Chapter 100: Mortal 3
No change.
Jing Sheng's words made Xiong Jing smile, how to break the formation of the three wedges has long been discussed, and whether to break the formation today has also been discussed. It has been agreed that he will be in charge of the first formation, Fei Jing will be in charge of the second formation, and Jing Sheng will be in charge of the third formation. Together with the 100 cavalry throwing spherical grenades in front, each formation was only more than 630 cavalry, and the three formations totaled 1,900 cavalry, and the remaining 3rd Light Cavalry Division was still led by the abandoned heel, followed by the heavy cavalry to expand the victory.
A phalanx of chieftains with a depth of 100 rows of spears could not be rushed away by heavy cavalry, and a phalanx of 40 rows in depth may not be able to break away as long as the spherical projectile can explode accurately. Thinking of this, Xiong Jing couldn't help but smile a little, Wang Jian was probably afraid that he would use gunpowder to blow up the formation, which separated the Qin army's army formation one by one, didn't he think that the thin array couldn't withstand the impact of heavy cavalry and spear formation?
When Xiong Jing laughed, the Xiang Division and the Huainan Division who took the lead were crossing the bridge, and they would stand up first at the bridge. Seeing the Chu army crossing the bridge and lining up, the cavalry banners on both wings of the Qin army were moving, and the cavalry wearing gray armor rushed towards the bridge. It is the right thing to attack the enemy in an unstable foothold, and the artillery of the Chu army has never landed on the shore, so it has to be said that this is an excellent opportunity. And then there was no artillery and bows and arrows, and there were no bows and arrows and spear arrays. When Qin rode to seventy paces, a military order sounded on the pontoon bridge, and more than a thousand armor-piercing heavy arrows flew out angrily against the north wind.
The arrows are all horned eagle feathers, and the wind resistance is very strong, and when the arrows fall from the sky, these more than 1,000 Qin horsemen just arrived. The grayish-white heavy linen armor arrow did not penetrate it, but the arrow was still stuck in the linen armor after being shot. It seemed that Qin rode the horses with several arrows in his body, but in fact he was unscathed. Seventy paces away from the cavalry galloped within seconds, and the archers seized the last chance to shoot again.
The spearmen at the head of the bridge hurriedly lined up, and they were not a small phalanx of fifteen people, but a phalanx of sixty people. When Qin Qi rushed to more than twenty steps in front of him, the spearman in front had already bent down and stepped on the ground, waiting for Qin Cai's fierce impact.
'Boom Boom Boom ......' rushed towards the Qin army's domain cavalry, and after knowing that the arrows were ineffective against the giant armor, the arm crossbow and the kicking crossbow had disappeared from the Qin army's combat queue. Seeing that the spearmen of the Chu army were waiting in battle, and the thickness of the formation had reached more than 20 lines, these cavalry full of arrow feathers on the horses who rushed to more than 20 steps did not turn, but directly collided with the spear formation of the Chu army.
The neighing of the horses and the cracking of the spears were incessant, and the onslaught of the cavalry knocked the spearmen in the front two rows back, and the spears in their hands pierced through the armor. However, the spear array was not a row of razor spears, and the first rows of razor spears were all the most accurate for the enemy cavalry that might impact the spear array. Crushed the spears of the spearmen in the front row, and the spears in the rear resisted the war horse, and the spear blade pierced the thick linen armor, but it couldn't be pierced.
All of this happened between the optoelectronic fire divisions, and the one who had completed the assault rode back and walked away, exiting the spear formation that had just been impacted from the left side. They had just withdrawn, and the next wave of cavalry was rushing again as they had just done before. Xiong Jing and Fei Jing and the others on the shore were dumbfounded, this was obviously a heavy riding tactic, and the Qin people also learned this set.
"Bu Armor! The Qin people have cloth armor! "The general of the archers also saw this scene, before the Qin people's domain cavalry was not able to play, when they attacked the Zhao army's array, they were repelled by the Zhao army's heavy arrows, and now they have heavy armor that heavy arrows can't penetrate, so they played the tactics of the Chu army's heavy cavalry.
"This should be ......" Xiong Jing couldn't laugh and cry, he didn't expect that Qin Ren really found a solution to heavy riding and armor. Linen armor is obviously lighter than Ju armor, and the war horses weighing more than 300 kilograms are dressed in linen armor, and the knights are also wearing linen armor, and they can indeed charge into battle like the heavy cavalry of the Chu army.
In front of the cavalry rushing formation, the Xiang division and the Huainan division on the south bank and the pontoon bridge ran wildly, fearing that their division's spear formation would be broken by the Qin people. Xiong Jing also wanted to ask what to do, but with a few 'booms', the artillery on the floating boats on both sides of the bridgehead spear array suddenly opened fire.
Unlike the Battle of Weinan, the Chu army did not have pontoon boats in the Battle of Weinan, and the Chu army had pontoon boats in this battle. In order to prevent the Qin army from storming the pontoon bridge, these pontoon boats were separated on both sides of the pontoon bridge. The Qin army rode suddenly, and after rushing, he turned around and prepared to rush again, and the pontoon boat adjusted the angle and quickly opened fire. Because they were located on either side of the spear array, these guns could be cross-fired, and the shells flew diagonally in front of the spear array.
Shotguns were not fired, solid shells were fired. The solid bullet flew out and interrupted several galloping war horses, which seemed to be torn in the air by a pair of invisible hands, and broke in two with blood. The horseman also fell from mid-air, and after landing on the ground head and tail, he rolled forward again.
When the 'boom ......' cannon sounded again, the horn of the cavalry retreating also suddenly sounded. Finding that the cavalry that charged the formation would be bombarded by the artillery on the floating boat on the ditch bank, Zhao Teng, the commander of the cavalry, had to retrieve the precious cavalry.
It was not that the foot soldiers of the Chu army had never seen heavy cavalry charging formations, but they had not suffered heavy cavalry charging formations. The bombardment of the artillery soldiers made them cheer, especially those who had been broken by the cavalry. Hearing the cheers of the soldiers, Xiong Jing's face was a little grim, and he thought of the role of flax armor, but he didn't expect that the flax armor could allow the Qin army to have a real heavy horse.
Once again, he felt in his heart that the Winter Frozen Battle was completely correct. Wait any longer, who knows what new things the Qin people will come up with. This time the torsion trebuchet and flax armor are already very surprising - the Qin State occupies the land of horse grazing in the whole world, and also has hundreds of thousands of natural horsemen, if you really have to wait a few more years, the domain riding will not be a few thousand, but tens of thousands.
"In this battle, I want to break the formation with heavy horses!" Xiong Jing looked at Zhuang Wudi and the others, after the cavalry was driven back by the artillery, the Chu army had already swaggered across the ditch.
"Don't!" Zhuang Wudi immediately objected. "How can the method of breaking the formation be used again and again?"
"Not really." Deng Sui also said: "This is the Qin people's partial teacher, since it is a partial teacher, it should be used to rush the spear." What the shogunate discussed, why is Da Ao opposed? ”
After determining that the Qin army only had more than 200,000, the shogunate was completely opposed to breaking the formation with heavy cavalry, but Xiong Jing and the cavalry generals were still bent on breaking the formation with heavy cavalry. Deng then used the shogunate's proposal to oppose the heavy cavalry to break the formation, which made Xiong Jing helpless.
"If the spear does not break through the enemy's formation, the heavy cavalry can hit its formation." Xiong Jing emphasized the opportunity he had won for the heavy ride. He gradually felt that the foot soldiers and knights seemed to have a tendency to evolve into enemies, and this feeling made him very uncomfortable.
"The Qin people's array is only forty lines, how can it not be broken?" Deng Sui smiled, he was full of confidence in breaking through the Qin army's array.
Spear array, artillery array, seeing that the artillery was still lined up on the pontoons on both sides of the pontoon, the Qin army, which should have been advancing, was in a dilemma. If the cavalry launched a decisive attack on the Chu army's artillery array according to the plan, then the infantry would rush towards the Chu army while the cavalry was attacking, forming a melee. However, when the cavalry rushed towards the Chu army's array, it was bombarded by the artillery on the pontoon boats on both sides, and if the infantry rushed forward, they would definitely be bombarded by the pontoon artillery.
But if the attack is not launched immediately, the Chu army will advance, and the artillery will also advance. The artillery shells were still killing at a distance of 700 paces, and the artillery was pushing closer and closer, so close that the pontoon artillery could not kill the infantry that rushed forward, and the distance of 3 or 400 paces had already caused great damage to the Qin army's array.
The best option was to retreat, not seven hundred steps away from the Chu artillery array, but seven hundred steps from the pontoon artillery cross-kill point. But ...... retreat, more than 200,000 soldiers already knew that they would definitely die, and their morale was at a low point.
"Jing Ren Witch Weapon is also in! Captain Sindu asked the general to give the order to retreat. "A commander came in a hurry, this is to ask Wang Ben to retreat.
"General Yu, General Yu Fen, please beat the drum quickly, don't be too late!" A cavalry general rushed to the horse, which was to attack Wang Ben immediately.
"No, no, no. The Jingren witch weapon is not in front of the formation, and there are also witchcraft on the ship...... "The Chu army is in a column, and the strategists around Wang Ben are arguing endlessly because they should advance or retreat. Even Wang Li, the advisor sent by Wang Jian to supervise his son, also participated in this controversy.
'Boom, boom, boom......' The artillery of the Chu army opened fire while retreating, and the spear formations of the divisions and the knights of the Chu army behind the artillery array followed closely. As the sun sets, the sun shines brightly on the armor. The sound of artillery made the Qin army strategists who were arguing even more panicked, and seeing that the Chu army had advanced more than a hundred steps, Wang Li shouted: "The harm of using soldiers, hesitation is the greatest, whether to advance or retreat and ask the major general to decide." ”
Wang Ben was covered in sweat, and his mind still wanted to fall into the hole and couldn't jump out. He originally wanted Yu Fenjia to send cavalry to attack the artillery that could fire from the side on both sides of the Chu army's array, but this idea was opposed by the strategists on his side as soon as he was exported. Those cannons were not on land, but on the chasm, and no amount of cavalry could rush through the pontoon artillery position.
"Major General! Major General! Seeing that Wang Ben was still in a trance, Wang Li directly grabbed his arm and shook it vigorously, pointing at the advancing Chu army and shouting: "Jing people are advancing, whether to attack or retreat, make a quick decision!" ”
The Chu army was indeed getting closer and closer, and Wang Ben finally returned from thinking to the current reality, his eyes were opening wider and wider, his mouth was open and round, and his chest was undulating, and a cry of fear came out of his throat with a little fear: "Drumming!" Attack ——! ”
"Drumming! Attack ——! The people around him were all waiting for Wang Ben's order, whether it was those who wanted to attack or those who wanted to retreat, they all exhaled heavily at this time, since the Lord General had given the order to attack, then leave everything to heaven.
Hearing the sound of the drums, he took a sip. His riding sword suddenly came out of its sheath, pointing at the advancing Chu army. Seeing that he gave the order to charge, the trumpet sounded suddenly, and the cavalry in the front row urged the horses to step forward and rushed to the Chu army artillery array more than 500 paces away.
Twenty miles to the north, in the Shahai camp, Wang Qian, who was standing on a high place with a landing mirror, pinched a handful of sweat for his son, and the drumming of the attack also made him gasp, but after the breath, he only sighed deeply, and tears couldn't help dripping on his white beard. The north bank of the chasm is a dead land, and no matter what, the son will not come back.
“…… How about the girders? Carrying Liu Chi and the others on his back, Wang Jian turned around and wiped the tears from his cheeks.