The pawns ran. When the entire Qin army formation rushed towards us, Xiang Yan, who was 120 steps behind the army formation, was watching. This was the position of Youque. With the last adjustment of the combat sequence last night, there were only more than 40,000 people left in Youque, including more than 8,000 archers. At this time, these more than 8,000 archers were constantly firing arrows on the Qin army that was rushing to the central army formation eighty steps away. Every time they fired arrows, a rapid rain was taken in the sunny sky, and countless Qin army was caught.

Unfortunately, the range of the bow is far higher than that of the arm crossbow, but the armor-breaking ability is far less than that of the arm crossbow, let alone the arrows fall from the air. The Qin army has heavy armor, and unless it happens to be shot on the neck of the breastplate under the skin helmet, it will be difficult to kill with one blow. The Qin army who was caught in the arrow screamed even more crazy, and many armored soldiers with arrow feathers penetrated into the Chu army array and were mixed up with the Chu army's disciples in chaos.

The effect of the bow and arrow attack is not within Xiang Yan's attention. There are three issues he is concerned about now: the first is whether the subsequent military formations of the left and right armies have been arranged. Since we have to make a pocket to put the Qin army in, the sides of the pocket must not only be strong, but also be deep enough, so deep that it is more than enough to put all the Qin army in.

Based on this principle, the left and right armies removed forty rows of subsequent arrays and added twenty rows of archer arrays. The left and right armies with a width of one thousand people, and after the array was completed, the depth of the array reached an unprecedented eighty rows, with a number of 70,000 each.

While the Qin army was running, the left and right armies were quickly arranging. Although this had been practiced countless times on the board, there were still frequent mistakes when it was actually arranged. The biggest mistake came from the Right Army. The "fragrant and stupid" Yue soldiers did not tilt the subsequent army formations in accordance with the prior arrangement. The upper end of the Chu army's pocket formation was 4,000 rows wide and the lower section was 3,000 rows wide. It was a standard trapezoid. The military formations of the left and right armies should be obliquely arranged, but the Yue soldiers did not tiltly arrange, but were arranged in a straight line.

It is not impossible to be arranged in a straight line, but the width of the lower end of the line increases, and the force required to block this hole also increases. The remaining 40,000 archers is reduced by more than 8,000 archers. If there is a problem with the middle army during the retreat, the entire army cannot block the Qin army that broke through in the middle, and the entire army will inevitably collapse.

The fewer the remaining funds in his hand, the more important the retreat of the central army will be. After discussing the combat plan with the generals of each army on the first day, generals led the way to the shogunate for several consecutive days to discuss the strategy of "running north". It was not difficult for the left and right armies to arrange the next formation, but it was just a winter hunting review. The real difficulty was how the central army could run without collapse and retreat without chaos. The veteran Lu area of ​​Higashinogu completely opposed the "running north" and suggested "retreating north". Nobuhei Jun Lianpo also opposed the "running north" and proposed "retreating north".

Running is running. It is not far away for fifty steps, but there is no array at all after fifty steps, and the possibility of it becoming a collapse is very high; retreating, or it is not the case, this is to slowly retreat according to the array. On the one hand, the array will not collapse, and on the other hand, the Qin army thinks that I will gradually be in heavy troops to break the formation - the Chu army has a Youque, while the Qin army has a rear army. Before the reserve team is all put into battle, anything can happen. Even if the Qin army has put in his pocket, if tens of thousands of rear army of the Qin army have not entered the battle, the Chu army still has the possibility of failure.

In other words, the outcome of this battle is not only the northward or retreat of the Chu army, but also only when Meng Wu's rear army will be invested and where it will be. If he thinks that the Chu army's central army can break the formation with just one more force and put the Qin army into the middle, then the Chu army will win this battle; if he realizes that the Chu army's retreat is a siege strategy, and the rear army turns to attack the left army or the right army, and then tear the entire pocket, then the Chu army will inevitably fail in this battle. Of course, the premise of all this is that the Qin army's main attack direction is the central army, otherwise any army on the left and right armies will collapse early, which will cause disastrous consequences.

The subsequent formation of the left and right armies, the main attack direction of the Qin army and the retreat of the central army, and the safety of the king who lured the enemy to the dangerous situation, were the three most worried about and the three most helpless issues. Fortunately, the king was safe at this time, and the main attack direction of the Qin army was the central army. Although there were any mistakes in the formation of the left and right armies, they were basically in place, which made him feel a little relieved.

"General, is it a gong sounding at this time?" The dust covered the sky, and the battle on the front line had become increasingly fierce. The flags on the front row of the central army that everyone was staring at were gradually decreasing, and the central army might not be able to hold on.

"No, the Qin army's sharp soldiers have not yet stopped." The dust-covered battle line can be vaguely seen that the Qin army's sharp soldiers are breaking the formation. With the experience of the Battle of Jiangyi, they will have to change to another team of people to break the battle again - among the soldiers, the front end of the beryllium is the heaviest, and it takes a lot of energy to cut the stabbing.

"But the Qin army's sharp soldiers are digging the formation. If they were not to break the formation, but to draw the king, the king would be in danger!" After the king retreated into the army, Peng Zong kept looking at the position of the flag. The Qin army's sharp soldiers did not attack the Gong Jiayi Spear Formation that was protruding beyond the array, but there was a team of sharp soldiers on both sides of the Yi Spear Formation, which was slowly advancing, which made Peng Zong very uneasy.

"Don't forget what the king told him last night!" Xiang Yan looked at him, without anger, but did not see the red gaze of Yi Yangjun on the other side.

"How can we sit back and watch..." Last night, the only one Xiang Yan was left, Peng Zong and the other two were against each other. Xiong Jing's request was very simple: he would rather die than lose the Chu army. He even said that the candidate for the crown prince had informed the Grand Sima that if he unfortunately died, someone would ascend the throne.

In today's Chu politics, whoever ascended the throne was actually similar. The Yingdu court was not a decision-making body, but a coordination and maintenance organization. Coordination was to coordinate conflicts and contradictions in all aspects, which was internal; maintenance was to safeguard the entire country, or rather, to safeguard the unanimous interests of all vested interests, especially for the Yue and Lu that had been conquered for a short time, which was external.

It was not that Peng Zong was not unaware of this truth when he became an official in Chen County, but he loved Xiong Jing, and he always cared about his safety without realizing it. Although Xiang Yan respected Xiong Jing very much, his thoughts were exactly the opposite of him. The more the king had a strategy, the more the country suffered—the Gong Wang, the King of Zhuang, and the King of Huai after King Wei was a clear proof. If Zhuang had not overlord the princes, how could the Five Sons rebellion and the Wu Army enter Ying? Without the prosperity of King Wei, how could there be the defeat of Chusha and the loss of Yan Ying? The wise and wise king was just the colorful mushrooms in the deep mountains, which were beautiful and delicious, but enough to kill.

Xiang Yan continued to stare at the entire battlefield, resolutely and silent. Peng Zong wanted to speak but stopped. He watched the catapult constantly throwing the fire bomb into the Qin army's array. Whenever a bomb was thrown out and fell to the ground, a ball of flame flashed in the chaotic array of the Qin army. At this time, the catapult was too close to the front line, and the boom was no longer tilted at a large angle, but a small angle. Only in this way could it obtain a range of about a hundred steps. Just now, Peng Zong was about to throw a fire bomb that was supposed to be thrown tightly to the leather pocket, and it was barely thrown out when the leather pocket fell. The fire bomb flew to the central army array angrily. After a "boom--" sound, the oil splashed and suddenly became a sea of ​​fire.

The place where the bomb fell was near the flag, and Peng Zong jumped up suddenly. He ran forward anxiously, ran a few steps and retreated, and wanted to say something to Xiang Yan but didn't know what to say.

Before the flag flag, a sanitation lie down. Xiong Jing was stepping on his back. Then he saw the Qin army soldiers not far from the left. He knew this tactic: During the Battle of Yingdu, the dead soldiers of the rebels fought with beryllium, killed all the three soldiers and spearmen in the south and rushed into the last chariot formation. He still remembered the sound of "dongdong Dangdang" made by the long beryllium hitting the carriage.

The long beryllium hand on the left waved the beryllium and advanced rapidly, invincible. A team of beryllium hands appeared on the right. The sanitation hand in front of the array was killed with one blow, and the spear was mostly cut off by wooden slashes. In an instant, the sharps broke into the formation. They waved the long beryllium and opened and closed the stabbing.

"Retreat-!" The retreating Yishui formation was closely connected with the sanitation line at this time. Before they retreated into the military formation, they put away one of the Yishui spears flat on both sides. The long beryllium of the Ruishi is not as long as the Yishui, but the characteristic of the formation battle is that it can only attack the enemies near the position. Even if the military formation beside them is tear up by the enemy, you can only watch it.

"Retreat-!" The protruding military formation continued to retreat. Just as Xiong Jing was about to retreat to the position of the eleventh line before, a "boom" sounded, and a fire bomb actually landed near. He subconsciously waved his hand to block it, but his foot slipped and the person actually fell down.

"King!" Yu and Yangwei beside him were shocked, thinking that there was oil splashing on Xiong Jing's body.

"I'm fine." The array was dense, and Xiong Jing, who was five feet tall, was blocked by countless people. No drop of grease could be splashed, but his voice was drowned. The fire bullet fell on the confrontation line between the two armies. More than 20 sanitation soldiers were covered in fire, and more than a dozen Qin army soldiers holding long beryllium were also covered in fire. Others also splashed a lot of sparks, and the two armies were in chaos.

"Protect the King! Protect the King!" Xiong Jing slipped down. He was the only one in the array wearing a cloak-colored cloak, wearing a bright iron helmet. The cloak-colored and iron helmet suddenly disappeared. Everyone in the sanitation line behind the army was panicked. They thought the king was hit by a fire bomb, and immediately rushed up to put out the fire and rob people. The Qin army soldiers who heard the sanitation call also thought that King Jing was at the place where the fire bomb fell. They rushed forward regardless of the fire. They snatched whatever the sanitation robbed. In the battle of fighting for life, the soldiers in the front had just fallen to the ground, and the Qin army behind them shouted "Kill King Jing", and teams of people were involved in this flesh and blood mill.

At this time, the long beryllium that broke the formation was no longer needed. Everyone was close to each other, and the short blade was in line. All sanitation had swords. Although they were not made of giant iron, they were also the best copper sword. Many Qin army soldiers did not have swords. They could only use fists, teeth, and beheaded by Chu army heads hanging on their waists at such close-up battles.
Chapter completed!