Chapter 35: The Mud Tree
When the artillery stopped roaring, the Duo bell rang again in the Qin army's array. The foot soldiers shouted and stepped forward, this was a big stride, and in a quarter of an hour the array would be able to advance to a position a hundred steps away from the Chu army.
The Qin army advanced, and Xiong Jing subconsciously looked to the sides. The interval between the phalanx is where the gunpowder is ignited. The workers there had a rope more than 100 meters long in their hands. The rope is connected to the flint generator by a bamboo pipe buried in the ground, and once the rope is pulled hard, the spring that has lost its restraint will quickly ignite the flint and detonate the gunpowder. For insurance, one gunpowder had three sets of ignition devices.
Xiong Jing looked to both sides, Jing Fei, who was fighting by the fire rope, looked at the Qin army array that was striding forward for a while, and looked back at the nest car behind him. The nest car was a few feet above the ground, and the movement of the entire Qin army array could be clearly seen, and the final firing order was that the nest car first played a yellow flag that could be detonated, but Xiong Jing ordered to play a red flag that would immediately ignite.
Shen Tong in the nest car noticed Jing Fei who was constantly looking back, and he was counting the steps of the Qin people, patiently waiting for them to approach. Standing at his height, the entire battlefield was unobstructed. Two thousand columns of Qin army foot soldiers were striding forward, and on the left and right flanks of two thousand Qin army foot soldiers, more than eight thousand columns of cavalry soldiers were galloping as fast as the cavalry that had just stormed the artillery array. Not to be outdone, the cavalry of the Chu army had long been lined up, and they rode their spears and rode their horses to meet the Qin cavalry, who outnumbered them.
Since the two armies of Chu and Qin had cavalry, there had never been such a large-scale duel. In the Battle of Xiangcheng, the cavalry of the two armies only hooked each other's infantry arrays, rather than rushing towards each other from the other side. Tens of thousands of war horses galloped, and the earth seemed to turn into a huge building drum, and hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves beat on the drum surface, making a deafening sound. The soldiers on both sides were also frightened by this sound, and involuntarily looked to the left and right wings.
The difference is that all the dust raised by the war horses is blown to the northwest, including Meng Tian, and the generals of the Qin army can only see the hazy shadows of the cavalry. The Chu generals standing in the south could clearly see that the cavalry spears in the hands of their knights were gradually flattened, and they would give the enemy a fierce impact, and also accept the fierce impact brought by the enemy.
"Kill ——!"
"Attacking ——!"
In the moment before the engagement, the cavalry on both sides erupted into a short shout, in which the speed of the war horse increased to the fastest, and each knight kept an eye on the enemy in front of him, patiently preparing for the most fatal blow.
'Bang, bang, bang...... galloping at high speed, the riding spear and the riding spear collide together, the war horse and the war horse collide together, the shield and the arrow collide together, the exchange of weapons, the neighing of the war horse, the scream of the knight, all this happened on the battlefield of more than 20 miles on both sides of the foot soldiers, with the largest cavalry battle in history, the decisive battle between the two armies of Chu and Qin officially began.
The Qin army's infantry continued to move forward, and the shouts of battle from the cavalry battle inevitably made them more and more nervous. The commander could only shake the bell louder and louder, and the rare five hundred lords personally shouted 'attack' to warn those soldiers who were distracted and looked sideways. The battle of the cavalry has nothing to do with the foot soldiers, the most important task of the foot soldiers is to resist the Jing people's charging spear, as long as they resist the Jing people's sharpest spear charge, the Qin army can win this battle.
The cavalry battle on both sides became more and more violent, and the staggered knights turned their horses and recoiled again, and they slammed into each other violently again. Then more horses and more knights fell to the ground. The knight, who had fallen to the ground and was not dead, struggled hard, drew his sword and continued to fight the other man.
"Fen! ......In the battle, Xiang Chao, who was covered in blood on the right wing, called out Yu Fen's name while swinging his sword, this time he must kill this national thief! You must kill this national thief!
"Stop!" At a distance of a hundred paces, the Qin army officials and generals suddenly shouted. After advancing 800 paces, the original strict queue was no longer neat, and the queue must be cleaned up before the troops are engaged, and the soldiers must be allowed to rest for a while.
At this time, a huge green flag was displayed on the nest car, which was to inform everyone that the Qin people were about to enter the gunpowder burial site and be ready to blast at any time. The workers who were pulling the arquebuses between the phalanxes also responded with a green flag.
Shentong watched the Qin army that had stopped for the time being, waiting for them to continue advancing;
The general led Sima to keep an eye on the Qin army that had temporarily stopped, waiting for them to continue advancing;
Xiong Jing and the strategists around him also looked at the Qin army that had stopped for the time being, waiting for them to continue to move forward;
In addition to the endless fighting and shouting of the knights on both sides of the military formation, the entire battlefield suddenly became quiet at this time. The military flag blown by the spring breeze, the frightening cry of the birds flying by, and the rhythmic thumping of the heart, these sounds clearly came into the ears and dissolved into the heart.
"Taiyi blessed." A moment of waiting seemed to be longer than a few months of waiting, and Xiong Jing, who couldn't take his eyes off it, shouted a blessing from Taiyi. As his words fell, Meng Tian's banner a hundred paces away suddenly pointed forward, a deafening drum sounded, and the Qin army array advanced again.
"Da Ao!" The generals of each division led Sima to look back at Xiong Jing under the banner of Jing, and some people even shouted anxiously. Their actions also led the soldiers in the phalanx, who did not know what was about to happen.
"Da Ao!" The strategists beside Xiong Jing also looked at Xiong Jing. The gunpowder was buried in the ground ninety steps away from the Chu army's array, and the Qin people took a step forward in one second, and it didn't take ten seconds to step on the gunpowder.
"Ready!" During the phalanx, the Chu archers pulled out half a string, because of the tailwind, as long as the Qin army entered eighty steps, they would release arrows.
"Da Ao ——!" The Qin army was getting closer and closer, Jing Fei was nervous, not only did his teeth start, but the fat on his body couldn't help trembling, and he shouted in the direction of Xiong Jing.
"Ready! Put ——! "The Qin army advanced to eighty paces, and the bow commander decisively ordered the arrows to be released. With the bowstring trembling, more than 7,000 heavy arrows left the string and shot towards the Qin pawn who was about to run.
"Yellow Flag!" Zhuang Wudi hurriedly pointed to the nest car behind him, and after entering eighty steps, a yellow flag that could be blasted was displayed on the nest car. However, the workers had to see the red flag displayed by the shogunate in order to pull the rope.
Xiong Jing saw the yellow flag, but his attention was only on Qin Jun. Faced with the dense rain of arrows from the air, the Qin army did not panic, and they raised the small shield hanging from their left arm, which had never appeared on Qin pawns before. The arrows washed through the Qin army's array like a rainstorm, and the soldiers in the front row were already wearing iron armor, plus a small shield to cover their thighs, but there was not much damage in fact.
"Putting ——!" After the first wave of arrow rain, the archers fired another volley, this time the Qin army was closer, and the arrows landed closer, and the second wave of arrow rain was still scattered between the iron armor and the shield.
"Attack!" At seventy paces, the sound of Qin Jun's drums intensified, and the tun commander and the hundred generals in the array pointed their swords forward, hissing and shouting. The Qin pawns also erupted in a series of shouts, and they no longer stepped forward, but rushed wildly with their spears raised.
"Da Ao ——!!" The general Sima was eager to rush to the banner and forcibly raised the angry red flag, and the strategist's palms were also sweaty, worried that Xiong Jing would miss the best opportunity.
"Raise the flag!" Seeing the Qin army rushing forward, Xiong Jing waved his hand categorically, and a huge red flag was quickly raised by the guards foot soldiers. Just saw the corner of the red flag, and before the flagpole was erected, Jing Fei shouted: "Get angry!" ”
"Get angry!" The worker shouted and pulled the fire rope urgently, because the force was too strong, and even the person fell backwards with the rope.
A total of 14 gunpowder and 42 fire ropes were buried in the "...... of fire". The pawn is to pull all the fire ropes together so as not to lose.
At this time, the Qin army rushed forward a few more steps, rushing towards the Chu army like a flood. The Chu army, which did not receive any orders, could only lay down the razing spears and resist the onslaught of the Qin people. The witch weapon could not be bombarded, the archers kept releasing arrows, and the foot soldiers stood still, which surprised all the Qin army generals including Meng Tian, wouldn't the Jing people fight without witch weapons?
"Jing people ......" Meng Tian was about to say that Jing people would be defeated, and the earth suddenly trembled.
"Exploded." The red flag was half-loud and did not move, and the generals were doubting, and Xiong Jing felt the tremor on the ground.
Ninety paces away, the ground trampled by the Qin army was like a big tree that had been cut down and then quickly stood up. Large chunks of earth burst out of the ground, shattering as they rose, forming a huge, luxuriant canopy of trees as they rose to the top, and the crumbled clumps of mud turned into flowers and leaves on the canopy, blooming brilliantly on this bloody and murderous spring day.
The beautiful bloom is always only for a moment, and after a moment the flowers and leaves fall helplessly, and the white smoke of gunpowder and the yellow dust from the explosion rise again. The Qin pawns who were blown up into the air followed and fell, and they were engulfed in smoke and dust before they could shout.
No one cares about Qin pawn anymore, and no one cares about even war. The generals who knew this plan led Sima, and the Qin Chu soldiers who didn't know this plan, they were all taken away by the fourteen big trees that suddenly rose from the ground, and they completely forgot that they were on the battlefield at this time.
"Curse forbid!" Some people in the Chu army array couldn't help but kneel. Before the war, the general rate had said that Da Ao had asked Si Wo to bring disaster to the Qin people, and in their opinion, these fourteen huge mud trees that suddenly erected were the calamity of Si Kao.
"Witch medicine ......" When the Chu army's foot soldiers knelt down, Meng Tian, whose eyes were bulging, just wanted to gouge out his eyes, and he wanted to stab himself to death with a sword. He miscalculated, that day the Chu army was arrayed ten miles away, and after that, the entire shogunate was thinking about how to adjust the exposed battle formation, and no longer thought about what tricks the Chu army had.
"Ahh......h Of the 2,000 columns, only 1,400 columns in the middle were really bombed, and because the army formation was as thick as 100 rows, the ranks at both ends were only stunned and knocked down by the air wave of the explosion, and not all of them were killed. As countless dirt fell from the sky, some stunned soldiers were awakened.
The soldier's wail was like the heavy arrow of the Chu army, and the arrow pierced Meng Tian's heart, and he shouted 'ah', and he drew his sword to kill himself.
"Don't!" Meng Heng beside him pressed his arm and comforted: "There is still a rear army." ”
The front formation was blown to pieces by the witch medicine, but the Qin army was in two formations, and there were still rear troops in the rear of the front formation. Meng Tian, who came to his senses, looked at his rear army, and at this time, the drums on the opposite side were beating, and the Jing people had already attacked.
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