Chapter 88 South Bank 2
Looking through Muze, the huge Daliang City stands on the vast snowy field, giving people a majestic vision. This city with a history of more than 100 years is built and established as the center of the world. The Wei Kingdom is strong here, merchants gather here, transportation connects here, and culture spreads here. At this time, the embers of this city that lies in the heart of the world have not yet been destroyed. When the black smoke drifts to the height of the city wall, it is blown to the south of the city by the violent north wind, blowing out of the city, and finally overwhelms through Muze and gradually dissipates on the south bank of Muze.
This is the battlefield for Qin and Chu cavalry to fight. Xiang Shi, who had previously been energetic, could only gather together to fight the Qin cavalry in an infantry manner. Otherwise, once he was divided and doubled by Qin cavalry several times his, the result would be a lot of danger.
However, all the cavalry and spears were used up, and no long soldiers formed an infantry formation to defend it would not last long. The military formation only relied on some knights who could still fight against the rushing Qin cavalry outside the infantry formation to prevent it from attacking the infantry formation with only the long sword. The corpses were spread across the board and the army was running. The Qin cavalry ran around the Chu army, while the Chu army ran around the infantry formation, and the war horses on both sides trampled on countless snow foams.
Ten miles away, Xiong Jing, who was accelerating, saw such a scene. There were many Qin cavalry, but Xiang Liang fought with the Qin people in the form of a stair formation, which made him unable to help but get angry. However, thinking that Xiang Liang came to rescue his army and repel his cavalry, there should be wounded soldiers who could not retreat within the stair formation, his anger was suppressed again.
"Da Ao..." Gui Jing pointed his hand to the west, and a cavalry there was like a Chu cavalry spreading across the formation, stepping on the snow dust in the sky and rushing towards him.
"Yiquji!" Xiong Jing was very familiar with the big flag in the middle of the Qin cavalry array. It was the flag of the Yiqu people. Under the flag, the four horses were dragged by the wide chariot, which was sitting in the big military carriage. "This Hu Chief!" he cursed fiercely.
He and Yiquzi are considered old acquaintances. In the ten years of Chenying, Yiquzi first arrived in Chu State, and then the two of them met several times. The closest time they were sitting in the same tent and drank together. Hasn't seen each other for ten years, Hu Kei, who was keen on enjoying, was still used to fighting in a military carriage. The military carriage was still luxuriously painted, but the people on it were much older.
"Da Ao?" The Chu cavalry all used the three-headed phoenix flag as the standard. Previously, the phoenix flag pointed north, aiming to lift the siege of Xiangliang. Now a Qin cavalry rushed over from the west. If the Chu army did not turn directly to the west, the left wing would be double-teamed by the Qin cavalry rushed from the west.
"You lead a fight to rescue Xiang Liang." Xiong Jing ordered. The two cavalry formations were still several miles apart, but the cavalry formation was not as good as the stair formation. Soon the cavalry formation led by Yiquji was about to rush toward him.
"Wi." Gui Jing rode his horse out, and a wedge array followed him north. When he ran three miles away, the phoenix flag was just pointing west as the sound of the trumpet.
The Qin army's cavalry formation came from the west, and the Chu army had to go west to meet the enemy. Seeing the central army's Fengqi pointing westward, the right-wing cavalry accelerated to turn westward, while the left wing pulled the horse from a fast step to a slow step, waiting for the entire cavalry formation to change into a formation.
The power of the cavalry lies in its speed. Yiquzi, who was only a few miles away from the Chu cavalry formation, naturally did not want to miss this opportunity when he saw the left wing of the Chu army slowing down. He stood up from the military carriage and shouted at the left and right wings. The cavalry on both sides suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the Chu army array. Xiong Jing couldn't help but sneer at this. Even if the Qin army was equipped with linen armor, he should not hedge against him so arrogantly. He quietly waited for the right wing to turn. When the Qin cavalry rushed one mile away, he ordered the trumpeter beside him to blow the trumpet.
The trumpet sound was melodious than the drum sound. With the melodious sound of Xiong Jing pulled down his face armor and began to accelerate. The Chu knights behind him accelerated. Snow foam splashed everywhere, the earth trembled under the trampling of horse hooves, and the entire vision also fluctuated with the galloping of the war horses. When they were forty steps apart, the enemy cavalry rushed towards him shot out dense rain of arrows. The rain of arrows did not harm the heavy cavalry, and could only injure the war horses with light cavalry that were not strictly protected.
Xiong Jing and the guards were both wearing heavy armor, and the war horse under his crotch was replaced by a trained heavy horse. The arrow fell on the body of the horse, as if it were raindrops, and there was no sense of sound. The armor of the man and the horse was galloping, and the sound covered the sound of the arrow shooting into the armor. In this crisp sound, Xiong Jing aimed the target at the enemy cavalry, and the riding spear lay flat bit by bit.
At this time, Yiquzi's luxurious military car did not rush before the cavalry formation, but after the cavalry formation. Although there were many Hu cavalry guards in front of the chariot, he still instinctively felt the danger. This was not the first time that the Chu cavalry had listed a wedge-shaped formation to attack the enemy formation. He knew the power of this battle formation. Under the anxious Rongyu, more Hu cavalry were summoned by him to avoid the impact of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army.
"Helping!" Less than twenty steps away, Xiong Jing suddenly accelerated. The cavalry spear in his hand had been flattened. The shield on the left blocked most of his body, ready to face a cavalryman who was rushing towards him with a spear on the other side.
Cavalry is a brave group of troops. Each attack is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of them. The decisive battle of cavalry does not depend on the number and weapons, but on morale. In most cases, the side with low morale will collapse before the war, making the hedge between the two sides a pursuit, or the two sides interlaced and fought when they interlaced. In only a few cases, the real war horses rush towards the war horses, from cavalry to a hand-to-hand battle.
Yiqujin did not dare to rush in front of the cavalry formation and hid behind the cavalry formation, and the Chu army bravely advanced under its leadership. In terms of morale, the Chu army had already suppressed the other side. If the Chu knights had not been able to knee to knee, there would be a gap between the enemy cavalry passing through there, Xiong Jing believed that the Qin people would have turned their horses and fled backwards.
Seeing the enemy cavalry getting closer, Xiong Jing sneered in the mask, and then his smile quickly solidified - the cavalry spear that rushed towards the enemy cavalry suddenly pointed down, aiming at him not at him but at the war horse under his crotch.
Fortunately, Xiong Jing did not forget that his mount was trained. The biggest difference between heavy cavalry and light cavalry is that the ability of heavy cavalry to cross obstacles is stronger than that of light cavalry. Only in this way can the heavy cavalry pass over the enemy's horse-resistance or chariot formation. The enemy's cavalry was pressing heavily down, and Xiong Jingjia clamped the horse's belly with both legs and shouted heavily. The mount galloping under his crotch was extremely agile to the master's cavalry order. It jumped up like a conditioned reflex when aiming at the heavily pressed cavalry spear.
The opponent did not expect the war horse to jump and dodge, but he did not expect that the war horse in heavy armor could be so agile and jump so high. It was no longer as good as he wanted to raise the cavalry in the lightning. With a "bang", Xiong Jing's cavalry spear crossed the shield and hit his left chest. The linen armor that could defend against heavy arrows could not resist the faster and heavier cavalry. Before Xiong Jing let go, he felt the spear strike hit the opponent's ribs and then pierced into a cavity without any resistance.
"Lahu..." When the cavalry landed, Yi Quji, who was sitting in the military carriage, stood up and shouted. When he shouted, Xiong Jing's five-foot sword had already pointed at him. The heavy cavalry behind him broke through the enemy cavalry rushing towards him like a bamboo knife, and followed Xiong Jing to rush towards him. However, at this time, Yi Quji's military car suddenly turned around. Because the turn was too fast, the luxurious military carriage almost overturned while splashing snow on the snow. Fortunately, Yi Quji was fat enough, and the fat man stabilized the military car with his heavy body, and then fled in panic with the whereabouts of the guards of many Hu cavalry.
The left wing of the Chu army had already fought with the right wing of the Qin cavalry, but the right wing of the Chu army had not fought with the left wing of the Qin cavalry because of the turn and revolving. Yiquzi's escape led the entire left wing of the uncommon troops to escape, and the Qin cavalry all collapsed. It is hateful that the heavy cavalry could not run the light cavalry. After chasing for a mile, the heavy cavalry had to slow down and could only watch the light cavalry continue to chase.
"This Hu Chief!" Xiong Jing looked at Yiqujin's departure and cursed him hard. On the other side, he saw Yiqujin's escape at the battle, and cursed him loudly. Even though he scolded him, he had to join a cavalry lieutenant, and was worried that a cavalry lieutenant could not stop the attack of the Chu cavalry, so the precious cavalry was sent up.
Thirty thousand war horses galloped on the south bank of Muze. Although the Qin army was large, its morale was no longer there. The cavalry who fled with Yiquji rushed forward and some cavalrymen couldn't help but turn back behind. The desperate efforts of the cavalry, who were worried that the cavalry would suffer, had to make a sound and order the entire army to retreat quickly.
The cavalry is not infantry. As long as there is no obstacle in the rear, it is easy to retreat. The speed and endurance of thousands of dragon horses were beyond the imagination of the Qin army. They chased them all the way and chased them to the south bank of Honggou before being blocked by the 200,000 infantry under Wang Ben's command.
"Long live! Long live! Long live..." The Chu army, who had won the first battle, was extremely excited. However, Xiong Jing, who received the news in Daliang City, had no sense of victory. He was shouting that Zhao Bai, who ran sixty miles last night, ran to the news of the news.
"Reported to Da Ao, Zhao Bai is not seen." Zhuang Wudi chased after him, and he brought another news, "The Qin cavalry attacked my baggage, but fortunately I was spared."
"This is the plan of the Qin people." Without the military chariots, Peng Zong was unable to do it on the horse. The Qin army launched a large-scale cavalry battle here to lure the Chu cavalry and then attack the rear baggage.
"Zhao Bai is the marquis of Qin, and this is all the Qin people's plan." Xiong Jing pointed at a Zhao soldier wearing a huge armor under the horse. "The gates of Daliang are blocked. The Qin people did not steal the city gate and enter the city last night, but instead pulled the rope and climbed the wall into the city. Starting this morning, they entered the city by the cloud ladder."
"How is it in the city?" Peng Zong asked anxiously.
"Report to the general, the traitor led the Qin people into the city last night, and set fire in the royal city, shouting that the Qin people had pulled out the Liang, and the whole city was in chaos for a while..." The Qin cavalry blocked the south bank tightly to prevent anyone from going to the news.
"How is it in the city?" Zhao Zuo may have been frightened. He said all about how he was last night and did not answer the questions at all.
"The Queen Mother has retreated to the south of the city, and the north city is lost." Zhao Zu's eyes were still a little dull. Seeing him as dull, he was a little suspicious that he was also a Qinhou Zhuang Wudi and didn't feel very similar.
Chapter completed!