Chapter 317

Those Xiongnu soldiers had long been terrified out of their wits.

At this very moment, they only wanted to flee!

But could they escape?

They could not escape!

Within a radius of twenty li, the entire area was filled with Han Xin's army!

Moreover, cannons were positioned in every direction!

No matter which way they ran, it was a dead end!

The most fatal threat was behind them!

Li Cunxiao was charging forward!

He wielded Yu Wang Su like a god of slaughter!

A single man had actually cut off everyone's retreat!

"Charge forward!"

"Charge forward!"

"If you charge forward, you might live; if you don't, you will die!"

At that moment, someone shouted!

Desperate for their lives, the crowd threw themselves into the fight!

One by one, they charged recklessly, one by one, they charged recklessly into the cannon fire.

However, they could not break through; they simply could not break through!

Just as they were about to reach within a hundred paces of Han Xin's main force!

Immediately, a dense hail of arrows rained down!

The Qin Army's arrows were already famous during the Warring States period!

Before reaching a city, they would first unleash countless crossbow bolts to scour the ground!

By now, Han Xin had pushed this tactic to its absolute limit!

Heavy crossbows and bows fired in volleys!

Every shower of arrows that flew out took countless lives with it!

At that moment, despair gripped almost everyone!

They looked at the massive army before them, then at Li Cunxiao behind them; everyone was utterly desperate!

How could they possibly escape!

There was truly no way to escape!

If they wanted to escape, they could only charge!

Thus... a suicide squad composed of tens of thousands was born!

They charged recklessly, rushing straight toward the weakest point of Han Xin's army!

The troops on that side were the fewest!

But...

Did fewer troops truly mean a weak point?

When they charged forward, they discovered the area was densely packed with pits!

Anyone who fell in would be met with countless sharp, barbed blades!

At this moment, wails and cries of agony never ceased!

Many met a gruesome death!

But... their numbers were vast; under their reckless charge and slaughter, they finally broke through!

However... they barely managed to reach the front of the Qin Army!

What awaited them were musketeers!

Boom, boom, boom!

Musket after musket fired!

All the soldiers died miserably!

In the distance, Wang Jian watched everything on the battlefield far away!

He was very satisfied with the outcome of this battle!

But... he did not dare to be careless!

Because... some troops had already charged within forty or fifty paces!

If they came ten paces closer, the heavy crossbows would be useless, and the cannons would be useless!

Only close-quarters combat would remain.

Close-quarters combat... meant people would die!

Wang Jian frowned!

But... Han Xin smiled and immediately began waving the flag in his hand:

"Form ranks!"

He shouted the command!

Instantly, a military formation composed of three thousand men appeared before the eyes of all the Xiongnu soldiers!

And there were fully thirty such formations!

They blocked the paths the Xiongnu soldiers needed to charge through, sealing them off completely!

Seeing the military formations, the Xiongnu soldiers were utterly stunned.

They could not understand at all what use this formation had!

Some reckless generals, giving up all caution, simply charged right in!

However... only by charging into the military formation did they realize the horror within!

Shield bearers, long-pole halberdiers, archers, and war chariots rampaged wildly inside the formation!

You simply could not know when soldiers would suddenly emerge from behind the shield bearers to strike!

Nor did you know at all when arrows would fly out to kill!

The heads of all the Xiongnu soldiers were dazed; the heads of the Xiongnu generals were even more dazed.

In their desperation, they actually began attacking the shield bearers, intent on killing!

But how sturdy were the shield bearers' shields?

And how could they possibly be broken so easily?

Just as they were charging and slaughtering the shield bearers, the military formation shifted!

Then, crossbow bolts rained down together, accompanied by long-pole halberd thrusts.

In less than half a shi, all sixty thousand-plus Xiongnu soldiers who had charged into the formation were dead!

Yet inside Han Xin's military formation, not a single person had died!

Let alone dying, not even a single injury!

This was the immense power of the military formation; without understanding its principles and arrangement, charging in was simply seeking death!

No matter how many people came, it was useless!

In the distance, Wang Jian watched all this from afar; he was shocked by the power of the formation, and even more shocked by Han Xin's command and combat abilities!

And this military formation!

It was truly terrifying without bound!

This truly lived up to the title of the Immortal of War that Ying Su often spoke of!

Using troops so ghost-like, it truly lived up to the title of the Immortal of War!

He could not stop praising!

At the same time, he looked with concern toward Li Yuanba's Ma Pi and asked Yueyue:

"How is it? Can it be cured?"

Yueyue said, "No problem; in two or three days, it will be fine!"

"That is good!"

Wang Jian let out a long sigh of relief!

If Ten Thousand Miles of Cloudy Sun had died, that would truly have been a massive loss!

And Li Yuanba was furious; bowing before Han Xin, he said, "Let me slaughter them all!"