Chapter 426: The Power of the Stacked Array
The battlefield on the north bank of the chasm was in full swing, and on the south bank of the chasm, the Qin general Wang Can, led 300 chariots, 2,000 cavalry, and 10,000 infantry troops, and also arrived at the place where the Dai army crossed the river.
Because the north bank was only to contain the attack, and the south bank was the main direction of the Qin army's attack, although when Wang Can's army arrived, the Shengjie army of the Dai army had all crossed the chasm and lined up in formation on the south bank. At this time, the vehicles and horses were crossing. But Wang Can still gave the order to launch an attack on the position of the Dai army.
Wang Can is the clan of the Wang family, and Wang Ben is the same generation, but the age is more than ten years older than Wang Ben, since he was a child, he has been fighting with Wang Jian since he was a child, and he has been promoted from a grassroots soldier step by step to a general, which can be said to be experienced in a hundred battles, and has a lot of actual combat experience.
Although the Dai army has been lined up, it is all composed of infantry, and the Qin army has 300 chariots and 2,000 cavalry, although the cavalry is an old-fashioned cavalry, but 300 chariots should not be underestimated. Although in recent years the chariot has been completely powerless in the face of the new cavalry, the chariot still has a great advantage over the infantry. Especially against infantry who did not have any barriers. Therefore, Wang Can first ordered 300 chariots to attack and rush towards the formation of the Dai army.
Moreover, the formation of the Dai army is a horizontal linear formation, which spreads horizontally for nearly 400 steps, but the depth is less than ten columns. The three hundred chariots of the Qin army were lined up in five rows, with sixty chariots in each row, and they also reached more than three hundred paces, advancing in unison, launching a fierce assault on the position of the Dai army.
The iron hooves rise and fall, the war horses gallop, the wheels roll, making a dull sound like rolling thunder, raising the gray and yellow dust in the sky, the soldiers of the Qin army on the chariot are wearing dark armor that can absorb a qiē light, holding the blade that exudes a freezing cold air, and their faces are as dark and hard as a rock, although there are only three hundred chariots, but they give people a strong shock like the top of Mount Tai, and the powerful sonic air flow makes the earth seem to tremble. And behind the chariot, followed by the cavalry and infantry of the Qin army, just waiting for the chariot to tear apart the array of the Dai army, and then entered, killing the scattered Dai army soldiers, all the way to the edge of the chasm.
The main general of the Shengjie army, E Chongyu, stood on a high car behind the array, looking at the chariot approaching him, his breathing was a little tight, although the array he laid down was strictly trained, but whether he could withstand the impact of the chariot, E Chongyu himself had no bottom in his heart, after all, he had not really competed on the battlefield.
However, at this time, there was no way back, so he could only fight in the usual way of training, and when the Qin army rushed to a distance of 200 steps away from the formation of the Dai army, E Chongyu raised his arm high and waved it down.
In the rear of the Dai Army, the horn whined, and the soldiers in the front rows of the Dai Army suddenly knelt down together and fell to the ground, while there was a row of short archers in the back who also touched the ground with one leg and half knelt.
The Qin soldiers on the first few rows of chariots saw very clearly, but they didn't understand what the Dai Jun's intention was to do this, they all felt a little inexplicable, and some Qin soldiers felt very funny, so difficult that the Dai Jun was kneeling to save him?
But there are still sharp-eyed people who have noticed that a row of soldiers who are still standing in the back row of the Dai army have raised crossbows that have been drawn one by one.
"Crossbow, be careful, the enemy has a crossbow."
"Raise your shield, raise your shield quickly."
Because the crossbowmen of the Dai army were hidden behind the formation, when the Qin army launched an attack, they did not see any crossbowmen in the Dai army at all, so the soldiers in the first few rows knelt on the ground one after another, revealing the crossbowmen, which really caught the Qin soldiers a little off guard.
At the same time that the Qin soldiers exclaimed one after another, only to hear the sound of "whooshing and swishing" breaking the sky sounded intensively, and the five hundred crossbow archers shot out the crossbow arrows almost at the same time, and then immediately retreated and reloaded the strings.
And the five hundred crossbow arrows flew from the array of the Dai army almost at the same time, and if it was like a storm, it shot at the Qin army at the other end. Although the Qin soldiers were also well-trained, most of the Qin soldiers still picked up their shields in time and blocked them in front of them.
But the shield can only protect people, and it can't protect the war horse pulling the cart, and the representative army armor is the most powerful crossbow, even if it is a shield, it may not be able to stop it.
"Grab-grab-grab-" The arrow pierced through the shield, and the sound of the car body was like hail hitting the tile.
"Puff-poof-poof-" The sound of arrows piercing through armor and shooting into flesh was like rain hitting residual charges.
The soldier who was hit by the arrow screamed and fell from the chariot, and the horse whose body was pierced screamed and fell to the ground, the chariot overturned, and the dull weight fell to the ground, and the chariot behind it hit it again, making a roaring sound, and it resounded over the battlefield.
But this was only the beginning, and as soon as the crossbowmen retreated, the longbowmen filled their positions, pulled their longbows, and threw them at an angle of forty-five degrees.
Although the range of the longbow is not as good as that of the crossbow, the use of projectiles can make up for the lack of range, after the five hundred long arrows leave the bowstring, they first fly diagonally into the air, and only at the end of the force do they turn to the diagonal fall, starting the second round of harvesting the lives of the Qin army.
The Qin army, which was lucky enough to avoid the first round of bow and arrow strikes, died in the second round of arrow strikes, because the second round of bows and arrows fell from the sky, so although many Qin soldiers raised their shields, they still did not block them.
In this way, the longbowmen and crossbow archers fired alternately, and launched four or five rounds of strikes at the Qin army in a row, and the Qin army's chariot had lost nearly half, and at this time, the remaining Qin chariots entered the range of the short bow, so the short archers who knelt on one leg joined the battle group and continued to strike at the chariots of the Qin army, while the longbowmen turned to attack the Qin cavalry and infantry after the chariot.
Wang Can stood on a chariot, dumbfounded by the battle situation in front of him, and did not expect that the chariot on which he had high hopes had not yet officially engaged the other party, and was beaten by the opponent's bow and crossbow and suffered heavy casualties.
If the Dai army had placed the crossbowmen at the front of the queue at the beginning, Wang Can, of course, would not use chariots to attack, but would have sent shield infantry to advance gradually, or use crossbowmen to shoot at the opponent. But the other party was so cunning that he actually hid the crossbowman behind the array, which made him completely unexpected. Moreover, the archers were also allowed to half-crouch down to shoot arrows, forming two rows of stacked shots, and the power was naturally doubled.
But Wang Can knew very well that he was the main attacker, and if he retreated like this, then the Qin army's plan to attack the Dai army would be a complete failure. Therefore, at this time, I can only rush down. Fortunately, a small number of chariots are already approaching the array of the representative army, and they still have enough troops to fight the representative army.
After more than ten rounds of bow and arrow strikes in front, there were less than fifty chariots left in the Qin army, and they were uneven, some in front and some behind, and the nearest chariot was less than thirty steps away from the array of the Dai army.
At this moment, the horn sounded again in the formation of the army, and the crossbowmen immediately stopped shooting arrows, put away their crossbows and retreated, and the longbowmen and shortbowmen all switched to throwing arrows.
The kneeling soldiers in the front row stood up one after another, erected the tall shields, and the tips at the bottom were inserted into the dirt on the ground, forming rows of solid shield walls, and countless spears stretched out from behind the shields, erecting on the upper edge of the shields, like a dense forest, and the black tips of the spears emitted a chilling cold light, pointing directly at the Qin army chariots that were about to rush up.
"Boom!"
A chariot and horses crashed into the shield wall of the gun forest, just like the galloping giant Lang finally collided violently with the standing reef, splashing the blood-colored Lang flowers in the sky, and the powerful sonic air flow suddenly burst violently, the spear was dismantled, the shield was shattered, and several soldiers holding shields were involuntarily knocked away by the huge force, and their backs hit the shields of their companions, and several of them even spurted blood. But it still didn't hold the array.
But the horses pulling the cart let out a series of painful screams, for each horse was pierced by one or two spears, some of which even protruded from the other end. The chariot overturned to one side, and the three Qin soldiers on the chariot all fell off the chariot.
Subsequently, the remaining chariots of the Qin army went up to the gun forest shield wall of the Dai army one after another, like a surging tide, slapping the coast wave after wave, blood splashed, hitting the war horse tendons and breaking bones, the soldiers fell into the dust, and the chariots rolled and overturned.
Although the array of the Dai army was constantly contracted and dented by the impact of the Qin army's chariots, it firmly blocked the impact of the Qin army's chariots with its flesh and blood, and kept the array immovable.
Of course, this is also because the chariots of the Qin army are now at the end of their strength, and if they are facing the fierce impact of three hundred chariots, no matter how strong the array is, it will not be able to resist it. However, this is already very difficult, after all, the gap between the strength of the chariot and the man is quite large.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry and infantry of the Qin army also rushed up and started a fierce battle with the Dai army.
At this time, Wang Can also breathed a sigh of relief, although his chariot was almost completely wiped out at this time, but now the two sides have finally launched a white-knuckle battle, and the number of Qin troops is close to three times that of the other side, so the chances of victory are still very large.
However, even if he won in the end, he lost nearly 300 chariots, which was also a big loss, and he could only get a result of equal merit in the end, and meritorious service was impossible.
Just when Wang Can was thinking wildly, suddenly on his right side, there was a dense sound of horses' hooves, Wang Can turned his head to look, only to see that in the dense forest on the right side of the dust, killing countless cavalry, rushed towards his flank.
Wang Can couldn't help but be taken aback, and he couldn't imagine that the Dai army was still ambushing people and horses on the south bank of the chasm.