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The Chu army was not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, especially the hand-to-hand combat between the boat divisions. The apex is not because the Chu soldiers are braver than the Qin soldiers, but because the Qin soldiers and soldiers cannot board the floating boat at all. Xiong Jing was more worried about the fire attack, since the Qin people had learned to make Jing crossbows, they would naturally also make elastic trebuchets that the Chu army had not been put into use, and it was this kind of fire bombs fired by the Jiyi Huimeng that he escaped by relying on this elastic trebuchet.

The repulsion rode westward, and there were no elastic trebuchets on the Qin people's warships, only armor soldiers dressed in gray cloth armor. This made Xiong Jing breathe a sigh of relief and at the same time felt that something was wrong. The trebuchet was mentioned on the Li Xin shogunate's slips seized last year, but the Chu army never saw the real thing.

The construction of a pontoon boat does not happen overnight. In order to prevent the Qin people's boat division from rushing again, the short-barreled cannons were first placed on the ditch bank, and the pontoon boats were set up on the east side of the artillery array. After building a pontoon boat, he dragged a short tube cannon and ten catties of cannons onto the boat, and so one by one, until noon, these ten pontoon boats were all set up.

At noon, the sun was already a little scorching, and the armor was so hot that it hurt to the touch, and some soldiers had to cover it with long shirts. Riding on a horse and wearing a huge armor, Xiong Jing was also sweating from the sun. He wanted to get off his horse and rest, but at this moment ten pontoons were slowly moving towards the ditch. The production of short-barreled cannons was insufficient, only the northernmost pontoon boat was arranged with twenty guns, and the remaining nine pontoons had only twelve or three on the side facing the Qin people's boat division, and there were only six ten-pound cannons.

At this time, the whole army of Chu had only 56 ten-pound cannons, 12 siege artillery, and 134 short-barreled boat-breaking cannons. Now all but twelve siege guns are on these ten pontoons. If these ten pontoons sink, then they will really have to wait until the chasm freezes four inches before attacking the sand sea.

Xiong Jing looked at the ten pontoons, knowing that Zhuang Wudi, Peng Zong, Dong Yegu and others, who were carrying most of the artillery of the whole army, were also staring at the ten pontoons. The Chu army had been busy all morning, and now there was a sudden movement, and Wang Ben and the others on the other side were also watching the ten pontoons. The general's actions led the whole army, and for a time more than 100,000 people on both sides of the strait watched these pontoon boats rowing farther and farther away.

In the early morning, the drums of the Qin army's boat division sounded unexpectedly, and an extremely successful attack was launched. Now the Qin Junzhou Division is surprisingly silent, and Wang Ben on the north bank keeps raising the offensive military flag, but Tian Pu's flagship has not played the corresponding flag. It wasn't until Xiong Jing felt a little strange that the five-oared flagship reluctantly played a flag, and the drum sounded suddenly.

On the pontoons lined up, the shouts of 'ready, ready' sounded, and the pontoon boat that was broken in half and put together just now became Bu Liangju's flagship. In order to make it easier for other pontoons to receive military orders, this flagship is in the middle of the ten pontoons, and a small hull protrudes. The battle between Lou Chuan and Qin Renzhou had already been decided a few months ago, and many artillery commanders and gunners had participated in that battle, so they appeared calm and comfortable at this time.

Only the Chu soldiers on the shore watched the Qin Renzhou division galloping on the water like a heavy horse, and the momentum was extremely terrifying, and his heart was all in his throat. When the war boat sailed by, the archers of the Xiang division and the Huainan division couldn't help but shoot arrows at the war boat. The chasm was more than three miles wide, and the thin ice on both sides of the bank occupied half a mile each, and the arrows shot out did not even touch the shadow of the war boat, but all fell on the thin ice on the bank of the gully.

Arrows are useless. When the twelve siege guns still lined up on the shore rang out, the side of the high-speed impact of the warship was punched out one by one. The shelling was ineffective for a short time, and the mid-artillery boats continued to rush forward until more than 100 guns on the pontoon opened fire fiercely under the orders of Bu Liangju. The Chu soldiers standing on the south bank could still see some warships being beaten to the pulpsticks at first, but the increasingly thick gunpowder smoke was swept by the north wind, and in the choking gunsmoke, including Xiongjing, people could not see anything except the flames, except for the deafening sound of cannons.

The men coughed and waited for the battle to end, and the horses galloped in. "Report Da Ao, the Qin people's boat divisions are lined up in several formations, and they want to attack in a row."

"Huh?!" Standing on the south bank, Xiong Jing could not see Tian Pu's flagship on the west side, he was already immersed in the white smoke of gunpowder. If you can't see it, you can't imagine it, the Qin army will not attack once like in the morning, but will impact several times.

The chasm is not Makizawa, if the Makisawa warboat sinks, because the water is less than a zhang, the sunken boat will block the impact path of the rear warboat; The chasm is several feet deep, and the sinking of the warship will be at most two zhang of the chasm, if the sunken warship cannot be stacked, no matter how much it sinks, it will not affect the warship behind it to continue to hit.

"Pass on Bu Liangju, and the Qin people will rush in several formations." The artillery was all on the pontoons, and the bears on the shore could do nothing but send warnings. He can only hope that the barrel will not be red, once it is red......

"Ordered the division to quickly send a division of soldiers to board the ship in case of a battle!" Xiong Jing immediately ordered. If the shelling could not continue, hand-to-hand combat could occur at any time, and Xiong Jing had to order Xiang Shi to board the ship and prepare.

The pontoons are lined up, extending more than 700 steps from the south bank to the north shore, and the interval between each pontoon boat is small enough to be connected by pallets. The infantry of the Xiang division who received the order immediately boarded the ship, the length of the floating boat was dozens of zhang wide, and the infantry soldiers lined up behind the artillery array were not in the way, but the first time they were so close to the artillery, half of the soldiers were extremely frightened.

The commander of the boat and gun who was fighting didn't care about the soldiers of the Xiang division who boarded the ship, and the Qin people's boat division had already attacked three times in a row, not a line of forty ships in the morning, three lines in a row, but a hundred war boats lined up and attacked at full speed.

The old artillerymen who had participated in the Muze artillery battle were okay, and some of the new artillerymen gradually became scrambling under the continuous attack like this wave, and more than a dozen of the first ten-pound guns suddenly exploded at a critical moment. Fortunately, this was a huge iron, not cast iron, and the bore only blew the barrel of the gun, but did not hurt many gunners, let alone ignite the gunpowder behind the artillery array. However, the crisis still existed, half of the artillery had heated the barrels, and a small number had already turned red, and the Qin Junzhou division saw that most of the warships in front of him were sunk, and another wave of warships rushed quickly.

"Stop shelling, replace shotguns! Stop the shelling, replace the shotgun ......" Bu Liangju shouted again on the flagship, which protruded from the hull of the ship. The cannon fire was incessant, and his orders were completely drowned out in the roar of artillery. During the naval artillery battle, there was no way to pass on the flagship's orders, and the most reliable way was to send a small boat, and the boat would pass on the order. The pontoons were connected, and there was no need for a boat, and several commanders were ordered to rush to the left and right, and after half an hour, all the guns were replaced with shotguns.

Xiong Jing, who lived on the south bank, could not see the scene of the battle, while Wang Ben and Tian Pu, who lived on the north bank and west side, saw the normal battle clearly. Tian Pu was inspired by the successful assault of the Chu army's artillery array by his own cavalry, and he had been thinking about it before: If the war boats were lined up like cavalry and constantly attacked, would they be able to break the Chu army's artillery ships?

The Battle of the Chasm was a great opportunity to test this tactic, and from the beginning he did not intend to attack all at once, but in a continuous manner. As long as he has a warship available, he will throw it into his final attack. Unfortunately, the warships under his command were limited, and after most of the warships of the third attack sank, the remaining one hundred and eighty warships launched a final attack, and the five-oared flagship he was in was also in the storm boat formation.

The order to replace the shotguns allowed the Chu artillery to breathe, after all, the effective range of the shotguns fired by the short-barreled guns did not exceed one hundred and fifty paces. Because the distance of departure was five miles away, it took five or six minutes for the Qin army's warboats, which were lined up in two rows, to rush to the pontoon. A gap of a few minutes was enough for the north wind to blow away the thick smoke of gunpowder, revealing the true faces of ten pontoons.

The Chu soldiers on the south bank saw that more than a dozen war boats on the west side of the pontoon boat were sinking while retreating, and the Qin people on the war boat either sank with the war boat in shouting and shouting, or jumped into the chasm, and as a result, the water struggled a few times and sank with their hands. The ditch was already red, and there were corpses of Qin people floating on it, and a few Qin people who knew how to do strange tricks wanted to climb onto the floating boat, but they were shot to death by the archers on the boat before they could get close. The ditch water flowed eastward, and the blood and corpses slowly flowed towards the beam.

Unlike the Qin people's boat division, the pontoon boats floated unscathed on the chasm, and the flags of the ship's officers were blown straight by the north wind, because the cannon sound stopped, and everyone could even hear the ship's military flags being blown by the wind and hunting. Some people wanted to shout long live, but the Qin warship rushed again violently, and soon after the westernmost siege cannon rang out, the cannon on the floating ship also sounded, and the gunpowder smoke once again hid everything, and the world in front of him became white again.

When the last moment of "...... release" came, the gunners had already held back the loudest shouts in their hoarse voices, and it seemed that it was not the Qin people's war boats rushing towards them, but endless enemies rushing onto the floating boats, and the two armies began a fierce hand-to-hand fight. After the red-hot barrel roared, the shotgun scraped against the wall of the chamber, which had long been unpolished, and came out of the chamber. The planks of the warship were several inches thick and could not block the rain of shotguns in the canopy, and the hands and armor soldiers were constantly blurred and shot to death.

Rao was so, and the warboat still slammed into the huge deck on the side of the pontoon. With such a close-range shot, every rain of shotguns felt like cleaning the deck. More and more people in the cabin are dying. The boatman had long since died, and without the boatman's orders, the surviving hands were still habitually backward rowing.

According to the previous impacts, the warboat would be quickly sunk by the artillery of the Chu State, but after switching to shotguns, the warship floating on the water would still be difficult to sink even if there was no living hand in the cabin. These war boats full of corpses were oblique or horizontal, just blocking the way of the fifth wave of war boats led by Tian Puqin. Sixty warships full of hand-to-hand warriors either crashed into their own warboats, or they urgently turned to avoid them, and rushed sideways towards the floating boats of the Chu army.

The five-oared flagship sandwiched in the war boat also had to turn urgently, and when he saw a row of guns on the pontoon ship aiming at him and about to open fire, Tian Pu, who was severely cracked, shouted: "Rest! ”

The short soldiers on the side of the "General ......" also sensed the danger, and these Qi Di armor soldiers recruited by Zhifu jumped down the deck without hesitation with Tian Pu in their arms, jumping into the cold and bloody chasm.