Chapter 552: Sunk Cost

"Shoot me!"

"Shoot these Qin people!"

Under the order of the Marquis of Guishan, tens of thousands of Yue's cavalry took a round of crossbow attacks from the Qin army, and after the horses approached the chariot wall, they raised their bows together and fired at the ring-shaped chariot barrier in front.

Because the Wugang car had a shield wall in front of it, this round of shooting by the Yue's cavalry was a projectile diagonally towards the sky.

Let the arrows fall in a parabola from a high altitude to kill the Qin soldiers behind the barricade.

Tens of thousands of archers stood in a large circle around the Qin army's vehicle array, shooting together towards the middle, and arrows flew in the sky, which looked quite spectacular from a distance.

"Enemy shoot, hide!"

A cordon sounded in the barricade.

The Qin pawn in Wu Gang's car immediately hid behind the thick shield wall and curled up.

The Qin soldiers at the back of the car, those with shields immediately picked up the shields in their hands to protect their bodies and squatted on the spot, and those without shields either drilled under the car or quickly ran to the middle of the car formation.

The effective range of the Yue's cavalry's bow and arrow is only fifty or sixty paces, and when fired from a distance across the car formation, its killing range is one or twenty meters near Wu Gang's car, and it cannot cover the middle of the car formation.

Therefore, tens of thousands of archers shot at each other, which seemed to be amazingly powerful, but in fact the damage was limited.

And because of the shield wall on Wu Gang's car, they are all thrown from the wall, they can't aim at the target, whether they can shoot or not, everything is as fate as.

There were some Qin soldiers in the car formation who were unlucky, and they were hit by arrows thrown from the air, and the screams continued.

The Yue's people didn't expect this round of projectiles to cause much damage, their real purpose was to use this round of shooting to suppress the Qin army's crossbow arrows, and then hit the car formation, tear a hole, and rush in to kill the Qin people inside.

"Warriors of the Yue Clan, rush!"

The son of the Marquis of Guishan, Lajiagu, raised his arms and shouted, giving the order to charge.

The Yueshi cavalry who were surrounding outside immediately roared and rushed towards the chariot formation.

The Qin army in the barrier also reacted immediately.

"The people of the Yue clan are going to come in, if you want to survive, you can only fight with them!"

Under the shouts of military officials at all levels, the Qin soldiers immediately picked up their weapons and rushed to the back of Wu Gang's car.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Wang Ling's face was hideous, and he clenched the long beryllium in his hand with both hands, stabbed it out of the gap between Wu Gang's cars, and poked straight into the chest of a rushing Yue cavalryman.

The cavalry of the Yue clan rushed over and wanted to crash into the formation, but this time it just hit the straight beryllium tip and was stabbed on the spot.

The Yueshi screamed and spurted blood, and the war horse he sat on continued to crash ferociously into the barricade.

Wu Gang's car was hit and trembled.

"Block!"

Xi Juan and Wang Sue shouted, they, the rangers from Pei County, resisted the Wugang car with the rest of the Qin people, and there were things stuffed under the wheels that were stuck, so that they would not be hit by the Yue's war horses and drive the formation.

The Qin soldiers in the car stood up, through the shield wall, and stabbed the Yue's cavalry outside with the halberd in their hands.

"Fight with these brutes!"

The Qin soldiers behind the barricade took long weapons one after another, and through the gaps between the vehicles, they fought against the Yueshi people outside, gritting their teeth one by one, just wanting to kill each other.

In the land of the grassland outside the Saiwai, the soldiers from all the counties of Kyushu have all forgotten their original origins at this moment.

Whether it was the former Chu people, Qi people, or Han people and Wei people, in the face of the barbarian alien races on the grassland, they all abandoned the original hatred and filthiness between countries, let go of their dissatisfaction with the rule of the Qin State, and closely united together, cooperated with each other, and dealt with the alien races that kept rushing outside the fortress.

Rong Di jackal, not to be tired.

Zhuxia is intimate and cannot be abandoned.

At this moment, they are all the army of Zhuxia, and they are all Qin people!

In the middle of the base, on a high platform made of grain and grass, the main general Wang Li stood in the wind.

His eyes widened, staring at the Yue's cavalry who were like wild beasts and kept charging at the base.

One was killed, and another pounced.

In addition to the Yue's people who kept crashing into the fortress in front and wanted to rush into the formation, the Yue's cavalry, who could not engage in the battle behind, took the bow and arrow in their hands to shoot, causing damage to the Qin army in the base, and the overall offensive was very fierce.

"Great Qin Warrior, shoot me back!"

Wang Li waved his hand and roared.

In the car base, the Qin army's crossbowmen launched a projectile counterattack, and the outside of the car was full of dense human heads, and random projectiles could also cause killing.

In addition to crossbows and bows, there are even kick-wound crossbows in the chariots.

Its range reached hundreds of paces away, far exceeding the range and power of the Yue's bows and arrows, and once it was issued, it immediately frightened the Yue's cavalry outside.

"This is the weapon of the Qin people, so powerful!"

"I want to!"

The Marquis of Guishan Xi rode his horse in the distance, and saw that the crossbow arrows flying out of the chariot base were amazingly powerful, and they could shoot the Yue warriors on the horses from a distance of seventy or eighty steps.

He knew that Qin Jun's equipment was very good, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

In addition to the powerful bows and crossbows, the spears and beryllium swords and halberds held by the Qin army guarding the chariot fortress are all excellent weapons, which are very precious in the grasslands that lack resources, and any bronze sword can be exchanged for strong cattle and horses.

"If my people are equipped with these Qin weapons, the entire grassland will be mine!"

Guishuang Xihou's eyes turned red.

If he was only planning to kill the Qin people's rear army and burn the enemy's grain and grass before, now he has an extreme thirst for the Qin army's weapons and equipment.

It's mine!

It's all mine!

As time passed, the battle became more and more intense.

The Qin army's chariot base was smashed a few times, but when the excited Yue people wanted to squeeze into the chariot formation, they were faced with the spear tips of more than a dozen spears, which made them turn from excitement to fear.

The Qin infantry relied on the Wugang chariot formation to firmly hold the defensive line, while the Qin crossbowmen in the rear kept throwing arrows outward, killing and wounding the enemy.

The millions of arrows carried by the Qin army on this expedition were not for showmanship, enough for the crossbowmen to shoot at will, without worrying about the number of arrows.

Under such a fierce battle, a large number of corpses of men and horses appeared outside the Qin army's fortress, and as the corpses piled up, it became more and more difficult for the Yue people to attack, and they could no longer use war horses to collide.

"Dismount! Give me a few openings to rush those car formations! ”

The front-line commander Laga Gu shouted, and ordered the Yueshi people to dismount and fight, trying to kill into the chariot formation from the few openings that were knocked open.

But the people of the Yue clan under him are not an iron army that is not afraid of death.

At this moment, seeing that the car barrier was difficult to attack, and the corpses of their own clansmen were all over the ground, a large number of Yue clan people had the idea of fleeing for their lives, and some of them turned around and retreated.

"Kill all those who run away and retreat! A cowardly man is not worthy to be a warrior of my Kushan tribe! ”

Raja roared, pulled his bow open, and shot an arrow to the death of an escaped Yueshi.

His cronies also received orders, raised their bows and arrows, and stared at the rear, so that the Yue clan warriors who were fighting in front did not dare to think of running away again, so they could only turn their heads with a bitter face and continue to attack the Qin army's chariot array.

The warriors of the Yue Clan, one after another, continued to attack the Qin army's chariot array.

"Father, it can't go on like this, just this one car formation, we have thousands of casualties! It's better to withdraw! ”

Su Jiasha frowned and admonished the Marquis of Guishan.

Hearing this, the Marquis of Guishan was like a fried rooster.

He said angrily: "Withdraw? What are you talking about, so many people have died in my Guishan Department, if you can't even beat a single car formation of the Qin army, then what face do you have to go back! What will the other Marquis think of me, won't all the warriors who died here die in vain! ”

In the face of the roar of the Marquis of Guishan, Sugarsha wisely shut up.

Guishuang Xihou's eyes bulged, staring at the fierce battlefield ahead, and the blue tendons on his face bulged.

He ordered the troops besieging the other chariot formations to stop attacking, and only surround the Qin chariot formations, and he wanted to mobilize all his forces to break through the Qin army chariot arrays in front of him.

"It's enough to defeat this one!"

"Break through this one, kill the Qin people inside, burn the grain and grass of the Qin army, and rob their weapons to go back, this time I will not come in vain, and my battle plan will not be a failure!"

Guishuang Xihou gritted his teeth and kept whispering in his heart, numbing himself.

There is a "sunk cost effect" in psychology.

It refers to the fact that people are reluctant to spend the time, money, and effort in the early stage, resulting in often making wrong choices when making decisions.

The Marquis of Guishan was now caught in it, he made a battle plan, mobilized the three Yue clans to hunt, and made great efforts.

Now besieging this Qin army's chariot array, thousands of people have been killed and wounded, which can be called miserable, but so far nothing has been gained except for the corpses in one place.

If it is withdrawn, everything will not be in vain, and everything will not be lost.

And after he returns, he will lose his prestige, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"It's all here, so many people have died, how can you break this car formation."

"It's fast, it's about breaking, as long as I can break this one, I won't lose money!"

With trembling hands, the Marquis of Guishuang sent a message to the commander in front of him, telling him to take down this Qin army chariot formation at all costs.

Under the order of the Marquis of Xi, under the supervision of the warlord team in the rear, the Yue's people launched attacks on the Qin army's chariot array wave after wave, facing the rain of arrows, going forward one after another, not afraid of sacrifice, leaving corpses all over the ground.

Under such a ferocious offensive of the Yue Clan, the defense line of the Qin army's chariot array was really in a precarious situation.

Wang Li, who commanded on the high platform in the formation, was expressionless, ready to mobilize the army again and change the defensive formation.

Suddenly, he realized something, and looked in a distant direction.

Not only him, but also the people of the Yue clan outside the barrier also felt the vibration from the earth.

A sound like thunder came from afar, the trampling of a large number of cavalry running across the land.

"Is it a double ministry? Or Qin Jun? ”

Guishuang Xihou's heart moved, and he turned his head in the direction where the sound came from.

In the distance, a large dark shadow approached.

The one who rushed to the front, the fastest runner, was the one he let out to patrol the scouts around him.

"Marquis Xi, it's the cavalry of the Qin army!"

"The Shuangmi Department has been defeated, and the Qin army is here!"