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Chapter 798 What a great battle

"Dong Dong Dong!!!"

The dull drum sounded from three miles away.Afterwards, like a tide of Cochin soldiers, either pushing carts, or holding bows, or holding shields, swarmed forward, ready to cross the moat.

The moat of Qinzhou City was formed by taking advantage of the mainstream of the Qinjiang River.After the Qin River bypasses Qinzhou City from the moat, it flows into the sea.Therefore, the moat of Qinzhou City not only has plenty of water, but also is not easily blocked by the enemy. It is a natural line of defense.

Qinzhou City was built around the moat, which can be regarded as taking advantage of the situation.But any natural danger, as long as you put your heart into it, there is nothing you can't overcome.The Jiaozhi people also learned the tactics of the Central Plains, and they already knew how to use ladder carts to turn them into temporary bridges. As expected, the Jiaozhi people used this method to cross the moat.

I saw these Cochin soldiers quickly came to the moat with the help of wooden ox carts, cockroach carts, pointed wooden donkey carts and other sheltered siege equipment.Most of these sheltered siege equipment are built with rectangular or ridge-shaped wooden houses on rectangular carriages, covered with cowhide, and equipped with four wheels underneath, just like movable bunkers.After paying the price of dozens of people injured in traps and barbed wire, the Cochin people finally brought the ladder carts. Several ladder carts were lined up in a row, and wooden boards were laid on them to form a simple bridge.

As long as it is a lighter siege equipment, it can pass through this bridge, let alone people.

Zhe Kexing knew the moves of the Jiaozhi people long ago, and thought: "These Annan people have learned a lot!" As everyone knows, the Jiaozhi people relied on this "advanced" siege method to attack the city repeatedly. The harvest in Champa and Chenla was so rich that Champa, Chenla and other countries had no choice but to ask Dashun for help.Champa and Chenla are geographically more inclined to Tianzhu, and even the language is inseparable from Tianzhu.And Jiaozhi has always been a vassal state of the Central Plains, which is equivalent to the fierce collision of two cultures.Who is superior and who is inferior can be seen at a glance.

Of course, Zhe Kexing didn't think too much, all he thought about was how to tie these Jiaozhi people firmly under the city of Qinzhou, so that Lu Chenhuan could buy more time.

Just thinking about it, the soldier next to him reminded: "General, those Annan monkeys have crossed the moat, do you want to fight?"

Zhe Kexing shook his head and said: "Come closer, don't waste arrows and wood."

This time to defend Qinzhou City, the imperial army did not bring enough defensive equipment.Except for a little more bows and arrows, there are very few trees and rolling stones, which cannot support a protracted war of attrition.Zhe Kexing knew very well that the firepower must be concentrated at one point in order to deal the heaviest blow to the enemy.The farther the distance, the lower the hit rate.Wars have always been based on destroying local vital forces.Coupled with the lack of defensive equipment, it is even more necessary to use "good steel on the blade".

Even if the guards did not prevent the Jiaozhi people from crossing the moat, the Jiaozhi people still paid the price of many casualties.Even some unlucky Cochin soldiers stepped on the trap.Most of these traps buried deep in the ground are covered with thatch and then covered with sand and gravel, which is no different from ordinary soil.But the bottom is full of sharpened and long bamboos, which are deeply inserted into the ground.Once stepped into the air, gravity plus pressure, almost no one can survive.The pointed bamboo can easily pierce a person's body.The luckiest soldiers were just nailed to the ground with their feet and became living targets on the city wall.

The traps set by the Imperial Army are extremely cunning.It is often a flat road, and there is nothing unusual along the way, and there are no horse traps, barbed wire or anything like that.When the Cochin soldiers came to this kind of place, they often rushed forward screaming.In the most unprepared situation, the front suddenly stepped into the air, and the back could not stop, and they were also brought into the trap together.What's even more amazing is that there is not much reaction to these traps if one person steps on them. Once two people step on them, they will fall into the air.With such a trap, several or even a dozen Cochin soldiers can be killed in one pit, which can be described as terrifying.

Most of the Cochin soldiers who fell into the trap died directly.Those who survived by luck were crying and howling in pain, which directly hit the morale of the attacking Cochin soldiers, causing the vanguard to take away Chen Gaizhi's spirit: "These Han people are really despicable! Pass my military orders, beat the drums, no! Back off!"

"Dong Dong Dong!!!"

Another burst of drums sounded, and the Cochin soldiers who had hesitated before had no choice but to charge forward.But they also learned how to be good, and "walked" to Qinzhou City slowly, step by step.

Zhe Kexing's eyes flashed, he knew the time had come, and immediately shouted: "Shoot the arrow!"

Rows of crossbowmen from the Imperial Army of Dashun stood up suddenly from the crenel with a cry, and they didn't need to aim. The enemy was only [-] steps away from the city wall, and a blind man could shoot down a blind man with his bow casually.What's more, what the Imperial Army uses is the same three-stage shooting that the musketeers usually use. After one row of bows and arrows is released, another row of bows and arrows goes down, as if it is raining.No matter how thick your shield is or how many layers of armor you have, you will still be pierced by the ring-like rain of arrows.

Only the Cochin soldiers who hid behind the wooden ox carts, 轒辒 carts, and pointed wooden donkey carts were spared.

For the first time, Chen Gai understood what the Han people's style of play is.What they have learned from the Cochin people is only superficial. What is really technical is the training of crossbowmen and the strong bows and crossbows held by crossbowmen.

Along with the bows and crossbows, there are bed crossbows on each enemy building.Although these large bed crossbows are slow to reload, they are extremely powerful.A bed crossbow the size of a bowl, aimed at the right target, fired, at least able to nail those Cochin soldiers with shields to the ground!Even if it pierces through the shield, the crossbow arrows are still extremely lethal, breaking through the armor within thirty steps is like piercing through a piece of thin paper.

Not to mention shields, no matter what kind of wooden ox cart, bamboo cart, pointed wooden donkey cart, etc., they can't resist shooting from this crossbow within thirty steps.It is not uncommon to be pierced through the front and directly nail the soldiers hiding behind to the ground.

Such a terrifying sharp weapon directly made these Cochin people terrified. With a strange cry, they retreated one after another until they reached the edge of the moat. They felt that there were a hundred or eighty steps away, so they felt a little relieved.

Chen Gai was so angry that he drew his knife straight away, chopped off two soldiers who had fled back, and shouted angrily, "Whoever dares to take a step back, this will be the end!"

The Cochin soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and under the urging of the drums, they had to rush to Qinzhou City again.Because the traps under the city of Qinzhou were almost trampled before, so this time the attack went smoothly.In addition to carefully avoiding the dense traps on the ground, there is no need to worry about any new traps.After a while, the Jiaozhi people rushed to the city of Qinzhou again.

Zhe Kexing had never underestimated any opponent, and went all out every time, repelling the Jiaozhi people's attacks time and time again.

At dusk, the imperial army also slowly suffered casualties.Among the soldiers of Cochin, there are also those who are good at shooting.Using projectiles, many imperial soldiers were killed and wounded.But the arrows of the forbidden army are decreasing sharply, and at the end, they can only use 檑木 to entangle the Cochin soldiers.

What a big battle!
The sky was dim and the earth was dark, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses piled up like mountains!

As the sky was getting darker, Chen Gai saw that the Han people were determined to defend Qinzhou City to the death, and there was nothing they could do for a while, so they could only ask for money to withdraw their troops, and the two sides stopped fighting.

(End of this chapter)