Chapter 246 The criminal minister Tu Tan is exhausted. The bright moon, the clear wind, and the stars are rewarded

Jingguan's ridicule effect was better than Tu Tan imagined, and Qiu Xihou regarded this as a great shame and instigated the army to attack and kill.

Tu Tan and the others controlled the speed of the horse to escape, and at the same time turned back to shoot the enemy who caught up, until the arrows in the quiver shot into the air, looking back at the Cypriot cavalry had been overwhelming, setting off a huge torrent of smoke and dust on the grassland.

Cypriots, or nomads, are born to think that the grassland is their home, so they feel that they already know the grassland well, and as long as there is a grassland, they can gallop freely.

But they ignore the importance of technology.

The so-called science and technology is the combination of science and technology in various fields.

The same is true for warfare, where the nomadic steppe strategy is familiar with does not include the concept of trenches.

Maybe not only the nomads, but even the farming people could not have imagined at this time that the iron and bronze tools that they could not use to cultivate the land would be used to dig pits, which is simply a big rebellion!

Bronze, a strategic material that has been controlled by the ruling class for nearly 10,000 years, has strict rules and regulations even when it goes out, and the blades carried when going out must be handed over after the war.

Especially for soldiers, weapons are life, so they don't dig holes with bronze at all.

The things they use to dig pits are stone tools, but the stone tools are too clumsy, inconvenient to use, and cannot be polished very thinly, even if they can dig pits, it is a thing that outweighs the loss.

But there are indeed examples of tunnel warfare in the Warring States, but these are basically rare, one is a tunnel war commanded by Mozi, but the Mo family is willing to use bronze, and he is a scientific strategist, in the entire Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, only Mozi is the family.

Because the cost consumption is too great, the bronze itself is soft, and there is no professional digging equipment, shovels, pickaxes, etc., and the density and hardness of the land in ancient times far exceeded that of later generations, and even the cultivated land technology mainly developed by the agricultural civilization could not be put into the soil two inches at a time, let alone dig a trench that could hide more than 100,000 people.

But all of this will be solved in the Iron Age, tunnel warfare began to appear frequently in history, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were nine records of tunnel warfare during the Three Kingdoms period, such as Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu's battle of Anzhong, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan's battle of Yijing, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's battle of Guandu, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei's battle of Qiyu, Zhuge Liang and Hao Zhao's battle of Chencang, etc. are typical tunnel battles.

There are more records after that, and these are all because of the technological dividends brought about by the popularization of ironware.

So now the Lone Bamboo Army not only has advanced iron tools, but also has rich experience in digging pits, which can hide the trenches of more than 100,000 people, and it can almost be completed in half a day, only about 40 centimeters deep in the pit, enough for people to squat in it.

Moreover, Zhai Qiu still took advantage of the poor vision to dig diagonally, and from a positive angle, he couldn't see that there was a gap on the grassland that stretched for several miles.

Tu Tan led the Cypriot cavalry to a few hundred meters behind the trench, and those Cypriot cavalry did not send them down, and there were more than 100,000 Qin soldiers hidden under the belly of their horses!

But after the disgraced Qin army came out of the trench with a spear, the entire Serbian army collapsed.

The trench was like a huge guillotine, cutting off the hundreds of thousands of Cypriot troops directly from the ground.

Moreover, all the Cypriot cavalry who rushed in front were trapped in the horse pit and turned over on their backs, and they were unable to return to the reinforcements at all, so they fought back.

A cavalryman who has lost his impact and long-range superiority is a living target.

And the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Huns who came from behind, seeing that the situation was not right, were about to escape, and killed thousands of Xuanjia horse chariots from the woods on both sides, four excellent Hequ war horses carrying a driver, two Qin Ruishi, long-range firing Qin Yu, and holding a three-meter-long copper Ge in close combat, the axle heads on both sides of the carriage wheels are made of more than 20 thousand spear heads like meat grinders, which can easily break all the horse legs.

Such a horse chariot is undoubtedly a great killer on the battlefield, a meat grinder, especially in such encounters, and the terrain is flat.

However, the Hun cavalry was not slow to react, and they may have more experience in escaping before, and they could shoot the Qin horse chariot from a distance after turning the horse's head.

However, the common wolf tooth arrows of the Huns caused too little damage to the horse chariots.

Huainanzi recorded that "the chariot was rushed, the big iron cast its end, and the horse was armoured and the chariot was soldiered." ”

In ancient times, there was no doubt that it was a tank, and although the cavalry had the mobility of anti-tank troops, it did not have that equipment.

So he could only flee in a hurry.

How huge and shocking the battlefield of 300,000 people can be, Zhai Qiu and the Guzhu army have already seen it once, and they are not amazed, standing in the mountains and forests looking at the battlefield, but they are not ready to participate in the war, because Zhai Qiu knows that this kind of melee is meaningless, and Guzhu has no obligation to help Daqin annihilate the enemy, he just needs to follow the emperor's wishes, not let this war fail, and not let the Cypriots escape back to the grassland.

Tu Tan and the others returned to a certain hill in the mountain forest and gave Zhai Qiu a thumbs up from afar, expressing their admiration.

Zhai Qiuzhen was about to step forward to speak, but found that after Tu Tan dismounted, he got on the moose covered in armor, and seemed to be ready to go on another expedition.

"What do you do?" For the inaction of the Lone Bamboo Army, Jing Ke and the other Qin State guards were a little dissatisfied in their hearts, unwilling to stay longer, and were about to go back to resume their lives, when they suddenly saw Tu Tan on the steel monster again, and were slightly stunned.

"It's nothing, brothers, go home early to congratulate King Qin, I still have to do something." Tu Tan checked the equipment on the moose and grinned at Jing Ke.

"Your mission is done." Jing Ke's face turned cold, he reached out and grabbed the reins of the moose, and scolded coldly.

"It's a private matter." Tu Tan grinned, "Do you understand? ”

Jing Ke shook his mind slightly, Tu Tan had already pulled the reins, and the moose in pain let out a piercing chirp, and rushed down the mountain angrily.

"What does he do?" A Qingluanwei widened his eyes and said in a deep voice.

"I don't know." Jing Ke looked at Tu Tan's backs without hesitation with complicated eyes, and the hottest sun in the afternoon shone on his silver armor, which was very dazzling.

"Shall we help?" Another Qingluan Wei frowned.

"It's his private business." Jing Ke took a deep breath, sat cross-legged on the grass and said softly, "If he comes back, we will go back together, and if he dies, we can also give the king an explanation." ”

Everyone's faces changed at the same time, and they sat down with a light sigh.

The Cypriot horse was tall enough, but still as small as a foal in front of the moose.

The sudden appearance of such a huge monster in shamanic tales on the chaotic battlefield naturally attracted all the attention.

Moreover, the armor of the Kite Iron Rider and Tu Tan is too dazzling.

In later generations, the moose was nicknamed the "water-sheltering golden-eyed beast".

Because moose can swim more than 20 kilometers, cross straits, and can dive into water to a depth of six meters to feed.

At this time, Tu Tan was like a golden crystal beast that had been avoiding water, and wherever he went, the army avoided it, and those who didn't have time to get out of the way would be pierced through the neck by the spear in his hand.

Tu Tan's skillful marksmanship and rich experience in horse warfare broke out at this moment, truly fighting a bloody way out of thousands of troops.

It is more shocking than the bloody road that Zhao Zilong fought in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

When the second cavalry gun in his hand lost its accuracy because it had stuck too much flesh and blood, Tu Tan finally killed through the Cypriot cavalry regiment of more than 300 meters, and pointed directly at the Cypriot chariot with a shining gold dust flag 100 meters away.

The golden sound and huge force of a sharp arrow mounted on the armor shook Tu Tan's body with a burst of qi and blood, and a burst of scarlet sweetness choked in his throat, which was swallowed alive by him, and his eyes that had already killed red regained a trace of clarity, looking at a red-haired Cypriot man with a bow next to the Cypriot chariot.

Marksman, a sharpshooter whose strength is stronger than Qin's crossbow!

Tu Tan leaned down and hid himself behind the huge iron helmet of the moose, stuffed a piece of ginseng into his mouth, swallowed it without bothering it, and with a loud shout, he pulled out the strong bow behind his waist and shot the arrow at the sharpshooter.

The simple compound bow transformed by Wang Xu can double the user's original poundage, Tu Tan was originally an archer who could hold a stone bow, and now with the help of the compound bow, an arrow comes out like a meteor, and the opposite Cypriot marksman reacts quickly enough, and wants to turn over and hide in the belly of the horse to avoid this arrow, but Tu Tan's silver arrow is too fast, and the arrows are shot on his shoulder, and countless broken flesh and bones burst out visibly with the naked eye.

Even if he survives, this arm is completely useless.

Tu Tan no longer looked at the marksman, and casually held his bow and shot at the guards on both sides of the Cypriot chariot, and then aimed at the war horse of the Cypriot chariot and shot directly.

The chariot pulled by four horses was tilted because one of the horses was dead, and when it was about to overturn, the guards on both sides suddenly crashed into the chariot that was about to overturn with their bodies, and at the same time, the other guard killed the horses on the other side, so that the chariot regained its balance.

Tu Tan grinned, no matter what, the four horses turned into two horses, and the speed slowed down.

However, the closer they got to the chariot, the more lethal the bows and arrows of those guards became, and even with the horse armor, the huge anti-shock force had slowed down the moose, and it seemed to be retreating.

Tu Tan was also hit by two arrows, and the opponent's arrow cluster shot directly through his armor at close range, and the arrow pierced his lower ribs.

"Drink!" The pain and anger made Tu Tan burst into a loud cry again, and after the last arrow in his hand was fired, he abandoned his bow, raised his sword, and stabbed into the hip of the moose's armor.

The moose, already somewhat exhausted, reacted to the pain, hissed and whined, and rushed forward frantically.

Seeing that the moose was about to crash into the back of the chariot, the Cypriot guards rushed towards Tu Tan with men and horses as if they were not dying, blocking Tu Tan's way with their flesh and blood.

The huge collision made Tu Tan's blood surge, and in a trance, he seemed to see the ugly Cypriot leader Qiu Xihou on the chariot, and he was showing a crazy smile for the rest of his life after the catastrophe.

It's just a little bit worse.

Tu Tan, who was about to break his heart, couldn't help but let out a wail in his heart, and the sword in his hand waved mechanically, cutting off the head of a personal guard.

But in the end it was just in vain, there were too many people.

The powerful moose was also knocked out by the crazy guards and lost the last trace of momentum, and Tu Tan's whole person was blown away.

When the body flew in mid-air, in the already flowery sight, the Cypriot chariot that was close at hand was gradually moving away, and the tired and numb body finally couldn't support it, and the last breath was unloaded.

Tu Tan slowly closed his eyes, and he couldn't feel the pain of his body smashing on the ground, being trampled by the horse's hooves, and there was only guilt in his mind.

"The Great Emperor, the criminal minister Tu Tan, exhausted."