Chapter 329: Jinfan's Army 2
At the same time as attacking the infantry, the suppression of the Jing Yan by the sharpshooters also began, and the power of the Shu army's combat weapon, the crossbow, had been tested in the battle against Dong Zhuo and the battle against Yuan Shao in Bingzhou, and when a thousand crossbowmen sent the crossbow arrows in the arrow box to the well at a jaw-dropping speed, the Yuan army froze. Many people are pregnant with "this...... What kind of weapon is this? Could it be the rumored repeater? Really...... ...... so quickly" and sighed into the souls of the Shu army's arrows, and the corpses that had lost their support fell from the high wells......
The stormy attack of a thousand crossbows actually suppressed dozens of enemy troops in an absolutely superior position! Of course, this is only temporary, as long as Yuan Jun wakes up from his shock and takes advantage of his unique advantage of being in a high place, even if he can't suppress the opponent's crossbow, it is still possible to kill quite a bit!
Of course, the hand speed of the archer is not as fast as that of the repeater, but the accuracy is higher than that of the repeater with rapid fire (if the repeater chooses to reduce the rate of fire, the accuracy is higher than that of the bow and arrow, mainly due to the fact that Liu Zhang's modified repeater arrow magazine is below, and the aiming point is retained), when the arrow wrapped in cotton wool and linen cloth and soaked in tung oil hits the enemy, the air immediately emits a scorched smell. No matter how powerful the arrows are, it is impossible to destroy the wells, but rockets are different, no, there are already many wells filled with burning rockets like thorns, and if they are not dealt with in a hurry, these rockets will bring great disaster. Some of the soldiers of the Yuan army have realized this, and they use the weapons in their hands to pick out those places that they can reach one by one, but many rockets that hit the middle of the well make it impossible for the soldiers on the ground or on the well to reach, and the most important thing is that since the Shu army is determined to destroy the enemy's well, how can it be possible to watch the other party destroy their hard work, so even the crossbowmen have aimed at these enemies!
Lei Bo, who was watching the battle from the rear, couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw this scene, he didn't expect the firepower of the Shu army to be so dense, it seemed that the other party seemed to have achieved a bow in his hand, and there were many of them that he had heard of for a long time, but he had always been a crossbow......
Seeing the strength of the enemy, Yuan Jun on the other side of the moat understood that the ladder on the moat was simply the road to hell, and the ants were still stealing their lives, let alone people? For a moment, everyone hesitated in front of the ladder.
The Shu soldiers ignored the enemy troops on the opposite side, they reloaded their crossbow arrows and shot the struggling enemy soldiers in the water one by one, and soon the Yuan army who fell into the water learned the word quiet, even if some of them were wounded and blood was constantly draining, they gritted their teeth and tried to keep themselves motionless, because they found that those vicious enemies did not seem to have any interest in dead bodies.
Watching his own soldiers being slaughtered in pieces, although Lei Bo felt angry and unbearable, but as a general, he knew very well the truth that Ci was not in charge of the troops, so he did not order the collection of troops, as soon as he faced the enemy's fierce offensive, he fled in embarrassment at the beginning of the battle, I am afraid that the morale of the entire army will drop to the freezing point, and secondly, he thinks that since the other party is all archers, as long as he hardens his heart and rushes to the other party at the cost of a huge number of casualties, then the strength and weakness will change hands in an instant, and then it is the time for him to repay the blood debt!
Lei Bo, who made up his mind, not only did not withdraw his troops, but transferred 5,000 people again, and sent his own troops to fight in front of him, strictly ordering everyone not to take half a step back without receiving orders, otherwise they would all be killed!
Yuan Jun quickly came back to his senses after a brief period of consternation, and the front-line generals immediately changed their tactics and ordered the archers to come forward to take cover, while the sword and shield soldiers rushed forward with their shields on their backs, and the other soldiers followed closely behind the sword and shield soldiers.
The sound of "whoosh, whoosh" was endless, and the archers of the Yuan army launched a counterattack, although it was not easy to hit the Shu army behind the obstacle because of the angle problem, but with the archers on the well, it still greatly reduced the pressure on their own side.
Yuan Jun sword and shield bowed down, hid his body behind the shield, lowered his head and stepped on the cloud ladder, the Shu army immediately discovered the situation, "poof, poof" arrows suddenly fell like raindrops, the power of individual crossbows and bows looked a little pale in front of the shield defense, except for a few Yuan Jun arrows who did not hide their bodies fell into the moat, this wave of attack of the Yuan army has not been delayed.
"The third and fifth battalions will attack crosswise, and the fourth battalion will attack the enemy archers......" Ling Cao saw that Yuan's army was protected by a shield, and immediately changed his fighting style, ordering the third and fifth battalions to abandon the frontal blockade and attack the enemy on the left and right instead, and the fourth battalion suppressed the archers on the opposite bank.
Yuan Jun had just begun to become complacent, thinking that he was about to rush to the enemy to settle the battle, when he suddenly realized that the frontal blow was gone, and they could not breathe a sigh of relief, and countless arrows were fired at the left and right at the same time......
"Ah......" Yuan Jun screamed and fell into the moat like dumplings.
"Don't turn back, rush me, and those who retreat without permission will die!" The general of the Yuan army, who was in charge of the command at the front, brandished his spear and shouted.
The soldiers of the Yuan army did not dare to turn back, so they had to brave the rain of arrows of the Shu army to continue to rush forward, fortunately, the soldiers of the third, fourth and fifth battalions of the first independent brigade of the navy army used single-shot crossbows, and the rate of fire was far inferior to the bow and arrow, and the moat was only five or six zhang wide, when the soldiers of the Yuan army endured two waves of arrow rain, the first batch of Yuan soldiers had already stepped on the opposite bank.
In order to break the deer barricades and fences of the Shu army, the Yuan army fired thousands of stone bullets, although these stone bullets damaged a large number of deer barrages and fences, but there are advantages and disadvantages, and now these thousands of stone bullets that are messy and full of ground and the remains of the deer are mixed together, which greatly affects the speed of the Yuan army, and from time to time there are Yuan soldiers who are nervously watching the movements of the Shu army accidentally hit the stone bullets, were tripped and fell to the ground, and fell to the ground.
At this time, the third wave of crossbow arrows of the Shu army was loaded, and after the rainstorm landed, the Yuan army instantly fell a large area.
"The third and fifth battalions are ready to engage the enemy!" Ling Cao put down the crossbow in his hand, took out the spear and square shield and shouted.
The soldiers of the third and fifth battalions put down their crossbows and grabbed their shields and spears placed beside them.
"Kill ......" Ling Cao shouted loudly, jumped out of his hiding place, and pounced on the enemy like a tiger descending from a mountain. Here you can see the difference between the Yuan army and the Shu army, the general of the Yuan army in charge of the front-line command drove the soldiers to attack the enemy, but the Shu army was just the opposite, the general took the lead and led the soldiers to meet the battle.
"Kill, ......" The two thousand officers and soldiers of the third and fifth battalions shouted in unison, and rushed out after Ling Cao's footsteps.
The stone bullets all over the ground affected the movement of the Yuan army, but the impact on the soldiers of the first independent brigade of the navy did not seem to have much impact, I saw them form a small formation of twenty or thirty people, holding a shield in front of them in their left hand, holding a gun in their right hand on the shield, the head of the gun pointed obliquely at the sky and the red sun, and everyone in the formation shouted the slogan of "one, two, one ......" in unison, the slogan was very rhythmic, with the rhythm of the slogan, everyone in the formation seemed to be one, and they moved forward with neat steps. A glance at them showed that each time they were stepping on the same foot, and the distance of each step was almost the same, and the tip of the spear pointed at the sky was as straight as a line.
"Stop-" In the blink of an eye, the two armies collided together, the Shu soldiers shouted in unison, only to hear a loud sound of "bang", two thousand shields almost simultaneously pestled on the ground, built into an impermeable wall, only to see the Shu soldiers standing in lunges, shields, the ground and the right leg formed a triangle, increasing the resistance, and then the word "kill" exited, two thousand spears roared out, and the Yuan army at the front fell almost a whole row in the scream.
"Collect—" The spear was drawn, and countless pillars of blood gushed out.
"Kill—" The two thousand officers and soldiers shouted again, and the halberd struck again.
Only then did the soldiers of the Yuan army come back to their senses, and the sword and shield hands raised their shields to parry, and the pikemen stabbed over.
The soldiers of the two armies, who collided violently, fought together for the same purpose, and the shouts, screams, and the sound of steel clashing rang out, and one soldier after another fell into the dust, blood staining Dagong.
At this time, Ling Cao regarded himself as an ordinary soldier, forming a small formation with more than two dozen Shu soldiers, following the neat number to maintain the same action with the soldiers in the formation, and every time the spear was stabbed, it would bring up a pillar of blood.
When the third and fifth battalions of Ling Cao fought with the Yuan army, the first, second, and fourth battalions were not idle, at this time, because the two armies had been mixed together, the archers above and below the Yuan army's wells were unable or could only launch sparse attacks very cautiously, so that the first and second battalions of the Shu army felt fearless, and unceremoniously launched a fierce attack on the enemy with bows and crossbows. The soldiers of the fourth battalion also kept shooting the enemy soldiers on the ladder with their crossbow arrows, doing their best to prevent the enemy troops from crossing the moat.
Lei Bo saw that it was no longer useful for Jing Qian to stay on the front line, and it was better to retreat temporarily than to be burned by the Shu army in vain. As soon as Lei Bo gave the order, Yuan Jun immediately pushed the well and left the battlefield, and when he stepped out of the Shu army's attack range, the Yuan soldiers immediately started to extinguish the fire. The flames on the shaft were extinguished in time, and in the end, only one was seriously damaged and collapsed, and the others were able to continue to be used after simple reinforcement.
The soldiers of the first and second battalions immediately started with the soldiers of the fourth battalion after forcing away Yuan Junjing, and the firepower of a thousand crossbows and a thousand bows and arrows was at least equivalent to five or six thousand single-shot crossbows, and in a blink of an eye, the moat was covered by the rain of arrows of the Shu army, and any idea of taking a step in the thunder pool was very, very dangerous.
Pity the soldiers of the Yuan army who crossed the moat, they felt as if they had hit an iron wall, and it was a thorny iron wall, they tried their best to resist, but the other party only showed a head and right hand, and the other parts were covered tightly by shields, the head target was too small, the order was not so easy, and other places could not hurt the other party at all, and the other party's uniform movements made them feel a sense of powerlessness, unless they retreated, whether they went left or right, they would inevitably hit the enemy's gun, Yuan Jun soldiers found that these Shu soldiers seem to be born with divine power, because every time these people stab, the leather armor on their bodies is so fragile, almost every shot will pierce the leather armor and penetrate deep into their bodies, if these people's spears stab you, if you are wearing leather armor and have no shield in your hand, then your only choice is to retreat and leave the attack distance of these people's spears, only in this way can you escape!