The Qin army had a total of 40,000 cavalry, and the mud made it inconvenient for the cavalry to gallop, and it was difficult to exert the true power of the cavalry. The weather is not the same, the mud will dry in a day or two, and the wide and flat fields will become the best battlefield for the cavalry.

It was not for nothing that Peng Zong was worried about this, and the shogunate astronomical advisers had already announced that the next few days would be sunny. Sure enough, the sky began to clear in the afternoon of the second day, and on this day, the Qin army advanced fifteen miles, and the two armies were only seventeen or eight miles apart, and the camp could be seen clearly with the naked eye without Lu Lijing.

The next day, the Qin army did not move, but the two armies fought on the muddy ground of 17 or 8 miles. The Qin army restrained the scale of the cavalry battle, and the Chu army was reluctant to leave the existing position to stand on the pile of gunpowder they had buried.

On the second day of the cavalry battle, the Qin army advanced again, and when they set up camp, the camp stood four miles away. This time, not to mention the repulsion of the cavalry on both sides, the soldiers standing guard on the camp could also see the enemy soldiers on the opposite side, but fortunately, these soldiers could not leave their positions, and there was no way to rush over and fight with the Qin people.

The decisive battle may be tomorrow. The generals of the two armies became extremely solemn at this time, and the barracks became more and more silent, and there was no longer the noise of the past, but the quarrel in the shogunate became more and more intense.

In view of the last time they saw the Qin army's array divided into two formations fifty paces apart, the Chu army strategists were worried that the Qin army's front formation would be defeated, and the rear formation would hold on. At that time, the Chu army was no longer backed by Shashui, and 40,000 Qin cavalry could go straight to the side, and the undefeated battle of Xiangcheng would be repeated. The best way to resist cavalry is to send your own cavalry, which means that the Chu cavalry may not be able to be used to pursue the Qin army, and the pursuit will be completed by foot soldiers; It also meant that foot soldiers should not wear too heavy armor, and it was better to wear only one cuirass and an iron jacket.

Naturally, the cavalry was reluctant to do so, and the shogunate had to convince the jockey Sima that this was the only good strategy. And if they can defeat the current enemy cavalry, they can also join the pursuit of the Qin army's foot soldiers, not all of them cannot be pursued. However, everyone knew that the cavalry of the Qin army was twice as large as its own, and it was not easy to defeat the enemy cavalry, and the cavalry of the two armies was likely to continue to fight and no longer intervene in the battle between the infantry.

The Qin army shogunate has been in a helpless state these days. How the Chu army will be arrayed is known, and it will inevitably be dealt with in a decisive battle, and it is likely that all arrangements will fail. But the strategists didn't dare to easily change the previous arrangement, these arrangements have their own targeting, if they change, then how to break the Chu army's witch weapon? And how to resist the Chu army's spear array? Reform should not be a debate among the strategists, and the question was debated until dawn on the second day, and there was no result.

At dawn, the Qin army made rice, and Meng Tian, who seemed to sleep peacefully all night, but actually had not slept all night, rose to the tent early to gather generals. When the generals of the various armies, more than 30 captains, and cavalry captains entered the accounts, Meng Jue was nowhere to be seen. After the generals finished their deliberations, there was still no trace of Meng Heng, Meng Tian finally couldn't help it, and ordered left and right: "Summons Meng Heng." ”

"Summoning Mengjue." As soon as the shouts in the big tent sounded, Meng Jue's voice came through the tent: "The subordinates are here. ”

After a few days of bathing, the bloodshot eyes walked into the shogunate, and all the generals and lieutenants all looked at him and the board carried by the strategists behind him, on which the array of Qin and Chu armies was glued with wax.

"How?" Meng Tian didn't ask anything else, he asked about the array.

"The subordinate thinks so." Meng Heng replied calmly. "The subordinates thought that the formation of the Jing people was a breaking formation, not a hooking formation, so they ......"

At this time, the strategist behind him took two steps forward, and Meng Tian saw the array on the chipboard. He didn't look at the details, what he saw was the outline of his own array, the width of the array was significantly shortened, it used to be three thousand columns, one hundred rows, but now it is not like this, the array is obviously shorter than three thousand columns, and it is not much wider than the Chu army's rushing spear array.

"However, if the Jing people are in fifteen columns, our army is only two thousand columns wide, and it should be able to hook my flank." Xu Zhan, a strategist who opposed the shortening of the formation width, also stepped forward to tell Meng Tian in detail the shortcomings of such a formation.

Meng Heng was worried that the seventy-line array in front of him would be broken by the spear array of the Chu army, so he thickened it to one hundred, but he was unwilling to abandon the thirty-line thick rear army, so he could only reduce the number of columns in the military formation and make it shorter. Only by becoming shorter can the front be strengthened with the saved soldiers.

The army formation is thick and difficult to break, but the army formation is too thick and easy to be hooked by the enemy. The 10,000 cavalry, which had been in the middle of the formation, were not strengthened and weakened. Only 5,000 Qin cavalry lined up in the middle of the formation to attack the Chu artillery array, and the remaining 35,000 cavalry lined up on both sides of the military formation to prevent the Chu army from hooking and hooking the Chu army at the right time. The focus is on the left flank, the Chu army has always been strong on the left flank and weak on the right, and the right flank of the Chu army is the left flank of the Qin army, so the five thousand cavalry drawn from it are placed in this position.

"When the Jing people saw me striking their witchcraft with a horseman, they should add a horseman to reject me." Meng Jue explained. "The Jing people had fewer cavalry than me, and they were transferred to the Chinese army, and there were fewer cavalry on both sides. Even if the Jing people marched in fifteen columns, and the width of the formation was four thousand columns, it would not be more than two thousand columns for me. However, I have 20,000 more Jing people, and four cavalry columns, and 5,000 columns, and I should have hooked the Jing people, not the Jing people to hook our army. ”

This is to use the width of the cavalry's array to make up for the lack of the width of the two thousand columns of infantry. When Xu Zhan was about to reiterate his opposition in the shogunate, the right general Zhao Yong coughed and said loudly: "The sky is about to dawn, and the Jing people are already beating drums and arrays, is there a dispute over this matter at this time?!" Please, the Great General, decide! ”

"Please make a decision!!" Follow Zhao Yong, Qiang Qi and other generals to shout together.

"I ......" Meng Tian was thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of Meng Heng and Xu Zhan's statement, and Zhao Yong couldn't help but be a little at a loss when he said it. The more you are about to fight, the more you will suffer from gains and losses, and the more you urge, the more hesitant you will be. But in any case, he was also a general of the army, and just when Zhao Yong and the others were anxious and becoming more and more disappointed, Meng Tian finally made up his mind, and he announced loudly: "

Our army is arrayed with a plan of concealment! There are 2,000 columns of foot soldiers, 100 lines in the front formation, 50 lines in the rear, and 100 steps between the front and back to prevent the Jing people from breaking the formation; 5,000 cavalrymen, 20,000 on the left flank, 15,000 on the right flank, in four formations, in order to prevent the Jing people from hooking my flank; The strong crossbows are gathered in the rear, and if the front is broken, the rout will rush and shoot as necessary to prevent the rout from reaching the rear......"

With determination, the river flows smoothly as if it had cleared up a clogged river. Meng Tian also reflected this smoothness at this time, although the number of Qin troops was greater than that of the Chu army, but this time the infantry column was likely to be smaller than the Chu army. Such an array is tantamount to saying that the hope of victory is no longer on the foot soldiers, but more on the horsemen. The 20,000 cavalry on the left flank became the Qin army's trump card to defeat the Chu army, and the most important task of the infantry was to resist the invincible spear attack of the Chu army.

The sky was bright, and the two sergeants were quickly out of the camp to list the arrays for the decisive battle. Facing the warm and pleasant southeast wind, Meng Tian at the rear of the array did not see the Chu army in fifteen columns, but was exactly the same as when he was stationed ten miles away that day. The foot soldiers were still twelve large phalanxes of rushing spears, which were thirty or forty paces apart from each other, occupying a width of about three miles;

More than 10,000 cavalry soldiers were on both sides of the military formation, with the dragon horse cavalry on the outside and the Rong horse cavalry on the inside. The thickness of the formation is six rows, although there are only more than 1,000 columns on each side, but the gap between the cavalry is twice as large as that of the foot soldiers, and the width of the formation on one side reaches six miles. With the foot soldiers and the cavalry on the other side, the width of the entire army formation was more than fifteen miles. The Qin army is two arrays in the front and rear, and the Chu army is one array. Only in the rear of the Chinese army was a smaller phalanx, which should be King Jing's guard.

The enemy's array reassured Meng Tian, and when he looked at Meng Hui, Meng Hui was disappointed to see that the Chu army did not send dragon riders on both sides of the witch weapon, but nailed a whole half-human-high wooden stake in front of the witch weapon, and the wooden stake was wrapped with the kind of huge iron wire that could make Mo Xiangjia. Every few inches of the wire, there were thorns, which swayed in the wind in the sunlight and reflected a little cold light.

It is true that the witch position can be attacked by cavalry, but it cannot be ruled out that the Chu army will throw quinoa or simply set up a barrier in front of the formation. When the eyes of Meng Heng and the cavalry generals in front of the Chinese army suddenly shrank, the commander in the array had already ringed the bell, and two thousand columns of foot soldiers and more than eight thousand columns of cavalry marched together, marching towards the long-awaited strong enemy.

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