Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Ice
You can walk on the ice, but you can't form formations. Qin Qi has been guarding the south bank of Muze, not only destroying the flying news on the shore, but anyone in Daliang City who runs south to Kaifeng will be intercepted and killed by them. The cavalry of the Chu army dispersed all the Qin cavalry, and the talents in the city went out of the city one after another. Half a day is enough time to clear the blockage of the city gate, and when Peng Zong asked, Zhao Renzheng, who was out of the city, looked at the three-headed phoenix flag on the south bank of Muze with no gods.
Seeing the crowd of people under the banner of Yi, the first person Xiong Jing thought of was not Zhao Wangqian, but the Empress Dowager Zhao's spiritual robe, and then Zhao Jun. After one night, how many soldiers are left in Zhao State? As he froze, the fire that had been extinguished in the city was ignited again, and the black smoke that had been elongated earlier disappeared without a trace, and the flames quickly rushed to the top of the city wall, becoming more and more violent.
Zhao Guo's black clothes, who had been in good time after leaving the city, were also in chaos at this time, and instead of escorting Zhao Qian and others across the ice, they turned around and rushed to the city gate. When Xiong Jing was strange, the Qin army dressed in gray armor rushed out of the city gate and fought with them.
"Qin people!!" The knights of the Chu army on the shore of Muze shouted, the Qin soldiers who rushed out of the city gate were different from the previous Qin soldiers, they were not armed with spears but with swords and shields, and some soldiers were also armed with strong crossbows, aiming at the black clothes of Zhao State who were resisting them, and the black clothes were in chaos for a while. They had practiced the spear formation and gathered instinctively, but they forgot that it was on the ice, and the three-inch thick ice was not enough to support the gathered array, and the people on the shore were surprised to see from the Lu Lijing that those gathered black clothes suddenly sank into Muze.
"Help!" Xiong Jing threw away Lu Lijing, and the horse was about to move forward.
"No! Don't! "Fu Jing, Xiang Liang, Zhuang Wudi and others hurriedly stopped it." The ice is thin, and you can't ride the horse! ”
"So what?" Xiong Jing on the horse turned around, and the five-foot sword in his hand pointed directly at Daliang City, more than twenty miles away. He regretted that he had not built a bridge, and if he had built a bridge, he would definitely not have been in the situation he is in now. However, if the bridge is built, tens of thousands of cement ships cannot be added.
"Abandon the horse, only the horse." Zhuang Wudi shouted. "Two feet apart ...... each person"
As soon as Zhuang Wudi said that he would abandon the horse, Xiong Jing jumped off the horse, followed him, and Lu Yangyan and the guards knights also dismounted, followed by all the knights. At this time, it was less than noon, and the Qin cavalry attacked the rear baggage - there were not a few people killed, but the horses without armor were shot to death, and the Xiang division at the front was still a few miles away, and the only one who could save the Zhao people was the knights on the shore.
"Xiangshi Knight will come with me to save you." Seeing that all the knights dismounted, Xiong Jing, who was about to move forward, gave an order. He didn't dare to press all the knights on the thin ice that was only three inches thick in Makizawa.
"Respectfully obey the order!" Xiang Liang promised loudly, and after fighting hard for a long time, he did not feel tired, but felt honored.
"This trip is very dangerous, Zhao Guo is dead, Da Ao must not go!" Can't gather to fight, Zhao Guo's black clothes are not Qin Pawn's opponent at all, and he was quickly defeated by Qin Pawn, and the ministers under Zhao Qian and Lingluo fled south quickly. At this time, the black clothes holding the flag were probably hit by an arrow, and they didn't run far before they were planted together with the flag, and many of the concubines and maids in the palace were also hit by crossbow arrows and fell on the ice.
Any knight of the Chu army who saw this scene knew that the Zhao State was finished. Peng Zong and Zhuang Wudi were worried that Xiong Jing was in danger, so they hurriedly spoke out to stop them, but their persuasion was useless, Xiong Jing didn't seem to hear these words, and rushed directly to the ice and walked towards the collapsed Zhao Renxing.
There is a clear difference between a leather boot on ice and a piece of ground. The ice surface looked slippery in the sunlight, and it was estimated that the armor was too heavy, and you could hear the subtle cracking of the ice as you walked on it. This kind of cracking sound made Lu Yangyan, who was closely behind Xiong Jing, hurriedly stop, not daring to get too close to Xiong Jing.
Fei Jing watched Xiong Jing step on the ice, Zhuang Wudi, Peng Zong and the others did not stop him, and he couldn't help but be anxious. This kind of anxiety made him rush to Zhuang Wudi and the others, pointing at Xiong Jing, who was walking farther and farther, and shouted angrily: "Da Ao ......"
"Da Ao doesn't listen, what can I do?" Zhuang Wudi was helpless. He knows why Xiong Jing has to move forward bravely and take the lead in everything, the Ao system is completely different from the royal system, the Ao system does not have a hard and fast rule who can be Ao and who can't, any clan can be Ao. Courage is the most basic requirement of Da Ao, only the soldiers are truly convinced and reverent, Xiong Jing is the Da Ao of the Chu people, otherwise, he is nothing.
Mu Ze is twenty-five miles wide, and it takes more than one and a half hours to walk the whole Mu Ze, which is enough for Qin to kill all the Zhao people in Nanben. However, when they saw the three-headed phoenix flag fluttering on the ice of Mu Ze, the forward pursuit of the Qin people's left and right wings suddenly slowed down, allowing the Zhao people to stumble forward. However, there are still people who die unexpectedly - the concubines and palace ladies are okay, these human bodies are light, and the ice can withstand it when they get together, and the ice will collapse when the people of the minister's temple get together.
"There is fraud!" Zhuang Wudi, who saw this scene, spoke in unison with Peng Zong. "General Concubine, save the king quickly!"
Fei Jing also saw some problems, the Qin people were not the common Qin pawns, but the Langzhong Ba people of Bashu, only the Ba people there would have left shields and right swords, supplemented by bamboo crossbows, which meant that the Qin generals Bailin had driven to the Shahai. Zhao Guo's black-clothed single-handedness was not the opponent of the Langzhong Ba people, but they should have slaughtered the Zhao people but allowed the Zhao people to run south on the ice, obviously to lure Da Ao forward.
Zhuang Wudi Peng Zong's suggestion made him no longer hesitate, he drew his sword with a 'choked' sound and turned around and shouted: "Yingshi Knight——, enter!" ”
Yu Jing led more than 3,000 Yingshi knights into the ice surface of Mu Ze, if the Ao clan cavalry general Dou Jian couldn't help it when he saw this, he also drew his sword and shouted: "If the Ao knight, enter!" ”
The ice was too thin, but the knights of Xiang Shi, Yingshi, and Ruo Ao all stepped on the ice, and E Wu, the cavalry general of the Eshi Division, who didn't want to fight, had to shout to the knights under his command: "Eshi knights, enter!" ”
"Alas!" Peng Zong just wanted Fei Jing to lead the knights of the Yingshi Division to respond, but he didn't expect that under the chain effect, the knights of the whole army rushed to the ice surface of Mu Ze. Although according to the pace of the Zhao people's southward run, the water depth at the intersection of the two sides is not topless, but fighting with the precious knights and the foot soldiers of the Qin army is not a good deal. The knight consumption is here, and it is really not worth it.
"Knowing that it can't be done, Da Ao's nature is also." Zhuang Wudi heard Peng Zong's sigh and subconsciously replied.
When he was young, he also had the lofty ambition of saving the people of the world and recovering the decline of the Chu State, but the reality was always cruel. The ideal of his youth is only the ideal of his youth, and yet the person who is now following is fulfilling the ideal of his youth. The absurdity was that he felt that he shouldn't have done it, that he should be ruthless, that he should be more cunning, that he could ignore those subtleties in order to succeed.
Standing on the shore of Mu Ze, looking at Xiong Jing who was getting farther and farther away, Zhuang Wudi didn't know whether he should sigh or be happy, and he couldn't tell whether he had become a reality or Xiong Jing had become ideal. Also standing on the shore of Mu Ze, looking at the King of Chu who was getting closer and closer, Bai Lin was surprised in his heart, he thought it was just some Chu army cavalry to rescue the Zhao people, but he didn't expect that there was also the King of Chu who stepped on the ice.
Last night, the Qin army attacked Daliang, and with the surrender of Guo Kai and Pingyangjun, the state of Zhao had already perished, and only the Empress Dowager Zhao escaped from Daliang with Zhao Wangqian and those ministers who were unwilling to surrender to Qin. These people are really worthless. Even if he wants to save it, the king of Chu should not come to save it himself, just send his generals to come to the rescue.
Bai Lin didn't understand the intentions of the King of Chu, but this did not prevent him from issuing an order to lure the King of Chu to come. Capturing and killing the king of Chu before the war will inevitably change the outcome of the battle of Qin and Chu, which is a good opportunity for meritorious service and promotion. At this time, the Ba people shot crossbows in the rear, driving the Zhao people forward. Seeing several Zhao girls being shot down by crossbow arrows, Bai Lin frowned and ordered, "Don't kill women!" ”
"The general has a life, don't kill women! The general is famous, don't kill women......" The wind blew south, and Bai Lin's order was accurately transmitted to the Qin soldiers. However, this made the Ba people puzzled, and Fan Mu said: "Why is the general a woman's benevolence, this is all Zhao Nu." ”
"Under my command, the armor does not kill women and children!" The Ba people were the cornerstone of Qin's rule over Bashu, and the widow Qing had always been courteous to the king of Qin. Relying on this, the Ba people did not obey the control of the Qin generals. Bai Lin watched Fan Mu speak, Fan Mu was stunned at first, and then laughed like a round.
"If King Jing can be captured and killed in this battle, the general can be made a marquis. There are so many beauties in the world, why do you care about their Zhao girls? "Fan Mu is not a chieftain, not a nobleman, just a Qin man who is familiar with the Ba people, he thinks that Bai Lin wants to capture those Zhao women.
Bai Lin laughed contemptuously in his heart when he heard this, no matter how down-and-out he was, he was still a nobleman. Since he is a nobleman, he has his own integrity and honor, which is something that ordinary people like Fan Mu cannot understand. He simply didn't argue with Fan Mu, and just watched more and more Ba people pouring out of the city gate to meet the phoenix flag.
Xiong Jing knew that he would have to walk at least ten miles before he could meet the Zhao people, and it would take about an hour to walk this distance in his armor. If it was someone else who led the division to rescue him, the more than 1,000 Zhao people would have been killed by the Qin army at this hour, and it would be different if he led the division to rescue him, and the smart Qin general would inevitably spare the Zhao people's lives to lure himself forward.
As expected, General Qin immediately ordered the Qin army to slow down the attack. What he didn't expect was that more Qin pawns poured out of Daliang City. Zhuang Wudi and others, who had seen through the intentions of the Qin people, also quickly sent more knights, and as a result, all the knights of the Chu army came up.
Xiong Jing smiled bitterly because he could guess what the enemy would do, but he couldn't guess what his teammates would do. But either way, they do the right thing most of the time.
Xiong Jing, who had walked for half an hour, began to sweat, perhaps because of the direct midday sun, the cracking sound of the ice stampede became louder, and he gradually worried that the three-inch thick ice would not be able to support his weight and armor. Bowing his head and raising his head, in front of him, Zhao Ren was being driven and running, and Qin Pawn made a semicircular formation, obviously trying to surround himself.