Chapter 128: Alone
The Qin army broke down in the front and retreated, but the rear squeezed through the rout and quickly counterattacked the coalition army. Following the forward pursuit of the Zhao soldiers under Sima Mao's command was forced to stop and reverse by the Qin army, the Qi soldiers who were chasing forward were also stunned by the bronze spears of the Qin army. Under the bloody sunset, the war seemed to return to the Spring and Autumn Period and even the Shang and Zhou periods, with the Shang and Zhou armies armed with bronze weapons on one side and the barbarian tribes with only wooden pestles and stones on the other.
The bronze spear stabbed continuously, and Qi Pawn fell down with his eyes glared, and they didn't know what happened like Zhao Pawn. His own spear did no damage to the Qin soldiers, and the Qin people's bronze spear not only easily pierced the supposedly strong armor, but also pierced deeply into the body. Under the severe cold, the blood coagulated as soon as it burst out, and the rows of soldiers fell to the snow in surprise with only a red column of blood on their chests and bodies. After the previous flanking attack, the Qi army, which originally had a depth of fifty elements, now only had more than thirty lines left, and the twenty lines of comrades in front of them all fell, and the Qi pawns who felt that the ghosts and gods were haunted retreated in fear.
Both Zhao and Qi armies retreated, and the Wei army, which was half-hearted and half-pursued by the two armies, stopped, and when the soldiers in the front row saw the Qin army's chief spear stabbing the Zhao Qi soldiers in huge armor to death, the army retreated in great strides. Previously, the phenomenon of unprovoked damage to the armor had been decided by the soldiers, and they were also careful not to stab the hard parts of the enemy with their spears, but to stab the weak parts. In addition, the Qin army was defeated, and countless people fell to the ground when they retreated, and there were more tramplings than stabs.
The Wei army retreated, and the Qin soldiers chased after them. Even if the retreating soldiers had already been mentally prepared, the extent of the damage to the armor of the soldiers was still beyond their expectations. The temperature was too cold, the armor was too brittle, and the soldiers in the front row instantly became naked under the bronze spears of the Qin army.
The Chinese army was helplessly defeated, and the left and right armies rushed far away to the sound of drums, and they rushed to the spears as fast as before. The charging spear can still kill and injure Qin soldiers, but this kind of damage is not comparable to the previous kills, the tip of the spear breaks after the iron spear blade pierces the huge armor, and the casualties of Qin soldiers are extremely limited only by the almost completely flat spear body. The copper spear that also pierced the armor pierced the Chu pawn who rushed to the spear, and even did not need to stab forward, the Chu pawn who rushed the spear would also crash into the copper spear by itself, and pierce it by the momentum of the forward rush.
The Chu army's spear array of sixty people rushed to the spear, and less than half of them could not die under the bronze spear, while there were very few people in the Qin army who fell. When he rushed to more than a dozen lines, the general had to stop rushing the spear, and let the Qin pawns who rushed forward to resist the entire spear formation and continue to advance westward.
All the armor is destroyed, and you can't kill the enemy or defend it. The blow is not only to morale, but also to the psychology of the soldiers. Even if no one explicitly said that this was the gods who had abandoned the Chu people, the eyes of the generals and soldiers all showed despair.
"Death this day!" Outside the shogunate, Zhuang Wudi looked at the array of Qin troops coming from the counterattack, and saw that none of the coalition forces, including the Chu army, could parry the Qin army, and couldn't help but sigh and cry. He didn't know whether to hate himself for being a gold or for not being a gold. If it weren't for Mingjin, maybe under the impact of the rout, the last array of the Qin army would also be broken; If Mingjin is called, the whole army should retreat to the west of the ditch and rely on two embankments to keep the Qin army under the embankment. As long as the battle between the two armies is delayed until dark, the coalition forces may not be able to retreat with all their armies.
'The harm of using soldiers is the greatest hesitation; The disaster of the three armies began with suspicion. Zhuang Wudi, who muttered 'Heaven Dies', thought of the fatal mistake he had made again, and his nails sank into his flesh, and he wanted to draw his sword and kill himself.
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"Drive, drive......" Xiong Jing had no time to look at the battle line between the two armies, and he could guess that it would be a one-sided massacre. The bronze spear in the hand of the Qin army can break through the huge armor on the body of the Chu army and stab them to death, while the spear in the hand of the Chu army will turn into a wooden stick nine times out of ten.
The dragon horse is galloping, and the whistling north wind is blowing from behind. At this time, the heavy cavalry was still a wedge-shaped formation, and the difference from before was that more than a dozen heavy cavalry knights dressed in Mo Xiangjia and more than twenty guard knights dressed in nickel were outside the formation, and the rest were all in the formation. Knights who did not have nickel spears simply sharpened their spears or cut off their extra mounted spears and replaced them with two short spears.
Wang Jian was originally surprised why Xiong Jing didn't retreat and still run, but when he saw the guard knight get rid of the huge iron spearhead of the spear and sharpen the front end of the spear, his face couldn't help but be solemn. Bai Di Taifu knew that the giant iron was too cold to use, and it seemed that the king of Chu also knew this, otherwise why did Chu Qi remove the giant spear and not change the spearhead? The dragon horse, which weighed more than 2,000 catties, galloped over, and even a wooden spear could kill the short soldiers in the array.
In addition to weapons, Xiong Jing also chose a very tricky position. For ease of use, crossbows disguised as chariots can rotate north, south, south, and north, but the enemy is mainly coming from the west, so the crossbows are all facing west. However, the more than 500 crossbows that can rotate in the southeast and northwest can only be fired together to the west and east due to the firing boundary, and only some of them can be fired at the south and north. The king of Chu rushed from the north, and the strong crossbows that were not blocked from the shooting boundary added up to less than eighty.
Wang Jian was dignified, and Wang Luo, the general of the guard, did not have the joy of killing King Jing and being a marquis, but was a little panicked because of the Jing Dynasty himself. The wedge formation was getting closer and closer, and before he had reached a hundred and fifty steps, he couldn't help but scream: "Shoot——! ”
"Shoot!" The crossbowman pulled the motive, and although the crossbow arm 'snapped' endlessly, it was not as deafening as before. Dozens of crossbow arrows burst through the air, most of them aimed at the bearthorn at the forefront.
The sound of the crossbow arm hitting was faint, and the bear thorn who saw the crossbow arrows flying out suddenly drove the dragon horse under his crotch to accelerate, and the cavalry array behind him did not accelerate or turn, and the knight suddenly stood up and reined in the horse. Looking north from Wang Luo's position standing in the south, Xiong Jing ran before the cavalry formation, and the cavalry array was behind him, in fact, Xiong Jing did run in front of the cavalry array, but it was at least more than thirty steps away from the cavalry array.
Xiong Jing suddenly accelerated, and the riding formation suddenly stopped. One hundred and fifty paces away, the arrows fired in advance were either accelerated by the dragon horse under the bear thorn about twenty paces within two seconds of flying, or they landed directly in front of the stagnant cavalry, and there were very few arrows that actually hit.
"Wind, wind!" Seeing that most of the crossbow arrows were shot empty, the tension in Wang Luo's heart turned into a tremor in his limbs, and at this time, King Jing, who was in the lead, was about to rush to the front of the battle.
"Drive, drive......" One hundred and fifty paces away, Xiong Jing galloped alone, and he could hear the sound of arrows passing over his shoulders and nails. Wait for the arrows to fly past and then look up, and the short-range array is already in front of you. The short-range military array was like the Qin army array as wide as the mountain range he had seen before, which gave him a slight illusion. In the undulating waves created by the galloping of the war horse, he slowly lowered the riding spear in his hand and rushed towards the array in desperation.
"King Jing." Wang Jian who was staring sighed slightly. He was thrilled to beat such an opponent hard, and he felt sorry to see such an opponent die. It seems that the decisive battle of more than 600,000 people has evolved into a decisive battle between King Jing alone, and it can even be said that the war between Chu and Great Qin for more than ten years is also a war between King Jing alone. He wanted to give the order to capture King Jing alive, but before his words could be spoken, the dragoon had already rushed to the front of the battle.
"Kill ——!" In the binge, the cavalry spear stabbed the short soldiers in the front row, and the bronze spear also pierced the huge armor on the people and horses. Contrary to everyone's imagination, in the cracking sound of the spear, not a single copper spear pierced the armor, and the array of short soldiers that was not thick was slammed into a dent by the dragoon. Xiong Jing, who abandoned his spear and drew his sword, slashed and slashed, and his head was raised in all directions.
"Ah......" The short-handed soldier was shocked. The two charges and the two Chu cavalry were killed by them with strong crossbows and copper spears. However, this time was different, the king of Chu and the war horse under his crotch were like a giant with an invulnerable spear, slashing at them. The short soldiers were originally afraid of Chu Cai, and the freezing of the giant armor and sword made them regain their confidence, but at this time, the confidence they regained suddenly disappeared and disappeared without a trace.
This ...... was not only frightened by the short soldiers, but also by Wang Qian, Zhao Yong, Liu Chi, and Fusu, including Aristotle IV, who provided key information. They thought that Xiong Jing would be as vulnerable as the more than 1,000 Chu cavalry before, and they would die when they rushed into battle. Unexpectedly, the copper spear couldn't pierce his giant armor at all, and his giant sword wouldn't break at all!
"O gods!" Looking at the wedge-shaped cavalry formation that continued to rush behind Xiong Jing, Aristotle IV let out a cry of sorrow.
"Kill ——!" Six hundred and twenty-eight knights shouted like a bear's thorn, and their hands either nickeled spears or sharpened wooden spears stabbed into the short-range array, and the sound of the spears breaking on both sides once again soared into the sky. Even if some knights only had a sharpened short wooden stick in their hands after abandoning their spears, Xiong Thorn's frenzied slashing made the soldiers think that all knights had swords in their hands that would not break.
The array shook in the impact, and the shogunate wailed in the slashing and stabbing. They couldn't resist the desperate charge of a heavy cavalry wedge formation, and the fright was even more chaotic. The array collapsed in an instant, and Xiong Jing, who was increasingly unable to move forward in the array, immediately broke out of the trap and rushed forward to the last array.
Inside the short-range array is a guard array of more than 1,000 people, and inside the guard array is the shogunate under Yujing. Rows of four-wheeled carriages stopped behind Wang Zhuren, and Wang Qian, Fusu, Zhao Yong, An Qi, Liu Chi and others stood on the wagons to watch the battle. The array of more than 1,000 people was simply not enough to surround the people of the shogunate, and when they saw Xiong Jing rushing towards him with his sword, the strategists were the first to let out a burst of exclamation.
Fear is contagious, and the exclamations of the strategists make the generals who have been relieved of command also panic. Each of them knew how difficult it was to kill a Chu army heavy armor.
"The eldest son, the eldest son is gone!" I don't know who shouted, and the servant panicked and let the Mide ride the horse.
"No disease...... stop!" Fusu couldn't see Xiong Jing's eyes, but he didn't have any fear. Xiong Jing's gentle words to himself back then seemed to be yesterday. Xiong Jing's eyes stared straight at Wang Qian, and he didn't care about Fusu until his shrill voice sounded in the panicked crowd, and he didn't notice this tall boy who was already as tall as an adult.