Chapter 118 Forward
Screams rang out one after another.
This distance is projectile with heavy arrows, the weight of this arrow is more than double the weight of light arrows, the arrow shaft is thick, the tail feathers are heavy, the arrow is a flat shovel form, heavy arrow throwing, the strength of the hard bow plus the inertia of the arrow itself, the front is enough to break through the leather armor and other light armor, even if it is iron armor, it can also shoot through the scales, shoot the ribs, and hurt the internal organs!
Most of the thieves were unarmoured, and when the arrows rained down, they immediately inflicted severe damage.
The drums beat non-stop, the arrows continued to rain down, and the screams continued one after another.
Some people were shot more than ten arrows at the same time and fell to the ground like hedgehogs, and some people were pierced through the throat by an arrow and fell directly to the ground and died. Someone was stabbed in the face, shot blind, wanted to pull out but didn't dare, spun in place and screamed. Someone was shot through the chest and died, someone was wounded in the ribs, waist, leg, was shot by a heavy arrow, the injury was not light, and he could only fall to the ground, hoping that someone would help him and drag him away from the battlefield.
Xu Ziwen's heart was pounding, the soldiers were in danger, and the text descriptions he saw in the books could not be compared with the real battlefield at all.
More than 1,000 people on the middle battlefield were already about to collapse, and in a short period of time, two rounds of arrows killed at least fifty or sixty people, and nearly two hundred people were wounded, accounting for almost thirty percent of the number of thieves.
Although they rushed closer, they were already unable to lift their heads from the arrows.
Attacking head-on, the easiest landing point for archers to shoot was in the middle, and of course these thieves in the middle suffered the heaviest losses.
Lin Fengshan's Pufuya generals who stayed in the middle of the formation played a role, and the team of these dozens of people were all ruthless veterans, they were covered in iron armor, and the arrows posed little threat to them.
In the chaos of the battlefield, armed with swords, they stopped those who tried to flee backwards, and then slashed them on the spot.
Under the persecution of these fierce Pufu generals, the crowd who were badly shot by the arrows could only choose to continue climbing.
More than halfway up the embankment, the heavy arrows were fired three times, when the drumbeat on the embankment became so rapid that all the archers switched to light arrows and began to shoot in quick succession.
This time, the thieves in the middle were almost crossed.
More than 800 archers fired their bows and arrows in succession, and one arrow was followed by a second arrow. There are many bow and arrow societies in the Great Wei Dynasty, almost every town, ordinary people have also learned bows and arrows, and even many archers use their own customary longbows.
The light arrow did not stop at a rapid pace, and in a short period of time, six rounds were fired in a row.
The entire embankment is almost covered by arrows from top to bottom, the ground is full of people lying down, many people have been hit by more than one arrow, the lethality of light arrows is not as good as heavy arrows, but three, the edged arrows can open a bleeding wound, the blood does not stop, people quickly lose the ability to move, after a few light arrows, even a mountain-like man will fall to the ground, do not wait for the wound to be treated to stop the bleeding after not daring to act again.
This time, the middle team has been reduced by more than half, but fortunately they have rushed into the riverbank.
It is not that no one of the thieves knows how to shoot arrows, and when the distance reaches thirty or forty paces, many thieves also shoot arrows and shoot back.
At this time, the two wings were also about to climb to the embankment, and many thieves shot light arrows from the two wings.
There were also people in the squad who kept falling, and some soldiers began to be hit by arrows.
Whenever someone is hit by an arrow, it is a muffled snort, if it is not a critical arrow, it is just a glance, at most a muffled snort.
The one who was hit by the arrow slowly fell to the ground and began to cover the wound and moan quietly.
If a soldier of a certain team is hit by an arrow and someone makes a commotion, the military attache leading the team will immediately reprimand him severely.
If someone turns his head to look left and right, he is immediately scolded.
Several military attachés from Gushan thieves patrolled the teams, and some of them stuck out their heads to poke their brains, or looked left and right, stepped forward to kick them, and then scolded them with their heads and faces.
There are arrows flying overhead, but these veterans are nothing, their performance is also to stabilize the morale of the army, and months of rigorous training have also shown full effect at this time.
On both flanks, a large group of more than 2,000 thieves poured up the embankment, shooting arrows as they ran, and three or four hundred men rushed up in front of them, waving swords and guns.
The archers were ordered to shoot flat at the wings, but the continuous nearly ten rounds of projectiles and rapid-fire slowed down the frequency of the archers' movements, and the bows and arrows were not very effective against the thieves who detoured from the wings.
"It seems to be stable." Li Gu kept holding the cup but forgot to drink it, the war in front of him was a group training and a group of thieves, and it was a small matter that could not be put on the table at the court level.
On Jinghu South Road, I don't know how many times the bandit war of more than 10,000 people has been fought, and the imperial court has not paid much attention to it.
Xunyang is surrounded by mountains, and the thieves have gathered nearly 200,000 people, and the officers and soldiers do not dare to enter and suppress more than 10,000 people, and the imperial court also has an ambiguous attitude...... Everyone knows that most of the 200,000 people in Xunyang are refugees who can't survive on Jinghu North Road and Henan Road, farming in the mountains of Xunyang and other places to survive...... But this is something that cannot be done, and the situation of Henan Road and Jinghu North Road, Jinghu South Road is quite difficult, which is also a fact that the two governments are well aware of.
But the huge empire is full of problems and troubles, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, the homeless people in the mountains have never really rebelled and become thieves, and the court can't find the money to appease the 200,000 homeless people as the army, this matter can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, everyone pretends to be confused.
For the imperial court, the things in front of him are just a small scene, but for Li Gu, Xu Ziwei, and Xu Ziwen, the scene is quite spectacular.
After all, a large number of pirates invaded a few years ago, Fujian has been calm in recent years, and Nan'an is too close to Fucheng, you can see such a spectacular scene on the right side of Fucheng, which is also worth the day's rush and hard work.
"It's stable." Xu Ziwei said: "On both sides, the soldiers are all new troops, and they are going to be chaotic." ”
Xu Ziwen didn't think so, judging from the performance of the soldiers since the beginning of the war to the present, it can be seen that they are well-trained and calm.
The thieves also had arrows that kept falling into the warriors' formations, but the three battalions of warriors stood still like mountains, how could such an army be easily shaken?
"Hands, let go!"
Almost at the moment when hundreds of thieves rushed up the river embankment head-on, at the risk of being surrounded on both wings, Qin Dongyang still resolutely ordered the attack.
Knife players scattered on both sides, waving their shields against the dancing guerrillas while returning fire with their swords.
And the moment they received the order, under the personal leadership of Qin Dongyang, the two hundred men rushed forward and flattened the long guard!
More than 200 long shabu flattened, when the tip of the flat was put out a huge sound of the pole, the flush tip of the cold mangs stood up, giving people a great sense of oppression.
All of a sudden, the entire battlefield seemed to focus on the middle lane.
Lin Fengshan commanded the left flank, where there were the most Pu generals and swordsmen, and they were the strongest.
Seeing the scene in the middle of the road, beads of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.
This kind of uniform formation is not often seen in the forbidden army!
At this moment, he felt a great threat and danger.
"Step, rush!"
Qin Dongyang held the shield and pressed the knife and gave an order in the formation.
The standard-bearer on the side waved the flag, and each head, the head of the section, the sentry commander, and the officer of the team, repeated his military orders one by one.
The drummers began to beat the drums in a forward rhythm, and this is when the sprint method, which had been trained countless times for months, finally appeared on the battlefield for the first time.
The formation is still a little chaotic, from the embankment to the place where the thieves just rushed up, there is a distance of less than twenty steps, but because it is the first time to fight, the soldiers are inevitably nervous, which leads to the deformation of the action, many people take a big step or a small step, but this has nothing to do with the overall situation, when they rush to the embankment when facing less than 400 people in the middle of the road, the formation still remains quite intact.
Two hundred against four hundred, it seems that there are still many thieves, because the two armies are close, and the archers no longer release arrows in the middle, the pressure of those thieves is immediately much less.
They began to wave their weapons and shout, but no one dared to rush over, and on the opposite side were clearly and neatly arranged long ridges, giving people a great sense of threat. Most of the thieves in the middle lane are rangers and scoundrels from all over the world, and they bully the good and make them crash into the neat formation, of course, everyone is not happy.
The thieves pushed each other, counting on their teammates to rush forward first, and the temporarily appointed petty officers kept pushing people forward, and the more they pushed, the more people retreated.
In this process of pushing, hesitation, and even timidity, the distance of less than twenty paces was shortened in an instant.
"Hands, take three steps forward, stab!"
"Three steps forward, stab!"
All the officers roared with Qin Dongyang, the drummer's arms were about to be broken, and in the fierce drum beat, all the drummers slammed forward three steps.
Although there are only more than 200 people, stepping forward, it almost gives people the feeling that the ground is shaking and there is no way to resist.
This is the skill of the martial arts to train the array every day, over and over again, continuously, the array training is at least an hour and a half every day, and almost every inch of the school ground is soaked in sweat.
Now each soldier may have different thoughts, some are very bold, some are angry, some are frightened, and some are afraid and timid.
But none of the soldiers tried to leave, retreat, or disobey orders.
Long-term training has formed a dual memory of mind and muscle, in the beat of drums and the command of the officer, the current is the front, and the stab is the stab!
More than 200 long guns were stabbed out at the first time!
This distance is the distance that the opponent's weapons can also reach, and they should have confronted each other, looking for gaps, setting up knives and guns, and suppressing each other with martial arts and courage, and then the winner could be decided.
But under the rapid forward movement of the two hundred hands, this attitude of daring to fight hand-to-hand has frightened the souls of the people on the other side, and these ranger scoundrels have also experienced swords and guns, and even dozens and hundreds of people have not participated in group fights. However, they had no experience in fighting with the regular army at all, and most of the thieves were still ignorant when the first round of Chang Qi stabbed over.