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Chapter 48 Jiyi 3

"It's indeed an iron cavalry!" Before the Chu army's light cavalry attacked, Li Xin on the chariot behind the Qin army formation could not help but whisper. From the morning when he received the news, he realized King Jing's intention: King Jing would ride a horse, and the 400 cavalrymen who came in with him must be the huge armored iron cavalry in Chencheng. Only that iron cavalry is the most powerful force of the Jing people, and can escort King Jing safely escape from Jiyi.

"King Jing can't escape!" The cavalry general Xin Sheng's sword was unsheathed. He looked up at the blue sky, as if he wanted to comfort Zhong's father Xin Wu's spirit in the sky.

"The king has his own destiny, but King Jing cannot be killed!" When Li Xin was ordered in Xianyang, Zhao Zheng had already explained that King Jing must be alive.

"Then I will kill all the Jing cavalry!" Xin Sheng shouted and swung the sword in his hand.

"General, I only have those armors." Yiquzi was also on the side. During the time of Chen Ying, Yiqu cavalry fought with the Iron Cavalry of the Chu army, and the only criticism of the Yiqu cavalry was that the Qin army did not have the armor, so Yiquzi was obsessed with the armor of the Chu army.

"If King Jing is wrong, I will be punished by you!" The Chu army's light cavalry had already begun to charge, and Li Xin once again reminded him when he waved his generals.

"Ah——! Fire, fire!" The turbulent bombs on the light rider finally fell into the Qin army array. Even if some knights fell to the ground, more than one hundred cavalry one and two, the remaining turbulent bombs were enough to cause the chaos that the heavy cavalry wanted to hit.

Screaming, the flames were not gone, and the two front teams of thirty cavalry in a row had already begun to trot. The knights were wearing iron helmets, wearing ring-shaped armor, and the mounts were wearing the latest chain mail. The heavy load made the war horses breathe heavily. Because there were still one hundred steps away, the riders' two feet of cavalry spears were still raised up, and the three wind flags made of red silk under the tip of the spear were like a ball of fire.

‘Dadadada, dadadada…’ The distance was getting closer and closer, and the sound of hooves became more and more rapid. The horse's hooves nailed to the iron horseshoe kept turning out broken grass and mud chips. At fifty steps, the knight began to ride the horse with all his strength, and the riding spear gradually became flat; at twenty steps, the iron cavalry, which no longer accelerated, collided with the Qin army formation that was urgently replacing the formation.

Li Xin's heart was in his throat in the arms. When the Jing people's iron cavalry rushed over, the afternoon sunlight reflected by the giant armor made him unable to open his eyes. He only heard a few loud "boom--" sounds. When he looked at it, the Jing people's iron cavalry had already crashed into the Qin army formation. After the fire bomb attack, there were many gaps in the array, and even if the soldiers were drawn to replenish the array, they could not be completely blocked. The iron cavalry rushed over with a spear, and the ten rows of soldiers in front collapsed. Fortunately, the army formation was not broken!

"Go!Go!" The heavy cavalry rushing into the Qin army array turned their horse's head, slashing and evading to the right while swinging his knife. At this time, the Qin soldiers came to their senses from the violent collision before. The spears in their hands stabbed at the knights on the horse and their mounts. The war horses neighed, and the copper spears could not penetrate the chain mail, but the heavy blow of the stabbing made the war horses painful.

Thirty cavalry was less than 100 meters wide, and the heavy cavalry who turned the horse's head and headed right quickly broke away from the impact position, because the two rows of heavy cavalry behind were already trotting a horse a hundred steps away.

"Iron Cavalry!!" The five hundred masters of the Qin army behind the army were pointed forward quickly and shouted loudly, and then they were shot to death by the light cavalry arrows. At this time, the Qin soldiers were still glad to survive and excited for the retreat of the enemy cavalry. In fact, they had not suffered the impact of heavy cavalry, nor were they affected by the repeated impact of heavy cavalry. This is the real terrible thing about heavy cavalry - just like the three rows and three rows of the Yishui Square Formation, the attack of heavy cavalry is also round after round, never ending.

The shouting behind him, the sound of hoofs in front of him, and the excited Qin soldiers were instantly lost their minds.

"Boom--!" Before the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry shot a round of arrows, and all the last hundred turbulent bombs were thrown out. The turbulent bombs immediately exploded when they landed. The Qin soldiers in the military formation screamed again, and the array was in chaos.

"Not good!" Li Xin was shocked and shouted to Bai Lin who had already stepped forward to make up for the formation: "Stop Jing people! Stop Jing people!"

Without Li Xin's order, Bai Lin, the commander behind the military formation, had long understood the intentions of the Jing people. At this moment, he seemed to be possessed by his grandfather Wu'an Jun Bai Qi. He did not stand in the military carriage and roar, but rushed out of the military carriage and snatched a guard's spear and squeezed into the front of the formation.

"The king has his life, stop King Jing! The king has his life, stop King Jing!!" Bai Lin shouted in front of the formation. His shouting greatly boosted the morale of the already panicked guards. After that real sword and gun exercise, all 30,000 guards were demoted to Xianyang by Zhao Zheng. If they could not stop King Jing this time, they would never be able to return to the palace in their lifetime.

"The king has his life, stop King Jing!" The dazzling iron cavalry rushed over again, and every guard was silently reciting the king's order in his heart.

"Boom--!" The front row of guards was hit harder than the last time, and the front row of guards was hit and landed on the front of the comrades in front. The armored soldiers were like this, and the rows of spears in front of the heavy cavalry were unable to pierce the huge armor of the heavy cavalry, and the "papapapapapapapapapa" was broken one by one. The heavy cavalry rushed into the Qin army's military formation again, and the military formation rippled back like water waves, but unfortunately, this heavy attack still did not penetrate the Qin army's military formation that was on the verge of collapse.

"King?" Xiang Chao, who led heavy cavalry to attack for the first time, had returned to the position before the attack. The Qin army's formation was twenty rows thick, and such an array would be able to be broken by two impacts. However, the sky seemed to deliberately make the cavalry trick on him. Although the second impact caused the Qin army formation to sank significantly inward, the depression was sunken, and no heavy cavalry broke through the enemy formation.

Xiang Chao is a young man, and the young man can't hold back, but Xiong Jing's scalp also began to numb. Could it be that he really wants to die here? Could it be that the Grand Secretary no longer protects the people of Chu?

"Roll again!" With the reinforcements, the Qin army's army that was attacked by the heavy cavalry became thicker and thicker. The Qin army close to Yueshui, which was not attacked by the heavy cavalry, quickly surrounded it. If it could not break through the enemy formation, its space would become narrower and narrower until there was no room for impact.

"Go!Go!" Xiang Chao rode his horse again. He no longer had his cavalry spear, only the cavalry swords stained with the blood of the Qin army.

"Big King! King!" Gui Jing, who was originally blocking the wooden bridge, rushed over. "There are paths for each other!"

His voice was like the sound of nature, and Xiong Jing looked at him quickly. "Where? Where is there a path?"

"Here!" The rushing Gui Jing turned around in front of Xiong Jing, pointing his hand to the Huai River, "There is a path there!"

"Let's go!" Without any hesitation, Xiong Jing immediately rode his horse. His mount was dissatisfied and had been standing for a long time. It only saw its companion galloping, but it could only wait. Now that the master rode his horse, it whistled happily and rushed to the west bank of the Huai River. The soldiers behind Xiong Jing did not forget to blow a retreat whistle, and ordered Xiang Chao to stop attacking the Qin army formation and follow him.

"Not good!" The right wing of the Qin army had already begun to encircle, and the position occupied by the Jing people's iron cavalry was getting smaller and smaller, so small that it was difficult to launch a charge. But no one expected that the flag would turn and head to the northeast. The west bank of the Huai River was a forest, and Li Xin had already arranged armored soldiers and crossbowmen in the woods, but the direction of Jing King's escape was not the forest, but the Huai River.

"Go!Go!" Xiang Chao, who was still jogging, turned right, followed the flag around Lin Dongchi. Standing at the angle of Li Xin in the chariot, he only saw hundreds of Jing people and iron cavalry rushing down the river bank, rushing into the Huai River, and then disappeared without a trace.

However, the Qin infantrymen who were blocked by the fire on the east bank of the Huai River could clearly see that the Iron Cavalry of the Jing people who rushed down the river bank were heading north along the shallow water on the other side of the river. They shouted loudly and chased them quickly across the water. But the speed of the man was no match for the horse. After a few turns along the Huai River, the Jing people disappeared without a trace. Only when Li Xin, who was galloping to the river bank, saw the direction they pointed, knew that the Jing people had escaped along the Huai River.

"So quickly send General Xin Sheng, the Jing people are running along the Huai River!" Li Xin punched himself hatefully. He never expected that someone among the Jing people knew Wu Fen. If he hadn't known him, how could he be alert and attacked first? If he hadn't attacked after crossing the bridge, how could he have time to put heavy armor on the war horses, and how could he rush down the river bank and follow the Huai River?

"Put the fire, put out the fire quickly!" Li Xin shouted at the fire on the wooden bridge again.

"Ga!Ga!" On the west bank of the Huai River, the war horses were walking in the shallow and uneven waters. The mud that Xiong Jing was worried about did not occur. The riverbed was made of rocks and pebbles. If the war horses had not been nailed to the horseshoe, it would have been estimated that a small half of the war horses would have been broken by pebbles.

‘Wow…’ Just after Xiong Jing’s thought, a heavy rider fell into the Huai River. Seeing this order, Gui Jing said, “Switch horses! Change horses immediately!”

There were 400 cavalry and 570 war horses, so that the heavy cavalry could reduce the load on the horses by one person and two horses. It was just that time was urgent, and the heavy cavalry had no time to change horses.

"Switch the horse immediately!" Xiong Jing also ordered, "No need to worry about delays, the Qin bandits will not catch up with us!"

Amid the sound of the flowing water, everyone could still hear the drums of the Qin army on the shore and the shouts of the soldiers, but Xiong Jing's unshakable orders and contempt for the Qin people made them feel relieved. They dismounted one by one and stepped on the horses led by the light cavalry.

"King, where are we going?" Taking advantage of the gap between changing horses, Xiang Chao rode an armorless war horse to Xiong Jing. At this time, Gui Jing also came, and both of them looked at him. At this time, everyone was at the intersection of unknown water and Huai River. Turn north and eastward is the direction of Chengyang, with a straight line of about six or seventy miles. If you follow this desperate stream north, no one knows where you will go.

Before Xiong Jing could answer, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot out from the woods on the river bank. The two of them had no time to block the arrows, but they saw the king's body trembling and their faces were pale in an instant.

"Go to the north!" Xiong Jing shouted in pain. The crossbow arrow did not shoot through his armor, but the arrow hit the calf bones that were only protected by the chain mail. His face was distorted and hissed. "Nothing is done, go to the north!"

The light cavalry was already shooting against the Qin crossbowmen in the woods on the river bank. The rate of fire of the bow was far better than that of the crossbow. The only regret was that the wooden bow was stagnant in autumn and winter, and the arrows shot out were insufficient.
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