Chapter 0411: The battle begins
Two days later, in the early morning, the battle was about to break out;
However, it was different from the tragic scene of the Han army soldiers in Mayi City who had expected the man to turn on his horse: the beginning of the war did not bring too strong a sense of oppression to the defenders in the city.
Early in the morning, in the distant Xiongnu camp, groups of ragged slaves poured out, in groups of dozens of people, each of them lifted a very simple wooden ladder together, and walked towards the north wall of Mayi;
When they came to a position about three hundred paces outside the city, the Hun cavalry who urged the slaves stopped and said something.
Then, cartloads of 'weapons and equipment' were delivered to the front of the battle and distributed to the slaves.
- there were sticks, sticks, and even stones;
Among them, the most complicated production process is nothing more than a stone axe with a wooden rod as the body, stone flakes as the blade, and rattan tied together.
It was so rudimentary, even so simple that the defenders in the city suspected that they were fighting with primitive people's 'weaponry', and became the source of courage for tens of thousands of slaves.
It was precisely on the side of the Xiongnu that while they were busy distributing 'weapons and equipment' to the slaves and cannon fodder, at the head of the north wall of the Mayi city wall, on the side of the Taiwei Jin She, there was an officer in scale armor who gave a thumbs up to the Huns outside the city.
Thumb?
Don't get me wrong;
This is not to praise the Huns outside the city.
To be precise: After Ping raised his arm and gave a thumbs up to the Huns outside the city, Captain Quan Xu of Yulin also closed his eyes······
"Hmm······"
"Three hundred steps up and down;"
"If you use a crossbow with a divine arm, you can kill thousands of enemies."
Using the distance calculation method learned on weekdays to calculate the approximate distance of the Huns, Quan Xu looked at Jin She beside him with a slightly inquiring gaze.
As Quan Xu expected: after seeing his intentions, Jin She only smiled lightly and shook his head.
"In the first battle, most of them were herdsmen belonging to the Huns;"
"Captain Yulin, it is the result of His Majesty's exhaustion of the money in the Shaofu, and there is no need to use the divine arm crossbow for such a lowly slave."
As the one said, Jin Shu couldn't help but smile and turned his head sideways, pointing towards the longbow fluttering in the wind outside the city.
"In this battle, the Xiongnu came from the headquarters of King Zuoxian, and the four tribes of Zhelan, Baiyang, Lou Fu, and Jinshan were servants, and the slave tribes were three or five;"
"Among them, the Zhelan Department is known for hand-to-hand combat with the lower horses, and the Aries Department is proud of the grassland with its 'return horse shooting' technique."
"And Jinshan, the reputation in the past was not obvious, but even if the axe is used as a curtain, it is no different from Zhelan."
"Only the Lou Fu Department has always been famous for its ability to ride and shoot, and it is even more famous for its Hu Gong!"
"In today's battle, in addition to the siege of the city by the slaves, in order to consume the bow feathers and strength of the soldiers of the Han army, King Zuo Xian must send another good shooting department to shoot outside the city."
"This 'good shooting department' should be a ranger for the building."
Softly introduced to Quan Xu outside the city, the combat characteristics of these Xiongnu tribes, and emphasized the characteristics of Lou Fu's 'good shooting', Jin Shu withdrew his hand and patted Quan Xu's shoulder with a look full of expectations.
"The captain of the whole school ordered him to make the Yulin crossbowmen under his command shoot Hu Nu, so that he could severely damage the Lou Fu Department, thinking that the key to this battle was ······"
"If this battle, Captain Yulin can greatly damage the vitality of the Lou Fu Department, and he will be the first to take credit!"
"And in the future, my Han family will fight in Hu again, and Hu will not be able to move an inch without the trouble of being a pawn who is good at shooting; The soldiers of the Han family should also be slightly injured by the bow feather······"
Hearing Jin She's words, Quan Xu only thought about it for a moment, and then nodded with confidence.
Good shooting?
Hey!
——In the whole world, who dares to threaten to be good at shooting in front of the divine arm crossbow?!
You must know that just 100 years ago, the world's highest level of praise for 'good shooting' was only a hundred steps!
As for now?
Not to mention a hundred steps, in the Yulin Captain who is equipped with a divine arm crossbow, with a shooting distance of 200 steps, if he fails to shoot the enemy's vital point, he will have to make his comrades in the army laugh for more than half a year!
"The last general obeys!"
After receiving Jin She's instructions, Quan Xu did not contain the lake, and as soon as he arched his hand towards Jin She, he trotted towards the Yulin Captain's Department in the city wall;
Soon, the Yulin crossbowmen who had received Quan Xu's order had already climbed the city wall in groups of five, and spread out evenly in the city wall, each finding a position with a wide field of vision and not hindering his comrades to defend the city, and sat down on the spot with their backs against the wall.
If nothing else, about half an hour later, the known world will see the battlefield debut of the new weapon called the 'Divine Arm Crossbow'.
On the other side of the battlefield, if it can become the first defeated army under the crossbow of the divine arm, the Hun Lou Fu Department will definitely be 'famous in history'······
"Three hundred steps from the enemy!
! ”
The familiar call sounded, but the city of Mayi was quiet;
According to the drill regulations of the Guanzhong army, the distance of three hundred steps has entered the effective range of the bed crossbow.
There is no mistake
But obviously, the slave cannon fodder outside the city who were shouting and rushing towards the city wall of Mayi did not give Jin She even the slightest sense of urgency in his heart.
"Two hundred paces from the enemy!
! ”
Another burst of roars sounded, and everyone looked at the Taiwei Jin She on the top of the city tower;
But Jin She, still with a calm face, stared at the outside of the city, stopped at a distance of three hundred steps from the city wall, shouted and intimidated, and drove the slaves to continue to advance the Loufu cavalry.
"One hundred and fifty steps from the enemy!
! ”
"Hmm."
With Jin She's deep 'um', the bed crossbow, which had been ready to fire for a long time, finally let out a sky-high sound of its own.
Bang Bang Bang!
!
Whoosh!
!
!
At a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, a huge loss of nearly a foot long and the thickness of a human leg flew out in response, drawing an almost straight horizontal line in the air!
Then, he plunged headlong into the slave cannon fodder and set off a wail in the sky.
According to the normal situation, the bed crossbow is fired at a distance of 300 paces from the enemy, and a huge loss can often kill and wound several enemies, and cause great deterrence to the enemy who is about to charge;
But today, the bed crossbow on the head of Mayi City deliberately put the slaves and cannon fodder outside the city closer to a distance of one hundred and fifty steps······
There is no surprise: at the head of the city of Mayi, which is just a few miles long, only eight bed crossbows were fired, causing hundreds of casualties to the slave cannon fodder outside the city!
Almost at the same time that the pole was lost, and finally fell to the ground more than 200 steps outside the city, the 'Overseers' behind the slave cannon fodder also began to cry out.
"No one is allowed to retreat!"
"You filthy slaves!"
"Only by killing the head of the city and cutting off the head of a Han man can you wash away the sins on your body!"
Behind him, there was the high-pitched roar of the Lou Fu cavalry;
In front of him, there was the head of the Ma Yi wall, and the eight-car bed crossbow began to reload, making a piercing winch turn.
After two years of advance and retreat, it was difficult······
"Ahh
!
”
I don't know if I was driven crazy by this suffocating pressure, or if I really ignited the will to fight, a hoarse cry suddenly sounded in the ranks of the slave cannon fodder!
After a short period of silence, all the slave cannon fodder was infected by this cry, and they rushed to the north wall of Mayi with indomitable determination.
But above the city, Taiwei Jin She's hand was quietly raised, as if he was waiting for something······
"A hundred steps away from the enemy!
!
! ”
As the last warning sounded from the remote platform, Jin She's raised hand fell lightly like a fallen leaf after autumn;
Then, a rough command sounded over the city walls.
"Draw the bow!"
"A hundred paces away from the enemy, three rounds of rapid fire!
! ”
"Put!
!
!
”
Whoosh!
!
In just a few dozen breaths, thousands of arrow feathers flew up from the city, and even for a moment, the sunlight outside the city was obscured!
Then, round after round of salvos of crossbows and crossbows, in the sky north of Mayi City, a perfect parabola was drawn, and it immediately pierced down.
Three rounds of salvos, slave cannon fodder outside the city, thousands of dead and wounded!
But the battle has only just begun······
"Rush!
! ”
"Kill a Han Chinese and become a glorious Hun warrior!
! ”
The indignation of the slave cannon fodder was heard by the soldiers of the Han army on the wall, but it was the incomprehensible bird song and the wail of the primates before they died;
On the faces that rushed towards the city wall, the soldiers of the Han army could also see a lot.
There are tears;
There is despair;
There is madness;
There is confusion.
But the most, there is a relief for no reason.
From a hundred steps away from the city wall, subjected to a salvo of the Han army's bows and crossbows, to the city wall, this short distance of 100 steps, the slaves and cannon fodder advanced with great difficulty;
Every time you take a step forward, someone around you falls, and every time you take a step forward, a bow and feather arrow flies over your head and in your ears.
But slaves, there is no choice.
They can only rush forward indomitably, and find their destined destination outside this Han city that they have never seen before.
At a distance of twenty paces, the slave cannon fodder stopped.
- As a border city, Mayi has no moat;
However, as the former capital of South Korea, Mayi also has a 'moat' several zhang wide.
Soon, the urging of the Lou Fu cavalry sounded again behind him, and even a few bow feathers shot at the slave cannon fodder who stood still from behind.
After a short period of hesitation, the slave cannon fodder finally jumped in despair.
Perhaps at first, they wanted to jump off the 'moat' and then climb up from the other side of the 'moat';
But as the bows and feathers shot from behind him got closer and closer, more and more, and even a few Lou Fu cavalry began to approach, the slaves at the back of the team could no longer care so much.
It seems to be rushing forward to kill, and it seems to be dodging the Lou Fu cavalry behind them, and all the slaves are pushing forward and crowding;
Suddenly, the team, which had been crowded, began to regain its previous pace.
——The 'moat', the forerunner of the slave team, used his flesh to build a 'human bridge'.
But they didn't have a choice.
They can only rush forward as best they can under the crowd of people behind them;
Even if they want to fall into the moat and become a stepping stone for others, they can only rush forward.
When the hundreds of wooden ladders finally reached the top of the Mayi wall, the 'corpses' of the slaves were already covered outside the city.
The corpses, some of them motionless, were already dead;
Some are still struggling, squirming, or wailing weakly.
On the city wall, the soldiers of the Han army had also reacted quickly, and the crossbowmen let go of the wall battlements corresponding to the wooden ladder, and urged the swords, shields, and spearmen behind them to step forward and take over the defensive position.
At this point, the battle finally entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat.
In order to reach this stage, the original tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of slave cannon fodder cost thousands of casualties.
"Rush up!"
Three hundred steps outside the city, watching the slaves finally put the wooden ladder on the city wall, Lou Fu Wang Zhebei hurriedly turned his head sideways, and did not continue to look at the slave cannon fodder who were besieging the city.
- As cannon fodder, these slaves can rush under the city wall, put a wooden ladder on the city wall, and attract most of the attention of the Han army guards in the city to themselves, and they have already completed the task.
As for what else can be done next, Jebel can't take care of it, and it can be said that he has no expectations.
Now, Jebe needs to pay attention to the performance of his archers in this battle.
"How?"
"Did you figure it out?"
A deep voice asked, and the Lou Fu cavalry on the side hurriedly stepped forward.
"The salvo of the Han Chinese began at a distance of about a hundred paces;"
"One hundred and fifty paces away, it should be safe."
"In the past, the bows and crossbows of the Han people, except for the bed crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow, have never been able to shoot one hundred and fifty steps."
Hearing this, Jebel only nodded heavily.
Jebe knows that the bed crossbow is a unique city defense device of the Han people, and it is indeed very powerful, but strictly speaking, it cannot be regarded as a 'bow crossbow'.
In other words: the way to cause damage to the bed crossbow is not to aim first and then fire the bow and crossbow in the ordinary sense, but to shoot into the crowd of people on the besieging side regardless of it, and how many are killed;
Before the bed crossbow shot a huge loss and crashed into the local camp, I am afraid that even the Han pawn in charge of firing did not know which unlucky ghost he would shoot with this bed crossbow.
And every shot of the bed crossbow takes a long time to reload before the next shot can be fired.
For the Lou Fu bow and crossbow led by Jebe, it cannot be counted as a 'threat';
As for the rhubarb crossbow, although it has a range of more than three hundred steps, and the operator will also aim to a certain extent, the accuracy of the rhubarb crossbow is not much better than the bed crossbow.
Moreover, just like the one in the Hun army, the shooter is one in a thousand, and the Han people who can pull the rhubarb crossbow are basically negligible.
As for the other common crossbows of the Han people, they did have a longer range than the Xiongnu longbow.
But······
"My name is Jebelichi!"
"I'm the king of Lou Fu!
! ”
Gritting his teeth and letting out a deep sigh, Jebel raised his head and slowly scolded forward;
"Let the warriors hunt freely outside the city of Mayi!"
"Distance, one hundred and fifty paces!"