Chapter 435

"Rapid three-stage round shooting!"

"Promise!"

The arrows falling from the sky were as dense as raindrops, and the stone tablet Zhao Jun carrying a wooden shield was shot.

The war on the Chaoge battlefield has been going on for 17 days. First, Huan Wen fought with Cao Fu, and then reinforcements arrived at Shijie. The Han Army led by Huan Wen changed from attack posture to defense posture.

Throughout the battlefield, the camp of the Han army was set ten miles away from the west of the Chaoge city. It was backed by a stream about four feet wide in the north and some small hills in the south.

The depth of the stream varies. The deepest reaches more than three feet, but the shallowest is only water and knees. At present, there are many bodies floating on the stream, including the bodies of people and horses. It can be seen that Shijie Zhao Jun tried to wade into the north of the Han army.

In addition to the most important food for marching operations, it is inseparable from sufficient water sources. To tell the truth, tens of thousands of people will never have less water. It is certainly not enough to rely on drilling wells or some ditches. In that way, any army, whether marching or building barracks, will be as close to sufficient and available water sources as possible.

When the Chinese civilization built cities and settlements, it was bound to consider the problem of water intake. Generally, it was to build a city next to a large or small water system. This is why the Chinese civilization originated from one river and one river in ancient times, and the cities along some rivers will be relatively dense.

At the beginning of choosing to build the camp, Huan Wen had considered that they would be surrounded, and they themselves had the need to be surrounded.

The establishment of camps near the stream is conducive to water intake. It is also considered that the river can be used as a barrier. Unfortunately, the depth of the riverbed is different, and the camps of tens of thousands of people are not small, resulting in a problem that must be faced. In some places, they can only rely on swimming or boats and rafts, while in some places, war horses can trample on the shoals to attack the stream.

On this day, just after dawn, the Shijie Zhao army besieging Huanwen's headquarters began a strong attack on all sides. Such a move has lasted for five consecutive days. At the beginning, there were equipped infantry of Longteng guard. Before Longteng guard made a breakthrough, he replaced Shijie Zhao Jun, who looked like a miscellaneous brand.

On the periphery of the Han Army's camp, numerous horses were placed irregularly. The second line of defense was composed of staggered rammed earth low walls and trenches, and the third line of defense was composed of wooden fences, rammed earth low walls and various arrow towers. Then you can see some strange buildings.

Huan Wen is now standing on the balcony of a building covering an area of about three mu. He holds a single telescope to observe the battlefield, with a sneer at the corners of his mouth.

Strange buildings are actually the fortress of the system. The fortress has four floors. Each floor is about one and a half feet high. They were built urgently. At present, only four are located in four directions, but they are still under construction. How many will depend on Huanwen's wishes and needs.

The Han Army camp, which has been completely surrounded by the Shijie Zhao army, will have no less than 130000 Shijie Zhao troops. When the Shijie Zhao army attacks many times, there will be at least 10000 troops on each side. After a long war, the outside of the Han Army fortifications will become a mess. There must be a lot of dead bodies that have not been cleaned up.

"How many days has it been? Why can't they see the trend of running out of arrows?" Shi Xuan was really at a loss: "according to a rough estimate, the number of arrows fired by the Han army will not be less than 170000?"

In fact, Shi Xuan was conservative and said that Huanwen's headquarters had fired more than 200000 arrows. After all, the Han army was facing a constant siege on all sides.

The Han army fought out of the camp a few times, but most of the time it relied on arrows as a means of defense. In addition to bows and crossbows, bed crossbows, cart crossbows and stone throwing carts were not used less. That was the reason why the Zhao army in Shijie attacked again and again but failed.

In fact, the Han Army had only 4000 cavalry along the Huanwen Road, and the rest were infantry. They started with the goal of attacking the city and pulling out the stronghold. Naturally, they should have enough large equipment. Then there is the psychological preparation for being besieged. We must make relevant presets. In the face of being besieged, the equipment can also become the defense support.

The range of the powerful crossbow of the Han army can reach up to 450 steps (about 675 meters), that is, when the attacking Shijie Zhao army is about two miles away from the Han Army camp (415.8 meters in the Eastern Jin Dynasty), they will face the arrow rain.

Zhao Jun in Shijie faced constant casualties within a mile of the Han Army camp, Waiting for about 260 steps (390 meters) to approach the Han Army camp, we have to face a new nightmare, that is, the Han Army's bed crossbow and cart crossbow cover. The bed crossbow and cart crossbow are not the most test of Shijie. The danger of Zhao's psychological bottom line is that within 140 steps, the Han army will join the attack of strong bow and stone throwing cart.

Shields, whether wood or metal, are sometimes shot through. Crossbows and crossbows facing the bed are basically furnishings, not to mention huge stone bullets.

Looking at the position about 100 steps outside the Han Army, the ground is filled with thick crossbows and arrows. Some strings of bodies are not the most eye-catching. It is those whose heads are smashed by stone bullets, or their bodies are completely sunk by stone bullets. More importantly, their legs are swept off by rolling stone bullets. All kinds of strange bodies are the most challenging. People's psychology can bear the bottom line.

"Bed crossbow and crossbow, shoot!"

"Promise!"

From the East... That is, Shijie Zhao Jun who attacked the Han Army camp from Chaoge. At first, they were an integer of 10000. After entering the range of the strong crossbow of the Han Army, they continued to suffer losses. When they pushed about a mile away from the Han Army camp, there was a more sharp sound in the sky.

I don't know how many thick crossbows and arrows fell from the sky. The target was like the head of a long gun. The arrowhead first touched the shield. In a moment, the metal penetrated through the wood and took up the sawdust. In less than a few seconds, the arm of the shield holder was broken. The arrowhead penetrated and inserted into the human body. The human was hit by a powerful kinetic energy and fell back.

Shijie Zhao Jun, who was hit by a bed crossbow or a crossbow, almost died without even having time to scream. If no one flew backwards behind him for a distance, he would be nailed to the ground. If someone behind him was basically a thick crossbow, he could form a string of human sugar gourd.

In fact, the actual damage caused by a small number of crossbows and bed crossbows to the Shijie Zhao army is not as much as expected. In addition to killing and killing the Shijie Zhao army, they are more useful to make the Shijie Zhao army afraid of seeing all kinds of tragedies of the hit.

The ancients had an introduction for a long time, that is, "husband war, courage", that is, what a soldier needs most is courage. A soldier with courage can easily kill an enemy soldier with good fighting skills but no courage.

Courage is what war is about. Whoever has more brave soldiers will have a better chance of winning. Courage can be contagious, and timidity will also have an effect, so that there is no lack of war examples of defeating the crowd and winning big victories in history.

The falling strong crossbows and arrows are the most dense. From time to time, there are crossbows and arrows like long guns. The Zhao army in Shijie under attack falls all the time. As usual, their legs become a little soft, but there are too many examples of being defeated and killed, so they have to harden their scalp and continue to rush.

Qi AI took his sight back from the battlefield and said to Shi Xuan, "prince, the current strong attack is not effective. It's better to wait until the number of shield vehicles is enough... Before launching the attack."

According to common sense, when there is no effect and will only increase casualties, how should we avoid unnecessary and useless offensives and try new offensives when we are well prepared.

Shi Xuan can command the battle. He is the son of Shi Hu. The Shi family, who ruled the state of Zhao in Shijie, never took the lives of people other than Jie people as one thing. It was absolutely cruel in their blood vessels.

It may be strange, but Shi Xuan was not depressed after seeing the tragedy of the battlefield. On the contrary, he was excited to see some people die miserably.

Just five days after Shi Xuan led his troops to arrive, he ordered them to go up and attack, and the losses suffered have reached more than 20000. More than 3000 of them were tortured and killed after they fled, and even threw the defeated soldiers into a boiling pot in court.

To say that Shijie is so cruel, non Capricorn people should not be allowed to be killed by cruelty? But the fact is often more absurd than imagined. The rest of the ethnic groups, especially the zahu and Jin people, have no more courage than the sheep when facing the Jie people. Even if they are to be tortured and killed, they only dare to beg for mercy and dare not resist.

How to put it? It should be that once people are filled with fear, they will really forget that as long as resistance may change their destiny, even if they can't change their destiny, they can die with more dignity. It is precisely because of fear that they dare not even resist that there are so many massacres in history.

During the attack, the Shijie Zhao army didn't collapse until they entered the range of the Han Army's stone dump truck for about a quarter of an hour.

When a round stone bullet hits a person directly, it is smashed or flattened. If you are not hit directly, you should also be careful to avoid crushing your legs. The shadow on your psychology is infinite. You can turn around and run away instead of directly lying on the ground. It can only be said that the survival instinct is supporting.

"The attackers are all miscellaneous Hu and Jin people. What does it matter how many people die?" Shi Xuan licked his lips and said carelessly, "similar guys can be caught casually. They don't have to consume the arrows and stone bullets of the Han army. Do you want to let the prince's powerful warriors go?"

If Qiai dares to let Shi Xuan send Donggong Gaoli to feed the arrow, it will definitely be cooked and eaten. In fact, he is not distressed to die too many captured miscellaneous Hu or Jin people, that is, the adverse impact of repeated offensives is slightly greater, resulting in the gradual instability of some of our regular military strength and elite mentality.

"You don't understand." Shi Xuan looked at the barracks of the Han Army and couldn't help frowning when he saw the fortresses built or under construction: "the Han army here has become a nail now. You can't fight well without pulling out the thorns."

When it comes to Jijin, Shi Hu personally sits in Fangtou on the North Bank of the Yellow River. Shi Hu was facing the first batch of Han troops with a total number of 100000 in Litan. The reconnaissance horse also detected that the Han troops in several directions were also concentrating on Jijin.

At present, the two armies of Jijin are not in a war. After arriving at the battlefield, Li Tan's headquarters only launched two tentative attacks, followed by a stare.

"A huge camp has been built within ten miles around the bridge. The Han army can only attack it layer by layer if they want to cross the bridge. They are obviously not sure. They are waiting for follow-up reinforcements." Shi Xuan is very young and has a poor understanding of military affairs. Similar words are heard from others. He said: "what my father wants now is to take the river as the boundary, destroy the Han Army on the North Bank of the river, and then look for opportunities to hit the Han army. Then take the river as the boundary to form a confrontation with the Han state, waiting to search for enough materials and manpower, and then wipe out the Han state at one fell swoop."

Qiai still knows something. He heard that it was Zhang Qun, the Minister of justice, who gave his opinion. He believed that the Han army was now sharp, and the formation of confrontation could reduce the vigor of the Han army. Moreover, the state of Zhao in Shijie was indeed not ready for war, so it was not suitable for a large-scale battle.

"What do you say about half crossing and attacking? Then when the Han country is blind, the whole country is blind?" Shi xuanman said mockingly, "my father is just posing."

"But if we show weakness to the Han Army, I'm afraid all the nationalities in the country will cause trouble." Qi AI thought what he could think of was unreasonable. Those high-level officials couldn't think of it. They wondered, "what can we do if there is chaos in the hinterland, whether it's a war or confrontation ahead?"

"We are not the only ones who will mess up. The situation in the Han country is not so bad." Shi Xuan looked to the battlefield. His collapsed troops were running back. The Han Army seemed to have about 1000 cavalry chasing out. He first yelled at the following words, and then said to Qiai: "the Jin people in the central plains are not as good as pigs and dogs, and the places are full of giants and powers of all ethnic groups. Looking at the national policies of the Han state, those guys of all ethnic groups are not as free and unfettered as when our nation ruled. They can watch their privileges lose and don't worry about the liquidation of the Han Congress?"

Qiai knew that those words must have been said to Shi Xuan. It was probably Ma Qiu who had just collapsed from the northwest.

"We are not afraid of killing people or dead people. Whoever refuses to obey will be killed directly." Shi Xuan was talking about Shijie's ruling policy. He said mockingly, "the Han country thinks it is new and civilized, and dare not be like us. The other thing is, we only have the danger of unrest in the hinterland. The Han country is not only an internal threat, but also so many enemy countries. So don't look at Liu Yan's arrogance now. Once there is a setback, the Han country may collapse at any time."

The routed soldiers have completely retreated beyond the long-range attack range of the Han Army, and the pursued Han cavalry have also retreated, but the fate of the retreated Shijie miscellaneous soldiers is not over.

Shi Xuangang just ordered Donggong Gaoli to intercept the defeated soldiers. After Donggong Gaoli went up, he slaughtered the retreating defeated soldiers, and even set up a lot of pots. After breaking some of the defeated soldiers' limbs, he threw them aside at will and waited for the water in the pot to boil.

The wails rang all over the fields. It was the voice of the people who were about to be boiled out because of fear. They kept begging for mercy. They had to be scared to make excrement and urine flow, but anyway, their fate was doomed.

The Han army can see the movement of Zhao Jun in Shijie because of its wide vision. Although they have seen similar things more than once, they can deeply understand the cruelty of Capricorn people every time.

At this time, Huan Wen rode in the camp and kept shouting, asking whether the Han soldiers would like to be cooked