Chapter 56: Trap 2

The enemy knew that it was a trap and had to step forward, but he did not turn back and retreated, so I have to say that he was a little bold. Cheng Feng actually hoped that they would retreat, because his soldiers were less than 30,000, and one-third were still old and weak. The battle was not for anything else, but for revenge - the corpses of countless allies and comrades floated down the upper reaches of the river, and they have not been converged to this day. The news newspaper said that the Qin people would definitely attack, and everyone was waiting for today.

"Cheng General, in wartime, it is necessary to take the artillery pawn as the standard, the artillery pawn advances, the whole army advances, and the artillery retreats when the artillery retreats. If the enemy hits me, the foot soldiers and cavalry soldiers should quickly escort the artillery guards...... "That day, he went down the mountain and broke his calf, and Shen Qing was sent to Nanzheng. A few days earlier, when Cheng Feng was preparing to fight the Qin people, he immediately asked to see Cheng Feng and asked to use his new tactics. Cheng Feng accepted his proposal and agreed to rush ahead of the artillery soldiers, but Shen Qing was still worried that the soldiers would not be able to restrain their hatred and rush ahead of the artillery soldiers without authorization.

"Since Shen Yingxiao has been promised, it will be as Shen Yingxiao wishes." Cheng Feng replied, looking at the artillery array ahead.

The Qin army was making great strides, and in front of the Chu army's array were forty-eight artillery pieces lined up, which were the lightest ten-pound guns. Unlike usual, the marching horses dragged the entire artillery carriage, and the muzzle of the gun was overrun. Now the muzzle of the cannon was ahead, and the two dragon horses dragged forward at a thirty-degree angle on either side of the artillery, with the gunners following alongside. The grass after the rain is extremely muddy, but the ten-pound cannon is very light, only about two thousand Chu catties, and the two dragon horses plus several artillery pawns and drivers pull it, and the pulling force is more than enough.

"However," Cheng Feng retracted his gaze, and said again: "The soldiers hate Qin very much, and I don't know if they obey the orders of the army. ”

"But Master Qin has far more soldiers than me!" What Shen Qing was worried about was that the soldiers rushed forward on their own initiative, just like the Battle of Xiangcheng. But he is a commandless artillery school, and if the soldiers can't even listen to Cheng Feng's orders, then there is no way.

"So what? It's just a slave. After Cheng Kui was rescued, he didn't speak when he got up when he returned to Nanzheng, and he was as cold as a thousand-year-old ice. Shen Qing's words made him unhappy.

"Ke, Ke ......" Shen Qing was about to argue, when the black-pressed Qin army was getting closer and closer, and the distance between the two sides was less than two miles. In order to deal with the dozens of artillery pieces in front of the Chu army, like the Battle of Xiangcheng, the Qin army was forming a concave vacancy in the artillery array, and the artillery casualties were only one or two miles.

"Quick! Carry me forward. With a plaster cast on his broken leg, Shen Qing could only let the guards carry him forward. The thickness of the Chu army's military formation was no more than ten rows, and it was very easy to pass through. However, before Shen Qing arrived at the artillery array, with the sealed order flag, the array of more than 28,000 Chu troops suddenly changed, and the thin horizontal formations lined up in a row became eight phalanxes of sixty rows and sixty columns.

There are no archers, no wanderers, and no fear of the enemy's detours. Shen Qing couldn't understand his own formation, and on the opposite side of the military formation, Bai Lin, who was a few hundred steps away, didn't understand why the Chu army put up such a formation.

"The Jing people want to shoot me with a spear?" The lieutenant in front of him muttered, most of the generals of the Qin army had seen the Chu army rushing to the spear.

"What about hitting me?" Bai Lin subconsciously replied. "Wild geese."

"The general has an order: the geese march in formation." The Chinese military drums made a strange sound, and the geese marching array flags were played on both sides of the flag. According to the daily maneuver, the central army of the Qin army suddenly slowed down, and the left and right armies advanced forward the more they flanked. Soon, the Qin army's horizontal formation became a wild goose marching formation with the central army concave and the left and right wings stretched forward, approaching the two wings of the Chu army, which had shortened the front line and turned into eight large spear phalanxes.

Bai Lin commanded the elite of the Qin army, and the entire army was still advancing when the formation changed, but the pace of each lieutenant's advance was fast and slow, and the speed was different. By the time it had advanced from more than 500 steps to 200 steps, the horizontal formation had turned into a huge flying geese formation.

Cheng Feng's brows furrowed even tighter when he saw this. He used to be in the military and had never directly commanded a battle, but he knew how to command a battle and understood the laws of changing military formations. The Qin army's change of formation is like flowing water, and the main general of the Chinese army is bold and commanding, and he is definitely a formidable enemy.

"Drive!" Feeling Cheng Feng's worry, Cheng Kui's legs were clamped, and the crotch jumped down, and the person ran out.

At this time, the Chu army was eight rushing spear phalanxes, and there was a gap of dozens of steps between the phalanxes, and it was very smooth to pass from the back of the formation to the front of the formation. Cheng Kui rushed out, and the cavalry that followed him also rushed out, following the artillery soldiers in front of the infantry formation, and the cavalry soldiers also lined up in front of the infantry formation. When the officers of the phalanx were trying to ask Cheng Kui to get out of the way, so as not to block the route of the infantry to charge the spears, there was a 'boom' and the cannon fire suddenly rang out.

Always have artillery in front! This is a summary of watching Shen Qing after the battle for the Mandarin Crane Mountain Pass. Forty-five pounds of cannons should be towed by Fu horses, and ten catties of cannons and two dragon horses are enough. The Qin army was already within the firing range, and under the order of the artillery commander, forty-eight ten-pound cannons suddenly opened fire.

The gap between the artillery columns was about 10 meters, and the artillery array with a width of about 500 meters was in front of the infantry and cavalry, which was only 300 meters shorter than the width of the infantry formation composed of eight rushing spear phalanxes. As soon as the cannon sounded, the smoke of gunpowder burning almost covered the entire array of foot soldiers. Cheng Kui wanted to rush to the front of the formation and shoot the enemy to boost the morale of his army, but the artillery suddenly opened fire, and the war horse under his crotch immediately neighed.

The cannon roared in front of the formation, and one after another flames erupted out of the barrel, even if the Qin army's array was concave, the flying shells still caused heavy casualties. Bai Lin stared at these fiery iron bullets, hoping that the Chu army would be able to rush forward immediately, and once they rushed forward, this tragic time would end.

"Advance β€”β€”!" Some of the gunners were still firing, while others were raising their tailstock and driving the two dragon horses in front of the guns forward. The guns advanced about twenty paces and then stopped, lined up, and fired. When they opened fire, the gunners who were firing in the rear immediately stopped firing, and also raised the tailstock and drove the dragon horse forward.

Just as the left and right sides alternated when walking on two legs, the Chu army's artillery also advanced alternately on the left and right, and once the column was released, it opened fire and hit hard. The Qin army's array was only more than 400 steps apart, and the two armies were more than 200 steps apart. With the gradual advancement of the artillery, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and with each cannon sound, more and more Qin soldiers fell.

Bai Lin was located in the rear of the concave array, although it was still within the killing range of the solid bullets, but the cannonballs passed through the array and hit here It was the end of the strong crossbow, and the artillery of the Chu army continued to advance, and the shells fired became more and more lethal-

The cannonball will jump when it hits the breech, and then it will land and jump again. When the cannonball jumps, the middle section flies longer than the height of the soldier, and only the section with two ends that are about to land can kill and injure the soldier. Therefore, for long-distance artillery bombardment, the artillerymen must place the enemy array as far as possible at the end of the fast landing section, rather than the section in the middle that exceeds the height of the soldiers. Otherwise, the shells flew over the heads of the enemy soldiers and could not hit anything.

Another way is not to jump, try to put the enemy in front of the first landing point, that is, from the muzzle to the first landing point. However, if the shell landed very close at the zero degree angle, the muzzle had to be raised so that the first point of fall was as far away as possible. This also leads to the former situation, that is, because the firing angle is too large, the shell flies too high, and it also cannot cause damage.

The 10-kilogram cannon was fired at a zero-degree angle, and the first landing point of the shell under the quadruple charge was about 280 paces, and the closer it was to this point, the greater the damage. The shell does not fall at an angle, but it bounces again. The shell fell at a certain angle and the first person cut off his head, the latter person passed through his chest, the third person cut his waist in half, and the fourth person broke his legs, so the shell hit the ground, and then bounced up from low to high and killed again over the head, killing and wounding only eight soldiers in total.

The shell is discharged at a zero degree angle, and the flight altitude will not exceed the top of the soldier's head, and the first soldier hits the chest, and the height of the last soldier across the entire column is estimated to be still at the waist, and under such an artillery attack, the entire column will all die.

The artillery of the Chu army advanced, and what Bai Lin and the captains, strategists, and short soldiers around him saw was the process of the gradual formation of the blood trough. With each shell, a whole column of soldiers fell, along with the men behind them.

In order to resist the spear formation of the Chu army, the Qin army's formation was thirty rows thick, there were thirty soldiers in one column, and forty-eight guns fired five shells each, even if half of the shells only hit the gap in the array caused by the previous shell, from this gap passed harmlessly, in less than half an hour, three or four thousand Qin soldiers were pierced and killed by the shells.

The killing was so efficient that the Qin soldiers in the array seemed to be distracted and forgot to abandon the formation and fled. The two lieutenants who were facing the artillery array saw the ranks of his lieutenant's soldiers fall one after another, and his heart was twitching, and so were the people.

"Please general, attack the Jing people! Please general, attack the Jing people quickly......" The two captains ran over and wailed. Bai Lin wanted to repeat the battle of Xiangyang, inducing the Chu army to charge over his own artillery array, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand, but the Chu army was no longer fooled, and the retreat tactics were completely useless.

'Boom, boom......' the cannon continued to fire. The smoke of gunpowder blew southward, and the Chu army couldn't see its results clearly, and didn't know that the Qin army array facing it had been completely destroyed. Bai Lin saw the tragic situation on his side, but the Chu army had already entered the range of the ballistas, and the ballistas began to aim at the Chu army's artillery in the distance.

The artillery of the Chu army did not care about this, let the enemy ballista fire, and continued to bombard the Qin army's military formation. At this moment, a cannonball that passed through the gap in the array hit a pack horse in front of Bai Lin, the horse's body was shattered like a car split, and the whistling cannonball flew past Bai Lin's side, splashing him with blood and broken flesh.

"General, don't attack ...... again" Seeing this, the lieutenant said urgently, and let the Chu army shell down, and soon even the shogunate would not be able to be saved.

"Attack!" Bai Lin, whose face was covered in flesh and blood, shouted. The Qin army, who had been passively beaten, also shouted when he heard the drums: "Attackβ€”β€”! ”

At this time, the Chu army, which was no more than 800 meters wide, was almost surrounded by the Qin army's 50,000-strong wild goose marching array, and the Qin army's charge was not on one side, but on three sides. Only the Qin army array, which was about 500 meters wide, was bombarded by the artillery and no one shouted 'attack', but they were awakened by the sound of drums and the shouts of their own soldiers, and abandoned the spears in their hands and ran backwards desperately.

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