Chapter 91: One Strike 3
Shi Yi, the halberd-wielding general who commanded this battle, reluctantly sent people to the back to win the emergency, but at this moment, the right flank that was rushed into the flank by the cavalry of the Chu army suddenly avalanche.
After the remaining 240 heavy cavalry of the Chu army rushed into the army formation, they quickly turned and attacked the flank of the right flank. Previously, in order to resist the spear of the Chu army, the long soldiers of the Qi army were in front and the short soldiers were in the back, but now the heavy cavalry like an iron tower rushed from behind, and the soldiers in the back row suddenly scattered. Once the ranks of foot soldiers deserted and fled, the light cavalry with swords in hand could cut them all down like wheat harvesters.
Chaos brings killing, and killing further creates chaos. The iron cavalry galloped, the Qi soldiers screamed, and the right flank of the Qi army, which was 1,750 columns long, completely collapsed. From the opening of the gap by the light cavalry of the Chu army, to the breaking of the gap by the heavy cavalry, and then to the ...... of all the cavalry of the Chu army rushing in from the gap and slashing the flank of the right wing army formation, it was only a quarter of an hour, and the right wing of 70,000 people was finished in an instant.
In the killing of the cavalry, the Qi pawns rushed to Linzi, but the drawbridge on the moat had been hoisted as soon as the battle began, and the northwest gate was also closed, and the Qi pawns who could not cross the moat were constantly squeezed into the water. Fortunately, the water is shallow in early spring, and as long as the soles of the feet are not stepped on, most of the Qi pawns who have fallen into the water can wade through.
"Our army is defeated! Our army is defeated......" Shi Yi was already stunned, he had never seen the cavalry break the formation, and he couldn't imagine that the array with a depth of forty lines would be broken. When discussing the array, he also laughed at the military division Mu Chong was too timid, and the depth of the forty lines was too thick and thick, but under the combined tactics of the Chu army's artillery, light cavalry, and heavy cavalry, the depth of the forty lines was as thin as a piece of Chu paper.
Shi Yi kept chanting 'our army is defeated'. Seeing that the Chinese army and the left flank were intact, he regained some sanity a little and shouted at the cymbal: "Mingjin! Mingjin! Hurry up and sing gold!! ”
The complete collapse of the right flank does not mean that the entire army is defeated, but the premise is to retreat immediately, distance yourself from the enemy, and of course from the defeated army, so that you can realign yourself, stabilize your position, and preserve the remaining army. But Shi Yi forgot that behind the Qi army was the Linzi West Wall, and the Qi army had no way to retreat. He forgot, but the cymbal hand did not, and at the moment when the cymbal hesitated, Mu Chong also shouted urgently: "Absolutely not! Don't bang gold!! ”
"Our army is defeated, when will we wait if we don't retreat at this time? Hurry up and mingle gold! The screams and wails of the right-wing pawns kept coming, and Shi Yi's whole body was trembling. Previously, he thought that the war was beautiful, not to mention the 230,000 army, that is, 50,000 halberd-wielding men in huge armor could defeat the 30,000 Chu army, but at this moment he found that the war was bloody and boneless.
"Mingjin! If you don't scream, you will be killed!! Shi Yi was so frightened by the war that he even jumped out of the chariot and hit the cymbal himself.
"Never!" Mu Chong pulled him back. "Retreat at this time, and our army will be defeated."
"Report ——!" Mu Chong's words did not convince Shi Yi, what really made Shi Yi stop was a military report: "General, the rear army exhibition has been completed, and our army is safe." ”
"Rear Army Array?!" Shi Yihu looked to the right suspiciously. The rear army of 40,000 men had already drawn a long east-west wall between the Chinese army and the moat. It not only kept the defeated soldiers on the right flank out of the array, but also the cavalry of the Chu army out of the array. Because the Chinese army of the Qi army is advancing, it is about to engage the Chu army, and this long wall is also extending to the west.
"Our army is safe." Mu Chong breathed a sigh of relief, the rear army saved the situation, and now it depends on whether the army with halberds can break through the middle army of the Chu army. The cavalry of the Chu army is indeed sharp, but can the foot soldiers of the Chu army stop the charging of the halberd-wielding army?
The battle is actually like two eggs smashing each other with a sledgehammer, the eggshell is not fatal when it is smashed, the real fatality is to drop the hammer and flee without a fight. The hammer of the Chu army has smashed the right flank, but as long as the Chinese army can smash the central army of the Chu army, it is still the Qi army that wins.
It is customary to gallop in a hundred steps, this is to avoid arrows, but also to break up the enemy array with an impact. Under normal circumstances, the soldiers in the front row of both sides held the Ge shield during the impact, and then the rear column, the halberd bearer poked, the bearer smashed, and the spear holder stabbed, but in the face of the Chu army's spear, the front line of the Qi army could not hold the shield, but could only hold the spear.
The roaring shields collided with each other and turned into dense spears stabbing each other, and both sides wore huge armor, the difference was only that: there was a layer of chain mail under the Chu army's giant armor, and the hardness of the tip of the giant spear was quenched close to high-speed steel; The Qi army only has a set of ring armor, and the spearhead is also made of iron, but the craftsmen of the Qi State have not fully mastered the quenching and tempering processes, and the spearhead created is indeed harder than bronze, but it is far inferior to the Chu army's giant spear, and even the iron sword of the Yan State is not comparable.
The high level of technology causes the difference in killing. Under the ferocious impact, the Yi spear of the Chu army immediately pierced through the huge armor of the Qi army. Although many of the spears in the hands of the Qi army also pierced the armor of the Chu pawn, the spearhead did not immediately submerge into the body of the Chu pawn, but was pushed out of the body by something. Some Chu pawns endured the pain and shouted out a name that the Qi people had never heard before: a hundred soldiers are not Xiang.
It was just a matter of lightning, and the sound of the crash of the wood, the scraping of the armor, and the shouts of the soldiers ...... drowned out everything on the battlefield. Qi pawn didn't hear anything, and only when they fell down did they realize that Chu pawn who was hit by the spear did not fall with them.
"Attacking ——!" As the most elite halberd-wielding army in Qiguo, the fall of the front row not only did not frighten them, but made them excited. They rushed on the corpses of their comrades, and the iron halberds in their hands were stabbed, but the iron halberds were too short, and before they could be pierced by the spears.
The front row of rows fell, and the back row of rows rushed forward, although the spear can pierce the armor, but there is always a time for the strength to rest. When the fifth and sixth lines of Qi pawns stepped forward, Chu pawn's Yi spear stabbed on the giant armor could only make a tooth-aching scraping sound, and it could not knock the Qi people down. At this time, they could only use their spears to resist the Qi people who rushed forward, and relied on the Chu pawns in the second row to assassinate them.
'When, dang, dang, dang'......' The sound of the Chu army collecting troops sounded at this time, and the Chu pawns who heard the sound retreated unhurriedly, and the Qi pawns who were overjoyed followed closely, as if they did not know that the Chu army was changing formations, and the prominent convex shape was shrinking back into a concave shape.
"Strategist!?" The sound of gold also reached the back of the Qi army, and Shi Yi, who had just climbed up from the ice cave, was now in the blazing iron furnace again, and his whole body was hot with victory. He no longer had the confidence to command this battle, so he could only rely on Mu Chong.
"After the order, the army will protect the flank of the Chinese army, and there must be no mistakes." There is no good way for Mu Chong, but fortunately, the rear army has enough numbers, and it is more than enough to fill the gap between the Chinese army and the moat.
"Tell the king, the Qi army is advancing, and then ......" The Chu army is 400 steps away from Mu Chong, and the lookout of the Chu army at the height constantly reports the movements of the Qi army to Xiong Jing. Based on this information, the strategists changed the situation of the two armies on the board little by little.
At this moment, the right-angled Qi army was cut off the corner at the northern end, and You Que also used it, and they filled the gap between the Chinese army and the moat of about a thousand columns, and the military formation became a right-angled trapezoid. As the Chinese army advanced, the army formation formed by the rear army at the northern end also slowly followed the Chinese army, shielding its flanks.
The Chu army concave inward at most a few dozen steps, which was not enough distance to thin the array of the rear army. If the rear army array cannot be thinned, then it will be difficult for the cavalry to break through the rear army in the same way as it does the right flank. The depth of the array of 40,000 people is also 40. However, these soldiers are obviously different from the previous new soldiers, they are quick to fill the formation, the queue is neat, and most importantly, the fighting spirit is more resolute.
The right flank of the Qi army collapsed, and it was supposed to be defeated, but who would have thought that it would come back to life and stabilize the front with reserves. Xiong Jing did not blame the cavalry for not turning right and inserting into the middle of the Qi army. There was a reason for the left turn of the heavy cavalry: when the formation was broken, the reserve of the Qi army had already deployed the array, and the heavy cavalry turned right and would only crash headlong into the complete array of the rear army. Heavy cavalry is not omnipotent, without the fire preparation of artillery and light cavalry, it is not easy for them to break the formation.
"Order the cavalry to attack the Qi army." Xiong Jing ordered. He didn't believe that the Qi army still had reserves.
"Great King, although the right army of the Qi army is defeated, it is still ......," Zhuang Wudi reminded. Although the right army of the Qi army was defeated, these people could not escape, and only some of them bypassed the northwest corner of the city and rushed to the north of Linzi City.
"Order the left army to divide into a part and monitor and suppress it." Xiong Jing Road. "Qi is already afraid, and there is no longer the heart to fight."
The entire left army was only more than 4,000 people, but in the face of the already fearless Qi pawns, as long as they were not forced to jump over the wall in a hurry, they really could not bring any threat to the Chu army.
“…… The rest of them protect the flanks of our Chinese army, flank the middle army of the Qi army, and can also help the cavalry break through the rear army of the Qi army. Xiong Jing finally added. At this moment, Chu Jun's left hand was already empty, and Qi Jun was in a passive state.
"Yui!" After the order was given, the herald repeated the order and quickly rushed to the left army and rode the herald.
The order was conveyed quickly, but it was not easy to adjust the situation of the left flank of the Chu army. The cavalry continued to pass in front of the Qi soldiers, and the snowy swords continued to harvest their lives. The sound of gold did not make the cavalry retreat, and it was only when Fei Jing ordered his subordinates to blow the horn that the knight who had killed really vigorously came back to his senses.
"Our army has been defeated?" On the east side of Linzi City and the east bank of the river, looking at the defeated army on the right wing running from the north of the city, Tian Gu suddenly felt cold hands and feet, and his whole body was cold. Before Anping Yi's soldiers went to the battlefield, the Qi army was already defeated.
"Is our army defeated?" Separated by dozens of meters of water, Tian Gu asked the Qi pawns on the other side. Those Qi pawns just wanted to go into the city and go home, and as soon as they saw Tian Gu on the chariot, they hurriedly ran away.
'Boom'......' Tian Gu, who was so anxious, actually jumped off the water. Those pawns were even more frightened when they saw this, and they fled faster.
"Save your lord! Save your lord! The left and right immediately panicked, and some people who knew the water hurriedly jumped off the water to fish up the fields.
"If the country of Qi dies, what good will it do to save me! What a good way to save me! Tian's heart was broken, and he closed his eyes and wanted to sink. The water was not deep in early spring, and he wanted to sink but touched the bottom of the water, and then floated up again. The water was barely reaching his lips, and his nose was still exposed.