Chapter 117 Before the battle
The coalition army formation is not much shorter than the Qin army formation. The really shorter place is the cavalry. There are 7,500 cavalry on the left and right sides of the Qin army, while the coalition army is more than 3,000. Three heavy cavalry formations are embedded between the left army spear formations, and the shogunate is also at the intersection of the left army spear formation and the Qi army. The central army has more than 30,000 Qi troops lined up on the left, and the Zhao and Wei armies lined up on the right.
The coalition army formation walked from the dust and snow. Bai Lin, Wang Jian and others who were more than a thousand steps away, contracted their pupils, and their heartbeat suddenly became even worse. Fusu on the side of Wang Jian was not nervous, but stared at him. He knew that his uncle was just a thousand steps away, and was walking towards him, but the two were already divided into two battalions and never died. Aristotle IV also looked at the coalition army formation coming, and couldn't help but feel fear. He could no longer escape like the Battle of Weinan, and could only pray to the goddess of victory to bless the Qin army to win.
"Long live! Long live..." Without Bai Lin's encouragement, the soldiers in the front army themselves suddenly shouted loudly. The soldiers who had escaped and were lucky enough to live were all in the front army. They did not dare to run away again. Faced with the pressure of the coalition forces getting closer and closer, they could only shout loudly to raise their courage. The front army shouted, and the rear army followed, and the sand sea was full of excitement.
In front of the front army array, Wu Xing, who was holding the reins tightly, became looser and tighter, and he was ready to take a life attack while waiting for the enemy to go down the embankment. The Chu army was very cautious and did not rashly go out of the embankment, but sent soldiers to set up obstacles under the embankment from the exploded gap. Seeing this scene, he was aware of it. He squeezed his legs into the horse's belly, and the sweat and blood under his crotch stepped forward.
He stepped forward, and the cavalry and the horsemen on both sides also stepped forward. The 15,000 cavalry array followed his flag forward. Bai Lin behind him was a little dazed when he saw this scene, but instantly he understood what he meant by thrilling, and shouted to the left and right: "Advance." In the banging stairs, the former soldiers followed the cavalry forward.
The cavalry slowly walked forward when the enemy's artillery had not all left the embankment. Wang Jian was a little surprised. This was not the plan of the shogunate. The plan of the shogunate was to wait for the Chu army's artillery to form a formation but did not fire the artillery to attack the artillery array. Guan Fan's current actions were good at making decisions.
"This..." Liu Chi was so shocked that he didn't accept the orders of the army in such a decisive battle that concerns the survival of Qin. Instead, Wang Jian was stunned and smiled and said, "Seven hundred steps are too far, so if you can get close, you will be close."
"If so, if so..." Wang Jian's order to Hun Fen was to attack all the artillery arrays of the Chu army, rather than the Chu army's unfinished arrays of the attacks. Otherwise, those artillery that had not yet been included in the array would inevitably bombard the Qin army's arrays during wartime, which would be less than worth the loss. Only by destroying the Chu army's artillery arrays and drowning all the artillery can charge was valuable. Liu Chi was very worried that Hun Fen would be eager to achieve success.
"If nothing is true!" Wang Jian made a conclusion. At this time, the cavalry that was advancing stopped again, and the front army also stopped.
The approach of the Qin army made the Chu army workers who were setting up the Maju Iron Net a little panicked. They could be said to have ended their work in a hurry, and the artillery was quickly dragged out from the blasted gap. The coalition soldiers stood on the embankment at this time and could rush down the embankment at any time. Once the dragged artillery was unveiled, the guns were aimed at the Qin army array six hundred steps away and slammed wildly.
The last twenty consecutive explosions were tinnitus, but now I heard the sound of cannons and it seemed that they had lost their previous power, as if they were separated by a layer of cloth. The one who fired the shells was short-barrel cannons, and the initial velocity of the shells was only half that of the long-barrel cannon. After the shells were fired, they jumped to the ground after more than 100 meters. When they rolled to more than 500 steps, they didn't have much speed. Hitting the Qin army did not interrupt their bodies and hands, but knocked the soldiers to the ground.
The flag floating in front of the cavalry formation moved forward again, and the front army behind him followed. Wang Jian, who was holding Lu Lijing, could not see what was happening in front of him, but it was certain that Wu Fen moved forward again.
"Report to the general, the Jing man's witch bullet is powerless, so General Wu Fen is coming." The Qin soldiers on the platform looked more carefully. In the past, the Qin army array had to be penetrated by shells, but the shells had to fly out several hundred meters. Although the Qin army array was penetrated by shells, the distance from the shells was obviously not as far away as before.
"Good." Wang Jian's palm was mostly sweating. He didn't care whether all 15,000 cavalrymen were killed in battle or half of them died in battle, but now these 5,000 cavalrymen were wandering on the edge of the power of the Chu army's shells, and his heart was beating faster and he couldn't help but feel nervous.
Xiong Jing was standing at the station of Douzang Station in the morning. The long military formation as far as the Qin army was located was hundreds of steps away. With the naked eye alone, he could not see the end of both sides of the military formation. It took him a while to understand that the reason why the Qin army formation was so long was because of the cavalry. Even if the cavalry was four-row array, the 15,000 cavalry array was four thousand meters, which was much wider than the Qin army infantry formation.
Such a wide military formation did not make him feel afraid at all, but instead made him nod frequently - the long-standing worry and fear in his heart finally turned into a tangible entity and placed in front of him. For him, this was not the Qin army, this was the destiny; this was not the military formation, this was history. He either tried hard to break it or was ruthlessly crushed by it, and there was no other possibility.
"Go!" Xiong Jing, who was observing the Qin army array on the embankment, suddenly rode his horse and rushed down the embankment in amazement. Fortunately, he did not rush towards the Qin army, but to the central army array on the right. The place where Xiong Jing stationed his horse was the junction of the left and the central army. Like the battle of the Hungag a few days ago, this was not a battle after the formation, which could almost be regarded as an encounter. He rode down the embankment to patrol the army array, not only was he stunned on both sides, but the soldiers were also stunned.
"Long live the king, long live the king..." Someone in the silent Qi army array shouted several times before the Qi soldiers shouted. The sound of taro in the formation suddenly rang out, and the Qi soldiers seemed to have forgotten that this was the battlefield, and they danced with joy.
"Long live the king, long live the king..." The soldiers of the Zhao army had already looked at Xiong Jing who was rushing towards him. Their eyes were wide open and their eyes were moist. From Handan to Daliang, from Daliang to Shahai, they thought they had been abandoned every time, and every time the King of Chu rescued them and gave them a livelihood. If they could choose, they would rather Xiong Jing be their king.
"Long live the king, long live the king..." When the Wei soldiers shouted, Jin Zhu looked carefully at Xiong Jing who was riding a horse. To be fair, he did not like Chu. Chu may not have the ambition of Qin. But when he saw Xiong Jing faced the Qin army's mountain-like military formation without fear and dared to patrol the array five hundred steps away from the Qin cavalry, he could only sincerely admire him.
Any abnormal movements of the enemy were within Wang Jian's observation. At this time, the huge phoenix flag and the red-robed Chu King under the phoenix aura were disturbing the military formation that was almost as wide as the Qin army. Wherever the phoenix flag floated, it would boil completely, and there would be shouting roars and thunders burst out. He tried his best to restrain his desire to turn to look at Fusu, but all the strategists around him had looked at Fusu.
The environment of parents' disagreement made Fusu sensitive in nature. He saw his uncle inspecting the Chu army array and heard the heartfelt shouts of the coalition soldiers. He could understand the gaze of the shogunate strategist, but he was not sure whether he would go to the front of the military formation hundreds of steps away. Aristotle IV saw his hesitation and said, "If you really want to do this, you will win the love of all the soldiers, but doing this will also risk being hit by a witch. Alexander the Great often risked such a risk to encourage his soldiers."
Aristotle IV's words did not relieve Fusu's hesitation. It was not that he did not dare to do this, but that he was worried that he would do this wrong. When he looked at Wang Jian, Wang Jian turned his head and looked at him. He had an sudden enlightenment and said, "No illness, go to the front of the formation."
The disease-free man is the master. Fusu did not choose a four-wheeled carriage that could protect against the wind and cold, but chose a military carriage that was standing. The master was not surprised when he heard his life and immediately whipped the horse forward.
"General, General..." Fusu passed through the thick military formation before someone reported to Wang Jian. Liu Chi immediately glared at the visitor, and the visitor had to swallow the second half of the sentence.
"The eldest son inspected the military formation, and King Jing would definitely not be injured." Liu Chi knew that Wang Jian did not look at Fusu on purpose, and still hoped that Fusu could inspect the Qin army formation like the King of Chu, which could enhance the morale of his soldiers.
"Oh." Wang Jian looked at Fusu's thin back in the military cart and couldn't speak, because the front army was more than two hundred steps away, and the military cart that Fusu was riding was running on the snow. The former soldiers turned around and saw Fusu's vehicle, and as expected, bursts of cheers broke out.
At this time, Wang Jian looked at the Chu army more than a thousand away. The King of Chu, who was riding his horse south, ran several miles away. It was the end of the Chu army formation. As the Qin soldiers who survived the battle with Shashui described, he drew out his sword and fought with the sword and spear in the hands of the Chu soldiers. The military formations he passed by were no longer as boiling as before, but became as calm as ice.
The Chu people are naturally fierce and rarely become calm. This calmness makes Wang Jian very taboo. Seeing the phoenix flag from far to near, Wang Jian regretted acquiescing to Fusu forward, otherwise he could order Guo Fen to attack immediately. Wang Jian thought so, and Guo Fen in front of the array also felt the subtle changes in the coalition array.
"Please step back!" He shouted and ordered the trumpet to blow.
Zhu Fen didn't care what the King of Chu was doing. He knew it would be difficult for him to kill him. What he really focused on was the Chu army's artillery formation. The sound of artillery continued. More than 20 gaps were enough for more than 100 artillery to be released from the embankment. The opportunity that Zhu Fen wanted to seize was that all artillery could be released from the embankment but not all of them were released from the embankment. At this time, the artillery soldiers would be in a hurry.
Chapter completed!