Chapter 357: Traps

Xiang Yu is coming!

and successively broke through several defensive lines of the Qin army.

In the process of the Chu army going all out to launch an offensive, the response of the Qin army, on the whole, was very passive, which was very different from the military guiding ideology of "focusing on me and showing my advantage" that Li Yuan had always advocated. And in what way is it reflected?

The problem was in front of Li Yuan and the generals, the Chu army's wave of attack was like layers of waves, constantly impacting the Qin army's defense line, each time a layer was broken, the morale of the Chu army rose a few points, Xiang Yu raised his arms and shouted, shouting that the generals under his command would annihilate all the Qin people.

The Qin army was under the Great Order.

Li Yuan and Li Zuoche surrounded a simple sand table made of sand, and were deducing the changes in the current battle situation step by step, every time the Chu army took a step forward, the small red flag representing it would move a step, and the corresponding small black flag that was originally in that position would be removed.

A must-have for modern marching and fighting: the sand table.

Among the Qin army, it has been popularized to the first-level generals of the school captain, and resourceful generals like Li Zuoche are even more pleasantly surprised by the live broadcast of the sand table.

A good memory is better than a bad pen.

Sand, dirt, and small wooden poles were all things that could be seen everywhere, and the Qin army could restore the entire battlefield in a short period of time without even carrying them. Once you want to evacuate, you only need to let the soldiers have a few shovels to destroy the sand table so that you can't see anything.

"Wuhou, Xiang Chu has approached the fifth line of defense of our Chinese army, and the last general thinks that he can't wait any longer, if Xiang Ji goes crazy, our army will be irretrievable." After listening to several unfavorable military reports in a row, Li Zuoche couldn't sit still and said with a slightly nervous expression.

Li Yuan nodded, and said in a cold tone: "Our army on the southern front has now shrunk its strength. began to move closer to our Chinese army, in this way, Xiang Ji must speed up the speed and invest more troops to break through, and we will wait a little longer, and wait until all the elites of the Chu army have entered the encirclement, and then give heavy damage, and when the time comes, let Xiang Ji know that the ambush that fights my Daqin is not so easy to enter and exit. ”

This battle of the chasm.

Li Yuan's command and judgment skills are very mediocre, judging from the current course of the war. There are many similarities with the original Julu War, the command of the Qin army seems mechanical and dull, and lacks the decisiveness to adapt. But in fact, all these deceptions were just to deepen Xiang Yu's impression.

The most glorious apex of Xiang Yu's life was that when the princes were watching from the wall, he alone led the Chu army to defeat the more than 400,000 Qin troops led by Zhang Han.

This glory is like a shackle, so that Xiang Yu is immersed in it, and he can't get rid of it in his life. Psychologically analyzed. If the Qin army put on a battlefield posture similar to that of a giant deer on the battlefield, it was to lure Xiang Yu into the trap of force fighting. In order to deal with the onslaught of the Chu army, Li Yuan prepared a variety of counterattack means.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

The Chu army broke through the fourth and third lines of defense of the Qin army in three moments. The vanguard arrow was only a thousand zhang away from the Qin army, and at the same time, Li Zhongxiang, who had returned to the reinforcements, was launching a diversion attack on the rear flank of the Chu army, and the battle between Qin and Chu was going on here. It's already a never-ending situation.

There is no possibility of retreat unless you abandon your subordinates and flee for your life alone. As for whether Zuihou can escape, it depends on luck, Li Yuan didn't think about letting Xiang Yu go back from the beginning of the chasm confrontation. This civil war between the princes has lasted for seven years, and for the Qin State, which is about to face the evil wolf Huns on the grassland, there will not be much time for adjustment.

"The left chariot obeys the order: you will immediately lead the chariot troops into battle, and order the grenadiers to go into battle!"

"Order: The first cavalry army will make a detour from the flank and attack the infantry brigade of the Chu army."

"The rest of the soldiers, go to battle with Ben Hou!"

One after another, orders followed the figure of the Chinese army scouts to all directions, at this time the morning star in the east had risen, the sky began to light up, the Qin army camp became enthusiastic because of the breakthrough of the Chu army, red and black are like two completely different torrents, constantly consuming their energy in the struggle, until one side withdrew.

Xiang Yu smashed the Qin army, in the grim situation that there were still two lines of defense, Li Yuan was also actively deploying troops, preparing to meet the vanguard of the Chu army, in addition to the 7,000 elite soldiers of the Chinese army in the headquarters, Li Yuan also requisitioned Li Zuoche's rear army chariot troops to join the defensive battle group.

Chariot.

It is an ancient means of warfare.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, when horseback riding was not yet common, generals often stood in a carriage pulled by two or four horses, holding the chariot with one hand and pressing the sword with the other, putting on a look of self-sacrificing.

At the end of the Warring States Period, with the reform of Zhao Wuling's "Hufu Cavalry and Shooting", and with the deepening of the integration of the Central Plains people and the northern nomads, horseback combat gradually replaced the chariot as the mainstream on the battlefield, and the chariot representing an era was gradually submerged in the torrent of history.

However, after the revival of the new Qin, out of preference for the armored tank units of later generations, the chariot was retained as a special type of troops, and correspondingly, a large number of craftsmen who made chariots were converted to make vehicles for long-distance transportation.

There's nothing wrong with that.

The pregnant woman's cart was loaded with enough baggage to supply the troops, and on the outer layer of protection, at the junction between the wooden planks and the wooden boards, there were copper nails, and at the same time, in order to prevent fire, the surface of the wooden planks was also coated with a thick layer of tung oil.

On both sides of the car, there are several round holes that can accommodate the launch of the crossbow arrow, this round hole is not large, and the crossbowmen in the car do not even need to aim at the lookout mountain, because even if they see the target, they cannot change the angle of the crossbow arrow, in other words, this is a fixed position of the crossbow arrow.

This kind of round hole shooting position can also be replaced by a spear thrust when the enemy is approaching, and when the enemy tries to get close to the hull, one by one extremely sharp spears burst out, you can imagine what will happen if you are stabbed.

If it's just a chariot plus a crossbowman and pikeman. This is not a new invention, but what is new is that the chariot is composed of four wheels, and it is not just a single layer, but a double structure, with the pregnant belly being the lower layer of it, and above it there is a platform structure similar to a lookout.

The platform is condescending.

Once it appeared on the plain, it was like having a huge advantage of looking down on the opponent out of thin air, and on the platform, nearly six hundred barbarians of the Xiaoyue branch opened their eyes. A murderous look.

Fight.

It's nothing more than a game to see who is better at the hole cards. After all Xiang Yu's hole cards were revealed, Li Yuan also began to send a powerful force composed of multiple arms on his side.

――。

The Chu army broke seven formations in a row.

Xiang Yu neighed and roared, suddenly grabbed the reins of the black horse, and looked back at the soldiers of the Chu army under his command.

The red torrent was sweeping the black tide, and although there were Qin people all around, these Chu soldiers had red eyes and waved their weapons, just like evil ghosts.

"Haha, boys. Go with a certain family to slaughter Qin dogs. Xiang Yu shouted, puffing up all the strength of his body, and he tried his best to lift the blood-stained Overlord Euphorbia high. In fact, a beating heart in his chest was about to collapse to his throat, and the salty smell in his throat was intertwined with the smell of blood on his body. made his whole person like a plague god from the sky, unstoppable and indestructible.

Under Xiang Yu's crotch, the pitch-black black horse opened its mouth widely. The snorting and panting, and the continuous rush and killing, made this battle-hardened war horse a little unbearable.

The age of the horse. Three to five or six years old is the best, and the age of the horse is close to ten years, in other words, its prime has passed and is gradually aging.

People are sleepy, horses are tired, and the morale of the soldiers is low little by little.

Xiang Yu still has to launch a strong attack, his persistence and persistence have won victory for him, but today, in the face of Li Yuan, who is well-planned, more confident and powerful, Xiang Yu has no possibility of breaking through on the way forward.

In the midst of the shouting, several more Chu military captains and captains who were eager to make meritorious contributions shouted, and they rose up and crossed Xiang Yu's horse's head and rushed towards the next line of defense of the Qin army.

It's a pity that their red wave went fast and came back quickly.

Before Xiang Yu could react, a large number of Chu troops in front of him had already fallen, and in front of Xiang Yu, a series of wooden chariots with a height of double-story houses suddenly appeared.

In the holes of the "house", the crossbow arrows that shot out almost did not aim at the dense charging formation of the Chu army, and harvested a life with one arrow. In just a quarter of an hour's effort, the number of people who fell in the Chu army reached more than 200, and what was even more serious was that these Chu soldiers were all able to block ten with one block.

"Overlord, the crossbow arrows of the Qin people are too powerful, our army can't rush over, so it's better to turn-." A Chu military captain rushed to Xiang Yu with a bloody face, and his voice was hoarse.

"You, greedy for life and afraid of death, how can you be my general?" Xiang Yu shouted angrily, and a halberd poked out, knocking the panicked Chu General under the horse.

"Quickly prepare torches and burn the baggage carts that stand in the way."

"Qin Gou has no reinforcements, and even the baggage soldiers have come out, the big guy is going to work harder." The shouts of the Chu army generals came one after another, and the Chu people also came up with a way to deal with the battle methods of chariots and crossbow arrows.

"Porphyry!"

"Porphyry!"

At the moment when the Chu army was shouting, the sound of heavy objects breaking through the air in mid-air was like a boulder falling from the sky, falling with a rapid wind.

Xiang Yu took the black horse sideways and trotted a few steps, and finally avoided a falling thick short gun, when the body of the gun brushed his body, Xiang Yu only felt a chill all over his body, and this feeling was like being singled out by an enemy general.

"Barbarians, brute spears? Oops. ”

In the Chu army, the screams rang out, and Xiang Yu could even hear the desperate shouts of the familiar generals, but at this time, he was also too busy to take care of himself, if it weren't for the black horse psychic, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to avoid this rain of bullets and bullets of the Qin army.

In terms of range, the throwing distance of the Yuezhi soldiers is actually far longer than the effective shooting distance of the crossbowmen.

In the face of the short spears falling from the sky one by one, there were more than ten generals of the Chu army who were nailed to the ground, and even the personal cavalry protected by Xiang Yu lost more than 20 people. What made Xiang Yu even more angry was that the soldiers who lit torches and tried to throw and burn the Qin army's chariot were also "shot" one by one.

The arm strength of the Chu people, compared with the Yuezhi people who are used to throwing, is not one or two points.

"Li thief, it's really cunning." In the face of the heavy blow, Xiang Yu gritted his teeth with hatred, and his bloodshot heavy pupils were full of madness, and he continued to rush up, under the double blow of the crossbowmen and grenadiers of the Qin army, it was really uncertain whether he could break through the gap. But if you retreat, it will be even more difficult to get close to Li Yuan's Chinese army. (To be continued......)