Following Bao Erji's order, the sound of the compound bow strings being fired was heard endlessly, accompanied by various curses in Hun language, and a wave of black arrows rose into the sky and headed straight for the Beifu Army's formation. Come.
Behind more than a hundred Beifu Army crossbowmen, before they rushed into the shield guard, they were shot by these bows and arrows, and the sounds of "pounce" and "pounce" could be heard endlessly.
A soldier named Sanzhu said "Ouch" and instinctively wanted to reach out to touch the arrow feathers on his back, but he heard a voice on the ground: "Why are you so stunned? Come down and pretend to be dead!"
Sanzhu suddenly understood and fell to the ground. His teammate Yu Qiujin was lying next to him. He tilted his head and looked at him: "How are you? Are you hurt now?"
Sanzhu curled his lips and said, "No, I just felt like something hit my back. It seemed like it didn't even penetrate the first layer of armor."
Yu Qiujin smiled slightly and took out a feather arrow. The eyes of the soldiers who were pretending to be dead on the ground were immediately attracted. They saw that the arrow was not made of iron, but was polished from bones. It looked rough. , even a small piece fell off, and most of the remaining arrows attached to the wooden arrow shaft were crumbling and seemed to fall off at any time.
Another soldier named Ge Erdan blinked and wondered: "How could this arrow be made of bones? Captain Yu, what's going on?"
Yu Qiujin smiled proudly and said: "Don't you understand? Brother Jinu said that these Huns cavalry are slaves and servant tribes on the grassland, not the overlord tribe. The current King of Qin is afraid of the rebellion of these Huns, so The arrowheads given to them are all made of polished bone, and they are not allowed to have pig iron to make iron arrowheads. Otherwise, these Huns might rebel against Qin first."
Sanzhu and others suddenly realized: "So that's it. It's just that this bone arrowhead, how can it break through armor and fight? Isn't this letting people die."
Yu Qiujin shook his head: "No, bones can also be sharpened. Look at this bone arrowhead. It is very hard. Even our fine steel armor can penetrate it. The Huns' bow The bowstring is made of the finest animal tendons, and when fired from a horse, it is very fast. Even a bone arrowhead can penetrate leather armor and kill a person at a distance of fifty paces, which is enough."
Having said this, Yu Qiujin touched the armor behind him, frowned, and found a small armor leaf with a hole in it in his hand, and said: "See, even that fine steel armor piece, This arrow also made a hole. If we weren't all wearing heavy armor, I'm afraid we wouldn't be pretending to be dead now, but actually dying!"
Sanzhu sighed convincingly: "Thanks to Brother Jinu for getting these fine steel armors for us when we were in the blacksmith camp, otherwise we would really have died today."
Yu Qiujin smiled "hehe": "Usually I tell you how awesome Brother Jinu is, but you don't believe it, now you know. If nothing else, in today's battle, you can see that he uses his troops like a god. "
Ge Erdan kept nodding his head and said: "Captain Yu is right, we are really convinced today. However, how long are we going to keep pretending to be dead on the ground? If the Huns' horses charge over, aren't we going to be trampled to death?" !”
Yu Qiujin spat at Ge Erdan angrily: "Damn it, how can he pretend not to understand like his grandma? We are in this formation now, not in the wasteland outside. Ma Teng, what Brother Jinu said is not wrong, let’s pretend to be dead now to lure the enemy, the enemy won’t dare to rush over, there is a long spear from the front guard in front of us.”
Sanzhu's eyes lit up: "Then, can we still get up and kill people? Last time I only took one head away. This time when I fired the crossbow, I saw that I shot down two of them, but they didn't let me go up and take them back." "
Yu Qiujin shook his head: "That's all. Brother Jinu said that grabbing heads on the battlefield will mess up the formation. After this battle is over, the battle merit will be distributed according to everyone's performance. Heads, don't I’m afraid I’ll be left empty-handed!”
Everyone's faces turned gloomy and they laughed: "Captain Yu, this is what you said. When the time comes we don't have the head, so we will ask you for it!"
Yu Qiujin buried his head in the ground and said in a deep voice: "If you believe me, I am the letter slave brother, understand. Everyone lies down and pretends to be dead. Otherwise, how can the thieves be fooled!"
In the Xiongnu cavalry formation, after firing two or three arrows, the first line of cavalry pulled away to the left and right sides. Less than twenty steps away from the front of the Jin army's infantry square, they fired two lines of arrows. Whip-like diagonal lines passed by, and under this round of arrow rain, it seemed that the bodies of forty or fifty crossbowmen fell in front of the garrison on the opposite side. All of them had arrows in their backs, and they moved a few times on the ground. After falling, they could no longer stand up, and the remaining crossbowmen, seemingly in despair, got behind the shields of the shieldmen and fled to the garrison. On top of those shields, people quickly A dozen feather arrows were inserted, shaking slightly.
Baoerji was stationed less than 150 steps away from the Jin army's infantry formation. About a hundred steps in front of him, three or four cavalry lines were advancing like waves. After the horse archers quickly fired a few bows and arrows in their hands, they pulled to both sides. After making a circle, they returned to a place about two hundred steps behind, reorganized their team, and then continued forward.
The subsequent cavalry line continued to charge forward, firing three to four arrows from a distance of fifty to twenty steps, and then once again passed sideways across the Jin army's square formation. While going around, they fired again from the side. Opening the bow and releasing arrows, another burst of arrows shot into the forest-like formation of spears. Soon, even the long spearmen of the Jin army's vanguard who were in front were already covered with feathers. Arrows, and from time to time, some people would be hit by arrows and fall down. They would soon be dragged into the formation by their companions behind them, and then someone would quickly top them up.
A smile gradually appeared on Baoerji's face, and a deputy general beside him said excitedly: "General, are we going to attack with all our strength and break the enemy's phalanx at once?"
Baoerji waved his hand: "No, don't worry now. After the enemy's crossbowmen's attack was repulsed by us, the archers never dared to come out to shoot with us. They just took hits without fighting back. It seemed that they wanted to Lure us to attack, huh, I won't be fooled. Don't you know how Shao Bao died earlier? If they attack intensively, they will have flying arrows, and the one who died is our brother. Just keep shooting like this. Anyway, we have plenty of arrows! "
Suddenly, a red flag flew up from the Beifu Army Commander's Post opposite, and Baoerji's expression changed: "No, the enemy is about to change formations!"
