sweeping the world

Chapter 790
To capture the thief first, capture the king, and to shoot the man first, shoot the horse. This is not a simple sentence in a poem. It is the experience summed up in the long history of wars in the Xia Dynasty.

The size of war horses is much larger than that of humans. Humans will do some actions to avoid or block incoming arrows. Horses without much wisdom will have some instincts to avoid danger, but they have shackles on their bodies, and some instincts follow the long-term The training has been numb. In fact, there is no reaction to the arrows that are shot, and they are passively shot.

The arrow array is actually not a very tall thing. It is just a formation of large-scale archers or crossbowmen. Multiple long-range troops are arranged at a reasonable distance, and then they cover a certain area according to the password. style shooting.

It is not difficult to say that it is not a tall formation, but it is not difficult to manipulate, but it is extremely difficult to operate.Archers or crossbowmen must undergo strict training, what kind of password should be used to lift the bow or crossbow to what angle, and any mistake in the air is next, causing accidental injury is a tragedy.

In the military history of cold weapons, the difficulty of training long-range troops is higher than that of melee troops. As an archer or crossbowman, it is not enough to be able to shoot arrows. People who can shoot arrows and shoot accurately but freely are suitable for hunting and know how to obey passwords. And order and prohibition is the key.

The latter point above is common to all soldiers, but the consequences of mistakes in long-range troops will hurt morale even more. After all, people are fighting in the front, but there are deadly arrows shot by their own people behind. Anyone who encounters them will have a psychological breakdown. .

The arrow array relies heavily on observers. In this era when mathematics is only in its infancy, rulers, distances, and predicted moving positions... there are too many things that cannot be systematically summarized, and even smart people can be confused.

In the absence of a simple and clear scientific system to support the environment, the observer of the arrow array needs to be extremely experienced, able to judge the distance between the arrow array and the enemy to be shot, and then give the exact angle of elevation according to the weapon of the commanding unit degree of shooting password.

In the Han army's arrow array, passwords were constantly shouted out, and teams of crossbowmen repeatedly shot arrows in the sound of passwords. Some of them could shoot five rounds, and the few were three rounds. The command to shoot arrows was never heard again.

The chariot soldiers of Jitanado had obviously never encountered such a scientific method of sniping, and the horses they pulled the chariots were not armored. No less than a hundred chariots were killed by arrows and arrows pulled by the horses pulling the chariots during the charge. The overturning of the chariot made a lot of noise.

The chariots that fell in front became an obstacle to the advance of the friendly troops galloping from the rear. More chariots hit the wreckage of the chariots and rolled over every time. About 150 chariots fell in the middle of the charge.

The number of 150 tanks is only a little more than one-tenth of the tanks used by Gita Nada. The problem is that they have never encountered a similar situation. It is completely impossible to say that it has no impact on the morale of the army.

The most direct manifestation is that the originally clamoring Jitanado infantry stopped shouting, but the attached army of the Han army burst into cheers as they moved to the left and right wings.

The arrow array organized by the Han army could not stop all the Gitanado chariot soldiers who were charging. The Gitanado chariot soldiers running in the first row had already charged far enough, and they would soon be confronted by the Han army. The tower shields make contact.

Tower shield soldiers have always had a strong sense of existence in the Han army system. They are the most solid "shields" of the infantry. The strongest "shields" and "spears" of the Xia army, whether against cavalry or infantry, can always win at every step with far less losses than the enemy.

The chariots have long since disappeared from the battlefields of Zhuxia. It is nonsense to say that the tower shield soldiers of the Han army have experience in dealing with chariots. They were ordered to leave the headquarters and move forward. Let the artificial ramp for the overturning of the chariot.

It's one thing to know what to do, but it's another thing to actually do it. The commander of each team of tower shield soldiers has eyes and ears in all directions. As a commander, in this battle against the enemy, In the car battle, the responsibility and pressure are far greater than any before.

Lin Qu found the galloping chariot and shouted loudly at Pao Ze to quickly form a formation. Because he was too nervous, he shouted a little hysterically, but fortunately, Pao Ze could understand.

Their method is that someone tilts the shield at the front, and the people behind them form a slope with the shield in turn, and then use people to withstand the sloped shield wall.

As the chariot rolled towards the wheel, the driver Ah San on the chariot saw the situation ahead and tried hard to control the horse to make fine adjustments in direction, but the structure of the chariot decided one point. Without the axle, the horse dragged the chariot If the body makes a turn that is too large, it will directly cause the chariot to fall sideways, and they will directly subvert themselves during the turn.

Lin Qu stuck his head out to watch from the side when he heard the sound of the chariot slamming into the ground. Seeing the target he was going to deal with collapsed by himself, he felt extremely grateful.

They had never dealt with tanks before. It was said that tilting the shield wall would cause the tanks to roll over, but in fact, no one knew what to do. The person who gave the order was finished, but the life of the person who carried out the order was at stake.

Lin Qu rejoiced and continued to observe the battlefield, and happened to see a scene.

It was because Pao Ze from other teams was organizing the tilting of the shield wall, but the action of tilting the shield wall was not completed, and the enemy tanks slammed into it with the sound of rumbling wheels.

It was a tragic scene. The horse with the sharp blade on its body collided with the person blocking the way first. When the sharp blade pierced and slashed, it brought up bright red blood. The collision of the horse caused the human body to be thrown backwards. The body of the car collided and the wheels were crushed.

After waiting for the chariot to continue moving forward, the team that wanted to build a sloping shield wall had long been shattered, and the fresh lives turned into lying corpses. Some of the corpses were cut in half by sharp blades, and some were crushed by wheels. The body was sunken, and the only surviving Han soldier knelt on the ground with one knee, his face full of extreme fear, and water was dripping from his crotch.

Being scared to urinate on the battlefield is not a shameful thing, even veterans who have fought a hundred battles have been scared to urinate in battle, and it is very normal for recruits to be scared to urinate on the battlefield for the first time.

It is almost impossible to say that people on the battlefield do not have fear in their hearts. The difference is whether they can control their fear.

Another thing that is even less shameful is that no one is not afraid of death. The fear of death is the nature of the living. They just show it and hide it, and overcome the fear of death to fulfill their duties as soldiers.

Lin Qu didn't have much time to think or be afraid. From the corner of his eyes, he caught a chariot galloping towards the position of the organization's inclined shield wall. He subconsciously shouted: "Hold it!", and he also shrank in.
At the next moment, there was a sound of a horse's hoof stepping heavily on the shield. Anyone under the shield wall felt the weight on the top while the person on the right saw a horse with its mouth open. head, the picture seems to be slowed down, the saliva in the horse's mouth is splashing, and it can be distinguished that the saliva has turned into white foam.

The "playing" speed of the screen returned to normal, the wheels were crushed on the shield surface, the horses that had not trampled on the shield wall fell to one side, and then the overturned car body tilted and smashed to the ground.

The Han army under the shield wall, none of them could stand still. The people in front fell directly to the ground, and some people even kneeled down with their thighs forward, but their waists were folded back.

The impact force, plus the weight of the horse and the chariot, is really not the total weight that the horse and the chariot should have when they are stationary, and it has to be multiplied several times.

He successfully overturned a chariot, but Lin Qu lost his mind. When he came back to his senses, he wanted to raise his arm but found that he couldn't control it. He also saw the miserable appearance of Pao Ze.

There were two people whose waists were directly crushed by the huge force. Their bodies were broken, and blood continued to pour out of their mouths, noses, and ears while they were dying.

The Han soldier at the front was directly pressed by the shield. It was obvious that the skeleton of his body had completely collapsed, his limbs were distorted, the thickness of his trunk was reduced, and ribs could be seen protruding from the part not covered by the shield.

"The ones that can move, pull on the ones that can't move." Lin Qu felt his mouth was a little sweet and full of fishy smell, and he knew that not only his arm was dislocated, but also his internal organs must be injured: "Evacuate, evacuate here."

Successfully organized a tilted shield wall to intercept an enemy tank. The tank was indeed overturned and scrapped, but eleven people sacrificed three on the spot, and the others were more or less injured. Or carry the incapacitated robe and follow Shi Chang's orders to move to the flank of the army formation.

Li Jun stood on the temporary high platform, and he saw the tragic scene through the telescope. Most of the teams failed to organize the inclined shield wall and were reimbursed directly, and some of the inclined shield walls were not much better.

In fact, even if it forms a slanted shield wall, it may not be in the correct position. The people holding the shield are not invincible Iron King Kong. Most of them are directly crushed and the shield wall collapses. Their sacrifice is to successfully paralyze a chariot of the enemy. .

"If it weren't for...forget it." Li Jun's mood swings are true, but he hasn't lost an inch. He has seen too many tragic battle scenes: "To deal with chariots, you need to prepare fortifications in advance and rely on temporary blocking. The price is too great.”

The reason for talking about the price is that any successful or failed team played their role, or used the wreckage of the chariot, or piled up corpses, to successfully create an anti-chariot. Obstacles, resulting in the continuous reduction of the space that the chariot can pass through.

There are no immortals in war. Sacrifice is only divided into valuable or worthless. The tower shield soldiers who went to battle reflect their own value. Their efforts and sacrifices prevent most enemy chariots from passing through the battlefield and directly crashing into their own land. array.

A small number of Jitanado chariots that could charge up, they found that the number of friendly troops around them was very small, of course the horses pulling the chariots would not have any thoughts, but the people on the chariots panicked.

For a chariot without brakes, even if the driver wants to stop, he needs a buffer time. To stop a chariot galloping at high speed, it needs at least 100 meters as a buffer to reduce the speed, but they don't have that much distance. .

"Rush, speed up and rush!"

Xhosa Aisia's face was covered with ashes, most of the chariot troops he led did not rush over, and more of it was a forest of spikes made of spears in front of him.

This battle was not only unfamiliar to the Han army, but Jitanado's side was completely unexpected about the situation after the battle.

In Ah San's land, the chariots and cavalry are the ones who deal with them. No matter how experienced people are, they have never seen or heard of infantry who dare to take the initiative to block the galloping chariots.

Not to mention taking the initiative to deal with the charging chariots, even if you organize a formation on the spot to block the chariots, Ah San will only do it on the premise of having some tools such as rejecting horses. The dense phalanx to fight hard is also a legend.

If today's Xhosa Aishia hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe anyone had the guts at all. While he was in a daze, he could only feel how the Han people had such great courage and the spirit of not fearing death.

Still the same sentence, no one is not afraid of death, but soldiers... the soldiers of any country have discipline, and then there is a sense of mission or honor, which makes them suppress the fear of death.

Seeing that he was getting closer to the forest of thorns, Khosa Aysia snatched the reins from the driver with a grim face, and desperately drove the horses pulling the cart to accelerate and accelerate again.Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that another chariot was about to hit him, and his attention was drawn to it.

The chariot running at high speed does not have a shock absorber, and the bumps caused by the speed are more obvious. The horses pulling the cart are foaming from their mouths, and the people in the chariot have to hold on to the wall to control their bodies. balance.

At that moment, as long as conditions permit, everyone's eyes will be on the chariot that is about to hit the formation formed by the spearmen.

What they saw was that the horses pulling the chariot rushed up, and the forest of spikes sank in an instant. The spear pierced the body of the horse, but the spearman was also pushed back by a huge force.

The horses pulling the cart died immediately after the collision. The cart body was pulled forward by a kind of inertia, and the people on it were thrown into the sky, dancing in mid-air.

The army formation that formed the rectangular spear array, the wailing sound continued in the sunken area, and the forests of spear spikes on the left and right were also disintegrating.

The car body crashed in with the inertia, pushing the dead horses forward. The wheels collapsed under the force of the impact, and the bottom of the car plowed all the way through like a field. It not only pushed up the soil, but also shoveled the dead or injured soldiers. The spearmen of the army moved forward.

"hiss!!!"

Li Jun's teeth were pantothenic as he inhaled, and his eyes were also widened.He could tell right away that with just such a collision, the chariot was destroyed, but it also took away at least ten or twenty Han troops!
(End of this chapter)