The wind and snow became heavier, and the night outside the tent was below minus 10 degrees, and although the charcoal fire was burning inside the tent, the temperature was only a few degrees. The shiny armor hung next to the bear thorn couch, and the tentacles were extremely cold. The head, body, arm, skirt, shins, and chain mail on the inside are all put together, and at first glance it looks like a soldier standing in front of the bed.

Cherishing armor is like cherishing one's own body, and before going to bed, Xiong Jing habitually wipes his armor and oils the entire set of armor. Compared with the previous armor, this armor is probably the best work of Jutiefu, exquisitely made, and fits well. The head is no longer an ugly barrel shape, but has become more rounded. Its top is round, adhering to the tradition of the bronze crest of the Zhou people and the leather crest of the Chu army, and there is a thick cockscomb from the forehead to the back of the head, and there is a cluster of colorful young feathers in the gap of the cob, which is extremely conspicuous.

A raised eaves were added to the forehead to protect him from the rain, and the upper end of the visor was still riveted to the temples, and the rivets were tightened and loosened so that they could be fixed at any angle. In order to make the enemy afraid, the mask is no longer the plain face of the past, but a cold forged human face:

The round hole in the outer convex and rounded is the eye, which is sandwiched by a long nasal ridge, and under the nasal ridge is a large nose tip. The teeth in the mouth are hollowed out, and the gaps between the teeth are clearly visible. Except for the second canine on the lower outer side that rolls up and inward, the rest of the teeth are all rectangular spatula-shaped. The square ears are located between the eyes and nose and protrude from the sides of the mask; On both sides of the head there is a corner obliquely, and the ends of the horns are also rolled inward like canine teeth, and the cloud pattern is carved on it.

The mask is hideous, terrifying, and weird, and it looks like the style of the Chu people. Xiong Jing had seen many similar bronze masks in the Lantai Palace, and the shamans used ropes to pass ropes through the square holes in the masks' ears and tie the entire face armor to their faces. It's just that compared to those bronze masks, the horns of this mask are not vertically extended, but obliquely, so that when the armor is opened upwards, the horns do not touch the skull; There is also no cylinder directly above the mask, which is used to insert the feathers.

Xiong Jing wipes his armor every few days, but this day's wiping is unusual for Chang Jiang. Yesterday, the king said to Fei Jing that he would break the formation with heavy horses, and today Zhuang Wudi, Deng Sui, Peng Zong and others heard the news and came to dissuade them, and the left and right histories also felt that Xiong Jing could not be in danger.

It is likely that the entire Qin army was equipped with flax armor, and the killing of light cavalry bows and arrows was useless. The light cavalry could not shoot the soldiers in the formation, and the array would not be chaotic. There was no chaotic array of heavy cavalry shocks, which were hundreds of lines thick and everyone was carrying a spear, and the result was sure to be either dead or wounded. As a striker, it can indeed boost morale, but if there are casualties, it will be a heavy blow to morale.

Aside from morale, the Operations Division had never tested whether the heavy cavalry charge and the Yi spear charge could break through the Qin army's increasingly thick array. Even if the heavy cavalry charge formation can't break through the enemy formation, it can still disrupt the enemy formation, which the shogunate strategists admitted, but wouldn't the Qin army make up the formation in the rear? Once the Qin army replenished the formation in the rear, the heavy cavalry died in vain. Heavy cavalry can charge into battle, but either attack the enemy's flank or wait for the enemy formation to fall into chaos before attacking, rather than launching a one-time attack that is not necessarily effective in the face of the complete array of the Qin army.

In the midst of the controversy, the matter went back to the old path of incomprehension. In the decisive battle, the artillery will be overwhelmed by the horse corpses of the Qin army, the spear array will face a thicker and thicker military formation, and the heavy cavalry that can break through the enemy formation will be entangled and disturbed by the Qin cavalry. The three methods of breaking the formation of the Chu army were all restrained by the Qin army accordingly, and the final victory could only rely on the spear formation soldiers to charge the spears hard, or drag out the artillery that was submerged by the horse corpses as soon as possible.

But both of these are uncertain. The soldiers will be tired, and once they are tired, they will be compressed by the Qin army to rush the spear space, and finally the two armies will be entangled together, and the charging spear will be ineffective. And artillery, when the two armies are fighting, rush forward, and the artillery will inevitably be behind the battle line. If your cavalry did not block the enemy cavalry outnumbered you, even if the artillery was dragged out of the horse corpse, it would suffer a new round of impact from the Qin cavalry. What really stopped the cavalry was machine guns and dense arrays of spears, not strong bows and crossbows, not flintlock pistols or artillery shotguns, which were either not powerful enough or not fast enough.

The people who dissuaded Xiong Jing gave various reasons, but no one dared to say with certainty that the Chu army would definitely be able to break through the Qin army's array from the front. On the side, because it was difficult for the armies to arrive before the decisive battle, there were only more than 2,000 columns in the 20 divisions of the Chu State, and only 4,000 columns in the two armies of Zhao and Wei. If the width of the Qin army's formation was 6,000 columns, it would have been outflanked by the Qin army's foot soldiers on both flanks before the Chu army could hook up.

Everyone dissuaded, Xiong Jing insisted, and the two sides finally broke up unhappily. However, Xiong Jing was a great Ao, and the heavy cavalry was subordinate to the Yingshi Division, so the final battle array had to be modified - facing Wang Jian Yujing's position would become the shock port of the heavy cavalry, and every two heavy cavalry brigades, about 360 heavy cavalry and 169 light cavalry, formed a wedge formation of 529 people.

This wedge array is twenty-three rows deep, with only one person in the first row and forty-five in the last, with two more people in each row. One hundred and sixty-nine light horsemen also formed a wedge-shaped array with thirteen rows in depth, inlaid behind the large wedge-shaped array. Because the cavalry could not kill and injure the Qin soldiers in linen armor, these 169 light cavalry carried grenades, two per person, and the light cavalry knight was given a fire source by Yu Tong before the charge, and threw it when he was twenty paces away from the enemy after the charge.

At the same time, according to the experience of the Xianyang Plateau in that year, before the wedge formation impact, 100 light horsemen would run in two rows in front of the wedge formation. They each carried a lit heavy grenade in each hand and threw it into the Qin array. This was the first wave of attacks, the second wave was the small grenades of the light cavalry in the wedge formation, and finally the hard-hitting collision between the heavy cavalry and the Qin army's infantry and the rushing spears of the Chu army's infantry one after another.

The enemy line must be broken as quickly as possible, and Xiong Jing's decisive battle idea was like this, he didn't want to wait for the spear formation to charge the spear or the cannon to drag the cannon out of the horse's carcass. Whether it is the Qin army's foot soldiers or the Qin army's cavalry, the number is twice that of the Chu army, once the spear array loses its initial sharpness and cannot break the formation, the knights can't stop the swarming Qin cavalry, and the result is defeat.

"If the first king knew that Da Ao was like this, he would have been happy." Xiong Jing wiped his armor, Chang Jiang had the same thoughts as Zhuang Wudi and the others, but he couldn't say anything to dissuade him.

"If my father knows my ......", mentioning his father Xiong Jing is inevitably melancholy. He couldn't tell if he had failed his father or not.

"My Chu State Sheji has moved to Xinying, and the blood of the ancestors is endless, and the work of the king is also." Chang Jiang said. "Prince Ransheng is still young, the princes have not given birth, the old ministers in the court are more than enough, and the boys can't wear armor......"

Chang Jiang said it tactfully, but Xiong Jing still heard something else in his words. When Xiong Jing turned his head to look at him, Chang Jiang said: "If this battle is lost, the king should also return to Xinying as soon as possible, how can my Chu country have no king." ”