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Chapter 36 Heaven's Death

The Chu soldiers had seen the city walls, but this time the blast was different from any other time before. Because the mud in spring and the wet soil did not shatter in an instant during the explosion, their breaking was gradually completed. As the higher the flight, the more the soil became, the more broken the soil. The Chu soldiers, who were ninety steps away, looked like mud mushrooms growing rapidly in front of their eyes, and then quickly disillusioned, like a witchcraft.

They remembered Si Fau, and everyone knelt down to pray, and then stood up solemnly. When the drum sounded, they shouted not anything else, but the name of Si Fau. Hearing that the soldiers shouted was Si Fau, Xiong Jing glared at Peng Zong, and Peng Zong smiled at him and bowed to him to apologize.

The gunpowder exploded successfully, and the Chu army had won 90% of the battle. Now it is necessary to drive the panicked Qin soldiers to attack the Qin army's rear formation and completely defeat the Qin infantry. No matter how many cavalry in the Qin army is, it is difficult to sustain without infantry.

The violent explosion exploded fourteen explosion pits about twenty steps wide and about twenty steps wide, facing the square formations of each division. This was specially reserved for the Chu army to attack, but now these flat grounds are covered with scattered soil, covered with Qin soldiers from all directions. Some Qin soldiers are dead, and some are still alive.

"Siku!Siku!Siku..." The 50,000 people shouted deafeningly. The Qin soldiers who had just rushed forward were still in a state of loss. Seeing the Chu soldiers who were advancing with spears coming, they no longer had the courage to fight, and they all turned around and ran back. The Chu army did not pursue, but just walked forward quickly, driving them to attack the rear formation.

Fourteen large pits were blown out by gunpowder, and the 200,000 Qin troops were killed and injured by the bomb for at most 30,000 to 40,000 people. The advancement of the Chu army caused the remaining 160,000 Qin soldiers to panic. At this time, they remembered that there were no weapons in their hands. When they picked up the chief spear and prepared to defend, the Chu army, who were calling for Si Fu, rushed towards him with the barbarian spear high.

It was a completely bloodless battle. Before the Chu army's barbarian spears had already rushed forward, most of the Qin soldiers had already run away, and the remaining two or three thousand old Qin soldiers were left. In a scattered and chaotic state, they were soon killed by the Chu soldiers who rushed over with their spears. Later, the Chu army turned into a spear-blasting formation, driving tens of thousands of defeated soldiers and advancing towards the last formation of the Qin army a hundred steps away.

"Shoot!" The powerful crossbow was rushing in a hurry. Although he had expected that the front row would be defeated by the Chu army, he did not expect that he would be defeated so quickly in this way. The back row of the back rows, and behind the 50 soldiers were hundreds of tall crossbow chariots. As soon as the crossbow pierced, the military officer ordered the firing. Rows of crossbow arrows flew over the heads of the Qin soldiers and shot at the collapsed soldiers who did not retreat to the sides and directly collided with the original formation.

The powerful crossbow is sharp. At such a close distance, a crossbow arrow can penetrate three or four soldiers. The Qin soldiers who rushed in the front looked at the crossbow arrows that were shooting at him incredibly surprised. Many Qin soldiers once praised these powerful crossbows to be able to shoot the Jing people, but they did not expect that they would be themselves who were shot to death in the end.

"Don't rush forward, turn back to kill the enemy! Do not rush forward, turn back to kill the enemy..." The 100,000 Qin soldiers in the rear army shouted together, trying their best to urge the defeated soldiers to avoid the formation. The defeated soldiers were about to avoid the concession, but a long military order came from behind: "Let go!"

The Chu army archers who followed the square formation fired again. There were only five or six hundred crossbows, but more than seven thousand archers. Every wave of arrows was shot out, and the arrows fell, they would always penetrate the leather armor of the broken soldiers, shooting them to death and wound them. The threat of death was frightening, and the broken soldiers panicked again, and some soldiers who wanted to avoid the rear army were also swept away by the crowd.

"Don't rush to the formation, turn back and kill the enemy..." The rear army still shouted, and the powerful crossbows continued to shoot, but compared to the Chu army behind them, the Qin soldiers would rather be shot to death by hundreds of crossbow arrows than turn back and kill the enemy. The crowds were surging, and the defeated soldiers were getting closer and closer to the rear army's array. The Qin general, who had a premonition that the array could not be saved, led an urgent order for the soldiers to raise their spears.

"Let me!" The arrows of the Chu army continued to fire volleys. Each archer had two arrow pouches on the back, and each had twenty arrow pouches. In addition to the three used, the seven thousand archers had twenty-five or nine thousand arrows. Although some Qin soldiers were wearing the iron armor of the Shaofu and the huge armor of the two armies of Zhao and Qi, these were only in 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 screamed and fell down, but they were already blocked by the Qin soldiers in the rear formation with the chief spear, and they could not achieve the effect of rushing forward. The Chu army general led anxiously to look back at the artillery guards. If the cannons could be pushed forward to shoot at this time, the Qin army would inevitably collapse. However, the cannons were surrounded by dead horses, and the explosion pit was surrounded by Qin corpses, and the cannons landed far behind.

"Please use grenades to attack the enemy!" Several strategists suggested that the guns were not there, and the grenades might have some effects.

"Accurate!" Xiong Jing nodded slowly while smiling bitterly. Without artillery, it would be better to scare the Qin people.

Xiong Jing, who knew the power of grenadiers, smiled bitterly, but he led his strategists but did not dare to treat grenadiers as decorations. This weapon that could truly move with infantry was regarded as more useful than artillery. Many people even complained deeply about why the founding mansion did not build grenadiers earlier. The cavalry took Xiong Jing's order to gallop on both sides of the military formation, shouting: "Da Ao You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You That Grenadiers..."

The archers were still firing arrows one after another, and the dead bodies accumulated more and more in the defeated strokes. The defeated soldiers had faced the Qin soldiers in the back, and there was only one chief spear between them. When each division heard Ao Ming's order, the grenadiers in the division immediately rushed forward. Each grenadier had four remnants, three of them had a bullet on their backs, one with a shield and a fuse. The throwing was completed by the tall grenadier.

The fuse was lit before the war started. It stood behind the large shield, pried open the ignition holes and ventilation holes sealed by wax liquid, and inserted the ignition fuse into it. When white smoke rose, Yu Zu shouted "drop", and the two and a half pounds of grenades were immediately thrown high by the grenades.

If the grenadier can cooperate closely with the rest of the soldiers, if the enemy's arrows are not too dense, the throwing speed will exceed the speed of the archer's archery. At this time, the Qin army's crossbow arrows were shooting the broken soldiers. The grenadiers calmly dropped the grenadier in the air like pearls with broken lines, falling into the broken soldiers in a string.

‘Bang!’ The grenade exploded before it landed. It also spewed out a ball of white smoke. The first sounded, the broken soldiers had no time to react, the second sounded, the third sounded, and the fourth sounded... When the sounded, the broken soldiers were completely panicked. They didn’t know what weapon this was, and they didn’t understand that this thing was just two pieces of blown up, and hundreds of grenades exploded at the same time, which naturally reminded them of the Jing people’s witchcraft.

Witchcraft is equal to death. Amid the dense explosion, the crowd lost their calm again. They stopped moving to both sides and rushed to the rear army array a few steps away against the chief spear. Xiong Jing did not dare to neglect this scene, and he said anxiously: "Run the spear!"

‘Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong…’ The quiet drum sounded again, and the shogunate quickly fired a flag to rush out the spears. The twelve spearmen in the phalanx of spears raised their spears and rushed forward. They aimed at the defeated soldiers dozens of steps away and rushed away angrily.

At the same time, Meng Tian, ​​who had calmed down, also issued an offensive order. The woman's Ren must not appear on the battlefield. He must immediately order the soldiers in the rear formation to assassinate the defeated soldiers in front of the formation to avoid being stormed by them.

The Chu and Qin armies were mortal enemies, but now the spearmen of the Chu and Qin armies were aimed at the Qin army itself. The defeated soldiers who had no weapons or arrays were crowded with people and did not resist at all. In less than half a quarter of an hour, there were corpses and wounded people in the ground. Through them, the soldiers of the two armies finally faced their faces.

"Run!" The Chu Shu, who had not finished rushing to the spear, did not stop and stepped on the corpse on the ground and rushed forward. The Qin Shu, who was red-eyed on the opposite side, also shouted "Attack", and the two sides fought on the battlefield made of corpses.

The thickness of the array of fifty rows is no more than 18 steps at most. When the Chu army's spearmen aimed at the Qin army's rear army and rushed to the spears, the grenades dropped by the grenade barracks could only move backwards and head towards the Qin army's rear army's rear army. The soldiers of the rear army were not as panicked as the front army's defeated soldiers. Even if they were panicked, the short soldiers in the final side would suppress them and behead them on the spot.

The grenades were connected to each other and were extremely frightening, but compared with the witchcraft, the killing was one in the sky and the other underground. The debris exploded by the grenades could only kill without protection, and even the leather armor could not penetrate it. The generals and lieutenants of the Qin army did not find this, but they found that the short-soldiers could stabilize the shaking military formation, and then took a deep breath and looked back immediately.

According to the arrangement of Meng Gong, the two front and back military formations were designed to stop the Chu army from rushing to spear. The front formation had been blown by witch medicine, and now they can only barely support them with the back formation. However, blocking and support are not the means of winning. The means of winning are the five thousand cavalrymen arranged on the left wing.

The closest battle between the Qin army against the Chu army was the Battle of Xiangcheng. Guoweifu focused on studying the Battle of Xiangcheng and believed that the most likely way to defeat the Chu army was to attack the cavalry. Meng Gong's arrangement of this battle was to adhere to this principle.

In view of the characteristics of the Chu people being very arrogant, during the cavalry war, the cavalry under his command fought with the Chu cavalry for a moment and then retreated to lure the Chu cavalry away from the battlefield. The cavalry retreated for about ten miles and then fought with the Chu cavalry. The Qin army had 20,000 cavalry on the left wing, and the Chu army had only 7,000 cavalry on the right wing. These 20,000 cavalry must be quickly fought back while entangling the Chu cavalry and quickly attacked the Chu army that had defeated the front army and was attacking the rear army.

The plan cannot be said to be perfect, but no one expected that the front army would be destroyed by the Chu army with witch medicine before the fight. This caused the cavalry captains such as the Chu army who had lured the Chu army cavalry away from the battlefield before the explosion did not know that the front army had collapsed, and the soldiers of the rear formation who had already been terrified on the battlefield were unable to resist in the face of the sharp spear-storm of the Chu army.

The rear army array was only fifty rows, wearing only one piece of breastplate and an iron helmet on the head, and the Chu army spearmen were quicker than ever. They witnessed the disaster that caused the Qin people to suffer from disasters, and they were not afraid of life and death. They believed that the gods were standing on their side and that there was no military formation that could not be defeated!
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