Chapter 542: Filling in the trenches
Pour! A military attache of Donghu with a fierce face pointed his horse whip at the trench in front of him, and thousands of people rushed up and overturned the dirt bags they were carrying in the trenches.
There were also thousands of Donghu soldiers with bright armor and dark armor on both wings, all of them did not ride horses, scattered in front of the trenches, at this time they were separated from the Wei army of the brigade within 100 steps, 200 to 300 steps away, the Wei army had dozens of bed crossbows, these crossbow arrows with solid steel as the edge and cast iron as the feather kept shooting over, even the Donghu soldiers could only pray not to be shot by such heavy arrows, otherwise even if they were wearing strong armor, they would definitely die.
In the sound of the collapse of the bed crossbow, there is a large number of dull sounds when the Han slaves fill the trench, the straw soil bag weighs more than 100 catties, these Han slaves are weak in body, and the spirit is extremely nervous, in a short period of time, there are more than 100 people fall into the trench, this kind of ditch is wide and narrow at the bottom, and there are sharp piles at the bottom, after falling down, they are stabbed, they can't climb up at all, let them scream in the ditch, the Donghu people also have no reaction, the Han slaves are gritting their teeth and continue to fill the trench, and after a short time, they will bury these partners who fell into the ditch alive.
The two sides kept shooting bows and arrows at each other, gradually adding troops, and by the end of the hour, more than 30,000 archers had gathered on a battle line more than ten miles long, and the Wei army had a divine arm bow and a bed crossbow, which was much stronger than the Donghu people in long-range strikes, but in the confrontation within a hundred paces, the ordinary archers of the Wei army were far from being the opponents of the Donghu people.
Wei Jun is also a very heavy archer, and the strength of the foot bow is also at least ten forces, ten consecutive shots, and thirty slow bows to be qualified. But the Donghu people are a group of livestock, and their foot bows are longer than the Wei army's foot bows, and the materials used may not be as exquisite as the Wei army's standard foot bows, after all, the weapons supervisors of the Great Wei are much stronger than the Donghu people in terms of materials and technology. However, it relies on the elongated bow body to make the foot bow more powerful, and the general Donghu foot bow is at least ten forces, but its archers can generally use twelve or thirteen forces, which is generally higher than the Wei army's archers. What's even more terrifying is that its most ordinary marksman, the rate of fire, accuracy, and strength are all on par with the best marksmen in Great Wei.
If it weren't for the fact that there were a considerable number of divine arm bows in the Wei army, I am afraid that in such a scale of shooting, the Wei army would have been defeated and retreated.
The quasi-head of the bow is actually not as good as the bow of the step, when the bowstring vibrates and the arrow leaves the groove, it is inevitable that there will be some deviation, and the experienced shooter can fine-tune, so that when shooting a fixed target, within 100 steps, it can be roughly seven or eight out of ten, two hundred steps away, and the probability of hitting the target is much smaller, the bow of the god arm is said to be an effective range of 300 steps, in fact, when the 300 steps have been slanted into shape, and the strength is exhausted, there is no threat and use. The real effective firing distance is 200 steps, in about 200 steps, it can still break through the iron armor, but the damage is not heavy, even so, the threat of the divine arm bow to the Donghu people is also quite large, when the two armies shoot along the long trench, the Wei army's divine arm bow is to play a great role.
If someone looks up at the sky, sometimes they have the illusion that the sky is full of arrows flying back and forth, and the feathers at the tail of the arrows are fluttering in the air, which has a strange and strange beauty.
Tens of thousands of armor soldiers are shouting, there are many iron-clad soldiers holding guns, holding spears, waving knives, insulting each other, cheering up the shooters on their side, the two armies are densely packed, whether it is the Wei army or the Donghu soldiers, they know that after the long trench is filled, it is the beginning of hand-to-hand combat, and the officers and soldiers of the two armies, from military attaches to ordinary soldiers, are making preparations before the battle.
The Hannu had already suffered heavy casualties, and their blood seeped into the inside and outside of the trench, and many of them died on the edge of the trench and were directly filled into the trench, which served as cloth bags.
At the end of the hour, the sun rises, the sky is clear, the weather is actually a little warm, the land is muddy, at this time is the beginning of the land of western Liaoning from spring to early summer, when the sun is about to rise to noon, tens of thousands of Donghu troops
At the cost of nearly 10,000 lives, the Hannu finally filled in the first long trench that stretched from the Jinzhou City Gate to the Yushui.
Countless Donghu armor soldiers broke out a wolf's howl-like shout, followed by sword and shield hands, long hands in front, foot archers in the back or on both sides, the first wave of attacks is more than 30,000 armor soldiers launched one after another, because the front is very long, so the Donghu people's assault array is also like dogs' teeth staggered, uneven, but the direction of the main attack is obviously sideways in the direction of Jinzhou.
The two sides soon fell into close proximity.
Due to the influence of the Wei people, the establishment of the Eastern Hu army seems to be similar to that of the Northern Captives, Hu Feng is obvious, but its troop configuration, and even weapons, are mostly similar to the Wei army. Unlike the northern captives, there are many throwing weapons such as spears, throwing axes, bones, broadswords, and flying swords, and there are many weapons such as spears, knives, forks, mallets, and even maces.
The Donghu soldiers are mainly iron spears and long guns, with a small number of horizontal swords and shield players, plus a large number of foot archers.
When the two sides came into contact, the rain of arrows above their heads still kept shooting down, because they were all armored soldiers, unless they were shot at close range, they were generally only slightly wounded, and the two sides slapped and stabbed each other with long guns, and in a short time they suffered heavy casualties, and after noon, after nearly half an hour of fighting, the soldiers of the forward were extremely tired, and the trenches that had just been filled were covered with corpses and dying groaning seriously wounded.
At this time, the generals of the two sides successively adjusted the array, withdrew some tired soldiers, and at the same time transferred the new force.
If one of the two sides is not strong-willed, or the combat strength is insufficient, one side will be unstable when it comes into contact, and after half an hour of fighting, the battle line will go on, and even with the advance of the main armor of one side, it is likely that one side will collapse directly.
This was not the case with the Wei and Eastern Hu armies.
Both sides did not even invest heavily at the beginning, and so far, the situation on the battlefield was quite complicated, with both the Donghu and Wei armies leaving a considerable number of reserves, and even the troops that were dispatched were only forward troops, and did not directly bet all their forces to make a breakthrough.
The Wei army is mainly defensive, even if the former army commander is Li Youde, who is known for breaking through and being good at attacking, but it is more cost-effective to wait for work, and the Wei army uses trenches as moats everywhere on the front line, and shoots a large number of Donghu soldiers with divine arm bows and bed crossbows.
Around the beginning of the afternoon, the two sides engaged in battle for a short time, but the ground was already full of dead soldiers, because there were too many dead people, affecting each other's hand-to-hand, someone dragged the corpse away, and then there were too many dead people, the two sides killed red eyes, no one paid attention, the dead soldiers formed a hill-like pile of corpses in the middle of the battle between the two sides, and the soldiers on both sides stepped on the corpses or seriously injured people, and stabbed and swung hard.
Around the second moment, the two sides had a tacit pause, both sides knew each other's opponent's toughness, and at this time they were resting, many of the wounded armored soldiers who were tired and full of arrows limped backwards, they were silent, tired, their eyes were bloodshot, their throats seemed to be on fire, and their lips were chapped and chapped. A short period of fighting on the front line and a day of hard labor is the truest situation on the battlefield. The soldiers and military attachés walked in silence together, drinking the water left in the water bladder, and then they found a random place to squat down and sit down, and the battle was only a brief lull on the front, and the battle was still on the verge of breaking out at any time.
After the fresh forces of both sides were filled in again, the whole front was full of the sound of fighting, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the vibration of bowstrings, the sound of long clapping, the crisp sound of piercing armor, and the sound of popping and snorting when piercing the human body, the miserable howls of people, the sound of moaning, and fighting
The noise on the field makes people's ears buzz, but in the short time of withdrawing from the battle line, many people will be deaf for a short time, their ears are buzzing, and they can't hear anything, but after evacuating the front line for a few hundred steps, many people can't help but smile on their faces, even the most ferocious and brutal Donghu veterans with the most battlefield experience, they can't help it. Many soldiers can't help but feel out the water bladder, drink a bit, the weather on this day is unexpectedly warm, even the wind blowing over also carries some warmth, to noon, the ground is quite muddy, this is the ice and snow left over in winter, the ice and snow will be wet on the ground, when the temperature is low, the ground is frozen every day, to this climate, everywhere is a piece of mud, and so many people are fighting on the battlefield, in addition to the blood stains that can be seen everywhere, the ground is also a mess of dirt trampled by the soldiers, When many people drank water, they didn't care about the muddy ground, they just sat on the ground, and then watched their comrades with bows and bows continue to move forward amid the sound of drums and banners.
At the end of the day, the two sides continued to slowly add troops, the smooth battlefield situation was repeatedly broken, the battlefield that stretched for more than ten miles, except for a small number of places near Yushui that were not conducive to fighting, most of the places have been continuously killing each other, everywhere are corpses everywhere, blood flows like rivers, a large flock of crows hovering and flying in the sky, they are frightened by the sound of drums and shouts of killing, they do not dare to land without stopping, after a long time, they gradually fly into the distance.
Li Guorui, Yue Zhi and others also went to the former army to observe the battlefield, the entire battlefield is still a stage of equal confrontation, for the two strong armies, equipment, organization, experience, numbers, and the ability of the generals are almost the same, and both sides have the desire to defeat each other in battle, so it is not surprising that the battle is fought like this.
Many decisive battles in history, such as the Battle of Kunyang, the Battle of Chibi, and Xiang Yu's backwater, were all divided in a short instant, because the losing side did not expect the winner's side to burst out with great strength, and also overestimated the strength of their own side, and the result was an unexpected fiasco.
The famous battle of Changping, it seems that Zhao Kuo led the troops and then failed miserably, in fact, from the Qin and Zhao armies attacked each other, confronted each other in Changping, fighting, from the cavalry battle to the chariot battle, to the war between ordinary foot soldiers, before Zhao Kuo took office, I don't know how many battles, both sides are Warring States powers, Zhao Army and Qin Army are also strong armies, the war between the two lasted for more than a year, you can imagine how many times the war broke out on the battlefield, and the generals on both sides worked hard for it, How much effort has been put in.
In the face of the equally elite Zhao army, even if the commander of the Qin army was the famous god of war Bai Qi, he could still only do nothing in front of Lian Po's strong wall.
In the later stage of the Battle of Changping, it was directly the embodiment of the national strength of the two countries, and the Qin State also did its best for this war, and it did not slow down for many years after the war, let alone take the opportunity to destroy the Zhao State. And Zhao is even more miserable, until Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Zhao did not recover its vitality, the Battle of Changping, Zhao not only lost a generation of male strong men, but also fought for the national strength!
When Zhao Kuo took office, Zhao Guo actually couldn't hold on to the overall war, that is, the classical militarism of the pre-Qin period could support hundreds of thousands of people to fight for so long, but the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations couldn't do it, even if Zhao Guo supported it with the strength of the whole country, when Lian Po stepped down, it was actually Zhao Guo who couldn't hold on, and if he didn't release a young general like Zhao Kuo to fight to the death, Zhao Guo was also dead, and there was no chance. Otherwise, it would be stupid to be the king of Zhao and his ministers, and put a general who can only talk on paper to command the whole army of 400,000 people?
In the eyes of Li Guorui and Yue Zhi, the current battlefield situation is quite normal.