Chapter 44: Forward

After the silence of noon, the battle line of the two armies, which stretched for more than ten miles, became hot again. When the Qin army saw that the camp behind the Chu army was on fire, their morale was shocked for a while, and the call for long live rose again. The craziest thing was to attack Yang Duanhe of the left army of the Chu army, and while the chariot was charging into battle, he also mobilized elite soldiers to line up on the front line and ordered the soldiers to attack quickly, so as to promote the collapse of the left army of the Chu army.

In the front line of the left army were the two divisions of Bedmen and Chenxian, and under the onslaught, the array was like a boat in a storm, drifting back and forth. The Qin army rushed violently, and the first column of noble children had to retreat, but when the Qin army ran out of sharpness, they rushed back in rhino armor. Some people are holding five-foot swords given the day before, others are holding spears and short swords, and some even hold large shields in the style of sanitation. Regardless of the weapons they wield, these men were extremely resilient and tenacious, and once they died, they provoked the fury of the entire division.

Rank, perhaps in the most philistine Sanjin, the Song Dynasty that produced the Mohists to respect and love, and the Qiang Qin, which only emphasized military exploits and cultivated warfare, have become a thing of the past, but in the Chu State, where there are the most obscene shrines and the most complete feudalism, it is still the law of heaven and gods, and no one is allowed to blaspheme. The death of any prince is the death of the parents of the common people, and they are furious in their hearts, they roar like beasts, snatch and preserve his body like beasts, and die with the Qin army armor like beasts, regardless of life and death.

"Jing people are crazy!" The battlefield was full of Jing people's roars, and the Qin army, which had finally advanced a few steps, was beaten back, and Yang Duanhe, who was behind the Qin army's formation, finally couldn't help but sigh. He looked at the side of the military formation again, and the five thousand short soldiers and the reinforcements of the Chu army were mixed together, and the formation that was crushed by the chariots could not achieve the expected effect because there were no apprentices to follow up. And behind the Chu army, the camp burst into flames, but no Qin army rushed to the flank of the Chu army!

What's the use of burning the camp! Can burning the camp make the Chu army defeated? Absurd! It's ridiculous!

The left army could not attack, and the enemy army did not collapse, Yang Duanhe couldn't help but feel resentful, but behind the Chu army formation, the martial knights did not want to attack the flank of the Chu army, but they had no time and no power to attack Nearly half of the knights were blocked by the Chu army's riders, and it was difficult to fight immediately, and most of them had already stepped to fight. Once the horse is lost, it becomes extremely difficult to run to the rear of the Chu army's array;

After rushing into the Chu army, most of the knights broke into the Qin army camp, and the rest besieged Xiang Yan's shogunate, they not only wanted to behead Xiang Yan, the general of the Chu army, but also wanted to take down the banner of the shogunate. According to the Qin law, those who kill the enemy's main generals are promoted to three knights in a row, and those who capture the enemy's banner are promoted to five knights in a row, and the Chu army camp naturally has a lot of gold and silver, brocade, and pearl and jade, and the first rank is also very much.

Six feet (146cm) or even five feet (112.5cm) of doll pawns, so old that their teeth are basically gone, and people can push them to arrive, killing these martial knights can cut down five with a sword. After all, the first level is to look at the quantity rather than the quality, and it is not uncommon for various countries to recruit soldiers from five feet to sixty, most people enter the camp to cut off the old and weak heads, and the fool only goes to the Chu army behind the formation to fight with the Chu army soldiers who are waiting in the array.

Of course, there are not no fools, more than 1,000 martial knights with full heads of the battalion dismounted and prepared to attack the flank and back of the Chinese army, but at this time, more than 20 rows of soldiers in the back of the conical formation had moved to the back of the Chinese army, and the soldiers on both sides were entangled together.

Although the king asked Wang to form a conical formation, the thickness of the entire conical formation was one hundred and twenty-seven lines, and the thickness of the Qin army's middle army was only seventy-five steps, which is equivalent to saying that when the conical formation completely penetrated the Qin army's central army, there were still dozens of lines of soldiers left outside the formation. Instead of staying outside the formation, these dozens of soldiers should rescue their own troops. Although Qu Guang, the general of the king's pawn, was a civil servant, he did not act pedantic, and he transferred all the 2,964 people from a hundred lines of the cone formation to the rear of the right side of the Chinese army, and resisted to attack the Qin cavalry on the flank of the Chinese army.

For the Chu army, the big camp, the shogunate, the rear of the battle, and the front of the ......, fighting was everywhere. Not only was the Qin army surrounded by the Chu army, but the Chu army was also surrounded by the Qin army. The two armies of Chu and Qin were like tigers biting each other in circles, tearing each other apart and being torn apart by each other.

"Rush over! Rush over! "After the Qin army, Xiang Shi did not want to attack the Xin Wu Department of the Qin Army's left army, when Xin Wu dispatched more than 10,000 soldiers to protect the left army's flank, Xiang Zhi on the chariot pointed directly at the Qin Zhong Army three miles away, which was the position of Li Xin, the general of the rear army.

"Rush!" When the Chu army rushed through, Xin Wu, who knew that something was wrong, immediately ordered his soldiers to rush forward to prevent the Chu army from passing through the left army. But this is still too late, the horizontal formation is not conducive to the impact, even if it is impacted, it is also to impact the left side of the Chu army, and the galloping Chu army immediately changed the column into a horizontal team, and more than a thousand people blocked the thousands of people in Xinwu. More than 10,000 divisions led by Xiang Zhi ran unimpeded through the left army, which was more than two miles wide, and began to sweep the rear of the Chinese army.

For the generals, all have short soldiers, with the Qin system, the general has 4,000 short soldiers, the deputy general has 1,000 short soldiers, the captain Quhou has hundreds of short soldiers, and the 500 main short soldiers are 50 people. In addition to guarding the generals, another function of the short soldiers is to supervise the battle behind the battle. At this time, the Xiang division attacked, and the short soldiers escorted the generals, but a thousand or hundreds of people were not the opponents of the Xiang division at all, and they were either immediately submerged or formed a circle to protect themselves.

The general rate may be able to save his life for the time being, and the Qin soldiers at the end of the Chinese army did not have time to turn back to resist the enemy, so they were killed by Xiang Shi's fierce killing. The Chinese army was suddenly surrounded by chaos! This time it's really surrounded!

The right army of the Chu army, which was hit horizontally, not only saw the banner moving forward, but also saw the banner of the Xiang division in the rear of the Qin Zhong army on the right. Lu Ji, whose face was covered with blood, pointed his sword to the right and shouted: "The Qin people are defeated!" The Qin people are defeated! ”

"The Qin people are defeated!" Hearing the general's shouts, some people who lost their minds were even killed by the Qin army armor, but after the killing, the Qin army armor couldn't help but look sideways.

"The Qin people are defeated!" Although the words of the Yue people could not be understood, they fully understood what the enemy was shouting.

"Kill!" The more soldiers who came back to their senses shouted wildly, and the impact was even more rapid, this time it was their turn to kill the distracted Qin army.

"The Qin people are defeated!" The shouting of the Yue pawn also made Xiong Jing raise his head, but he couldn't understand the Yue language after all, and he didn't know what the Yue pawn was shouting. He only knew that the military flag of the Yue Division was getting closer and closer, and they were attacking.

"Report to the king, there are no more firebombs!" After the last fire bomb was thrown, the wrestlers who rushed back helplessly prayed to Xiong Jing.

"Then kill it!" Xiong Jing's voice was already hoarse, and he knew that the fire bomb was not enough before rushing in, but in a hurry, he couldn't think of any other way, so he could only let Lux hold it. "How many steps have you taken?" He asked.

"Tell the king, you have taken thirty-seven steps." Some people keep in mind that this is a matter of victory or defeat of the two armies.

"Thirty-seven steps!" Xiong Jing was speechless. With his own advance, the bows and arrows arranged on the side and back can no longer support his advance, although the Jing crossbow is still shooting, but the Qin army array is crowded, and many Jing crossbows did not shoot the Qin army in front of the Yi Spear Array, and shot the Qin army on the side of the Yi Spear Array. Only when the Qin army in front of him was killed, the Yi Spear Array could stride forward.

"Don't worry, as long as you advance, our army will win!" I don't know how many Qin soldiers were stabbed to death in the Yi Spear Array, but as they advanced slowly, the Qin soldiers in the front row died, and someone immediately came up to make up for them. Gong Jia's hand holding the spear was not only numb, but the tiger's mouth was also cracked, and the pawn Changzhuang was retreating to rest behind the formation.

"Is it too late?" Xiong Jing asked. As he was advancing, he was always concerned about the fire of the camp in the rear and the flag.

"It must be in time." Zhuang Qujian said categorically, he said that he was about to rush to the front, but at this time, Xiong Jing's eyes suddenly changed, from calm to shock, from shock to disappointment.

In the rear shogunate, the banner hanging high and the flag fluttering in the hunt actually fell!

"Ahh Zhuang Qu, who looked back unconsciously, cracked his eyes, and his nerves were as strong as he couldn't help but sigh. His movements made more soldiers look back, and looking back made more people despair.

The Chu army was defeated! The banner is the flag of the Chu army, and the fall of the flag is equal to the death of the commander and the defeat of the Chu army.

"Get on your knees!" Xiong Jing suddenly spoke, he only said to kneel, and Zhuang Quji, who was sad in his heart, was puzzled by this.

"Get on your knees!" Xiong Jing said again, his fists clenched and his teeth clenched.

"The king......" Zhuang Qu couldn't understand the king's meaning, but Zhao Yu, the guard holding the flag, understood what the king was going to do.

"Since I am the king, then kneel." Xiong Jing looked at Zhao Yu, there was no longer a trace of disappointment in his eyes, only the perseverance of the king.

"The king must not, the Qin people have crossbow arrows......" Zhao Yu shook his head vigorously, but his knees still knelt down, but when he inserted the flag into the grass, a temple man rushed forward and lay there obediently. Xiong Jing stepped on his back, and then on his shoulder, and the temple people grabbed his leather shoes and slowly got up, so that Xiong Jing, who was less than five feet long, stood taller than a cadre of armor and stood above everyone.

The sun has set in the west, but once the sun shines on the shining iron armor, it still shines with dazzling light; The cloak was still conspicuous in the chaotic battlefield, it was the color of blood, and the red made people's hearts beat harder.

"The king......" Someone in the king's stroke exclaimed, they only saw the flag behind the array, and they didn't know that the king was under the flag, and they were following the king.

"King!" On both sides of the cone-shaped array, the Chu army was surprised, they hadn't seen the king for a long time, but they didn't know that the king had already entered the Qin army.

"Jing, King Jing......" The Chu army can see the king, and the Qin army can also see it. Some of the armor soldiers pointed at him, their eyes eager.

Xiong Jing slowly turned around, his back to the Qin army, facing the big camp. At this moment, it seemed that all fighting had stopped, and the two sergeants looked at the center of the battlefield and at him who suddenly appeared.

"The chance of success or failure, in one fell swoop...... Xiong Jing's voice is rarely loud, and under the north wind, his voice is clearly transmitted to the back of the battle, and even to the shogunate and the camp." …… Whether it is for the slaves of the Qin people, or for the people of our Chu State, it is also here! ”

His throat was almost torn, but Xiong Jing still endured the pain and finished the sentence. He saw countless faces, bloodstained, tired, confused, and looked at him, and the eyes on his faces. Pain and confusion, prayers and expectations, are all in these eyes. He knew what these people meant, and he could even hear their heartbeats......

He took a deep breath, pointed to the north, and shouted with all his strength: "Chu people! Advance! Advance! Advance! ”