Chapter 82 Changping War (2)
Just as Bai Qi frowned, dozens of Zhao army's crossbows had been launched.
"Bang bang bang!" With the loud noises that even the air was about to shake, dozens of thick crossbow arrows shot out from the crossbow machine, roaring angrily at the Qin army soldiers in front of them.
A crossbow arrow roared and hit the head of a chariot and horse. A ball of blood suddenly exploded from the head of the war horse. Then the crossbow arrow flew out of countless blood and continued to penetrate the driver's chest without stopping.
The driver screamed and his whole body flew backward from the chariot. When he landed on the ground, a big hole had exploded on his chest, blood was blurred and blood was sprayed all over the ground.
Dozens of steps before the corpse of the driver, the chariot that he had originally driven had overturned to the ground and rolled for several times before stopping, splashing countless smoke and dust.
Another crossbow arrow hit a high-speed armored soldier, instantly piercing through the chest of the soldier, then hit the next soldier behind him, and then passed through the chest of the second soldier and hit five soldiers one after another. Then, he flew back hundreds of meters before finally landing on the ground.
Dozens of bed crossbows were fired at the same time, just like the roar of dozens of Maxim machine guns, and instantly cleared a vacuum zone of 100 meters long and dozens of meters wide in front of the bed crossbows.
In this vacuum, there were many wreckages of war chariots, the bodies of soldiers and soldiers, broken limbs and broken arms and sprayed blood, and many Qin soldiers who were shot in the shoulders, broken hands and feet, and even overwhelmed by their own chariots rolled and screamed on the ground. The scene was bloody and cruel.
Bai Qi's face gradually sank, and he couldn't help but snorted: "Bed crossbow!"
Several Qin generals were also disgraced. You should know that this was the first time in a few months that the Zhao army had displayed this heavy weapon from the cold weapon era in front of the Qin army!
Obviously, after knowing that Bai Qi was the chief general of the Qin army, the Zhao army had already raised the alert to the highest level. The bed crossbow that should have been used as a killer weapon appeared shortly after the war started, showing the Zhao army's determination to resist.
What made Bai Qi frowned even more was that because the crossbows were too bulky, they should not be too many. But there were nearly a hundred crossbows at this breakthrough point selected by the Qin army in advance, which was obviously very unusual!
So there is only one explanation, that is, before the war started, the commander of the Zhao army had already thought that the Qin army would likely choose this place as a breakthrough, so he arranged these crossbows at the breakthrough in advance to resist the Qin army's attack.
"Liang Po..." Bai Qi's face moved slightly, and suddenly a smile appeared: "It's true."
Just in Bai Qi's sight, the battle continued.
After the horse pit and the bed crossbow were exerted one after another, the formation of the Qin army's originally orderly Thousand-Man assault group had already shown signs of being disbanded, but the remaining hundreds of Qin soldiers did not panic, but instead held the weapons in their hands tightly and continued to attack with the chariot in front of the soldiers behind.
On the two wings of the assault group, hundreds of Qin army crossbowmen stopped at the command of the captain, and raised their crossbows one after another, preparing to provide a wave of cover for their comrades in the central government.
But at this moment, the fierce counterattack of Zhao's army finally began.
A sound full of energy came from Zhao's position: "The left and right wings are outward!"
"Swoosh swish swish!" Countless dense arrows shot out from the Zhao army's positions. This time the direction covered by the Zhao army's arrows was not the chariots and soldiers in the center of the Qin army, but the crossbowmen on the left and right wings of the Qin army!
The time was extremely accurate. It happened that the Qin army's crossbowmen were about to provide fire cover. At this time, attacking these Qin army crossbowmen with arrows could cause maximum damage.
The arrows from the Zhao army took the lead and immediately caused great damage to the Qin army crossbowmen who were pulling bows and holding crossbows. Hundreds of crossbowmen were shot down directly, and many people were lying on the ground and rolling back and forth, and the entire Qin army crossbowmen array was instantly destroyed.
Bai Qi shook his head. Although the assault group had more than half of its troops to this point, Bai Qi knew that the attack of the assault group had basically failed.
As the world-famous Qin God of War, Bai Qi is familiar with the Qin army's tactics, and many of them were even created or carried forward by Bai Qi himself.
Simply put, it is the cooperation between the three major arms of light chariots (chariots), corps officers (infantry), knights (cavalry).
Among these three major arms, the infantry with the largest number of people is undoubtedly the main force, and chariots and cavalry did not become the main force in this era.
Due to the limitations of the Changping battlefield, cavalry is not very useful here, and chariots can only be used for fighting and auxiliary forces. The real main force of combat is still infantry.
However, although infantry is the main force, the cooperation of other troops is also indispensable, otherwise they will not be able to fully exert their power.
In fact, what the Qin army pays most is this kind of strong discipline that is like a thousand people, and they cooperate with mercury to drain the ground, making the enemy completely breathless.
But at this moment, when the auxiliary chariots and the crossbowmen among the infantry were dispersed by the powerful long-range firepower of the Zhao army, Bai Qi knew that the infantry's subsequent impact would be futile.
Without cooperation, no matter how many individuals there are, they are just a group of mobs, and they can only be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield!
Just as Bai Qi shook his head, dozens of Qin soldiers who rushed to the front had already rushed to the front of the wall and rushed into the gap made by the trencher.
Behind the gap, a neatly arranged Zhao army formation has been waiting for a long time!
These Qin army soldiers were fearless and held long spears in their hands. Almost the moment they saw Zhao Jun opposite, they held spears and stabbed them hard at the vital point!
A fierce close-knit hand-to-hand combat broke out.
The battle reached its climax almost at the beginning. Some people screamed and fell to the ground among countless swords and swords. Then someone immediately filled it up behind him. The broken limbs and arms were accompanied by countless blood flowers flying in the air.
After a while, five more Qin army formations crossed the Dan River, and the two sides began a full-scale battle on the Zhao Renbi position that lasted more than ten miles long.
Looking down from the sky, you will find that the two armies of Qin and Zhao are like two surging tides, constantly raising up one huge wave after another and slapped at each other.
Although the Qin army's offensive was extremely fierce, the Zhao army was not showing any weakness. It firmly defended its position like a rock, repelling the Qin army's attacks again and again.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the newborn Chaoyang also slowly rose to the center of the sky in the fierce battle between the two sides, and then slowly paddled towards the west.
During this period, except for occasionally giving orders, Bai Qi was focusing on observing the situation on the entire battlefield at the rest of the time.
As he looked, Bai Qi's face gradually became serious.
The Qin army's bravery was expected by Bai Qi. After all, this great Qin iron army that was so powerful that the world was created by Bai Qi.
But on the other side of the position, the strength shown by the Zhao army was beyond Bai Qi's expectations.
This Zhao army is no longer the Zhao army, who was chased by Bai Qi thirteen years ago and had no way to go to the sky, fled in a panic, and was finally drowned 20,000 people!
For some reason, an extremely familiar figure suddenly flashed through Bai Qi's mind, making the gray-haired Qin war god unable to help but murmur.
"Hu Yang, it is true that you are defeated by the Zhao army!"
After saying this, Bai Qi was silent for a long time and suddenly spoke again.
"Ming Jin, stop the troops!"
Today's battle was just a tentative attack, which can be seen from the fact that Bai Qi only invested 30,000 people after fighting for a day.
The reason for such an attack was that Bai Qi hoped to use this to test the reality of Zhao Jun.
Since this battle, Bai Qi has completely figured out all the information he wanted, so today's attack is time to end.
Chapter completed!