At the end of the line of sight, countless Qin army cavalry wearing bright black armor no longer ran wildly, but tacitly slowed down their horses and slowly approached the river bank where Xiang Yu and hundreds of remnants were.
A huge Tenglong flag was flying high in the cavalry formation due east.
Xiang Yu and the hundreds of remaining Jiangdong cavalry are no strangers to the big flag, those Qin cavalry with strange things like seats on their horses. The reason why they ended up in such a world today can be said to be thanks to these cavalry.
Given.
Although the 10,000 Jiangdong cavalry were slightly at a disadvantage when facing the same number of 10,000 elite cavalry from the Qin Caishi Battalion, the Jiangdong cavalry was also not afraid at all. They chased day and night. Although the casualties of the Jiangdong cavalry were more than those of the Caishi battalion cavalry,
The Caishi camp also suffered heavy losses.
After all, the armor and weapons of both sides are basically the same. As for the quality of the soldiers themselves, although Xiang Yu's Jiangdong cavalry is a little different, it is only a little bit different.
Today's Caishi Camp is still the most elite and brave army in the Qin Dynasty. After all, this is not the time for Zhao Gao to completely dominate the sky with one hand. As the training ground for lieutenants and generals of the Da Qin army, the Caishi Camp has no doubt about its will to fight.
If Zhang Liang's desertion before the battle was the beginning of Xiang Yu's nightmare, then Xiang Yu's nightmare came when tens of thousands of Qinglong Army light cavalry rushed to the battlefield and caught up with Xiang Yu's remaining thousands of Jiangdong cavalry.
Perhaps the morale of the cavalry cavalry and the Qinglong Army cavalry are equal, but in terms of training and equipment, the gap between the two sides can be said to be worlds apart. The Qinglong Army light cavalry equipped with saddles, stirrups and horseshoes are at least
Jiangdong Cavalry was ahead of Xiang Yu for more than a hundred years.
After being overtaken by the Qinglong Army's light cavalry, the remaining cavalry of nearly 5,000 Caishi Battalion had returned to the rear camp to rest under Hu Hai's order. The catching up Qinglong Army became the main force chasing Xiang Yu's remaining soldiers.
It was only the vanguard of the Qinglong Army who initially caught up with Xiang Yu. However, it was only the vanguard of less than 10,000 people. Just catching up with Xiang Yu's tail made the 4,000 Jiangdong cavalry who Xiang Yu had finally broken out completely reduced by one.
More than a thousand people.
In the next two days, more and more Qinglong Army cavalry surrounded Xiang Yu's frantically fleeing Jiangdong cavalry like a pack of wolves smelling blood, and launched a day and night pursuit.
Xiang Yu indeed regarded this Qin cavalry, which was superior to the Jiangdong cavalry in terms of numbers, weapons and equipment, morale, and cavalry skills, as a pack of wolves. A pack of hunting wolves.
Because the Qin cavalry that caught up later were not like the cavalry that blocked it before, they would often catch up with the Jiangdong cavalry and fight head-on. They did not want the Jiangdong cavalry to go head-to-head at all, they just kept the Jiangdong cavalry from disappearing from their sight.
.Then choose the opportunity to act.
In the past two days, whenever Jiangdong cavalry could not hold on and fell behind, the Qin cavalry cruising around would immediately pounce on the lagging Jiangdong cavalry and tear them to pieces in an instant.
It's not like Xiang Yu didn't think about resisting the fierceness of killing these Qin cavalry, which made the Qin cavalry frightened. One day ago, Xiang Yu led the Jiangdong cavalry to choose a group of Qin cavalry to launch a counterattack. More than two thousand Jiangdong cavalry fought against the same number of people.
There were even fewer Qin cavalry than Jiangdong cavalry, but the result was that all Jiangdong cavalry were frightened.
Except for some injuries to each other when the two armies collided, the fight between the two armies was completely one-sided. Jiangdong cavalry faced the Qin cavalry wielding strange weapons that shone with dazzling cold light, and were killed like dumplings one after another.
Down.
If Xiang Yu, Ying Bu, and Long Qie had not been so powerful in fighting each other and there were no very powerful generals in the Qin army, Xiang Yu's cavalry would have been completely wiped out a day ago.
But even so, after the First World War, the Jiangdong cavalry, which originally had more than 2,000 men, was reduced sharply to less than 1,000. Today, the number of Jiangdong's soldiers who are still following Xiang Yu is less than 300.
Look at the dense mass of Qin army cavalry slowly approaching, look at the remaining two hundred Jiangdong cavalry around him who can hardly even stand, and look at the sparkling waves that are less than twenty feet wide but empty.
On the Huaihe River, Xiang Yu opened his mouth several times but finally found that nothing could be said.
There is no boat to cross the river, and swimming across it would be suicide in this weather, not to mention that the few hundred remnants of the remaining army, including Xiang Yu, Yingbu, and Long Qie, all have one or two scars on their bodies.
Although the scars are not fatal on land, entering the water in such cold weather becomes a life-threatening chain.
Entering the dry season, the Huaihe River, which is less than twenty feet wide, is now as big as a moat to Xiang Yu and the hundreds of remaining soldiers.
Turn around and counterattack? It will even lead to death. The range and power of the Qin cavalry are far greater than the powerful crossbows of Qin Nu among the Jiangdong cavalry. In the past two days, Jiangdong cavalry, including Xiang Yu, have tasted it countless times. Now this is the only one left.
The hundreds of Jiangdong cavalry had no room to resist in the face of the powerful crossbows of the Qin army's cavalry.
Swimming across the Huaihe River, which is only less than 20 feet wide, cannot escape the rain of arrows from the Qin army's powerful crossbows.
The low sound of war drums suddenly sounded from the cavalry battle formation of the Qinglong Army.
With the beating of drums and in the desperate eyes of Xiang Yu and others, the densely packed Qinglong Army cavalry finally stopped approaching three hundred steps away from where Xiang Yu stood.
This distance is not within the range of the new hand crossbows equipped by the Qinglong Army, but the distance of three hundred steps is just a charge for the Qinglong Army cavalry equipped with the three cavalry artifacts.
The Qinglong Army cavalry stopped advancing, causing a commotion among the few hundred remaining Jiangdong cavalry.
For three days, they were first pursued by the cavalry of the Caishi Camp led by Wang Qiao, and then they were pursued nonstop for two days by the cavalry of the Qinglong Army whose equipment and number far exceeded the cavalry of the Caishi Camp for two days. Two of these Jiangdong cavalry
The legs were all bloody and almost unconscious. Now that the horse was dismounted, it was impossible to even climb up. The only thing that could be done was to stay close together and gather together with Xiang Yu, Yingbu, and Long Qie as the center.
An aura of despair enveloped the few hundred remaining Jiangdong cavalry.
Xiang Yu felt a bitter feeling for no reason as he looked at the Jiangdong cavalry who were staggering around with dark red blood stains on their bodies but still holding their weapons tightly.
The ambition to overthrow the Qin Dynasty and dominate the world has come to nothing today. He knew that as long as he gave the order, these Jiangdong children who were loyal to the Xiang clan would still charge towards the Qin army regardless of their own safety, even if
They no longer have war horses, even if they can no longer hold their weapons.
However, the occasional look of panic on the young, pale faces clearly told him how helpless these remaining Jiangdong soldiers were.
Historically, Xiang Yu's 100,000-strong army only had 28 cavalry left to follow him. Facing hundreds of thousands of Liu Bang's Han troops, they still followed Xiang Yu to the end. Regardless of Xiang Yu himself, he could not be said to be the winner or loser, at least this way.
Twenty-eight riders are worthy of the name of heroes.
However, this is not seven years later after all. Although today's Jiangdong disciples are already the elite of the Chu army, they are far from the iron-blooded elite cavalry who have experienced hundreds of battles and are not afraid of life and death seven years later.
Xiang Yu is also not the same Xiang Yu who was invincible seven years later. He single-handedly destroyed the Qin Dynasty, burned Epang Palace to the ground, and was dubbed the Overlord of the Western Chu.
Xiang Yu may still be proud and unafraid of life and death at this moment. But when today's Jiangdong cavalry are really facing life and death, they may not have the courage of the twenty-eight cavalry to charge hundreds of thousands of Han troops.
They will still be hesitant and still afraid.
Xiang Yan, Xiang Liang, Xiang Zhuang, Fan Zeng, Yu Ji and other personal faces flashed through Xiang Yu's mind.
Imperial hegemony and beauties are just a dream in the end.
When Xiang Yu was distracted, the sound of the war drums in the Qinglong Army's battle formation suddenly stopped. As the war drums stopped, the half-moon-shaped Qinglong Army cavalry battle formation was split into two, and a tall knight rode out.
That knight turned out to be General Qinglong, Xu Chuang.
Xu Chuang rode alone, and under the watchful eyes of hundreds of Jiangdong cavalry, he continued to move forward until he was less than 200 steps away from where Xiang Yu and others were standing. This distance was an old Qin crossbow in the hands of Jiangdong cavalry.
Out of range.
"According to the order of His Majesty the Emperor, Shouchun has surrendered. The traitor chiefs Xiong Xin, Xiang Liang, Zhaotong, Wu Rui, Fan Zeng and others have all been captured. I have given special instructions to the traitor Xiang Yu and you. As long as the leader of the thieves Xiang Yu, Yingbu, Long Qie and others are
If you capture someone without restraint, you can avoid the death penalty of all those who follow you."
Xu Chuang's voice came from afar, inevitably causing a strong commotion among the few hundred remaining Jiangdong cavalrymen.
The news about Shouchun, Xiang Liang and others was only known to Xiang Yu and others at this moment. No one expected that the Chu army, which was originally thought to be able to fight against the Qin Dynasty, was annihilated in a few days. Even King Xiong Xin of Chu
, General Xiang Liang and others were all captured alive by the Qin army.
Xiong Xin, Zhaotong, Wu Rui, Fan Zeng and others were captured alive, no one was surprised, but Xiang Liang was captured alive by the Qin people and did not even commit suicide, which was beyond the expectations of many people.
Although the reputation of the Xiang clan for being invincible and fearless cannot be said to have collapsed in the hearts of the Chu soldiers, it is no longer as indestructible as before.
Xu Chuang's words also told the remaining soldiers of the Chu army why the Qin army stopped at this time and did not directly use the overwhelming crossbow arrows to shoot himself and others into hedgehogs.
Emperor Qin wanted to capture Xiang Yu, Ying Bu, Long Qie and others alive just like Xiang Liang. As long as the three generals Xiang Yu, Long Qie and Ying Bu could be captured without restraint, then he and others could survive.
This is like a person falling into a deep pit. Just when he thinks he will starve to death, someone suddenly drops a rope and says that as long as you take off your clothes and climb up along the rope, you can survive.
What choice will you make? What choice will the remaining Jiangdong cavalry make?
The moment Xu Chuang finished speaking, the remaining hundreds of Jiangdong cavalry, including Long Qie and Yingbu, who were barely able to stand, all looked at Xiang Yu.
Everyone knows that the key to life or death for themselves and others is not between Long Qie and Yingbu, but between Xiang Yu's thoughts. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Piaotian Literature Registered Member to recommend this
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