Changping.

Different from the past, today's Changping is full of murderous sounds.

The commander of the 600,000 Qin army, Wu Anjun of the Qin State, stood up in armor and stood on top of a canopy military chariot with a serious face, staring at the battlefield in front of him.

Next to the Bai Qi military chariot, a full five hundred and twelve guards stood in a solemn formation with long guns, guarding the safety of their own commander.

On Bai Qi's side and on both sides, there was a surging crowd of thousands of Qin soldiers, and thirty-two black phalanxes were neatly arranged behind the Qin State fortress wall on the south bank of the Dan River, like an endless ocean, as if it wanted to swallow everything in this world.

What Bai Qi wanted to engulf was this Zhao defense line located on the north bank of the Dan River, completely blocking the northward march of the Qin army!

Under Bai Qi's gaze, one after another Qin State phalanx was forcibly crossing the Danshui, preparing to launch an attack on Zhao Leibi in front of him.

At the moment when the first phalanx had just crossed the river, Bai Qi calmly issued an order: "Throwing stones." ”

In the rear of Qin Lei Wall, hundreds of catapults that had already been prepared made a series of loud noises one after another, and dozens of hundreds of pounds of boulders roared out, drew a parabola in the air and fell to the position of the Zhao army.

There were dozens of loud bangs, accompanied by screams and collapses from the other side of the river, and there were small-scale collapses in several places in the long Zhao Lei Wall.

In fact, this is not the first round of bombardment by the Qin army's catapults, which can be seen from the already somewhat miserable Zhao Lei Wall on the other side of the river, which is full of potholes and collapses.

After all, the trebuchet is a big killing weapon during the siege of the city, and it is used to bombard this wall, which is far less solid than the city wall, which is somewhat overkill.

But there was no smile on Bai Qi's face, because it was not only the trebuchet of the Qin army that was raging on the battlefield at this moment!

Dozens or hundreds of boulders flew from the sky on the other side of the river, and most of them smashed accurately on the river and its banks, which not only caused countless waves to splash the river, but also killed many Qin soldiers who were crossing the river.

The water of the Dan River began to appear red and eye-catching blood, and many soldiers of the Qin army fell into the river, slowly sank, and never floated again.

Under the ravages of the Zhao army's trebuchets, the Qin army paid hundreds of dead and wounded, and finally a phalanx successfully set foot on the land on the north bank of the Dan River.

The vanguard phalanx of the Qin army numbered 6,000 men and was led by a pioneer lieutenant.

When the phalanx approached Zhao Leibi, a dense array of arrows suddenly shot out from behind Zhao Leibi, instantly knocking down many Qin soldiers.

However, the queue of the Qin army was unmoved, and still approached a hundred steps of Zhao Leibi at its own pace.

Seeing this, Bai Qi nodded slightly, and muttered softly in his mouth: "Forward officer, introverted." ”

I saw that Captain Qin gave an order, and the soldiers in the front of the phalanx began to move.

These soldiers were all dressed in red or gray battle robes, covered with copper and stone armor, the armor was black throughout, divided into three parts: front armor, back armor and cloak, legs tied to Teng, feet on the square mouth shoes, and the movement was very light.

I saw that the three rows of soldiers instantly dispersed into three horizontal columns after receiving the order, the front row knelt, the middle row bent, the back row stood, the first two rows held crossbows and the third row drew bows, with the shout of a hundred generals as an order, three seconds later, two hundred and forty crossbowmen fired at the same time.

"Whoosh!" Two hundred and forty crossbow arrows were fired, instantly covering the position of the Zhao army pointed out by the captain, ruthlessly harvesting dozens of Zhao soldiers' lives, and opening a small gap in the position of the Zhao army.

The corners of Bai raised his eyebrows slightly, and he muttered softly: "Light car, extroverted." ”

When the small gap appeared, the captain of the Qin army issued another order, and the three rows of crossbowmen at the front who had just finished shooting at close range retreated to the sides in an orderly manner in the bow and arrow counterattack of the Zhao army, and then the forty horses and chariots that had just struggled to cross the Dan River suddenly slaughtered out of the Qin army's array.

These chariots were divided into four columns, and the chariot soldiers of each column had murderous faces and held a weapon in their hands, namely spears, Ge, halberds, and wedges.

Each chariot was two-wheeled, four-horse-pulled, and three Qin soldiers stood on the chariot, and the driver in the middle was covered with heavy armor on the neck, hands and other vulnerable parts in addition to the front and rear armor and mantle.

The chariot standing on the left side of the driver held a bow and shot at the Zhao army in front of him, while the chariot on the right held a shield to provide cover for the other two people in the car.

Each of the forty chariots was followed by seven armor soldiers, and after the armor soldiers, there were fifteen apprentices, and all the armor soldiers and apprentices formed a thousand-person assault group with these forty chariots as the core, killing towards the gap that the Zhao army had just appeared.

Bai Qi barely hesitated at all, and blurted out: "Left and right officials, extroverted." ”

Just when this mixed assault group of light vehicles and material officers stood out from the center, the left and right wings of the entire phalanx also spread out at the same time like wild geese, and there were also three columns on the left and right, a total of six columns, each column of eighty-three, a total of four hundred and ninety-eight Qin army crossbowmen, under the order of the two five hundred lords, at the same time to draw the bow and open the crossbow, and then fire it neatly.

"Whoosh!" All kinds of arrows rose into the sky like locusts and then fell from the sky, once again densely covering the breakthrough of Zhao Leibi that had just appeared, and completed another round of firepower coverage amid the screams of countless Zhao soldiers.

After this round of arrows was over, the Qin army's chariot that was rushing to the forefront was only thirty steps away from the Zhao army's fortress position!

As soon as Bai Qi set his eyes on the Qin army chariot at the front, he saw that two of the four horses pulling the cart suddenly neighed in shock, instantly submerged into the ground, and disappeared from Bai Qi's field of vision.

Bai frowned: "Trapped in a horse pit? ”

After losing two war horses, the Qin army chariot also crooked, and directly rolled to the ground in the rumbling sound, and the three armor soldiers on the car were thrown into the sky like cannonballs, and after landing, they rolled more than a dozen times in a row until they hit Zhao Leibi in front of them, and they didn't know if they were alive or dead.

Several running armor soldiers who followed behind this chariot were unable to regain momentum, and also fell into this trap carefully disguised by the Zhao army, and then several screams came from the pit, and some of the Qin army armor soldiers who fell into the pit were directly hit by the dense pear flower spears and long bamboo sticks in the pit and died, and some were pierced through the thighs, arms and abdomen, bleeding and screaming.

There are one and two, after this Qin army chariot, many other Qin army chariots also stepped on the other Zhao army's already dug horse trap pits, for a time people on their backs overturned the carts, and the smoke and dust in the horse pit were everywhere, and the screams in the smoke and dust were endless.

However, the Qin army's assault phalanx was completely unmoved, and only a few people stepped into the trap after all, and most of the chariots with the armor and soldiers behind the cart bypassed the trap and continued to break through the Zhao army's position.

The Zhao army seemed to be intimidated by the might of the Qin army, and although there were sporadic arrows shot out of the entire position, there was no movement other than that.

Several Qin generals who were riding their horses and standing next to the white canopy glanced at each other, and they all saw a slight joy in each other's eyes.

Everything seems to be going pretty well.

But just when the Qin army's chariot rushed to a position only twenty steps away from the Zhao army's position, and the soldiers on the chariot could even see the Zhao soldiers behind the wall, the Zhao army's counterattack was finally launched.

At this moment, when the smoke and dust in the trap slowly dissipated, Bai Qi's face standing under the canopy moved slightly, and he suddenly found that there were dozens of "chariots" on the Zhao army's fortified position.

The reason why I put quotation marks around this chariot is that it has a cart but no horse, and it is not a soldier on it, but a huge crossbow.

The crossbow machine was made of wood and iron, with a two-metre-long arm and a giant crossbow bolt the size of an adult's arm.

When Bai Qi's gaze fell on these crossbow machines, almost all of them had already been wound, and the thick crossbow arrows were pointed directly at the Qin army chariot that was hurrying in front of him.

An officer of the Zhao State then appeared, holding a small flag in his hand, and after shouting loudly at the wrestlers next to the crossbow machine, he pointed the small flag in the direction where the Qin army was.

With the wave of this small flag, Bai Qi's heart also suddenly sank.