Chapter 244: Crossbow Bolt to Crossbow Arrow
The drums of war were beaten again, and each beat of the drum made the hearts of the soldiers on both sides of the formation quicken, and they involuntarily quickened their breathing, and everyone's eyes were as good as possible to look at the enemy troops in front of them. As a basic officer such as a tun commander, he will pay attention to the hundred generals at any time, and the hundred generals who lead the 100-man team will look at the banner of the 1000-man team.
On the battlefield, once the fighting begins, the sound becomes noisy, so it is unreliable to rely on the voice to convey orders. Using a herald to convey an order does not apply if there is a delay. In the battle array, hundreds of general-level officers look at the banner and issue orders to their subordinates has become the most effective way to command, so each flag down can always make a thousand people lose command, and it has always been the most effective way to break up the enemy army by attacking and killing the flag bearer.
The enemy and us were already approaching three hundred paces, and the Qin army continued to pass out orders, the crossbowmen were finally checking the winding of the crossbow machine in their hands, and the soldiers who temporarily turned into shield-wielding spearmen were getting closer and closer, and the spearmen were in the third line position, slowly squatting down in the officer's command, and the spear in his hand was half-diagonally vertical to the sky.
Su Lie, who commanded the vine armor soldiers and the shield-wielding swordsmen, was also constantly sending orders, and the wind direction was favorable to the enemy army, and they would encounter the enemy's first round of long-range attacks, so it was necessary for the shielded soldiers to hurry up and erect the shield wall and hold the shield to build the shield top.
When the shield defense on the Nanjun side was being implemented, there was a sound of bangs in the Qin army's military array, and then like a dark cloud suddenly rising on the flat ground, dense arrows whistled and fired.
"Steady!" The hundred generals in each array were shouting this slogan, and for a moment the sound of arrows slapping against their shields continued to sound, and occasionally a few screams would come from the military formation, apparently an arrow shot through the gap in the shield.
The frequency of the crossbow machine was not fast, and after withstanding the first round of long-range shots from the Qin army, the sound of war drums turned into a rhythm of beats and beats, and the hundred generals shouted "Push!" Push! Push! The soldiers in the front line accepted the military order according to the rhythm and continued to advance.
Li Heng clearly saw that the first round of archery did not pose enough threat to the enemy. He believed what Shao Ai said, and almost every soldier in the enemy army had prepared shields, which offset the lethality of his own arrow array to the greatest extent. The torches and rockets he had just ordered were not ready, and the crossbowmen could only shoot arrows without fire for the time being.
When the second round of bangzi in the Qin army's formation was sounded, Su Lie once again ordered people to wave the military flag, and the hundred generals who were in charge of the most direct command of the soldiers were shouting again, "Steady!" Steady! Steady! The soldiers who formed the shield wall stopped, they clutched the shield in their hands, and the sharp sound of breaking the air was striking the shield again, and it was "click" for a while before it stopped.
Two advances. The distance between the enemy and us was shortened by about thirty paces, and Mei Kai saw that the enemy had entered the range of his crossbowmen and began to signal Su Lie.
Su Lie saw the signal from the military flag belonging to Mei Kai and knew that the counterattack was about to begin, but before that, he needed to let the Qin army conduct another round of long-range shooting, so he also sent the heralds around him to inform the military marquis.
This time, the herald will be sent because the instructions that the military flag can issue cannot be complicated, and the herald conveys to the military marquis that after the third round of long-range shooting of the Qin army, each thousand-man team needs to sprint for five breaths before immediately arranging the shield wall.
The Qin army, which had the advantage of the arrow array, was a little helpless to the Nanjun side to put on a turtle shell-like advance, Li Heng had already made up his mind to pay attention to the enemy army when it was close to two hundred and fifty paces, and began to order a slow retreat, and after the third round of shooting was issued, the enemy army was hit by the arrow array, but it broke out "Whew!" The chorus shouted. In an instant, the tortoise shell cracked open, and it was actually charging forward? He seemed surprised, and for a moment thought that the enemy was going to change his strategy and launch a hand-to-hand attack, and the order to slow down the whole army became that the crossbowmen were ready to fire freely, and the spearmen were ready to launch a counter-charge at any time.
When the melee class in front of them ran forward quickly, the two thousand crossbowmen led by Mei Li were ready to shoot. He personally rang the sound of the bang, and a rapid knock of "bang" made the seven hundred crossbowmen in the first order who had been prepared in their hearts pull the trigger for the first time, and they only felt that the crossbow machine in their hands was shocked, and they heard the direct subordinate hundred generals shouting, "Forward!" ".
Watch as the enemy ranks shoot into the air. Li Heng was actually not surprised, and he did not issue an order.
In fact, almost all of the officers of the Qin army survived a hundred battles, although they were demoralized by various events after they arrived in Nanjun. But the cloth means that they have lost their skills and experience in combat. After the enemy fired crossbow arrows, officers at all levels did not need to send a prompt from the main general, and the hundreds of generals who temporarily converted into shield-wielding spearmen shouted in unison, "Stand shields!" The 100 generals of the spearmen were roaring "Shake! The crossbowmen didn't see much panic either, but ducked behind the shields that had just been erected.
A strange sound of "buzzing and buzzing" suddenly sounded in the formation of the Qin army, which turned out to be the sound of wind and collision of the spear shafts as a large number of spearmen shook the six-meter spears in their hands.
The spears that shook in a large area looked dazzling, the crossbow arrows shot from the Nanjun side fell obliquely, and some crossbowmen in the front row of the Qin army who couldn't dodge let out a muffled snort and fell down, and the spearmen holding small round shields could only protect the vital points, and a large number of arrows in their hands and feet also kept wailing, only the crossbow arrows that fell in the shaking spear forest were slapped and lost their kinetic energy and could not cause damage.
Cao Shen had not even seen Lu Zhe in person since he came to Nanjun, he was assigned a position of commander of the long sword soldier with shield, leather armor and leather armor a month ago, and now he was in the fifth row of the 10,000 army array, and he was shouting for his soldiers to hurry up and erect the shield.
While in Peixian, Cao Shen had a reputation for martial arts, and when he entered the army of Nanjun, he was surprised to find that Wu Yong was not the key to promotion.
Whether it was the armed forces organized by Pei County itself, or the armies of Zhao, Wei, and Chu that had been running wild in Surabaya County, every armed force Cao had seen could obtain a high position as long as they were brave and brave. He once asked about the confusion in his heart about his direct 100 generals, and still remembered that the 100 generals said at that time, "A personal martial arts can be ten enemies, and a good command to swallow 50 people can achieve a hundred enemies or even more", he thought for a long time after listening to it before he understood the meaning of that sentence, and then he learned the words and tactics whenever he had the opportunity.
Only by learning more knowledge can it be possible to be promoted to a high position, and no matter how brave a person is, it is already the end of the five hundred masters, which is the open common sense in the Nanjun army.
originally thought that Cao Shen, who came to see Lu Zhe and would be reused, found that it did not match his thoughts, but afterwards he already knew that it was already Lu Zhe who could become the head of the tun, and he felt that since Lu Zhe had recruited thousands of miles away, his future would definitely not be bad, provided that he had enough knowledge, and he would seize every opportunity to let himself absorb nutrients.
At present, Cao Shen is constantly commanding the soldiers under the command of the hundred generals directly under him, and he executes it very strictly, and he will immediately correct it if he finds a loophole in the shield wall.
After reforming the shield wall, the entire array resumed its maneuver to push forward, and it took about fifteen breaths above their heads for a wave of arrows to roar forward from behind, and one wave after another made Cao Shen see through the gap in the shield wall that the Qin army in front of him was constantly falling.
Understood, Cao Shen really understood a little, in the fight of tens of thousands of people, personal martial arts can kill a dozen or so enemy soldiers, but there is always a time of exhaustion, only by commanding an army can you kill more enemy troops, this is the way to establish a man's immortal merits.
Sima Xin, who was on top of the nest car in the Qin military camp, also understood that Shao Ai was right, the troops under Lu Zhe were simply a turtle, and a turtle that could spit spit, not only was it very exaggerated to emphasize defense but also understood the essence of the Qin army's arrow array. He saw his troops slowly retreating under the wave after wave of enemy fire, and it seemed that the enemy had no tendency to crack the turtle shell and charge, and knew that his strategy of luring the enemy had almost no chance of success.
Li Heng is a very traditional general of the Qin army, he has been observing the distance between the two armies under his own suppression, arranging the Qin army's drill The distance between the two armies is the time to charge, but the damned enemy army has been maintaining a gap of more than 200 steps despite advancing, and the hateful segment-fired diffuse fire suppressed his own crossbowmen so that they could not form an arrow array, and the crossbowmen's only shots could also cause damage to the enemy, but compared to the enemy's wave-type diffuse killing, the damage was not proportional at all.
The crossbow arrows in the sky over the battlefield continue to fly back and forth, only the Qin army with a small round shield has more casualties than the Nanjun side that formed a turtle shell, Shao Ai has asked Li Heng three times for instructions to launch a charge from the right flank to interrupt the enemy's arrow array, but Li Heng has been stubbornly guarding the Qin army's discipline to refuse at an inappropriate distance, repeatedly telling "the commander's order is to lure the enemy", and endure the continuous casualties is to attract the enemy into the shooting range of his bed crossbow.
Lu Zhe, who led the army to slowly merge with the front army, naturally saw clearly from the beginning when it happened on the battlefield, and his side temporarily gained an advantage, but what he saw was the tenacity of the Qin army, the Qin army left the dead and wounded all the way to retreat, if the troops with lax military discipline could only endure the enemy's shooting and could not effectively counterattack, they would have collapsed long ago, but the Qin army had fallen at least 2,000 people, but the army formation had not yet been chaotic, and it had maintained the integrity of the army formation and was slowly retreating.
The most advanced troops on the Nanjun side are almost five hundred steps away from the Qin army camp, and Cao Shen, who has become the second row, has good eyesight, he can see the nest car of the Qin army camp from the gap in the shield wall, there are three people standing on it, the one in the middle should be the commander of the Qin army, the left side is estimated to be Changshi, and the one holding the yellow and black flag is obviously the herald.
If the enemy army did not launch a charge, Li Heng and Shao Ai's decoy of the enemy would not be able to do it, and Sima Xin, who had paid nearly 2,000 casualties, also gave up baiting the enemy, and had already ordered the bed crossbows in the front to prepare to deter the shooting, and let the soldiers who left the battalion come back before the casualties continued to increase.
Su Lie had also been ordered before the attack that he must not enter the range of the Qin army's bed crossbow, and he frequently turned his head to look at Lu Zhe's position, but the order to retreat was never given...... (To be continued......)