Chapter 4157: It's still possible
Although Carano and others used the strategy of playing against the east and attacking the west, this trick was not a problem for the shield guards who were not changing in a normal manner.
Although the drums and drums in the northwest attracted the attention of many outer shield guards, except for the Wu Ban shield guards, the shield guards in other places were not driven at all. Just as other soldiers had strong confidence in the shield guards, the shield guards themselves also believed that the group of people who were causing trouble in the northwest direction were handled by the nearby shield guards, and we continued to garrison on the spot.
Therefore, when the Kushan soldiers holding the bones appeared on the east side, the shield guards led by Xu Ding and others seemed very calm, and this was not coming.
After fighting with Shield Guards for so many years, the second talented soldiers under the Kushan command either continue to strengthen defense or heavy weapons to attack this type of talent. After all, only these two talents are superimposed to fight Shield Guards.
Other fancy talents are basically scraping. In order to better use heavy weapons to strike, all the two-tale elites in the Kushan who hold heavy weapons to strike are basically equipped with long-handled bones.
Although the effect of Guduo's attack on Shield Guards is not so good as time goes by, it is ultimately more powerful than sharp, cutting and piercing talents.
"Fight a wave of crossbow machines." Before Xu Ding could order to strictly guard the front and make the first wave of attacks against the Kushans, Wu Yi had already issued an order first.
Although I can't figure out how many people there are, and I don't know what kind of killer you Kushan has, it's absolutely fine to use a heavy crossbow to strike to see the quality.
Accompanied by Wu Yi's order, the shield guards in front of Xu Ding quickly separated a passage, and then a large number of shield guards holding crossbows appeared on the front line. Compared with the long-distance shooting performed by Wu Ban before, Wu Yi's shooting was directly flat this time.
Therefore, when Carano saw a large number of shield guards appearing on the front line and felt something was wrong, dense crossbow arrows were already covered like rain.
Even if Wu Yi was not a defensive force in this wave of attack, he used conventional iron crossbow arrows, but short spear-level things pierced like flying sand, which was really like cutting wheat for the Kushan attack.
The Kushan soldiers at the front were directly bombarded and shot tyrannically. They directly tore out a bloody path on the Kushan front, and the charge was directly pressed down.
Even the Carano, who had been swearing before, was like a basin of cold water pouring on every 39 days. It was a joke when facing such an ambition and a sneak attack.
Compared with the Kushan attacks that the shield guards cannot even scrape, the Han army's coverage of the crossbows used by the Kushan can be said to be a devastating blow.
It can be said that just a wave of flat shots directly fooled Carano's command. Even if the suicide squads rushed to the front, the death of the suicide squads in an instant was enough to make everyone's hearts cool. The value of crossbow machine shield guards was shown on the battlefield for the first time.
"Retreat!" Carano ordered immediately. Even if he had to fill in his life, he would not be like this. Their formation was not suitable for facing crossbows.
The Great Yuezhi had experienced the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and had witnessed how the Great Qin crossbow formation torture and kill the legions of other countries. Although the Great Qin crossbow formation was powerful in that era, the six countries were not unable to make breakthroughs by adjusting their formation.
But since we all say that we rely on the formation to break through, the normal dense charge formation is definitely not in line with the front-facing crossbow formation.
Therefore, after being hit by a wave of pain, Carano decisively took advantage of the chaos and retreated quickly while it was dark. Wu Yi naturally quickly added a second wave of shooting. However, the effect was not very good this time. The crossbow machine used a dense army formation to conduct flat shooting, but it was completely inferior to the infantry when fighting the scattered front. Carano was also a wise man, so he retreated directly with scattered troops.
Wu Yi's second wave of additional arrow strikes was naturally not so lethal. However, even so, the two volleys of fire caused Carano to lose at least a thousand people, and this was just a blow from a reorganized crossbow machine and shield guard army. Wu Yi had three such legions.
After two consecutive rounds of night attacks with tiger-headed and scared ends, the outer periphery of the Han army camp suddenly became silent, as if Kushan had completely given up on the night attack. However, Wu Yi and others' keen intuition vaguely realized that the Kushan generals had not left, at least they did not give up.
The information of Hran and Carano quickly summed up Brah and Helilah. Both of them looked extremely solemn. They had reserved a lot of crossbow chariots in recent years and were preparing to attack the Han Dynasty during the night attack. Unexpectedly, the Han Dynasty prepared more crossbow machines.
"It is estimated that the number of crossbows will exceed 10,000." Helirach combined all the information of Helan and Carano and said to Brach with a gloomy face. "This scale is really too unexpected, and the strength of the Han army is even more outrageous than we imagined."
"Why have we been putting it in the opposite inner line, why have we never reported this?" Brah looked at Helilah with a pale face and asked.
In order to build these more than 3,000 crossbows, Brah cut down all the forests west of Boluoyega to the intersection of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers.
Although the cut down these forests is not entirely for the purpose of creating crossbows, but more to ensure the expansion of vision and avoid the Han army scouts relying on the forest to touch the vicinity of Boluoyega, more than 3,000 crossbows really took Brah a lot of energy.
Brah planned to use this thing as a killer weapon, but as a result he worked hard to create, the Han army next door had inexplicably owned 10,000 crossbows. Although the size and power were not as big as those of a car crossbow, its power was only one aspect in the battle between the crossbows.
At least the Han army's crossbow machine, within the visible range, hit most of the Kushan soldiers, was enough to kill them directly, and this power was enough.
Helilah was quite silent and turned the short spears brought back by Dhahran and Carano. As a staff officer who personally organized the production of more than 3,000 crossbows, he naturally knew the approximate size and power of the crossbows used as crossbow arrows.
Because of this, Helilah had to doubt his own inside line. Ten thousand small and medium-sized crossbow machines that can use short spears as crossbow arrows will not be able to produce no information without any information, unless these crossbow machines were not produced by the Ganges.
Thinking of this, Helirah recalled the information conveyed by his insider before, and then thought about the information about Jinhou and Chenhou, with a vague guess.
"These crossbows were probably transported from within the Han Dynasty." Helilah said, "The Marquis of Jin and Marquis of Chen from the Han Dynasty came here in person, so it is reasonable to bring a batch of crossbows."
"Ten thousand crossbows are not a small number, especially for this medium-sized crossbows. When transported from the rear, the manpower and material resources are not a small number. Moreover, the distance is long, and the mechanical loss will be very large." Brach said with a frown and frown at Helirach.
"It was transported by sea." Helirah sighed and said, "In the past, the Han army could not have transported supplies by sea, but after His Highness Selyan died in battle, no one could stop the shipping, at least under Zhou Yu's escort. With the Han army's transportation capacity, ten thousand crossbows are not a problem at all. Even if the Han army has more, they can be transported."
When Brah and others heard this, their faces looked extremely ugly.
"In other words, the Han army may have more crossbows and shield guards?" Brah said with an ugly expression. Even he had to admit that Helirach's analysis was correct.
"It sounds outrageous, but in fact, it is normal." Helilah looked at Brah and said, "So we need to use the method of facing the Qin crossbow formation of the six countries to fight against the Han army. We don't know how many crossbow machines the Han army is equipped with, and we can only use the method of facing the Qin state in the past to fight."
After all, Helirah is a descendant of Sogdian historians and has read these old papers a lot, so when facing this situation, there are still some ways.
"Actually, I have always wanted to ask one thing, how could they have so many crossbows?" Brach suddenly asked, "I didn't think it was before, but this time it was too outrageous. It took me almost two years to organize so many people and do nothing to make three thousand crossbows. The Han army took out tens of thousands of crossbows casually."
Theoretically speaking, large crossbows and small crossbows are the easiest to produce, while medium crossbows are the most difficult to produce, because when large crossbows are equipped, the parts are easier to adjust, and the board requirements can be appropriately reduced, and it will not affect the roughness when making them. After all, no one will expect that the accuracy of the bed crossbow is too high.
Small crossbow machines can be made by professional craftsmen and apprentices alone. Practice makes perfect, and the efficiency is relatively high.
On the contrary, medium-sized crossbows are the most troublesome, and the Han Dynasty is the most difficult to make medium-sized crossbows according to the size of the equipped crossbow arrows, which is outrageous.
"The Han Dynasty is different from us. They can move the crossbow machine onto the assembly line." Helirah said calmly, "This is the legacy of the Qin Dynasty, and we don't."
"We can learn." Brach said seriously.
Helilah looked at Brah like a fool, "Do you know why it is said to be the legacy of the Qin Dynasty? This means that there must be a person like Qin Shihuang to do it."
The assembly line is simple, but the starting requirement is uniform weights and measures, unified accuracy, process disassembly, and skilled workers and technical workers cooperate with each other.
But this requirement is completely impossible for Brach. Not to mention Brach, India could not completely unify the local weights and measures in later generations. A country has several common measurement methods, as well as several types of railways, several languages, and several rules.
"You seem to highly respect Qin Shihuang?" Brah looked at Helilah with some surprise, "I heard other feelings from your tone."
"We need a character like that." Helirah sighed.
Since being beaten by the Han Dynasty for the first time, Helilah was able to withdraw from the main battlefield. He had time to calm down and read his own books, and search for the classics of the Han Dynasty to understand, learn, understand, and understand the essence of this powerful country from historical books.
However, as he saw more, Helirah understood more and more what the Kushan lacked. Their Kushan Empire did not lack population, food, soldiers, and had a wide area and a wide range of resources. He lacked a great emperor who inherited the inheritance they gained from the Kushan like Qin Shihuang.
If there is such an emperor, many problems will no longer be problems, such as the commander of the army, and the organizational strength of the soldiers, if they resolve their own internal conflicts, they will not be able to build up such combat power.
"There is no such person. Many things that seem simple are empty words. Only such people can shape a complete soul for a huge empire." Helirah said very seriously. "The six countries are not one, but the foundation that created the whole body, the Han Dynasty inherited the legal system and was able to carry forward it."
Brah didn't understand why, and Helirah was unwilling to say more. He knew in his heart that he could not solve the problem of internal Chinese culture and could not complete the unity based on the details of customs, language, and weights and measures. Sooner or later, under the rule of the Kushan Empire, it would be divided into hundreds of national states again.
"Forget it, these are useless. In short, five people will use a crossbow cart in groups. After the shooting is completed, they quickly push the crossbow cart away from the original place and then shoot again. We are using crossbows, the purpose is to facilitate movement." Helirah said to Helan, who was commanding the crossbow troops.
"Okay, I will do my best." Helan said cautiously, and then said his previous experience. "I mean that the hay wood of the crossbow can block the opponent's crossbow machine. Then why don't we try to put the hay wood shield on the car and then push such a car to attack."
Brah and Helirah were both stunned when they heard this. They had never thought about this problem. It took 30 to 40 centimeters to replace the shield's shield with wooden ones to have the defense of early steel shields. However, because it was too thick and its self-weight was too outrageous, it was impossible for the Kushan soldiers to use it, so they never considered this problem.
However, Helan had previously faced Wu Ban leading the crossbow machine and shields to shoot, hiding under the crossbow, and was able to escape. He had not thought about escaping from death before, but along the way, Helan even formed the form of a car in his mind.
My wooden shield can't withstand the blows of your crossbows, but I can always withstand it when I push the car. It doesn't even require special processing. A century-old tree cut down and a wooden pile that is dozens of centimeters thick, after being strongly warmed up, it can be built on the car in a few days. This is much easier to build than a crossbow.
Chapter completed!