Chapter 54: The First Battle
Wei Fang was wrapped in a scarf, and this thing now has one for each person in the entire Yun Family Army. Yun Yue said a famous theory, as long as you can keep your neck from being cold, your body will definitely not be cold. Scarves are a good thing, and since the cold of the Northland seems to be able to do anything to themselves.
The Yun family's army is perhaps the most peculiar army in the world, and Wei Fang has felt the difference here since he came here. Those bearded sword knights from Zhao Guo, without wearing robes, the upper and lower clothes were separated. It's just that on the very outside, wearing a one-piece coat.
There is also a piece of such a dress, which was personally tailored for him by the aunt of the Yun family. It is very tight on the body, as if another layer of skin is wrapped around the body. Although it is not very thick, it is also a common linen cloth. But it was much warmer than the thick and bulky winter clothes of the Qin people, and Wei Fang, who had studied the art of war all his life, couldn't figure out the reason.
The longer you stay in the Yun family, the more you find that you don't have enough knowledge for decades. It's like a glove wrapped around your hand, and each finger is separated. In winter, the general holding the bronze sword handle is simply torture, not in the Yun family. Because each of the knights of the swords had a pair of gloves with their fingers parted, there was no obstacle to raising the sword and prancing horses.
What surprised Wei Fang the most was Yun Yue's thing called a telescope, and it was the first time she learned Yun Yue to hold that thing up in front of her eyes. was frightened by the bearded Qiqi, and with a trembling hand, he threw away the binoculars. Fortunately, the big bolt jumped like a husky, so it didn't break this treasure of the world. The old man who understood it was flushed, and he couldn't figure out why the person hundreds of steps away was following in front of him.
Now Yun Yue is looking at the lonely Pingliang City in the cold wind with a telescope, and there are corpses everywhere on the city. The black marks on the mottled city walls are shocking, and the two gates are gone. Pingliang City opened its black hole and big mouth. It seems to be a giant beast ready to devour the living at any time.
Bands of Hun cavalry rushed out of the city gates. They didn't go to Yiqu-kun's trouble, but ran headlong into themselves. It can be seen that they see that their infantry is easy to bully.
"Arrays are arranged along the high slope ahead, with halberd soldiers and shields in the front, and crossbowmen in the back. The knight of the sword is on the left wing, and the baggage cart is the ...... on the right wing! Orders kept coming out of Yun Yue's mouth, and Wei Fang and Yu Lao looked at each other silently. There is only one commander in the army, and if you order more than one of them, it is fatal to any army.
Yun Yue's formation was very strange, and Wei Fang dared to be sure that no commander would set up the formation like this. The crossbowmen who were supposed to be standing in the front row. But he stood last. In this way, wouldn't the crossbow fired be the first to shoot at one's own people?
"Uh......" The old fisherman wanted to step forward to persuade him, but he was pulled by Wei Fang's sleeve. The goatee just raised forward, and the old fisherman looked at it and then lifted it. A smile and a nod of gratitude were a gesture of gratitude.
Three wooden carts were pushed in front of the crossbowmen, and when Wei Yizi saw this thing, he knew that the Huns were more than lucky. The army led by Yun Yue may be the army with the highest artisan retention rate in this era. The combat team of more than 5,000 people was accompanied by six or seven hundred craftsmen. Together with the miscellaneous servants who were responsible for driving the carriages, there were more than 1,000 people.
This bed crossbow is the result of the painstaking efforts of craftsmen along the way. The bed crossbow is controlled by three people. On weekdays, it is dragged by two horses. The huge crossbow arm was eight feet long, and the thick crossbow string pulled up on its own without moving. I don't know what Yun Yue thinks. I actually made a huge winch out. As long as one keeps shaking the rocker arm, he can pull the crossbow string back.
With a single blow of the sledgehammer, the five-foot-long javelin-like bolts will fly out. Wei Fang saw with his own eyes that the half-foot-thick hardwood target eight hundred steps away was pierced with a bang. If this thing was shot on a person, Wei Fang couldn't imagine it when he closed his eyes.
The thing on the side was even more of a cavalry nemesis, with a wooden box on top of the chain containing an eight-inch tailless crossbow bolt. As long as you keep hooking the hook, you will shoot thirty crossbow arrows in a row. Although the range is only 100 paces, the lethality of large-scale cavalry is amazing.
The Hun cavalry went out of the city, but only a slight group rushed over like a torrent. No slogans, no mobilization. Some only had the roar of war horses and the howl of wild beasts, and the fangs were a little discolored. Among the Warring States princes, they had never seen so many elite cavalry. Actually holding the reins in one hand, he clamped the war horse under the crotch purely with his legs (there are no stirrups!). )。
The earth trembled, and the snow foam raised by the four hooves of the war horse had turned into a cloud of snow mist and noise.
"Throw the triangular nails!" Yun Yue's face turned red, she had seen such a scene in computer games before. It's just that back then it was a virtual three-dimensional character, and now it's a living person with flesh and blood. Today, I'm going to experiment with whether the tactics of being invincible against computer people are effective.
The halberd soldiers in the front row threw out the five triangular nails issued in their hands with the greatest strength. Their captain warned them that the farther they left, the more likely they were to save their lives.
"Woo" three ripping linen sounds sounded first, and three thick javelins flew with a whistling roar towards the neighing torrent of horses.
At first, a Hun soldier only saw a black spot, and he didn't have time to react. He was pierced through the chest by a thick crossbow arrow, and his body was pulled backwards by the thick crossbow arrow and fell backwards. When the huge kinetic energy was exhausted, five Hun soldiers had already fallen off their horses through their chests. The rolling horses tradled mercilessly over them, turning into a mass of flesh before they could struggle.
The Hun warriors were not afraid of death, and they frantically urged the horses under their crotches. Only by pushing the speed of the war horse to the maximum can the powerful impact of the cavalry be reflected. Once the charge began, no one could stop them. Either he died, or the opponent's army was crushed. Tens of millions of enemy troops were scattered into birds and beasts, and became lambs to be hunted down and killed by themselves.
Although the bed crossbow has an amazing range and great power, it also has an Achilles' heel, that is, it is slightly slow to reload, and it can barely achieve three arrows in battle by relying on its ultra-long range. The operating crossbowman shook his swingarm desperately, trying to get one more chance to fire.
"Crossbowmen prepare! Put! "Three hundred steps, this is the most ideal shooting distance for the Qin crossbow. With the captain's roar, the sky darkened in an instant with a rain of arrows fired by three thousand crossbowmen. If the bed crossbow just now was a pre-dinner appetizer, then this saturated rain of arrows is a feast.
The rain of arrows rained down on the charging army, and countless Hun cavalry fell off their horses. The galloping horses lost control of their owners and began to flee in all directions. Some of the horses that had been shot were so frightened that they rushed into the spurs. The rear team was knocked over on their backs, and the Hun charging team was in disarray.
In the end, it is a nation that grew up on horseback since childhood, without the shouting of generals. The Hun soldiers tacitly avoided the frightened war horses, and the brief confusion was fleeting. The roaring team still rushed towards the Qin army's formation like a stream of iron, and they knew that they only needed to get closer to within one hundred and fifty steps. Their horse bows will be effective, relying on the rate of fire to completely suppress those Qin crossbows with a long reaction time.
But before they could react, another rain of arrows flew over. A large number of Hun soldiers fell off their horses, and Heifeng was completely stunned. Damn it, your crossbow bolts can't be fired in bursts.
Yun Yue smiled, the crossbow arrows were not fired in bursts. But who stipulates that you can't bring two crossbows to the battlefield?
Before coming to the Northland, Yun Yue asked Lu Buwei to report to King Zhuang Xiang for special approval. Yun Yue's team was fully equipped with twice as many Qin crossbows, and each crossbowman had two Qin crossbows. If it weren't for the limited number of crossbowmen who could travel together, Yun Yue even wanted them to bring three Qin crossbows.
"Rush!" Black Wind gritted his teeth, once the charge stopped, the consequences would be unimaginable. Even if they trample on each other, the casualties are not a small number. For the sake of today's plan, we can only rush upward. Unbeknownst to him, it was a decision that turned a big defeat into a fiasco.
The Hun knight raised his leather shield, although his mouth was still screaming. But their bodies were already as close to the horse's back as possible, and they knew that they were in front of the powerful Qin crossbow. The leather shields in their hands are like broken eggs, and the crossbow arrows will effortlessly pass through the leather shields and then pierce into their bodies with hatred.
Finally rushed to one hundred and fifty paces, which was the distance of most Hun cavalry cavalry with a cavalry bow. The Huns began to fight back, and wolf fangs began to fly towards the dense Qin army formation.
"Raise your shield!" The captain shouted, and the sword and shield hand who was next to the halberd soldier raised his shield horizontally with both hands. Protecting himself and the halberd soldier beside him, the sound of "bang" and "bang" on the shield kept coming. Wolf fangs were like nails nailed to the hardwood shield.
Feather arrows were very dense, and the Qin army began to suffer casualties. There were constant casualties in the military formation, muffled snorts one after another, and occasionally one or two screams and suppressed Shen Yin.
"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang" five crossbows began to make sounds, and eight-inch tailless crossbow arrows flew towards the Hun army rushing forward like cannons. The density seemed to have erected a wall of arrows in front of the Huns, and the few Hun soldiers and horses who rushed in front became a sieve.
Arrows pierced into the flesh like awls, and almost instantly at least a hundred Hun warriors were shot off their horses. Black Wind's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, what could this thing have such a fast rate of fire. If there are more of these things, will your own Hun cavalry still use to mix?
Soon something even stranger happened, and the Hun war horses that rushed to the front did not know why. Suddenly, I seemed to go crazy, and I jumped on the ground. It seems that the knight on the body has to be turned upside down, and some even kneel on the front leg on the spot and throw the person on the body out.
It's winter, and the ground is as hard as stone. At such high speeds, the consequences of intimate contact with Mother Earth are very serious. If you break your arm or leg, you will be light, and if you break your spine, you will be a high paraplegic. It's better to break your neck all of a sudden and become the object of remembrance by your descendants.
"Archer, shoot!" Fifty paces, no matter how soft the bow and arrow are, can also shoot those Hun knights who have fallen.
Blood flowers burst out in the eyes of the black wind, and the bloodshot eyes gradually turned red. (To be continued......)