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Chapter 90 One Shot 2

The purple flag was flying over the cavalry array. When the artillery observer saw the purple flag, counted the big flags and small flags, he shouted: "Cabinet breaks the formation, the cavalry breaks the formation! Target: straight ahead, distance: three hundred."

"Target: straight ahead, distance: three hundred, cavalry breaks the formation." The observation hand's words were repeated again. The artillery was prepared at the position pointed by the cavalry, and one hundred and sixty-two Jing crossbows of a Jing Crossbow Brigade had already aimed at the Zheng Front.

"Test-fire with one shot." Gong Shuji, standing at a high place, was looking at the soldiers of Qi who were walking with Lu Lijing. He could clearly see the beard on the face of Qi. The distance of three hundred steps was too far, and the Qi army who was carrying the sword was only walking, and they would not be able to run around a hundred steps.

"Test-fire!" The crossbow captain repeated the order. When he heard the crossbowman shouting 'It's ready', he shouted: "Let it go!"

The crossbow arm hit the crossbow frame hard, and a seven-foot-long crossbow arrow broke through the air. After flying over a distance of 300 meters, it was nailed to the mud and knocked out a small stream of dust. The soldiers of Qi from a short distance were startled by the sharp crossbow arrow, but they could not help themselves. They were in the military formation and could only move forward with great strides and could not stop at all.

"Report: The arrow is sixty meters away from the enemy." The observer quickly gave the landing point.

Gongshuji did not order the shooting parameters to be corrected when he heard the sound. The enemy was stepping closer to the arrow landing point, so the artillery only needed to wait for a moment. The fine sand in the Lu Li hourglass slowly flowed down, and about half a minute later he shouted: "Target: straight ahead, distance: three hundred, the entire battalion fired rapidly."

"Target: straight ahead, distance: three hundred, the entire battalion fired rapidly." The order was repeated by one hundred and sixty-two crossbow heads, and the crossbow had already been wound.

"Let's go--!" A loud shout was urgent, and there was a continuous sound of crossbow arms hitting. One hundred and sixty-two crossbow arrows broke through the air and shot towards the Qi army formation. The right wing of the Qi army was 40 rows deep, and most of these sixty-two crossbow arrows would fall into the array.

The arrow was like lightning. As soon as Qi Zu saw the crossbow arrow breaking through the air, the idea of ​​raising the shield to block it was still in his mind, and the crossbow arrow had already fallen. "Ah" only shouted half a sound, and the arrow passed through and pierced several Qi Zu.

The military formation is densely packed, and a crossbow can kill at least two to three people. It is even more terrifying that these crossbows are concentrated to attack one place. After a rain of arrows, the array is full of holes. The person who was caught fell to the ground and wailed, while the survivors fought and were almost defeated.

"Let it go--!" The Jing crossbow quickly rolled the strings and shot it out quickly. When the second round of 162 crossbow arrows were shot out, the cavalry led by Gui Jing had already come out of the battle and the purple flag had already fallen.

"It's dangerous!" The battlefield was more than five kilometers wide, and what happened to the right wing of the Qi army was only seen until the first wave of crossbow arrows fell down. It was only a twenty-six seconds later that the second crossbow arrow shot down again, ravaging the already tragic array again. The surviving Qi soldiers could no longer support them. They threw away the soldiers in their hands and retreated desperately, and were then intercepted and killed by the soldiers who supervised the battle behind the formation.

Of course, Jingnu was not something that made Mou Zong shout "dangerous". What scared him was that the Chu cavalry was running towards this gap. Once they rushed in, the entire right wing would completely collapse.

"So quickly help me! Quickly help me!" Mou Zhong shouted in a daze. He snatched the white flag commanding the rear army without even waiting for Shi Yi's order, pointed the flag at the gap in the right-wing army, and ordered the rear army to fill the gap immediately.

The Qi army was moving forward quickly, but the Chu army remained unmoved, with only 3,400 cavalry winds swept towards the gap at the right wing of the Qi army. The Qi army's advance made the original 300-step interval between the two armies shrink rapidly. Nearly 3,000 light cavalry flew past the front of the left army of the Chu army, rushed to the gap before heading forward, and finally flew over fifty meters in front of the Qi army. As they passed, the feather arrows shot from the cavalry bow fell like a rainstorm, and the Qi soldiers had to slowly raise their shields.

This is the standard heavy cavalry rushing tactic of the Chu army. The precious heavy cavalry must not impact the complete heavy infantry array of the array. Artillery and light cavalry must help them open the gap. Even if they cannot open the gap, they will cause great damage to the heavy infantry array, causing the entire array to fall into chaos.

The light cavalry rushed past the formation, and the arrows shot by nearly 3,000 light cavalry once again tore the gap on the right wing of the Qi army. At this time, at the point where the light cavalry had just turned around, five hundred heavy cavalry began to line up in front of the left army formation of the Chu army.

The chariots were rushing to the formation, with more than 3,000 cavalry hooves sounded like thunder. The dust they rolled up covered the entire Qi army's right wing. When the heavy cavalry lined up, the light cavalry that had passed by the Qi army turned back again. This was not because the Qi army was not in chaos, but because the heavy cavalry lined up. Because the heavy cavalry was carrying heavy cavalry and the speed was slow. When the light cavalry flew over the enemy formation, the heavy cavalry rushed to the front of the gap. When the heavy cavalry turned back again, the heavy cavalry started to line up.

Although opportunities on the battlefield are fleeting, unqualified war horses and inexperienced heavy cavalry knights will definitely delay the opportunity. Fortunately, the right wing of the Qi army stopped moving forward at this time. This is not that the Qi army wants to face the impact of heavy cavalry, relying on cavalry to break the heavy infantry array. It has never happened before the heavy cavalry appeared. Some of them are just military chariots to break the heavy infantry array. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the chariots declined, and infringements instead rose to the rise of infantry rather than cavalry.

The Qi army stopped at the right wing just to block the arrows. When the Chu army's light cavalry rushed together, they lowered their bodies and held their shields high. When the hoof sound went away, the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, but another hoof sound was coming from the dust facing him.

‘Ka…da…da…da…da…da…da…da…da…da…da…da’

The sound was not quick at all, but was a little soothing, soothing that it reminded people of an old horse carrying a heavy load. However, there were more than one old horse, but a total of one hundred and twenty horses in the front and back rows. They were getting closer and closer in the dust, and the sound of the hoof became more and more urgent. At this time, the Qi Zu, who was in the front row, finally opened his eyes and found that an iron tower was rushing towards him.

In the enlarged pupils of Qi's soldiers, the iron tower crashed into a thunderous sound. Some people raised their shields, but the wooden shield was instantly smashed, and some people slapped, but the copper spear hit their chests. More people exclaimed in a burst of voices, but the exclamation could not prevent the heavy cavalry from crashing into the military formation, nor could they save the lives of several soldiers in all directions. They were either pierced and flew by the war horses, or they were stepped under the horse by the iron hooves of the heavy cavalry.

Before the heavy cavalry attacked, the open gap of the Qi army formation had been consciously filled by the Qi soldiers on both sides. The Qi soldiers who were supervising the battle in the latter row were consciously filled, but the depth of the military formation was no longer forty rows. The front and back of the heavy cavalry almost collapsed the gap formation. When the first heavy cavalry was chopping and killing and turning to the left, the second heavy cavalry had already arrived slowly.

At this moment, the two armies were only two hundred meters apart, and the war horses wearing chain mail ran forward with all their might. They spread their noses and breathed rapidly. The knights on the horse controlled their riding speed so that they could run side by side with their comrades, forming a standard cross-border climax. The dust splashed under the horse's hooves, the distance was getting closer and closer, and the speed became faster and faster. In the last few dozen meters, the riding spear was suddenly flat.

"Boom--!" It was like a huge wave hitting the reef. In the fear of the Qi soldiers, the sixty cavalry in the front line crashed into this ravaged military formation again. The heavy cavalry directly knocked the Qi soldiers out of ten steps away. Seeing that the sixty cavalry in the back line were about to hit, the remaining Qi soldiers shouted "ah" and abandoned their troops and ran. However, people could not run away. The cavalry spear in the hands of the knights quickly penetrated their bodies and threw their bodies on the mud.

"Blade!" The cavalry general in the Mercedes-Benz drew out the cavalry sword. The sixty heavy cavalry who rushed through the army quickly turned to the left. Only by quickly attacking the Qi army's right wing back can the tactical smoothness be transformed into victory in the battle.

"King, the enemy formation has been broken!" Xiong Jing, who failed to challenge the King of Qi in front of the formation, had just returned to the back of the formation and greeted him happily. Without war for two years, he never expected that his cavalry would be so sharp.

"The enemy formation has been broken?" Xiong Jing was a little surprised. He took Lu Lijing to look at the battlefield carefully. The Qi army had indeed been defeated. The heavy cavalry was rebelling against the right wing of the Qi army, and the light cavalry followed closely, and the entire right wing began to fall into chaos.

When Xiong Jing put down Lu Lijing, Zhuang Wudi looked at him and wanted to speak. He wanted to suggest that Xiong Jing transfer Youque to the left wing to completely defeat the right wing of the Qi army, but it is particularly troublesome to mobilize. Youque is the reserve team of the entire army. Now the central army, the right army is about to fight with the Qi army. Once the Youque is transferred and the central army is still defeated by the Qi army, the consequences will be unimaginable;

Then, Youque was located between the Central Army and the Right Army. The Central Army had two thousand rows, with a width of more than four miles. The Chu soldiers were wearing huge iron armor and asked them to run for four or five miles before entering the battle. It is estimated that the soldiers had no strength when they sprinted.

"Let the entire army advance!" Zhuang Wudi did not speak, so Xiong Jing did not pay attention. The order he issued was to advance the entire army. Only when the entire army advances, the left army can quickly attack the right wing of the Qi army. Otherwise, the left army would attack the array and break out.

This time, the Chu army's drums were finally ringing, and the soldiers walked neatly toward the Qi army. Most of the soldiers on the battlefield could only see dozens of steps around them. The right wing of the Qi army was penetrated by the Chu cavalry, and the Qi army's central army and the left wing were not aware of it. They were constantly advancing and only saw the Chu soldiers constantly assassinating their chariots.

"Attack!" The two armies were getting closer and closer. When they were a hundred steps apart, the Qi soldiers suddenly shouted wildly and rushed towards the oncoming Chu army. At this time, arrows were flying across the heads of soldiers on both sides. As long as the army with halberds with huge armor was not shot into the front, even heavy arrows could not cause any damage to them. When they rushed into the distance where heavy arrows could break the armor, the Chu army archers had to abandon the bow and hold the spear, ready to wait for the most violent impact of both sides.
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