strictlysupreme Chapter 1272 The Power of the Crown Prince’s Concubine!
Chapter 1272 The Power of the Crown Prince’s Concubine!
"Your Majesty, it's bad. A Chu army suddenly rushed out from all directions and is attacking our western camp!"
Just as Ying was feeling surprised, Meng Kuo came riding up to report.
Ying Zheng's face was gloomy: "Who is coming, and how many soldiers do you have?"
Meng Kuo glanced at Chu Ning standing opposite him and whispered, "The person coming is Feng Mulan, the concubine of the Crown Prince of Chu. She has come with 50,000 Youzhou soldiers and horses."
Now, Ying Zheng understood.
These 50,000 Youzhou soldiers were the reinforcements Chu Ning transferred from the State of Chu.
However, they did not appear at the beginning. After he sent troops to leave the camp and raid the coalition camp, 50,000 Youzhou troops suddenly appeared in the west.
Now the gates of the Qin army camp in the west have been opened, and with the sudden arrival of 50,000 soldiers from Youzhou, it is unknown whether the Qin army in the camp can hold on.
"Why panic!"
Ying Zheng narrowed his eyes, and a cold look flashed across his face: "We still have 80,000 soldiers in the West Camp. How can a mere 50,000 Youzhou soldiers be their opponent?"
But having said that, Ying Zheng felt vaguely uneasy in his heart.
Although there were 80,000 people in the camp, half of them were new recruits under Ying Ji and had never been on the battlefield.
Those 50,000 Youzhou soldiers were trained by Feng Mulan herself. Feng Mulan was from a famous family, was well versed in military tactics, and had fought in the battlefield many times!
What's more, Feng Mulan is the prince's concubine. All these identities will boost the morale of the 50,000 Youzhou soldiers.
While thinking, Chu Ning on the opposite side chuckled: "Really? Then let's see if your 80,000 men in the West Camp can stop my 50,000-man army in Youzhou!"
But Ying Zheng still didn't give up. He stared at Chu Ning and said coldly, "Even if you take over the West Camp, what's the harm? Now your camp is about to be crushed by my 20,000 cavalry!"
"is it?"
Chu Ning suddenly laughed out loud: "Then you should open your eyes and see if your 20,000 soldiers can still come out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a cavalryman behind him shot three rockets into the air.
Suddenly, the Chu-Zhou coalition forces, which were originally in the process of collapse, suddenly dispersed to both sides.
Immediately afterwards, a cavalry group led by Zhao Yu rushed out from the army.
"kill!"
There are no extra words, only one word: kill!
The voice was filled with anger and murderous intent.
The silver spears and white horses, in the north wind, were like flying snow in the cold winter, a vast expanse of white, shrouding the eyes of the Qin army.
The 20,000 Qin cavalry showed no sign of weakness and charged forward, waving their weapons.
Suddenly, black and white, like the chaos at the beginning of the world, intertwined together.
The shouts of killing never ceased!
However, the Qin army's offensive momentum was blocked.
Ying Zheng's face suddenly looked a little ugly.
At this moment, Chu Ning pointed to the Qin army camp in the west and said loudly: "Ying Zheng, you should take care of your camp first."
Ying Zheng was startled and quickly turned around to look.
At this moment, just after the Shen time, the 3,000 vanguards of the Youzhou Army were already lying in ambush three miles west of the Qin camp.
Feng Mulan took off the Nine-Di Crown and held the Flying Phoenix Hairpin between her lips. She was wearing a robe with embroidered gold cloud patterns, just like the Crown Princess, over a black rhinoceros armor. The heavy sword in her hand was condensing the sunlight.
When the Qin soldiers in the watchtower spotted the silver flashes in the sand, they turned out to be the sound of 20,000 light cavalrymen jumping onto their saddles at the same time - the chain mail of the Youzhou men was lined with plain silk.
"Break the formation!"
Feng Mulan's blade shattered the ice edges, and the twelve Kuiniu war drums behind her made snow foam rise into the air.
The 20,000 cavalrymen were divided into six streams, each with a wolf-like spike. These bamboo weapons soaked in kerosene would catch fire when the wind blew, and in an instant, they formed a ten-mile-long fire snake outside the Qin camp wall.
When Ying Ji rushed out of the tent, he saw the fence of the recruit camp being lifted into the air by a flaming wolf-whip, and the flaming bamboo joints exploded in the pile of food and grass, creating fireflies all over the sky.
Thirty thousand Youzhou infantrymen poured in through the gap in the fire wall like a black tide.
The square shields held diagonally by the sword and shield bearers in the front row were painted with Taotie patterns, the hook-and-sickle spears in the second row were used to sweep the horses' legs, and the crossbowmen in the third row were actually stepping on their comrades' shoulders and throwing crossbows into the air.
The Qin army recruits had not even touched their weapons when their shin guards were torn apart by the sickles and hooks studded with caltrops.
Ying Ji's personal guards had just organized three rows of gun formations when they suddenly saw hundreds of Youzhou warriors rushing out of the snow - these warriors, armed with short blades in their mouths and wearing sable fur coats, had actually dug holes in the frozen soil and sneaked to the front of the formation.
"Raise the Xuanwu flag!"
Ying Ji's bronze sword killed two Youzhou crossbowmen, but the sword tip was stuck between the collarbone of the third man and could not be pulled out.
He watched helplessly as the commander's flag was shot down by three whistling arrows, and as the flagpole fell, it crushed the craftsmen who were assembling the crossbow.
The recruit camp was in complete chaos. Some people held iron pots as shields, some stuck arrows into the ground upside down, and more people screamed and rushed towards the East Camp which had not been attacked yet, and instead drove the heavy armored troops that came to support into pieces.
Feng Mulan's heavy sword was stained with blood, so she simply tore off her cloud-patterned robe and tied it to the saddle as a flag.
She rode her horse over the burning battering ram, and knocked away three Qin centurions with the heavy sword in her hand. The blood-stained Crown Princess's dress fluttered in the sea of fire like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
When the vanguard of the Youzhou army broke through the seventh layer of the camp, they finally ran into the 8,000 Tiger Guards led by Ying Ji himself.
The moment the two iron streams collided, a three-meter-high blood mist rose from the snow.
Ying Ji's fish-scale armor was covered with ice chips, and when his long spear pierced through the chest of the Youzhou cavalry general, the spear shaft was actually clamped tightly by the dying man's hands.
The moment he dropped his spear and drew his sword, Feng Mulan's sword had already cut off half of his cloak.
This veteran general suddenly discovered that the Qin troops around him were retreating spontaneously - the defeat of the new recruits' camp had spread to the central army like a plague.
In a short period of time, all thirty arrow towers in the Qin army's west camp collapsed.
When Ying Ji retreated to the last trench, he saw Feng Mulan standing on a pile of corpses, drawing her bow and arrow, the torn silk of her golden robe rustling in the wind.
He subconsciously raised his shield to block, but after hearing the buzzing of the bowstring, he saw that the red tassel on his helmet had been nailed to the top of the broken flag.
The surviving general behind him advised in a trembling voice: "General, we can still hold our ground if we retreat to Julu City."
Ying Ji crushed the wooden handle of the flag, and a taste of rust rose in his throat.
He saw that the Youzhou army was using the Qin army's iron shields to build a bridge, and 30,000 infantrymen were advancing steadily over the corpses of their comrades. None of the 8,000 Qin soldiers who survived on the desert dared to look directly at the fluttering gold-embroidered flag.
When a ray of sunlight shone on the tip of Feng Mulan's bloody sword, the roar of a huge tree breaking was finally heard from the gate of Qinxi Camp.
The Qin army camp was broken!
Ying Zheng, who was watching the battle from a distance, only came back to his senses from his shock at this moment.
In just a short period of time, Feng Mulan and his men had already broken through the western camp.
If Feng Mulan is allowed to continue killing, the Qin army will be completely defeated.
With this in mind, Ying Zheng made a prompt decision: "Send a message to the soldiers in the city, and have them pick up Ying Ji immediately!"
"Also, have the Jin army send troops to attack the Chu-Zhou coalition camp to support our cavalry."
At this point, the Qin army had already been defeated and there was no need to continue fighting.
But Chu Ning sneered when he heard this: "What do you think of me, Chu Jun? Do you think you can come and go as you please here?"
"Today, your 20,000 cavalrymen will be buried here!"