Chapter 18: The Siege of the Qin Army (I)
Qin Yiren's comments were quickly verified.
As soon as the Qin army finished camping, one after another drove out of the camp and began to line up, ready to attack the city.
The Qin army was well-trained, the movements were extremely fast, the process of the formation was orderly, without the slightest confusion, and soon, a huge military formation appeared under the city of Handan.
Qin Yiren took a look, and saw that this military array covered a huge area, with a radius of nearly ten miles, and the black uniforms, military-colored armor, and black flags were like a black ocean, which had the power to shock people's hearts.
The entire military formation is heavy, as unshakable as Mount Tai, and a solemn and murderous aura runs through the nine skies, which makes people's hearts beat.
"It is worthy of the invincible army that swept away the Six Kingdoms, the Hundred Yue in the south, and the Xiongnu in the north! Extraordinary! Qin Yiren was shocked when he saw it, and he finally saw this legendary invincible army.
If you want to choose the most iron-blooded, the most powerful, and extremely powerful army in Chinese history, it must undoubtedly be the Qin army, not the strong Han army and the Tang Dynasty army.
Although the Han and Tang dynasties were prosperous, the Han army and the Tang army established dazzling feats, which were still inferior to the Qin army. More than 2,000 years have passed, and the invincible army of Qin Shi Huang is still shocking, and people think of the word "iron and blood" when they mention it.
Unfortunately, the Qin Dynasty existed for a short time and soon collapsed, and this invincible army ceased to exist, and future generations could only observe its invincible demeanor from the "Terracotta Army".
If history does not change, this invincible army will march eastward thirty years later, sweep away the six countries, unify China, and end China's civil strife; Guanshan flew across, collected the land of Baiyue in the south, broke the Xiongnu in the north, and recovered the land of Hetao, which doubled the territory of China.
This is only a part of the great achievements of this invincible army, and its greatest achievement lies in the fact that this war of reunification was a turning point in Chinese history, which enabled Chinese history to move from a divided situation of feudal and separate rule to a great unification of centralized power. It opened up the pattern of China's unification.
The development of a unified pattern is of extraordinary historical significance, and although China has experienced a great division between the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it is still a unified country in the end.
The horses formed a formation and held the two flanks to prevent the enemy from attacking them.
At the front is the halberd. Countless halberds make up a forest of halberds. At first glance, I saw that it was dense, and there were long halberds everywhere, and even flies didn't want to fly by.
The tip of the bronze halberd sparkles in the sunlight, glowing with a golden bronze light, which is eye-catching.
Behind the halberds were the light infantry, whose task was to cover the halberders if an enemy rushed through the halberdiers' blows. If you rush to the front of hand-to-hand combat, you will need these light infantry to fight. Although the power of the halberd is huge, it is too long after all, and the melee is not flexible, which requires light steps to assist.
Behind the light infantry were archers, who were tasked with the task of charging the enemy to the firing range. Shoot your enemies with your bow and arrows. Of course, the bow was not the main long-range strike weapon of the Qin army, but only an auxiliary long-range attack weapon.
The real long-range attack weapon of the Qin army was the strong crossbow, historically known as the "Qin crossbow", behind the archers.
The Qin crossbow is the most powerful crossbow in ancient Chinese history, with a long range, strong penetration, and terrifying lethality. What's worse is that. The Qin State did not use the Qin crossbows in a scattered manner, but used them in a centralized manner, using tens of thousands, tens of thousands of Qin crossbows to form a terrifying crossbow array, which can be imagined. Once the crossbow array composed of countless strong crossbows is powerful, what a terrible consequence it is, it can be said that the sky is falling apart, and no flesh and blood can resist it.
Moreover, the Qin crossbow is all "standardized" production, and all the parts are almost the same in size and can be interchanged. If the crossbow is broken on the battlefield, you can reassemble a few broken Qin crossbows into new Qin crossbows and then join the battle.
The crossbow is too bulky and inconvenient to transport, and it is difficult to put it into the battlefield in time. Our ancestors gave full play to their ingenuity, and the Qin crossbow could be disassembled, disassembled and transported into parts when marching, and then assembled on the battlefield.
The advantage of doing this is that it can not only ensure that the strong crossbow arrives on the battlefield in time, but also not delay the marching speed of the Qin army, killing two birds with one stone.
Behind the archers, strong crossbows stood on the ground, like fierce beasts, ready to choose and devour people. Tens of thousands of powerful crossbows form a huge crossbow array, covering an area of several miles, with earth-shattering momentum and shocking power.
On the arrow path, crossbow arrows with long feet and thick arms lay quietly, shining with golden bronze light, like the fangs of a fierce beast.
The bolts are all made of bronze, and if they are fired from a distance at high speed, their power can be imagined, and they can penetrate everything, and no flesh and blood can resist it.
The weapons of the Qin army are mainly bronze weapons, and only a few armies are equipped with iron soldiers, the reason why this is so is not that the Qin State does not have iron, it is not that the Qin State cannot promote iron soldiers on a large scale, but that the Qin State is far-sighted and uses iron to build agricultural tools and develop agriculture, which is a very far-sighted initiative.
It is precisely because of the implementation of this measure that the grain output of the Qin State is far from being comparable to that of the six countries of Shandong, which is an important reason for the prosperity of the Qin State.
Why did the Qin State dare to use iron to make agricultural tools instead of weapons? That's because the manufacturing technology of the Qin State is very good, and it can make bronze weapons into sharp weapons that are not inferior to iron soldiers, and the weapons of the Qin army found in modern archaeology have been verified.
As we all know, one of the biggest problems with bronze compared to iron is that it is too soft, easy to deform, and has poor durability. However, the Qin State was able to achieve that the bronze weapons were almost the same as the iron soldiers, which was so rare.
"Mother! At first glance, I saw that this crossbow was like a cannon. Qin Yiren was shocked when he saw it.
Qin Yiren's analogy is correct, in the era of cold weapons, the strong crossbow is a "cannon", and the power is endless. Once you have a large number of strong crossbows and form a crossbow array, then whether you attack or defend, you will be invincible.
Behind the crossbows, thousands of trebuchets stood like steel monsters.
Trebuchets are the same as crossbows, they are heavy siege equipment, thousands of trebuchets together, the scene is spectacular, very terrifying.
Behind the trebuchet were light infantry, preventing the enemy from attacking from the back.
A cloud cart was pushed out of the camp and came to a stop in the formation, and Wang Ling took a few heralds and captains to board the cloud car. The Qin army pulled the winch, the cloud car slowly rose, and Wang Ling rose higher and higher, until it stopped more than ten zhang square.
The cloud car is the command vehicle of the Qin army, and whenever a battle starts, the main general will board the cloud car, rise to a high altitude, observe the enemy situation, and command.
Wang Ling took a look, and saw that Handan City was full of Zhao troops, overcrowded, and couldn't help but be stunned, and said with a big smile: "Which stupid pig is this leading the Zhao army?" Lian Po? It won't be him. Le Yi? It won't be him. Which stupid pig is it? ”
After thinking about it for a long time, I thought about Lian Po and Le Yi, but I didn't think of which "wonderful" was leading Zhao Jun, which made people a little confused.
"General, no matter which stupid pig is leading the Zhao army, this is the meat that is sent to our mouths, and we don't know if we don't eat it in vain." A lieutenant had a sneering look on his face and reminded loudly.
"That's right, it's giving us meat to eat." Wang Ling nodded heavily, still curious: "I can't even understand which idiot is making the mess." ”
As long as people who knew the Qin army would never command like this, it would be impossible to send all the people to the city, because they would be mercilessly shot by the Qin army's long-range weapons. It was only after the long-range attack of the Qin army that the Qin army began to attack the city, and the Zhao army climbed to the top of the city again, so that the casualties could be minimized.
As in front of him, before the Qin army attacked the city, he sent the Zhao army to the city, and it was overcrowded, that is, to send the Zhao army to death, from the perspective of Wang Ling, how could there be a reason that he could not understand. It's just that he can't figure it out if he wants to break his head, this is the handwriting of Xin Lingjun, a "virtuous son" who is famous all over the world.
If either of Le Yi and Lian Po were in charge of Zhao Jun, they would never do this.
It is precisely because of this that Qin Yiren commented that Xinlingjun is "Zhao Kuo's second".
"Don't think about it yet, eat the meat first. If you don't eat it, I'll be a royal tomb in vain. Wang Ling originally wanted to board the cloud car and shout to Handan City for a while, and then scare him, but when he saw this situation, he immediately changed his mind and fought first.
"Crossbow, shoot!" Wang Lingpu's fan-like right hand was raised high and swung down heavily, like thunder and lightning, extremely powerful.
The captain who gave the order immediately waved the flag in his hand and issued a flag.
In ancient times, the command of warfare mainly relied on golden drums and flags.
"Woohoo!"
Suddenly, a sharp roar sounded, deafening.
The Qin army who operated the strong crossbow was obviously used to it, and there was no big reaction, their main reaction was to grit their teeth, frown, and have no extra movements.
And the Zhao army at the head of the city is obviously not used to it, some people cover their ears, some people scream in pain, and some people squat...... All sorts of moves, and so on.
After the Battle of Changping, the elite of the Zhao State was lost, these Zhao troops were temporarily recruited, the old old, the small, the strong and few, and they had not experienced the baptism of war.
"Mother, this is a strong crossbow? It should be called a missile, such a big movement. Qin Yiren stood on the roof of Hu Feng's restaurant, far away from the battlefield, and the sharp sound of the crossbow bolt breaking through the air barrier still buzzed in his head, and it felt like a missile was being launched, which shocked him.
Countless crossbow bolts suddenly appeared in the air and swooped down on the city like poisonous snakes.
"This and this ......" Qin Yiren, Huang Shigong and Wei Yi, who were standing on the roof of Hu Feng's restaurant, opened their mouths wide, their eyes widened, and they stared at the flying crossbow arrows, with a look of horror on their faces.
It's not that they're timid, it's that the scenes they see are so spectacular that Hollywood blockbusters are nothing compared to the scene in front of them. What is shock? The scene in front of you is the best portrayal of the shocking power!
Countless crossbow arrows form a huge arrow net, densely packed, covering the sky and the sun, and the sun can't penetrate it, what a shocking thing it is!
The high-speed crossbow bolts stirred up a gust of wind, rolling up the dirt and dust on the ground, quickly forming a dark cloud and rushing towards the city.
"Puff puff!"
The crossbow shot and ruthlessly pierced Zhao Jun's body, splashing blood flowers one after another.
Countless blood flowers, glittering in the daylight, bewitching and dazzling, indescribably weird.