No change

The more the sun went northwesterly, the more fierce the wind became, and the snow and dust that blew up became more and more overwhelming, involving all the warring sides. Although the Qin army general ordered the Qin soldiers not to take a step back, in fact, the entire Qin army was retreating. Only by retreating can the Chu army's spear formation that is impacting the gap be blocked on the other side; Only by retreating can the entire front be kept intact, and the Chu army will not be impacted on the horizontal flank of the military formation.

Xiong Jing kept his eyes on the retreating battle line, his eyes trying his best to penetrate the scattered snow dust, and looked at the Qin army array behind the snow dust. Combined with the same vague announcement on the nest car, the military formation in the rear of the Qin army had been replenished into the battle line, but he didn't see anything unusual in the battle formation, at least there was not much abnormality in the depth of the array. This makes it difficult to judge how many military formations the Chu army has broken through the Qin army. In the end, he found that the best way was to observe the corpses left by the Qin army in the snow after the battle line advanced eastward, which could not only show how many troops the Qin army had invested, but also the composition of the Qin army's array.

The nearest cloth armor, then leather armor, leather armor ......, and more than seventy steps of countless leather armor, only to see a few pieces of cloth armor again. According to the report before the battle, only the last two formations of the five arrays of the Qin army had soldiers wearing huge armor, the first three formations only had people in the first two formations wearing cloth armor, and the third army formation in the middle had neither cloth armor nor huge armor, only leather armor.

After seeing the cloth armor for the second time in the fallen corpse, it was the same amount of leather armor, even if it was more than seventy steps away, the corpses of the Qin soldiers covered in the snow could not have a pair of cloth armor on them. Obviously, this may be that the Qin army has already thrown the leather armor soldiers in the third army formation into battle. But maybe not, because the corpses in their seventies were not as many as the sixty steps ahead.

He couldn't see the array behind the enemy army clearly, and could only judge by the corpses on the ground, which made Xiong Jing distressed, and he couldn't wait to rush through the gap between the two armies and go to the other side to see what was going on. Zhuang Wudi understood Xiong Jing's distress, this question Xiong Jing had asked many times, but the news reported that the Qin army's array had been disrupted, and it was not distributed according to the five formations before the battle. The five formations before the war were probably a cover to cover up the true intentions of the Qin army.

"Can't wait any longer!" Xiong Jing waved his horsewhip and looked left and right, indicating that he did not want to wait any longer.

"The Qin army is not finished, and Da Ao must not be in a hurry." This time, it was not Zhuang Wudi who persuaded Xiong Jing, but the guard cavalry general Lu Yangyan who persuaded him. This strong man, who has always only raised flags and fights, spoke sullenly. Seeing that he said what he wanted to say, Zhuang Wudi smiled.

"How do you know that Qin Jun ......" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically before he felt that this was just a nonsense, and immediately glared at Lu Yangyan, and then glared at Zhuang Wudi who was laughing. What's so ridiculous? The dignified shogunate didn't know how many enemy forces were left, which was really ridiculous. ”

The two armies were fighting in the north wind, snow and dust, and it was normal to not be able to see the Qin army array that was disrupted. But after all, this is a decisive battle, and they don't know the situation of the Qin army even a mile away, and the scouts are indeed incompetent enough. Zhuang Wudi suddenly stopped laughing, and he said with a straight face: "The minister thinks that Da Ao Shao'an is not impatient, and the Qin people have no iron armor, and their army will collapse after a long time." If you want to break the formation with heavy horses, it is not too late to see the huge armor broken again. ”

The iron armor is in the fourth formation, and Xiong Jing's idea is to break through from the third formation. The foot soldiers could not rush through the gap of the sixty columns of the Qin army, and the heavy cavalry would definitely be able to rush through, but the reason why they did not rush was that the time had not yet come.

"Report ——!" Xiong Jing was thinking about when to put in the heavy cavalry, and an urgent military report came from behind the battle. Just looking at the snow and dust that rose in the south, the people standing on the high place knew what was going on without reading the military newspaper, and after fighting for more than an hour, the Chu cavalry guarding the flank of the right army was rushed by the Qin cavalry, and now thousands of Qin cavalry are hooking the rear of the Chu army.

"Array, array! The array ...... "The snow dust that soared into the sky came from the south, and in the mirror, these snow and dust were pulled up by the Qin cavalry who was running forward at high speed. The array of the right army, which was charging the spears, was obviously stagnant, and the spear array stopped in the shouting of the general.

The artillery guards who kept bombarding the Qin army's array also had to stop the shelling, and the artillery guards were ready to raze their spears, and the muzzles of the guns were quickly turned south to face the enemy - another unfavorable factor that the artillery array could not move forward turned into a favorable factor at this time, and the front and rear of the artillery array were all car formations and huge iron nets. If these Qin cavalry hit a single artillery array, the artillery array could fall, and if all the artillery arrays were to be impacted, then the artillery array would indeed suffer great losses, and the Qin cavalry would also lose everything.

The Qin army plus the pursuing Chu army, the hooves of nearly 10,000 war horses were getting closer and closer, and Xiong Jing didn't want to wait any longer. Said: "Prepare to charge." ”

Zhuang Wudi didn't hear Xiong Jing's orders, and his attention was all on the artillery position behind the right army. The cannon fire resumed, and the artillery guards behind the right army loaded the Qin cavalry that was bombarded with shotguns, thinking that they would be driven back like the Battle of the Chasm, and then they forgot that this was a decisive battle. The shotgun could not stop the Qin cavalry from going forward and following at all, and the outermost artillery array that was rapidly firing was submerged by the Qin cavalry in a short time, and the cavalry rushed into the artillery array to slash and slash, and the artillery crossbowmen could only defend themselves with spears.

Zhuang Wudi saw this scene, and Xiong Jing also saw this scene. This is a helpless thing, because of the fear of the collapse of the Chinese army, the position of the Chu army is arranged behind the middle army, rather than after the left, center and right armies. The four spear arrays that were rushing the spears were advancing more than 100 steps to the east in a row, and they were more than 300 steps away from the artillery array, so they were not in a hurry to save them at all.

"Immediately order the Yingshi to rescue ...... quickly," Zhuang Wudi pointed to the remaining artillery formation of the right army.

"It's not as good as that, the Ying division should quickly protect the artillery position of the left army." Xiong Jing had already turned the horse's head at this time, closed his armor and prepared to fight the horse. When Zhuang Wudi thought that he would ignore the remaining artillery array of the right army, he shouted to his side: "Heavy cavalry attack!" ”

The three heavy cavalry wedge-shaped formations had already been lined up, and they had been preparing to break through the Qin array array. However, the knights waited until now and their whole bodies were cold, and they did not hear the order to attack the heavy cavalry. At this time, I couldn't help but be enthusiastic when I heard that the heavy cavalry attacked, but unfortunately, the direction of the heavy cavalry attack this time was not the Qin army array on the opposite side, but the Qin cavalry rushing from the direction of the right army.

Heavy cavalry has at least two war horses, one of which is already armored, and can be ridden in wartime. A horse that does not wear armor and usually rides it, so as to save the horsepower of the armored war horse. In the face of the light cavalry attacking by the Qin army, the heavy cavalry that thought it was the Qin army's array was all armored war horses. Seeing that he had to bypass the Chinese army array backwards, he realized that he was dealing with the Qin army's light cavalry, and it was too late to change horses, so he could only let the light cavalry cross him and meet the enemy cavalry.

The right army array is 960 columns, and the Chinese army array is 1,450 columns, no matter how fast the dragon horse is, it can't be as fast as the Qin cavalry who is one step ahead, but the rush to the formation delays the Qin cavalry for a lot of time, and wastes a lot of horsepower. When Xiong Jing rushed to the right army array, the Qin cavalry was charging the second artillery array, and thousands of cavalry had already been killed or wounded. Seeing that the cavalry of the Chu army was coming from the north, the leader of the army would be a phoenix banner and immediately galloped in the direction of the gutter.

Xiong Jing was reluctant to use heavy cavalry to protect the Chu army's flank, and the Qin army's cavalry general was so brave that he was annoyed, but he was a heavy horse, and he couldn't catch up with the light cavalry. I could only watch Qin Qi climb over the ditch and run to the other side of the ditch.

"It's too late!" Xiang Liang's face was full of frost and snow, the right wing rider was him, and the left wing was abandoned. He let Qin Qi break through the array, which really shouldn't be. "There are many Qin people, there are more than 10,000 horsemen, and our army is ......"

Xiang Liang couldn't say a word. The right-wing cavalry was far away from the battlefield and was rarely seen. In fact, most of the thousands of Qin cavalry who had not finished the shock artillery array rushed to both sides of the military array, and the Qin people he faced were not 7,000 but nearly 10,000.

"How many others?" Xiong Jing saw an increase in the cavalry on both wings of the Qin army, but there was no way to do it.

"More than a thousand." Xiang Liang said with a crying voice, and the 3,500 cavalry lost at least half of the battle.

"There are only a thousand people left?!" Xiong Jing couldn't believe it, the light cavalry was also full of armor, how could there be so many casualties.

"Qin Jun also died in thousands!" Xiang Liang said hatefully. "Don't worry, the ministers will be backed by our army."

"Just guard the artillery position." Xiong Jing hesitated a few times after explaining, and then said, "Someone!" The Nanjun Division and the 1st Brigade of the Qi Army were ordered to guard the artillery array. ”

When he was about to explain something, everyone around him was already looking to the north. At the end of the battle array, the snow and dust swept in the sky, covering half of the sky. Xiong Jing was not surprised, this was the Qin cavalry on the left who broke through the block of the Chu cavalry and came from the left side to hook up. His only concern was that the Ying division did not reach the artillery position in the rear of the right army, and the artillery position was broken through like the left side.

"Reinforcements!" He snapped and led the heavy cavalry back, although the afterglow swept over the knights behind Xiang Liang, he didn't see the huge armor on some of them that had been pierced by Qin soldiers.

Xiong Jing returned to the Chinese army from the left army, and thousands of Qin cavalry led by Zhao Teng skipped the left army of the Chu army, which was fortified backwards, and also rushed to the Chinese army. There were heavy cavalry in both formations, but the weight of the Bujia heavy cavalry was obviously less than the rejection of the Chu army's heavy cavalry, and it was only a matter of two or three minutes to gallop through the 960 columns of the left army array. The heavy cavalry was still at the northernmost end of the right army, and the heavy cavalry was already arrayed, and the light cavalry took the Qi army array at the northern end of the Chinese army.

"Array! Array! Quickly lined up ...... "Qu Guang has been behind the Qi army formation, Qin cavalry rushed over, and hurriedly shouted more than 10,000 city Qi soldiers to line up, they are Youque, at this time they must line up to protect the flank of the Chinese army.

If it is a Ying division or other divisions and brigades, the array will definitely be able to be deployed at such a critical moment, but it is a pity that these city-registered soldiers are not only not Chu army divisions and brigades, but also Qi soldiers. Even if they were in a semi-unfolded formation, they had trained how to unfold the military formation before the battle, and in the sound of Qin Cai's hooves, most of the people's minds were blank and forgot everything.

"Put!" The Qin cavalry in front of him had no better weapons, only bows and arrows that had been deemed ineffective by the shogunate's advisers. However, it was the arrows that completely confused the last of the sane pawns, and they instinctively dodged these arrows in great armor.

"Attack!" The Chou cavalry was still in formation, and Zhao Teng unexpectedly saw that the Qi pawn array was in chaos, and immediately ordered the Chou cavalry to attack. The three thousand gray horsemen in gray armor also ignored the queue, raised their spears and rushed directly towards the scattered Qi people.

。 m.