Chapter 194: The Han Barbarians Fight Fiercely
The strong crossbow in the hands of the big crossbowman can only shoot one crossbow bolt next, because at this moment on the battlefield, the Han army and the Banyu barbarians have already been in close combat. However, it is good that they can kill and injure barbarians, and at this time, in the Han army's array, strong archers and light crossbowmen, two long-range weapons that should have been the strength of the Han army, were almost useless at this time.
Although the wooden shield used by the Guy Ban Yu Man could not resist the attack of the strong crossbow, but like the strong bow soldiers and light crossbow soldiers of the Han Army's long-range weapons with relatively low destructive power, they could not do much damage to their plate barb, compared to the plate that the Ban Yu Man was proud of defending, after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, the shield's defensive power was more than enough to deal with this penetration.
Seeing that this situation was not good, Fu Quan hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to retreat, and if the long-range troops could not kill and injure the enemy, then they would undoubtedly have some chicken ribs behind the army.
At the beginning, Fu Quan let his soldiers and horses attack in addition to his 4,000 henchmen, and those 4,000 people were his bargaining chips to stay in the town and prevent accidents, but after all, the number was too small, and calling those crossbowmen back at this moment also strengthened the defense of the Chinese army.
Since that time in Liaoxi, after the big destruction of Tanshi Huai, Fuquan has also read all the military books after returning to Luoyang, and he is very cautious about his Chinese army's defense. The tactic of capturing the thief and capturing the king first has always been reflected in his mind, and he knows that no matter how large and powerful an army is, if the Chinese army is broken, the result will only be defeat, so he is extremely cautious about protecting his Chinese army.
The Han army's bow and crossbow were not effective, and on the contrary, when the barbarian soldiers reached the limited range of the crossbow in their hands, they immediately quickly returned fire with countless crossbow arrows, and the Han army's big shield soldiers in front immediately raised their shields to resist the previous wave of crossbow arrows. However, after all, the Han army was not as good as the barbarian soldiers, almost everyone was armed with shields, and the Han infantry behind the big shield could not all safely avoid the oncoming crossbow arrows, and after a while, the formation behind the Han army was cleared out of several gaps of different sizes.
Those Han soldiers who had no protection and were shot died immediately, but more were shot in the body, wailing, and some were unlucky enough to be shot in the vital parts, and they fell to the ground and wailed. However, on the battlefield where the cold weapons are densely packed, their falling to the ground means death, after all, the countless infantry who came behind would not pay attention to whether there were companions under their feet, and the trampling of countless pairs of feet was enough to kill the Han soldiers who fell to the ground.
Since ancient times, they have been proficient in crossbow arrows, they are brave and good at smelting and casting, and when Qin Zhaoxiang was king, they relied on their unique crossbow technology to shoot white tigers. Now the times have changed, the vicissitudes of life, the world is in chaos, but their bow and crossbow technology is constantly innovating, and the crossbow arrows fired again and again are no worse than the light crossbows of the Han army, and at this moment they are directly or indirectly harvesting the lives of the Han army without shield defense in front.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
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Soon, two murderous armies collided and screamed, shouting the same language and slashing at each other.
Guan Yu and Huang Zhong held halberds in their hands, and led hundreds of people under their command to take the lead in killing the barbarian soldiers. Both of them were naturally brave men, wielding the halberd in their hands, and smashing the wooden shield in the hands of the brute soldiers, followed by the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, and then stabbed the man to death.
However, the other infantry of the Han army were not as brave as Guan and Huang, and often they could only split the wooden shield with a single blow with all their might, and then before they had time to defend, they were attacked by the barbarians who were hand-to-hand in hand, and these barbarians poured towards these Han troops with various melee weapons such as swords, spears, cantons, putus, night tops, and hooks.
In the middle of the two armies, the Han army's big shield soldiers raised their shields and marched forward, and behind them were piles of spearmen with indifferent eyes, and they raised the bloodthirsty spears in their hands through the gaps of the shield soldiers, inserted in front, forming a moving rejection horse, and moving forward. Behind the spearmen, the sword and shield soldiers followed, ready to rush forward like an assault squad when a crack appeared in the front formation.
The sound of "bang" came out continuously, which was the sound of the collision of the iron shield and the wooden shield in front, and then the sound of the Han army and the barbarians roaring and howling to each other was heard.
The sharp spears of the Han army constantly pierced the barbarians in front through the gaps in the shields, and the barbarians on the opposite side, except for the barbarians who raised their shields in front, the others either used their hand-to-hand weapons to entangle with the shield soldiers and spearmen of the Han army in front, or shot forward with the crossbow arrows in their hands.
The two armies were short of each other, and the big shield soldiers of the Han army could no longer maintain the previous formation, and they were entangled with the barbarians in front, and soon the gaps were exposed, and those barbarians took advantage of these gaps to continuously fire the crossbows in their hands, and went straight to the spearmen who had no protection in the Han army's formation at the moment.
In an instant, the casualties of the Han army continued to expand, compared to the casualties of the barbarians who relied on the wooden shield to defend were very small, and the reputation of the barbarians who were good at fighting was really terrifying at this moment.
It's just that all this has just begun for Ban Yuman......
"Sons, follow me to kill this group of Han people who are oppressed and exploited." Du Kang shouted loudly, he had just found that the Han army's formation was messy because of the crossbow bolts just now, and after seeing the Han army's formation wavering, he immediately led the army to kill the Han army's formation loophole.
Fu Quan stood in the rear, and saw with his own eyes that his formation was in disarray by the afterglow of the setting sun, and he knew that if he allowed outsiders to attack, his troops would definitely not be able to stop the barbaric attack. With a lot of thoughts in his heart, he immediately said to the chess soldiers beside him: "Order the sword and shield soldiers to step forward and stabilize the situation." ”
"Kill!"
As the Chinese army order flag waved, the sword and shield soldiers behind the Han army shouted, and they held swords and shields to rescue the front of the formation that was already about to break the formation.
The arrival of the new army only temporarily stopped the frustration of the army, and the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers was still inferior to that of the Banyu barbarians. But what was worse was that the barbarians suddenly increased their war song singing when they saw this. Then I saw the barbarian on the back of the barbarian soldier throwing the plate and crossbow arrow in his hand on the ground, and then raised the weapon he was most familiar with, screaming and thinking that the Han army was rushing.
These barbarians didn't seem to have the word of death in their eyes at all, they just rampaged into the Han army camp, and their morale was high, and they were not afraid of the eyes of the Han army around them. They are brave and belligerent, smashing left and right, completely shattering the formation of the opposite camp.
Seeing that Ban Yu Man was so desperate to attack, Fu Quan had no armor on his body, and at this time, he even abandoned the Ban Yu who relied on his survival, so he relied on a ruthless spirit to ruthlessly disrupt the formation of the Han army, and constantly killed the soldiers of the four counties, and the battle situation seemed to be going in the favorable direction of Ban Yuman......