Chapter 18: Throwing Fire
"Put!" From behind the Chinese formation, there was a loud shout of soldiers. The soldiers in the front row didn't know what the soldiers behind them were doing, but they could hear the 'whirring' wind drifting overhead, and when they looked up, they saw a fireball dragging the flames high into the sky, falling more than two hundred paces away. The fireball tank that '......boomed' shattered, and the grease inside burst out, igniting a flame.
"Put!" The trebuchets were fired one after the other, whirring and whirring, and one after another fireballs flew two hundred paces away, igniting one flame after another. Meng Wu and the others were fighting outside the range of the Jing crossbow, four hundred steps away from the front of the Chu army, and suddenly saw a fireball flying out from the rear of the Chu army's array, and they were immediately startled, and the short soldiers hurriedly stopped Meng Wu and the others behind them.
Feng Zai's unbridled laughter stopped instantly, and there was an expression of disbelief on his face, until the first fireball was about to fall, and he couldn't figure out how Jun threw the fireball; Li Xin's color changed, his eyes fixed on the place where the fireball was thrown, he could only see the tall trebuchet rack, and he couldn't see how the trebuchet was launched at all.
"Stand back! Stand back ......" When the fireball fell, the guards panicked, thinking that the fireball was going to fall in front of them. Fortunately, the fireball fell a hundred paces away, and the fire that ignited when it landed burned all the dead grass nearby.
"Father, where are you?" Meng Tian pointed to the location of the trebuchet, his heart was pounding, and he remembered Xiong Jing's unquestioning tone. Could it be that this is the reason for 'do not approach our army 500 paces'? It is indeed terrifying, the two armies are in a battle, and the soldiers are standing extremely densely, and if such a fire falls, I am afraid that the entire army will be in chaos.
Meng Wu had already raised Lu Lijing, looking at the direction of the trebuchet. There, the tall trebuchets were twenty or thirty paces apart from each other, forming a line of trebuchets of about three hundred paces. Whenever a boom is erected quickly, a ball of fire is picked out by it and thrown to the front of the formation, and the boom shakes back and forth after the throw, but I don't know how this fireball came out, could it be that this is the witchcraft of the Jing people?
Meng Wu vetoed the idea himself, he thought of the crossbow, and felt that it must be something made by the unborn child. 'Don't come 500 steps near our army!' 'What a big breath. If there were more fire-throwing weapons, densely packed in a row behind the formation, the Qin army would really be five hundred steps away from the Chu army, but now there are only ten, what is there to fear?
"Hooray! Banzai! When the last trebuchet finished throwing the fire bombs, the Chu soldiers who finally reacted began to cheer, they had never seen such a magical weapon, and they had never known that they had such a weapon. The flames burning more and more two hundred paces before the formation made them extremely excited, and this excitement immediately turned into a shout of long live, but I don't know who shouted 'King' inside, so the whole army changed to 'King' like a chain reaction! ’
"King! King! King! The cheers were deafening, and the morale of the whole army was extremely high, but it was a pity that the Qin army was in the future.
"Back to camp!" The trebuchet threw a round and then stopped throwing, and the boom went down again. Because of the barrier of the human wall, Meng Wu couldn't see how this boom went down, he only knew that this thing was very powerful, and the only thing he was fortunate about was that there were limited numbers.
"Back to camp!" The men shouted and escorted the commander and the other generals back to the camp. As soon as they left, there was another cheer from the Chu army on the other side, and the cries that made Xiong Jing feel that his ears were going to be deaf finally stopped.
"The Jing people have ten fire-throwing weapons, which are arranged behind the Chinese army." After returning to the camp, Meng Wu did not go anywhere else, and entered the chip room as soon as he entered the house. There are countless reconnaissance horses outside, and the Chu army array has long been meticulously reproduced on the chipboard. Different from the monotonous chips of the Chu army, the chips of the Qin army are very finely divided, with cars, bows and crossbows, and sharp soldiers, but unfortunately only the Chu army array is seen on the chipboard, but not the Qin army array.
"Hey! and his subordinates must add a weapon of fire. The advisor replied, and the carpenter on one side was making a model of a trebuchet. Because of the angle of view, the trebuchet with two tripods and one boom and two discs is made into two rectangular frames and a boom, and the two discs below are not at all, but they are very similar when viewed from the front. Meng Wu took the good one, looked at it and nodded, in his eyes the trebuchet was indeed like this.
"But I wonder how many rounds this fire-throwing weapon can have in a quarter of an hour?" Yang Duanhe, the general of the Right Army, muttered to himself. Just now, he had also seen the situation when the trebuchet threw a fireball and fell to the ground, and if he fired such a shot at the middle of the battle during the battle, I am afraid that the entire array would collapse.
"Only one bullet was fired from each weapon, I wonder how many shots there can be at a moment?" Meng Wu also had the same concerns as Yang Duanhe. Because of Lu Lijing, he saw the boom erected and dropped the bomb, and he saw the boom slowly falling. If the boom is erected as a bomb launcher, then the boom falls for exactly one hour (16 o'clock) when a pot of water is ready to be discharged, and there are ten minutes on the arrow that rises and falls with the water surface. At the speed that Meng Wu had just seen, I am afraid that the fire-throwing weapon could throw two to three shots per quarter of an hour.
Meng Wu suddenly changed color. There is no more than one hour of fierce battle, and in one hour, ten fire-throwing weapons can throw two or three hundred fireballs. How big is this! At that time, the Qin army was in flames, and it was not dispersed by the Jing people. "The Jingren Chinese army is its strongest place, and heavy troops need to be deployed here, otherwise, our army will be in danger!"
"The Jingren fire catapult is more than two hundred paces away, and it is still facing the north wind," Yang Duanhe looked at Meng Wu's hand pressed on the chip. "Avoiding is unavoidable, for today's plan, the only way to do this is to raise a shield with a dare to die, or to attack with a siege weapon, and quickly take down the Jingren Chinese army. In this way, our army can not only break the weapon of the Jing people's fire, but also capture this thing. ”
"Exactly!" Xin Wu, the general of the left army, nodded again and again, he was also worried about trebuchet fireballs. "I see that the army of the Jing people is no more than twenty lines thick, and our army is like cutting chickens with a knife, raising your hands to break branches."
The left and right armies both thought that when the Jing people were in the army, Meng Wu said cautiously: "The weapon of fire is so important, that Yan ......"
"The general shot geese in front of the formation, and the great thorn was angry, it must be the childish spirit of the ungodly, which made the fire-throwing weapon bullet." Li Xin was looking at the Chu army array just now, and he had this realization in hindsight. "General, I saw the flag shaking, and the fire-throwing weapon was launched. This order did not come from Xiang Yan, but from the young boy. ”
"Really?" Meng Wu looked at Li Xin. The soldier said treacherously, if Xiang Yan ordered the launch, of course he had many doubts, but if it was King Jing......
"The last general can see it clearly, as soon as the flag is shaken, the fire-throwing weapon will be launched, and the order will definitely not come from Xiang Yan's military curtain." Li Xin said solemnly.
"Good!" Xin Wu shouted, "In this way, our army will break through the Chinese army and capture firearms." ”
"Reinforcements have not arrived, so there will be no battle for the time being." Meng Wu said. He wouldn't fight a decisive battle in advance for ten fire-throwing weapons.
"General, if our army doesn't fight tomorrow, I'm afraid the Jing people will have to retreat." Li Xindao.
"General, if our army does not fight tomorrow, the Jing people should think that our army is cowardly." Feng Zai also said, he found a way to deal with it, and he was worried in his heart, not only was he not afraid, but he also wanted to start a war earlier, preferably today.
"I'll see how the Jing people are doing tomorrow." Reinforcements are coming from the west, and it is impossible to fight today, and Mongolia does not want to fight tomorrow. This is not only for reinforcements, but also includes the strategy of attacking the enemy: against the Chu army, you must not fight a decisive battle with it early. After Meng Wu finished speaking, he looked at Xin Sheng behind Xin Wu again: "It is reported that the attack on the camp last night failed?" ”
"The last general is incompetent, please punish the general." Last night, Xin Sheng led his troops to attack the camp, but he didn't expect that there were outposts a hundred steps away from the Chu camp.
"What's the use of chastizing you?" Meng Wu's gaze swept over Xin Wu, who was silent, "You said that the Jing people are all over the horse and cannot be attacked?" ”
"Yes. At the end of last night, he would take advantage of the night to approach the business, and hundreds of steps would be noticed by the Jing people, and in the firelight, he saw that there were all horses outside the Jing camp. Xin Sheng bowed his head and replied, very helpless.
"But I don't see the horses in the daytime." Feng Zai muttered, and then saw Xin Wu's eyes glaring at him, and immediately shut up.
"If the cavalry cannot attack the camp, who dares to attack the camp?" Meng Wu asked again, and he categorized that he would not let the Chu people sleep in peace.
"The last will go." Li Xin and Feng Zai rushed to go, and finally Xin Wu also coughed, and said to Meng Wu: "It's better for the left army to send someone." Bai Lin under my command was stationed in Jiangyi for many days, and I knew the Jing people very well, and I asked for orders to attack the camp many times but to no avail, but I still let him go. ”
"Bai Lin ......" Meng Wu suddenly sounded the marquis who beheaded seven or eight hundred in the field, but now he is a captain.
"Exactly." Xin Wu's words and attack on the camp naturally meant to help Xin Sheng carry it. "There is also a boy under his command who has surrendered to our army, and there are very few people who have surrendered, and this person may know the feelings of Jing Ying."
"Good. ordered Bai Lin to take his headquarters to attack the camp tonight. Meng Wu commanded.
According to the law of the Shang Jun, those who can get the first knight will be rewarded with a knight, one hectare of Yitian, nine acres of Yizhai, and one person except for the concubine, which is the ...... of the officers of the soldiers. Every time I think of this, I feel like I've come to another world. In this world, he will no longer be a lowly boy, but will become a noble person respected by everyone.
There was no doubt that he was alive because he had killed the old scout. It was a cavalry general of the Qin people, who saw him leaning out and stabbing the enemy like that on a galloping horse. In this way, he did not cut off his head, but brought him back to the Qin camp alive. However, before he was incorporated into the Qin cavalry army, he had to serve three months of hard labor, and after three months, he could join the Qin army with honor.
Hard labor is actually brushing horses, feeding horses, and cleaning the outer stables, which is no different from what he did in the Chu State, the only difference is that the management in the camp is strict, and he can only move around at the specified time and in the specified place; Then there are people who are questioned from time to time, some ask about the situation at home, some ask about the situation of Chu Jun, some of these questioners understand Chu language, some don't understand, but they all have a cold and serious face, with a gaze on their face that can see through everything, which makes people feel very uncomfortable. His only hope was that the three months would end earlier, join the Qin army as soon as possible, and be beheaded and knighted as soon as possible.