After a while, strange-looking chariots slowly appeared in the Wei army's array, moving slowly towards the battlefield.
These strange chariots, which the soldiers of the Merchant Navy jokingly called "turtle chariots", are shaped like a huge turtle, about the size of a house, and except for the bottom, the other five parts are front, back, left, right, and top.
They are all covered by thick iron armor and are invulnerable. They can be called copper walls and iron walls.
The only problem is that since this kind of turtle chariot is propelled by manpower from the soldiers inside the chariot, its maneuverability is simply terrible. Even a three-year-old child can leave it far behind.
Of course, Zhao Hongrun originally did not expect these tortoise-shell chariots to cause any casualties to the Qin army. Their existence was originally to build a line of defense.
"Dang Cang..."
"Dang Cang..."
Each tortoise-shell chariot moved slowly towards the battlefield at an appalling speed. What made the sound was the iron chains hanging between every two or three chariots. There were about six or seven chains, and their positions were staggered.
Perhaps noticing the tortoise-shell chariot coming from the rear, Shang Shui Army General Wu Ji was slightly startled.
Because as far as he knew, when these tortoise-shell chariots were put into use, it meant that a certain King Su had decided to launch a full-scale attack.
Yes, it may sound a bit ridiculous that 20,000 Wei troops launched a full-scale attack against more than 100,000 Qin troops, but in fact it is true.
No, behind the defense line composed of tortoise-shell chariots, the Wei army's crossbowmen were slowly moving forward following these iron turtles, and from time to time fired crossbow bolts toward the front at a small angle.
In fact, Wei's crossbow is not only capable of shooting straight, but it can also be slightly raised, which does not affect the power of the crossbow.
At least for the Qin army's flimsy armor or even the tattooed soldiers without any armor at all, even the Wei crossbow with the least powerful projectile can still cause considerable casualties.
"Clean up the body!"
Wu Ji issued an order to the Shangshui soldiers under his command.
At this point in the war, the sword and shield soldiers of the Shang Shui Army are no longer needed to kill the enemy. The crossbow soldiers of the Wei Army will replace the sword and shield soldiers as the protagonist of this war.
Under the astonished gaze of countless tattooed soldiers, the sword and shield soldiers of the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army stopped advancing and focused on cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield, leaving a "passage".
What on earth is Wei Jun doing?
The Qin army's tattooed soldiers and Changge soldiers couldn't understand it, but not long afterward, they saw something very incredible - a steel defense line composed of hundreds of tortoise-shell-like chariots and iron chains.
At this time, the crossbowmen of the Qin army had also pressed forward on the front line and fired arrows at the Wei army, but the effect was minimal.
Because the soldiers of Shangshui Army and Yanling Army relied on the shields in their hands and the strong armor on their bodies, they withstood the rain of arrows from the Qin Army's crossbowmen almost unscathed.
As for those turtle-shell vehicles, the arrow rain was unable to cause any hindrance to them.
On the contrary, the Wei crossbowmen behind the tortoise-shell chariot defense line brought a devastating blow to the Qin army with their Wei crossbows that had a longer range and greater power than the Qin crossbows.
The Sichuan and Luo cavalry were dispatched, guarding the two wings of the Wei army's crossbowmen; and the 50,000 northern Sichuan cavalry who had not entered the battlefield so far slowly appeared from the Wei camp in Hangu, trailing the Wei army, with unknown intentions.
At this time, General Wang Lu of the Qin Army had arrived at the forefront of the army. He looked solemnly at the abnormal Wei Army, feeling that something was wrong in his heart.
His intuition told him that the Wei army was preparing for a general attack, but the question was, with such a huge disparity in strength between the two armies, the Wei army really dared to counterattack the Qin army?
You must know that the reason why the Wei army was able to block several ferocious offensives by the Qin army just now is that in addition to the Wei army's weapons and equipment being far superior to the Qin army, the geographical environment also played a certain role - the Wei army was located in the narrow area of Hangu. In this narrow space,
The various encirclement tactics of the Qin army were restricted, and they could only choose to break through.
But now, the Wei army came out of that narrow area. What were they thinking?
"..." Wang Lu looked at the slow-moving tortoise-shell chariots of the Wei army with an expressionless face, and then looked at the crossbowmen of the Wei army behind the tortoise-shell chariots' defense line.
He knew that as long as the Chang Ge soldiers and the Tattooed Army could break through those turtle-shell chariots, then the Wei army's crossbowmen behind them would be lambs to be slaughtered.
The question is, can you make it through?
Just when Wang He was thinking about this problem, the Qin army's Changge soldiers and tattooed soldiers had already launched an attack on the tortoise-shell chariots.
They rushed in front of these turtle-shell vehicles and used their weapons to chop and chisel hard. However, they were still unable to pose any threat to the thick iron armor.
They changed their minds and wanted to pass through the iron ropes between the turtle-shell chariots, but just as they stepped over one chain and were about to cross the second chain, the Wei soldiers' crossbowmen behind the turtle-shell chariots launched a volley, cold and cold.
The crossbow bolts penetrated their fiery bodies.
If we say that when they faced the sword and shield soldiers of Shang Shui Army and Yanling Army, Qin's Chang Ge soldiers and tattooed soldiers still had the courage to fight back, but now facing those iron lumps, they were a little at a loss.
These ghosts are invulnerable...how to kill them? In other words, how to stop them?
"Open the way for the chariot convoy!"
Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, once again ordered his soldiers to clear the road so that the chariot fleet could pass through the battlefield littered with corpses.
The sword and shield soldiers of the Wei Army, who had just been so famous, could only be reduced to porters now, because the protagonists of the battlefield at this moment were the crossbowmen behind the chariot convoy.
The crossbowmen of the Wei army spread freely, creating waves of arrows that filled the sky, killing the bewildered Qin soldiers in front of the chariot.
If there were still casualties between the Wei and Qin armies just now, then now it is simply a one-sided massacre.
Because the Qin infantry on the front line of the battlefield could not cross the defense line composed of those turtle-shell vehicles, and could not effectively threaten the Wei crossbowmen behind them.
"Puff-"
"Puff-"
One after another, the Qin army infantrymen were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. When they died, their faces were blank.
They don't know how to fight back.
What? The general of the Qin army who commanded the battle?
Those generals of the Qin army had long been killed by Wei's snipers.
To be precise, both the Qin generals riding war horses and the Qin pawns suspected of being generals were successively killed by Wei snipers, so that at the moment, when the indestructible tortoise-shell chariots formed a steel defense line,
As the Qin army slowly approached, the Qin army infantry were at a loss and did not know how to counterattack.
"Chariots! Chariots..."
"puff--!"
A Qin general shouted to summon a chariot, hoping to use the chariot to break through the Wei army's defense line. However, as soon as he showed his head, he was shot by a Wei army sniper, killing him with one arrow and falling off his horse.
However, the Qin Army's chariot convoy was still summoned, and they sprinted towards the Wei Army's turtle-shell chariots, not knowing whether they wanted to knock down those sturdy turtle-shell chariots, or to cut off the iron chains between two or three turtle-shell chariots.
However, in the end, they failed to do any of that.
The soldiers of Shangshui who accompanied the tortoise-shell chariot looked calmly as the oncoming Qin army's chariots rammed into their Wei army's tortoise-shell chariot, but the latter did not even shake.
During this period, several Qin Army chariots also tried to cut off the iron chains between the tortoise-shell chariots. However, with one cut, in addition to sparks flying, the iron ropes only appeared as a white path, but those few chariots "collided" with each other.
"Dead" on those iron cables, people turned over, and there was no more sound.
"Clean up the body!"
The thousands of generals of the Shang Shui Army calmly issued general orders and removed the obstacles that hindered the advancement of the turtle car one by one.
As a result, the Wei army's tortoise-shell chariots continued to move forward and continued to crush the Qin army.
From the beginning to the end, these tortoise-shell chariots caused almost no casualties to any Qin army. They just advanced in an orderly manner. The ones who really killed tens of thousands of Qin troops were the Wei crossbowmen behind these tortoise-shell chariots.
These Wei crossbowmen repeated the steps of loading and firing crossbow bolts, without even considering safety issues, because the Qin army's infantry could not touch them at all.
In fact, because of the range, even the Qin army's crossbowmen could not pose any threat to them.
"This cannot be considered a war at all..."
General Wang Lu of the Qin Army looked at that scene with a gloomy expression, and led his cavalry guards to charge towards a tortoise-shell chariot. Then, with the help of the power of the galloping horses, he slashed the iron wall of a tortoise-shell chariot with his sword.
superior.
There was a clang, and the blade of the long knife in his hand broke. But looking at the turtle-shell carts, there was only a shallow dent.
"Is it so strong?!"
A look of horror appeared on Wang Lu's face. He naturally knew how powerful his angry attack was, but in front of Wei's tortoise-shell chariot, it was nothing worth mentioning.
"puff--"
A slender arrow penetrated Wang Lu's shoulder. He subconsciously looked behind the turtle car. Several Wei sniper crossbowmen were slowly putting down their weird sniper crossbows and preparing to load the crossbow bolts. The rest of the Wei crossbowmen
, but had already pointed the crossbow in his hand at him.
"Protect the general!"
More than a dozen of the escort cavalry shouted and rushed in front of Wang Hao.
Immediately, there was a loud popping sound, and each of the dozen or so mounted guards were shot by more than a dozen arrows, vomiting blood and fell off their horses.
"General Wang Lu, retreat immediately!"
One of the escort riders who was lucky enough not to be shot to death on the spot shouted loudly with his mouth full of blood.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, he was shot into pieces by Wei crossbowmen.
"..."
Gritting his teeth, Wang Hao rode away.
The Qin army in the middle of the battlefield has collapsed and is being massacred by the Wei army's infantry, chariot soldiers, and crossbowmen. On both wings of the battlefield, 50,000 northern Sichuan cavalry have outflanked them at some point. They are extremely ambitious and seem to want to conquer the entire area.
The remaining ten thousand Qin troops were slaughtered.
The entire battlefield was filled with arrows, and hundreds of Qin soldiers were killed by arrows almost every time they blinked.
Looking at this scene, both Qin General Wang Lu and Qin Shaojun clearly realized how big the gap between the Qin Army and the Wei Army was.
Is the Qin army not fierce enough?
No, this is the difference caused by the armaments of the two countries.
The military strength of the Wei State allowed them to turn the tide of the war even if they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.
"The Qin army was defeated..."
In the Wei army's main formation, Lintao Lord Wei Ji said with a complicated expression.
"This is natural." Zhao Hongrun said lightly: "We know the composition of the Qin Army's arms, but the Qin Army knows nothing about us, not to mention...the technology of each other is very different."
Lintao Lord Wei Ji exhaled with a complicated expression, and then asked seriously: "Next step, Your Highness will take advantage of the victory to pursue?"
"There is no next step..."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly and said in a deep voice: "Today, let Qin Jun understand what despair is!"
After that, he waved his hand and shouted: "Order! Attack with the whole army! ... Capture the main camp of the Qin army for me! Destroy this Qin army in this grassland!"