Chapter Seventy-Seven: Landing 2
The situation became urgent in an instant, and except for the large wing of the front escort boats, the rest of the warships quickly turned to the right one after another, rushing to the shallow shore on the east side of the chasm. As soon as the war boat came to a stop, the armor soldiers on the deck jumped directly into the waist-deep ditch without waiting for the wooden ladder in the bow of the boat to be lowered.
As soon as the boat master entered the Wei realm, the beacon fire was ignited, but unfortunately the beacon fire was not a flying message, and it was impossible to tell the number of the incoming Chu State boats, and there was a beacon fire alarm every day before. Fortunately, the reconnaissance cavalry of the Qin and Wei armies were all over the chasm and blocked more than 100 miles south, so it was known that hundreds of boats of the Chu army were heading for the girder, and the Qin and Wei armies on the left and right banks of the pontoon bridge were quickly arrayed, waiting for the Chu army boat division to land.
The art of war has clouds, and it is attacked halfway. The Qin army, which had been lined up on the right bank for a long time, continued to advance to the beat of drums, but they could not be sure whether the boat division would land or pull away from the boat that was sunk in the chasm, so when the boat division and the armor soldiers landed, they only marched to the first half of the landing area. Seeing that the armor of the Chu army rushed ashore like a tide, he had to stop his advance and pounce on it.
In order to quickly list the formation, Xiang Yan did not choose one or two breakthrough points like the Battle of Huaishui, but landed the whole army together. Although there were crossbows on the large-wing warships and trebuchets on the boats, they were spread out on the fifteen-mile-long landing area, and they could not stop the Qin army from rushing over. At this time, the back row of armor soldiers was still nervously wearing armor, and there were only three rows of armor soldiers on the shore, and the thin array formed in a hurry made the generals extremely worried.
"You don't need to wear armor, get ashore quickly! You don't need to wear armor, and you can get to the shore quickly. "The battlefield was chaotic, and the voices of the chiefs, longs, and honors were completely covered by the drums and shouts of both the enemy and the enemy. Chen Hong, the honored soldier on Master Chen's wing, was so anxious that he almost went crazy, he no longer shouted, but grabbed the soldiers and pushed them directly down the deck.
"You don't need to wear armor, get ashore quickly!" After throwing down a few people in a row, Chen Hongcai shouted again. At this time, the soldiers on the boat all understood, the battle situation was extremely urgent, and there was no time to put on armor, so they jumped ashore one after another.
"Hurry ashore, get ashore quickly." Chen Sheng's body shook unconsciously, his eyes were still looking at those armor, and his footsteps involuntarily jumped into the water with everyone, and after running a few steps in the waist-deep ditch, he found that his shoes were gone, and he could only stomp ashore like the Yue people, and it was good to be that he was no longer in the back row, but in the fourth row.
"Arrows! Enemy arrows ......" The commander who was standing at the front of the army saw a field of crossbow arrows flying out of the Qin army, and immediately shouted enemy arrows. The first three lines of armor pulled down the masks on the iron gizzles without waiting for him to shout, and the spearmen in the back row stood close behind them, leaning on their bodies to block the arrows, and then some of the spearmen who had not yet lined up did not hear the shouts of the commander when they ran, nor did they see the crossbowmen in front of the Qin army in front of the formation release their arrows, and it was too late to react when the arrows came, and they were suddenly shot in one piece.
The 'dang, dang......' arrow struck the armor of the armor in the front row, and also hit Chen Sheng wearing a new iron armour. At this time, although he was still wheezing, a burst of warmth suddenly appeared in his heart: he had an iron guard.
"Arrows! Enemy arrows! The commander shouted again, and this time the spearmen all heard it, and they immediately rushed to the rear of the battle without armor, and sat down to avoid the crossbow arrows of the Qin people. The fallen archers also stuck arrows on the ground, aiming at the Qin army fifty paces away.
"Kill ——!" The arm crossbow was only fired twice, and after the second round of shooting, the Qin military captain on the chariot suddenly found that the arrows would only give the enemy more time to line up, so he canceled the third round of shooting and ordered the soldiers to rush straight up.
"Kill ——!!" The Qin army rushed straight forward, and the spearman commander let out an even more explosive shout when he saw this, and ordered the spearmen in the front row to rush forward.
Attacking the enemy formation with three rows of spearmen is the basic tactic of the Chu army's spear formation, but the combat regulations also require that the enemy queue must be tested before the spear array is attacked, and the enemy's queue must be destroyed by luring the enemy and fighting in small-scale formations. Now it's too late for everything, and it's just blade-to-blade, blood and blood,
'Smack, smack, smack——! There was a dense sound of wooden slapping before the armorers slammed together. The Qin soldiers in the front row no longer had short ges in their hands, but two-zhang long chieftains, and they were no longer leather armor, but carefully woven stone armor. The spear stabbed on the stone armor, and the stone chips flew sideways, and some of them did not even stab into it. And before the chief spear reached his body, he was slapped down by the Yi spear held high by the armor of the Chu army, relying on the protection of the stone armor, and the Qin pawn who did not stab him to death stabbed it again, but only stabbed it on the giant armor.
At this time, the bloody spear had been drawn from Qin Zhi's body, aimed at the enemy and stabbed again. The Yi spear is four feet longer than the chief spear, and the protection of the giant armor is better than the stone armor on the Qin army, but the Qin army has twenty rows in depth, and the Chu army only has three rows of armor soldiers who rushed forward.
'Knock knock knock...... The Qin army's drums beat more rapidly at this time, and the sound of the drums was overwhelming, engulfing all the 130,000 armor soldiers on the triangular land cut by the chasm and the water. Xiang Yan's pupils, who were watching the entire battlefield, contracted suddenly, and he saw the Qin army's chariot. These chariots had appeared in the Battle of Qingshui, they had hit the left flank of the Chu army, and now, they were going to hit the right flank of the Chu army, which was slowly outflanking.
"General!" Peng Zong also saw the Qin army's chariot. Because of the distance, the Qin army only had time to attack the left flank and part of the central army of the Chu State, and the right flank was able to calmly land on the shore.
"Don't panic." There are two rows of trucks, and there are about 200 vehicles in each row. The colorful feathers on the car were swaying up and down under the autumn wind, like Xiang Yan's heart at the moment. "The right army is a good soldier, and the good soldier knows how to deal with the car."
"Look, my lord." Xiong Jing had already landed at this time, but unfortunately the knight's war horse had not yet come down from the war boat, and he was the only one among the knights who rode on the disobedient body, Xiang Chao, Fei Jing and others watched with blank eyes. They also saw the Qin army's galloping chariot ready to go.
"Rongche!" Xiong Jing saw Qin Jun's chariot, his disobedience under his crotch was constantly shaking, and the horse's hooves rose and fell.
"The car wants to rush at me!" Fei Jing had heard of the scattered Ludi soldiers who were rushed by the Qin army in the Battle of Qingshui, and she couldn't help but be a little worried.
"War horses? Where are the war horses?! Xiong Jing was also anxious, he looked back, but saw that the large wings of the horses were in disarray, and only a few war horses were unloaded from the deck.
'Puff ......' snorted a few times, and the almost five-year-old meander stallion seemed to be even more impatient than its owner. Xiong Jing turned around and stopped looking at the big wing behind him, and the reins relaxed a little, and he thought he had received an order, and he ran through the crowd with a stride.
"King!" Chang Jiang's heart was broken, and he rushed forward as he was old, but unfortunately he pounced.
"King!" The horsemen of Fu Jing and Xiang Chao were also shocked, and the king only had one horse, how could he go into battle to kill the enemy.
Xiong Jing didn't know why he ran out of the house, and after a short panic, he laughed out loud for some reason. This seems to be laughing at his own stupidity: when the Great Si Ming wants to die alone, he can't live, and when the Great Si Ming wants to live alone, he can't die at all. I have always been protected by everyone, why, why can't I kill a Qin person by my own strength?
"Brave, brave." He muttered and drew the thin sword at his waist, and rode his horse to the rightmost end of the Chu army's formation.
"Big, big, big...... King! Xiang Yan was carefully looking at the Qin army's chariot formation, and the lookout hand on the high side was stunned when he saw Xiong Jing riding alone towards the front of the formation.
"The King?" The three-headed phoenix flag remained in place, but the riders were in a mess, and his son Xiang Chao was running towards the ditch, snatching the war horse and jumping up. And in the direction pointed by the looker, a knight was bypassing the right flank of the Chu army, and the color of the war horse was extremely familiar, it was the brown and red of the king's horse named Dissatisfied.
"Is it the king?" Xiang Yan's heart hung up, and when he saw it, he nodded again and again, and he suddenly shouted: "It is indeed the king?!" ”
"Yes, yes." The lookout finally stopped stuttering, and he was all too familiar with the king's mount and riding form.
"This ...... How can this be? How can this be? Peng Zong was instantly stunned, in the past, when the king appeared on the battlefield, which time was not a heavy guard, but this time, this time......
"General, Jing Ren." The Chu army that landed on the shore lined up along the bank of the chasm, and when the upper half was attacked by our own army, the lower half was rotating to the north and west, in order to hook the flank and rear of our own army. In such a great detour that lasted for several miles, a knight of the Chu army suddenly appeared in front of the right flank of the Chu army, which had to make people strange.
"Jing Ren?" The commander of the chariot battalion, Qiang, only glanced at the rider and stopped paying attention.
The impact of the chariot must first level the road, and the knight must be escorted during the impact, so as to prevent the enemy knight from shooting arrows to disturb the horse and create chaos in the array, and this knight of the Chu army can not stop anything.
"General Yu, Lu Pingye." A knight came from a gap in the chariot formation and reported to the Qiang that the road had been leveled.
"Pass my military order: Shock the Jing people!" Qiang Qi shouted, and immediately rode his horse after the formation of the chariots lined up several miles wide. There were four horses in the chariot that rushed into battle, and under the fierce spur of the royal hand, the horses neighed a few times, and dragged the chariot and began to gallop.
The power of the chariot attack was greater than that of the cavalry, and more than 400 chariots ran faster and faster, galloping, and the rumbling sound overshadowed the drums on the battlefield. Behind the train was billowing smoke and dust, mixed with the shouts of Mitsu and the neighing of horses, which made people shudder.
"Drive! Drive! "Xiong Jing lowered his body, and rose and fell with the unoblivious run, which is a must when riding at high speeds, and the man and the horse must become one and gallop in one rhythm. When he shouted 'Ride,' his teeth collided with each other because of this undulation, making a sound similar to a horse's hooves, so small that only he could hear it.
"Yikes!" Lined with the smoke and dust pulled out by the chariot, two Qin military knights galloped over, one of them shot an arrow at Xiong Jing with a crossbow machine, the crossbow arrow missed, he threw away the crossbow machine in annoyance, and pulled out the bronze sword with a bang, his face was extremely hideous.