Chapter 114: Riding the Horse
It was neither too early nor too late, and at the first rise of the sun, the marched men marched out of the camp and marched to the gutter three miles to the east. Like the Battle of the Chasm, the morning glow once again shines on the land, casting a golden light on the snow-covered plains.
The north wind was not strong, only the military flag of the Chu army had just been blown, and the low temperature of close to minus 30 degrees made people who were dressed thickly seem to be naked. The cold pressed against his chest, making every breath very difficult. The cold air inhaled quickly froze the nasal passages, even though the wings of the nose were wrapped in a black coat that only showed the eyes; The exhaled hoarfrost stains the collar and placket with a thin layer of hoarfrost.
Not too many people cared about the cold, and the spear formation of the Chu army and the horizontal formation of the three kingdoms of Zhao Wei and Qi trampled forward on the snow that had already settled, and there was a creaking sound under their feet. After a while, the soldiers sang the military song, the Chu Yue soldier sang the cheerful river crossing beam, and the Zhao Wei soldier sang the song with the same person Yu Ye, these two military songs Xiong Jing had heard it, and what song Qi people sang was indeed the first time to hear it.
"It's long, it's long. If you are raised, your beautiful eyes are beautiful. Clever tends to stagger, and shooting is staggering......"
It sounds like a love song, but it's actually a hymn. The young man in the song is not only 'happy and long', 'beautiful eyes Yang Xi', 'clever and staggering', 'dancing is choosing', but his archery skills are also 'shooting is Zangxi', 'shooting is through', and 'four arrows are reversed'.
A handsome and good young man, a hero who 'resists chaos'. Qi Ge also has the temperament of Qi people, it does not have the sadness and determination of Yan Zhao, some are just calm and soothing, for Qi people, beauty and bravery are always intertwined, as bright as crystal.
The Qi army is the Chinese army, and Xiong Jing, who is riding a dragon horse, walks in front of their queue, and gradually, he also learns the tune of the Qi people to sing. Seeing this, Zhuang Wudi wanted to say something, but after opening his mouth, he smiled slightly, and immediately shut up. Seeing the smile on his face and the smile in his eyes, Xiong Jing suddenly had an epiphany: the young man Qi Zhao wanted to praise might be himself.
The journey of three or four miles was quickly completed, and Xiong Jing did not rush to let the soldiers enter the gutter immediately, but chose to rest under the earthen embankment. At this time the knight crossed the earthen embankment and ran on the snow-covered earthen embankment. The scouts climbed the earthen embankment on the east side very early, and standing on the western embankment, you could see some of the horsemen running down, and some running back. Even if he didn't look at the flags frequently played by the reprimands, Xiong Jing knew that this was the Qin army.
The Chu army was delayed for several days because of the formation and training of soldiers, and the Qin army was actually waiting for the snow to compact. Only when the snow is compacted can the war horse gallop on the snow. Artillery is the most feared weapon of the soldiers, and it is also a blow that the soldiers cannot resist, even if all the 30,000 cavalry are engaged in the charge of the Chu army's artillery, Wang Jian will never hesitate for half a minute.
Dou Zang, the chief of the cavalry, stood on the embankment on the east bank of the ditch and watched the Qin army coming out of the camp. Like the coalition army, in order to avoid being hit by surprise when arraying, the Qin army listed the horizontal formation during the battle when leaving the camp. The 3,500 columns of military formations stretched across the eight miles, setting off the military flags flying south in the wind and the dense chieftain spears of the soldiers, this huge military formation with a depth of 134 lines was like a mountain range being pushed by an inexplicable and huge force, and it moved sideways.
No one would not be afraid, and the face inside the rebuker's coat on the earthen embankment stiffened. Although their enemy was only 30,000 Qin cavalry, they were still uneasy when they saw the array of Qin troops lying across the white snowfield like mountains.
The Qin army's array was too long to bypass from both sides, and the Chu army's cavalry in the center of the array was all driven back to the earthen embankment. After retreating to the embankment and being ordered, they ran to both sides again to bypass the rear of the Qin army array and reconnoiter the actual formation of the specific Qin people. At the same time, the Lingqi continued to rush to the west bank of the gutter, and many reports were gathered to the shogunate, and the Qin army array was finally displayed in front of Xiong Jing.
Xiong Jing, the military formations that the Qin army may have listed have been looked at countless times on the chipboard, and according to the width and depth of the array, there may be 500,000 infantry soldiers of the Qin army divided into five formations before and after. However, only the last two formations of soldiers were dressed in great armor, the first two formations were clothed in cloth armor, and the third formation of soldiers were dressed in leather armor, and there was no doubt that the armor was insufficient.
There are many people, and another factor is the east and west embankments of the gutter that have been frozen. The result of the shogunate's military discussion was that there were two possibilities for a decisive battle in this battle: one was Xiong Jing's subconscious assumption, and the two armies fought a decisive battle on a ditch about a mile wide and already frozen river; The second is that the Qin army used the earthen embankment on the east side of the yin ditch as a fortification to prevent the Chu army from climbing the earthen embankment on the east side, which is about 18 feet higher than the river. The decisive battle did not take place in the Gutter River, but on the east side of the embankment and below the embankment.
Xiong Jing's subconscious assumption was of course wrong, and he could only say that if he was in Wang Qian's position, he would choose to fight in the ditch and river. It's a pity that he is not Wang Qian, and Wang Jian will inevitably use the condescending defense of this earthen embankment to prevent the allied soldiers from crossing the river. The earthen embankment is a steep slope, and the city wall can be blown up, and the earthen embankment can also be blown up, but it takes several hours to dig through the frozen soil and blow up certain sections of the earthen embankment.
"The earthen embankment is not a wall, and the ears are steep. Bombarded with artillery, our sergeants can go up with a drum, why do you want to ......" Xiang Liang ran to the phoenix flag during the break, he knew the terrain on both sides of the ditch, and did not think that the method of blowing up the embankment must be adopted.
"The Qi sergeant is the Chinese army, and in their first battle, they can only bomb it." Qu Guang is a general of the Chinese army, and he knows very well the ability of his soldiers. To put it simply, the Chinese army is a shield that increases the width of the array, which can only defend, not attack.
"Fenfen!" The concubine on the earthen embankment suddenly shouted, and he saw the banner of the general of the endeavour. As this flag rushed up the embankment on the east side of the gutter, countless Qin cavalry along the coast also rushed onto this embankment. The Chu army cavalry that had been stationed on the Mache embankment was immediately dispersed, and they had to retreat from the earthen embankment and return to the ditch river.
Everyone has the person they hate the most in their lives, and for Fei Jing, this person is Yu Fen. He hated that he hadn't cut off his head with his own hands back then, let him survive until now, let him trap Xiang Chao, and let him kill thousands of Chu soldiers. With this shout, Fei Jing on the embankment rushed down the earthen embankment, he was going to kill Yu Fen now!
"General Fei......" Concubine Jing's sudden rush down the earthen embankment caught the cavalry knights beside him off guard, and some people shouted at a loss, but more knights rushed down with him.
Only a mile apart, Fei Jing's shouts and movements attracted Yu Fen's attention. If you ask him who he hates the most, he will be at a loss. But if you want to ask him what he hates the most, the answer must be those nobles who are superior everywhere, and the Chu State where nobles are everywhere. He will always remember the Battle of Qingshui twelve years ago, when the old scout took him to counterattack the Qin army, covering the rapid escape of the nobleman Fu Jing.
Why can the nobles live, but the common people and slaves must die?! If the pedantic nobles were simply because they trampled on the heads of the common people, he would rather have them cut off at the cost of his life.
Seeing Fei Jing rushing down the earthen embankment, he only hesitated for a second, and Wei Fen's face began to distort, and he shouted wildly: "Attackββ! Then he aimed at the direction that Fei Jing was rushing from, drew his sword and rode his horse down.
Wang Qian's military order was to drive away the Chu army and repulsion, at least to drive them off the embankment. At this time, Yu Fen ordered the whole army to attack, and 15,000 Qin cavalry rushed down the embankment like a torrent of bursting embankment. The large-scale charge of the Qin cavalry caused the cavalry of the Chu army to charge, and like mercury, the knights of one division after another rushed down without hesitation.
"Da Ao! Qin cavalry attacked me. "Lao Cheng's abandonment heel rushed down the earthen embankment and sent a commander to pray. Xiong Jing was ordering the artillerymen to drag the cannon up the embankment to cover the burner burning the frozen soil on the embankment, digging the embankment and burying gunpowder. The shogunate was set up under the earthen embankment, and I heard that Xiong Jing hurriedly climbed the earthen embankment more than a foot high.
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves returned to the gutter and river, and the snow rolled up wildly. On one side is a Qin cavalry with a long shirt and colorful clothes and armor, and on the other side is a Chu cavalry with a red robe and a smaller number of people. The two torrents rushed down the east and west embankments, and they were about to collide violently together. There was no shout after shout before the foot soldiers, only heavy hoof prints and the loud commands of the cavalry commanders.
Mercedes was in the front of the Chu cavalry, and the gallop was in front of the Qin cavalry, and the gallop was resentful. The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, and they hurriedly saw that neither of them was riding a spear, only a sword. To Concubine Jing's surprise, this time Yu Fen was riding a dragon horse, at least a Great Xia sweat blood horse. He didn't lose his way, but rode forward even faster.
There was only Yu Fen in Fei Jing's eyes, but Yu Fen's eyes included the Chu horses behind Yu Jing who rushed down the embankment. He could only observe with a sparse afterglow, because Fei Jing had already rushed to the front, and the bright sword reflected the sunlight that was about to be obscured by the clouds, and was stabbing forward with a rapid momentum. Knowing that Fei Jing would be like this, a snicker appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he rushed down when he saw that Fei Jing did not ride a spear.
The moment the sword stabbed at him. Yu Fen suddenly fell from the horse's back to the inside, and his horizontal body happened to be under the sword edge of Fei Jing, and Fei Jing, who stabbed hard, didn't expect that Yu Fen would take this method to dodge, and it was too late to collect the sword. Fu Jing's sword missed, and the whole person was always down, and when he staggered Fei Jing's calf, which was not protected by shin armor, the sword blade stabbed in, and then came out covered with blood.
Under the severe cold, the blood was already frozen before the wound spurted, and Fu Jing could clearly feel that the cold sword blade had pierced the shinbone, and the sword blade was grinding against his bones, he shouted, his forehead was sweat instantly, and at this time, the riding spear of Qin Qi rushing in front of him had been flattened.
Yu Fen is born as a child, and his riding skills are naturally better than those of Yu Jing. But when he was fighting, he could make such an action, Xiong Jing sighed to himself. I didn't see where Yu Fen stabbed Fu Jing, but I could see the bright red on the tip of his sword, Xiong Jing said categorically: "Blow the trumpet!" β
"When two militaries exchange troops, they must not blow their trumpets." Zhuang Wudi also stood on the embankment, he didn't see the confrontation between Fu Jing and Yu Fen, he only saw that the cavalry of the two armies had fought together, and there was no array. At this time, the order to withdraw the army was ordered, and the Chu army was afraid that it would be disadvantageous.
"Then fire!" Xiong Jing no longer looked at the chaotic battlefield under the embankment, but at the artillery towed on the outside of the embankment.
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