Chapter Ninety-Seven: Fiasco
Jiangzhou City has been out of food for half a month, and the people in Jiangzhou City have caught all the rats in this half month. They gnawed off the bark of the trees, and even the crows outside the city pecked at the dead were their food. Cannibalism is nothing new, whose children can't stand it and disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye.
When the wood is burned out, the bones of the dead are burned. The children who disappeared often couldn't even see the scum, as if they had never existed in this world.
There was no smoke in the city, and it looked like Yun Yue's plan was about to succeed. But at this moment, Qi Lingwang in Jiangzhou City came with the first wave of reinforcements, and perhaps the last wave of reinforcements.
There weren't many people in the reinforcements, but they were very combative. The Yiqu cavalry who first discovered this support army were all frightened, and ran back before they got close to the war horse.
"Master Hou! They rode horses that were a foot tall, with long noses and ears the size of a fan. Covered in copper skin and iron bones, arrows can't shoot through at all. Captain Zuo described the monster he saw in a panic.
Yun Yue's jaw almost fell off when she heard this, and her long nose was as big as a fan. The tail is like a serpent, and the limbs are like pillars. This...... Isn't this a fucking elephant? Could it be that the Shu people have domesticated elephants in these years? Besides, there are pandas in this place in Bashu who know about it. Can Bashu produce elephants?
Hearing is false, seeing is believing, Yun Yue decided to see with her own eyes what these legendary behemoths are. I don't believe that in the Warring States Period, they can ride a rhinoceros to fight.
Yun Yue ordered Gao Hu to continue to guard Jiangzhou City with the soldiers of Chengdu, and he personally took his subordinates to take a look. What the hell is it that scared Captain Zuo so much?
The army swung south, and collided head-on with a strange team. Yun Yue swears. It was the strangest team he'd ever seen.
At the head were more than a dozen smaller Bengal tigers. It was followed by dozens of black bears. Behind them were more than 100 leopards. Finally, a group of hungry wolves pressed by the black press. There were also larger groups of monkeys in the trees as scouts, and what made Yun Yue collapse the most. There are also ten rhinos on each side of the team! Although the formation was loose, no one dared to approach it. Not to mention people, ghosts dare not approach. What the hell is this a circus, or an army that has come to fight?
Small, monkey-like creatures crouched on the elephant's back. While shouting at the beast with the bamboo flute in his mouth, he watched Yunyue's military formation.
"Master Hou, it's them!" Captain Left has suffered the losses of these guys. Very obscenely, he pointed at the team in front of him with a horsewhip.
Yun Yue wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, he was still good at dealing with the army. But it's far worse to deal with the circus, and the horse's eyesight is not good. There's nothing wrong with charging into battle, but it's bad if you meet a beast. The two armies were still six or seven miles apart, and the war horses in the Yunyue army were worried. Some timid horses were frightened by the smell of beasts. If you want to rely on them to charge, it is better to expect the sow to go up the tree.
I heard Changping Jun say that Qin destroyed Bashu at the beginning. Gongzi Pan, the son of the enlightened king of Shu, led tens of thousands of Shu elites to flee south, and these guys came from the south. Could it be that this is the descendant of the prince Pan of Shu Kingdom?
Heng Tooth was still the commander-in-chief of this battle, and Yun Yue was heavily defended by the Qiang soldiers and the bearded sword knights. Still watching from the wall on the hill next to it. In fact, as long as Yun Yue can not use troops, he will not use troops. The credit is still for these Qin troops, but I don't know how many heads a tiger has on its head.
The Qin army still put on a traditional military formation. The Yiqu cavalry was divided into two wings, left and right. In the center is an infantry battle formation, with three rows of crossbowmen in front. Behind is a halberd soldier with a spear and halberd, and behind him is a sword and shield man in charge of hand-to-hand combat. The entire military formation was densely packed, like an iron ring, one ring after another. Yun Yue couldn't help but secretly praise that even if he was a garrison soldier, he still had this combat power. If it is the main force of the Qin army, then what. It is no wonder that in the past hundred years, Great Qin has been invincible in foreign wars. I am afraid that among them, the high military quality of the Qin army also accounts for a large component.
Yun Yue looked at the formation of the two sides and didn't know what to say, because he had never fought with animals. Except for Warcraft, I have never seen in the history books how to fight animals. Now he can only watch from the wall, just hoping that the Qin army can stop these wolves, insects, tigers and leopards by relying on the sharpness of the bow and crossbow.
But the first wave of attacks of the Hundred Beast Legion surprised Yun Yue. Dozens of rhinos lined up in front of the Qin army. The dagger-like horns of the rhinoceros went straight forward, and I don't know what the thin guys on the elephant were shouting. Behind was a burst of cheering slogans, and then those rhinos rushed straight towards the Qin army's military formation.
"Yunhou! This......! Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun, who were standing beside Yun Yue, were a little stupid. They've seen rhinos, and there are a lot of them along the Yellow River. They hunted and shot this thing, and Wu Wangfu sent an army of 100,000 people, all wearing heavy rhinoceros armor. (However, the history books say that it is a water rhinoceros, and I don't know if it is the same breed as the rhinoceros.) )
They know that the rhinoceros is a short-tempered thing and is not only powerful. Moreover, the rhinoceros leather is extremely thick, otherwise it would not have become the main raw material for armor. If these dozens of rhinos rushed up, then the Qin army's military formation would be gone.
Yun Yue's face was also pale with fright, but he didn't have anything to do at this time. I could only watch as the dozens of tank-like rhinoceros rushed into the Qin army's formation. Now Yun Yue is most fortunate that he brought Chang Pingjun and Chang Wenjun out, if one of these two brothers is hit by a rhinoceros, the consequences are indeed unimaginable.
When the distance was three hundred paces, the Qin army began to release arrows. The powerful Qin crossbow shot arrows at the running rhinoceros, but the rhinoceros's defense was indeed not covered. These stupid guys, who usually looked stupid, roared and rushed over with red eyes. Although the arrows of the Qin army were nailed into the thick cowhide, they did not penetrate the cowhide. The rhinoceros with the arrows was even more frantic and rushed towards the Qin army's formation at a faster speed.
Two hundred steps, the heart of the permanent tooth is trembling. The Qin army fired crossbow arrows in unison, but they still did not kill those rhinoceros with rough skin and thick flesh. Before the third round of arrows could be fired, the crossbowmen in the front row had already begun to crumble. This is simply Xiao Qiang who can't shoot to death, and no one dares to guarantee that he can shoot these behemoths at a distance of a hundred steps. On the contrary, those rhinoceros, stimulated by the arrows entering their bodies, charged more and more violently.
Many crossbowmen threw the Qin crossbow in their hands, and then hugged their heads and ran away. Although the Qin army is good at fighting, it is not a fool either. Everyone knows that going head-to-head with this thing is a death.
"Bastard, steady! Steady! Constant Tooth screamed, but his roar was mercilessly swallowed up by the noise in the army of ten thousand horses.
"Boom!" In the exclamation of the Qin army, the roar of fear. Dozens of rhinoceros crashed into the Qin army's military formation, and the long rhinoceros horns pierced the Qin army on the opposite side at once. Some of the Qin soldiers were simply knocked into the air, and although the Qin army beckoned to the rhinoceros with the blades in their hands as if they were crazy, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't put these behemoths to death.
Some Qin warriors tried in vain to attack and kill the rhinoceros, but without exception, they were all pierced by the long rhinoceros horns.
Dozens of rhinoceros seemed to plow the ground in the thick Qin army array, and they slammed into dozens of flesh alleys. Many rhinoceros' horns have turned blood-red, and there is even meat foam hanging on them.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the Qin army, countless tigers, black bears, giant apes, and leopards rushed out, and behind them were a large number of jungle wolves with bloody mouths wide open. The Qin army's military array has been chaotic, where can it withstand this kind of impact. The Chinese infantry was immediately routed. Countless Qin troops died in the mouths of these fierce beasts, and the entire military array collapsed almost instantly.
The Yiqu cavalry on both flanks desperately released arrows, trying to block the attack of the beasts. Unexpectedly, the war horses under their crotch could not stand the smell of so many fierce beasts, and before the Yiqu cavalry retreated, their war horses automatically began to gallop in fear.
Tens of thousands of Qin troops were crushed by a group of fierce beasts as soon as they started the battle. Behind him was a guy riding an elephant with a shuttle dart in his hand. After catching up with those Qin troops, they were nailed down like javelins. Many Qin soldiers were nailed to the ground alive. Then torn to pieces by a large number of Timberwolves.
The battlefield is full of erosion, unless there is an anti-heaven artifact like Makqin, otherwise the Qin army will not be able to turn the tables.
"Protect Lord Hou!" Ao Canghai's nerves have long been tense, and he has killed countless people in his life. Even wolves, insects, tigers and leopards have killed a lot in their lives, but they have never seen so many fierce beasts pounce on them at once.
Although the bearded sword knights were not afraid of these fierce beasts, Yun Yue had something that they could not afford.
Luckily, the place they were on was a small hill, and it was impossible for the rhinoceros to rush up. Occasionally, a few beasts or jungle wolves rushed up and were shot by the Knights of the Blades. As for those Qiang soldiers, they had already been frightened by the situation in front of them, and they couldn't count on it at all.
Seeing the defeat of the Qin army, Yun Yue had no choice at all.
"Yunhou, let's retreat to the village. With the protection of the camp, we are not afraid of these beasts. Changping Jun said urgently. Many beasts had already turned around and rushed towards here, and the Qiang people with spears were obviously not very reliable.
After besieging the city for more than three months, Yun Yue had already built a walled city on the edge of Jiangzhou City. I didn't expect to be able to save my life at this critical moment.
"Withdraw your troops and retreat into the walled city." As soon as Yun Yue finished speaking, an unknown fruit smashed on Yun Yue's face. It hurt so much that Yun Yue's tears flowed down and she looked up. A group of monkeys were climbing on the trees, constantly picking fruits and attacking Yun Yue's men.
I don't know what kind of fruit it is, but the shell is extremely hard. Although it doesn't hurt when it hits your body, it hurts a lot. A rain of fruit was about to fall, smashing the Qiang soldiers with their heads in their hands. (To be continued.) )