Chapter 165: The First Battle of Han and Yue [2]
Fan Li thought for a while, and said: "Well, then you will lead the troops and horses of your headquarters to tempt, don't rush in, be careful!" lest you fall for Yang Zilu's tricks! ”
"That's right!" Yu Yong also expressed his support for Fan Li's words, Fan Li's words were out of prudence, and Yu Yong suffered a loss, knowing that they could not take these Han barbarians they despised verbally.
When he heard this, a hint of disapproval flashed in the depths of his eyes, but he was still not stupid enough to disobey the orders of the two generals in person, and said perfunctorily: "Please rest assured that the general and the deputy general!" ”
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"Humph! The tiger is not powerful, Fan Li still thinks this is a sick cat! Yang Zilu sneered and coldly watched the movement of the Yue army under the mountain.
Looking down from the top of the mountain, you can clearly see the movement of the Vietnamese army. Yang Zilu could see at a glance what Fan Li had in mind, and he wasn't ready to drag the battlefield to the plain, but he also underestimated me too much!
"Order the longbowmen to prepare!" Yang Zilu shouted to the heralds beside him.
The herald immediately picked up a tin megaphone and shouted downward, his voice like thunder, in the slang of a small tribe in the mountains. Ensure that the herald said this word by word in the ears of the Yue army, and the Yue army also wanted someone to understand what this meant.
However, Yang Zilu had a headache about this, and you didn't see Yang Zilu, the monarch of the Han Kingdom, covering his ears indecently, and this rumbling voice sounded in his ears, which was not a happy thing. Yang Zilu made up his mind to set up a military academy after returning to train a group of soldiers who could speak flags and use horns to convey complex problems.
Now Yang Zilu's horn command is also very simple, the slow and rhythmic is to move forward steadily, and the rapid rhythm is to attack quickly. The beating of the drum is pressed by the whole army, and whether it is rushed or slowly pressed depends on the rhythm, which is similar to the horn. Strike the gong and the army retreats. Shaking the red flag is the order of the cavalry, shaking the yellow flag is the order of the infantry, and not shaking anything is the whole army, and the transmission of long-range orders is very simple. For this reason, in conveying more complex orders, Yang Zilu had to use the most primitive method - roaring.
However, seeing Taniguchi's Yue army, Yang Zilu felt a lot better, at least Fan Li also relied on roaring to convey complex orders. Moreover, Fan Li has not yet conveyed orders with a megaphone, which is 'pure nature', which is not a little worse than Yang Zilu's 'scientific' after having an iron megaphone.
Slowly, about 200 Yue soldiers slowly came out of the ranks and assembled, holding a large shield cast in pure bronze in their hands, the shield was shaped into a 'V' shape up and down, and the middle was embossed with hideous beasts and totem patterns. Yang Zilu's eyes were red, how much bronze does such a shield have to use? Fifteen kilograms, minted into coins This is almost a thousand coins, which means that the four shields can buy a strong slave, milk. Milky, Gou Jian is really rich!
However, it is obvious that Fan Li did not bring much such a shield, only about forty sides. But then again, that's normal! The cost is a shield of 1,000 yuan, if Gou Jian is rich enough to equip every soldier, he will not be beaten so badly by his husband.
The remaining shields of the Yue soldiers were not bad, they were rectangular skin wooden shields, but this kind of shield was not large, only four feet long and more than two feet wide, that is, it could protect one-third of the body. This is no better than the bronze tower shield, which is more than six feet high, and the bronze tower shield swings in front of the body, and the person also shows his head. If you face the attack of the rain of arrows, as soon as you bend down, the whole person will shrink behind the shield. With the arrows of this era, it is difficult to hurt the soldiers behind the bronze tower shield.
The soldiers under his command (200 people as a pawn) formed a circle formation, and the sturdy bronze tower shield was placed in the direction of the hill. The soldiers advanced against the steep cliff, which was about one hundred and thirty steps from Yang Zilu's hill. In meters, it is more than 260 meters, a distance of more than half a mile.
The effective range of the military bow and arrow of the Yue State is only 60 steps, which is already considered the middle of the vassal state. Naturally, he would not believe that Yang Zilu's bow and arrow were more powerful than Yue Guo, and even if he was powerful, it was impossible to threaten him, you must know that the diameter of the circle array was about ten steps, and the distance from the cliff was about seven or eight steps, minus these distances. If Yang Zilu wants to threaten his peripheral soldiers, the range is 120 steps, not to mention the big sword, isn't it twice as strong as the bow and arrow of Yue Guo?
The fact is that he had to believe that the archer standing on the mountainside bent his bow and arrows, and Chou Wuyu originally ignored it, thinking that Yang Zilu was just scaring him. Turning a blind eye, although the soldier was on alert, a trace of disdain could be clearly seen on his face, and there was no intention of forming a shield formation defense at all. Obviously, the soldiers are also in the same mood as Chou Wuyu, but when the rain of arrows rises, Chou Wuyu realizes that something is wrong.
"Shield!" Chou Wuyu was so nervous that his voice became like a duck pinched by his throat, and it was harsh and disgusting. But all the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom did not have the heart to pay attention to the beautiful voice of their general, which was still unpleasant.
They were all stunned, they couldn't imagine how this arrow could shoot so far? Many people reacted when the arrows were not far away from them, even if the longbowmen couldn't talk about the target at all when they shot the arrows at a long distance, but it was still okay to deal with the unprepared Yue soldiers.
"Ahh Yes! ......" Hiding under a bronze tower shield, listening to the endless screams in his ears, his heart was dripping with blood! These soldiers were made up of his people and the royal soldiers that Gou Jian had allocated to him. When his own people died, it was painful, and when Goujian's royal soldiers died, it affected his future. For Yang Zilu, Chou Wuyu felt a little afraid, but also hated it unforgettable.
As it turned out, it was useless to keep an unforgettable record, and the longbowmen fired in an orderly and orderly manner, shooting a total of five waves of arrows, fifteen hundred arrows, and an average soldier received a baptism of seven and a half arrows.
To Yang Zilu's regret, because it was too far, only about half of the arrows shot near the Yue army. Only one-tenth of this half of the arrows hit the circle of the Vietnamese army. It can be said that longbowmen are now completely dependent on quantity instead of quality.
But even so, after the three hundred longbowmen fired five rounds of fierce fire, the place where the formation was not left was in shambles, and the nearby wasteland was suddenly overgrown with 'weeds'. Looking at the arrows all over the ground that pierced into the soil, even Fan Li, who was not affected, couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
ps: Because I was in a hurry to sleep last night, I forgot to press the upload button, and it turned out to be a tragedy. I woke up today and found out, sorry! I'm really sorry!
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