Chapter 6 Cross-firing and trapping
Cui Heng learned to be smart this time, so he hid behind the big shield and shouted, "Hahaha! The old gelding donkey is angry, right?"
I'm not afraid to tell you that your Xiliang State has the internal response of our army. Otherwise, why do you think we would wipe out your 30,000 rear army so easily, and burn hundreds of thousands of grain and grass?"
"I heard that your poor little wild donkey has just married the princess of your Xiliang Kingdom? I don't know if there is a kind left? I really feel sorry for the princess of your Xiliang Kingdom, she has just become a little widow when she got married, why don't you go back and send me to Zhao Kingdom, and let me Chu Hong leave a seed for your son." Passing on an incense stick to your wild donkey family?"
"Forget it, my Zhao country's noble species can't just leave you Xiliang Kingdom with a lowly surname. ”
Cui Hengyu was not shocked, and he was still chattering and scolding. The generals below have also been betting on Cui Heng's life and death.
"I'll give one or two pieces of silver, Yuan Sheng will definitely be beaten to death by Chu Xiaozi this time!"
"I'll pay five taels of silver, and bet that this kid will definitely run away before the Chu kid comes back. ”
"You say, do we want to tie up Cui Kid in a while and sell Chu Kid a favor?" said a long, somewhat stocky general with a bad idea.
"Yes, great idea!"
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"Ahh Capture Chu Hong's servant alive, reward 500 taels of silver, and 50 sheep. Whoever kills is rewarded with 300 taels of silver and 30 sheep. Yelu Hongjiang couldn't bear it any longer, pulled out his long sword and ordered.
Suddenly, wave after wave of arrow rain shot towards Zhao Guo's camp, Cui Heng glanced through the shield, and the arrow rain was as dense as locusts. Unable to care about anything else, he jumped off the lookout, dragged his spear and ran back.
And the general in charge of guarding the village of Zhao State also immediately issued an order, "Raise your shield and meet the enemy!"
"Crossbowmen, 45 degrees, shoot!
Second team, shoot!
Third team, shoot!
First team, shoot"
The archers on both sides began to shoot at each other. It is said that this bow and arrow shooting rose 45 degrees or Chu Hongjiao, saying that it is the best parabola that can shoot the bow and arrow farther. Most of them don't understand what 45 degrees means, but they just do it.
There are also cross-shooting methods, three-dimensional shooting methods, etc., which really improve the lethality of Zhao Guo's archers.
No, the archers who were now standing on the walled city began to shoot arrows crossingly, then quickly retreated, making way for the archers in the back row, and then pulled their bows and wound them, waiting for the next shot.
This cycle was repeated, and the soldiers of Xiliang State were never able to attack within 50 steps of the Zhao State camp. Gradually, the soldiers of Xiliang Kingdom began to retreat, and if they didn't retreat, they couldn't do it, even if there were shield soldiers in front, there was still a steady stream of arrows shooting from both sides, as if the big shield was just an ornament.
"Hey, don't say it, the method taught by Chu Kid is really powerful, you see that according to this shooting method, at least fifty percent of the lethality has been increased. ”
"Yes, it's just that the arrows are a bit wasted! I wonder if our arrows are enough to use them like this?"
"Hehehe, Lao Zhou, you don't know this, since Chu Xiaozi created these shooting methods, Luo Shuai specially mobilized 500,000 arrows from the rear, and it was full of three large warehouses, so you can rest assured. I'm afraid, there aren't enough people on the other side to consume our arrows. Another general patted the general surnamed Zhou on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Yes, and you see what kind of sniper team that that kid specially drew out of those skilled archery marksmen, and specially shot the other side's captains, chiefs, centurions, and thousand-sized generals. It is said that it can directly destroy the command system of the enemy army.
Although we don't understand, the effect is obvious! Look at the left, the group of soldiers who withdrew just now, you may not have paid attention, but I have been watching. Not a single officer alive is gone, and those soldiers don't know what to do, so they know to rush forward in a daze, if it weren't for the overseer who ordered a retreat, it is estimated that all of our people would be shot alive. Another general also spoke at the right time.
"Hey, Boy Chu is a great talent, not only for archers. Look at the vanguard battalion he trained, all of them are good at using one as ten!, now in our whole army, who hasn't sharpened their heads and wanted to drill into it? Looking at their combat strength, just a few hundred people can destroy the enemy's thousands of people, and their own losses are not big. The last time I wiped out that team of 1,000 people, I heard that less than 100 people died. If it were left in our hands, we would have to lose four or five hundred people, right?"
No wonder Luo Shuai treats him like a baby bump every day, and he can't wait to sleep and tuck him in the squeaky nest. ”
A group of senior generals watched the armies of the two sides shoot at this time, and said a little uselessly.
In the Xiliang camp, the vanguard general Wan Yantuo retreated a little embarrassed and said to Yelu Hongjiang, "Marshal, it's still not good, our army has organized three charges, and I can't break through a step, and the archers of Zhao State don't know what's wrong now, it's really powerful." Our shield guards are simply useless, and the casualties of the soldiers are too high. I've got to figure out a way. ”
"Marshal, don't use my cavalry! With the speed of the cavalry, as long as you resist the first two waves of arrows, you will be able to reach the opponent's walled city, and when the time comes, let the cavalry use the lasso and grappling hook to cover the wooden wall of the walled city, and pull down the walled wall.
"Are you sure?" Yelu Hongjiang didn't have any good ideas at this time, and this general's idea was also a good way.
"Don't worry, my cavalry are all masters of grassland grazing, natural knights, archery and equestrian skills are first-class. I can't take down their walls, so I'll come to see them. The general saw that the marshal had already moved, and immediately packed the ticket and said.
"Okay, get your cavalry ready, and the next wave will be directly up to you. If you can break their turtle shell and catch that immoral Chu Hong, I will count you as your head merit in this battle. Yelu Hongjiang obviously hadn't forgotten Cui Heng, who had just pretended to be Chu Hong, and slammed his fist on the table and said.
"Don't worry, Dashuai, I will capture that guy alive and hand it over to Dashuai to deal with it himself. After the general finished speaking, he clasped his fists and saluted Yelu Hongjiang, and went down to prepare.
At this time on the battlefield, Xiliang State had stopped attacking, and Zhao State also took the opportunity to replace the three thousand archers of this battalion, and let another group of archers who had already finished their recuperation climb the other wall.
And the new archer Rao is used to seeing the bloody scenes of fighting, and he still can't help but want to spit out.
It's so miserable, there are corpses everywhere you look. None of the soldiers of the Western Liang Kingdom within the range of the archers were alive, and the blood had already dyed the weeds on the ground red. Almost every soldier had at least two arrows stuck in his body, and many of them were even shot as hedgehogs.
Occasionally, some people who were lucky enough not to die lay in the pile of corpses and moaned. The wounds on his body were still bursting out with blood. In some places where the rush had just been fierce, the corpses were even piled up in several layers. However, it is dead or alive that has not broken through the death line of fifty steps. It seems that the short fifty meters away from the walled wall has become a line of death, which makes everyone who sees it shudder.
Finally, the cavalry troops of the Xiliang Kingdom were ready, and they began to gallop and accelerate their charges from a distance, and they saw thousands of cavalry approaching quickly like a torrent. The corpses that trampled directly on the ground rushed to the wall, and each cavalryman still had a small round shield tied to his hand, and ropes were hung on the horse hook.
The commander on the walled wall saw that this time it was the cavalry charging into formation, and he did not panic at all, and when the cavalry was still about a hundred paces, he ordered to shoot cross-fire at a distance of ten steps in front of the cavalry, which was also Professor Chu Hong's method, which was specially used to deal with the cavalry.
Originally, there were corpses of compatriots on the ground, which slowed down the cavalry slightly, and Zhao Guo shot ten steps in advance, which suddenly made these cavalrymen turn on their backs. Originally, according to their experience, as long as they rushed fast enough, the enemy's arrows would basically lose their accuracy, but at this time, it seemed to them that no matter how many pieces they charged, there were arrows coming at them, as if the cavalry themselves were aiming at the arrows and charging to death.
Rows of cavalry fell from their horses, and finally these cavalry broke through the death line formed by the remains of these warriors, and the cavalrymen were immediately in high spirits, and at this distance, as long as they rushed forward thirty paces, they could throw the ropes on the horse hooks. Some of the cavalrymen had even excitedly put away their small round shields, took off the ropes from their hooks and began to prepare.
However, the commander in front did not panic at all, and still commanded the archers in an orderly manner to repeat the actions of drawing the bow, shooting, retreating, drawing the bow, shooting, and retreating.
"Hehe, there's a good show, these last fifty steps are the place of death that my Chu boy prepared for your cavalry. Come on, the show is about to begin!" The generals looked at the cavalry rushing up, and craned their necks to look at the cavalry below.
The cavalry general, with his superb horsemanship and outstanding martial arts, led his personal guards cavalry to rush to the front, and he seemed to have seen the mockery on the faces of the soldiers opposite, yes, the mocking smiles.
"Shouldn't they be frightened? Why is it like this?" the general thought with some confusion, but the next moment he suddenly screamed, and fell out of his horse and fell heavily to the ground, unfortunately, it was so sudden that he broke his leg. Lying on the ground, he watched his men fall from their horses like him, and if they were unlucky, they even broke their necks. And those war horses that they regarded as their lives also screamed and neighed and fell to the ground at this time, followed by the second and third batches.
At this time, the rain of arrows from those archers also shot at them, and they saw that the continuous arrows were shooting towards them like targets. The general only thought that his cavalry was finished, and then he was unconscious.
At this time, the cavalry who followed behind saw that their companions in front of them suddenly fell, and subconsciously slowed down their horses, but they forgot that this was a death line formed by a rain of arrows. Then they also fell to the ground, and some of the astute cavalry chose to jump over the fallen cavalry and continue to rush forward, but before they could rush a few steps, they fell out one after another, like their previous companions, and were killed by the archers with a volley of arrows.
The speed of the cavalry that charged was so fast that even if they realized that something was wrong and wanted to stop, they could not do it, so they could only continue to charge hard, and then step into the footsteps of the front army. In the end, of the thousands of cavalry, less than 100 were able to return alive.
"Demon art, Zhao Guo This is demon art! I want to report to the Dazhou Mansion, Zhao Guo used demon magic to meddle in mortal wars. Yelu Hongjiang, who witnessed the loss of these thousands of cavalry, shouted wildly in the Chinese army.
"Cut, ignorant people, our Chu kid has already designed this fifty-step cavalry death zone, and he doesn't even know a small horse trap, and he thinks it's witchcraft? Cui Heng glanced at the thousands of cavalrymen who had died tragically in horror, and said with some fear.
When Chu Hong asked the soldiers to dig this small pit that was less than the size of the bowl and more than a foot deep, he said that he could deal with the cavalry, and he mocked him. He remembered that the two of them made a bet that whoever lost would run around the camp with their bare butts. As a result, his war horse not only folded in, but he also ran around with his bare ass in the middle of the night.
Now looking at these thousands of cavalry, they were actually solved by this small pit, and they had to obey Chu Hong's brain, which was really powerful.