"Cum for me!"
"Shoot these Qin people to death!"
Under the order of Guishuang Jihou, tens of thousands of Yueshi cavalry took a round of crossbow fire 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.
Because the Wugang chariot had a shield wall blocking the front, the shots fired by the Yuezhi cavalry were all aimed diagonally at the sky.
Let the arrows fall in a parabola from high altitude to kill the Qin soldiers behind the car base.
Tens of thousands of horse archers stood in a large circle around the Qin army's chariot formation, shooting in the middle together. Arrows were flying in the sky, which looked quite spectacular from a distance.
"The enemy is shooting, hide!"
Alerts 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 immediately picked up their shields and squatted down to protect themselves. Those without shields either got under the car or quickly ran towards the middle of the car array.
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 shoot, 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 thrown 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. They screamed 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 crossbows, 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!"
Lajiagu, the son of Guishuang Jihou, raised his arms and shouted, giving the order to charge.
The Yuezhi cavalry surrounding the outside immediately roared and rushed towards the car formation.
The Qin army in the car base also reacted immediately.
"The Yuezhi people are coming. If you want to survive, you have to fight them desperately!"
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, stabbed it out from the gap between Wugang's chariots, and stabbed directly into the chest of a running Yuezhi cavalry.
The Yuezhi cavalry was rushing over 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 shaken by the impact.
"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 Yuezhi'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 vehicle barrier took long weapons and passed through the gaps between the vehicles 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 they were the Chu people, the Qi people, the Koreans, 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 Qin'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 projectile counterattack. Outside the chariot were densely packed with human heads, and random projectiles could cause damage.
In addition to hand crossbows and bows and arrows, there are even foot-strung crossbows in the car 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 his 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 weapon. oxen and horses.
"If my troops are equipped with these Qin weapons, the entire grassland will be mine!"
The eyes of Guishuang 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 wanted 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 carriage 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!"
The frontline commander Lajia Gu shouted loudly and ordered the Yuezhi people to dismount and fight on foot, trying to get into the car formation through the few holes that had been knocked open.
But the Yuezhi people under him are not iron soldiers who are not afraid of death.
At this moment, seeing that the car barrier was difficult to attack and the corpses of their own people were everywhere on the ground, a large number of Yuezhi people started to think about running for their lives, and some actually turned around and retreated.
"I will kill all those who run away and retreat! Cowards 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 Guishuang.
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 why would 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!"
Faced with the roar of Kushan Jihou, Sugatha wisely shut her mouth.
The eyes of Guishuang Jihou were bulging as he stared at the fierce battlefield ahead, with veins bulging 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 break 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 fodder, and take their weapons back, then my efforts will not be in vain, and my battle plan will not be considered a failure!"
Guishuang Jihou gritted his teeth and kept whispering in his heart, numbing himself.
There is a saying in psychology called "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, everything will be in vain, everything will be a loss.
Moreover, after returning, he will lose all his prestige, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
"We're here, so many people have died, so 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 order 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 formation was really in a precarious situation.
Wang Li, who was commanding from 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 where the sound came from.
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 surroundings.
"Marquis Xi, they are the cavalry of the Qin Army!"
"The Shuangmi tribe was defeated, and the Qin army came to kill them!"
