Qiang Qin

The turbulent era!

Batch after batch of young people stood out. Lei Bei, Chao Cuo, Yuan An, Li Shang and others were the best among the many young people. They seized the opportunity, while more people were unknown. They are just an ordinary soldier in the Western Expeditionary Army, their name is just a number in the army book, and their experience may be just a bunch of waves in a certain battle.

The tail ship on fire still does not give up the fight in a desperate situation!

Wave after wave of crossbow bolts shot out from the flames, repelling the approaching Romans time and time again. Looking from the ship where Lei Bei was sitting, it can be found that the hull of the tail ship has been seriously tilted. If it weren't for the helmsman He and the oarsmen still don't give up, this warship is afraid that it will sink to the bottom of the sea early.

"Beat the drum! Tell Yan Junhou that I, a general of the Qin Dynasty, am proud of him; I, Lei Bei, am proud to have a good brother like him!" Lei Bei said loudly with twinkling eyes.

between boys.

His own pride moves the world.

The captain of the stern ship, Yan Hui, is the same as Lei Bei, from the south, a native of Wu in Jiangdong County, in his [-]s and [-]s, rarely married, with one son and daughter each.

The ancestor of Yan Hui was Yan Yan, the only southern disciple among the 72 disciples of Confucius. In the area of ​​Wu, there were Wu, Yue, and then Qiang Chu. The place is densely covered with water, snakes and insects are rampant, and the people live here. The natural conditions are harsh, and life is extremely difficult. , while in the forest area, the Shanyue people have red hair and shawls, and they live in the company of snakes and pythons.

The time when Yan Hui joined the Qin Army was in the 13th year of the Great Qin Calendar, that is, at the end of the Unification War, when Qin State dispatched the Southern Expeditionary Army to deal with Sanyue. The situation at that time was already very clear. A general like Juan who can fight, but compared with the generals of the Great Qin Dynasty, he is really not one or two points worse.

The battle of the Southern Expedition.

Yan Hui followed the large army around the vast jungle in the south, but didn't get any decent credit.As the war subsided, Yanhui disarmed and returned to the field, and became a self-reliant farmer in Jiangdong County with peace of mind.However, this kind of ordinary life with birds fading out of its mouth is really too difficult for those who have experienced military career.

Great Qin marches west!

Emperor Shenwu Li Yuan ordered all the counties to summon warriors to join the ranks of expanding the territory. Yan Hui immediately signed up in Jiangdong County, but because Jiangdong is too far away from Guanzhong.When Yan Hui and others came to Chang'an, they could only be incorporated into the rear of the supply chain.

One step behind, one step behind.

Yan Hui's second career in the army began in a dull way. There were no brilliant victories, no classic examples of winning more with less, and some were just chasing down the remnants of Parthia and annihilating one or two unsightly Qin troops who dared to fight The bandit with the idea of ​​supplying goods, relying on the persistence in his heart, said that he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to the captain of a ship of the Qin State Navy.

The naval organization is different from the land army.The status of a captain of a ship is equivalent to that of a marquis of an army. Of course, due to the limitation of the tonnage of the ship and the number of people it can carry.Yan Hui's subordinates, including the oarsmen, were only a mere 120 soldiers, which was compared to the thousands of troops commanded by the Army Marquis.The difference is huge.

However, Yan Hui didn't care.

For him who grew up among rivers and lakes, he can step on the deck of a boat with both feet.It is a blessing from God to paddle a warship with wooden oars.

The drums of war burst!

The sound of familiar drum beats lifted Yan Hui's spirits. From the series of drum sounds, he could feel the meaning expressed by the friendly ships. Yan Hui had no complaints about Lei being not coming to rescue him. From the very beginning of the ranks, he knew what kind of army this was.

sacrifice spirit.

It is a compulsory course for every Daqin soldier with ideals and beliefs. Countless times, Yan Hui imagined in his dream that he could also be like those ancestors in Gaolin, Chang'an, with his name engraved on the forest of steles, and accept the respect of generations of young soldiers .Maybe one day, his son will pass by Gaolin too——.

"Brothers, get ready—let it go!" Yan Hui pursed his lips tightly, silently took out the last ten arrows from the arrow box on his back, checked them carefully, and placed them one by one on the bronze crossbow machine. in the launch box.

Before becoming a captain, Yan Hui was an excellent crossbowman.Now, under the double pressure of the Romans and the fire, the casualties on the stern ship intensified day by day. Of the fifteen crossbowmen, only five were able to shoot, and among them was the temporary cameo commander Yan Hui.

Five people.

With only one army, the difficulty of fighting against the Roman soldiers who kept trying to jump overboard can be imagined.Fortunately, the innovation of crossbow technology gave Yan Hui the confidence to give it a go.

The machine crossbows in the hands of the Qin crossbowmen are new-type repeating crossbows. The number of repeating crossbows that can be carried is generally five boxes, that is, fifty arrows. In just half an hour, 140 crossbow bolts have been fired. This density is unmatched by the standard old crossbows that were single-fired in the past.

In the past, Yan Hui would not say firing a hundred arrows, even five or sixty arrows, his eyes and arms would be sore. Although the crossbow does not need the support of the arms, the flat-end crossbow for a long time will still give people a strong feeling. The oppressive feeling, and staring at Wangshan with squinted eyes for a long time, is also unbearable.

However, after replacing the new type of continuous firing machine crossbow, the difficulty of shooting for the crossbowman has been greatly reduced. When firing ten arrows in one burst, the arrows are overwhelming, and even if the aim is a little bit off, it is still impossible to hide.

"Marquis, the crossbow is gone!"

"Marquis, the Romans are coming up, let's fight!"

The sound of the drums in the distance gradually became inaudible. Yanhui took a long breath of the slightly fishy sea breeze, and wrapped up the burnt area on his back with the cloth strips of the armor. He could hear the shouts of the soldiers clearly. , after paying the price of more than two hundred people, the Romans finally approached the besieged Qin army's tail ship.

——.

Up and down the Roman fleet, the excitement started from seeing the Qin army's ships on fire, and then they were repulsed again and again, and then there was an exasperated complaint.

Crassus's face was ashen, and one after another capable men went into battle for a whole hour, but he still couldn't deal with the enemy's lone ship, which caused Crassus to lose so many elite soldiers. Going out is really a disgrace to the Roman Navy.

He now wants to take a good look at how the Qin army's weapons are made, and how the Qin army soldiers on the enemy ship survived on the burning ship. Aren't they afraid of being burned to death?

death!

For soldiers on the battlefield, it is commonplace, and it happens almost every day, but no one knows who the word death will fall on, except God.

The cruelty of the string battle was revealed from the very beginning.

The bare-chested Roman soldiers screamed strangely, and jumped over from the springboard one by one. Thinking of making great achievements, they fought fiercely with the remaining Qin soldiers on the tail ship.

Yan Hui gathered the 21 soldiers and oarsmen who were still alive on the stern ship. Among them, there were Qin people from the East, and Jews and Assyrians recruited locally in the Mediterranean area. No matter what background or identity, now , They were back to back, entrusting their trust to their companions, and pointing their swords at the enemy.

At the bow of the tail ship, a thin crossbowman from the Qin army abandoned the crossbow without a crossbow and held a broken sword in his hand. In front of him were two hideous Roman soldiers. In the roundabout area, the defensive formation assembled by Yan Hui had already been torn apart, and the separated soldiers of the Qin Army continued to fight with fearless courage.

The crossbowman backed away slowly, his back was already very close to the fire, the Romans laughed grinningly, obviously, they hoped that this vulnerable Qin pawn would escape into the fire by himself, in that case, they would Then you can safely and boldly watch a live fire show.

"Haha, the Qin people are indeed cowards, he escaped!" Amidst the triumphant shouts of the Roman soldiers, the crossbowmen of the Qin army did as they expected and accidentally entered the fire scene.

The fire burned Jiayi mercilessly.

Immediately turned Qin Zu into a burning man.However, the emaciated Qin pawn who was burned by the fire did not scream, his footsteps suddenly moved quickly, and the target went straight to the two Roman opponents. (To be continued..)

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