When the entire Qin army army rushed towards his side, Xiang Yan, who was one hundred and twenty steps behind the army formation, was watching. This is the position of You Que, with the last adjustment of the battle sequence last night, You Que only has five thousand people left in three armies, including more than 8,000 archers. At this time, these more than 8,000 archers lined up in front of Youque, and constantly released arrows at the Qin army that was attacking the Chinese army formation eighty steps away, and every time they fired arrows, there was a rapid rainstorm in the sunny sky, and countless Qin army arrows were hit.

It is a pity that the bow has a far range than an arm crossbow, but the armor piercing ability is far less than that of an arm crossbow, not to mention that the arrow falls from the sky. The Qin soldiers were heavily armoured, and unless they happened to be shot in the neck above the breastplate under the skin, it would be difficult to kill them with one blow. The Qin army who was hit by the arrow screamed even more crazy, and many armor soldiers with arrow feathers on their bodies burst into the Chu army's array, mixing with the Chu army's soldiers in confusion.

The effect of bow and arrow attacks is not in Xiang Yan's attention, and he is now concerned about three issues: the first is whether the follow-up military formations of the left and right armies have been completed. Since you want to make a pocket to put the Qin army in, the sides of the pocket must not only be strong, but also deep enough, deep enough to fit all the Qin troops in.

In line with this principle, the left and right armies removed forty rows of follow-up arrays and added twenty rows of archers. The two armies on the left and right with a width of 1,000 men reached an unprecedented depth of 80 lines after the formation was completed, and the number of each was 70,000.

While the Qin army was rushing, the left and right armies were rapidly arrayed. Although this has been rehearsed countless times on the chipboard, it is still frequently wrong when it comes to the actual listing. The biggest mistake came from the right army, the 'brittle and stupid' Yue soldiers did not follow the prior arrangement to place the follow-up army formation diagonally in the Chu army's pocket array with a width of 4,000 columns at the upper end and 3,000 columns at the bottom of the column, which was a standard trapezoidal shape, and the military formations of the left and right armies should be obliquely columned, but the Vietnamese soldiers did not have oblique columns, but were lined up in a straight line.

It is not impossible to form a straight line, but the width of the lower end of the line increases, and the number of troops required to block this opening also increases, and You Que minus more than 8,000 archers is left with only more than 40,000 people. In case there is a problem in the process of retreating the Chinese army, You Que cannot block the Qin army that breaks through in the middle, and the entire army formation will collapse.

The fewer chips left in hand, the more important the retreat of the Chinese army became. On the first day, after discussing the battle plan with the generals of the various armies, the generals came to the shogunate for several days to discuss the strategy of 'running north'. It is not difficult for the left and right armies to line up in the follow-up formation, but it is just a winter hunting parade, and what is really difficult is how the Chinese army can run without collapse and retreat without chaos. Ludi veteran Dong Yegu completely opposed the 'North Run' and suggested 'North Retreat', and Xinping Jun Lianpo also opposed the 'North Run' and proposed 'Slowdown'.

Running is running, running fifty steps is not far, but after fifty steps there is no array to speak of, and there is a great possibility of turning into a rout; Retreat, or not, this is a slow retreat according to the array, first, the array will not collapse, and second, the Qin army thinks that I am not an enemy, and will gradually invest in heavy troops to break the formation, and the Chu army has Youque, and the Qin army has a rear army. Anything can happen before the reserves are fully put into battle, and even if the Qin army has been pocketed, if the tens of thousands of rear troops of the Qin army are not put into battle, the Chu army still has the possibility of defeat.

In other words, the victory or defeat of this battle is not only in the northward run or retreat of the Chu army, but also only in when the rear army of Mengwu is invested and thrown there. If he thought that the Chu army could break the formation and throw the Qin army's rear army into the middle as long as he added more force, then the Chu army would have won the battle; If he perceives that the retreat of the Chu army is an encirclement strategy, and the rear army turns to attack the left army or the right army, and then tears the entire pocket, then the Chu army will inevitably lose this battle. Of course, the premise of all this is that the main direction of the Qin army's attack is the Chinese army, otherwise the early collapse of either of the left and right armies will cause catastrophic consequences.

The follow-up formations of the left and right armies, the main direction of the Qin army's attack and the retreat of the Chinese army, and the safety of the king who lured the enemy into danger with himself were the three problems that Xiang Yan was most worried about, and they were also the three most powerless. Fortunately, at this time, the king was safe, the main direction of the Qin army's attack was the Chinese army, and the left and right armies were basically in place although there were mistakes, which made him breathe a little relieved.

"General, is the gong sounding at this time?" The dust covers the sky, the fighting on the front line has become white-hot, and the flags on the front row array of the Chinese army that everyone is watching are gradually decreasing, and the Chinese army may not be able to support it.

"No, the Qin army's sharp morale is not yet over." The dusty battle line was faintly visible, and the Qin army's sharp soldiers were breaking through the formation. With the experience of the battle of Jiangyi, if they break the ten elements, they will have to change a team of people and then break the front end of the beryllium among the long soldiers, and the slashing is extremely physical.

"But the Qin army is digging the formation, if they don't break the formation, and the king is in danger!" After the king retreated into the military formation, Peng Zong has been watching the position of the flag. The Qin army's sharp soldiers did not attack the Gongjia Yi spear formation that protruded from the array, but there was a team of sharp soldiers on the left and right sides of the Yi spear formation slowly advancing, which made Peng Zong very uneasy.

"Don't forget what the king told last night!" Xiang Yan looked at him, not angry and arrogant, but he didn't see Yi Yangjun's red gaze on the other side.

"But how can we sit idly by......" In the end of last night's battle, only Xiang Yan and Peng Zong were left alone, Xiong Jing's request was very simple: he would rather die than be defeated by the Chu army, and he even said that the candidate for the prince had been informed to Da Sima that if he was unlucky, someone would take the throne.

With today's Chu politics, whoever ascends the throne is actually almost the same. The Yingdu Imperial Court was not a decision-making body, but a coordination and maintenance body. Coordination is the coordination of conflicts and contradictions in all aspects, which is internal; Safeguarding is the preservation of the unanimous interests of the whole country, or more precisely of all vested interests, especially in the context of the conquest of Vietnam and Shandong, which were not long in coming.

Peng Zong was born in Chen County, not because he didn't understand this truth, but he loved a king like Xiong Jing, and he always unconsciously remembered his safety. Although Xiang Yan also respects Xiong Jing, the thoughts in his heart are just the opposite of him. The more strategic the king, the more the country suffers from the common king after King Zhuang and the king Huai after King Wei. If it weren't for King Zhuang tyrannizing over the princes, how could the rebellion of the five sons and the Wu division enter Ying? If there is no prosperity of the mighty king, how can there be the defeat of the sand and the loss of Yan Ying? The eloquent king is nothing more than a multicolored mushroom in the mountains, beautiful and delicious, but enough to kill.

Xiang Yan continued to look at the entire battlefield, resolute and silent, Peng Zong wanted to speak and stopped, watching the trebuchet keep throwing fire bombs into the Qin army's array, and every time a bullet was thrown and fell to the ground, a flame flashed in the Qin army's chaotic array. At this time, the trebuchet was too close to the battle line, and the boom was no longer tilted at a large angle, but at a small angle, so that a range of about 100 paces could be obtained. Right now, a fire bomb that should have been thrown was actually clinging to the leather pocket, and it was barely thrown out when the leather pocket fell. The fire bomb flew angrily into the Chinese army array, and after a 'boom', the grease splashed and suddenly turned into a sea of fire.

The place where the bullet landed was near the flag, and Peng Zong jumped up all of a sudden. He ran forward in a hurry, ran a few steps and then retreated, wanting to say something to Xiang Yan but not knowing what to say.

Before the flag, a sanitation officer had already fallen down, and Xiong Jing was stepping on his back, and then he saw the Qin army not far from the left. He knew this kind of tactic: during the battle of Yingdu, the rebel dead soldiers fought with beryllium, killed all the three spearmen in the south, and then rushed into the final car formation.

The long beryllium hand on the left swung beryllium and was invincible, and a team of beryllium hands also emerged on the right, and the sanitation hand in front of the array was killed with a blow, and most of the spears were cut off wood, and in an instant, the sharp soldiers burst into the formation, they waved the long beryllium, and slashed with a wide open and closed stab.

"Retreat!" The retreating spear array was closely connected with the sanitation at this time, and before they retreated into the military formation, the razing spears placed flat on the left and right were put away. The long beryllium of the Rui Shi is not as long as the Yi spear, but the characteristic of the formation battle is that it can only attack the enemy near the position, even if the army formation on your side is chiseled by the enemy, you can only watch.

"Retreat!" The protruding military formation continued to retreat, and just as Xiong Jing was about to retreat to the position of the eleventh line before, there was a 'boom', and a fire bomb actually fell on the near side, and he subconsciously waved his hand to block, but his foot slipped, and the person actually fell.

"King!" The feather and the raiser around him were startled, thinking that Xiong Jing had been splashed with grease.

"I'm fine." The array was dense, and the five-foot-tall Xiong Jing was blocked by countless people, and not a drop of grease could be splashed, but with the screams, his voice was suddenly drowned out. This fire bomb fell on the confrontation line between the two armies, more than 20 sanitation guards were covered in fire, more than a dozen Qin army soldiers holding long beryllium were also covered in fire, and a lot of sparks were splashed on the others, and the two armies were suddenly in chaos.

"Protector King! Protect the king! Xiong Jing slipped down, and he was the only one in the array who wore a colored cloak and a shiny iron jacket, and the color and iron armor suddenly disappeared, and the sanitation people in the rear of the military array were panicked, they thought that the king had been hit by a fire bomb, and immediately rushed up to extinguish the fire and rob people; The Qin army soldiers who heard the call of sanitation also thought that King Jing was at the place where the fire bomb fell, and they rushed forward regardless of the fire, and they grabbed whatever the sanitation robbed, and in the fight of exchanging lives for lives, the front soldiers just fell to the ground, and the Qin army shouted 'Kill King Jing', and one team after another threw themselves into this flesh mill.

At this time, the long beryllium that broke the formation was no longer needed, and everyone was close to each other, and it was the short blade. There are swords in sanitation, although they are not made of iron, but they are also excellent copper swords; Many of the Qin army armorers did not have swords, and they could only use their fists, teeth, and the head of the Chu army hanging on their waists after being beheaded in such a close fight.

Flesh and blood flew and heads shattered, and the black-armored and brown-armored warriors screamed and fell to each other, but more sanitation and more warriors rushed up frantically, continuing the previous life-and-death struggle. The array of the Chu army is thinning sharply, and the array of the Qin army is also filling in rapidly. When the last three lines of the army rushed into the flesh field, the gong that ordered the Chinese army to retreat suddenly sounded.