"Rapid three-stage round" "No" The arrows that fell from the sky were as dense as raindrops, and it was the Shijie Zhao army who was advancing with a wooden shield.
The battle on the Chaoge battlefield has been going on for seventeen days, first Huan Wen and Cao Fu fought, and then Shijie continued to have reinforcements arriving, and the Han army led by Huan Wen shifted from an offensive posture to a defensive posture.
Throughout the battlefield, the camp of the Han army was set up ten miles outside the west side of Chaoge Castle, which was backed by a stream about four zhang wide in the north, and there were some small hills in the south.
The depth of the stream is different, the deepest reaches more than three zhang, the shallowest is only the water to the knees, there are a lot of corpses floating on the surface of the stream at present, there are corpses of people and war horses, it can be seen that the Shijie Zhao army tried to attack the north of the Han army from wading.
In addition to food, which is the most important thing in marching operations, it is inseparable from the abundance of water.
And to tell the truth, tens of thousands of people will definitely not have less water, and it is certainly not enough to rely on digging wells or some ditches, so that any army, whether marching or building camps, will be as close as possible to sufficient and available water.
The Chinese civilization also inevitably took into account the problem of water intake when building a city to live in, and generally built a city next to a large or small water system.
This is why the Chinese civilization was the origin of one river and one river in ancient times, and the cities along some rivers would be relatively dense.
At the beginning of choosing to build the camp, Huan Wen had already considered that they would be surrounded, and they themselves had the need to be surrounded.
It is a pity that the riverbed is of different depths, and the camps of tens of thousands of people will not be small, resulting in a problem that must be faced, some places can only rely on swimming or boats, wooden rafts, and some places war horses can trample on the shallows to attack across the stream.
On this day, the sky had just brightened, and the Shijie Zhao army, which was besieging Huan Wen's department, began to attack on all sides again.
This kind of action has been going on for five consecutive days, and at the beginning, there were also the mounted infantry of the Dragon Teng Guard, and the Dragon Teng Guard did not break through before replacing it with Shijie Zhao Jun, who looked like a miscellaneous brand.
The second line of defense is composed of staggered rammed earth low walls and moats, and the third line of defense is composed of wooden fences, rammed earth low walls, and various arrow towers, and some strange buildings can be seen inside.
Huan Wen was now standing on the balcony of a building covering an area of about three acres, and he was holding a telescope to observe the battlefield, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.
The strange building is actually the fortress of the system.
There are four floors in the fortress, each floor is about one and a half zhang high, they were built urgently, and there are only four of them located on all four sides, but they are still under construction, and how much will be in the future depends on Huan Wen's wishes and needs.
The Han army camp has been completely surrounded by the Shijie Zhao army, the number of Shijie Zhao troops on the periphery will not be less than 130,000, and when the Shijie Zhao army repeatedly attacks, there will be at least 10,000 horses on each side.
"How many days have it been, how can their arrows not see that there is a trend of running out" Shi Xuan was really at a loss: "Roughly estimated, the number of arrows shot by the Han army will not be less than 170,000."
In fact, Shi Xuan was still conservative and said that the arrows fired by Huan Wen's department had exceeded 200,000, after all, the Han army was facing a constant siege from all sides.
The number of times the Han army went out of the camp and fought was there, but more often it relied on arrows as a means of defense, in addition to bows and crossbows, bed crossbows, car crossbows, and stone-throwing carts were not used less, which was the reason why the Shijie Zhao army repeatedly attacked but could only return with feathers.
In fact, there were only 4,000 cavalry of the Han army on the Huanwen route, and the rest were all infantry troops.
From the beginning, they had the goal of attacking the city, so they naturally had to have enough large equipment.
Secondly, there is the psychological preparation for being besieged, and it is necessary to make relevant presets, and the equipment can also become a defensive support in the face of being besieged.
The Han army's strong crossbow has a range of up to 450 paces and about 675 meters, which means that when the attacking Shijie Zhao army is about 2 miles away from the Han army camp and about 4158 meters from the East Jin Dynasty, they will face a rain of arrows that split their heads and cover their faces.
The Shijie Zhao army had to face constant casualties during its approach to the Han army's camp for a mile, and when it was about 390 meters close to the Han army's camp, it had to face a new nightmare, that is, the Han army's bed crossbows and car crossbows were covered.
And the bed crossbow and the car crossbow are not the most dangerous to test the bottom line of Shijie Zhao Jun's psychology, but the Han army will join the attack of the strong bow and stone-throwing cart within one hundred and forty steps.
Shields, whether wooden or metal, are sometimes pierced by arrows, and facing bed crossbows and cart crossbows are basically decorations, not to mention huge stone bullets.
Looking at the position of about a hundred steps outside the Han army, the ground is full of thick crossbow arrows, some of the corpses in strings are not the most eye-catching, it is those whose heads are smashed by stone bullets, or whose bodies are completely sunk by stone bullets, and more whose legs are swept off by rolling stone bullets, and all kinds of strangely shaped corpses are the most challenging psychological bearability bottom line.
"Bed crossbow and car crossbow, shoot" "No" From the east, that is, the Zhao army of Chaoge, who attacked the Han army camp, they were an integer of 10,000 at the beginning, and after entering the range of the Han army's strong crossbow, there were continuous losses, and when they advanced to about a mile away from the Han army camp, a more sharp sound sounded in the sky.
I don't know how many thick crossbow arrows fell from the sky, and the target was the arrow like the head of a spear that touched the shield first, and in an instant, the metal penetrated the wood and brought up the sawdust, and in less than a few tenths of a second, the arm of the shield bearer was broken, and the arrow pierced through the past and inserted into the human body, and the person was hit by a powerful kinetic energy and flew backwards.
Shi Jie, who was hit by a bed crossbow or a car crossbow, died almost without even having time to scream, if no one flew upside down behind him, he would be nailed to the ground for a distance, and if there was someone behind him, a thick crossbow arrow could form a string of human sugar gourds.
The small number of car crossbows and bed crossbows actually did not cause as much damage to Shijie Zhao Jun as imagined, and in addition to killing and injuring Shijie Zhao Jun, their greater use was to make Shijie Zhao Jun afraid because of the various miserable conditions of the people who were hit.
The ancients had a general theory very early, that is, "husband fights, courage also", that is, the most important thing to be a soldier is courage, and a brave soldier can easily kill an enemy soldier with good fighting skills but no courage.
War is fought with courage, whichever side has more brave soldiers can have a better chance of victory, bravery can be contagious, and timidity will also have an effect, so that there is no shortage of examples in history of winning a big victory with a small number of people.
The strong crossbow arrows that kept falling were the most dense, and from time to time there were crossbow arrows like spears flying in, and the attacking Shijie Zhao army had people falling all the time, and their legs became a little weak as usual, but there were too many examples of routs and being killed, and they had to continue to rush.
Qi Ai withdrew his gaze from the battlefield and said to Shi Xuan: "Prince, the current strong attack has not been effective, it is better to wait for the number of shield vehicles to be enough before launching an attack." ” According to common sense, in the face of ineffective and only more casualties, it is necessary to avoid useless and useless offensives, and be prepared to try new offensives again.
But the one who commanded the battle was Shi Xuan, who was Shi Hu's son.
The family surnamed Shi, who ruled the Shijie Zhao Kingdom, never took human life other than the Liang people as a thing, and there was absolute cruelty flowing in their veins.
It may be a little weird, but Shi Xuan was not depressed after seeing the tragic appearance of the battlefield, but watched it with great interest, and he was excited to see some people die miserably.
It was only five days after Shi Xuan led the army to arrive, and he ordered the attack to suffer more than 20,000 losses, of which more than 3,000 were still tortured and killed in various ways after retreating, and even the rout was thrown into the boiling pot in front of the public.
To say that Shijie is so brutal, non-Qiang people should not be allowed to be brutally killed, but the truth is often more absurd than imagined, the rest of the ethnic groups, especially the Zahu and Jin people, their courage in the face of the Qiang people is not much greater than sheep, even if they want to be tortured and killed, they only dare to beg for mercy and dare not resist.
How to say it, it should be that once people are filled with fear, they will really forget that as long as they resist, they may change their fate, and even if they can't change their fate, they can die with more dignity.
It is precisely the fear that does not even dare to resist that has caused so many massacres in history.
The attacking Shijie Zhao army did not collapse until it entered the range of the Han army's catapult and held out for about a quarter of an hour.
If the round stone bullet hits the person directly, it is smashed or flattened, and if it is not directly hit, it must be carefully avoided so as not to crush the legs, and the shadow caused to the psychology is infinite, and it can also turn around and run away instead of falling directly to the ground, which can only be said to be supported by survival instinct.
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"The attackers are all Zahu and Jin people, what does it matter how many people die" Shi Xuan licked his lips and said indifferently: "Similar guys can be caught casually, without them consuming the arrows and stone bullets of the Han army, do you want to let the high-strength warriors of this prince go" Qi Ai dared to let Shi Xuan send Donggong Gaoli to feed the arrows, and he would definitely be boiled and eaten.
In fact, he was not distressed that he had killed too many Zahu or Jin people who had been captured, but the impact of repeated offensives was slightly greater, resulting in the gradual instability of some of his regular military strength and elite mentality.
"You don't understand."
Shi Xuan looked at the camp of the Han army, and couldn't help frowning when he saw the fortresses that had been built or were being built: "The Han army here has now become a nail, and it can't be fought well if you don't pull out the thorns." ” Speaking of Jianjin, it was Shi Hu himself who sat in Fangtou on the north bank of the Yellow River.
Shi Hu faced the first batch of Han troops with a total of hundreds of thousands in Li Tan, and the reconnaissance cavalry also detected that the Han army in several directions was also concentrating on Jianjin.
The two armies of Jianjin are not currently in a big battle, and after arriving at the battlefield, Li Tan's headquarters only launched two tentative attacks, and then simply stared.
"Within ten miles of the bridge, a huge camp has become a huge camp, and the Han army can only attack layer by layer if they want to cross the bridge.
They were clearly not sure and were waiting for follow-up reinforcements.
"Shi Xuan is very young, and his understanding of military affairs is actually not very good, and similar words are heard from others.
He said: "What my father wants now is to use the big river as the boundary, destroy the Han army on the north bank of the big river, and then seek an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the Han army."
Then use the big river as the boundary to form a confrontation with the Han State, waiting to loot enough materials and manpower to sweep the Han State in one fell swoop. ” Qi Ai still knows something.
He heard that it was Shangshu Zhang Qun's opinion, that the Han army was now sharp, and the formation of a confrontation could reduce the sharpness of the Han army, and then the Shijie Zhao State was indeed not ready for war, and it was not suitable for large-scale battles.
"What do you say half-way, so obvious things are blind when the whole country of Han is blind" Shi Xuan said mockingly: "Father is just posturing." ” "But we show weakness to the Han army, and I'm afraid that all ethnic groups in the country are going to make trouble."
Qi Ai thought that what he could think of, there was no reason why those high-level leaders couldn't think of it, and asked suspiciously: "Whether it is a big war or a confrontation ahead, what can I do if there is chaos in the hinterland?"
"It's not just us who will mess up, the situation on the Han side is not much better."
Shi Xuan looked at the battlefield, his own collapsed troops were running back, and the Han army seemed to have about a thousand cavalry chasing out.
He first yelled a few words below, and then said to Qi Ai: "The Jin people in the Central Plains are not as good as pigs and dogs, and the places are full of heroes and strong people of all ethnic groups.
Looking at the national policy of the Han State, those guys of all ethnic groups are not as carefree as when our people ruled, they can watch their privileges lose without worrying about the liquidation of the Han Congress."
Qi Ai knew that those words must have been said to Shi Xuan, and it was likely to be Ma Qiu, who had just been defeated from the northwest.
"We are not afraid of killing people or dead people, and whoever disagrees will be killed directly."
Shi Xuan was talking about Shi Jie's ruling policy, and he said mockingly: "The Han side calls itself Zhengshuo, thinking that he is a civilized person and does not dare to be like us.
Furthermore, we only have the danger of turmoil in the hinterland, and the Han State is not only an internal threat, but also so many enemy countries.
So don't look at Liu Yan's arrogance now, once he encounters a setback, the Han Kingdom may collapse at any time. ” The rout has completely retreated beyond the range of the Han army's long-range attack, and the pursuing Han cavalry has also withdrawn, but the doom of the retreating Shijie miscellaneous soldiers is not over.
Shi Xuan just instructed Donggong Gaoli to intercept the rout, and after Donggong Gaoli went up, he slaughtered the rout soldiers who retreated, and even set up a lot of pots, and threw some of the rout soldiers aside at will after breaking their limbs, and just waited for the water in the pot to boil and threw them down.
Pieces of wailing resounded all over the field, it was the voice of the people who were about to be boiled out of fear, they kept begging for mercy, or they were scared to the point of and urine, but no matter what, fate was already doomed.
On the Han army's side, because of the wide field of vision, he could see the movements of Shijie Zhao Jun.
Although they have seen similar things more than once, each time they see it, they can deeply understand the cruelty of the Karma people.
At this time, Huan Wen rode a horse and kept shouting in the camp, asking the Han soldiers if they would like to be cooked: