One Hundred and Two, The Great Escape of Life and Death (10)
This was followed by a battle in which both sides slowed down due to the first round of impact, and it turned into a battle with long weapons. The spearmen on both sides, under the protection of the drivers, fought each other, which leveled the records of both sides, and their respective car formations barely remained chaotic.
The light chariot armies of the two sides, in the first round of fighting, the Wei army won, but the Qin army was not defeated, and it was still inseparable from the Wei army in the case of reduced chariots. But the lightly armored warriors were different, because the Wei army was the attacker, and just a run between forty and twenty paces made the Wei army lose hundreds of warriors. Wait for the Wei army to finish these twenty steps before engaging the Qin army, which is waiting for work.
In front of the Qin army was a row of long weapons, and the Wei army was about to rush forward with these long weapons! Although there are swordsmen in the second row of the Wei army, using swords to pull away the long weapons of the Qin army, but the long weapons of the Qin army are like snakes spitting letters, continuously stabbing at the chest of the Wei army. Of course, the Wei army is also heroic, even if some are stabbed, they still hold their long weapons to stab at the Qin army, and they are all together with the Qin army, but the weakness of the attacker is here, you are running, he stands firmly. How can you have a standing stab accurately, so, this battle, the Wei army suffered hundreds of casualties, and the Qin army only killed and wounded more than a dozen people. Fortunately, at the cost of two or three hundred people, the Wei army rushed into the battle formation of the Qin army, and both sides had no advantage, and they fought openly, justly, and fairly by virtue of their own abilities.
Battles between armies, especially between well-trained army pairs, are not a brawl fight, a blind fight in a melee, but a team of ten, under the command of the chief, in two rows of five people, with long weapons in front for attacking, short weapons with shields in the back for protection, and then using short weapons to kill the enemy who missed with long weapons. Therefore, the general battle formation in a phalanx is a row of 200 people, and that is for the commander of a brigade to command well, and the brigade will take 50 guards to command on both sides, so that it is convenient to fill in the gaps at any time. In the early Warring States period, the battle formations of the Spring and Autumn Period were generally followed, and the smallest unit of the battle was the brigade, and then the division was 2,000 people, that is, four brigades, and the actual battle was 2,400 people. Because the brigade commander has 50 guards with flag bearers and drummers, and the division commander has 200 guards with flag bearers and drummers, their guards, flag bearers and drummers are generally not counted in number. Even in attack and defense, the formation is changed according to the smallest unit, and it is directed by the sound of drums or the shaking of flags.
The Wei army was the attacking party, so as soon as it rushed into the Qin army's military formation, it became the most typical inverted triangle battle formation in the attack battle array, that is, a group of five, three people with long weapons in the first row, two people with short weapons in the second row, and one person with a crossbow and a sword in the third row. The first platoon charges, the second platoon covers, and the third platoon shoots the enemy with a short crossbow and is responsible for liaising with friendly forces, conveying orders from superiors, observing the attack or retreat line, and commanding; Therefore, the last person is the most clever and martial artist of the five.
The Qin army is the defending side, and the platoon is the most typical defensive formation of a group of five, that is, two rows of battle formations, the first row of long weapons, and the second row of short weapons and crossbowmen and shield bearers.
As soon as the two sides joined each other, the first was a battle with long weapons. Both sides of the war stabbed their weapons to the rhythm of their own drums. The back row looked nervously at each other with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and as soon as he saw the opponent's weapon stabbing and was missed by the first row, he jumped forward and met it with a round shield of more than three feet, blocking the spearmen in the front row; Therefore, the spearman in the battle never thinks about his own safety, he only sees the enemy army of the other party, and he can just stab the weapon in his hand with his life. The samurai with short crossbows in the back row are holding short crossbows loaded with crossbow arrows, jumping and tossing left and right, the purpose of which is to see who is not protected by the other party, as long as he finds out, the one who draws the cold is an arrow, generally speaking, in a short range of three or five steps, as long as the trigger is pulled, it is generally in response to the sound, and no one has been found to be able to dodge.
As soon as the two sides took over, the drumbeat of the Wei army intensified, and the Qin army immediately accelerated. The sergeants on both sides had to habitually speed up the assassination of the spears in their hands, and for a while, they only heard the neat shouts and the sound of snorting the human body during the assassination, followed by the howl and the sound of the person falling to the ground; But the screams of a new round of assassinations were drowned out. At this time, the comparison is the courage of the sergeants on both sides and the training and martial arts in peacetime, to see who can stab accurately or ruthlessly! See whose second row of eyes is poisonous or fast!
Speaking of accurate or ruthless stabbing, the Qin army is stronger than the Wei army. Because after the first drum sounded, for about half an hour, both sides had a moment to rest, so it was customary to take a step back and use it for those behind to make up for the battle losses in front; When the two sides made up for the substitution, more people fell to the ground in the Wei army than the Qin army. Speaking of the second row of eye poison or fast, the Wei army is stronger than the Qin army. Because when the substitution was filled, the people who fell to the ground in the Wei army were immediately dragged away by the back row; Although the Qin army had fewer people on the ground than the Wei army, there were many more injured than the Wei army, so much so that the back row had no time to hold them back. This Wei army is also fierce, the third drum is faster than the second drum, the Qin army gradually can't keep up with the rhythm of the Wei army, the samurai who are damaged in the battle are also gradually improved, and after the fourth drum stops, the battle damage is far greater than that of the Wei army.
This Qin army is also very good, when the fifth drum sounded, the Qin army simply didn't want the cover of the second row because there was no one to fill the second row, and only made up the first row of people, and then rushed to the Wei army with no life! Because the battle losses of the Qin army were too large, they could only form a five-row battle formation of two hundred people, unlike the Wei army, which could also form a seven-row battle array, and the people who were in command on both wings had not yet entered to fill the missing battle positions; And the Qin army, the people who wandered on both wings have been replenished, leaving only the commanding officers, standard-bearers, and drummers.
The Qin army was ruthless, and it gave full play to the characteristics of the Qin army, and the courage to move forward without hesitation was bloody, and the first row was holding a long weapon, completely using the human body to open the way for the samurai in the second or third row! After the samurai in the first row overwhelmed the long or short weapons of the Wei army with their own flesh, the samurai with long weapons in the second row directly stabbed the body of the Wei samurai who had just killed the Qin army.