Chapter 194 Don't bother to move on

"Woo Woo ......"

The sharp arrow broke through the air and roared, pulling out a graceful arc in the air, pouring down towards the car array, only to hear a soft sound of tuk tuk tuk, there were many more feathered arrows on the car on the ground, and the arrow shaft was still buzzing and shaking. This is a light arrow, which can shoot far away, but it is not very powerful, and it is okay to deal with soldiers who are not armored, but if the target is wearing iron armor or even bird hammer armor, it is useless at all. This round of arrows came quickly and quickly, and the momentum was terrifying, but the effect was not very good, and only a few people were injured. After shooting this round of light arrows.

A burst of shouting immediately sounded in the Tang army's chariot array, and a large number of Guanzhong accents shouted in Guanzhong's voice: "Control, control, control!" ”

However, the sound they made fell on the ears of the soldiers of Zheng Jun's Heluo Left Army, but it became: "Wind, wind, wind"!

It doesn't matter what the sound is, what matters is that a more poignant rain of arrows shoots towards Zheng Guoheluo's left army. The soldiers of the left army of Heluo did not shy bow down and drill behind the sword and shield soldiers. Using light arrows, they didn't expect to shoot how many people could be killed, and this round of rapid fire just wanted to lure the Tang Army to shoot with bows and arrows, just like the fire reconnaissance of later generations.

The soldiers of the Tang Army on the car formation did not disappoint the soldiers of the Zheng Army, and the palpitating sound of breaking the air sounded, and a burst of random arrows shot down dozens of people from Zheng Guoheluo's left army.

This kind of bow and arrow shooting, in fact, is like the hot weapon offensive and defensive warfare of later generations, don't look at the rain of arrows, you come and go very lively, but there are not a few casualties. Although the soldiers of the Zheng army did not have the protection of the chariot formation like the soldiers of the Tang army, they also had shields, so the casualties on both sides were limited, and the rain of arrows became more and more dense.

As soon as Li Shimin saw that Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie were holding the position on the river beach and holding each other with Zheng Guoheluo's left army, he immediately ordered: "Order Hou Junji to speed up the crossing of the river." ”

Li Shimin's biggest worry was that the Zheng army would block them on the river beach, although the car formation was nearly 500 steps away from the river beach, but this distance was actually too narrow, once the Zheng army blocked it here, this army would become a turtle with four feet facing the sky, unable to move, only to be chopped up, therefore, after the whole army crossed the river, it was necessary to break through the enemy's defense line as soon as possible and gain time to move.

Li Shimin is not a battlefield fledgling, to break the Zheng army's arrow array, or use hoplites or cavalry to raid, but it is a pity that the Tang army's middle base hoplites, as early as Wang Shiyun used the fire ox array to raid the Qutu Tong Department, the losses were exhausted, and the heavy armor iron cavalry was also wiped out in Longmen, in this case, if you want to break through the enemy's arrow array, you must use the bed crossbow under the command of Hou Junji.

Although the bed crossbow has a slow rate of fire, the six-foot crossbow can shoot three feet into even a rammed earthen wall, and no matter how strong the shield is, it can't block the fatal blow of the bed crossbow.

On the left flank of Qin Qiong's defense, several marksmen suddenly appeared in the crowd of arrows, holding crossbows, and shot over the personal soldiers beside Qin Qiong, and even the helmets of the personal soldiers were directly pierced, and blood was splashed.

Qin Qiong was furious: "Bow here!" ”

A personal soldier handed an iron tire bow to Qin Qiong, Qin Qiong's halberd can be said to be known to everyone, but few people know about his archery skills, because the people who have seen Qin Qiong use arrows are already dead.

"Damn it!" Qin Qiong burst into cheers.

An arrow was fired, and a Zheng Jun sharpshooter was hit by an arrow in the forehead and fell on his back screaming. Qin Qiong's arrows came out of a row, with the sound of the bowstring, the screams of Zheng Jun's archers came and went, and people kept falling down with arrows, as long as they raised their heads, Qin Qiong could use the bow and arrow to name them, and most of them were arrows in the head and chest, and they were seriously injured if they didn't die!

The generals of the Zheng army hurriedly shouted: "Release the arrows, release the arrows!" ”

It's just that Qin Qiong's bow tension is the same as that of the foot crossbow (kick Zhang crossbow), which is three stones. But the rate of fire is three or even five times that of a stumbling crossbow. However, although Qin Qiong suppressed more than a dozen archers with a bow and did not dare to raise his head, he did not have much change in the overall situation.

First of all, the crossbowmen of the left army of Zheng Jun Luohe, the crossbow in the hand of the flattening, indiscriminately aimed at the Tang army soldiers on the rear car array, a metal trill, crossbow arrows whistling, archers ten thousand arrows fired together, on the car array, the Tang army soldiers above the head of the arrow rain, sharp arrows and the shield wrapped in iron sheet collided, clanging, many shields like hedgehogs.

Cheng Zhijie was also in a hurry at this time, he could see that the shield had cracked, and once the shield was shattered, these arrow rains would cause a fatal blow to the Tang soldiers.

However, at this critical juncture. More than 40 bed ballistas under the command of Hou Junji arrived at the front line. At the urging of Hou Junji, the crossbowmen hurriedly adjusted the launch angle, and struggled to turn the ratchet to wind the bed crossbow.

"Bang ......"

The bed crossbowman holding the wooden hammer smashed the wooden hammer on the bracket of the bed crossbow. More than one hundred and twenty six-foot-long crossbow guns, like a flying wall, flew towards the shield array of Zheng Jun's Heluo Left Army with a soaring sound that tore through the air. These bed crossbowmen, without looking at the result, hurriedly loaded the ballista after firing.

Zheng Jun's shield, which made Qin Qiong helpless, shattered the first time it touched the arrow, and the thick crossbow spear shot through the shield, shot through the body of Zheng Jun's Heluo Left Army, and then pierced out of the soldier's body, and then consumed his kinetic energy on the body of other soldiers.

As mentioned earlier, the crossbow of the bed crossbow, flattened and crescent-shaped, hits the human body, and no matter how strong the armor is, it is as fragile as papier-mâché. The soldiers of the Zheng army who were hit by the ballista died in a very miserable state, or cut open the chest cavity, so that the internal organs and intestines flowed out of the stomach, and when they touched the arms, the arms fell off, and the legs and legs were broken, and they were hit on the head and the head blossomed, and they hit the stomach...... The miserable situation of the stomach flying around, if it doesn't scare the partners around them to death, it can also scare them half to death!

More than forty bed crossbows fired a salvo, and one hundred and twenty crossbow guns flew out, piercing a bloody alley in the middle of the shield array of Zheng Jun's Heluo Left Army. At this moment, the soldiers of the Heluo Left Army finally couldn't hold it anymore, and threw down the dead bodies and fled backwards.

Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led three thousand elites to kill out of the car formation, chasing these defeated Zheng Jun Heluo Left Army soldiers and slashing hard, the horse lance in Cheng Zhijie's hand waved like a windmill, and it was a piece of it in one sweep. Every time Cheng Zhijie put down one, the Tang cavalry put their heads on their spears and raised them high so that the soldiers behind them could see them. The soldiers in the back couldn't help cheering loudly when they saw the bloody heads being picked up, and their morale was high.

Zheng Jun is nothing remarkable, if you cut them, you will also be injured, and if you kill them, they will also die.

After such a thought arose in their hearts, the Tang soldiers, who were originally uneasy, were greatly offset by their fear of the enemy, and some soldiers rushed out of the car formation regardless of the officers' reprimands, and waved their knives at the Heluo soldiers who were hit by more than a dozen arrows and were struggling on the ground.

Li Shimin took the opportunity to order to advance at full speed, and be sure to break the defense line of the Zheng army in one fell swoop, and join forces with the troops of the eldest grandson Shunde. In this battle, the Tang army did not destroy many enemies, but the effect was not bad, at least the morale was raised, the soldiers of the whole army were high-spirited, and the chariots and horses of all arms gathered together indecently, advancing layer by layer.

The cavalry of the Zheng army immediately roared in all directions, firing arrows at the chariot formation, trying to contain the Tang army. The archers on the escort car formation immediately returned to color. You must know that the cavalry rides on a horse, because of the space, the bow arm of the cavalry bow is extremely short, of course, the tension is insufficient, the range of the cavalry bow and arrow, in fact, is within fifty steps, while the infantry bow and arrow because of the long bow arm, the tension is enough, the range is long, in the archer on the cart and the cavalry's cavalry bow shooting, the cavalry must suffer. The Zheng army did not have many war horses, the cavalry was limited, and the Zheng army cavalry, who were afraid of bearing huge casualties, could only rely on small fights on the periphery, but this kind of small fights obviously could not stop the pace of the Tang army's advance.

If Zheng Jun's Heluo Left Army was not in a relatively tight formation, defeated but not chaotic, Li Shimin would definitely suspect that Zheng Jun had the purpose of luring the enemy into depth, but these soldiers of Heluo Left Army, with archers, retreated, and fired arrows at the pursuing Tang Army soldiers from time to time, forcing the Tang soldiers not to chase too close.

Unconsciously, these soldiers of the left army of Heluo, according to Wang Shichong's plan, retreated in the direction of Tanlong Valley, killing the red-eyed Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie, eager to kill all these Zheng army soldiers, these Zheng army archers ran fast not to mention, and while running, they released arrows to the back, and the arrows were shot according to the faces of the Tang army soldiers, and the arrows bit the flesh!

At this time, there is no bulletproof mask, as long as you are hit by an arrow, you will be either killed or injured. Continuing to chase is tantamount to using his face to stop the arrows shot by the soldiers of the Zheng army, there will be no good fruit to eat, he ordered to stop the pursuit, count the casualties, and was startled, just five or six miles away, there are no five or six hundred people!

"It's all fucking a bad seed!" Cheng Zhijie scolded indignantly.

He and Qin Qiong invariably withdrew their troops.

Li Shimin disagreed, and ordered to ignore these officers and soldiers of the Heluo Left Army, and seize the time to join forces with the troops of the eldest grandson Shunde. However, at this time, Lei Yongji said to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness King Qin, see Wang Shichong!" ”

"Wang Shichong?" Li Shimin's face sank, at this time, Li Shimin was not the later Emperor Taizongwen, he was still young, hot-blooded, and a person with clear love and hate. Hearing Wang Shichong's name, a flush immediately appeared on his face.

"Where is Wang Shichong, how many people are around him?" Li Shimin secretly thought in his heart that if Wang Shichong was left alone, he wouldn't mind killing Wang Shichong first, and then going to join the eldest grandson Shunde.

Lei Yongji said: "How can there be five or six thousand men and horses, now Wang Shichong is retreating towards Longtan Valley under the support of the rout!" ”

"Wang Shichong, a thief!" Li Shimin secretly scolded in his heart, did he really take himself as a fool, the same strategy was actually used twice, the last time he led the troops to pretend to retreat, and now he is doing this again?

Li Shimin's face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and roared: "Don't pay attention to it, continue to march towards Hangu Pass!" ”