My father, King Chu, was besieged at Gaixia

Chapter 93 Despair and Powerlessness
Faced with the fierce and powerful attack momentum of the Chu cavalry, and their main general Wang Xi being captured by the Overlord in a single blow and thrown to the ground like a pig or a dog without mercy, and trampled to death by passing war horses, the already disheveled formation of the third wave of Han cavalry could no longer be maintained and collapsed.

Those generals and cavalrymen who were lucky enough to survive were terrified and rushed out of the battlefield at all costs, fleeing in panic to the left and right. Some of them were confused and threw away the military orders that were repeatedly emphasized before the battle, and instinctively turned around and fled.

The 4,000 "Dinghaishenzhen" cavalrymen lined up at the back drew their bows and arrows, mercilessly shooting the defeated cavalrymen one by one. Some Han cavalrymen fled too fast and managed to escape this round of military arrow rain, but were surrounded by the 4,000 cavalrymen on horseback. No matter how they cried and begged, they were still stabbed off their horses one by one by the raised spears.

Not long after, several escort cavalrymen dragged a defeated commander of a thousand soldiers to Jin Xu and forced him to kneel on the ground.

"General, it's not that our brothers didn't fight hard, it's that there are two more gadgets on the saddles of the Chu army's war horses, making their combat power too strong..." The leader of a thousand soldiers naturally knew what crime it was to flee in battle, and he howled in despair at Jin Xu.

As the Han army's leading cavalry general, Jin Xu immediately understood what was going on when he heard the description of the thousand-soldiers leader. At the same time, he instantly had a clear understanding of the terrifying effect that this thing could exert on the battlefield. He looked up at the Third Wave Army that was still being slaughtered, his face blank, and muttered:

"How could I not think of such a simple item? There is an extraordinary person in the Great Chu army. Seeing that such an extraordinary person appears when we are at the end of our rope, could it be that we are really destined to be happy?"

As the leader of a thousand soldiers begged for mercy, the escorting cavalry dragged him away and killed him with a single sword.

"General, follow me and escape. Let's go find my uncle Lu Ze. He can always save your life. Liu Laosan is so cruel. It's not worth it to lose your life for him here!" Lu Emergency said.

"How dare you! You can't work together on the battlefield, and you want to escape when you encounter a strong enemy. With such thoughts, you will never be able to destroy Xiang Yu!" Jin Xu jumped on his horse, took the spear, raised his head, his face cold, and looked at the Chu cavalry that had just destroyed the third wave of Han cavalry.

"General, you can't go, you can't go! General, I don't want you to die!" Beside the warhorse, Lu Ying hugged Jin Xu's thighs and cried. After so many years of living together day and night, especially because Jin Xu always gave him advice on military strategies and taught him everything he knew, he had long regarded Jin Xu as his father.

"Since ancient times, who has been immortal? Come, send Master Lu Ying to the rear, he has important military intelligence to report to the King of Han!" Jin Xu shouted, and four guards rushed over and took Lu Ying away.

"Xiang Ji, I, Lu Ying, will not be a human being if I don't avenge this!" Lu Ying cried, jumped on his horse, and left in a hurry.

Looking up at the Chu cavalry slowly approaching like a raging tide, emitting a powerful aura that swallowed everything, Jin Xu's heart was as cold as a rock, and an endless heroic fighting spirit grew:

"Come on, Xiang Ji!"

The deputy general beside him pulled up the "Jin" flag stuck in the ground, held it high, and waved it vigorously! Immediately, Jin Xu let out a long roar, took the lead, and rushed towards the front of the Chu cavalry. The deputy general held the flag high and followed closely behind!

Among the 4,000 cavalrymen standing quietly, the 1,000 most well-equipped armored cavalrymen urged their mounts and rushed forward at a faster speed.

Then came the remaining three thousand elite cavalry!
If you look down from mid-air, you will find a huge flag with the word "Jin" flying in the air, standing in the forefront, pulling the 4,000 cavalry into a sharp triangle with a sharp front end, a heavy back end, and a narrow middle, and stabbing straight towards the center of the Chu cavalry where the two huge flags with the words "Xiang" and "Chu" were fluttering.

It has to be said that Jin Xu is worthy of being the top cavalry general in the current Han army camp. When he found that his "Three-fold Wave" had been broken through one after another and he was defeated, and the Chu cavalry was still powerful and invincible, he immediately adjusted the battle formation and no longer sought to destroy the Chu cavalry. Instead, he turned the remaining 4,000 "Dinghai Shenzhen" into an arrow, aimed at the core position of the Chu cavalry and shot it, attempting to use the heart-cutting tactics to kill Xiang Yu, the King of Western Chu, in one fell swoop.

If this tactic can really succeed, there is no doubt that even if all 40,000 Han cavalrymen die in battle, it will be completely worth it!

Lü Ying was galloping backwards surrounded by four escort cavalrymen, but he did not run far before he became worried and turned his horse around and ran back. Ignoring the dissuasion of the escort cavalrymen, he climbed up the towering lookout tower, tilted his head, and looked at the final attack of the remaining 4,000 Han cavalrymen with a nervous and hopeful look on his face.

The triangular cone formed by 4,000 cavalrymen was halfway through the charge. As Lu Ying, who was watching the battle nervously, felt his heart sink, the Chu cavalrymen responded quickly. Two cavalrymen with over a thousand cavalrymen were sent out on the left and right sides. With thunder and lightning rolling and dust flying, they were like two razor-sharp swords that could sweep across thousands of troops, slashing diagonally at the thick bottom of the triangular cone!

The two cavalry troops were so fast that they arrived first after starting later and slashed hard on the butt of the triangular cone. The triangular cone only lasted for a few seconds before being chopped into the array by two huge swords very smoothly. Then the thickest part of the triangular cone collapsed at one go and turned into a mess, which was smeared randomly on the flat and vast gray-yellow wilderness, and then was quickly eliminated and swallowed up by the Chu cavalry!
Looking at this tragic scene, Lu Ying clenched his fists, trembled all over, and his heart was as cold as ice.

With his last hope, he cast his eyes towards the tip of the triangular cone!

If the general could really create a miracle and really give Xiang Ji to...

As Lu Ying watched, the sharp corner of the triangular cone, containing an indomitable determination, pressed heavily against the core of the Chu cavalry column!

Directly opposite the pointed cone were the two huge flags of "Chu" and "Xiang" flying straight in the wind!
Time seems to have stopped at this moment!

The entire battlefield seemed to have fallen silent!

All the sounds disappeared!
The sharp corner of the triangular cone paused there for a moment, and then suddenly exploded!
A tall and majestic figure like a demon god, wielding a halberd, swept around wildly like a giant dragon rolling in the raging sea, invincible, smashing the sharp corners of the triangular cone into pieces and turning them into powder!

The flagpole of the big flag with the word "Jin" on it broke at some point, and the huge flag fluttered and fell weakly from the air!

Lu Ying's eyes were red, and he let out a grief-stricken roar. He staggered down from the lookout tower, jumped onto his horse, and, under the escort of the cavalry, galloped towards the rear.

Two strings of crystal water drops, hopelessly and powerlessly thrown into the bleak autumn wind...

The last 4,000 "stabilizing forces" of the Han cavalry were broken, and the road ahead was smooth all the way to the Han infantry formation, with no cavalry blocking the way.

As we all know, without the protection of the cavalry, the infantry is like a flock of sheep without the protection of a fierce sheepdog. Facing the cavalry, they can only be trampled and slaughtered!

The Chu cavalry was undoubtedly very clear about this. They raised their weapons, shouted and cheered, and followed the two flags of "Chu" and "Xiang" held high and rushed forward at a rapid speed. The Overlord, who was riding his black horse and rushing in front, galloped a short distance before suddenly reining in his black horse. His fierce face became extremely solemn!

Ahead, on the vast plain, a row of huge, black, heavy and sturdy chevaux de frise stood across the area.

The spikes were sharp and sharp enough to completely penetrate the charging cavalry, both the man and the horse. They were pointed straight outward, which was frightening! No matter how violent the impact was, it seemed that it could be crushed in one fell swoop!
Behind the barricades, there were archers, spearmen, shieldmen, heavy swordmen... teams of Han infantry in distinctive armor, waiting in full battle array. Obviously, even if they knocked open the barricades and rushed into them, they would still face the crazy attacks and siege of the Han infantry.

What is even more despairing and terrifying is that, when you look closely, behind this row of chevaux de frise, there are as many as seven or eight rows.

No matter how brave and fierce the Chu army is, they will have to pay a heavy price to break through these eight or nine rows of cavalry and infantry formations!

No wonder the 40,000 Han cavalry under the command of Jin Xu charged forward with all their might. No one would retreat unless they died in battle, even if they surrendered. It turned out that they had no way to retreat!
Xiang Zhuang rushed to Xiang Yu's side and looked at the three large flags of "Han", "Liu" and "Han" flying high behind the nine cavalry formations. He shouted anxiously: "My king, Han Xin first charged with cavalry and now he is setting up cavalry formations. This is clearly a war of attrition, trying to wear out our central army here!"

"He's dreaming! Let Zhongli Mei lead the infantry to charge at full speed and attack the cavalry formation." Xiang Yu snorted coldly and made a decision in an instant. The cavalry formation can effectively block the cavalry's charge and consume a huge amount of cavalry, but facing the same type of infantry, the advantage is not that great.

Xiang Yu left Xiang Guan and 10,000 cavalry to cooperate with the infantry and continued to advance in the middle. He turned his horse's head and led the 10,000 cavalry to turn eastward diagonally, bypass the east side of the Han army's cavalry-barrier formation, and rushed towards the Han army's rear camp.

Zhongli Mei commanded his Chu infantry to happily clean up the battlefield in the back. After receiving the military order, they sent some of the captured horses and Han soldiers back to Gaixia City, and the rest hurried over.

After arriving, at his command, the Chu infantry began to attack, engaging in close combat with the Han infantry and engaging in a fierce battle, while dragging away the chevaux de frise or directly chopping them up and destroying them.

Xiang Guan was overjoyed. He led the Chu cavalry to charge into the barricade, galloping and trampling on the Han infantry, breaking up the Han infantry formation. He then allowed the Chu infantry to surround and devour them bite by bite.

To deal with this kind of chevaux-de-frise defense, it is necessary for the cavalry and infantry to cooperate with each other to exert the maximum destructive power and lethality.

Of course, charging forward step by step in this way, breaking through one line of defense after another, without any fancy moves, the speed could not be increased no matter what.

Xiang Yu led 10,000 cavalrymen around the rear camp of the Han army. What appeared in front of them was a defensive array with six chevaux-de-frise formations. The entire Han army camp was built into a large hedgehog-shaped defensive fortress.

If you can't take it by trickery, you have to use force.

Xiang Yu suppressed his anxiety, calmed himself, and swung his halberd in the air several times. The horn then sounded, and three thousand of the ten thousand cavalrymen, including light cavalry, dismounted from their horses, held their spears high, and rushed forward, fighting with the infantry of the Han army's chevaux de frise formation. They attacked the chevaux de frise line with great effort, trying to open a gap and allow their own cavalry to break in.

The rest of the cavalry, in teams of 1,000, galloped to the front of the battle formation and poured wave after wave of arrows into the chevaux-de-frise formation, shooting the Han infantry who were protected by the chevaux-de-frise and making them howl in pain, thus assisting the attack.

Almost in an instant, the fighting on the battlefield reached a fever pitch!

Both the Han and Chu armies were well aware of the importance of this battle, so neither of them retreated and gave their all.

The entire barricade had completely turned into a meat grinder. In the battle for the entire barricade, large numbers of Han and Chu soldiers died tragically! Weapons flashed and flew, arrows shot in the air, the loess drank up the blood, and corpses and body parts were scattered all over the ground, showing the cruelty of war vividly.

Xiang Yu looked up at the three large flags of "Han", "Liu" and "Han" flying in the Hanzhong army, and frowned.

He had fought with Han Xin several times, but today Han Xin gave him a very strange feeling, being rigid and inflexible everywhere. Whether it was the charge of 40,000 cavalry or the current complete defense of the formation, it was completely different from his previous meticulous and often unexpected mysterious and flexible use of troops!

When the 3,000 Chu troops, who had transformed themselves into infantry, defeated the Han infantry and pushed aside the barricades, a gap was created. Then, with a tiger's roar, Xiang Yu led his cavalry to rush in through the gap.

Xiang Yu rode his horse forward wildly, the halberd in his hand like an angry python, gathering power like thunder, rolling around, and sweeping across.

Faced with his supreme divine power, the Han troops he encountered were vulnerable and were either swept down, leaving wailing all over the field; or were smashed into the sky and crashed into the rear ranks like a cannonball, causing chaos.

Just as Xiang Yu was charging forward at full speed, his horse suddenly stumbled, as if it had tripped over something, and he almost fell down. Fortunately, the horse was extremely majestic, and it lifted its two front legs and leaped into the air, standing firm. Xiang Yu had the stirrups to gain leverage, and thus avoided being thrown off the horse!

The Chu cavalry surrounding him were not so lucky. Amidst the loud noises of "boom" and "boom", they fell heavily one after another. For a moment, dust flew up, the horses wailed, and the soldiers were so dizzy that they could not get up...

Xiang Yu looked down and saw that there were many trip wires scattered on the ground behind the chevaux-de-frise formation. The Chu cavalry, who were caught off guard and charging forward with all their might, suffered a great loss!

Xiang Yu shouted loudly, anger rising in his heart.

This lasso was the one that Xiang Chang used when he ambushed and killed Guan Ying and five thousand Han cavalrymen in Gaixia City. Han Xin learned it and now used it on the Chu cavalrymen!

With tripwires below, the cavalry's advantage in mobility and flexibility was offset. In addition, with the densely packed infantry surrounding them from all sides, the 10,000-strong army led by Xiang Yu was like a beast stuck in a quagmire. They tried their best to charge left and right, but were unable to break through in a short period of time.

Fortunately, this cavalry was led by Xiang Yu himself. Under his skillful command, they burst out with terrifying fighting power. The Han army camp used chevaux de frise and lassoes and defended as tightly as a hedgehog, but they were still defeated!

(End of this chapter)