Chapter 116: Crossbow Killing
As the saying goes: the moon is dark and the night kills, and the wind is high and the sky is on fire!
But on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the first year of Great Qin II, the moonlight was charming! The half-moon hangs in the clear night sky, sprinkling endless brilliance! Paint the entire floor a layer of silver-gray!
Tonight, visibility was exceptionally good!
When it was less than two miles away from Xiang Yu's camp, the six thousand cavalry began to scatter and surround Xiang Yu's camp with only a few torches! Two thousand Xuanwu troops gathered in front of Xiang Yu's camp!
Tonight, it is still Weng Zhong as the arrow of the entire heavy armor infantry phalanx!
Weng Zhong, who was poked twice by Xiang Yu, went into battle with an injury, but Hu Hai didn't agree at first, until Weng Zhong repeatedly promised that he would not leave the battle without permission because he saw Xiang Yu leave the battle without permission and write a military order, so he reluctantly allowed it!
Hu Hai naturally didn't let Weng Zhong go into battle because of Xiang Yu's stabbing injury, Xiang Yu's two spears poking Weng Zhong did limited damage to Weng Zhong who was rough-skinned and thick-skinned, not to mention that Weng Zhong was also wearing heavy armor!
In the entire Qin army, only Weng Zhong can compete with Xiang Yu at present!
Although it is said that one person's force cannot change the outcome of the entire war, if Weng Zhong resists Xiang Yu as an arrow, the actions of the entire Xuanwu Army will be much smoother, and the casualties will be reduced a lot!
In today's situation where the number of troops is insufficient, it is natural that the fewer casualties the better!
What Hu Hai did was to warn Weng Zhong not to leave the battle without permission!
In this attack, Weng Zhong's two thousand Xuanwu troops are the main force!
Xiahou Ying and Fan Xu's six thousand Great Qin Elite Cavalry mainly used strong crossbows to cooperate with the attack of Weng Zhongxuanwu's army, killing and injuring as many Baiyue barbarians as possible, and the main purpose was to chase and kill the Baiyue barbarians who fled in all directions once they were defeated!
Xiang Yu was not the main target of their eight thousand people! After all, Xiang Yu's force value is there, if Xiang Yu is determined to escape, just find a hill to hide, the cavalry and the Xuanwu army are not easy to catch up!
There are fewer people to chase, maybe they will give Xiang Yu a head!
The main purpose of this battle tonight is to kill!
If you can, it's best to wipe out the remaining more than 30,000 Baiyue barbarians, and don't let one go, this is the main order given by Hu Hai to Weng Zhong, Xiahou Ying, and Fan Xu!
It's difficult, but it's not impossible!
At this distance, under the bright moonlight, most of the Qin army had just made a move, and the soldiers who were keeping vigil in Xiang Yu's camp had already discovered that the hazy black shadows under the moonlight were approaching the camp!
Ordinary people will not dare to come to the vicinity of the camp at this time, and now there is no one in the twenty-mile radius of this camp!
Then, there is obviously only one possibility, the Qin army has come to attack the camp!
"Bang Bang!"
The rapid and crisp bang suddenly sounded from Xiang Yu's camp, and in the quiet of the night, this continuous bang sound was extremely harsh!! The originally dead and silent Xiang Yu camp suddenly boiled!
"Whoosh!"
Several cold arrows crossed a distance of more than 100 steps, and were squarely inserted into the necks of several Baiyue barbarians who were sounding the warning! These Baiyue barbarians didn't even have time to let out a scream before they fell to the ground and died!
The crisp bang suddenly stopped!
Seeing that their whereabouts had been exposed, the elite cavalry of the Qin army, who was surrounding Xiang Yu's camp, no longer sneaked around, tore off the linen cloth that sealed the horse's mouth, urged the war horses one after another, and went straight to Xiang Yu's camp!
The earthquake trembled, the dust flew, and the continuous sound of horses' hooves suddenly resounded in the night sky!
The six thousand Great Qin Elite Riders formed a semi-circular black wave, quickly approaching Xiang Yu's camp! In the middle of this semicircular black wave, there was a large black giant reef, slowly crushing towards the front gate of Xiang Yu's camp!
The bright moonlight plated the armor and weapons of all the Great Qin soldiers with a layer of silver!
It's beautiful, but it also contains endless killing opportunities!
When the warning sounded, Xiang Yu had just laid down in his clothes not long ago, and he had always had a bad premonition in his heart today! Since the siege was driven away by the Great Qin cavalry in the morning and lost nearly 4,000 soldiers again, his current strength is only half of the original!
After discussing with Yingbu and Long He, Xiang Yu sent all the scouts in the camp out, and for those Great Qin soldiers who were covered in iron armor, in order to muster the morale of the Baiyue barbarians, he once personally picked a few to die! Therefore, he also has to know more about the power of these soldiers in the fight than Long He and Yingbu!
If it weren't for the beauty of God, I'm afraid that I would have been defeated yesterday!
It is precisely because of this, coupled with Hu Hai's humiliation and humiliation, that Xiang Yu will intensify his efforts to let Baiyue barbarians go out to loot and slaughter the innocent people around Chengwu County!
The confidence that came when he came was long gone! Xiang Yu knew that if Hu Hai wanted to leave, he would not be able to stop those wolf-like Great Qin soldiers with his own troops!
Fortunately, because there was no food in the army, the Baiyue barbarians, who had been used to looting along the way, let him see Hu Hai's weakness when he went out to loot!
The camp was set up so far away from Chengwu precisely to prevent the Qin army from coming to attack the camp! Even Xiang Yu even thought about the way to retreat, behind Xiang Yu's camp is the Mengshan Mountain Range, if the Qin army attacks the camp and can't do anything, the army can retreat to Mengshan at any time!
However, since Hu Hai wanted to wipe out Xiang Yu's Baiyue barbarians, how could he not notice the way Xiang Yu set up camp?
At this moment, although the sound of the warning had stopped, the overwhelming roar of horses' hooves had clearly told Xiang Yu that the Qin army was coming to attack the camp!
As soon as the tent came out, Xiang Yu saw Yingbu and Long He hurrying over!
"Why did the Qin army only sound a warning when they arrived in front of the camp? What about the many scouts who were placed outside the camp? It's all waste? Xiang Yu's eyes were about to breathe fire, and he glared at Yingbu and asked loudly!
Yingbu, who was anxious, didn't expect that Xiang Yu would not give himself face at all, and his face suddenly stiffened, and a nameless fire suddenly rose from his heart. Open your mouth to refute!
Yingbu is Wu Rui's son-in-law, so Baiyue Barbarian still respects Yingbu very much. It is precisely because of this that most of the time, if Xiang Yu has any orders to be issued to the unruly Baiyue barbarians, he will let Yingbu go and arrange it!
Summer nights, mosquito bites, no one wants to be a scout!
Although Baiyue Barbarians were more afraid of Xiang Yu than they admired, and Xiang Yu ordered them to listen to it, but how to implement it became a problem! So this time the scouts were sent to arm, and Xiang Yu was also handed over to Yingbu to arrange!
It's just that now that the Qin army has hit the doorstep, the one hundred and ten scouts originally sent out have not sent back a single alarm, and Xiang Yu can't help but be annoyed!
Long He on the side saw that Yingbu was about to argue with Xiang Yu, who was angry, and hurriedly pulled Yingbu, and then said: "Major General, the scouts must have been killed by the Qin army scouts!" Today, it is said that the last general personally went to arrange the scout with General Yingbu, if he was not killed by the Qin army scouts, I think there would not be a little warning message back to the camp! ”
Long Ji said and glared at Xiang Yu vigorously!
Xiang Yu took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, but he couldn't pull his face to apologize to Yingbu, so he could only snort coldly and strode towards the main gate of the camp with the 10,000 enemies in his hand!
He also heard that the cavalry of the Qin army did not seem to break through from the front of the main camp, but seemed to be about to surround the whole camp!
Do you still want to kill your tens of thousands of troops? Xiang Yu sneered in his heart!
In the camp, there were Baiyue barbarians who had been awakened from their sleep everywhere, gathering in a panic under the leadership of their respective generals! Fortunately, Baiyue Barbarians don't have armor, they can just put on pants, but fortunately, now the Qin army has not directly broken into the camp!
Otherwise, ......, thinking of this group of rabble Xiang Yu would be a burst of fire again!
Yingbu followed Xiang Yu all the way, and he could be regarded as having some understanding of Xiang Yu's surname, so he didn't say anything more when he saw Xiang Yu like this! With Long and the two of them silently followed behind Xiang Yu!
Xiang Yu walked a few steps, turned around and said, "Long Ji, you go and lead someone to tear down the fence at the back camp, if you can't do anything, we will retreat into the mountain immediately." The Qin army was full of cavalry and heavily armored foot soldiers, and they would definitely not dare to enter the mountain! ”
"The last general commands!" Long He clasped his fists and saluted Xiang Yu, then turned around and left!
"General Yingbu went to gather the soldiers, and General Ben went to the front of the camp to watch!"
"Whoa!"
Yingbu answered the order, just turned around and didn't take a few steps!
"Buzz!"
A strange humming sound suddenly sounded over the camp, followed by a second and a third!
Hearing this strange sound, Xiang Yu's face suddenly changed greatly, and he roared: "Disperse!" ”
But it's too late!
Countless crossbow arrows pierced through the bright moonlight and rushed into the camp with a roar! In the blink of an eye, he came to the top of the head of the Baiyue barbarians who were still gathering in a panic and preparing to go to the edge of the camp wall to defend without any shield, and penetrated fiercely!
Countless blood flowers bloom in this bright moonlight!
The Baiyue barbarians, who were crowded together and prepared to resist the Qin army's attack on the camp, suddenly suffered a catastrophe!
The sound of bolts being nailed into the ground, the "aggressive" of wood, and the "hissing" of tearing the linen tent continued! In the middle, the screams of Baiyue Barbarians when they were dying resounded throughout the night sky!
The bright moonlight sprinkled again, and a semi-circular blood field had been vacated in Xiang Yu's camp, and there were countless Baiyue barbarians who were killed by arrows on the ground, and a few Baiyue barbarians who were lucky enough not to die were still howling in pain!
The bubbling blood instantly soaked the earthy yellow camp!
The rich smell of blood permeated the air filled with the smell of summer grass!
The Baiyue barbarians who were lucky enough to escape all looked at the tragic situation in the camp in fear, dazed and at a loss!
Six thousand Great Qin Jing Cavalry, three waves of crossbow arrows in a row, that is, a full eighteen thousand crossbow arrows!
And in order to achieve the best killing effect, Xiahou Ying and Fan Xu even ordered the cavalry to bully closer to a place less than fifty steps away from Xiang Yu's camp, and within fifty steps, Xiang Yu hastily dug several trenches to prevent the cavalry from directly breaking the camp!
The distance of fifty steps did not play any role at all compared to the powerful crossbow of the Great Qin Jing rider who had a range of three hundred steps and an effective killing rate of two hundred and twenty steps!
And the Great Qin cavalry, all equipped with horseshoes, did not have to worry about the accident of the horse stumbling due to stones, and galloped around Xiang Yu's camp wantonly!
After the two Great Qin Jing Cavalry, who surrounded Xiang Yu's camp and galloped like the wind, finished releasing the crossbow arrows, they immediately turned the horse's head and reloaded the crossbow arrows while galloping! Prepare for a second attack!
At the main gate of the camp, the two thousand Xuanwu troops with Weng Zhong as the arrow formed a huge triangular charging formation, and they had already approached the main gate of Xiang Yu's camp less than fifty steps!
(To be continued)