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Liu Chi was the heart of the shogunate, and Liu Chi was taken away by the armor, and everyone in the shogunate panicked for a while. Wang Jian did not rely on the reaction of the strategists, and took advantage of the heavy snow to rest for a while, he ordered the drummers to beat the drums and summon the generals and lieutenants into the curtain. The heavy snow has stopped, but it is only a short rest. The length and width of the Shahai battalion were more than 20 miles, and it was estimated that it would take half a day for the generals to walk more than 10 miles in the snow. The scouts who went out yesterday reported that the snow outside the camp was knee-high, and it was cold and bitterly cold in several sheep fur robes, but fortunately, the tent of the Chu army camp was twenty miles away, otherwise it would not be possible to go back and forth in one day.

Thinking of scouts while waiting, Wang Jian naturally thought of Chu Jun. He thought that it was snowing heavily and the temperature was cold—even in the daytime, as long as the soldier's hand touched the spearhead, it would stick to it and not be able to pull it out, and it would be a blur of flesh and blood. In such weather, the Chu army came from afar, and it was bound to be unprepared. I didn't want to scout, but I told that the Chu army was safe, and there was singing from time to time in the camp.

Singing in this weather, instead of hugging and warming up in the black curtain, Chu Jun must not be unprepared. Thinking of the pursuit of the wind and snow that year, Wang Jian couldn't help laughing, that pursuit that no one could have imagined that the Chu army didn't need to make rice to have hot and scalding rice soup, and now that they are prepared, how could the king of Chu let his precious soldiers freeze and starve?

The state of Chu, the army of Chu, the king of Chu. Wang Jian turned his head to look at the sword on Lan Qi, thinking of Xiong Jing who gave the sword outside Chen Cheng back then. He never thought that the unborn boy would confront him here for a decisive battle, which would determine the survival of Qin and Chu, and also determine the belonging of the world.

When Wang Jian recalled, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the tent, and the people who came saw that only Wang Jian was sitting alone in the curtain for a day, so he stopped and hurriedly retreated. Wang Jian shouted: "General Bai." ”

Bai Lin's left arm hung on his neck, and when he saw Wang Jian shouting to himself, he forcibly said: "The last general heard about the gathering of generals, and he didn't want to come early......

"What about coming early?" Wang Jian smiled. "Sit." Seeing Bai Lin sitting far away, he didn't force him to move forward, but said, "How about General Bai's arm injury?" ”

Bai Lin shook again when he heard this. He fell off the wall not unharmed, and the crossbow shot through his cloth armor, but it passed by the waist. When he fell, he was hit by a ladder and fell into a pile of dead people, so he survived. "General Xie, the arm injury will heal in a few months."

"In the past, when my grandfather was here, he was as brave as you as the enemy, and he was often the first soldier." Wang Jian is very good at complimenting people, sometimes perfunctory, sometimes extremely serious. Wu Anjun Bai Qi is the god of war in the hearts of Qin people, mentioning Bai Qi, Wang Jian raised his head and recalled again.

"How can a boy be compared to his ancestors!" Wang Jian of the Bailin Dynasty bowed his head, he did not pull out the Wei King City has been entrusted by Wang Qian, Wang Jian even praised him, which made him very worried.

Bai Lin thought about his unfinished military life, but Wang Jian also thought about his responsibility, he said loudly: "When your grandfather is here, you will conquer the battle, you will win the battle, the sound will shake the world, and the princes will hear his name and change their color, and listen to his wind and courage." Alack! General Daqin. How like, how like......"

Bai Lin only heard what Wang Jian meant at this time, and he mentioned that his eldest father Wu Anjun was not praising his eldest father, but disliking himself. Wang Ben was defeated, he captured the royal city by himself, and the plan to exhaust the enemy was blocked by the time of day, although the Qin army was numerous, but the re-battle with the newly victorious Chu army did not have any chance of winning in Bai Lin's opinion.

A battle that has no chance of winning should not be fought, but the roads are knee-deep with snow, and it is extremely cold outside the tent, and it is impossible for the Qin army to retreat as completely as Linzi did back then. At most, more than 100,000 or 200,000 people withdrew to the north of the Yellow River. The important thing is not how many people can be withdrawn, the important thing is that this is a decisive battle for the world, if the Qin army withdraws, the world will be Chu's.

Wang Jian recalled Bai Qi and blamed himself. Bai Lin thought about the current predicament of the Qin army with the eyes of a general, his choice was no different from Wang Qian, the Qin army could not withdraw and could only fight. When he was thinking about how to make suggestions, Wang Jian said: "In the final battle with the Jing people, I want to use General Bai as the front army, but what? ”

Bai Lin's 100,000 men attacked Daliang and killed and wounded 20,000 or 30,000, of which 30,000 or 40,000 were newly recruited teenagers, not elite. Wang Jian asked him to lead the army to the front, which inevitably made him stunned. In his opinion, the front army must be elite, otherwise the morale of the front army will definitely drop as soon as it collapses and the rear army falls. Bai Lin looked up at Wang Qian, and Wang Jian happened to look at him too. Bai Lin, who felt a murderous aura, hurriedly said: "Yes, yes." The last general was ordered by the general. ”

Hearing Bai Lin's answer, Wang Jian retracted his eyes, and he admonished: "Since General Bai is in the first position for the front army, he would rather rush forward than defeat the rear, otherwise, it should be like a rout of the chasm." ”

Wang Ben was defeated, and the 250,000-strong army fled back to more than 60,000 people during the night, and these 60,000 people were still imprisoned in a separate camp. According to the Qin law, 'the undead return, think that the vassals', although this is aimed at the surrender, but it is also adapted to the defeated soldiers who flee on the battlefield, because their comrades are all killed in battle. But there will still be a big war in the future, and if 60,000 soldiers participate in the war, it will inevitably be beneficial to the war situation, so some generals will lead the strategists to continue to plead their grievances, asking Wang Jian to be exempt from punishment, and it is best to make meritorious contributions to the crime. When Wang Jian talked about these soldiers at this time, he was obviously determined to punish them severely.

The conversation ended quickly, and the silent mountain in the curtain pressed down on Bai Lin's body, making him sweat on his forehead. He knew that the first formation of the front army was to stand at the forefront of the army with 100,000 people. When the Chu army was about to break through, the rear formation a hundred steps away would come forward to make up for it. Even if the formation is replenished, it is the back formation, and the front formation is basically exhausted.

"The last general thinks ......" Bai Lin took a deep breath, and Wang Qian's closed eyes opened. Our army can't use cavalry to hook the Jing people, so why not use foot soldiers? ”

"Foot Hook?" Wang Jian looked at Bai Lin with no surprised expression on his face. How to break through the Chu army array, the shogunate strategists have racked their brains.

"The Jing people's array is two thousand columns wide, and I am in two thousand five hundred columns. Why can't you form three thousand, four thousand? "Bai Lin's idea is just his own, and he has not tried anything." Our army is 3,000 columns wide, and 500 columns on the left and right can hook the Jing people. ”

"When did the Jing Ren Spear Formation fear the hook attack?" Before Bai Lin finished speaking, he imagined Wang Jian and chatted with interest. A similar idea was also conceived by the shogunate advisers, and they thought even more brilliantly - if the foot formation was 4,500 columns wide, it could surround the entire 2,000-column wide military formation of the Chu army. Siege sounds like a terrible word, and the real general has always been cautious about the siege.

Ten will be encircled, do not encircle without ten times the strength of the force, because once encircled, the width of the array will be three or four times that of the enemy, and the depth of the array will become one-third or one-quarter of the opponent. This is not counting, the surrounded enemy is still fighting, driven by the will to survive, must withstand their decisive counterattack with two to three times the depth of the strength of the battle, this is why there are ten sayings of encirclement.

Wang Jian stopped Bai Lin in a word, and when Bai Lin didn't say anything, he said again: "The Jing people are all wearing huge armor, and my sergeants have more leather armor and inferior spears, so what about the hook attack?" Can a hook kill a Jing man? ”

"Then our army ......" As soon as he talked about the inferior spear, Bai Lin bowed his head again, this is not a problem of formation, but a problem of armor.

"Great Qin will win!" Wang Jian stopped drinking. He knew what Bai Lin wanted to ask, and before he could ask the question, he made a conclusion for no reason.

Wang Jian was a general of the Qin State, but when he first enlisted in the army for decades, he was an ordinary Qin pawn, under Hu Yang, under Bai Qi, and under Meng Fu. Decades of fighting and fighting have given him the most precious character of a foot soldier without a teacher: victory never depends on any strategy or armor, but on faith that goes deep into the bone marrow.

There was no reason for Wang Jian to be convinced that the Qin army would win this battle. This belief coincides with the fearlessness of the famous saying of King Aegis II of Sparta, 'The Spartans never ask how many enemies there are, only where they are'. In Wang Qian's broken shout, Bai Lin was shocked, and his gaze at Wang Jian was immediately different.

"The last general has seen the general......" stepping on the kneeless snow, and finally a general led the captain to arrive.

At the same time, the curtain of the Chu army on the north bank of the chasm was also full of generals. But compared with the dignified and dim Qin Army Shogunate, there was no laughter and laughter in the big shogunate, and most of them had smiles on their faces.

Even the heavy snowfall made it impossible for the Chu army to take advantage of the victory to attack the Sand Sea, but there were also many benefits. The first is that all the non-commissioned officers of the army have been fully rested. As Qin Jun thought, some lightly injured soldiers had already returned to the building. The real losses of the Chu army were only more than 6,000 people, of which more than 3,200 were killed in battle, most of them were knights, and more than 3,500 were seriously wounded.

The second is reinforcements. The two armies of Zhao and Wei participated in the battle, and if the Qi army more than 100 miles away could catch up, 170,000 people would face the 400,000 Qin army, and the pressure would suddenly be greatly reduced; Finally, there's tactics. Wang Qian's method of dividing the array battle is essentially the same as Meng Tian's deepening of the depth, which is a countermeasure to prevent the Chu army's gunpowder from exploding the formation, and it does not affect anything.

In the past few days of snowfall, the most discussed thing in the Chu army shogunate was how to break through the thicker and thicker array of the Qin army. It was too difficult to charge the spear, and it took a long time for the spear pawn to break through the thicker and thicker array of the Qin army. The depth of the Qin army in the battle of Shashui was one hundred lines, and Wang Ben's array was also one hundred lines, and the decisive battle with Wang Jian was a decisive battle, and the Qin army's array at that time may be as thick as two hundred lines.

This is no longer a question of whether or not the formation can be broken, it is a question of whether the spear pawn has so much physical strength to rush the spear; Then the trebuchet behind the Qin army. Most of the casualties of the Chu spearmen in this battle were caused by trebuchets - before the formation was broken, the Chu army's spear array had to be hit by trebuchets, which was difficult to resist. The inverted 'pin' character array is that some spear formations resist the Qin army array, and some spear formations focus on rushing spears. The spear array must withstand the Qin army's array, and naturally it cannot disperse the array to dodge the fire and oil bombs.

The cavalry could also break the formation, but the heavy cavalry had only one division, and the first division had only three wedge formations listed. The Qin army has 100,000 people for a while, and 400,000 may have four or even five formations, and the heavy cavalry is obviously not enough. Moreover, heavy cavalry is precious, if the infantry can break through the Qin army's array with a spear, it is natural to break the formation with a foot pawn.

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