Chapter 35 The Mud Tree
When the artillery stopped roaring, the bell ringed again in the Qin army array. The infantry shouted and stepped forward. This was a big step. In a quarter of an hour, the array could advance to a hundred steps away from the Chu army.
As the Qin army advanced, Xiong Jing subconsciously looked at both sides. The space between the square formations was the place where the gunpowder was ignited. The worker there was holding a rope more than 100 meters long in his hand. The rope was connected to the flint engine through a bamboo tube buried underground. Once the rope was pulled hard, the spring that had lost its restraint would quickly ignite with the flint and detonate the gunpowder. For insurance, there were three sets of fire devices in one place of gunpowder.
Xiong Jing looked at both sides, Jing Fei, who was fighting beside the fuse, looked at the Qin army array that was marching towards him, and then looked back at the nest car behind him. The nest car was several feet above the ground, and could clearly see the movements of the entire Qin army array. The final order to fire was that the nest car would first fire the yellow flag that could detonate, but Xiong Jing ordered the red flag that would immediately get angry.
Shentong in the nest car noticed Jing Fei who was constantly looking back. He was counting the steps of the Qin people and waiting patiently for them to approach. Standing at his height, the entire battlefield was clear at a glance. Two thousand Qin infantry rows were marching forward, two thousand Qin infantry rows of left and right wings, and more than eight thousand cavalry rows of cavalry rode forward as fast as the cavalry that had just attacked the artillery formation. The Chu cavalry was not to be outdone. They had been waiting for the formation, and they were standing up with their cavalry spears and rode their horses to face the Qin cavalry with more people than theirs.
Since the cavalry of the Chu and Qin armies had never had such a large-scale showdown. In the Battle of Xiangcheng, the cavalry of the two armies only attacked each other's infantry arrays, rather than rushing towards each other. Tens of thousands of war horses galloped, and the earth seemed to have turned into a huge drum, with more than 100,000 horse hooves hitting the drum surface, making a deafening sound. The soldiers on both sides were also shocked by this sound and looked towards the left and right wings involuntarily.
The difference is that all the dust on the war horses blew to the northwest, including Meng Tian, the Qin generals and soldiers could only see the hazy shadows of the cavalrymen. The Chu generals and soldiers standing in the south could clearly see the cavalry spears in the hands of their knights gradually flattened. They would give the enemy a violent impact and accept the fierce impact brought by the enemy.
"kill--!"
"attack--!"
The moment before the war was fought, the cavalry on both sides burst into a short burst of shouts. The speed of the war horses increased to the fastest. Every knight was staring at the enemy in front of him and patiently prepared for the most fatal blow.
‘Bang, bang, bang…’ In the high-speed running, the cavalry spear and the cavalry spear collided together, the war horse and the war horse collided together, the shield and arrow collided together, the weapons attack, the neighing of the war horse, the screams of the knights, all of this happened on the battlefield that lasted more than twenty miles on both sides of the infantry. With the largest cavalry battle ever, the decisive battle between the Chu and Qin armies officially began.
The Qin army infantry continued to move forward, and the fighting shouts from the cavalry war made them more and more nervous. The sergeant commander could only shake the bells louder and louder. The few five hundred masters shouted "attack" in person to alert the soldiers who were distracted. The battle of the cavalry had nothing to do with infantry. The most important task of the infantry was to resist the spears of the Jing people. As long as they blocked the sharpest spear charge of the Jing people, the Qin army could win the battle.
The cavalry battles on both sides became more and more fierce. The knights who were staggering around turned their horses and repelled again. They collided violently again. Then more war horses and more knights fell to the ground. The knights who fell to the ground struggled hard, drew their swords and continued to fight with the other party.
"Green! Green..." During the fight, Xiang Chao, who was covered in blood on the right wing, waved his sword while shouting at Zhu Fen's name. This time he must kill this traitor! He must kill this traitor!
"Stop!" At a distance of 100 steps, the Qin army officers and generals suddenly shouted to stop. After advancing 800 steps, the originally strong formation was no longer neat. Before the war was fought, the queues must be rectified and the soldiers must be allowed to rest for a while.
At this time, a huge green flag was fired from the nest car, telling everyone that the Qin people were about to enter the gunpowder buried site and ready to explode at any time. The worker who held the fuse between the square formation also fired a green flag to respond.
Shen Tong looked at the temporarily stopped Qin army and waited for them to continue moving forward;
He led Sima to look at the temporarily stopped Qin army and waited for them to continue moving forward;
Xiong Jing and the strategists around him also looked at the temporarily stopped Qin army, waiting for them to continue moving forward;
In addition to the endless fighting and shouting of the knights on both sides of the military formation, the entire battlefield suddenly became quiet at this time. The military flags blowing under the spring breeze, the birds cried as they flew by, and the hearts were pounding rhythmically. These sounds were clearly transmitted into the ears and dissolved into the heart.
"Taiyi Blessing." A moment of waiting seemed to be longer than a few months of waiting. Xiong Jing, who was staring, shouted Taiyi Blessing. After his words fell, the flag of Outer Mongolia Tian suddenly pointed forward, and the sound of deafening drums sounded, and the Qin army array advanced again.
"Da Ao!" The generals of each division led Sima to look back at Xiong Jing under the banner, and some people even shouted anxiously. Their actions also led the soldiers in the square formation, and the soldiers did not know what was going to happen soon.
"Big Ao!" The strategist beside Xiong Jing also looked at Xiong Jing. The gunpowder was buried underground ninety steps from the Chu army array. The Qin people took a step forward in one second, and they had to step on the gunpowder in less than ten seconds.
"It's ready!" The Chu army's archers pulled out half a string in the square formation. Because the wind was going well, as long as the Qin army entered eighty steps, they would shoot arrows.
"Da Ao--!" The Qin army was getting closer and closer. Jing Fei was nervous and not only started the teeth, but the fat on his body also trembled. He shouted in the direction of Xiong Jing.
"It's ready! Let it go!" The Qin army advanced to eighty steps, and the bow chief decisively ordered the arrow to be fired. As the bow string trembled, more than 7,000 heavy arrows left the string and shot towards the Qin soldiers who were preparing to run.
"Yellow Flag!" Zhuang Wudi pointed at the nest car behind him. After entering eighty steps, the yellow flag that could be blasted was fired on the nest car. However, the worker must see the red flag lit by the shogunate before he could pull the fuse.
Xiong Jing saw the yellow flag, but his attention was only on the Qin army. Faced with the dense rain of arrows shot from the air, the Qin army was not panicked. They raised the small shield hanging on their left arm. This small shield had never appeared on the Qin soldiers before. The arrows washed away the Qin army array like heavy rain. The front row of soldiers were already wearing iron armor, and the small shield covered their thighs, so there was not much damage in fact.
"Let it go--!" After the first wave of arrows, the archers shot again. This time, the Qin army was closer, and the arrows were also closer. The second wave of arrows was still scattered between the iron armor and the shield.
"Attack!" At seventy steps, the sound of the Qin army drums became more and more intense. The head of the garrison and the generals in the array pointed their swords ahead and shouted. The Qin soldiers also burst out with a series of shouts. They no longer stepped forward, but ran wildly with their chief spears.
"Da Ao--!!" The general led Sima to rush under the banner and forced the angry red flag. The adviser also had a sweat in his palms, worried that Xiong Jing would miss the best opportunity.
"Rise the flag!" Seeing the Qin army rushing, Xiong Jing waved his hand firmly, and a huge red flag was quickly raised by the guard infantry. Just seeing a corner of the red flag, before the flagpole was erected, Jing Fei shouted loudly: "Get angry!"
"Get angry!" The worker shouted while pulling the fuse quickly. Because he used too much force, he fell back with the rope.
"Getting out..." There were 14 gunpowders and forty-two fuses buried. The workers pulled all fuses together to avoid any loss.
At this time, the Qin army rushed forward a few more steps and rushed towards the Chu army like a flood. The Chu army, which had not received any orders, could only release the barbarian spear and resist the impact of the Qin people. The witchcraft could not be bombarded, the archers kept firing arrows, and the infantry stood still and did not move, which surprised all the Qin generals and lieutenants, including Meng Tian. Could it be that the Jing people would not fight without the witchcraft?
"Jing people..." Meng Tian was about to say that Jing people would be defeated, but the earth suddenly trembled.
"It exploded." The red flag was lit for a while and there was no movement. The generals were doubting, and Xiong Jing felt the tremor on the ground.
Ninety steps away, the land trampled by the Qin army was like a big tree being cut down and then stood up quickly. Large pieces of soil rushed out from the ground, rising and shattering. When they reached the highest point, they formed a huge and lush canopy of the tree. The mud that broke into powder turned into flowers and leaves on the canopy, blooming brilliantly in this spring day full of blood and killing.
The beautiful bloom is always just a moment. After a moment, these flowers and leaves fall helplessly. What rises again is the white smoke of gunpowder and the yellow dust stirred by the explosion. Qin Zhu, who exploded into the air, fell down, and they were swallowed up by the smoke and dust before they could shout.
No one cares about the Qin soldiers, and no one cares about the war. The general who knew this plan led Sima, and the Qin Chu soldiers who did not know this plan were all taken away by the fourteen big trees that suddenly rose from the ground, completely forgot that they were on the battlefield at this time.
"Shikuaifu protects you!" The Chu army formation couldn't help but kneel down. The generals before the war once said that Da Ao had asked Sikuai to cause disaster to the Qin people. In their opinion, these fourteen huge mud trees that suddenly stood up were the disasters caused by Sikuai.
"Witch Medicine..." When the Chu infantryman knelt down, Meng Tian, whose eyes were suddenly stormed, just wanted to dig out his eyes, and wanted to stab him to death with a sword. He miscalculated. The Chu army was arranged ten miles away. After that, the entire shogunate thought about how to adjust the exposed battle formation and never thought about the tricks of the Chu army.
"Ah, ah..." Fourteen mud trees as high as twenty feet tall disappeared in the air after they set off. At this time, the Qin soldiers at the center of the explosion let out a shrill scream. The two thousand military formations were only one thousand four hundred in the middle. And because the army formation was as thick as a hundred lines, the corpses at both ends were only stunned by the explosion air waves and were not all killed. When countless soil fell from the air, some of the soldiers who were shocked were awakened.
The soldiers' wailing was like the heavy arrows of the Chu army. The arrow shot through Meng Tian's heart. He screamed "ah" and drew his sword and wanted to commit suicide.
"No!" Meng Gong next to him pressed his arm and comforted him: "There are still troops behind."
Chapter completed!