Once the sun sets, the temperature rises to more than 30 degrees below zero. However, it is the wind that is colder than the snow and ice, and even at noon, when the wind speed reaches level 6 (10-13 m/s), the naked skin will be as cold as -38 degrees Celsius. The temperature is minus 30 degrees, and once the sun sets, the north wind becomes more and more fierce, and the wind speed becomes faster and faster.

It was just two light winds before sunset, and the cheeks and fingers of the Qin soldiers who had no first clothes and no hand clothes were already cold to minus forty-six degrees, and the Qin soldiers who were arrayed at the northernmost point would suffer frostbite as long as they showed their faces, and their fingers without wrapping were almost all stiff and would break at any time. When the wind speed gradually increases, from two light winds to four winds, the exposed skin instantly cools to more than minus 50 degrees, the skin freezes and cracks, and the frozen fingers will be broken with a little force, and the copper spear stained with blood clotting falls under the feet.

It is a pity that the Qin army array is not a north-south horizontal array, but an east-west vertical array. The northernmost soldiers with bare skin and fingers had their cheeks frozen and cracked, and the vast majority of the soldiers in the northernmost south did not feel the low temperature of minus 50 or 60 degrees Celsius because of the cover of their comrades, but they only felt that the weather was getting colder and colder, and the wind was getting colder and colder, and they were more concerned about the enemy array that was trapped and fighting on the opposite side.

At this time, all the allied divisions and brigades subordinate to You Que were engaged in battle, and the array that was about to collapse was stabilized with spears that could not kill the enemy. The artillery exploded as soon as the cannon was fired, and the remaining hundreds of thunder bombs and more propellant packets were brought to the battlefield by the artillery guards, who threw the thunder bombs or medicine packs at the Qin army after ignition, and some of the artillery soldiers even rushed into the Qin army's array with dozens of medicine packs on their backs, and ignited them in the shout.

All this for the sake of getting dark. The coalition generals fought hard to push the tide of the battle into the night. However, this is not for the sake of victory. Any reasonable general knows very well that the coalition army has failed, and the thin array that is barely maintained is only a few lines and a dozen steps, relying on the support of You Que and the sacrifice of the artillery soldiers to not be broken by the Qin people. Most of the soldiers were killed, and the few who remained could not turn the tide of the battle.

Zhuang Wudi, who had done what he should have done, was relieved, and the military Sima once again rushed to the shogunate to discuss countermeasures. At this moment, the shout of 'King Jing has died' came from the rear of the Qin army's array, and with the last afterglow, the huge phoenix flag was spread horizontally in the north wind, and several of its heads were raised high by the chief spear, and the blood at the neck was frozen before it coagulated, showing a strange bright red.

"Da Ao?!" 、

"It's the King of Chu......"

In the snow and dust, the allied soldiers couldn't see the face of the head clearly, but they could see the three-headed phoenix flag clearly. The flag is in the people, the flag is dead, the three-headed phoenix flag falls into the hands of the Qin people, and Da Ao is in the hands of the Qin army. The thin array shook continuously, and the Chu soldiers looked at the phoenix flag and let out a desperate cry, charging back towards the Qin army. Knowing that the defeat was decided, the Qi army, the Wei army, the Yue division, and the Lu division retreated sharply, and only the Zhao army led by Sima Mao rushed back to the Qin army with the same hatred as the Chu division.

The sound of explosions resumed, and the sound of explosions was accompanied by a terrible military report. Sima of the divisions, who were discussing how to withdraw their troops from the shogunate, heard the shouts of 'the army has been defeated' from afar. The faces of the people changed greatly, and they were struggling to hold on until now just to wait for the night to fall, and the whole army might take advantage of the night to retreat, but they did not expect the army formation to collapse before the night came.

"Report ——!" The scout who was the first to rush to the shogunate shouted with a cry: "The Qin people have captured the banner of Da Ao, saying that Da Ao has been defeated, and our army has been defeated!" ”

"The Banner of Da Ao?" Zhuang Wudi stood up excitedly, he rushed out of the black curtain, and the rest of Sima followed out of the tent.

Taking advantage of the last few rays of light between heaven and earth, Zhuang Wudi saw that the battle line hundreds of steps away was fighting and some were retreating, and in the snow and dust, Qin rode through the broken front and chased after those fleeing soldiers. The phoenix flag was held by the cavalry of the Qin army and floated back and forth behind the battle line. The moment he saw the flag, his body was weak and he almost fell to his knees, and the rest of the Sima eyes were cracked, some people trembled, and more people cried. Only one of the armor soldiers beside Peng Zong shouted with tears: "Faith! I believe in it! ”

"Report ——!" The guards knight with the frost and snow finally rushed back to his own shogunate from the Qin army shogunate, and he rushed to the nearest place before he suppressed his voice and said: "Da Ao has been hit by an arrow, and he has arrived at the big camp medical camp. ”

"Ah......h Brother Wang......"

"It's ......," the knight surprised. He heard the voice, and no one expected that Xiong Han, who was obviously in Xinying, would appear in the army again.

"Brother Wang was hit by an arrow, is Brother Wang safe?" Xiong was anxious. The older he gets, the more things he knows. The ego and pride of the young man made him extremely ashamed of the farce of his childhood accession to the throne, and he was desperate to wash away this humiliation with the blood of his enemies and even his own. This battle he achieved his long-held ideal, but he didn't expect it to be a defeat.

Xiong Han was anxious, Zhuang Wudi and these Simas were also anxious, and the knight replied helplessly: "Doctor Yin Yan, it is uncertain." ”

In the past 12 years, Xiong Jing has been blessed by God many times, and he has never been seriously injured and uncertain. Coupled with the protection of the knight of the guard and the sturdiness of the armor, all but that fracture were all minor injuries. The arrow was seriously injured and uncertain, and Zhuang Wudi instantly thought of the crossbow. Ou Chou once said that the only thing that the Qin army could hurt Da Ao was the thorn crossbow and trebuchet. The middle arrow must be a crossbow arrow, thinking that the crossbow that was nearly a foot long passed through Xiong Jing's body, he shook it a few times, and he could no longer hold it and fall down.

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Night has come, and the Liang Wangcheng is sleeping with candles. In the days when the snow stopped, Zhao Qian, who was staying in the Chu army camp, quickly moved back to Daliang after the Qin army retreated. The northern city had been burned, and he could only live in the southern city temporarily. The decisive battle that decided the fate of Wei and Zhao began at noon, and the feast in the main bed also began at noon.

Although Zhao Qian went to the banquet, he mourned the fall of his mother, and did not eat or drink until he heard that the Wei soldiers on the city wall had announced that the Qin army would be defeated and retreated by the coalition forces as soon as the war began, and then he began to enjoy the banquet. Later, when Chu Qi broke the formation and the Qin army roared, Da Yue couldn't help but drink wine. The battle reports kept coming, and the tide of the battle suddenly reversed in the last hour, he was shocked, but Wei Zeng did not move, not only did he drink correctly, but also summoned the servants to advocate excellence, play music and dance.

Half an hour after nightfall, the battle report was never heard again. opened his mouth to ask Wei Xi, and Wei Xi said that the war did not end, and there was no winner or loser. Such an answer made Zhao Qian's heart settle down, but Wei Zeng laughed, and he said loudly: "It's a pity that my first monarch Wuhou didn't listen to Uncle Acne's words and didn't kill Wei Ying." Wu Hou is a gentleman's heart and does not know the belly of the villain, only knows that Wei Ying has no talent, and does not know that Wei Ying has no virtue, otherwise, how can Wei Ang be bullied? ”

In the end, Wei was once a great power that dominated the world, and compared with Zhao, a second-rate power that never dominated the Central Plains, it had a hegemonic demeanor. The death of the country may be imminent, but remembering that Wei Da, who has been there for more than a hundred years, speaks loudly, and the king's anger is compelling.

"Yes, yes." Zhao Qian, the king of Zhao, didn't know how to answer, and Zhao Han, the king of the new Xiangbang Plains, said with a smile: "If the Wei State does not move to Daliang, how can the Qin people get the land west of the river?" The Kwantung region was light on Qin, and the conquests of various countries did not stop, so that the Qin people had an opportunity. The Koreans bribed Qin several times, and Qin could not stop the profits, so he was born and merged with the heart of the world and swallowed the ambition of the six countries. ”

"Qin has Hangu, and there are no other countries." The Xiangbang of Wei is still Cai Wen, the prince of Xia Cai County, and he has his own views on the reason why the Qin people are big. "In the past, our Chu army invaded Lantian, if it weren't for Han Wei being bullied by the Qin people at that time, how could the Qin people be today?"

"Chu and Qin have been married for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that the Chu State had always been pro-Qin, the Qin people would not be where they are today. Wei Zeng drank a lot of wine, and he didn't see Wei Jian's stop at all, so he said to himself.

"The pro-Qin of the Chu State was before the Qin people built the city, not after." Cai Wendao. "At that time, the whole world was already afraid of Qin, what could the state of Chu do?"

"Xiangbang's words are reasonable." Wei Jian said with a wry smile. Needless to say, if this battle is defeated, if it is won, the state of Chu will be the overlord of the world and cannot be offended. "Although King Huai has great ambitions, he believes in Qin deeply, and he will end up in Qin. Only Da Ao knows that the Qin people have the heart of a tiger and a wolf, and the ambition of the world, and they will not stop cutting Qin. If the nations exist, so will this great achievement. ”

"Alas!" Cai Wen couldn't help but sigh when he heard this. As an old man, he originally did not support Xiong Jing's strategy of fighting with Qin, but Xiong Jing did not die several times, and Chu and Qin could not return, so he could only comply with the trend of cutting Qin. There is nothing to say if the decisive battle is won, if the decisive battle is lost, he can't say that he hates Xiong Jing, at least he has to complain about Xiong Jing.

If it weren't for his brave and sharp spirit of young people, who repeatedly did not make good friends with the Qin people, how could the Chu State have died early? The theory of Qin's annexation of the world has been around for decades, but so what? The state of Chu moved eastward for decades, and it still sacrificed endlessly. The world is so big, how can the Qin people swallow it and die if they say it's dead. With Qin, smelting iron, casting cannons, and spear arrays can be done in the shadows, and it is not too late for him to destroy Chu if he really wants to destroy Chu in the future, so why rush to the forefront at the beginning......

Cai Wen sighed, sighing because of complaining. After complaining, he felt that it was unjust for him to think like this. Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin, was young and vigorous, and he was also the king of bravery, and it was impossible for him not to want to dominate the world. And the things of Chu seem to be feasible, but in fact they are not feasible. Even if the Chu army has huge armor, artillery, and razor spears at that time, the domestic county divisions will not listen to the dispatch of the Great Sima Mansion.

No one can do it better than Da Ao. Cai Wen's heart was full of emotion, and he sighed heavily when he thought of this. Cai Wen sighed twice in a row, everyone was unknown, so it was inconvenient to speak, and there was only faint music in the main bed. At this time, someone outside the dormitory hurriedly climbed the steps, and as soon as he pushed the chill outside the door, he rushed straight in, "Your lord, the coalition army is defeated!" ”

The people who came were covered in frost, and a word made everyone in the hall fall into an ice cave. Wei Zeng, who was fighting with his teeth, could not restrain his trembling, and the whistling of the war horse came from the bottom of the steps, and the voice came from the bottom of the steps: "I am ordered by Sima of the Chu Army to see the king......"

"Your lord, the coalition is defeated!" Rushing up was a Chu army official, who was still wearing huge armor, his head covered his head, and only a pair of eager eyes were exposed. "The military commander ordered the minister to tell the king: Those who want to come to Xinying must go out of the city at night within an hour, and it will be too late."

"Huh?!" Wei Zeng, who had already gotten up, collapsed again, he didn't expect to lose so badly. He didn't answer, and the military official said: "The people who have fled from all countries are in Chu at this time, and if the Qin people go straight into Chu, they will be captured by the Qin people." Therefore, the military Sima said that the Wei State must defend the Great Liang until the spring, and only in this way can those who avoid relocation leave Chu to Xinying. ”

"How is the Chu army? How is the King of Chu? Wei Jianwu finally asked, this is what he and everyone are most concerned about.

"The coalition forces may have retreated into the camp, and Da Ao has not returned from the battle, and the ministers don't know." The military officer left the shogunate before the sun set, and when he left, the Qin cavalry had already covered the battlefield. This is the only way to say what the minister said. In the past, Da Ao once said that Qin and the world will capture the concubines and princesses of various countries, kill the nobles of the public offices of various countries, and move the rich and heroic heroes of the world, and the king must not be lucky. ”

Before he was still playing music and laughing, but for a moment he was facing life and death. Wei Zeng, the king of Wei who was helped up, couldn't help but tremble, the heroic spirit just now was gone, and he didn't know how to choose at this critical moment.

*

When Daliang was sleeping, singing, dancing and drinking, Shouying Dasima Mansion had been able to receive battlefield information, and the north wind intensified more than half an hour before the sun set, and the snow and dust blowing along the Feixun line blocked the view, and the contact was interrupted. There are only two of the Qin army's five army formations left, and the losses are not unheavy, but after all, the Qin army has 500,000 people, and the loss of 500,000 people and 300,000 people is still more than that of the coalition army, and the victory or defeat is still unknown.

With such a cautious attitude, Nao and the others can only wait with peace of mind. There is also pigeon news when the flight is interrupted, and the sand sea is less than a thousand miles away from Shouying, and the news pigeon can fly in an hour or two. In the second spring, with the sound of hurried footsteps outside, the pigeon news that the two were waiting for finally arrived. What caught the eyes of the two of them was Yin Qule, the secretary of the Communications Department, who had no joy on his face and his eyes wandering.

Nao's heart tightened and he hurriedly asked, "What is the war?" ”

Qu Le's lips opened and he spoke in a voice that did not belong to him: "The state of Chu will never die!" ”

"Huh?!" Nao was sly in amazement, the teacup he was holding fell and shattered, and the room was full of the aftermath of broken porcelain. After a while, when Nao cunning frowned, Li Ji asked, "How is Da Ao?" ”

"Da Ao, Da Ao......" Qu Le was chilled when he saw the pigeon news, but he couldn't react in fear. At this time, seeing Nao Cunning and Li Ji crying, he whined: "Da Ao is seriously injured, and he will also be killed." ”

"Ahh Hearing that he was defeated and cunning, he was forced to calm down, and when he heard Xiong Jing's general, he couldn't calm down anymore. ran over and snatched the news from Qu Le's hand. Qu Le cried bitterly and said: "The huge armor and iron are too cold and brittle like tiles, the Qin people killed me with copper spears, and most of the generals of the whole army were killed in battle. The remnants of the army retreated into the camp, and the Qin people quickly attacked the camp, and the whole army surrounded me! ”

"The Qin people surrounded me, how did Da Ao get out of danger and go to Xinying?!" Qu Le cried bitterly, and Li He couldn't help crying. He can accept defeat, but he must not accept Xiongjing's death.

"Alas!" Nao slyly cheered up and finished reading the news. The news briefly mentioned the situation of the war and the current situation of the coalition forces, including the things that Qu Le had just said. Nao cunning really couldn't think of any other reason, the armor couldn't be used because of the cold, the artillery exploded due to the cold, the anger and sadness in his heart had nowhere to vent, and the last punch hit him in the chest, he raised his head and shouted angrily: "This day is dead!" ”

Li He had already wiped away his tears, looking at the extremely sad and grief-stricken Nao cunning, he shook his head vigorously: "Fu Xin! The state of Chu will never die. ”

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