Chapter 117: Shelling

Xiong Jing looked at the cavalry of the Qin army in a daze. There are always unexpected things happening on the battlefield, which Lian Po once said, but he only reminded at the time, not taught how to deal with accidents on the battlefield. This is also something that cannot be taught, the battlefield is ever-changing, the enemy and the enemy are innumerable, and no one can give a standard answer, so they can only deal with it randomly.

Xiong Jing was stunned, and Zhuang Wudi, who reacted, couldn't help but point at Nao Xin angrily: Zhibisi had no idea about the movement of the Qin people's 40,000 cavalry, and all the personnel were derelict in their duties. His accusation made Nao Xin speechless, the Qin cavalry has always been the focus of Zhibisi's attention, but Zhibisi has also told more than once: The Qin army does not have dragon horses, there is not much difference between war horses and horses, the armor is a cavalry on a horse, and the armor is a royal hand when sitting on the car......

Who can tell the difference between the two? Maybe Fei Jing can distinguish clearly, but it is impossible for Bi Si to let Fei Jing go deep into the Qin Realm to investigate. The most reliable information on the battlefield was not the news of Zhibisi, but the scouts sent by the shogunate itself, but unfortunately before the war, all their own scouts were expelled back to the south bank by the Qin, and there were no Chu scouts on the north bank.

"Are you okay?" The military Sima was anxious, the strategists were uneasy, and the first to calm down was Xiong Jing, who looked at the grumbling Zhuang Wudi casually, and asked.

Today is really not an auspicious day for Zhuang Wudi, he has been deceived since midnight, and he has failed to set up an ambush in the morning, and now the Qin cavalry suddenly appeared, and the successive blows made him extremely out of shape. Xiong Jing's inquiry finally made him calm down, he sighed heavily, and said, "Your lord, the minister is fine." Now the Qin people attack me with cavalry, I may not be defeated, but the Qin people are also longitudinal. ”

"What about it?" Xiong Jing didn't know why he was able to laugh at this time. "Victory and defeat, life and death, are all destiny. Obey the mandate of heaven and do your best, what this gentleman does. ”

"The gentleman says the destiny of heaven, but the minister is not a gentleman, the minister only knows that this battle is invincible, and the Qin people are even better. If the Qin people are indulgent, and then they get the Qi country, I am in danger. "In order to defeat the Qin people, any grievances and insults to Zhuang Wudi can be endured. However, as soon as the Qin cavalry came out, this battle might fail again, and he was extremely unwilling in his heart.

"Ungodly." Xiong Jing whispered, Zhuang Wudi didn't hear this sentence, but Zhuang Wudi heard the next sentence, "Tell the generals of the three armies, and everything will be ordered by the big secretary......"

The battle on the front line was stalemate, and the cavalry of the Qin army on the left rushed forward, at most a quarter of an hour, no! It doesn't take a quarter of an hour for them to slam the flank of their own army's left flank, and at such a critical moment, the king's order turned out to be 'everything is done'! Everyone was stunned for a while, but fortunately, Xiong Jing quickly gave an order:

"You Que immediately lined up to the left with pawns, five people in depth, to protect the flank of our army; The artillery quickly bombarded the enemy's formation, and the Yingshi division must break the enemy; The cavalry did not have to come back to help, and quickly crossed the water to attack the Li Shin shogunate; Quickly order the division and brigade on the south bank of Rushui to cross the water to reinforce ......"

In the tradition of the Chu army, not all of the thirty-four Chu divisions were put into the front, and there were still four divisions in Youque. It's just that the Chu army division has only 3,600 spearmen, and the depth of five people can only list 7200 columns, plus 576 archers, there are only 835 columns, and the width of the formation is less than 900 meters. The four divisions are 3,600 meters, which is only one-third of the length of the entire front, and cannot completely protect the flank of our own army.

What the Chu army could rely on was the ability of the phalanx itself to resist the enemy on all sides. And if you want to win, the cavalry led by Concubine Jing Xiangchao is one way to hook the Li Xin shogunate, the Yingshi retreats and the artillery bombardment is another way, and the last way is to stay on the south bank of the Rushui division and brigade, if the ten Chu army divisions and 50,000 Zhao troops come up, they will win.

Xiong Jing gave the order in one breath, and finally said: "The right to respond to the situation is given to Deng Sui, the general of the Yingshi......"

"Where is the king?!" Zhuang Wudi heard Xiong Jing's meaning, and his heart suddenly tightened.

"Where are the widows going?" Xiong Jing looked at him in some surprise and drew his spear with a chuckle. "The Qin people hit me, and the widows have to meet the enemy."

"The King?!" The cavalry of the Qin people was overwhelming, and the cavalry of the guards could not stop the enemy.

"How can the king abandon his army?" Right Shi couldn't help it. "The king Ruoxu, how is the great Chu?!"

"Widow ......" The Yingshi array came with the command to retreat, and Xiong Jing laughed again. "The widow is not fighting with the Qin people, but playing hide and seek with the Qin people. ”

"Catch, hide and seek...... Yi Xian didn't understand what it meant to hide and seek, he wanted to ask again when Xiong Jing was dissatisfied with the disobedience and walked out, more than 30 knights of the guards followed, he looked at Xiong Jing's silhouette and shouted with a sad voice: "The king——! ”

"Retreat——! Refund ——! "What happened in the rear of the army formation, the upcoming cavalry of the Qin army on the left, the front-line soldiers knew nothing. It took about half an hour for the Ying division to convey the military order and adjust the formation, and then it was difficult to retreat.

As soon as the Ying division retreated, the Qin army, which sensed the danger, quickly advanced, and even if the gray-haired old soldier in front of the battle was stabbed by the razor spear, he clung to the razor and held on to the spear, creating opportunities for the comrades behind him. Xiong Jing and the Qin State Governor's Office believed that only a growing army could be sacrificed, which was basically true, but not entirely true. The soldiers who were most loyal to the Qin State were naturally the Qin army under Bai Qi, the king of Qin Zhaoxiang, who attacked Yan Ying and besieged and annihilated the Zhao people, and only they would sacrifice for the Great Qin.

Thirty or forty years have passed, and the Qin pawns who had just been registered as Fu were also gray-haired at this time, but they were the real backbone of the Qin army and the backbone of the entire Qin State. They were like the silver shield soldiers who followed Alexander's expedition to the east, and they were still in front of the army at the age of seventy, despising the Seleucid recruits who were young and strong, but had little combat experience and lack the will to fight.

The strong men are easy to grow old and ambitious, and they have no fear in the face of the Chu army, just as they were in the face of their parents when they were under the command of Wu Anjun.

"Retreat-" The retreat command was still the same, but the Qin people's chieftain spear pierced, and a whole column of Chu soldiers in the front row pounced, and in order to rescue the injured comrades, the retreat could only be aborted. At this time, the old soldiers with several spears in their bodies fell down with laughter. They knew that they had caught a flaw in the Jing people—stabbing rather than stabbing the Jing soldiers, and the Jing army would stop retreating.

"Why don't you retreat?! Why don't you go back?!! The division commander Yang Yu jumped violently behind the formation, and he didn't understand why the soldiers in the front line stopped.

"Retreat ——!" Waiting for the doctor to drag the wounded out of the array like a rat, the Ying division retreated again, and the military formation was less than two steps away from withdrawing from the entire battle line. The old soldiers of the Qin army rushed forward again, they allowed the spears to pierce the iron armor and pierce the body, but their hands and arms grabbed and clamped several spears, so that the Chu soldiers could not draw the spears, and the chief spears of their comrades behind them took the opportunity to stab sharply, and another row of Chu soldiers fell down in a scream.

"Retreat ——!" The captain and the chief heard the sound of thunderous hooves, this would never be the cavalry of their own army, and the cavalry of their own army was obviously on the right flank. They should have called for the doctors, but they hardened their hearts and stopped shouting, and abandoned the wounded in front of the battle.

"Retreat ——!" One step is six feet, and two steps are less than half the length of the Yi spear, but the old soldiers of the Qin army rushed forward one after another, and more Chu soldiers were stabbed and fell to the ground.

"Retreat ——!!" This time, even the division commander Yang Yu was shouting that if he retreated three feet back, the artillery could open fire. The Qin pawns on both sides of the army formation also saw the cannon ports on the side of the formation, and several Qin pawns rushed forward, but were pushed back by the spears of the Chu pawns.

Several spears strung the Qin army veterans, and the stinging pain on their bodies did not stop them from shouting: "Witch weapon ......"

"Put!" Shen Qing, the commander of the artillery battalion who couldn't wait, stood on the left side of the military formation, and as soon as the front row of the Ying division withdrew from the line, he waved and shouted vigorously. In his excitement, his hand slammed on the gun carriage, and he didn't realize it.

The Yingshi Division had not completely retreated, and only one of the front guns had been fired. With a thunderous roar of '......boom', the muzzle flame sprayed directly on the Qin pawn who rushed forward, and the first person was completely shattered by the cannonball, and the flesh and blood splashed on the armor of the soldier Ying, and also splashed on the artillery.

Unaware of this, the soldiers finally withdrew from the gap and let the gunners fire, but the distance was so close that the outermost soldiers were less than half a foot away from the guns, and they were deafened as soon as the guns rang out, and the spears of the spears were broken by the cannonballs. The first cannon was followed by another cannon shot, and it was the artillery on the other side that was firing.

Waiting for the soldiers to tremble and retreat half a step, the second artillery next to the column was fired. At this time, the Qin soldiers who abandoned the spear rushed again, and the Chu army that had broken the spear was too late to stop it, except for the current few people who were smashed by the cannonballs, the remaining Qin soldiers rushed on the gun carriage and drowned the artillery.