Chapter 390: The Qin Army is Defeated
Sun Kewang didn't know that he had become the target of his brother-in-law, he was dressed in dark dragon pattern armor, riding a horse and standing under the imperial flag, so that the whole army could see him from any angle.
Under the encouragement of Sun Kewang, the Qin army was full of energy, and for a time actually beat the Xia army backwards, and at this time, the last reserve of the Xia army joined the battlefield.
Wang Fuchen was calm and calm, and ordered the reserves that participated in the battle to move forward, and at the same time removed the front-line sergeants who had lost a lot, so that the latter could rest and regain their morale in the rear.
At the same time as the reserve was pressing, the rear of the Xia army also sounded the rumbling cannon again, and all kinds of artillery in the army continued to bombard the Sun Qin forbidden army, causing many casualties to the Sun Qin forbidden army.
One of the shells even landed less than ten meters away from Sun Kewang, smashing a soldier flat, and the splattered flesh and blood splashed on Sun Kewang's body, making the guards guarding his side tremble, and opened their mouths to persuade Sun Kewang to retreat to a safe place.
But Sun Kewang severely reprimanded the guards who asked him to retreat, and he said angrily: "In the battle of Guiyang in the past, I retreated one step ahead of the whole army, resulting in the rout of the entire battle, the three armies were lost, and the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou were lost one after another.
Sun Kewang's persistence did stabilize the morale of the whole army, so that the Sun Qin forbidden army did not waver because of the artillery bombardment of the Xia army, although Sun Kewang's artillery also launched a countermeasure against the Xia army, but because the heavy artillery was lost in Yunnan and Guizhou a few years ago, the Qin army only had light and medium artillery, which could not compete with the Xia army's artillery at all.
The battlefield fell into a stalemate, and the situation of the Xia army's defeat and retreat became more and more obvious, Liu Wenxiu could only personally raise his sword and go into battle, saying that "those who have merit will be rewarded, and those who retreat must be beheaded", and personally killed several generals who were ineffective in supervising the battle, which stabilized the Xia army's military formation.
On the other side, the herald sent by Liu Wenxiu delivered the stern military order to Qi Sansheng, and in order not to be held responsible, he immediately shouted in protest, raised his gun and killed the Qin general, and after a few rounds, the Qin general was stabbed and fell off his horse.
The cavalry of the Qin army lost its general, and immediately fell into a state of leaderlessness, and was defeated by the cavalry of the Xia army, and could only flee in all directions.
Subsequently, Qi Sansheng didn't care about chasing the fleeing Qin cavalry, nor did he care about letting the cavalry under his command rest in place, regardless of the tiredness of the war horses, he led the army to kill the flank of the Qin army.
Sun Kewang soon found that his cavalry was defeated, he saw the Xia cavalry killing towards his side, and instantly understood the other party's intentions, he could only order the soldiers and horses who did not directly participate in the battle to meet the enemy in the direction where the Xia cavalry was killed, intending to charge with the flesh and blood of the infantry.
In order to protect His Majesty, they gritted their teeth and lined up to meet the charge of the Xia cavalry, Qi Sansheng saw this, took the lead, and jumped up before he was about to collide with the Qin army's army formation, jumped over the Qin army's shield array, jumped into the crowd, and kept stabbing with the spear in his hand, assassinating all the Qin troops around him.
Qi Sansheng's bravery boosted the morale of the Xia cavalry, they collided head-on with the Qin army's formation, only to hear a deafening loud sound, the front row of cavalry all turned on their backs, with their bodies forcibly knocked away the Qin army's formation, the front row of Qin soldiers were also knocked over by the heavy body of the war horse, and fell heavily to the ground.
Before they could regain consciousness, the cavalry in the rear rushed into the scattered military formation with a roar, knocking the Qin army's foot soldiers who had lost their formation to the ground, getting caught under the horse's hooves, and trampling them into puddles of flesh.
Under the sacrificial charge of the Xia cavalry, even the elite Sun and Qin forbidden army were finally defeated, and the Xia army, led by Qi Sansheng, pierced into the Qin army's formation like a bayonet, crushing the Qin army in its path into debris.
Qi Sansheng has been leading the cavalry to a position less than twenty meters away from Sun Kewang, but when he arrived here, the short distance of less than twenty meters was like a moat, so he couldn't cross it, and his crotch horse died of exhaustion, throwing Qi Sansheng out of the air.
The surrounding Sun Qin forbidden army gritted their teeth and killed it, intending to kill this Xia army general, but fortunately, the Xia army cavalry killed Qi Sansheng in time to rescue Qi Sansheng, the latter looked at Sun Kewang under the emperor's flag unwillingly, he pulled the subordinates who were covering him off the horse, turned over and rode up, raised the riding spear, and roared angrily:
"Sun Kewang is there, and the sons and daughters will kill with me!" Kill Sun Kewang!"
When the words fell, he rode his horse and rushed up, but Sun Qin's forbidden army resisted desperately, and the war horse under his crotch was killed again, and at the moment when he fell off the horse, Qi Sansheng struggled to throw the riding spear as a javelin.
The spear flew straight towards Sun Kewang, and in Qi Sansheng's eyes, time seemed to have come to a standstill, and it flew towards Sun Kewang slowly, but in the end it still flew over the latter's body.
Sun Kewang didn't move from beginning to end, he looked coldly at Qi Sansheng, the former general of the Great Western Army who had been dispatched by him to fight against the Qing army.
The last blow failed to kill Sun Kewang, and Qi Sansheng had no chance, he looked at Sun Kewang unharmed unharmed, and under the desperate protection of his subordinates, he could only retreat with regret.
And at this moment, violent cheers suddenly broke out on the front line, and the breath that the Qin army on the front line held was finally released, and it could no longer bear the heavy casualties, and continued to retreat under the counterattack of the Xia army.
It turned out that Liu Wenxiu and Wang Fuchen coincidentally seized the opportunity of the Xia army's cavalry to break into the army formation of Sun Qin's forbidden army, motivate the morale of their subordinates, and launched a fierce attack on the Qin army in one go.
The so-called one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, the morale bonus brought by the emperor's presence will eventually weaken, and under the final onslaught of the Xia army, the Qin army was defeated after all.
The defeat of the Qin army was like a mountain, and the rout of the front-line soldiers also affected the Sun and Qin forbidden army in the fierce battle, no matter how brave the forbidden army was, they were still human, they first suffered continuous losses, and were outflanked by the Xia cavalry, plus flank attacks, and friendly troops were defeated.
All kinds of debuffs added up, and the military spirit of Sun Qin's forbidden army also began to waver, Wang Fuchen took advantage of the situation to lead the army to attack, he took the lead and rushed to the front line, shooting several arrows one after another to kill many forbidden troops, and Sun Qin's forbidden army could only retreat one after another.
No matter how much Sun Kewang motivates the morale of his subordinates, the defeat of Sun Qin's army is a foregone conclusion, and even the forbidden army has begun to rout, he can only look up to the sky and roar, raising his sword to kill himself, and the generals of the forbidden army around him hurriedly stopped him and pleaded sadly:
"Your Majesty, please quickly withdraw and reorganize the army, as long as there is military power, why worry about the world being so big that there is nowhere to go? Dongfang Nanzhang (Lancang Kingdom) is rich and weak, so you can go to Nanzhang and make a comeback!"
Sun Kewang smiled bitterly, he looked at the soldiers of the Qin army who fled all over the mountains under the pursuit of the Xia army, and said, "What if you flee to the ends of the earth? The Xia army was strong, and I was defeated repeatedly, and finally fled like a lost dog......
"Your Majesty!" The general of the forbidden army interrupted him, and his face was resolute, and he said, "Emperor Liu Bang, the Taizu of the first Han Dynasty, said that he and Xiang Yu were also defeated repeatedly before the emperor, and finally established a powerful Han Dynasty, why did Your Majesty give up on himself after only two defeats? The ministers are willing to fight for Your Majesty's death, even to the ends of the earth!"
Sun Kewang looked at him in surprise, he was a little ashamed, he was not even as good as his own courtier, he took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I understand."
He patted the general of the forbidden army on the shoulder and said, "I have named you the Marquis of Dingxing, put in order the soldiers and horses, and follow me to retreat!"