The wind and snow were getting stronger, and the night outside the tent was below minus ten degrees below zero. Although there was charcoal fire in the tent, the temperature was only a few degrees. The shiny armor was hung beside the Xiongjing couch, and the tentacles were extremely cold. The head helmet, body armor, arm armor, skirt armor, shin armor, and chain armor inside, these armors were completely pieced together, and at first glance, it seemed like a soldier standing in front of the bed.

Cherishing armor is like cherishing one's own body. Before going to bed, Xiong Jing habitually wipes his armor and oils the entire armor. Compared with the previous armor, this armor is probably the best work of Ju Tie Mansion. It is exquisitely made and fits well. The head helmet is no longer easy to make ugly barrel styles, but becomes more round. Its top is round, following the tradition of Zhou people's bronze helmets and Chu army's leather helmets. There is a thick cockscomb from the forehead to the back of the head. There is a bunch of colorful feathers in the gap between the cockscomb, which is extremely conspicuous.

A convex eaves were added to the forehead to hide the rain, and the upper end of the face armor was still riveted in the temple, and the rivets were tight and loose, so that they could be fixed at any angle. In order to make the enemy afraid, the face armor was no longer the plain surface of the past, but was coldly forged a human face:

The bulging and wide-open hole is the eyes, which holds a long nose edge, and the nose edge is a huge nose under the nose edge. The teeth in the mouth are hollowed out, and the teeth are all visible. Except for the second canine tooth on the outer side of the lower part, the rest of the teeth are all rectangular shovel-shaped. The square ears are located between the eyes and noses and extend from both sides of the mask; a corner is slanted out on both sides of the head, and the corner ends are also curled inward like canine teeth, and there are curling cloud patterns engraved on it.

The mask is ferocious, terrifying, and weird, and it looks like the style of the Chu people. Xiong Jing has seen many similar bronze masks in Lantai Palace. When the witches lure the gods, they used ropes to pass through the square holes in the mask's ears and tied the entire face armor to their faces. However, compared with those bronze masks, the two corners of this mask are not extended vertically, but are slanted, so that when the face armor is opened upward, the two corners will not touch the head helmet; there is no cylinder directly above the mask, and the function of the cylinder is to insert the Zhiyu.

Xiong Jing wipes his armor every few days, but the wipes on this day seem unusual to Chang Jiang. Yesterday, the king told Gui Jing that he wanted to break the formation with a heavy cavalry. Today, Zhuang has no land. Deng Sui, Peng Zong and others came to dissuade him after hearing the news. The left and right thought Xiong Jing could not take risks.

The Qin army is likely to be equipped with linen armor, and the killing of the light cavalry bows and arrows is useless. Since the light cavalry cannot shoot the soldiers in the army, the array will not be chaotic. The heavy cavalry will not attack the array without chaotic ones. This array is as thick as a hundred lines and everyone holds the chief spear. As a vanguard, Ao of a country can indeed boost morale, but if it is injured, it will be a heavy blow to morale.

In addition to morale, the Battle Department has never tested whether the heavy cavalry charge and the Yi spear rushing formation can break through the increasingly heavy array of the Qin army. The heavy cavalry can rush through the enemy formation even if it cannot break through the enemy formation. The shogunate adviser admitted that the Qin army would not make up for the formation in the rear? Once the Qin army supplemented the formation in the rear, the heavy cavalry would be sacrificed in vain. The heavy cavalry can rush through the enemy, but either hit the enemy's side or wait for the enemy formation to fall into chaos before rushing, rather than launching an unfair one-time impact against the complete array of the Qin army.

During the debate, things revolved back on the old path of unsolvable discussions. During the decisive battle, artillery soldiers would be submerged by the Qin army's horse corpses. The spear formation would face the increasingly thicker and constantly replenishing military formations. The heavy cavalry that could break the enemy formation would be entangled and disturbed by the Qin cavalry. The three methods of the Chu army's formation were restrained by the Qin army. The final victory could only rely on the soldiers of the spear formation to rush the spears and drag out the artillery flooded by the horse corpses as soon as possible.

But both are uncertain. The soldiers will be tired, and once they are tired, they will be compressed by the Qin army to rush into the spear space. In the end, the two armies are entangled together, and the rush into the spear will be ineffective. As for artillery, when the two armies are fighting, the artillery will inevitably be behind the front line. If the cavalry does not block the enemy cavalry with more people than their own, the artillery will be dragged out of the horse corpse and will be subject to a new round of impact from the Qin cavalry. What can really stop the cavalry are machine guns and dense spear formations, not strong bows and crossbows, not flintlocks or cannon shotguns. They are either not powerful enough or not fast enough.

The people who dissuaded Xiong Jing gave various reasons, but no one dared to say with certainty that the Chu army would definitely be able to defeat the Qin army array from the front. On the side, because it was difficult for each army to arrive before the decisive battle, the Chu State's twenty divisions had only more than 2,000 rows, and the Zhao and Wei armies were only only 4,000 rows. If the Qin army had a width of 6,000 rows, they would have been surrounded by the two wings of the Qin army before the Chu army could attack.

Everyone dissuaded, Xiong Jing insisted, and the two sides finally parted in disagreement. However, Xiong Jing was Da Ao, and the heavy cavalry belonged to the Ying army, and the final combat array had to be modified - the position of Wang Jian's Yujing would become the impact port of the heavy cavalry. For every two heavy cavalry brigades, about 360 heavy cavalry and 169 light cavalry formed a 529-person wedge formation.

This wedge formation has twenty-three lines in depth, with only one person in the first line and forty-five people in the last line, with two more people in each line. One hundred and sixty-nine light cavalry also formed a wedge formation with thirteen lines in depth and embedded behind the large wedge formation. Because the cavalry bow could not kill the Qin soldiers wearing linen armor, these sixty-nine light cavalry carried grenadiers, two each. Before the charge, the light cavalry knights were given the fire source, and after the charge, they were thrown at the enemy twenty steps away.

At the same time, according to the grenade experience in Xianyangyuan, before the wedge formation impact, the hundred light cavalry would be divided into two rows to run before the wedge formation. They each carried a lit heavy grenade with their hands and threw it into the Qin army array. This was the first wave of attack, the second wave was the small grenade of the light cavalry in the wedge formation, and finally the head-on collision between the heavy cavalry and the Qin army infantry and the subsequent storm of the Chu army infantry.

The enemy formation must be defeated as fast as possible. Xiong Jing's decisive battle idea was like this. He did not want to wait for the spear formation to rush into the spear or the artillery guards to drag the cannons out of the horse corpse. Whether it was the Qin infantry or the Qin cavalry, the number was twice that of the Chu army. Once the spear formation lost its initial aura and could not break the formation, the knights could not stop the Qin cavalry that was swarming in, and the result was defeat.

"If the former king knew that Da Ao was like this, he would be happy." Xiong Jing wiped the armor, Chang Jiang and Zhuang Wudi and others were the same, but he could not say anything to dissuade him.

"If the father knows me..." He couldn't help but feel melancholy when talking about his father. He couldn't tell whether he had let his father down or not.

"Our Chu country has moved to Xinying, and the ancestors and kings have been eating blood and food, which is the great king's achievements." Chang Jiang said. "However, the prince is still young, and the princes have not been born. The old ministers in the court have more than enough to protect them. The boys cannot wear armor..."
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