Chapter 125: Blood Red
Coincidentally, both Chu and Qin pinned their hopes of victory on the cavalry. The difference is that what determines the Qin army's counterattack is whether the cavalry of the two wings seriously weakens the cavalry of the Chu army, and only after the consumption of most of the cavalry of the Chu army, the hook attack and the front attack on the array of the Qi army can be carried out; What determines the Chu army's attack is whether the infantry battle of the three armies seriously weakens the Qin army's infantry, and only by consuming at least two military formations of the Qin army, the three heavy cavalry wedge-shaped formations can break out of the formation and go straight to the Qin army shogunate.
For the Qin army, the coalition army is small, and it can be won if the formation is broken; As far as the coalition forces are concerned, there are many Qin soldiers, and only by killing the devil can they defeat the enemy.
The strong support of the city's soldiers and Zhao Teng's hesitation at the critical moment made the Qin army's plan to flank the attack, the Qi army array has not yet been defeated, and the Chu army's heavy cavalry has broken through the Qin army's middle army and killed the Qin army's shogunate. When the spear array of the Huainan Division broke through the gap and began to flank it, the central army of the Qin army immediately fell into a three-sided siege that was even worse than the previous Qi army, and the array collapsed for a while, and the sound of retreating cymbals sounded at this time.
The army formation was broken by the enemy, and it was not impossible for Mingjin to retreat. Retreating, not allowing the enemy to flank more arrays through the gap ventral back, this would have been a normal stop-loss. However, it is always more difficult to retreat than to attack, especially in such adverse circumstances, especially when the three thousand five hundred columns are retreating. Liu Chi intuitively felt that once he retreated, the entire front would collapse immediately.
Wang Jian disagreed, he believed that the army could be returned, at least most of the soldiers. Only when the front 3,500 columns of the army successfully retreated, could the Qin army achieve the final victory. It can be said that retreat is not only a stop loss, but also a must for victory. However, if he, a great general, wanted to command the Qin army to achieve the final victory, he had to survive the attack of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army.
"Array ——!" Wang Luoli, the general of the guard, rode to the front of the shogunate in a chariot to direct the formation of short soldiers. The 1,000 guards and soldiers who belonged to the Guardian Doctor, under the leadership of the guard general Ara, lined up around Fusu in the inner circle of the shogunate's short army array. The two arrays, together with the original horse rejection and chariot arrays outside the shogunate, heavily protected the Qin army shogunate.
'Boom, boom, ......boom, boom' The last line of the Qin army's army formation was thrown into the heavy grenade by the Chu army's light cavalry, and the Qin pawn in the huge armor in front of the formation was blown away by the grenade, and the Qin pawn in leather armor at the end of the formation was hit by the shrapnel like a torrential rain even if it was not blown up. The army formation of forty lines deep and 140,000 Qin troops seemed to have been drilled out of a hole by an awl, and the heavy cavalry led by Fei Jing swept by, and the array was already scattered. Jing Sheng, who was in hot pursuit, still maintained a complete formation, and the cavalry array rushed towards the Qin army shogunate more than three hundred paces away at a not fast pace.
"General Jing!" 500,000 Qin troops were behind him, and there were only 4,000 short soldiers in front of him. Learning from Xiong Jing's appearance, Fei Jing pressed the envy in his heart and shouted Jing Sheng, and the nickel sword in his hand pointed directly at the fluttering feather in the sky above the shogunate.
"Drive!" Jingsheng did not answer. He followed the hundred light horsemen carrying grenades in front of him, and the speed of the war horses under his crotch was a little faster.
Fei Jing didn't care if he answered, and he didn't need to roll back the Qin army array that had just broken through like Xiong Jing. He slowed down his horse so that the more than six hundred horsemen he led were overtaken by Jingsheng's cavalry. After Jing Sheng broke through the military formation on the outskirts of the shogunate, he would follow him into the shogunate and fight. He believed that as long as he killed Wang Jian and captured the feather sword, the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops who were retreating would turn from defeat to retreat. Once the Qin army broke and fled, the war would be completely over.
The colder the north wind became, the snow and dust that Jing Sheng stepped on were blowing in his face, his calves were unconscious, and his fatigue was as heavy as a mountain. Even so, Fei Jing laughed unconsciously. He seemed to see his wife waiting for him, his half-human son who was already disgusted with dogs, and his daughter who was just talking. He also saw that the state of Chu became the overlord of the world, and forced all countries in the world not to go to war without authorization. He even saw that his fiefdom had become a mortar, and he had walked through this small city several times, and he had personally cleaned and wiped every boundary stone. He suddenly thought: After the war, he may have to build a few sea boats, even if he doesn't go to Xizhou to trade, he should go to Dongzhou to occupy a piece of land and build a city.
Chasing Jingsheng's riding array, Fei Jing couldn't help but fantasize about the future after the war. In his rear, the Qin army, which heard the sound of gold, retreated in a panic, and the coalition soldiers cheered while pursuing. Xiong Jing, who did not participate in the fight, was staring at Jingsheng's general banner, and the two heavy cavalry formations rushed towards the Qin army shogunate, and it was no surprise that Wang Jian would be killed, but what should I do if I Fusu? If Fusu dies in this battle, she will be in pain.
Xiong Jing thought of Qi Qian, and on the other side of the battle line, Sima Zhuang looked at the Jujiayi spear in front of him and trembled irrepressibly. The strange crack of the giant armor does not have the common rolling barbs of metal, but has a tortoiseshell-like crack that has never been seen before. If it weren't for the fact that this was indeed a pair of Chu-made armor, he would have thought that this was a tile in the palace.
The armor is like this, and the spear is similar. The blade of the spear was somehow brittle, revealing the silver-white body of the spear. There were also no metallic rolls or barbs on it, and the once indestructible spear had turned into silvery-white dead branches.
"That's the case with the whole division?!" Zhuang Wudi, who gasped, looked at Sima Douwei of the Nanjun Division, eager for him to say no.
"Yujun Sima, the whole division is like this!" The Nanjun Division protected the artillery position of the right army, which was closest to the whole army. The division led Douya to find that the armor was abnormal, and hurriedly ordered the division Sima Douwei to send it in person. "The division said that the armor of our army was damaged for no reason, which is not as usual. This is the manifestation of the gods, please think twice about Da Ao and Jun Sima. ”
"Don't speak to anyone!" Zhuang Wudi took a deep breath and told the Dou Wei to step back. He wanted to find Xiong Jing on the other side of the battle line, but unfortunately the retreat of the Qin army and the pursuit of the coalition army stirred up more snow and dust, and the north wind howled, and these snow and dust covered everything, and the entire battlefield was only half cheers, half shouts. He hesitated and pondered, not knowing how to decide.
If it weren't just the difference in the armor of the Nanjun Division, but the armor of the whole army, then there would be great danger in the next battle. At this time, Mingjin should withdraw his troops, carefully find out the reason, and then fight a decisive battle with the Qin army. If it was just that the armor of the Nanjun Division was different, and when the Qin army retreated, it suddenly called back the troops, which was tantamount to letting the Qin people have a way to live, and watching them flee with endless trouble.
At this moment, Zhuang Wudi hesitated, Xiong Jing stared, and Yu Jing smiled. Looking at the heavy cavalry of the Chu army that was getting closer and closer, Wang Jian did not move his hand at all, and his eyes did not blink. At the same time that the Chu army was getting closer and closer, the shogunate ordered the cavalry to go out in all directions, and they were not stopped by the heavy cavalry of the Chu army, and they were rushing to the front of the army formation.
Seeing this scene, Wang Qian's hanging heart was half relieved, but only half. Whether the Qin army can win also depends on how many Qin soldiers at the front can retreat safely, and also depends on whether the Chu army's infantry will pursue unrelentingly. If either of the two goes wrong, the Qin army will eventually fail.
"The general has an order, all of them will be exchanged for copper arrows!" Heavy horses rushed in, and the shogunate resounded with the low shouts of Wang Luo, the general of the guards.
The strong crossbow is a powerful weapon, and because of its great power, the bronze arrowhead with lower hardness can also shoot through the Chu army's huge armor. The biggest advantage of the copper arrow is mass production, and it can be sharpened into an arrow after casting, while the huge iron arrow needs to be repeatedly carburized and forged, and it is also very refined to quench, the Qin army has a huge iron arrow, but more are bronze arrows.
Chu Qi was still two hundred steps away, and the strong crossbow had already been wound. Under the military order, all the iron arrows were replaced with bronze arrows. The crossbowman looked at Chu Qi, who was getting closer and closer, from the perforation, and his breathing became tighter and tighter.
"Shoot ——!" Wang Luo saw that the Chu cavalry at the front had rushed within a hundred steps, and suddenly shouted violently.
"Shoot!" The crossbow commander shouted, 'Bang Bang...... and a series of crossbow arm strikes, and more than five hundred arrows flew around. There was no time to see if these arrows hit Chu Cai, and the crossbow array was full of shouts of 'wind up quickly'.
"Jing crossbow ......" 100 light horsemen armed with grenades rushed in front of the cavalry array, and it was impossible to see from the front that the Qin army shogunate had arranged more than 500 crossbows, and only the chariots or heavy vehicles covered by the black curtain could be seen. The moment the crossbows flew out, they saw these extremely well-camouflaged thorn crossbows.
The muzzle velocity of the crossbow is only 90 m/s, which is much lower than the muzzle velocity of the artillery. At a distance of 100 paces, the arrow flies for more than a second at most. Theoretically, the light cavalry still had time to dodge, but suddenly more than 500 arrows were fired, and they could not avoid it. Jing Sheng, who led the gallop, saw a rain of arrows flying in front of him, and half of the light horsemen were shot down under the neighing of the horses, and the grenades in their hands also fell to the ground.
The grenades on the light rider are all ignited, and like the lightning time tube, there is a time limit for burning. Jing Sheng shook his head and shouted behind him: "Shield! The shield in his hand had been raised, but at a distance of a hundred paces, the arrows of the crossbow were indestructible. The arrows that pierced through the light cavalry struck with the sound of the wind, piercing not only through the shield in his hand, but also through the nickel armor on his body.
The war horse was still galloping, although Jing Sheng's legs were clamped on the horse's belly, but the spear and shield in his hand fell one after another, and after running for more than ten steps, he stopped breathing and finally fell on the snow, as light as a snowflake.
The remaining forty or so light horsemen struggled to throw the grenade into the chariot formation, the rejection of the horses, and the melee formation that followed. 'Boom, boom, boom, ......boom', the explosion sounded, accompanied by the smoke of gunpowder, and more than 200 knights who were not dead crossed the obstacle of the explosion, and the spears in their hands hit the panicked short soldier array. The spears on both sides snapped almost simultaneously, making a crisp sound. The army formation under the heavy blow suddenly dented, and the knights were also killed and wounded, and the remaining knights abandoned their spears and drew their swords, and slashed with thorns, but the heads of the short soldiers who could be chopped off had not yet been cut off, and the huge swords in their hands had been broken into several sections.
The knight did not have only one sword, and after the sword was broken, the knight drew the sword behind him, and the blade of the sword broke again in the slash. The sword is like this, and the armor is also inexplicably damaged, and the bronze spear used by the Qin army's short soldiers unexpectedly pierced the armor on the horses, stabbing the knights and dragons on the horses together. There was no weapon in his hand, and the sturdy giant armor seemed to have been used by the Qin people to perform witchcraft, and it instantly turned into Chu paper. Panic spread in the minds of all the knights, until their few survivors rushed through the skirmishes.
At the same time as the grenade in front exploded, the grenade tubes scattered on the snow burned to the end and exploded. Preparing to chase Jing Sheng into the short-range array, Yu Jing knew the power of the projectiles, and in order to dodge them, he had to start turning far away. The heavy cavalry is not a light cavalry, and the heavy cavalry array is not a light cavalry array, and any of its turns is no less than a charge. When the entire cavalry formation completed this three hundred and sixty turns, the more than six hundred knights under Jing Sheng's command almost disappeared into the Qin army array.
"Attacking ——!" A heavy cavalry formation almost disappeared, and Fei Jing's eyes were red, and he drew his sword and shouted, beating his horse and rushing towards the array that Jing Sheng had just impacted. He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, the heavy cavalry that Qin Pawn couldn't kill in the past was wiped out in less than half an hour.
"Shoot!" Taking advantage of the delay of Fei Jing's turn, the crossbowman had finished winding, and the arrows that flew out shot at a closer distance towards the cavalry formation, and the knight could no longer dodge, and with a hissing sound, Fei Jing's mount suddenly fell.
"...... you," Xiong Jing exclaimed a few hundred steps away. Across the last line of the Qin army, he could only see the upper body of the heavy cavalry knight among the spears. Jing Sheng is gone, Fu Jing is also gone, and there is only one flag left for the two. He didn't know what was happening, only that more than 720 heavy cavalry knights and more than 530 light cavalry knights had disappeared for the most part.
Except for a part of the entangled Qin army, the entire Qin army's military formation was striding back, and the last Jujia army formation was moving forward quickly. Seeing that the gap in the Jujia army formation that was broken open by Fei Jing was slowly closing, Xiong Jing subconsciously rode forward.
'Dang dang dang ......' the sound of the cymbal was loud at this time. The knight on the horse was separated by his first coat and iron jacket, and his ears were full of whirring wind when he ran, even if he occasionally heard the sound of cymbals, he thought it was the sound of the Qin people's cymbals. However, on the west side of the battle line, under the strong order of Zhuang Wudi, the cymbals of the allied shogunate also sounded the bronze cymbal, and Yujing completely reared his fingers, which was an order for all the soldiers to retreat.
The sound of cymbals from the two armies met, and the first to hear the cymbals were the right soldiers of the coalition army, who were south of the shogunate, and the sound of cymbals came with the wind. The soldiers who were chasing and killing couldn't believe it when they heard the sound of the cymbal, and then saw that the shogunate's face had already pointed back, and they were sure that it was the shogunate that was ringing the cymbal.
"The shogunate has sounded the cymbal, and my division can't chase it anymore!" Shi Sima Dou often ran to Ruoao's side alone and shouted, pointing to the shogunate.
"Shogunate Naruto?!" Ruo Ao's face was full of surprise, but this surprise was covered by the iron coat and the first coat, and it was not exposed at all. He followed Dou Chang's hand and looked at the shogunate, and Yu Jing did point back, and the military order asked the army to retreat.
"Why did the shogunate sound the cymbal?!" He asked, puzzled.
"I don't know, maybe it's getting late." Dou often does not know why. After the cavalry of the Qin army hooked up, the right army array did not charge the spear again, and now the Qin army was finally defeated, but the shogunate suddenly sounded the cymbal.
"There is still an hour before the sun sets!" If Ao is alone and hateful, the sunset he said is actually dark.
"The shogunate has a life, my division is ......" Dou Chang also speculated wildly, he suggested that when Ruo Ao retreated alone, a brigade commander in front shouted to interrupt him: "The shogunate is ringing, and then Da Ao is in!" ”
"Da Ao?" The three-headed phoenix flag hunted and fluttered in the north wind, and the wind direction just spread the flag horizontally in front of everyone. The setting sun shone through the thick clouds on the flag, which was blood-red.