Chapter 59: The Eastern Crusade to Kyushu 7
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"Captain, don't we need to help?"
More than an hour later, a Qin military commander saw a large number of dead and wounded piled up on the perimeter of the fence, and the personnel guarding the fence also suffered heavy casualties, estimating that these people might not be able to support the enemy's next attack, and told Wenle his inquiry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wen Le nodded lightly: "Well, you're right, General Zuo ordered the captain of the school to act on camera." Order everyone to prepare, after all, although these enemies are considered to have a considerable physical exertion, if they are not careful, they may pay a price, so let them all be cautious. ”
The dozen or so generals of the Qin army behind Wen Le nodded, and said to Wen Le: "Huh!"
Wenle didn't look back, but looked at the situation inside the fence again, frowning slightly.
He knew very well that if the enemy really broke through the guards of the fence and entered the fence, it would be a very big trouble for them. After all, the troops he is leading now have no infantry, and he can't let these knights dismount and rush into the fence and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.
In that case, he had to make it impossible for the enemy to do such a thing. It is like ordering the troops to directly raid the opponent's flank and rear when the enemy attacks, and flank the opponent with the remnants of the defenders, striving to defeat the enemy's attacking force in one fell swoop.
Thinking of such a little bit of Wenle, he showed a shallow smile.
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More than half of the personnel in charge of guarding this area have suffered casualties, and in many places there are even unfillable guards.
Although they also inflict many times the damage on the enemy, many of the people who are still alive know very well that they are not the same as these enemies, and their people are one less than one. If the enemy really breaks through the defenses, then what awaits them will be hell.
And their families, and the people they know, will cry or die in this hell.
Perhaps, the dead can no longer see, or imagine so little, but those who are still alive must protect the hope of the dead. Because they are companions from the same country.
And the name of this country is called Daqin.
After such a period of fierce fighting, Ram Wu was very tired and sat on a stone that was even soaked in blood.
He didn't know how long he and others would be able to support himself. But looking at the many dead and wounded inside and outside the fence because of the lack of manpower, he knew that if there were no accidents, they might also become these dead companions, or enemies, and be buried in this land by time.
A middle-aged man he knew gently patted Ram Wu's shoulder, and then handed the bamboo tube hanging from his waist to the other party.
Ram Wu took the bamboo tube, drank a few sips of cold water with a grunt, and said, "Uncle, do you think we will die?"
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know, but if no miracle happens, it's like our reinforcements are coming, then we probably have only one way." ”
Ram Wu was silent for a long time after hearing the middle-aged man's words. He knew very well why the other party would call the reinforcements, which sounded so normal, a miracle. That's because they haven't met anyone they know for so many years.
The so-called reinforcements could not have existed in the first place. Unless the Great Qin Empire can use these people who were deceived by Xu Fu to rescue them with rescuers from the sky.
As long as you are not stupid, you know that such a thing is impossible.
In other words, those who are still fighting, including Ram Takeshi, know that they may kill a few enemies and then be in the company of the dead......
"The enemy is here again! Ready to fight!!"
After hearing this sentence, which had changed a little hoarse voice, and after saying it, many people's faces showed a trace of relief and reluctance.
After Ram Wu saw the expressions of these people, he was very silent. After all, Ram Wu himself feels the same way.
"Perhaps, this is the last one. ”
Ram Wu looked at the enemy who rushed over again in the distance, and muttered to himself mockingly.
But then, an exclamation attracted the attention of many, including him:
"Let's look at the !! in the northeast"
Many people followed this voice and naturally looked to the northeast.
What appeared in their eyes was the growing black dot in the billowing smoke and dust, a white-striped black-bottomed Xuanbird flag hanging on a chariot, and a black-on-white flag hanging on the side of many chariots.
On these black-on-white flags, there is a "Qin" character embroidered in the form of a large seal......
Seeing this white-veined and black-background Xuanniao flag, some middle-aged people couldn't help but sing a passage that they couldn't forget except death:
Do you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Hatred with the Son! How can it be said that there is no clothing? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Do you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son!
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After Wen Le knew that the enemy was charging the fence again, he said loudly: "The chariot unit is responsible for accompanying the enemy and supporting the cavalry troops attacking in front, and the knight troops should try to avoid engaging the enemy in close combat unless necessary!"
Wen Le made such a combat arrangement because the knight troops under his command were mainly rangers with crossbow cavalry, rather than Zhang Jiashi's assault cavalry, which gradually expanded during this period of time.
Using the Ranger to assault the enemy's infantry unit is a foolish thing to abandon the tactical superiority of the Ranger unit.
Although it is said that he has only joined General Zuo's Mansion under Zhang Jiashi for a little more than half a year, Wen Le has also learned some experience in using cavalry to fight after serving as his deputy under Su Teng, who became the commander of the first cavalry of General Zuo's Mansion for three months.
Just like the knight troops of General Zuo's Mansion under Zhang Jiashi's command, the strict subdivision is the type of cavalry that can be divided into three different types of equipment as the main difference in tactics.
First of all, the rangers, as the main force of more than 10,000 or nearly 20,000 knights under Zhang Jiashi's command, as long as they are not the rangers who are responsible for the main combat mission, their most important combat method is to use long-range bows and crossbows and the mobility of cavalry to suppress the enemy in the medium range.
After all, the ranger is equipped with a bow and crossbow, the range is not as good as the infantry's strong crossbow and hard bow, and it is even worse than the crossbowman equipped in the crossbow chariot.
The rangers are mainly equipped with light leather armor, and on the side of the horse's legs is a long-arc knife that is more conducive to chopping, their melee ability is very poor, if it is used to directly impact the heavy infantry that is also one of the main forces under Zhang Jiashi's command, these rangers are more meat buns and dogs, and there is no return.
Fewer than the Rangers is a thing that is defined as an assault cavalry by General Zhang Jiashi.
Like the Rangers, a part of the Assault Cavalry was also armed with light crossbows and was responsible for striking enemies from a distance. However, the melee weapons of the assault cavalry were replaced by a long beryllium or spear, as well as a long arc knife on the horse's belly, and a thicker machete, and most of their armor was iron, and some were even equipped with smaller round shields.
The combat mission of the assault cavalry is mainly to assault the enemy's troops, whether it is long-range suppression or direct impact on the enemy's troops, and the purpose of the assault cavalry unit is to use mobility and impact force to tear apart the enemy's battle formation.
There is also a kind of heavy cavalry, which is very different from the knight troops of the Qin army, these heavy cavalry, which are very few in number, what their role is, even Su Teng is not very clear. Because in terms of the number of people and the arrangement of the establishment, the young General Zuo is a small part of the more establishment, to test the combat effect of these heavy cavalry.
Judging from some of the situations mentioned by Su Teng at a certain meeting, the knight troops under Zhang Jiashi's command will gradually change to assault knights, after all, it is also a fact that the ranger troops lack the means of combat that can directly solve the enemy's infantry.
And Su Teng didn't know why Zhang Jiashi decided to fight the cavalry troops. After all, he believed that even with a change in equipment, the assault knights would inevitably pay a very big price for attacking the infantry.
However, what he didn't expect was that Zhang Jiashi's hands actually held double stirrups and Takahashi saddles and other means were not used.
If the double stirrup and Takahashi saddle were popularized, this kind of assault knight, who had a wider range of combat and more average ability, would become the main force of his cavalry troops in the future.
After all, it was best to use a relatively fast light knight force against the nomads, especially the Huns, who were about to rise.
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"Kill, !!"
A hundred crossbow chariots were arranged in several columns, about twenty or so in each column, separated by some distance from each other, and gradually accelerated towards the southeast.
A thousand rangers, under the command of each other's officers, slowly intervened in the gap between the crossbow chariots.
Wen Le held a well-wound hand crossbow in his hand and moved with the cavalry troops.
Naturally, their goal was not to directly support the personnel inside the fence, but to gradually accelerate towards the Japanese, who also seemed to have discovered them.
There is still a distance of more than a thousand meters between the two sides, and this distance, even a top wrestler professional cannot shoot a bow and arrow to such a distance.
It's not that Lux doesn't have so much strength, it's that no bow can withstand so much force without the bow breaking.
Even the iron bow made by a small number of people ordered by Zhang Jiashi could not do this.
However, the commander of these Japanese is probably not a good-for-nothing fool, and after less than a few tens of seconds, the Japanese, who seem to be a little confused, have stabilized and are constantly moving personnel.
It is clear that the other side has made them the enemy of the highest priority.
This is natural, and it is not surprising that Wen Le found out about this situation, after all, there are so many chariots and knight troops now, and those who can ignore them are either extremely stupid, or they think that they have lived a little longer and want to die faster.
And after such a period of observation, Wenle knew very well that many of the weapons on the enemy's hands were as tattered as the "battles" he had passed before.
You can't imagine that a group of archers would need to be about fifty meters away to be able to shoot arrows, not to mention that the troops in the current Zuo General's Mansion, even in the Minzi Korea region, are completely unqualified.
If such enemies appear on the battlefield, then these enemies obviously do not need to worry too much.
Although the gap in weapons and equipment is not as important as the personnel in terms of the impact of the factors of victory and defeat, but having seen the various weapons and armor produced by the Liaodong Military Construction under General Zuo's Mansion, Wen Le knows very well that under such a large gap, as long as it is not due to the absolute disadvantage of the number of people and the premise of correct tactics, it is much easier to achieve a decisive victory.
However, it is strange that the commander of the other party actually knows such a thing as forming a formation to defend. But doesn't he know that there is actually no point in doing so?
"Maybe these people don't know that the shield soldiers in front of them, the small wooden plank in their hands, is actually useless at all?"
Wen Le had such an idea in his mind. But he just thinks about it, after all, he is on the battlefield right now.
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After the war to annex the Korean Peninsula, Zhang Jiashi once again made some detailed modifications to the crossbow because of the feedback from the soldiers.
For example, it is necessary to formally use a large number of metal bracket parts and use a more uniform size to make these things as much as possible to increase the corresponding versatility.
Because the troops under Zhang Jiashi's command still have crossbowmen who occupy most of the crossbowmen, using parts of the Great Qin Empire, it is difficult to find suitable backup parts for maintenance after many crossbows are damaged on the battlefield.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi did not think about the special production of such old-fashioned parts to solve the problem, but for many considerations, especially his current military industrial system already has its own standard foundation, and doing so again is undoubtedly a destructive regression.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and use new corresponding parts to improve and replace some old crossbows.
The old parts that have been removed are used on the crossbows that have not yet been replaced, as backup parts.
The new standard components are not a rebirth, but they are still quite good.
For example, the original seven-stone pouting Zhang crossbow produced by the Great Qin Military Manufacturing, the range and accuracy are not as good as the new products made by the Liaodong Military under Zhang Jiashi, especially in terms of accuracy, the new crossbow with a small design such as Wangshan is installed, which has a great advantage over the accuracy improvement of the old crossbow.
And this time, the crossbow chariot unit led by Wen Le is actually a crossbow soldier who mainly uses the old-style modified crossbow.
After the new crossbows were produced, according to Zhang Jiashi's order, many of them were given priority to supply the Liaodong County corresponding to the Liaoxi County reaction force under Huan Suo.
In this case, most of the newly formed crossbow chariot troops can only use such old gadgets.
However, after the distance between the two sides was less than four hundred meters, the troops of crossbow fighting vehicles, advancing at a relatively steady pace, began to carry out long-range suppression.
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"Put !!"
The ballista commander, who was looking at Wangshan, after comparing the distance between the two sides was less than four hundred meters, shouted the order to attack.
Suddenly, four hundred crossbows shot into the sky one after another after the sound of crossbow strings rang out.
In about a second or so, many Japanese who were sticking to the so-called defensive line were nailed to the ground and screamed before they could see clearly the appearance of the crossbows.
Many Japanese looked at their colleagues who had been hit by arrows in astonishment, they could not imagine such a situation, because they could not even see what the enemy's chariot looked like until now.
Many of the Qin army's crossbowmen were accustomed to moving and firing crossbow chariots when they were not traveling at high speeds.
Of course, it is not without accidents, after all, it is not uncommon for chariots to be directly overturned by a small stone.
Zhang Jiashi valued the firepower output of the crossbow chariot, which was relatively wide, had good mobility on flat ground, and a relatively stable shooting environment. As for the shortcomings, Zhang Jiashi also knows that the inherent shortcomings of the chariots, these crossbow chariots really have everything, and in the absence of relative melee capabilities, the crossbow chariot unit is much more "fragile" than the conventional chariot.
It's just that, judging from the next battle situation, Zhang Jiashi's crossbow chariot unit has once again been positively demonstrated.
The crossbow chariot unit of the Qin army, after the first shot, gradually slowed down, and when it reached a distance of about three hundred meters from the enemy, the driver of the crossbow chariot basically stopped the vehicle.
After greatly improving the stability of the shooting environment in disguise, the combat efficiency of the shooters on the crossbow chariot has been greatly improved.
In the case of moving, a good crossbowman can only load a crossbow in about fifteen seconds.
However, after the crossbow chariot stopped, the Qin crossbowmen were able to load a crossbow in ten seconds at the earliest, and the rate of fire was directly increased from four rounds per minute to six rounds per minute.
Not to mention the fact that in a stable environment, the accuracy of the crossbowmen has also greatly improved.
In this case, the number of Japanese casualties increased over time.
Many Japanese people have not yet recovered from the fact that someone close to them has been shot, and they are at risk of being shot directly by the next crossbow.
As a commander, Wen Le was not too happy about such a development, but was a little worried, because he found that the enemy this time was very different. That is, there is no confusion in the opponent's formation at all.
"It seems that the other party is really a person who should not be underestimated. ”
Wenle rode on his horse, looked at the situation in the opposite camp, and quickly calculated something.
The cavalry units were now assembled in front of the crossbow chariot units and stayed in place, and they only needed to run another hundred meters or so to be able to enter the best firing range of about one hundred and fifty meters.
Of course, the running tactics of the rangers have certain flaws in the present, especially the cavalry units in the rush, which are likely to be grabbed by the enemy's crossbowmen and slowly slow down and turn away, or directly diagonally into the enemy's battle formation, bringing considerable casualties.
Wen Le was well aware of this situation, but after the crossbow chariot troops seemed to be unable to bring enough damage to the other side, he said loudly:
"Everyone, follow me !!"