
The rear of the Qi army rolled up snow and dust, screaming for help, and Bai Lin was standing on the wagon and looking at the huge armor warriors behind the battle line. This is the elite selected from the 600,000 Qin army, and their task is to break through the Qi army array in front of them and break through the coalition army formation. Under the cover of snow and dust, the last more than 200,000 Qin troops were all arrayed behind the Jujia Sharp Warriors, regardless of the Jujia armor and leather armor. They will follow the gaps that have widened by the Giant Armor Warriors, and revolt the entire enemy's central army and even the entire army formation.
Bai Lin, who was standing on the carriage, did not give an order, and the 30,000 armor sharps did not move. When the shouts of the Qi people from the opposite side rose to the top and the array of the Qi army in front of him loosened, he nodded to the drummers watching and said 'attack'.
"Attacking ——!" Compared to Bai Lin's exhaustion, the military officer shouted with a red neck. The weather is getting colder and colder, and Qin Jun, who has no first clothes, has frostbite on his cheeks and forehead, and he is red.
'Knock knock knock...... 'Knock knock knock' The building drum, which had been silent since the beginning of the war, sounded at this time, and before that there was only the drum of the coalition army. The sound of the drums was exciting, and the 30,000 warriors in the armor were aimed at the 700 columns of the Qi army, and the armor sounded in the middle of the steps. Yi spear pointed forward, and they advanced behind the Qin pawns who were desperately resisting the Qi army. Some of these Qin pawns were able to squeeze out of the gap in the array, but many more were stabbed to death by the advancing Giant Armor Sharps.
The panic from behind was greater than the enemy in front of him, and the Qin pawns, who had no way to exit the array, rushed forward frantically and attacked the Qi army array. However, there were also sharp spears in front of them, and although they continued to attack, most of them were still stabbed to death and fell to the ground. In the half-quarter of an hour of stabbing and pushing, most of the more than 30 rows of leather armor Qin soldiers who were sandwiched by the Qi army and the Ju Armor Warriors disappeared, trampling on the corpses of these Qin soldiers, and a sharp and piercing metal friction sound sounded in the battle line, and the Qi army array retreated again.
"Shoot!" The surviving crossbow general, Han Shen, once again shouted an order to the trebuchets lined up, and the charcoal-baked oil bombs rained down. '......Boom' The pottery urn burst into flames, and the hot oil burst into flames, and there was a sea of fire around the landing point, and the Qi pawns splashed with the fire oil on their bodies let out a seeping scream. The little hot oil splashed can be extinguished with the help of his comrades, and the splash can't roll in the array even if he wants to, so he can only be burned alive.
The firelight in the snow and dust attracts attention, and the Qi army has a huge armor warrior attacking in front of it, and a gray armor cavalry rushing into the formation behind, and the fire oil falling above the head. Qi pawns, who were much stronger than they had imagined, were still holding on, but no one knew how long they would be able to hold on. Seeing that Xiong Jing, who led the cavalry to rescue the Chinese army, was entangled by the Qin army's light cavalry, Zhuang Wudi could only give an order on his behalf and order the artillery array of the left army to the south to fire on the trebuchet.
The order was transmitted to the artillery position of the left army, and the artillery commanders sighed first when they looked at the shelling target. The artillery array was already 120 paces away from the line where the two armies were engaged, and the battle line advanced more than 170 paces to the east, and with the addition of the more than 100 paces from the battle line to the trebuchet, the distance of the artillery bombardment was already more than 400 paces. The shells fired from the short-barreled cannon were spread out too much, and most of the shells fired at this distance were lost.
But what if you don't fire? Wu Guang, the artillery commander closest to the Chinese army, sighed and cheered up and ordered: "The target catapult, one thunder bullet test shot, one millimeter ...... the letter tube, release!" ”
'Bang——! 'The test-fired shells came out of their disembowels, and the thunder shells exploded in the sky behind the battle line, without any chance.
"The target catapult, one thunderbolt test shot, one millimeter ...... the letter tube, release!" Wu Guang test-fired again. This time he could only be sure that the shell exploded when it landed, and the snow and dust obstructed it so that it could not be seen where the shell landed.
The Jujia warriors continued to advance, and the Qi army was defeated and retreated; Yang Tuhai's shout woke up the fleeing city guards, and their hastily formed array withstood the onslaught of the Grey Armor Domain Rider after Grey Armor; The fire oil bombs rained down, and there seemed to be a rain of fire above Qi Zu's head. And because the snow and dust of the Chu army's thunder bombs could not see the landing point, many of them exploded dozens of steps in front of the trebuchet, and only a small number of them landed near the trebuchet. For this attack, their biggest effect may be to wake up the fainting Wang Qian.
"The general, the general has woken up!" Fang Shi fell as he ran out of the carriage, but everyone was surprised by what he had said earlier.
"The general is awake?!" Liu Chi pushed away the others and rushed to Fang Shi to ask urgently.
"Awake." Fang Shi nodded again and again, "However, the general still needs to recuperate, and he can't suffer from the wind and cold anymore......"
Fang Shi didn't finish speaking, Liu Chi left him and went straight to the carriage where Wang Jian was. Those generals who were relieved of command immediately followed suit, but they were all blocked out of the car by the shogunate's short soldiers, and only the guard doctor Fusu and Bai Di Taifu were put in by Wang Luo, the general of the guard.
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