Chapter 5 Shenmen 2
Compared with the artillery of the Chu army, these pig iron cannons were thick and heavy, with only the inner diameter of a twelve-pound cannon and the weight of a thirty-two-pound cannon. The weight of the gun means that the bore wall is thick, but the excessive sulfur content in the pig iron makes the bore useless no matter how thick it is.
Relying on the Lu Lijing, the shogunate located in the rear can also see the situation on the battlefield clearly, and can also command the battle on the front line through the flag. Although the order lagged behind, this was the helplessness of the Chu army under the threat of witchcraft, otherwise as long as the Chu army bombarded the shogunate with witchcraft, the war would have been lost.
The caution of Wang Ao and others evolved into the current disaster, the Chu army's iron cavalry attacked through the formation, and the Qin soldiers in front had no time to rescue, and compared with the Qin cavalry deployed on the left flank to prevent the Chu cavalry from attacking in a roundabout way, they lost the first opportunity. Compared with the cavalry of the Chu army who passed through the formation, they were already too far away from the cavalry of the Chu army - in addition to beware of the witch weapons of the Chu army's foot soldiers, the shogunate also beware of the witch weapons on the sea boat of the Chu army on the Niushou water, and the shogunate was not in the center, but completely on the right.
The iron cavalry galloped, the distance of seven miles was not long, and when the cavalry of the Chu army and the cavalry of the Qin army were divided, countless light cavalry swept from both sides of the shogunate army array, and arrows rained down to cover the array, testing the reality of the military array.
Wang Jian was still standing on the chariot, speaking loudly and giving orders loudly, he had to let the Qin soldiers see him and hear his voice, so as to boost morale. The reason why he wanted to do this was because he didn't know the bottom of the four thousand short soldiers and that Qin military captain in his heart. This Qin army did not intend to stay on the side of the shogunate, but because it was the latest to arrive on the battlefield, it stayed on the side of the shogunate.
Wang Ao also stood on the cart, his face a little pale. He will always remember the scene when he stood at the head of Linzi City four years ago and witnessed the Chu army's iron cavalry breaking through the formation. He looked creepy at the time, glad that he was not under the city, but now he was under the city, between the arrays of the Qi army.
The light horses galloped past like a surging flood through a canyon, and the people standing on the shore were brushed by the dust raised by the light horses, and felt the ground tremble faintly, and then shivered. Xiong Jing, who had not swept the formation, stared at the Qin people in front of him, watching their every reaction. He needs to find its weak point and then attack with all his strength to kill Wang Jian on the chariot.
"The king, over there!" Xiang Chao was also looking at the Qin army's formation, because of the angle, he saw the slight loosening of the Qin's army's formation when he swept the formation, so he immediately ran to Xiong Jing to report.
"Where?" The cavalry of the Qin army was rushing at high speed, and they had to charge before the cavalry of the Qin army arrived. Xiong Jing asked urgently.
"Over there!" Xiang Chao pointed to the west of the shogunate's military formation, which was the area defended by the Qin military captain.
"Hurry up!" Xiong Jing didn't have the slightest doubt, he trusted Xiang Chao's judgment. "Order, prepare to charge."
The horn sounded, and the phoenix banner quickly moved towards the west side of the military formation. The light cavalry that was turning immediately understood the position of the charging formation, and they no longer swept the military formation on both sides, but gathered into a team and cut through the Qin army formation directly opposite the Feng Banner. This time, the rain of arrows was more intensive. At the end of the sweep formation, some light horsemen almost swept past the Qin pawn's weapon, and at such a close distance, the Qin pawn in the formation was even more panicked.
Arrows rained down, but these light cavalry had to meet the Qin cavalry that was getting closer and closer, in order to buy time for the heavy cavalry to charge into battle. The cavalry of the Qin army with stirrups and high bridge saddles has now become difficult to deal with, and the interception of the previous thousand cavalry did not bring them much trouble, and more than 10,000 cavalry galloped in the wind and thunder, and the morale of the Qin army was greatly boosted for a while. All the light cavalry of the Chu army intercepted head-on again, which made their forward rush stagnant.
At this time, the heavy cavalry has completed the array, the iron armor is draped on the dragon horse, six arrays, and behind the array is the guard cavalry led by Zhuang Quji. The horses of the Guards cavalry were also half-clad in iron armor, which was the last force of the charge.
"The King, please!" Intercepting the Qin cavalry was only a delay, and the chaos caused by the cavalry engagement forced the Qin people to rein in their horses' heads, but this delay had a very limited effect. Seeing this, Xiang Chao urged the order.
"Advance, Advance ——!" Xiong Jing's face was covered with sweat, but in fact, he couldn't wait.
"The king has an order, enter!" Xiang Chao, who was on the left side of the front, shouted, he rode his horse first, and the thirty heavy horsemen next to him, and the thirty heavy horsemen in the front row followed him. More than 60 riding spears were erected, and the red flag at the tip of the spear fluttered in the wind.
The Iron Rider of the Jing Man is rushing towards him! This was the first reaction of the Qin soldiers in the array. The flying dust made them unable to see the iron horsemen rushing towards them, and could only hear the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and more urgent, and the ground trembling first slightly imperceptibly, then a steady stream of tremors.
It has been eight years since the Iron Rider appeared, and some people may not have heard of witchcraft, but there is absolutely no one who has not heard of the Jingren Iron Horse. Under the false rumors, the power of the iron cavalry has been magnified several times, and it is said that the Jingren iron cavalry is invincible and invincible, as long as the iron cavalry impacts, there is no array that cannot be broken. Recalling the private rumors in the army, Qin Pawn, who was standing in the forefront, trembled.
rushed to the battlefield thirty miles away, and the troops who arrived at the end were naturally not elite, they just got close and temporarily pulled in to make up the numbers. Although he held the spears in his hands, he only held them tightly in his hands, without pillars on the ground, and then trampled them to death with his feet.
In the face of the charging of the Chu army's iron cavalry, they either trembled or panicked, and more people chose to close their eyes. Wang Jian in the center of the military formation also saw the heavy cavalry of the Chu army, riding side by side and slowly rushing forward, he and Wang Ao looked at each other, and both saw the horror in each other's eyes. Missing Wang Ao's gaze, Wang Jian pulled the royal hand beside him and whispered a few words in his ear, and the imperial hand was dumbfounded.
At this time, the first heavy cavalry slammed into the shogunate army, causing a wave of chaos. The officers in the rear were frightened and hurriedly pressed down, hoping that their own cavalry would rush at full speed.
Chapter 50
The Qin army's three- or four-kilometer-long front was still retreating, and the rear army went forward one after another, re-blocking the Chu army's foot soldiers who rushed through the gap, and the Zhao army, which violently attacked the right army, was also blocked out of the array, but the shogunate, which commanded the Qin army, was suffering from the thunderous blow of the Chu army's heavy cavalry, and the Qin army, which had lost its overall command, did not react to the Zhao army on the southern front, which also rushed from the west.
The Chu army stormed the Qin army, and the king killed Zhao Cong in the array, beat the drum and led the army to attack the Qin army array, and the formation of the common people further west, Sima Shang, Pingyuan Jun Zhao Ying, Pingyang Jun Zhao Heng ......, regardless of whether there was a car or not, and no matter how many servants and ministers and soldiers were around, including the unpleasant Zhao nobles like Feili, these people rushed to the battlefield in one go.
Because they were not running under the leadership of the generals but the nobles, these people had no queue to speak of, and the weapons in their hands were very rudimentary, and when they ran, their feet were basically discarded and discarded, but their morale was extremely high. The most important thing is that they attacked the flank of the Qin army - the Chu army was in the east and west arrays, and the Qin army was naturally also in the east and west arrays, and the Zhao army did not want to attack the Qin army at first, but just wanted to converge with the Chu army, and when the attack was already in the south of the front, the Zhao army on the southern front rushed directly from the west, and the position of the attack was the right flank of the Qin people.
Zhao Qin blood feud, when the Zhao people were still sensible, they were respectful to the Qin people, and now they have left their hometowns, and the Qin army was killed by the Chu army and retreated again and again, and the murderous Zhao people attacked the right army of the Qin army on both sides, and their outlaw rush made the right army retreat again and again.
The soldiers fight, and others watch the play. At first, he was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, and broke through in a hurry after holding on for a few months, and half an hour ago the Qin cavalry still swept by, and his life was lost at any time, but the situation suddenly reversed, and half an hour later, the Qin army shogunate was swept by the Chu cavalry, and the Qin army array retreated again and again under the joint attack of the two armies of Chu and Zhao.
Facing the war is bound to be bloody, but if there is a distance, in the eyes of Zhao Qian, the king of Zhao, the queen mother, and the princess and concubine palace, who are already close to Niushoushui, the war is wonderful.
These people didn't see the panic before, they all stood on the roof of the heavy truck, looking at the two armies of Chu and Qin who were fighting, and some of them also looked over the fighting Chu and Qin fronts, looking at the cavalry of the two armies that were fighting a few miles away and the three-headed phoenix flag that was hunting and fluttering in the north wind.
It's a pity that the distance is too far, and without Lu Lijing, only people with sharp eyes can see clearly the heavy cavalry of the Chu army under the banner of Feng, which is constantly attacking in formation, and see clearly the chaotic Qin army shogunate under the impact of the heavy cavalry. Most of the rest of the people saw the sky from the dust, heard the never-ending drums, blood, sweat, screams, and even life and death, all of which looked beautiful under the blur of distance.
It is impossible for Zhao Qian and Lingluo to be without Lu Lijing, watching the Chu army rushing towards the Qin Shogunate in rows, Zhao Qian shouted excitedly, and the whole person danced, and the fright and panic they had received before were completely released at this moment; The spirit robe was silent, she had no interest in the heavy cavalry of the Chu army that was attacking, and she was not interested in the whole war, she stared at the person under the phoenix flag, because of the face armor, she couldn't see her face at all, she could only see her body.
A man's bravery, like a woman's charm, is full of attraction to the opposite sex. The man in the huge armor stood still at first under the crowd, and the son beside him suddenly stood up and shouted, 'Break the array! When Chen Poyi's time, he and the red horse under his crotch galloped forward, the spear was erected in his hand, the swallowtail flag fluttered, and the knight holding the phoenix flag behind him followed him closely and rushed into the Qin army array with him.
Under the gaze of the spirit robe, Xiong Jing was rushing into the array where the Qin army's shogunate was located. The army formation of 14,000 people was not thick, there were only about thirteen lines, no more than sixteen at most, and before the Qin cavalry caught up, the fourth heavy cavalry smashed the array without any suspense and broke into the formation. The outer army collapsed, but there were still hundreds of guards guarding Wang Jianrong's car.
The target of the cavalry was Wang Qian, and the fifth and sixth heavy cavalry slammed into the guards next to the chariot, and when Xiong Jing rushed in, something unexpected happened: an arrow shot out of nowhere passed through the shield and hit Wang Jian standing on the chariot. Wang Jian had an expression of disbelief after being hit by the arrow, and then fell out of the carriage, and the guards were immediately in chaos and went to grab his body.
Where the dragoons killed, all the cavalry of the Qin army chose to avoid it. That's a good thing, but Xiong doesn't know how long this fear will last.