Chapter 875: King Xiang is trapped
The 12,000 cavalry behind quickly followed, but the Han infantry could not dodge and fell into the pursuit of the Chu cavalry, and the situation deteriorated rapidly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Xiang Yu was overjoyed when he saw the situation, waved the golden gun, chased and killed the horse quickly, and the morale of the Chu army was greatly boosted; It turns out that the so-called Aquarius Great Array, but that's it! Still can't stop my Chu army's divine soldiers from falling from the sky. The formation suddenly changed again, and Han Xin was in the second echelon, suddenly making a big move and beating the drum again; The cavalry of the Han army, which had originally fled frantically, swept back, and this time the Han cavalry began to charge towards the Chu army at full speed, waving their spears, as if they had changed people. Chu Jun was a little puzzled, didn't these guys run away just now? Why did you kill it again? Aren't you afraid of death? On the contrary, the Han army was using infantry to block the sharp spirit of the Chu cavalry, and then using the cavalry to save the infantry under the butcher's knife of the Chu cavalry, covering the retreat of the infantry, so as to achieve alternate fire cover. This method of warfare, although the sacrifice is heavy, but it is the best way for the Han army to break the iron formation of the Chu cavalry, a generation of war gods is a generation of war gods, Han Xin's wisdom is beyond the expectations of the overlord Xiang Yu. The cavalry of the Chu army let go of the Han infantry phalanx and continued to rush forward to meet the Han cavalry formation. In the rear, the infantry formation of the Chu army accelerated and suppressed it, catching the first phalanx of the Han infantry to fight. There are about 40,000 infantry left in the Han army, and these infantry are also the elite troops in the Han army, and the 40,000 infantry of the Chu army are fighting against each other.
The cavalry of the Chu army met the cavalry of the Han army, because the two sides had adapted to the rhythm of the other party, this formation was originally very close, so the cavalry and archery advantage of the Chu army could not be brought into play, and it could only be fought at close range with the war knife, halberd and short arrow in hand, although the cavalry of the Han army had a numerical advantage, but the knife of the Chu army was too strong, the two sides fell into a melee, and only killed for about an hour, the cavalry of the Han army was impulsed again, and the overlord Xiang Yu personally led a team of 1,000 people to kill the Han cavalry phalanx, straight through the encirclement! In this array, only the overlord single-handedly picked up more than 300 Han troops, and the Han cavalry suffered heavy losses, lost more than 10,000 corpses, and continued to rout to the rear!
The first infantry echelon behind fought with the infantry of the Chu army, the scene was fierce, 40,000 Han troops against 40,000 Chu troops, the Chu army had the advantage of momentum, and the Han army only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back. However, the problem arose, the Chu infantry was stopped by the Han infantry and could not move forward quickly, and gradually the distance between them and the cavalry became farther and farther away.
Overlord Xiang Yu drove the cavalry to chase and kill, trying to destroy the remaining 30,000 cavalry of the Han army in one go, at this time Han Xin was near the second infantry echelon, and once again Mingjin collected the troops, the Han cavalry was relieved, turned around and ran, and the soldiers rushed to retreat near their second infantry echelon. After ordering the troops to mingjin, Han Xin continued to retreat with the Han king, handing over the second battlefield directly to the generals.
The strange thing is that after the Han cavalry passed directly through this second infantry echelon, the infantry echelon did not intercept the Chu cavalry, but quickly dispersed to both sides under the cover of shields, and directly gave the super passage about 300 meters wide in the middle to the Chu army iron cavalry. Xiang Yu commanded the brigade and swooped straight into the tail wing of the Han cavalry like a flying arrow, and it was about to catch up. At this time, the second echelon of infantry came over again, the shield soldiers were closed, and the archers released arrows behind their backs, harassing the Chu army from the belly and back, and the Chu army could not turn back, but could only accelerate forward and charge towards the position of the third echelon of the Han army. At this time, the second echelon of the Han army was divided into two halves, half continued to use shields and bows and arrows to block the cavalry phalanx of the Chu army, but the other half turned around to support the first infantry echelon, forming an encirclement of the Chu infantry. This was Han Xin's real goal - to divide and surround the cavalry and infantry of the Chu army, lure the Chu cavalry to go deeper, and then encircle and annihilate the infantry brigade of the Chu army in the square.
When Xiang Yu led the cavalry to pursue to the third infantry echelon, the Han cavalry still did not engage and retreated directly; And the infantry phalanx of 50,000 people still flashed directly to both sides and put the Chu cavalry over. Then continue to close in the center of the battlefield, the shield soldiers build a steel wall, and the archers and spearmen block the Chu cavalry that tries to turn around, and release the Chu cavalry to the last group of infantry echelons. The Han army in the fourth infantry echelon was particularly large - about 70,000 men, and the thickness of the echelon was completely different from that of the infantry in front. This echelon, the equipment of the Han army has also changed, all of them are ironclad vehicles and infantry halberds, and the cavalry of the Han army retreated here, and they no longer retreated, Han Xin and Liu Bang stood on the largest ironclad chariot in the center, waving flags and flying white clouds, Han Xin actually stood on the ironclad chariot and personally beat the drum and cheered. This is clearly luring Xiang Yu to find the Han army for a decisive battle.
The problem came out - Xiang Yu's cavalry of more than 15,000 people had fallen into the third and fourth echelons of the Han army, and there were more than 30,000 Han cavalry swimming around, with a total of about 150,000 troops, surrounding Xiang Yu's core cavalry troops. The infantry brigade of the Chu army was intercepted and killed by the first and second echelons of the Han army, and the Han army of about 80,000 people did not give an inch, and it was difficult to distinguish from the infantry team of the Chu army. The commander of the infantry of the Chu army was Heng Chu, who was originally the proud son of Xiang Yu's eight thousand disciples, with outstanding martial arts and a flexible mind, and was later transferred to the commander of the infantry.