Chapter 36: Heavenly Death

The soldiers of the city wall have been blasted many times, but this time the blasting is different from any previous one. Because of the muddy and damp soil in the spring, the damp soil was not instantly shattered in the explosion, their crushing was completed gradually, the higher they flew, the more the soil was broken, and the Chu pawn ninety steps away looked like mud mushrooms growing rapidly in front of his eyes, and rapidly disillusioned, like a witchcraft.

They remembered the calamity, and each of them knelt down in prayer before standing up solemnly. When the drums sounded, they shouted not for anything else, but for the name of the calamity. Hearing that the soldier was shouting that it was actually the calamity, Xiong Jing glared at Peng Zong, Peng Zong smiled when he saw this, and bowed to him and pleaded guilty.

The gunpowder exploded smoothly, and the Chu army had won ninety percent of this battle, and now what we had to do was to drive those panicked Qin soldiers to attack the rear of the Qin army and completely defeat the Qin army's foot soldiers. No matter how many cavalry the Qin army has, it is difficult to continue without foot soldiers.

The violent explosion blew up 14 craters about 20 paces wide from 90 paces away, and the positions of the divisions' phalanxes were still flat. This was deliberately reserved for the Chu army to attack, but now these flat lands were covered with scattered dirt, and the dirt was covered with Qin pawns. Some of the Qin pawns are dead, and some are still alive.

"Woe to you! Woe to you! ......The shouts of the 50,000 people were deafening, and the Qin soldiers who had just rushed to the front and were affected by the air wave were still in a state of lost soul, and when they saw the Chu soldiers who were advancing with spears killed, they no longer had the courage to engage the troops, and they all turned around and sprinted. The Chu army did not pursue, but just marched forward quickly, driving them to the rear.

The gunpowder blew up fourteen large pits, and the 200,000 Qin troops were really killed and injured by the explosion at most 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the advance of the Chu army made the remaining 160,000 or 70,000 Qin soldiers panic, and only then did they remember that they had no weapons in their hands. When they picked up the spear and prepared to defend, the Chu army, shouting for trouble, rushed towards with the spear held high.

It was a completely bloodless battle. Before the Chu army could rush forward, most of the Qin soldiers had already run away, and the rest were 20,000 or 30,000 Qin army veterans. Scattered and chaotic, they were quickly killed by the Chu pawns who rushed in with spears. After that, the Chu army turned into a spear formation, driving hundreds of thousands of routs and advancing towards the last line of the Qin army's army a hundred paces away.

"Shoot!" The strong crossbow was hurriedly wound, although he had long expected that the front battle would be defeated by the Chu army, but he did not expect to be defeated in this way and so quickly. Fifty lines were in the rear, and behind the fifty lines of soldiers were hundreds of tall ballistas. As soon as the crossbowmen were wound, the military officials gave the order to fire, and rows of crossbow arrows flew over the heads of the Qin soldiers, shooting at those routs who did not retreat to the sides and directly collided with the main formation.

The crossbow was sharp, and at such a close distance, a single crossbow arrow could pierce three or four soldiers. Qin Pawn, who was rushing to the front, looked at the crossbow arrows shot at him in great amazement, many Qin pawns had praised these strong crossbows for being able to shoot Jing Ren, but they didn't expect that they were actually killed in the end.

"Don't rush into battle, turn around and kill the enemy! Don't rush into battle, turn around and kill the enemy......" The 100,000 Qin soldiers of the rear army shouted together, urging the rout to avoid the formation. The rout was about to avoid, and a long military order came from behind him: "Let go!" ”

The archers of the Chu army, who were advancing with the phalanx, fired another volley. There were only five or six hundred ballistas, but there were more than seven thousand archers. Each rain of arrows rained down, piercing the armor of the routs, killing and wounding them. The threat of death was terrifying, and the rout panicked again, and some of the soldiers who wanted to avoid the rear army were also coerced by the crowd.

"Don't rush into battle, turn around and kill the enemy...... the rear army still shouted, the strong crossbow was still shooting, but compared to the Chu army behind him, Qin pawn would rather be killed by hundreds of crossbow arrows than turn back to kill the enemy. The crowd surged, and the rout soldiers and the rear army array were getting closer and closer, and the Qin army, who had a premonition that the array could not be saved, hurriedly ordered the soldiers to raise their spears.

"Putting ——!" The arrows of the Chu army continued to fire in volleys. Each archer carries two quivers, each with twenty arrows. Excluding the three that were used, the seven thousand archers had twenty-five or nine thousand arrows. Although some Qin soldiers were dressed in Shaofu iron armor and the huge armor of the captured Zhao and Qi armies, this was only the first few lines, and most of the Qin soldiers were still wearing ordinary leather armor.

After each wave of arrow rain, countless Qin soldiers fell down screaming, and they had already been resisted by the Qin soldiers in the rear with their chief spears, and they could not achieve the effect of charging for a while. The Chu army general looked back anxiously at the artillery pawns, if the artillery could be pushed forward to shoot at this time, the Qin army would inevitably collapse, but the artillery soldiers were surrounded by dead horses, and the bombing pit was full of Qin corpses, and the artillery fell far behind.

"Minister, please use grenades to attack the enemy!" Several strategists unanimously asked for help, the artillery was not there, and the grenade might have some effect.

"Accurate!" The border area of one fried and two petals was made, Xiong Jing smiled bitterly and nodded slowly. There is no artillery, so it's good to scare and scare the Qin people.

Xiong Jing, who knew the power of the projectile, smiled bitterly, but the strategist did not dare to use the projectile as an ornament. This kind of weapon, which can really move with the foot soldiers, is regarded by them as more useful than artillery, and many people deeply complain about why the government did not create grenadiers earlier. Lingqi galloped to both sides of the military formation with Xiong Jing's order, shouting in his mouth: "Da Ao has a fate: throw bombs to hit the enemy!" Da Ao has a life: grenade to the enemy ......"

The archers were still firing arrows in waves, and the dead bodies were accumulating more and more in the rout, and the rout was already face to face with the Qin pawns in the back formation, and there was only a chief spear between the two sides. When the divisions heard Ao's order, their grenadiers immediately rushed forward. Each grenadier had four pawns, three of whom carried bullets and one of whom carried a shield and a fire rope, and the throwing was done by the tall grenadiers.

The fire rope had been lit before the battle, standing behind the big shield, pried open the ignition hole and ventilation hole sealed by the wax liquid, inserted the burning fire rope into it, and when the white smoke rose, the pawn shouted 'throw', and the two-and-a-half-pound grenadier was immediately thrown high by the grenadier.

If the grenadier can work closely with the arquebusier, the enemy's arrows are not too dense and can be thrown faster than the archer's arrows. At this time, the crossbow arrows of the Qin army were shooting the rout, and the grenadiers calmly threw the projectiles in the air like pearls with broken threads, and the strings fell into the rout.

'Bang! The grenade exploded before it hit the ground, blasting fragments and a cloud of white smoke. The first ringing was too late to react, the second, third, and fourth rings...... When it sounded, the rout was completely panicked. They didn't know what kind of weapon it was, and they didn't understand that this thing was just a half, and hundreds of grenades exploded at the same time, which naturally reminded them of the witchcraft of the Jing people.

The witch weapon was equal to death, and in the dense explosion, the crowd lost its cool again, and they stopped moving to the sides, and the spear of the chieftain rammed through the rear army array a few paces away. Seeing this scene, Xiong Jing didn't dare to slack off, he hurriedly said: "Rush the spear!" ”

'Knock knock knock...... The quiet drum sounded again, and the shogunate quickly raised the banner of the spear, and the twelve spearmen in the spear phalanx had already raised their spears over their heads, and they rushed away angrily at the rout dozens of paces away.

At the same time, Meng Tian, who had calmed down, also gave the order to attack. The Woman's Benevolence must not appear on the battlefield, and he must order the soldiers in the rear to assassinate the soldiers in front of the formation at once, so as not to be overwhelmed by them.

The two armies of Chu and Qin were mortal enemies, but now the spearmen of the two armies of Chu and Qin were aimed at the Qin army itself. There were no weapons, no arrays, and the routs huddled together did not resist, and in less than half an hour there were only corpses and wounded on the ground, and across them, the two sergeants finally faced each other.

"Rush!" The Chu pawn, who had not finished charging the spear, did not pause, and rushed forward by trampling on the corpse on the ground. The red-eyed Qin pawn on the opposite side also shouted 'attack', and the two sides fought on this battlefield paved with corpses.

Fifty rows of arrays should not be thicker than eighteen steps at most. When the spearmen of the Chu army aimed at the rear army of the Qin people and charged the spear, the grenadiers could only move backwards and throw them at the tail of the Qin army. The rear sergeants were not as panicked as the routs of the front, and even if they did, the men at the rear would crush them and behead them on the spot.

The sound of the grenades one after the other is extremely terrifying, but compared with the witch weapon, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground. If the fragments from the grenade bomb do not hit the unprotected vital point, even the leather armor cannot penetrate it. The generals of the Qin army did not notice this, but they found that the bullet pressure of the short soldiers could stabilize the crumbling military formation, so they took a deep breath and immediately looked back at the rear.

According to the arrangement of the heart, the purpose of the two military formations in the front and rear was to block the Chu army from charging the spear, the former had been blown up by witch medicine, and now it could only be barely supported by the rear formation. But blocking and supporting are not the means of victory, the means of victory is the five thousand cavalry placed on the left flank.

The closest battle of the Qin army to victory against the Chu army was the Battle of Xiangcheng, and the Guoweifu focused on the study of the Battle of Xiangcheng, believing that the most likely way to defeat the Chu army was to attack the cavalry after the formation, and the arrangement of this battle was based on this principle.

In view of the characteristics of the Chu people who are very arrogant, the cavalry under the command of Yu Fen fought with the Chu cavalry for a while, and then the whole army had to retreat, so as to induce the Chu cavalry to stay away from the battlefield, and retreat about ten miles of cavalry to fight with the Chu cavalry. There were 20,000 cavalry on the left flank of the Qin army, and only 7,000 cavalry on the right flank of the Chu army, and these 20,000 cavalry had to quickly fight back while entangled in the cavalry of the Chu army, and quickly hook the flank of the Chu army that had defeated the front army and was attacking the rear army.

The plan cannot be said to be imperfect, but no one expected that the former army would be blown up by the Chu army with witch medicine without fighting. As a result, the cavalry captains of the Chu army, who had tempted the cavalry of the Chu army to stay away from the battlefield before the explosion, did not know that the front army had been defeated, and the soldiers in the rear formation, who were already frightened on the battlefield, were powerless to resist in the face of the sharp spears of the Chu army.

The rear army array is only fifty lines, wearing only a cuirass and an iron jacket on the head of the Chu army spearmen are more agile than ever, witnessing the calamity that befell the Qin people, they are not afraid of life and death at all, they are convinced that the gods are on their side, and there is no military array that cannot be broken!

"Kill ——!" Master Xiang's combat strength, which was on par with Master Ying's, shouted, and rushed towards the already thin array of the Qin army. With a 'boom', the cannon suddenly rang out. Meng Tian, who was looking back to the north, trembled, and Lu Lijing fell to the ground, and he lamented: "Heaven will kill me!" ”