Xiong Jing really does not understand the history of the development of infantry tactics. In the era of cold weapons, and even in the era of mixed use of cold and hot weapons, the infantry was a phalanx tactic, except for the Roman shield array. After the Romans, the line tactics used by the Roman legions in the 17th and 18th centuries reappeared, and eventually evolved into lining up to shoot. Later, due to the dense queue, in the 19th century, it was changed to a column (especially during the offensive) and the emphasis was on scattering, but the line still existed. It was only at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Boers did not fight in formation, that skirmishing tactics gradually became mainstream.

Phalanx tactics are not as flexible as line tactics and skirmish tactics, and the phalanx can only go forward or backward, and must not go left or right at will. That's why Lian Pocai said, 'Battles are like chess, and there is no regret about falling out'. At this time, the left and right armies were already arrayed, and now it was impossible to transfer these large phalanxes to the Chinese army and then launch an attack. Lian Po wanted to answer: "It has been like this since ancient times", but he didn't want the sound of the gong to come suddenly, so Xiang Yan ordered the Chinese army to retreat immediately.

The sound of the gong surprised Xiong Jing on the chariot, and also surprised the palace armor of the Chu army in the fight. The cavalry knives made of huge iron are extremely sharp, and the halberds, berylliums, spears, and wooden armor shields are all cut off. Gong Jia was chopping vegetables and slaughtering the Qin army's armor and crossbowmen, and he didn't expect the general to retreat by himself.

"Retreat, retreat! The spearman is in front, and the spearman is in front. The last pawn, Chang Zhuang Quji, was stunned for a moment and ordered the palace armor to retreat, and the few remaining lines of spearmen in the back row were transferred up and began to retreat quickly. Gong Jia was like this, and the sanitation and apprentices immediately retreated when they heard the sound of gongs.

The Chu army retreated sharply, and the Qin army's rear soldiers, who had just arrived at the melee site, rushed forward. Under their leadership, the sharp soldiers who had been scattered and fought separately also regrouped and rushed forward with the rear army.

The Chu army is retreating, and the Qin army is advancing. The battle line between the two armies changed from an arch to a straight line, and from a straight line to a concave shape. After the previous fight and this impact, the formation of the Chu army, which was twenty lines deep, was not only chaotic, but also extremely thin in depth. In order to prevent the Qin army from breaking through the array, even if the shogunate no longer sounded the gong, they could only keep retreating, slowing down the advance of the Qin army through distance.

Although they knew that they had to retreat in order to trap the Qin army, the Qin army's forward rush was too fierce, and under their attack, the retreat was almost a rout, and the counterattack organized by the divisions themselves was quickly crushed by the Qin army, and the Qin army advanced faster after the defeat.

"Why don't you send reinforcements?! Xiang Yan's husband ...... "Xiyang's general Zeng Fang's skin has been crooked, and he has also organized several counterattacks, but he quickly failed. looked forward to the rear, but saw that You Que was silent and did not move, so he began to scold Xiang Yan while sending someone for help.

Zeng Fang was like this, and even if the other divisions didn't scold Xiang Yan, they were angry. My army has been fighting for a long time, and I still had some strength when I counterattacked just now, but now when the gong sounds, the momentum I hold dissipates, and it can still resist the new force of the Qin army that has just come on the field.

"Quick! Fast! was very anxious, and quickly asked the general to send troops to rescue. "One by one, the heralds were sent to the shogunate, and in addition to the words for help, there were also words that the battle was about to break, and for a time the shogunate was full of the calls of people from various divisions asking for help.

"The general of our division begged the general to send troops quickly, and if he didn't send troops, my division would be broken." Xiang Yan was not there, and there was only the military Sima Pengzong in the shogunate.

"The general has his own measure." Peng Zongren is here to comfort the heralds of the divisions. "Our troops retreated, and the enemy was ambushed. This matter has been discussed with the generals of the divisions for a long time, you ...... wait."

"Jun Sima, our army is retreating, but the Qin people are chasing me very closely, and if we don't send troops, the army will collapse." Zeng Yin, who can speak well, complained directly. Not only the division of Xiyang, but also the other divisions, he echoed after speaking.

"If the army is defeated, the whole army will be destroyed!" Peng Zong is not in a hurry, but General Xiang Yan is not in a hurry. "You wait to go back as soon as possible, and tell everyone that they must not be defeated."

After Peng Zong finished speaking, he was about to go out of the mansion to find Xiang Yan, but he didn't want Zeng Yin to drag him, "Jun Sima, when will You Que send troops?" ”

"You Que needs a general's order to send troops, how can I find the general to send troops if you drag me." He pulled hard, and hurried out of the house. As soon as he left, a cadre stared at each other, neither going nor staying, and finally returned to the divisions to report the news.

"General......" Xiang Yan was already on the nest car at this time, and he had to see the situation of the two armies clearly before he could decide on the final deployment of Youque. The nest car rose to the highest, and standing at this height, the battle line of the two armies was unobstructed. The left and right armies were not the main attack direction of the Qin army, and the Qin army in these two places was weak, and although the fighting was fierce, it could never break through its own array.

The danger is the Chinese army, the depth of the 4,000-column wide Chinese army is very thin after a long battle, and now there are only three or five elements of apprentices left in the place where they fought and attacked just now, and many divisions have no array, only the bloodstained apprentices rely on the last brute bravery, condensed into a row to resist the Qin army. However, the rabble could not stop the Qin army with a tight array. As long as the Qin army advanced slowly, they could force them to retreat again and again. This is a sign that a breakdown is imminent. The retreat in this situation is not to mention others, even Xiang Yan, who is familiar with his own arrangement, also sweats in his heart.

"How many steps have our troops retreated?" Xiang Yan turned his head sideways and asked the looker beside him, at this time the front of the two armies was blurred, and he couldn't see how many steps his array had retreated.

"General, our army has withdrawn thirty-five steps." Wangshou replied. Where was the original array line, he had long remembered.

"Thirty-five steps...... Xiang Yan only felt that his heart was trembling, as if he was about to jump out of his chest.

"General, our army seems to be difficult to support," looking at his status, but his army was crumbling, and he risked death to remind.

"If it's hard to support, you have to support it, you must retreat to forty steps before you can ......," Xiang Yan muttered to himself, and the Lu Lijing in his hand was aimed at the back of the Qin army's array again. At this time, the reinforcements of the Qin army had broken through into the earlier array of the Chu army, and there was no dust in the rear. Looking closely, the rear army of the Qin army on standby was still in formation, which suddenly made him wonder: Could it be that the rear army of the Qin army was not all put into the battlefield?

"The strength of the Jing people has been drained, they are defeated step by step, and when the formation is broken, our army will win a big victory!" Borrowing Mengwu's Lu Lijing, the protector Sima Kong saw that his banner was advancing, and the Chu army was retreating in Queen Cang, so he couldn't help but say this.

"The Sky Protector is fallacious." Meng Wu swept away the previous discoloration, and said with a smile: "I think that Xiang Yan is also a famous general of the Jing people, and he can be invested in the rear army to break my Chinese army, but it is a pity that he missed the opportunity." At this time, Jing Ren's strength has been discharged, morale has fallen, and there is no way to defeat me. However, the army behind it is still there, and it will not be easy for our army to break through the Jing people's array. ”

He was indeed in danger of passing a level, which was clear to Sikong Ma, and he asked curiously: "Jing people are brave, how can the general win?" ”

"Naturally, it is to defeat the Jing people's Chinese army." Through the command just now, Meng Wu felt that Xiang Yan had no experience in commanding large battles, so he was quite complacent. At this time, the army is driving to the front of the formation, according to past experience, no array can resist the rapid rush of the army, as soon as the army comes out, the Jing people are about to be defeated.

"General, the Qin army is coming in a group." The Qin army came out of the car, and the lookers immediately reported to each other, and at this time, Xiang Yan was still counting the number of retreat steps after his army was defeated.

"Trucking?" Xiang Yan also saw the Qin army's car. Unlike normal chariot arrays, these chariots not only marched in formations, but were accompanied not by vacans but by cavalry. There were about two hundred chariots, and they formed an array and slowly advanced towards the Chinese army, which couldn't help but remind him of the last warning sent by Da Sima: The Qin army has the skill of breaking the formation of chariots.

After decades of peace, especially after not fighting the Qin army for a long time, the Chu army was completely ignorant of the new tactics of warfare. Fortunately, the Great Sima Mansion came to warn, otherwise Xiang Yan didn't know what these cars were going to do.

"Herald, prepare thistles immediately." Xiang Yan's order was written on the wooden slab, and he left the nest cart and quickly passed it to the trebuchet.

Gong Yin Dao, whose voice was already hoarse, was in charge of commanding the trebuchet troops, although he was a civil official, but hundreds of years ago, the officials of the Chu State did not distinguish between civil and military, and many of his ancestors died on the battlefield. In this battle, being able to command a weapon like a trebuchet was enough for him to make a mark in his family history, but the fire bomb that missed just now shocked his soul, fortunately, the king was safe, otherwise he would have to apologize for his sin.

"The Admiral ordered our troops to shoot thistles?" Looking at the orders and orders on the wooden scumbag, Gong Yindao's face was embarrassed.

"Exactly. At dawn, the general sent me to tell Doctor Yin to prepare thistles, but did Doctor Yin forget? "The military officer came once in the morning, so he reminded Gong Yin Dao.

"I don't forget." Of course, Gong Yin Dao remembers the events of the morning. "Then, then, then......" Gong Yindao felt cold when he thought of the fire bomb that had been fired just now. Our troops are too close to the formation, and if we miss......"

"Doctor Gong Yin, thistle terrestris is not a fire bomb, even if it is sprinkled on my sergeants, it is also unharmed." Of course, the military officials knew Gong Yindao's concerns. He added: "The king is in the chariot, and the chariot has a strong shield, and it should be fine." ”

As soon as he heard about the king, Gong Yin Dao's body was shocked, and he also hiccuped, which was scary. He waved his hand and said, "It's too close, it's too close." Please ask the general to have 2,000 men to me, and You Que must also give way to the formation, and the trebuchet can retreat. ”

"Retreat?" The officer looked at the trebuchet that was firing a fireball. The loaders are okay, but those wrestlers who step on the disc are tired and out of breath, although they change people from time to time, but they have been fighting so far, and after every round, they come out and can't pounce.

"It is necessary to retreat. You go quickly. Gong Yindao was impatient with him to ask more, and sent him away. This trebuchet has the longest range, but also the shortest range. Ten tons configuration, the shortest range is about eighty paces, and no matter how short it is, there will be a bias bomb like the one just now, so now the fire bombs can only be fired outside the Chu army array line, but now the Chu army is retreating, and the Qin army is following up, even if Gong Yin Dao orders someone to move the projectile direction of the trebuchet to increase the range of its oblique shot, those fire bombs will not be able to hurt the Qin army that broke into the array of their own army.

Gong Yin saw his own army formation when he was discussing the army, and he also knew the strategy of retreating in this battle to lure the enemy. It is precisely because of this that he asked to retreat After the Qin army entered the ambush, it was less than twenty steps away from the trebuchet, and how could he shoot the enemy without retreating.