The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 72: Bow crossbow
The morning light is dawning, and when the first ray of sunlight hits the ground, the horn in the barracks rang.
All the commanders of countless battalions and teams all got up and came to the camp, asking their troops to gather, form a formation, eat breakfast, and then take a break to go to the battlefield.
For these troops, Zhong Yu is still very concerned about their daily lives. He has a meal every day. Although he only has a small piece of meat, and the rice is full, there are usually some vegetables added. Very hearty meals.
At the very least, many small wealthy people in the countryside can't afford it, but under the accumulation of dozens of hundreds of years of the nobles and clans that Zhong Yu obtained, they can be said to be rich and powerful.
And you can eat wherever you go. It is completely solving resource problems on the spot. Without logistical pressure, you can provide unlimited food.
They can’t eat much anyway, they will become cannon fodder on the battlefield in a few days. Ten of them don’t know if they can survive one or two, so what can they be stingy about?
Watching the soldiers eating today’s breakfast with expressions of excitement, they were even discussing whether the food fits their appetites. How long have they not had such a good meal?
The officers didn't stop it, although there was a military order in the army that explicitly forbids making noise. Let them be quiet and happily finish such a breakfast. Later, they will become the first people on the battlefield.
The defense force in CD City is still quite strong, and the quality of those troops is relatively good. It is not comparable to the previous county soldiers and military police.
If you want to take that city, you have to rotate at least five or six batches of him, and as the first batch of 5,000 people, they will definitely welcome the fiercest attack from the defenders to hit yourself. Morale on one side.
When the time comes, these happy soldiers are still eating. Five thousand people passed by this morning. Five thousand people don’t know if they can survive him for one or two thousand. Let them indulge for a while, and how can they be so cruel to stop him? Of it!
Soon, these soldiers ate their meals, and Zhong Yu thoughtfully asked them to do some exercises after meals, so that they could wait more, so that they wouldn’t have stomach pains from strenuous exercise after eating. , Died for this ridiculous reason.
After the sound of the horn, about an hour, with the sound of a cowhide drum, the heavy and solemn bugle sounded continuously.
The barracks opened one after another, carefully counted, in front are five five thousand squares, these squares are lined up, and there is only a road that can accommodate four or five cavalry. .
and behind are two phalanx of five thousand crossbows. Before Zhong Yu, he also captured four counties and counties. From those county capitals and the family’s family, he found his five thousand strong Crossbows formed his 5,000-strong crossbow team.
The remaining phalanx is the bow team equipped with iron bows. The maximum range of these two phalanxes is 300 meters and the effective range is 150 meters.
And Zhong Yu, with the two thousand system soldiers and three thousand Hanzhong County veterans, set up another command platform behind the five phalanx.
As the command post on the battlefield, the high platform is very high, and it is as high as the 20-meter-high wall of CD City, and the situation of the battlefield and CD City can be clearly seen.
Seeing that the troops are all on the battlefield, the formations are also neatly arranged, waiting for the order to attack, they can use their lives to win the chance of survival and further glory at any time.
"Offensive!" After carefully observing the battlefield for a while, Zhong Yu found that the situation between the enemy and the enemy was not bad.
The cannon fodder on my own side, although many people were very dissatisfied that they were killed and injured because they forced them to attack yesterday.
But because of my side, there are as many as 20,000 supervising teams. Moreover, their family members are in their own hands, and they still dare not resist their orders for the time being, and can only obey them.
"Boom!" With a rush of drums, the 5000 people in the first line slowly approached the wall.
The faces of those cannon fodder were unwilling and fearful, but the 1,000-plus supervising team standing behind them drew a line behind them.
clearly told them that if there is no order, those who cross this line will be killed.
So they can only reluctantly and unwillingly walk forward with a very slow pace, only hoping that the road in front of them is so far, they can walk all morning and drag it to the end of this war. .
But after all, all this is just extravagant hope, just after ten minutes of doing him, the cannon fodder army is close to the bow and arrow range of the city wall army.
As the governing office of Yizhou, it can be said to be the capital city of Yizhou, and it can be ranked first in the whole state.
In order to suppress the entire Yizhou, there will be no shortage of weapons in it, and there are three thousand bows and crossbows.
This is because there has been no war for many years, and the weapons reserves in the treasury have not been preserved, and have been decayed and destroyed a lot, only a fraction of the original.
Three thousand crossbows were assigned to three thousand guards on the city wall, and Lord Shishi did not expect them to shoot as many as possible.
I just hope that they can shoot all the arrows in their hands, and hit as many enemies as they can. It's better than no long-range strike.
There was a bang, and three thousand arrows shot out like rain, a piece of black, the metal arrow gleaming in the sunlight.
咻咻 sounded, although their hit rate was not very high~IndoMTL.com~, they still took away hundreds of soldiers' lives. As long as it reaches a certain density, no matter how low the total head is, it can also have a certain effect.
If someone can't imagine the concept of those three thousand arrows, then you can refer to the scene of the movie hero Qin army attacking Zhao, where the Qin army is 3,000 people, similar to the defenders in the city.
Anyway, the cannon fodder who saw this tragic scene for the first time was shocked. Many soldiers hesitated to move forward, and even some of them were already paralyzed by fright and fell to the ground. Another person directly took the opportunity to escape, but was shot to death by the supervising team that had been staring at the back.
Seeing that these soldiers were so useless, the supervising teams hacked and killed hundreds of them in succession, trying to force those soldiers to come forward. But found that those soldiers still refused to move, even if they would rather be killed by their own supervising team than daring to go up.
Seeing the bear-like appearance of those soldiers, Zhong Yu knew that if the supervising team were to be killed again, it would very likely cause a mutiny, which would eventually lead to a rebellious blow by those soldiers.
After all, many of those soldiers are strong men who have been forced by themselves. Although they have taken good care of their lives during this period, it is still impossible to make them grateful for letting them go to the battlefield.
asked the supervising team to stop what they were doing, and Zhong Yu let the two phalanxes of crossbows at the back slowly step forward, stopping at a distance of 200 meters from the city wall.
After some training, they are much better than those rookies on the wall. At least their accuracy is not very accurate, but the general direction can still be understood.
Under the intensive shooting of the army formation, there is no need for a long quasi-head, as long as there is a general position.
At that time, under the overwhelming rain of arrows, no matter where the enemies hid, he had nowhere to escape. He could only be pierced by the arrows, and he died very aggrieved.