The Chu army stopped ten miles away and looked at the Qin army from afar; The Qin army lined up in the camp, waiting for the Chu army to attack. What surprised Qin Jun and made them happy was that after the Chu army stood for half an hour, it retreated without saying a word.

The three-headed phoenix flag passed through the gap in the infantry array, and soon fluttered behind the Chu army array, and the daunting dragon horse knight did not follow through, but galloped towards both ends of the Chu army's army formation to protect the flanks of the army array. The front of the twelve spear phalanx turned into a rear team, and they returned to the north bank of the sand and water on the same muddy fields.

Meng Tian's vest under Jing was already soaked, and he, like everyone else, thought that this was the decisive battle between the two armies of Qin and Chu, but he didn't expect it to be not. The Chu army looked ten miles away for a while and then retreated south, and the two sides did not clash at all. He sighed and said, "What does King Jing want?" ”

"Our army array, King Jing knows everything." Meng Heng was not as easy as him, as soon as the three-headed phoenix flag retreated, Meng Heng's heart hung up. Just now, in the midst of the rapid drums and urgings, the 300,000 Qin army put on a decisive battle posture. This posture was the result of the shogunate's strategists racking their brains, and it was going to be used in the real decisive battle, so I didn't think it would be exposed now.

"Jing Ren ......" Meng Tian was about to say something to comfort himself, and the Qin soldiers in the array spontaneously cheered, this cheer was originally just one place, but once it was called, more than 300,000 soldiers all cheered, and it seemed that they had won a battle.

Jing people are as light as the wind, and their favorite thing to do is surprise attacks. Last year, King Jing led Yingshi to ambush Li Xin, 100,000 people were wiped out, and another 100,000 people fled from Fangcheng in embarrassment; Before that, King Jing led his army to fight with the Qin army in Xiangcheng, and 200,000 people were killed; Before that, King Jing's army suddenly appeared north of Linzi, chasing the Qin army in the wind and snow for three days, and countless Qin soldiers fell to death in the snow; Before that, King Jing led his army to quickly attack Guanzhong, and the army of more than 500,000 was defeated in a battle, and 300,000 people were captured and their left toes were cut off......

The simple Qin soldiers summed up a rule: whenever King Jing fights, there is no Qin army that is undefeated. The only undefeated time was the pursuit of Qi State, and it was only by relying on Wang Qian's alert Qin army that he escaped. This time, King Jing led the army to attack again, and the soldiers' hands holding Mu Chu were all trembling, but even the exchange did not happen, and King Jing took the initiative to retreat. The joy of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe filled the hearts of every Qin general, and they couldn't help but shout loudly with excitement.

"Minimum morale available!" Meng Tian was a little worried when Meng Heng said this, and he couldn't help but be happy when he heard the cheers of the generals. Since the selection of soldiers to prepare for the expedition, none of the selected generals and soldiers have a smile, and the wooden rafters sent home are all written with the words of farewell and death. Only today did they shout loudly and grin.

"Alas!" In the warm cheers, Meng Heng sighed helplessly. It's good that morale is high, but is King Jing just scary? If it's just scary, high morale certainly helps. But the problem is that King Jing is already brave and unstoppable, and the soldiers under his command are all elite, plus witch weapons, 60,000 or 70,000 people may not be able to defeat his own army.

More than ten miles away, the cheers of more than 300,000 Qin soldiers were also heard, and the generals of the Chu army who retreated together also heard it. Xiang Chao rushed to the front several times and wanted to ask him for battle, he should have remembered the oath he had made before leaving the camp, and Nunu retreated.

When the Chu army went out of the camp to try the Qin army, the most important problem to be solved was not whether they dared or not, but how to stabilize the rate of the generals who were eager to fight. Evacuated from Kaifeng for more than a month, the Qin people were stationed in Changping for a long time, and the divisions in the Song Dynasty did not know whether they had blocked the Qin people.

Returning to the north bank of Shashui in the mud, the road was muddy but there was no drag from the vehicles, and the Chu army walked very fast again, and the whole army returned to the camp in less than two hours. Hot water, hot food and hot wine have already been prepared, the generals are sullen but not without complaints, Xiong Jing personally leads the army, this alone reassures the whole army that it will not take a few days to kill the Qin people.

"The Qin people formed a formation of 10,000 cavalry in the Chinese army, intended to be artillery." The shogunate generals led Sima to gather in one tent to analyze the intentions of the Qin army.

"Want to hit my artillery with 10,000 horsemen?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but be surprised. Think about it, cavalry is the fastest class. If the light horse is a dragon horse, a thousand meters is only a little more than a minute, and the speed of the horse is more than ten seconds slower. These ten seconds are critical in cavalry combat, but they are not critical for artillery ten seconds. The horse can rush in front of him in one minute and twenty seconds, and the cannon can fire a maximum of three cannons in this minute and twenty seconds.

It is impossible for a single cavalry to charge the formation, but the cavalry of the Qin army discharges the array, as long as the time to run through the gap between the cavalry array is less than the interval between the cannons, the artillery array will inevitably be broken through. Based on Xiongjing's experience, the interval between the front and rear 100 meters can ensure that the cavalry can charge at full speed, and it only takes 12 seconds to run through this 100 meters, and it is completely impossible to fire a cannon in 12 seconds. In terms of time alone, it was not difficult for the cavalry to break through the artillery array.

Thinking of this, his face was slightly solemn, and Shen Qing, who had been promoted to the commander of the artillery regiment, also had a very bad look.

Since Shen Yinshang proposed to convert the Taotao-class sea boat into a gunboat, most of the more than 200 Lingshi guns were moved to the sea boat. Even so, only eight sea boats were refitted, and one hundred and ninety-two guns were requisitioned, and the remaining ninety-five were mostly ten-pound guns. Of these ninety-five gates, minus those arranged in Muling Pass, minus those destroyed in Yuanhu Mountain and brought to Qiangdi, there are only fifty-seven gates left in the army.

Fifty-seven pieces of artillery were enough to crush the Qin army in Shen Qing's opinion, but his battle plan was rejected by the shogunate, and then the Qin army placed the cavalry in the position of the Chinese army, clearly to attack the artillery array. In Shen Qing's combat philosophy, the artillery should charge forward, and the knights and foot soldiers should protect the artillery charge. Now that the Qin people's 10,000 cavalry are not fatal, the artillery array will inevitably be lost.

"The Qin cavalry is attacking the artillery array, and I should use the cavalry to counteract." Fei Jing suggested.

"Two thousand dragons and horses are enough." Xiang Chao also said. He was extremely contemptuous of the Qin cavalry.

"No." Zhuang Wudi vetoed. "Qin cavalry attacked me, I used knights to block me, the knights of the two armies fought in front of the artillery array, what is the use?"

As soon as Zhuang Wudi reminded, the generals suddenly thought of Li Xin's retreat tactics before. As long as your foot soldiers cross the muzzle, the cannon is useless. Similarly, as long as your knight crosses the muzzle, the cannon is useless.

Shen Qing's face became more and more bad when he heard this, he had just come up with a new tactic such as artillery charge, and he was cracked by the enemy after only half the battle was achieved. Artillery was not the focus of the military discussion, and the shogunate general led Sima to quickly shift the topic to the Qin army array, and the Hu master Sima Cao said: "The Qin people's formation is thick and hundreds of lines, but it is two formations before and after, fifty steps apart from each other, which is not good for me. ”

"The rear army is only thirty lines, and its array is only ninety thousand, so there is no disadvantage." Peng Zong also noticed this problem. "The only one who can be worried is the Qin cavalry, muddy when it rains, and it is ...... if it is a rainy day."