Chapter Ninety-One: The King's Banner
Within a quarter of an hour of entering the valley, drums sounded in the mountains and forests, and the whole army was shocked. When everyone reined in and prepared to return the same way, the Qin army at the mouth of the valley had already poured out, and they lined up a thick military formation at the mouth of the valley, with the chariots in front and the strong crossbows behind, and the military flags in the formation were lined up, firmly sealing the valley mouth that was not wide.
"Before!" The retreat was blocked, and they could only move forward, and everyone rushed forward for no more than two miles, and as soon as they turned the corner, they saw the Qin army in front of them. Gao Qijun on the right side of the valley, the last ray of sunset over the mountain peak just shone on the banner of the Qin general, and then the glow quickly sank into the other side of the mountain, and there was only the vast twilight between heaven and earth.
"Nakafushiya!" There were Qin troops blocking the front and back, and there were plateaus on both sides, and more than 1,000 people finally changed color.
"Bu Zhijiya?" Yu Jing's whole body was cold, but he still smiled at the corner of his mouth and asked Yi Tong.
"The general, please see King Jing." The drumming stopped, and a sound came out of the array of Qin troops opposite. Under the escort of countless short soldiers, Zhang Hanli's chariot slowly moved forward. He was careful, and after fifty steps he stopped going.
"If we can delay it until nightfall, we may be able to break out of the enemy's line." Li Qi hurriedly leaned over and suggested to Fei Jing.
"How can I wait until night?" Yi Tong didn't answer, and the smile on the corner of Fei Jing's mouth turned into a wry smile. The sun seemed to be setting, but in fact, because the peak on the right was too high, it was at least an hour before it got dark. There were only more than a thousand horsemen on their side, and they were trapped in the valley, and the Qin army had tens of thousands of people, and an hour was enough to end the battle.
Strange mountain forests, narrow river valleys. What Fei Jing didn't know was that this was the place where Qin Feizi was sealed between Huangwei and Wei, where the Qin people raised horses in the past. Later, 'Qin Wengong hunted between the east and the Wei, and the fortune of the dwelling', and the dream of the yellow snake fell from the sky, and its mouth was as far as Yan Yan'. From Qin Feizi to Qin Xiaogong's capital Xianyang, the capital of Qin moved a total of nine times, and this is the earliest capital of the Qin people.
Extended to later generations, this is also a place where soldiers must fight, the mountain that blocks the sun was once the arrow ridge of the Song and Jin bloody battles, but later, this ancient road of Huangshui has become the Fengjiashan reservoir, and everything for thousands of years has been submerged under the waves.
"General Concubine, the Qin people don't know Brother Wang, I can come forward and see you." Xiong Han, who was not far behind, heard the answer between the two and came immediately.
"Not at all!" Jing Fei said urgently, he has been guarding Xiong Qiang, and he will never allow Xiong Fierce to lose.
"Why not?" Xiong said loudly. "Brother Wang didn't fight, I'm not as good as Brother Wang, can't I see the Qin people at once?"
The young man, what he saw and heard was all heroic deeds, and he was already very ashamed that he had not killed a single Qin pawn along the way, and now that he had the opportunity to delay a little time for everyone, he couldn't wait.
"Where is King Jing?" There was no movement after the message, and Zhang Han couldn't wait.
"Not here!" Xiong shouted loudly, and his mount squeezed out of the knight's block, and galloped towards Zhang Han. The knights of Fu Jing and Jing Fei hurriedly followed, worried that the Qin people were cheating.
A young man with drooping hair and a tie in a coat galloped towards him, and in addition to the knights around him, there was also a person from the Red Temple. The young man was fair-skinned, his immature face was tense, and his dark eyes were looking at him, fearless. Zhang Han belonged to the Shaofu and was very familiar with the king's clothes and accessories. Just by seeing the color and texture of the robe, I knew that this must be a prince, and then looked at the wide jade belt around the waist and the white jade group, and I was even more sure that this was not the pretending King Jing.
It's just that this King Jing still seems to be missing something, something that Zhang Han can't imagine. It was hard for him to believe that this was the King of Jing who fought before he could fight, defended the lonely city, and defeated the Qin army several times, and he didn't even have the ruthless temperament of a person crawling out of a pile of corpses.
"King Jing?" Zhang Han was wondering who this person was, and Xiong Han had already rushed to the nearest place.
"Please come forward and say something." Xiong Han stopped outside the range of the crossbow and spoke to Zhang Han.
"The general must not come forward." Zhao Yong was Zhang Han's protector, Xin Wu was killed by the Jing people's iron cavalry, and Mengwu was killed by the Zhao cavalry taught by the Jing people, and he was very worried that Zhang Han would also be killed by the Jing people's iron cavalry when he stepped forward - when the Chu army rode heavily, the knights and war horses separated, and just now, they had just merged into one.
"The last general of the Jing State Iron Cavalry is deeply afraid and does not dare to step forward." Zhang Han told the truth, but such a truthful statement made General Qin shake his head again and again. According to Qin Law, this is already a reputation enemy. "The king has seen, our army of 50,000 generals have been waiting here for a long time, if the war, the king is not victorious, it is better to surrender, the king of Qin will treat the king and the generals with princely courtesy."
"How can you believe the general's words?" Xiong Han did not mean to refuse to surrender, but asked further.
"The King of Qin has already ordered it." Xiong Han's rhetorical question was surprising, and he did not refuse to surrender.
"Please see you?" Xiong Han said again, "If there is indeed a statement, don't believe it." β
"The order is stored in Xianyang, and the king and the last general should be seen going to Xianyang." Zhang Han was already reluctant.
"If you don't go to Xianyang, what's the difference between it and being captive?" Xiong said. "If the general wants to fight, please fight."
"General, this is a delaying ploy." Wei Yi is not there, but his disciple Wang Ao is. "And this person is not King Jing."
"Not King Jing?" Zhang Han also felt that this person was not King Jing, but he was similar in age and was a royal family, so it was difficult for him to determine.
"Yes, yes." Wang Ao shook his head after being stunned. He finally remembered someone: "I heard that King Jing has a younger brother who is about the same age as him, born to Concubine Li. In the past, Yang Wenjun wanted to make him king, but he was defeated and killed. β
"Is that so?!" Zhang Han felt that the person in front of him was not King Jing, but he hoped that he was. If it weren't King Jing, he would just be a royal son, and even if he was taken captive, it wouldn't be a big achievement.
The land of Huangwei is more than 300 miles away from Xianyang, and Zhang Han was tired of killing many Qin army warships to transport more than 10,000 people here. Gathering the defenders from all over Yongcheng, Chencang, and Yucheng, as well as the fifteen-year-old man who had not yet been registered, he barely managed to gather 50,000 people. spent so much effort to capture only one prince of Jing, and only killed more than 1,000 people in the Chu Zhao and Qin armies, maybe he would have to be demoted.
"If the king is willing to surrender, please surrender, the king of Qin will treat him with princely courtesy, if he is not willing to surrender ......" Zhang Han's words are not finished, but the meaning is already over. His chariot slowly retreated under the escort of countless short soldiers, unwilling to say more.
"Can you shoot?" Fei Jing looked at Cheng Kui who was holding a longbow,
"No." Cheng Kui has been thinking about this for a long time. "There's a shield."
The short soldiers who approached the chariot were all shields in their hands, and he believed that as soon as he stepped forward, these men would raise their shields to protect them.
"Retreat!" If you can't shoot the enemy's main general, you can only break out of the encirclement on your own. Fei Jing escorted Xiong Han back, and at this time, the drum beat again, and the Qin army that had already entered behind him beat the drum together with the Qin army who was close in front of him. The echo of the valley made the drums more violent, and the mountains and forests on both sides also appeared at this time, and everyone was surrounded by regiments.
"Light Ride and Dismount!" Fu Jing's helpless order, the space is getting narrower and narrower, and the cavalry is no longer able to gallop and attack.
"Array ββ!" The commanders of each pawn ordered, thirty cavalry as one pawn, six pawns as a brigade, together with sappers and baggage, more than 300 Chu troops lined up a spear array, and only two heavy cavalry were still on horseback.
The Chu army was in battle, and some of the knights in the Zhao army wanted to rush out while the Qin army had not yet been completely surrounded and killed, but before they could get close to the Qin army, they shot a rain of arrows from the crossbow - unlike in the south of Xianyang City, at this time the Qin army's military formation turned into a sandwich biscuit, a layer of contradictory hands, followed by a crossbowman, and a contradictory hand at an interval of about twenty steps, followed by a crossbowman.
Contradictory refusal, strong crossbow shooting, this is the formation that Zhang Hanxin came up with. This kind of formation is similar to the stacked formation of Wu Rank against the Jin Iron Cavalry a thousand years later, and the only drawback is that the Qin army does not have a good pair of armor.
"Array! Array! "The valley was narrow, and the Qin army appeared on both sides again, this time it was really surrounded and killed, and Li Qi had to order the Zhao army to also line up. The Qin army, which had already advanced to fifty paces away, gave an order, and the crossbow arrows flew violently, and the war horses that were hit by the arrows jumped wildly and neighed.
"Shoot ββ!" The first layer of crossbowmen was wound immediately after shooting, and the next few layers of crossbowmen had already rushed up. The arrows fell again, and the horses were even more frightened, but fortunately, these arrows could not penetrate the armor except for making a muffled sound on the armor. After several fierce battles, the Qin army also knew very well that it was difficult for crossbow arrows to penetrate the Jing people's huge armor, and instead of constantly shooting arrows, it was better to take advantage of the Zhao army's failure to complete the formation and rely on infantry to rush and kill.
"Attack!" After the four shots, the order to impact was given by Zhang Han, and the first layer of Qin soldiers dressed in stone armor rushed in.
"Ready-" A familiar voice sounded in Chu Jun's ears, and more than three hundred people raised their spears over their heads. It's just that after a long time, no order to rush the spear came. Some people looked sideways and realized that it was the Zhao army that had not finished the formation.
The knights of Zhao Jun are Lou Fu and Lin Huhu, and then they are the sons of the nobles of the public ministers. The former can't learn spear formation tactics, and the latter disdains to learn spear formation tactics, so he is now in a hurry.
If your own army does not rush to the spear, the Qin army has already rushed quickly. Suddenly, the soldiers of both sides collided together. More than a thousand people can only list a circle formation that is fighting on all sides. Under the violent impact, the circle suddenly contracted inward, and the arrows in the air rained down for a while. The Zhao army, which was caught off guard, was rushed open by the Qin people, and the heavy knights of the Chu army, who had already dismounted, had to counterattack with their spears and drive out the Qin soldiers who rushed in.
The sound of the armor was continuous, and the shouts of killing were endless, and Zhang Han's heart, which had been hanging for several days, slowly fell to the ground at this time. The two armies of Chu and Zhao have been besieged to death, even if ten people are exchanged for one, they can consume them with 50,000 people, but it is a pity that King Jing is not killed.
Zhang Han knew the truth, so he regretted it. Qin Jun, who didn't know the truth, was crazy. They didn't even shout, 'Kill King Jing, worship the Marquis, and seal ten thousand households', everyone went forward one after another, rushing into the circle formation, the corpses quickly piled up, and in less than half an hour, Chu Zhao's soldiers wanted to look up to the Qin soldiers who rushed down from the heights.
The spear had long been broken, and the entire circle was getting smaller and smaller. After cutting down a Qin pawn, the bloodied Concubine Jing exhaled deeply, and just as he was gasping, the crossbow arrow shot at close range shot at the side of his head. The arrow pierced through the iron sheet, but not the chain mail under the iron sheet, but the blow still made his ears ringing and dizzy, and he fell down with a smileβand before the last trace of consciousness left, he saw the royal flag fluttering in the wind not far away.