Caracalla once asked Koji for advice on how to deal with trebuchets, and Koji also made two suggestions, one was to disperse the formation, and the other was to try to get as close as possible to the opponent's trebuchet position. For the Great Qin army, the dense military formation was their magic weapon to win, which determined that it was impossible for them to adopt a scattered formation, but only to brave the stone rain of the Han army to rush forward as much as possible.

Ever since he learned of the Han army's trebuchet's means of attack, Caracalla consciously organized the Great Qin army to practice in this area, the most important of which was to speed up the attack.

When the Han trebuchet position launched a tentative attack, and a stone smashed into Alani's army, and the two soldiers were knocked down on the spot, Arani and Klaus raised their broadswords almost simultaneously, pointed forward, and shouted: "Kill! ”

The two phalanxes, 80,000 Great Qin soldiers, rushed forward together. After a period of special training, although their speed has increased a lot, the formation has not been too scattered.

Although the Great Qin Army was still a long way from the Han army's position, this sudden change also disrupted the Han army's trebuchet plans. The trebuchet, which had just been adjusted in place, had to hurriedly throw stone bullets and rain down on the Qin army's formation, but it only injured the Qin army's rear guard, but the striker dodged this ** blow.

After all, the trebuchet is a professional long-range siege machine, not a field weapon, although the institute has made many improvements and is much easier to operate, but it is only relatively speaking. By the time they adjusted their range again, the Qin army had already rushed out more than two hundred steps. As the distance approached, most of the stone projectiles thrown by the trebuchets would fall behind the Qin army's array.

The stone bullets used by the trebuchet were all pulled from the rear, which cost a lot of manpower and material resources. He immediately ordered the trebuchets to stop attacking and instead let the crossbowmen prepare. The trebuchet that once terrified Caracalla finally failed to continue its glory this time.

There was no more terrifying "boom" sound in the Han army's formation, and Alani knew that Koji's tactics had worked, so he couldn't help but be overjoyed, waved his broadsword, and rushed over first. The army of Silesia under his command also howled, rushing faster and faster, as if it were only a flock of lambs to the slaughter. Indeed, the infantry of the Great Qin Legion was very strong in combat, and looking at the world, they were confident that they could defeat any infantry opponent.

However, the Han army's combat strategy has always emphasized giving full play to the power of long-range weapons and trying to avoid engaging in stubborn struggles with the enemy. When the infantry of these Great Qin Legions ran to a distance of two hundred steps from the Han army's position, there was a loud "bang", which was the movement of tens of thousands of strong crossbows fired at the same time, and the sky was dark.

Liu Xin knew that the soldiers of the Great Qin army were wearing heavy armor, and although these armors could not prevent the slashing of sabers and tyrants, they could effectively prevent the damage of bows and arrows, which was also the reason why there were few bows and crossbows in the Great Qin army. However, after repeated experiments, the research institute found that this armor was not effective against the attack of the crossbow.

The crossbow needs to be stepped on with your feet and use the strength of your whole body to open, hence the name, but you can also imagine how powerful this crossbow is. The Han army's improved crossbow could easily shoot through two layers of leather armor five hundred paces away.

Because of this discovery, Liu Xin decisively gave up a large number of archers and instead equipped them with a large number of crossbows. The only weakness of a crossbow over a bow is the long time it takes between shots, often with a bow firing five shots before a crossbow can be fired once, while a tension crossbow is slower to reload with iron arrows. However, if he couldn't effectively kill and injure the opponent, no matter how fast the speed was, it was meaningless, so Liu Xin still resolutely chose to use the Tazhang crossbow.

Originally, with the range of the stepping crossbow, after the Great Qin army rushed through the range of the trebuchet, the stepping crossbow could carry out the attack. However, considering that most of the Great Qin troops were dressed in heavy iron armor, Zhang He did not order an attack until the Great Qin army was within two hundred paces. While this reduces the number of attacks on the Tension Crossbow, it makes it easier to hit with a single hit.

The distance is close, not only can the lethality be doubled, but also can greatly improve the accuracy of shooting, according to the need to throw a few stone bullets like a trebuchet for a test, and then adjust the azimuth angle, the crossbow is completely a one-time salvo, tens of thousands of iron arrows mixed with a sharp sound of breaking the air, in an instant.

The Great Qin army did not pay attention to the bows and arrows of the Han army at all, and those who rushed ahead, whether they were spearmen or broadswordsmen, held a tall shield. But this time the arrows were different from what they were used to, and the black iron arrows easily pierced through their armor, pierced their bodies, and even pierced straight through, continuing to injure those standing behind them.

More than 10,000 iron arrows are nothing for the Qin army of more than 80,000 people, don't look at the rain of arrows is very dense, but there are many iron arrows that will hit the same person, so if you can bring three or four thousand casualties to the Qin army, it is generally a very remarkable result. It's a pity that the Qin army's formation is too dense, and the iron arrows fired by the Han army's crossbow are really powerful, almost all of the iron arrows penetrated through, and directly hit the second person, this wave of shooting, more than 5,000 Qin soldiers were put down on the spot.

Alani rushed to the front, he was as powerful as an ox, holding a shield in his left hand and wielding a broadsword in his right hand, constantly pulling out and knocking out the iron arrows that shot in front of him, but one of them still hit his left rib. It was also Alani's carelessness that he didn't realize the power of the Han army's crossbow, and most of the iron arrows in front of him were knocked down by him with a broadsword, but this iron arrow was too late, so he blocked it with a shield. Who knew that with a "bang", the iron arrow drilled a hole in the shield, hit him directly in the left rib, and passed through his ribs.

Alani, who was charging hard, only felt a numbness in his chest, and he didn't feel much pain at all, and he didn't even look down to check it. Because Alani knew that there was no way back for his legion. If he retreats at this time, he will face the double blow of the Han army's bow and crossbow and trebuchet, and he can only move forward, forward, and then forward. Alani roared, simply threw away the shield that had little effect, clenched the broadsword with both hands, and slashed left and right all the way, like a mad demon, quickly killing towards the Han army's position.

In fact, these actions of Alani are all superfluous. Although the Han army's stepping crossbow was powerful, the gap between the two shots was too long, and the Han army fired another salvo, and when Alani ran out for nearly a hundred steps, it ushered in the second wave of attacks of the Han army.

This wave of attacks was even more violent than the previous one, because the distance was closer. Alani was just as desperate as he swung his broadsword, and there was no shield to block his vision, but this time he wasn't as lucky as he had been.

The iron arrow passed through Alani's ribs and did not hurt him. But he ran wildly for nearly a hundred steps, greatly affecting the wound, the blood flowed more and more, and Alani's steps became heavier and heavier, and he felt the pain of drilling his heart with every step he took, and the movement of the sword became slower and slower, and finally he could not remove the iron arrows in front of him, one iron arrow pierced his eyebrows, and three other iron arrows broke through his chest at the same time. Alani shook, and his massive body collapsed, never to get back up again.

Although the temporary commander of the Silician Legion died under the crossbow of the Han army, the other soldiers of the Silesian Legion did not stop and still risked their lives to charge the Han position. This was the benefit of Putimius's Songun policy, and every time he fought, the soldiers marched forward with the belief that they would die, and this time was no exception. Klaus was not wounded by the arrows, and the Egyptian legionnaires under his command were not far behind, although they came from different provinces.

The speed of the Great Qin soldiers' charge was very fast, and Zhang He clearly knew that there was no time for the third firing of the crossbow, so he decisively ordered the crossbowmen to retreat, the infantry separated the two sides, and the heavy cavalry divided into four columns, and began to slowly meet the Great Qin army.

In the face of the cavalry, the Great Qin soldiers did not have much fear, they charged forward, while slowly approaching, filling the gap left by the soldiers who were killed and injured under the iron arrows, reorganizing two dense phalanxes, one by one spears stretched out to the outside of the shield, and the hedgehog array that specialized in killing the cavalry showed its fangs again.

However, this time they were not facing ordinary cavalry, but heavy armored cavalry, one of the most elite units of the Great Han. It costs five times as much to build a heavy cavalry as a normal light cavalry, and the selection of horses and riders is very strict, the horses must be tall and able to carry weights, and the men must have excellent arm strength. With the wealth of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xin only raised 20,000 heavy armored cavalry.

The closer the Great Qin soldiers got to the Han army, their steps became slower and slower, but each step became more solid. On the contrary, the heavy armored cavalry of the Han army was getting faster and faster, and when they were still thirty steps away from the Great Qin army array, they finally galloped on horseback.

Just like against the nomadic cavalry, the Great Qin spearmen threw out the spears in their hands again. However, unlike the last time, their spears were not sharp enough to pierce the armor of the heavily armored cavalry at all. The spear that was stuck in the ground was also broken by the same heavily armored warhorse. The heavy cavalry was soon in front of them.

Thirty paces is far from being able to raise the speed of a war horse to the highest speed for a light cavalry, but it is enough for a heavy cavalry. The heavy armored cavalry was in a row of four, and the iron spears of eight feet were stretched out in front, far exceeding the spears used by the Great Qin soldiers, and easily tore the Great Qin army formation into four big holes. The heavy armored cavalry of the Han army crushed all the way to the past, whether dead or alive, leaving only a mess of meat on the ground.

At this moment, Zhang He waved the spear in his hand, and the Han infantry, who had long been holding back their strength, held their spears and rushed forward with their swords, and went straight into the Qin army formation, starting a life-and-death fight.