Chapter 194: Ignore and continue to move forward

"Swish swish swish swish..."

The sharp arrows broke through the air and roared beautifully in the air, and poured downwards towards the chariot formation. Only a tuk-tuk sound was heard. There were many more feather arrows on the ground, and the shafts were still buzzing. This was a light arrow, which could shoot far away, but it was not very powerful, and it was okay to deal with soldiers who were not wearing armor, but if the target was wearing iron armor or even bird hammer armor, it would be useless at all. This round of arrow rain came quickly and quickly, with a terrifying momentum, but the effect was not very good. Only a few people were shot. After shooting this round of light arrows.

A loud shout immediately sounded in the Tang army's vehicle formation, and the Guanzhong accent with a large number of Guanzhong accents roared in a deep voice: "Control, control, control!"

However, the sound they made fell into the ears of the soldiers of the Zheng army, Heluo Left Army, and turned into: "Wind, wind, wind"!

It doesn't matter what sound it is. What's important is that a more shrill rain of arrows shot towards the Heluo Left Army of Zheng State. The soldiers of the Heluo Left Army leaned down without shyness and drilled behind the sword and shield soldiers. Using light arrows, they had no hope of shooting many people. This round of rapid shooting was just to attract the Tang army's bow and arrow shooting, just like the firepower reconnaissance in later generations.

The Tang soldiers on the chariot formation did not disappoint the Zheng army soldiers. The sound of heart-pounding breaking through the air sounded. A burst of arrows shot dozens of left army of Zheng Guoheluo.

This kind of bow and arrow shooting is actually like the hot weapons offensive and defensive battles in later generations. Although the arrows are like rain, the journey is very lively, but there are only a few casualties. Although the soldiers of the Zheng army do not have the protection of the Tang army like the soldiers of the Tang army, they also have shields, so the casualties between the two sides are limited, and the rain of arrows is getting denser and denser.

When Li Shimin saw that Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie were guarding the river beach position and stalemate with the Heluo Left Army of Zheng State, he immediately ordered: "I ordered Hou Junji to speed up the crossing of the river."

The thing Li Shimin was most worried about was that the Zheng army blocked them on the river beach. Although the vehicle array was nearly 500 steps away from the river beach, the distance was actually too narrow. Once the Zheng army blocked it here, the army would turn into a turtle with its feet facing the sky and could not move, and could only be chopped up by people. Therefore, after the entire army crossed the river, it must break through the enemy's defense line as soon as possible and get time to move.

Li Shimin was not a young bird on the battlefield. He wanted to break the Zheng army's arrow formation, either using heavy infantry or cavalry to raid. It was a pity that the Tang army's heavy infantry were completely lost when Wang Shiyun used the Fire Cow Formation to raid Qu Tutong's troops. The heavy black armored iron cavalry was also wiped out in Longmen. In this case, if you want to break through the enemy's arrow formation, you must use the bed crossbow under Hou Junji's command.

Although the bed crossbow has a slow firing rate, the six-foot crossbow gun can even shoot three feet into the compacted earth wall. No matter how strong the shield is, it cannot withstand the fatal blow of the bed crossbow.

On the left wing of Qin Qiong's defense, several sharp shooters suddenly appeared among the public targets, holding a powerful crossbow and shot over the personal soldiers beside Qin Qiong. They actually pierced the helmet of the personal soldiers, and blood splattered.

Qin Qiong was furious: "Come on the bow!"

A personal soldier handed an iron-tied bow to Qin Qiong's hand. Everyone knew about Qin Qiong's halberd, but few people knew about his archery skills, because those who had seen Qin Qiong use arrows were already dead.

"Damn it!" Qin Qiong shouted with a loud shout.

A "swish" arrow shot out, and a Zheng army sharpshooter was shot in an arrow on his forehead, screaming and falling down on his back. Qin Qiong's arrows were shot out. With the sound of the bowstring, the Zheng army sharpshooters screamed one after another, and people kept falling down. As long as they looked up, Qin Qiong could name them with the bow and arrow, and most of them were arrows on their heads and chests. If they were not killed, they would be seriously injured!

The Zheng army general shouted anxiously: "Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows!"

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First, the crossbow soldiers of Zheng Jun Luohe Left Army, who were flattened the crossbow in his hand, and randomly aimed at the Tang army soldiers on the rear chariot formation, and a metal tremolo sound, crossbow arrows roared, and archers fired thousands of arrows at the chariot formation. The rain of arrows hit the heads of the Tang army soldiers on the chariot formation. The sharp arrows collided with the shield wrapped in iron, making a clanging sound, and many shields were like hedgehogs.

Cheng Zhijie was also very anxious at this time. He could see that the shield had cracked. Once the shield shattered, these arrow rains would cause a fatal blow to the Tang soldiers.

However, at this critical moment, more than forty crossbows and crossbows under Hou Junji arrived at the front line. Under Hou Junji's urging, the crossbows quickly adjusted the launch angle and struggled to turn the ratchets to string the crossbows.

"Bang bang bang..."

The crossbow crossbowman holding a wooden hammer smashed the crossbow onto the machine. More than 120 crossbow guns, which were six feet long, flew towards the shield formation of Zheng Jun Heluo Left Army, with the sound of tearing the air. These crossbow crossbow soldiers, even though they could see the results, quickly loaded the crossbow gun after firing.

The Zheng Jun shield, which made Qin Qiong helpless, shattered the first time he touched the arrow. The thick crossbow gun shot through the shield, shot through the body of the soldiers of Zheng Jun Heluo, and then penetrated out of the soldiers' bodies, and then consumed his kinetic energy on the bodies of other soldiers.

As mentioned above, the crossbow of the bed is flat crescent-shaped, and the body is as fragile as paper. The Zheng army soldiers hit by the crossbow are extremely dead, or they cut open their chests, causing the intestines and stomach to flow out. When they touch their arms, they will fall off, and when they touch their legs, they will break. When they hit their heads, their heads bloom, and when they hit their stomachs... The tragic situation of the intestines and stomachs will not scare them to death, but they will be scared to death!

More than forty bed crossbows fired in a salvo, and 120 crossbow guns flew out, and bloody alleys were penetrated in the middle of the shield formation of the Zheng army's Heluo Left Army. Now, the soldiers of the Heluo Left Army finally couldn't hold on anymore and threw down the dead bodies on the ground and ran backwards.

Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong led 3,000 elite troops out of the chariot formation, chasing the defeated Zheng army Heluo Left Army soldiers slashed hard. Cheng Zhijie's horse spear was swung like a windmill, and it was swept away. Every time Cheng Zhijie knocked down one, the Tang cavalry would put the heads on the spear high so that the soldiers behind could see it. The soldiers behind could not help but cheer and their morale was rising.

The Zheng army is nothing great. If they are chopped, they will be injured. If they are killed, they will die.

After such thoughts arose in his mind, the fear of the enemy was greatly offset by the Tang soldiers, who were originally worried about the uneasiness. Some soldiers rushed out of the chariot despite the officer's reprimand and swung their swords to slash the Heluo soldiers who were struggling to the ground with more than a dozen arrows and stabbed them randomly. After killing them, the morale of the Tang army became even higher.

Li Shimin took the opportunity to order the full speed of advance, and must break the defense line of Zheng's soldiers in one fell swoop and meet with Changsun Shunde's troops. In this battle, the Tang army did not annihilate many enemies, but the effect was pretty good. At least the morale was raised. The soldiers of the entire army were full of fighting spirit, and the chariots, infantry and cavalry gathered together to advance layer by layer.

The Zheng army cavalry came roaring around and shot arrows towards the chariot formation, trying to restrain the Tang army. The archers on the chariot formation immediately returned to their colors. You should know that the cavalry was riding on the horse. Because of space, the bow arms of the cavalry were very short, so of course the tension was insufficient. The range of the cavalry bows was actually only within fifty steps. However, the infantry bows were long, the tension was sufficient, and the range was long. The archers on the chariot shot against the cavalry's cavalry. The Zheng army had few horses and limited cavalry. The Zheng army's cavalry, who were afraid of taking huge casualties, could only rely on small-scale fights on the periphery. However, such small-scale fights and small-scale fights could obviously not stop the Tang army's advance. The Tang army's formation was very strict and he advanced all the way up according to Hangu Pass!

If the Zheng army, Heluo Left Army was not relatively strict and was defeated but not chaotic, Li Shimin would definitely suspect that the Zheng army had the purpose of luring the enemy into the deep. However, these Heluo Left Army soldiers retreated behind the archers' hall, while retreating, while occasionally shooting arrows at the chasing Tang soldiers, forcing the Tang soldiers to not pursue them too close.

Before they knew it, these soldiers of the Heluo Left Army, following Wang Shichong's plan, retreated towards the direction of Tanlong Valley, and killed Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie, who were red-eyed, wished to kill all the Zheng army soldiers. These Zheng army archers ran fast, and shot arrows at the back while running, and the arrows shot at the faces of the Tang army soldiers, and the arrows bite the flesh!

At this time, there was no bulletproof mask. As long as you were shot, you would be injured if you were killed. Continuing to chase was like using your face to stop the arrows shot by the Zheng army soldiers. There would be no good results. He ordered the pursuit to stop and count the casualties. He was shocked and there were five or six hundred people missing in five or six miles!

"It's all a fucking coward!" Cheng Zhijie cursed angrily.

He and Qin Qiong both stopped the troops.

Li Shimin disagreed and ordered that these soldiers of Heluo Left Army should not be paid attention to and seize the time to meet with Changsun Shunde's troops. However, at this moment, Lei Yongji reported to Li Shimin: "Your Highness, King Qin, see Wang Shichong!"

"Wang Shichong?" Li Shimin's face darkened. At this time, Li Shimin was not the Emperor Taizong Wen of later generations. He was still young and passionate, and was still a person with a clear distinction between love and hate. Hearing Wang Shichong's name, a flush immediately appeared on his face.

"Where is Wang Shichong, how many people are around him?" Li Shimin thought to himself that if Wang Shichong is alone, he would not mind killing Wang Shichong first and then meeting with Changsun Shunde.

Lei Yongji said: "There are five or six thousand troops, now Wang Shichong is retreating towards Longtan Valley under the crowds of defeated soldiers!"

"Damn Wang Shichong!" Li Shimin cursed in his heart. Did he really treat himself as a fool. The same strategy was actually used twice. The last time he led the troops to pretend to retreat. Now he has this trick again?

Li Shimin's face turned red and gritted his teeth and shouted: "Don't pay attention, continue to head towards Hangu Pass!"

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