Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 431 The First Round (Updated)

The Han army is about to attack, and the Chu army is not idle.

Almost as soon as the Han army's catapults stopped bombarding, thousands of Chu army's heavy soldiers swarmed up carrying hundreds of logs. They first cleaned up the broken wooden posts and sawdust at the gap in the wall of the village as quickly as possible. Then a new log was erected at the gap, and then one by one the soldiers of the Chu army with their chests and backs upside down carried a big wooden hammer up the wall of the village.

"Boom...boom!"

"Hey...boom!"

"Boom...boom!"

"Hey...boom!"

Amidst waves of chant, hundreds of soldiers from the Chu army wielded large wooden hammers weighing hundreds of catties, hitting the logs in front of them again and again, sharpening the round logs with sharpened bottoms. The wood was driven into the ground bit by bit, and the rising sun shone on the sweaty, muscular shoulders of Chu soldiers. The lines and the color were full of violent beauty.

Soon, more than a dozen smaller gaps were refilled with logs, and light soldiers from the Chu army swarmed up, nailed the logs horizontally to the log fence with large iron nails, and put them back together. The filled wooden piles are fixed to the wooden piles on both sides, and then the soldiers of the Chu army sharpen the tops of the newly driven logs with axes.

Finally, the soldiers of the Chu army nailed a huge tripod at a height of one foot, put wooden boards on it, and then nailed it to death, connecting with the aisles on the left and right sides. Almost as soon as it was repaired, teams of Chu army archers went up to the wall of the village again through the stairs.

The heavy soldiers of the Chu army are well-trained and highly efficient, but there are too many gaps destroyed by the Han army's catapults. Except for a dozen gaps with a slightly smaller width, the rest of the hundreds of gaps are more than one foot wide. At least a dozen logs need to be driven in. The amount of repairs is too large, and it cannot be completed in a short period of time.

The armored soldiers of the Han army on the opposite side had already approached within a hundred paces.

On the towering nest car in the center of the camp, Xiang Zhuang raised his right hand and pressed it forward lightly. Hu Yan, who was guarding behind Xiang Zhuang, turned around instantly, and howled to the sky: "Your Majesty has an order, the catapult... attack!"

With an order, there was a muffled bang bang bang in the back of the Chu army camp.

In the next instant, hundreds of huge stones like millstones rose into the sky from behind the camp, and then rolled over the camp and flew towards the armored soldiers of the Han army who were lining up outside the camp, looking at the huge boulders flying overhead It was raining, and the soldiers of the Chu army who had just been ravaged by the Han army's catapults cheered.

"Haha, we also have catapults!"

"Hey, kill those Guanzhong guys!"

"Damn it, try our big Chu man's **, Jie Jie Jie..."

"I promise, you Guanzhong guys will like it, hehehe."

Amidst the hysterical cheers of the generals of the Chu army, more than 300 boulders finally howled and fell from the air, and smashed viciously at the armored soldiers of the Han army who were forming a hundred paces away. The teams of Chu Army archers on the open space inside the wall also drew their longbows one after another.

In the next moment, tens of thousands of Chu army archers loosened their bowstrings one after another, and at least [-] wild goose feather arrows flew into the sky in an instant, first interweaving in the air into endless arrow rain, and then flew towards the Han army a hundred paces away. A soldier.

A hundred steps away, the heavy armor of the Han army in the front, the archers of the Han army and the light soldiers at the back suddenly became agitated. Facing hundreds of huge stones falling from the sky like a millstone, few people could remain indifferent, especially Those armored soldiers of the Han army who were about to be hit by the boulder scattered in all directions to avoid them.

In an instant, the entire Han army was in chaos.

Seeing this, the generals of the Han army and the small schools at all levels were immediately anxious, because they had already seen the rain of arrows following the boulder, and the endless rain of arrows almost covered the rising sun. , Then set up a large shield, this wave of arrow rain will definitely bring unimaginable huge casualties to the Han army.

"No chaos, form formation, damn it, form formation quickly!"

"Come back, come back to my mother's death, hurry up!"

"Shield soldiers, quickly set up the shield, you idiots, stupid pigs, set up the shield..."

In an instant, the leading generals of the Han army and small schools at all levels began to roar, but the armored soldiers of the Han army who were fleeing in all directions had no time to regroup. More than 300 huge stones like millstones and endless The rain of arrows fell from the sky almost at the same time. The boulder actually did not cause much damage, but the rain of arrows caused huge casualties to the Han army.

"Whoosh." A wild goose feather arrow fell from the sky, and shot through the head of a Han soldier in heavy armor. While smashing the bones and brains, it also took away the life of the heavy armor of the Han army. The heavy armor of the Han army fell headlong on the battlefield without making a sound.

A heavy armor of the Han army held up the big shield in his hand, but still failed to escape the bad luck. A feathered arrow almost brushed against the edge of the big shield, and shot through his thigh with a bang. The heavy armor of the Han army Immediately, he fell to the ground, threw away the big shield, hugged the thigh hit by the arrow with both hands and screamed.

A light soldier of the Han army was frightened, and turned around and wanted to run, but before he could take two steps, two feathered arrows fell in the air, hitting the vital point of his vest, and the light soldier of the Han army immediately screamed like a pig , and then flew forward a few steps under the action of inertia, then fell headlong to the ground, only twitched a few times before dying of breathlessness.

An archer of the Han army raised his long bow in a daze. However, before he could untie the bowstring, a feathered arrow fell from the sky and shot into his right eye. After a short pause, he let out a scream, and then he fell straight backwards...

The same scene was repeated in the formation of the Han army. In an instant, the heavy armor, light soldiers and archers of the Han army who were caught off guard by the Chu army's catapult and arrow rain fell down one by one. The infantry formation soon became sparse, and the battlefield was already full of wounded soldiers of the Han army who were dying and howling.

"Help, help me, I don't want to die, I want to go home, go home..."

"Heizi, wait for me, don't leave me behind, please, save me..."

"Third brother, third child, wow, where are you? Grandma and Hu Zi will entrust you, oh, oh, oh..."

"Brother, grandpa, my eyes, I can't see anything, where are you, brother?"

In an instant, there were endless groans and screams on the river beach. Hundreds of wounded soldiers of the Han army were struggling and crying in a pool of blood. The scene was not only tragic, but bloody?However, the wailing of the wounded soldiers of the Han army could not exchange the sympathy of the archers of the Chu army, and what followed was still wave after wave of endless arrow rain.

Looking at the mourning soldiers of the Han army in front of him, Liu Bang couldn't help but twitched his mouth.

Liu Bang didn't care about the casualties of the armored soldiers of the Han army. As long as he could defeat the Chu army, as long as he could kill Xiangzhuang, he would not hesitate to lose all 60 troops, but Liu Bang couldn't accept defeat. The Han army was defeated by the Chu army. Liu Bang never thought that the catapult could also be used in conjunction with archers.

Lu Tai also didn't think that the catapult could be used like this, so he raised his hand and shouted, "Back!"

Zhou Guanfu gave an order, and the heavy armor, light soldiers, and archers of the Han army that went forward immediately rolled back like the ebb tide. However, of the 5 people who attacked, only less than 4 people were able to return alive. There were tens of thousands of people, but in the first round of confrontation, the Han army paid more than ten thousand casualties, which can be described as a disadvantageous division.

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There was a faint smile on the corner of Xiang Zhuang's mouth.

When it comes to commanding thousands of troops and decisively winning the battlefield, Xiang Zhuang may not be as good as Han Xin and Bi Shu. When it comes to conspiracy and strategizing, Xiang Zhuang is also not as good as Bai Lixian, Chen Ping, and Zhang Liang. As for the use of catapults, no one in this era can compare with him.

For the ancients of this era, the counterweight catapult was definitely a novelty.

Therefore, it is completely reasonable that the Han army did not know how to use counterweight catapults, just like Liu Bang did not know how to use heavy cavalry more than a month ago. It needs a process of exploration and familiarization. In this world, there is absolutely no genius military strategist born who knows everything and knows everything.

Bai Lixian shook his feather fan and said: "Your Majesty, this is enough for old Liu Bang's heart to hurt."

Xiang Zhuang nodded and said thoughtfully: "However, the next step is the real test. It is impossible for Mr. Liu Bang to make the same mistake again. It is about time for the Han army to learn how to use the catapult."

Bai Lixian nodded slightly, but quietly looked at the naval warships on the Mianshui River.

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In the next second round of attack, the Han army really learned the lesson of the disastrous defeat in the first round. Almost at the same time as the catapults began to attack, 500 heavy armor, [-] light soldiers, and [-] archers shouted. Loud and clear chant, lined up neatly and surged forward, and there were more than [-] towering well rails attacking together.

In less than a moment, the Han army approached within a hundred steps again.

The catapults of the Chu army behind the camp showed their power again, throwing rows of millstone-like boulders at the heads of the Han army, but this time, the Han army was already mentally prepared, and the heavy armored infantry did not panic anymore. He and the archers no longer ran around, they stubbornly stayed where they were, and rained waves of arrows on the Chu army's camp a hundred paces away.

More than 500 Han army Jinglans were also pushed up by tens of thousands of Han soldiers. The tens of thousands of Han army archers guarding the wells were condescending, holding their bows and shooting arrows. The Chu army's archers in the camp posed a great threat. Although there were occasional wells that were destroyed by the Chu army's catapults, they were only a minority after all.

The confrontation between the Chu and Han armies lasted about two quarters of an hour, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. More importantly, after two quarters of an hour of high-intensity drawing of the bows, the archers of both sides had to return to the rear to rest. When the archers were replaced, [-] light soldiers of the Han army suddenly moved forward and began to quickly clear the deer villages, reject horses, and fill the trenches.

(End of this chapter)