sweeping the world

Chapter 435 The cruelty that flows through the blood vessels
"Rapid three-stage burst!"

"promise!"

The arrows falling from the sky were as dense as raindrops, and it was Shijie Zhao Jun who was carrying a wooden shield and advancing.

The battle at Chaoge Battlefield had been going on for seventeen days. Huan Wen and Cao Fu fought first, and reinforcements continued to arrive at Shijie later. The Han army led by Huan Wen changed from an attacking stance to a defensive stance.

Looking at the entire battlefield, the camp of the Han army was set up ten miles west of Chaoge City Pool, 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, and the shallowest is only knee-high. At present, there are many corpses floating on the stream, both human and horse corpses. It can be seen that Shijie Zhao Jun is trying to attack from wading North of the Han army.

In addition to the most important food for marching and combat, what is inseparable is sufficient water.To be honest, the water consumption of tens of thousands of people will definitely not be low, and it is definitely not enough to rely on drilling wells or some ditches. In this way, any army, whether it is marching or building camps, will try to be as close as possible to sufficient and available water sources .

The Chinese civilization must also consider the issue of water intake when building a city to live together. Generally, the city is built next to a large or small water system.This is why Chinese civilization originated from one river and one river in ancient times, and the cities along some rivers will be relatively dense.

When Huan Wen chose to build the camp, he had already considered that they would be surrounded, and they themselves needed to be surrounded.

Building camps by the stream is good for water intake, and it is also considered that the stream can be used as a barrier. It is a pity that the depth of the river bed is different, and the camps of tens of thousands of people are not small, which leads to a problem that must be faced. Some places can only rely on swimming, boats, and wooden rafts, but in some places war horses can step on the shallows to attack across the river.

On this day, just as the sky was bright, the Zhao army in Shijie, who had besieged Huan Wen's troops, began to attack from all sides again.This behavior has been going on for five days. At the beginning, the Dragon Guards' armored infantry appeared. However, the Dragon Guards failed to break through and replaced themselves with the Shijie Zhao Army, which looked like a no-name brand.

Outside the camp of the Han army, densely packed horses were placed irregularly. The second line of defense was composed of staggered rammed earth low walls and trenches. The third line of defense consisted of wooden fences, rammed earth low walls, various Composed of archery towers, you can see some strange buildings further inside.

Huan Wen was standing on the balcony of a building with an area of ​​about three acres. He held up a binoculars to observe the battlefield, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

The strange building is actually the system's fortress.There are four floors in the fortress, each floor is about one and a half feet high. They were built urgently. Currently, there are only four of them located in four directions, but they are still being built. How many more there will be depends on Huan Wen's wishes and needs. .

The Han camp has been completely surrounded by the Shijie Zhao army. The number of Shijie Zhao troops on the periphery will not be less than 13. After the battle, the outside of the Han army's fortifications became a mess, and it was necessary to have many dead but not cleaned up corpses.

"How many days has it been? How come their arrows are not going to run out?" Shi Xuan was really at a loss: "A rough estimate, the number of arrows shot by the Han army will not be less than 17, right?"

In fact, Shi Xuan was conservative and said that Huan Wen's troops had fired more than 20 arrows. After all, the Han army was facing constant siege from all sides.

The number of times the Han army went out of the camp to fight, but more often they relied on arrows as a means of defense. In addition to bows and crossbows, bed crossbows, cart crossbows, and catapults were also used. That is Shijie Zhao The reason why the army repeatedly attacked but could only return in defeat.

In fact, there were only [-] cavalry of the Han army on Huanwen's journey, and the rest were all infantry.From the beginning, they had the goal of attacking cities and villages, so they naturally wanted to have enough large equipment.Secondly, there is a psychological preparation for being besieged, and relevant presuppositions must be made, and equipment can also be used as a defense when facing siege.

The range of the powerful crossbow of the Han army can reach up to 450 steps (about 675 meters). That is to say, when the attacking Shijie Zhao army is about two miles away from the Han army camp (about 415.8 meters for one mile in the Eastern Jin Dynasty), they will face each other. Against the rain of arrows.

The Zhao army in Shijie had to face constant casualties when they were within one mile of the Han army camp, and they had to face a new nightmare when they approached the Han army camp at about 260 steps (390 meters), that is, the bed crossbows and chariots of the Han army Crossbow covered.However, bed crossbows and chariot crossbows are not the most dangerous to test the bottom line of Shijie Zhao Jun's psychological tolerance. It is that the Han army will join the attack of strong bows and catapults within 140 steps.

Shields, whether made of wood or metal, will sometimes be pierced by arrows. Facing bed crossbows and cart crossbows are basically decorations, not to mention huge stone bullets.

Looking at the position about a hundred paces outside the Han army, the ground is full of thick crossbow arrows. Some strings of corpses are not the most eye-catching. Those whose heads were smashed by stone bullets, or whose bodies were completely sunk by stone bullets , more often than not, the legs were severed by rolling stone bullets, and the various grotesque corpses most challenged people's psychological endurance.

"Bed crossbow and cart crossbow, shoot!"

"promise!"

From the east...that is, the Shijie Zhao army who attacked the Han army's camp from Chaoge's side. They were an integer of [-] at the beginning. One mile later, a sharper sound of breaking through the sky sounded.

I don't know how many thick crossbow arrows fell from the sky. When they hit the target, the arrowhead, like the tip of a spear, first touched the shield. In an instant, the metal penetrated the wood and brought up sawdust, breaking the shield holder in less than tenths of a second. The arrow pierced through the arm and inserted into the person's body, and the person was hit by a strong kinetic energy and flew backwards.

Shijie Zhao Jun, who was hit by a bed crossbow or a chariot crossbow, almost died without even having time to scream. If no one was behind him, he would fly upside down and be nailed to the ground for a certain distance. Form a string of human candied haws.

The actual damage caused by the small number of crossbows and bed crossbows to the Shijie Zhao army is actually not as much as imagined. In addition to killing and killing the Shijie Zhao army, they are more useful to make Shijie Zhao army The army was terrified because of seeing all kinds of miserable appearances of the people who were hit.

The ancients had a general idea for a long time, that is, "fighting requires courage." That is to say, the most important thing a soldier needs is courage. A courageous soldier can also fight against an enemy soldier who has good fighting skills but lacks courage. easy kill.

War is all about courage. Whichever side has more brave soldiers will have a better chance of winning. Bravery can be contagious, and timidity will also have an effect, so that in history, there have been many battles in which a small number of soldiers won a big victory. Not missing.

The powerful crossbow arrows that kept falling were the densest, and from time to time there were spear-like crossbow arrows flying towards them. Someone fell down all the time in the attacking Shijie Zhao army. As usual, their legs became a little weak, but they were There are too many examples of being defeated and beheaded, so I have to bite the bullet and continue to rush.

Qi Ai withdrew his gaze from the battlefield, and said to Shi Xuan: "Prince, the current strong attack is not effective, we should wait until the number of shield vehicles is sufficient... then launch an attack."

According to common sense, in the face of a situation where no results will only increase casualties, we should avoid unnecessary and useless offensives, and try new attacks after making solid preparations.

But Shi Xuan is in command of the battle, he is the son of Shi Hu.The family of Shi surnamed who ruled Shijie Zhao State never took the lives of people other than Jie people seriously, and the blood flowing in their blood vessels was absolutely cruel.

It might be a little strange, but Shi Xuan was not depressed after seeing the horror of the battlefield. Instead, he watched with great interest, and he felt excited when he saw some people dying miserably.

Just five days after Shi Xuan led the army to arrive, he ordered to go up to attack and suffered losses of more than 3000, of which more than [-] were tortured and killed after the retreat, and there was even a massacre of defeated soldiers in public. It is boiled in a boiling pot.

If Shijie is so cruel, shouldn't non-Jie people be allowed to be brutally killed?But the facts are often more absurd than imagined. The rest of the ethnic groups, especially the Zahu and Jin people, are no more courageous than sheep when they face the Jie people.

how to say?It should be that once a person is filled with fear, he will really forget that as long as he resists, his destiny may be changed, and even if his destiny cannot be changed, he can die with more dignity.It is precisely the fear that they dare not even resist that has caused so many massacres in history.

The attacking Shijie Zhao army did not collapse until they entered the range of the Han army's catapult and persisted for about a quarter of an hour.

If a round stone bullet directly hits a person, it will smash or flatten it. Even if it is not hit directly, you have to avoid it carefully to avoid crushing your legs. The psychological impact is infinite. You can also turn around and run away instead of directly lying on the ground. It is said that the survival instinct is supporting me.

"The attackers are all Zahu and Jin people, so it doesn't matter how many people die?" Shi Xuan licked his lips and said indifferently: "Similar guys can be captured casually, and they don't need to consume the arrows of the Han army. He Shidan, do you want to let the prince's Gaoli warrior go?"

If Qi Ai dared to let Shi Xuan send Donggong Gaoli to feed the arrows, she would definitely be boiled and eaten.In fact, he didn't feel sorry for the death of too many Zahu or Jin people who had been captured, but the impact of repeated offensives was slightly greater, which led to the gradual instability of some of his regular troops and elite mentality.

"You don't understand." Shi Xuan looked at the Han army's camp and frowned when he saw the fortresses that had been built or were being built: "The Han army here has now become a nail. If we don't remove Ji Jin's You can't fight well."

Speaking of Jijin, Shihu himself sits in Fangtou on the north bank of the Yellow River over there.Shi Hu was facing Li Tan's first batch of Han troops with a total of hundreds of thousands. The detective cavalry also found that the Han troops in several directions were also concentrating on Jijin.

Jijin's two armies are not currently fighting. After arriving on the battlefield, Li Tan's troops only launched two tentative attacks, and then they simply stared.

"There is a huge camp within ten miles around the bridge. If the Han army wants to cross the bridge, they can only attack layer by layer. They are obviously not sure, and they are waiting for follow-up reinforcements." Shi Xuan is very young, and his understanding of military affairs is actually not very good. How about it, I heard similar words from others.He said: "What my father wants now is to use the great river as the boundary to destroy the Han army on the north bank of the great river, and then seek opportunities to severely injure the Han army. Then use the great river as the boundary to form a confrontation with the Han state, and wait for enough supplies and manpower to be wiped out in one fell swoop. Han country."

Qi Ai still knew something.He heard that it was Shangshu Zhang Qun who gave the opinion that the Han army is now fighting sharply, and forming a confrontation can reduce the spirit of the Han army. Furthermore, Shijie and Zhao Guo are indeed not ready for war, and it is not suitable for a large-scale war battle.

"What do you mean when you strike at halfway, so obvious that the whole country of Han is blind?" Shi Xuan said mockingly: "Father is just posturing."

"But if we show weakness to the Han army, the various ethnic groups in the country may cause trouble." Qi Ai thought that what she could think of was unreasonable. Those senior officials could not think of it, and asked doubtfully: "Whether it is a war or a confrontation ahead, what will happen if there is chaos in the hinterland? ?”

"We are not the only ones who are in chaos. 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 them.He first yelled a few words to the people below, and then said to Qi Ai: "The Jin people in the Central Plains states are not as good as pigs and dogs. The place is full of powerful people from all ethnic groups. Looking at the national policy of the Han Dynasty, those guys from various ethnic groups are not like our people. They were so carefree when they ruled, how could they watch their privileges being lost and not worry about liquidation by the Han Dynasty?"

But Qi Ai knew that someone must have told Shi Xuan those words, and it was probably Ma Qiu who had just come from the northwest.

"We are not afraid of killing or dying. Whoever refuses to obey will be killed directly." What Shi Xuan said was Shijie's ruling policy. The same. Furthermore, we only have the danger of turmoil in the hinterland, and Han is not only an internal threat, but also has so many enemy countries. So don’t look at Liu Yan’s arrogance now, once a setback occurs, Han may collapse at any time.”

The rout had completely retreated beyond the range of the Han army's long-distance attack, and the chasing cavalry of the Han army also retreated, but the bad luck of the retreating Shijie miscellaneous soldiers was not over yet.

Shi Xuan just ordered Donggong Gaoli to intercept the rout soldiers. After Donggong Gaoli went up, he slaughtered the rout soldiers and even set up a lot of pots, breaking some of the rout soldiers' limbs and throwing them aside at will. , Just wait for the water in the pot to boil and throw it away.

Slices 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, and they must be scared to shit, but their fate was doomed no matter what.

Because of the wide field of vision, the Han army can see the movement of Zhao Jun in Shijie.Although they have seen similar things more than once, they can deeply understand the cruelty of Jie people every time they watch them.

At this time, Huan Wen kept shouting in the camp on horseback, asking the soldiers of the Han army if they would like to be boiled...

(End of this chapter)