In Wang Ben's expectation, the boat division would hold off the Chu army for at least one day, so that it could not build the bridge smoothly. This is not impossible, Tian Pu has more than 500 warboats under his command, and these warboats should have been thrown into the impact one by one, and the pontoon bridge will be crashed every time it is about to be completed. It is not impossible to drag on for at least one day and two days, but the expectation is only an assumption, and in less than half a day, more than 500 warships were almost wiped out. They are either sunk or floating in a chasm full of blood.

Watching this scene, Wang Ben forgot his breath when the cannon fire continued, and he saw that the fourth wave of striking warships did not sink as quickly as before. The ditch water flowed eastward, and the ditch water, which was supposed to help the speed of the war boats, pushed these unmoved war boats closer to the pontoons, blocking the fifth wave of war boats rushing from behind. The hand-to-hand combat dead soldiers, who had high hopes for Tian Pu, found in despair that they were either separated from the enemy's pontoon boats by one or two warboats, or the body of the boat was diagonally sideways, and the oars and shields in front of the deck became ornaments. As soon as the artillery fired, the whole ship was killed.

As the cannon fire subsided, the smoke cleared, and the battered pontoons moved at least half a mile across. Seeing the Qin people's war boats rowing weakly and across the water, the Chu soldiers couldn't help but cheer. Hearing the cheers, Wang Ben suddenly found that he couldn't inhale if he wanted to, and he was on the verge of suffocation, even if he stood in the sun, his hands and feet were completely strong. The mind was in turmoil, and the previous confidence had fallen to the bottom. For three days, it is likely that it will not be able to hold on for a day.

"Someone!" Wang Ben pointed to the arrangements behind the earthen wall, and saw that he was about to give a military order. The strategist from the main tent on his side hurriedly stopped him, "The young general can't, it's too late." ”

It didn't take a word to wake up Wang Ben. Even the northernmost pontoon was a mile south of the rammed earth wall.

"How about this?" Wang Ben asked weakly, frustrated and wanted to cry. Although he has twenty-five lieutenants, most of these twenty-five lieutenants are weak pawns, and the best ones are only cloth armor, not huge armor.

"Our army should defend this wall to the death." The strategist is also the king of the clan, this is exactly the shogunate strategist sent by Wang Jian to supervise his son because he is worried about his son's inexperience.

Wang Ben's heart was in turmoil, and when he heard the words of the strategist, he sighed and smiled bitterly, "Jing people have always used witch medicine to blow up the wall, how can they defend it?!" At this point, he suddenly drew his sword, "That's fine." What if you die in battle? Death in battle does not disgrace the name of my Wang. ”

If a general's confidence is broken, it is difficult to have any hope of victory in the battle. Fortunately, this was only a blocking battle, not a battle, and the only purpose was to delay more time so that Bai Lin's troops could grab more armor.

The boat master ran out of ink for half a day, and the life and death of Tian Pu, the general of the boat master, was uncertain, and the news spread to the Shahai camp more than 20 miles away also made Wang Jian shocked. He didn't almost suffocate like his son, he just shook his body involuntarily a few times, his face suddenly flushed, and his sideburns jumped violently, but he still eased up after a while. After waving his repulsion, he asked, "How is the girder?" ”

"More than 10,000 Zhao people in Beicheng are defending the Lu domain, and General Bai thinks that if he has seized the arsenal of Zhao State, these 10,000 people will not attack." Liu Chi replied. "At this time, the city is attacking the king city of Wei. The Wei people are very strong, and the royal city is stable......"

"Can the Wei people be surrendered?" Wang Jian had to ask this question.

A well-equipped royal city cannot be uprooted in two or three days. At this time, the Qin army had 80,000 sets of huge armor and 80,000 sets of cloth armor. If you want to outflank the Chu army and not be outflanked by the Chu army during the battle, the width of the infantry formation needs to be at least 2,500 columns or even 3,000 columns. There are 32 rows of 80,000 sets of 2,500 columns, and only 26 or 7 rows of 3,000 columns. These huge armors are enough to deal with other armies, but to deal with the spear array of the Chu army, Wang Jian can't wait for all the soldiers to wear huge armor and hold huge spears.

And this time the Qin army array will not be one or more, but several. Several formations of the front formation were broken and there were rear formations, and the rear formations were broken and there were rear formations, which also learned from the experience of the battle of Shashui, and did not put the troops in one formation, but multiple formations, in case the Chu army used witch medicine to blow up the formation again. Since it is a multi-array, then these twenty or thirty rows of giant armor arrays will have to be apportioned. 300,000 or 400,000 is about one line per 100,000 people, and each formation has a maximum of eight lines of armor armor, and a maximum of eight lines of cloth armor, which is too thin.

obtained the 40,000 sets of armor from the Wei State, and at the time of the final battle, three out of every ten people in the Qin army were wearing huge armor; Five out of every ten people wear armor; Eight or nine out of every ten people hold a battleable spear, so that they can fight against the Chu army. Without these, the result of the battle is likely to be like the Ba people's pawns against the Chu army knights, and they will be killed and defeated.

"When the Wei people heard the sound of cannons, they knew that the Jing people were attacking me, how could they surrender to Qin at this time?" Liu Chi sighed, there was a feeling that the sky was going to be extinct. The boat division was destroyed in half a day, and Wang Ben's 250,000 people could not stop the Chu army for a day.

Zhao Yong, the right general on one side, got up vigorously: "General, I am willing to lead the army to aid General Bai, and I will pull out the royal city tomorrow." ”

"No!" Wang Jian and Liu Chi hurriedly stopped it. This is not to oppose the increase of troops, but that the captains of the Qin army have been reorganized, and the elite and ordinary soldiers are mixed according to certain laws, and they cannot be hastily transferred.

"Or you can draw force to annihilate it." Anchi pondered in silence for a long time and made another suggestion. "The Wei people's royal city is not like the Great Qin Wangcheng, the Wei people's royal city is within the gate of the big court, there is no Gaomen Kumen, the arsenal is above the big court, and you can attack the royal city."

"Yes!" The generals nodded in unison, the big battle is in these two days, not the time to spare human life. Tens of thousands of soldiers are useless, and tens of thousands of people can be temporarily dispatched to throw these tens of thousands of people into the Great Liang City, and once the armor soldiers attack the walls of the royal city, they can capture the arsenal.

"In order not to let the Wei people know, send people into the city at night and attack the city tomorrow morning." Liu Chi added that his plan was to wait until dark. Send men into the city after dark, seize the arsenal by noon tomorrow, transport troops to the sand sea on the same day, and fight the next day. However, this is not foolproof, if the Chu army breaks through the north bank of the chasm this afternoon and defeats Wang Ben before the evening, the Chu army will be able to attack the sand sea tomorrow afternoon and fight a decisive battle with its own army.

"Don't be too late, take down the royal city today." Wang Jian knew that Liu Chi was worried that the Wei people would take away the armor, so he emphasized entering the city at night. But he couldn't catch up in time like this, so he looked at Anqi, "Please General An quickly enter the city and attack the city all night tonight." ”

"Respectfully." Anchi said yes loudly. Since this method was proposed, he was sure to lead tens of thousands of troops into the city. Not to mention the rest, just the goods in Daliang City will make the soldiers salivate, and when they arrive at the city of Wangcheng, they know that they are coming to the city of Annihilation, and the armor is lined up, and it is too late to run.

Anqi was ordered, and immediately went out of the tent and ran to the heavy camp. The south shore of the chasm is not far from the sea of sand, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who have entered the city are scattered in a loose queue, scattered on the white ice field is extremely conspicuous. There was no need for Lu Lijing, Xiong Jing and the others standing on the south bank could see that the Qin army had sent people into the girder again. The Qin army did not gather troops but divided them, and they divided them again and again, which made everyone feel incredible.

"If the Qin people divide their troops like this, our army will win." Peng Zong smelled the smell of victory, and his face was full of joy.

"Why did the Qin people send soldiers into the Great Liang again?" The Simas saw the victory, and the generals felt incredible.

"This Taiyi bless me, otherwise how could Wang Jian underestimate the enemy without measuring his strength?" E Cao couldn't help but have some sneers on his face. The 700,000 army of the Qin people divided hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the main beam, and more than 200,000 troops were stationed in the gap, and the remaining more than 300,000 were only three times the size of their own army, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides was no longer as great as before. I don't know why the Qin people divided their troops, they can only be explained by divine blessings, otherwise why did Wang Jian do this?

Lu Lijing saw in the mirror that all the soldiers who entered the city were soldiers, Xiong Jingben's heart sank with some joy, and his attention turned back to the chasm. The Qin army ran out of boats, and more than 100 war boats full of corpses and wounds were captured by the Chu army, and the remaining 50 or 60 war boats that could still row finally withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the place where they had set out before.

Fifty or sixty warships no longer pose any threat to the pontoon, the real threat is on the north bank of the chasm. Except for the soldiers who were just revealed and the military flags on the wall, no one knew what was hidden behind this low rammed earth wall. At this time, except for those hunting and fluttering military flags, there was not a single Qin soldier on the earthen wall.

Watching the pontoon bridge continue to stretch to the north bank, Xiong Jing pointed to the opposite side and asked Xiang Yujing: "Do you know how thick this wall is?" ”

At this time, Fu Jing was also looking at the one-foot-and-two-foot-high earthen wall on the north shore. This can't help but remind him of Confucius's fallen three capitals. Naturally, it was impossible for the Qin people to abide by the previous Zhou rituals, but why did the Qin people only build twelve feet of this wall used for defense? Isn't it okay to build a six-foot version of the wall, and add a version?

When he came back to his senses, the scene in front of him suddenly changed, and a group of dense black dots suddenly flew over the pontoon bridge on the opposite bank, and these black dots fell on the thin ice on the ditch bank and the pontoon bridge that was about to be completed, and immediately burst into flames.

"Fire?!" Everyone was stunned. Before the startling sound, more black dots flew up from behind the wall, which was about the size of a wine thread, and each one was ignited and launched, and then it fell to the ground and burst into flames. The pontoon bridge was one hundred and fifty paces from the ditch bank, a distance where only crossbows and trebuchets could effectively kill. The crossbow was gone, the tall trebuchet was gone, and one of the several unsuspecting workers on the pontoon bridge was hit by a fire bomb, and his whole body was immediately on fire.

"Trebuchet geometry?" Xiong Jing asked, this was the elastic trebuchet he was worried about.

"Trebuchet geometry?!" No one answered, and most people didn't know what kind of weapon it was, and Xiong Jing roared angrily before these people came back to their senses. At this time, the pontoon bridge that was hit by the bullet caught fire broke out, and the bridge workers retreated sharply while cutting off the burning pontoon.

Because the earthen wall blocked the view, no one could see the number of trebuchets - if this weapon was indeed trebuchets as Xiong Jing said. What everyone knows now is that this is probably the role of the earthen wall. The range of the Qin army's projectile weapons was far inferior to that of artillery, and it certainly did not take any advantage in counterfire, but when a wall was built near the water and a trebuchet was placed behind the wall, the situation was completely different. Direct artillery fire can only bombard the earthen wall, and the curved fire does not say whether it can hit or not, and you can't even see it.