Firing artillery at such a close distance, it was no more difficult to penetrate the battleship than it was to penetrate the army formation. The shells pierced through three warships in a row before sinking into Weishui in reluctance.

With the continuous sound of artillery, the scene that happened on both sides of the Chu army's military formation just now was repeated again. After entering the water, the war boat quickly tilted and sank, and the heavy armor on the boat sank to the bottom of the water like an iron block, and the hand was like a mouse escaping from the cabin when the ship was sunk, desperately pouring out of the cabin, and under the splash, the Weishui boiled again.

Twenty-seven single-oared wings, even if they were discharged in a dense formation, were constantly penetrated and sunk by artillery fire, but consciously, all the warships covered the big wing where Zhao Ying was, and the fifteen-pound shells could only penetrate three warboats, but the warboat where Zhao Ying was was the fourth one, under the cover of other warships, this fluttering big wing rushed towards the arsonist ship.

"King!" Seeing this scene, Wei Yi pointed forward excitedly, which really didn't make people believe it.

"Good! Great goodness also! "The Chu army has been arrayed, and the Qin army is still shrinking behind the first tabernacle, without revealing the slightest clue. Seeing that Zhao Ying's boat was about to rush to the Chu army's pontoon bridge, Zhao Zheng shouted loudly. "Drumming, cheering."

"The king has a life, beat the drums, cheer!" The military officials shouted loudly, and the drums in the Qin camp quickly sounded.

"Our army beats the drums too! Our army beats the drums too! The smoke of gunpowder was dense, the cannonballs were flying sideways, Zhao Ying, who was holding the heart of death, heard the sound of drums, shouted and jumped on the war boat, and the soldiers who did not want to be crushed by the Chu army's cannonballs tried their best to accelerate again, and the war boat rushed towards the arson boat like a fly.

"Not good!" The wind blew southeast, and the smoke of gunpowder was blown back by the wind, and the artillery colonel saw the feathers on Zhao Yingzhou's boat in vague sight, but this was already over, relying on the cover of the remaining twenty-six war boats, Zhao Ying's war boat avoided the south of the arson boat, and was no longer within the firing range of the artillery.

'Da! Giggling...... 'On the battle boat, Zhao Ying could feel that the war boat had hit something, and the gurgling sound disappeared after hesitating for a second. The arsonist boat that was not blocked immediately drifted down, and Zhao Ying looked extremely sophisticated at this time, and he ordered the war boat to slow down and row backwards, using the arson boat as his cover.

"Why?!" Strictly guarded against the Qin people's war boats, but they still rushed in, and Xiong Jing, who was observing the Qin army camp, was a little displeased.

"It's fine." Zhuang Wudi was as surprised as Xiong Jing, as soon as his words fell, the sound of artillery started again, this time it was not a fifteen-pound cannon, this time it was a thirty-two-pound siege cannon. The shells fired by the artillery pierced more than a dozen arsonist boats, directly penetrating the warboat that had slipped through the net. This was not one shot, but eight, and a salvo was completed, and the ruptured warboat was already immersed in water.

"Why don't the Qin people line up?" Xiong Jing retracted his worried gaze and continued to pay attention to the Qin military camp - he saw Zhao Zheng riding a jujube red horse in the Yuanmen, but he didn't see the array of the Qin army.

"I thought it was not a crossbow. If it's a crossbow, why do you have to cover it up? Zhuang Wudi was suspicious of the Qin people covering it up like this. The Chu army scouts have rushed into the Qin camp and found the crossbow behind the tent, and the decisive battle is imminent, what else are the Qin people hiding about? Unless the result of the reconnaissance is wrong and falls into the Qin army's scheme, it must be covered up until the last moment.

Zhuang Wudi thought so, but before Qin Jun tore open the tabernacle, no matter how much he guessed, it was useless.

The Chu army on the north bank of Weishui had a false alarm because the Qin army's war boats broke through the outer defense line, and Zhao Zheng and others on the south bank of Weishui were full of regret, and no one knew that the Chu army had arranged two lines of defense. Zhao Ying's tactics of covering each other are really good, but it is a pity that the Qin army's more than 300 battle boats are all exhausted, and even if there are still war boats, they are the middle wings and small wings with fewer hands than the big wings and slower than the big wings.

Zhao Zheng was so sorry, and Aristotle IV, who was also standing in the gate to watch the battle, was shocked. Although the single-oared war boat of Qin Ni was inferior to the Greek three-oared war boat, in such a short period of time, so many war boats sank to the bottom of the water, so that the surface of the river almost boiled, this is a scene that he could never dream of, and this is only the foreplay of this war.

Aristotle IV called out to the gods, remembering the details of the battle, and he vowed to record it as a spectator, just as Thucydides recorded the Peloponnesian War. He was silently remembering, and he said, "The Chuni people have crossed the river." ”

When the artillery battle on both sides of the pontoon bridge was going on, the sappers on the six pontoon bridges were nervously connecting and fixing the pontoon bridges, tying an iron anchor and stone pier every few zhang, and when the cannon sound stopped, the pontoon bridge had been erected. The prepared soldiers ran forward with long planks on their backs, and they immediately jumped into the water after laying the planks on their backs, so as not to interfere with their comrades behind them. The 400-zhang long bridge grows rapidly at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye.

Following the last group of soldiers who paved the bridge with wooden planks on their backs, Chengtong's Xishi and Yangyu's Yingyi Division were the first to cross the river. The soldiers' footsteps were no longer in order, and they rushed to the opposite shore of four hundred zhang in a disorderly manner.

"What if?!" The speed of building the bridge was unimaginable, and the speed of laying the bridge was also unimaginable, and in less than two hours, the military boots of the Chu army set foot on Weinan. Zhao Zheng was also there during the military discussion, and he remembered that the judgment at that time was that the Chu army crossed Wei around noon.

Zhao Zheng asked Wei Yi, and Wei Wei couldn't go back to this question. The war has begun, and the real decision is in the hands of the generals of the armies. Now that the Chu army has crossed Weishui ahead of schedule, Zhao Yong, as the general of the Chinese army, will definitely have his own judgment. In fact, just when Zhao Zheng urgently asked Wei Yu, Zhao Yong, the general of the Chinese army, had already issued a general order, and he asked Han Shen to lead the Jing crossbow out of the tent and approach the Chu army that was rapidly arraying in Weinan.

As soon as this military order was given, Xiong Jing on the north bank of Weishui saw a burst of smoke and dust rising behind the tent, and one after another ballista carts rushed out, these crossbow carts were pulled by four horses, and the carriage carriage was equipped with a Jing crossbow.

"Fruit Thorn Crossbow also!" Xiong Jing nodded heavily, he was counting the number of crossbows, there were about two or three hundred.

"I don't think so." Zhuang Wudi's eyes were still fixed on the eight-foot-tall curtain, and he believed that things would not be so simple. It was only at this time that the artillery of the Chu army, which had adjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan, began to fire at Weinan, and the shells flew over Weishui, flew over the heads of the Chu soldiers on the south bank of Weishui, and landed three hundred steps in front of the spearmen.

The width of Weishui is about 400 paces, and with these 300 paces, the firing distance is close to or more than a kilometer. The fifteen-pound cannon fires solid shells, and the effective range is 1,000 meters. Now the artillery hits the shells at a wide angle to a kilometer away, and when the shells hit the ground, they are stuck deep in the mud, and it is impossible for them to bounce at all. Its damage is no longer a line, just a point.

Because of the distance, the Chu army was at its weakest moment, and after hundreds of ballistas rushed out on the opposite bank, the military curtain that everyone was watching finally slowly fell, and behind the scenes, there were cavalry and dense cavalry.

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The artillery of the Chu army is the focus of the defense of the Qin army, and the Chu army with artillery is almost invincible, but nothing on the battlefield is absolute, as long as it can be adapted to the time, place, and situation, the artillery of the Chu army is not invincible.

Before the river crossing was completed, the 400-pace-wide Weishui divided the Chu army into two parts, and even if the Chu army could protect the Chu army crossing the Weishui with artillery screens, it was not the kind of thin iron bullets that were a dozen or a large piece of thin iron bullets, but a dozen large iron bullets with a bloody ditch. In the Battle of Huangshui, Zhao Yong and others saw very clearly that only by advancing to a certain distance would the Chu army use the kind of fine iron bullets that fell one by one.

The artillery shielded the Chu army in Weinan, and the Chu army in Weinan also blocked the launch of artillery, as long as the speed was fast enough and sticky enough, the artillery in Weibei would have no way to take the Qin army. At this time, the war became a familiar mode for the Qin army, cold weapons against cold weapons.

What I really am worried about is the spear formation of the Chu army. In order to deal with the spear array of the Chu army, the scene that Wang Ao witnessed in Linzi was used on the Chu army in the way of others and the way of treating their bodies. When the 25,000 cavalry drove out of the tent, they were followed by two thousand horsemen, who were led by the knights with only heavy armor.

The tent of the Qin army camp is five miles away from Weishui, and five miles is only two thousand and seventy-five meters according to the Qin ruler, which may be a bit long for the infantry, but it is only a matter of half an hour for the cavalry.

The Qin army's central army array, which was more than ten miles wide, moved forward quickly after the curtain fell. Under the trampling of more than 20,000 war horses, the earth shook suddenly, and in the low tremor, the dust raised by the horses' hooves was overwhelming, except for Zhao Zheng's fourteen-meter-high Chang flag, everything on the other side was submerged in the dust like a sandstorm.

In summer, as long as the weather is clear, the southeast wind blows in Xianyang, and if it rains, the southwest wind blows. The southeast wind was urgent, and the dust trampled by more than 20,000 Qin cavalry blew into the Chu army's military formation in Weinan and also into the Chu army's military formation in Weibei.

Xiong Jing was shocked when he saw the dust like a sandstorm, and there were many examples of wars that changed the outcome because of a strong wind, the most famous one was Li Zicheng's Dashun army in a stone. Thinking of this, he didn't wait for Zhuang Wudi and others to come up with a countermeasure, turned around and shouted to the guards cavalry behind him: "Behind Buyu." Before he could finish these words, he rode out on his horse.

Only cavalry can restrain cavalry. The Weibei Chu army was lined up into thirteen military formations, and pontoon bridges were erected between each two military formations. This arrangement was for the soldiers to quickly cross the bridge, but on the south bank of Weishui, due to the number of people, the Chu army could not completely protect such a wide bridgehead at this time.

Xiong Jing, who was on the left side of the military formation, rode his horse to the right, and the cavalry of the guards led by Zhuang Qujian followed him closely, and the three-headed phoenix flag painted on a white background was also held high by the standard-bearer and followed him closely. As soon as the Guards cavalry moved, the 1st Cavalry Division of Fu Jing followed, and finally more than 3,000 cavalry on the entire left flank all came out of the column and rushed to the pontoon bridge.

The movements of the left wing also affected the right wing, and Jing Sheng, the new commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, who had long been eager to try, saw the phoenix flag floating towards the Chinese army, and immediately shouted 'advance', and then ran to the nearest pontoon bridge.

Xiong Jing's unscrupulous movement caused the left wing cavalry to move to the east, and the left flank cavalry caused the right flank cavalry to move freely, Zhuang Wudi, these confident strategists, were completely dumbfounded, they never imagined that this war would be a cavalry battle.