Chapter 53: Xiang Yu's Broken Camp (3)
At the same time as more than 5,000 crossbow arrows of the Qin army were fired, more than 3,000 fire meteors rose from the fan-shaped array of the galloping Jiangdong Iron Cavalry, like ignited fire clouds floating in the dark night sky, crossing a beautiful curve and falling down towards the Qin army camp.
The black light and the clouds of fire staggered, colliding with brilliant sparks, igniting the night sky, and then the black and red colors crossed over, roaring towards their respective targets.
The standard armament of the Eight Thousand Koto Iron Cavalry was one spear per person. The reason is because of the "10,000 enemies" in Xiang Yu's hands. Therefore, the eight thousand Jiangdong iron horsemen have learned spears in all their ways.
Later, Xiang Yu simply equipped everyone with a spear, which was regarded as the standard equipment of the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry. As for the shield Xiang Liang, he has been working hard to make it, and now the Eight Thousand Jiangdong Iron Cavalry is only partially equipped.
And the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry, which was equipped with a small number of shields, happened to be among the three thousand Iron Cavalry that followed Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu's fan-shaped dispersed array greatly weakened the power of the Qin army's strong crossbows, and more than 5,000 strong crossbows were fired intensively, many of which were shot in the air, plus the Jiangdong iron cavalry danced spears to block, plus hundreds of Xiang Yu's personal guards with small shields, the casualties were greatly reduced.
More than 5,000 crossbow arrows only caused less than 1,000 casualties among the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry.
However, in addition to setting fire to dozens of camp tents and fences at the camp walls, Xiang Yu's more than 3,000 rockets also suffered thousands of casualties on the Qin army, which was equipped with a large number of shields, because the Qin army was too dense.
Xiang Yu's black horse was very fast, so it was far ahead of the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry behind him, and Daqin's crossbow arrows were basically aimed at the large number of Jiangdong Iron Cavalry behind, so there was no threat to him.
Behind him, the continuous sound of falling horses and war horses made Xiang Yu's eyebrows beat non-stop, and every death of a Jiangdong iron cavalry meant that there was one less of the eight thousand Jiangdong disciples.
But Xiang Yu knew that he couldn't stop at this time, and if he stopped, more Jiangdong Iron Riders would die here.
The black horse quickly jumped over one trench after another, and quickly approached the Qin army camp.
"Archer! Shoot me! ”
Xiang Yu's solo ride in front of him was very eye-catching, his angry eyes and surging murderous aura made He Qing, who was across the camp wall, suddenly feel as if he was facing thousands of troops and horses, and he was cold all over his body.
He Qing pointed to Xiang Yu who was rushing and ordered loudly, he could see that Xiang Yu was the commander of the three thousand iron horsemen.
One by one, the feather arrows flew towards Xiang Yu, but they were all easily blocked by Xiang Yu, getting closer and closer to the camp.
The death of more than a thousand companions did not make Xiang Yu's Jiangdong Iron Cavalry, which is now less than two thousand, frightened, but even more aroused the hatred in their hearts, desperately whipping the war horse under their crotch and eager to fly to the camp immediately to slash the Qin army!
"Open it for me! Open! Open! ”
Xiang Yu had already approached the fence camp wall of the East Camp at this moment, his tongue was like thunder, and with three bursts of the word "open", the "ten thousand enemies" in his hand were slashed down towards the wooden camp wall.
A series of "Click! ...... "Click!" Sawdust flying!
The "Ten Thousand Enemies" made of more than 100 catties of fine iron easily tore and smashed the wooden fences as thick as calves, and instantly a one-zhang wide passage appeared in front of Xiang Yu.
The thousands of Qin troops in Great Qin looked at the sturdy knight who was more than a foot tall with a spear-like weapon with a strange shape and a thin arm, and in the blink of an eye, they tore the two layers of fences to pieces, and collectively lost their voices.
The same is true of humanoid beasts!
The Qin army lost his mind, but Xiang Yu did not stop, and rode his horse along the gap and rushed into the camp.
"Yikes!"
The three-zhang-long "Ten Thousand Enemies" were picked up horizontally by Xiang Yu, and smashed towards the Qin army who was blocking in front of him with a heavy sound of breaking the air.
The "bang, bang, bang" series of muffled sounds were followed by the sound of broken bones.
The chests of the five Qin soldiers standing together at the front were deeply sunken, spitting out dirty blood with broken internal organs, and they were killed on the spot before they could even let out a miserable scream.
The powerful force smashed these five soldiers into the Qin army behind them, and the Qin army who was hit all broke their bones and tendons, screamed again and again, and fell to the ground, and the formation in front of the Qin army was suddenly chaotic.
Although the Qin army who reacted was worried in his heart, he still shouted one after another and rushed up. He Qing rushed up towards Xiang Yu first.
From He Qing's outfit, Xiang Yu easily recognized that this was a general, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and the spear in his hand gently stabbed a close Qin army, and smashed towards He Qing with a puddle of blood.
He Qing quickly flashed the corpses of the Qin soldiers who flew over, and suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Xiang Yu who was sitting on the black horse.
Xiang Yu swiped the 10,000 enemies in his hand, which was more than three feet long, and the sharp spears of the 10,000 enemies tore the armor on the Qin soldiers who had been pasted up as easily as a slash, bringing up pieces of blood to cut their bodies.
As the spear slashed, more than a dozen Qin soldiers who had been pasted up fell to the ground with their disembowelments, and a thick bloody aura suddenly permeated the camp.
He Qing had already arrived in front of Xiang Yu, taking advantage of the situation to split Huashan with force, grabbing the long sword in his hand with both hands, and slashing towards the top of Xiang Yu's head, wanting to directly split Xiang Yu and his horse in half.
Xiang Yu picked up the spear in his hand and slammed into the falling sword.
Swords and guns intersect and sparks fly!
The "sonorous" sound that made the roots of people's teeth sour and soft staggered, and the strong impact force made the black horse under Xiang Yu's crotch couldn't help but take two steps back, Xiang Yu didn't move at all, but He Qing was thrown back by this force.
But Xiang Yu obviously didn't want to let He Qing go like this, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and he followed closely for two steps, and the spear in his hand shot out.
The sharp spear head with barbs in Xiang Yu's eyes in He Qing's eyes became bigger and bigger, and his face showed a look of despair.
"Poof!"
Blood splattered, and He Qing, who was still in the air, was pierced through his chest by Xiang Yu's spear.
"Hahahaha!"
Xiang Yu held up the 10,000 enemies who still had He Qing's body hanging in one hand and laughed loudly!
Thick blood slid down the spear and dripped to the ground!
Everything happens between the lights and the fire.
The Qin army in the camp looked at Xiang Yu who was laughing wildly in a daze, and took a step back in unison!
"Kill!"
A low-level general who looked like a hundred generals burst into shouts and rushed up again. This "kill" suddenly woke up the thousands of Qin soldiers who were still in shock, and immediately rushed up to kill in unison with a shout.
There are very few examples of the Qin army collapsing in battle, let alone the death of He Qing is just a Qu Hou. Throughout the battles of Great Qin since the founding of the state, there are even very few precedents for soldiers to surrender, and even very few prisoners.
The Qin army was defeated, and the soldiers were either killed on the spot, or they committed suicide and martyrdom!
Of course, the 200,000 prisoners who surrendered to Xiang Yu in Julu in later generations are not counted, because they are all prisoners into an army, and they cannot be counted as the real regular army of Great Qin, and at that time, all the 100,000 soldiers in Wang Li's headquarters have been killed.
Xiang Yu turned his hand and threw He Qing, who was hanging on top of the 10,000 enemies, into the array of Qin troops who rushed over, and rode alone to meet him.
Chopping, chopping, picking, and poking, a shot of more than three zhang long 10,000 enemies in Xiang Yu's hands used superbly, from time to time Qin soldiers were picked and smashed to the ground, and many Qin soldiers couldn't get close to him for a while.
"Click!"
A loud bang sounded, and the camp wall of Dongying was torn apart by more than 100 Jiangdong iron horsemen with ropes.
More than 2,000 Jiangdong iron horsemen, who had been waiting for a long time, roared and rushed into the camp with the spears in their hands.
Because Xiang Yu, who was the first to rush into the camp, attracted the attention of most of the Qin army, and He Qing was killed by Xiang Yu in two shots, the more than 2,000 Jiangdong iron cavalry basically did not encounter a threatening blow from the Qin army.
Although the Qin army had archers, it was obvious that they relied too much on the powerful, long-range, and easy-to-use Qin crossbows, which invisibly weakened the role of the Qin army's archers, so there were not many archers in the army.
Hearing the sound of the fence tearing, there were immediately low-level generals leading their soldiers to take the initiative to meet them, and the Great Qin soldiers were no strangers to the cavalry battle, although there was no command of the senior generals for a while.
The formation of more than 2,000 Great Qin soldiers who met more than 2,000 Jiangdong Iron Cavalry collided with Jiangdong Iron Cavalry in an instant.
The strong impact of the cavalry was vividly displayed at this moment. If someone could look from the sky to the ground at this moment, they would find that the originally meticulous Qin army's infantry phalanx was like a sponge that was fiercely sunken in at the moment when the two armies collided.
The Jiangdong Iron Cavalry used the twenty-eight cavalry that had been following Xiang Yu as arrows, deeply inserted into the phalanx of the Qin army's infantry, and gradually expanded the scope of the tear.
In the contact battle between the infantry and the cavalry, the spear made of imitation Xiang Yu ridden by the Jiangdong Iron Rider showed his incomparable power when it appeared on the battlefield for the first time.
The advantages of one inch long and one inch strong are undoubtedly revealed. In the moment of collision, many Qin troops did not come into contact with the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry at all, and were pierced by the spears of the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry that were more than three feet long and fell to the ground.
The Jiangdong Iron Cavalry broke into the Qin army's formation, and the rear army automatically formed a cavalry formation again, tearing a hole again from the gap that had broken through before, and quickly chiseled through the Qin army's infantry phalanx.
Soon, the infantry phalanx composed of more than 2,000 people was divided into three sections, and gradually expanding the results of the battle, quickly advancing towards Xiang Yu, who was surrounded by heavy Qin troops on the other side and was still rushing left and right.
Although the phalanx of the Qin army's infantry was divided into three sections by the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry, it still firmly dragged the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry forward. The infantry of the Qin army, who could not touch Xiang Yu in the sweeping array on the side, suddenly formed another phalanx and met the Jiangdong Iron Cavalry that was about to burst out.
Xiang Yu also found out at this moment that his Jiangdong Iron Cavalry had entered the camp of the Qin army, and had just had a brief confrontation with the Qin army, although he had killed at least hundreds of Qin troops, but the Qin army was still not afraid of death, so he couldn't help but admire.
He knew very well that if the cavalry fell into the Qin army's infantry phalanx, then in the face of the Qin army twice his size, the Jiangdong iron cavalry, which had lost the advantage of cavalry's rapid mobility, could only end up dying in the thousands of Qin army's infantry phalanx.
Thinking of this, Xiang Yu rode his horse and began to rush in the direction of Jiangdong's iron cavalry.
(To be continued)