Chapter 276: The Unparalleled Crossbow Soldiers of Daqin
"Woooooo~"
The bull horn sound that resounded throughout the world woke up the generals who were communicating with each other. Looking at the Daqin soldiers rushing forward like a black torrent outside the city, their expressions suddenly changed, "The enemy is attacking the city! Quickly gather all the troops.
Get to the city and prepare to defend!"
"General!" A lieutenant general quickly ordered to the other generals around him, while quickly approaching Xu Rong, "Wang Jian is preparing to attack the city, what should we do?"
"He came to see me!" After a long silence, Xu Rong asked with a cold expression, "Have the injured men been settled? How many of them are still able to fight now?"
The lieutenant hesitated for a moment and replied in a low voice, "Everything is settled, but Pingyang County is just a small town, and we have too many injured brothers. There is a serious shortage of medicinal materials, and there are not enough doctors, so we can't be busy at all!"
The only ones who can still fight are these three thousand on the city wall, but there are still two thousand men in the city who were on guard duty last night and have just returned to rest. When they hear the horn sound, they will definitely come to the city soon!"
"Have we reached this point?" Xu Rong was silent, and his straight waist seemed to be bent a little, "Let the sons and daughters prepare. I, Xu Rong, am sorry for everyone! Pass my order, if the city is broken, surrender
Come on! I believe Wang Jian will not embarrass you too much!"
"General..." The deputy general was stunned. He heard something fishy from Xu Rong's tone, and he quickly opened his mouth to persuade.
"Okay!" Xu Rong waved his hand to interrupt his words, turned around and walked towards the city head, "But before the city is destroyed, let me take you to have a good meeting with Wang Jian for a while. Now the offensive and defensive momentum has changed.
In the end, someone’s attack failed to break through Wang Jian’s defense, so now let’s see if Wang Jian’s attack can directly defeat someone’s defense!”
After the words fell, Xu Rong's gloomy eyes slowly glowed with a hint of brilliance, and his body seemed to stand upright again.
At this moment, the soldiers of Xiliang in Pingyang City, under the command of many generals and lieutenants, have successively made preparations for defense. All the tools that can be used to defend the city have been placed on the city wall. However, due to the defeat, they were surrounded.
, Pingyang City is also a small city, so the city's defensive equipment that can be used for defense is extremely scarce. Most of the tools now are rolled logs made from demolished houses in the city, stones, and a few arrows.
Xu Rong came to the top of the city and looked outside the city.
At this moment, the morning sun has risen, and the morning fog shrouding Pingyang City has been broken by rays of sunlight and gradually dissipated.
Xu Rong looked down and saw a large army arrayed neatly outside the city. They were wearing black clothes and armor, holding spears. Under the command of Wang Jian, they were like a black torrent, marching in neat steps towards Pingyang County step by step.
Move forward step by step.
In the center of the black torrent, Wang Jian was riding on a solid black horse. He was wearing black armor and had a sword hanging on his waist. He was extremely powerful. As Xu Rong's eyes fell on his sacred body, Wang Jian seemed to have something.
He felt that he also raised his head, and looked at Xu Rong from a distance from a distance of three arrows, with a hint of divine light in his cold eyes.
"stop!"
The army continued to move forward. When they were within a distance of two arrows from Pingyang County, Wang Jian lightly stopped his horse and sat down, raised the sword in his hand and shouted in a deep voice.
As soon as the sound fell and the army stopped, the black-armored torrent composed of tens of thousands of soldiers was like one body. The moment Wang Jian raised his sword, it stopped advancing and quickly returned to the previous tight formation, standing solemnly. The invisible evil spirit slowly rose.
It rises like ripples in the air and spreads around.
Xu Rong himself is a man who is well versed in the art of war and strategy. When he attacked Yicheng and fought with Wang Jian, he only saw Wang Jian's ability to command the army to defend. Now he saw the formation of Wang Jian's army below, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink inward.
After a long while, he murmured to himself, "With such a powerful army, it would not be an injustice for someone to be defeated by you!"
Under the city, Wang Jian looked at the deputy general beside him and whispered: "Wang San'er, lead two thousand crossbowmen to the high ground on the left and aim at the Pingyang City Gate. As long as the opponent shows signs of opening the door to break out, you will kill them without mercy!"
By the way, remember to bring the things I prepared for you before!"
"No!" The deputy general accepted the order and immediately waved his hand behind him, leading two thousand soldiers wearing light armor and holding powerful crossbows to rush towards the high ground on one side.
The short bow and powerful crossbow have always been the standardized long-range weapon of the Qin Dynasty. It was the important unit of the Qin Dynasty that ended the 200-year-long War of the Seven Kingdoms, swept across Liuhe, and unified the world. It far surpassed the existence of archers.
Therefore, what led to the development of the Qin's crossbow troops was so powerful, but we have to start from two points.
First of all, let’s look at the difference between crossbowmen and archers. Generally speaking, archers are mostly infantry archers, which means that longbows are standard equipment. However, most foreign races and the Zhao State, which rides and shoots in Hufu, require horseback shooting.
He and his horse shoot quickly, so short bows are mostly used. However, whether it is a long bow or a short bow, the user's
Arm strength, eyesight, and skills all have extremely high requirements. Compared with the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty who have been fighting with foreign races all year round, traveling across the grasslands, riding in Hufu and shooting at Zhao State, and most of the foreign races who grew up on horseback, they have extremely high requirements.
There was a huge gap, which of course the First Emperor, who wanted to unify the world, could not allow it.
In this case, the crossbowmen, which were simpler to operate than bows and easier to form standard cluster formations, came into the eyes of the First Emperor. The crossbows of the Qin Dynasty, through the exquisite mechanism design, not only greatly reduced the arm strength requirements of the user, but also greatly reduced the arm strength requirements of the user.
As long as you press the hidden button, you can use the crossbow to shoot a far longer range than ordinary long and short bow arrows. It is also simple to operate. As long as you are familiar with the structure of the crossbow and know how to care and maintain it, you can be considered a qualified crossbow.
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Secondly, archers emphasize moving and shooting. The core is to shoot arrows quickly and accurately, and to respond quickly to self-protection. It is not necessary and they are not allowed to engage in close combat. Therefore, they generally need special soldiers to protect them, or they need to be in a safe place to attack. Crossbow soldiers have added
Melee training, equipping with armor, and strengthening melee capabilities. In other words,
Archers can only be used as archers. Once they are caught in close combat, although they are not at the mercy of mercenaries, they do not have much ability to fight back. However, even if crossbowmen are approached, whether it is a close range shot from a crossbow machine or a drawn out waist
The close combat with short blades was more in line with the requirements of the First Emperor and the Qin generals for the Qin army.
In short, compared with the time-consuming and laborious training of qualified archers, the rapid and standardized production of crossbowmen and the simple mastery of shooting essentials, as well as the melee combat ability that far exceeds that of archers, crossbowmen have gradually become the main long-range force of the Qin army.
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During the campaign, the generals of the Qin Dynasty gradually honed and designed three battle formations that could perfectly bring out the combat power of the crossbow troops based on the characteristics of the crossbowmen. This made the crossbowmen of the Qin Dynasty the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty to sweep across Liuhe.
