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Heifu couldn't see the details of the battlefield clearly from such a distance, but Zhou Wen, the Chu army's "sun-sighter", could see clearly!

The so-called sun sight has two responsibilities. One is to observe the shadow of the sun and predict the good and bad times. They belong to the ranks of "Soldier Yin Yang Family". On the other hand, they also need to use their good eyesight to observe the enemy's movements and report to the general.

Therefore, Zhou Wen was lucky enough to witness the contest between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan, two famous generals in the world.

Xiang Yan's army in the east has a total of 90,000 people, including 10,000 "Wang Zhiyouguang", 10,000 Xiang clan troops, 10,000 Qu and Zhao clan soldiers, and 30,000 troops from Huaibei, Huainan, and Jiangdong counties. Soldiers, a miscellaneous army composed of 20,000 small feudal lords from various places.

The Qin Army in the west has about 100,000 people. Zhou Wen is not very clear about their composition. He only knows that the one listed at the front by Wang Jian is three corps of 10,000 people, under the banner of the Qin Army's Guanzhong Army, on the left and right. There are thousands of chariots guarding the wings.

At the beginning of the battle, Xiang Yan ordered Zhaohua, who had the strongest execution ability, to lead the Zhao clan troops to attack the Qin army. Chariots took the lead, followed by infantry, to test and attack the junction of the three forward corps of the Qin army.

The Qin army first had its crossbowmen standing upright, kneeling and firing in turns. After firing thousands of arrows, the crossbowmen moved away and retreated to the two wings. The Chen gate was opened, and the infantry followed up and broke into the Chu army's formation. While the two infantrymen were fighting, the assembled Qin army's chariots and soldiers quickly jumped out from both wings and attacked the Chu army from the side...

The Zhao clan soldiers retreated in defeat, and the Qin Army's third forward corps also began to pursue them, fighting with the Zhao clan soldiers. Their fighting position was to the north.

"The general's plan is done!"

Looking at this scene, Zhou Wen was not worried but happy. According to Xiang Yan's plan, since our own troops are slightly smaller, we must fully mobilize the enemy's troops. After the battle begins, Zhaohua will fake defeat, lure the enemy with benefits, and contain the main force of the Qin army to the northern section, while the main force of the Chu army will be We must march towards Wang Jian's army and deliver a decisive blow!

However, the progress of the battle was beyond the Chu army's expectations. The three Qin regiments attacked so fiercely that they quickly defeated the Zhao clan soldiers and even threatened the overall situation on the north side.

In order to prevent the Qin army from making detours to the rear of the Chu army in the southern section, stabilize the defensive posture, and at the same time attract more Qin troops to invest in this direction, Xiang Yan waved his flag and ordered 10,000 Huaibei County soldiers to be deployed on the second line in the northern section. Ten thousand feudal troops quickly entered the battle and attacked the enemy's left rear from the northeast.

Due to the sudden and violent counterattack by the Chu army's cutting-edge forces, the three Qin army regiments were unable to break through for a while. Therefore, the Qin army mobilized another 10,000 infantry from the center to join in. The battle seemed to have stagnated on the northern front...

Attack, defense, counterattack, false defeat, real defeat, battle, stalemate, increase of troops, and then see-saw again. Wang Jian and Xiang Yan are like two cautious chess players. This series of tricks has lasted for a whole day. Within an hour, thousands of people had fallen dead in the wild!

As a result, the Qin Army's 40,000-strong regiment was dragged back to the north by more than 30,000 Chu people. At the same time, 10,000 Qu's troops from Chu State came forward to the south, entangled at least 20,000 Qin soldiers. people.

Wang Jian used an outflank approach, placing Guanzhong's elite on the left and right, and now they were gradually gaining the upper hand. But in this way, too many troops were invested from the north and the south, which exposed a flaw in the center of the Qin army! What stood in front of the Chu army were tens of thousands of people in scattered formations, holding the flags of the Hedong and Sanchuan soldiers.

This is the fighter opportunity that Xiang Yan has been waiting for for a whole hour!

Zhou Wen was overjoyed. After reporting the situation, Xiang Yan's army's banner suddenly started to beat loudly!

The Chu army has 50,000 soldiers. Except for the 10,000 soldiers of the feudal lord who are somewhat disorderly dressed, the rest are soldiers from the Xiang clan, Youguang, Jiangdong, and Huainan. They are all from Jiangshang, Chimao, Chijia, and Chiyu. It's like fire.

After receiving the order, King Chu Youguang, who was mainly chariot soldiers, was the vanguard, Xiang's soldiers were the core, and soldiers from Jiangdong and Huainan were on the left and right. They began to move forward, like an overwhelming red wave, moving forward!

Wang Jian also noticed the intention of the Chu army. With the flag waving, thousands of military chariots drove out from the Qin formation and launched a counterattack towards the Chu army!

"Carpooling with the Chu army?"

Zhou Wen felt ridiculous and immediately reported the situation he noticed to the general.

Although the Chu State is located in the south and has fewer good horses, its chariots are not weak. In those years of fighting for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, thousands of Chu chariots traveled across the Central Plains!

"Fuck Wu Ge, he was beaten by a rhinoceros, his car was in the wrong position, he was caught in close combat!"

With a burst of loud Chu songs as the beginning, in the great formation of the Chu State, King Youguang of Chu, who had carried the glory of four hundred years, started to move thousands of military chariots. The horses covered with tiger skin or cowhide armor neighed and moved forward at high speed. The approaching Qin chariots passed by each other.

In the era of chariots, when two chariots met, they did not confront each other head-on, but had to stagger and fight from the side. Bows and arrows were used for long distances, and the "five chariot soldiers" such as Ge, Shu, spears, and halberds were used for short distances. Swords were used for close-to-hand combat. . This is the so-called "wrong hub" fighting.

When it comes to chariot battles, Chu people are experts. They even specially equipped their own chariots with long-bladed hubs. When the chariot starts, the long-bladed hubs also roll rapidly. When the two vehicles intersect, they can not only completely cut off the legs and feet of the horses passing by, causing the limbs to fly randomly on the battlefield, but also use the superb skills of the charioteers to hit the enemy's wheels, destroying their axles and spokes.

After a fight, only a dozen Chu chariots were destroyed, but hundreds of Qin chariots fell to the ground. Even if the charioteer, left chariot, and chariot right chariot were lucky enough to survive, they were quickly hit by Chu soldiers.

Seeing that the chariots had the upper hand, the morale of the Chu army became stronger, and the pace of the infantry also accelerated!

"The sun is blocked by the sun, and the enemy is like clouds; the arrows are falling, and the soldiers are fighting for the lead!"

After Youguang, the soldiers of the Xiang clan also sang "National Sorrow", even though the number of Qin troops on the opposite side was almost the same as that of our own assault troops, even though their flags covered the sky and the enemies were like clouds, even though the flying arrows fell like raindrops. However, the people of Chu mourned the soldiers, but they still fought bravely and kept moving forward!

The soldiers of the Xiang clan who were taught by Xiang Yanyan were often inspired by the national humiliation suffered by the Chu people in the past hundred years: from the disastrous defeats at Chuisha and Lantian, from the time when King Huai of Chu was detained by Qin and never returned, to the battle of Yanying where hundreds of thousands of Chu people People died unexpectedly, then King Qingxiang humiliated himself and moved eastward, and finally Qu Zi threw himself into the river full of grief and anger.

The past hundred years, for the Qin State, was a road of rising with high morale, but for the Chu State, it was a road of decline and failure. Most of the Chu nobles were deeply ashamed...

"A hundred years of national humiliation can be overcome in one battle! Capture Wang Jian's banner for me!"

Xiang Yan's order reached everyone's ears. Under the leadership of the noble generals, although they were a little ignorant of the "national humiliation", they also believed that the Qin people were the Chu soldiers who invaded their homes and wanted to seize their wives, children and fields, so they issued a More loud and clear songs of Chu!

"When the sky falls, the mighty spirit becomes angry, and kills them all, abandoning the wilderness."

"If you can't go in or out, you can't go back. The plains suddenly turn out to be too long."

Tens of thousands of people ran and trampled on the battlefield, causing the dust on the battlefield to fly. Together with the chariots and the wind and dust from the northern and southern battlefields, they converged and covered the sky that had just cleared up.

This was destined to be an earth-shaking battle. Perhaps after this battle, all the soldiers in the army died in the vast wilderness, but even if they never returned, they never regretted it!

With this momentum, the Xiang clan soldiers, Huainan soldiers, and Jiangdong soldiers shouted, charged forward, and hit the weak Qin army array heavily! And defeated the Qin army in one fell swoop!

However, when the Qin army in front of him quickly "retreated" to both sides, and when the smoke curtain cloud covering the battlefield in the rear completely dissipated, Zhou Wen, who was approaching the battlefield to observe the battlefield, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air!

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Wang Jian's banner, dragon flag and feathers were clearly visible, but between him and the Chu army, there was actually a phalanx of tens of thousands of people. With the cover of the army in front, they had already completed their formation!

This Qin army, about 40,000 men, was divided into four groups, arranged in two formations, front and rear, with three forward armies. The right army formed a formation relying on the hill, the left army formed a formation next to the stream, and the middle army spread out horizontally between the left and right armies.

At the front of the phalanx was a line of scattered crossbowmen, with hundreds of people in each line and thousands of people in total. The sergeants did not wear armor and were holding long-range weapons such as crossbows. They knelt quietly on one knee on the ground.

Then came the infantry, based on the formation of long soldiers in front and short soldiers at the back, taking into account both offense and defense, without leakage. In addition, there are several rows of crossbowmen on the left and right sides of the array, arranged outwards to prevent enemy attacks from both wings. The formation is complex, with large formations within small formations, combined together, and transformable.

After the three forward armies, the first rearguard army gathered at the junction of the three forward armies to provide support. It was also the location of Wang Jian's military command post. The ceremony is clear, the guards are strict, knights are ordered to come in and out, and the golden drums and flags change in an orderly manner, just like the hand pulling strings behind the scenes in a lantern and shadow play, directing the movement of various legions and military formations, following each other like a shadow.

The elite of the Qin army shocked Zhou Wen, and the formation of the Qin army confused Zhou Wen. He realized that the Qin army in front of him was extraordinary, and he must be the elite among the elite!

What made Zhou Wen even more shuddered was that he discovered that this Qin army was flying the same banner as the tens of thousands of "Guanzhong soldiers" who were supposed to be attracted to the northern front!

"Which one is true and which one is false?"

Zhou Wen vaguely realized that everything before seemed to be a trap, so he immediately asked someone to inform Shangzhu Kingdom!

However, there was no turning back when the bow was fired, and the pace of the army in front did not stop. Although the Chu people were slightly stunned, they continued to move forward under the order of the general, hoping to defeat the Qin army and capture and kill them just like before. The enemy general!

Facing the Chu army coming like a wave, these Qin people were not afraid. They stood shoulder to shoulder, armor to armor, as if they were one body!

I don’t know who took the lead. Facing Chu Ge on the opposite side, a Qin Feng song sang from the tens of thousands of Qin troops.

"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same clothes with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my armor and soldiers and went with me!"

Qin Feng's high-pitched voice was no less impressive than the tragic Chu Ge on the opposite side!

This is the Qin pronunciation with a correct accent and the correct Guanzhong dialect of the Eight Classics.

Zhou Wen understood that these people were the disciples of Guanzhong recruited from Neishi and Longxi, the so-called "Old Qin people"!

Since Shang Yang's reform, they have passed through the inheritance of military titles and the baptism of war for six or seven generations.

After a hundred years of accumulating military exploits from generation to generation, among the fifty thousand people, all are knights, and the lowest one is also a civil servant.

These 50,000 people are all young and strong. They have been indoctrinated by their parents since childhood that fighting in private is a shame and fighting in public is a matter of honor. In their whole lives, they can only do farming and fighting!

They are proud of their identity, they are proud of their merits, they are the core force of the Qin army, their will is extremely firm, and they remain unmoved in the face of the violent attack of the Chu army!

"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my sword and spear, and I share the same enemy with you!"

The kneeling crossbowmen fired thousands of arrows, killing a large number of Chu people and then spread out to the two wings. The spearmen at the rear stepped forward in an orderly manner. After shouting angrily, they laid their spears horizontally to stop all attempts to get closer, while Qin The archers arranged in the formation were also firing arrows continuously.

With this elite guard on the gentle slope, Wang Jian's commanding flag did not move even a step. On the contrary, the Chu army attacked like a wave, as if hitting an unmoving black reef, without any effect...

"This is indeed a lure for the enemy!"

Zhou Wen felt a little desperate. General Xiang Yan slowly involved the layout for an hour. The soldiers made countless sacrifices and took great courage to create the opportunity. The raging fire in their hearts was almost wiped out by Wang Jian's last attack. The trump card is to crush it with one kick!

But what’s even more shocking is that the rumble of horse hooves can be heard from Zhou Wen’s side...

The three thousand cavalrymen of the Qin army, who had disappeared throughout the entire battle, made a large circle and appeared on the side! Hundreds of chariots from the Qin army, which had just been defeated and dispersed, also joined them and headed towards the central army of Chu!

Xiang Yan has already released his last reserve force, hoping to break through Qin's army in one fell swoop. Currently, he has only 10,000 feudal lords armed with him. Those are the miscellaneous troops of the Chu State. He cannot place high hopes on them. If they are approached by chariots, they will surely fall apart.

Fortunately, You Guang, who had already gone through a fight, regrouped at Xiang Yan's army. He didn't even bother to rest and replace his injured horses, so he had to fight out of the formation again.

Five to six thousand war horses and twenty to thirty thousand horse legs galloped across the field, like rolling thunder, shaking the feet of the infantry! These chariots were extremely fast, and soon the enemy and us rushed together, and the chariots overturned and the horses fell into a melee. Chu's long-bladed chariots were miraculous against Qin's chariots, but the nimble cavalry did not suffer from this. Instead, they could use their own flexibility to attack one chariot with several cavalry. For a time, the two sides were inextricably linked.

Zhou Wen was a little stunned. He took his eyes off the chariot and looked at the Qin army on the southern and northern fronts, which was gradually gaining the upper hand. Then he looked at the central part, where the Chu soldiers were struggling to break through the Qin army's defense line in Guanzhong.

The current situation is once again at a stalemate. If the Qin army's chariots, cavalry, and left and right wings defeat the Chu army first and complete Wang Jian's encirclement, then Qin will win; if the main force of the Chu army defeats the elite troops in Qin's pass first, then Chu will win.

"Jun Zhou, look over there!"

However, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and an accident happened again. Under the shouts of his soldiers, Zhou Wen turned around and looked to the southeast of the battlefield, and his face suddenly showed horror!

Xiang Yan's hopes of blocking Qin's reinforcements were pinned on the 20,000 Jing clan soldiers. He only deployed a small police force of more than a hundred people in the southeast, but it was now defeated and scattered.

A Qin army of more than a thousand people was already standing there, with a tiger-bear flag firmly planted at the highest point of sight! And they are still forming a formation, and it seems that they may rush down at any time!

The Chu people who discovered this scene couldn't help but feel a little thump in their hearts.

Even Xiang Yan of Shangzhu State couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "Brothers Jing made a mistake. The Qin army's reinforcements were not stopped?"

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In the southeast of the battlefield, after running for more than ten kilometers, Captain Heifu, who had his feet covered with mud and was exhausted, finally took a breath and puffed out his chest on a small slope.

He stood by the battlefield of the fierce battle, listening to the noisy Chu songs and Qin Feng in his ears, and his eyes were fixed on the Chu Kingdom's central army camp just two miles away, with only 10,000 monarch troops remaining to protect its wings!

Heifu's eyes gradually became eager, as if he was excited about being so close to the center of the times for the first time.

He raised his hands high, as if he was about to issue an order for the entire army to attack regardless of his thirty-mile profit and the mere 1,000 men under his command! Doing that will make a thousand bones wither!

But after looking back, Heifu just smiled at the Anlu soldiers who were half exhausted, panting and unable to straighten their waists:

"Second and Third Sons, plant all your flags on the top of the slope so that both the enemy and us can see them at a glance, but rest where you are and wait for friendly forces!"