Chapter 22: After the Battle

"Qin peopleβ€”" The shouting stopped abruptly, and by the last trace of twilight, the Qin army came. At first, there were three waves of arrow rain, and there were not a few people who were caught off guard by the Chu army's arrows and fell to the ground, including the military commander who shouted 'The Qin people are coming', and then they heard the roar and running steps of the Qin people when they charged, and in the unfinished twilight, they were like evil ghosts rushing out of a nightmare, knocking over the first few rows of Chu army armor soldiers as soon as they appeared, and then began to kill.

The left army was twenty lines deep as yesterday, and the onslaught of the Qin army broke through the front several lines in one go, and it was only in the fourth line that they encountered normal resistance, at this time they were no longer in a horizontal formation, but formed a group of five to fight with the Chu army. There are no armor soldiers in the fourth line of the Chu army, most of them are ordinary people dressed in sackcloth and geyi, they are not the opponents of the Qin army at all after a long time of sparse battle formation, most of them were stabbed by the Qin army without a few swings of the halberd, and they were cut off before they fell to the ground, and the scarf on the head was pulled out of the bun and scattered, and the hair was dragged out and tied to the waist, so it hung on the Qin army with blood, which became their war exploits.

It's not so shocking to be killed, but it's only panic to see the soldiers in the front row killed. The apprentice who had snatched his mind and was weak couldn't hear the shouts of the pawn commander behind him, and he couldn't wave his weapon, he just watched Qin Pawn walk with a cruel smile; The soldiers in the back row retreated willingly, and some even turned around to run, but unfortunately they were stabbed to death by the sword of the pawn commander at the back of the formation.

"Up! Above! The pawn commander brandished a bloody bronze sword and drove the retreating apprentices back, but most of them only dared to circle around the Qin people, either holding spears and stabbing desperately, or smashing them with their long guns, sometimes even hitting their own heads. Fortunately, the Qin people were right in front of their eyes, and when they stabbed and smashed indiscriminately, there was always a hit, and when they saw the injured Qin people bleeding or falling to the ground, the fear in their hearts gradually dissipated, and they turned to shout and fight with the Qin people.

What happened in the military formation could not be seen by the Xiong Jing located at the rear of the array. In the early morning when the twilight dissipated, he saw the Qin army in front of him rushing like a tide, and the army formation of the left army nearly a thousand steps wide was violently impacted by them. The array was trembling and retreating, the crushed hoarfrost made the withered grass wet, but the dust trampled out still shrouded the battle array, and everything was not very real, except for the back of the archers behind the formation, and the blades faintly waved overhead, everything else was indistinct, but the sound of fighting, shouting, and shouting was extremely clear.

At this time, the palace armor on both sides had already set up a formation, and the six hundred spearmen discharged a circle of one hundred meters and twenty meters long with five people in depth, and the two sword and shield hands were arranged in a wedge-shape, with fifty columns on each side and three people in depth. The two chariots on the left and right were holding the bear thorn riding a pony, flanked by feathers, and a few other swordsmen.

Xiong Jing is eyes stared forward with an expression of disbelief, he didn't expect Qin Jun to come as soon as he said it, didn't they need to line up? Fu also wanted to fight the side with cavalry superiority on the battlefield, and fought as much as he wanted. Because of the night, the Chu army could not even guarantee the last visual safety, and was caught off guard by the Qin army. He couldn't help but look back in the direction of the camp, the Qin army was so unexpected, could the Chinese army's retreat strategy still work?

Xiong Jing was unbelievable, Lian Po had just woken up from his sleep, he didn't see the sudden onslaught of the Qin army before the left army, all he saw was the two armies fighting together under the cover of dust. Although the army formation of the Chu army in depth of twenty lines trembled, it was not yet on the verge of collapse. He didn't turn his head to look at Xiang Yan's shogunate, but stood on the Rong chariot and looked into the distance with Lu Lijing, who was sent by Xiong Jing, wondering about the situation of the enemy and our army, and even trying to find out the flaws of the Qin army, and didn't care about the hasty right history on the other Rong chariot.

"The king, the minister's escort is late," behind the small array, an anxious Yang Yu rode his horse and galloped over, and with him rushed with four thousand palace sanitation. "The battle array is dangerous, please leave this place quickly."

"How dangerous?" The sky was finally bright enough to be seen far away, the left army was indeed being attacked by the Qin army, but the Chinese army and the right army were not fighting, and the Qin people were calmly arraying five hundred steps away.

"Putting β€”β€”!" The archers in the rear of the left army began to shoot, and their target was to meet the Qin army behind the enemy's line of engagement. Because the distance is very close, 10,000 archers are placed in ten columns, and when they order, 10,000 arrows break through the air, many arrows hit each other in flight, and some even fell on the head of the Chu army, but these arrows still want the life of the Qin army, when the arrow rain falls, the rear of the Qin army array is screaming, some people are directly shot to death, some people are injured, and some people are nailed to the ground by arrows, unable to move.

"Putting β€”β€”!" Another rain of arrows was fired, and the second shot was more accurate, and more arrows hit in the air, but more enemies were killed and injured when they fell, this time in addition to screaming, the rear column of the Qin army in the battle began to loosen, and more people wanted to rush into the Chu army array and get entangled with the Chu people.

"Putting β€”β€”!" A third wave of arrows rained down. As the rain of arrows flew into the sky, a chariot ran sideways in the gap between the array of archers and apprentices, and the officer on the chariot shouted loudly: "The king is behind the battle, the king looks at me and waits!" The king is behind the battle, and the king is watching me and waiting! The king is behind the battle......"

"The king is behind the battle? The king is behind the battle?! The soldiers who were still flustered couldn't help but look back, yes, they saw it, and when they saw the flag, they were floating behind the formation, and the king was behind the formation!

"The king is behind the battle! The king is behind the battle!! "Like an electric shock, countless people became excited and tyrannical.

"Putting β€”β€”!" I don't know how many arrows rain it is, in the rain of arrows, the sound of gold looms at first, and then it gets bigger and bigger, more and more urgent, this is the order of the Qin army to retreat. The Qin soldiers who were ordered to retreat gradually and slowly distance themselves from the Chu army, and the Qin soldiers who did not receive the troops from the Chu army took advantage of the next wave of arrows to retreat to their own formation.

"The Qin people have fled! The Qin people have fled! "At first, it was panic, but now it is excited, seeing the retreat of the Qin army, many apprentices chased after them with spears regardless of life and death. Because of their pursuit, the archers no longer fired arrows after the battle, in addition to avoiding accidental damage to their own troops, and more importantly, saving arrows - the great battle started in a hurry, and there were not many arrows available. But no one could have imagined that in the array of the right army of the Qin army, which was two hundred paces away and was directly opposite, countless bowstrings were being tightened, and a person who looked like an officer repeatedly shouted in the crossbowman queue: "Jing people one hundred and twenty steps!" One hundred and twenty steps! ”

The distance of the shot affects the angle of the shot, and although there is no scale on the lookout, the crossbowmen invariably raise the crossbow to the highest angle facing the lookout, and then wait for the officer's order. The winter morning and dusk shadow time is very short, at this time the sun has come out, the two armies face each other in the open space, the Qin soldiers are retreating, the Chu army in the rear is biting tightly, seeing the Chu army chasing closer and closer, the Chinese army's order flag waved, and the military officials around him shouted: "Enter, enter, enter......!" ”

The crossbowmen of the Qin army shoot differently from the archers of the Chu people, and the crossbowmen must stand in front of the formation when they shoot, and with the order of the military officer, the crossbowmen behind the armor soldiers pass through the gaps between the queues, and quickly line up in front of the formation, and before the third line is arranged, the military officer in front of the formation shouts again: "Shoot!" ”

Unlike the bowstring, the crossbow opens the string with the foot, and the string force is heavier than that of a bow with three or four stones. As soon as the hanging knife was wrenched, the crossbow string from the mouth of the tooth rebounded with a 'boom-', and the crossbow arrow flew at an oblique angle towards the Chu army who chased out of the array into the firing range.

"Not good!" The front row of the right army of the Qin army saw only the armor soldiers in front of the formation, and suddenly rushed out of several dense columns of crossbowmen, and the Chu army also urgently sounded gold, but it was still too late, and when the pursuing soldiers looked up, thousands of crossbow arrows fell rapidly, and there were countless arrows. When the rest of the people were about to retreat, another wave of arrows fell, and by the time the third row of crossbowmen finished shooting, the pursuing Chu army was either dead or wounded, and there was a scream.

When the Qin army withdrew, Xiong Jing was still interested in seeing the Chu army pursuing, but he didn't expect to be set on fire by the opponent's crossbowmen after chasing more than 50 steps. The Chu army is not as good as the Qin army, the Qin army has armor, and the Chu army has armor has been consumed in the sudden attack of the Qin army.

The Qin army seemed to run out of arrows, and after three rounds of shooting, they wound their crossbows on the spot, and then did another three rounds of shooting to ensure the results of their own beheading. Those soldiers of the Chu army who could not flee due to their injuries were once again hit by arrows, and their terrible screams could be heard by the whole army, and their comrades who were lined up in the formation fifty paces away could not bear to listen to it, let alone look at it.

"No way!" Lu Lijing saw that the Chu army soldiers who fell to the ground were almost shot into hedgehogs, and Xiong Jing finally couldn't help it. "Call the food shortage!"

"The last general!" Fan Que was the commander of the sword and shield hand who went out of the palace with Xiong Jing during the Yingdu rebellion, and he was already the general of the sanitation sword and shield soldiers when he was not dead.

"Go. Bring back all who are alive! Xiong Jing pointed ahead, where the screams continued.

"The last general commands." Although the military formation of the twenty lines was not chiseled by the Qin army, it was also full of holes after the pursuit, and there was no need for the commander to order the apprentices to get out of the way, and the two sword and shield men crossed the array and appeared in front of the formation.

The soldiers of the Chu army in the front row originally had a big shield, but this kind of big shield was completely different from the big shield in the hands of the sword and shield soldiers. Not only are the styles different, but the use is also different. When the 150 men in width set up their shields and formed a tortoiseshell formation less than two meters wide and twenty-five meters long, everyone was stunned.

"What kind of formation is that? How can it be so weird? The crossbow continued to shoot, and Yang Duanhe, the commander of the right army, saw a small Chu army standing out in front of the formation, and when he wondered what this small Chu army was going to do, he saw them forming a small formation with shields and marching towards his own army.

"Shoot β€”β€”!" The shield formations were moving very fast, and the unbelieving crossbowmen pointed at the two formations and ordered the crossbowmen to shoot.

The rain of arrows came again, but this time the arrows either bounced off the shield of the tortoiseshell array and landed on it, or it crackled on the shield. The unscathed small array was still moving forward, and Yang Duanhe shouted again and asked, "What kind of formation is this?!" ”