Chapter 35: Realization 2
In order to let the princess understand the formation, the king ordered the avant-garde to meet the enemy to practice, and the order to accept the order did not hesitate, and Zhuang Quji, who was guarding the two, did not hear it - his task was to protect the king, not to intervene in the war.
Only Chang Jiang beside Xiong Jing shook his head. The king did everything right, this is the idea instilled in childhood, but in the eyes of others, this is not the case. For example, if they know about this matter, who knows what will be in the history books.
In the post house on the west bank of Huaishui, Xiong Jing did not get out of the car, he kept staring at the map of Jiyi in a daze, intending to find a way to survive from it. According to the judgment of the geographical personnel of Dasima Prefecture, if there is a fifth road in the Jiyi Basin, it can only be the moon water, or the unknown stream north of the Huaishui next to the post station, and it may be possible to find a way to trace the water all the way north.
But is it moon water or this unknown water? Closing his eyes, the map of Jiyi had been seared into Xiong Jing's heart, and it was difficult for him to judge which one was really the way to live, perhaps the result of tracing the water to the north was to be trapped in the mountains and surrounded by the Qin army. Of course, it was not up to him to choose which water to go north. The Chu army did not have the means to cross the river on this trip, he was between the moon and Huai Shang and could choose between the two waters, if he waited until he crossed the moon water and went to the west of Jiyi City to make a difficulty, then he could only walk along the moon water to the end.
"I can only resign myself to fate." Xiong Jing muttered to himself, and looked at the moon water in the distance and was about to close the window, when he suddenly found that a person dressed as a Qin official not far from the window was looking at him in a daze, this person seemed to have seen it somewhere and as if he had never seen it before. Seeing him, the man quickly bowed his head, turned around and hurried away.
"Fenfen!" There was a furious shout from outside the car, and as soon as he shouted, the man sprinted, and finally jumped on a mount and rode away.
"What?" The journey was extremely calm, but as soon as Concubine Jing shouted like this, the hairs on Xiong Jing's back immediately stood up.
"Your lord, this Chu is treacherous." It was Xiang Chao's voice, he remembered that he had killed this traitor with a knife, but he didn't expect him to be alive.
"Your Majesty, it's urgent! It's urgent! "Yu Jing rushed over," Yu Fen is the boy of Yingdu Yuan, and his ministers have served the king on horseback. He must have come to test the truth of the king for the Qin people. The Qin people will also be in the future. ”
"How long will it take! Array! Xiong Jing was also anxious, last night Yong Li had already sued the alliance for fraud, and he must not go. The Qin people sent Chu traitor over at this time, naturally as Fu Jing said, to test the truth and falsehood. That Chu traitor served him on horseback, and he must have recognized himself.
"Array!" Xiong Jing's royal order quickly turned into action, and the knights of the Chu army, who were feeding the horses and water, immediately drew their swords and stabbed the escorting Qin pawns to death, and the four-wheeled carriages that were already marching side by side approached one after another to form two car walls. The sword slashed, the reins on the wheel of the carriage were broken, and the horses were all pulled into the wall of the carriage. The side boxes of the carriage were also opened, and the torsion trebuchets and fire oil bombs inside were all exposed, and some of the carriages were equipped with the latest horse chain mail, and one hundred and twenty heavy horsemen had to be armored at once.
"Why is that?" Shou Lingjun rushed over, his face was full of panic, and he shouted, "King, why is this? ”
"Knock knock...... didn't need Xiong Jing to answer, the Qin army's building drum had already sounded, and the drum echoed in the valley, and the ears were full of drums. The knights who were killing the Qin soldiers shouted even more urgently, and they pointed at the Qin people east of Huaishui and shouted: "Rapid fire bombs, quick fire bullets!" Stop the Qin people! ”
Seeing that the fire bullets did not fire, under the leadership of Concubine Jing, more than 100 knights hurriedly mounted their horses and rushed to the wooden bridge on the Huaishui River.
"Kill!" The Chu army took the lead in attacking and thus seized the opportunity, the wooden bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Huaishui was not wide, more than 100 horsemen rushed over, and under the sharp blade of the spear, the Qin pawns on the wooden bridge were either knocked over or assassinated.
"Put!" The torsion trebuchet finally threw the first fire oil bomb. Although the torque tendon has been strengthened, its range is not at all comparable to that of a gravity trebuchet, only a hand-thrown oil bomb can be thrown at a distance of 120 paces, and the standard 10 kg fire oil bomb has a range of only 50 steps.
"Boom——! Boom ——! The fire oil bombs fell on the east bank of the Huaishui one by one, and the Qin soldiers came out of the mountains and forests on both sides of the road like a magic, and they wanted to rush across the wooden bridge, but they were suppressed by the fire oil bombs. The weather was dry in early autumn, and the wooden bridge quickly burned under the ignition of fire oil bombs. The Qin pawn on the other side of the river is not rushing, nor is he not rushing, so he can only release crossbow arrows at Fei Jing and others on the other side of the bridge.
"King!" Yu Jing was in charge of the wooden bridge behind him, and Xiang Chao pointed forward at this time. In the distance on the left, in the direction of Jiyi, the dense Qin army armor was like a moving endless long wall, rushing quickly along the moonwater, and the sound of footsteps almost overshadowed the drum. Between the long walls, countless military flags fluttered, and a large flag with the word 'Li' written on it was the most conspicuous.
"It's Li Xin!" Xiong Jing smiled, he had fought many times, and most of the generals of the Qin army were familiar to him.
"Please go first, the king!" Xiang Chao said suddenly, he couldn't estimate how many Qin troops were rushing over, but these Qin soldiers were overwhelming, and they would soon surround themselves in the corners of this landscape.
"The king can't go!" Shoulingjun stood for a long time before coming back to his senses. "Please ask the king to ask the king of Qin for his guilt."
"The king goes first!" Xiang Chao shouted angrily, "If you don't leave, it's too late!" ”
"The king can't go! The king must not go! Shoulingjun threw himself in front of Xiong Jing and hugged Xiong Jing's legs. If the state of Chu does not establish a new monarch, the king of Qin will never give up. Invite the king and his ministers to go to Xianyang to ask the king of Qin for their guilt. ”
"This is your peace?! You knew that the alliance was cheating?! Xiong Jing looked at him and sneered, it turned out that the negotiation of peace was to imprison himself in Xianyang.
"Otherwise, Qin Chu will never be able to make peace!" Shou Lingjun looked up at Xiong Jing. "Please go to Xianyang with your ministers, and Zhong Ming Ding will eat ......"
"Coward!" Xiong Jing scolded angrily, the thin sword on his waist came out of the sheath, and a sword stabbed into Shoulingjun's neck, and when the sword was drawn, the hot blood in the arteries burst out and splashed him. This was Xiong Jing's first murder, and he didn't feel any gagging or discomfort, he only couldn't suppress his anger.
"King!" Xiang Chao pointed forward with his sword, and hundreds of steps away, the Qin army had already changed formations. They straddled between the moon and the Huai water, turning into a horizontal formation and pressing towards themselves step by step. The post station is at the foot of Dafu Mountain, and the left and right are sandwiched by two waters, and there is no way to escape from the ascension to heaven.
"Get out!" Xiong Jing put on his iron jacket and jumped onto the horse, and hung the stirrup rings exposed from his knees on the stirrup hooks on both sides of the saddle. At this time, his slender sword was still dripping with blood, and Shou Lingjun was lying on the ground, his unclosed eyes still looking at him reluctantly.
Taking advantage of the short gap between the Qin army's advance, one hundred and twenty horses were all saddled in armor, and these horses were the mounts of the heavy cavalry, and when Xiong Jing got on the horse, the heavy cavalry armor had already mounted the horses one by one, and the light cavalry took out the oil bombs from the carriage and set fire to all the carriages, leaving none of them for the Qin people. The Qin army in the distance refused to stop a single step, and their military formation, which was more than a kilometer wide, was close to the woods on the west bank of Yueshui and Huaishui, leaving no gap. After the military formation, there was also a surprising Qin cavalry.
"The King?" One hundred and twenty heavy cavalry had been lined up in four neat rows, and Xiang Chao, who was at the front, looked back at Xiong Jing and shouted.
"Rush!" Xiong Jing pointed forward with his sword and ordered the cavalry to charge. He could see that the array of Qin army's foot soldiers did not look thick, and the real enemy should be the cavalry behind the array, which was the key to preventing him from getting out of trouble.
"Drive!" The four rows of heavy cavalry did not move, and only light horsemen with bows and arrows and fire oil bombs in their hands rushed out.
"Shoot ——!" Seeing the enemy's cavalry rushing forward, the advancing Qin infantry had to stop. The crossbowmen in the front row aimed at the galloping Chu cavalry and prepared to release arrows, while the soldiers in the back row held long soldiers to resist the enemy.
The range of the crossbow was not very far, and before they could pull the crossbow machine, the feathered arrows fired by the light cavalry's three-stone bow burst into the air. However, the three rows of crossbowmen did not mess up at all, even if they were hit by arrows, they endured it and shot the crossbow arrows in their hands at the Chu knights who rushed into the range.
The rain of arrows is in front, and the fire bullets are behind. The knights of the Chu army who were about to throw fire oil bombs in the front row were all hit by arrows, but they were not afraid of crossbow arrows with chain mail under the ring armor, only the mounts without armor jumped and neighed wildly after being hit by the arrows, and threw more than a dozen knights off their horses.
"Sure enough, it's an iron knight!" Before the Chu army's light cavalry attacked, Li Xin, who was on the chariot behind the Qin army's formation, couldn't help but whisper. From the moment he received the news in the morning, he sensed King Jing's intentions: King Jing would ride a horse, and the 400 cavalry accompanying him into the country must be the huge armored iron cavalry of Chen Cheng, and only that iron cavalry was the most powerful force of the Jing people, so as to escort King Jing out of Jiyi safely.
"King Jing can't escape!" The sword of the rider Xin Sheng was unsheathed, and he looked up at the blue sky, as if to comfort his uncle's spirit in the sky.
"The king has a life, and the king of Jing can't be killed!" When Li Xin was ordered in Xianyang, Zhao Zheng had already explained that King Jing must be alive.
"Then I'll kill all the horses!" Xin Sheng drank vigorously, and the sword in his hand swung rapidly.
"General, I only need those armors." The Yiqu Duck is also on one side. During Chen Ying's time, the Yiqu cavalry fought with the Chu army's iron cavalry, and the only criticism that the Yiqu knights criticized was that the Qin army did not have huge armor, so the Yiqu cavalry never forgot those armors.
"If King Jing is wrong, he will take you and others to ask for guilt!" The light cavalry of the Chu army had begun to charge, and Li Xin told him again when he waved back the generals.
"Ah——! Fire, fire! "The fire oil bombs in the hands of the light cavalry finally smashed down on the Qin army array, even if some knights fell to the ground, more than one hundred horsemen and one rider two, and the remaining more than three hundred fire oil bombs were enough to cause the chaos that the heavy cavalry wanted to attack.
The screams and flames were not extinguished, and the first two teams of thirty cavalry and a platoon of heavy cavalry had already begun to trot. The knight wore an iron jacket and a ring of iron armor, and the mount was clad in the latest chain mail, and the heavy load made the horses gasp heavily. Because there were still a hundred paces to go, the riders' spears were still erected, and the three-headed wind banner made of red silk under the tip of the spear looked like a ball of fire.