Chapter 220 Battle of the Crossbow
Without Cui Juye's order, the three generals Jiang Qi, Han Juzi, and Lu Weihuang who had already ordered the launch of crossbow arrows in the front stage. In an instant, countless long arrows shot from Yuan's army roared violently, forming a harsh roar in the air, thrilling.
The dark clouds rose from the front of the two armies, blocking the light of the sky and the sun, constantly approaching and converging in the air, either passing by without interference, or roaring and colliding with each other, falling into dust together. Finally, the ruthless nail shot on the body of the creator of the death storm, creating one brightly colored blood flowers.
Blood was mixed in the dust and smoke rising all over the sky, like the morning mist that had not dissipated, and like the undead reluctant to leave. He was attached to the world, but he was reluctant to leave.
Fresh lives are like waves of wheat in the fields. Under the caress of the strong wind, they are blown down and disappear in batches. Some people are pierced by long arrows and fly backwards; some are viciously nailed to the ground by long arrows, facing the sun, with numbness and sadness on their faces.
The Qingzhou soldiers' crossbows always maintained a certain firing speed, with the bows, squeezing, aiming, and shooting rhythms completely invisible. What can be seen is waves of arrow rain rising after waves, and then hitting the opponent's crossbow arrow formation from top to bottom. The powerful crossbows were like huge waves, and the waves were not settled and then rising again.
"Rise the shield..." With a loud roar, the war drums sounded loudly. When Yuan Jun's shield player came after the crossbowmen, he gathered up all his strength and raised the 100-pound oar high to block the death storm from the opposite side for the comrades of the army and form the only barrier for the army. The army's army Jiang Qi's troops were completely defeated.
Three arrows, only three arrows, the two thousand powerful crossbowmen of Jiang Qi's army, who were arranged in densely, fell into a pool of blood. Jiang Qi, who was left with the center arrow on his right shoulder, led three hundred remaining soldiers to escape back and forth.
However, the two thousand powerful crossbowmen in the front formation of He Jun in Qingzhou, the opposite Qingzhou still continued to rush the string without decreasing the number of personnel, and turned to Han Juzi's troops in the left formation to shoot.
Cui Juye's face was ashen. What's going on? Why did the direct shooting face to face without any protective force? The powerful crossbowmen in the central army were almost wiped out, but the enemy did not decrease. Cui Juye stood on the horse's back and looked into the distance. Then he realized that it was not that He's army had not decreased, but that He's army had reduced too few troops, at most only 10% of the damage rate, so he couldn't feel it.
Looking at the left and right wings, the distance between 190 steps, He's crossbow arrows did not kill much to the Yi army, which was because there was no strong crossbow. However, the Yi army did not kill much to the He army, which was strange. It was the effect of armor, and Cui Juye immediately thought of this.
The Yuan army developed too fast, from nothing to an army of 150,000 to 150,000 or 60,000, but only two and a half years ago. Although they obtained the armor of the entire Jizhou army, they were only enough to have a set of weapons and leather armor, and only the team leader had armor equipment. If the iron armor was above, except for the military marquis level, only the 20,000 army led by the four generals directly under Yuan Shao was qualified to be equipped.
Unexpectedly, He Bai's army... No, this is the direct army led by He Bai, and it is not surprising that everyone has armor. However, he was careless and underestimated the enemy and used a partial army to fight He Bai's main army.
Just as Cui Juye was thinking anxiously, Han Juzi's troops had been shot by He's army, killing and injured nearly 30%. Later, although there was protection from the big oar, Han Juzi's troops had been taken away due to the escape of Jiang Qi's troops in the Central Committee and the heavy casualties, and they were taken back. Under the escort of the shield player, they hurriedly retreated. At this time, only Lu Weihuang's right army was still remaining, insisting on shooting against He's troops.
Cui Juye shouted loudly: "I'll order Lu Weihuang not to care about He's left army, but to turn to the center and defeat He's front line in advance."
Lu Weihuang, who received the order, turned to the center under the escort of the shield formation. However, no matter how tightly it is, it is impossible to block all attacks while moving, and death is inevitable.
After 10% of the casualties, Lu Weihuang's troops finally arrived at the center and, under the defense of 1,500 large-scale swords, were preparing to launch fierce shooting at He Jun, but found that He Jun had already had two thousand large-scale swords protection in front of him, which could be said to be one hand. There were five hundred large-scale swords protection on both left and right wings, like a turtle shell.
For a moment, the battlefield fell silent for a while, and neither side launched an attack on the enemy. In just one meal, all the central crossbow formations of Yuan's army were defeated, with more than 30% casualties in the left army's crossbow formations, and the lightest-destroying Right Army's crossbow formations also had a casualty rate of 10%. The battle was so fierce that Yuan's army was stunned.
The powerful crossbowmen in He Jun's front row were breathing heavily to relieve their previous intense emotions, and watched the baggage soldiers nervously carrying wounded soldiers and retreating to the camp. The other baggage soldiers were still kneading their arms for the strong crossbowmen who had made great contributions just now and relaxing their fatigue.
"Report, lord." Cheng Qi reported the news to He Bai with joy, and said, "The last general and Lu Ping have lived up to their destiny, quickly defeated the enemy's central powerful crossbow formation, and also repelled the enemy's left army's powerful crossbow formation."
He Bai praised: "Okay, I have seen the battle just now. You and Lu Ping have worked hard and made great contributions in this battle. However, after the enemy restored their morale, there will be at least 3,000 powerful crossbowmen available. If there are other enemy soldiers who know how to operate powerful crossbows, I am afraid that the six thousand powerful crossbows will be together. I wonder how many casualties you have in your two units, how many arrows of powerful crossbows are there, can you still fight?"
Cheng Qi patted his chest and replied: "Our second division was killed 137 people, injured 336 people, and there were more than 1,500 people. The baggage troops collected the crossbow arrows shot by Yuan's army, and the crossbow arrows fell down and did not hurt much. At present, our army is very morale and can fight again."
He Bai didn't expect that this battle would be so smooth. The battle method of queuing up and shooting was too fast to determine the outcome. However, the casualties of this tactic were also great. Fortunately, the quality of the paper armor equipped by the army was good. Otherwise, even if it was defeated, at least more than half of the casualties would be.
He Bai praised: "Okay, this time you will use your two troops to shoot against the enemy to attract the attention of the enemy. The left and right wings gradually advance forward and launch a fierce attack on the enemy, attracting the attention of the enemy in all respects, and creating good conditions for our army's thrust cavalry."
"Yeah, the last general will take the order."
Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Jiang Qi, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, including Zhao Rui, who was defeated in the early stage, came to the central army and asked: "Deputy General Cui, this battle has reached such a level, do you have to continue fighting?"
Cui Juye said angrily: "The army lost more than 5,000 yuan. Could it be that my command mistake was made in this battle?"
Everyone was speechless for a moment. Zhao Rui's defeat was because he was too careless and was not prepared for it. Jiang Qi's defeat was because he was brave and brave, and of course he also lost because he did not have the same armor as the opponent. This had little to do with Cui Juye.
Cui Juye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What army is capable of is just like this. The biggest disadvantage of its army is that it has too few troops. After the battle just now, everyone has seen that the army has fully developed its combat power, leaving only one thousand cavalry left in the central army. And our army still has 8,500 troops not yet launched, which can be said to have all the advantages."
Chapter completed!