Chapter 491

The war of the Han Army's invasion to the South was a war related to confidence. We should not be too opportunistic. It was to let those people in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty understand the gap between the two sides in all aspects, destroy their self-confidence, collapse and lose their will to resist.

Similar strategies have appeared in many wars. Destroying the enemy's self-confidence is the best combat goal, which is better than making the enemy resist with confidence all the time and turning the war into a war of attrition. Once the war is a war of attrition, even if we can win it again and again, we should hurt our muscles and bones. This is also a part of the "upper cutting strategy" in the book of war.

Xie Shi's shogunate Pro army fought back the Han Army in one battle. The momentum was inspired because of the smooth opening.

For the part led by Xie Wan, they first repulsed about 5000 Han troops. In the face of the arrow array organized by the Han Army, they slowed down the progress, but did not cause them to retreat.

After the Han Army showed a sharp arrow array, the Jin army seized the tools that could block arrows, such as shield cars and shields, and was taken with the pro shogunate army when they went to battle.

There was a scene on the battlefield. The Jin army in attack was covered by shield cars in front of the array, accompanied by soldiers carrying shields. It was like a dense arrow rain like rain. Although they pushed slowly, they didn't stop moving forward.

Xie Wan was no longer at the forefront. He stayed behind temporarily with about 2000 cavalry, watching the arrows falling from the sky not lose the density when it rained. Even his own soldiers with shield vehicles and shields still suffered heavy casualties.

"How's the terrain?" Xie Wan wore a suit of armor. Similar armor was the mainstream in the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He said quickly, "let the scouts hurry up!"

Although the terrain on the North Bank of the huaishui river is relatively open, there are still a lot of hills. The positive advance route of the Jin army is not straight forward. In fact, the sight of some places is blocked by uplifted hills.

The Jin army, which was advancing in the rain of arrows from the Han Army, originally had about 3000, but only less than 2500 after less than 100 steps. It can be seen how dense the arrow array of the Han army was, resulting in such casualties in shield vehicles and shields.

The Jin soldiers who followed the shield car tried to avoid behind the board of the shield car. There were basically no less than 20 people behind each shield car. As a result, some soldiers walked out of the shield car and were shot over on the left and right in front of the shield car, and even fewer were killed by vertical arrows from their heads to their bodies.

The Jin soldiers holding the shield lifted the shield by leaning sideways against their shoulders. The upper body could be protected, but there was a gap in the lower body. Often, some soldiers fell first with arrows in their legs, opened the shield, and then died with several arrows in their bodies.

Slowly, the advancing Jin army stopped and saw that the soldiers of Gu Dun car lined up the shield car in a straight line, while the soldiers holding the shield built the shield into a wall to support upward.

"Push up the eight horse crossbow!"

The Jin army's eight horse crossbow is very large. It is divided into single shot style and three shot style. It needs at least 16 people to lift it manually, and it also needs two horses or eight people to pull it when it is loaded in a carriage.

The range of the eight horse crossbow can be up to 225 steps away. Don't even think about the accuracy. You can launch standard crossbows and arrows or long guns. It takes about half an hour to re wind one round.

"On site manufacturing corridor?" Doua is standing on a hill. His troops are not in the front line. On his side is Zhong Xing, who participated in the war. When he found something, he raised his hand and pointed, "bed crossbow?"

The arrow array offensive of the Han Army did not stop. The Jin army made shield walls and corridors at the scene. The Han Army used the range advantage of its own strong crossbow to cross those fortifications and attack the rear of the Jin army.

Zhong Xingshun looked in the direction of Dou a Zhi. He could see that there were some vehicles pulled by human or animal power in the Jin army, which were covered with cloth. He ordered the flag bearer next to him: "inform the rear that the Jin army has sent out bed crossbows."

The Han Army has long had flags that can be used for remote information reporting or exchange.

After receiving the information, the arrow array quickly adjusted the coverage position, and then the crossbow and bed crossbow also joined the diffusion ranks.

The bed crossbow and crossbow of the Han army were not dispatched for the first time. It can only be said that there were few opportunities to use them. For example, the bed crossbow and crossbow are used to shoot the enemy in the scattered line. They are usually used against the dense enemy array or when attacking the city.

The strong crossbow and arrow array is to shoot at the rear of the Jin army, and the bed crossbow and crossbow are fortifications built to shoot at the Jin army. As the party being shot, people fall down all the time.

First, the thunderous war drum was sounded, so that the Han soldiers on the battlefield couldn't help looking at the position of the flag. They found that there were no new instructions, and they were confused.

The sound of drums is to cover the dispatch of cavalry. It is difficult for people far away to distinguish between the sound of horse hoofs and drums. Zhong Hui and Dou a, who are closer, are attracted by a dense roar. They use their geographical height to turn their heads and look back. A sea of cavalry is gathering behind the hill. The number will never be less than 5000.

The Jin army braved the arrow rain to lift the eight horse crossbow to a suitable distance. They lifted the cover cloth and revealed a huge machine. They had already finished stringing, and the arrows in the shape of halberd braved the cold light.

"Shoot!"

In the sound of the huge bow string, the car carrying the eight horse crossbow was shocked. After the crossbow and arrow left the string, the car continued to vibrate. The surrounding Jin army was shouted by the officers and quickly rewound.

The Jin soldiers who controlled the eight horse crossbow did not work in a safe environment. What happened was that during the stringing process, someone was hit by the crossbow and arrow fired by the Han army from time to time, resulting in the sudden loss of one person of the bow string pulled by the joint force, and the previous achievements were wasted, and even people were thrown out by the bow string.

The crossbows and arrows fired by the eight horse crossbows are scattered. Their target is the Han Army in a straight line 200 steps away. They shoot about 100 shots, and less than 30 fall in the Han Army array. Each shot can bring up a scream.

Why didn't the Han Army hide when they knew there was a crossbow? The obvious truth is there. How soldiers should go after they go to battle is constrained. Many times they know that they will die and still have to move. Those who don't move will die. If they move, there will be chaos in the military array and more people will die. The popular saying is that once a soldier has to wade through even if there is a sea of knife, mountain and fire ahead, it is not up to the soldiers to decide what kind of road to take.

Not only the Han Army had to be tough even if it was shot, but also the Jin army had to stay on the battlefield if it could be shot at any time. It was always involuntarily on the battlefield. If it was normal to say that it might be shot, one round thing after another suddenly appeared in the sky and fell down with the roaring wind. When it hit the person, it would smash the human body into meat and mud, Then he rolled across people's legs, which seemed very terrible.

The Han Army's sudden use of stone catapults was a great terror to the Jin army, but the coordinates of the Han Army's launching of rolling stones were wrong. It was a fortification organized with shield vehicles and shields.

When the Jin army was attacked by stone bullets, not only people were hit, but some eight horse crossbows were also smashed to pieces. The screams and frightened shouts did not stop, leading to chaos in the Jin army for the first time.

"Haven't you found a route for the cavalry to detour?!" Xie Wan looked at the tragedy in front of him and said, "a quarter of an hour, I haven't found it after a quarter of an hour. All the scouts are cut off!"

The arrow array of the Han army was so sharp that it was equipped with crossbows, bed crossbows and stone throwing carts. The cavalry of the Jin army couldn't rush directly. If they really rushed Xie Wan's 2000 cavalry, it would be lucky to have 500 rushed in front of the Han army.

After the readjustment, the Han Army's stone dump truck was loaded and fired again. The round stone bullets fell after a leap in the air. The stone bullets that hit the fortifications of the Jin army threw a piece of flying sawdust. After the sawdust splashed out, it was necessary to bring a scream. I don't know how many jin troops fell to the ground with blood pouring all over their body at that moment. It was a relief to die in an instant. If they died in an instant, they had to suffer unimaginable pain and torture before they lost blood and died.

Xie Shi, who was more in the rear, could only vaguely see what was happening in front of him. He didn't know why a bad feeling rose.

"The Han army suddenly sounded the sky shaking war drum..." Sun Chuo said perplexedly, "is it related to the use of many instruments?"

A trace of inspiration appeared in Xie Shi's mind. His face changed greatly and roared: "let Xie Wan be careful of the cavalry of the Han Army!"

There were no flags on Jin army's side, so they could only use drums and bugles to call the police to the front. However, the battlefield had long been full of war drums, and all kinds of voices of people and horses were also full.

Xie Shi warned Xie Wan that it was the drum horn and the dispatched personnel. When the drum horn was useless, the dispatched personnel would certainly be unable to notify in place for a while and a half.

Xie Wan, who was commanding at the front line, certainly felt that something was wrong. The bed crossbows, crossbows and stone throwing carts of the Han army were very targeted, as if to create conditions for the counter attack. He has ordered some troops to be on close alert and be careful that the Han army will come out to counterattack. There are no new instructions for the troops in front who are being shot.

Without too much observation, in fact, the Jin army in front of the front line has seen a backward rout. These rout soldiers fled. The rear supervision team first fired an arrow warning. If the warning was invalid, they directly shot to death. Those who didn't shoot to death were waiting for the rout soldiers to get close and jump on them. As a result, they fell.

Xie Wan didn't notice the morale collapse, but he couldn't withdraw the troops whose morale was about to collapse. The terrain of this area is like a valley. The difference is that the mountains on both sides are just hills. If the troops in front retreat in the face of the war, I don't know whether it will turn into collapse. However, he needs to stop any possibility that it will impact the friendly forces in the rear.

A bleak bugle suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and a piece of smoke and dust was rolled up to the sky by the wind. The first Han cavalry appeared in Xie Wan's sight, and then a large area of Han cavalry appeared from the rolling smoke and dust.

At the moment when the bleak horn sounded, the long-range attack weapons of the Han Army had stopped shooting. The stunned Jin army had not had time to feel relaxed. The suddenly appeared Han cavalry came on the stage in the roar of horse hoofs and the slight vibration of the ground, which made the Jin soldiers who first saw the Han cavalry stunned and immediately shouted in panic. The movement in front affected the rear, Those who could not hold on for a long time took the lead in running away, driving more people and becoming an uncontrollable retreat.

"I'm determined." Zhong Hui smashed his lips and simply commented: "more than 30% of them were killed and injured, and they could not retreat until the cavalry came on."

Dou a nodded approvingly: "if you can hold on to 30% of the casualties, you can be regarded as an elite force."

It's very courageous to be in a place where you may die at any time without being scared to soften your whole body. People who are familiar or unfamiliar can be seen all the time. One moment they are still alive, but the next moment they become a corpse. It is a strong impact on vision and soul again and again. In fact, they can be regarded as brave if they don't escape to a safe place driven by instinct.

No matter whether they are brave enough to kill the enemy, or they are brave enough to endure fear and dare to go to the battlefield. The army gathered by many people found that paoze could persist in fighting a large number of deaths. I can really praise the elite. After all, the elite in the army do not talk about how high or good their martial arts are, but about collective cooperation and tolerance for casualties.

"Archery!" Xie Wan roared: "regardless of the enemy, I am covered by arrow rain!"

The troops in front of the Jin army who have been shot for a long time can still run back about seven or eight hundred. They are running hard with absolute panic on their faces. Their minds are full of rushing back to the friendly army, running and shooting the arrows of the friendly army. They are still eager to live before they die.

The roaring sound of horses' hoofs continued to roll forward. Behind them, there was not only rolling smoke and dust, but also a muddy road of blood. That was the mud where the bones, flesh and blood of at least 2000 people were trampled by horses' hoofs and mixed with the soil.

When Xie Wan found out that the Han Army had sent out cavalry, he had already taken about 2000 cavalry with him. The warning from Xie Shi from the rear had not arrived by this time. Even if it was sent, it was useless.

The cavalry of the Han Army has accelerated to the fastest speed and galloped to the front. They look at the plate armour sudden cavalry. Their eyes hidden behind the face armor stare at the front. There are archers of the Jin army constantly firing arrows, and behind them are a temporary patchwork array of long spears or spears.

There were bursts of horns in the roar of horse hoofs, which ordered diffusion.

It was not the long-range troops behind the Han army who wanted to shoot. It was the cavalry of the Han army who picked up the crossbow hanging on the side of the war horse during the gallop. The moment the horn fell, he pulled the trigger. After shooting, he directly threw away the crossbow connected with a rope sleeve, raised the lance in one hand and protected the key with a small round shield in the other hand.

The bow and crossbow men of the Jin army shot arrows in a panic, and then ran to both sides.

If you can listen attentively, you will find that heavy breathing has become the mainstream of waiting for the Jin army, and the Han cavalry in their sight is getting closer... Closer and close