readx;???? Although the Peng Yue Division, which marched under the later ropeway, was not very smooth, it was able to reach its combat position within the scheduled time compared to Zhu Huan, who had to seek another marching route, and Zhang Wu's Division, which advanced slowly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

While the other three Qin officers and soldiers were still on the road, the 3,000 infantry led by Li Xin personally marched along the Qin Imperial Road to the main peak of Mount Tai, and the 500 people in the vanguard team were at the foot of the main peak of Mount Tai, and they were blocked by the remnants of the Chu army of about 50 people.

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The number of remnants under Xiang Yu's command was only more than 400 people, and in this situation where the gap in numbers was too large, Xiang Yu could only hold the Qin Imperial Road, which was the most easily attacked and difficult to defend, and resisted the offensive of the Qin army.

This idea is of course very good, but for Xiang Yu himself, he doesn't know if his arrangement can last a day or two, maybe in the evening of this day, he will also face his final ending.

For Xiang Yu, he knew very well that his end was already doomed in the death place of Taishan. But he thinks that as a king, as a famous man of bravery, if he surrenders like this, it will make him feel that he can't accept such a thing.

For Xiang Yu's own heart, there are only Xiang Ji who died in battle in this world, and there is no King of Chu who surrendered.

And on the main peak of Mount Tai, looking at the queue of Qin officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain slowly advancing, Xiang Yu didn't know if his result was a good thing, but in any case, he was now without any concern, so let him, as a warrior, choose the result he liked.

As a warrior, dying on the battlefield is called a well-deserved death.

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And the more than 400 remnant knights under Xiang Yu's command, or the dismounted infantry troops, are Xiang Yu's last army, and they are also the most loyal warriors to Xiang Yu.

If it weren't for their loyalty to Xiang Yu, I'm afraid they would basically take the opportunity to leave Xiang Yu's side like other escaped robes, instead of giving Xiang Yu a funeral.

There is no shortage of flexible minds among them, and after the last time Xiang Yu raided Zhang Jiashi's Central Army was defeated, they knew very well that Xiang Chu had no room for recovery.

But they did not regret their decision, but continued to serve Xiang Yu, because they believed that Xiang Yu was their monarch and the person they believed in the most.

Among them, there are mainly people from two places. One is some distant branch disciples of the Xiang clan, and the other is a veteran who fought with Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew when Xiang Liang raised his army.

The few others were those who fought against Xiang Liang's uncle and nephew after Xiang Liang captured Pengcheng.

These people's loyalty to Xiang Yu even made Zhang Jiashi and others more emotional, but their loyalty is certainly touching in many ways, but for Zhang Jiashi, it is impossible for these people to take it for themselves, and they cannot be an ordinary person and contribute their own strength to the recovery and even development of the Great Qin Empire.

For Zhang Jiashi, these people who are unlikely to cause chaos are better dead. After all, Zhang Jiashi didn't want to be indirectly affected by the existence of these people and the plan he formulated as a guide to govern Chudi.

And Li Xin and they know Zhang Jiashi's thoughts very well, although they also think that the loyalty of these remnants of the Chu army officers and soldiers who continue to follow Xiang Yu is indeed very rare for them, but for these Chu officers and soldiers, they have only one way to speak of, that is, to bury Xiang Chu who is about to be annihilated in history.

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500 people vs. 500 people, no matter how you look at it, is a very disparity in the number of people, and from the perspective of the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides, the Chu officers and soldiers do not occupy this factor, on the contrary, because these Chu officers and soldiers can only fight as cavalry many times, after losing their mounts, the combat effectiveness of these Chu officers and soldiers will naturally be greatly reduced.

Five hundred Qin officers and soldiers formed more than a dozen small battle formations and slowly advanced forward. This is also a matter of no way, although it is said that Qin Yudao is a project that has been repaired accordingly to meet the needs of the first emperor Yingzheng Fengzen Taishan, but the corresponding innate restrictions of Mount Tai make it impossible for Qin Yudao to have too wide battlefield width.

In front of a phalanx, there were about twenty Qin infantry, and behind them were two groups of crossbowmen and a small number of baggage soldiers with more arrows.

So at the beginning of the contact between the two sides, the crossbowmen of the Qin army in the front row were shot and wounded by the crossbowmen of the Chu army who shot condescendingly.

However, such a small number of casualties had little impact on the overall change in the situation of the war.

After several wounded were dragged to a safer place by the officers and soldiers behind, the crossbowmen of the phalanx behind quickly filled the corresponding gap.

Under the orders of the Qin army commander or even the chief of several phalanxes in front, more than a hundred Qin army crossbowmen quickly counterattacked the Chu army crossbowmen who were shooting on the mountain.

The difference in the quality of the crossbows between the two sides was very large, and the corresponding disadvantage in numbers made the crossbowmen of the Chu army quickly suppressed by the arrows fired by the crossbowmen among the Qin officers and soldiers who were slowly advancing down the mountain.

In this case, many Chu archers had to risk being shot and desperately shot at the Qin army's array, and many of them had no way to shoot Qin officers and soldiers with more accurate aiming, because once these Chu officers and soldiers "wasted" a certain amount of time to aim at the Qin officers and soldiers, then the next moment before they could launch the arrows of the bow and crossbow in their hands, they would be injured or even killed by the arrows shot up from the mountain.

And these 50 Chu officers and soldiers held out for less than a quarter of an hour, and paid the price of nearly 30 casualties. At most, their success was to shoot and wound a dozen Qin crossbowmen, but the corresponding idea of blocking the Qin officers and soldiers from continuing to go up the mountain along the Qin Imperial Road was ineffective. Because the Qin troops under the mountain still advanced relatively fast, the more than 20 robes they suffered casualties could be regarded as being wounded or even died in vain under the arrows fired by the Qin army's crossbowmen.

The two sides were in contact with each other at the position of Qin Yudao, which was located about 100 meters high in Mount Tai.

Only at this time did the officers and soldiers of Chu know that the combat effectiveness of these Qin infantry units in infantry combat was not comparable to that of their dismounted infantry.

Many people rushed to the Qin army array with long weapons such as long beryllium or spears they held, and there were many middle and low-level professionals among them, but they were helpless to find a situation, that is, it was difficult for the weapons in their hands to effectively pierce or even destroy the iron shields of the heavy infantry of the Qin army in front.

This is not to say that many of these Chu officers and soldiers who are a little distracted in their hearts have the wrong way of fighting, and it is not that these Qin officers and soldiers are really well-equipped to this point. Rather, because of the influence of many factors, the combat effectiveness of these Chu officers and soldiers has been weakened a lot.

In other words, these officers and soldiers have experienced corresponding things, such as fighting for a long time without getting the corresponding opportunity to recuperate, and their bodies are already quite weak, and so on.

If these Chu officers and soldiers were allowed to give full play to their own combat capabilities, the Qin officers and soldiers in the small phalanx at the front would probably have to pay a lot of casualties, and they might even be blocked by these Chu officers and soldiers.

But these heavy infantry units of the Qin army naturally would not let go of this opportunity. Many Qin officers and soldiers reacted quickly after discovering that these Chu officers and soldiers were basically unable to penetrate or even destroy the iron shield they held in their hands.

Many people took advantage of the fact that these Chu officers and soldiers had not yet withdrawn their weapons in time to carry out the next attack, and at the same time as they carried out the next attack, they stabbed out the tip of the medium-handled glaive knife that they had already prepared.

Several Chu officers and soldiers who didn't react looked at the blade that quickly burrowed into their bodies in disbelief, and they felt a sharp pain that few people had experienced before, gradually spreading from their chest position or abdomen to their whole body.

The strength and physical strength contained in their bodies seemed to quickly leave their bodies and pass between heaven and earth as these Qin heavy infantry withdrew the Glaive Sword in their hands and their wounds splattered with blood.

These Chu officers and soldiers also have a few brave people who are not afraid of death.

After their bodies were stabbed by the tip of the knife, they used their last strength to endure the severe pain and grabbed the knife body to death.

They did this mainly so that others would have the opportunity to attack these Qin heavy infantry.

It's just that when it comes to the average ability to cooperate in combat, the cooperation between these knights is still far inferior to that of these Qin officers and soldiers.

Before the remnants of the Chu officers and soldiers could react, the robes around the Qin officers and soldiers who were caught by the blade of the Glaive Sword, as long as they did not attack the other party with their own weapons, would often directly use their own weapons to slash the heads or bodies of these Chu officers and soldiers after knowing such a situation.

Several wounded Chu officers and soldiers saw that other enemies were actually waving their weapons at them, and before they could react, they would often be slashed by the glaive sword and their heads were flying.

In less than two minutes of close combat, the last commander of the Chu army died under the swords of several Qin heavy infantry, announcing that their defensive line had been broken through by the Qin infantry troops who had gone up the mountain.

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However, the next battle was not so smooth, because when these Qin infantry gradually advanced up the mountain, they were crushed or even stoned to death by the stones and sassalwood that rolled down the mountain from time to time.

This kind of defensive item that can be taken on the spot on Mount Tai can indeed bring a certain amount of trouble to the attacking Qin troops, especially the main trunk of the tree that only intercepts the branches and leaves, and it is even more so that the shield of the Qin army's heavy infantry will not have any blocking effect.

Many of the wounded heavy infantry of the Qin army could only wait for the officers and soldiers behind to remove the sassal wood that was pressing on them in relative safety, and then they could be rescued and transported to the bottom of the mountain for emergency treatment.

And this situation made the morale of the Chu officers and soldiers on the mountain increase a lot.

However, they soon discovered that they had prepared too little wood. In less than half an hour, the hundreds of sassalwood they had prepared had been consumed.

This situation made them stunned for a moment, but many people thought of the main key to their lack of such defensive items, which was the preparation time of these sassers, and the lack of corresponding equipment in their hands. Many Chu officers and soldiers were even able to use their own weapons, such as swords, to chop down trees.

This situation is not only inefficient, but also will cause the sharpness of your weapon to wear out very badly.

Even when some officers and soldiers were chopping trees with swords, the swords were directly caught by the main trunk of the trees and broken because they were too badly worn, or even directly broken.

In such a situation, many Chu officers and soldiers, even if they wanted to make more sandalwood, had to relocate stones as defensive weapons because their weapons were broken.

However, compared to the sandalwood tree, which was basically difficult for the heavy infantry to defend, the Qin heavy infantry was rarely killed by the stones thrown down from the mountain. Because the stones thrown down from the mountain were either too small to be resisted with a shield, or because they were too big, they stopped on the road of the Qin Imperial Road when they rolled down.

On the contrary, the attack speed of the Qin officers and soldiers did drop a lot because of the Chu army's sassal wood and falling rocks, but the Qin army's crossbowmen troops, in addition to paying a lot of casualties, also killed and injured many Chu officers and soldiers who threw stones at high places.

The gap in numbers between the two sides was too large, and if the Qin officers and soldiers were wounded or even killed in battle, someone could quickly fill the corresponding gap. But for the officers and soldiers of Chu, they lost one person for one death, and in the case of quite heavy casualties, there were no corresponding personnel to replenish them.

So soon, when the sky was slightly dark, several defense systems of the Chu officers and soldiers were broken through one after another by the Qin officers and soldiers who went up the mountain. Because the gap in close combat capabilities between the two sides is too great.

If they can hold out for a lot of time in the case of opening up the distance, but once they are approached by the heavy infantry of the Qin army and engage in close combat, then for these Chu officers and soldiers, they often can only resist the result of dying on Mount Tai in less than a few minutes.

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Time passed gradually, and it took several hours for the officers and soldiers of Qin to finally come to the location of Qin Yudao, which was relatively close to the top of the mountain.

And the Qin army array in front of them didn't know how many batches had been replaced, even if these officers and soldiers were not injured, they would have been replaced because of too much physical exertion.

In front of the Qin officers and soldiers at the front now, there was Xiang Yu who was holding a two-moon halberd in his hand, and the last remnants of more than 20 Chu officers and soldiers......