I Am The First Emperor Of The Qin Dynasty

Chapter 634 Battle of Crossbows

Prince Dan was sitting on the chariot, his position was at the back of the entire army, so that Prince Dan could clearly see what was happening on the battlefield and could also grasp the enemy’s situation in time.

It’s just that this kind of performance was regarded by the generals of Yan as a timid act.

Sima Lie clearly saw that the first round of archery did not pose a sufficient threat to the enemy. All this was in his expectation.

This kind of confrontation is forced by mutual warriors and patience, and it is not just relying on those crossbows to solve the problem.

He believed what Wang Li had said. Almost every soldier in the enemy army had a shield, which offset the lethality of the Qin Army’s arrow formation to the utmost extent.

He just ordered people to prepare torches and rockets, but the crossbowmen could only shoot arrows without fire for the time being.

When the second round of clappers in the Qin army was struck, Nankan ordered people to swing the flag again.

The generals who are in charge of the most direct command of the soldiers are shouting again, “Protect the upper body! Step down! Use weapons to resist!”

The soldiers who formed the shield wall stopped. They clung to the shield in their hands, and the sharp sound of breaking through the air hit the shield again.

It took a while for the arrow rain caused by the bow and crossbow to stop.

Nankan felt a little anxious. “He was watching Prince Dan’s intentions.

Prince Dan made a counterattack gesture, and Nankan yelled at his hands: “Fire the bow and crossbow to counterattack, and you will shoot all Qin soldiers to death in front of the battle.”

The crossbowmen fired crossbow arrows from behind, and the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom slowly approached the front of the Qin army.

After two advances, the distance between the enemy and ours was shortened by about 30 steps. When Sima Lie saw that the Yan army had entered the shooting range of his own crossbowmen, he began to send a signal to Wang Li.

Wang Li was at the center of Qin’s army, so that he could flexibly command and proceed with various attacks and transformations.

Seeing the signal from the military flag belonging to Sima Lie, I knew that the counterattack was about to begin, but before that, Qin Jun needed another round of long-range shots.

He also sent the messengers around him to notify the generals.

The long-range shot is for the purpose of consuming some of the support of the Yan’s army.

For soldiers who can be dealt with with a bow and crossbow, Wang Li is still willing to use this long-range weapon to strike.

This time, the messenger will be sent because the instructions that can be issued by the banner can’t be complicated.

In the formation, the horses’ hoofs were rushed, and they shouted a few loudly.What the messenger conveyed to the generals is that after the third round of long-range shots by the army, each team of thousands of people needs to sprint for five breaths and then immediately rectify and arrange shields. wall.

With the benefits of bows and crossbows, the Qin Army was helpless to push forward like a tortoise shell on the Yan side.

Although both armies have crossbows, the bows and crossbows of the Qin Army are far stronger than those of the Yan State Army.

However, Wang Zhi didn’t let all the crossbowmen launch.

He still used a gesture of showing weakness to tell Prince Dan that our Qin soldiers did not have too strong offensive power, but were barely able to defend themselves.

Wang Zhi had already made up his mind to start ordering a slow retreat when the enemy was approaching two hundred and fifty steps.

After the third round of shooting, Yan’s army burst through the arrow formation, but shouted in unison, “Hoo, 々!”

Sima Lie seemed surprised. For a while, he thought that the enemy would have to launch short-term engagements if they wanted to change their tactics.

The original order to order the entire army to retreat has become the crossbowmen ready to shoot freely, and the spearmen ready to listen to the orders to launch a countercharge at any time.

When the melee troops in front ran out quickly, the two thousand crossbowmen led by Sima Lie were ready to shoot.

He personally rang the sound of Bang Bangzi, and a rush of “bang Bang Bang” made the first order of seven hundred crossbowmen, who had been prepared in his heart, pulled the trigger for the first time.

They only felt that the crossbow machine in their hands shook, and they heard Sima Lie shouting “Go forward!”

Seeing the large arrows rising into the air in the Qin Army formation, Prince Dan was not surprised, but he was a little excited.

“Soldiers of Daqin, just shoot your crossbows and see how many crossbows you have.

Sure enough, the rain of arrows made by the crossbow stopped after a few breaths.

Prince Dan laughed wildly, “Okay, okay, okay, this shows that Qin Bing’s crossbows and crossbows have been exhausted, let us start Yan Guo’s crossbows and arrows.”

Nankan hurriedly ordered that all the crossbowmen of Yan State began to shoot.

For a while, the sky turned black, and the swishing arrow rain fell into Qin Jun’s Zhenzhong County.

Prince Dan still despised the Qin army, and the Qin army under Wang blame (the king’s) was a veteran who had followed him for many years.

They will choose the best time to fight, and they will also choose to avoid at the most suitable time.

In fact, almost all officers of the Qin Army have survived a hundred battles.

The victory of the first battle was overwhelming. Although they were demoralized by various things after they came to Jincheng, it did not mean that they had lost their fighting skills and experience.

After the enemy fired a crossbow, the officers in the formation didn’t need to send a reminder from the commander. Those who temporarily converted to shield and spear soldiers almost shouted in unison, “Build a shield! Cover, hide with a strong shield.”

The spearmen roared, “Shake! Squat, shrink.” The crossbowmen didn’t see much panic, but avoided the shield that had just been erected. .