Chapter 344: Dahan County Arsenal
Seeing that the situation at the foot of the mountain was not right, Ma Hu immediately decided to send all his forces to complete the battle in one battle, that is, to completely break the Han army's car formation technique by relying on a wave of unresistible onslaught.
At this moment, Mahu was ready to fight a quick battle and directly crush the Han army with his numerical superiority. When the time comes, desperate for their lives, the pile can also pile up the small number of Han troops at the bottom of the mountain to death, even if they have the advantage of weapons and equipment, they will not escape failure.
"Oh...... Oh...... Kill! ”
The sound of killing was everywhere, and the hundreds of rebels who were left on the mountain to protect themselves by Mahu rushed down the mountain with their weapons and shouting at each other, and joined the rebels who had attacked the Han army earlier. After having the personal exit of the coach Mahu, the morale that had been reduced by the wear and tear of the Han army's vehicle formation was boosted again, and it attacked the Han army in a surging attack.
On the mountain at this moment, Qin Chuan, who can obviously only be used as a military advisor, but does not have much combat effectiveness, looks at his own side in chaos, and his brows can't help frowning.
Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly say in his heart, in the end, the army formed by these mud legs can only be a rebel army like thieves, it is true that there are many Jiangxia barbarians who are brave and abnormal, and after repeatedly attacking the city, they can be regarded as having participated in the battle of 10,000 people, but this army formation is still terrible.
It's a pity that there are no talents in the rebel army who are proficient in the art of war, even if the big leader Huang Sui is very knowledgeable, he is not particularly proficient in the art of war, and it is naturally difficult to train the tiger and wolf who are forbidden by the order.
It seems that he also has to leave a way back for himself, don't Ronghua and Fugui didn't enjoy it with Huang Sui, and put yourself in it. couldn't help but look at the Han army under the mountain, his eyes showed an inexplicable meaning, but the hundreds of crossbowmen who were guarding him tightly around him naturally didn't know what he was thinking, otherwise he would not have shot this two-hearted anti-bone boy on the spot.
In fact, the reason why Qin Chuan was disappointed with the rebels was also because of these crossbowmen, to be precise, the "bows and arrows and crossbows" of these crossbowmen. Think about it, Mahu went out with nearly 20,000 rebels, and there were only a few hundred crossbowmen under his command, and even his 20,000 rebels, some people were using kitchen knives and the like as weapons, and even some people were still using wooden sticks, which shows how short the rebels' military supplies were.
Fortunately, the Han army only had a few hundred crossbowmen in the rebel army led by Ma Hu, otherwise if there were thousands of crossbowmen at the moment, under the fire of ten thousand arrows, even if the Han army relied on the wooden cart and the iron armor covering the whole body as protection, the arrows in the sky would at least cause the Han army to lose more than 1,000 people under the narrow mountain, which was unbearable for Fuquan, who was now only 3,000 people because of the rolling wood and stones that rolled down from the mountain.
The reason why Jiangxia's rebels relied on the cans of fire oil they captured and collected was not only because most of the rebels were only good at fighting alone, and it was difficult to win the head-on decisive battle, but also because their own armament was very insufficient. Even this time, after Huang Sui conquered the four counties around Xiling in Jiangxia County, he stopped troops under Xiling City, which is also the reason, it is really the Han army in Xiling City that there is no shortage of soldiers, ordnance, and food, and there is a steady supply of arsenals and grain depots from the county office, and the rebels' siege of the city is nothing more than forcibly adding casualties.
Therefore, after being unable to break through Xiling and killing the rich lands of Jingzhou, Nanjun and Jiangling, Huang Sui changed his mind and went to his hometown Lujiang to attack. This time, he learned the previous lesson, and instead of dwelling on the gains and losses of one county and one place, he went straight to Lujiang County and Zhishu County, after all, compared with the seizures of those small counties, there are obviously more trophies in a county and county, and he can equip all the soldiers and horses under his command.
After all, each county in the Han Dynasty had its own county arsenal, which was basically around the county administration, of course, this was not comparable to the small arsenal of a county in the Han Dynasty, and the weapons in these county arsenals were all taken out, and it was not a problem to equip an army of tens of thousands of horses. This is also the reason why the counties of the Han Dynasty, unless necessary, would rather watch the counties around the county be harmed, and will not send troops to rescue them in time, after all, compared with those county towns that were broken by the rebels, the county was breached, in addition to the local face, the most important thing is that the weapons in the arsenal of the local county administration are too much, long soldiers and short blades, all of them are complete, and even the sharp weapons of the Han army, there are many strong crossbows such as bed crossbows. If these are possessed by thieves, the disaster that will be brought after that will be more terrible than the overcoming of a few counties.
Although now since Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty abolished the world's officials, the arsenals of the counties and states are no longer like the previous Han Dynasty to manufacture large-scale transport weapons every year, but with the accumulation of the Han Dynasty over the years, the number of weapons in the arsenals of the counties and states is still not to be underestimated. In addition, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the counties of the Han Dynasty were extremely strict in the management of the arsenal, in addition to the daily maintenance of ordnance to prevent weapons from being destroyed over time, there were also special finishing marks for weapons, who did not maintain them well or lost them, which completely ensured the safety and integrity of weapons.
Therefore, for Huang Sui, who is now in urgent need of weapons to completely change the clothes of his soldiers, since he missed the opportunity to govern the arsenal of Xiling County in Jiangxia County, then this time he will go to Shu County, Lujiang County, and he cannot waste the arsenal of Shu County, as long as he takes Shu County, his army will be completely changed. At that time, even if there is no famous general to help him train soldiers and horses, just with the number of soldiers and horses under him, Huang Sui is confident that he will train an elite by fighting and raising war.
At the foot of the mountain, the Han army clinged to the wooden carts beside them, leaning together in twos and threes, and was not afraid of the fierce rebels. After the first short encounter with the rebels just now, the Han army has already experienced the rejection of the enemy in the car formation at this moment, and relying on the car formation, it has far killed and injured the rebels who are several times their own, and their morale and military spirit have just been ambushed by the rebels at the bottom of the mountain, and they have come out of the shadow of their rolling wood and arrows, but they are not too afraid of the rebels' offensive to raise again.
After relying on the cover of the wooden cart and once again dodging the shot of the rebels' bow and crossbow, in the face of the approaching rebels, the Han army, as just now, took out the bow and crossbow in the back of the car and shot directly at the rebels, while the Han army in front took out spears and broadswords, and slashed and stabbed the rebels who rushed in first between the wooden carts.
Of course, the rebels were numerous, and after the Han troops everywhere caused dozens of casualties among the rebels, they were rushed into the car formation by the rebels who had increased their momentum. The Han army could only retreat while taking out large shields and spears to form a kind of mobile "repulsion horse", which served as a mobile wall to protect the crossbowmen in the rear, so that those crossbowmen could use long-range weapons to constantly fight the incoming rebels.
In the rear of the Han army, in a safe corner in the middle of the mountain, Fu Quan, under the protection of more than a dozen soldiers armed with big shields and long knives, stared at the situation ahead, he knew that the opportunity for a counterattack was coming soon......