Chapter Ninety-Four: One Strike 6
Decision, another decision!
But unlike a quarter of an hour before, Xiong Jing was no longer in the mood to say to himself, 'The harm of using soldiers is the greatest hesitation'. Beads of sweat seeped out of his forehead, shouting and killing, building drums, and in the extremely noisy battlefield, he could clearly hear his rapid breathing and faster and faster heartbeat. He tried his best to calm himself down, but his mind was chaotic, and his thoughts were like Qi pawns who were defeated by the heavy cavalry of the Chu army, and they were scattered as soon as they came out.
"You Que should speed to the left army, and wait for the cavalry to turn ......"
"No! Never! Our division will be defeated! If my division is broken......"
The battlefield is noisy, and the generals and strategists around him are even more noisy. When one plan is proposed, it is immediately opposed by others, and another is proposed and opposed by the person who originally made it. Xiong Jing has not yet made a decision, these people have already quarreled, and no one can convince anyone. And with the simultaneous attack of the central army and the rear army of the Qi army, there were more and more urgent military reports.
"Stop Qi people! Block the Qi people! The commander of the third division, Yan Qiu, came to the army in person and shouted to the soldiers. Just as he shouted, the battle line of the second division, which had too many soldiers, actually jumped on the shoulders of his comrades, trying to cross the Chu army formation full of spears from the air.
With no way to borrow strength in the air, he was immediately pierced by the Yi spear, and finally smashed into the Chu army array, and more Qi soldiers jumped after him. The front row of the Chu army originally pointed forward, once it was aimed at the Qi pawn in the air, the opposite Qi pawn would roll closer, and in the face of the upper and lower double attacks, the soldiers had to retreat again.
"The Chu people are defeated! The Chu people are defeated! Seeing this, Qi Shu screamed. The Chinese army surged frantically again, the weapons were useless, and even if the Qi pawns in the front were killed, their corpses were pushed by their comrades like shields.
When the battle evolved from fighting for the life to simply pushing and shoving, the Chu army, which was less than ten people in depth, could not push the Qi army, which was more than 20 people in depth. The arrays of the two armies swayed like swings, at first the Chu army battle line was concave, and then the Chu army desperately pushed back, and the Qi army battle line was concave, when the Qi army stopped the forward rush and struggled to push back, 'Boom! With a bang, the Chu pawns on the front either fell or retreated again and again, and a crack appeared in the military formation.
"Kill ——!" The bloodied Qi pawns abandoned the corpses of their comrades and rushed through the cracks in the battle formation. The urgent gong sounded hurriedly, and the military formation finally broke.
"You Que must block the ...... first" from the front line to the time when the army formation was broken and not long after, the strategists were still arguing at the moment whether You Que should make up the left wing or save the Chinese army, and when they heard the sound of the gong, they all seemed to have been stabbed with a sword, and their faces were full of horror when they opened their mouths.
*
"It smells so good."
Xiong Jing was sniffing a delicate sachet with the smell of rouge and the smell of Xuan. It reminded Xiong Jing of the days when he and Mi Xuan were in Chen Ying, her solo dance when she parted, and the 'beautiful woman in the north'. Only Mi Xuan can make him forget about the battlefield and really calm down, and once he calms down......
"Pass my military order: keep only the cuirass!" In everyone's surprise, Xiong Jing only gave You Que a military order.
"King, our army has been defeated, please ...... King" Deng Sui didn't know what Xiong Jing was going to do, and the Qi pawns who broke through the army formation dozens of steps away were rushing wildly.
"Our army will win!" Xiong Jing interrupted him, he had found a way to win.
"Drive!" It was not an easy task to disarm, so Xiong Jing immediately suspended the order and led You Que to Shenchi, which was more than 800 meters away to the south.
"King! The king is going to also-" Zhuang Qujian was swinging his sword to slash the Qi pawns who rushed through the gap in the military formation, and a knight beside him suddenly pointed to Xiong Jing who was heading south and shouted. Most of the cavalry were red-clothed, and they followed the king when he went. Xiongjing runs south, and knights also want to run south.
"No!" Zhuang went to cut off the head of a Qi pawn, he saw Xiong Jing leading You Que to run south, of course he wanted to follow, but the Chinese army was broken, and a handful of Qi pawns rushed in from the rupture, and if the cavalry withdrew, the whole army would be defeated.
"Kill!" The bloody riding knife pointed forward, and Zhuang Qujian shouted with all his strength.
"Kill ——!" Following him, more than 300 cavalry guards shouted in the same way.
"Rush!" The direction pointed by the cavalry knife is the gap in the Chinese army, and if you want to fill this gap, you can only launch a counterattack. Only the most ferocious counterattack can hit the already high morale of the Qi army.
"Rush!" The knight raised his sword and replied, "They are not heavy horses, but now they must be heavy horses." More than three hundred horses began to gallop, the ground seemed to be flipped under the horses' hooves, the knight's body leaned forward as hard as he could, and the cavalry pointed forward with his sword, rushing towards the gap like the wind.
"Drive, drive! Call ...... "Hu Tanshaozhi is dedicated to Xiong Jing is a bloody horse. The horse has been castrated, eliminating the possibility of being a stallion. Xiong Jing rode on a horse, but You Que had no horse and could only walk. The military situation was like fire, Xiong Jing couldn't control his desire to run faster for a while, and then he had to shout 'huh', hold his horse's head and wait.
There is also chain mail under the soldier's ring armor, and with a weight of more than 20 kilograms, plus a five-kilogram spear and a kilogram and a half of a huge blade, even if the distance is only a short 800 meters, they can't run fast. In the end, Xiong Jing had to dismount and draw his long sword to run with them, but the armor on his body was also very heavy, and he almost fell after running dozens of meters.
"Please, the king, mount! Please get on board! "Most of the close pawns are former sanitizers, and some are palace armor. They thought that Xiong Jing was walking to share weal and woe with him, and everyone was excited for a while.
"King ......" Chang Jiang has been following Xiong Jing, Xiong Jing dismounted and he also dismounted, seeing that Xiong Jing couldn't run, he even wanted to carry Xiong Jing forward.
"This armor is too heavy." Xiong Jing gasped. The king's armor naturally had to be made gorgeous, although Xiong Jing repeatedly emphasized that it should be light, but how could the armor inlaid with gold and silver be so light, he had to get on the horse again. The distance of eight hundred meters took almost a quarter of an hour. When he arrived at the bamboo forest around Shenchi, Xiong Jing dismounted again, and he pointed to this mixed bamboo and wood forest and ordered: "Walk through!" ”
"Wear it, pass through it...... The chief of the guards thought that the king brought them to attack the left flank of the Qi army, but he didn't expect that the king brought them here to drill the forest. The trees are dense, especially bamboo, and there are large clumps as soon as they grow. According to the previous reconnaissance of the Chu army, most of the surrounding areas of Shenchi are shrubs and bamboo forests, which are impassable. Even if it is set on fire, burning the remaining tree roots and bamboo roots will also hinder the passage of cavalry.
"Respectfully obey the order!" Although Xiong Jing's order was unconventional, the pawn still drew his sword and slashed at the bamboo and wood. The drums and shouts on the battlefield came one after another, and they could hear but not see them hidden in the bamboo forest. No one knew whether the Chu army won or lost, so they could only follow Xiong Jing while swinging their swords.
If it is a bronze blade or a soft iron blade, more than 2,400 blades may not be able to pass through this bamboo forest, but a huge blade is a bamboo, a chop is a shrub, more than 2,000 people take turns to slash, and the forest tree really penetrates after lodging 200 meters.
Once the Chu army appeared, the Qi pawns who had already panicked when they heard the sound immediately released their arrows, but these arrows were all shot on the armor, and so more than 2,000 Chu pawns all rushed out of the bamboo forest, and a burst of charge drove them away without blood. Xiong Jing did not let the soldiers stop, but pointed to a trail to the east, "Kill, kill in!" ”
"Dawang ......" was wearing a gorgeous armor and walked more than 200 meters in the dense bamboo forest, Xiong Jing was about to stand no longer, and Chang Jiang hurriedly supported him.
Zhuang Quji's deputy was Nao Xin, who had a dark face and a full beard. He originally wanted to leave a pawn to defend Xiong Jing, but he didn't expect Xiong Jing to take off his armor outside, and Xiong Jing, who was light, gasped a little and followed them south. Nao Xin tightly guarded Xiong Jing and let the other guards move forward.
"Kill!" Xiong Jing, who did not have heavy armor, was no slower than the soldiers, and when he saw that the path was about to pass through the dense forest, the intersection suddenly darkened, and several rows of soldiers blocked there. He raised his sword and shouted, the soldiers followed suit, and the Chu soldiers in the front row had already rushed forward with their spears.
The bamboo forest near Shenchi was originally the barrier of the left flank of the Qi army, although this barrier was dense, and the Qi army also arranged some people to defend it, but the dense forest several miles wide could not be defended by a few thousand people, and once the Chu army broke into the defenders who had no numerical advantage, they could only flee. By the time the Qi army wanted to stop it at the entrance of the forest, it was too late, and the Chu pawn was like a leopard out of the forest, and he defeated the Qi army guarding the intersection with a fierce rush.
The drum of 'knock knock ......knock' warning sounded behind the left side of the Qi army, but Shi Yi and Mu Chong under Yangmen Jing only paid attention to the middle army and the rear army. The Chinese army had just broken through the Chu army array, and who would have thought that it would be beaten back by a fierce counterattack by the Chu cavalry.
Under the heavy reward, the pawns are not afraid of life and death, and the close pawn cavalry who lives with honor does not care about life and death. More than 300 cavalry slammed into the Qi army, and the Qi army was immediately repulsed, and the gap in the battle line was refilled, but most of these cavalry were trapped in the Qi army array and surrounded by the Qi army.
The Chinese army failed, but the rear army took advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the Chu army did not return to the rear of the Chu army, but because Shi Yi temporarily issued an order to capture the king of Chu, these thousands of soldiers went straight to the banner of the Chu army.
The warning drums on the left rear were mixed with the continuous sound of construction drums, and the generals of the Qi army did not notice it at all. This can't be blamed for their carelessness, the cavalry can't pass through the dense forest, the foot soldiers can pass through individually, but how can the foot soldiers who pass through form a formation?
With the quality of the infantry of this era, it is difficult to recover once the army is disbanded, and even if it does, it will take a long time to recover. But this is just a horizontal team, the spearmen of the Chu army have been a column from the beginning, and they don't need to regroup at all when they pass through the dense forest, because their queue has never been disbanded, it's just that one column and another column are not parallel to each other.
Defeating the last resistance of the Qi pawns, in a clearing beside the woods, nine pawns, two thousand and twenty-five spearmen, three hundred and twenty-four archers, and eighty-one officers, in a dazzling way, instantly formed a phalanx of forty-five by forty-five razed spears, with two hundred and twenty-five spears raised high and flat in the front of the phalanx, to begin the real fatal blow of the battle.