Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Magnet
The cavalry retreated, and after the Jing cavalry crossed the Weishui, the heavily armored soldiers followed closely to cross the Weishui. Although there were hundreds of thousands of people in our own army, seeing that the Jing cavalry was charging fiercely, our army could not stop it, and I couldn't help but feel worried in my heart. When the Chu artillery raised the angle and extended the fire, the shells slowly fell and got closer and closer, and the oppressive feeling of death made people even more alarmed.
At this moment, the tun chief and the hundred generals behind him suddenly shouted: "King!" The king! The king is ......"
The Chinese army array was more than 4,000 columns wide and 70 lines deep, and more than 300,000 Qin soldiers all turned around and looked behind them. Yuanmen is five miles away from Weishui, and two miles away from the Qin army array, they can't identify who the person riding the jujube red horse is, but they know the red Chang Qi, not to mention the tens of thousands of guards who follow behind the Chang Qi.
"The king is the king! The king! With suspicion and shock, the Qin army array quickly became quiet.
'Officials are impermanent, and the people are not cheap. If you have the ability, you will lift it, and if you are incompetent, you will go down', this is the ideal of the Mohists, but this is only an ideal. What the Qin State really implemented was the Legalist 'humiliation is noble, weak is honorable, and poor is rewarded'.
Only by making the head of the Qiantou feel humiliated from time to time will they feel that the title is precious; Only by making the Qianshou people weak will they feel that the officials should be respected; Only by letting the poor people of Qianshou have enough to eat, will they cherish the rewards of the government and obey the orders of the imperial court.
Because of this, Zhao Zhengzhi's reaction before the battle and Xiong Jingzhi's reaction before the battle were completely different. Xiong Jing arrived in front of the battle, Chu was excited, Zhao Zheng was in front of the battle, but Qin was nervous. 'Fear of obedience, and the people of old. Just in the face of Yousi, Qianshou is already very afraid, and now there is a Si and there is a Si...... How could they not be apprehensive when they came in person?
The Qin array instantly became silent, and at this time, Zhao Yong, the general of the Chinese army, turned around to greet Zhao Zheng who was rushing in. When he opened his mouth to persuade Zhao Zheng to return to Yuanmen, Zhao Zheng asked, "What song is Jingren?" ”
The Chu army arrayed in Weinan was singing, the Chu army was also singing when crossing the bridge, and the Chu army waiting to cross the bridge in Weibei, they looked at the phoenix flag floating in the sky over Weinan and sang in the sound of cannons. The singing was loud and loud, and the soldiers of Chu were in high spirits, eager to rush up and kill now.
"This jingren's song is also." Zhao Yong knew that this was the Chu people's "National Martyrdom", but he just didn't say his name. "It's dangerous before the battle, if the Jing people see the king here, the Jing people's witchcraft ......"
The Qin army was in front, and Zhao Yong was more than two hundred steps behind them, four miles away from Weishui, and about five and a half miles away from the Chu artillery on the north bank of Weishui. If the king is bombarded with a witch weapon like last time, the king will retreat, and the morale of the whole army will plummet again. Last time, the Qin army had a large number of rear troops, but this time, because Zhang Han took away 150,000 people, the rear army may not be able to fill the omissions of the Chinese army and stabilize the position of the whole army.
Zhao Yong was so worried, Zhao Zheng continued the topic just now: "Why doesn't our army sing?" ”
"Our army?!" Except for the sudden shouting of long live the king, except for the fight for the head, the march and battle have always been quiet.
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. ...... with the same hatred as his son", Zhao Zheng, who has his own pride in his chest, is immersed in his own imagination.
"The ...... of the king" Zhao Yong wanted to speak and stopped, but after stopping, he still said: "How can Qianshou sing this song of Yayan?" It's Qin Ge, and now Qianshou can't sing it. ”
"Why?" Zhao Zheng asked. At this time, the Chang Qi who followed was already standing behind him, and the canopy that covered the sun was also raised by the temple people, which was something that the craftsmen in the camp had just made yesterday.
If Zhao Zheng was just a solo horseman, Chu Jun might not have noticed that Changqi Huagai was a very obvious target. When he asked why the Qin army couldn't sing "No Clothes", the Chu artillery on the north bank of Weishui was adjusting the firing angle.
The cavalry of the Chu army dispersed the Qin cavalry at the bridgehead and repelled the ballistas, and the Chu soldiers who had been scattered before gathered at the bridgehead again. As more and more armor soldiers crossed the bridge, the array of bridgeheads became denser and denser. However, compared with the military formation of the Qin army, which was more than ten miles wide, this military formation seemed very narrow, about the width of six pontoon bridges, and the width was only one and a half miles.
The cavalry and crossbowmen of the Qin army were repulsed by the Chu cavalry, and they lined up five hundred paces away from Weishui, and did not retreat behind the infantry or on the side of the military formation. They were still ordered to crush the Chu army array on the southern bank of Weishui, which may be the last chance for the Qin army. Zhao Zheng's step forward made the process faster, and the horsemen who were rectifying the cavalry thought that the king had come forward to urge him.
"The king is behind you! The king's order, kill the king of Jing, seal the marquis, and eat thousands of households...... "Cavalry is a noble class, and it is also the most vulnerable to loss. Xin Sheng died in battle, and several horsemen were immediately promoted by Zhao Yong's line of fire, and Yu Fen was one of them. He rode in front of the battle, constantly shouting to the soldiers, 'Seal the marquis, eat ten thousand households', without mentioning the honor of serving the king or the Qin army.
Everything is fake, only real profit is real. Although Yu Fen is not from Qin, his background makes him know this truth very well and understand it very thoroughly. Compared with the official words and insanity of the Empress Qin, this undisguised simplicity and logical self-consistency is not only very real, but also extremely cute.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished saying 'seal the marquis and eat ten thousand households', the cavalry of the Qin army cheered up again. His eyes were firmly fixed on the phoenix flag at the head of the bridge, and the young king Jing who was on the horse under the phoenix. Before the Chu artillery corrected the firing angle, the cavalry generals scrambled to issue the order to attack, and they rushed to Weishui again, rushing towards the phoenix banner.
The drums beat again, and the cavalry of the Qin army, which had retreated and lined up, rushed again. This was completely expected by Xiong Jing, Fu Jing, Jing Sheng and others. Especially Xiong Jing, he is very aware of his magnet effect, as long as he is on the battlefield, he will attract enemies.
"The ministers invite the king to ......" left and right Ershi also crossed the Weishui at this time. Yu Jing covered the enemy Ruoyun, and when he saw the Qin cavalry rushing over, Right Shi wanted to persuade Xiong Jing to take refuge temporarily. Yet thousands of knights were eager to fight, and his advice could not be spoken.
"Really?" Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to him, but looked at Zhan Li, who was helping him bandage the wound on his calf.
"Not yet." He squatted under the horse, still wiping the wound and disinfecting it, and did not bandage it at all.
"It's not as good as that!" More than 400 steps away, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, Qin rode before the dust arrived. Xiong Jing spat out the dust that blew into his mouth, closed his mask and rode his horse. After the separation was basically cleaned up, he directly wrapped a piece of alcohol-soaked cotton, and when the knot was halfway through, the bears on the horse shouted, and rushed to the front of the riding formation like an arrow from the second string.
The previous battle between the cavalry of the two armies was a melee, and the Qin army was not inferior to the Chu army in horsemanship and combat skills, but the horses and harness were inferior to the Chu army. In particular, the war horse, which was later said by the Han Dynasty, 'up and down the mountain, in and out of the stream, China's horse is like a horse', which was staged in advance with the purchase of the Persian Nisa horse by the Chu army.
The cavalry of the Qin army that charged again divided into several conical formations and headed straight for Xiongjing, but just like the cavalry knights on the pontoon bridge just now squeezed the martial knights down the Weishui, these conical formations collided with each other in the end, and only the fastest one could grab the most advantageous position. This sprint for speed wreaked havoc on the riders' formation, and only the best horses were able to rush to the front.
At the pontoon bridge just now, Xiong Jing didn't have time to make fun of the Qin cavalry who were stealing merit from each other, but now he couldn't help laughing when he saw them revert to their old ways. When the Qin army rushed to three hundred steps, the cavalry spear he held tightly in his right hand was raised high, and he shouted with all his strength: "Ah-"
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The horn of the charge has finally sounded! The war horses in the front row walked forward slowly, facing the Qin people who were galloping wildly. Xiong Jing was in the middle of the cavalry array, and the cavalry of the Guards led by Zhuang Quji were on either side of him; The 1st Cavalry Division led by Concubine Jing and the 2nd Cavalry Division led by Jing Sheng were on both sides of the Guards Cavalry. The cavalry of the Hubei Division, Ruo Ao's Division, and other divisions and brigades were in the second line.
Cavalry charges, which were rare in dense formations before modern times. There was a gap of several meters between the knight and the knight, and when we were hedged, the enemy and our armies passed through these gaps, and fought in the moment of staggering. However, the charging line of more than 2,000 dragon horses was now impenetrable, and they were divided into two rows of front and back, fifty paces apart, and the knights in the same row advanced with their knees glued to their knees.
Xiong Jing did not understand the training methods of cavalry in the Napoleonic era, but he knew the benefits of intensive charging - the theory of invincibility on the wall was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. So there was a strange scene on the battlefield: the cavalry of the Qin army rushed to gallop, the cavalry of the Chu army did not run at all, and the war horses were just galloping quickly. Only by walking briskly can we maintain a still crooked riding wall.
It was a knight's dream to gallop on the battlefield, but for the sake of the neatness of the queue, Chu Jun gave up galloping and chose a slow and fast pace. The Chu army in the rear could not see whether their cavalry was galloping or galloping, and the oncoming Qin cavalry found that the cavalry of the Chu army was very slow, so slow that it was incomprehensible, but what was even more incomprehensible was that they actually formed a wall about 700 steps wide. There is no gap for your cavalry to pass through, and you cannot stagger with the enemy cavalry, and the result of the battle will be that the two cavalry will collide and die together.
Things on the battlefield are often only in a moment, and there is not so much time for people to think about what to do. Before the Qin army could figure out what to do, the two armies were already within a hundred paces. The knights of the Chu army who were charging quickly were all holding their spears, and the spears were erected, and the swallowtail flags at the front of the spears fluttered in the wind. After the two armies entered a hundred paces, the erected mounted spears were slowly flattened, and the shiny spear tips were aimed at themselves.
Cavalry against cavalry, spear or crossbow sword against spear. When they were thirty paces apart, the cavalry of the Qin army, which had not charged with spears, fired arrows at the Chu army, and the Chu army seemed to be unaware, and they tried their best to maintain the balance of their formation and body, waiting for the Qin people to collide with themselves. It's a pity that they overestimated the war horses of the Qin army. When they were more than ten paces apart, some of the horses rushing towards them suddenly stopped or stood up.
Horses are animals and are especially afraid of sharp, shiny objects, even when trained. The most important thing is that the height and physique of the dragon horse are better than the Qin horse, the two horses collide, there must be a horse to avoid, if you can't avoid it, then there is only a quick stop or a person standing. The Qin people didn't coax, Qin Ma, coaxed.