Chapter 229: A Bed Crossbow

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Shao Ai saw some of the soldiers who had gone in running out, and those soldiers who ran out had panic on their faces, and the uneasiness in their hearts became a reality in the scout's report. The enemy army was still seven miles away, and he had to try to rescue the soldiers trapped in the fort no matter what, so he walked quickly down the high platform, and approached the fort in person with the mentality that he could save as much as he could.

There was really a fight everywhere in the fort, and the sound could be heard clearly from outside, and Shao Ai closed his eyes painfully when he heard the movement when he got closer.

The 20,000 Qin troops in the direction of Deng County had only been here for three days, and the party had lost 7,000 there, and nearly 1,000 in the first two days of the attack on the fort. On the third day, the killing was done, but it was clearly a trap set by the defenders to observe the arrival of reinforcements, so how much should be lost?

The iron gate used by the fort to separate the walkway is an inch thick and connects the walls on both sides, and it will take a long time to hit it with a wooden stake, and the Qin soldiers trapped in it have no wooden stakes if they want to hit it, and they can only use the weapons in their hands to try to dig or pry when they listen to the fierce fighting. The walls on either side were either brick or concrete, and they might have been able to make a gap in a few hours, but they were not destined to have enough time.

Realizing that it was useless to be in a hurry, Shao Ai led people back to the military village, he shouted for the soldiers to hurry up the time to fortify, and then sent people to hurry to the north to report the military situation here.

The number of Qin troops who could stay in the fortress on this road did not exceed six thousand, and Shao Ai was originally an offensive, but the attack was unfavorable, and the enemy reinforcements arrived, and the offensive was about to turn into a defensive position in an instant. He thought about the proportion of the party's 10,000 to 13,000 and his own loss of 7,000, and he really didn't know how long the 6,000 people could rely on the army to resist the upcoming 30,000 enemy troops.

"The next general set off from Yuxian a day ago, calculate the time and arrive tonight or tomorrow, I just need to stick to that time......" Shao Ai was actually quite gloomy in his heart, although he knew that the attack would not go smoothly. But if you lose more than 10,000 troops in just three days and don't capture a single fort, it seems too incompetent.

Mei Kai initially wanted to make a detour, using the same black battle robe to show the banner of the word "Qin" and pretend to be the Qin army approaching from behind to attack, but this strategy was stillborn before it was executed because of the Qin army scouts everywhere.

If nothing came of it, Mei Kai was sometimes fast and sometimes slow along the way, and he was adjusting the speed of the march according to the situation of the scouts spying on the Qin army's attack on Fort A No. 2, otherwise they would have arrived sooner or earlier.

The Qin army began to launch a strong attack on Fort No. 2, Mei Kai had been waiting for the opportunity to come, the strong attack must have invested a large number of troops, he thought that it would take time for the Qin army to invest troops to retreat. Taking advantage of this time difference, he may be able to defeat the Qin army in one fell swoop.

Seven miles of road, in fact, even a normal march can be completed within an hour, Mei Kai ordered to speed up the march in only two quarters of an hour to approach four miles, the two sides seem to be able to look at each other from a distance.

Mei Kai, who was riding on a war horse, saw that the Qin army was reinforcing the camp, and the soldier fort occasionally had some Qin pawns and wolves withdrawing.

As he approached two miles, Mei Kai began to arrange the sequence of attacks, and the vine armor soldiers and some archers accelerated to the front, they were the first troops to go to test the Qin army's long-range attack weapons. Among them, like two thousand jumping soldiers and other soldiers in leather armor. Approach within two miles of the diversion in the direction of Fort Bing.

The desolate sound of the horn came from the Qin army camp, which was arranged with wooden fences, horses, and rows of wood has always been the practice of the Qin army in the field, and the military camp will be divided into five levels, and if you want to attack, you can only enter it layer by layer.

About 3,000 crossbowmen of the Qin army ran in the direction where the reinforcements from Nanjun had gathered. The seven bed crossbows, which had not been damaged by excessive grinding, were lifted to a specially erected high platform at the sound of the soldiers' trumpets. On the Chinese army's nest car in the camp, Shao Ai watched the movement of the enemy intently, and next to him stood a soldier who had been in black and yellow for the first time.

"Sure enough, it looks dark. The uniforms worn by the defenders of the South County are the same as those of our army. Shao Ai's feelings in his heart were the same as those of Dang Xuan, who was puzzled by why Lu Zhe, who had already started a war, why he didn't change his battle robes, at least he should have some signs that allowed soldiers to distinguish them. As a partial general, Shao Ai has more thoughts in his heart than Dang Xuan. "What does Lu Shizhe want to express if he doesn't change his robe?"

It's no wonder that many people are surprised, after the war, Lu Zhe still maintained the Qin army's uniform, even if it was the establishment of the army, it would inevitably make people think a lot. Where did they know that the reason why Lu Zhe did not change was very simple, on the one hand, it was too late to change his battle robe, and on the other hand, he did not change it because he had the mentality of mixing up the enemy army.

The battle between Zhou Wen and Dang Xuan in the forest shows a lot of problems, isn't it just a mixed fight that makes it difficult to distinguish between friend and foe? It is difficult for the Nanjun soldiers to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and the impact is small, after all, the training time of the Nanjun soldiers is short, and the combat power is inferior to that of the Qin army. The Qin army is strong, the military discipline is strict, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, which is very fatal for the Qin army.

Nanjun No. 1, who was responsible for testing the ability to strike at a distance, when they approached the Qin army's camp four hundred paces, the Qin army's crossbowmen sent out the first wave of crossbow arrows in the sound of bangzi, and the slowly advancing rattan armor team kept shouting the command to erect a shield, and a "boom" sound was issued with the fall of the crossbow arrows, and most of the crossbow arrows slid away when they hit Teng Dun, proving that the trained rattan armor has its role in defending against arrows. A few crossbow arrows shot through the gaps, the arrows also slipped away when they hit the plate-shaped rattan armor, and only a small part of the arrows hit the joints before they drilled into the flesh through the gaps in the rattan armor and caused a muffled grunt.

The vine armor soldiers slowly advanced in the rain of falling arrows, and as they got closer and closer, the arrows fired by the Qin army were no longer just crossbow arrows, and it was obvious that the archers above the arrow tower were also starting to shoot arrows. At the same time, the crossbow arrows become more and more powerful as the distance decreases, and they can already be nailed to Teng Dun instead of being slid away.

Mei Kai, who led a large army, stopped between the fort and the Qin army camp, and during this time, he also besieged and killed many Qin soldiers who escaped from the fort, and they were already preparing to build a military camp when they established their foothold.

Sending a part of the troops to test the long-range attack range of the Qin army is one of them, and the main purpose is to drag the Qin army so that it can not be disturbed by the attack to build a camp, Mei Kai has been the five hundred lord of the Qin army for more than four years, not only learned a knowledge of the arrow array, but also learned the steps of the camp thoroughly.

Standing at a steady pace to build a camp and sending people to get in touch with the fort, Mei Kai's next step was to mobilize 10,000 troops from the east position to advance to the Qin army's camp.

At this time, the troops advancing in advance had approached the range of one hundred and fifty steps of the Qin army's camp, and at this distance, the blows received would become stronger and stronger with each further push, and the archers who followed behind the vine armor soldiers fell more than a hundred people even if they had the cover of the vine armor soldiers.

One hundred and fifty steps is already within the range of the archers' attacks, staring at the raining arrows in the Qin military camp, the archers who were covered behind on the Nanjun side also shot the first arrow in their hands with the sound of bangzi.

When Mei Kai turned his head to look after giving the order, what he saw was that his own tentative troops shot the first wave of counterattacks against the rain of arrows, and then the two sides shot back and forth, but the Qin army had fortifications to rely on, and its range was not as far as the Qin army, and it was obvious that it would suffer a lot of losses. However, he did not give the order for the early tentative troops to retreat, and waited to see what effect the mobilized 10,000 troops would have from the east.

Shao Ai, who was on top of the nest car, seemed to see the shadow of the Qin army from the enemy, not talking about the same battle robe, but the same intention of spying and attacking.

The Qin army would fight a war of trickery, but more often than not, it would use upright tactics. The tactic adopted by Mei Kai was the tactic of the Qin army's dignified two-way attack, allowing some troops to attract most of the crossbowmen first, and then go out all the way. If the defenders do not have enough troops to attack, then they should think carefully about the strategy of defense. Draw the crossbowmen to defend in the past, then the blow to the early all the way will inevitably decrease. Don't draw crossbowmen? The wooden fences and horses set up in the first camp are waiting to be removed.

"Bed crossbow, shoot!" Shao Ai made a decisive choice, "Then he sent the crossbowmen to the east." ”

The sound of tooth sore loose strings sounded, and the vine armor soldiers lined up on the wall only felt a huge attack in four positions, and the powerful and thick crossbow arrows directly shot through the Teng Dun wall within three meters, continuously penetrating five or six people and smashing out a clearing. Three large crossbow arrows shot high fell between the archers, each of which lost momentum and was strung with a line of men.

Even if the arrows shot by the Qin army kept killing the companions around them, they only made the archers of the guest army frightened and didn't think about running, but when they saw the thick crossbow arrows shooting, they either smashed a shield wall or turned people into a string, and after they were stunned, their hearts turned into incomparable fear, and they actually shouted "Wow Wow" and turned around and ran.

The rattan armor soldiers were struggling to support, in order to allow the archers behind them to be able to inflict damage on the Qin army, and when they were stunned by the Qin army's crossbow arrows, they found that the archers collapsed after a while, and in an instant, they all cursed in their hearts.

Mei Kai, who was paying attention to the battle situation from afar, was also jumping to his feet, he knew that the guest army's sense of battle was not strong, but he really didn't expect that just a round of bed crossbow could make them collapse, and he hurriedly asked the trumpeter next to him, Ming Jin, to signal both ways to retreat.

"It's okay now, the commander of the Qin army can see at a glance that this army is not strong in fighting consciousness!" Mei Min complained hatefully to his colleagues next to him.

Shao Ai on the nest car was actually stunned, the reinforcements from Nanjun came violently, and as soon as they came, they sent troops to advance in a dignified manner, and he had the idea of the enemy's fierceness in his heart. It's only been a long time, and it's probably only been two quarters of an hour, and the enemy army that was able to hold out in the rain of arrows before was actually collapsed by a round of bed crossbows, and this gap is also too big.

"Is it a meter? Or ......" including the tricks of Dang Xuan and the fort just now, it has been secretly calculated twice, and Shao Ai can't guess whether this scene is another conspiracy of the enemy army. (To be continued......)