Chapter 9: Qin Crossbow
After the whole army was ready, Yu Fanjun lowered his body and said to Xiang Ye who was standing next to his war horse: "Brother, after the fight will start later, you must be willing to start, remember, there is no mercy on the battlefield, if you sympathize with the enemy, the enemy will kill you!" ”
Yu Fanjun's reminder just broke Xiang Ye's heart, although he was standing in the middle of the team with a short sword, he was struggling in his heart whether he should kill after fighting with the Qin army.
He knew that this idea was ridiculous, but whenever he thought that even the enemy had parents, wives and children, and that killing a person would bring misfortune to a family, the murderous mood that he had finally brought up would suddenly be extinguished again.
Yu Fanjun's words reminded him in a timely manner, yes, now is a troubled time, if he wants to survive in the troubled times, he must learn to be cruel, and he must learn to take other people's lives in exchange for his own survival.
Xiang Ye held the short sword in his hand tightly, he seemed to feel the short sword trembling, this was the bloodthirsty tremor of the weapon, among the Qin army rushing over on the opposite side, I don't know which one would die under this sword. Thinking of this, his palms couldn't help but beads of sweat.
Gradually, the figure of the Qin army appeared from the smoke and dust in the sky, and the smoke and dust behind them were reflected by the afterglow of the setting sun, reflecting the dim orange brilliance, and the Qin army appeared in front of everyone's eyes as if it was a heavenly soldier shrouded in divine light.
When they were only two or three hundred paces away from Yu Fanjun's troops, the Qin army stopped. Yu Fanjun saw that the camp of the Qin army was slowly changing, and a group of soldiers walked out of the formation and stood in the front row, he suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly shouted to the army behind him: "Not good! They want to use Qin crossbows! ”
"Qin crossbow?" When Yu Fanjun's shout fell, Xiang Ye felt that the army behind him began to panic, and an explanation about the Qin crossbow that he had seen in the past suddenly appeared in his mind, the Qin crossbow was an extremely sophisticated long-range weapon, and its range even exceeded that of a pistol.
It was only then that he understood why the army behind him was panicking, it turned out that the position where the enemy stopped was within the effective range of Qin's crossbows, and their crossbow arrows could not hit the enemy at all.
"Soldiers, kill!" Seeing that the formation of the Qin army was gradually taking shape, Yu Fanjun didn't think much about it, and waved the spear in his hand and issued the order to charge.
The whole army suddenly howled like hungry wolves and rushed towards the Qin army, and just as they had just rushed out dozens of steps, an overwhelming array of crossbow arrows flew out of the Qin army's camp.
The sound of "poof, poof, poof" continued to ring in Xiang Ye's ears, and every time he heard a sound, a companion would scream and fall into the dust.
Just one round of crossbow arrows, thousands of people fell in a large area, and the Qin army's crossbow arrows obviously did not finish, one round followed by another round, the Qin army fired one after another round of crossbow arrows almost completely obscured the afterglow of the half round of the sun that had almost disappeared at the end of the horizon, and the sky instantly darkened.
Several crossbow arrows flew towards Xiang Ye with a strong wind, and Xiang Ye hurriedly rolled on the spot, and picked up a shield dropped by a dead companion from the ground to cover it in front of him.
The shield made several muffled sounds, and every time the shield made a muffled sound, he felt his arm tingle with tremors. He raised his shield in front of him and rushed forward with his companion who was still alive.
His charge was purposeless, he didn't know why he was charging, but his subconscious was telling him that if he didn't charge at this time, all that was waiting for him was death, and in order to live, he could only rush forward.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and gradually the rebels have rushed to the position where the crossbow arrows can hit the Qin army, and the surviving crossbowmen picked up the crossbow arrows and shot back at the Qin army, and the Qin army camp was suddenly confused by the crossbow arrows they shot, and many Qin troops also let out a muffled snort or scream like the righteous army who were shot by the crossbow arrows just now and fell to the ground.
Behind the Qin army's crossbow array, a member of the Qin army rode on his war horse and looked coldly at the rebels who were charging towards them.
Perhaps because he was too tired from the long-term battle, General Qin's face showed an unhealthy gray yellow, his skin was slightly dry, a few strands of hair on his temples had been eroded by time and the battle, and a pair of deeply sunken eye sockets made him look too deep, but in the deep sunken eye sockets, there were a pair of embarrassed eyes.
"Big brother, the robbers only sent Yu Fanjun and Zhu Jishi to meet our army this time, and their total strength is only more than 10,000 people, this time we will definitely be able to capture Huling!" Beside the general, another man in the general's armor approached and pointed to the rebels who were about to rush in front of him.
"Huh!" Qin stroked his beard and smiled, and said to the general who was talking to him: "Zhang Ping, the battle cannot be measured by the number of people, when we fought against Zhou Wen and Tian Zang, we were able to annihilate their army, is it also related to the number of people?" ”
This Qin general is none other than Zhang Han, who led the Qin army to defeat Zhang Chu and won the last trace of life for the remnants of the Great Qin, and beside him is his brother Zhang Ping.
Zhang Ping respected his eldest brother very much, and when Zhang Han said this, he just nodded and said to Zhang Han: "The lesson of the eldest brother is that Zhang Ping knows!" ”
The rebels were getting closer and closer, and many of the crossbow arrows they shot flew into the rear of the Qin army after crossing the Qin army's crossbow array.
Zhang Han's face was grim, quietly looking at the charging rebels, when the rebels were still thirty or forty steps away from the Qin army's main array, he raised the long sword in his hand and shouted at the army behind him: "The whole army charges!" ”
There is no tactical and strategic charge, this is a hard-fought duel, and the two sides compete for nothing more than strength and determination.
After the Qin army behind the crossbow array got the order, they howled and rushed towards the rebels, and the two sides collided together, and the strong impact force threw the people who rushed to the front, and when they fell to the ground, most of them waited for the support of their companions but the enemy's spears and short swords.
Xiang Ye originally wanted to follow Yu Fanjun's side, but after the two armies were in one place, he was soon pushed away from Yu Fanjun by the crowd.
As soon as he stood up in the crowd, a Qin soldier rushed towards him with a shield in his left hand and a short sword in his right hand, and the Qin army was still howling strangely as they rushed towards him.
Qin Jun rushed in front of Xiang Ye, the short sword in his hand was raised high, and it slashed down at the top of Xiang Ye's head.
Xiang Ye Pingping raised the short sword towards the sword that Qin Jun slashed towards his head, and after a "choking" sound, the two short swords collided with a cloud of sparks, and he took advantage of the situation to unload the sword down, and the Qin army couldn't take advantage of it, so he didn't stand firm and staggered two steps towards him.
When Qin Jun crashed into him, he put the hilt of his short sword downward, and slammed his fist on the opponent's chin, and the other party was immediately knocked on his neck and fell down in all directions.
If the short sword in his hand was crossed again at this time, he would definitely be able to cut the opponent's throat, but Xiang Ye didn't do that, he just raised his foot and kicked hard between the ribs of the fallen Qin Jun, rolling the Qin Jun a few times and falling to the side.
As soon as the Qin army's body stopped rolling and rolled, a rebel soldier hurriedly rushed up and stabbed him fiercely with a spear, and he was not killed by Xiang Ye and finally died under the spear of the rebel army.
At the moment when the Qin army was stabbed to death by the spear, Xiang Ye felt a little dizzy, although he did not kill the Qin army just now with his own hands, but indirectly helped his companions kill him.
In addition to inadvertently stoning a person to death while traversing, Xiang Ye has never killed anyone with his own hands, he stood on the battlefield with a short sword in his hand, and his consciousness gradually fell into chaos.
He didn't want to kill people, he didn't want to cause misfortune to one or more families through his hands, but now he was literally trapped in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by soldiers on both sides who were howling and fighting desperately. A puddle of blood shot out in front of his eyes, and one by one the living beings were driven out of the body by the cold short sword and spear, and the ground was full of the corpses of the soldiers on both sides.
Xiang Ye was confused, he didn't know why human beings wanted to kill each other, why they lived a good life, but because of the will of one or a few people, more people would give up their lives. He didn't want to kill, he really didn't want to kill, but in front of him, there were countless people who fell one after another and became lifeless corpses.
"Be careful!" Just as Xiang Ye was stunned, a loud shout suddenly came from behind him, and with this shout, a rebel officer rushed towards him from behind and threw him aside.
After the officer knocked down Xiang Ye, the two of them rolled and fell to the ground, and at this moment, Xiang Ye saw that a Qin soldier was digging his spear deep into the soil where he was standing just now.
"Thank you!" Xiang Ye smiled at the officer and thanked him from the bottom of his heart.
There was a lot of blood sticking to the officer's face, but when Xiang Ye thanked him, he still wiped his face and returned Xiang Ye with a silly smile: "No thanks......"
The word "Xie" had not yet fallen, but the smile on his face suddenly froze, and a spear pierced through the back of his heart, piercing through his body. Behind him, a Qin soldier was round with his eyes open, and his face was full of cruelty, and he slammed the spear into the back of his heart.
"Yikes!" Seeing that the person who saved himself was stabbed to death by the Qin army, Xiang Ye went crazy, he screamed strangely, and rushed behind the officer who was stabbed to death and still had a spear on his body.
A head left its neck with a swing of the short sword in Xiang Ye's hand with all its strength and fell to the ground, the eyes of the head that fell to the ground were wide open, and a pair of gray eyes that gradually lost their luster and became dark still revealed a thick fear.
Xiang Ye raised his foot and kicked open the corpse of the Qin army, which was still spurting blood like a fountain and had lost his head, and held the rebel officer who saved him in his arms.
His fists clenched tightly, and two tears rolled in his eyes when he saw the officer's round, but devoid eyes and closed gray lips.