The passionate horn stimulates the nerves.
The herd mentality also makes people more courageous.
The charge of the ghost army was not the tacit cooperation of shields and bows, but a swarm of swarms, which looked extremely huge.
At the same time, at the top of the city tower, there was a Qin army holding a flag and ordering the flag to be waved.
Inside the pass, the soldiers cut off the ropes together.
The trebuchets one after another made mechanical bounce sounds one after another.
Looking from the Ghost Army's side, in the sky, large rocks were being thrown through arcs and hitting them head on.
Someone was unlucky, and a huge boulder hit him directly. Under the powerful force, the whole person was smashed instantly, and blood and flesh were splashed. The boulder continued to castrate, fell into the crowd, rolled past, brought a long string, causing a chaos. Howl.
Others who were still charging were tripped and trampled to death.
This is just a corner. In the entire battlefield, with the continuous activation of the trebuchets, more than a dozen large rocks have smashed into the crowd of ghost soldiers, rolled over more than a dozen long lines of blood, and caused more than a dozen chaos.
The ghost army had just launched a charge, and they had not even closed the distance before they suffered such a long-range attack. Although the area outside the pass was wide, their formation was also scattered a lot.
The Qin army did not even think about using stone bullets to repel the ghost army. After a round of throwing, the flag bearer at the top made the flag wave again.
Inside the pass, there were more than a dozen soldiers in charge of each tall trebuchet, and they began to work together to pull it back.
The process of reloading takes some time, but the ghost army did not stop attacking after being hit by stone bullets. It had quickly closed some distance and was about to reach the Qin army's range.
Wei Qing's resolute face showed no expression, and his expression was cold under his helmet. He personally commanded from the center of the city and raised his right hand.
Following his movements, the sound of armor scraping could be heard everywhere. The Qin army officers and soldiers on the city wall all bent their bows and set arrows, all of them were crossbowmen.
"Fire the arrow!"
With a command, the bows and crossbows fired in unison, and a large number of sharp arrows shot out.
This is a direct shot from high to low, not a projectile, and is more lethal.
With such a large-scale arrow shot, the ghost army that was charging forward had no way to avoid it and had to withstand this wave of arrows.
Countless people were instantly knocked over by sharp arrows and fell to the ground. Whenever there was an opening, the sharp arrows that followed would knock over the people behind them.
Of course, there were also many ghost soldiers who raised round shields with several arrows stuck on them, but the Qin army was not alone in this round. After the arrows were shot, two rows of crossbowmen immediately staggered forward, loading powerful crossbows in the back, and loading crossbows in the front. Came again, continuously.
The whole scene looked like one side was charging mindlessly, while the other side was defending on the city wall, shooting arrows from a distance, and the charging side fell down in rows.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
The ghost army has no choice. If they want to attack the city, they have to close the distance. If they want to close the distance, they have to take human lives to fill it.
And the throwing spears they were accustomed to use had not yet reached the distance, and the same was true for the arrows.
At this time, the second round of stone projectiles arrived.
Just like before, the same dozen or so ranged strikes rolled over each other, causing a small-scale turmoil in the ghost army.
Laisen, who was commanding the battle from behind, looked a little gloomy. The ghost general beside him said tentatively: "General, the long-range strike range of the Qin army exceeded our expectations. It is completely different from the previous Central Plains army."
"Don't panic!" Laisen said coldly: "The distance is getting closer and closer. As long as the warriors can fight back and rush to the range of throwing spears, they can take advantage of the situation and attack the city! When the time comes, there will be hand-to-hand combat and Qin How can the army stop it!"
In previous invasions of the Central Plains, spear throwing was a big killer, and in the past the Central Plains troops had weak crossbows and loose defenses. As long as the ghost army was able to handle this round of offensive, they could overwhelm the city defenses most of the time.
This gave Laisen confidence! He knew in his heart that in terms of the bravery of the soldiers on both sides, as long as they could fight face to face, the Qin army would definitely not be able to defeat them.
This is his greatest strength in fighting hard.
On the frontal battlefield, although the ghost army was badly hit by long-range attacks, they did not stop under the military order. After leaving corpses on the ground, they finally closed the distance.
After another round of arrow shooting, the Qin army's crossbowmen suddenly began to retreat one after another.
Wei Qing calmly commanded: "Shield."
"shield--"
There was a lot of drinking.
The sound of neat infantry running sounded, and large numbers of Qin soldiers began to form two long dragons from the left and right sides and gathered in the middle.
Subsequently.
Boom boom!
They hit the ground with vertical shields.
At the same time, the ghost army began to fight back from a distance. After the people in front rushed to a certain distance, they used their running momentum to raise their spears, waved their arms fiercely, and threw them far away.
In an instant, a large number of spears flew out and stabbed at the city gate in a mess.
This is a skill that the spearmen of the Ghost Army must train. In previous plundering battles, it was so powerful that it could often disrupt city defenses, and then take advantage of the situation to set up ladders and attack the city.
But this time, all the spears hit the vertical shields. The weak ones only shook the shields, but the strong ones only knocked down several Qin soldiers, and both men and shields were hit by the impact. It was just knocked over, it didn't stab anyone at all.
Of course, there were also spears that were not accurate enough and fell off the city wall when hit, and there were also spears that flew over vertical shields, but these are no longer important.
Viewed from a distance, the entire city defense was made up of vertical shields forming a steel mirror. Spears kept falling on it, but they could not break the defense at all.
Who is Wei Qing, the founding general of the country? Since he was transferred to Northeast Pass by Xiao Yuan, how could he not have studied the fighting methods of the ghost army?
When the ghost general behind saw this scene, his mouth opened wide with a look of disbelief on his face.
Lathan's eyes widened: "What the hell is this!"
In his opinion, this round of spear throwing was the rhythm point of his own counterattack, but now, the Qin army's defense line did not loosen at all.
"This, this, the Qin army's defense is so good, this is an elite force, general." The ghost general beside him stammered after he recovered his senses: "What should we do now? The warriors have suffered heavy casualties."
"What else can we do! The fight has reached this level!" Laisen said angrily: "No matter how well the Qin army is defended, once they are on the siege ladder, based on the combat power of our warriors, they will die!"
At this time, it is impossible for any general to leave a pile of corpses and retreat without even touching the opponent. What's more, Laisen also used face-to-face hand-to-hand combat as his trump card.
The war is still going on. After several rounds of throwing, the ghost army is a little confused, but there are many spears, and it is almost over now.
On the city wall, the Qin army launched a counterattack again.
The crossbowman emerged from behind the vertical shield, pulled the trigger of the crossbow, and then retracted behind the shield, squatting down to load the crossbow.
Arrows were fired continuously, and the ghost army was still dying in batches.
After a while, he was finally pushed to the base of the wall with his life. (End of chapter)
