Chapter 594: I can't stand it
The "out of the car" in the "Book of Songs" is still being sung by tens of thousands of people, but the battlefield on the West Bank has entered the opening stage of the contest.
Since the left and right flanks of Lu Zhe's army camp were ignited, the only direction that the Ou Zhe army could attack was the middle position. These Ou Luo soldiers in short coats and shorts shouted and crossed the first line of defense abandoned by Lu Zhejun, but when Fang Yi stepped into the camp, some of the running soldiers let out a miserable scream in their mouths, throwing away their weapons with their hands, and the whole person jumped up.
It turned out that they had guessed the thistle thorn of the Mitsubishi spike, and the soldiers who were almost running too fast either jumped up, or fell to the ground, or were nailed to the spot, and the stubborn Lu Zhejun came from the side of "Shoot!" ".
The rhythmic sound of "Bangbang Bang ......" resounded, and the bowstrings and crossbows rattled frequently, and then the arrows flew into the air with cheers, and they quickly drilled into the bodies of the Ou Yu soldiers who had been jumbled by too many people because they had stepped on the thistles, and shook the tail of the arrows as if they were cheering.
The undulating screams of each other began to sound constantly, and that was because Lu Zhejun's crossbowmen were constantly firing arrows, and many times they didn't even need to look at them, they only needed to pull the strings to shoot arrows or reload the crossbow arrows and fire them in a fixed direction, after all, there was only one way for the enemy to attack, wasn't it?
There are too many thistles on the ground, but the Ouluo soldiers wearing tough clogs (straw sandals) are not invincible iron King Kong, they don't have a pair of steel feet, and the soles of the feet of the soldiers who step on the tribulus terrestris are pierced by spikes, even if they are lucky not to be killed by the arrows shot by Lu Zhejun, they can only squat down and hold their feet and howl miserably.
Occasionally, you can hear the sound of arrows hitting bamboo, but all the Ou soldiers who were shot were killed and injured by arrows without exception, after all, Lu Zhejun continued the Qin army's arrow pattern, and the arrow of each arrow is a three-edged arrow, which is extremely penetrating, and it is simply an armor-piercing arrow.
It is not surprising that there will be a sound of bamboo, and almost every Ou Yu will be draped in bamboo to make armor. This kind of armor is made of needles and threads to weave some long pieces of bamboo, which becomes a bamboo armor that protects the chest.
To be honest, bamboo armor has some defensive power against machetes and other chopping weapons, but not against arrows...... Can you expect a piece of bamboo to protect against a three-edged arrowhead?
The path of the attack was blocked, and some of the first to throw torches with great force, and then the soldiers followed the example of the officers and threw the torches.
The torches fell to the ground, and the light of the fire finally illuminated the ground, and they saw that the ground was covered with flickering, cold, sharp thistles, and in an instant everyone's faces turned green.
"Bring the rolling log, bring the rolling log immediately!"
Still don't let people live? Can fleshy feet step on thistle thorns without injury? It's impossible! They brought in the wood not to do anything else, but to roll the wood forward, those sharp thistle thorns because they were too sharp will pierce the body of the wood, rolling the wood a few times will always reduce the number of thistle thorns on the ground.
The round wood was quickly moved, and at the orders of the officers, some of the gray-skinned soldiers half-crouched and rolled the wood with their hands, creating a rolling inertia that allowed the wood to roll forward on its own.
The soldiers of the Ou Kingdom holding the shield ran relatively slowly because they had to carry a shield of at least ten catties, and those who tried to roll the wood to advance before their arrival were all solved by Lu Zhejun's arrows.
"Hold the shield, forward!"
A new directive was issued. After receiving the news, the Ou Luo shield soldiers, who had wooden planks tied to the soles of their feet, struggled to move their "overweight" feet, and formed a shield formation step by step, slowly advancing forward. As they moved forward, the sound of frequent bumps and bumps reached their ears like the rhythm of raindrops.
Zhou Dang, who arrived at the front line to command, saw the enemy army forming a shield formation and slowly advancing forward, and all the arrows shot were blocked. He immediately asked the crossbowmen to shoot at the enemy shield array, not at the enemy's shield array, but at the enemy soldiers behind the enemy's shield array as much as possible using a line-throwing principle.
Sure enough, after Lu Zhejun's crossbowmen changed from flat shooting to projectile shooting. The screams behind the enemy's shield array did not stop, and the shield array that was already advancing also stopped.
Some of LΓΌ's troops shouted cheers when they saw that the enemy's shield array was no longer advancing, but was quickly replaced by muffled grunts and screams. It was the crossbowmen of the Ou Yu Army who finally reacted.
There are about 5,000 crossbowmen on the Ouluo country's side, and the reason why they stopped shooting arrows was because the hand-to-hand soldiers began to charge, and they stopped for fear of causing accidental injury. Now, if the hand-to-hand combatants did not rush over to engage the enemy in close combat, and the enemy was actually blocking with bows and crossbows, then they naturally had to re-enter the range and carry out numerical coverage.
Fortunately, the crossbowmen of the Ou Kingdom did not have the band-type arrow array of the Qin army, and the crossbowmen who entered the range carried out a full release of arrows according to the order, during which there would inevitably be a time gap, so that the entrenched Lu Zhejun had the opportunity to dodge again or put up a shield.
Just now, about 1,500 crossbowmen from the Ou Kingdom shot arrows, but a wave of firing caused Lu Zhejun to fall nearly 100 people, which was one-tenth of the casualties for Lu Zhejun, who only had less than 1,000 combat strength!
If it weren't for the fact that Zhou Dang was wearing a fish-scale armor and had a pocket on his head, if it wasn't for the jingling movement just now, he wouldn't have heard the movement, he would have been lying on the ground and standing up.
Carried away, they saw that the scattered thistle thorns successfully blocked the enemy's attack, and called for men to temporarily act as archers and crossbowmen, forming an arrow formation in a small position, and they were too focused on dealing with the slow-moving enemy shield array, ignoring the enemy crossbowmen approaching in the distance.
The enemy's crossbowmen are approaching, and his own manpower is insufficient, so how dare Zhou dare to arrange his soldiers too tightly? He could only have his troops as a combat unit of 50 people, and each battle occupied favorable terrain to block layer by layer.
Kaimingpan did not devote all his troops to attack, after all, Lu Zhe's army on the east bank was already forcibly crossing, he mobilized enough manpower to go to the position of the river beach, but after looking for a long time, he found that the area that could attack the enemy army crossing the river was either dug into the river or blocked by fire.
When Lu Zhe set up the military academy, he hired Mohist scholars to explain the importance of terrain selection to officers, and he used a sand table to explain in detail the purpose of regional occupation in wartime. In this way, how could Tang Jie, who had learned relevant knowledge, not consider it when setting up a camp?
The camp set up by Tang Jie occupied a semi-circular river beach area, which was a flat terrain, and the intention was naturally to prevent some high ground from being unable to hold on, and it became a "key place" that the enemy's long-range troops could use to launch long-range attacks. In addition, he also thought about the projection of the follow-up troops, pondered and compared for a long time, and used the original river beach swamp terrain to deal with it a little, which could be filled into the river and turned into a depression that could not be established.
Now that some areas that require troops to hold have also been ignited, the troops of the Ou Kingdom can enter the river and cross the river with crossbows, unless they quickly fill in the water-filled depression or pass through the fire-torn area, otherwise they can only stare at it far away.
"Really? There was only one way left to attack, and that road was still sprinkled with thistle thorns, and it was only less than thirty steps advanced at the cost of more than 2,000 people...... "Kai Mingpan kept looking at the surface of the river when he spoke, and what he saw was that many enemy troops had successfully relied on rope nooses to sail rafts and boats into the river beach, and those enemy troops who got off the means of crossing the river did not immediately enter the camp to participate in the defense, but were fiddling with some things in place.
It is conceivable that what else Lu Zhejun can fiddle with, it must be more swimming ropes connecting the two sides of the strait, as long as these new ropes are fixed, it is a steady stream of rafts, small boats and even large ships to transport troops over.
"How quickly is it expected to break through the enemy's second line of defense?" Enlightened Pan's gaze began to flicker.
How can this be answered? War has always been a matter of great uncertainty, and Gao Tong could only mum a few syllables, even if it was a guess of time. Glancing behind him, he once again begged Kaimingpan to stop the attack, and then the army hurriedly retreated.
The fire in the woods to the south grew bigger and bigger, and the smoke drifted from it became more and more choking, and if it was not possible to eliminate the lone army on the west bank before the enemy could build up enough lines and quickly increase the number of troops, the military operation would be a dead end.
"We are trying to delay the speed of the enemy's attack, and this time we have successfully pinned the enemy army to the battlefield from the water for ten days (in fact, it is eight days), and we have achieved our goal, ah, king!" Gao Tong said while looking at the leaders of the Lingnan tribes with numb expressions, he thought that it was these hairy and blood-drinking guys who made their king unable to step down, and the king became so stubborn.
"Really? There is also a third line of defense...... "Kai Mingpan actually understands that there is no point in fighting any longer, since the camp has been attacked and there has been a sky-high fire, all that remains is to try to annihilate the enemy on the west bank alone to get some face."
The enemy army is about to cross the river in a big way to reinforce, and it was originally estimated that the rest of the enemy's troops have not yet completed the roundabout maneuver and become unreliable, according to military common sense, whether it is the Lingnan ethnic groups or the Ouluo country, it is difficult to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army, so it is really time to withdraw.
"Then ......" Kaimingpan only spit out one syllable and stopped, he originally wanted to say, "Then retreat", but he thought he was hallucinating: "How can Lone hear singing from the north?" β
When Gao Tong turned his head to look over, he saw the constantly flashing torches, and immediately exclaimed: "Is the enemy crossing the river from another direction, or has their roundabout troops completed the maneuver?!" β
In fact, it was none of them, it was Chen Shao, who successfully broke through, and a group of remnants of the army saw that the main battlefield was fighting so fiercely, trying to use eight people to play the illusion that a large army was approaching...... (To be continued......)