Chapter 49 Allegiance
"What's the reason for the general? Where is King Jing?" I was worried that the Iron Cavalry of the Jing people broke through the infantry array, and the Qin cavalry was arranged behind the formation. Seeing that the infantry forced King Jing to surround the Huai River, King Jing disappeared in the end! Xin Sheng took a lot of effort to pass through the infantry array with three thousand knights, and his tone was both puzzled and angry, and he was still waiting to avenge Zhongfu.
"King Jing has walked along the Huai River!" The fire on the wooden bridge has been extinguished, and Li Xin pointed to the direction where the Huai River is heading north under the wooden bridge.
"Follow the Huai River?" Thirty thousand guards and five thousand cavalry actually let King Jing leave. Xin Sheng looked at Li Xin incredibly.
"The King of Jing attacked first, and the Qin soldiers on the other side failed to seize the bridge..." Li Xin explained but did not want to explain it. In any case, this was his guilt. He pointed to the Huai River again: "The Huai River went north twenty miles here and then turned east, and four or fifty miles later is the north of Xieyi; before the Huai River went east, five miles of water flowed northward, and the five miles of water came out of Magu. Although the Jing people retreated from Magu..."
"Report to General, Chen Shui is also possible." A strategist bowed. Four miles past the wooden bridge, it was where Xiong Jing ordered the cavalry to disappear north. Here, the Huai River meandered into an ‘S’ type, and the post station and wooden bridge (now Huaihe Town, Tongbai County) were at the lower left of the ‘S’ type. The Chen Shui he mentioned was the unknown water in Xiong Jing's mouth, and this water flowed into the upper left of the ‘S’ type.
"It's these three rivers, you lead the cavalry to chase and intercept them quickly." Because of the obstacles of the mountains and forests, Li Xin only saw a forest, and the Huai River was deep, and the infantry could not wade through the water to chase them.
"Why do you have to go one water and another? The Jing people can go, and the last general can go!" Xin Sheng didn't want to intercept him, he just wanted to chase him.
"The King of Jing's Knights are all armored, if they set up an ambush in the middle of the road..." Li Xin stared at him, feeling that he wanted to take revenge and was crazy.
"Why are you afraid of death!" Xin Sheng still ignored it. Fortunately, before he hurriedly bid farewell, he shouted reluctantly: "The last general will only bring the knights of the headquarters to the place, and the rest will wait for the general to send."
The Qin cavalry was five cavalry and one chief, ten cavalry and one official, and one hundred cavalry led by one, two hundred cavalry and one general. Xin Sheng's headquarters had only five generals, only one thousand cavalry. These thousand cavalry rushed down the west bank along the road that the Chu cavalry had just walked and chased along the Huai River. The remaining two thousand cavalry rushed past the scorched wooden bridge and followed the right bank of the Huai River.
"Where is the Yiqu poison?" All three thousand cavalrymen went out, and Li Xin remembered the Yiqu people at this time.
"Master, treasure armor!" Before, the Chu army's heavy cavalry rushed to the battlefield, the Yiqu people with their hair and tied legs were fighting for the spoils. A rider held the chain mail that had just been peeled off the Chu army and presented it to the Yiqu poison that was being poured on the carriage.
"Bao Armor?" Yiquji glanced at him. He only knew that the ring armor was a treasure armor. This soft iron armor could not tell where the treasure was.
"Master." The rider knew the leader's doubts. He threw away the chain mail, pulled out the stolen cavalry sword and pointed it at the armor and cut it a few times. Then he picked up the armor and stroked the place where it was chopped and said: "Armor, armor."
"Reward!" Yiqiuji saw the extraordinaryness of the chain mail. He threw the wine pot, his fat hand fumbled in the carriage, and finally took out a big golden cake and threw it in front of the rider.
"Thank you for the reward of the Lord!" The armor is not something that ordinary people can use, it can only be presented to the leader. The rider picked up the golden cake and went there happily.
"Master, the saddle, the saddle!" Another rider ran up with a pair of high bridge saddles and offered a gift. There were also a pair of swaying stirrups hanging on the stirrup hook on the side of the saddle.
The stirrup rope of the Chu Army Knight was sewn inside the trouser legs, and the rope was thrust out at the knees, and the stirrup ring at the end of the rope was hung on both sides of the saddle. Because the trouser legs were very long and covered with leather boots, it was impossible to tell that this was a stirrup when riding a horse. Only when falling down, in order to prevent the rider from hanging on the stirrups, the trouser legs covering the stirrups were made very thin and could be broken as soon as it was pulled.
When the light cavalry attacked, the horses either jumped wildly or stood upright after the crossbow, and the stirrups were exposed when the rider fell off the horse. Although the stirrups were strictly prohibited in the army, each knight was only given a pair of stirrups. The stirrups were there, and the stirrups were killed. However, many knights were killed on the spot in this battle. The Qin army formation was constantly advancing, and the comrades had no chance to regain the stirrups of the dead.
The stirrups had long been psychologically expected when exposed. What was unexpected was that such a powerful weapon was regarded as a burden by the Yiqu rider who was offering saddles. He took the stirrups and put them in his arms - the iron of Jing Kingdom was all good iron, and the two stirrups were not heavy, but it was still possible to create a shorter path.
"Bao's saddle?" Yiquji laughed. He had seen the high bridge saddle of the Jingren Knight. This thing is for people who can't ride horses. Yiqu men can sleep on horseback. What kind of saddle is needed? Just take a piece of sheepskin to cushion your butt.
"Reward!" Yiquji's fat hand was fumbled in the carriage again. This time, it took longer to explore. Just when the rider who was offering the saddle thought it would be a larger golden cake, a stone appeared on Yiquji's hand and threw it in front of him.
"Thank you... Thank you for the reward of the Lord." The rider was desolate at that time. He picked up the stone with a bitter face and hurried away.
"Master..." Yi Quzi carefully admired the chain mail he had never seen before in the carriage. A guard next to him suddenly pointed ahead. In order to compete for the spoils that were not much, the two tribes had already started fighting.
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After walking in the dense forest for a while, Xiong Jing had to order the entire army to rest on the spot. This was extremely necessary. He had to understand how many people, how many horses, and how many supplies he had left at this time. In addition, he had to understand how far he had walked, where he was at this moment, and finally deal with the wounded. The two gurus were actually Fengli's deputy, one was called Tu and the other was called Wu.
"Each soldiers reported the number." After several considerations, the final organization of the Chu cavalry was five cavalry and one chief, six cavalry and one soldier (30 cavalry), six teams and one brigade (180 cavalry), and six brigade and one division (1080 cavalry). This time, the Qin Dynasty was in total with nine light cavalry, four heavy cavalry, and ten cavalry did not participate in the battle, only protecting Xiong Jing's safety. After each soldier reported the number, Gui Jing looked very unfair.
"What are the casualties?" Xiong Jing knew the reason, and there were casualties when there was a battle.
"Injured fifty-six people. Death," Gui Jing endured for a moment before saying, "Ten thousand seventeen people died."
"The dead are immortal." Xiong Jing sighed in his heart and said so.
"King..." Gui Jing wanted to say something but wanted to say it but stopped. At this time, the injured man's depression groan came not far away, and a faint voice shouted: "King, King, King..."
"It's not here, it's not here." Xiong Jing stepped over. A heavily armored knight leaned against a pine tree, with a crossbow arrow inserted on his neck. It was deep enough to penetrate the neck, and the doctor dared not pull it out at all. Seeing Xiong Jing coming, he stretched his hand with blood clots in front of him, but he thought of getting up but couldn't get up.
"Mr. Yin can kill!" Xiong Jing first cursed when he saw this. The arrows in his neck were the design flaws of the chain mail: there was no hood. Gong Yin can kill him, and he was even more hateful. Last time he inspected Juti Mansion, he was there to look at the princess and beauties, but he did not find this major flaw.
Xiong Jing, who scolded her, knelt on one knee in front of the injured person and looked at him and said, "Xiong Jing is here, Xiong Jing is here..."
"My father, my father, my father..." The soldier moaned in pain. Because he was caught in an arrow in his neck, he seemed to be able to make only two bytes of sound, and he could not say a word.
"King," after Xiong Jing, a soldier from the same army bowed in a low voice: "Shouyan, the son of Shouling Lord."
The Chu army knights were no longer the knights of the past, they were all children of the common people, and only they could have the money to raise horses and practice riding. As soon as this person said that the son of Shouling Jun, Xiong Jing made a bang in the forehead and couldn't speak. At this time, Shou Yan could no longer speak, and a gurgled in his throat, and blood overflowed from his mouth.
"King." The doctor suddenly saw this and had to shake his head, and Shou Yan was about to die.
"Although your father was wrong, he was a minister of the country and a minister of the country!" Xiong Jing's eyes were a little wet. He killed his father with his own hands. After rushing to the formation, he held his breath and dragged it to the present. Naturally, he wanted to ask himself to pardon the entire Shou clan.
In fact, after knowing Shouling Jun's plan, Xiong Jing no longer resented him. It was difficult for Yan Zi to die. It was difficult for him to give up a monarch to protect the Chu country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country's country'
"Don't forgive his sins, and don't forgive his sins!" Xiong Jing shouted, but unfortunately Shouyan could no longer hear them at this time.
"Please mourn me for the sake of mourning," the right Shin-Shi, behind Xiong Jing, was able to understand Xiong Jing's mood best.
"The king please mourn me." Following the right historian, the knights bowed to Xiong Jing.
"If you die if you don't have a singular death, the State of Chu will surely perish!" Xiong Jing suddenly turned around and looked at everyone. "The State of Chu has never thought that the State of Chu is private ownership, the State of Chu is a royal family, the Duke family and all the brave and trusted people of Chu. Shouling Jun is not Yangwen Jun. Shouling Jun thought that if you don't have a singular entry into Qin, the King of Qin would give up. This is a big mistake! What Qin King Zhao Zheng wants to destroy the six countries and the whole world is that only one country can remain in the world and become an emperor. If you don't have a singular existence, you will block his wish!"
Xiong Jing's words were short and without any sensational words. He just told Jian Bai, the son of the prince. After he finished speaking, Gui Jing, the first person to react, bowed: "My dear Gui Jing is willing to be loyal to the king! He vowed to stop the tyrannical Qin and preserve the Chu State."
"Minist Xiang Chao\Qu Xi... is willing to be loyal to the king! Vow to stop the violent Qin and preserve the Chu State." Generals such as Xiang Chao followed.
"Minist Cheng Kui\Quan Bi\Jingsheng\Shangguan Bao\Zhaocai... are willing to be loyal to the king! Swear to stop the violent Qin and preserve the Chu State." One voice after another, including those injured, each of these 382 knights was not because of the rituals of the king and the ministers, but was truly willing. They were willing to fight for Xiong Jing, and were willing to die for Xiong Jing, just to... preserve the Chu State.
Chapter completed!