Chapter 58: The Death of the Nation (2)
Looking at the beast-like light in the eyes of countless Baiyue barbarians who were naked and shiny with black and oily upper bodies, Zhao Ben's face suddenly turned snow-white!
Zhao Ben didn't even dare to think about the results of these tens of thousands of Baiyue barbarians coming ashore.
"Shi Yong, you will lead 3,000 cavalry to block the rear attack, and you can't get half a step close to the battlefield!" Zhao Ben waved his hand and stopped, turned back to Shi Yong, who was following him, and said sharply.
"Whoa!"
Shi Yong, who was dressed in black armor and burly, heard the words and said solemnly! As he spoke, he turned his horse's head and ran back, and the three thousand elite horsemen immediately turned around and followed Shi Yong towards the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry led by Xiang Yu, who was galloping.
Five thousand Jiangdong iron horses against three thousand Great Qin Jing horses!
Zhao Ben didn't have time to pay attention to this showdown that was destined to be a collision between Mars and the Earth! With a roar, he took the remaining seven thousand Great Qin Essence Horsemen straight in the direction where Wang Li was.
At this time, he no longer had time to pass on the order to turn the more than 20,000 Qin troops who pressed Xiang Liang's army back and forth, first of all, he may not be able to pass the order over, and secondly, once the army turns, it will definitely give Xiang Liang's army a chance to breathe, and even attract the attention of the rebels!
And his goal of the 7,000 Qin army is much smaller, and it is obviously reasonable to go to the shore to resist the Baiyue barbarian army that is about to land!
The corpses everywhere on the road brought a lot of trouble to the charge of the Great Qin cavalry, and they couldn't raise the speed at all, so they could only trot to avoid the corpses on the ground, and even so, there were constantly war horses stumbling and falling to the ground along the way!
The Great Qin cavalry, which had always had the greatest advantage of galloping like the wind and strong cluster charges, was suddenly like a warrior with their hands tied, and the seven thousand Great Qin cavalry could not exert their due power at all.
The main body of Wang Li's 100,000 army is the original 100,000 guards who garrisoned Xianyang, and they can't do it like the Longxi border army.
However, if you lose the sharpest infantry phalanx, the skirmishers will be much inferior to the fierce Baiyue barbarians, these Great Qin elite cavalry!
So even so, Zhao Ben still did not give the order to abandon the horse and fight.
Although the corpses on the ground could not allow the cavalry to gallop, relying on the three-horse cone battle formation Zhao Ben, the elite cavalry of 7,000 people, was still constantly advancing, and the Baiyue barbarians on the road were killed on the spot!
Seeing that the dense tens of thousands of Baiyue barbarians were about to land, and at this time, Zhao Ben was at least a hundred steps away from Wang Li, and this short distance of 100 steps was at most the time for the cavalry to charge, but now it has become an insurmountable gap for Zhao Ben and others!
Not to mention the countless corpses scattered in this hundred paces distance, just the more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians who came up after discovering Zhao Ben's cavalry were not something that Zhao Ben and the others could chisel through in a short time!
What's more, now Zhao Ben and the others have lost the most important speed advantage of the cavalry!
"Crossbow!"
Zhao Ben shouted loudly with all his strength!
Immediately, he took the lead in shooting the strong crossbow in his hand at the tens of thousands of Yue barbarians who were already about to land!
From where Zhao Ben and the others were, it was two hundred steps away from the Huai River, and the range of the Great Qin Hand Crossbow was two hundred and fifty steps, and the effective killing distance of the Great Qin Crossbow was one hundred and fifty steps, and two hundred steps had already exceeded the effective killing distance of the Qin crossbow!
But the Baiyue Barbarian, who was wearing nothing on his upper body without any armor defense, was obviously not within the limit of this one hundred and fifty steps of effective killing! Despite the distance of more than two hundred steps, Zhao Ben still believed that the power of the thrown crossbow arrow could still easily tear apart the dark skin of the Baiyue Barbarian.
Unless their black skin is as tough as cowhide! That's obviously impossible!
Zhao Ben's first crossbow arrow was positioning, and the crossbow arrow that fell rapidly from the air was drilling into the shoulder bone of a Baiyue barbarian who had just climbed out of the water and stepped ashore, and it was deeply submerged into his body, leaving only an inch-long crossbow tail!
The Baiyue Barbarian, who had just stepped on the shore and didn't have time to get excited, only had time to let out a miserable cry before falling to the ground!
"Buzz!"
A dark cloud suddenly rose out from the sky above the Seven Thousand Great Qin Elite Horses, and the powerful crossbow arrows shook the air nearby, emitting a low but terrifying dark roar, and slammed straight into the Baiyue barbarians who had already stepped on the riverside tidal flats with their feet on the riverside!
Hearing the soul-hooking sound of countless crossbow arrows, Wu Rui and the others, who had just been overjoyed because they had finally successfully landed on the shore, were all stunned! Immediately, I saw the thousands of Yue barbarians who had just come ashore raise their heads, turn around, and plunge in, and the three actions were done in one go!
"Poof!" "Poof!" The sound is endless!
The water splashed everywhere, and thousands of Yue barbarians plunged into the river without hesitation, what a spectacular scene!
Wu Rui, Yingbu and the others were dumbfounded, and their faces were full of surprise! Could it be that the Baiyue ethnic groups still have this custom? Jump into the river first when you go ashore?
But immediately they knew why the Baiyue Barbarians were like this!
The low whistling sound had reached the top of the heads of the remaining two thousand Baiyue barbarians who had been preempted by the clansmen and did not jump into the river!
The small crossbow bolt easily tore through the dark skin of the Baiyue barbarian and burrowed into his body. Wu Rui, who was still on the boat, could even vaguely hear the palpitations of crossbow arrows tearing flesh and blood and penetrating bones!
The entire hundreds of feet long river bank was suddenly empty! Including the more than 100 rafts that were too close to the riverbank, the Baiyue barbarians were also swept away! The gurgling red blood has turned the river, which had become a little reddish due to the flow of the river, into a dark red again!
For the first time, Wu Rui really saw the power of Daqin's powerful crossbow, and the corpse mountain and sea of blood in front of him made him suddenly feel sick to his stomach!
Yingbu was also a little dumbfounded, and then jumped into the river one by one, shouting: "Kill! ”
The Baiyue barbarians who woke up stepped on the shore again and rushed up in a swarm!
On the shore, Zhao Ben's seven thousand Great Qin Jing cavalry shot the crossbow arrows and immediately rushed towards the more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians who came up, Zhao Ben took the lead, ignoring the dense corpses on the ground, and hit the war horse directly!
The Great Qin Jingqi behind Zhao Ben already knew what the purpose of these people was, because these Great Qin Jingcai, who were originally the Chinese army, did not know the Great General Wang Li.
And Zhao Ben, who is the main general, has obviously announced something to these Great Qin Jingqi in such a fighting style! Zhao Ben also knew that his elite riders must understand what they meant, and they must know how to choose!
It will be a soldier's courage! The more than 2,000 soldiers at the front of the Seven Thousand Great Qin Jing Cavalry showed ruthlessness on their faces, and their legs clamped the horse's belly with a whip and whipped it fiercely on the war horse, and they rushed out in an instant, and before they could hit the Baiyue Barbarians, at least a third of the Qin army had tripped and fell to the ground and fell off the war horse!
But the cavalry of the Qin army who fell down immediately drew the short sword in his waist and slaughtered it again!
The Baiyue barbarians who came up obviously didn't expect that the Qin army would use this method of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to their lives! The Baiyue Barbarians who rushed to the front were suddenly knocked down, and under the strong impact, they were obviously no longer alive!
Zhao Ben rolled off his horse, got up and swung his sword to cut down several Baiyue barbarians who were bullying in front of him, and when he looked back, the seven thousand Great Qin Jing Riders did not hesitate one after another, and the people and horses collided one by one!
A Qin army was pierced through the chest and abdomen by the Baiyue barbarian fishing fork, and he actually let the fishing fork pass through the chest and abdomen with the fishing fork, and then cut off the head of the Baiyue barbarian holding the fishing fork with a sword! This scene is playing out everywhere!
The Qin army, which landed and did not die, soon gathered hundreds of people around Zhao Ben!
The Qin army's desperate fighting decree, the fierce Baiyue barbarians, couldn't help but chill! Most of the Baiyue barbarians of more than 2,000 people were killed quickly, and the passage to Wang Li's thousands of Qin troops had been opened!
Less than sixty steps away from the king!
Wang Li also found the 10,000 elite horsemen of Zhao Ben who came to save him, and naturally desperately wanted to break out of the encirclement and join Zhao Ben's army, but Wang Li, who was surrounded by him, did not find it at all at this moment, and tens of thousands of hundreds of Yue barbarians landed on the north bank, which was also less than sixty steps away from his battlefield!
But between Wang Li and Zhao Ben, there are still more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians in the middle! And the Qin army beside Wang Li has a total of less than 2,000 people at this moment! Their battlefield is already littered with corpses that are entangled and killed!
Wang Li's more than 1,000 cavalry rushed left and right, and they couldn't spread out at all!
After a desperate fight of just a dozen breaths, the seven thousand elite horsemen under Zhao Ben's command have already killed nearly two thousand people, and there are less than five thousand people left!
The landing Baiyue barbarians are rapidly approaching the battlefield! Wang Li didn't know this, but Zhao Ben knew, and he also knew very well that Baiyue Barbarian would definitely be able to re-complete the encirclement of Wang Li in front of him in front of him judging from the current situation!
A hint of gloom flashed in Zhao Ben's eyes! It was then replaced by a fierce color!
"Kill!"
Zhao Ben roared and flew up with a short sword! Behind him, more than 5,000 soldiers of the Qin army either collided directly on their horses, or fell off their horses and got up to fight, gritting their teeth and hands, and blood flew sideways............ The third night of the fifth month of the first year of Great Qin II! Wucheng Hou, General Wang Li, Chinese Army General Zhao Ben, etc., and more than 50,000 generals and soldiers under their command fought to the death and did not retreat, all of them died on the north bank of the Huai River!
It is said that it was decreed by His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin as the "National Mourning"!
(To be continued)