Chapter 43: Net Breaking 5
Between the large and small conical arrays, there stood thirty wrestlers and a pile of firebombs. The fire bomb is actually a wine urn, bound by hemp rope, and each weighs more than 100 catties according to the calculation of the Gongyin knife. It is filled with fish oil, pine resin, blue paste and other substances, which are flammable in case of fire. Before the trebuchet is launched, it will light the hemp rope stained with oil on the outside of the urn, because it is thrown by the wrestler, and the Gong Yin knife, who is worried that it will not catch fire, also prepares the side of the rocket wrestler, and more than a dozen archers are ready to ignite the rocket after the urn is thrown.
Xiong Jing gave an order, and the spear array immediately made way of a passage, and the wrestler carried the wine urn that was on fire and rushed forward, and when he was about to run out of the spear array, the wrestler pushed vigorously, and the wine urn actually flew out of thin air four or five steps away. Four or five steps is only five or six meters, which is not far, but it doesn't matter if it is not far, the purpose of throwing fire bombs is to make the Qin army array chaotic, and once the array is chaotic, it will not be able to stop the advance of the Yi Spear Array.
The wine urn that flew four or five steps first hit the halberd beryllium of the Qin army armor, and then smashed on the top of their heads, and something unexpected happened: the wine urn fell to the ground and was not broken!
The king who has no last resort also miscalculates, and Xiong Jing is suddenly full of black lines. But the unbroken wine urn was still a fire bomb in Qin Jun's eyes, and the wine urn was thrown, and a cadre of armor soldiers who knew that the fire bomb was powerful retreated in horror, and the array was concave inside, and the wine urn with fire burning on the hemp rope rolled in the messy open space.
"Enter!" The fire bomb failed to burst, and Chang Zhuang still shouted forward. At this time, the wrestler who threw the fire bomb squeezed out the spear array again, he extinguished the flame on the hemp rope, and actually brought the wine urn back.
"Put!" As the spear formation advanced, it became more and more difficult for the archers standing on the rear side of the chariot to find the angle of shooting, and the war of cold weapons was not a war of hot weapons after all. The arrays on both sides were crowded with people, except for the archers at one end of the battle line who could shoot along the battle line to their targets, the rest of the archers had to hit the Qin army armor in front of the spear formation very accurately if they wanted to shoot their heads.
The Jing crossbow is different, although it also faces the problem of no shooting angle, but the Jing crossbow has a fast rate of fire, the arrow penetration is strong, and the long arrow that is diagonally shot into the Qin army array from a high place has become a nightmare for the Qin army armor soldiers, every time the arrow is fired, there must be several people piercing it, dozens of Jing crossbows continue to release arrows, and the Qin army armor soldiers in front of the Yi spear array are falling in strings.
"Enter!" Under the double blows of the crossbow and the spear, the continuous retreat and death of the vanguard armor soldiers made the already chaotic Qin army even more chaotic. One of the several fire bombs thrown again finally broke through the wine urn, and the initial fire frightened those Qin army armorers who wanted to break the wine urn and use fire bombs to stop the advance of the Chu army.
Withdraw! Retreating step by step, after retreating more than a dozen steps, the Qin army had no way to retreat, and the crowd in the rear was no longer crowded. The spear stabbed violently, and the layers of armor fell down before the queue slowly advanced again.
"Protect the Admiral!" At the same moment, the short soldiers in the shogunate shouted in unison.
At this time, the flag had penetrated more than ten steps into the Qin army's central army array, and what was exposed outside the formation was the wide rear of the conical formation, and the disciples on this side lined up with their backs to the flag. The warrior knights who were full of worship of Hou Ciyi were shot indiscriminately by the archers before they could get closer, and seeing that the Chu army was in a tight array, they had to abandon Qi and King Jing and join the ranks of attacking the Xiangyan shogunate.
The camp of the Chu army was already in flames, and the inside and outside of Xiang Yan's shogunate were also full of shouts and killings, and more than 1,000 short soldiers were protecting Xiang Yan's big tent, and they were fighting to the death with the martial knights who dismounted and fought. Protecting the main general, protecting the banner, any of them will be beheaded and punished.
"Where has the king entered?" The outside can't be seen in the military curtain, but what Xiang Yan thinks about is the outside. The defeat of his own army has been achieved, if the king cannot penetrate the middle army of the Qin army and force the Qin army to collapse, more than 200,000 Chu troops will die here.
"I've taken more than ten steps, but it's just ......" Peng Zong deliberately looked at the position of the flag before entering the account.
"Just how?" Xiang Yan asked, he didn't care about the shouting and killing outside the tent at all.
"It's just that the Qin army has retreated and has no way to retreat." Peng Zong was gloomy. No matter how tight the array is, there are some gaps. Once these voids are compressed, it's not so easy to move forward. At this time, the two sides can only fight for their lives, and then step on each other's corpses to advance. The left and right armies could not be attacked, in addition to the distance between the sharp soldiers, there was also a reason why the array had been compressed to the extreme, and the Qin army had no way to retreat.
"Does the king have any other plan?" Xiang Yan asked again, at this time he could only hope for Xiong Jing, hoping that he could chisel through the enemy array.
"I don't know!" As soon as Peng Zong finished answering, he said 'get ......' twice, and shot a few crossbow arrows from outside the tent and nailed them to the wooden pillars of the big tent, and the white feathers at the end of the arrows still trembled.
"I didn't expect that I, Xiang Yan, would die here." The range of the crossbow arrow was not far, and Xiang Yan, who felt that defeat was inevitable, couldn't help but sigh.
"Our generals use their lives, and the king is wise and heroic, if he is defeated, God wants me to be defeated." Peng Zong was relieved in his gloom. In this battle, these people really did their best, the defeat of the Chu army was not the defeat of the soldiers, but the defeat of the national strength, the elite soldiers selected by the Qin people from 15 million people, how could the Chu army, which was swept away from the 3 million people, win?
"Bomb dropping!" In the chaotic battlefield, Xiong Jing lost his voice.
The Yi Spear Array could no longer be pushed, and although the shot of the Jing crossbow could kill a string of Qin soldiers, there was no place for these corpses to fall. Fifteen steps were advanced, and the remaining sixty steps had to be stabbed to death one by one by the Qin army and their corpses before they could advance on their corpses. It's too slow, too slow! The camp of the Chu army was on fire, and the Qin army in the pocket array was moving forward to attack the thin Chinese army array of the Chu army, and once it broke through, the Chu army was defeated.
"Bomb dropping!" The spear array gave way to two gaps, and the unsealed wine urn was carried by the wrestler, and after a few steps of trembling and majestic running, the wine urn was thrown out. The grease spilled out of the wine urn and splashed onto Qin Jun's body, and after the urn body smashed on the person, more grease spilled out.
"Cast again!" Xiong Jing drank vigorously again, and several more wrestlers rushed forward with wine urns. One of them was hit by an arrow from the Qin army before throwing out the door of the wine urn, and the dying wrestler shouted, holding the wine urn and falling directly into the array of the Qin army.
"Ignition!" Xiong Jing's heart suddenly surged with blood, but he didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately ordered the archers to light the fire.
"Boom!" As soon as the rocket was fired, the Qin army immediately set fire to the column. The blades are not terrible, but the raging fire is terrifying. Those on fire screamed and jumped wildly, and those who were not on fire retreated as hard as they could, stepping on others to avoid when there was no way out.
"Bomb dropping!" When the north wind blew, Xiong Jing could smell the scorching smell of burning fat, but he had to throw bombs again, so that the fire burned as little as possible. In this situation now, only the fire can make the Qin army frightened, and only the horror can make them trample on each other, and finally collapse.
The Yi Spear Array began to advance, and some of the Qin troops who were on fire were fiercely pushed away by the Yi Spear, and in the gap of the spear array, the wrestlers kept throwing fire bombs, and the archers were responsible for lighting the fire. Onward, in the flames, in the screams, in the scorching......
So what the more than 200,000 Chu soldiers and soldiers saw were two pictures: one was the camp in flames and black smoke rising into the sky, and the other was the flag steadily advancing in flames. The former means that the Qin army has entered the camp and its own army has been defeated; The latter shows that the Chinese army is cutting through the Qin army's military formation under the leadership of the king, and victory is expected.
Faced with these two contradictory scenes, even the wise Zeng Fang was confused. If you believe in the former, then you should immediately withdraw from the battlefield and retain the vitality of the Xiyang Division; If the latter is believed, then one should stick to the crumbling front, or even attack with all his might, in order to promote the defeat of the Qin army. What to do?! What to do?!
"The king has broken the Qin army! The king has broken the Qin army...... "right army array, Lu Ji, the general of Wu Diyue, pointed to the flag and shouted, he only had the flag fluttering in the wind in his eyes, and the flag went deep into the middle army of the Qin army, which means that the king has broken the Qin army, and victory is imminent.
"Strike with me! Hit me with me! Lu Jiren had already rushed to the first column, and three steps away, the Qin army with a long beryllium was glaring at him.
"Kill!" Lu Ji shouted wildly, holding a beryllium and rushing towards the Qin army's sharp soldiers. The general took the lead, and the morale of the soldiers rose again, and the right army began to attack again. On the same side, the general of the Huiji District, Qin, did not show weakness, he also rushed to the forefront, at this time no one cared about life and death, and the long soldiers were even more useless, the Huiji Yue pawn used a sword, even if someone was cut into two pieces by the long beryllium of the sharp soldier, there was always a gap in the long beryllium swing, once the Yue pawn rushed to the front of him and stabbed with a sword, the strong as the sharp man would also fall.
Forward, the flag is advancing, the right army is advancing, and the left army is suffering from annihilation. The right army of Wang Zu, who came to help, was stopped by Meng Wu, Yang Duan and 5,000 short soldiers. Looking at the side back of the Chu army, the Qiang Ling flag waved, and sixty-four Rong chariots formed two rows of wide chariots and rushed towards the side of the Lu division. The war horses galloped, the chariots galloped, and the first row of chariots directly knocked the soldiers outside the Lu division into the air.
The horror and shouting did not stop, and the second row of cars arrived. Facing the wreckage of the first row of Rong cars, the horses of the second row of Rong cars flew directly past, and the Rong cars were pulled by the galloping horses, abandoned high and fell heavily in the Lu Division array.
'Boom! Some of the reckless pawns were directly stoned to death by the horse-drawn chariots, and the chariots rolled over and swept across the entire column. Before the smoke and dust fell, the reckless soldiers who witnessed this situation had abandoned their troops and fled, and the left military formation was like a tile that had been hit by a hammer, and immediately collapsed a large piece.
"Don't run away! Don't run away! "The soldiers fled in all directions, if it weren't for the left army's array of 1,000 columns, I am afraid that the left army would collapse early. Seeing this scene, General Lu couldn't help but sprint and drink, but no matter how much he drank, he couldn't suppress the fear of the soldiers of the Qin army.
"General, I'll wait for ......" stood in the northeast corner of the battlefield, and General Xiang was hesitating whether to continue to attack the Qin army's camp or return to his own army's camp. At this time, the camp has been attacked by the Qin cavalry, although the Qin army camp is a mile away, can the Qin army camp be attacked to save the defeat? Everyone's eyes looked at Xiang Zhi, and everything was decided by him in a daze.
"King!" Xiang Zhi pointed to the battlefield and laughed weirdly, smiling brightly.
"The King?!" Following Xiang Zhi's point, the hesitant military leader finally saw the flag that kept advancing.
"King!" They clenched their fists. The goal is self-explanatory!