It was night, and the Zhao army took advantage of the darkness to steal the camp. Of course, they were repulsed by the heavily defended Qin army, leaving many corpses behind.
Night battles in the cold weapon era were difficult because communication problems could not be solved, unlike later generations of radio and the like. The night environment could not guarantee the organization of soldiers in large-scale wars, so there were few night battles. Generally, A sneak attack by a small force creates chaos.
A sneak attack by a small group of troops does not even require special precautions. The military discipline of the Qin army alone can ensure that the army will not be attacked by a sneak attack and cause turmoil. Almost any general with any sense can feel Pang Nuan's eagerness to win.
Whether this is normal or abnormal depends on the beholder and the wise. Is it reasonable for a veteran who is over ninety years old to behave so impatiently on the battlefield? The Zhao Kingdom is in danger, and Pang Nuan is worried about Handan, so he is so impatient. ,is he unreasonable?
Zhao Jun Camp
Pang Nuan was talking seriously to Zhang Er, the current leader of Zhao Mo.
"Can that kind of repeating crossbow be equipped with enough machine birds?"
Zhang Er shook his head. Zhao Mo's disciples have tried their best, but, "Even if we have the materials from the previous Iron Blood Alliance, the time is too short. I rely on my Mo family disciples to assemble enough crossbows to defeat Wang Jian in this short time. This..."
The repeating crossbow was improved by Zhao Mo's disciples after they suffered a heavy loss from Master Ban's "Gatling Crossbow" during the battle between the Zhao Army and the Yan Army. A crossbow machine is equipped with a mechanism for high-altitude flight. Birds can cause high-density damage to soldiers on the ground. This is considered a preliminary idea of the Air Force.
Unfortunately, the time given to Pang Nuan was too short, and the current number of new crossbows was not enough to dominate the war situation. He had no choice but to pin his hopes for the war on a weapon that had not yet formed a large scale.
After the trial on the first day of the battle, Pang Nuan was convinced that Wang Jian was still the pragmatic general. He would still choose an upright strategy this time and use the overwhelming force to crush him to death. However, he was unable to crack this type of strategy.
"How many days will it take you to reach the quantity of crossbows I need?"
"We are still short of 7,000 of the 10,000 crossbow machines. It will take at least half a month."
Pang Nuan thought about Wang Jian, the formidable enemy in front of him, and Wang Ben and Yang Duanhe behind him. He took a deep breath, held the hilt of his sword and stared at Zhang Er, "Ten days, within ten days, if the crossbows are not ready, The Mohist disciples, with you as their leader, will all be dealt with according to military law."
"General!" Zhang Er exclaimed, his eyes widening in disbelief.
Pang Nuan was not mean at all. He softened his tone and warned: "You should know what the consequences will be if you fail to defeat Wang Jian in this battle. Do you want to experience how Qin treats prisoners?"
After thinking about it, he was right. Zhang Er naturally did not want to be a prisoner of the Qin people. He gritted his teeth and agreed, "Yes, general, ten days will be ten days."
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. The camp will definitely guarantee the treatment of the Mohist disciples. They will all be ready in the tenth day."
"promise……"
Zhang Er obeyed the order and retreated. Pang Nuan sat on his seat and closed his eyes. He shook his head and sighed, "This won't work, that won't work either. I want to defeat Wang Jian for a while, what should I do..."
In the following days, it was a common practice for both sides to send troops to each other for battle. Every day, they observed the status of the opponent's soldiers, guessed the thoughts of the opponent's general, and judged the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
Wang Jian and Chen were prudent, suppressing the many generals in the military camp who were eager to win, and never agreed to take the lead in launching a decisive battle.
"Mr. Gongshu, is there any way to deal with Zhao Jun's machine birds that can be used for reconnaissance?"
"A reconnaissance machine bird..." Gongshu Qiu stroked his sparse white beard, and his tone was not as arrogant as usual, "If you want to come up with a machine bird to fight the Mo family, I can do it in an instant; but if you want to abolish it, The opponent has such eyes in the sky, I can’t think of a plan for the time being.”
Wang Jian was not demanding, "It doesn't matter, as long as our army's machine bird can suppress Zhao Jun's vision, we don't want to completely make Zhao Jun blind."
Gongshu Qiu said confidently: "General, rest assured that within three days, Zhao Jun's aerial reconnaissance will never appear in our field of vision."
With the Gongshu family as the core, the Qin State established a special department for research, development and production, which was completely different from Zhao Jun's current main reliance on Mohist disciples. Also in order to adapt to the temporary needs of the battlefield, the Qin Army's equipment manufacturing capabilities completely defeated Zhao Jun. .
After suppressing Zhao Jun's aerial vision, Wang Jian began to mentally consider whether he could use the power of the God of War's crossbow to severely damage Pang Nuan with one blow.
This is also the reason why he has always suppressed the use of killing weapons. Although the Hundred War God's Crossbow is powerful, it has no mobility and takes time to deploy. Once one hit fails to achieve a great success, Pang Nuan becomes wary of this weapon. It becomes extremely difficult to capture all of Zhao's army.
That's right, eat all Zhao Jun.
Some things are cruel, but that is the fact. The reason why the Warring States Period was called the Warring States Period by later generations is because the war between countries was a war of annexation and a war of annihilation, with the purpose of wiping out the enemy's vitality.
Wang Jian held a huge advantage. As long as he held back Pang Nuan, the destruction of the Zhao Kingdom would be doomed. However, with the nearly 200,000 elite troops of the Zhao Kingdom, considering the deep hatred between Qin and Zhao, it would be best to annihilate them all.
Pang Nuan was waiting for his preparations to be sufficient, and Wang Jian was waiting for an opportunity to annihilate Zhao Jun in one fell swoop.
Soon, Zhao Jun's machine-gun crossbows were fully prepared, and the two sides once again set up their battle formations. Wang Jian could clearly detect the obvious change in Zhao Jun's momentum.
Commanding the army as usual, using crossbow array gradient fire to cause long-range damage, Wang Jian still wondered to himself, "What's going on? Could it be that Pang Nuan has thought of a way to break through our army?"
Pang Nuan raised his sword high and looked through the dark and bloody sea of people, as if he saw an opponent in the same position as himself. He shouted loudly: "The machine bird attacks, the chariot rushes into the formation, and the cavalry follows."
Wang Jian saw the dense brown shadows flying high into the sky in the Zhao army's rear formation, and instantly thought of many things, "Those are machine birds. With such a number, isn't it good -"
The loading of the automatic repeating crossbow is like a box of later generations, with thirty arrows in each box. The machine bird troops are condescending, and the arrows are like a torrential rain pouring over the sea, washing away the Qin army's formation and suddenly it was quite empty.
The only ones in the Qin army that could attack the machine bird were the inconvenient giant crossbows and the longbowmen who relied heavily on manpower, but these were too late to deal with the air force in front of them.
"Let our military machine birds fly up, and even if they hit them, they will be knocked down." Wang Jian slashed his sword on the railing of the chariot, staring at the thing in the sky with his iron teeth grinding.
"Rumble" The ground shook, and Zhao's steel chariots began to charge. Finally, there came a day when the Qin people could not cope with the enemy's first attack, and had to face the ruthless torrent of steel. The front army was directly defeated under such an offensive.
"Chariot battalion, charge forward; giant crossbows and longbows continue to shoot from a distance."
The chariots of the Zhao army broke the formation and the cavalry harvested them. The Qin army also rushed out with its chariots and struck from the rear to kill the Zhao cavalry from a distance.
If the Qin army was inferior in the battle on the ground, then the battle in the air was simply massacre. The Qin army had no such thing as air combat, but the Zhao army had one experience in attacking the Yan state.
The bird troops are not afraid of the Qin army's insufficient crossbow output.
The air force could not control it, and the entire battlefield situation tilted towards the Zhao army.