Chapter 64: The Whole Army
If the accumulation of the crossbow is still acceptable, then the artillery hitting a blood ditch is unbearable to witness. The fifteen-pound cannon hit the Qin army's column, and it could only knock down and wound more than a dozen people, but if the angle of the thirty-two-pound cannon was right, it could run through the entire horizontal column. The shells jumped over the heads of some people, but all the limbs and bodies that the shells touched during the jump broke and cracked.
Xiong Jing saw from the telescope that a 32-pound cannonball broke the head of a beryllium-wielding sharpman, and the blood and brains that splashed out seemed to smash a bottle of tofu, which made people sick to their stomachs. He endured the discomfort, wondering when these elites of the Qin army collapsed, and some people under the hill were crazy and jumping and jumping, shouting 'witch weapons, witch weapons, ......
An officer immediately stepped forward to kill him, but the array was already out of order amid the roar of the shells. There were no officers to stop him, so the soldiers ran forward and jumped into the water. Escaping from the battle is a capital crime, Xia Yang stayed there and didn't dare to run, suddenly someone pulled him, and he ran with the crowd unconsciously.
Previously, Zhao Zheng's face turned blue, but now Zhao Zheng's face turned black. The most elite Qin army was defeated before they could fight, and they were all guilty!
"The minister thinks that our army should be in the column to advance." Wei Yi, like Zhao Zheng, watched the Qin army being defeated, but instead of being angry, he saw some fame. The Qin army marched south horizontally, there were more than 400 soldiers in a column, and dozens or hundreds of people would be killed and wounded once the witch weapon hit, and if the column advanced southward, the width of the queue was only more than 70 soldiers, and the number of dead people would be much less when the witch weapon hit.
"I don't think so." All the generals have already crossed the Bashui, and Zhao Yong, who led the rear army, is still beside Zhao Zheng. "The column marched forward, the width of the formation was three hundred paces, and the witch weapon was easy to hit me; If you march in a horizontal formation, the width of the formation is fifty paces, and it will be difficult for the witch weapon to hit me. β
This is a matter of hit rate and lethal ratio, but the two can't come up with specific numbers, so they can only use air-to-air.
"How's that?" The Chu army was cheering and even laughing again, and the omnipotent Thor helped them defeat the enemy again.
"The minister thinks that ......, the Jingren witch weapon is heavy, and it is not easy to transport, if it can be attacked from the plateau, it may be overcome." Wei Yi insisted on his view that the north was the main direction of attack, "and when the weak pawn is in the front, the elite pawn is in the back." β
The killing of witch weapons is really terrifying, and Zhao Zheng, who is as realistic as the Qin people, no longer mentions the matter of snatching back the king's car, he only asks: "What if the Jing people on the hill also have witch weapons?" β
"Our army's crossbow is not as strong as a witch weapon, only the soldiers rush quickly, and they die without spinning their heels, or they can get close to them and break their formations." Zhao Yong replied. After the Battle of Huangshui, he would recall the details of that time day and night, and then imagine a solution with Zhao Yang, Han Shen and others.
Although the Qin army had a giant crossbow with a range of 700 steps, it took half an hour for the giant crossbow to be wound. The range of the more than 100 powerful crossbows in the army was only 500 paces, only half of that of the witch weapon. This is only the range, not the lethal range. The way Zhao Yong can think of is to rush, since the Han Qin army who is good at using the crossbow can rush to the end, why can't the Chu army?
"If it doesn't break, what can I do?" Zhao Zheng didn't think that the rush was effective, and the Jingren witch weapon was really terrifying.
"Thank you to death!" Zhao Yong was shocked and said so.
"No." Zhao Zheng hurriedly shook his head. He relied on his Chu relatives to purge LΓΌ Buwei's party, and the next step to purge Chu relatives could only rely on the Zhao clan and the old Qin nobles. The political system of the Qin State does not need to maintain the delicate balance between the feudal scholars and the nobles surnamed Mi in the political system of the Chu State, and the political system of the Qin State is a whack-a-mole, and whoever takes the lead will be beaten.
The tall man went down, and the short man became tall again, so he continued to fight. Only when all the gophers are dead can the kingship be secured. But this kind of stability is also temporary, once a king is lazy in government, so that the court's close ministers and foreign heroes can take advantage of the chaos to become bigger, the royal power will be unstable. Zhao Yong can't die, because the generals of the Zhao clan have already died a lot.
"Maybe let Zhao Yang give it a try." Zhao Yong didn't understand that he would become tall in the future, and he was touched by Zhao Zheng's care.
The elite Qin army is only 200,000, 100,000 yesterday went to Meng Tian, 50,000 belonged to Zhao Cheng, and the last 50,000 belonged to Zhao Yang. 100,000, 50,000, 50,000, these are mostly imaginary numbers. They came at a gallop of 600 miles, and there were as many as 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers who were left behind. Zhao Cheng, who was stationed at Bailu Plateau, actually only had more than 40,000 people, and after being defeated, these soldiers were collected and commanded by Yang Duanhe.
Today, these soldiers are defeated again, and the remaining elites are only Zhao Yang's 40,000 and Meng Tian's 80,000. Zhao Yong felt that if he wanted to try, he should let Zhao Yang try, after all, Zhao Yang had already known the power of witchcraft last time.
"I don't think so." Wei Yu said. "Zhao Yang's army is blocked by the water of the Rim River, how can its sergeants rush? The minister thought that when he rushed on the hill, there was no need to turn the pontoon bridge on the hill. β
"However, there is a ravine on the plateau, and the Jing people have set up a huge wire net." Zhao Yong shook his head and said. "Our army must not rush at a high speed."
From dawn to the present, most of the Qin army knows what the situation of the Chu army is, and the Chu army in the north of the plateau is defended by a huge wire net in the ravine, which is actually not more convenient than Zhao Yang's department. When Wei Yi was speechless, a person shouted: "Minister, there is a plan to break the Jing people." β
"You ......" Zhao Zheng was very happy when he heard this, and when he saw whose face sank, this is Zhang Han recommended by Wei Yi. In other words. β
Zhang Han failed to capture King Jing in the first battle of Huangshui, and Zhao Zheng was so disappointed in Zhang Han that he suspected him of fabricating witchcraft to shirk responsibility. The witchcraft had long been proven to be real, but his bad feelings for him had not gone away.
Of course, Zhang Han knew that Zhao Zheng hated himself, but the way to eliminate this disgust was to succeed once. He said: "The Jing people are strong and sharp, and there are witch weapons, fierce eagles fly at night to avoid each other, wild beasts roar to go farther away, their edge is unstoppable, and their momentum is unstoppable......"
According to the practice of the Zongheng family, Zhang Han exaggerated the advantages of the Chu army, Zhao Zhengting's face began to turn black again, and when Wei Yi, who was sweating for him, was about to cough and remind, Zhang Han said in one breath and then said: "However, Jing people must not be broken." β
"How do you break it?" Zhao Zheng looked at him with some disgust.
"With the armor of the soldiers, our army is like a frug; In the battle array, our army is like this; With witch weapons, our army has nothing ......," Zhang Han continued, and finally, in the moment before Zhao Zheng's patience ran out, he said: "However, we have many soldiers. General Meng led the army to attack it, but he was not victorious, and General Zhao led the army to attack it, but he was also invincible. Since there are more of our army than Jing people, why don't we attack them with all our troops? β
"Attack it all?" Not to mention the Qin soldiers, including the generals of the Qin army and Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin, were also taken away by the Jing people. Grabbing qi will produce the terrifying subconscious of the Chu army, which makes people only see the advantages of the Chu army, and then try to overcome these advantages with one mind: the Chu army is strong and sharp, and our army should also be heavily armoured; The battle formation of the Chu army is sharp, and our army should thicken the battle formation and leave more rear troops; The Chu army is invincible, so our army should make a huge crossbow and rush quickly......
If the war were to proceed like this, it would be a trap designed by the shogunate advisers of Shonari. Compared with the same, Qin Jun is inferior to everything, but the more he fights, the less confidence he has, the more he loses confidence, the more he shrinks his hands and feet, and then the day passes.
To jump out of this trap, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the large number of Qin soldiers. From the north of the plateau to the east of the plateau, and from the east of the plateau to the bottom of the plateau, as long as the twenty-four-mile-long defense line is fully attacked, the Chu army, which is insufficient in strength and exhausted, will always show flaws. To deal with an enemy like the Chu army, the battle should not be fought in a small area, but in a large area, and the larger the scale, the greater the chance of victory.
"Good!" You hit yours, I'll hit mine. This truth is not said or broken, and once it is broken, it can be understood at the moment. At this time, Zhao Zheng's eyes were shining, he looked at Zhang Han with a smile, and continued to say after the aftermath: "This good person is also good!" β
Seeing that his advice was effective, Zhang Han struck while the iron was hot, and told again: "The Broken Jing Army is like this, and the Broken Jing Country is also like this." The minister has a plan to break the Jing country, and he should choose a day to dedicate to the king. β
"After this battle, the widow is willing to hear Zhang Qing's plan to break the Jing Kingdom." Zhao Zheng's title for Zhang Han immediately changed. "Pass on the order of the widow, and the whole army will quickly attack the Jing people."
The sun was rising higher and higher, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the Chu army standing on the White Deer Plateau was surprised to find that the Qin army was moving across the line, and the expressions of the generals who were originally full of joy gradually became solemn. Dozens of miles into Bashui, more than 400,000 Qin troops came out of the empty camp and crossed the Bashui coastal formation. This is a sign of a large-scale offensive, and only a large-scale offensive will discharge such a stretch of formation.
"The Qin people want to attack me with the whole army!" Nao Xin also understood Qin Jun's intentions, and exclaimed.
"Your lord, it is already in the corner, and it will be noon in one hour." Dou Chang was both a military commander and a military general, he did not go to rest, but insisted on standing on the plateau to pay attention to the Qin army's every move.
"You mean...... Zhuang Wudi and others carefully designed a trap, hoping to limit the war to a certain point or a certain section. The Qin military strategists are not fools, no matter how early or later, they will always see through this.
"Yes." Dou Chang nodded, the shogunate strategists must not have a plan, but a plan within a plan, and the plan is connected.
"No!" Xiong Jing agreed, and Dou Chang immediately gave an order when he heard the voice: "Order: The artillery guards advance." β
The commanders standing on the high place waved the order flag, and the artillerymen who had been waiting in the division position at the bottom of the hill quickly came out of formation, and Dou Mirage led two brigades to cover their advance. The artillery that had been suspended and roared on the hill was hurriedly put on the shelves, and moved towards Zhao Zheng's Changqi.
The movements of the Qin army are clear at a glance, the movements of the Chu army The Qin army cannot see the part on the plateau, and the part below the plateau is also clear at a glance. At first, no one paid attention to the movement of the Mirage Brigade, but when the Chu army dispersed the Qin soldiers who were arrayed on the west bank of Bashui but did not go to Lantian City, even Zhao Zheng began to look at the Chu army of about 2,000 people, wondering what they were going to do.
"Jing people, Jing people......" Zhao Zheng's generals and strategists were all watching the Chu army, only to see that this Chu army was stationed on the west bank of Bashui, and the witch weapons dragged by dragons and horses were side by side, and there were as many as 16 bodies. These are nothing, the strangest thing is that the Chu army set up a black curtain behind the witch weapon, and a group of people hid behind the black curtain.