Chapter 119 Fear
The entire front line, including the cavalry of the two armies, stretched for more than ten miles. Xue Chen, who was stepped on by the war horses and infantry, was blown from the left wing of the Chu army to the southernmost right wing. The further south, Xue Chen was more obstructed, so that the already narrow vision of the central and right soldiers could not see the Qin army opposite, and could only see the silhouettes of the soldiers in front of him and the military formations.
The battlefield seemed a little hazy, but the soldiers' shouts were extremely real. The left and right armies each had four spear formations to rush the spears, and the shouts were heard one after another when they rushed to the spears, which was very familiar. The Qi soldiers in the central army were not timid, and Jimo was a rich place. The well-nutritioned Qi soldiers rushed back as soon as they fought. The Wei soldiers were in front and fought behind. The Wu soldiers wearing huge armor were more brave than the Qi soldiers, and the Yi spears stabbed them one after another, and the Qin soldiers fell one after another. On the contrary, the Zhao soldiers who had lost their country had a lot of morale and lacked strength, and the array fell behind the two armies.
Xiong Jing was originally most worried about the central army, especially the Qi army's defeat. He was slightly surprised that the Qi army could have such combat power. He didn't have time to think about why the Qi army seemed to have changed an army. The only thing that is certain is that the coalition infantry was suppressing the Qin army. The Qin army formation in front of him was shaking, and I believe it would be necessary to make up for the formation from the rear soon.
The Chu cavalry was working hard on both sides of the army to fight against the Qin cavalry that had a numerical advantage; the Chu army artillery defeated the Qin army's elastic stone catapult - due to the obstacles of Xue Chen, Xiong Jing couldn't see the Qin army array east of the front line, but the guards on the nest car reported that when the thunder bombs arrived, the soldiers around the catapult were all broken. The facts also confirmed this point. Compared with the original densely falling sulphur bombs, the sulphur bombs that now landed on the head of the Chu army were sparse and greatly reduced, and their power could not be compared with the last battle.
Although the number of people is smaller, the coalition forces have an absolute advantage, and the Qin army is retreating step by step. The most important thing is that the rhythm of the decisive battle has been grasped by the coalition forces. Of course, this is a rather subtle feeling, perhaps psychologically, or attacking rhythm, but according to the current feeling and rhythm, as long as the Chu cavalry blocks the Qin cavalry for another hour, Xiong Jing believes that the coalition forces will win.
In the gloomy sky, the sun has already set westward. The sun is about to set in spring, and the real decisive battle begins after moving in small quantities. Now is the fourth quarter of the celestial hour (100 min every day and night, and the average sixteen hours per hour is 6:25 min every hour, so the number of celestial hour is different, and it only rotates every four hours), which means that celestial hour has passed fifty:4 minutes. There are still two hundred and nineteen:6 minutes before the sun sets. In addition, the time when the winter shadow ends, I have at most two hundred and forty minutes, and four hours in the next life.
The day after four hours will be completely dark. In severe cold weather, even if it is not dark, the temperature is falling from the highest noon of minus 24 and 5 degrees to the current 26 and 7 degrees. The temperature will inevitably drop to minus 30 degrees as the sun sets. Considering the physical energy consumption of the Chu army during combat, this is a very dangerous temperature.
On the west side of the front line, although Xiong Jing's Qin army was tough, he had to retreat step by step. The coalition was stepping on the wounds and bodies of the Qin people. He was worried about time and hoped to break the five Qin army arrays before dark to end the battle;
On the east side of the front line, the former general Bai Lin was almost crazy. The more than 20 rows of military formations on his own were shaking, and all the reserves of 10,000 people were used up. In view of the characteristics of the Chu army's spear rushing, the Qin army also developed a tactic of replacing the formation. Since the spear formation is 60 rows wide, it is specifically for these 60 rows. There are eight square arrays to raid the spear, so for these eight sixty rows, that is, four hundred and eighty rows to make up the formation. There are only 48,000 people.
However, it was not only the eight spear formations that attacked, but also the advancement of more than 1,000 rows of the coalition army. Bai Lin could not make up for the formation of these more than 1,000 rows, so he could only let the captain sit on the military chariot and patrol and shout behind the formation, ordering the soldiers to not retreat. The even more tragic disaster was not the central army. After basically suppressing the Qin army's catapult, two short-barrel cannons lowered the muzzle and opened fire at the Qin army array in the vacant area between the square arrays. The distance of 120 steps is no more than five or six hundred steps before. With the "boom", the Qin army array exploded into a flesh-and-blood trench. Another shot was another flesh-and-blood trench.
Su Fu, who was in charge of the Right Army, was also crazy. He rode his horse to Bai Lin and shouted with tears in his eyes: "The Jing people attacked me with witchcraft, and our army would be defeated!"
The commander, the captain, the marquis of Qu, the 2500 masters, and the 500 masters were all suppressed behind the formation. However, the power of the cannon was not something that the human body could resist. Su Fu was also interrupted by one hand. The advantage of the severe cold was not only to stop bleeding, but also to stop pain. Su Fu ran over as if nothing had happened and reported anxiously. Bai Lin didn't see him breaking his hand. He was so anxious that he subconsciously shouted: "What can I do?! What can I do?! I can't stop the witchcraft. You can't take a step back..."
"General, general, the shogunate once said that if the Jing people attacked me with witchcraft, I could avoid it." Bai Lin also had a shogunate, but this shogunate was not a complete shogunate, with only a dozen or twenty sects he collected. At this time, the sect was the remnants of Lao Ai who was exiled to Shu. His words reminded Bai Lin that the shogunate did have such a resolution: that is, when the witchcraft attack came, the array could avoid it to both sides. If the Chu soldiers rushed over, the soldiers who avoided them should quickly make up for the formation.
"Yes, no! Avoid, avoid it quickly. If the Jing people rushed over, the soldiers who avoided it should quickly make up for the formation." Bai Lin said excitedly. Only then did he see Su Fu lose a hand.
"A general is responsible for his order." Su Fuxue, who had broken his hand, turned his hand quickly and carried him towards the right army.
"Let it go!" Aside from 120 steps, the horse corpse in the shooting territory was pushed away, and the Chu artillery bars kept shouting to fire. They were bombarding a section of Qin army formations that were sixty-wide. The spear formation on one side had stopped rushing to spear at this time, and they were waiting to break the Qin army formation from this break. Unfortunately, because of the fear of accidentally hurting the soldiers of his army, the artillery bars could not use shotgun or thunder bullets, and could only use a solid bullet with a blood groove. After more than a dozen cannons, the sixty rows of military formations penetrated seven or eight rows vertically, far from being able to break the entire army.
During the artillery process, what was surprising was the reaction of the Qin army. The artillery soldiers felt that they were bombarding a bunch of scarecrows, and the bombarded Qin soldiers had no response. They neither dodged nor fled, nor even had subconscious obstacles. They stood up straight and allowed the shells to fly through the formation, breaking the hands, feet and bodies of a row or half of the soldiers.
The artillery bars a hundred and twenty steps away could not see clearly, but the Tang army's spear formation was clearly visible thirty steps away. The Qin army was already scared. It was not that they didn't know how to be afraid, but that they forgot to be afraid, because everyone's bodies were trembling instinctively. Ruo Ao, who led the Tang army, saw the fear of the Qin people, which was so fearful that he dared not resist. After another shell, he asked the flag bearer to wave flags at the artillery bars to stop shooting, and then ordered the Tang army soldiers to rush to the formation. The ordered Tang soldiers held high and shouted at the trembling Qin soldiers.
There were many soldiers in the former army. Under the May Day killing order, none of these soldiers who were waiting for punishment dared to run away. The bombardment of artillery was equivalent to another May Day killing. The soldiers were trembling while waiting for their own destiny. The Chu infantry rushed to their front and realized that the killing had ended and the battle began again.
Unfortunately, the battle was too late at this time. At the array that was penetrated by artillery, the Chu infantry rushed into the formation and stopped retreating and went deep into the array. The Qin soldiers behind the formation instinctively blocked the enemy's way. As a result, the soldiers of the two armies were no longer snatching the spears, and no longer snatching the spears towards the spears. The Chu army's spear formation wedged deeply into the Qin army formation, and the bodies of the soldiers on both sides were close to the bodies.
The attack on the assassin suddenly turned into a struggle. Although the Chu soldiers were short, the sixty-row military formations could not be stopped by more than a dozen marches. As the soldiers shouted, the last dozen Qin soldiers fell to the ground in the violent push.
"The Jing people broke the formation! The Jing people broke the formation!" Someone behind the formation shouted. There was no reserve team, and the only short soldiers left in his hand swarmed in. The Chu soldiers pushed the last dozen Qin soldiers, and they fell down with the Qin soldiers as they tried too hard. More than a thousand short soldiers had no chief spear but only short swords, but this did not prevent them from listing another military formation in front of the Chu army.
The Qin army array, which was not subjected to the spears on the side, was also urgently mobilized under the order of Qu Hou. The soldiers moved quickly in the second half and then lined up behind the short soldiers. In a short time, the Qin army blocked the gap that appeared, and the Chu army's spear array wedged into the enemy formation and could not move. They could only retreat step by step under Ruo Ao Duxing's angry order, but the dozens of soldiers wedged into the front of the Qin formation did not retreat.
"Fire the cannon!" After the spear formation moved out of position, Ruo Ao personally shouted at the artillery guards behind him. With a "boom", the artillery fired again, and the shells rang through the entire queue. Qin soldiers who were fighting in the formation were frightened. They were squeezed into the crowd. More than a dozen Chu soldiers who were fighting on the ground took the opportunity to escape.
"Let it go!" There were Chu soldiers in the formation. For a moment, the cannon leader did not dare to fire again, so he could only obey the orders of the infantry. Seeing Ruoao waving the flag again, the cannon roared again. This time, more than a dozen Chu soldiers rolled and crawled out of the Qin army array. Seeing their embarrassing appearance, Ruoao yelled even more angry, and he shouted: "Grenadier, grenade! Still grenade!"
In the cold weather, half of the grenades did not explode, but in order to save Ruo Ao, he could not control himself, so a large number of grenades were still in, and they were crackling. All the Chu soldiers who could still move struggled to crawl out.
"Let it go!" Ruoao, who was still dissatisfied, ordered the flag to be waved again, and the artillery soldiers fired again. After one shot, no Chu soldiers came out again. When Ruoao was still waving the flag, several wounded soldiers and the bodies of the Chu army were also spread out by the Qin soldiers.
"It's a mediocre man!" The Qin army was so afraid that Ruo Ao cursed alone, and then someone brought away the injured or dead Chu soldiers. Just as the Qin soldiers were worried that he would wave his flags and order the cannon soldiers to fire again, the cavalry in his hand pointed at the position where the Tang army had rushed to the spear before and ordered the Tang army to rush to the spear.
Chapter completed!