The Qingshui River flows obliquely into the Huaishui River from north to south. In the north of the flowing water, the Chu army camp did not wait for the dawn to turn on the lights, and the cooking smoke rose, this is the gang of soldiers making dinner overnight, the smoke is a rare meat fragrance, non-meat food can not be fiercely fought, and must be rewarded before the decisive battle. Soon after the lights of the Chu army were lit, the Qin army camp three miles away was also lit up, and in the same smoke and meat incense, Meng Wu, Sima Kong and others in the military curtain did not sleep all night. In order to prevent leakage, the Qin army always issued a formation map before the war, and only a few commanders of each army were really known about the intentions of the main generals, and the intentions of the main generals were finally determined the night before the war.

With Mengwu's general's order, more than a dozen military vehicles drove to each battalion left or right to summon the generals of each army to the shogunate, and when the sky was about to dawn and the generals of each army returned to the camp, the Qin camp was already full of people and dust. After the full meal, the soldiers put on their armor and leather jackets, took their weapons, and went out of the camp under the orders of the commander, the commander and others, and the lined up will be gathered under the command of the commander of the five hundred lords and marquis, and the commander will line up the 10,000 soldiers on the established array line according to the command of the generals of the various armies ordered by the shogunate.

Whether the array is complete or not determines the victory or defeat of the array, and the speed of the array also determines the victory or defeat of the array. The two armies of Chu and Qin started a formation competition before dawn, and the two sergeants quickly left the camp and quickly set up the formation according to the arrangement of the main general, so they were worried that the other party would finish the formation in front of them, and then attack them. So, like a drawing on paper, in the blink of an eye, the two armies of Chu and Qin respectively built a Great Wall more than ten miles long, the feathers fluttering on the city, the spears under the city, and the eyes of the soldiers in the front row looked at each other from afar, waiting for the upcoming life-and-death struggle.

Xiong Jing woke up very early, and when he had breakfast, he found that his Gong Jia had all lost his hair overnight, and his hair had become shorter than that of Yue Ren. Cutting off his hair is a punishment, and after several inquiries and no firm answers, he will not pursue it. In the palace, he didn't think that the punishment was such a terrible and shameful thing, and even many times he wanted to cut his hair shorter, but he didn't dare.

Before the sun rose, he rode his horse and ran in front of the army formation, and the Chu army's army formation was six kilometers long, and it was obviously impossible to patrol on foot like the previous two times, he could only patrol on horseback. He no longer greets all the soldiers, but plans to stop every one or two kilometers to say something to the soldiers to boost their morale.

Flags began to flutter in front of the army again. There were no foot soldiers, no chariots, only dozens of carefully selected Chu army riders to follow Xiong Jing on horseback. The left sergeant who had just finished the formation saw his king coming on a black horse and was sassy, and he immediately wanted to cheer and bow down, but at this time someone suddenly shouted in Vietnamese, "The king has a word, listen to it for a while." ”

Yue Yu shouted several times, and the commanders who had long known that the king was going to swear before the battle were also constantly talking, asking the apprentices to keep quiet and listen to the king's oath. The left army lined up in twenty lines, and the 20,000 Yue soldiers immediately quieted down and looked at their young and heroic king.

"Qin, the country of tigers and wolves, Chu Yi is stuffed, the torturers are all over the field, and no one in the world wants to be Qin Min, so Han Min ran to Zhao and Shu people fled to Chu." Looking at the soldiers of Yuedi who were looking forward to the prime minister, carrying the fierce and cold north wind, and also carrying the Qin army formation with strict queues and banners, Xiong Jing began his oath. "In today's battle, either he dies or I die. If the husband dies, he will die, and the family will die?! Dead country?! I, Xiong Jing, swear to fight side by side with you, live and die together. ”

Xiong Jing was very slow, and every time he spoke, the Vietnamese scholar would translate it. It seemed that everything was imaginary, but what he didn't expect was that even after listening to the translation of the Vietnamese scholar, even if he swore to fight side by side with the soldiers, live and die together, the military array in front of him was still silent, there was no cheering, no bowing, more than 20,000 people just looked at him quietly.

Puzzled in Xiong Jing's heart, when the Yue scholar bowed down and asked if he still had anything to say, he rushed straight to the front of the military formation, drew his sword against the soldiers in the first row, and sang loudly according to his memory: "Restlessness destroys the long and the halberd is controlled, and I can't leave to vent my king's anger." As soon as the three armies flew down, they were all killed. A soldier is sentenced to death and becomes a centurion ......"

This is the farewell song of Gou Jian before Wu after ten years of life and gathering, and it is also a war song that has been passed down for hundreds of years in the land of Wu Yue. Although Chu Yue did not speak the same language, he had been immersed in sex for hundreds of years, and before Xiong Jing had finished singing the first sentence, the Yue people knew what he was singing, and they instantly recovered from the oath of the king and himself to 'live and die together', and began to sing in Yue. After singing the last sentence of 'Do your best, you care', not only the 20,000 people who have been lined up, but also the more than 30,000 soldiers in the rear of the formation, are also stamping their feet and shouting.

Xiong Jing rode his horse and galloped to the shouts of the left army, and what he didn't expect was that the Chinese army was also shouting, not only the Chinese army, but the whole army was shouting. The sudden shout of the Chu army immediately alarmed Meng Wu, who was praying to the gods. Although the Qin State expelled the witches and demolished the shrines, the prayer ceremony still stubbornly remained in the army. Divining in battle and praying for battle is the oldest tradition of the Qin army.

"Father, King Jing is on patrol again, and he is still swearing in front of the battle." Meng Tian had already received reports from the scouts, and reports had been coming in a steady stream since the banner was now in the left army. "Our army should quickly give the order to rush into battle."

Meng Wuzheng landed and looked away from the mirror for a closer look, and he said with some regret: "King Jing rode a horse and ran past the Chinese army, and it was too late to rush into battle." ”

"Father, there is no time to lose." Meng Tian pointed to Xiong Jing five hundred steps away, "King Jing is about to retreat into the back of the formation after his patrol!" ”

The Chu army is already crazy, Xiong Jing doesn't need to say anything or do anything, as long as he rides his horse past the front of the formation, the soldiers will be crazy, at this time the three armies are not trembling, but boiling, boiling to the point that they will immediately rush to five hundred steps away, killing and chopping the Qin people one by one, so that they will never dare to invade the Chu State again.

"Please don't take the oath again." Among the dozens of riders who followed Xiong Jing, Xiang Chao was one of them. At this time, he and Xiong Jing kept a horse's head apart, trying to get closer to talk.

"Why not?" Xiong Jing knew his son of Xiang Yan and did not ignore his words.

"If our army is too victorious at this time, it will be exhausted in wartime." Xiang Chao's instructions were also Xiang Yan's worries. Before the war, any general would try his best to boost morale, but because of Xiong Jing's existence and behavior, what Xiang Yan had to do was to suppress morale, so he never beat the drum in several battles.

After Xiang Chao finished speaking, the knowing Xiong Jing rode his horse out, slightly away from the Chu army's military formation, but he still held his sword in his hand and waved it at the soldiers. Chu Jun's shouting was endless, and he couldn't swear again. The military formation is very long, it takes thirty minutes to run from this end to the other end on horseback, and when Xiong Jing turns back from the right army and returns to the Chinese army in the rising sun, when he intends to swear for the last time, the Qin army on the opposite side of the formation suddenly beats the drum and points forward with the flag, and the Qin army formation with no end in sight begins to move forward.

Chu Jun's shout unconsciously decreased. Because of the existence of the crossbow, the distance between the two armies to be in array has changed from two hundred steps to three hundred and fifty steps, and the existence of trebuchets has extended the distance of the Qin army's array to five hundred steps. Five hundred paces away, the Qin army came like a tide, and more and more people's hearts were beating wildly. Xiang Chao and Fu Jing behind Xiong Jing were even more anxious, although five hundred steps away, it didn't take long for the Qin people to rush over, not even a quarter of an hour, if they couldn't escort the king to the safe position of the Chinese army before the Qin army rushed into battle, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"The king......" Xiang Chao was about to advise, but the fast-handed concubine Jing had already whipped the unconvinced pony with a whip. Suddenly struck, unconvinced by the neighing, reflexively raised and galloped, if it had not been for the saddle tightened by Xiong Jing and grabbed the reins, he might have been dismounted.

The cavalry suddenly accelerated, rushing towards the Chinese army more than 2,000 meters away, and the Qin army on the opposite side was also accelerating, the range of the fire thrower was 400 steps, if not 500 steps, if not 400 steps, if not quickly rushed over this 700-meter distance, the Jing people's fire bombs would fall on themselves.

In front of the long military formation of the Chu army, Xiong Jing's cavalry and the Qin army's foot soldiers were engaged in a galloping race that was a matter of life and death. If the flag representing the king was not planted on the chariot behind the Chinese army array before the Qin army rushed up, the morale of the Chu army would be greatly affected, and some soldiers who were far away would even think that the king was killed by the Qin people if they could not see the flag; If Xiong Jing retreated into the formation safely, then the Qin army armor soldiers who were running at 500 paces would probably be weak and unable to fight.

The competition began in front of the formation, and after the Chu army's formation, 40,000 soldiers from each of the left and right armies separated from Youque were also running, and they had to line up another forty rows of arrays after the two armies as fast as possible, in case the Qin army broke through the previous thin depth of only twenty marching formations. Ten ready-to-launch trebuchets were loaded with the smallest lead bullets, and although the nest carts aimed at the Qin army's slow advance could kill and injure the Qin soldiers rushing in like a tide, destroying the enemy's observation equipment could ensure that their own arrays and tactical intentions were not spied on.

Everything was in a hurry, and everything was in order. Xiang Yan, who did not stand on the nest cart to direct the battle, faced the north wind and heard the soldiers under the trebuchet shouting, 'Release!' His heart couldn't help but tighten again, and he clenched his fists and stared at the fast-running flag in front of him, almost saying 'speed' on his lips.

Xiang Yan stared at the flag closely, and Peng Zong beside him didn't dare to open his eyes at all. He knew in his heart that the Qin army was so anxious, and Meng Wu must have seen the king turn around and walk in front of the formation again, and his purpose was probably to let the Qin army follow the gap between the king and the back of the formation.

Breaking the formation is always the most difficult, but if the Chu army can't keep the military formation intact because of protecting the king, there is such a small gap, and things will be very easy to handle. The Qin army will squeeze into this gap, expand this gap, and then reverse the formation from this gap, forcing the Chu army to collapse. It's just that Meng Wu couldn't have imagined that the king didn't want to retreat to the back of the battle at all, he just wanted to return to the forefront of the Chinese army, fight side by side with more than 200,000 soldiers, live and die together!