Chapter 97 The Gap 3
In Wang Ben's imagination, the boat army had to hold the Chu army for at least one day so that it could not build the bridge smoothly. This was not impossible. Tian Pu had more than 500 warships under his command. These warships should have been hit one after another, and they would have crashed the pontoon bridge whenever the pontoon bridge was about to be completed. It was not impossible to drag for a day for at least two days, but the imagination was just an expectation that in less than half a day, more than 500 warships were almost completely wiped out. They either sank or floated in a bloody gap.
Wang Ben, who watched this scene, forgot his breathing when the cannon sounded, saw that the fourth wave of the warship did not sink as quickly as before. The ditch flowed eastward, and the ditch water that originally helped the speed of the warship pushed these unwavering warships closer to the floating boat, hindering the fifth wave of warships rushing behind. The man-to-hand combat soldiers who were highly anticipated by Tian Pu were found desperately that they were either separated from the enemy's floating boat, two warships or the slanted side of the boat, and the oars and shields in front of the deck became decorations. As soon as the cannon fired, the entire boat was killed.
The sound of cannons gradually stopped, and the smoke of gunpowder blew away, and the floating boat that was hit was scattered for at least half a mile. Seeing the Qin warships unable to row, the Chu soldiers who were crossing the water couldn't help cheering. Hearing the cheers, Wang Ben suddenly found that he could not breathe in. Even when he was on the verge of suffocation, his hands and feet were fully in power. His mind was in chaos, and his previous confidence fell to the bottom. He may not be able to hold it for three days.
"Come!" Wang Ben pointed to the arrangements behind the earthen wall, and was about to issue a military order. The strategist who came from the main tent next to him quickly stopped him, "Major General, no, it's not enough."
It was not enough to wake Wang Ben up. Even the northernmost floating boat was one mile south of the rammed earth wall.
"What should we do if the boat commander is full of ink?" Wang Ben asked weakly, wanting to cry in depression. Although he had twenty-five lieutenants, most of these twenty-five lieutenants were weak soldiers, and the best one was cloth armor, not giant armor.
"Our army should guard this wall to death." The strategist, King Yi, was the shogunate strategist who Wang Jian was worried that his son was not experienced enough to supervise.
Wang Ben was already confused. He sighed and smiled bitterly when he heard the advice of the counselor. "The Jing people used witch medicine to blow up the wall, how can they defend themselves?!" He said this and suddenly drew his sword, "Well. So what if I die in battle? It will not insult my name as Wang."
If a general's confidence is defeated, it is difficult to have hope of victory in the battle. Fortunately, this is just a blocking battle rather than a battle. The only purpose is to delay more time so that Bai Lin's troops can seize more troops.
The Zhoumaster had finished all the ink in half a day, and the Zhoumaster General Tian Pu was still alive. The news reached the Shahai Camp more than 20 miles away, which also shocked Wang Jian. He was not almost suffocated like his son. He just shook his body involuntarily a few times, his face suddenly flushed, and the blue veins in his temples jumped, but he still slowed down after a while. After waving his cavalry, he asked, "How about Daliang?"
"More than 10,000 people from Zhao in the north city guarded Luyuan. General Bai thought that since he seized the Zhao arsenal, ten thousand people would not attack." Liu Chi replied. "At this time, the city was attacking the royal city of Wei. The Wei people were fighting very strongly, and the royal city was stable..."
"Can the people of Wei surrender?" Wang Jian had to ask this question.
A royal city with very strict equipment is not something that can be pulled out in three days. The Qin army had 80,000 sets of giant armor and 80,000 sets of cloth armor at this time. In order to encircle the Chu army without being encircled by the Chu army, the width of the insurgent formation would be at least 2,500 or even 3,000 rows. There are 32 rows of 80,000 rows of giant armor, and 3,000 rows of 3,000 rows of 3,000 rows of 3,000 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,500 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 2,600 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 2.60 rows of 3,000 rows of 2,600 rows of 2.60 rows of 3,600 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 3.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 rows of 2.60 row
Moreover, the Qin army array will not be a group of one more in this battle, but a number of arrays. The front array will be defeated and the back array will be defeated. This is also a learning of the experience of the battle of sand and water. It will not place troops in one, but multiple arrays to prevent the Chu army from using the witch medicine bombing array again. Since it is multiple arrays, these two or thirty rows of giant armor arrays will have to be divided. Three or four hundred thousand people will be about one round per 100,000, each formation will be at most eight rows of giant armor soldiers, and the cloth armor soldiers will be at most eight rows, which is too thin.
After obtaining the 40,000 sets of armor from Wei, in the final decisive battle, three of the Qin army were wearing huge armors for every ten men; five of each ten men were wearing archery armor; eight or nine of each ten men held a spear to fight, so that they could fight against the Chu army. Without these, the result of the battle was likely to be killed and defeated like the Ba people fighting against the Chu army knights.
"The Wei people heard the sound of cannons and knew that the Jing people were attacking me. How could they surrender to Qin at this time?" Liu Chi sighed, feeling that the sky was about to stop Qin. The boat army was destroyed in half a day, and Wang Ben's 250,000 people could not stop the Chu army for one day.
The right general Zhao Yong on one side stood up: "General, I am willing to lead my army to aid General Bai, and I will plunder the royal city tomorrow."
"No!" Wang Jian and Liu Chi hurriedly stopped it. This was not an objection to the increase of troops, but the Qin army's lieutenants had been reorganized, and the elite and general soldiers were mixed according to certain rules and could not be rashly mobilized.
"You can draw the force to annihilate it." An Qi was silent for a long time and made another suggestion. "The Wei royal city is not like the Qin royal city. The Wei royal city is within the gate of the Wei royal city. Without the Gaomenku Gate, the arsenal is above the court and can attack the royal city."
"Yes!" The generals nodded together. The battle was just in these two days, not a time to be stingy with life. Tens of thousands of soldiers were useless. Tens of thousands of soldiers could be drawn out temporarily and tens of thousands of people were put into Daliang Yancheng. Once the soldiers attacked the walls of the royal city, they could capture the arsenal.
"In order not to let the Wei people know about it, we should send people into the city at night and attack the city tomorrow morning." Liu Chi added that his plan was to wait until it was dark. He sent people into the city and seized the arsenal before noon tomorrow. He transported troops to the sand sea that day, and could fight in battle the next day. But this was not foolproof. If the Chu army broke through the north bank of the Honggu this afternoon and defeated Wang Ben before the evening, the Chu army could attack the sand sea and fight with the decisive battle with the Ji army in the afternoon tomorrow.
"No longer late, today's bento to pull out the royal city." Wang Jian knew that Liu Chi was worried that the Wei people would transport their soldiers and armor, so he emphasized entering the city at night. But in such a time, he looked at Anqi, "Please ask General An to quickly enter the city and attack the city all night tonight."
"Jingnuo." An Qi agreed loudly. Since he proposed this method, he was sure to lead tens of thousands of soldiers into the city. Not to mention anything else, the wealth in Daliang City alone would make the soldiers drool. When they arrived at the city of Wangcheng, they knew that they were coming to Yancheng and the soldiers were in a row, and it was too late to run away.
An Qi was ordered and immediately left the tent and ran to the baggage camp. The south bank of Honggu was not far from the sand sea, and the tens of thousands of soldiers entering the city were loose in line, scattered on the white ice field, which was extremely conspicuous. There was no need for Lu Lijing, Xiong Jing and others standing on the south bank could see the Qin army sending people into Daliang again. The Qin army did not gather troops but divided the troops again and again, which made everyone feel incredible.
"The Qin people divided their troops like this, our army will win." Peng Zong smelled the smell of victory and looked happy.
"Why did the Qin people send their soldiers to Daliang again?" When the Simas saw the victory, the generals found it incredible.
"This Taiyi bless me, otherwise Wang Jian would not underestimate the enemy?" E Cao couldn't help but sneer. The Qin people's 700,000 troops divided into tens of thousands to attack Daliang, and more than 200,000 troops were stationed in Honggou. The remaining 300,000 was only three times that of his own army. The troops of the two sides were no longer as disparate as before. I don't know why the Qin people divided the troops, so they could only use divine blessing to explain, otherwise why Wang Jian would do this?
Seeing that the city was full of strong soldiers in Lu Li's mirror, Xiong Jingben's heart was a little joyful, and his attention turned back to the Great Gou. The Qin army's boats were all in the dark, and more than a hundred warships covered with corpses were seized by the Chu army. The remaining five or sixty warships that could still row finally retreated from the battlefield and returned to the place where they set out before.
Fifty or sixty warships no longer had any threat to the floating bridge, and the real threat was the north bank of the Great Valley. Apart from the soldiers just revealed and the military flags on the wall, no one knew what was hidden behind this low-high rammed earth wall. At this time, except for the military flags flying, no Qin soldiers could be seen on the earth wall.
Seeing the floating bridge stretching towards the north shore, Xiong Jing pointed to the opposite side and asked Gui Jing: "Can you know how thick this wall is?"
Gui Jing was also looking at the earth wall that was 12 feet high on the north bank. This made him think of Confucius' fall from the Three Capitals. The Qin people naturally could not abide by the previous Zhou rituals, but why did the Qin people only build twelve feet of this city wall for defense? Build a six-foot wall and add one version?
Gui Jing looked at the earth wall and was a little distracted. When he came to his senses, the scene in front of him suddenly changed. He was about to set up on the pontoon bridge on the other side, and suddenly a group of dense black dots flew over the thin ice on the ditch bank, landed on the pontoon bridge, and immediately burst into flames.
"Fire?!" Everyone was shocked. Before the shock fell, more black spots flew up from behind the wall. This was probably the size of a wine pot. Each one was lit and fired, and then it landed on the ground and exploded. The floating bridge was 150 steps away from the shore of the ditch. Only Jing crossbows and catapults could effectively kill. Jing crossbows were not seen, and tall catapults were not seen. One of the unprepared workers on the floating bridge was hit by the sulphur bomb, and their bodies were immediately covered in fire.
"How much does the catapult?" Xiong Jing asked, this was exactly the elastic catapult he was worried about.
"How much is the catapult?!" No one answered, and most people didn't know what weapon it was. Xiong Jing roared and these people came to his senses. At this time, the blasted buoyant bridge lit up, and the workers on the bridge quickly retreated while cutting off the blasting bridge.
Chapter completed!