Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 61 Don't run away!

Dudu!

The horn sounded again.

On the hilltop on the right side of the Qiang camp, Tun Zhang Bu led fifty cavalrymen down with lightning.

Although the number is small, it is undoubtedly worse for the Qiang people who are terrified at this time.

The leader of the Qiang people had no choice but to wave the bronze long axe in his hand and separate some Qiang warriors to defend the flanks.

So, taking advantage of the chaos of the Qiang people, Meng Ying tapped the horse's belly lightly with her legs and led the Chinese army to charge faster.

Two hundred steps!
One hundred steps!

Eighty steps!
Meng Ying suddenly blew the copper whistle in her mouth.

This is a tool made by Fusu following the example of later generations. Brass is used as the raw material, and high-quality cork is used as the whistle core. It can blow out a very sharp sound, which can be heard clearly a hundred steps away!
Compared with holding a bell in the hand, blowing the whistle is more labor-saving, and it can also liberate the hands of the commanders at the grassroots level.

As the whistle sounded, the charging knights aimed their crossbows at the Qiang people holding their shields in the distance.

The moment the horse soared into the air, the strings of the crossbow buzzed, and the bolts of the crossbow flew outward like lightning.

The bronze crossbow carrying powerful kinetic energy instantly pierced the Qiang people's shields and pierced into their bodies.

Puff puff!
Blood splashed, and the Qiang people in the front row fell down like mowing grass.

After one round of shooting, Meng Ying blew the copper whistle, and the surrounding knights moved closer together, leveling the halberd in their hands, and advancing against the wall.

At the same time, there was a series of screams from among the Qiang people, the sound of bowstrings piercing the air kept ringing, and arrows rained down on the Qin army.

However, most of the Qiang arrows were made of bone or sharpened wooden sticks. Even if they hit the Qin army, they did not penetrate their leather armor.

Even so, Meng Ying took a look at the bone arrow pierced on the leg armor with some gratitude.

Although they wear light leather armor, it is indeed redesigned and made.

Compared with the original version, the new cavalry armor has increased protection for the cavalry's legs, which was not there before.

Under the full-speed charge of the war horse, the distance of fifty steps passed by in the blink of an eye.

The Qiang people held the wooden-handled weapon tightly in their hands, and looked at the Qin cavalry's halberds shining in the sun in horror.

When the horse was about to collide with the Qiang people's line, Meng Ying turned the horse's head slightly and led the Chinese army to skim the Qiang people's flanks.

Flanking and corner cutting tactics!

This is a basic tactic used by light armored cavalry against dense infantry formations, which can keep themselves in a situation where they fight more and fight less.

After the sound of dense impact and the sound of weapons piercing through the flesh.

About one-fifth of the size of the Qiang people's formation was cut, and the brothers of the same clan fell to the ground with mutilated limbs and wailed, making the faces of the Qiang people who survived by luck pale, and they couldn't help but huddle tightly together, as if they could gain a sense of security in this way.

Meng Ying turned the horse's head and glanced at the left army who was about to rush to the Qiang's flank, so she blew the copper whistle rhythmically.

Slowly, the cavalry who charged again changed from the original two horizontal formations to a conical formation for charging.

The Qiang people's will to fight has been shaken. This time, with the cooperation of the left army, Meng Ying plans to completely tear apart the Qiang people's formation, and then divide and eat them!
Meng Ying's target was the Qiang leader holding a bronze long axe.

As the fifth doctor of the ninth level, only by personally capturing the enemy's head and commanding to win the battle, and the number of losses is less than the number of beheadings, can he be promoted to the next level of title.

The advantage of the equipment made Meng Ying not too worried about the latter two failing to meet the standards. What he was worried about was that the leader of the Qiang people was robbed by the cavalry around him, or...

Someone named Murphy once said that if you worry about something happening, it's more likely to happen.

Sure enough, the leader of the Qiang people did what Meng Ying was worried about. He took a few steps back, jumped on his horse with three or four followers, and galloped towards the valley behind the camp.

"Don't run away!" Meng Ying roared, her voice was full of anxiety and anger.

As the commander of the audience, Meng Ying could not abandon the cavalry around him like the leader of the Qiang people.

"Damn, Lao Tzu's concubine!"

So he cursed angrily, pierced the chest of a Qiang warrior with his long halberd, lifted it vigorously, and fell heavily into the crowd.

The escape of the leader and the entry of the left cavalry made the Qiang people completely lose their desire to fight. When they found that there was no hope of escape, they all knelt down and begged for surrender.

Meng Ying glanced at the cattle and sheep scattered on the hillside due to the fighting, and after killing the stubborn resisters, she accepted the surrender of the Qiang people.

The cavalry of the Qin Army had no objection to this. After all, capturing the captives and beheading the capital are the same credit.

The guide Wu Shida and several remaining soldiers came with pack horses. After whispering a few words to Meng Ying, Wu Zhida and Meng Ying commanded the surrendered Qiang people in the language of the Qiang people, and drove back the scattered cattle and sheep.

Mengying was not worried that the Qiang people would take the opportunity to escape, because in the vast wasteland, leaving behind horses, cattle, sheep, and tents, fleeing was no different from committing suicide.

After a while, the fifty cavalry who were in charge of cutting off the retreat of the Qiang people drove hundreds of women and children back to the camp.

Among them, the one carrying the long halberd of the hundred generals was the leader of the Qiang people who had fled before the battle.

"Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life!" The hundred generals threw away their long halberds and saluted the envious Meng Ying.

"Hey..." Meng Ying let out a long sigh, and patted the general on the shoulder: "Lu Ze, you did a great job, you are worthy of being selected by His Majesty!"

Hearing what Meng Ying said, Lu Ze's heart fell to the ground. Although Meng Ying didn't look like someone who would steal military exploits from his subordinates, he still had to be defensive.

"General Lang, I don't know how many ranks the head of the Qiang leader can be promoted to?" Lu Ze looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield in the distance, then turned to look at Meng Ying and asked.

Meng Ying whispered a few words to a messenger beside her, asking him to instruct those Qiang women and children to dismantle the camps and pens, and return to Nanhan with the army. Then she turned her head and thought for a while: "About two grades. Why do you ask this? "

"Only two levels?" Lu Ze frowned slightly.

Only two levels?No one can tell... Meng Ying laughed and asked: "Two ranks of military merit, two hundred acres of land, isn't that enough?"

Lu Ze cupped his fists and said with a wry smile: "General Lang doesn't know something. The Lu family was imprisoned, and the whole family was punished as servants to work in Shanglin Garden."

"Although His Majesty pardoned elderly people like my father and mother, the rest of the middle-aged people are not included in the amnesty and can only pay money to make up for their crimes."

"However, if you want to be redeemed as a commoner, you need at least five or six thousand dollars per person, and the servants who have skills are not allowed to redeem themselves according to the law!"

"My two younger sisters were sent to Xianyang Palace to be Weaver Girls because they knew how to weave."

"Only relying on military merits can offset their crimes."

"According to the law of Qin, only by returning the two ranks of nobility can one redeem one of your relatives as a commoner..."

After Lu Ze finished speaking, the corners of his eyes were slightly moist, although the younger sisters had a letter from the palace saying that they were doing well, and they didn't need to worry.

But as their big brother, how can they remain indifferent!

(End of this chapter)