This is not to say that the strategists of the Chu army shogunate are incompetent, but that they cannot understand the intentions of the Qin people. The advisors of the National Captain's Mansion never thought of destroying the Chu army on the battlefield, they wanted to block the Chu army in the north of Weishui, and then encircle, annihilate and pursue when the food was exhausted. This is the most labor-saving dispatch, and the Qin army pursues victory and first-rank, not honor.

The environment determines the person himself, and this environment includes the hierarchy that cannot be seen but can be felt by the naked eye. What kind of person has what kind of idea, this is the best choice in the environment.

From the perspective of the Qin army, starving the Chu army to death was the most correct choice, just as starving the Zhao army to death in the Battle of Changping, and finally forcing the entire Zhao army to surrender. The battle of Duwei is similar to Zhao Kuo's breakthrough, as long as he goes back. However, due to the witch weapons of the Chu army, they had to be mixed with the Chu army when they went back, so they could not line up on the south bank of Weishui first, but had to wait for the Chu army to cross the river first, and then rush up to drive them into the water.

With this in mind, the Qin army arranged the cavalry in front of the formation and the infantry in the rear. In conventional warfare, this is a completely wrong arrangement, the infantry is the protagonist of the decisive battle, even if the cavalry is arranged in the middle of the military formation, it is also to find a gap and attack, it is impossible to replace the role of infantry in battle. The decisive battle is like this, but if it is just a blocking battle, with the fast-moving cavalry braving artillery fire to attack the vanguard of the Chu army crossing to Weinan, it is completely reasonable.

The Qin army turned a decisive battle of several hundred thousand men into a blocking battle of less than 100,000 men, with 25,000 cavalry and thousands of crossbowmen on its own, and less than 3,000 infantry crossing Weishui and an army of witchcraft firing iron bullets on the north bank of Weishui. The remaining hundreds of thousands can only look from the outside of the battlefield.

In view of this arrangement, the tactics of the Chu army naturally had to be adjusted accordingly. However, the controversy over the strategists' calculations was not over, and Xiong Jing rode forward. He doesn't wait, he doesn't bother to use the foolproof solutions that strategists have racked their brains, he only has the true instinct of a king to face the challenge head-on. With this instinct, he acted quickly, hoping to rush to Weinan before the Chu army on the other side was routed by the Qin army.

The cavalry of the Chu army followed closely behind Xiong Jing's Wang banner, and the Qin people on the other side of Weishui also looked at this banner. They saw the three-headed phoenix flag drifting from the left flank of the Chu army to the middle of the Chu army, and from the easternmost of the six pontoon bridges to Weinan.

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. It is very dangerous for the king to take an oath before he goes into battle, let alone a charge.

"King Jing......" Even the servants around Wei Yu couldn't help but speak, no king had ever been so brave and almost reckless. Wei Yi's face was full of worry, and he looked at Zhao Zheng with great concern - he felt more and more that King Jing's initiative to retreat yesterday was a well-designed plan, and Zhao Zheng, who he was worried about, landed flat and left the mirror for a long time.

The morning sun had just risen, and the sun shone on the shining armor, shining dazzlingly from time to time. The person he was watching first galloped on the north bank of Weishui, and after the Chu pawn who rushed to cross the bridge gave way to the pontoon bridge, he rode his horse onto the pontoon bridge and came straight towards Weinan.

A brave and fearless young man, a wanton and unrestrained youth, looking at this scene, Zhao Zheng had no other thoughts, and suddenly felt that he was old. However, the red horse under his crotch did not agree with this, and the six-year-old stallion of the irascible Sogdiana began to chirp agitately when he heard the sound of the drums, and he wanted to gallop across the battlefield with his kind.

Among the incredulous people, only Aristotle IV kept nodding his head, and he felt as if he was standing at the Battle of Granikas (the first of the three major Persian battles), but on the side of the Persian army. In that famous battle, Alexander the Great, like King Chuni, led the Macedonian cavalry across the Granikas River in the face of the Persian cavalry across the river, and finally won the battle.

Aristotle IV, who thought of the battle of Granicas, could not help but feel some fear, he feared that after the defeat of the Chenni cavalry, the army of Qinni would completely collapse, and he would be trapped in the chaos of the army, and his life and death would be uncertain.

Some people are surprised, some are worried, some are envious, some are afraid of ......, these are all bystanders outside the battlefield. In front of them, Zhao Yong, the general of the Chinese army on the battlefield, paid attention to the ballista advancing in the face of artillery fire, and looked at the phoenix flag floating through Weishui; Further ahead, Xin Sheng, who led the cavalry, burst into excited eyes as soon as he saw the phoenix flag, he must behead King Jing under his horse!

"Array! The array ...... "The Qin army's crossbow carts were in front, and the cavalry was behind, and they came with a sandstorm. The soldiers who crossed the Weishui were blown away from opening their eyes, and they only heard the commander of the guard in front of the formation shouting in formation. Relying on the inertia that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, they skillfully listed the formation in the unit of pawns.

The pontoon bridge is located between the two divisions, each division is 60 columns wide, plus the space left between the army formations, and the pontoon bridge and the pontoon bridge are 80 meters apart. The bridge is more than 500 meters long and 2.4 meters wide, and the armor soldiers of the Xishi and Yingshi, who were previously evenly divided at the north end of the Liudao pontoon bridge, can only run in a single row, and the interval between the front and back is two to three meters. In a quarter of an hour, each pontoon bridge could pass only about five hundred people, and no more than seven hundred. When the Qin army approached, several pontoon bridges that had been paved a little later, and less than one soldier had passed.

As soon as the order of the array was issued, they retreated to ten meters away from the pontoon bridge, reducing the width of the military formation as much as possible, and pointed the tip of the spear forward at the Qin army who were confused in the sand. A few hundred people fought against tens of thousands of people, and what could make the soldiers fearless was not only the honorable soldiers and officers who shouted and boosted morale, but also the shells that kept flying overhead.

On the north bank of Weishui, sixteen siege guns also raised their muzzles and joined the bombardment sequence. The 32-pound shell flew over Weishui and over the thin formation of the Chu army against the fierce southeast wind, and finally landed on the mud on the south bank of Weishui. When the ballista gradually approached to one thousand two hundred meters, the shells finally began to command the target.

With a loud bang, it was smashed by the huge shock of the ballista that hit it, and the horse neighed with it, trying with all its might to break free from the reins. Cannonballs, this kind of whistling thing is something they have never seen before.

"Excuse me! Sickness also!! The gunners shouted in the smoke of gunpowder, and the fourteen-year-old gunners cleared the chambers, loaded the gunpowder, and stuffed the shells with greater speed, ....... The sound of the cannon became more violent, and the ballista continued to overturn on its side.

However, the ballista carts marched in a horizontal row, separated by more than ten meters from each other, and they were not all together. Sixty or seventy artillery pieces bombarding a target with a width of more than 3,000 meters is simply a drop in the bucket. Moreover, the ballista is moving forward rapidly, and the artillery can only estimate the amount of advance to adjust the elevation angle to fire, and such a hit rate can be imagined. In less than two minutes, the crossbow trucks with a range that could already cover the Weinan Chu army stopped and wound up one after another, aiming at the Chu soldiers who were lined up in six spear formations to protect the pontoon.

"Shoot ——!" A shout burst out of Han Shen's mouth, and with a wave of his command, more than two hundred crossbow arrows shot at the Chu army at the bridgehead. The long-length crossbow arrows flew through the air for more than 300 meters, and they did not enter the spear formation of the Chu army protecting the pontoon bridge.

"Shield! Raising a shield ...... "The Chu pawn who crossed the bridge first not only had double armor all over his body, but also carried a shield. The pawn commander ordered the shield to be raised, and all the pawns immediately raised their shields, but the powerful crossbow arrows still broke through the air, and one of them pierced the pawn, and the remaining arrows dragged him backwards, and he was strung with a noble man. When dozens of crossbows were about to be fired, most of the honorable men in the front row were killed by arrows.

"Retreat!" The ballista cart that had been fired with the first round of bolts did not wind it in place, but took fifty steps back and wound it again. The Chu artillery did not expect them to retreat at all, and all the shells fired hit them in front of them.

"Shoot ——!" After a short interval, Han Shen ordered to shout again. With the swing of the cavalry, more than 200 ballistae fired a second round of crossbow arrows, and the armor sergeant who had replaced the first two rows of honorable soldiers was shot again.

"Enter!" Constantly moving forward and backward is an effective way for the ballista to avoid the shelling, looking at the cannonballs stuck in the dirt, Han Shen smiled proudly, and did not see the phoenix flag on the pontoon bridge getting closer and closer. Xin Sheng behind him stared at the phoenix flag, he couldn't wait for the third salvo of the ballista, as soon as he saw the phoenix flag running to the center of Weishui, he immediately ordered: "Attack!" ”

"Attacking ——!" The officer waved his flag and shouted, and with this order, the cavalry, which had been lined up in charge, marched forward quickly, and tens of thousands of horses' hooves trampled the ground like drumsticks. The sound of 'da-da' was soothing at first, then sharpened, and finally the whole earth trembled.

"Qin Qi! Qin cavalry also ......, "The commander was killed, the front row of honorable soldiers was almost destroyed, and the cavalry of the Qin army came with a momentum that swept the heavens and the earth, and the remaining armor soldiers were instinctively frightened." Before they could hold the spear in their hands, the cavalry at the forefront had already braved the arrows of the Chu army archers, and although the spear stabbed the war horse, the spearman was also knocked away by the war horse.

Unlike the continuous onslaught of the Chu army's heavy cavalry, the Qin army's chou cavalry was a one-time furious slam attack. If the knight in the front row falls, the horses in the back row will rush forward on his body. The sound of the spear breaking, the shouts of the soldiers, the neighing of the war horses, these sounds were mixed together, and the chou cavalry and the Chu pawns were also mixed together.

The Chou cavalry rushed through, and four of the six Chu army spear formations at the southern end of the pontoon bridge were broken and scattered, and only two withstood the impact of the Chou cavalry. At this time, the Qin army's light cavalry arrived, crossbow arrows flew one after another, the ruptured military array was even more broken, and the scattered military array was even more scattered.

Xiong Jing on the pontoon bridge watched this scene, only anxious and without fear. The Qin army, on the contrary, placed cavalry in front of the battle to make the Chu army unprepared, and he must save the situation that is collapsing, otherwise all the strategies to attack the heart will fail. He was still a step late, and when he was about to rush to the bridge, there were not many Chu soldiers left at the bridgehead.

"Great King......" A soldier who was originally planning to retreat turned around and saw Xiong Jing rushing briskly on the bridge. He wasn't sure it was Xiong Jing, but he knew the three-headed phoenix flag.

"King! The king! He forgot all his shouts, and the whole person was no longer embarrassed, only excited.

With a very slight 'poof', the blade of the sword slashed, and his voice stopped abruptly. When Xin Sheng, who wielded his sword, rushed onto the pontoon bridge, his head fell.