Chapter 345: The Battle of the Powerful Crossbow and the Longbow is endless
Next to more than 100 scattered wooden carts, the Han army in iron armor is fighting to the death with the rebels in poor armor.
Since Fuquan led the Han army to break through Exian County, with the seizure of Qichun and Exian counties, as well as the collection and seizure along the road, Fuquan finally had some usable horses and mules, but in addition to some good war horses for scouts and generals, other horses and mules were used by him for logistics transportation.
In short, although some soldiers objected to such a waste of horses, under Fuquan's compulsory orders, the Han army could have more carriages and horses to transport logistics during its long march. Of course, if it weren't for the ambush today, Fu Quan didn't expect that his persistence at that time would become a lifesaver today.
After all, for an army galloping to help, bringing more carriages and horses will undoubtedly reduce the speed of the march, and for many generals, it is better to have extra horses for them to go into battle to kill the enemy, and they should not be left to waste on transportation. It's just that Fuquan has his own considerations, after all, once he enters Yangzhou Lujiang from Jingzhou Jiangxia, the supply line between the two places will undoubtedly be widened in the supply rear of Qichun County, where he and Gan Ning are located.
Unless Fuquan can directly join up with Lujiang Taishou all the way and get supplies in Shu County, it is obviously not enough to collect and collect on the road alone. God knows how many things the thief leader Huang Sui will leave for himself along the way with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, if Fuquan does not prepare enough logistics and military supplies by himself, who knows if there will be changes along the way, and if the soldiers have no heart to fight because of lack of food and the like, who knows if he will be defeated by the rebels?
As for asking for supplies with the Jingzhou army in Exian County, don't even think about it, as far as Fuquan and Zhao Kaimian are not in harmony, it would be good if the other party didn't stumble, plus Jingzhou Jiangxia and Yangzhou Lujiang, there are continuous mountains in the middle of the Dabie Mountain, even if it can be transported from Exian County, the logistical pressure is not low, and the transportation of the logistics troops cannot keep up with the speed of his main army, so he suffers a dark loss.
For various reasons, Fuquan chose to transport it himself, so that although the march was slow, it was extremely safe. It is precisely because of this that relying on the more than 100 transport carriages and horses that the Han army was able to rely on the chaotic formation of the cart formation to maneuver with the superior number of rebels under the impact of the rebels' rolling wood and stones.
Li Gouzi is a native of Qichun, Jiangxia, he is 24 years old this year, and his family once had several acres of land, and looking at his deep eyes and stronger figure than others, you can guess that he is not entirely Han.
That's right, his grandfather went out to visit relatives and accidentally fell into the river while crossing the river, and if it wasn't for his grandmother's family to save him, his grandfather would have died in the belly of the fish. Later, his grandfather suffered from the cold because he fell into the river, and he had a fever all the time, and it was his grandmother who treated him day and night, and the two fell in love for a long time, and finally Li Gouzi's grandfather married his grandmother, otherwise, there would be no father and himself.
Without further ado, a few years ago, my father died of a sudden illness, and it cost a lot, but no one was willing to lend money to Li Gouzi's family, not because his family had a bad reputation, and everyone in Gaine was warned by the local wealthy Huang family. Originally, the Han people did not dare to borrow money Li Gou could go to his grandmother's house, but his grandmother's family was a barbarian and had been monitored by the government, and there was little hope that they would be able to rely on their father.
Of course, Li Gouzi also went to the Qichun County Office to complain, hoping that the Qichun County Magistrate could make decisions for him, but the result in exchange was that after he complained, he didn't even see the county magistrate in person, and was beaten out of the county office by the officials of the county office. The Huang family is the surname of Jiangxia and even the entire Jingzhou, and most of the local officials in Qichun County are from the Huang family or people related to the Huang family, so it is natural to imagine what will happen to Li Gouzi to sue the Huang family, perhaps not because the Huang family wants to "justifiably" seize his family's land, maybe Li Gouzi will not be able to come out of the county office.
Later, after Li Gouzi understood the truth that he couldn't sue, he gave up completely, the county is like this, the Huang family in the county is more powerful, where can he go to sue? In the end, Li Gouzi was forced to be helpless, and the Li family could only sell the land to the Huang family at a low price, at first one or two acres...... Until he completely sells out the land and property, and all the money is political father, after all, the Han Dynasty values filial piety, even if the Li family does not have much money, Li Gouzi has to save his father.
However, the father died in the end, and the Li family no longer had any money or land, so Li Gouzi could only take his widowed mother to his grandmother's house. However, the situation of his grandmother's family is not as good as his family, and he can only ensure that his family has something to eat, after all, after his grandmother's family is an authentic rebel barbarian, it was exploited earlier than his Li family, and when he went, many barbarians were forced to give the local wealthy family as Zhuangke slave soldiers.
It's just that disasters don't go alone, last year, the second year of light and harmony, another epidemic that affected the world in the spring completely shattered his family, which could still be supported. His mother, because of her old age and frailty, occasionally suffered from cold, and died before she could wait for the medical craftsman specially arranged by the county to come to Qichun County. Of course, Li Gouzi is sure that even if he can wait for the medical craftsman, according to the urine nature of the wealthy families in the county, even if no one in their family gets sick, the wealthy family will definitely let the medical craftsmen treat them first, and then let those medical craftsmen diagnose and treat ordinary families like him, this world is so unbearable, powerless, and can only be bullied by these landlords and bullies.
This plague is not only the departure of Li Gouzi's mother, but also the people of Jiangxia, every family basically has relatives dead, and some families are also extinct, although the plague government has already publicized the method of preventive measures, but this thing will not take the initiative to tell them to come, and no one can really succeed in epidemic prevention and control.
Thinking of this, Li Gouzi couldn't help but think of the plague that had been occurring in the past few years, and there were indeed fewer dead people than a few years ago. It is said that the "Treatise on Plague Prevention and Control", which is quite effective in controlling the plague, was invented by Fuliuchuan, Zhang Ji and Hua Tuo, two miracle doctors known as "the dragon". Li Gouzi couldn't understand how Fuliuchuan, who seemed to be younger than him, could have that kind of brain and could deal with the terrible plague, it was so smart.
By the way, that Fuliuchuan seems to be the commander of the army opposite him, well, Li Gouzi thought that when this ambush was won, he must split Fuliuchuan's brain to see what was inside, whether it was the same as the brains of other people who were killed by him, otherwise how could he be so smart?
As for the rumors that Fuliuchuan has killed too many people, is violent and tyrannical, and makes Xiao'er famous for crying, this makes Li Gouzi feel nothing, anyway, he himself has already experienced so many things, and he has killed a lot of people, would he be afraid of Fuliuchuan who is younger than himself? Now in his eyes, it is to kill the Han people in front of him, defeat the Han army, and win the opportunity for General Huang's army to completely capture Lujiang.
In the end, after surviving the painful plague, Li Gouzi, who had lost both parents, could only go hunting in the mountains with several male barbarian relatives of his grandmother's family who survived the catastrophe. But even so, the government's annual taxes were too much for him to bear, which made it even worse for him.
With this accident, he hated the Huang family, hating their greed for their own land, which led to the destruction of his family; hated the government, the officials protected each other, and did not give these hard-working people a way to live; Hates this world, this is a "cannibalistic" world, where is the reason of heaven, why is it so unfair to him.
The combination of various factors has long made Li Gouzi lose confidence in the dynasty that rules him, and has no hope for life, countless times he wants to commit suicide, and he can't survive in this "cannibalistic" world at all. Until the local famous Huang Sui raised his arms and shouted, contacting them to prepare for an incident, because Huang Sui and the barbarians have an old relationship, plus the barbarians themselves are dissatisfied with the government that has been exploiting them, and they have always had the resistance genes of the ancestors of the rebel barbarians in their bones, so after Huang Sui contacted them, Li Gouzi also joined Huang Sui unexpectedly, he wants revenge, he wants to live better, he wants to let this "cannibalistic" world be buried, so that those families who suck their blood are strong, The government and aristocracy all paid the price for their greed.
Later, as Huang Sui shouted at the scheduled time, resisting the uprising, countless Han barbarian people who were exploited by the government responded one after another, rose up, defeated the official army one after another, and captured the county seat. Li Gouzi also accidentally killed the Huang family who killed his family, and then Huang Sui told him that the worst person in the world is the emperor, and the most persecuted person in the world is the Han Dynasty, just like the tyrannical Qin back then, so he is now going to kill the emperor and destroy this "cannibalistic" thug, and even their slogan has always been "Kill no way, punish the tyrant".
It's just obvious that for most of the Han people and barbarians who only know some simple words and can sing some poems and songs, they can easily understand the meaning of this slogan and chant this slogan, but there are not many who can thoroughly understand the meaning of this slogan. If they knew how the princes of the late Qin Dynasty who shouted "Kill the Evil and Punish the Tyrannical Qin" overthrew the rule of the Qin Dynasty, how many families were ruined, and how much worse the world was than the rule of the Qin Dynasty, maybe they would never want to participate in this uprising, and they would never want to overthrow this great Han with their lives, so that a new exploiter was born, because this was destined to be a murderous game for a new careerist to replace the old careerist.
"Kill ......"
Li Gouzi joined the other rebels in charging into the Han chariot formation, which was always cunning, using shields and spears to form a strange formation next to the wooden carts to block them, and then let the crossbowmen behind them shoot a rain of arrows that made them daunting and consume their lives.
Frankly speaking, the behavior of the Han army is shameful, because they use their superiority in equipment to constantly consume them who want to rely on hand-to-hand combat, and exchange their lives for a life, completely ruining hope.
Fortunately, this time, the leader with Qu Shuai Mahu saw him wielding the sledgehammer in his hand, and he was not afraid of the shield spear formation of the Han army in front of him. He shouted, blushed violently, and smashed towards the shield array with all his might, "bang", the shield array that gave Li Gouzi and their headache shattered, and the Han army that was leaning on the nearest wooden cart to form a formation was suddenly like a girl who had stripped naked, and the formation was completely interrupted, and the rebels relied on the advantage in numbers to kill those shield soldiers, spearmen, and crossbowmen behind them one by one.
With the first successful breakthrough of the formation, there was a second time, and then there was a third time, and I don't know how long it took, the Han army's chariot formation was broken several times, and seeing that the Han army was about to completely defeat them again and again by virtue of the rebels' numerical superiority, Fuquan, who had been fighting in the distance, finally began to move.
"Crossbow, Arrow!"
"Longbow, shoot at the rebel rear!"
Seeing the rebels surging in, the commander of the Qu Shuai even used up all the last reserves, and when he led people to attack his own side, Fu Quan finally gave an order to the crossbowmen and longbowmen who had been ordered to gather behind him, which he ordered to gather at the first time after the army was disrupted by the rebels with rolling logs and stones.
Because for these two types of ranged troops that need range, once they enter the melee combat, their effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and they will even accidentally damage their own troops because of the penetration power of bows and arrows and strong crossbows. At this point, they are far inferior to the kind of one- or two-stone repeating crossbows that can be used at close range, and the barbarians themselves started by playing crossbows, and at this time they used crossbows to harvest the lives of the rebels, and the damage caused to the rebels was terrifying and huge.
Therefore, instead of letting the crossbowmen and longbowmen do useless hand-to-hand combat, it is better to let them stay in the rear completely, if they are really defeated, they can also take them to retreat nearby, and the other troops will be defeated, but at least hundreds of soldiers are retained, although they are only long-range troops.
"Whew! Shout! Whew......"
The hundreds of archers who had been waiting for a long time skillfully and quickly pulled their bowstrings and shot towards the dense rebels, and at the same time, a strong crossbow of fifty people pouted Zhang Shi, shouted, kicked his legs, and relied on the strength of his waist and abdomen, pulled out the big crossbow, and fired the crossbow that they had been waiting for a long time and angry.
At this time, the number of rebels in front of them was like a sea of seas, densely packed, and there was no need for these long-trained barbarians to aim and shoot, they only needed to use their physical strength to the maximum extent that they had not used, and all the arrows on their bodies were fired towards the rebels.
"Uhh......hh Uh-a-ah......"
The arrows in the sky suddenly poured into the rebel array, and the rebels kept falling, and the sound of arrows entering the flesh and bones continued to surround Li Gouzi's ears, and the hot blood splashed his face.
A powerful crossbow bolt suddenly pierced the head of a young soldier beside him, and then took the soldier with him, shooting several people behind him into a salvo of strings. Several people died in front of him in an instant, which made Li Gouzi's teeth tremble with fear, and let him think that he was also a brave person who was not afraid of death, but at this moment he was also frightened by this tragic scene and stopped.
How could the Han army have such a sharp weapon?
How come they don't?
Oh my God, is that Furuchuan really like a rumor, with heaven's help?
couldn't help but look at the crossbow rain that hit, Li Gouzi remembered the locust plague a few years ago, at that time, it was really overwhelming! The entire pavilion was mobilized by the pavilion chief, and it was burned and buried in a pit day and night, so that the locust plague could barely be contained, and this method of exterminating locusts was also thought up by Fu Liuchuan, who made the Han army counterattack at this moment, isn't he a human being but a god? How else can the brain be so smart? Can you still help now?
At this moment, Li Gouzi's heart was shaking, he could believe that people could overthrow the Han Dynasty, but he didn't dare to believe that people could fight against God......