Chapter 117: Before the Battle
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The army formation of the coalition army was not much shorter than that of the Qin army, and the really short part of the array was the cavalry. There were 7,500 cavalry on the left and right sides of the Qin army, and more than 3,000 cavalry on the left side of the coalition army, and the shogunate was also in the position where the spear array intersected with the Qi army. The more than 30,000 Qi troops of the Chinese army lined up on the left, and the two armies of Zhao and Wei lined up on the right.
The coalition army formation stepped in from the dust and snow, and Bai Lin, Wang Jian and others, who were more than a thousand steps away, contracted their pupils, and their heartbeats intensified in vain. Fusu on Wang Qian's side was not nervous, but stared, he knew that his uncle was more than a thousand steps away and was walking towards him, but the two of them were already divided into two battalions, and they were not dying. Aristotle IV also looked at the marching coalition army, and couldn't help but be afraid, he could no longer flee like the Battle of Weinan, but only prayed to the goddess of victory to bless the Qin army to victory.
"Long live long live...... without Bai Lin's agitation, the former sergeant himself suddenly shouted loudly. Those soldiers who had already escaped the drawstrings and survived were all in the front army, and they did not dare to run again, and could only shout loudly in the face of the pressure of the coalition forces getting closer and closer. The front army shouted, and the rear army array shouted, and the sea of sand was boiling for a while.
In front of the front array, the reins tightened, tightened and loosened, and he waited for the enemy to descend the embankment while preparing to risk a mortal blow. The Chu army was very cautious and did not rush out of the embankment, but first sent soldiers from the gap opened by the explosion to set up a barrier under the embankment. Seeing this scene, he clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and the sweaty horse under his crotch stepped forward.
He strode forward, as did the horsemen and horsemen on the left and right, and the cavalry array of 15,000 men followed his banner forward. Bai Lin behind him was a little stunned when he saw this scene, but in an instant he understood what he meant, and hurriedly shouted to the left and right: "Enter." In the roaring footsteps, the former sergeant followed the cavalry forward.
The cavalry marched forward slowly when the enemy army did not advance out of the embankment, Wang Jian was a little stunned, this was not the shogunate's plan, the shogunate's plan was to wait for the Chu army's artillery array but did not fire the artillery to attack the artillery array.
"This ......" refused to accept the army's orders in such a decisive battle related to the survival of the Qin State, and Liu Chi was already so shocked that he didn't know what to say. On the contrary, Wang Jian was stunned and smiled: "Seven hundred steps is too far, if you can get close, you can get close." ”
"If yes, if yes......" Wang Qian's order to Yu Fen was to storm all the artillery formations of the Chu army, not the unfinished impact artillery formations of the Chu army. Otherwise, those artillery that has not yet been included in the list will inevitably bombard the array of the Qin army in wartime, which will outweigh the losses. Only by breaking down the Chu artillery array and drowning all the artillery can the charge be worthwhile. Liu Chi was worried that Yu Fen would be in a hurry.
"Nothing!" Wang Jian made up his mind. At this time, the advancing cavalry stopped again, and the front army also stopped.
The approach of the Qin army made the Chu army engineers who were erecting the iron net to resist horses a little panicked, and they could be said to have finished their work in a hurry, and the artillery was quickly dragged out of the gaps that had been blown up. The soldiers of Chu were standing on the embankment at this time, and they could rush down the embankment at any time. Once the dragged out artillery was put into line, the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the Qin army's array six hundred paces away.
The more than 20 continuous explosions before had already made people's ears ring, and now listening to the sound of artillery seems to have lost its previous power, and it is as hazy as a cloth. The initial velocity of the cannonball was only half of that of the long-barreled cannon, and the shell landed and jumped after more than 100 meters, and when it rolled down to more than 500 steps, it had little power. After hitting the Qin soldier, instead of breaking the body, hands and feet, he knocked the soldier to the ground.
The flag flying in front of the cavalry array advanced again, and the front army array behind it could only follow. Wang Qian, who was holding the landing mirror, couldn't see what was happening in front of him, but it was certain that Yu Fen was slowly moving forward at this time.
"General Yu, Jing Ren is powerless, and General Yu Fen is also advancing." The Qin soldiers on the high platform looked more carefully, in the past, the 600 paces away from the Qin army array was not only pierced by shells, but the shells had to fly out of several hundred meters, but now although the Qin army array was pierced by shells, the distance from which the shells flew out was obviously not as far as before.
"Good." Most of Wang Qian's palms were sweaty. He didn't care if all the 15,000 cavalry were killed or half were killed in battle, but now that these 15,000 cavalry were on the edge of the power of the Chu army's shells, his heart was beating faster after all, and he couldn't help but be nervous.
Xiong Jing stood at the position where Douzang was standing in the morning at this time, and the long military formation like the Qin Army's mountain range was hundreds of steps away, and he couldn't see the end of the military formation on both sides with the naked eye alone. It took him a while to understand why the Qin army's military formation was so long, it was because of the addition of cavalry, even if the cavalry was in four rows, the array of 15,000 cavalry was four thousand meters, which was much wider than the Qin army's infantry formation.
However, such a wide military formation did not make him feel the slightest fear, but made him nod frequently—the long-standing worries and fears in his heart finally became a tangible entity before his eyes. For him, this is not the Qin army, this is the mandate of heaven; This is not a military formation, this is history. He could either crush it with all his might, or be mercilessly crushed by it, and there was no other possibility.
"Drive!" Xiong Jing, who was observing the array of the Qin army on the embankment, suddenly jumped on his horse and rushed down the embankment in a daze for everyone. Fortunately, he did not rush towards the Qin army, but ran vertically towards the Chinese army array. The place where Xiong Jing was stationed was the junction of the left army and the central army, and like the battle of the chasm a few days ago, this was not a battle after a battle, it could almost be regarded as an encounter. He galloped down the embankment to inspect the coalition array, and both the light and the soldiers were dumbfounded.
"Long live the king, long live the king......" Someone in the silent Qi army array shouted several times, and the Qi pawn shouted, and the taro sound rose again, and the Qi pawn seemed to forget that this was the battlefield, and danced with joy.
"Long live the king, long live the king...... "Sergeant Zhao was already ready to shout, their eyes wide open, their eyes moist. From Handan to Daliang, from Daliang to Shahai, they thought they were abandoned every time, and every time it was the king of Chu who rescued them and gave them a livelihood. If given a choice, they would rather Xiong Jing be their king.
"Long live the king, long live the king...... "When the Wei soldiers shouted, Jin Zhu looked at Xiong Jing who was galloping on horseback. In all fairness, he didn't like the Chu State, and the Chu State may not have the ambitions of the Qin State, but seeing that Xiong Jing was fearless in the face of the Qin Army's mountain range-like military formation, and dared to inspect his own army's array five hundred steps away from Qin's cavalry, he could only be sincerely admired.
Any movement of the enemy army was within Wang Qian's observation. At this time, the huge phoenix banner and the red knight under the wind were disturbing like a storm, and this army formation was almost as wide as the Qin army. Wherever the phoenix flag floated, it was completely boiling, and a tsunami-like shout erupted. He tried his best to restrain his desire to turn his head to look at Fusu, but the strategists around him had all looked at Fusu.
The environment of parental discord made Fusu sensitive by nature, he saw his uncle inspecting the Chu army array, heard the heartfelt shouts of the allied soldiers, and he could read the gaze of the shogunate strategists, but he was not sure whether he should go to the front of the army formation hundreds of steps away. Aristotle IV saw his hesitation and said, "If you really want to do this, you will be loved by all the soldiers, but you will also run the risk of being struck by a witch weapon." ”
Aristotle IV's words did not relieve Fusu's hesitation, he did not dare to do so, he was afraid that he would not do it right. When he looked at Wang Qian, Wang Jian was turning his head to look elsewhere. With an epiphany, he said impressively: "No disease, go to the front of the battle." ”
Disease-free is the royal hand of the chariot, and Fusu did not choose a four-wheeled carriage that could shelter from the wind and cold, but chose a standing chariot. Mitebun was not surprised when he heard this, but quickly whipped his horse forward.
"General, general......" Fusu drove out for a while before someone reported to Wang Qian. Liu Chi immediately glared at the visitor, and the person had to swallow the second half of the sentence.
"The eldest son inspects the military formation, and King Jing will definitely not be injured." Liu Chi knew that Wang Jian deliberately did not look at Fusu, but he still hoped that Fusu could inspect the Qin army array like the King of Chu, which could improve the morale of his own soldiers.
"Ugh." Wang Jian looked at the Licheng on the Rong car and Fu Su was speechless, because the front army array was already more than two hundred steps away, and the Rong car that Fu Su was riding in was already running on the snow field. Turning around and seeing Fusu's car, the former sergeant unsurprisingly erupted in bursts of cheers.
At this time, Wang Jian looked at the Chu army a few hundred steps away. Xiong Jing, who was galloping south, had already run several miles away at this time, where was the end of the cavalry of the Chu army. As described by the surviving Qin pawns of the Shashui battle, he drew his sword and exchanged swords and spears in the hands of the Chu cavalry, and the military formations he swept past were no longer as boiling as the fire before, but turned into ice as calm.
Chu people are fierce by nature, and they rarely become calm, and this calmness makes Wang Jian scruples. Seeing that the phoenix flag was from far and near, Wang Jian regretted acquiescing to Fusu stepping forward, otherwise he could have ordered Yu Fen to attack immediately. Wang Jian thought about it like this, and Wei Fen in front of the array also felt the subtle changes in the coalition array. "Quickly ask the eldest son to stand back!" He shouted and gave the order to blow the trumpet.
Yu Fen didn't care what Xiong Jing was doing, he knew that it would be difficult for him to kill him, and what he really cared about was the artillery of the Chu army. The sound of artillery continued, and more than 20 gaps in half an hour were enough for more than 100 artillery pieces to go out of the embankment and put them in columns, and what they were trying to grasp was that all the artillery was out of the embankment but not all of them were put in this pass, and at this time, those artillery soldiers were always in a hurry.
Yu Fen saw the time and ordered the trumpet to be blown, and in the sound of the trumpet, the first line of the twenty-line cavalry formation rushed forward quickly, followed by the second line, and then the third line. At this time, Fusu's chariot was already in front of the battle, and these horsemen ran around his chariot. He didn't pay any attention to the riders beside the car, his eyes were fixed on the bears a mile away, and the horses were speeding away, and everything was blocked except for the muffled sound of hooves and the tremor of the great tremors.