Chapter 122: The First Battle [I]
"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! The morale of the soldiers was completely stimulated, and the morale of the servants on the opposite side was suppressed a lot.
The servant couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw this, but he couldn't help it for a while, after all, encouraging morale is such a thing, you can't say it for a long time, if you talk too long, it will make people feel trembling, but it will not play a role in motivating morale, and it will reduce morale to a certain extent. The servant Gu only gritted his teeth, as if he was desperate and roared: "Attack!! ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Although the morale of the army was suppressed for a while, the decline in a short period of time was limited. Everyone let out a roar full of warlike intent, and for a time the narrow plain outside the old village of Haiyan was filled with an atmosphere of incompatibility between needles and wheat.
Yang Zilu also took the opportunity to leave the battlefield, he was originally going to hand over the frontal battlefield to Xia Huyao and Black Bear, and train the two of them to be able to take charge on their own. I don't want to observe it in the city, because of the pre-war mobilization of the servant Gugu, the Jiukui Department was suppressed, and Xia Huyao and Black Bear were helpless. Yang Zilu had to ride out on horseback, but it didn't mean that he would preside over this battle.
Although he was worried, Yang Zilu still decided to give power to Xia Huyao and the black bear. Although Yang Zilu believes that if he is in charge, he will do a lot of things, and the casualties will be reduced. But it is impossible for Yang Zilu to personally lead the troops to fight every time, and he can only hope that Xia Huyan and the black bear can be shameful and brave, and he can impress himself a little.
After Yang Zilu left, the army of the Nine Kui Tribes also began to attack. On the plain, the two armies slowly pressed up, and looking at it from a distance, it was quite shocking. When they reached about seventy paces, the crossbowmen of the Nine Kui Divisions struck the first blow of the war, and they ran quickly to the front of the two wings, and the distance between the two sides was only sixty paces. The soldiers were already in range, and the crossbowmen did not hesitate to pull the trigger, and the crossbow bolts swept out from both wings, and the direct crossbow arrows were more accurate than the arrows that were thrown.
The servants were not unprepared, they had already heard that the Jiukui Department had a special bow that could shoot farther. I didn't stupidly think that the people in the Nine Kui Department were too nervous, and they started shooting arrows no matter how far away they were. Everyone took up their shields to cover their bodies. But the name crossbow derives from 'fury', which roughly means: the bow of rage.
The place where the Shanyue people live is dense with jungles, and the servants do not like to equip large and heavy shields such as tower shields, because this will seriously affect their speed, so many people only hold Teng shields with a diameter of about forty centimeters or even smaller, even if they are wooden shields, they are made of miscellaneous wood. Not to mention the small defense area, it is even more powerless in the face of the arrows shot out by the crossbow. Not to mention that at the moment in the front row are the archers of the servant department, and their equipment is even lighter.
The soldiers of the servant department couldn't help but be a little caught off guard, and a miserable scream sounded, and Kan Pingtian, who was standing on the high guard tower, could clearly see that there were also 20 dead and wounded in the servant department this time, and at least 10 of them lost their combat effectiveness.
The crossbowman bent down and stepped into the crossbow's ring, his hands stirring the rollers quickly. Although the crossbow made by Yang Zilu is a stretch crossbow, because of the problem of materials, this kick tension crossbow is not even as good as the range of the waist tension crossbow (that is, simply winding with the hand) of later generations. However, it is not without some benefits, some veterans can reach a rate of fire of about three arrows a minute, and ordinary soldiers can basically reach five arrows in two minutes.
"Speed up!" The servant Gugu's face tightened, and he roared.
In fact, there was no need for him to say it, and the soldiers in the servant department couldn't help but speed up. But they soon didn't know if to regret it or if it was time to keep picking things up. Because of the increased speed, the archers behind also began to shoot.
Probably because of the relationship between peers and enemies, even if it is a comrade, the archers of the Nine Kui Department also have a competitive mind. One by one, they ran to the wings and held their strength. "Whoosh! Sou! The sound of breaking the sky is endless.
"Ahh Yes! ......" The soldiers of the servant sentence once again ushered in the baptism of arrow rain, and compared with the strong crossbowmen, the number of archers was larger, and the rate of fire was more powerful, and the arrows seemed to be pouring heavy rain, and they were quickly pulled out of the quiver, and before they could see the appearance, they had been shot out of the compound bow.
Although the arrows fired by the archers are much weaker than those fired by strong crossbowmen due to their fast fire, the speed of fire is the advantage. And because of the frequent hunting, the rapid shooting of the archers of the Nine Kuibu Tribes reached the level of ten arrows a minute, to say the least. No matter how powerful it is, looking at this continuous rain of arrows makes the soldiers of the servant department cry bitterly.
The effective range of their archers was only about twenty-seven or eight paces, which was more than double the effective range of almost sixty paces in the Nine Kui Division, not to mention that the archers had already damaged a lot of people by the first round of crossbowmen shooting. Servant Gu knew that by this time, he could no longer count on his own archers. The servant Gu covered his head with a shield and roared, "Rush forward!" Destroy their archers! ”
The servant sentence department was also aroused in his heart, and many people thought, paralyzed! Let you shoot, Lao Tzu will fight with you!
In an instant, the soldiers of the Servant Sentence Division could no longer care about the formation, and everyone seemed to have broken through the flood of the river embankment, let out a roar of rage, and rushed towards the Nine Kui Divisions desperately. The crossbowmen immediately turned around and ran backwards, passing through the loose ranks of slave soldiers.
At this moment, the slave soldiers on both wings couldn't help but be startled by the momentum of the servants, but thinking of Yang Zilu's words just now, everyone's hearts were hot. They don't expect first-class citizens to fall on them, but commoners, fourth-class citizens, can be expected! For freedom and dignity, fight!
Although the slave soldier was nervous, he calmly took out the two javelins tied to the straw rope behind his back and plunged them into the ground not far from his toes. When they were ten paces away, twenty meters, from them, everyone roared and drew their javelins from the ground. The soldiers on the opposite side all had numb scalps, but there were people behind them. Besides, if you turn around, you can't help but eat this javelin, so you can only rush forward with your steps, and you don't know whether you are too frightened or too excited, and let out a roar like a scream.
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