Night is at night.

When a dark cloud covers the silent star in the distant sky, the Chu army soldiers hidden in the shadows of the river bank and water surface are like a hungry leopard for food, and finally wait for the best time to launch a sudden attack.

"Ah Yilu!"

"Huahu--!"

With the strange screams of the strange ghosts of the Chu army, Wuyu, the general of the Chu army, jumped up first. While lurking, he had already found a hard rock strip in the riverbed. Now he kicked hard, and his whole body rose into the sky with a shouting and roaring sound. A mermaid dragon on his naked body was ferocious with his eyes, just like an ancient ferocious beast that made people shudder.

"What ghost--!" Qin Junsheng, who was distracted for a moment, had no time to call, and felt a chill on his neck. The sky was spinning, and the scenery in his eyes turned around. Then what came into his eyes was black figures with their heads on their feet, rushing out from under the water.

"Chu Man!" The unknown team leader who finally realized the truth tried hard to open his mouth, wanting to shout to remind his companions, but except for a ball of blood, he could not make any sound.

"Qin Dog, it's just like this!" Wuyu laughed loudly, waved the Juque bronze sword in his hand with a satisfied force, and then kicked Wuzhu's head six or seven feet away. The head led by the Qin army fell into the gulf with a "bang" sound. After rolling for a few times, it disappeared into the water.

The name of Juque.

The sword was created by Ou Yezi, the former sword-making master of Yue Kingdom. The sword blade was three feet long, seven inches long, about five inches wide, and weighed about five kilograms. When it was swung, the sword energy was scattered, which was a powerful weapon. Back then, after the Yue Kingdom was destroyed by Chu Kingdom, the Juque Sword was carried into the deep mountains by some of the Yue royal family members, and then fell into the hands of the Shanyue Fan people.

He lost command suddenly. The Qin army patrolman, who woke up from the trance of the night, faced a group of tattooed ghosts that had broken hair and tattooed like water ghosts. Although he rose up to resist, in the face of the fierce attacks of the foreigners, a mere hundred-man team could not stop the continuous flow of the foreigners' soldiers who rushed to Hexi.

"Enemy attacks, enemy attacks!" The sudden change on the riverside was almost instantly transmitted to the Qin army camp not far away. The Qin army general who was on duty tonight belonged to Li Zhongxiang's unit. After hearing the news, he did not dare to neglect his troops. While summoning his troops to fight, he urgently sent the doctor to inform Li Zhongxiang of knowing.

The foreigners attacked at night!

The battle situation that was in a stalemate was broken, and Wuyu scored the Qin army in one round, but when he wiped out the remaining Qin army patrols, he had to spend a quarter of an hour. The arrogant generals of the foreigners did not expect that the bronze sword they were proud of was almost in a complete defeat in the confrontation with the Qin army's standard iron sword.

Copper and iron.

The two metals with different attributes have alternating status, which also symbolizes the continuous development of the civilization process. The Central Plains began to transition from a slave society to a feudal society.

The change in this system not only comes from ideology, but also from the emergence of the country, a powerful ruling institution. After the Qin army occupied Handan and Xiping, all the craftsmen in these two important iron smelting towns were recruited to Jinyang by Sima Yin. This practice of concentrating the national technical forces and working hard to study a technology is much more effective than the past when there were many vassal states, and the craftsmen under them rely solely on personal research to fight alone.

The Guo family in Handan, the Zhang family in Xiping, and the original craftsmen such as Mo Shi from Lishan soldiers in Jinyang, these craftsmen who were usually located in various places and could not exchange experiences with each other continuously improved iron smelting and other craftsmen in the collision of ideas.

In just one year, the Qin State's iron tools went from a small amount of equipment to the army. Most of them could only be used for farming, and developed to a large number of equipment to the front-line army. In the end, not only the generals had iron swords and iron armor at the first level, but even ordinary soldiers also obtained the "magic weapons" they had dreamed of.

In terms of sharpness, such a standard iron sword is certainly impossible to compare with the Juque sword made by Ou Yezi with meteorite in Shang Wuyu's hand. However, the advantage of the standard iron sword lies in its popularity. The excellent iron ore collected from the Jushui area and the high-quality coal stone in the Yunzhong County area gave the forging iron tools the best raw materials and the best burning conditions. In addition, a large number of technical craftsmen owned by the Qin State's military masters, the production speed of iron weapons is increasing almost every moment.

The courage of the other people.

One is their experience in fighting against harsh environments; the other is the maturity of bronze smelting technology, which helped them gain the initiative in fighting with wild animals.

Now, the Qin army suddenly gained an advantage in one aspect, which made the foreigners shocked and also shook the subsequent war. This psychological change directly led to the negligence of siege and killing the Qin army's patrol.

All those who can serve as patrol scouts are carefully selected and stand out. They may not be as brave as those who are used to charging into the front line, but they are the most loyal in their understanding of death. In other words, these Qin army scouts have long put life and death aside.

When the French soldiers surrounded them, when the hope of survival and breaking through was shattered, when companions staggered under the enemy's sword, the still alive Qin army scouts gradually became fearless of death.

"Fan Dog, if you want grandpa's life, come on, haha!" More than one Qin army soldier sacrificed his life to counterattack when he was beaten by several foreigners.

Their bravery and fearlessness also made the warriors of the clan who always considered themselves the most brave.

——.

Li Zhongxiang was neatly dressed and rode on a white war horse without a single hair.

This white horse, called "Taxue", was originally a gift from Loulan King on Princess An Qinglan's 16th birthday. As a father, he would not save money from giving his daughter things. The maternal lineage of Taxue comes from the Dayuan Kingdom in the west, and its paternal lineage is the leader of the wild horse group on the grasslands in the northern desert.

Li Zhongxiang returned to the Central Plains. An Qinglan was pregnant and could not follow him, so she gave Traxue to Li Zhongxiang as a mount. With this magical horse, it was almost impossible for ordinary people to hurt him.

The battle ahead is fierce.

After the Scouts Hundreds were wiped out, Li Zhongxiang's deputy general led five or six hundred Qin soldiers desperately resisting the fierce attack of the French. However, because the French people swam across the attack, and the French people were used to fighting wild animals in the mountains, forests and fields, the fire rocks and obstacles laid by the Qin army had little impact on the French people. During the period when Wuyu and the French generals launched an attack, the Qin army did not have much targeted defense, which made the Qin army's resistance very difficult.

Half an hour later, almost all the three thousand generals and soldiers of the foreigners swam ashore. On the one hand, these foreign soldiers responded to Wuyu's call and shouted, began to attack the Qin army camps, and on the other hand, they began to build boat bridges to try to guide the Chu army troops on the east coast to pass quickly.

The half-cross strike has lost its opportunity!

The main force of the Chu army is constantly increasing reinforcements.

With preparation and planning but not preparation, this time the Chu army's attack avoided the frontal battlefield that had been entangled for more than ten days and found the flanks of the Qin army, which caught the Qin army off guard.

"Report to the general, the Chu army dispatched foreign troops, our army had lost more than a thousand people, the first Chai Yan defense line was broken, and we are currently fighting fiercely on the second line of defense-!"

The military information from the front of the battle made Li Zhongxiang frown suddenly. This kind of war that was trapped in a passive situation as soon as the war started made him feel a little tricky.

Teams that are trapped in melee cannot be withdrawn just by wanting to withdraw.

Judging from the current situation, the filling troops of the Qin army's side generals were intersected with the foreigners, and it was no longer clear. If they rely on ordinary methods of reinforcement, their Qin army would fall into a melee with a larger number of people, which may be what Xiang Yu most hopes to see.

The longer the time goes on, the more beneficial it will be to the Chu army.

Xiang Yu, who was looking for a reappearance of the battle, was very eager to give the Qin army in front of him a heavy blow when the Chu army still had the will to fight.

"Order the crossbowman and line up to prepare!"

"Notify the cavalry troops to bypass the enemy in front of you and rush through the Honggu River Valley from south to north to cut off the Chu army's contact-!" Li Zhongxiang's voice trembled slightly. From his orders, it can be judged that his mood was not as calm as the expression on his face. The two powerful aids, crossbowmen and cavalry, were just lined up and encircled, which meant that Li Zhongxiang decided to give up the Qin army's combat troops that were trapped in a melee.

A hero cuts his arm.

Not everyone has the courage to make such decisions.

Especially the one who gave up is his own deputy general, his colleagues who have been with him day and night.

Compared with Li Zhongxiang who was helpless, the general Wuyu was very proud during this period. The number of Qin troops in front of him was getting smaller and smaller. Although they held more advanced weapons, they were in a hurry to fight, and the advantages of formation and overall combat could not be reflected. When it comes to individual combat capabilities, the generals had to have an innate advantage.

As the vanguard, the French people succeeded in attacking the Qin camp. The news came back to the central army of the Chu army. The overlord Xiang Yu was overjoyed and ordered a heavy reward for the foreign people. These rewards and the power given by the Chu State would give the French people more benefits in Jiangdong.

"Swoosh swish swish swish swish swish--!"

The sound of sharp arrows breaking through the night sky woke Wuyu up from his fantasy.

He widened his eyes and looked incredibly at the brave compatriots in front of him screaming and falling down. Although the bodies were covered with beasts such as mermaids, dragons, tigers, and leopards, they could not avoid the dense rain of arrows of the Qin army. However, in the melee, this indiscriminate rain of arrows not only took away the lives of the people, but also caused the fierce Qin soldiers in the encirclement to fall in a pool of blood one by one.

"Qin Gou went crazy, they actually shot their own people." Wuyu lay on the ground with a look of fear, leaning against a corpse of a man in front of him to avoid it.
Chapter completed!