Chapter Eighty-Six: Filling the Pit
I have to say that what Zuo Daduwei said makes sense, but this Jian yì is very lacking in virtue, at least for King Huqiang and their subordinates.
Everyone knows that the impact on this formation will require huge casualties. Now Captain Zuo Dadu said lightly, and threw this task of sending him to death to King Huqiang. This made King Huqiang's face flush with a sudden rise, and his hand was on the handle of the knife. If someone hadn't stopped him, I'm afraid he would have pulled out his knife and killed Captain Zuo immediately.
Captain Zuo was not ambiguous, and the guards beside him immediately blocked in front of him, ready to protect his master at any time. The guards on both sides immediately became tense, if it weren't for Da Dan Yu here, I am afraid that the white knife would have gone in and the red knife came out.
"What, the enemy hasn't been defeated yet. You have to fire first and not succeed. ”
The reprimand of the military minister Shan Yu made the two of them immediately honest, but the eyes that looked at each other were still not good.
"Report, big order. Behind us there is a large force of enemies, and they have blocked our path. A scout appeared at this time, and his report surprised everyone.
The back road was actually copied. This news shocked everyone, and the military minister Shan Yu walked in front of the scout in two steps.
"What did you say?"
"Back to Da Danyu, the road we came here was blocked by a large number of soldiers. They set up a lot of horses to resist, and they sprinkled those triangular nails on the road. Several of our brothers who inquired were killed. ”
"Fooled!" The military minister Shan Yu shouted out the words that countless people had shouted before, and there will be countless people shouting in the future.
Conspiracy, successive raids on the camp. Several times of temptation. All in order to besiege the 70,000 Xiongnu army here. It seems that the Han people have a great appetite, and they want to kill the essence of the Great Huns in one fell swoop.
The military ministers were angry with the departure, and only the Great Huns besieged others. There has never been a matter of the Great Huns' army being besieged by others.
A large encirclement more than ten miles long and six or seven miles wide. The Han people did not have so many troops to defend, and King Huqiang's Jianyì was right. Send men with shields to fill in the pits and remove obstacles. Only by breaking through the defense line of the Han people can you rush out.
"Captain Zuo, King Huqiang. Each of you will clear the obstacle with your own men, and you will be required to complete it before sunrise to-morrow. Tomorrow when the sun rises, we will launch a general attack. If you can't finish it then. Then the only way is for you to take the lead and fill in those traps. Consume those triangular spikes. ”
Da Dan was very fair this time, and divided the task between the two. Half of the family, no one can run.
Yun Xiao on the top of the mountain looked nervously at the situation in the valley, and a group of Hun nobles pointed at the front of the queue. Tsunami estimation. The guy in the gorgeous armor must be Da Shan Yu. I didn't expect to catch such a big piece of goods in this net. If you really captured the Huns alive, Da Danyu. That's a lot of sense.
However, the subsequent actions of the Huns quickly made Yun Xiao nervous. Two groups of Hun soldiers rushed out of the military array. They held protective shields and blades in their hands. But instead of riding a horse, he walked to the front on foot, and actually took the blade in his hand and began to dig in the earth.
"Not good. They are going to fill in the pits. Yun Xiao's heart sank, how could he not know the Achilles heel of the car formation. Defending this formation depends entirely on these pits, as well as countless triangular nails. Now they are starting to fill the pit, and if they are allowed to fill the pit, then it will be the turn of the triangular nails.
These obstacles have been removed, so that's a piece of. The thin formation of cars could not even withstand a round of charge.
"Order Canghu Dai Yu to bring a thousand people each, and bring a three-bow bed crossbow to stop these people." Yun Xiao hurriedly shouted.
Yun Xiao's order was quickly passed down, and Dai Yu and Canghu each brought a thousand guards. The four-wheeled carriage pulled a three-bow bed crossbow and hurried forward.
The distance of the pit is a bit far. It stretched a thousand paces away. This distance is a bit of a sigh for the iron-tired crossbow, and the three-bow bed crossbow can only fire javelins. The maximum range of a gunpowder crossbow is 800 paces, which is not enough to reach at such a long distance.
The four-wheeled carriage was reversed, and twenty three-bow bed crossbows were lined up. The groom skillfully lowered the brake, and the sound of the squeaking and twisting of the crossbow strings came to mind.
Today's weather is very good, and there is not even a hint of wind in the calm valley. There was a little bit of heat, but that didn't affect the three-bow bed crossbow.
"Whoosh" The first javelin-like crossbow arrow was fired. There was a terrible scream in the distance, and most of the Huns' protective shields were wooden. In the face of strong mechanical force, it is simply a scum-like storage zài.
A Hun soldier who was squatting on the ground and filling in the pit was nailed to the ground with a shield. The two-finger-thick javelin pierced his stomach, and the creature screamed like a bobcat with its tail chopped off. The two Hun soldiers next to him hurriedly rushed over to help him pull out the javelin. Drag him backwards.
King Huqiang looked at the wound of the Hun soldier and shook his head helplessly. Such a thick javelin pierced the stomach, although it was not enough to die for a while. However, this guy will soon die of a high fever, and his purulent stomach will continue to flow foul-smelling yellow water. He won't let him go until he has endured the last bit of pain in the world. When he died, his internal organs were rotten. Even when someone is alive, the wound is already crawling with maggots.
"Forget it, give him a good time. Don't let him suffer that sin. King Huqiang ordered helplessly.
The Han people had this kind of crossbow arrows with a super long range, and King Huqiang knew about it. As early as when he was under Wuwei City, he had seen the power of this thing. At this time, the Han army sacrificed such a magic weapon, which somewhat caught him off guard.
Soon, more and more people were carrying it back. At a distance of 1,000 paces, sometimes you can even hear the "whining" sound of crossbow arrows. After each sound, a Hun soldier was nailed to the ground.
The wooden shield was simply an ornament in front of this thing, and it did not even play a minimum of protective effect. It only took a dozen steps to fill the pit, and there were already 100 casualties. At this rate, there will be no more than five or six thousand people to fill the five or six hundred steps of the pit.
But if these pits are not filled, 70,000 Huns will have to fill them. King Huqiang gritted his teeth and ordered his subordinates to go forward and follow him, even if he fought hard, he had to fill these pits.
Zuo Daduwei faced the same pain as King Huqiang. Opposite him were also ten three-bow bed crossbows, firing deadly javelins.
The shooters of the Yun family are all old shooters, because these people are at the back of the military formation. So many of them have been in this position for six or seven years, and the boring training has borne fruit today. Because the Hun soldiers had to constantly dig and fill in the pits, this was a fixed target for them. For such a target, if a thousand steps miss the target, the robes will laugh for a long time, and their food standards will be lowered.
The two great nobles of the Huns gritted their teeth and began to fill these damn little holes at the risk of huge casualties. Almost every time they took a step forward, a dozen Hun soldiers fell, and in the end, some of the brave men simply threw off their shields. I hope to use my limited life to dig a little more soil and fill an extra hole.
The successive succession of the Hun men made King Huqiang cry. The corpses in front of him were more and more placed. A group of 100 people has actually placed nearly ten lines. The javelins that were pulled out were piled up in a big pile. Almost every javelin represents the life of a Hun warrior.
After a "boom" sound, King Huqiang's eyes widened in surprise. The green smoke had not yet dissipated, and the four or five Hun men on the ground had not moved. Two or three others were screaming and rolling.
The sound of "boom" was endless, and clouds of green smoke continued to rise in the ranks of the Hun men. After every wisp of green smoke. There were several Huns lying on their stomachs. There were also the painful wails of their comrades who had been injured by the explosion.
Originally. Unconsciously. The Huns had already filled the distance of 200 paces with their lives. Gunpowder crossbows can already come in handy. The violent explosion carried flying shrapnel and inflicted huge casualties on the Huns.
King Huqiang looked at a shield embedded with shrapnel and wanted to cry without tears, and there were still more than four hundred steps away. How many lives are needed to fill it. The javelin at the beginning can only hurt one person at once, but this thing is a face kill. No one in the vicinity of a radius of two or three zhang could not escape. A single explosion represented the casualties of four or five Huns.
I can't fill it, and I'm afraid these traps will be filled if it continues like this. There aren't many of the 70,000 people left.
King Huqiang hurriedly rushed to Da Danyu's Chinese army, and he absolutely couldn't go on like this. I had to find another way, and King Huqiang, who came in a hurry, saw an old acquaintance, Captain Zuo.
His men were not having a good time, although he was slightly slower than King Huqiang. But the number of casualties was definitely no less than that of King Huqiang, and the old fellow knew it when the first explosion sounded. Filling it in this way is the rhythm of absolutely filling in the Hun soldiers and generals.
The two old enemies surprisingly didn't have a quarrel when they met, but just glanced at each other and entered Da Shan Yu's Chinese military tent.
Unexpectedly, Da Shan Yu was even more bored than them, and he ordered King Huqiang and Zuo Dadu Lieutenant to open the way in front. I want to take someone to the back to see if the front road is not successful, whether I can kill a bloody way out from the back.
As a result, as soon as the group approached the valley mouth, they were smashed by a stone and a falling flower in the sky. Although Da Danyu was surrounded by the guards, he still had a stone on his head that bounced off his shield.
Fortunately, he had a helmet with him, so he didn't get smashed and his head was bleeding. However, a large bag smashed out of his forehead embarrassed him very much.
"Da Shan Yu, the kind of thing that the Han people use that explodes. The brothers suffered heavy casualties, and Da Danyu could not go on like this. Even if you fill everyone in, I'm afraid you won't be able to fill those small holes. What's more, there are those triangular nails. ”
Captain Zuo was the first to speak, after all, his subordinates suffered heavy casualties.
The military minister Shan Yu did not speak, but looked at King Huqiang.
"Da Danyu, Captain Zuo is right. There's really no way, that kind of thing that can explode is too powerful. Our department has already suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and there is no way to continue filling in. ”
"It doesn't work, it doesn't work either. Could it be that we can't do anything and wait here to die? ”
The enraged military minister Shan Yu was finally angry.
"I don't care what method you use, you must clear the way ahead for me before dawn tomorrow. Otherwise, we'll all have to die here. Roll ......"
"Big order is ......"
Captain Zuo had to say that the guards on the left and right had already set him up and dragged him out. King Huqiang had no choice but to sigh and salute his chest with his hand, and then retreated.
Outside the big tent, the two people looked at each other and shook their heads and smiled bitterly. The military ministers in the big tent were like a grumpy lion, and the big tent was irritable and beating something that could be seen.
No one dared to come forward to persuade the enraged lion, and God knows what he would do in his extreme irritability. Out of control for a while, killing a few people is like a joke for him.
Yun Xiao watched the Huns withdraw from the battle, and his heart was much happier. The rate of ammunition consumption is staggering, and in just one afternoon, it actually consumes forty percent of the accompanying car.
At this rate, it is a question of whether it will last until tomorrow. However, if it really hits until tomorrow, Yun Xiao will order to change the defense and improve the attack. Because by that time, the numerical superiority of the Huns had been almost weakened. And after a series of blows, morale will definitely be very low.
The sunset at dusk reflects the sky red, and the sunset from the top of the mountain is exceptionally beautiful. Yun Xiao stood at the top of the hill and looked at the Huns who rushed over again. Shaking his head helplessly, he dug another hundred steps. They will face the blow of 2,000 iron-tired crossbows, and the casualties will be even more heavy for them.
What's even more desperate is that the moonlight is getting better and better these days. The crescent moon changed from a sickle to a moon, and there were still no clouds in the sky. It looks like the moon will be bright tonight, and the killers won't even have to throw burning wooden blocks.
More than a dozen carriages were driven out, and the Huns frantically filled the pit with their lives. The distance is getting closer and closer, and now it is in the position of the trebuchet projectile.
The sound of a creaking winch sounded, and seven or eight fist-sized stones were loaded onto the trebuchet. This thing is also a blow to the surface, if it weren't for the fear of excessive ammunition consumption. Now it should be filled with a lit grenade.
The stone rain made the Hun soldiers suffer enough, and now they have suffered in all directions. Even the top of the head is no longer safe, and not every Hun soldier has an iron helmet to wear.
The casualties were increasing exponentially, and more and more corpses were placed next to the team. It's getting bloodier, and the guy who was shot by the spear at the beginning can finally keep a whole corpse.
But those who were killed by the bombing, and those who were stoned to death, were not so lucky. The guy who was killed by the explosion was covered in holes with shrapnel, and it was not clear which one was fatal. Those who were stoned to death were lucky, and those who were stoned were thrown aside and ignored at all.
The entire forward battalion was filled with the smell of death, and everyone was already dead before rushing to the pit. (To be continued......)