Chapter 332: Purgatory on Earth
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty were caught off guard by the Qin army's first wave of arrows and shot tens of thousands of soldiers! Seeing that the arrows of the Qin army were so powerful, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty came to their senses and hid in the trenches one by one, holding shields in both hands to block the vital points around them, trying to resist the rain of arrows of the Qin army!
These shields of the Gupta Dynasty, although they have been thickened after the battle with the Qin army at Musang Mountain. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but these thickened shields can only barely resist the Qin army's hand crossbow, how can they resist it, regardless of range or lethality, it is several times that of the Qin army's foot crossbow of the hand crossbow!
I saw hundreds of thousands of Gupta Dynasty soldiers, although they were hiding in the dense forest trenches, although they were holding shields one by one, but under the second and third waves of arrows of the Qin army, there were still tens of thousands of Gupta Dynasty soldiers, who were shot by the Qin army, and the arrows in front of them penetrated the shield in front of them, and were shot to death under the rain of arrows of the Qin army!
What's even more terrifying is that the military formations formed by hundreds of thousands of Qin army soldiers are not fixed, but under the command of Li Quai, the right general of the Qin army, these hundreds of Qin army formations are still constantly changing, slowly advancing forward!
If you want to say that the Qin army's arrow array, due to the long distance, could only shoot the former army of the Gupta Dynasty, then when this military array kept advancing forward, the front army of the Gupta Dynasty, the Chinese army, and even the rear baggage battalion were completely covered by the Qin army's arrow rain, completely covered within the firing range!
In addition, the Qin army's arrow array that released arrows before was only tens of thousands of foot crossbows, and after these arrow arrays advanced dozens of zhang, the arrows that did not stop towards the slopes on both sides were no longer just the Qin army's foot crossbow arrow array, but the foot crossbow arrow array, plus the hand crossbow arrow array, as well as the thousands of hundred-person giant crossbows, and hundreds of catapults, these attacking weapons launched at the same time in an instant!
The hundreds of catapults of the Qin army threw not ordinary stones, but gravel mixed with black powder, wrapped in a cloth curtain on the outside, and poured with fire oil. Ignite it and throw it at the slopes on both sides of the Gupta army!
Once these stones hit the ground, they will not only ignite the mountains and forests, but also explode! Under the continuous throwing of hundreds of catapults of the Qin army, I saw the slopes on both sides of the Gupta Dynasty's army, as if a natural disaster had occurred! The Gupta Dynasty soldiers who were stoned, burned, and blown up by these stones are almost countless!
What's even more terrifying is that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty have never seen such a powerful weapon, and they still think that this is the three main gods who have descended divine power to punish themselves! In this way, these stones thrown by the Qin army, with raging flames and explosions, seem to have a greater effect on the morale of the Gupta Dynasty's army!
The Qin army's hundred-man giant crossbow has an effective range of 350 zhang, and its power is not to be said, under its deterrence, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Gupta Dynasty, especially those princes and nobles, as well as the sea protector king Shamodhara. Gupta is almost all within the range of the 100-person giant crossbow!
Just now, just after the first round of arrows from the Qin Army's hundred-man giant crossbow, in front of the Sea Protector King, there was a lord of the country and two generals in the army, who were nailed to the ground alive after being shot through the body by this huge arrow!
Sea Protector Shamadhara. Gupta saw such a terrifying scene with his own eyes, although he was not stupid, but he was also shocked by the Qin army's strong bow and crossbow, and he couldn't say a word!
Looking at the few Qin Army giant arrows nailed to the ground in front of him, with their tail feathers still trembling slightly, and then looking up at the catapults that seemed to be erupting like a volcano and could explode after landing, the Sea Guardian King grew his mouth in surprise! It turns out that this is the strong bow and crossbow of the Qin army! It turned out that this was the black powder of the Qin army! It turns out that this is the real strength of the Qin army!
Looking at all this, looking at this hellish scene, the Sea Guardian Shamadhara. Gupta only felt helpless and desolate! The strength of the Qin army is so terrifying, in the face of these unimaginably powerful weapons, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, even if the prince came to support with five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses, how could he be able to defeat these strong bows and crossbows? How could it be better than these black powders? How could they be able to defeat these Qin troops equipped with such weapons?
Discouraged and almost desperate, the Sea Protector King looked at the right Prime Minister Hong Chou with eyes that were almost asking for help. But seeing that his right prime minister was not as chic and calm as he used to be at this time, he seemed to be stupid, standing there, looking at the thousands of arrows shot by the Qin army, looking at the fireballs thrown by the Qin army, his face was full of ashes, and he muttered to himself: "This is black powder!" This is black powder! ”
Seeing the appearance of the right prime minister, Hong Chou, the only hope in the heart of the Sea Protector King also began to be shattered and sunk! Sea Protector Shamadhara. Gupta looked up at the sky and sighed: "Heavens! O great three main gods! Am I Shamadhara. Gupta, is it really going to kill the belly of the fish today? ”
The Qin army unfolded so many sharp weapons at the same time, and I saw that on the slopes on both sides of the fish's belly, it became a sea of fire in an instant! On the hillsides on both sides of the mouth of the fish, it has almost become a purgatory on earth, full of screams of sorrow and cries for help! Full of the sorrowful screams of dying!
Besides, after the Qin army's formation slowly moved forward, although it could cover all the enemy's troops and horses under the rain of arrows. However, the Gupta Dynasty's feather arrows were too far away from the Qin army's formation, so they couldn't shoot the soldiers of the Qin army! But now it was different, because the Qin army's military array was getting closer and closer, and most of it had already entered the range of the enemy's feather arrows!
He saw that most of the Qin army entered the range of feather arrows, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to release arrows, hoping to resist the offensive of the Qin army, so that it would stop and even retreat from defeat!
The hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty knew that if they didn't fight back, they were afraid that it wouldn't be long before the soldiers and horses of the Qin army would attack uphill, and at that time, only the cold Qin sword of the Qin army would be waiting for them, and there would be a dead end! Therefore, after the right prime minister Hong Chou gave the order, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Gupta Dynasty did not care about avoiding the rain of arrows in the Qin army, and they opened their bows and arrows one by one, and kept arrows towards the Qin army formation under the hillside!
The tens of thousands of crossbowmen of the Qin army are all wearing heavy armor, as long as the enemy's feather arrows do not hit the vital point of the face, they will not pose a threat to life! However, the cost of heavy armor of the Qin army is quite high, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Qin army cannot wear heavy armor on everyone, and most of its soldiers only have ordinary leather armor on their bodies. And these leather armors are absolutely impossible to resist, and the Gupta Dynasty soldiers shot hundreds of thousands of feather arrows from a high position!
In this way, although the hundreds of military formations of the Qin army are still firing arrows on the slopes on both sides, under the feather arrows of the Gupta Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Qin army have also begun to suffer large-scale casualties!