sweeping the world

Chapter 326: Stable as Mount Tai
What is the quantity of equipment?It is the general term for all advanced and backward, and it is also a great force that determines the direction of war.

The Han army has a powerful advanced bow and crossbow, so Yao Yizhong needs to find ways to offset it, and he also needs to make enough determination to pay casualties.

The wooden shield that had been baked for a long time burned, but the arrows falling from the sky did not stop. As a result, even if the hands were roasted by the fire and the temperature on the top of the head was pressed down, the Qiang soldiers holding the shield did not dare to discard the shield. Just because you don't lose your shield, you might just get burned, but if you lose your shield, you'll be shot to death by arrows.

Of course, not everyone has enough willpower. Those areas that throw away the burning shields will be emptied in the next instant. It is a kind of arrows that fall like extremely raindrops, and soldiers who lose their shields are shot and become corpses. Soon after, the body began to burn black.

Although there were still heavy casualties, this time the casualties of the Qiang troops were much lighter than before, that is the value brought by the equipment.

When the Qiang troops advanced to the range of the Han army's bed crossbows and chariot crossbows, the Han army camp resounded with tooth-sickening sounds frequently, followed by the loud bang of the bowstring, and a thick crossbow arrow was fired. , They fell with a sharp sound of piercing the air, or hit the sword and shield chariot, or landed on the larger arrow-blocking equipment, and most of them fell on the crowd of Qiang soldiers who formed a shield formation. It must have been empty.

Every time a thick crossbow arrow hits the target, they will make a loud noise. The arrowhead penetrates the wooden board, and it is lucky that the advancing sword-shield cart suddenly overturned. Some sword-shield carts overturned directly after being shot.

Larger equipment, they are larger and heavier, and after being hit, they are pierced and sent flying sawdust, but that's all, making the Qiang soldiers hiding behind immediately burst into cheers when they saw it .

The infantry phalanx that was hit rang out incessant screams. Every time a thick crossbow arrow fell, and waves of shields and sawdust flew under it, a straight space must have been cleared by the huge impact force. In the gap are the wounded lying down and screaming, and the corpses that have been shot through by crossbow arrows and turned into strings.In the next moment, those screams will stop, because there will be dense arrows falling behind them, ending their lives.

Among the [-] Han army, the number of bow and crossbow troops is enough for [-], and the number of soldiers operating bed crossbows, cart crossbows, and catapults is [-], which means that half of the Han army can be used for close combat. .

There is no doubt that long-range units can also participate in melee combat, but as long as the commander's brain is not damaged, it is absolutely impossible to use these units in a war of attrition. The difficulty and resource consumption are not much lower than a seemingly precious cavalry.

The attacking Qiang troops encountered the spread of bed crossbows and cart crossbows when they entered 250 steps. The psychology of the Qiang soldiers caused shock.

Yao Yizhong jumped out as the first echelon attacking unit. Every soldier has family members, and those family members are hostages, forcing those soldiers who went into the attack to dare not escape even if they died, or because of the overwhelming arrows and thick crossbow bolts. Under that, the casualties exceeded one tier and the troops should have collapsed long ago.

The first batch of troops thrown into the attack stopped when they approached two hundred paces. The people who pushed the equipment and vehicles were moving the equipment closer to each other, and gradually a wall composed of equipment was formed. The crossbow arrows were still there, but those huge vehicles continued to form a wall, and the Qiang soldiers hiding behind still got the greatest protection.

"Successful?" Yao Yizhong was paying attention all the time, seeing that even if the Han army hit the crossbow and bed crossbow, the assembled wall still did not collapse. Great credit to you!"

Yin Bi was a native of Jin, and he joined the army as the secretary of Zhao State in Shijie.Joining the army is an official position to record documents. This time he was sent by Shihu to record Yao Yizhong's expedition. Yao Yizhong was soliciting opinions to resist the sharp bow and crossbow of the Han army. Dumb but absolutely valid advice.

In many cases, the more stupid the method is, the more effective it is. The difference is whether it is thought of or not. The Han army saw that those towering wooden walls turned into barriers, and the rockets shot were opened by the people above and poured into the water. Turn it off, only the thick crossbow arrows can cause damage, and the officers of the Han army on the front line can't help but look at each other.

"Damn it!" Si Hongzhuang said anxiously, "They happened to be out of range of the catapult!"

The range of the Han army's catapult was only 180 steps, and the attacking Qiang troops only approached [-] steps. So can the Han army move the catapult forward?Of course, the catapult can be moved, but it will disrupt the deployment of the arrow array, and it will take a certain amount of time. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and who knows what will happen in the next moment.

Seeing that the plan was effective, the morale of the Qiang army was greatly boosted, and they were waiting for follow-up orders from the rear.

Liu Yan, who was at the position of the central army, was slightly taken aback when he saw the scene in front of him. Even though Yao Yizhong erected a wooden wall that could serve as a barrier, the distance between the two sides was still two hundred steps. So excited?
In fact, the wooden walls erected by the Qiang troops are not long, especially the walls of the sword-shield carts are not high, but their appearance has played an extremely important role in changing the mentality of the soldiers of the two armies. The most obvious one is the Qiang people. Over there, they are not so afraid of the bows and crossbows of the Han army, and they have become more agile in their work.

Fighting a war is all about morale. The side with high morale will have enough confidence to do anything, while the side with low morale will appear timid in everything.

Si Hongzhuang looked at the strong crossbowmen in the front row, and he could see that those strong crossbowmen had some hesitation, which was caused by the confusion of not being able to confirm whether they hit the target after the strong crossbows were fired.

The Han army did not stop shooting arrows at all. Soldiers holding strong crossbows kept obeying the password and pulling the triggers, and some auxiliary soldiers holding arrow boxes kept shuttling back and forth to supply crossbow arrows.

If you count it seriously, the crossbowmen on the side of the Han army consume an astonishing amount of crossbow arrows every quarter of an hour. From the dawn of the sky to this moment, that is, [-] crossbow arrows have been shot in two quarters of an hour. Frequent shooting, frequent winch failures, more broken bowstrings or loose crossbows, resulting in the need to replace new crossbows.

The Qiang army has no one to calculate how many arrows the Han army has in reserve. It's all because they haven't heard that the Han army is short of arrows. Everyone who knows the inside story is shocked by the productivity behind the Han army.

At the moment when the arrows in the sky were still shooting, the huge combined walls began to move forward slowly, but they only moved forward about one step before stopping, because some parts of the equipment collapsed.

"There is no way to push it?" Hu Yansheng said angrily: "If it collapses, then use any method to fix the equipment!"

Yao Yizhong seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, and when he opened his experience again, he said slowly: "No, they are not allowed to move any further!"

"Military leader?" Hu Yansheng asked in confusion, "Then why should our troops continue..." He was interrupted before he finished speaking, and it was Yin Bi who spoke.

"The Han army has catapults." Yin Bi said with a frown, "Their catapults have a range of up to 180 steps, and can fire stone bullets weighing about twenty catties."

Yin Bi remembered that it was not wrong to join the army. In the past, this kind of official position was not qualified to speak at important military meetings, but because the previous suggestion was valid, Yao Yizhong was specially allowed to have the qualification to speak.He frowned as if thinking, and continued after a while: "Our equipment can be fired by the bed crossbow, but stone bullets... absolutely cannot."

In fact, when the Qiang people were pushing the huge wooden wall, the Han army was taken aback. Most people never considered that the huge thing moving over would be a "beautiful thing" for a catapult. It's just a surprise out of a natural sense of dread of a giant.

"It's a pity!" Ji Chang really had a look of pity on his face: "If you move forward ten steps, it will become a pile of sawdust."

At this time, what the senior leaders of the Han army need to consider is whether to let the catapult move forward?

Before the high-level Han army could make up their minds and listened to the thundering sound of horses hooving, the Qiang army made a new move.

The gray and dusty fog that rolled over the sky was brought by the movement of a large number of cavalry. It is unknown how many cavalry were active within the unclear gray fog. The only thing that can be confirmed is that they rushed to one of the guard camps of the Han army.

"Your Majesty?" Ji Chang asked slightly surprised, "Is it..."

Liu Yan didn't wait for Ji Chang to finish, and cut off: "No matter what Yao Yizhong wants to do, even if it's forcing the camp, we have only one way to deal with it."

Ji Chang is opposed to completely passive defense, but he will never argue with Liu Yan, and he can only keep quiet when he hears it.

In the dusty smoke, some large machines pulled by animal power were moving, and they were pulled by animal power much faster than human push.

"Sure enough, it confused the Han army." Yao Yizhong was in an excited mood at this moment, and shouted: "Let them hurry up!"

The reason why Yao Yizhong judged that the Han army was dumbfounded was that the Han army did not shoot arrows at the dust like before. If it was the previous Han army, they didn't care whether they could see it or not, and just shot anyway.

On the other side, Sang Yu was asking Liu Yan: "Your Majesty, why don't you shoot?"

"Always let the enemy have hope." Liu Yan was still smiling at this time, and he seemed to be smiling confidently: "Since they want to build a wall to block the arrows, let them do it."

Ji Chang, who reacted, also smiled, and reminded the confused Sang Yu: "Our catapult trucks are not fixed and cannot be moved. Don't forget those fire oil tanks."

Sang Yu reacted with a dumbfounded smile.

(End of this chapter)