klisemfg Chapter 785: The Last Song of Chu
Chapter 785: The Last Song of Chu
"According to the order."
Gong Yangzhan and Wenbo glanced at each other, then picked up the telescope and looked at the battlefield in the distance.
Under the towering Yiyang City, there are densely packed square formations.
The 150,000 Chu troops were arranged in neat rows, with shield soldiers on the outside, long spear soldiers behind them, and archers behind them, layer upon layer, forming the tightest defensive formation.
In the center of the army, a flag with the character "Li" on it fluttered in the wind.
Li Lei did not stand on the general's platform, but rode on a horse, holding a sword in his hand, looking coldly at the Yan army in front of him.
The Yan army was forming up and setting up artillery.
Now, if the Chu army moves, the defensive formation will collapse.
If they did not move, they would become sitting ducks for the artillery fire and would be bombarded relentlessly by the Yan army, causing their formation to collapse.
After thinking about it, Li Lei decided to take the initiative.
If you die, you die. At least, you die on the battlefield attacking the enemy, and die heroically.
Li Lei drew his sword and shouted,
"Comrades of Chu, we are the last of the Chu army. The enemy is strong, but not invincible.
Behind us is our hometown and our country. We have no way out.
Sacrifice your life for the country and repay the emperor's kindness till death!
Charge! Kill the bandits! "
The drums were beaten, and all the Chu troops roared and charged towards the Yan army.
Upon seeing this, the generals of the Yan army immediately ordered their troops to stop advancing, form a defensive formation, and set up artillery on the spot.
Zhang Han led the Zhennan Army and rushed into the battlefield quickly while the Yan Army had not yet formed a battle formation, attacking the enemy's formation and not giving the enemy a chance to disrupt their own formation.
The mighty cavalry of the Zhennan Army rushed into the enemy camp like a steel torrent.
This was also due to the enemy's active attack, which loosened their formation and failed to form a tight defensive formation. Otherwise, the Zhennan Army would have suffered heavy casualties.
Gongyang Zhan and Wenbo stood on the general's platform, looking at the cavalry charging on the battlefield in the distance with their jaws dropped.
The reckless charge of 100,000 cavalrymen was even more shocking to them than the artillery bombardment.
Wen Bo's eyes widened, and he was horrified to the extreme.
"This... with so many cavalrymen charging, even 300,000 men wouldn't be able to stop them. They're too strong. How can we fight them? We can't win. No country in the world can withstand 100,000 cavalrymen."
Gong Yang Zhan also sighed,
"Yes, a hundred thousand cavalrymen are invincible. Even if we are defending the city, with the cavalrymen watching us from outside, it will become an isolated city.
Even if we in Daqian in Lingnan and Yunnan turned all the land into grassland, we would still not be able to support these 100,000 cavalrymen.
Nanma is short and not suitable for forming cavalry.
How can I resist this?"
Wenbo put down the telescope and sighed dejectedly,
“You don’t know until you see it. Only after seeing it can you understand how shocking it is to have 100,000 cavalrymen.
No matter how many soldiers and horses you have, they are no match for these 100,000 cavalrymen.
We...can't defeat Dayan."
If the artillery, telescopes and spaceships shook their hope that Daqian could defeat Dayan.
Then the charge of these 100,000 cavalrymen would completely shatter their hopes.
They didn't see any possibility that the Qian army could defeat the Yan army.
Gong Yang Zhan also sighed,
"Did my son fight against an army like this back then? How could he possibly win with 400,000 men against a Yan army like this?
Don’t blame him for losing, don’t blame him.”
Looking at the two envoys beating their chests and stamping their feet, Shen Changgong and Yan Fuyao smiled at each other.
This is exactly the effect we want, to use a big battle to shatter their confidence in being able to resist Dayan.
If nothing unexpected happens, these two people will become staunch surrenderists after returning to Qian Kingdom.
Regardless of whether Qian State will surrender or not, at least these two people can be used by Yan State in the future to govern the people and regions of Qian State.
On the battlefield, the Zhennan Army launched two waves of reckless attacks, causing chaos in the Chu Army's formation. At least 20,000 soldiers fell to the ground and died tragically. The Chu Army was unable to hold on and was forced to curb its momentum.
Li Lei immediately ordered the entire army to retreat and surround this cavalry corps.
However, it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to surround one hundred thousand cavalrymen.
If Zhang Han didn't want the Zhennan Army to take all the credit, he would have killed all these people with his Zhennan Army.
After two waves of attacks, the sound of retreat came from the Yan army's platform. Zhang Han immediately led his men to break out. Before leaving, Zhang Han took out his bow and shot an arrow at Li Lei, but unfortunately he missed.
A ten-zhang-wide road had been cleared between the Tianyu Army and the Shenfeng Army in the middle. Zhang Han led the Zhennan Army out from this road, allowing the army to rest outside.
The Yan army closed its formation, successfully surrounded the enemy on three sides, and was ready for battle.
Zhang Han rode his horse directly to the bottom of the platform, stepped forward, saluted and said,
"Greetings to your Majesty, and to the two princes."
The Southern King looked at him and asked,
"What? Are you here to call me to task?"
"How could I possibly ask you for your guilt?"
"I thought you would be dissatisfied if I didn't let your Zhennan Army kill all the enemy troops."
"That can't be possible. I've already killed them all. What's the point of killing other brother armies? This is the final battle to destroy Chu. We can't let the Zhennan Army take all the credit. We have to leave some for our brothers.
It's a pity that we only charged in two waves, which wasn't satisfying. When we fight the Qian people in the future, it would be best to have a large-scale legion battle, the kind that stretches for dozens of miles, so that I can lead the charge and have a good time."
"You will have your share then. What are you here for this time?"
"The view from up here is great. I'll watch the battle, hehe, just watch the battle."
Zhang Han sat directly on the top step of the platform and started looking through the telescope.
Carefree and not fussy about details.
The two messengers were shocked.
The emperor and the prince were all there, but a general just sat in front of the emperor with a smile on his face, without any courtesy at all. If this happened in Daqian or other countries, he would have been punished long ago.
But in Dayan, people actually dare to do this, and everyone seems to think it is natural.
This is a bit incredible.
This shows that on normal days, the emperor and the princes got along well with the generals under them.
No wonder the generals of Yan State are so proud.
I don’t have such a strong sense of identification with the State of Yan.
In other countries, this would be impossible.
On the battlefield, the Yan army's artillery began to bombard the enemy.
Without the Zhennan Army in the enemy army, they reorganized their forces, but were bombarded by artillery fire again, and their formation was riddled with holes.
Li Lei was covered in mud, blood and flesh splattered by a shell.
He looked at the artillery shells flying from the Yan army in the sky and the Chu army that was like ants on a hot flame.
He knew he couldn't wait any longer.
"Beat the drums! March! Charge the enemy!"
"I would rather die than surrender! I will fight to the death and never retreat!"
All the remaining Chu troops rushed towards the surrounding Yan troops like moths to a flame.
This unyielding roar,
It is the last masterpiece of the Chu State.