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Chapter 122 The rhythm of the counterattack

Xiong Jing, who was running back, had just arrived at the southern end of the central army. The nearest Qi army array at the southern end was also separated by the 750-meter array of Wei and Zhao armies. When he saw the Qi soldiers scattering in a row, he shouted "Not good". Sure enough, the light cavalry shot out the rain of arrows all over the sky, followed by the gray-armored cavalry without any formation. These cavalry were wedged into the city soldiers standing on the back formation like wedges.

There were only more than 10,000 soldiers from the city, and the number of cavalry was far better than before. The fatal blow of the three thousand cavalry instantly caused the city to collapse. Once the infantry array collapsed and scattered, it would no longer be the opponent of the cavalry. However, these cavalry consciously drove them away and forced them to attack the battled central army array eastward.

"Ah!" Xiong Jing shouted angrily when he saw this, and hurriedly urged the war horses under his crotch. The Chu cavalry often did the things to drive away the defeated soldiers. The crowd was harmless when it was ordered, and it would be fatal if it was panic. The defeated side suffered heavy casualties rather than being chased by the enemy, but rather being trampled by one's own side. Now more than 10,000 city soldiers are running eastward in his screams and rushing towards the central army dozens of steps away.

The Qi army's array was fifty rows deep, nine more than the Zhao and Wei army's array. This is also the reason why although there were many people, the formation was only seven hundred rows (one meter per row). While Vuguang shouted to the city guards to arrange the formation, the Qi army at the end of the formation had slowly turned under the command of the Chu people. However, even though he had turned around and saw that his comrades were running towards him, they could not mercilessly assassinate and stop him. At the front, a wave of city guards rushed into the military formation with the twenty rows standing on the back. The people shouted and the horses were neighing, and the entire left wing of the central army was shaking.

"Stop! Stop..." Qi Guang stood between the city soldiers and the Qi army formation, watching the chariots being flooded by the broken soldiers. Seeing the chaotic city soldiers rushing to the military formation, he kept shouting, but it was useless. The city soldiers couldn't understand what he was calling. When he saw Yang Tu Hai also mixed with the broken soldiers, he shouted with all his strength: "Yang Tu Hai--!" He pointed to the west with his hand.

No matter how brave a person is, he will be no different from the flock of sheep. Qi Guang's screams woke Yang Tuhai up. At this moment, he realized what he was doing. Although he stopped and turned around and shouted, he was rushed by the tide of people without saying a few words. Qi Guang saw that he was washed away, and he was regretful and resentful in his heart. Needless to say, the resentment was that the generals of each army despised the city soldiers and deliberately asked them to be placed behind the formation. His suggestion was to put the city soldiers in front of the formation, so that they could be forced to play a role.

The remnant could not find Yang Tuhai and wanted to die if he could hide his sword. Just as he was drawing the sword, Jimo Fangyan shouted suddenly from the retreating crowd. Yang Tuhai climbed up from the torrential crowd, looking at the robe that was rushing to raise his right arm.

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Snow Chen covered the front line of fighting between the two armies. The Chu army could not see clearly the rear of the Qin army array, and the Qin army could not see clearly the rear of the army array. However, the Qin cavalry that attacked rolled up the snow dust in the sky. Looking at the snow dust, Liu Chi and others on the front line, and Bai Lin knew very well that this was the obstacle of his cavalry breaking through the enemy's wings and finally began to attack the enemy's side.

Any military formation has weaknesses. At least in the view of the Qin shogunate, the weakness of the coalition is the Qi army. It was agreed during the Israeli military discussion that after the left-wing cavalry breaks through, it must attack the right-wing cavalry side or attack the right-wing artillery formation of the Chu army, and mobilize the Chu army to reinforce. The stronger right-wing cavalry with the right-wing cavalry saw the left-wing cavalry attacking more than ten miles away, and quickly broke through the Chu cavalry's blockade and suddenly came to the Qi army's back.

The two armies could not communicate on the battlefield, but the 'the dust was high and sharp, the chariot came; the humble and wide were just coming'. The cavalry general Zhao Teng, who was on the right wing, knew the position of the left wing's comrade. Xue Chen was standing behind, and the chokers who had been standing behind were rushing out in a row. Although the left wing Qi Jizhi under the Chu army had many dragon horses, they could not be too slow to prevent being dispersed by the choker. The fierce battle took more than an hour, and the tired dragon horse could no longer catch up with the Qin horse, which had been raising horses.

However, the plan of Wu Goubei, the mastermind of the shogunate military strategy, was not the end. While the Qin cavalry attacked the Qi army, the Qin infantry also attacked the front of the Qi army and attacked the front and back. Ninety-nine percent of the Qi army, which had always been weak in fighting, would collapse and collapse.

Bai Lin, the general of the front army, should have been consumed one hour ago, and the general of the rear army should have been directly commanded by the fierce attack on the front of the Qin army. This is not to consume the Qin soldiers in the first three formations, but the cavalry war on both sides must have been fiercely fought for more than an hour and nearly two hours to make the Dragon Horse Knights of the Chu army tragically exhausted. The attack is determined by the degree of casualties and fatigue of the Chu army's knights. The cavalry war between the two armies determines the rhythm of the Qin army's counterattack rather than infantry war.

Bai Lin's mobile complementary array and flexible use of retreating decisive tactics saved the fate of 300,000 Qin soldiers. Their consumption was less than expected by the shogunate strategists and the speed was slower. Although the Chu army artillery bombarded, the Chu army spear formation was on both sides of the 60-meter target. Even the ten-pound long-barrel cannons were spreading several meters in the horizontal direction across hundreds of meters. Due to the diameter of the short-barrel cannon, the horizontal direction was spread as high as ten meters or even twenty meters. The real target of the artillery cannon was only a dozen rows and more than twenty rows in the middle of the sixty rows of military formations. For the eight- or nine-mile-wide military formation, this was just a narrow slit.

Because of this, the shogunate changed the military convention before the war and handed over the actual command of 470,000 infantry to Bai Lin. This long-awaited counterattack was commanding Bai Lin instead of the fainting Wang Jian.

Xue Chen was rolled up from the rear of the Qi army, shouting and helping him endlessly. Bai Lin was standing on the chariot and looking at the Jujia Ruishi behind the front line. These were the elite selected from the 600,000 Qin troops. Their mission was to break through the Qi army array in front and break through the coalition army formation. Under the cover of Xue Chen, the last 200,000 Qin troops, regardless of the Jujia and leather armor, were all arranged behind the Jujia Ruishi formation. They would follow the expanded gap of Jujia Ruishi to reverse the entire enemy's central army and even the entire military formation.

Bai Lin, who was standing on the carriage, did not give an order, and the 30,000 powerful soldiers remained motionless. When the shouts of Qi people came from the opposite side, the Qi army array in front of him loosened, he nodded to the drum man who was watching and said "attack".

"Attack--!" Compared to Bai Lin's fatigue, the military officer shouted with red necks. The weather was getting colder and colder, and Qin Jun, who had no head cloak, was generally frostbite on his cheeks and forehead, and was red.

‘Dongdongdongdongdongdongdong…’ The drums that have been silent since the war started were ringing at this time. Before that, there were only the sound of the coalition forces’ drums. The drums were inspiring. Thirty thousand giant armored soldiers aimed at the 700 Qi army formations, and the giant armor sounded in the steps. The Yi spear pointed forward and they advanced behind the Qin soldiers who were holding on to the Qi army. Some of these Qin soldiers could squeeze out from the gaps between the arrays, but more Qin soldiers were stabbed to death by the advanced giant armored soldiers.

The terror from behind was greater than the enemy in front of him. Qin soldiers who could not withdraw from the array rushed forward and rushed forward. However, there were also sharp spears ahead. Although they continued to attack, most of the people were stabbed to death and fell to the ground. During the half-quarter of an hour of stinging, most of the more than 30 rows of leather-armored Qin soldiers attacked by Qi army and the giant armored sharp men disappeared, trampling on the bodies of these Qin soldiers, sharp and sharp metal friction sounds sounded on the front line, and the Qi army array retreated again.

"Shoot!" The undead crossbow Han Shen shouted orders to the rows of catapults again, and the charcoal fire was baked like raindrops. "Boom..." The pottery jar broke and the hot oil exploded, and the landing point was covered with a sea of ​​fire. Qi Zu, who was splashing with tinder oil, let out a creeping scream. The less hot oil splashed, it could still be extinguished with the help of his comrades. The splashed so much that it could not roll around the array, and could only burn it alive.

The firelight in the snow dust attracted attention. There were huge armored soldiers attacking in front of the Qi army, and gray armored cavalry rushed forward, and explosive tinder oil fell on the head. Qi soldiers, who were much stronger than expected, were still persisting, but no one knew how long they could last. Seeing Xiong Jing, who led the cavalry to rescue the central army, was entangled by the Qin army's light cavalry, Zhuang Wudi had to order the left army to fire on the catapults on the south.

The order was passed to the left army's artillery formation. The gunmen sighed first as they looked at the shelling target. The artillery formation was already 120 steps away from the front line where the two armies fought, and the front line advanced more than 170 steps eastward. In addition, the more than 100 steps from the front line to the catapult, the artillery distance was more than 400 steps. The shells fired by the short-barrel cannon were too large, and most of the shells fired at this distance were lost.

But what can I do if I don’t fire a cannon? Wu Guang, the gunman closest to the central army, sighed and ordered: "The target casting car, a test shot of a thunder bomb, a 1-7-inch signal tube..., release!"

‘Bang-!’ The test-fired shell came out of the chamber, and the thunder bomb exploded in the sky behind the front line, without any accuracy.

"Target casting car, one thunder bomb test shot, one cent eight millimeters of information tube..., release!" Wu Guang once again tested it. This time he could only confirm that the shell exploded when it landed. The obstruction of snow dust made people unable to see where the shell fell.

The giant armored soldiers continued to advance, and the Qi army retreated step by step; Yang Tuhai's shouts woke up the fleeing soldiers, and their hastily formed arrays withered the impact of the gray armored cavalry one after another; the turret bombs fell like raindrops, and there seemed to be a rain of fire above the Qi soldiers' heads. Because the snow dust could not see the landing point, many of the Chu army's thunder bombs exploded dozens of steps in front of the catapult, and only a small part fell near the catapult. For this attack, their biggest function might be to awaken the fainting Wang Jian.

"General, General, General is awake!" The alchemist fell when he ran out of the carriage, but everyone was surprised by the words before him.

"The general is awake?" Liu Chi pushed away the others and rushed to the Taoist priest and asked anxiously.

"Awakened." The alchemist nodded repeatedly, "However, the general still needs to rest and cannot suffer from the cold..."
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