Chapter 1134: Night Attack (2)
Just as the great cannibals in the camp were sleeping soundly, the first battalion began to run, and a thousand cavalry ran like thunder in the quiet of the night, and the sound was extremely great. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The big food soldiers in the camp were quickly awakened, they could still distinguish the sound of horses' hooves and thunder, and soon rushed out of the camp with weapons in disheveled clothes, and lined up in a phalanx under the command of the generals to defend on the spot, and the soldiers stationed on the wall of the camp also reacted at this time, and a team of foot archers stood up and threw arrows into the darkness outside the wall under the command of the guards.
A quarter of an hour later, the general of the Great Food Army on the camp found that the enemy army had not appeared at all, there were only the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing in the darkness ahead, and not a single enemy had appeared, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to stop shooting arrows, but by this time the archers of the Great Food Army had already shot dozens of waves of arrows.
A Western Qin cavalry ran to Wei Gao and reported: "General, the Great Food Army has shot a total of thirty-six arrows, most of the arrows fell on the position of one hundred and forty zhang away from the wall, and more fell between one hundred and forty zhang to one hundred and thirty zhang. ”
Wei Gao calculated: "Three thousand people, one arrow is three thousand, thirty-six is ten thousand and eight hundred, if we make trouble a few more times, won't the arrows given to us by the big cannibal be enough for us for a long time?" ”
A subordinate general looked disgusted: "General, the quality of the big cannibal's arrows is very poor, compared with our arrows, it is not easy to use, the range is not up to the standard of our arrows, and the lethality is far inferior!" ”
Wei Gao said: "You are content, now we are in the territory of the enemy, the transportation is inconvenient, the logistics and transportation are very difficult, if our own arrows run out, these big cannibals can still give us an arrow!" By the way, didn't you say earlier that their rifle bow had a range of about one hundred and fifty paces? Why did most of the arrows land at a distance of one hundred and forty paces? ”
The general reminded: "General, the current wind direction is a headwind for the big cannibals, and it is already very good that their arrows can shoot so far!" ”
Wei Gao also reacted after being reminded, and he immediately thought of an idea, and said to his general: "You let the second battalion and the third battalion take turns to rush to a distance of one hundred and fifty paces to harass and shout to kill, and let's let the big cannibal send more arrows!" ”
The general wondered: "General, it's okay for us to do it once, but it's too many times, and the big cannibals are not so stupid, right, will they still send us arrows?" ”
Wei Gao waved his hand and said, "You just have to go, wait until they are not fooled!" Just go! But this time you can't just shout and kill, you also have to scream, and the worse the screaming, the better! ”
The general looked confused: "General, why is this?" ”
Wei Gao scolded: "I'm rubbing, why are you such a pig?" If you don't scream badly, don't let them know that it has a lethal effect, how can they continue to shoot arrows? ”
The general was scolded, scratched his cheeks and said, "That's right! The end will go! ”
The second assault began, and the general continued to charge with the second battalion, until he was about 150 paces away from the wall, and kept riding his horse back and forth.
The generals and soldiers of the Great Food on the wall of the wall began to get nervous again when they heard the movement, and the guards were worried that the Great Food Army would rush under the wall and break the wall, so they immediately ordered the arrows to be released. You must know that this walled wall is only made of wood, and many of them are made of beams and door panels, which are not very strong, if the Western Qin army has been prepared and forcibly impacted at the risk of casualties, this walled wall may not be able to block the impact of the cavalry of the Western Qin army.
The cavalry of the Western Qin Army, who was running back and forth, saw a large number of arrows shooting over, and began to scream loudly one by one, and a large number of screams made the big food guard general on the wall of the wall overjoyed when he heard it, and immediately ordered: "Hurry up and release the arrows, speed up and release the arrows, and shoot the Western Qin Army to death!" ”
The Great Food Army shot nearly thirty rounds of arrows, only heard a large number of screams, but never saw the figure of the Western Qin Army, the guards immediately reacted, and the heart was only afraid of being attacked by the Western Qin people again, and immediately ordered to stop firing the arrows.
Two successive attacks made Manhad unable to sit still in the camp, and he led his guards to the wall, and the wall guard saw Manhard coming, and immediately stepped forward to greet him: "Your Excellency, General, why are you here?" ”
"It's so lively outside, do you think I'll be able to stay still? What the hell is going on? What about the Western Qin Army? Manhard asked.
The guard general said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency General, I was deceived by the Western Qin army, they always waved their flags and shouted outside the range of our bows and arrows, we couldn't see them, I didn't know the specific distance and location, I was worried that they were close to the wall to attack, so I ordered the arrows to be released, until now, each of our soldiers has shot a pot of arrows, and only a spare pot is left!" ”
Manhard thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow night we must light some fires at the range of our bows and arrows for lighting, this time it was my mistake to not take this into account, this is not your fault!" Next, if the Western Qin army shouts again, you can't shoot arrows easily, you can only release arrows after seeing the enemy's figure, they just want to use this method to consume our arrows, we can't be fooled casually! ”
The guard promised: "Yes, Your Excellency! ”
Wei Gao saw the generals walking back with the soldiers holding bundles of arrows, and asked with a smile on his face, "How is it?" How many are there this time? ”
The general shook his head and said, "This time there are not as many as last time, there are only more than nine thousand!" ”
Wei Gao touched his chin, turned around a few times in his mind, and said to his general: "It's okay, next you take the three battalions to put arrows on the wall at a distance of one hundred and fifty steps, now it is a tailwind for us, the range of our bow and arrow will be greater than one hundred and fifty steps, and the bow and arrow of the big cannibal have a range of less than one hundred and forty steps because of the headwind, go and shoot them to death for me, let them know how powerful we are!" ”
When the general heard this, he immediately said excitedly: "Yes, general!" ”
Under the command of the general, the third battalion rode over again, and began to run back and forth at a distance of fifty steps, this time they did not just ride their horses back and forth, but galloped, and a large number of shouts of killing were mixed with the sound of bowstrings bouncing, and the arrows flew out into the sky and landed on the wall.
The arrows that fell from the sky suddenly fell on the soldiers of the Great Food Army on the wall like rain, and the screams came one after another, and they fell to the ground one by one.
Encountering a sudden rain of arrows, not to mention the wall guards, even Manhard was confused, several guards protected the two under the arrow tower with shields, but the arrow tower covered with thatch could not prevent the penetration of arrows at all, and the guards had to continue to put their shields on top of their heads to protect the two.
Manhard crouched in the tower and was furious: "How can this be? These are the Western Qin cavalry, their bows and arrows have a range similar to ours, they must be within range, quickly order the archers to counterattack, quickly counterattack! ”
The guard immediately ordered the big food archers hiding on the wall to shoot arrows at the Western Qin army outside, and the soldiers of the big food army couldn't see it anyway, so they could only shoot indiscriminately, and they didn't know if they were shooting at all, and the cavalry of the Western Qin army saw the big food army shooting arrows to this side, screaming for a while, and shouting for a while.
"It's working, they must have suffered casualties, they don't have as many people as us, keep shooting, shoot them!" When Manhard heard the screams of the Western Qin army, he immediately ordered to shout.
The soldiers of the Great Food Army on the wall of the wall were ordered to go to the room in the darkness where they could not be seen, despite heavy casualties.
"General, we're running out of arrows!"
"General, I'm done shooting my arrows!"
Many of the Great Eaters began to shout that the arrows were finished, and the guard crouched in the tower and looked at Manhard and asked, "Your Excellency, the soldiers are running out of arrows, what should we do now?" Can we only be beaten passively? There isn't much to hide on the wall, and if we go on like this, our archers will be killed! ”
Manhard thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said: "Quickly bring arrows from the other two walls, and shields from the camp to cover them, now let the soldiers resist them first, and stick to the walls, no one is allowed to escape, and if you find one, kill one, understand?" ”
The defender understands that once the walled wall is undefended, the Western Qin army will definitely find out, and when the time comes, rush over and occupy the wall, and then it will be all over!
"Yes, Your Excellency General, I will send someone to fetch arrows and a batch of shields!"
The shields and arrows were quickly transferred, and the casualties of the Great Food Army with shields were much less. Manhard has always wondered why the Western Qin Army has never appeared? What the hell are they doing?
Manhard, who was thinking, suddenly noticed that the flag on the arrow tower was waving constantly, and his heart moved, the wind was blowing from the opposite side? He immediately thought that the arrows fired in the headwind could not fly at the fixed range, and the range of the opponent's arrows could exceed the fixed range.
"Cunning, too cunning, cunning Han Chinese!" Manhard scolded, and then shouted, "Stop shooting, hide for me, hide!" ”
The soldiers of the Great Food Army were ordered to crouch down and cover their heads with shields, and the casualties were sharply reduced, but some unlucky ghosts were still shot in the thighs and feet.
"Stop!" The Western Qin army general discovered the abnormality on the wall, immediately ordered to stop firing arrows, and then returned with the soldiers.
"Why did you stop?" Wei Gao saw the general return with the third battalion and asked.
The general hugged his fists and said: "General, the Great Food Army has discovered the mystery, and has stopped firing arrows and hiding, it will be a waste for us to shoot arrows again!" ”
"So?" Wei Gao touched his nose, "It seems that this Manhard is not a straw bag, he has some ability!" ”
After thinking about it, Wei Gao immediately had another idea, and ordered: "Let the first battalion go out again, all dismount and hold shields with waist knives to form a tight shield formation and slowly approach the wall, once you arrive at the wall, you can drink and destroy the wall, if you can knock it down, it is best to destroy its structure, or tie it to the wood of the wall with a rope, and then let the soldiers behind pull it down!" Let the second battalion reach another hundred and fifty paces, and as long as the big cannibals on the wall show their heads, let the second battalion fire arrows and shoot them! ”
The general's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he gave a thumbs up; "The general's move is high, see how the big cannibal responds!"