Chapter 44 City Gate 3
The Qin people conquered Yiqu, but the Qin law was not completely adapted to the grassland, just like the Qin law was not suitable for the Jianghan Plain. The Yiqu people were accustomed to migration, and only the policy of gentleness could make them settle down, become subjects of Qin, and fight for Qin. This was also a kind of assimilation, but Yiqu destroyed the country for only 35 years, and many people at that time were still alive.
Even in the era of stirrups, the cavalry was still dominated by the grassland tribes, and even more so in the era of no stirrups. Last time, the Qin army cavalry suffered a loss when Qin Chu fought, and this time Xin Wu specially transferred Yiqu people who could shoot arrows on the horse's back.
Using a crossbow at the horse is completely different from using a archer. Using a crossbow can only shoot one arrow, and using a bow can shoot dozens or hundreds of arrows, but the cost of cultivating a cavalry who uses a crossbow at the horse is different from cultivating a cavalry who uses a crossbow at the horse is different. Cultivating a archer at the shortest time to five years and ten years to long, training a archer at the same time almost takes a lifetime in this era (you have to start riding a horse since you were a child, but less than half of the people who can live to adulthood). The war machines of Qin were not afraid of expensive crossbow machines, but they hated endless practices over the years - soldiers are common people, and common people have to farm, so how can they have time to ride and shoot?
Yiquzi is the leader of this cavalry. The fat man was sitting in a carriage at this time. The carriage was wider than the Qin army's chariot and extremely luxurious. The painted carriage, wheels and spokes, the body woven by leather strips, golden flowers, honeysuckle, agate, painted pottery, and shells were completely kingly. Seeing his warriors driving the Chu people out of the city protection, he burst into laughter excitedly, and after a sip of wine, he regretted: "It's a pity that he didn't get a head."
"I have seen General Xin, General Wang." The carriage drove under the banner. Yiquzi, surrounded by generals, bowed to Xin Sheng and Wang Jian in the carriage. He complained to his face: "There is no head, and the men are helpless."
"It's just some common people, and they won't be strong." Xin Sheng replied. He remembered Wang Jian's request and pointed to the Yijiu formation under the city and said, "The Jing people have left the city, but there are only three or four thousand people. Why don't Yiqiu Jun kill their heads?"
Yiquzi, the Chu army who left the city, had seen it for a long time. He was not stupid. The giant iron spearhead at the front of the Yi spear was shining in the sun. To rush to such a military formation, he was looking for death. Rong Yu, who was a general next to him, shook his fat head a few times and said, "The Jing people's arrows and stone bullets are powerful, I'll wait for them to come out and fight again."
The Chu army's spear formation walked along the city protection and did not want to fight at all. Xin Sheng smiled when he heard this, and did not force him. He actually had no right to order the people of Yiqiu to do whatever he wanted, unless they violated the commander's military order of the head coach Pingjue Chen Cheng.
"Yiqiu Jun's son is good at riding and shooting, why not shoot?" Wang Jian kept looking at the Yimao Formation, wondering how this military formation fought.
"Shoot?" Yiquzi looked at the Yijiu Formation again. He could shoot thirty steps at the farthest riding bow. If he fired an arrow at thirty steps... "The boys have no heads." He still felt that he should not take this risk.
"If you don't dare, you don't dare. Why do you have to pretend to be slander here?" Wang Jian pretended to be disdainful. "I heard that Yiqu people were timid when I was in Xianyang. I didn't believe it, but I didn't want it to be true."
"Dare you say that I am timid?" Yi Qujin glared at him, and the horse whip was about to swing. Wang Ben and the short soldiers beside Wang Jian immediately drew their swords.
"If Mr. Yiqiu is not afraid, why not give it a try?" Xin Sheng stood completely on Wang Jian's side. "Although he could not get the head of the Jing people, I will report to the general truthfully, thinking that Mr. Yiqiu will remember his merits."
Xin Sheng's 20,000 cavalrymen rushed over to find a gap to grab the city, but unfortunately, no matter how fast the cavalry was, they could not escape Feixun; the most important task of Yiquzi's 4,000 cavalry was to suppress the Chu cavalry and maintain the same screen as last year.
He could ignore Wang Jian's aggressive generals, but he could not ignore Xin Sheng's suggestion. He turned around and chatted about Rong. A strong cavalry general ran out, and several riders followed closely. They held a Rong flag painted with a big-horned sheep. The Rong flag was waving, and seven or eight hundred knights quickly gathered. As they galloped, their queue gradually lengthened, and everyone took a bow and arrow.
"Right - turn!" The enemy cavalry's actions were naturally noticed by the commander outside the spear formation. The rider was still three hundred steps away, so they ordered the Yijiu formation to turn right against the enemy. "Wow!" The fourteen Yijiu formations were neat and uniform, and more than 3,000 people seemed to turn one by one.
"Let the spear!" After turning, the originally raised spear lay flat on all sides, and the four diagonal archers raised their longbows.
‘Rumbling…’ The enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer. Seeing that they were about to enter the range, the chief soldier shouted: “It’s ready——, shoot the arrow!”
‘Bang…’ The Sangmu bow made a subtle string sound, fourteen square formations, and five hundred and four arrows left the string. This is not a precise shooting, it is a rapid and cover-up shooting. The elite archer can shoot an arrow in as slow as three seconds. The first arrow was shot when the cavalry ran to eighty steps. Although this was beyond the range, the archer aimed at seventy steps. When the arrow flew to seventy steps, the cavalry arrived sooner or later. The armor-breaking heavy arrow seemed to fly very slowly, but the knight was shot as if it was punched. The thick leather armor was immediately pierced by the arrow, and the war horse that was caught jumped and neighed.
This is just the beginning! In order to prevent the cavalry from shooting too fast, they ran to fifty steps, and the second wave of arrow rain came. This time, because the distance was closer, the arrows took away more people. From Wang Jian's side, the Yiqu cavalry seemed to be drunk and fell off their horses one by one. The originally not dense cavalry team showed a large gap. Some people simply abandoned the arrow and raised their shields, while others lowered their upper bodies, still holding the bow arrow in their hands and wanted to wait until thirty steps to counterattack.
"Let it go--!" The commander of the pawn ordered the arrow to be fired again. The arrow flew away, and the cavalry who was about to shoot stood upright, just waiting for the third wave of arrow rain. At such a close distance, they fell off their horses and fell to the ground. The arrows they lucky enough to shoot were not accurate at all, and most of them were blocked by the spearman's small shield.
‘Rumbling…’ Finally, the cavalry who were lucky enough to die quickly passed by thirty steps outside the spear formation, and then they quickly rode their horses and turned to escape from this killing land. However, the fourth wave of the archer who was well-trained and protected by the spear formation was shot, and the fifth wave of arrow rain came again, leaving a group of corpses again. Seeing the cavalry leaving without looking back, the archer put down his longbow, and the cheering spearman ran out of the spear formation and finished the attack on the cavalry who fell to the ground.
In the five waves of arrow rain, the archers shot out more than 2,500 arrows in total, and more than 800 cavalrymen were almost injured, and more than 100 people fell in front of the spear formation. Most of these people died, and only a few were seriously injured and not dead.
"It can be close or far, and the spear formation is hard to break." Wang Ben sighed. At this time, the Rong general who was hit by two arrows barely supported in front of Yiquji's car, but he fell off his horse and closed his eyes before he could speak. Seeing that almost everyone was injured, the Rong general beside Yiquji was extremely excited. A Rong general even pointed directly at Wang Jian and Xin Sheng with a horse whip, cursing loudly in Rongyu.
"The cavalry bow is not as good as the archer. Who knew that there are also archers in the Jing people's spear formation?" Xin Sheng defended. In his heart, he actually felt that the Yiqu people were too stupid. How could a cavalry bow less than a stone be able to defeat a three or four stone bench? In the previous match, the cavalry bow had not yet entered the range of thirty steps, and the archer shot three arrows in a row. If it were him, he would have hit the horse and turned when he saw the spear formation flashing out the archer bow. However, the Yiqu people rushed over and suffered a loss and complained.
"This formation is very wonderful!" Wang Jian, who was happy in his heart, continued to look at the spear formation traveling west. At this time, the archers stood inside the spear formation, and there was no trace of it, but the archers' standing was engraved in his heart just now. It was the only gap behind the four diagonals, the archers' squares of the spear. Standing at this position, the archers could shoot arrows calmly.
"The formation of Jing people is not in line with the formation." Xin Sheng did not think that this kind of military formation is of great disagreement. "The formation emphasizes the combination of length and shortness, and the battle is long to save the shortness, and shortness is to protect the longness. The Jing people only have long soldiers but no short soldiers, and once they approach the front, they will be defeated."
"What's so." Xin Sheng said something reasonable, and Wang Jian had to nod.
In the era of cold weapons, Pure Team and Flower Team are two branches. Pure Team means that all soldiers in the military formation (about 100 people) have the same weapons, while Flower Team means that the combination of various weapons in the military formation is the so-called combination of length and short. Pure Team has their own advantages and disadvantages. Pure Team is better than Flower Team in terms of individual functions, and Flower Team is completely better than Pure Team in terms of applicability.
The biggest disadvantage of pure teams is that if the commander cannot flexibly configure various pure teams according to the enemy's situation, terrain and weather, then the battle will not only fail or even fail; the biggest disadvantage of Hua Team is that if the intensity of the war is very high, then Hua Team with multiple functions may not be able to withstand the attack and collapse-
The most obvious example is the Northern Song Dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty faced the Liao people with uneven armor, especially the Xixia people who lived in the mountains and were inconvenient to carry armor. The spearmen in the front row held the swords and crossbows behind them were shot. However, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, they had to use the pure team. The hand-to-hand combat team in the front held the heavy cavalry and infantry of the Jin people, and the pure team in the rear shot from a high position.
In the Warring States Period, due to the limitations of smelting technology, soldiers only had leather armor but no iron armor. Because of the limitations of stirrups, there were few hand-to-hand cavalry. Flower teams were a common tactical organization in various countries. However, Wang Jian nodded and felt that the Jing people's savage formation was difficult to break. Although they could not match each other's length, if they were skillfully matched, they might be able to make up for the shortcomings of their own formations with their strengths.
"Big King! King..." The Yi Ji square arrived at Beizhongmen, and the villagers who were lucky enough to die rolled over and crawled over. They cried heartbrokenly, and they couldn't tell the pain in their hearts, so they could only shout out the king.
Shangguan Gao, the front commander, looked at the city tower helplessly and said in a harmonious voice: "Don't cry, don't cry, the Qin people have retreated, the Qin people have retreated."
Thousands of people died in the city protection, and the corpse with the largest number of corpses was already filled. The villagers were so scared that they didn't know how to cry, but now it was safe. They were shouting at the sky and the earth and cried with sadness. The people who were crying in the North Central Gate, and the people who were not ravaged by the Qin cavalry in the North West Gate were a little confused. Most of them did not know why the fates on both sides were completely different after only more than 300 steps.
"What do you mean by the fake father?" Chen Qie lay beside a dead young soldier, his legs still bleeding. Chen Sheng thought he was going to die.
Chapter completed!