Chapter 18: Battle
It can't go on like this, it definitely can't go on like this!
There was a voice shouting in his heart, Wang Shen hurriedly pushed An Niang, and shouted: "Go back to the warehouse, go back quickly, this is not the place for you to stay." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
didn't care about her, just turned his head and shouted to everyone: "Stop, put on armor, line up!" Don't let the arrows go without my orders! ”
But no one listened to him, Wang Shen was furious, raised his knife, and used his knife to turn his back to the soldiers.
Everyone was beaten by him, and then it was quieter.
But Lu Can still kept shouting: "Kill, kill, kill!" ”
There were two voices in the ranks, two commanders, and no one knew who to listen to.
"Yes, yes, straight thief, don't fight. Armor, arrayed, and commanded by the king. Gu Lie is an old soldier, and he immediately came to his senses. Hurriedly arrived at a few pro-soldiers rushed forward. Together with Wang Shen, there was a burst of punches and kicks, and it was not easy for everyone to put on their armor. But the team was still chaotic, and for a while, they couldn't set up a good formation.
The "boom" footsteps were louder, and the rolling yellow dust rolled in. The thieves had reached a distance of three hundred paces from the baggage camp. The dust rustled down on people's heads and armor, choking people who wanted nothing more than to cough. In a patch of yellow, there are enough shadows to see the black crowd, there are so many that I can't count them.
The contrast between strength and weakness is too great, all the Huaixi troops are trembling, their hands are trembling so much that they can't wind up, and their eyes are full of despair.
In the chaos, there was a thief howling, dozens of black lights rushed from the wave of dust, and fell on the Huaixi army, a sound of Ding Dong sounded, followed by a few screams, and someone fell.
This is the thief's archer, and Wang Shen is standing at the front of the team at this time. He wore a well-made armor as an officer, which naturally became the most valuable target.
The rain of arrows changed direction and came like electricity.
In the light of lightning, Wang Shen didn't care about that much, and kicked An Niang beside him, kicking her to the ground.
At this moment, there was a chaotic sound on his body, and then a slight tingling pain. When I looked closely, I was hit by an arrow in the chest, abdomen, and shoulder.
Wang Shen's heart was cold: It's over, it's over, am I going to die? I've only traveled to the Song Dynasty for two days, two days!
In despair, the arrow on his body was crooked and fell from the top of the armor.
It turned out that the iron armor he was wearing was the infantry armor of the elite infantry of the Western Army, weighing about forty catties, and it was made of cold-forged steel sheets. This kind of armor is not in good health, and people wear it on their bodies and breathe badly when they walk for a while, but they can imagine what it looks like to be strong. The thief's bow and arrow were shot at it like tickling.
If you really want to talk about armor piercing, you can only use the Divine Arm Bow and rely on blunt weapons such as bone duo and thistle terrestris.
In real history, when Yang Zaixing was martyred in Xiaoshanghe, he relied on the iron armor on his body to carry the strong bow and crossbow of the Jurchens, and was hit by countless arrows and died. Later, the Jin army obtained his corpse, and after burning it, a total of two liters of arrows were obtained. From this, we can see how sophisticated the iron armor of the Song Dynasty was.
Thinking of this, Wang Shen was overjoyed, and kicked out a few times at the soldier who had fallen to the ground and screamed miserably: "Get up, it's just a skin injury, and you can't die." ”
"The thief's arrows don't hurt us, array, array!" Gu Lie was also hit by an arrow in the chest, he reached out and snapped the shaft of the arrow, and then lifted the scabbard and pumped it indiscriminately under his hand: "Stand up, straight lady thief, coward!" ”
Lu Can was still shouting, An Niang was kicked by Wang Shen and rolled around on the ground, just rolling beside him.
is a good An Niang, after all, she is Yue Fei's eldest daughter, and she knows that it is not a way to let him continue to be called like this, and the military heart will be messed up by him. In a hurry, he suddenly took out a piece of dough cake from his arms and stuffed it into Lu Can's mouth.
The thieves were still two hundred paces away from the baggage camp.
Wang Shen gritted his teeth, didn't care much, held his knife in both hands, and prepared to meet the first wave of the enemy's attack. Gu Lie and his two personal soldiers also stood beside him with weapons, and they would be brave enough for the army, and at the moment of crisis, they could only rely on the courage and blood of the officers to stabilize the position.
However, several people glanced at each other, and their eyes were full of frustration. It took a day of planning, a day of training, and in the end it was still a mess. The troops are in disarray, and it only takes one charge, and everyone present will die here.
"It's over!" A pro-soldier whispered mournfully.
Gu Lie: "Fuck it, let's fight one by one!" Sooner or later, there will be this day when soldiers eat food, and when they eat food and become soldiers. Hold your chest up, don't lose our Qin Fengjun's face. ”
The enemy's arrows were still coming and falling on them, and Ding Dong rang wildly, and he could vaguely see the sparks flying up.
Knowing that the bow and arrow were useless, the opponent's archers were also tired, and the rain of arrows stopped.
At the sound of an order, the advancing thief army did not take the opportunity to attack, but miraculously stopped.
The dust was still falling, but I could already see the situation on the other side.
There are many people, old and young, men and women. Some were dressed in leather armor and carried spears and knives; Some were dressed in rags, holding hoes, sticks, and kitchen knives, while others simply held a stone. In fact, there are very few people with decent weapons, and more often than not. These should be the displaced people who Li Yu has been coerced all the way from Shandong to Huaixi.
Countless people are pressed together, pushing each other, rolling in, like a returning bee, making people's scalps tingle.
Just when Wang Shen, Gu Lie and the others were confused, two thieves in the team came out with a leader-like person with shields and shouted: "Listen to the people on the other side, we are the former army of King Li Yu and Li in Jinan, and there are 100,000 heavenly soldiers, coming to seize the treasury." Those who know each other immediately put down their weapons, open the door of the storeroom, and bow down and arrest them, so that they can still leave you with a whole corpse. Otherwise, once it falls into my hands, a thousand knives will cut you! ”
Wang Shen quietly drew his bow and set up an arrow, wanting to kill him with one arrow. But after thinking about it, two hundred meters is too far away, and the person looks like a small black dot, and he can't see clearly at all. The foot bow can't shoot that far at all, and even if it shoots in front of it, it's the end of the crossbow.
The man was still shouting, "Lao Tzu will give you a pillar of incense." After speaking, he returned to the crowd triumphantly surrounded by two brand players.
Gu Lie shook his head: "This person's brain is broken, and he actually gave us a pillar of incense time to rectify the troops." If it were me, I wouldn't have given the enemy a chance to breathe. Do you know the art of war or not, a cat and a dog are also generals. ”
Wang Shen snorted: "This person should be stupid." Since it is to persuade me to surrender, and what do you say that once you surrender, you will leave me waiting for a whole corpse, isn't this forcing me to wait desperately? It's just a neurosis! ”
When he laughed, the others laughed too. The tension just now was swept away, and the hands of the soldiers did not tremble.
Wang Shen turned his head and smiled at everyone: "Everyone can see clearly the thieves on the other side, although there are many people, they are all vulnerable homeless, and they are all stupid, there is nothing to be afraid of." Let's line up and see what we teach them what is the real way to fight. One day, one day later. As long as you survive, after returning to Tianchang County, I will invite you to drink, and how much you drink will be counted on my head. ”
One pillar of incense was not long, but it was enough to restore order to more than 200 soldiers of the baggage battalion.
The troops lined up in four rows, wound up at the same time, and held the bow of the divine arm in their hands. Yes, the enemy chieftain has already made it clear just now, even if he surrenders, he will inevitably die. Anyway, it's a dead word, and I have to pull someone on my back when I die.
The time of a pillar of incense flew by, and the thieves over there saw that Wang Shen and the others showed no signs of putting down their weapons and coming to die, and at the same time let out a shout and rushed forward desperately.
"Burn!"
"Kill!"
"Let these Shaanxi mongrels know how powerful we are!"
"Liu Guangshi's cubs, your time of death has arrived!"
……
Then the enemy's arrows came again, and in a flury they fell into the ranks of the soldiers of the baggage battalion, landed on the soldiers' helmets and shoulders, and then bounced aside.
Wang Shen carried it to the middle of the first team and shouted: "Steady, steady, don't shoot without my order, don't shoot!" ”
Gu Lie and the other two captains were also shouting: "No shooting, no shooting!" ”
The shouts on the opposite side, the footsteps were louder, but even louder was the wheezing of the soldiers around him.
Wang Shen looked back, everyone opened their mouths wide and inhaled, their chests rising and falling violently. A man of about fifteen or sixteen years old had a crossbow in his hand, and his feet were shaky and unsteady.
He picked up the half-grown child and shouted, "Are you afraid? ”
"I'm ...... I ...... "The child grinned and cried.
"Close your eyes, and if you can't see, you won't be afraid! You don't have to think about anything, don't look at anything, just listen to my orders. Wang Shen smiled, and suddenly roared into his ear: "Close your eyes." ”
The boy was so excited that he closed his eyes.
At this time, Wang Shen's voice sounded again: "The enemy is a hundred steps away from me, steady, steady, steady...... First team, ready to ...... Fifty paces...... First team, raise the crossbow! ”
"Raise your crossbow!" The first team of more than fifty crossbowmen repeated Wang Shen's words at the same time.
Wang Shen: "Shoot!" ”
"Shoot!" Another roar.
The child subconsciously pulled the hanging knife, only to feel a shock on his body, and the arrow was off the string. The "hum" of the bowstring in my ears was connected.
Before I could think about it, another order came: "First team, sit!" ”
"Sit!"
The boy sat down.
At the same time, Gu Lie's voice came from behind him: "Second team, shoot!" ”
"Shoot!"
Stronger winds.
However, there were no screams, no shouts of killing, and there were rumbling footsteps in my ears.
The kid wondered: Did he miss the shot?
And they kept opening their eyes and looking straight ahead.
In the dust ahead, the thief army was still rushing forward, as if no one had been hit by an arrow.
What's going on here?
But Wang Shen's voice still sounded without the slightest personal emotion, like a bell: "First team, wind up!" ”
The soldiers, who were already sitting on the ground, stretched out their feet and put their feet into the rings at the front of the bow, and at the same time shouted, "Wind", and put the bowstring on the hooked teeth.
At the same moment, the second team behind him was shouting: "Second team, sit!" ”
"Team 3, put!"
Another rain of arrows went out, and now the kid could see it clearly. The hurried crossbow bolts did not miss, but invariably shot into the bodies of the thieves in the front row.
In fact, the number of thieves on the opposite side is too large, and the formation is dense, so it can be said that people are crowded with people. There is no need to aim, just shoot the arrow at hand and you can easily hit a target.
And the power of the Divine Arm Crossbow is too great, once it hits the unarmored thief army, it will shoot directly through it.
The enemy in the front row was already dead after three volleys, but because the people behind were still swarming up, they couldn't stand for a while, and they were still pushed forward.
"Fourth team, shoot!"
……
Finally, a platoon of thieves fell.
The people in the back suddenly stopped and looked blankly at the front, they probably couldn't figure out how the person in front of them died inexplicably.
It wasn't until he saw the corpses all over the ground and saw the arrows flying like rain that he let out a loud cry at the same time, turned around and fled without his life.