Destiny Only Han

Chapter 213 Retreat
Outside Xingyang City, when the Chu army drove the peasants forward to fill the trenches, the Lou Fan cavalry, who were accustomed to riding and shooting, immediately under Xiang Yu's command, came out in large numbers and galloped around Xingyang City.

They tried to use the relatively weak riding bows in their hands to suppress the Han army at the head of the city and cover these civilians to fill up the trenches.

Although there are also Jingchu warriors in the Chu army who are proficient in shooting with strong crossbows and fighting at close quarters, but in this kind of siege battle, facing the condescending crossbows of the Han army, the Chu army standing on the spot and shooting at each other, It is a perfect target.

And Lou Fan cavalry's dispersed, galloping and shooting offensive method is the optimal solution in this case.

Wars are always about logistics.

In Xiang Yu's understanding, whether it is a crossbow or the production of supporting crossbows, it has always been a very troublesome thing.

Especially the crossbow bolts, they disappear with a swoosh, which also means that with a swoosh, the money also flies out.

In the case of limited resources on both sides, it is actually not cost-effective to hit those cavalry who are constantly moving.

The amount of advance calculation required to shoot a moving target is beyond the grasp of an ordinary soldier.

And this is something that the loud cavalry who can ride sheep and shoot birds and mice with bows are good at.

On the top of the city, looking at the cavalry scattered below, Liu Bang only felt a burst of boredom in his heart.

I really want to have such a cavalry!
But immediately, he sent someone to go to the arsenal and brought out the hill-like crossbow that Liu Ying had prepared before.

Mr. Liu paid for today's crossbow...

With one hand on his hip, Liu Bang stared at Xiang Yu in the distance with a telescope, the corner of his mouth slightly raised.

He was going to teach Xiang Yu a good lesson.

What?
After a while, the Zhang Shi in the Han army gathered on the top of the city, and they were usually followed by one or two soldiers.

Since scattered shooting can't deal with the annoying scattered rangers, then just cover them with arrow rain!
Moreover, shoot people first shoot horses!

At a distance of about [-] meters, it is actually not easy to target a person, but it is relatively easy to target such a large animal that is several times larger than a human.

This is Liu Bang's choice in desperation.

If it was the Qin State in the past, Lou Fan's cavalry were so arrogant, they were actually here to give away their heads.

After all, the laws of the Qin Dynasty are complicated, and there are strict requirements for crossbowmen in the army and low-level officers in the reserve.

When training in the barracks, if a soldier serving as a crossbowman in the round garrison misses the target, then the county lieutenant who is responsible for training him on weekdays will be fined two armors, which is more than 600 yuan, about [-] shi corn.

Not much, it only weighs [-] tons...

And those who serve as junior officers will be dismissed on the spot after paying the above-mentioned fines!

It's a pity that such an army has been completely buried under Xin'an City, and together with Qin State, it has been lost in history.

A moment later, while the Loufan cavalry below the city were still showing off their might, behind the battle shed on the top of the city, a series of crossbow strings piercing through the air came to mind.

Buzz!
The big strings are noisy like torrential rain!

The crossbow arrows flying like locusts ruthlessly pierced the leather armor of the Loufan cavalrymen. Under the powerful kinetic energy, the sharp arrows shot directly through their bodies, and a little bit of blood came from the other side of their bodies. Spray outwards.

It was dense like rain, and covered by continuous arrows, the Loufan cavalry who fled in a hurry dropped from more than 5000 at the beginning to less than a thousand.

Under the city walls, outside the trenches, there was a lot of blood, everywhere there were cavalrymen lying on the ground, twitching from excessive blood loss, waiting to die while moaning.

The autumn wind was bleak, sweeping across the battlefield, making the peasants pushing the toad cart almost want to vomit.

In the wind, there is not only a strong smell of blood, but also bursts of stench caused by the incontinence of people and animals when they are dying.

This is the first time that death is so close to these honest farmers!

However, they cannot turn back.

The soldiers of the Chu army behind them drew their swords out of their sheaths and hid behind their shields. Although they were powerless to attack the city, it was still a piece of cake to kill unarmed civilians like them.

If you go backward, you will die, but if you go forward, there is still a glimmer of life.

Thinking about it, Liu Bang, who is known as a honest and honest elder, probably wouldn't order the soldiers of the Han army to shoot arrows at them hard-working people... right?

The only way to take a gamble!
Therefore, these civilian husbands did not need to urge them to move forward.

As long as they can bridge the trenches, they are useless against the Chu army.

In other words, only at that time, they really had a chance to escape!
On the top of the city, standing next to Liu Bang, Lu Wan's face was full of inexplicable expressions.

At first glance, these people were strong men captured by the Chu army.

Logically speaking, if you don't think about running, you should at least just do superficial work, and you can fool around every day.

Unexpectedly, these guys came for real!
In a fit of rage, Lu Wan immediately ordered the engineers in the city to fire stone bullets to kill all the guys who helped the evildoers!

Xingyang City not only stores a large number of arrows, but also has countless stone bullets for catapults.

The stone bullets on Xiang Yu's side were all taken from mountains, and smashed into suitable sizes by human power.

But the Han army is much simpler.

After the middle part of the road was repaired and it was ready for military transportation, Liu Ying gathered the remaining cement, mixed it with the messy construction waste, and molded it into irregular balls.

Although the hardness is worrying, it is still very easy to kill a row of people by falling from a height of tens of meters.

It was only by Lu Wan's side that Liu Bang stopped his anger.

As a ranger who has been at the bottom of the society for many years, Liu Bang is very clear about what kind of thoughts these civilian husbands are acting at the moment.

What's more, if Xiang Yu spreads the news about him massacring civilian husbands, his prestige in the hearts of the people in the world will decline.

After all, not everyone can understand the truth that kindness does not control soldiers.

But when Liu Bang glanced at the trebuchets under the city that were ready to attack, another thought came to his mind.

That is to let go of the civilian men in front, and wait until they bridge the trench, and then use trebuchets or other methods to cut off their connection with the Chu army outside the city.

In this way, these civilian husbands were given a chance to escape!
In all fairness, if he were to order to attack these unarmed civilians, he would actually be unable to do so.

Not to mention the fake Dakong who loves the people like Zi, but those who are approaching quickly under the city are all fresh lives, just like him, real people!
Under Liu Bang's command, a dozen smaller and strange-looking city defense equipment, as well as a large pile of sealed clay pots were carried up.

In the pottery pot, a liquid called shiqi is filled.

Well, it's actually oil, it just hasn't been further processed.

After King Zhai and Dong Yi surrendered, Liu Ying had someone find it in Gaonu, which is near Yan'an.

His original intention was to use these things to see if he could point out the lubricating oil technology tree, but in the end because of the technical level, it was nothing.

Well, in fact, it is relatively simple to make gasoline, but before making an internal combustion engine, gasoline is a flammable and explosive substance, so let’s stay away from it first.

So he only made some kerosene, and used it to match the kerosene lamps he made. On the one hand, he improved his quality of life, and on the other hand, he used it for sales to promote the internal circulation of the economy...

However, oil, an extremely flammable, simple and crude weapon for defending the city, was naturally applied to today's Chu-Han battlefield.

In fact, adding sugar to chemical fertilizer is more exciting, but Liu Ying has no sugar or chemical fertilizer in her hands, so she can only give up.

The wooden frame Liu Bang asked to lift up was a torsion beam trebuchet specially designed by Liu Ying in order to launch a tank filled with kerosene.

Well, it's very Roman.

On the top of the city, under Liu Bang's instruction, the soldiers of the Han army, apart from firing arrows to stop the soldiers of the Chu army, almost completely let go of the tearful but nimble civilians on the edge of the trench.

The virtue of the king of Han, the virtue of the sun and the moon, never forgets!

After a while, when the ditch was filled and several roads for people to pass through, the peasants shouted, dropped the tools in their hands, and hurried to Xingyang City not far away.

Although they couldn't enter the city for a while, it was the greatest blessing to have their backs against the city wall and not be affected by the battle.

In the Chu army, Zhongli Meijibu began to direct the building cars to advance.

This is a large-scale siege weapon, similar in function to the Lügong chariot, and it is a tool that can use pedals to directly allow soldiers to climb to the top of the city.

But above the building car, there is also a place for standing crossbowmen.

And the height of the building car is also higher than the opponent's city head.

In this way, the soldiers attacking the city can get a condescending opportunity to shoot down the soldiers defending the city.

But the two of them forgot one thing, that is how the previous trebuchet was accurately cleared by the Han army!
When the building cars started to move, dense stone bullets flew out from the city of Xingyang again, smashing the building cars to pieces one after another!

Not only that, most of the Chu army's crossbowmen standing on the building car, and the Chu army infantry following the building car were either dead or injured, and they wailed everywhere.

At the foot of the city, soldiers of the Chu army rushed forward following the filling of the trench, and suddenly saw a series of clay pots flying out of the city.

After a burst of crackling, except for some unlucky people who were smashed straight on and fell to the ground with bloody heads, most of the rest were just splashed with black slime.

"It's disgusting, is this shit?"

The smell on the battlefield was mixed, and the noses of the soldiers of the Chu army could no longer smell the specific smell.

So, when the thrown torches fell into the crowd, the flames shot up into the sky!

"saved……"

Under the city wall, the sweat and tears of the peasants, listening to the series of screams in front of them, it was like hearing fairy music.

Along the way, they were often bullied by soldiers of the Chu army.

Now, it can be regarded as a bad breath!
In the Chu Army's Central Shogunate, Xiang Yu clenched his teeth, his face full of frustration and anger.

"Retreat, return to camp!"

(End of this chapter)