Chapter Twenty-Three: I, Daqin, have another general
Hearing the command of "control", the crossbowmen immediately leaned forward, grabbed the crossbow string with both hands, kicked the bow arm with both feet, fell backwards, and drove the arm with waist force to pull the crossbow string away.
The man standing next to him immediately placed a crossbow bolt with a long collar three-edged arrow into the crossbow groove, the end of the crossbow against the bowstring that had been pulled apart.
All this is narrated slowly, but in fact, it took less than two seconds to complete the pre-shooting preparations, and the Qin army crossbowmen were ready when the Dijon cavalry was still stunned.
"Hair ...... Hair...... Hair ......"
"Boom Boom ......"
"Hair" is the command to release the arrow, and the scalp numbing crossbow string trembles, and the crossbow arrows swept into the air like locusts.
The range of the crossbow projectile is just about 200 paces, and the first salvo is because the general must grasp the timing of the launch, and then there is no need for the general to give an order, and the arrow after arrow can be shot out.
"Ahhh......h
Amid the terrible screams of the Dijon cavalry, a rain of arrows rained down from the sky, and the Dijon cavalry raised their round shields above their heads, but it was useless.
This kind of wooden round shield is basically enough to resist arrows, but in front of the long collar three-edged arrow crossbow arrow, the wooden round shield is as vulnerable as paper.
Di Rong's cavalry fell in pieces, no matter the men and horses, in front of the sharp weapons of the Great Qin, none of them were spared.
No one thought about rushing forward, because it was useless, when they rushed to a hundred steps in front of the Great Qin Crossbowman Array, the Crossbowmen would get up and run back to their own formation, and as soon as the Qin Army's shield turned over, what they needed to face was the Qin Army's Shield Array.
Besides, when they rush through this hundred-step death zone, I don't know how many soldiers and horses they can have left, and it is estimated that they will not even be able to turn over a wave, and they will have to be completely wiped out by the Qin army, so it is better to escape, how many can escape.
Di Rong's cavalry was divided from the middle to the left and right, each of them bypassed an arc in front of the Qin army's formation, and rushed back, but in the process of turning around, I don't know how many soldiers and horses fell under this mound, and they ran back to the mound from the two wings and became sparse.
By the time the crossbowmen were in hand, the 10,000 cavalry of the border army on both flanks of the array had also attacked, and their task was to pursue and kill the remnants of Dijon cavalry.
Although they could not turn around and shoot arrows like the archers, and the accuracy of archery was not as high as that of the archers, it was still no problem to shoot in front of them when they ran forward.
The duration of the war horse galloping at full speed is usually twelve or thirteen minutes, and the better horses can continue to gallop for about fifteen minutes, and the speed can reach about fifty kilometers per hour.
In other words, the distance of the war horse continued to gallop was about twelve kilometers, and it was about fifteen or sixteen miles from Dijon's main formation to this place, that is, about eight kilometers.
The Dijon cavalry pursued the archers all the way, and they were always running at full speed, at this time most of the horsepower had been consumed, while the cavalry of the Great Qin Border Army was waiting for work with sufficient horsepower.
Even if it is because the equipment is heavier, it is no problem to run wild for ten minutes, and the end of this Dijon cavalry is already doomed.
When the last group of Dijon cavalry rushed back to the mound, the Great Qin crossbowmen shot almost six or seven waves, a total of more than 30,000 crossbow arrows went out, less than 5,000 of the 9,000 Dijon cavalry fled, and more than 4,000 fell under the mound.
In fact, only about 60% of them were shot directly, and the other part tripped over the corpses of people and horses piled up under the mound and died.
When Di Rong's cavalry completely disappeared in front of him, the Great Qin crossbowmen got up, lifted their crossbows, lined up in a neat line, and ran back from the gap in the infantry array behind them.
At this time, the archers had arrived at the tail end of the rear army, and the war horses were all panting heavily, and the archers hurriedly dismounted in distress to reduce the burden on the war horses, and Yang Yifei ran to Li Xin's place along the gap between the front army and the Chinese army.
"The last general, Yang Yifei, meet General Li."
"Excuse me, congratulations to General Yang on his triumph." Li Xin looked at Yang Yifei, who had no trace of blood except for some dust on his body, and nodded happily.
After congratulating Yang Yifei, Li Xin Zhengse asked, "General Yang, how are the casualties of the archers?" ”
Yang Yifei grinned, revealing a mouth full of white teeth, "General Hui, the archers have zero casualties, killed about 10,000 enemies, and obtained more than 2,000 war horses. ”
"Good, good." Li Xin was overjoyed, and shouted three times in a row, and then Lang laughed and said: "General Yang should be the first in this battle, and it is not a problem to be promoted to three levels in a row, and my Daqin will have another general, hahahaha......"
Yang Yifei said with a smile: "With this big victory, all the soldiers will use their lives, and the last general will not dare to take credit." ”
Li Xin nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "The soldiers have worked hard, and they will go back to the camp to rest first, and the head will not have to be cut, the general will write it to you, Di Rong's army has a total of 20,000 cavalry, 10,000 archers, and 9,000 under the command of the general, how about it?" ”
The scouts had already found out the enemy's intelligence, and Li Xin naturally knew that this battle archer was not just a matter of winning the first battle.
What's more, because of their good start, the whole battle becomes easy to fight, so that they can easily win, and the first merit is that they can't run away.
According to the Great Qin military merit system, the winner of the first merit of a war can be promoted to the third level, in other words, after this war, Yang Yifei can be promoted to the same title as him now, and he has a bright future in the future, and it is beneficial and harmless to sell him now.
Yang Yifei gratefully clasped his fists and bowed down and said, "The general is sympathetic to his subordinates, and the last general will thank the general on behalf of the brothers." ”
Li Xin bowed his head and said: "General Yang doesn't have to be polite, you can go!" The rest is our business. ”
Yang Yifei said with a smile: "Then the last general will wait for the general to triumph in the big camp, and the last general will retire." ”
Bidding farewell to Li Xin, Yang Yifei turned the horse's head and ran out along the gap between the phalanxes, and soon, one after another commands sounded in the array: "Urgent...... Urgent...... ...... Compelling"
The foot soldiers moved forward, Yang Yifei returned to the archers, dismounted and said to everyone: "Rest in place for two moments, and then return to the camp." ”
"Back to camp?" One of the two or five hundred lords was surprised and said, "What about the military exploits of the brothers?" ”
Yang Yifei smiled: "Throw away all the heads!" There is no need to bring it back, General Li personally wrote down the military exploits for us, the archers were beheaded by 11,000 levels, each of them can be divided into at least five levels, you guys, at least you can be promoted to the upper level. ”
"European ......"
"Great, hahaha......"
"General Yang is mighty."
"Thank you, General Yang."
As soon as they heard Yang Yifei's words, the archers suddenly became excited, let out bursts of cheers, and took off the heads hanging on horseback one by one, and threw them out with their hair.
After resting in place for two quarters of an hour, the archers mounted their horses and returned to the camp, walking slowly, and it took half an hour to return to the camp.
The general of the Mengjia army who stayed in the camp was surnamed Zheng Mingbai, who was originally a captain, and was temporarily set up as a general by Meng Yi.
After figuring out the situation, Zheng Bai was also very happy for the archers and congratulated them again and again.
In wartime, the main general can temporarily set up a general to temporarily take charge of an army, so at this moment, Meng Yi led a large army to attack, leaving two soldiers to guard the camp, but there are two captains in these two soldiers, so who should I listen to? That's where the generals come in.