Daqin Engineering Corps

So the Black Armor Army is a veritable Black Armor Army: warships, bronze swords, bows and arrows, armor, etc. are all available.

In addition, there are halberds... The halberds used by the navy are somewhat different from the halberds used by the infantry.

The halberds used by infantry are more complicated, and can be stabbed, hooked, drawn, picked, etc.

This is normal, because there are chariot soldiers in this era, and there is a halberd soldier among the chariot soldiers. His task is to scratch the enemy with the edge of the halberd when the enemy and the enemy are intertwined... usually they will not stab, because it would be counterproductive. The impact force will knock the halberd off the car, so the long gun is not suitable.

The halberd used by the navy is much simpler than that of the infantry. It is actually a long pole with a pointed end and a spike-shaped head.

It is usually not used to kill the enemy, but to pin the enemy warship and then pull it close to force foot combat.

Shen Bing does not advocate this point. The strength of the black armor soldiers at this time is bow shooting, and infantry combat should be avoided as much as possible.

Instead, Li Yan's infantry on board should try to use this tactic as much as possible.

After everything was ready, Shen Bing asked Li Yan to drive [-] infantry to Qiancheng on a wheeled warship.

In fact, it was Yang Duanhe's order.

Shen Bing is the school lieutenant and Li Yan is the deputy general. According to common sense, it should be Li Yan who ordered Shen Bing.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Yan has been aggrieved.

So when Li Yan rushed to Qiancheng with his men and saw the Chu State navy scattered on various hills, he immediately used the banner to order the troops to disperse the attack.

Lieutenant Liu Dian of the infantry came up from behind in another boat, and asked Li Yan for instructions from a distance of more than ten meters:

"Vice General Li."

"The general ordered us to maintain our formation and not enter."

Li Yan replied with a "hum":

"This is not an order from the general, it is clearly the idea of ​​the soldier!"

"The enemy navy has no more than 1000 people, but they are divided into dozens of places, and each place has no more than dozens of people."

"Why do my two thousand soldiers need to be afraid of him?"

"Taking Qiancheng quickly, even if there is an ambush, we can go ashore to meet the enemy!"

It should be said that there is some truth to this idea. After all, Li Yan and others are infantry who are better at infantry combat, so they can feel more at ease after taking down the city.

However, how can this city be won in a short while?

How could the Chu army fall into the hands of the Qin army by leading the city?

Xiang Yan, who was watching the battle on the top of the hill, couldn't help being overjoyed at the dispersion of the Qin army, and immediately issued a flag for the navy to attack.

All of a sudden, the war drum "rumbled", and the Chu water army hidden on the shore took off their camouflage and rowed towards the Qin army to surround them.

The Qin army was in chaos for a while, and Li Yan realized that what Yang Duanhe and Shen Bing said was true, and hurriedly ordered to gather troops to form a formation to meet the enemy.

But it is easy to disperse but difficult to gather, not to mention that the Qin army is still in an offensive state and is deliberately held back by the Chu army, so it will not be possible to escape for a while.

There is a reason why Shen Bing told Li Yan not to act rashly.

Water warfare is very particular about formation.

Because if the formation is maintained, the warships can cover each other, and even if they are surrounded by the enemy, casualties can be reduced.

For example, if the warships are lined up next to each other, the warships in the middle will not be injured by the enemy, and the warships on both sides will only face the enemy on one side.

So the enemy can only break the warships one by one, layer by layer.

But if there is no formation and the attack is scattered, many warships will be flanked by the enemy, and the people on each ship will lose their combat effectiveness in an instant when a rain of arrows rains down.

Li Yan and others are facing this situation.

On Qiancheng and the small fort, there were Chu troops shooting arrows on the wooden archery towers, and there were enemy ships attacking on the water surface. When the Qin army was raising their shields to fight, another ship suddenly came from behind and pointed at the Qin army's flaws. rain.

In just one stick of incense, Qin Jun was beaten up and screamed and lost his position.

At this time, Xiang Yan felt something was wrong.

This victory seemed to come too easily, if Shen Bing was so careless...it would be a waste of Xiang Yan's time of worrying.

When Xiang Yan was wondering, a personal guard suddenly rushed to Xiang Yan, and shouted in panic:

"General, the flames are burning in the south. Vice-General Zhang is asking for help!"

Xiang Yan hurriedly ran to the south, and after passing through a forest, she saw a ray of beacon fire rising from the south...

After thinking about it, Xiang Yan understood, and he yelled angrily:

"Worse, I'll fall into Shen Bing's trick again."

"The main force of the Qin Shui Army is coming downstream from the south!"

What Xiang Yan said was correct, the Black Armor Army led by Shen Bing came out from the south.

Shen Bing said to Yang Duanhe:

"General, it is actually not difficult to break the trap of the Chu army. I will use Tian Ji's trick of horse racing."

Yang Duanhe was taken aback:

"Tian Ji's horse race?"

"The lieutenant is saying that a bad horse is used against a good horse?"

"But I only have one navy..."

Before he finished speaking, Yang Duanhe understood.

Some time ago, the Black Armor Army was practicing flying and building ships, and the extra wheel warships were enough to equip more than [-] people.

Since there is a boat, wouldn't it be a bad horse to send some infantry to steer the boat?

Then use this poor horse to throw stones to ask the way, to scare the snake...

Yang Duanhe didn't think much, and immediately called to his side:

"Vice General Li..."

Li Yan has a black line on his forehead, did you think of me when you mention it?

But since it was Yang Duanhe's order, Li Yan didn't dare to say anything, so he ordered [-] soldiers to act as "bad horses".

But people are often like this, the more repressed they are, the more rebellious they will be.

Even Li Yan tried to prove that Shen Bing's analysis was all wrong. Even if he was right, his "bad horse" could defeat the Chu army with his strength on the battlefield and return triumphantly, and then ruthlessly crushed the enemy. Throw the head in front of Shen Bing to humiliate him.

However, imagination is always beautiful, but reality is so cruel.

Li Yan's troops may still be able to turn defeat into victory if they fight on foot, but they are powerless in water battles.

However, it doesn't matter whether Li Yan's department suffers or not, because this strategy of scaring the snake was a success.

When Shen Bing led the Black Armored Army down the river, the Chu Shui Army ambushing upstream thought the Black Armored Army was a reinforcement.

So there was nothing to think about, and of course the killer came out to prevent his rescue.

How could they have thought that this "reinforcement army" was the main force, so they kicked hard on the iron plate...

Chapter 181

Chu's two thousand navy troops fought against the three thousand black armor troops.

If you just look at the strength of the two troops, especially the two thousand naval forces of the Chu State are only part of the main force, they only need to persist for a while, and reinforcements will come to rescue them.

But another important factor on the battlefield is speed.

If the reinforcements have not been sent to the battlefield by the end of the battle, then these reinforcements are equivalent to none.

So this is not a Xiang Yan decision-making problem.

Xiang Yan immediately transferred the [-] sailors used for support to the south for reinforcements.

However, the two thousand sailors were going upstream and the battlefield was still nine miles away, so it would take at least half an hour to reinforce the battlefield.

It was no problem to rush to the reinforcements in half an hour.

Because according to common sense, the Chu army can last at least half an hour. After all, the Qin water army has only trained for more than a month, and the Chu army is all veterans.

However, the brutality and speed of the battlefield were beyond Xiang Yan's imagination:

As soon as the Qin and Chu water armies came into contact with each other, they decided to judge each other.

The two armies met the enemy in a square formation, and the warships of both sides interspersed between the enemy's warships from the gap between each other.

This situation is usually that both the enemy and the enemy have confidence in their own combat power and hope for a quick battle, because this can fully contact the enemy's warships.

From the perspective of the Chu army, their combat mission is to stop Qin's reinforcements.

General Chu's guess is that the reinforcements will not be too many.

Coupled with the fact that the Chu army thought it was prepared to fight unprepared, of course the Chu army had confidence in its combat effectiveness.

As for the Qin army, it goes without saying... Their confidence is based on equipment and seeing through the enemy's tricks.

However, Shen Bing was still a little uneasy.

After all, this is the first actual battle of the Black Armor Army.

Can the warship on wheels play the expected role?

Can the morale and combat effectiveness of Wei's troops survive this battle?

Will rattan armor cause problems in actual combat?

All of these are unknowns.

However, after the warships of the two sides came into contact, Shen Bing let go of half of his hanging heart.

The warships of the Qin army shot their arrows at the Chu army indiscriminately, causing the Chu army to scream...

This is not to say that the Chu army can't shoot arrows.

In fact, the warships of the two armies all carry 25 people.

The problem is that the combat numbers of the two armies are different.

As mentioned before, the Chu army's warship needs 15 people to control another ten people to fight, but the Qin army's warship only needs nine people to control another 16 people to fight.

As a result, the arrows shot by the Qin army were much denser than those of the Chu army.

What's more important is that Qin Heijia's soldiers were dressed in rattan armor, and there were large rattan shields hanging on the side of the ship as a cover.

As a result, the arrows shot by the Chu army were almost harmless, and were either nailed to the rattan shield or blocked by the rattan armor.

The arrows shot by Qin Jun were not like this...

The Chu army must have a few people paddling on one side of the ship. Because these paddling Chu troops have to paddle, it is inconvenient to add a shield on one side. They can only add helmets and shoulders to enhance protection.

This is very common in the era of cold weapons, which is to strengthen the protection of soldiers who have no ability to evade.

For example, the same is true for the driver of the chariot soldiers. The driver cannot block or evade because he has to drive the chariot during the battle.

So the driver has a cape and armor, and a horseshoe-shaped lock is added to the cape.

The so-called lock buckle is a piece of metal that protrudes from the nail plate, which will make the shawl uneven and difficult to penetrate by halberds or arrows.

This protection can be said to be the most comprehensive among infantry.

The same is true for the navy. Because the oarsmen cannot dodge or block, they all wear capes and helmets. The sides of the helmets are thickened.

However this still doesn't help.

When Shen Bing was training the Black Armor Army, he told the soldiers to attack the target at a [-]-degree angle in front.

To be precise, it is not "confession", but this is how it is trained during wartime.

Simply put, archers only shoot at angled warships and don't care about the warships directly on the side, even if the warships are shooting at them...

The reason for this is simple.

At a [-]-degree angle, after the arrow is fired, there is a high probability that it will penetrate obliquely into the death triangle area of ​​the face and neck of the oarsman of the enemy ship, and it is difficult for the oarsman to even turn his head to cover it.

On the contrary, if it directly attacks the paddlers on the front side, it is actually an invalid attack on the helmet and shoulders.

If there is any difficulty in this training, it is that the ancients had no concept of a thirty-degree angle, so Shen Bing took a little more thought.

This is actually a kind of synergy: