The sharpness of the Han army's bow and crossbow is definitely not a general statement, the maximum range of the strong crossbow can reach 300 steps (one step is about 1.5 meters), don't look at the short distance, but do you know what it means under the high-intensity cover?

"We have tried a large number of cavalry to sprint at high speed, from entering the range of the Han army's bow and crossbow, 300 steps are covered by the opponent's strong crossbow, to 260 steps are covered by car crossbows and bed crossbows, and entering 180 steps is covered by stone throwing vehicles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Hu Yansheng's face was extremely ugly: "When you enter one hundred and twenty steps, you will be covered by a strong bow." ”

It's simply the sky, the earth, and even the gods and Buddhas of the heavens have to call again, no one is willing to face this kind of enemy army, it is a situation where they don't even touch a single hair of the other party but they have to bury I don't know how many people first.

At this moment, the Qiang people have cavalry charging, they are very scattered, covering a wide area, and when they enter the distance from the Han army's strong crossbow shooting, the Han army did not send out even a single arrow.

"The Han army no longer shoots arrows, but we don't think it's because of the lack of arrows on the other side." Hu Yansheng waited for a short while, and the cavalry charged extremely fast, and soon rushed to within two hundred paces. He raised his hand and pointed at the Han army's camp and said, "Soon the other party will release arrows." ”

Almost as soon as the words fell, waves of arrows were shot out in the camp of the Han army, which was not large in scale, but it was very targeted.

The arrow flies some distance in mid-air with a whistling sound, and when it hits the target, it will cause a scream of a person or the neighing of a warhorse, and when it hits the ground, it will make a muffled sound.

Hu Yansheng's face was extremely ugly and said: "The arrows of the Han army are all three-edged styles with broken armor, and the middle arrow will inevitably cause penetration, even if it is a war horse, the arrow will not enter the arrow feather part." ”

Look at the cavalry on the battlefield who are hit by arrows, no matter where they are shot, they are directly pierced, which shows that the kinetic energy of the cavalry sprinting forward and the arrow is really large, as Hu Yansheng said, the arrow is the key.

There are advantages and disadvantages to direct penetration of arrows, and it is not easy to take out arrows left in the human body, but the penetration of arrows into the human body means that the wounds increase. In ancient times, when there was a lack of medical treatment, it was a troublesome thing to get an arrow, and it was really not so easy for a human torso to survive an arrow, even in modern times when medical means are abundant.

In just six days, the Qiang army lost nearly 14,000 people, only a very small number of hundreds of people died from melee weapons, and the rest all died under the bows and crossbows of the Han army. What have they achieved? In some cases, they broke down a fence set up by the Han army, and may have killed or injured dozens of Han soldiers.

In the face of the arrow array that can only be broken through by relying on heavy casualties, Yao Yizhong is almost unable to eat and drink these days, and people are also becoming emaciated at a very fast speed.

The new batch of more than 1,000 cavalry who were put into the test rushed to a distance of 100 paces and retreated, and the number of runners back was less than 300, and the visible credit was that the Han army consumed about three or four thousand arrows.

I have to say that the number of arrows shot by the Han army in six days is not small, how can there be more than 250,000. Such a consumption is actually not large, and the result is about seventeen rounds or so, which is already very efficient.

Of course, the Han army actually recycled the nearby arrows, and the actual loss of arrows should be 150,000, and during the period, because of the recovery of the arrows, the Qiang people were lured to attack, and some results were achieved.

Yao Yizhong doesn't have many options now, he has let the craftsmen of the army build wooden shields and sword and shield carts on a large scale, and then he is mentally prepared to pay the necessary casualties.

There is nothing wrong with that, in the face of the Han army's sharp bow and crossbow, shields or something are necessities, and you must also be mentally prepared to pay a heavy price to fight in close quarters.

"Han reinforcements will arrive in two days, and until then we will launch a strong attack regardless of casualties!" Yao Yizhong commanded the battle more than once, and in the face of casualties, it had long been regarded as a pure number, and he said: "Let the Zahu and Jin people be at the front, and our clan soldiers will be at the back. ”

Yao Yizhong brought many leaders of the Qiang tribe and a group of generals from Shijie Zhao to three miles away from the Han army camp, and they needed to make a final inspection and cheer up the troops.

In addition, I have to say that Yao Yizhong is also luring the Han army out of the camp to attack, so he does not hesitate to put on a big battle, and tries to put Daxu in a conspicuous position.

Liu Yan's current available troops are only 30,000, if Yao Yizhong succeeds in attracting the Han army out of the camp to attack, no matter how many, as long as it can offset the benefits of the Han army's bow and crossbow, and come to a hand-to-hand battle, every time a Han army is eliminated, it will be regarded as Yao Yizhong's success.

What is the Han army doing at this time? The question of whether or not to send troops to attack was one thing, and some people quickly drowned out the rest of the topic, the most important of which was to discuss whether or not to allow the fleet of the Luzi River to enter the Yellow River.

The Luozi River is a waterway connecting the Yellow River, where Liu Yanke had previously deployed a large number of docks, and a fleet of 300 had been formed, which was used to prepare to cut off the back route of the Qiang army, that is, to block the Yellow River waterway in the battlefield area.

Is three hundred ships a lot? If you look at the situation of the war, the river section should be enough, but the problem is not calculated in that way, and all the river sections that may be involved should be counted, so that 300 ships will really not be enough.

"There are nearly 1,000 Shijie naval troops, and they may not have rich experience in water warfare, but they are still not to be underestimated." Sang Yu was opposed to dispatching the fleet now, and he continued: "Our current land forces are also insufficient, and if Yao Yizhong wants to retreat, he can't stop it at all. ”

What is the condition of the Shijie Water Army? Nearly a thousand are not talking about people, but boats. The number of boats must account for a large part of it, and the number of ships is at least four hundred, which is really a huge fleet, and the number of personnel serving it is probably not less than 200,000.

Similar to the naval army of the Jin Dynasty, the ships of the Shijie Naval Army are basically also building ship systems, the difference is that the Shijie Naval Army does not have as many three-story building ships as the Eastern Jin Dynasty Naval Army.

"The first reinforcements will arrive tomorrow night, and the second will be two days later." Ji Chang gave a serious answer and said in a dull voice: "In other words, we need to keep Yao Yizhong here for at least three days." ”

Another thing is that the wood and other debris floating on the waterway of the Yellow River are not missing when the Qiang army crosses the river, and they still block a considerable section of the waterway. The ships of the Han army did not come from the sea in the east, but those blocked rivers still needed to be solved so that a trend of attacking from both sides could be formed.

Sang Yu asked commonly: "Set fire?" ”

For a while, I don't know how many people said in unison: "No!" ”

The last time the fire was set in Taishan County, the fire swept through most of Taishan County, not to mention, and the surrounding counties were also affected, and at present, a large area is still full of trauma, and it is still a headache for the ashes left behind after the fire, but the land that suffered the fire will be extremely fertile in the coming year.

It's ridiculous to set fire to a river? Think about it, how the Battle of Chibi was fought.

Liu Yan also disagreed, for him, the wood on the Yellow River is a resource, or a resource obtained by the enemy, and it will be more rewarding to collect it than to cut it by himself.

"Your Majesty?" Ji Chang's question was very practical: "What will be the size of our fleet in three days?" ”

"About ......" Liu Yan thought for a moment and said, "About five hundred." ”

It was a large warship, and most of them were warships that fired crossbow arrows, which were more than enough to deal with the Shijie Zhao army, and even if it was insufficient, it could continue to make up for it.

In fact, it is not enough to have a systematic warship, then it involves wood and other debris near the mouth of the Yellow River, and the final agreed result is to send people to try to fish, and if you can clear a little, it is really only a fire.

The next day, Liu Yan was woken up in his sleep. He asked what the situation was, and the person who came only said that Ji Chang had found an obvious abnormality.

The camp of the Qiang army is the sound of horns before dawn, and a large area of the camp is also brightly lit, and it seems that there is definitely some big move.

Ji Chang saw Liu Yan coming over, and said urgently: "Today should be the time for Yao Yizhong to launch a general attack. ”

Liu Yan didn't speak, he took the lead and walked to the highest lookout in the camp.

On the lookout, and then use the telescope to observe the Qiang camp, you can see that there are many war equipment at the front end of the Qiang camp, there are a large number of sword and shield cars, and there are also those that look like nest cars but are actually extremely large in size.

"Yao Yizhong has a lot of Jin people under him, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In fact, not only Yao Yizhong, but also any high-ranking person in the Central Plains, who of them does not have a large group of attached Jin people around them?

It is inevitable that a large army will send accompanying craftsmen, such as some combat equipment that is temporarily made by accompanying craftsmen. Yao Yizhong had previously placed the craftsman army in the core area, and the Han army had guessed that the Qiang army would build equipment, but he didn't expect to build so much.

As long as you pay a little attention, you will find one point, that is, the equipment that Yao Yizhong ordered people to build has a strong target, and almost all of them are rushing to defend the arrows, which shows how much Yao Yizhong attaches great importance to the benefits of the bow and crossbow on the side of the Han army.

In fact, Yao Yizhong's attention is really understandable, he doesn't know how much the former Huns suffered under the bow and crossbow of the former Han Dynasty, but looking at the battles in the past few days, it should be clear, the Qiang army should prepare more shields if it wants fewer dead, and as many necessary arrow blocking equipment as there can be.

Finding that the Qiang army had prepared countless anti-arrow equipment, Liu Yan and others, who had gone up to the watchtower, subconsciously looked at each other.

"So...... So the nearby forests have suffered again? ”

“……”

Everyone was a little stunned by the direction of Liu Yan's attention, now seems to be the time to care about the environment, it should be to worry about the benefits of the bow and crossbow being offset, how can the Han army block the strong attack of the Qiang army? (To be continued.) )