Looking at the beast-like light in the eyes of countless Baiyue barbarians with their dark and oily upper bodies naked,
Zhao Ben's face suddenly turned white!
Zhao Ben didn't even dare to think about what would happen after tens of thousands of Baiyue barbarians came ashore...
"Shiyong. You lead the three thousand cavalry army and must block the cavalry from behind. You can't get even half a step closer to the battlefield!" Zhao Ben waved his hand, stopped and turned around and said sternly to the cavalry captain Shiyong who was following him.
"Here!"
Shi Yong, a tall man in black armor, obeyed the order solemnly! As he said that, he turned his horse's head and ran back. The three thousand fine cavalry then turned around and followed Shi Yong towards the Jiangdong cavalry led by Xiang Yu who was running forward.
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Five thousand Jiangdong cavalry versus three thousand Great Qin cavalry!
Zhao Ben had no time to pay attention to this duel that was destined to be a spark hitting the earth! With a roar, he led the remaining 7,000 Great Qin Jingqi directly in the direction of Wang Li.
At this time, he no longer had time to send orders to the more than 20,000 Qin troops who were suppressing Xiang Liang's army and retreating. First of all, he might not be able to pass the order. Secondly, once the army turned, it would definitely give Xiang Liang's army a breathing space.
The machine even attracted the attention of the rebels!
And his target of 7,000 Qin troops is much smaller. And it is obviously reasonable to go to the shore to resist the Baiyue barbarian army that is about to land!
The corpses all over the road caused great trouble for the Qin cavalry's charge. It was impossible to pick up speed at all. They could only trot to avoid the corpses on the ground. Even so, war horses kept stumbled and fell to the ground!
The Great Qin cavalry, which had always had the greatest advantage of galloping like the wind and powerful group charges, suddenly seemed like a warrior with its hands tied. The seven thousand Great Qin cavalry could not exert its due power at all.
The main body of Wang Li's 100,000-strong army was the 100,000 guards who originally guarded Xianyang. It was impossible to mount and fight on horseback and dismount and fight on foot like the Longxi frontier army. Once dismounted, these elite Qin cavalry did not know how to fight on foot.
.I'm afraid it's better than Xiang Liang's army that has been trained for less than seven days.
But without the sharpest infantry phalanx, the skirmishing melee will be much worse when they encounter the fierce Baiyue barbarians and the elite cavalry of Great Qin!
So even so, Zhao Ben still did not give the order to abandon his horse and fight on foot.
Although the corpses on the ground did not allow the cavalry to gallop, Zhao Ben's 7,000-man elite cavalry, relying on the Three Cavalry Cone Battle Formation, was still advancing. The Baiyue barbarians on the road were killed on the spot!
Seeing that tens of thousands of hundreds of Yue barbarians were about to reach the shore, Zhao Ben was still at least a hundred steps away from Wang Li. Originally, this short distance of a hundred steps would only take the cavalry to charge. But now it is
It has become an insurmountable gap for Zhao Ben and others!
Not to mention the countless corpses densely packed in this hundred-step distance. Just the more than two thousand hundred Yue barbarians who came up after discovering Zhao Ben's cavalry were not something that Zhao Ben and others could penetrate in a short time!
What's more, now Zhao Bi and others have lost the most important speed advantage of the cavalry!
"crossbow!"
Zhao Ben shouted loudly with all his strength!
Then he took the lead and fired the powerful crossbow in his hand at the tens of thousands of hundreds of barbarians who were about to land!
There are two hundred steps from where Zhao Bi and others are to the Huaihe River. The range of Da Qin's hand crossbow is two hundred and fifty steps, and its effective killing range is one hundred and fifty steps. Two hundred steps has exceeded the effective killing range of Qin's crossbow!
However, the Baiyue barbarians, who were all naked and without any armor defense, were obviously not within the limit of the 150 steps for effective killing! Even though there was a distance of more than 200 steps, Zhao Ben still believed in using the thrown crossbow arrows.
The power can still easily tear open the dark skin of the Baiyue barbarians.
Unless their layer of black leather is as tough as cowhide! That is obviously impossible!
Zhao Ben's first crossbow arrow was positioned. The crossbow arrow falling rapidly from the air was drilling into the shoulder bone of a Baiyue barbarian who had just crawled out of the water and stepped ashore. It was deeply engulfed in his body. Only an inch long was left.
Crossbow tail!
The Baiyue barbarians, who had just stepped ashore and had no time to get excited, only had time to let out a miserable howl before falling to the ground!
"Buzz!"
A dark cloud suddenly emerged from the sky above the seven thousand Great Qin Jingqi. The powerful crossbow arrows shook the nearby air. They made a low but soul-stirring whistle. They rushed towards the Baiyue barbarians who had already set foot on the tidal flat by the river.
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Hearing the soul-stirring sound of countless crossbows firing in unison, Wu Rui and others, who had just been overjoyed to finally successfully land ashore, were stunned! Then they saw thousands of Yue barbarians who had just landed ashore raised their heads, turned around, and jumped. Three
All actions are done in one go!
"Plop!" "Plop!" The sound is endless!
The water splashed everywhere. Thousands of hundreds of Yue barbarians jumped into the river without hesitation. The scene was so spectacular!
Wu Rui, Yingbu and the others looked at it dumbfounded. Their faces were full of surprise! Do all ethnic groups in Baiyue still have this custom? Jump into the river first when they get ashore?
But soon they knew why the Baiyue barbarians were like this!
In the blink of an eye, the low roar reached the heads of the remaining two thousand Baiyue barbarians who had been seized by the tribesmen to occupy a favorable position and did not jump into the river!
The skillful crossbow arrows easily tore through the dark skin of the Baiyue barbarians and penetrated into their bodies. Wu Rui, who was still on the boat, could even vaguely hear the heart-pounding "click" sound of the crossbow arrows tearing apart flesh and blood and penetrating bones!
The entire hundreds of feet long river bank was suddenly deserted! Including the hundreds of Baiyue barbarians on rafts that were too close to the river bank, they were also wiped out! The gurgling bright red blood turned slightly red due to the flow of the river water.
The river water was dyed dark red again!
This was the first time Wu Rui truly saw the power of the Great Qin Crossbow. The mountain of corpses and sea of blood in front of him made him feel sick to his stomach!
Yingbu was also a little dumbfounded. Then he jumped into the river first and shouted: "Kill!"
The Baiyue barbarians who woke up stepped on the shore again. They rushed up in a swarm!
On the shore, Zhao Ben's 7,000 Great Qin elite cavalry fired their crossbows and immediately moved forward to attack the more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians who were approaching. Zhao Ben took the lead. He did not care about the corpses on the ground and whipped his war horses.
Hit it directly!
The Great Qin Jingqi behind Zhao Ben already knew what the purpose of these people was. Because these Great Qin Jingqi, who were originally from the Chinese army, knew General Wang Li.
As the commander-in-chief, Zhao Ben's desperate fighting style has obviously declared something to these Great Qin Jingqi! Zhao Bi also knows that his Jingqi must understand what he means, and they must know how to choose!
The general is a brave soldier! The more than two thousand soldiers at the front of the seven thousand Qin elite cavalry showed a cruel look on their faces. They clamped their legs hard on the horse's belly and whipped the horse whip hard on the horse. They rushed out in an instant, before they hit Baiyue.
Barbarians. At least one-third of the Qin army was tripped to the ground and fell off their horses!
But the Qin cavalry who fell down immediately drew out the dagger from their waists and charged forward again!
The Baiyue barbarians who came forward obviously did not expect that the Qin army would use this method of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to themselves! The Baiyue barbarians who rushed at the front were immediately knocked down. Under the strong impact, it was obvious that
No longer alive!
Zhao Ben rolled off his horse. He got up and swung his sword to chop down several Baiyue barbarians who were approaching him. Looking back, he saw that the seven thousand Great Qin Jingqi were rushing forward one after another without any hesitation.
Come up!
A Qin soldier was pierced through the chest and abdomen by a Baiyue barbarian's harpoon. He actually held the harpoon against his chest and let the harpoon pass through his chest and abdomen. Then he swung his sword and chopped off the head of the Baiyue barbarian holding the harpoon. This scene was seen everywhere.
On stage!
The Qin army who survived the landing quickly gathered hundreds of people around Zhao Ben!
The Qin army's desperate attack made the fierce Baiyue barbarians tremble with fear! Most of the more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians were quickly killed. The passage leading to Wang Li's thousands of Qin troops has been opened!
It’s less than sixty steps away from Wangli!
Wang Li also discovered Zhao Ben's 10,000 elite cavalry who had come to rescue him. Naturally, he desperately wanted to break out of the siege and join Zhao Ben's army. Wang Li, who was surrounded, did not notice at all at this moment. There were tens of thousands more barbarians.
Landing on the north bank. It was also less than sixty steps away from his battlefield!
However, there are still more than 2,000 Baiyue barbarians standing between Wang Li and Zhao Bi! And the Qin army beside Wang Li now totals less than 2,000 people! The battlefield around them is already full of all kinds of entanglements.
Corpses killed together!
Wang Li's more than a thousand cavalry were unable to deploy as they charged left and right!
The 7,000 fine cavalry under Zhao Ben's command had already lost nearly 2,000 people after a desperate fight of just ten breaths, with less than 5,000 left!
The Baiyue barbarians who landed were quickly approaching the battlefield! Wang Li didn't know this. But Zhao Bi knew it. He also knew very well that judging from the current situation, the Baiyue barbarians would definitely be able to finish their attack on Wang Li before him.
Encirclement!
A trace of sadness flashed in Zhao Ben's eyes! Then it was replaced by a fierce look!
"kill!"
Zhao Ben roared loudly and flew forward with his dagger in hand! The more than 5,000 Qin soldiers behind him either collided with each other directly on their horses, or fell off their horses and got up to fight on foot. They pounced with their teeth and hands, and blood flew everywhere...
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On the third night of the fifth lunar month in the first year of the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, the Marquis of Wucheng, the general Wang Li, the general of the central army Zhao Bi, and other generals under his command, together with more than 50,000 soldiers, fought to the death and refused to retreat. They all died on the north bank of the Huaihe River!
This day was designated as "National Memorial Day" by His Majesty the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty! (To be continued