It was dark, and only voices could be discerned during the battle, making it difficult to see the enemy. Whether it was to break the Qin army's array, or not to break the Qin army's array, the commander ordered the soldiers to retreat, and then rushed the spear after retreating-the Chu army's artillery had not yet mastered the correct use of field artillery, and the Chu army's spearmen may not have fully mastered the correct use of the spear array.

It was in this state of almost invisibility that the spear array was able to attack in the sharpest way possible. Even if the old soldiers of the Qin army clamped the Yi spear, the Yi spear would be abandoned by the Chu soldiers, and then another row of Yi spears rushed up, stabbing the Qin army back again and again.

Behind the array of fighting, the door of the Fencheng Sai was wide open, and in the thick darkness, columns of Qin soldiers ran into the fortress. From noon to the present, it took two hours for all the cavalry to enter the fortress, and the rest of the foot soldiers had to run. Running for an hour can pass 100,000 people, and in just over two hours, more than 200,000 Qin troops can all withdraw into the Fencheng Sai.

Xiong Jing behind the formation didn't know that the Qin people were going to withdraw soon, and the news from the divisions and brigades all said that the Qin army was broken, and only the Qin army at the entrance of the Fencheng Fortress opposite the Yingshi division was still holding on. Deng Sui gave an order, all the soldiers retreated, and ten lighter ten-pound cannons were transferred up to bombard the Qin people's car base. In the darkness, the artillery spewed out tongues of fire, and the mournful cries of the Qin people came intermittently.

"How much time is it going to take?" Although the Qin army defended according to the car base, the car was made of wood, and the wood could not withstand the onslaught of artillery, Bai Lin, who was standing behind the Qin army, asked anxiously. His voice was very firm, and he believed that he would hold out until the whole army withdrew into Senet.

"General, it will take another hour." In the darkness, the military officers left behind by Li Xin could not see their faces clearly, and could only hear their voices.

"An hour?" Bai Lin was a little surprised, it took more than three hours for the Chu army to catch up and start the battle, and now it is more than four hours, and the 40,000 cavalry and 200,000 foot soldiers should be withdrawn, why does it take an hour.

"The villain, the villain doesn't know." The Qin army's foot soldiers ran into the fortress, and 300,000 people could be withdrawn in three hours. How can there be 300,000 people in the Qin army at the moment? Including the soldiers who intercepted it, there were only more than 270,000, and there were 20,000 wounded among them. Thinking of the more than 20,000 wounded soldiers, the military officer couldn't help but guess: "Xu Yes, Xu Yes is withdrawing the wounded soldiers." ”

"Wounded? I think it's just a rich woman. Colonel Zuo Huang Lang snorted. He knew that many generals had lived in Xiangcheng for a long time and had accumulated a lot of private wealth. Heavy grain and grass can be discarded, but private possessions cannot be discarded.

"Nonsense! Spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Bai Lin scolded. How about another hour? ”

"Hold for another hour, and our army will run out." Bai Lin's lieutenant is the rear army, the array of 50,000 troops is not thick, according to Bai Lin's arrangement, they have to fight with the Chu army for at least half an hour, but I didn't expect the Chu army to no longer be entangled with the Qin soldiers as soon as the troops were exchanged like before, but row after row of rushing spears, thinking that the array that could last for half an hour was broken by the Chu army in a short time.

"It will take an hour to run out of ink." Bai Lin stood up, and Su Fu, the right colonel, followed closely. As soon as he opened the military tent, the screams under the sound of the cannon pierced the eardrums, and Du Wen crashed in, and he shouted in a panic: "Our army, our army is defeated!" ”

Duwen's array was on the inside of the right flank, and he fled back without the outermost lieutenant, and the man should have died on the battlefield. Before Bai Lin could ask, he heard the shouts and cheers of the Chu army, not on one side, but on both sides, and the four lieutenants on the periphery were all wiped out.

In the midst of the call, Bai Lin's hand that he wanted to raise was slowly lowered, and he finally said, "Light the fire." ”

"The general has an order: ignition!" The order was quickly circulated. During the time that the Chu army was chasing, the Qin army did not waste it, and not only built a chariot formation on the official road into the fortress, but also dug trenches, and firewood, grass and grease were piled up in the trenches. Fire is a good way to stop it, but there are not many things to burn in the army and in the Senei, otherwise the Qin army would not have to fight in formation at all.

Bai Lin gave an order, and just as the Chu army cheered, a raging fire suddenly ignited from the trench. By the light of the fire, the Qin army saw the Chu soldiers holding the Yi spear and shouting long live, as well as the Chu army artillery facing the official road; The Chu army saw clearly the dense trenches on the official road into the Sai, as well as the Qin general Bai Lin standing on the chariot and flying behind him.

"This is not Li Xin!" Xiong Jing had a feeling of being fooled, he thought that it was Li Xin who was playing against him.

"The Qin army is single, and it will be defeated with one blow, and there are few people." Previously, in the darkness, everyone only saw the Qin army's military array, and they did not know the depth of the Qin army's array. Looking back now, I found that the number of Qin troops fighting with me was not large, it was estimated that there were only tens of thousands, and there were no cavalry of the Qin army at the same time.

Zhuang Wudi, who opposed the re-fighting, was not easy to speak, and Xiong Jing's side was mainly Peng Zong's voice: "The minister thinks that Li Xin has withdrawn to Fen Cheng. The Qin army blocked it with fire, clearly indicating the size of its army, fearing the Qin army and the Qin army......"

From crossing the tributaries to lining up the array to attack, it took too long for the Chu army, and Peng Zong didn't know how many soldiers the Qin army could withdraw into the Fencheng fortress in an hour, but more than four hours passed, thinking that at least more than 100,000 soldiers had entered the fortress, and the battle with the Chu army to stop the Chu army was only a partial division of tens of thousands of people, and Li Xin had already run away.

"Enter! Hurry forward! Looking at the Qin army general under the banner of a mile away, Xiong Jing, who didn't want to stop there, waved his hand to ask the Yingshi to advance. He did not forget the flames on the official road, nor did he forget that it was inconvenient to fight at night, and said: "Fire with artillery!" ”

At first, it was bombarded by 10 guns, and then by more than 100 guns. After the cannon was discharged, some of them hit directly under the Fencheng Fortress, which made the defenders stationed at the pass tremble violently, and more shells were aimed at the fire in the trench and bombarded. The grease could not be extinguished, but the firewood and grass could be dispersed, and the cannon roared for about a quarter of an hour, and the Yingshi rushed in with a shout.

Watching Master Ying's soldiers rush into the enemy formation, Xiong Jing didn't have much joy on his face.

With the current thickness of the snow, it must take two or three days, and Li Xin has already withdrawn to Xinzheng in these two or three days. The Chu army can catch up with Xinzheng, and even chase farther beyond the New Deal, but it is no longer possible to fight again. Li Xin had 400,000 people and annihilated less than 200,000, far from Xiong Jing's prediction.

Wang Jian 150,000, Li Xin more than 200,000, Meng Tian Kuang is 100,000, these more than 400,000 elite soldiers are still the great enemy of the Chu army, and the combat effectiveness of the Qin cavalry is getting stronger and stronger, the number of Chu cavalry is too small, and the two sides can't stop the Qin cavalry by fighting the Chu cavalry again. And in terms of the allocation of troops, the Chu army must have at least 30,000 cavalry to effectively engage in contract combat with the infantry, and 15,000 cavalry is too few and too few. The cavalry of the Chu army, which was equivalent to one-twentieth of the Qin army, could only cause trouble to the Qin army, and could not really defeat the Qin army.

Thinking of cavalry, Xiong Jing naturally thought of Ryoma. The 2,000 mares on the island are already giving birth, but there is only one litter, and even if all the 2,000 mares are pregnant, it will be 2,000 a year, and 2,000 males and females will be half and half male, and there will only be 1,000 stallions.

In reality, those mares can only give birth to 500 stallions a year. Starting this year and next, a two-year-old mare will become pregnant, and four years later, more than 1,000 stallions will be born every year. After about six years, only two thousand stallions are born each year. At this rate, twenty years later, the Chu army will only have 30,000 dragon horses.

And this is only theoretical. Even if the annual battle damage of Ryoma is negligible, the life span of the horse's service is limited. Twenty years later, even if Ryoma did not die of old age, he could not run. The only feasible way is to crossbreed, the dragon horse stallion and the Rong horse mare, and at the same time the male horse and mares in the army are mixed, so that in five years there will be 30,000 or 40,000 warhorses.

It's just that the problem of war horses has been solved, and the problem of knights is difficult to solve, where can I find thirty or forty thousand knights in five years?

"King," Seeing that the battle was coming to an end, Chang Jiang finally handed over the flying message that was in his arms. Xiong Jingzheng envied the countless cavalry that the Qin army had to requisition, so he glanced at Xunwen carelessly, and then the person jumped up.

"Raw?" He asked incredulously.

"Congratulations to the king! I have a successor to Dachu, and the country will last forever. The surrounding generals and strategists knew the news earlier than Xiong Jing, and when they saw Xiong Jing being surprised, everyone who congratulated them burst into laughter. Zhuang Wudi even said: "Command the whole army, today the eldest son of the king is born, my king has a queen, and I have a queen of Chu!" ”

Xiong Jing was still thinking in his mind that Mi Xuan really gave birth to the child alone, and he was really a boy, and he became a father at a young age. That's really ......

Xiong Jing had mixed feelings, and the soldiers of Master Ying cheered first, and then all the soldiers and soldiers cheered. The joy of victory and the joy of the birth of Wang's eldest son, even against the north wind, Li Xin, who was miles away, could clearly hear Chu Shu's cry of 'Long live Wang's eldest son'.

"Rest." In the midst of the tent, Li Nobunaga sighed.

Because of Mi Xuan and the child in her womb, Chu and Zhao will fight among themselves, and they thought that they could take advantage of the opportunity to carry out the plan of discord, but they did not expect to fall into the Zhao people's counter-plan. The losses of the Qin army were very heavy, including some wounded soldiers, and the number of soldiers who withdrew into Sene was only 210,000. If Bai Lin's entire army were annihilated, there would only be these 210,000 men left.

Li Xin was not worried about Xianyang asking for the guilt, because it was the king's order to divide Chu Zhao and take the opportunity to fight a decisive battle, and since it was the king's order to carry out, he was at most responsible for improper command, and he was not guilty.

"The son of King Jing was born, and more than 100,000 Qin people died, and his murder was also." Li Xin also has a belly, and the nose of this belly was cut off in his early years, and he wears a mask on his face all day. Li Xin is young and vigorous, and he often has his own opinions, so he doesn't talk much on weekdays.

"Fierce?" Li Xin glanced at his heart and said with a wry smile: "Who is not fierce in Jingren?" All of them are fierce. ”

"Definitely. The son of King Jing is not a murderer, but a murderer. The murderer lives, 100,000 people die, and my enemy of Great Qin is also. The voice of the belly became quieter and quieter, until at last it was inaudible.

Li Xin didn't listen to his words. As the general of the defeated army, Li Xin now hopes that the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers can be valuable, if there is no value, then these hundreds of thousands of people will really die in vain.