Chapter 88 Magnets
The cavalry retreated and the Jing cavalry crossed the Wei River, and the heavily armored soldiers followed him to cross the Wei River. Although the Ji army had hundreds of thousands of people, they couldn't help but feel worried when they saw the Jing cavalry sprinting fiercely and the Ji army did not stop. When the Chu army's artillery raised its angle and shot, the shells slowly fell down and got closer and closer, and the oppression of death made people even more panicked.
At this moment, the generals behind him suddenly shouted: "Master!! The Great King is here! The Great King is here..."
The central army had a formation of more than 4,000 rows wide and 70 rows deep. More than 300,000 Qin soldiers all turned around and looked behind them. The gate was five miles away from the Wei River and two miles to the Qin army array. They could not recognize who the man was riding a red horse, but they knew the red Changqi, not to mention the tens of thousands of guards following the Changqi.
"The king is here! The king is here!" With suspicion and shock, the Qin army array quickly became quiet.
‘Officials are unpredictable, but the people are not inferior in the end. If you have the ability, you should take it; if you are incompetent, you should be inferior’. This is the ideal of the Mohist school, but this is just an ideal. What Qin State really implemented was the Legal school’s ‘If you are humiliated, you will be noble, you will be respected, and if you are poor, you will be rewarded.’
Only when the Qianshou feels humiliated at all times will they feel that the title is precious; only when the Qianshou everyone is weak will they feel that officials should respect them; only when the Qianshou feels that the poor people are not full of food will they cherish the rewards of the government and obey the orders of the court.
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The Qin formation suddenly became silent, and at this time, the general of the central army, Zhao Yong, turned around and welcomed Zhao Zheng who was rushing towards him. When he spoke to persuade Zhao Zheng to return to the gate, Zhao Zheng asked, "Why are the people of Jing?"
The Chu army lined up in Weinan was singing, the Chu army crossing the bridge was singing, and the Chu army waiting in Weibei was waiting for the bridge crossing, they looked at the phoenix flag floating above Weinan, singing in the sound of cannons. The singing was vigorous and loud, and the Chu soldiers were full of energy, wishing they could rush up now.
"This is the song of the Jing people." Zhao Yong knew that this was the "National Sacrifice" by the Chu people, but he just didn't say the name. "There is a dangerous place in front of the formation. If the Jing people see the king here, the Jing people's witchcraft..."
The Qin army was in front of them, Zhao Yong was more than 200 steps behind them, four miles away from the Wei River and about five and a half miles away from the Chu army artillery on the north bank of the Wei River. If the witchcraft bombarded the king like last time, the king would retreat, and the morale of the entire army would plummet again. The last time the Qin army had a large number of rear troops. This time, because Zhang Han took away 150,000 people, the rear troops might not be able to fill the omissions of the central army and stabilize the entire army's position.
Zhao Yong was so worried that Zhao Zheng continued the topic just now: "Why don't our army sing?"
"Our army?!" In addition to suddenly shouting long live the king, the Qin army has always been quiet in marching and fighting.
"Why do you say you have no clothes? You are in the same comrade with your son. Wang Yu set up a army and repaired my spear. He is in the same vengeance as you..." Zhao Zheng, who had his own pride in his heart, was immersed in his imagination.
"Report to the King..." Zhao Yong wanted to speak but stopped, but he said: "How can the Qianshou be chanted by this elegant song? Even if it is a Qinshou song, the Qianshou cannot be chanted by now."
"Why?" Zhao Zheng asked. At this time, Changqi that followed was already standing behind him, and the canopy that covered the sun was lifted by the temple people. This was the thing that the craftsmen in the camp had just made yesterday.
If Zhao Zheng was just a single rider, the Chu army might not have noticed that Changqi Huagai was a very obvious target. When he asked why the Qin army could not sing "With Clothes", the Chu army artillery on the north bank of the Wei River was adjusting its shooting angle.
The Chu cavalry dispersed the Qin cavalry at the bridge and repelled the crossbows. The Chu soldiers who had previously scattered gathered at the bridge again. As more and more soldiers crossing the bridge, the array at the bridge became denser. However, compared with the Qin army's formation that was more than ten miles wide, this army seemed very narrow, about the width of six floating bridges, only one and a half miles wide.
The Qin cavalry and crossbowmen were repelled by the Chu cavalry and arranged a formation five hundred steps away from the Wei River, and did not retreat behind the infantry or the military formation. They were still ordered to defeat the Chu army array on the south bank of the Wei River, which may be the last chance of the Qin army. Zhao Zheng's advance accelerated the process, and the cavalry generals who were rectifying the cavalry thought that the king came forward to urge him.
"The king is behind you! The king ordered to kill King Jing, be granted a marquis, and eat ten thousand households..." Cavalry is a noble branch and the most easily lost group. Xin Sheng died in battle, and several cavalry generals were immediately promoted by Zhao Yong's front line, and Wu Fen was one of them. He rode his horse in front of the formation and kept shouting to his soldiers, "Grant a marquis, be granted a marquis, and eat ten thousand households" without asking for the king or the honor of the Qin army.
Everything is fake, only real profit is real. Although Yufen is not a Qin person, his background has made him know a lot about this principle and understand it very thoroughly. Compared with the uncle of Qin and his mental disorder, this unconcealed simplicity, rigidity and logical self-consistent are not only very real, but also extremely cute.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished saying "Masters and Eat Ten Thousand Houses", the Qin cavalry cheered up again. His eyes were fixed on the phoenix flag at the bridgehead, and the young King Jing who was on the horse thousands of miles under the phoenix flag. Before the Chu army's artillery corrected the shooting angle, the cavalry generals rushed to issue attack orders, and they rushed to the Wei River again and rushed towards the phoenix flag.
The drums sounded again, and the Qin cavalry retreated and lined up rushed over again. This was completely expected by Xiong Jing, Gui Jing, Jing Sheng and others. Especially Xiong Jing, he knew very well his magnet effect, and as long as he was on the battlefield, he would attract the enemy.
"I ask the king..." The two left and right men also crossed the Wei River at this time. The feather flags covered the sun's enemy Ruoyun. Seeing the Qin cavalry rushing over, the right men wanted to persuade Xiong Jing to avoid it for the time being. However, thousands of knights were eager to try and were eager to fight, and his advice was impossible to express.
"Can you?" Xiong Jing didn't pay attention to him, but looked at Feng Li, who helped him bandage the wound in his calf.
"Not yet." Yingli squatted under the horse, wiping the wound to disinfect it, and there was no bandage at all.
"It's not enough!" The sound of horse hooves like thunderous sounds more than four hundred steps away. Before the Qin cavalry arrived, Chen arrived first. Xiong Jing spit out the dust that was blowing into his mouth, and closed his mask and rode his horse. After Feng Li was basically cleaned up, he wrapped a piece of cotton soaked in alcohol. When the knot was halfway through, Xiong Jing shouted and rushed to the front of the cavalry formation without accepting Erli's string arrow.
The previous battle between the cavalry of the two armies was a melee. The Qin army was not as good as the Chu army's fighting skills, but not as good as the Chu army's horses, especially the war horses. Later, what Chao Cuo of the Han Dynasty said, "up and down the mountain and saka, and going out the streams, the Chinese horses were as good as the Chu army's purchase of Persia horses.
The Qin cavalry that charged again divided into several conical formations and rushed straight to Xiong Jing. But just like the cavalry on the floating bridge that squeezed the martial knights down the Wei River, these conical formations collided with each other in the end. Only the fastest one could seize the most favorable position. This sprint for speed seriously damaged the formation of the cavalry, and only the best horse could rush in the front.
Just now on the floating bridge, Xiong Jing didn't have time to make fun of the Qin cavalry who were snatching each other's merits. Now seeing their old ways resurfaced, he couldn't help laughing. When the Qin army rushed to three hundred steps, he raised the cavalry spear in his right hand tightly, and shouted with all his strength: "Ah--"
"Ah——, ah—————” More than 7,000 Chu army knights shouted, and their spears were like a forest for a while.
The horn of the charge finally rang out! The front row of war horses walked forward slowly, facing the Qin people running wildly. Xiong Jing was in the middle of the cavalry formation, and the guard cavalry led by Zhuang Quji were separated on both sides of him; the first cavalry division led by Gui Jing and the second cavalry division led by Jing Sheng were on both sides of the guard cavalry. The E Division, Ruoao's division and other divisions and brigades were located on the second line.
Cavalry charges, in modern times, there were few dense formation charges. There were several meters of gaps between the knights and the knights. When they were hedging, the enemy and our army passed through these gaps and fought at the moment of interweaving. However, the charge line arranged by more than 2,000 dragon horses is airtight. They were divided into two rows of front and back, and the same row of knights pushed forward with their knees.
Xiong Jing did not understand the training methods of cavalry in Napoleon's era, but he knew the benefits of intensive charges - the theory of invincible fences being deeply rooted in people's hearts. So a strange scene appeared on the battlefield: the Qin cavalry was galloping first, the Chu cavalry did not run at all, and the war horses were just walking quickly. Only by walking quickly can we maintain a still crooked fence.
It was the dream of the knights to gallop on the battlefield, but in order to get in line, the Chu army gave up galloping and chose to take a slow and fast pace. The Chu army in the rear could not see whether the cavalry was running or rushing. The oncoming Qin cavalry found that the speed of the Chu cavalry was very slow, which was incomprehensible, but what was even more understandable was that they formed a wall about 700 steps wide. There was no gap at all for the cavalry to pass through and could not intersect with the enemy cavalry. The result of the battle would be that the two cavalry collided and died together.
Things on the battlefield are often only in a moment, and there is not so much time for people to think about a complete plan. Before the Qin army figured out what to do, the two armies were already within a hundred steps. The Chu knights who were charging quickly all held cavalry spears, and the cavalry spears were erected, and the swallowtail flag at the front of the cavalry spears fluttered in the wind. After the two armies entered a hundred steps, the erected cavalry spears slowly flattened, and the shiny spear tips pointed at themselves.
The cavalry fought against the cavalry, the cavalry spear or the arm crossbow and iron sword against the cavalry spear. When the distance was thirty steps, the Qin cavalry, who did not charge with the spear, fired arrows to the Chu army. The Chu army seemed to have not realized it. They tried their best to maintain the balance of formation and body, waiting for the Qin people to come into collision themselves. Unfortunately, they overestimated the Qin army's war horses. When they were more than ten steps apart, some war horses running quickly from the opposite side suddenly stopped or stood up.
Chapter completed!