The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

Huaimu had no armor on his body, and his weapons were only a sword and a small round leather shield, but he was fearless. He led dozens of Qin soldiers who were howling around him and rushed into the disorderly formation of the Chu people.

This was not the first time he had been such a "trapped soldier".

It was five years ago, when he was still a slave, he was summoned to the front line and participated in the war against Han. When the war started, he and 18 slaves and people who were sentenced to death were organized together. The captain said that they were trapped soldiers, without armor, only short weapons, and had to stand in front of the whole army and charge at the enemy formation.

"If you eighteen people can capture five heads of the enemy, those who were previously sentenced to death will be exempted from death penalty, and those who were previously slaves will regain their status and freedom. If anyone shrinks back, he will be sentenced to severe punishment of tattooing and cutting off the nose in front of thousands of people!"

In that battle, only eight of the eighteen people survived. They stood in the pile of enemy corpses, holding five heads and bathing in blood. After that, Huaimu was restored to freedom from being a slave. For the first time, he could walk on the street without any scruples, without wearing wooden tongs and being looked down upon.

But it was not enough. His mother was still working as a city pounder, and his two younger brothers were still small slaves in the county. The Qin law stipulated that if you could behead someone and get a title, you could redeem your family. So in the next few battles, Huaimu fought bravely, just to cut heads in exchange for the freedom of his mother and brothers.

Unfortunately, his mother died before she could be released, so the two levels of titles returned to Huaimu. He did not wait until the next year to apply for a replacement for a title, and was summoned again to attack Wei as a garrison commander.

This is why he risked his life to be the first to die in the Battle of Waihuang.

He got the title, and he survived because Heifu helped him bandage. But the war was far away. The king had just finished fighting Wei and was going to fight Chu. Fortunately, Heifu took good care of his soldiers. He not only wrote letters for them and sent them home, but also kept everyone intact when the Qin army was defeated. This was a rare thing.

After experiencing so many battles, Huaimu also vaguely understood that a defeat is easier to see the ability of a military officer than a victory.

It is easy to pursue with the wind, but it is difficult to retreat with the whole division.

Now they have retreated to the isolated city and have fallen into a desperate situation. Hei Fu's inspiring speech once again united the panicked Qin soldiers. Everyone held their breath and returned to the army without stopping them. Anyone who dared to stop them from going home would wait and see how the Qin army would fight for their lives!

We are not drowned dogs, but a group of tigers and wolves!

Therefore, when Hei Fu wanted to choose someone to lead the trapped team, Huai Mu and Dongmen Bao stood up and responded to the order, competing for this position!

"I was the first to climb Waihuang and cut off three enemy heads!" Dongmen Bao boasted about his achievements, and the birthmark on his face turned red.

But Huai Mu's qualifications immediately surpassed this young man.

"I have been a trapped team soldier three times! Once I was the first to climb, I cut off five heads in succession!" He opened his clothes and looked down on everyone with his scars.

After thinking about it, Hei Fu decided to let Huai Mu, who had more experience, take on this important task. With his men and another group of 100 short-armored guards, he first threw down his armor on the top of the city to confuse the Chu army, then lined up outside the city, and when the drums sounded, he launched a fearless charge towards the Chu formation!

"If the whole army is a sword, then the soldiers of the trap team are the tip of the sword! Only when you break the enemy's armor can the blade follow!" Hei Fu said to Huai Mu that the soldiers of the trap team were the key to the success of this breakout.

Huai Mu readily agreed. In his opinion, the soldiers of the trap team actually had to do the simplest things. Tactics? There is no need at all. In one word, don't be afraid of death, charge!

Moreover, this is probably the charge with the least obstacles since Huai Mu served as a soldier of the trap team, right?

The Chu people were not prepared for battle at all. The trenches in front of the formation were not dug, and the archers were not on standby. The arrows shot in a hurry were scattered. Only the unlucky people would be hit and knocked to the ground. After all, they had no armor. Once they were hit, they would be seriously injured.

But soon, the advantage of not wearing heavy armor was reflected. The garrison in front charged very quickly and rushed directly into the Chu archers who were busy drawing arrows and pulling bows.

This group of archers also had no armor. When they were rushed into by the soldiers of the trapped team, it was like a tiger entering a sheepfold. Once the archers were approached, they were completely slaughtered. They either fled in panic, or took out the short daggers on their waists to resist, raised their bows in an attempt to block the sharp swords, and soon they were cut down like melons and vegetables...

The garrison led by Huaimu was the same. They moved quickly and aimed at the Chu soldiers holding spears next to the archers. Before the Chu soldiers could raise their spears or shields, they were rushed into a mess. The front row, which was not well-organized to begin with, was instantly thrown into chaos.

Although Huaimu was without armor, he was fearless. He held a long sword and killed people everywhere, harvesting one life after another.

A Chu soldier foolishly rushed towards Huaimu and swung his spear at him. As a result, he was stabbed in the chest by his sword, penetrating the leather armor, muscles and lungs, and the man died instantly.

But the blade was stuck in the opponent's chest ribs and could not be pulled out. Two more Chu soldiers attacked him from the side. Huaimu did not panic. He immediately lowered his head to pick up the spear, swung the enemy's spear away, and then suddenly pulled out the sword that was still in the corpse, kicked away a shield that was against his back, and cut the throat of the Chu soldier hiding behind him with a sword.

The surrounding scene was also in chaos, with fighting everywhere. The soldiers in the trapped team achieved brilliant results. In a moment, a team of archers and a team of spearmen were defeated.

Unfortunately, despite the first two defeats, the trapped team only had a hundred men after all, and their impact force was already at its end. They could no longer move forward, and without armor protection, they suffered many casualties. There were too many Chu people, and the left and right formations were slowly closing in, trying to surround them, but this subconscious behavior made the Chu formation even more chaotic.

So far, everyone's mission has been completed, that is, to disrupt the enemy's formation and let the comrades behind rush in!

In the interval of fighting, Huaimu looked behind, and following the trapped team were the main force of the Qin people, who were six hundred people marching in neat steps and holding spears and running in small steps, and were more than ten steps away...

...

"Break it open!"

When he saw that the trapped team led by Huaimu had already defeated two hundred Chu soldiers and tore a gap, Heifu, who was in the formation, slapped his thigh excitedly!

This time, he no longer led the troops like he did when he was the head of the garrison, shouting "Follow me, two or three sons".

It was no longer like being a short-army general, following the main general every step of the way...

Because, he was the main general of the Qin army in this battle!

With only six or seven hundred men under his command, there was no complicated command like when the army was fighting. Communication was basically done by shouting. Heifu personally commanded two teams of one hundred men, Dongmen Bao, Zhai Chong, Tu Si, and Man each commanded a hundred men. After they left the city and lined up, they trotted forward to the sound of the drums beaten by Yu Lixian on the top of the city.

Heifu asked Tu Si and Man to be on the left and right, Zhai Chong to be the rear guard, and his two hundred men to be in the middle.

The first hundred men were led by Dongmen Bao, all wearing thick armor, five people in a row, twenty people in a row, and the two rows in the front holding chief spears.

Chief spear, this is a kind of impact spear used by infantry. Although the length is not as long as the longest "Yi spear" of two feet and four feet, it is nearly six meters! But there are also 20 feet, four and a half meters in length, which requires two people to hold together to ensure fast movement.

These chief spears were found in the arsenal in the city. As a "heavy" weapon in the hands of infantry, when twenty chief spears are laid flat and moved forward quickly, the momentum is extremely terrifying!

The only thing that can fight against the spears is the spear of the same length and the huge oar shield. Everyone pushes each other to see who can stab the other. This is the norm for heavy infantry phalanxes after the war starts these days.

However, the Chu people have been thrown into disarray by the soldiers who trapped the team. One team of spearmen has been defeated, and the other team is blocked behind and cannot be transferred. Dou Ran can only assign two hundred sword and shield soldiers to make up the number.

The Qin soldiers were only ten steps behind the soldiers who had been trapped. They reached the short distance in an instant. With a roar from Dongmen Bao, the Qin soldiers raised their chief spears and attacked in a horizontal formation. They collided with the Chu sword and shield soldiers who were moving horizontally and came to stop them!

The sharp spear tip inserted through the gap in the shield, pierced the leather armor of an unlucky Chu soldier, passed through his stomach and intestines, and broke out of his back. The bloody spear tip was inserted into the chest and abdomen of the person behind him again...

Not only the two people holding spears were exerting force, but the three people behind each row were also constantly pushing and stabbing. In this way, relying on the length and impact of the chief spear, Dongmen Bao and others were like a sharp iron spike. After a while, they pierced and crushed the 200-man Chu soldier team...

At this time, the chief spear had pierced two or three people like a candied haws. Some of them were not dead yet and screamed miserably. But the Qin people could no longer move forward with their spears. The Qin soldiers simply abandoned them, drew out their two-foot swords, and continued to rush forward with howls, engaging the enemy in close combat.

If the Chu formation was originally only pierced by the trapped soldiers, then now, under the fierce thrust of the chief's spear, a large hole has been broken. Not to mention that behind Dongmen Bao and his men, there were hundreds of Qin soldiers who, under the command of Hei Fu, continued to rush in through this hole. For a while, the Chu people only had time to patch up the leaks.

Although they were caught off guard and at least 500 people were rushed down one after another, because there were too many people, the Chu people were far from being defeated. Under the command of Dou Ran, they began to counterattack.

First, people kept moving to the center from the left and right, trying to stop the Qin people's advance. In addition, the only remaining 100 archers were finally transferred. The archers put their arrows on the bowstrings and sprayed a rain of arrows towards the formation behind the Qin people.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, arrows were flying like hail at the Qin soldiers in the back, ten, a hundred. Many people around Hei Fu who were holding shields to block arrows were hit by arrows and fell to the ground, shouting and wailing, and even the copper helmet on his head was hit, making a crisp clanging sound, which scared Hei Fu.

At the same time, the sound of horse hooves came from the side. Although the thirty chariots of the Chu people were not prepared in advance, they were stuck in the soldiers and could not get out awkwardly, so they could only be used as command vehicles.

But the hundred riders were very agile. They had gathered together, circled from both wings, and stopped dozens of steps away. The riders got off their horses, took down their crossbows, and shot arrows at the Qin people...

Zhai Chong, who was behind them, came over in the rain of arrows and said, "Heifu, there are too many arrows, and some of them can't be stopped. Should we send people from the left and right wings to disperse them?"

Heifu said, "Let Xiao Tao lead dozens of archers to fight back!"

"What if those riders charge over!"

"Aren't you still protecting the left and right rear?"

Heifu looked straight ahead. Cavalry these days is not worth worrying about unless there are too many of them or they have already collapsed. Because this type of troops is not mature yet, let alone the cavalry of the Chu State, the horses are short and the riders are not good at riding. They are usually used as scouts. They can't even shoot bows on galloping horses. They must stop or even dismount to shoot on foot, which can't play a decisive role at all.

As for charging the vanguard? But this is something that even the elite cavalry of Beidi and Shangjun of Qin rarely do. Would the Chu cavalry dare to do it? Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu who promoted the assault cavalry, was still a little kid and had not learned to ride a horse!

Besides, at this moment, Heifu could no longer take care of the wings and the back, and his eyes could only look forward!

That's right, rush forward regardless of everything, and fight hard without any solution! This is the tactic formulated by Heifu. The general has no more plans, and the soldiers have the will to die, so they sharpen their armor and blades, and rush through the enemy formation with all their strength!

They are outnumbered and cannot compete with the enemy in terms of numbers and endurance, but in terms of momentum. With the momentum of the mourning army, they will make a strong effort at the first blow, then decline at the second blow, and exhaust at the third blow. If they are timid and the momentum of the attack is gone, they will definitely lose!

But if they can penetrate the enemy in one breath and the formation is scattered, this group of Chu people will basically collapse. Don't expect to be able to manually gather the soldiers again as a general in the game. It was impossible. The Chu people were not that well-educated. The defeated soldiers were frightened and lost their organization. They didn't even have time to run, let alone turn around and fight back.

"Charge!"

So Hei Fu pointed his sword forward, and after a huge hole had been broken in the enemy's formation, he asked his two hundred men to charge in. He didn't care about the arrows that kept falling from his head, nor the cavalry that was harassing them. He only stared at the front, which was only twenty steps away, trapped by the chaotic formation of the Chu people and couldn't move!

"Just charge all the way and hit the Chu people in the center!"

At the same time, as if God was helping Hei Fu, a huge shout of killing was heard behind the Chu army formation!