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Chapter 18 The Qin Army Sieges the City (1)

Qin Yiren's comments were quickly verified.

As soon as the Qin army set up camp, team after team opened out of the camp, began to line up, and prepared to attack the city.

The Qin army was well-trained, with extremely fast movements, and the array process was orderly without any confusion. Soon, a huge military formation appeared under the city of Handan.

Qin Yiren looked around and saw that the military formation covers a huge area, nearly ten miles in a radius. The black uniforms, military armor, and black flags were like a black ocean, with shocking power.

The entire military formation is thick and unshakable like Mount Tai. A solemn and murderous aura penetrates the sky, making people frightened.

"It is worthy of being an invincible army that wiped out the six kingdoms, pacified Baiyue in the south, and defeated the Xiongnu in the north! It is extraordinary!" Qin Yiren saw it and was shocked, and finally saw this legendary invincible army.

If we want to choose the most iron-blooded, most powerful and extremely combat-capable army in Chinese history, it will undoubtedly be the Qin army, not the strong Han army and the Tang army.

Although the Han and Tang dynasties were called prosperous, the Han army and the Tang army had made dazzling achievements, but compared with the Qin army, it was still worse than that of the Qin army. More than two thousand years have passed, and the invincible army of Qin Shihuang is still shocking. When people mention it, they think of the word "iron blood".

Unfortunately, the Qin Dynasty existed for a short time and was soon destroyed, and this invincible army no longer existed. Later generations could only view its invincible style from the "Terracotta Warriors and Horses".

If history does not change, this invincible army will advance eastward thirty years later, wipe out the six countries, unify China, and end the civil strife in China; fly across the mountains and rivers, collect the Baiyue in the south, defeat the Xiongnu in the north, and recover the Hetao land, so that China's territory will double.

This is only part of the great achievements of this invincible army. Its greatest achievement is that this war of unification was a turning point in Chinese history, which led Chinese history to go from the separatist situation of feudalism and rule to the centralized unification, and opened up China's unified pattern.

The development of a unified pattern has extraordinary historical significance. Although China experienced a great separatist situation such as the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it was still a unified country in the end.

The horse army formed a formation, defended the two wings, and prevented the enemy from attacking the two wings.

The front is a long halberd, and countless long halberds form a forest of halberds. When you first look, you can see densely packed with long halberds everywhere. Even flies don’t want to fly by.

The bronze halberd tips shine in the sunlight, emitting a golden bronze light, catching the eye.

Behind the long halberd are light infantry, and their mission is to cover the halberd. If an enemy rushes over the halberd and rushes to the front to fight, these light infantry will need to fight. Although the power of the long halberd is huge, it is too long after all, and it is not flexible in melee combat, which requires light steps to assist.

Behind the light infantry are archers. Their mission is to shoot arrows and shoot enemies when the enemy charges to the range. Of course, the bow is not the main long-range strike weapon of the Qin army, but is just an auxiliary long-range attack weapon.

The real long-range attack weapon of the Qin army was a powerful crossbow, known in history as the "Qin crossbow", behind the archer.

Qin crossbows are the most powerful crossbows in ancient Chinese history. They have long range, strong penetration and terrifying lethality. What's more terrifying is that Qin State did not use Qin crossbows in scattered manner, but concentratedly used them, using thousands or tens of thousands of Qin crossbows to form a terrifying crossbow formation. It can be imagined that once a crossbow formation composed of countless powerful crossbows is powerful, it will be like what a terrible consequence. It can be said that the sky collapses and the earth is broken, and there is no flesh and blood to resist it.

Moreover, the Qin crossbows are all produced "standardized", and all components are almost the same size and can be interchanged. If the strong crossbow is broken on the battlefield, several broken Qin crossbows can be reassembled into new Qin crossbows and then joined the battle.

The crossbow is too bulky and inconvenient to transport, and it is difficult to enter the battlefield in time. Our ancestors fully utilized their intelligence and talent. Qin crossbows can be disassembled, and they can be transported into parts during marching. When they arrive on the battlefield, they will be assembled.

The benefits of doing this can not only ensure that the powerful crossbows arrive on the battlefield in time, but also not to blame the speed of the Qin army's marching, and kill two birds with one stone.

Behind the archer, strong crossbows stand in the local area, like ferocious beasts, they will choose people to eat at any time. Tens of thousands of strong crossbows form a huge crossbow formation, covering an area of ​​several miles, with a shocking momentum and a shocking power.

On the arrow road, crossbow arrows that were more than meter long and thick, lying quietly, shining with golden bronze light, just like the fangs of ferocious beasts.

All crossbow arrows are made of bronze. If they are fired at high speed from a distance, their strength can be imagined and can penetrate everything, and there is no flesh and blood to resist it.

The Qin army's weapons were mainly bronze weapons, and only a few troops were equipped with iron soldiers. The reason for this was not that Qin did not have iron, nor that Qin could not promote iron soldiers on a large scale, but that Qin was far-sighted and used iron to build agricultural tools and develop agriculture. This was a very eye-catching measure.

It is precisely because of the implementation of this measure that the Qin State's grain output is far beyond the reach of the six Shandong countries, which is an important reason for the Qin State's wealth.

Why did Qin dare to use iron to make agricultural tools instead of weapons? That's because Qin's manufacturing technology is very impressive, and it can make bronze weapons into weapons that are no less than iron weapons. The Qin army weapons discovered in modern archaeology have been verified.

As we all know, the biggest problem between bronze and iron is that it is too soft, easy to deform, and has poor durability. However, the Qin State was able to achieve the difference between bronze weapons and iron weapons, which is so rare.

"My God! When I first saw it, this was not a powerful crossbow, it was like a cannon." Qin Yiren was shocked when he saw it.

Qin Yiren's metaphor is correct. In the era of cold weapons, strong crossbows are "cannons" and have infinite power. Once you have a large number of powerful crossbows to form a crossbow formation, then you will be invincible whether you attack or defense.

Behind the crossbow are thousands of catapults standing in the area, like steel monsters.

Like powerful crossbows, catapults are all heavy siege equipment. Thousands of catapults are together, and the scene is spectacular and terrifying.

Behind the catapult are light infantry to prevent the enemy from attacking from behind.

A cloud car was pushed out of the camp and stopped in the formation. Wang Ling took a few commanders to board the cloud car. The Qin army soldiers pulled the winch, and the cloud car slowly rose. Wang Ling rose higher and higher until more than ten feet stopped.

The cloud car is the command car of the Qin army. Whenever a war begins, the main general will board the cloud car, rise to a high altitude, observe the enemy situation, and conduct command.

Wang Ling looked around and saw that Zhao troops were everywhere on the city of Handan, and he was filled with people. He couldn't help but be stunned. He said with great surprise: "Which stupid pig is this commanding the Zhao army? Lian Po? It's not him. Le Yi? It's not him. Which stupid pig is it?"

After thinking for a long time, I thought about Lian Po and Le Yi, but I didn’t think of which “weird” was leading the Zhao army, which made me quite confused.

"General, no matter which stupid pig is in command of the Zhao army, this is the meat that is delivered to our mouths. I don't know if it's useless." A lieutenant looked sarcastic and reminded loudly.

"Yes, this is giving us meat." Wang Ling focused his attention and was still curious: "I can't even understand which fool is messing around."

As long as people who know the Qin army will not command this way, it is impossible to send all people to the city, because this will be ruthlessly shot by the Qin army's long-range weapons. It will take until the Qin army's long-range attack, and the Qin army will start to attack the city, and the Zhao army will climb to the city again, and the casualties will be minimized.

As in front of him, the Qin army sent the Zhao army to the top of the city before they had even attacked the city, and it was still crowded. That was to let the Zhao army die. With Wang Ling's eyes, there was no reason that he couldn't understand. However, he couldn't understand it even if he wanted to break his head. This was the work of Xinlingjun, the "virtuous young master" who was famous all over the world.

If either of Le Yi and Lian Po were in charge of Zhao Jun, he would never have done so.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Yiren commented that Xinling Jun was "the second in Zhao Kuo".

"Don't think about these things first, eat the meat first. If I don't eat it, I will be a king's tomb." Wang Ling originally wanted to get on the cloud car and shout at Handan City for a while, and then scare it. Seeing this situation, he immediately changed his mind and started to fight one battle.

"Strong crossbow, shoot!" Wang Ling raised his right hand like a palm-leaf fan and waved it heavily, like thunder and lightning, with great power.

The captain who was sending the order immediately waved the flag in his hand and issued a flag verb.

In ancient times, war command mainly relied on golden drums and flag language.

"Swish!"

Suddenly, a sharp whistle sounded, deafening.

The Qin army, who operated the powerful crossbow, was obviously used to it and had no major reaction. Their main reaction was to grit their teeth, frown, and no extra movements.

The Zhao Jun on the top of the city was obviously not used to it. Some people covered their ears, some shouted in pain, and some even squatted down... all kinds of actions were all the same.

After the Changping War, all the elite troops of Zhao State were lost. These Zhao troops were temporarily recruited. The old ones, the young ones, the young ones, and the strong ones were very few, and they had never experienced the baptism of the war. At first, there was no such thing as a harsh roar.

"Oh my god, is this a powerful crossbow? It should be called a missile, such a big noise." Qin Yiren stood on the roof of Hu Feng's wine shop, far from the battlefield. The sharp sound of the crossbow arrow breaking the air barrier still made his mind buzzing. It felt like a missile was launching, which shocked him.

Countless crossbow arrows suddenly appeared in the air and pounced on the top of the city like a poisonous snake.

"This is this..." Qin Yiren, standing on the roof of Hu Feng's wine shop, Huang Shigong and Wei Liao, opened their mouths wide, widened their eyes, stared at the flying crossbow arrows, with a look of horror on their faces.

It’s not that they are timid, but that the scenes they see are too spectacular. Compared with the scenes in front of them, nothing is wrong. What is shock? The scene in front of them is the best portrayal of shock!

Countless crossbow arrows form a huge net of arrows, densely packed, covering the sky and the sun, and the sun is too shining. How shocking it is!

The crossbow arrows flying at high speed stirred up a strong wind, rolled up the soil and dust on the ground, quickly forming a dark cloud and rushing straight to the top of the city.

"Puff puff puff!"

The crossbow arrow shot, ruthlessly piercing through Zhao Jun's body, splashing out blood flowers.
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