Chapter 37 Nanben
Hearing that the artillery roared again, no one knew that the Qin army was about to be defeated. Originally, the 100,000 soldiers in the rear formation were first shocked by the huge explosion, and then they became numb with the Chu army slaughtering their comrades, and when the Chu army rushed through the spear formation, they had already closed their minds, and could only defend passively, and the more flexible commander Qiang ordered the Qin army array that was not affected by the spear array to counterattack, and the soldiers did not react.
Qin Jun was stunned, all of them stood like wooden people, only reacting to the onrushing spears, and not to anything else, and the sudden sound of cannons made them wake up. However, this awakening was so sudden that the array produced a wave that resembled a wave of the ocean.
"It's loose." The strategist beside Xiong Jing shouted excitedly. Sure enough, the loose array subconsciously retreated and bent. The short soldiers who had just pressed the formation were already standing in the array, and they retreated and bent together with the formation. The cannon sounded several times, the cannonballs crossed the array, and when the Qin pawn who had broken his limbs fell to the ground and screamed loudly, the military formation was like a huge wire that had been twisted countless times and became extremely hot at the twists and turns, and suddenly it broke.
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At the beginning of the array, Xiang Chao saw the national thief on the opposite side of the array, he was furious, and after the battle, he rode straight to take the battle, but the fatal spear was narrowly avoided by the Yuanfen, and then the cavalry of the two sides fought chaotically, he could only see the Yuanfen, but he couldn't get close to him, and he had no chance to kill him.
It was Fei Jing's personal decision to kill Yu Fen at the beginning, he knew the danger of this person, he didn't kill it when he killed it, and Xiang Chao finally made up a sword. No one expected that this military thief did not die, and finally became a national thief. Xiang Chao swore to kill him countless times, but unfortunately he never had the chance, this time he finally saw it on the battlefield, and immediately chased after him.
The knights of the two armies fought on both sides of the infantry array, until the Qin army was defeated and fled, and the Chu knights pursued north. After chasing Wuli when the Chu army wanted to rein in the horse and return to the foot soldiers, the Qin cavalry returned to the horse provocatively and killed, and the Qin army was defeated again, and the Chu cavalry pursued again, and then it was out of control.
Yan Jing and Xiang Chao were one on the left flank and the other on the right flank, and the order Xiong Jing gave them before the battle was not to attack the flank of the Qin army in a roundabout way, but to block the Qin army's cavalry. The Chu army is most worried about the Qin cavalry, even if only 50,000 people are attacked by 5,000 Qin cavalry, the outcome of the battle may be rewritten, if it is attacked by 10,000 Qin cavalry, it will win and lose and will inevitably reverse.
Intercept, route, drive away, this is what the order is about. The minimum requirement is to intercept, the higher is to defeat, it is best to drive away, as for returning to attack the Qin army after driving away from the Qin army, Xiong Jing does not make requirements, at least in the decisive battle stage.
The Qin cavalry was not strong, and the whole army was defeated and retreated soon after the struggle. When the pursuit reached five or six miles, neither of them wanted to chase anymore, and the Qin army happened to turn around at this time to attack, and then they broke and fled, and when they fought again for more than ten miles, the Qin army fled again. At this time, Fu Jing saw some signs, and he felt that Qin Qi was deliberately retreating to lure him into pursuit, but he didn't know why he deliberately retreated.
Between Yingshui and the chasm is sixty miles along the Shashui, the more north the wider it is, after chasing out more than twenty miles, Fu Jing can no longer see Xiang Chao on the side of the chasm, and there is only a field full of colorful flowers with green grass as far as the eye can see. At this time, the cavalry of the Qin army ran away again, and the abandonment of the third cavalry division galloped over: "The Qin people tempted me, what can I do?" ”
"It's okay to tempt me, at least the Qin people can't hit my step formation." Fei Jing took out the kettle and raised his head to drink water, which was the pepper paddle that his wife had prepared for him. The pepper paddle is a little spicy, but it is undoubtedly a good medicine to quench your thirst and refresh your mind.
"I don't know what happened to Xiang Hou in the east?" The two dragoons of the Yingshi division were arranged on the left flank, and Jingsheng's second cavalry division of the Yingshi division and the cavalry division of the Xiang division were arranged on the right flank of the army formation. I didn't understand what Qin Jun was constantly tempting him to do, so he was a little worried about Xiang Chao.
Hearing this, Fei Jing hesitated for a moment, and then shook her head again and again. "The Qin people are all horses, and the horsepower is not as good as mine."
"Not as good as me." Abandon the heel road. To lure oneself into pursuit, it is generally said that there may be two purposes: one is to set up an ambush, and the other is to return to the battlefield and kill the horse. But both of these require horsepower. The horsepower is not unlimited, as the pursued side, the horsepower of the Qin army will be exhausted earlier, and it is impossible for the tired war horses to set up an ambush, let alone return to the battlefield twenty or thirty miles away.
"Feed the horses, feed the water." Holding Lu Lijing and looking around again, he still didn't see Xiang Chao, he only saw Qin Qi more than ten miles away, and he chose to be prepared steadily.
"The general has an order: feed the horses, feed the water." The soldiers rushed in all directions with the military order of the concubine. The peasants diverted water from Yingshui to irrigate the fields very early, except for the vigilant repulsion ten miles away, more than 8,000 knights all dismounted, fed the horses and fed water, and some diligent knights also took out brushes and began to wash the horses and brush the horses.
'First a boy, then a knight'. This is the maxim of the cavalry of the Chu army, and the knights always do it themselves. Nowadays, the Qin cavalry is fleeing, and the foot soldiers on the battlefield behind him are fighting fiercely, and no Chu army knight will think that his side will lose. What they were thinking about in their hearts was that if they didn't go home as soon as possible, they would chase down the Qin army's rout later.
Watching some knights feeding the horses and watering and washing the horses, the steady concubine Jing still shouted to the person: "You wait for the north search, and when you see Xiang Hou, you will tell you: Don't chase it too far." If you chase it too far, you will flee in rout. ”
During the previous shogunate war, Xiang Chao had a big quarrel with those strategists, and he thought that chasing the enemy's foot soldiers was not as good as cavalry, and that the cavalry should be pursued, not the foot soldiers. However, the shogunate advisers had always been worried about the Qin cavalry's hook attack, and there was only one requirement for the cavalry, that is, after intercepting the Qin cavalry to prevent it from circling the formation, there was nothing else.
Fei Jing can't directly order Xiang Chao not to chase away, the two are not subordinate, they are equal to the left and right wings, and he can only use the rout to say things. Now send an order to tell each other, not worried that the rout will escape, but that Xiang Chao will be ambushed by the Qin army. The left wing chased after the trace of most of the Qin cavalry, and it is likely that the Qin cavalry on the left wing had already converged with the Qin cavalry on the right wing to the east.
The ordered rider hurried north. Unlike Fu Jingxiang, only a small part of the Qin cavalry on the left flank converged with the right flank more than thirty miles north of the battlefield, which was the Qin army camp that the Chu army had stationed ten miles away. On that day, in order to line up, the Qin army dismantled the entire camp tent, and after the Chu army left, the Qin army, which had high morale, set up camp again. The next day, he left the camp and did not dismantle all the tents, but used them as a military station.
"Jing people are proud, and they have left the battlefield because of my lure, but when they were more than ten miles south, there was a loud noise, and I thought that the army was in danger." In the empty barracks, there were only horses, and the unmounted horses were on horseback, and the horsemen and horsemen summoned the horsemen and horsemen to speak under their command. "We can't return to the battlefield, go north, say that the army has been defeated, and it is useless to save it; can also fight back against Jing people as promised, although he still has no regrets after nine deaths. ”
After giving two choices of life and death, the two cavalry captains and more than ten cavalry generals couldn't help but bow their heads, and then looked at them again, and finally looked at Yu Fen, no one dared to express their intentions without authorization. Zhao Teng, the general of the cavalry, directly threw himself at Yu Fen, "Please make a decision." ”
Following him, the commander said loudly: "Please decide, general!" ”
"I am different from you, the little boy can have today, thanks to the king, I can go north on a horse?!" Yu Fen shook his head and sighed. "Whoever Wants to Be with Me ......"
"Report ——!" Before Yu Fen said to play, the miserable military report arrived. "Jing people are coming! Jing people are coming......"
"Tell the soldiers! May the deceased, change horses and run south with me; If you don't want to die, you can flee north quickly! The military newspaper interrupted Yu Fen's words, and the iron sword in his hand slashed hard in the air, shouting in a louder voice.
"The minister is willing to die!" As soon as Yu Fen's words fell, the commanders and generals replied loudly, and after answering, they ran away, urging the soldiers to change horses.
Several cavalry battles also galloped for more than 30 miles, and the horses were all tired, but in order to defeat the Chu army, the Qin army hid nearly 10,000 reserve horses in this camp the day before the war. Relying on these prepared horses, the Qin army believed that they would be able to rush through the interception of the Chu army, return to the battlefield and slam the Chu army's flank, and finally win the war.
Inside the camp, Qin rode and changed horses, and the Chu army led by Xiang Chao outside the camp had already been killed. At this point in the battle, the horsepower of both sides has been exhausted, but Ryoma is a Ryoma after all, and he is naturally stronger than Rong Ma, even if he is sweating profusely, he has to overpower Rong Ma in his strides and leaps.
"Kill into the Qin camp!" After killing a Qin horseman, he searched for Xiang Chao, who was missing, and pointed to the camp not far away. He knew this barracks, and this barracks was the Qin army barracks that he saw during the fire reconnaissance of the whole army that day.
"Xiang Hou has an order, kill into the Qin camp." The knight beside him shouted. The hundreds of dragoons led by him quickly turned their horses' heads and rushed towards the Qin army camp.
Like Fei Jing, the right-wing knights were also frequently lured in by the Qin cavalry. Xiang Chao, who couldn't kill Wei Fen, knew that the Qin people were tempting him, he was unwilling to be played by the Qin people like this, and pursued the north with the intention of vowing to hunt down and kill the Qin people to the ends of the earth, and finally chased here. He led a group of knights to rush into the camp, and the Qin people who had changed horses in the camp had already rushed out from the west of the camp.
"Fenfen!" Xiang Chao in the camp saw the military flag fluttering outside the camp, and immediately pointed to the military flag and shouted.
"Rest!" Jing Sheng was obviously more sober than Xiang Chao. Seeing Qin riding south, they felt bad, they were going back to the battlefield. "Rapid pursuit!"
Jingsheng shouted as he rode his horse. However, when the Chu cavalry that rushed into the camp rushed out of the camp and chased southward, the Qin cavalry outside the camp had been waiting for them to suddenly kill, and they tried their best to get together with the Chu knights to prevent them from pursuing Wei Fen, who was changing horses to the south.
"The Qin people hit me back! The Qin people hit me back! Jing Sheng shouted again, "Order! Herald! Swift Order! ”
The Qin army arranged a reserve horse here, and the Chu army ordered the horse to be one person and two horses, and Jing Sheng did not have time to give a formal order, so he could only shout the order. When the rider heard the sound, he immediately changed his horse and looked for an opportunity to gallop south.
"Shoot!" It was expected that the Chu army would urgently give an order, and the Qin cavalry outside the melee had already held a bow in his hand, and shouted to shoot arrows when he saw the cavalry rushing out. The arrows and hedgehogs gathered, so that the side of the rider was suddenly full of arrow feathers, and the galloping dragon horse suddenly slowed down, barely took a few steps forward and fell with the knight.
"Shoot!" When the second and third cavalry rushed out, the Qin cavalry on the periphery shot out a few canopies of arrows. It was useless for the knight to raise his shield to block, and the side of the horse was full of arrows, and finally he was seriously injured and fell to the ground.
"Rush-" Xiang Chao, who was fighting, saw that Ling Qi was shot one after another, and in a fit of rage, the long sword rushed to guide the party. On the right side, which he ignored, a Qin general was bending his bow and arrows.