Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cymbal
The Bird is a combative pheasant, and legend has it that when two birds fight, one must die before the other stops. King Wuling of Zhao used the tail wing of the pheasant to commend the brave soldiers in battle, extended to King Zhao Huiwen, and made a crane crown with the tail of the crane, called the martial crown, which was dedicated to the generals. Among the appearances left in later generations, the clearest is the gold, silver and bronze mirror in Luoyang Jincun, the armored warrior who rides a horse and holds a sword to fight with a tiger, and he wears a crown with a crane tail on the left and right.
The Crane Guanzi is named after the Crane Crown, precisely because he won this crown in the Zhao Army when he was young, and under the gentle and elegant appearance of the gray beard, he is still the brave and fierce Zhao warrior back then. The years have made him old, but the bravery of the past makes him despise Zhao Cong's cowardice. If the Zhao army does not beat the drum to attack Qin, and does not defeat the Qin army while the Qin army is not firmly established, at least half of the more than 400,000 Zhao people will die here.
The Chu army beat the drums, shouted and raised their spears to rush towards the Qin army array two hundred paces away; The Zhao army beat the drums, and 30,000 armor soldiers and 20,000 black-clothed soldiers turned into a phalanx under the command of Yi Qi, and also attacked the Qin army array that had not gained a firm foothold in the north. Wang Qian, who gradually rushed to the battlefield, saw that the Chu army was in the east and the Zhao army was in the west, and they all rushed towards the Qin army.
The Chu army's attacks were like waves, one wave after another lapping on their own array. The Chu soldiers who rushed the spear ignored that Qin soldiers also had spears in their hands, ignored everything about Qin soldiers, and of course ignored their own life and death. Wang Jian saw more than once that after the Chu pawn whose body was stabbed by his own spear completed the spear, he retreated to the side with the spear before falling down.
And the Chu pawn behind him still rushed towards him in defiance of everything. The Chu army's three-row spear formation stabbed the Qin pawns in the first two rows to death and strung them together, and then quickly retreated, making room for the next round of spear charges. The Chu army rushed deeper and deeper, and the Qin army made up the formation thicker and thicker. The hundred generals behind the Qin army held their crossbows, and their hearts had already risen to their throats, for fear that the army formation would collapse at a certain moment.
After the Chu army, the hearts of Zhuang Wudi and the others also raised their throats, sixty lines of spear formation can rush spears twenty times, the Ying division is about to finish, and the rest of the divisions and brigades will also finish the last round, but there is still no sign of the Qin army's collapse. I have to say that this is a heavy blow to the psychology of the Chu army, because the Qin army's array is extremely thick, because the Qin people will not retreat to the death, and they have withstood their own violent spear attacks.
"Great King," Zhuang Wudi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the Zhao army was beating the drum and saw that the Zhao army was also attacking the Qin army.
"Don't worry." The cavalry was on the right side of the phalanx, and when the troops were engaged, they automatically retreated, and did not get involved in the battle between the infantry. Zhuang Wudi shouted to himself, Xiong Jing knew his worries, and he also wondered about the tenacity of the Qin army, could it be because they were commanded by the great general Wang Qian?
Xiong Jing said not to worry, and when he said not to worry, the eight guards were moving. The guards were a mixture of the former king's pawns and palace armor, and these were all good warriors who voluntarily stayed in Yingdu. Now that the Yingshi had exhausted his spears, the eight guards and 1,800 spearmen all stood behind the Yingshi and raised their spears.
Yingshi is a strong division in the Chu army, but no matter how hard he trains and how much he eats meat, he can't make up for the innate disadvantage in height. The guards stood behind the Ying Division, and the shortest one could scan the heads of all the soldiers of the Ying Division.
"Commander's Command: End the Spear!" The order to end the spear was renewed, and this time it was no longer the Yingshi soldiers who were in their early sevens feet (157.5cm), but the guards who were almost eight feet (180cm) or even more than eight feet. The end of the spear felt not only long in the hands of the guards but also felt heavy, but in the hands of the guards, it looked suitable and small.
After the last column of Yingshi soldiers finished rushing, the guards with spears burst out with a 'kill', and then rushed towards the Qin army array that had reached thirty or forty steps in the concave like a wind. Yingshi's spear can only assassinate two rows of Qin pawns, and the guards rushed forward, and the Yi spear in the front row actually strung the third row of Qin pawns on the spear. In addition to the killing, the array that was hit by this rapid and heavy blow was concave again, and the Qin army that was densely packed behind the formation was squeezed backwards and retreated again and again.
"Who's going to charge?" The array no longer took a step or two back as before, but took a few steps back, and the entire front was concave. The calm Wang Jian was also taken aback when he saw this.
"The great general, is a Jing people!" The guards are half a head taller than the Yingshi soldiers, and the whole person can wrap the Yingshi soldiers in their bodies. The appearance of such a soldier on the battlefield will naturally attract the attention of the Qin people, which is a type of military similar to the Qin army's sharp soldiers.
"Jing Ren Ruishi?" In Lu Lijing, Wang Jian saw the rushing guards, and he ordered: "Send another lieutenant to make up the formation." ”
"The general has an order, and another lieutenant will be sent to make up the formation." The military officials shouted Wang Qian's orders. It took less than half an hour before, and the Qin army gradually gained a firm foothold. Compared with the limited forces of Chu and Zhao, the Qin army seemed to have an endless number of reserves.
Under the military order, a Qin lieutenant quickly moved to the retreat of the array. The guards who charged the spear were even more frantic at this time, they no longer waited for the commander's order to rush the spear, but only ten paces apart from each other to charge the spear. If the front row soldiers do not want to be accidentally injured by the back row soldiers, they must quickly and quickly retreat after the spear is charged.
The width of the formation of sixty columns of guards, three rows of three rows of spears can impact ten times, the third rush to the spear begins, the interval of the soldiers is ten steps, the sixth rush to the spear begins, there is no obvious interval between the soldiers and the soldiers, each row of soldiers must immediately jump to both sides after the completion of the spear, in order to make room for the comrades behind them.
The Qin army, which was originally able to adjust the array by taking advantage of the gap between the Chu army's spears, was completely desperate, and the spears were no longer wave after wave, but continuous critical attacks; Originally, under the impact of the Chu army, the Qin army retreated continuously, but now they had no time to retreat at all, and the rapid squeezing of the front row made the back row of soldiers involuntarily fall backwards.
"Hold on! Hold the front ...... "The first to notice that something was wrong were the hundred generals and tun commanders behind the array, and they saw a terrible reality: the soldiers were no longer retreating, but the soldiers were lying down like seedlings in the fields.
The retreating soldiers are still soldiers, and the fallen soldiers will only be crushed to the ground and let out a terrible wail under the trampling of the Chu army. They screamed loudly, but it didn't help at all until the Qin lieutenant who had been reinforced.
The Chu army stepped on the fallen Qin pawn and rushed to the spear, and under the rapid impact, the Qin army's array collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Behind the array, the two armies will stared at this battlefield focus, and the Qin generals prayed that they could hold the array, because there was no one left in the Chu army; General Chu hoped that his army could break through the enemy formation, because the Qin people in the rear of the array were constantly coming.
"Kill ——!" The last three rows of guards burst into a roar, and they trampled on the Qin army that was lying on the ground, stabbing their spears into the remnants of the Qin people's array, stabbing the panicked Qin soldiers to death and stringing them up. The aftermath of the impact hit the Qin pawns in the back row, pressing them to fall instead of retreating.
"Defeated!" Wang Qian, who had been watching the Chu army rushing at the spear, couldn't help but let out a sigh. With his sigh, the last two rows of guards rushed from the Qin army's array, completely breaking through the general's array.
"Herald! Cymbals. Without a moment's hesitation, Wang Jian ordered Ming Cheng.
"The general has an order, Ming Cymbal!" Under the watchful eyes of Wang Ao and Zhao Yi, the military guard, the military officer repeated Wang Jianmingcheng's order. The sound of cymbals protruded, and the Qin army, which heard the sound of cymbals, slowly retreated before most of the Chu army broke through the gap and struck their own belly and back.
Old and strong generals are always extremely hated! From them, you can often only make a profit, and it is difficult to turn it into a real victory. If you want to win, it is not difficult, it must be exchanged for absolute superiority and sufficient price, and this is exactly what the Chu army does not have.
The Qin army roared, and the result of the Chu army was nothing more than a gap in its army formation that was sixty columns wide. If the Qin army is allowed to retreat, this gap will be filled by the reserves behind the formation after one or two hundred steps, and then everything will be as if nothing has happened, and the Chu army is still facing a thick human wall.
Wang Qian's old spicy Xiong Jing had already expected that when the last three rows of guards rushed to the spear, the cavalry of the Chu army who had returned to the left side of the military formation had already lined up, and when the Qin army retreated, the phoenix flag fluttered, Xiong Jing led the guards cavalry to rush to the sixty columns wide gap that was laboriously opened, and the cavalry knife swept over the Qin soldiers on both sides of the gap, and the gap became bigger and bigger.
Ming Cheng wanted to stop the loss before the Chu army attacked, but this was only for the Chu army's foot soldiers, the Chu army's cavalry galloped out of the gap in the army formation, and once again expanded the gap before the Qin army's reserves filled the gap, and more than 4,000 cavalry could hook the Qin army's array as soon as they turned around, causing greater chaos for the Qin army.
Xiong Jing did not do this, it would be a tactical victory, the Qin army would lose tens of thousands, but the Qin army would regroup after retreating a few miles and ten miles, and even if the 300,000 people lost 100,000, the Qin army would still be more than the Chu-Zhao coalition army in terms of strength;
He wanted a battle victory. In fact, the person he was waiting for just now was Wang Qian, and he was the target of the cavalry. If there is to cause chaos, nothing can cause more chaos than the death of Wang Qian. Losing the main general Wang Qian, the Qin army was completely chaotic, and then was pursued and annihilated by the Chu-Zhao coalition army.
The guards cavalry that passed through the Qin army's array ignored the panicked Qin soldiers and rushed straight to the banner a few miles away. Following the three-headed phoenix banner, the cavalry of the Xiang Division who passed through the gap hurriedly caught up, and the passing column gradually evolved into a wide horizontal column in the gallop. After the horizontal team swept away, the dust was scattered, and only the corpse of the Qin army was left on the ground.
The cavalry of the Chu army rushed in, and the cavalry of the Qin army, which was also arranged on the flank, immediately turned around, preparing to protect the shogunate array where Wang Jian was located; Under the banner, Wang Qian's 4,000 short soldiers and a Qin lieutenant who stayed in the shogunate got up from their sittings and lined up with spears.
Including Wang Qian, the generals and strategists were pinched in a cold sweat in their palms. Eight years ago, in the Battle of Chencheng, the first time the Chu army's iron cavalry appeared on the battlefield, they harvested the life of the general Xin Wu, and Wang Jian would have died on the spot if he had not been dragged off the chariot by his son. Today, the Chu army's iron cavalry is coming again, but its own cavalry can't stop it, can you really stop this invincible iron cavalry with four thousand short soldiers and a Qin military captain?
Wang Qian, who has always been calm, really regretted it this time, he regretted that he didn't expect the Chu army's iron cavalry to break out of the formation, and only focused on witch weapons and spear formations, but regret was useless, and what was waiting for him would be a lore.
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