Although Carano and others used the strategy of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, this little trick was not a trouble at all for the shield guards who always responded to the ever-changing situation with the same attitude.
Although the gongs and drums in the northwest attracted the attention of many outer shield guards, except for the shield guards of Wu Ban, the shield guards in other positions did not move at all. Just like other soldiers had strong confidence in the shield guards,
The shield guards themselves also trust their teammates. The group of people causing trouble in the northwest will be dealt with by the nearby shield guards. We will continue to garrison in place.
Therefore, when the Kushan soldiers holding Guduo appeared on the east side, the shield guards led by Xu Ding and others seemed very calm. Look, this is not coming.
After fighting with the Shield Guards for so many years, the second talent of Guishang's dual-talent soldiers is either to continue to strengthen defense or to attack with heavy weapons. After all, only these two talents can be combined to fight against the Shield Guards.
A fight.
Other fancy talents are basically scraping, and in order to better use heavy weapon strikes, all the dual-talented elites in Kushan who have the heavy weapon strike talent are basically equipped with long-handled bones.
Although with the passage of time, the effect of Guduo against shield guards has become less good, it is still stronger than the basically useless talents of sharpness, cutting, and piercing.
"Fire a wave of crossbows." Before Xu Ding could give the order to strictly guard the front and prepare to resist the first wave of Kuishang's attack, Wu Yi had already issued the order in advance.
Although I don’t know how many people there are, and I don’t know what kind of trump card your Kushans have, it’s definitely no problem to strike with a heavy crossbow to see how good they are.
Following Wu Yi's order, the shield guards in front of Xu Ding quickly separated a channel, and then a large number of shield guards holding crossbows appeared on the front line. Compared with Wu Ban's previous long-distance ejection, this time Wu Yi launched a direct
It's a flat shot.
Therefore, when Carano saw a large number of shield guards holding crossbows appearing on the front line and felt something bad, dense crossbow arrows were already covering them like rain.
Even though Wu Yi used conventional iron-clad crossbow arrows for this wave of attacks because his opponent was not a defensive force, the short spear-level weapons pierced through like flying sand, and the blow to Kushan was really like
Just like cutting wheat.
The Kushan soldiers at the front were directly bombarded to pieces, and the brutal straight fire tore a bloody path directly on the Kushan front, and the charge was directly suppressed.
Even Carano, who had vowed before, was like a bucket of cold water being poured down on him at this moment. Any ambition or sneak attack was a joke in the face of such a rain of arrows.
Compared with the arrow rain attack on the shield guards of the Kushan side, which was not even a scratch, the crossbow machine coverage used by the Han army on the Kushan side could be said to be a devastating blow.
It can be said that it was just a wave of flat shots that directly blinded Carano's men. Even if the ones at the front were the suicide squads, the death of the suicide squads in an instant was enough to make everyone feel cold. The value of the crossbow shield guard,
Shown on the battlefield for the first time.
"Retreat!" Carano ordered immediately and decisively. Even if they used their lives to fill it, it was not like this. Their formation was not suitable for facing the crossbow machine volley at all.
After all, Da Yuezhi also experienced the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and witnessed how the Great Qin Crossbow Formation slaughtered the legions of other countries. Although the Great Qin Crossbow Formation was powerful in that era, it was not impossible for the Six Nations to make breakthroughs by adjusting their formations.
But since we have said that we rely on formations to break through, the normal dense charging square formation is definitely not suitable for facing the crossbow formation directly.
Therefore, after suffering a wave of heavy blows, Carano decisively took advantage of the chaos and quickly retreated while it was dark. Wu Yi naturally quickly added a second wave of shooting, but this time the effect was not very good. The crossbow machine
The effect of level shooting in a dense military formation is very good, but it is not as good as infantry in a skirmishing battle line. After all, Carano is also a man who knows soldiers, so he retreats directly with skirmishers.
Wu Yi's second wave of additional arrow strikes was naturally not as lethal, but even so, the two volleys caused Carano to lose at least nearly a thousand people, and this was just a reorganized crossbow shield guard.
The attack of the legion, Wu Yi had three such legions.
After two rounds of anticlimactic night attacks ended, the periphery of the Han army's camp suddenly fell silent, as if Guishang had completely given up the night attack. However, Wu Yi and others' keen intuitions vaguely sensed that General Guishan had not.
Leaving, at least not giving up.
The intelligence from Helan and Carano was quickly gathered to Brahe and Helilahe. Their expressions were unusually solemn. They had reserved a lot of ballistae in the past few years, and they were ready to give them to them during night attacks.
The Han Dynasty attacked, but unexpectedly the Han Dynasty prepared more crossbows.
"It is estimated that the number of crossbows will exceed 10,000." Helilach combined all the intelligence on Helan and Carano and said to Brahe with a gloomy face, "This scale is really beyond expectation.
The strength of the Han army is more outrageous than we imagined."
"We installed the inside line on the opposite side, why haven't we reported this matter?" Brahe looked at Helilach with a livid face and asked.
In order to build these more than 3,000 crossbows, Brah cut down all the forest that could be found from the west of Balayaga to the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
Although these forests were cut down not entirely to make crossbows, but more to ensure the expansion of the field of vision and prevent Han army scouts from relying on the forests to reach the vicinity of Baloyiga, more than three thousand crossbows were really expensive.
It took a lot of Brahe's energy.
Brahe intended to use this thing as a trump card. As a result of his hard work, the Han army next door inexplicably possessed 10,000 crossbows. Although the size and power were not as good as the crossbows, they could be compared with the crossbows.
In a machine-to-machine confrontation, power is only one aspect.
At least the Han army's crossbow machine, within the visible range, could hit most of the soldiers in Guishuang and kill them directly. This kind of power was enough.
Helilach was quite silent and shook the short spears brought back by Helan and Carano. As a staff officer who personally organized the production of more than 3,000 crossbows, he naturally knew the general principles of using such short spears as crossbows.
size and power.
Because of knowing this, Helilach had to be suspicious of his own insiders. Ten thousand small and medium-sized crossbows that can use short spears as crossbow arrows cannot be manufactured without any information leaking out, unless these crossbows are not
Produced by the Ganges River.
Thinking of this, Helilach recalled the information passed by his insider before, and then thought about the information about Jin Hou and Chen Hou, and made some vague guesses.
"These crossbows were probably produced and transported within the Han Dynasty." Helilach said, "The Marquis of Jin and Chen of the Han Dynasty came here in person, so it is reasonable to bring a batch of crossbows."
"Ten thousand crossbows is not a small number, especially this kind of medium-sized crossbow. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to transport it from the rear. Moreover, the journey is long, and the mechanical loss will be very large." Brahe frowned and looked at it.
Helilach said.
"It was transported by sea." Helilach sighed and said, "In the past, it was impossible for the Han army to transport supplies by sea, but after His Highness Selian died in the battle, no one can stop the sea transportation, at least under the escort of Zhou Yu.
Yes, with the Han army's transport capacity, ten thousand crossbows are not a problem at all, and even if the Han army has more, they can be transported."
When Brahe and others heard this, their faces looked extremely ugly.
"In other words, the Han army may have more crossbow shield guards?" Brahe said with an ugly face. Even he had to admit that Helilahe's analysis was correct.
"It sounds outrageous, but in fact, it is normal." Helilach looked at Brahe and said, "So next we need to use the method of the Six Nations to face the Qin Crossbow Formation to fight the Han army.
, We don’t know how many crossbows the Han army is equipped with, so we can only fight in the same way that the Six Kingdoms once faced Qin.”
After all, Helilach was a descendant of Sogdian historians, and he read these old documents frequently, so he had some methods to deal with this situation.
"Actually, I've always wanted to ask one thing, how come they have so many crossbows?" Brahe suddenly asked, "I didn't realize it before, but this time it was too outrageous. It took me almost two years to
, organized so many people and did nothing to make three thousand crossbows, but the Han army casually took out tens of thousands of crossbows."
Theoretically speaking, large and small crossbows are the easiest to produce, but medium-sized crossbows are the most difficult to produce, because when large crossbows are assembled, larger and smaller parts can be easily adjusted, and the plate requirements can also be reduced appropriately.
, it doesn’t matter if it is rough during production, after all, no one would have too high expectations for the accuracy of the bed crossbow.
Small crossbows can be made by a professional craftsman with an apprentice. Practice makes perfect, and the efficiency is relatively high.
On the contrary, the medium-sized crossbows are the most troublesome. According to the size of the crossbows equipped in the Han Dynasty, they are all medium-sized crossbows that are the most difficult to make. This is outrageous.
"The Han Dynasty is different from us. They can move the crossbow machine onto the assembly line." Helilach said calmly, "This is a legacy of the Qin Dynasty, but we don't have it."
"We can learn." Brahe said seriously.
Helilach looked at Brahe as if he were a fool, "Do you know why it is said to be the legacy of the Qin Dynasty? This means that there must be a figure like Qin Shihuang to do it."
The assembly line is simple to say, but the starting requirements are unified weights and measures, unified precision, process dismantling, and the cooperation of skilled workers and technical workers.
But this requirement was completely impossible for Brahe. Let alone Brahe, later generations of India would not be able to completely unify the local weights and measures. A country has several common measurement methods and several railways.
There are several languages and several laws.
"You seem to admire Qin Shihuang very much?" Brahe looked at Helilach strangely, "From your tone, I heard other emotions."
"We need a figure like that." Helilach sighed.
Since being beaten for the first time by the Han Dynasty, Helilach was able to withdraw from the main battlefield and have time to calm down and read his own books. He also looked for and read the Han Dynasty classics to understand, learn, and understand this from historical classics.
The essence of a strong state.
However, after seeing more, Helilach came to understand more and more what Kushan lacked. Their Kushan Empire did not lack people, food, and soldiers. It had a vast territory and rich resources, but it lacked someone like Qin Shihuang to lead them.
The great emperor who absorbed the inheritance and kneaded it into one body and passed it on.
If there is such an emperor, many problems will no longer be a problem, such as the issue of the commander of the large army and the issue of the organization of the soldiers. After solving their own internal conflicts, it is not impossible for their Kushan army to build up such combat effectiveness.
"Without such a person, many seemingly simple things are just empty words. Only such a person can create a complete soul for a huge empire." Helilach said very seriously, "The six countries are not one, but
He created the foundation of unity, and the Han Dynasty inherited the legal system and was able to carry it forward."
Brahe did not know why, and Helilach was unwilling to say more. He knew in his heart that he could not solve the cultural problems between China and China, and could not unify details such as customs and habits, writing and language, and weights and measures. Sooner or later, the Kushan Empire would once again
It was divided into hundreds of kingdoms.
"Forget it, it's useless to say this. In short, a group of five people will use the crossbow. After the shooting is completed, they quickly push the crossbow away from the place, and then shoot again. We use the crossbow for the purpose of easier movement."
Helilach said to Helan, who was commanding the crossbow unit.
"Okay, I will try my best." Helan said cautiously, and then told about his previous experience, "What I mean is that the thick wood of the crossbow can block the opponent's crossbow, so why don't we try to use the thick wood
Put the shield up on the cart, and then push the cart to attack."
Brahe and Helilach were both stunned when they heard this. They had never thought about this problem. It would take thirty to forty centimeters to replace the shield guard's shield with wood to have the defensive power of the early steel shield. However, due to the
It was too thick and too heavy, so it was impossible for the Kushan soldiers to use it, so I never considered this issue.
However, Helan was able to escape when Wu Ban led a volley of crossbow shield guards and hid under the crossbow. He had not thought clearly about his escape before, but along the way, Helan even constructed a plan in his mind.
The shape of the car.
My wooden shield can't withstand the blows of your crossbows, but I can withstand the blows of your crossbows, but I can push the cart. It doesn't even need special processing. A hundred-year-old tree is cut down, and the wooden piles are tens of centimeters thick. Strong warming.
After that, they are set up on the vehicle and thousands of them can be manufactured in a few days. This is much easier to build than the crossbow machine.
"Is this the way to use it?" Brahe looked at Helan in surprise, then took a deep breath, "Withdraw to Baloyega first."
