Chapter 49: Allegiance
"General, why is this? Where is King Jing?! "Worried that the Jing people's iron cavalry would break through the infantry array, the cavalry of the Qin army was arranged behind the formation. Seeing that the foot soldiers forced King Jing to surround this corner of Huaishui, in the end, King Jing disappeared! Xin Sheng and his three thousand knights took a lot of effort to pass through the infantry array, and his tone was full of doubt and resentment, and he was still waiting to avenge his father.
"King Jing has followed the Huai Shui!" The fire on the wooden bridge had been extinguished, and Li Xin pointed to the direction of Huaishui under the wooden bridge.
"Follow the water?!" 30,000 guards and 5,000 cavalry, but they still let King Jing go, Xin Sheng looked at Li Xin incredulously.
"King Jing took the lead, and the Qin soldiers on the other side failed to seize this bridge......" Li Xin didn't want to explain a sentence, no matter what, this was his culpability. He pointed to Huaishui again: "Huaishui goes north twenty miles and then turns east, and after forty or fifty miles to the east, it is the north of Xie Yi; Before Huaishui went east, there were five miles of water flowing north, and the five miles of water came out of the Horse Valley, although the Jing people withdrew their troops from the Horse Valley......"
"General, Chen Shui is also possible." A counselor's confession. The wooden bridge was four miles past the place where Xiong Jing ordered the cavalry to disappear to the north. Here the Huaishui winds into an 'S' shape, and the post station and the wooden bridge (now Huaihe Town, Tongbai County) are on the lower left of the 'S' shape, and the Chen Shui he refers to is the unknown water in Xiong Jing's mouth, and this water flows into the upper left of the 'S' shape.
"It's this Sanshui, you lead the cavalry to chase after it quickly." Because of the barrier of the mountains and forests, all Li Xin saw was a forest, and the water was so deep that the foot soldiers could not wade into the water to pursue.
"Why bother with this water and other water, Jing people can go, and the last general can also go!" Xin Sheng didn't want to intercept, he just wanted to pursue.
"King Jing's knights and horses are all armored, if you set up an ambush in the middle of the road......" Li Xin glared at him, feeling that he wanted to take revenge and wanted to go crazy.
"What is there to fear from death!" Xin Sheng still didn't care, but fortunately, before hurriedly saying goodbye, he reluctantly shouted: "The last general will only take the knights of the headquarters to go, and the rest will wait for the general to send." ”
The cavalry of the Qin army has five cavalry and one chief, ten cavalry and one officer, one hundred cavalry and one rate, and two hundred cavalry and one general. Xin Sheng's headquarters is only five generals, only a thousand horsemen. The thousand cavalry rushed down the west bank on the road that the Chu cavalry had just walked, and chased along the Huaishui. The remaining 2,000 cavalry galloped across the charred wooden bridge and pursued along the right bank of the Huaishui.
"Where is the righteous canal?" The three thousand cavalry all went out, and Li Xin remembered the Yiqu people at this time.
"Maharaja, Treasure Armor!" Where the heavy cavalry of the Chu army charged before, the Yiqu people wearing hair and brackets were vying for the spoils of war. A rider holds the chain mail that has just been stripped from the Chu army and presents it to the Yiqu Duck who is pouring wine on the carriage.
"Armor?" Yiqu glanced at it, he only knew that the ring armor was a treasure armor, and this kind of soft iron armor couldn't see where the treasure was.
"Maharaja." The rider knew the leader's doubts, so he threw away the chain mail, took out the cavalry knife he had snatched, and slashed at the armor a few times, then picked up the armor, stroked the cut area, and said, "Armor, armor." ”
"Reward!" Yiqulu saw the extraordinaryness of the chain mail, he threw the wine jug, and the fat hand groped in the carriage for a while, and finally found a large gold cake and threw it in front of the rider.
"Thank you for the reward!" The armor was not available to ordinary people, but could only be offered to the chief, and the rider picked up the gold cake and went happily.
"Maharaja, Saddle, Saddle!" Another rider came up running with a pair of Takahashi saddles in his hand, and a pair of swinging stirrups hung from the stirrup hook on the side of the saddle.
The stirrup rope of the knight of the Chu army was sewn into the trouser tube, and the rope was worn out at the knee, and the stirrup rings at the end of the rope hung on both sides of the saddle. Because the trousers are so long that they cover the leather boots, it is impossible to see that it is a stirrup when riding on a horse. Only when the horse falls, in order to prevent the rider from hanging from the stirrups, the trousers covering the stirrups are made extremely thin and tear off.
When the light cavalry attacked, the horses either jumped wildly or stood upright after the crossbow, and the stirrups were exposed when the rider fell from his horse. Although it was strictly forbidden to expose stirrups in the army, and each knight was only issued with a pair of stirrups. And the Qin army's military formation has been advancing, and the comrades have no chance to snatch back the stirrups of the dead.
Exposing the stirrups had long been expected by the mind, and what was unexpected was that such a sharp weapon was regarded as a burden by the Yiqu rider who sacrificed the saddle, and he took off the stirrups and put them in his arms - the iron of Jing Kingdom is all good iron, and the two stirrups are not heavy, but it is still possible to build a shorter path.
"Saddle?" Yiqu laughed, he had seen the Takahashi saddle of the Jingren knight, this thing is for people who can't ride horses, Yiqu boys can sleep on horseback, what saddle do you want, just take a piece of sheepskin pad to pad your buttocks.
"Reward!" The fat hand of the Yiqu Crane groped in the carriage again, this time for a longer time, and just as the rider of the saddle thought it would be a larger piece of gold cake, a stone appeared in the hand of the Yiqu Eagle, and threw it at him.
"Thank you...... Thank you for the reward. The rider withered, and he picked up the stone with a bitter face and hurried away.
"The Maharaja ......" Yiqu Yu was carefully admiring the chain mail that he had never seen before in the carriage, and a guard on his side suddenly pointed forward, in order to compete for the already small amount of loot, the two tribes had already fought.
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After walking in the dense forest for a while, Xiong Jing had to order the whole army to rest on the spot. This was extremely necessary, and he had to understand how many men, horses, and supplies he had at this time. The other thing is to understand how far you have come, where you are at the moment, and finally to deal with the wounded. The two servants are actually Zhan Li's deputies, one is called Tu and the other is called Weak.
"Count each pawn." After several deliberations, the final establishment of the cavalry of the Chu army was five cavalry and one commander, six commanders and one pawn (30 cavalry), six teams and one brigade (180 cavalry), and six brigades and one division (1080 cavalry). This time, there were a total of nine light cavalry, four heavy cavalry, and ten cavalry who did not participate in the battle, only protecting the safety of Xiong Jing. After the number of each pawn was reported, Fei Jing's face was very ugly.
"What about the casualties?" Xiong Jing knows the reason, and there are casualties when there is a battle.
"Fifty-six wounded. Death," Fu Jing endured for a moment before saying, "Seventeen people died." ”
"The dead are immortal." Xiong Jing sighed in his heart and said.
"The king......" Fei Jing wanted to say something but wanted to say something, at this time, there was a muffled snort of the injured not far away, and a faint voice shouted: "The king, the king, the king......"
"Not here, not here." Xiong Jing walked past. A heavily armored knight leaned against a pine tree, with a crossbow bolt stuck in his neck, deep enough for the healer to pull out. Seeing Xiong Jinglai, his blood-coagled hand stretched out in front of him, and he wanted to get up but couldn't get up.
"Gong Yin can be killed!" Seeing this, Xiong Jing first scolded angrily, and the arrow in the neck was a design flaw in chain mail: there was no hood. Gong Yin can be killed, he himself is even more hateful, the last time he inspected Jutie Mansion, he was there to see the princess and look at the beauty, but he didn't find this major flaw.
scolded Cheng Yin and his own Xiong Jing knelt down on one knee in front of the injured man, looked at him and said, "Xiong Jing is here, Xiong Jing is here......"
"My father, my father, my father......" the armorer groaned in pain, because of the arrow in the neck, he seemed to be able to make only two bytes of sound, and he could not say a word.
"Great King," after Xiong Jing, one of the soldiers of the same pawn whispered: "Shouyan, the son of Shouling Jun." ”
The knights of the Chu army are no longer the knights of the past, they are all children of the Qing clan, and only they can have the money to raise horses to practice riding. As soon as he said that this person said that he was the son of Shouling Jun, Xiong Jing's head was slammed, and he was speechless. At this time, Shou Yan was speechless, his throat gurgled, and blood overflowed from his mouth.
"The King." The doctor suddenly had to shake his head when he saw this, Shou Yan was about to die.
"Although your father is wrong, he is the minister of the society, the minister of the society!" Xiong's eyes were a little moist. He killed his father with his own hands, and after he was hit by an arrow in the battle, he held his breath and dragged it until now, thinking naturally of begging himself to pardon the entire Shou clan.
In fact, after knowing Shou Lingjun's calculations, Xiong Jing no longer resented him in his heart. It is difficult for Yan Zi not to die, and it is difficult for him to give up a monarch and protect the Sheji of Chu State, which is the practice of the ministers of Sheji. They are not loyal to the king, but only to the community. In the same way, why is it difficult for Li Guang to be sealed, because he is from the Han Dynasty; Why did Putin reuse the Mongols, because they dared to kill the Russians.
"Don't forgive their sins, don't forgive their sins!" Xiong Jing shouted, but unfortunately Shou Yan couldn't hear it at this time.
"Your Majesty, please mourn." Right Shi is behind Xiong Jing, and he can best understand Xiong Jing's mood.
"Your Majesty, please mourn." Following the right history, the knights all turned to Xiongjing.
"If you don't die, the state of Chu will die!" Xiong Jing suddenly turned to look at everyone. "Bu Yu has never thought that the Chu State is not private, and the Chu State is shared by the royal family, the public clan and all the brave and trustworthy people of the Chu State. Shoulingjun is not Yang Wenjun, Shoulingjun thinks that if he does not enter Qin, the king of Qin will give up, which is a big mistake! King Zhao of Qin wanted to destroy the six kingdoms and go down in one day, and what he wanted was that there was only one country left in the world and set himself up as the emperor. If it does not exist, it will stop its wish! ”
Xiong Jing's words were very short, without any sensational words, just to tell these children of the clan in vain. After he finished speaking, Concubine Jing, who was the first to react, said: "Concubine Jing is willing to be loyal to the king!" Swear to stop the tyranny of Qin and preserve the state of Chu,"
"Chen Xiangchao\Qu Xi...... Be loyal to the King! Swore to stop the tyranny of Qin and preserve the state of Chu. Xiang Chao, these generals, immediately followed the interface.
"Chen Chengkui \ Quan Feng \ Jingsheng \ Shangguan Leopard \ Zhao Catfish ...... Be loyal to the King! Swore to stop the tyranny of Qin and preserve the state of Chu. "Voice after voice, including those who were wounded, each of these three hundred and eighty-two knights was not a courtesy, but a genuine willingness. They are willing to fight for Xiongjing, willing to die for Xiongjing, just for ...... Save the state of Chu.
"King, the letter has been written, whether it is ......" Zuo Shi came. He held in his hand a pigeon, its feathers painted red, and a delicate bamboo tube tied to its brown feet, which contained a secret letter informing him of the situation. If it goes well, the pigeon will be able to fly to the palace of Yingdu tomorrow.