Chu Qing is indeed an outsider, and he has also been misled by some film and television works and street novels.
In the age of cold weapons, whether it was a siege or a field battle, thousands or tens of thousands of people would not die every minute. Whenever you saw certain words, what was a war, which country fought against such and such a legion of that country, the sword flashed.
Rain of blood, less than half a day, one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand killed in battle, etc. are all nonsense.
Especially in siege battles, in small towns, the perimeter of the city is only a few miles, and the defenders are supported by 20,000 to 30,000 people, and among these 20,000 to 30,000 people, there are at most three to four thousand archers.
Even in a siege battle, archers have a higher hit rate, but hitting the target does not mean they can be killed. The archers defending the city rely on volleys, rain of arrows falling, and the siege side also holds a shield, and every volley fires
, there are enemies who fall, but they don’t fall completely.
What is the equivalent of 30,000 people? The whole high school is standing in a big playground, with up to 5,000 people at most. Thirty thousand people, excluding the Iron Wolf Guards, are at least four people in the playground, and they still have to be crowded.
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The four high school playgrounds were packed with people. Even if the principal was carrying a machine gun, he would have to sweep them away for a long time.
Even if it is not a siege, even if it is a field battle, a serious field battle, a close-quarters battle, it is still impossible to cause high casualties in a short period of time.
It is normal for tens of thousands of people to fight in the field for half a day, that is, half a day. It is normal for two to three thousand people to die at one time. If more than five thousand people die at one time, it is an overachievement.
There are only two possibilities for tens of thousands of people to fight against each other and 80,000 to die in the blink of an eye.
1. Both sides stand in a row, face to face with the enemy, with a distance of half a meter, one person to another. The generals of both sides shout "Open up", and everyone cuts their knives at the enemy in front of them at the same time. Only then is it possible to die in the blink of an eye.
The situation of Baqianer.
In the second situation, tens of thousands of people from both sides stood in a row, facing each other, and then Thanos snapped his fingers, killing half of them.
So Chu Qing was confused.
He saw a lot of corpses under the city gate. In fact, there were not many, at least not as many as he imagined.
Two to three thousand weapons, this is still the "result" of hitting almost two points within the range of the bow and arrow.
The climbing ladder is pushed over. Either everyone is pushing in a swarm and cannot reach it, or they are hiding behind the climbing ladder. Dozens of people, or at most hundreds of people, are pushing forward slowly together, while others stand with bows and arrows.
Out of range, if the person in front is killed, they will come up again.
In addition, there are also people who walk in front with big shields, but once they are shot down, even if they just fall down, they will be easily trampled to death. No one will go out of their way to avoid the people under their feet. If you fall down, your fate will be counted.
not good.
In addition to shields, there are also cold thieves holding long bows and shooting upwards. They can hardly hit anyone. They mainly want to suppress them.
Fu San glanced at them briefly and said, "Master, the Iron Wolf Guards are the elite of the Liang people. They are the people who ride horses to raid the formation in the distance."
"How many people are there?"
It was Liu Wang who answered Chu Qing: "The Iron Wolf Guards are less than 10,000 people, and should be about 7,000. The rest are young men from various tribes, totaling 30,000."
"Thirty thousand people were beaten for almost two hours in an hour, and they died just like this?"
Everyone looked at Chu Qing, feeling very strange, as if they were asking, what do you think?
In fact, in the era of cold weapons, many battles, especially sieges, lasted for ten days and a half, but even ten thousand people might not die.
This kind of thing is supported by data. Going forward, Huang Yueying's husband, Zhuge Liang, a famous Lao Lao during the Three Kingdoms period, went to the Northern Expedition to Chencang. In a few months, thousands of people died, and they died during the withdrawal.
Much.
As for why blood flowed into a river and even the moat was dyed red, that's not nonsense, but some people understand the word "river" incorrectly. River is the river of the moat.
The moats of many cities are only thirty or forty meters long. Just this section can be filled with five hundred people and up to five hundred corpses.
Let’s not talk about Huang Yueying’s husband. Going forward, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Hunan Army were fighting, they attacked Nanjing and fought for several months. In the end, 30,000 or 40,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 were killed on both sides. There is no specific number, but it will definitely not exceed this number.
You must know that Nanjing was a big city at that time, and the Hunan Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also besieged Anqing. They fought for more than a year, more than a full year, with about 50,000 people, and the combined strength of both sides was hundreds of thousands.
This is a cold weapon war. There is no Thanos snapping his fingers, no principal carrying a machine gun, and not a single grenade flying apart. It is just shooting arrow after arrow, stabbing with gun after gun. More than 3,000 archers shoot out with one arrow.
, if you can shoot fifty or sixty people to death, you are relatively lucky.
Two sharpshooters, Xiao Yi and Tian Hailong, also found longbows and started firing arrows.
According to the rank of these two people, if they don't shoot, once they shoot, they will definitely hit the high-level target's face.
But the two of them watched for a long time while holding their bows and strings. Most of the thieves looked like herdsmen. Some of them didn't even wear leather armor. They were either holding shields or bows. They were either pushing up ladders or climbing ladders.
A few people had nothing in their hands, just weapons and shields pulled from corpses.
After shooting a few unlucky people with random arrows, Tian Hailong looked at Ma Rujing: "Commander, I feel something is wrong."
Ma Rujing showed a mysterious expression.
Something is wrong, my handsome... I haven’t been feeling right for a long time.
The reason why he ignored Chu Qing just now was because Ma Rujing didn't understand what Liang Rong was doing today.
Chu Qing was quite disappointed.
There was no big scene, thousands of arrows were fired, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded throughout the world.
It was just a group of desperate Liangrong pushing the ladder forward, grinding and chirping. The border troops on the top of the city kept firing arrows, killing a group of them. Tiehanhan Liangrong continued to make up for it, and then pushed forward.
Maybe after pushing for less than five or six steps, another batch died, and they continued to change. In short, it was very ink.
Chu Qing couldn't help but ask: "Thirty thousand people are attacking the city, and there are thousands of archers on top of the city. Do we need to transfer some more people from other camps?"
Ma Rujing finally found an opportunity. He looked at Chu Qing and said jokingly: "Chu Jianzheng, you are not in the military, so it's better to speak less."
"Young Master, don't worry." Fu San said: "If you are ten, besiege it, if it is five, attack it, if it is doubled, fight it, if the enemy is divided, divide it, if it is small, you can escape. There are enough defenders in the city, and Liangrong only has less than 30,000 people."
That’s all, if you can’t fight in, you can’t fight back.”
Ma Rujing sneered and said: "Don't say 30,000 people. Even if another 30,000 people come, I can ensure that Dongguan is impregnable."
As soon as he finished speaking, the melodious sound of the horn was heard. From the end of the line of sight, a dense crowd of rangers quickly ran over to join the Iron Wolf Guards. There were a large number of them, estimated to be around 30,000 people.
Ma Rujing was dumbfounded.
Is it just... such a coincidence?
No one paid any attention to him, not to mention Chu Qing and Tian Hailong. Even the other people around him were indifferent to the old prophet's divine prophecy.
Ma Rujing quickly turned around and shouted: "Change the archer!"
The infantrymen of Guoyi camp, who had been waiting for a long time, took over from the archers on the city wall with their quivers on their backs.
You must know that drawing a bow is also a laborious task. Even with an ordinary longbow, the soldiers can pull it twenty or thirty times at most. No matter how many times it is pulled, the strength will not be able to keep up.
The archer took over, and Ma Rujing's face was as gloomy as water: "Liang Rong mobilized so many troops, why didn't he receive any news?"
No one can answer this question. The border army also has scouts, but they don't go too far into the grassland.
Moreover, the Liang Rong reinforcements are still about 30,000 people. In fact, many of the larger tribes of the Liang people have tens of thousands of people. The grassland is vast as far as the eye can see. Even if hundreds of thousands of scouts are sent out to explore the horses, once they enter the hinterland of the grassland, it takes ten and a half days to walk.
You may not meet a tribe in a month.
Therefore, regarding Liangrong's gathering of troops, it is necessary to plan ahead, as the border army has never been able to fight well.
Chu Qing put up the awning with his hands, full of confusion.
Liangrong just got chicken blood. It comes as it comes, in batches. It’s not normal.