Chapter 9: The King 3

After waiting for more than two hours, the eight-meter-high wooden tower was successfully erected. Along the simple wooden ladder, Xiong Jing, who climbed to the top of the wooden tower, finally saw the enemy and our armies in the southeast of Chen Ying.

The Chu army led by Xiang Yan under the blazing sun was not facing west and facing east, but facing the southeast corner of Chen Ying, with an array of more than five kilometers wide, one end on the bank of the East Lake, and the other end just near Daze in the south of the city, and the soldiers in the front row were wearing bright armor, which was very dazzling in the sun. This should be a calculated position, and the military formation seems to be just across the lake.

The array of the Qin and Wei armies was about three hundred steps away from the Chu army, and they were next to the southeast corner of the Chen Ying city wall, and the army formation was wider, with the Wei army to the east and the Qin army to the west. Because they were covered by countless military flags, Xiong Jing couldn't count their lines, but they were obviously thicker than the Chu army.

It's a confrontation between two long walls. Xiang Yan moved his left wing sideways to the south of Chen Ying, avoiding the imminent westward setting of the sun, and at the same time taking advantage of the favorable wind direction. At the turn of spring and summer, Chen Ying's southeast wind would give the Chu army a longer range of arrows, while the Qin and Wei armies' arrows, if they still had enough strong crossbowmen to shoot a dense range of arrows, would have a shorter range than normal.

I don't know Xiang Yan's calculations and the number of Chu troops, Xiong Jing on the wooden tower can only speculate on the layout of the enemy and our armies. However, what he never expected was that his move of climbing the wooden tower would affect the direction of this war.

Seeing the familiar banner fluttering over the royal city, and seeing a person in a small armor standing on the wooden tower, the general of the Chu army raised Lu Lijing and looked at the person on the wooden tower.

"The king, too!" Deng Sui shouted loudly, and the others jumped up like a vertical son. "The Great King!!"

"The King?" The other generals also looked at the wooden tower, and although the soldiers did not have a mirror, they also looked up at the front. The noonday sun shone on Xiongjing's body, and the bright armor gave off a dazzling light.

"King! The king too! More and more soldiers shouted, and they stood straighter, their hands tighter. The long and short weapons were swung wildly, and the already scorching blood boiled again, and some people even burst into tears.

"My king! My King! My King! My King ......" Suddenly, Chu Shu restrained his excitement and began to drink in a low voice.

There was no order to advance, and not a single drum could be heard, but the front of the Chu army, which was more than five kilometers long, suddenly and automatically stepped forward - the soldiers did not want to wait any longer, they wanted the king to hear their shouts, they wanted to crush the Qin and Wei army that stopped them, and they wanted to express their loyalty with their blood and lives!

"My king! My King! My King! My King! My king ...... "The army is advancing by itself, and the commander and the commander cannot stop it."

"General!" The military Sima Peng Zong was shocked, and the military formation advanced without an order, and the previous arrangement was likely to fail.

"Enter!" Xiang Yan's pupils contracted, and he let out a long sigh helplessly as he looked at the figure on the wooden tower.

"Enter!" Peng Zong understood what he meant, and wanted to order the drummer to beat the drum immediately.

"No drumming." Xiang Yan said again. The morale of their own side is already boiling, and the army formation will really be chaotic if they beat the drum again.

"General!" The 100,000 Qin army was on the right side of the military formation, and Wei Yu heard the sonorous shouting of the Chu army, and he looked back at the fluttering banner above the royal city, and also let out a long sigh.

The six-kilometer front of 'Tom ......' could not be commanded by Meng Wu alone, and when Wei Yi sighed, Li Xinbu had already sounded all the drums. As soon as the drums sounded, the Qin and Wei armies all beat the drums. The officers' undulating orders were mixed with the sound of drums, and the crossbowmen rushed to the front of the formation, and the whole line began to stride forward.

The distance between the two long walls, which are more than five or six kilometers long, is more than 300 steps, which is not far away. When the last hundred paces were reached, the archers behind the Chu army also rushed to the front of the battle, wound their arrows, and prepared to release arrows at the approaching enemy troops.

The range of the bow was far better than that of a crossbow, and when it reached eighty paces, the officers of the Chu army in the front row shouted violently, and the arrows flew towards the enemy like a storm. Once the wind blows, it will not stop, although the number of archers of the Chu army is far less than that of the enemy crossbowmen, but they can shoot an arrow in two seconds, forcing the enemy army on the opposite side to raise their shields to block the arrows, while shouting and rushing over.

"Stop! Stop! "The commander of the Chu army is making one last effort. According to the military order, except for the 100 columns of the Chinese army, the rest of the Chu army was forbidden to gallop to meet the enemy. "Stop! Stop......" Each of the commanders shouted, and before they could finish shouting, the enemy's crossbow arrows rained down behind them, and the black arrows almost blocked the sky.

"Ahh Ah———" The commander was killed and wounded in front of his eyes, and the Chu army front that had been stopped advanced again, they crossed the archers in front of them, held their halberd spears, and rushed towards the enemy, and the enemy soldiers who were also rushing fiercely collided with each other.

"Boom-boom-" The left flank of the army formation was a continuous crashing sound, which was a violent collision between the shields of the short brothers.

"Ahh Ah...... "In the middle of the military formation and the right flank, there was no collision here, only the screams of Wei pawns. Their shields were pierced and pierced by the spear, and their bodies in leather armor were also broken by the spear in the hands of the Chu soldiers.

"Kill ——!" Blood is exciting. Military orders, formations, queues, these seem to have all been forgotten, and the whole world is only left with the killing in front of you. The spearmen were advancing, and so were the short-handed men in the front row of the county soldiers.

"Kill!" The Qin army's sharp soldiers have seen too many such fights, they are not as bloody as the Chu army, and some are just as cold as death. Lined up in a pure team, the initial impact was to see the gap under Chu Zu's armor and stabbed the front row of Ge to death. Before the halberders in the second row could swing their halberds, they cut off the woods.

When the halberdier drew the blade at his waist, the long beryllium stabbed hard. There was a loud 'dang', and both sides were surprised by the attack. The sharp man was surprised that his full blow did not penetrate the cuirass of the Chu people, and the halberdier was surprised that he was facing the Qin army's sharp soldiers.

"Ahh The two shouted almost at the same time, and when the blade sank into the waist and abdomen of the sharp soldier, the halberdier was also raised by him in the air, and he was thrown to the ground before he had time to draw the knife, and the long beryllium was cut down, completely unconscious.

"Kill!" The sharp man behind him took over the injured comrade who fell to the ground, and continued to chisel towards the Chu army array. 50,000 sets of armor, more than 5,200 columns wide, the first nine lines of the military formation have armor. Unlike last year's Battle of Qingshui, the Rui Shi could no longer defeat the Chu army array invinciblely, and each step forward had to pay the price of one or even several Rui Shi.

As Sharp swung his beryllium forward, the lone traveler standing behind them saw them, but he could do nothing about it. I only hope that my forty lines thick military formation can resist the attack of the Rui Shi before the Chinese army crushes the enemy army - he is after all Ruo Ao's family, although Xiang Yan did not explain the tactical intention of 'the left, center and right armies of this battle are not running, only this hundred columns can gallop to meet the enemy', but he understood after listening.

After the engagement, the central general of the Chu army, who was 'galloping to meet the enemy', stretched out a hundred steps. The hundred columns are the multiples of the fifty lines when the spear is charged. Once the 100 columns of the Chinese army rush out of 100 steps (or no 100 steps), and neither rush to the left nor right, a perfect inverted T is formed. These hundred columns of spearmen turned left and right, exactly the rushing formation of the Fifty Lines of Spear Formation, which could cross the flank of the enemy army or attack the enemy's flank. With the sharpness of the Yi spear formation, as well as the desperate rushing spears of three people in a row and three people in a row, he believed that even the Qin army would not be able to resist it.

The lone wanderer's heart hung in his throat, and he would watch the tall sharps turn the people under his command on their backs, and then look at the Chinese army a few kilometers away, hoping that the hundred spearmen over there would immediately charge the spears, and then the enemy army would be defeated. However, he could not see anything, because the entire front had unconsciously advanced and rushed violently, and the hundred columns of spearmen had not rushed out at all. The whole front is not an inverted T-shape at all, it is still the initial 'one' formation.

"General, how should this be?" Peng Zong looked at the spearmen who didn't rush out, and the whole person wanted to cry without tears. The advantage of the Razor Array is that it can ignore the flanks and rear, which is exactly enough to rush forward a hundred paces and then cross the enemy's left and right from the middle. Now it's okay, the whole army rushed violently, and although the hundred columns of spearmen also rushed forward, most of them were behind the array line, and the only benefit was to add eight or nine thousand reserves to Xiang Yan.

Everyone looked at Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan pursed her lips tightly, although she didn't speak, her back was already soaked. What can he do in this situation?! It was impossible for him to set back the time, and then carefully warned the Chu army not to be excited and not to rush forward.

"General, the left army is in danger!" After more than a dozen pure team of sharp soldiers chiseled through the Nine Elements Giant Armor Soldiers, the speed of breaking the formation suddenly accelerated, and the left flank array was already crowded, and the commanders, divisions, brigades, and generals were all shouting wildly.

"Pass my order: 20,000 kings and 5,000 elite soldiers will make up for it quickly!" Xiang Yan did not hesitate to use the only reserve in his hand. After 20,000 kings and 5,000 elite soldiers were dispatched, the remaining troops in his hands were probably only 4,000 people. There are too few of these people, which means that he no longer has the ability to control the battle situation, and can only sit back and wait for the victory and defeat to be decided.

"General, no." Peng Zong shouted, "As soon as the king goes, the Qin cavalry will attack me!" ”

"Go!" Xiang Yan shouted angrily. Whether the main general is important or the military formation is important, he knows very well in his heart. The left army formation is more than 1,250 columns wide, and 25,000 men have supplemented it, and a military formation with a width of more than 1,250 columns and 20 lines thick can be listed. The key is not the thickness, the key is that such a large-scale reinforcement greatly increases the confidence of their own soldiers, and at the same time, it can make the Qin army desperate - they have to face the desperate resistance of the huge armor and Chu soldiers after cutting through the forty marching formations.

"Xiang Yan's skills are poor." In the middle of the Qin army, Meng Wu was overjoyed when he heard the news, and the Chu army invested almost all its reserves into the left flank, and there were only about three or four thousand people left. Hundreds of thousands of battles, three or four thousand people can't change any outcome.

"The Admiral is in danger." On the wooden tower, Xiong Jing gradually became disappointed, and Lian Po on his side unconsciously worried. Outside the two armies, more than 10,000 cavalry of the Qin army were wandering like wolves, and they would soon launch a fierce attack on Xiang Yan.