Daqin: Assist Zulong at the beginning and become a public enemy

Chapter 471 Attack
Chapter 481 Attack
The prefect Tun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and managed to stabilize his mind.

He knew very well that it was meaningless to pursue the responsibility of the scouts or others in the face of the Qin army who suddenly appeared outside the city at this time.

Today, the biggest threat is not the Qin army outside the city, but the tens of thousands of Chu troops inside the city who have lost all courage in the face of the Qin army.

Of course, if they can be called soldiers.

Look at the dark Qin army crushing under the city wall under the pressure of Mount Tai, and look at the Chu soldiers on the city wall with trembling legs, crooked helmets, and pale faces. Also feel powerless.

The contrast is too stark.

At this time, he was even doubting something.

As soon as the state of Chu went north, the Qin army immediately went east. This is really a coincidence.

Even if Qin's intelligence work is better than theirs, the deployment of the army cannot be completed quickly overnight.

It can be guaranteed that there is nothing more than docking. It seems that some caring people do this deliberately.

Looking at the approaching black moon, the soldiers of the Qin Army who only showed two gleaming eyes, although they are still thousands of steps away, the mountainous pressure has made the entire city of Changsha feel overwhelmed. Chu Junju felt out of breath.

As the Qin army's formation advanced, even the city walls of Changsha seemed to be shaking amid the roaring sound.

This is a group of demons from hell.

The restoration of the state of Chu, first the two counties of Kuaiji and Jiujiang, and then the three counties of Minzhong, Changsha, Qianzhong, and three counties, so that the new Chu has basically recovered its homeland, but its military strength is not the same as that of the original Chu. Comparable.

When Wang Jian destroyed Chu, General Xiang Yan of Chu State had 60 elite troops under his command, not counting the few guarding soldiers stationed in various counties and counties.But now the whole country of Chu has only more than [-] soldiers, and there are still good and bad.

More importantly, these more than [-] soldiers and horses gathered in Jiujiang or near Shouchun, the new capital of Chu today.

In the remaining counties, except for Kuaiji, which was the home of the Xiang clan, which had tens of thousands of troops, the rest of the counties basically only changed their banners, and there were few changes.Not to mention the stationing of troops for effective jurisdiction and control.

Now Xiang Yu is leading an army of 20 to the north. In addition to the [-] army in the hands of Xiang Bo, there are also [-] troops stationed near Shouchun in Chu State.

In the empty state of Chu, the biggest support to the west can only be the seemingly strong city wall of Changsha.

If Changsha falls, then the Qin army will be able to point directly at Shouchun in a few days at the latest.

If you want to defend Changsha City, you can only hope that Xiang Bo in Jiujiang can see the situation clearly and send reinforcements as soon as possible.

"Brothers, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in the Tyrant Qin Dynasty. Now we have nearly [-] troops and more than [-] people in the city. There is sufficient food and grass, and there are countless rolling stones and trees. We only need to hold out for a few hours. The general will send reinforcements to come. If the Tyrant Qin destroys the city, we and the people of Chu will not only die, but also our wives and children will be killed by the Tyrant Qin. The only solution is to fight you..."

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of rumbling war drums suddenly sounded from behind the Qin army's formation under the city wall, and boundless waves of sound rolled up to the sound of the Qin army's infantry.

With the sound of rolling war drums, the Qin army's large-scale continuous shooting crossbow machine, which was already in place, slowly began to raise its aim amidst the "creaking" sound of the machine.

The [-] pawns at the front with huge shields continued to approach Changsha City.

The city of Changsha is actually not that big. The hundreds of large continuous shooting crossbows equipped by the Qin army are slightly spread out, and basically can cover the entire city wall.

However, Zhang Han did not choose to disperse, but arranged all the large continuous shooting crossbows behind the five thousand pawns who were about to launch an attack.

The direction in which hundreds of large-scale continuous-firing crossbows were aimed was exactly that section of the city wall that was only more than a hundred feet long.

The ladder is limited, so it is obvious that we can only concentrate our efforts to break through one point. As long as one or two places can be climbed on the city wall, Changsha City has basically been captured.

In two hours at most, Zhang Han must see the Qin army's battle flag and the banner with the word "Qin" planted on the top of Changsha City, and there must not be too many casualties.

After advancing four hundred steps, the five thousand Qin infantry holding giant shields were less than a thousand steps away from the Changsha City wall.

Except for the pawns in the first row who still maintained their formation and firmly erected the giant shield in their hands in front of them, from the second row, the infantry of the Qin Army began to slow down. After opening the distance, Raise the giant shield over the top of the head and cover it above the head.

The giant shield more than ten feet high was enough to cover the heads of the pawns in the first row.

After going on for two hundred steps in this way, the siege formation composed of five thousand infantry has completely turned into a huge turtle shell formation completely covered by a giant shield.The Qin army's infantry carrying the ladder were also covered under the shield.

The sound of war drums, which gradually became more rapid, came to an abrupt end.

"Bang Bang Bang!"

The moment the drums stopped, in a series of continuous stiff banging sounds, nearly three hundred large-scale continuous-firing crossbows opened their powerful bowstrings at the same time, and the crossbow arms as thick as a child's arm trembled fiercely. Six huge crossbow arrows over three feet long placed on the crossbow slot were fired out.

Nearly [-] giant crossbow arrows made a sharp sound of piercing through the air, and the Chu army on the city wall shot at the city wall before they could react.

In the era of cold weapons, long-range offensive and defensive weapons such as trebuchets and large-scale continuous shooting crossbows are like the concept of cannons that appeared in the era of hot weapons in later generations.

After the cannon appeared, it was called the king of war for a long time.

Compared with the catapult, which is difficult to operate and bulky, the large-scale continuous shooting crossbow may not be as scary as the trebuchet in terms of attack surface and lethality, but the reliability and ultra-long range of the large continuous firing crossbow seem to have established His dominance in the cold weapon era.

Moreover, these crossbows carried by Zhang Han are not ordinary goods.

The most powerful crossbow machine equipped by the Qin army can attack a distance of two thousand steps, and with the tireless efforts of those guys from the School of Chemistry, they finally connected the primary version of gunpowder with bows and arrows.

Although it is not enough to release a strong explosion, it can already be used as a propulsion device.

With the assistance of gunpowder propulsion, a bow and arrow with two thousand steps can reach about three thousand steps.

On the walls of Changsha City, stone chips flew horizontally and sparks splashed in all directions.

At least hundreds of Chu troops were unable to evade and were pierced by the powerful and huge crossbow arrows that shot through their flesh and blood. They were either nailed to the top of the city by the long crossbow arrows, or were directly carried away from the city wall by the crossbow arrows. It fell into Changsha City, causing panic throughout the city.

The rest of the crossbow arrows that did not hit either fell into the city over the city wall, or sank deeply into the hard city wall of Anfeng City.It made the originally smooth and difficult-to-reach city wall look like a hedgehog with spikes growing out of nowhere.

With just one wave of crossbow arrows, the Chu army on the city wall suffered at least nearly a thousand casualties.

Only 400 people died, and many of the others were injured by flying stones.

(End of this chapter)