Under the order of Guishuang Jihou, tens of thousands of Yueshi cavalry received a round of crossbow attacks from the Qin army, then their horses approached the chariot wall, raised their bows together, and fired at the ring-shaped chariot barrier in front of them.
Because the Wugang chariot had a shield wall blocking the front, the shots fired by the Yuezhi cavalry were all thrown diagonally towards the sky.
Let the arrows fall in a parabola from high altitude to kill the soldiers of the Qin Army behind the chariot barrier.
Tens of thousands of horse archers stood in a large circle around the Qin army's chariot formation, shooting in the middle together, with arrows flying in the sky. It looked quite spectacular from a distance.
"The enemy is shooting, hide!"
The siren sounded in the car barrier.
The Qin soldiers in Wugang's car immediately hid behind the thick shield wall and huddled up.
The soldiers of the Qin army behind the car, who had shields, immediately picked up their shields and squatted on the spot to protect themselves. Those without shields either got under the car, or quickly ran towards the middle of the car formation.
The effective range of the Yuezhi cavalry's bows and arrows is only fifty or sixty steps. If fired from a distance away from the vehicle formation, its killing range is only one to twenty meters near the Wugang vehicle, and cannot cover the middle of the vehicle formation.
Therefore, tens of thousands of archers and cavalry are shooting, which looks amazing, but in fact the damage is limited.
And because there is a shield wall on the Wugang vehicle blocking them, they are all ejected through the wall. They cannot aim at the target. Whether they can hit or not depends on chance.
Some Qin soldiers in the chariot formation were unlucky and were hit by arrows thrown from the air, causing them to scream in agony.
The Yuezhi people did not expect this round of projectiles to cause much damage. Their real purpose was to use this round of shooting to suppress the Qin army's crossbow arrows, then ride their horses into the car formation, tear open a hole, and rush in to face the Qin people inside.
Kill special kill.
"Warriors of the Yuezhi, charge forward!"
Lajia Gu, the son of Guishuang Jihou, raised his arms and shouted, giving the order to charge.
The Yuezhi cavalry surrounding the outside immediately roared towards the car formation.
The Qin army in the car base also reacted immediately.
"The Yuezhi people are coming in. If you want to survive, you have to fight them tooth and nail!"
Under the shouts of military officials at all levels, the Qin soldiers immediately picked up their weapons and swarmed behind Wu Gang's chariot.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Wang Ling's face was ferocious, he held the long beryllium in his hand tightly with both hands, thrust it out from the gap between Wugang's chariots, and stabbed directly into the chest of a Yuezhi cavalry who was running towards him.
The Yuezhi cavalry was charging forward on horseback to hit the car formation, but this time it happened to hit the straight point of the beryllium and was stabbed through on the spot.
The Yueshi man screamed and spurted blood, while the war horse he sat on continued to slam into the carriage barrier fiercely.
The Wugang car was hit and shuddered.
"Block!"
Xi Juan and Wang Sui yelled that they, the rangers from Peixian County, and other Qin people were blocking Wu Gang's chariot. In addition, there were things stuck under the wheels, so they would not be hit by the Yueshi's horses.
Driving array.
The Qin soldiers in the car stood up, across the shield wall, and stabbed the Yuezhi cavalry outside with their halberds.
"Fight these barbarians!"
The Qin soldiers behind the chariot barrier took long weapons and passed through the gaps between the chariots to fight with the Yuezhi people outside. They gritted their teeth and just wanted to kill each other.
In the grassland outside the Great Wall, the soldiers from all the counties in Kyushu all forgot their original origins at this moment.
Whether it was the Chu people, the Qi people, the Korean people, or the Wei people, when faced with the barbarian aliens on the grasslands, they all abandoned the original hatred and hostility between the countries, and put aside their dissatisfaction with the Qin State's rule over them.
They united closely and cooperated with each other to deal with the aliens who kept coming from outside the car barrier.
Rong, Di, jackals and wolves are not to be disliked.
The two summers are so intimate that they cannot be abandoned.
At this moment, they are all armies of Xia and people of Qin!
In the middle of the carriage base, on a high platform made of grain, grass and baggage, the general Wang Li stood facing the wind.
He opened his eyes wide and stared at the Yuezhi cavalry who kept charging towards the car barrier like wild beasts.
One was killed, and another one jumped on him.
In addition to the Yuezhi people who kept bumping into the car barriers in front and wanted to rush into the formation, the Yuezhi cavalry behind them who could not engage in the battle were throwing bows and arrows in their hands, causing damage to the Qin army in the car barriers. The overall offensive
Very ferocious.
"Great Qin Warrior, shoot back!"
Wang Li waved his hand and roared.
In the chariot barrier, the Qin army's crossbowmen launched a counterattack with missiles. Outside the chariot were densely packed with human heads, and random missiles could cause damage.
In addition to hand crossbows and bows and arrows, there are even foot-strung crossbows in the chariot array.
Its shooting range reaches hundreds of steps away, far exceeding the range and power of the Yuezhi people's bows and arrows. Once it is fired, it immediately frightens the Yuezhi cavalry outside.
"This is the weapon of the Qin people, so powerful!"
"I want!"
The Marquis of Guishuang was riding a horse in the distance. He saw that the crossbow arrows flying out of the chariot were so powerful that they could knock off the Yuezhi warriors on their horses at a distance of seventy or eighty steps.
He knew that the Qin army's equipment was very good, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.
In addition to the powerful crossbows, the spears, beryllium swords and halberds held by the Qin troops guarding the chariots were all excellent weapons. They were very precious in the grasslands that lacked resources. Any bronze sword could be exchanged for a strong one.
oxen and horses.
"If my troops are equipped with these Qin weapons, the entire grassland will be mine!"
The eyes of Kushan Jihou turned red.
If he had only planned to kill the Qin army and burn the enemy's food and grass before, now he was extremely thirsty for the weapons and equipment of the Qin army.
mine!
It's all mine!
As time passed, the fighting became more and more intense.
The Qin army's chariot barrier was smashed into several holes, but when the excited Yuezhi people tried to squeeze into the chariot formation, they were faced with the tips of more than a dozen spears, which made them turn from excited to
of fear.
The infantry of the Qin army relied on the Wugang chariot formation to firmly hold the defense line, while the crossbowmen of the Qin army in the rear continued to throw arrows outwards, killing and injuring the enemy.
The millions of arrows brought by the Qin army on this expedition were not just for show, they were enough for the crossbowmen to shoot at will without worrying about the number of arrows.
In such a fierce battle, a large number of corpses of men and horses appeared outside the Qin army's chariot base. As the corpses piled up, it became more and more difficult for the Yuezhi people to launch an attack, and they could no longer use their horses to collide.
"Dismount! Get through the openings of those car formations!"
Frontline commander Lajia Gu shouted loudly, instructing the Yuezhi people to dismount and fight on foot, trying to break into the car formation through the openings that had been knocked open.
But the Yuezhi people under his command are not iron soldiers who are not afraid of death.
Seeing that the chariot barrier was difficult to attack and that the ground was littered with the corpses of their own people, a large number of Yuezhi people began to think of escaping, and some actually turned around and retreated.
"I will kill all those who run away and retreat! Cowardly people are not worthy of being my warriors in the Kushan tribe!"
Lajia Gu roared, drew the bow in his hand, and shot a Yuezhi man to death with one arrow.
His cronies also received the order, raised their bows and arrows, and stared at the rear, so that the Yuezhi warriors fighting in the front did not dare to think about escaping anymore, and could only turn around with a grimace and continue to attack the Qin army's chariot formation.
The Yuezhi warriors went forward one after another, constantly attacking the Qin army's chariot formation.
"Father, we can't go on like this. Just from this car formation, we've suffered thousands of casualties! It's better to withdraw!"
Sujatha frowned and advised the Marquis of Kushan.
Hearing this, the Marquis of Guishuang was like a rooster with fried feathers.
He said angrily: "Withdraw? What are you talking about? So many people in our Guishan tribe have died. If we can't defeat even one of the Qin army's chariot formations, then how can we have the shame to go back! The other Xihous will
No matter how you look at me, the warriors who died here all died in vain!"
Facing the roar of Kushan Jihou, Sugatha wisely shut her mouth.
The Marquis of Guishuang's eyes were bulging as he stared at the fierce battlefield ahead, with veins bulging out on his face.
He ordered the tribesmen who were besieging several other chariot formations to stop attacking and only surround those few Qin chariot formations. He wanted to mobilize all his forces to attack the Qin army's chariot formation in front of him.
"It's enough to just defeat this one!"
"If I break through this one, kill the Qin people inside, burn the Qin army's food and grass, and take their weapons back, then my efforts will not be in vain, and my battle plan will not be considered a failure!"
The Marquis of Guishuang gritted his teeth and kept whispering in his heart, numbing himself.
In psychology, there is a theory of "sunk cost effect".
It refers to the fact that people often make wrong choices when making decisions because they are reluctant to put in the time, money, and effort upfront.
The Marquis of Guishuang was now caught up in it. He formulated a battle plan, mobilized three Yueshi tribes to hunt, and made great efforts.
The current siege of this Qin army's chariot formation has resulted in thousands of casualties, which can be described as tragic. However, except for corpses on the ground, nothing has been found so far.
If we withdraw, wouldn't everything be in vain, wouldn't everything be a loss?
Moreover, after returning, he will lose all his prestige, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
"We've come here, so many people have died, why do we have to break this car formation?"
"Hurry, break it soon. As long as I can break this one, it won't be a loss for me!"
With trembling hands, the Marquis of Guishuang sent someone to send a message to Lajia Gu, who was commanding from the front, telling him that he must win the Qin army's chariot formation at all costs.
Under the orders of Marquis Xi and under the supervision of the supervising team at the rear, the Yuezhi people launched wave after wave of attacks on the Qin army's chariot formations, facing the rain of arrows, advancing one after another without fear of sacrifice, leaving corpses all over the ground.
Under the fierce offensive of the Yuezhi people, the defense line of the Qin army's chariot array was really in a precarious situation.
Wang Li, who was commanding on the high platform in the formation, had an expressionless face, preparing to mobilize his troops again and change the defensive formation.
Suddenly, he realized something and looked in a distant direction.
Not only him, but the Yuezhi people outside the car barrier also felt the vibration from the earth.
A sound like dry thunder came from the distance, it was the trampling sound of a large number of cavalry running on the ground.
"Is it the Shuangmi tribe? Or the Qin army?"
Guishuang Jihou's heart moved and he turned his head towards the direction from which the sound came.
In the far distance, a large black shadow was approaching.
The ones who rushed in front and ran the fastest were the scouts he sent out to patrol the surrounding area.
"Marquis Xi, they are the cavalry of the Qin Army!"
"The Shuangmi tribe was defeated, and the Qin army came to kill them!"