Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Brave and the Faithful
More than 100 heavy cavalry ploughed over where Xin Wu was, and then rushed to the fence outside the Qin camp, and more than a thousand light cavalry followed closely behind him. Before the last arrow in front of him could hit the ground, the heavy cavalry that turned the horse's head ploughed from behind.
Even if there was no spear, the collision of the war horses, the trampling of iron hooves, and the harvesting of cavalry knives also caused heavy casualties to the short soldiers guarding and the generals of the Qin army who could not dodge. At this time, the three-kilometer-long array of Qin troops under the city was in early chaos, and some of the five hundred lords who were close to them hurriedly led their troops to come to the rescue, and they happened to encounter the heavy cavalry that had once again plowed over Xinwu's short soldiers.
The infantry formed a military formation, and the Qin army that rescued the scene was loosely formed, and the front row cavalry turned the flag in his hand, and more than 100 heavy cavalry rushed towards the officer's position. Just like killing Xin Wu just now, the Qin pawn either flew or fell to the ground and was trampled by iron hooves when the war horse hit, and the five hundred lords on the chariot were still shouting and forming a formation, and they were suddenly killed by the cavalry knife that flew sideways. As soon as the officer died, the Qin soldiers below were scattered, and they dared to rescue the commander, so they only ran back to the camp behind the fence.
"This is the king's cavalry?" In the urn tower of the middle gate of the north city wall, Lian Po no longer looked at the Yi spear formation that was killing the Qin army from the flank, he stared at the cavalry of the Chu army three hundred steps away, watching them kill Xin Wu and watch them plow through the short soldiers.
"It's too hasty." Surrounded by the stunned Chu army, they couldn't accept the reality of more than 10,000 people 'defeating' hundreds of thousands of Qin troops and killing their main generals, even if it happened right in front of their eyes. But Xiong Jing was not satisfied, very dissatisfied. "Their formation is a mess, the impact is insufficient, it's a pity that ......"
The heavy cavalry is a tank, and the impact is very particular about formation, generally two rows in front and rear, each row of about twenty horsemen. But in the wave of impact just now, the top ten heavy riders did not line up in a horizontal row, but formed an arc shape, convex in the middle and concave on both sides. If it was a horizontal line, the more chaotic Qin generals would probably die more.
Of course, this is the unsatisfactory part, and there is also the satisfactory part: the whole battle is the product of the combination of cold and hot war tactics, first the infantry artillery coordination, tearing apart the Qin army's wide military formation, and then the heavy cavalry smashed the Yellow Dragon and killed the enemy general who was caught off guard.
'Dangdangdang ......' The golden sound of the Qin army's withdrawal finally sounded, Xin Wu's Rongche banner continued to wave, although the spearmen were chasing, but the Qin army outside the Beizhong Gate retreated to three hundred steps away and gradually stopped, and the short soldiers behind Xin Wu's chariot were ordered to fill the gap in front, and the entire army array was once again intact.
"It's Wang Scissors!" In Lu Li's mirror, Xiong Jing saw Wang Jian standing on the chariot giving orders, his skin had fallen off, but he was calm and calm, orders were constantly issued, and the chaotic Qin army gradually ordered.
"Mingjin." The Qin army returned to the previous line and stabilized its position, and the old spicy Lian Po naturally would not risk attacking.
"Hooray! Banzai! Long live ......" Chu Jun cheered loudly. Without Lu Lijing, they didn't know that their cavalry had killed the main general of the Qin army, they only saw the Qin army retreating like a tide, leaving a corpse under the city. But when those heavy cavalry wearing huge armor returned to the city, the news of killing the main general of the Qin army finally spread, and the soldiers in the urn city surrounded the more than 100 heavy cavalry, and the cavalry generals led by Yu Jing and Xiang Zhi were pulled off their horses and lifted up.
The heavy cavalry armor is close to 90 Chu catties, plus the people are about 400 Chu catties, and the weight of the tripod is still thrown high and then caught. The soldiers of the urn city were cheering, and the generals at the head of the city laughed loudly when they saw them so crazy.
"Who, who killed Xin Wu?" The first wave of heavy cavalry attacks killed many generals of the Qin army, but Xin Wu was the most important.
"Tell the king, it's a minister." As Xiong Jing expected, it was one of the concubines and Xiang Zhi.
"Deserve the punishment." Xiong Jing's unexpected words made everyone with happy faces stunned.
Fei Jing was also stunned, his heart had been floating since the spear pierced the leather armor and stabbed Xin Wu's body, and now that the king said that he should be punished, his heart suddenly fell to the ground. Thinking of everything that had just happened, Fei Jing's forehead sweated. "The minister is guilty, please punish the king."
"You are not guilty, there is merit, only fault." According to Chu Lu, killing the enemy army leader will be a great achievement, but before the reward, Xiong Jing hopes that he will know where he is right and where he is wrong.
"Minister......" Concubine Jing couldn't figure out what the king was going to do, until Xiong Jing asked Junzheng on his side.
"The two armies faced each other, defeated the strong with the weak, and killed the enemy's main general in hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers. Xiong Jing asked loudly.
"Tell the king: The two armies are facing each other, defeating the strong with the weak, and killing the enemy's main general in the hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers. When Xiong Jing spoke, there was silence in the urn city, and when he heard the army saying, 'This miracle feat, you should be sealed with the ......', and the cheers of the soldiers exploded like cannonballs, "Long live the king!" Long live the King! ”
"Youjing!" The soldier's shouting was so loud that Xiong Jing had to speak loudly.
"The minister is here." Fei Jing was already stiff, he was still in the joy of killing the enemy's main general, and he did not associate the joy with the reward.
"I don't want to crown you as the top deacon, Lu 5,000 stones." The incident was in a hurry, Xiong Jing did not have a knighted Guiyu, but he had two strings of jade ornaments on his belt hook, and he took off a jade jue.
"Minister......" life is like a roller coaster, last year Yu Jing was still a jobless, worried about the livelihood of the down-and-out prince, now he is the Chu State of Shangzhigui, he really thought he was dreaming.
"What, you don't?" Fei Jing froze there for a long time without moving, so Xiong Jing asked a question.
"Haha......" knighthood was carried out in the urn city, so that the soldiers around could see it. When Xiong Jing asked, the soldiers immediately laughed, although they were bystanders, they were also witnesses.
"I don't dare." Yu Jing hurriedly stepped forward, took the jade jue with both hands, and stepped back and shook it again.
"The army has its own golden house, and the army has its own Yan Ruyu." Standing in the urn city, Xiong Jing looked around. Although the child's voice is thin, it can be clear and beautiful, not to mention that the person who is the marquis is in front of him. But no one expected that his next words would make the soldiers even more crazy.
"Princely generals, would you rather have a kind?"
The question was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and even Lian Po held his breath and stared at the thin figure surrounded by soldiers.
"None! Those who are brave and trustworthy are valuable. Xiong Jing looked at the soldiers around him, and shouted at their doubts.
There was no applause, only hotter and hotter eyes; There were no cheers, only more and more rough gasps.
"What is bravery? Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, the tiger tended to be backward and not frightened, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, death did not spin. The gentleman only died once in his life, and the villain had died countless times before he died, so the noble man was the first to be brave. Those who are not brave are villains! ”
In a categorical and unquestionable tone, Xiong Jing defined Yong, and he said again: "What is faith? Keeping his promises, loving his family, keeping his duties, being loyal to his king, and dying for his ......country, if there is, it can be said that there is faith; Nothing, even if you are brave, you will not be expensive.
The nobles of the Chu State are all brave and trustworthy people; Brave and trustworthy people, all the nobles of the Chu State ......"
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"General, quick!" Outside the curtain of the Qin army, Xin Sheng jumped loudly, jumped off his horse in a hurry, and then entered the account.
In the tent, the right general Li Xin, the left general Wang Jian, and the rest of the generals were all there. Some of these people were still wounded, and they gathered in front of the collapse. The riding spear on Xin Wu's body has been cut short by the doctor, but no one dares to pull it out, and when he pulls it out, Xin Wu who is dying will really rush to Huangquan.
"Middle Father, Middle Father!" Xin Sheng squeezed through the crowd and knelt forward, but before anyone arrived, tears splashed out.
"General Xin, General Xin......" Li Xin, Wang Jian and others hurriedly saluted Xin Wu.
"Why? How so? Xin Sheng saw that his middle father was not awake, so he had to cast his eyes on the generals.
"General Xin, Chu Army's Ammunition ......" There are countless inevitabilities and countless accidents in war.
If it weren't for the attack on the city last night and burned down the canal on the wall of the Chu army, the Qin pawns would not have found the banner; If it weren't for the general's desire to fight each other, the Qin army would not have been lined up in that kind of formation that is not easy to use; If it weren't for King Jing soaking urine on the city, the general would not have attacked the city in anger......
There were many, many ifs, and it was difficult for the people present at the time to explain it clearly in one sentence, but fortunately, when Xin Sheng asked, Xin Wu muttered. "Iron..., Iron ......"
"Middle father, middle father, I am the son, I am the son!" Xin Sheng held his hand and shouted.
"Iron, iron, iron... Iron Rider ......" Xin Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, he shouted Iron Rider in his mouth, but his eyes were glaring at Xin Sheng. It's a pity that the spear hasn't died until now, he has run out of oil, and Xin Sheng's arrival made him struggle with the last trace of strength, and then, his eyes dimmed, and his hands hung down weakly.
"Middle Father!" Xin Sheng shouted.
"General! General! The commander is also crying out sadly. The city is about to die before it is broken, and everyone has a voice.
"The ——! of the Middle Father" Xin Sheng shook Xin Wu, who was no longer alive, and shouted again and again. Enraged, he finally grabbed the broken spear and drew it, swearing with it: "I will kill all the horsemen!" I'm going to kill them all!" ”
"General Xin's Day condolences." Although Wang Jian is General Zuo, ranked after Li Xin, he is older and knows more about human feelings. "The Iron Cavalry of Jing is also our mortal enemy. Don't break the iron horse, don't break the Chen City; Do not break Chen Cheng, nor break the iron horse. ”
"Yiqu-kun has ever seen such an iron horse?" Yiqulu returned to the camp with Xin Sheng, and he didn't understand why General Xin died in battle.
"What kind of Iron Rider?" In the pre-Qin period, there were no stirrups, no horseshoes, no high bridge saddles, and knights wielded bronze soldiers, which could not be called iron horses at all, so Yiqu Yu didn't understand what iron horses were at all.
"The men and horses are all dressed in great armor, and the knights rush with spears and fight with their blades." Wang Ben described the heavy cavalry of the Chu army, "Hundreds of short soldiers could not be stopped from coming forward. ”
"Men and horses in armor, spears... And rushing? Yiqu Yu pondered carefully, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and just when Wang Ben was disappointed, he suddenly shouted: "Yes! There is such a method of warfare. ”