Chapter 58 The Northern and Southern Han Dynasty and Wu Cheng Dingli, the Princes of the Quartet Expand Their Territories (9)

The Jiaozhou soldier who pretended to be Wei Yan was strong and strong, and he was also a good hand in the army. He saw Yue Ji coming with a hammer and disdainful in his heart, the Central Plains military generals mostly use swords, guns, swords and halberds, and rarely use hammers, and those who use hammers are often only powerful, but not proficient in martial arts. Although the soldier was ordered by Wei Yan to lose this battle and leave, he also wanted to try Yue Ji Jin Liang, after all, there were not many opportunities to pretend to be a general and fight with the enemy general.

When the soldier saw Yueji's hammer coming, he slapped his horse and danced with a knife. When the knife and hammer collided, I heard the sound of "dang long ~ whoosh ~". The knife in the soldier's hand was directly smashed by Yue Ji with a hammer, and he didn't know where he flew. The soldier lost his weapon in one round, and the tiger's mouth cracked, and then he knew that the general was not good, so he turned around and left.

Yue Ji laughed in the back and said, "General Han, that's it!" Give me chase! ”

As soon as the two armies pursued and fled, they came to the ambush. Wei Yan could see clearly with the telescope made in Jiaozhou in his hand, and told his sergeants to get ready early. He first let go of the Yueji front army, and when the Chinese army reached the side of the mountain, he led the sergeants to rush out and rush straight to the Yueji main formation.

The Qiang soldiers were defenseless, so that Wei Yan was caught off guard, and he had no power to fight back, and thousands of people were killed and injured in an instant. However, just when Wei Yan wanted to expand the results of the battle, Yue Ji of the front army and Yadan of the rear army also reacted, and commanded the iron chariot soldiers to step forward to meet the enemy.

There is still an essential difference between these iron chariot soldiers and the dart chariot of the dart master. Although the dart cart can form a formation, its fundamental purpose is transportation. Although the iron chariot soldiers can be transported, the basic purpose is to use it for engagement. These cars were larger and more numerous than dart cars, but they contained very limited supplies in order to reduce their weight. The already light iron cart was dragged by mules and horses and pushed by Qiang soldiers, and soon surrounded the front and back, wrapping Wei Yan's soldiers and horses, and then the bows and crossbows suddenly shot many Wei Yan's soldiers.

Wei Yan didn't expect the iron car to be used like this, and he actually trapped himself in the core. Wei Yan rushed left and right, and found that the iron car was tightly surrounded, just like a city, and he couldn't get out at all, so he simply ordered the soldiers to rely on the iron car to defend it.

The combat effectiveness of the Qiang soldiers is not as good as that of the Jiaozhou army, and they can win in one more word. Wei Yan's vanguard only has 10,000 horses, and it is not a problem to ambush and surprise to win the battle, but it is not an opponent to fight with 150,000 Qiang soldiers. Moreover, the Qiang soldiers were very cunning, and they did not fight head-on with the Jiaozhou army, but they kept putting arrows into the iron car circle, and pushed the iron car to shrink the battle circle, making the Jiaozhou army in the circle more dense, and there was no room to dodge arrows.

The Jiaozhou army led by Wei Yan was not vegetarian, raising a shield to defend while shooting arrows to fight back. The weapons and armor of the Jiaozhou army are of high quality, and they can be called the most princes in the world. The arrows of the Qiang soldiers may not be able to penetrate the armor of the Jiaozhou army, but the arrows of the Jiaozhou army can kill the Qiang soldiers. On the battlefield, you can often see the Jiaozhou army with more than ten arrows still desperately shooting back with arrows, and the Qiang soldiers basically lose their combat effectiveness after being hit by an arrow.

Yadan and Yueji were taken aback by the tenacious combat effectiveness of the Jiaozhou army, and soon they realized that the equipment of the Jiaozhou army was a good thing, which made them even more crazy, urging the Qiang soldiers to attack non-stop.

Three hours have passed, and more than half of the Jiaozhou army has been lost, but the losses of the Qiang soldiers are even greater, and more than 20,000 Qiang soldiers have fallen in a pool of blood. Wei Yan was already red-eyed at this time, and he couldn't break through the car formation, so he could only release arrows with his subordinates. Although there was a soldier on the left and right who used an iron shield to protect Wei Yan, because Wei Yan had never taken a step back from the front line, he was still hit by a few arrows, but fortunately, the arrows did not penetrate the flesh and did not hurt the vital point.

When the soldiers saw Wei Yan hit the arrow, they persuaded him to retreat into the army formation first and bandage him several times, but Wei Yan never retreated. He blamed himself very much at this time, if he hadn't been bent on defeating the Qiang soldiers with a small number of soldiers and horses, he would not have let the soldiers fall into such a desperate situation. The pain in his body was a punishment for himself for Wei Yan, and only the constant fighting and injury would make him feel a little better.

"Archery! Keep shooting! I'm going to see how long they can hold out! Yue Ji urged the Qiang soldiers, and his eyes were already red. The ambush started by Wei Yan caused casualties of nearly 10,000 horses under Yueji's command, and more than 10,000 Qiang soldiers died in front of the battle in the later positional battle, while the casualties of the Jiaozhou army were less than 5,000. Converted to five Qiang soldiers in exchange for the life of one Jiaozhou army, this made Yue Ji unacceptable at all, you must know that Yue Ji's troops are more than ten times more than Wei Yan.

In the circle surrounded by iron chariots, the arrows were already spread all over the ground, like a carpet. The Jiaozhou army, which was standing in the center of this carpet, was about to become a part of the carpet at this time, and the rain of arrows completely covered them. The smaller the number of people in the formation, the stronger the blow each person will bear, and the Jiaozhou army, which can still counterattack at the beginning, can only defend when it is reduced by half. Wei Yan knew in his heart that if this situation of passive beating continued, he would definitely lose.

"Plop~" There was another sound of an arrow entering the flesh, and Wei Yan was hit by an arrow in the leg again, but he didn't say a word. Wei Yan knew that the shield-wielding soldiers in front of him had done their best, because they had ten times more arrows in their legs than Wei Yan's legs. The iron shield wanted to cover the vital point of the upper body, and the thighs could not be taken care of, and the two shield-wielding soldiers tried their best to block Wei Yan's legs with their thighs, so as not to get him an arrow.

Wei Yan knew how heavy the injuries on the legs of the two soldiers were, and even if they could survive the battle, their legs would be useless. Wei Yan didn't know what made them so persistent, and they still stood tall under this kind of leg injury, withstanding the enemy's arrow rain to the death.

When the Jiaozhou army had just fallen into a situation of being passively beaten, Wei Yan thought about breaking through the siege with all his strength and fighting to the death. Although the chance is slim, Wei Yan has the hope of breaking out of the encirclement with his superb martial arts. However, the two soldiers in front of him made Wei Yan dispel the idea of breaking through, because once they broke through and left, the lives of these two soldiers who were hit by arrows in the legs would inevitably be lost. So Wei Yan decided to continue to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Wei Yan shot another arrow, his hand was already bleeding from the bowstring, and his arm began to tremble due to frequent exertion, but he never stopped releasing the arrow. Because there are not many people in the Jiaozhou army who can still fight back at this time, most of the soldiers are raising their shields to defend, and only people like Wei Yan who don't need to defend themselves have the opportunity to fight back. Wei Yan didn't want to waste this kind of opportunity for a moment, because this kind of opportunity was created desperately by the two shield-wielding soldiers in front of him.

After another half an hour, nearly 1,000 Jiaozhou troops fell on the carpet paved with arrows, merging with the carpet. Wei Yan's arrows had already run out, and he had also shot out of the arrows carried by the soldiers around him. At this time, Wei Yan held a shield in his left and right hands, like a reef in the sea, stubbornly resisting the rain of arrows. Behind him were two unconscious soldiers with arrows in their legs.