Chapter 115: The Sound of the Cymbals
In the north of Xiangcheng City, on the north bank of what was later known as the Cultural River, the Qin army opened its own position. This was not expected by the Chu army, nor was it expected by the Chu army. As expected by the Chu army, the Fencheng fortress is not infinitely wide, Li Mu defeated the Qin army in Jingcheng that year, the Qin army rushed into Jingcheng, Jingcheng is not infinitely wide, part of the Qin army can retreat into Jingcheng, but most cannot, they can only squeeze outside Jingcheng and wait for death.
The situation is the same today. There are still more than 300,000 left of the 400,000 Qin army, and it is impossible for these more than 300,000 Qin troops to pour into Fencheng in an instant. Maybe it will take half a day, maybe it will take a whole day, and they will be able to enter the Fencheng Saine. The Qin army on the periphery will inevitably form a formation to resist and wait to enter the fortress, but in the case of defeat, it is difficult for the soldiers to do this.
Unexpectedly, the Qin army did not choose to line up outside the Fencheng Sai, but chose to line up on the Yingshui tributary. Although this is more dangerous (farther away from Fencheng Sai), it is precisely because it is more dangerous that the soldiers will work together. The closer the hope of life is, the easier it is for the army to collapse, but the whole army is in the dead ground, and no one has any hope of escaping, but it is easy to arouse the fighting spirit of the soldiers.
Because of this, it was discovered that the Qin army was arrayed in the north of the Yingshui tributary, and the Chu army immediately withdrew the few repulsions on the other side of Yingshui, so as to create a situation in which the rear of the Qin army was unhindered and flat. At this time, the cavalry of the Qin army rushing out of the direction of Fencheng also began to drive out the Chu cavalry on the north bank of the tributary. One rides a number of horses, and those who ride dragon horses are not afraid; One ride against a dozen horses, dozens of horses, dragon horses and horses will also suffer, even if they are unwilling, they are also driven out of the north bank of the tributary by Qin horses.
The cavalry battle outside of the battle was only a prelude to the whole battle, and both sides were more concerned with how to concentrate more troops before the engagement. The four divisions of the Ying division, the twenty-four divisions at the east and west ends of Shoushan, and the six divisions of the right flank fighting Yu Pheasant, the Chu army gathered a total of thirty-four divisions, and eight divisions did not arrive. In addition to this, there were two or three lieutenants of the Zhao army, and the number of soldiers was about 230,000, including 15,000 cavalry.
The Qin army was no longer the 400,000 men it had before, the right army was completely annihilated, five lieutenants were lost, two lieutenants of the Chinese army were defeated, and the left army also lost one or two lieutenants in the diversion battle, and the remaining strength was at most 310,000. If the cavalry hadn't been for a cavalry of thousands of people sent out by Fen Chengsai, I am afraid that at this time it would have been 'surrounded' by the two armies of the Chu army.
The disparity in strength between the two sides was not too great, and the eight Chu divisions and 50,000 Zhao troops who were encircling and annihilating the Qin army did not arrive, and once these troops arrived, the result would be that the Chu army would outnumber the Qin army. Therefore, as long as the Qin army did not retreat, the Chu army was willing to wait rather than rush to attack. However, the strange thing is that the Qin army was just as happy to wait, and they did not attack or retreat immediately.
Wearing a huge iron armor of 70 catties on his body, and holding a spear of 20 catties of two zhang and four feet in his hand, in order to save the physical strength of the soldiers, one after another the soldiers were ordered to sit on their feet, and at the same time allowed the soldiers to eat dried meat and drink a certain amount of salt water. Because the dried meat has always been in the arms, it carries the warmth of the body, and the water bladder is not. In order to prevent the clothes from soaking, the water bladders are all carried on the outside of the clothes, and the weather is cold, and the water is also cold.
Heifu chewed on the warm dried meat, chewed a piece and poured half a mouthful of cold salt water, and held it in his mouth until the water was not so cold before swallowing. No one spoke in the array, everyone ate meat and drank water like Heifu, and the battlefield was like an execution ground, maybe this would be his last meal in the world.
However, there were also people who were quietly sobbing in the gobbling up, some muttering prayers for the Great Priest's orders, and some clinging to each other to ...... the hundred soldiers who had begged from the witch. As long as these sounds are not loud, they will open one eye and close one eye when they are long and long. Who is not afraid of death?
"Black, black, black......" The startled voice sounded behind him, and he never called Brother Heifu.
Heifu put down his pussy and turned to look at his brother behind him. He was seven rows away from Hef, and the brothers were talking from six men apart, but the one in the middle was unheard. He saw that his brother's face was pale, and his eyes looked like dead, dull and empty. As his lips moved, he wanted to say louder but couldn't say it louder, and Heifu couldn't really hear it.
"If, if I am sick, the bride and the wife, the bride and the concubine ......" the younger brother choked up, he did not worry about his wife and daughter. He was worried that if he died, his wife would remarry someone else, and his daughter would be left alone.
"Alas!" Heifu sighed and persuaded, "You are at the end of the battle, how can you be sick!" ”
The array of fifteen people in depth was shocked to the fourth row from the bottom, and the black man was in the eleventh row from the bottom, that is, the fourth row in order. In the battle between the two armies, the first three platoons are the most prone to casualties, so the brave in the first three platoons can become honored soldiers.
“… The bride and the concubine... It's all up to you......" Hefu's words were shocked, but he seemed to have temporarily lost his ability to speak, and he didn't know what Hefu's words meant. When he was about to say anything more, the drum suddenly sounded, and the Qin army attacked.
"All of them! ——! "The shouts of the pawn commander were louder than the overwhelming sound of the Qin army's drums, 'Boom, boom, boom...', after a series of loud clashes, the soldiers who sat down got up when they heard the order.
In the distance, the Qin army that crossed the tributary flooded in, and the thunderous cannon sound immediately rang out. Heifu heard the sound of artillery, and in a trance, he also saw the smoke of gunpowder emitted when the artillery was fired, but he did not see the artillery crushing the attacking Qin army as the legend said-300,000 Qin troops, the width of the array reached twenty miles, and in the face of such a wide front, more than a hundred artillery pieces were a drop in the bucket.
Of course, the ordinary soldiers did not understand this, and Heifu did not think that the battle could be won by the artillery soldiers. He silently recited the blessing of Da Sima, and the military order came again, "All the pawns are there!" End - spear! ”
Compared with other Chu divisions and brigades, the newly formed twelve divisions did not have archers. Without the password of the archer officer, the password of the archer salvo was missing, and because the artillery could not move the position when firing, the entire Chu army array was waiting for the Qin army to attack. The soldiers of the newly formed division and brigade raised their spears early, and Doubei, the commander of the army in front of the formation, suddenly felt a little worried when he looked at the attacking Qin army.
Artillery was a sharp weapon of the Chu army, but it was never really used in large-scale battles. The Battle of Bailuyuan was not, and neither was the Battle of Weinan. At this time, all their artillery was placed in front of the Ying division, but the Qin people avoided the position of the Ying division. In other words, the army formation attacked by the Qin people was broken into two, and the section of the Qin army that should have been in front of the Ying division fell far behind the Qin troops on both sides for several miles.
The rupture of the Qin army's formation is a good thing for the Chu army, if the cavalry can take advantage of the gap to enter, then it can slam its belly and back, but unfortunately the cavalry is all concentrated on the right flank and cannot grasp this fatal gap - compared to the depth of the Qin army's twenty-five people, the depth of the Chu army's fifteen people makes the military formation wider, and the left wing without cavalry is seven or eight miles beyond the Qin army at the western end.
The Qin army took the initiative to line up in battle and took the initiative to attack; Is Li Xin so stupid to allow a three-mile-long vacancy to be created in the middle of the front, and to let his right flank be seven or eight miles short of the left flank of the Chu army (which means that the flanks are outflanked)? Doubei didn't believe it.
Believe it or not, the Qin army was striding forward, and he had to give the order to end the spear. When the Qin army was already within 100 paces, the divisions and brigades equipped with archers began to order to shoot, and he could only order again: "All the pawns!" Ready! ”
After the end of the spear, the spear must be raised, and after the spear is raised, the sprint. The Qin people in front of him were getting closer and closer, and the arrows kept falling into the Qin army's array, and their own side was also within the range of the Qin pawn's one-armed crossbow. At that moment, however, the sound of cymbals rang out.
The moment the cymbal sounded, Doubei suddenly felt a little dizzy in his head, and he felt that he was hallucinating. It's a pity that it's not an illusion, it's a real sound. The Qin army did strike the copper cymbal, and almost all of them retreated at a distance of about fifty paces from the Chu army's front. The reason why it is said that it is almost is because the Qin army, which is in front of the Yingshi division and lagging behind the whole army's front, is rapidly advancing.
In order to prevent artillery strikes, the Qin army's battle line facing the artillery position was broken and vacant, and the Qin army, which should have been standing in this section, was two or three miles away. Rao is like this, within the effective killing range of the shells, this section of the Qin army still suffered heavy casualties, but it was far from the point of collapse. Now that the whole army had withdrawn, they hurried forward in an attempt to fill the gap in this three-mile long section.
didn't make up for it before, that is, the Chu army did not attack before, and having a gap is equal to not having a gap, and it can avoid artillery strikes; The reason why it is necessary to make up for it when retreating is because the Chu army will definitely attack at this time.
"Kill ——!" Seeing the retreat of the Qin army, the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded unexpectedly. From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there was an interval of one year, and the generals also regretted it for a year, and the Chu army must not let the Qin people escape from their noses again. With this shout of killing, the rumbling cannon stopped, and the Chu pawn holding the spear high was like an arrow from the string, rushing towards the retreating Qin army.
The shouts were deafening, as were the footsteps of the pursuit. Heifu, who was in the fourth row holding a spear aloft, couldn't help but shout with the crowd, and also chased after his comrades in the front row. At this time, he could not hear anything, he could not feel anything, and his mind was full of visions: one moment it was a mother with hard work, another time it was a woman who married someone else, another time it was a cypress who asked for debts to make meat soup, and another time it became the vicious dog barking at him in the sorghum field......
As he ran, Heifu's breathing became more and more rapid, and his steps became heavier and heavier. Just when he thought his heart was about to jump out of his chest, a continuous 'pop' sound sounded. The comrade in front of him suddenly stopped, and he hit him on the back, and there was a strong force behind him, and someone hit him on the back.
The collision between his comrades was familiar to him, and he was truly surprised by the sudden shock of his hands holding the spear high, and the spear almost flew out of his hand, and at the same time a bloody spearhead stabbed him in the shoulder armor, making a piercing metal rattle, and death was only an inch away from him.
"Kill!" The fleeing Qin army was finally caught up by the Chu army, and the spears of the two armies were first raised high and slapped, and then viciously stabbed each other. Some were pierced and strung up by spears, and some were stabbed and bled by spears. The blood was piercing, the soldiers were furious, and the black man who had no illusions in his mind but was blank held his spear high, and whether he could stab the enemy or not, he stabbed forward with all his strength.
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