Chapter 56: The Siege 5

Wei pawns retreated like a tide, and they were not stopped by Wei generals until they were cut down by Wei generals for a few hundred steps. The streets in front of the city gate were left only with corpses and wounded, and the dirt was all red. When the sanitation officer retreated, he stabbed all the Wei soldiers on the ground again to prevent someone from playing dead.

"How's the injury?" Lan Zhong looked at Shangguan Gao, who had been hit by an arrow in the shoulder at some point, and was bleeding.

"No problem!" Shangguan Gao lowered his head and saw his injury, and he didn't care. His eyes were fixed on the Wei generals who were hundreds of paces away, paying attention to his actions, and guarding against the Wei people who would fight back at any time.

Lan Zhong looked at Shangguan Gao with a sense of envy. Although the honorable soldiers are brave, they have not undergone comprehensive training, and they do not understand tactics and the art of war, but they seem to understand that even a small pawn can command a brigade of county soldiers.

"This time to kill, the Wei people will not dare to come again." Lan Zhong was still staring at Shangguan Gao's wound, "It's better to ...... first"

"Definitely. The soldiers of the Wei army who seized the door were only fighting, and the three fighters were equal to one soldier. If the soldiers attack next time......" Shangguan Gao shook his head again and again, not having much hope for holding the city gate. But there was no military order to retreat, so he could only hold on.

The warrior is the heavy infantry of the Wei State, 'take it by degree, the armor of the three genera, the crossbow of twelve stones, the negative arrow fifty, put it on it, the crown with the sword, win the food of three days, and the middle of the day and tend to a hundred miles. 'Wei Wushu is famous all over the world, this is the army set up by Wu Qiwei when Wei, Wu Qi later left Wei and entered Chu, but the military pawn system has been retained.

In the selection of martial soldiers, it is the most difficult to use the crossbow of twelve stones, and to travel a hundred miles in the middle of the day. In fact, 12 stone is only 324 pounds, 162 kilograms, for the ancients whose bone density far exceeds that of modern people, it is not difficult to open a 162 kilogram strong crossbow in the way of squat.

The strength of the warriors lies in the fact that they are 'in the middle of the day and tend to a hundred miles', wearing leather jackets, crossbows, negative arrows, setting ge, winning grain, and carrying swords, and set off in the morning, running more than 40 kilometers in four hours (6 hours). It's not about how far you run, it's about the weight of the soldiers. Rhino skin armor, crossbow arrows, swords, rations, and maybe a small shield, which add up to at least 30 kilograms, and running more than 40 kilometers in half a day with such heavy equipment on your back is not possible for most sanitation.

The state of Wei was already weakened, but there were still 10,000 soldiers. This time to attack Chu, at the request of the Qin envoy and Xiangbang Ziji, Wei Zeng, the king of Wei, gritted his teeth and transferred half of the soldiers to attack Chu with the army, and the other half was naturally stationed in the national capital Daliang to prevent the Qin people from attacking Chu with false ways. When Shangguan Gao mentioned the Wei soldiers, Chen Yingxicheng, the three thousand guards who raised the Yu were facing these five thousand soldiers.

Ge has always been a melee weapon in the pre-Qin period, the wooden handle is very short, and the warriors use Ge as a weapon, so they are naturally good at melee hand-to-hand combat. The so-called 'Qi's technical attack cannot meet the warriors of the Wei clan, and the warriors of the Wei clan cannot meet the sharp soldiers of the Qin clan', the actual weapon accounts for a large factor. Skill pay attention to dexterity, use more swords, fight alone, fight alone, never work in military formations, use short warriors to meet the sharp soldiers who make long beryllium, one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short and one inch dangerous, the two sides are against each other, and the warriors will be split by the sharp soldiers and beryllium before they get close.

The Qin army's sharp soldiers gave the soldiers a headache, and when they suddenly met the Chu army with a two-foot and four-foot spear, it was even more of a headache. The dense iron spear tip makes people feel chilled at a glance. The warriors wore rhino armor several times thicker than leather armor, but even the rhino armor could not withstand the blow of the spear. So before they could engage the army, they could only shoot arrows with crossbows.

The twelve-stone strong crossbow is very easy to destroy without a crossbow, and the crossbow machine is extremely expensive, but the price is a penny, these crossbows have a range of more than one hundred and eighty steps, and when the sanitation is one hundred and sixty steps away from them, the powerful arrows shot by the twelve stone strong crossbows of the martial arts will fly straight like locusts.

Last year, the Gongjiayi spear array was ravaged by the Qin army's crossbows, and as soon as Xiong Jing, who remembered it in his heart, finished his alliance with the Qi Congress, he urgently transferred the newly built Jujia to Chen Ying. The number of giant armor is not much, only more than 500 sets, and only half of the palace armor is armored.

As soon as he encountered the warriors, the palace armor wearing huge armor automatically stood in front of the spear array to block the arrows, and at this time, a total of 2,700 spearmen from the twelve pawns lined up in a matrix with a width of fifty columns and a depth of fifty-four rows, and four hundred and thirty-two archers followed closely behind, not daring to deviate in the slightest. Crossbow arrows rained down on the armor and the round shield, dangdang, banging sounded constantly, and the round shield was full of arrows in less than half an hour, and the left arm of the palace armor was also injured by the arrows that came out of the shield, and blood flowed. However, in addition to the left arm, the palace armor had an iron cuirass and a shin armor underneath, and although the arrows rained down, there was no casualty.

"The strong enemy is in the present, fearless and fearless;

Brave and faithful, worthy of the Taiyi ......"

The spear formation was advancing, and in addition to the sound of drums and footsteps, the drummers took the lead in singing. Each spearman sang with a sigh of pride and pride, for as soon as the song was finished, they would raise their spears and charge.

"General Yu, Chu pawn will not be injected!" The Chu army was getting closer and closer, and the crossbow arrows were shooting more and more urgently, and some of the strong crossbows were broken with a click when some of the soldiers wound up because they could not withstand the fierce force. It's not terrible for the crossbow machine to break, but the terrible thing is that the arrows can't shoot through the armor of the Chu army. Invulnerability used to be just a myth, and the myth is happening right now, how not to be frightened.

"I can't do anything, what can I do?" Mao Zhuren, the general of the martial arts, was eight feet tall and looked like an iron tower, and he was staring at the Chu army's spear formation that was getting closer and closer, and his eyes did not blink at all. Chu Jun actually ignored his side and back, and lined up a square rectangular formation, which made him see an opportunity. "Pass my military order, and when you are in battle, go around its flanks and backs and slam it behind."

There were only 5,000 soldiers, and behind them were nearly 10,000 fighters. Due to the terrain, the 15,000 men formed a phalanx with a width of more than 100 troops and 10 paces, and the troops were all on the left and right flanks. Mao Zhu's arrangement may not be wrong, but he doesn't understand that the spear formation formed by column tactics has no side back at all, and it will not collapse if he hits his side back.

"Stop! Stopβ€”" The spear formation stopped fifty paces away, and the archers behind began to fire arrows. The warriors are dressed in rhino armor, but the bow power of the sanitation archers is mostly five stones, and the few ones also have four stones and five buckets, and if they are shot by armor-piercing arrows at this distance, the rhino armor will be broken.

There were only four hundred and thirty-two archers, but the rate of fire of the bow was several times that of the crossbow, especially the twelve-stone crossbow with more than ten times the legs of the strings. The attack and defense of the two sides reversed in an instant, before it was the sanitation and the rain of arrows, and now it was the soldiers who braved the rain of arrows.

The sanitation song did not stop, and the four columns of armor soldiers in the front row left the array and ran to the array of warriors fifty paces away. The two armies fought in a formation, and they must gallop in a hundred steps. The strange thing is that the Chu army did not gallop until fifty paces, not only did not gallop, but stopped, and there were only two hundred people coming up.

"What does that mean?" After the formation, General Wei, who was blocking the arrows on the car, was puzzled and looked at each other.

"Kill!" They were still hesitating to give an order, and two hundred spearmen had already stabbed into the array of warriors with one spear. Ge short spear is long, and the phalanx of warriors was suddenly broken by the spearmen A big gap, and finally General Wei couldn't help it, and with a wave of his hand, the five hundred warriors under his command immediately rushed out of the array, rushing to the flanks and backs of these two hundred guards, intending to encircle and annihilate them in front of the formation.

The two hundred guards stepped forward just to test and lure the enemy, and as soon as the soldiers moved, the raiser shouted, "Kill!" The sanitation who had stopped singing rushed towards the array of soldiers, and the target was the gap after the five hundred soldiers came out of the formation.

"Kill β€”β€”!" Two thousand five hundred spearmen shouted in unison, and their footsteps were even more deafening. They ran fifty paces in less than ten seconds, and before all the five hundred soldiers were out of battle in ten seconds, the huge iron spears stabbed at them like a sea of mountains. The soldiers who had not been deployed and had not been placed were immediately scattered in formation, and the chaotic soldiers involuntarily attacked the other soldiers, and the military formation was chaotic for a while.

The military order of 'going around his side and back left and right, and slamming at his back' had all been forgotten, and the officers were thinking about withstanding the onslaught of the Chu spearmen, while the military officers were thinking about how to get close to the spearmen, because their ges were too short to kill the enemy but could not get close.

"Kill!" The spearman who cannot pull out the spear without the spear penetrating the corpse shall not abandon the spear and draw the sword. With their swords raised, they fought in unison to the sides, so as not to block the offensive line of their comrades behind them. Just when the soldiers on both sides thought that they could kill the enemy, their huge blades slashed from top to bottom, and the shields in their hands were still light, and the knives slashed at the heads.

"Kill β€”β€”!" After the sanitation who was covered in blood drank loudly, he slashed out again with a heavy knife, and cut down another martial soldier Lian Ge together.

The spear is unstoppable, the edge of the blade is not clear, the warrior was shocked to find that the weapon in his hand is not worthy of the enemy's blow, each knife is chopped, the comrades are either dead or wounded, their most effective attack is to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and hug them together with fists and feet hand-to-hand combat.

"Enter! Advance β€”β€”! The officer was shouting. The soldiers are not ordinary troops, they have a strong fighting spirit, they will not retreat if they are stabbed to death, and their own momentum has been dissipated when they kill in the formation, so they can only rely on advancing step by step to squeeze the enemy's formation and force it to collapse.

"Enter!" The spear formation was advancing, and after stabbing the last soldier, the spearmen in the front row engaged the fierce attack behind them. Fen Strike is only light infantry, and it is no longer rhino armor but ordinary leather armor. As soon as they saw the fierce spearmen breaking through the array of soldiers and killing them angrily, their hearts were terrified.

As soon as the troops were exchanged, the halberd spear in his hand was a few feet shorter, and the killed man shouted. Fortunately, at this time, the unattacked soldiers had already followed Mao Xi's military orders to circle his flank and slam his back. Seeing that behind the enemy were all the flags of their own army, they barely held on and did not break down.

"Advance β€”β€”!" The spear formation continued to advance, while the spearmen at the end of the formation who faced the many soldiers retreated. They razed their spears and laid them flat, driving back all the soldiers who wanted to approach them. It's just that the warriors are warriors after all, they know how to deal with the beryllium-wielding sharps, and naturally know that if the other party razes the spear and sees the sanitation spear lying flat, they actually roll around on the ground, get under the spear and swing the shield to kill.

Long soldiers are afraid of close combat, and once they are in close combat, the weapons in their hands are too long, and they can only be killed by close enemies. As soon as the commander of the rear column saw the soldier approaching, he immediately shouted: "Abandon the spear!" Abandon the spear in the back row! ”

"Abandon the spear!" The fifty spearmen in the back row all abandoned their spears, and without waiting for the commander to shout again, with a 'chok', the blades on their waists were already out of the sheath, and their short heights were raised, holding their breath and waiting for the soldiers to approach.