Chapter 1412: Don't Shoot Easily
The Pingduan crossbow was aimed at the Jingzhou army, and the Han soldiers looked at their enemies as if they were looking at countless hares marching down the mountain road.
And these hares don't have the dexterity of real hares.
They marched slowly, as if they were being sent to the Han soldiers, asking them to shoot them with crossbows.
Standing on the side of the strong crossbow array, a Han army officer watched the Jingzhou army get closer and closer, and slowly drew his long sword from his waist.
Holding the long sword high above his head, the officer's eyes stared at the Jingzhou army advancing towards the foot of the mountain, and the hand holding the sword was actually a smooth arm like a statue.
Staring at the Jingzhou army that was marching towards the mountain, and the Han army with strong crossbows at the flat end, there was steaming battle intent in their eyes.
They really wanted to rush up the mountain and completely wipe out these Jingzhou troops, who had lost much of their will to fight.
However, Sima Yi never gave the order to charge, all they could do was to hold the strong crossbow flat and shoot them with the strong crossbow when the Jingzhou army went down the mountain.
Holding the long sword high, the Han army officer on the side of the array silently counted in his heart whether the Jingzhou army had entered the shooting range of the strong crossbow.
Compared with the calm and calm soldiers of the Han army, the soldiers of the Jingzhou army who blocked their shields in front of them and were descending the mountain were full of cold sweat on their nervous foreheads.
Many of them have already made plans to surrender to the Han army, but the crossbow arrows shot by the Han army will not have long eyes, and they choose to shoot the Jingzhou army who want to surrender to Cheng or shoot the Jingzhou army that is stubbornly resisting!
In the face of the strong crossbows of the Han army, every Jingzhou army had the possibility of being shot on the spot.
Thinking of the Jingzhou soldiers who were going to surrender, they licked their lips nervously while marching towards the foot of the mountain, hoping that the arrows shot by the Han army would not be chosen as the target.
Staring at the Jingzhou army on the mountain road, the Han army officer holding the long sword high narrowed his eyes slightly, slashed the long sword downward, and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
As soon as the officer gave the order, the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou Army in formation pulled off the springs of the crossbow arrows one after another.
Countless arrows flew out of the Han army's array and flew towards the Jingzhou army, which was marching on the mountain road.
Raining arrows rained down on the slow-moving Jingzhou army, most of which were blocked by shields, and a few of them successfully killed their targets.
One by one, the Jingzhou soldiers fell down on the mountain road, among which there were not only soldiers who were really shot, but also many Jingzhou soldiers who were not shot by feather arrows, but lay on the ground on their own.
One of the Jingzhou soldiers held a shield and slowly advanced forward.
The Han army suddenly shot a feather arrow, which made his heart suddenly startled, and he hurriedly fell to the ground.
When he fell to the ground, his shield was attached to the ground, and then his body was lying on the shield.
If the shield falls face up and falls to the ground, he will fall on the shield, and at most his body will be hurt by the shield.
To his misfortune, when the shield fell to the ground, it was on its back, like a giant spinning top clasped to the ground.
His chest was attached to the back of the shield, and the Jingzhou soldier only felt that the shield made him a little uncomfortable.
Lying on the shield, he couldn't help but move.
Just as he moved, trying to find a more comfortable position, a Han army shot a low-angled feathered arrow and flew towards him.
Leaning on his shield, he glanced up at what he saw was an arrow, which was gradually enlarging in his field of vision.
With a "poof", before the Jingzhou soldier could understand what was happening, a feather arrow had already shot into his forehead.
The sharp arrow cluster shot into his forehead, and the Jingzhou soldier was stunned, his head drooped down, and he lost his breath anymore.
The Jingzhou army lying on the ground also had a few bad luck like him and was shot by the Han army on the spot, but more Jingzhou army officers and soldiers, after lying down, did not dare to raise their heads at all, and only looked at the Han army to stop shooting arrows earlier.
The Jingzhou army, which marched along the mountain road to the foot of the mountain, gradually could not bear the fate of being shot by the Han army, and retreated towards the mountain one after another.
On the way forward, most of the officers and soldiers of the Jingzhou army who had already thought about joining the Cheng Han army were lying on the ground, waiting for the Han army to stop shooting feather arrows.
Those Jingzhou troops, who had not thought of surrendering at all, saw that they could not rush to the bottom of the mountain, held their shields, and retreated.
Earlier, the Jingzhou army went down the mountain, and although the Han army could shoot many people, it had never shot so many!
There were many Jingzhou troops lying on the mountain road, and the Han army in the distance looked at them, thinking that they were all enemy soldiers who had been shot.
The arrow can play such a huge effect, so that the soldiers of the Han army can't help but have some doubts in their hearts.
The officer of the Han army, who commanded the large array, saw the Jingzhou army retreating from a distance, raised his arm and waved it vigorously a few times, and shouted loudly: "Stop the launch!" ”
As soon as the officer gave the order, the officers and men of the Han army stopped shooting feather arrows at the Jingzhou army, and their eyes all looked at the hillside that had fallen into the Jingzhou army.
"General, look!" The soldiers were puzzled, when a Han soldier suddenly shouted, raised his hand and pointed to the mountain road, and shouted: "The enemy has not been shot and killed!" ”
His shout fell, and the soldiers of the Han army in the large array, as well as the officer in charge of command, clearly saw that many Jingzhou troops stood up on the mountain road.
What was strange to the soldiers of the Han army was that the Jingzhou soldiers who stood up did not pick up their shields and blades, and after they got up, many of them tore off the strips of cloth on their battle clothes, raised them in their hands, and waved them vigorously towards the Han army.
While waving strips of cloth, those Jingzhou troops slowly marched towards the mountain.
Seeing from afar that many Jingzhou troops were not walking towards them with shields and blades, the Han soldiers set up arrows on their crossbows and aimed at the Jingzhou troops who were advancing towards them.
The officer commanding the array did not give the order to shoot those Jingzhou troops, and seeing many unarmed Jingzhou troops marching slowly towards their side, he shouted to a soldier behind him: "Quickly go and report to the main book, just say that many Jingzhou troops have put down their blades and protective gear and are approaching our army!" Ask the master book what to do! ”
"No!" After receiving the officer's order, the soldier hurriedly ran to the side, turned over and jumped on a war horse, clamped his legs hard towards the horse's belly, and rode his horse to the direction where Sima Yi was.
The Han army under his command was divided into two routes, one to intercept Zhang Fei and the other to intercept Guan Yu, and Sima Yi's Chinese army was in the middle of the two armies, so as to understand the battlefield situation from the soldiers and horses of the two roads at any time.
The soldiers, who had received the officer's orders, rode their horses and galloped all the way towards Sima Yi's Chinese army, but after a short while, he arrived in front of Sima Yi's Chinese army.
"Quickly go and report to the main book, just say that there are many Jingzhou troops who have put down their swords and are approaching our army!" Before arriving at the Chinese army, the soldiers did not go directly to meet Sima Yi, but shouted to a personal soldier who came up.
Hearing his shout, the soldiers did not dare to delay, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards the direction where Sima Yi should be.
Riding on horseback, Sima Yi was riding with Yu Ban and looking ahead, waiting for the news from the Han army that had intercepted the enemy.
The personal soldiers who got the news from the soldiers on the newspaper quickly ran to Sima Yi's side, hugged their fists and bowed to him and said: "Qi Qi Lord, the Jingzhou army on the mountain launched an attack on our army, and after the enemy retreated, many Jingzhou troops threw away their shields and blades and are moving closer to our army!" ”
"Where did you get the news?" There was still some distance to intercept the Han army's large array of Jingzhou troops under Guan Yu's headquarters, and Sima Yi did not see the Jingzhou army that surrendered to the Han army.
"A soldier has come to report it!" Maintaining a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, the soldiers responded: "The soldiers are from the Great Array of Intercepting Guan Yu!" ”
"Tell him to come and talk!" The appearance of the Jingzhou army is really a little strange, Sima Yi didn't think about it, so he gave an order to the pro-soldier.
The soldiers responded, first bowed with their fists and took two steps back, then turned around and ran towards the Han army who came to report the news.
After a while, the soldiers who came to report came to Sima Yi's side under the guidance of their own soldiers.
Seeing Sima Yi, the soldier stood aside with his fists clenched, and did not dare to take the initiative to speak.
Sima Yi on horseback looked down at him and asked him, "How many people are there in the Jingzhou army that is close to our army?" ”
"Back to the main book!" Sima Yi asked, and the soldier bowed down and said, "There aren't many people, but only two or three hundred!" ”
"None of them have shields?" Knowing that the Jingzhou army that was close to the Han army was only two or three hundred, Sima Yi was stunned for a moment, and then asked.
"Not only do you not have a shield, but you don't even have a blade!" Maintaining a posture of clenching his fists and bowing, the soldier who reported the news replied truthfully.
After confirming that the Jingzhou army was not holding a shield or a blade, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Sima Yi's mouth, and he said to the Han army who reported the news: "Inform the captain of the leading army that you must not shoot the Jingzhou sergeant who approaches." Send some men to check and see what they're going to do! ”
"No!" In response, the soldier who reported the news took two steps back, turned and left quickly.
After receiving the order from Sima Yi, when he rode his horse and galloped to the front of the Han army at the foot of the mountain, those Jingzhou troops had already arrived at a place that was only forty or fifty steps away from the Han army's array.
Perhaps seeing that the Han army in the large array was aiming at them with a strong crossbow, the Jingzhou army did not dare to continue to advance, but just looked at the Han army from a distance.
When they arrived at the front of the big array, the soldier who reported the news turned over and jumped off his horse, and said to the officer: "The master book has an order, not to lightly shoot the Jingzhou soldiers who are close to our army, and send people to ask them what their intentions are!" ”
After receiving the order from Sima Yi, the officer turned around, waved to the soldiers behind him, and shouted to the Han soldiers: "Wait and see what they are going to do!" ”
Several Han soldiers who received the order responded, and they all held shields and Pu knives in their hands, and ran towards the group of Jingzhou troops who had discarded their weapons and shields.