Chapter 308: Attacking the Stronghold



The steel-blue cold torrent of iron armor suddenly cracked, and it was particularly harsh in the dull and silent night, Murong Ke frowned, his eyes were like an eagle falcon staring at the scouts of his own front army who were galloping towards him. When he approached Murong Ke ten steps in front of him, he had already reined in his horse, and in a few steps he arrived in front of him, and after a military salute, he had already informed Murong Ke of the secret report of the scouts received by the front army.

"It's just cowardly." Murong scolded hatefully, the two-stage troop configuration of the Persians made him quite annoyed, so he had to consider whether the arrangement of the ambush at the armament hoarding point could eat the 10,000 Persian iron cavalry with 5,000 soldiers and horses approaching, thinking of this, he looked at Lu Guang beside him, "You take 6,000 people back to make a plan." ”

"My lord, there are only 10,000 people with you!" Hu Luguang was a little hesitant, after all, when he left, there were only 10,000 people left around Murong to kick the Persian camp, and the troops were really thin.

"How about 10,000?" Murong Ke was a little dissatisfied with Hu Luguang's hesitation, and said in a cold voice, "It's not to fight to the death with them, it's just to give them a dismount, do you think I will lose." Murong's last words were faintly difficult, so it was not easy for Hu Luguang to say anything more, so he could only lead the troops back.

Seeing Hu Luguang go back, Murong Ke looked at the half-curved waning moon in the sky, he didn't know if the Persians were the same as here, they all used a two-stage troop configuration, if so, then another place to hoard ordnance, grain and grass would be very difficult to fight at that time, and it might not be possible to annihilate them completely. Thinking of this, Murong Ke shook his head. Before the Great War. He shouldn't think about anything else, just fight his battle well," he ordered. Get up to speed. With a soft shout, the herald galloped towards the front army and gave Murong Kedi's order.

At this time, in the Great Qin ordnance hoarding point under the moonlight, nearly three hundred garrison soldiers climbed the female wall of the stronghold, staring at the darkness in the distance. Just now they had received a report that the Persians would come to attack this evening, along with five hundred reinforcements, who were carrying heavy siege crossbows from the armory to the women's wall.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves like thunder was heard in the darkness, and on the female wall, the guerrillas of the dragoons judged the distance between each other from the sound of hooves, "Shoot forward." Five degrees to the left, put! The sound of guerrilla suddenly exploded on the female wall, and the three hundred dragoon sergeants standing on the wall drew their famous longbows, and three hundred feathered arrows broke through the air. Almost at the same time as the feather arrow was fired, the second feathered arrow had already been placed on the bowstring. But in a few breaths, the three hundred dragoons on the female wall shot out six rounds of feather arrows, and several officers who came to the side to be ordered to reinforce were stunned, the dragoons have always been known as the first light cavalry of Daqin, although they are not good at attacking fortifications, but in the field they rode and shot unparalleled kung fu but made them enough to run rampant in the river, but they did not expect that the dragoon army opened a bow on the flat ground, which was actually faster than the crossbow soldiers of the three consecutive formations, and under this arrow speed, as long as the arrows can keep up, I am afraid it can be compared with the crossbow array.

Six rounds of rapid fire, 1,800 arrows in the dark night sky pierced the whimpering roar, descended on the head of the Persian iron cavalry rushing forward, this very small interval of six rounds of feather arrows formed a curtain of arrows, the Persian cavalry within the enveloping range of people and horses shot to the ground, killing and wounding more than 240 people, and those who fell from the ground wounded almost did not have time to call for help, they were crushed by the iron flow behind them, and were trampled by the iron hooves of the galloping war horses and the flesh and blood were blurred, for 10,000 Persian cavalry, the casualties of only 240 people were really nothing.

"Fierce enough!" Listening to the sound of hooves, the guerrillas of the dragoons on the women's wall couldn't help but praise the Persians, and then shouted again, "Free shooting, three rounds." At the same time as his shout sounded, three hundred dragoons in units of ten began to shoot freely in the direction where the sound of hooves came from in the dark, three rounds of arrows, chose a different direction, and killed and injured nearly a hundred Persian cavalry again, but the Persians were not affected by the rain of arrows in the dark, and still rushed wildly, as the elite cavalry of Upper Persia, they were fierce and brave, and there were only three hundred Qin troops in the small stronghold in front of them, and they had no reason to be afraid.

"Shield!" On the women's wall, the guerrillas shouted again, the Persians were nomads and were also good at riding and shooting, and at this time they were within the range of the Persian bows and arrows on the wall. The dragoons on the female wall leaned against the wall, spreading their large shields to protect the top of their heads. But a short moment later there was a whimpering whistle in the sky above them, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air and tearing at the air, and then countless dull sounds sounded above them, and the Persian arrows continued to fall on their outstretched shields.

Soon the sound of horses' hooves drowned out the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the dragoons on the female wall could only rely on the strength of the shield to determine whether the rain of arrows had stopped. Under the female wall, the five hundred Great Qin soldiers who were ordered to come to reinforce

In the solid stone building, a few soldiers who were accidentally shot cursed that they had fought many wars, and they forcibly turned this empire that was once entrenched in West Asia, its sphere of influence included Central Asia, and the Mediterranean coast into what it is now, for the Persians, Daqin is the number one foreign enemy, because Daqin brought the Persians the greatest humiliation, even the Greeks and Romans have never given shame.

"It's endless!" On the female wall, feeling the vibration of the shield, the guerrillas of the dragoons cursed in a low voice, in his opinion, the Persians were stupid, they were simply wasting arrows in vain. Thinking so, he shifted his body and peeked out from the notch beside him, and sure enough, as he expected, the Persians were on horseback, and at a distance of three hundred paces from them, they kept shooting arrows, and had no intention of dismounting and attacking.

"Shoot! Shoot! It's good to shoot all the arrows! The guerrilla shrank back and muttered to himself, waiting for the Persians to attack, the son of bitches must have wanted to shoot them with bows and arrows before attacking, just fucking unplanted. The guerrilla thought hatefully, but he had to admit that if it were not for the large shield of the heavy infantry on his head, he would have suffered heavy casualties if he was pressed and shot by the Persians like this. The rain of arrows grew smaller, and the Persian cavalry, holding torches, saw that in the dim light of the fire, the towers full of arrows did not move at all, and began to attack, and they jumped from their horses, carried ropes, and rushed to the wall that was not too high, although the stone fortress in front of them was very strong, but not too large.

Hearing the sound of the grappling hook grabbing the wall, Guerrilla sneered, threw away the heavy shield above his head, and stood up, "Kill me!" He shouted, and then slashed the head of a Persian soldier who had climbed the mountain along the rope, and the blood splattered his face, making it look terrible in the moonlight.

A battle broke out on the women's wall, which cheered up the five hundred Great Qin soldiers who had been staying in the stone houses, and they led the officers to climb the city wall and kill the Persians who climbed up without leaving a single piece of armor. "Bu Junquan is a maniac, but I like it!" Looking at the reinforcements holding the Zhangchang Mo knife, each blow was like a corpse, and the soldiers of the dragoon army laughed and scolded, not paying attention to the dense Persians outside.

Looking at the more than 200 soldiers who went up were cut into meat sauce in the blink of an eye, the general of Upper Persia who was in charge of the night attack couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, he remembered that the secret agent in Chang'an had sent back the news that the Qin State had created a murder weapon called the Mo knife for their infantry army, which was said to be specially used to cut the cavalry, and he was still a little unbelievable, but when he saw with his own eyes those who were holding long knives on the city wall, and the Qin people who suddenly appeared cut their soldiers into two pieces, he knew that those secret agents were not exaggerating, and the damn Mo knife was simply terrible.

"General, we can't fight like this anymore, the knives of the Qin people are too powerful." Looking at the Qin soldiers wielding knives on the city wall, the adjutant general said to the generals beside him, "We should stop this kind of 'fueling' attack, those Qin people deliberately let our soldiers climb up and send them to death." ”

Seeing the Persians who stopped attacking to stop the arrow array outside the city wall, the guerrillas of the dragoons laughed loudly on the female wall, these stupid Persians must not know that the hoplites of Daqin were all good at using crossbows, and they also brought up the heavy crossbows used for siege.

The siege crossbow is a weapon derived from the Warring States, this kind of crossbow is amazingly lethal, but it is quite laborious to twist the string, in the past, it was necessary to use animal power, with a strong bull to wind, but now the siege crossbow erected on the female wall has been improved by the Mo family for several generations, and only two strong soldiers need to pass through the pulley group to wind it. After thirty siege crossbows, the heavily armored Daqin infantry in heavy armor pulled the huge crossbow machine in the face of the rain of arrows fired by the Persians.

Thirty jet-black steel crossbows roared out of the siege crossbows and shot at the Persians in the distance, and the powerful momentum caused the fierce weapon to pierce several people before it stopped and fell to the ground. At that time, there was often a long line of Persians lying in the back, and the worst death was the Persians who were shot in the head, their entire heads were shot, and only the headless body was left convulsed and fell to the ground. Although the thirty steel crossbows killed and wounded only about 200 people, the horror it brought terrified every Persian.

"Damn the Qin people." Looking at the stone fort in front of him, which was not tall, the general of Upper Persia roared, and he began to wave his army to attack, attacking recklessly, "Fool, as long as you can grab those terrible weapons, it doesn't matter how many people die!" Glaring angrily at the lieutenant, the general of Upper Persia roared.