Chapter 742: The Western Suburbs of Shouying, the first round of confrontation (2)
"Then...what the hell is it?"
"All dead...all...all dead..."
"How could...how could this have happened..."
On the battlefield, countless peasant soldiers stopped charging and looked at the land littered with corpses with wide eyes, fear, and even despair.
They were frightened and stunned by the powerful power of the Wei army's hundreds of Lu machine crossbow boxes.
Because Tongze who rushed in front of them all fell to the crossbow bolts sprayed by those ghosts as expected.
They saw with their own eyes that a strong man was shot into a sieve by the crossbow bolts fired from the front in the middle of the charge, and countless holes were pierced throughout his body.
And this is not the worst thing, because the land stained red with blood in front of you is full of broken limbs and broken arms - I don't know how many peasant soldiers had their arms shot and broken during the charge.
His legs, feet, and even his head were shot directly.
In fact, not all the peasants and soldiers on these lands are dead at this moment, because there are still people alive, but these people have lost many parts of their bodies and are falling in the sea of corpses, sometimes vomiting blood.
, eyes desperately waiting for death to come.
Some people are howling in pain, some are laughing crazily, or some are crying helplessly.
Looking at this scene, even Wei Bing felt horrified.
In front of them was an open space of only about twenty feet, and further ahead was a mountain of corpses that made them feel numb.
Twenty thousand?
Thirty thousand?
Or is it more?
In just the blink of an eye, the Chu peasant soldiers who rushed towards them had turned into corpses on the ground.
Those peasant soldiers, even if they risked everything and tried their best, they could not cross this natural chasm of only twenty feet, which was created forcibly because of the hundreds of Lu machine crossbow boxes.
"Gu..."
At this moment, countless Wei soldiers looked at the hundreds of dead objects with horrified eyes. Even though those dead objects were now a pile of rubbish, they could not relieve their fear of them.
"What a terrible weapon of war..."
Looking at this scene from a distance in his formation, Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun didn't attach much importance to Lu's "mechanical crossbow box". After all, the range and power of this thing were inferior to the serial crossbow developed by his Wei State Smelting Bureau. The only one thing is that even the crossbow could beat a horse.
Can't catch up.
That is the sustained lethality within a certain period of time.
Because as long as there is no malfunction and there are still enough crossbow arrows in the box, Lu's mechanical crossbow box can continue to shoot crossbow arrows. It can be called an automated weapon. It is far more complicated than Wei's.
There are so many great ways.
Especially when it comes to dealing with infantry, they are simply killing machines.
However, he was shocked, and Zhao Hongrun's mentality was quite correct.
Because he knew very well that the most fundamental reason why these Lu machine crossbow boxes were able to cause such shocking casualties to Chu peasant soldiers was that the equipment of those peasant soldiers was too backward. Some peasant soldiers even simply
There is no defensive equipment at all.
On the other hand, if the Chu soldiers on the opposite side had a strong and thick iron shield, could the Lu machine's crossbow box still cause such huge casualties?
It is very likely that it will be reduced to a toy - it cannot shoot through the enemy's shield, and no matter how many crossbow bolts you shoot, it will be in vain.
In this regard, the Wei State's repeating crossbow will not have this problem. After all, the Wei State's repeating crossbow can penetrate an iron shield as thick as a knuckle at medium and close ranges.
The only drawback is that it takes too long to load arrows, which can easily be exploited by the cavalry.
"Perhaps the ejection technology of the automatic repeating crossbow can be applied to the repeating crossbow?"
Zhao Hongrun thought to himself.
It's not that his heart is so strong that he dares to think about other things on a battlefield of this scale. In fact, it's just that he doesn't want to pay attention to the battlefield at this moment.
Because it's really miserable there.
It was so miserable that even if he was a Wei man, he couldn't bear the Chu peasant soldiers who were massacred by Lu's advanced technology.
That red land was simply a hell on earth.
Isn't it right? At this moment, many Wei soldiers are pale, and some of them have even bent over and vomited.
I believe that at this moment, even the toughest soldiers cannot look at the tragic situation over there.
"It's simply a one-sided massacre..."
In a corner of the front line of the Wei army, Gan Mao, the former general of Qi's Donglai army, looked at the tragedy in the distance, sighed and shook his head slightly, and couldn't help but murmured: "This kind of ghost is simply an insult to war..."
Hearing this, the soldier Le Bao glanced at Gan Mao with some surprise, and rarely took the initiative to talk to him: "That is a war weapon developed by Lu, your ally of Qi."
However, after hearing this, Gan Mao shook his head and whispered stubbornly: "Whether it is the State of Lu or the State of Wei, this kind of thing should never have been made..."
It has to be said that this former general of the Donglai Army of Qi State, although he once looked down upon the Shang Shui Army and even insulted him, he was undeniably an orthodox general.
Of course, he is also a general who is stubborn and has old ideas.
Maybe in their minds, war should be fought by the generals on both sides relying on their own strategies, and the soldiers on both sides relying on their abilities. Even if it involves some conspiracy, it is better than bringing out such nonsense to destroy the war.
Yes, destroy war.
The craftsmanship of the Lu State has influenced the battlefield culture that has been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years.
But Le Bao scoffed at this: "What the hell, if it can win, it is good."
"..." Gan Mao glanced at Le Bao and said nothing more.
After all, after getting along with each other for many days, he has become very clear that this young man named Le Bao is a typical profit-oriented person. To put it bluntly, he is the kind of person who will do whatever it takes to win.
"What do you think?" Gan Mao turned to ask the soldier Yang Wu Dao.
Yang Wu scratched his head and said with a smile: "I prefer battlefields with real swords and guns, but I don't like this kind of stuff."
"This is right!"
Gan Mao smiled slightly, feeling as if he had met a close friend.
In fact, there are not a few Wei soldiers who hold ideas like Gan Mao and Yang Wu. However, no matter what their true intentions are, it cannot be denied that the hundreds of Lu machine crossbow boxes have brought great consequences to the Wei army.
Huge advantage.
Narrowing the strength gap between the two sides is not only secondary, but the most important thing is morale. For example, at this moment, the peasant soldiers are actually in a daze on the battlefield because of the crossbow boxes. Even the Chu army commanders and generals at the rear are keeping
They urged, scolded, and even started killing people, but they could not prompt these peasant soldiers to continue attacking the Wei army's front line.
Even those hundreds of Lu's machine-operated crossbows were now a pile of useless waste.
Faced with this situation, Nanmen Chi, as the commander of the Wei army's front line, naturally would not miss this opportunity and immediately sent out several elite thousand-man troops to launch an attack.
"Team Ran Teng! Team Zhang Ming! Team Xiang Li!...Go out!"
The three elite thousands-man troops of the Shang Shui Army immediately rushed out of the array after receiving the order.
Well, it is inappropriate to call it a thousand-man team at this moment, because these three thousand-man teams, after leaving the Shang Shui Army for several months, absorbed many civilians from the Chu State who were willing to defect to the Wei Army, and have already developed into three
A special team of one thousand or even five thousand people.
However, Ran Teng, Zhang Ming, and Xiang Li kept Zhao Hongrun's teachings in mind, "Soldiers are more valuable than more elites," and they divided the veterans and recruits into two echelons and did not mix them.
Otherwise, Nanmen Chi would not choose them as the sharp blade to penetrate the Chu army's formation.
"It's our turn!...Kill!"
Thousand-man general Ran Teng's words were always concise and clear. Following his order, thousands of veterans of Ran Teng's team rushed out of the front line, and under the envious eyes of the new recruits of the team and other nearby Wei soldiers, rushed towards
The peasant soldiers of Chu State came to the distant place.
"..."
Seeing this scene from a distance, Wu Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Shangshui Army in the central army, couldn't help but glance in the direction of Nanmen Chi.
It is undeniable that whether it was the luring tactics used to confuse the enemy at first, or the effective killing of the enemy by the longbowmen later, or the subsequent investment of hundreds of Lu machine crossbow boxes at close range, and now, taking advantage of
When the military morale of those peasant soldiers was in doubt, the timing of sending out Ran Teng's team, Zhang Ming's team, and Xiang Li's team, three elite thousands-man teams of his merchant navy, was perfectly grasped. He was worthy of being a former general of the Chu Kingdom.
The commander-in-chief of Xiangcheng.
"It's just that if you want to penetrate the Chu army's formation on the opposite side... I'm afraid it's not enough, right?"
Wu Ji let out a long breath.
After thinking about it, Wu Ji did not stop Nanmen Chi. After all, so far, Nanmen Yang's tactics had not made any major mistakes, and he had no reason to stop him.
He was just a little worried about the three elite thousand-man troops of his Shang Shui Army. After all, the peasant soldiers of the Chu State on the opposite side were certainly vulnerable, but behind these people, there were the main army of the Chu State and the Chu State whose strength was not comparable at all.
Local county division.
The latter two showed no signs of wavering in military morale, and there was no chaos in the formation. Under such circumstances, how easy was it to penetrate the Chu army's formation?
It has to be said that although Wu Ji is young, he is still a general who has experienced the battle of Sanchuan. He can see through Nanmen Chi's mentality at this moment - because he seized the opportunity, the Chu army suffered huge casualties.
It is inevitable that the generals commanding the front line will be somewhat overconfident.
To put it bluntly, Nanmen Chi was too eager for success.
Remember, haste makes waste.
Shaking his head, Wu Ji ordered the soldiers on his left and right to pass on the order: "Pass the order, our army is preparing to fight, and tell all battalions and departments to be ready."
Many of the messengers nearby looked at each other in confusion, and went to convey Wu Ji's general order with a lot of confusion.
They couldn't figure out why it was their turn for the center army to prepare for war when the front army was clearly gaining momentum.
However, subsequent facts proved that Wu Ji was indeed a general with the potential to be a general, and he sensed the crisis in advance: due to Nanmen Chi's radical tactics, although the Wei army's front army penetrated the Chu army's peasant soldiers, it did not take long after that.
, the front army under Chi's command in Nanmen was also penetrated by the Chu army and local county divisions that were dispatched in full force.
This is no wonder, after all, there is a huge difference in the number of troops between the two sides.
The front army was penetrated, and the central army commanded by Wu Ji naturally had to directly face the menacing Chu regular army.
But having said that, this is also the most common battle situation on the battlefield in history: the elite of your army penetrates our army's formation, and the elite of our army penetrates your army's formation. It depends on which side can concentrate its strength to suppress the opponent's main formation first and kill the enemy.
Capture the flag and win.
Since ancient times, frontal combat has been nothing more than this.