Chapter Ninety-Eight: Death

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The trebuchet is different, the trebuchet is originally a curved shot, and it doesn't care that there is an earthen wall in the middle. And the height of one foot and two feet is also exquisite, which should be related to the height of the elastic trebuchet itself. The position of the trebuchet is best behind the wall, behind which the artillery cannot be hit by direct fire, nor can it be hit by curved fire. However, considering the length of the trebuchet's throwing arm, the wall should not be too high, otherwise the thrown fire oil bombs will hit the wall.

It's okay that Qin Ren doesn't play projectile weapons, but when he plays projectile weapons, except for a little surprise to Xiong Jing at first, he soon laughed.

"Summoning Shen Qing!" Xiong Jing directly summoned the artillery generals. When Shen Qing ran over panting, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the front path where he had stopped projectile. "How can the Qin trebuchet be broken when it is placed behind the wall?"

It's not that the artillery of the Chu army has not played it, and the most important point of the warp is observation. Shen Qing nodded again and again: "I know." I should strike the eyes of the Qin people and blind their trebuchets. ”

"Good!" Xiong Jing nodded, and he pointed to the sun that was already in the west: "It's getting late, go quickly." ”

Bu Liangju belongs to the sea, in addition to more than 100 short-barreled cannons, 10 catties of cannons, 32 catties of siege cannons are all weapons of the mausoleum division. The short-barreled cannon could not hit far, and it could only be solved by the Lingshi artillery to solve the observer of the Qin trebuchet.

The lit pontoons are still burning, and they have drifted downstream downstream. At this time, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and on a clear winter day, the north wind suddenly roared, and finally howled. The flag of the Qin army on the earthen wall was almost scraped off the flagpole, the three-headed phoenix flag on Xiong Jing's side was blown loudly, and the black curtain in the Chu military camp in the rear was rolled up.

"Da Ao, there will be heavy snow tomorrow and tomorrow." At this time, the old man came uninvited, and the morning glow of Wandao made people feel not right, but now the wind and clouds have changed abruptly, the wind is fierce, and there are indeed signs of heavy snow.

"What does Jun Sima think?" The weather did not affect the war all the time, and Xiong Jing looked up at the sky, and the clouds were not as high as they were in the morning, but became low and thick. The wind blew the clouds, and the midday heat was instantly nowhere to be found.

"Today you will break the enemy before you." Xiong Jing looked up at the sky, and Zhuang Wudi also looked up at the sky. Although he is not proficient in astronomy, the situation has changed at the moment, and it will indeed snow heavily tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. "I only hope that it will snow again the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow will break Wang Qian."

Break Wang Ben today, and break Wang Jian tomorrow. Xiong Jing laughed when he heard this. Any battle will consume physical energy, and after the war, they will look very tired mentally and physically. It is best to rest for a day after the war and fight again, but if the weather is really like the old saying that it will snow tomorrow, after defeating Wang Ben today, you must quickly defeat Wang Jian tomorrow.

Xiong Jing laughed and said, "Order!" Since it is said that it will snow the day after tomorrow, then our army will break Wang Ben today, and Wang Jian tomorrow! ”

"Respectfully!" Ling Qi didn't expect that it was such a military order that regarded the Qin army as nothing, and after listening to it, his chest straightened, and he repeated loudly: "Since it is said that it will snow the day after tomorrow, our army will break Wang Ben today, and break Wang Jian tomorrow!" After shouting, he rode out on horseback.

......The cannonballs not only bombarded the high platform behind the wall, but also bombarded any suspicious places on the earthen wall, and several relatively intact three-oared warships broke through the thin ice on the north bank of the chasm, without the need for a pontoon bridge, and landed directly on the narrow ditch bank on the north side of the ditch under the cover of the artillerymen, erected a shield to block the stone rolling wood, and the workers began to dig the wall.

As soon as the sound of the wall was heard, there was a panic on the other side of the wall. The Chu army's use of witch medicine to bomb the city has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, knowing that it is impossible to bomb the city when digging the city, the Qin army generals are still panicking. In a panic, the trebuchet fired again, and hundreds of fire oil bombs flew high over the earthen wall, but at this time the Chu army did not build a bridge, and the soldiers were transported to the opposite bank by the captured war boats, and these fire oil bombs all fell on the water, and the flames were quickly extinguished.

Perhaps seeing that the fire oil bomb was ineffective, a drum sounded behind the wall, and the figure of the Qin soldier flashed out of the unmanned wall. It's a pity that the place above the chiseled wall is the place of artillery bombardment, and as soon as the Qin soldiers appeared, they were bombarded by artillery, and the flesh and blood of the people were beaten, and the dirt chips on the wall were flying. When the Qin people climbed down the one-foot-and-two-foot-high earthen wall from both sides to drive away the soldiers who were digging the wall, the short-barreled cannons on the pontoon boats and the archers on the war boats hurriedly fired. As before, under the pressure of artillery, the city was completely under the control of the Chu army, and the Qin army could only resign itself to fate.

The war boat that was originally used to stop the Chu army was actually used by the Chu army to dig the wall, and Wang Ben, who learned this, was full of ashes. 'If you don't keep it for three days, you will abandon the market. That's what the military order is. Now I can't hold it for a day, so I can only fight to the death. The military order was not only against Wang Ben alone, but also against the twenty-five captains under Wang Ben's command. Some of these lieutenants have just been promoted, while others have been lieutenants for a long time.

No matter which one it is, there is no smile on everyone's faces, and a few young lieutenants are even writing a slip with their heads down, which is probably the last suicide note. Wang Ben couldn't hold back his crying and wanted to cough, but he seemed to be dumb, and coughed hard a few times before coughing out once, attracting the attention of the generals in the scene.

"Today with Jing Ren...... Wang Ben's whole person was wrong, and the voice he made seemed to be another person's voice. He noticed this himself, and coughed heavily a few more times before speaking again. "The decision with the Jing people is for the sake of the armor. General Bai attacked a large number of them, but to seize the armor of the Wei people, if there is no armor, our army will not win, it will ......"

The voice was extremely strange, and the words were helpless and sad. But before the battle, Wang Ben still said the purpose of the battle. The things in the curtain were not known to the captains, and at this time the captains knew that this battle, which was originally to be blocked for three days, but now could only be blocked for one day, was to seize the armor of the Wei State. Think of it again, most of the soldiers on their side are leather armor, a few are cloth armor, and in addition to the generals leading the soldiers, there is almost no one pair of soldiers.

The color of the lieutenant changed, and Xin Xian, who was also regarded as a general, stood up: "Our army will be defeated in this battle, what is the benefit of fighting?" It's better to ...... tomorrow."

"It is a time to be able to block a person, and a mile is a mile to be able to block a person." Wang Ben regretted confiding the truth to the various lieutenants. "If I fight with you, the Jing people will not go to the sand sea today, and if I don't fight with you, the Jing people will go to the sand sea today."

"This is less than twenty miles from the sea of sand!" Governor Yang Xi also spoke out, he was born in the Yang family, and Yang Xiong's cousin who was imprisoned for his crimes. He said excitedly: "Our army has 250,000 soldiers, 10,000 soldiers for one mile?!" ”

"The military order is like this, what does Captain Yang want?" Wang Ben also had a protector by his side, and the protector was Zhao Yi, who sent Yang Xiong to prison back then. As soon as he spoke, the other lieutenants who wanted to speak quickly silenced.

"General Bai is attacking the city of King Wei, our army is killing the enemy today, and the general will kill the enemy in the Sand Sea tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, what is the difference?" Wang Ben is a general after all, and after trembling, he gradually regained his courage, and his voice gradually returned to his own color. He looked around at all the lieutenants, and when he saw that they were all bowing their heads, he said his answer: "It's not too early to die!"

This battle is a battle of the survival of the country, if our army wins, the Great Qin will survive, and if our army is defeated, the Great Qin will die. If Daqin dies, you and your wife's relatives, and you will not have the gold and silver in the field. Captain Xin, your Xin clan is also dead. Yang Duwei, your Yang family is also dead. There are also you, etc., you have gone through a lot of hard work to obtain the title, and the farm house you have obtained will be owned by others after death. Are you willing? I'm not reconciled! ”

There is no awe-inspiring call for righteousness, only a real analysis from the shoes of oneself. Du Wei not only has no worries about food and clothing, but also is a senior general of the Qin army, even if he is not a chief, he is also a doctor. Although the imperial court did not really give 300 provinces, there were also 300 feudal towns. In addition to Yulu, there are many privileges, you can not serve in the military, you can be demoted to atonement for crimes, and you can glorify the township......

The privileges attached to the title may be the result of killing the enemy or the result of treachery, either way of which is obtained with great effort and hard work. The Qin army lost the country like a skin, and everything that existed would be taken away. If it is the State of Chu, even the State of Qi, or even the State of Yan, Zhao, Han and Wei, the loss of power is the loss of power, but it is just a matter of abandoning others and neglecting the court. If the Qin State is otherwise, the Qin State must step on the throne of others, and once it loses power, the enemy will come.

Don't hesitate to think that it is best to avoid war and live; If you think about it, sometimes it's better to be alive than dead. The faces of the captains with their heads bowed became worse and worse, and they gradually figured out the key to everything: the Qin State could not die! When they raised their heads to look at Wang Ben again, their eyes were already different. Wang Ben did not intend to convince everyone that, as was customary, the captain's family and wives were all in Xianyang, and if they tried to escape like Yiqulu, their family would definitely be sentenced to death.

"I am the middle army, Captain Xin is the right army, Yang Duwei is the left army, the whole army is 2,500 columns, forty rows and one line, a total of two formations. The two formations are separated by 100 paces, the former is defeated, and the defeated will be killed...... "Wang Ben personally ordered the battle formation negotiated by the shogunate, even if there were more than 200,000 people, the whole army was divided into two types. Forty lines of wartime arrays, the thickness of the formation is only fourteen steps. If the Chu army threw fire oil to explode the array, such a thin array would inevitably blow itself up.

"However, our army has no worries about the armor ......" came out of the formation than before, and it was no different from before, but Xin Xian was quite worried about the armor.

"Cloth armor is fine." Wang Ben looked at him with some dissatisfaction in his tone. He couldn't get his hands on the armor at all.

"The Jing people have cavalry, and our army ......," Yang Xi raised another question. This is exactly what Wang Ben wants to emphasize, he said: "The general sent General Yu Fen to help me, the cavalry lined up on my two wings, and five thousand cavalry charged the Jing people artillery array. However, Wang Ben looked at the captains again: "There are more cavalry soldiers in our army than Jing people, and the generals who are defeated will be killed!" ”

There are cavalry guards to protect the wings, and they can also hook the flanks of the Chu army during the war, and they can cover the retreat after the defeat, which makes the captains who thought that they would die in this battle have a lot of joy, but Wang Ben's last sentence cut off all the hope of life, and after the rout, the cavalry army actually did not protect their own army and retreated to kill themselves, and that trace of joy If the boat division on the chasm sank deep to the bottom of the ditch.