Chapter 72: Arrow Array
Lu Chen gave an order, and the border troops moved up and down.
What is the concept of 50,000 people doing one thing together at the same time, even if one person only resists one bag of sand, it is 50,000 bags!
And there is such a thing as soil, which will be inexhaustible anywhere.
In only half a day's effort, the height of the ground in the Wuguan city wall almost covered the city gate, and at Lu Chen's request, all the soldiers worked together to shovel the soil, the bag to bag, and in order to prevent the soldiers from slipping under their feet, the coarse cloth sacks were filled with that kind of hard soil, not wet soil.
As a result, Lu Chen, with the vision of a modern person, completely subverted the shackles of the ancient cold weapon battlefield.
When the ground height in Wuguan reached a certain level, Lu Chen asked Zhao Chuan to test the arrow again, and at this time, with Zhao Chuan's arm strength, the arrow was already able to easily cross the wall of Wuguan and fly outside the pass.
Next, Lu Chen ordered the troops to suspend the padding, and after he asked the soldiers on the Wuguan city wall to gather on both sides, he ordered Zhao Chuan's first corps to take the lead in the experiment.
"Take a bow!"
"Put!"
Under the command of Zhao Chuan, the soldiers of the First Corps fired arrows in unison, and they shot arrows from the field inside the city wall to the other side of the city wall, and the arrows had to fly over the wall to do so.
The sharp rain of arrows was like a dark cloud, and although most of them turned into an arc and flew above the city walls, there were still a small number of soldiers, due to insufficient arm strength or poor angles, and the arrows they shot either hit the city walls or just shot into the defensive areas inside the city walls.
This kind of situation, in the real battlefield, is obviously absolutely not allowed to happen, otherwise, the arrows shot from the pass will definitely hurt some of their own brothers who are defending on the city wall.
Therefore, in the training after the completion of the padding, Zhao Chuan marked the arrows of each soldier with his name.
Some of the soldiers were responsible for collecting and shooting arrows outside the gate, while others that either did not shoot through the city walls or shot inside the walls were picked up and collected by a team of non-commissioned officers before being sent to the training grounds.
After the thousands of arrows scattered at the foot of the city wall or within the wall were recovered, Zhao Chuan casually picked up one of them, looked at the name on the arrow shaft, and reprimanded loudly:
"Liu Dalong! Didn't you eat at noon! Did You Know? Just now, if it's on the battlefield! Instead of killing or injuring the enemy, your arrow will most likely kill your own comrades because of your mistakes! Do you understand!? ”
Then, under this layer of screening, excluding the 3,000 cavalry of the Wuyue Division, more than 40,000 soldiers were divided into two parts, one of which was a full 30,000, these soldiers were all strong, the movements of the arrows on the bow were the same, the angle of the oblique lifting of the upper air was also the same, and the arrows shot could all cross the city wall and fall to the plain outside the pass.
The armament storage of the border army now has more than 200,000 arrows, and after the training of these 30,000 soldiers is completed, Lu Chen will distribute all the 150,000 arrows to these 30,000 soldiers.
In other words, he planned to use 30,000 soldiers as a salvo to carry out five large-scale arrow formations!
The other nearly 20,000 soldiers were all assigned to the city wall.
The city wall of Wuguan can accommodate about 5,000 soldiers at most, that is to say, the rest of the people are all ready to desperately guard the city wall, not to let the barbarians climb up, once there are soldiers on the city wall sacrificed, the soldiers waiting at the stairs will immediately fill the vacant position.
Subsequently, Lu Chen made a certain analysis of the range outside the pass covered by the 30,000 soldiers' arrow array, and then decided to personally command this battle!
After everything was arranged, a few days later, the scouts who had been sent out in front suddenly sent back an urgent report, saying that the barbarian army had been assembled and was marching towards Wuguan.
When Lu Chen asked the tanma how many people there were on the other side, the tanma stammered: "My lord, there are too many brute soldiers, there are so many people, you can't see the edge at a glance, villain...... The villain is immeasurable......"
This can't be blamed on him, although the border city has been fighting with barbarians all year round, but it is all a small fight, and the real big battle has not been fought at all, and where has Tanma seen the battle of 200,000 troops. He estimated in his heart that there were hundreds of thousands of people who didn't say anything, but he didn't dare to say this.
After sending away the horses, Lu Chen immediately summoned the generals in the army and promoted the soldiers.
After everyone rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army in a hurry, Lu Chen was in the Shuai case, looked around, and said straight to the point: "According to the report of Tanma just now, the barbarian army has approached Wuguan, and its troops are so large that Tanma calls it boundless, presumably, it must be above 100,000, although the generals have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, I am afraid that they have rarely seen such a battle." ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for everyone to answer, and continued: "What this officer wants to say is that for the generals, your words and deeds will affect the morale of the soldiers below, so no matter how many barbarian troops there are, even if they are 500,000 or 1 million, even if our side is defeated, you must not be afraid, so as to make the army's heart turbulent." ”
"Don't worry, sir! Even if we die on the battlefield, we will never take a step back! When the generals heard this, they returned with a loud voice.
Lu Chen nodded with satisfaction, before the big war, the first thing he had to do was to stabilize these generals in the army.
You must know that the people in the tent, the lowest rank, are also the commanders, and the subordinates command thousands of soldiers, and the position of the commander is extremely important on the battlefield, playing the role of connecting the upper and lower levels, if these people show fear when facing the barbarians, it can be said to be fatal to the soldiers below.
Right now, seeing that everyone looked like they were not afraid of death, Lu Chen didn't say anything more, but turned his head to look at Xiao Wang and asked, "General Xiao, are there still broken arrows like before in our army's reserves?" ”
"Broken arrows?" When everyone heard this, they were puzzled, this battle has been very clear, it is undoubtedly to fight a vicious battle with the barbarians, what is the use of the arrows that are going to be broken now?
Xiao Wang was also puzzled and said: "After the last battle of Hulukou, after our army used the strategy of arrogant soldiers, most of the previous armaments have been destroyed, and there is not much left, what is the use of the old arrows?" ”
In his opinion, in this battle of Wuguan, his side can only defend the city wall and fight with the barbarians, without any opportunistic tricks. It is no longer useful to use the old armament to confuse the enemy, and it is impossible for their side to easily retreat from Wuguan this time, once Wuguan is lost, it means that the barbarians will drive straight into the entire Pingyang County!
Lu Chen smiled slightly: "Last time, General Xiao took advantage of the illusion of our army's backward armament to make the enemy despised, and this time, this official also wants to take advantage of this, but it is not a strategy for arrogance, but in order to cooperate with our 30,000 arrow array......"