Chapter 577: The Fall of the Great Camp (II)
It turned out that Yuan Xuan saw that about two hundred steps away from the Dai Army's camp, countless chariots had indeed appeared, totaling hundreds of them, all of which were black in one piece, and were rumbling towards the Dai Army's camp.
However, unlike the common horse chariots of this era, all the chariots of the Qin army did not need to be dragged by war horses, they were automatic, and the shape and style were completely different from the traditional horse chariots. And two of them were special, and they attracted Yuan Xuan's attention at once.
It turned out that the size of these two chariots was extremely large, from the front, the width reached about six zhang, and the height also reached more than four zhang, showing an inward inclined trapezoidal structure, on both sides of the carriage, six pairs of huge wheels were installed, connected by oblique wooden torsion bars, slowly rolling forward, I don't know what to drive. The front and sides of the car are covered with raw cowhide, and when you open the three rows of windows, you can faintly see a figure shaking inside. There was a row of sharp blades stuck in front of it, and on the roof of the car, several small trebuchets were installed, which were throwing stones at the large camp of the Dai army.
This whole chariot looks like a small castle that can move, because according to the normal mentality of human beings, there is an instinctive fear of large objects, so this kind of chariot looks really scary, not to mention that the trebuchet on the roof of the chariot is still constantly throwing stones into the camp of the Dai Army, and from the window is also shooting crossbow guns at the camp of the Dai Army, indicating that this kind of chariot is not just a façade, but a weapon with powerful attack ability.
In fact, not only these two huge chariots, but all the other chariots are much larger than the traditional horse chariots, and the styles are different, and the size is not nearly the same, but all of them are fully enclosed structures, covered with raw cowhide, using four or six wheels to drive, with windows in the body of the chariots, some chariots are still firmly struggling poles, which can shoot stones or fire crossbow guns, of course, there are also some chariots without weapons, I don't know what they are used for, But all of these small tanks were centered on two giant tanks and were headed towards the battalion of the Dai Army.
The wheels rolled, kicking up a cloud of dust and a rumbling roar, as if the earth was already trembling.
After a night of rushing work, the Dai army also built a lot of defensive positions on the periphery of the camp, although the structure is simple, but it can indeed strengthen the defense of the camp, so there are more than 8,000 troops stationed outside the camp, at this time trebuchets, bed crossbows, and bows and arrows have been launched, to attack the chariots of the Qin army.
But for this kind of fully enclosed structure, and the outer wall is covered with raw cowhide chariot, the bow and crossbow can hardly play any role, although the crossbow gun fired by the bed crossbow can shoot through the baffle of the car body, but it can not cause much damage to the chariot, even if some chariots have been hit by several crossbow guns, they still continue to move forward, only the stones thrown by the trebuchet can cause a certain substantial blow to the chariot, if it can hit the right part, the chariot baffle can be broken and broken.
It's just that the number of trebuchets of the Dai army is limited, there are only eight in total, and the trebuchets are not accurate, so the blow to the Qin army's chariots is indeed limited, and at this time, a considerable part of the Qin army's chariots have driven into a distance of less than 200 steps from the Dai army's camp, and the long-range weapons on the chariots have also been activated, and stones and crossbow guns have been continuously projected at the Dai army camp.
Although the power of the stones and crossbow guns fired from the Qin army's chariot is smaller than that of the usual trebuchets and bed crossbows, and the stones thrown are small stones under twenty catties, and the crossbow guns are shorter than the crossbow guns fired by the bed crossbows, and the penetration is obviously one level worse, but the range and strike strength are still much stronger than the ordinary bow and crossbow, and the victory lies in the large number and intensive strikes, coupled with its own strong protective power, so it is naturally much more violent than the Dai army.
Now the army is only using simple fortifications, so the two sides use long-range weapons to attack, the army is not an opponent, many soldiers were hit by stones, shot through by crossbow guns, and the rest of the soldiers can only hide behind the bunker, do not dare to move, completely into a passive situation of being beaten.
Yuan Xuan stood on the camp wall, and he was also dumbfounded, not knowing why the Qin army had these strange-shaped chariots. In fact, it is not surprising that the chariot can fire stones and crossbow guns, it is nothing more than to install wheels on the trebuchet and bed crossbow, and then close the surroundings and the top. However, the reason for not moving and attacking on the battlefield like the chariots of the Qin army is that trebuchets and bed crossbows need to be pulled by cattle, horses and livestock, so it is inconvenient to move and attack.
But how did these chariots of the Qin army do not need to be pulled by oxen, horses and livestock, and they can walk freely on the battlefield? This really made Yuan Xuan puzzled, and this was also a reason for the soldiers of the Dai Army to feel fear.
However, the Qin army will not stop attacking because the Dai army can't figure it out, although the movement speed of all the chariots is not fast, about the same as the normal walking speed, but it still slowly forces towards the outlying positions of the Dai army, and the Dai army's blocking is almost useless, and can only watch the Qin army's chariots drive into the front, and some soldiers are even so frightened that they throw down their positions and turn around and run.
Of course, only a few escaped, and most of the soldiers of the Dai Army still bravely rushed out of the bunker and fought fiercely with the chariot of the Qin army, stabbing and slashing at the chariot with spears and broadswords in their hands, and even some people picked up stones and smashed them on the chariot.
It can be said that the soldiers of the Dai Army did show quite high and brave fighting spirit, but the spears and knives and stones basically could not cause any damage to the chariot, but despite this, the soldiers of the Dai Army still showed great tenacity, they saw that their weapons could not penetrate the carriage, so they attacked the wheels instead, and some soldiers even attacked the inside of the car from the open window in the carriage, so they still caused some damage to the chariot, lost their combat effectiveness, and stopped the attack.
But just relying on fighting spirit, it is impossible to defeat the chariot of the Qin army, in the vast majority of the battlefield, it is the chariot of the Qin army that rampage unscrupulously, some of the soldiers were knocked down by the chariot and ran over, some were stabbed by the sharp blades on the chariot, and many soldiers were shot by the bows and arrows shot by the Qin soldiers from the window, so the vast majority of the Qin chariots still did not slow down, ran over the corpses of the soldiers, and advanced forward, until they advanced to the outer positions of the Dai army.
The outlying positions of the Dai army were mainly composed of vehicles and trenches in the army, and at this time, some Qin vehicles suddenly accelerated and crashed into the vehicles used as defensive lines. However, because the acceleration of the Qin army's chariots was not fast, and the chariots of the Dai army were connected in groups of twenty, the effect of the impact was not ideal, but at the front end of these chariots, they were equipped with a striking wood with a diameter of more than one foot thick, and at this time, they also started one after another, slamming into the vehicles that formed the defense line.
The vehicles used by the Dai army are all general transport vehicles, the structure is simple, and it is not very strong, so after a few collisions, the car body will fall apart, and the gap will be opened, and after hitting the vehicle defense line of the Dai army, the chariot of the Qin army immediately broke through the gap, and then continued to advance.
Of course, there were also some chariots that rushed towards the trenches, and after they smashed the sandbags on the side of the trenches, they stopped at the edge of the trenches, and the roof of the vehicles was turned over, and the auxiliary erections were erected on the trenches to form a bridge, and then quickly retreated, allowing other vehicles to pass through the trenches from the bridge and continue to attack.
As a result, the whole battle lasted less than half an hour, and under the fierce impact of the Qin army's chariots, the outer defense line built by the Dai army that had worked hard all night suddenly collapsed, and dozens of Qin army's chariots easily rushed through the Dai army's outer defense line, and then attacked the Dai army's camp.
Because of the two giant chariots, they naturally broke through the vehicle defense line, relying on their huge hulls, and smashed more than a dozen vehicles, and then although they moved slowly, they were very resolute towards the camp wall of the Dai army camp.
Although at this time, the soldiers of the Dai Army guarding the camp fired arrows at the Qin army's chariots, but they did not have any effect on the Qin army's chariots, and some chariots stopped twenty or thirty paces away from the Dai army's camp and attacked the Dai army's camp with crossbow guns, stones, bows and arrows. And some chariots rushed to the side of the camp wall and slammed the camp wall with their own crashing wood.
At this moment, the two giant chariots also approached the camp wall, and from the front end of the chariot stretched out three striking logs, and launched a violent impact on the camp wall, and the two giant chariots were more than four feet tall, nearly twice as high as the camp wall of the Dai army, so in the window above the camp wall, countless arrows were shot, condescendingly, shooting at the large camp of the Dai army. The trebuchet placed on the roof of the car struck at the depth of the camp.
After such multiple blows, the Dai army was unable to hold the camp wall at all, and was killed and wounded countless by the Qin army, and they retreated from the camp wall one after another.
After the Qin army broke through the outer defense line of the Dai army, Yuan Xuan withdrew from the camp wall and retreated to the rear under the protection of the guards, and at this time, watching the Qin army's chariots rush forward like a broken bamboo, the camp wall was already in danger, and Yuan Xuan's expression couldn't help but be a little trance, because to be honest, yesterday's and today's battles had already exceeded his cognition, which made Yuan Xuan's heart feel unreal, and even wondered if he was dreaming.
At this time, Han Sheng said: "General Yuan, the big camp can't hold it, let's retreat as soon as possible." ”
Yuan Xuan's gaze was blank, and he said, "Can't you hold it anymore?" ”
Lei Peng said: "Yes, General Yuan, let's retreat as soon as possible, if it's a little later, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave." ”
As he was talking, he heard a "boom", only to see a section of the camp wall collapse with a bang, and the chariot of the Qin army drove into the camp.