General Qin

Chapter 553 Sunk Cost

"Cum on me!"

"Shoot these Qin people to death!"

Under the order of Guishuang Xihou, tens of thousands of Yuezhi cavalry suffered a round of crossbow strikes from the Qin army, and then rode their horses close to the chariot wall, raised their bows together, and shot at the circular chariot barrier in front.

Because the Wugang chariot had a shield wall in front of it, the Yuezhi cavalry's rounds of shooting were all thrown obliquely towards the sky.

Let the arrows fall in a parabola from a high altitude, so as to kill the soldiers of the Qin army behind the car base.

Tens of thousands of cavalry archers stood in a large circle around the Qin Army's chariot formation, shooting towards the middle together, and arrows were flying all over the sky, which was quite spectacular from a distance.

"Enemy shoots, hide!"

The alarm sounded in the car base.

Qin Zu in Wu Gang's car immediately hid behind the thick shield wall, curled up.

The soldiers of the Qin army behind the car, those with shields immediately picked up the shields in their hands to protect their bodies and squatted down on the spot, while those without shields either got under the car, or quickly ran to the middle of the car formation.

The effective shooting range of the bows and arrows of the Yuezhi cavalry is only fifty or sixty paces, and they shoot at a distance from the chariot formation.

Therefore, tens of thousands of archers and cavalry shot, which looked astonishingly powerful, but in fact, the damage was limited.

And because of the shield wall on Wugang's car, they are thrown from the partition wall, and they can't aim at the target. Whether they can hit it or not depends on fate.

Some Qin soldiers in the chariot formation were unlucky and were hit by arrows thrown from the air, screaming continuously.

The Yuezhi people did not expect that this round of projectiles could cause much damage. Their real purpose was to use this round of shooting to suppress the crossbow arrows of the Qin army, and then rode their horses into the formation, tearing open a hole, and rushed in to face the Qin army inside. Kill special kill.

"Warriors of the Yuezhi, go!"

La Jiagu, the son of Guishuang Xihou, raised his arms and shouted, and gave the order to charge.

The Yuezhi cavalry surrounded outside immediately roared and rushed towards the chariot formation.

Qin Jun in the car base also reacted immediately.

"The Yuezhi people are coming in, if you want to survive, you have to fight them hard!"

Under the call of the military officials at all levels, the soldiers of Qin immediately took up their weapons and rushed to the back of Wugang's chariot.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Wang Ling's face was ferocious, his hands tightly held the long beryllium in his hand, and he stabbed out from the gap between Wu Gang's chariots, directly into the chest of a Yueshi cavalry who was rushing.

The Yuezhi cavalry had rushed over with their horses and wanted to crash into the formation, but this time they just hit the straight beryllium tip, and were stabbed right on the spot.

The Yuezhi man screamed and spurted blood, while the horse he was sitting on continued to slam into the car barrier fiercely.

Wu Gang's car was hit and trembled.

"Block!"

Xi Juan and Wang Chi yelled, these rangers from Pei County, together with other Qin people, resisted the Wugang chariot, and there was something stuffed under the wheel so that they would not be hit by Yueshi's war horse Drive array.

The soldiers of the Qin army on the chariot stood up, across the shield wall, and stabbed wildly at the Yueshi cavalry outside with their long halberds.

"Fight with these savages!"

The Qin soldiers behind the chariot piled up their long weapons, passed through the gaps between the chariots, and fought against the Yuezhi people outside, clenching their teeth, just wanting to kill each other.

In the grassland beyond the Great Wall, the soldiers from the various counties of Kyushu all forgot their original origins at this moment.

Whether it was Chu people, Qi people, or Han people and Wei people, facing the barbarians and alien races on the grassland, they all abandoned the original hatred and filth among the countries, let go of their dissatisfaction with Qin's rule of them, Tightly unite and cooperate with each other to deal with the alien races that keep rushing outside the car base.

Rongdi jackals are not to be hated.

Zhu Xia is intimate and cannot be abandoned.

At this moment, they are all the army of Zhuxia, and they are all Qin people!

In the middle of the fort, on a high platform made of grain, grass and luggage, the general Wang Li stood against the wind.

His eyes were wide open, staring at those Yuezhi cavalry who were like wild beasts and kept charging towards the car base.

One was killed, and another rushed forward.

Except for the Yuezhi people who kept bumping into the car base in front and wanted to rush into the formation, the Yuezhi cavalry who couldn't engage in the battle behind were throwing bows and arrows in their hands, causing damage to the Qin army in the car base, and the overall offensive Very ferocious.

"Great Qin Warrior, shoot me back!"

Wang Li waved his hands and roared.

In the chariot base, the crossbowmen of the Qin Army launched a projectile counterattack to the outside, and there were densely packed human heads outside the car, and random projectiles could also cause damage.

In addition to hand crossbows and bows and arrows, there are even foot-strung crossbows in the chariot formation.

Its shooting range reached hundreds of paces, far exceeding the range and power of Yuezhi people's bows and arrows. Once fired, it immediately frightened the Yuezhi cavalry outside.

"This is the weapon of the Qin people, so powerful!"

"I want!"

Guishuang Xihou was driving his horse in the distance, and saw that the crossbow arrows flying out of the chariot were so powerful that they could knock down the Yuezhi warriors on the horse after seventy or eighty steps.

He knew that Qin Jun's equipment was very good, but he didn't expect it to be this powerful.

In addition to the powerful bows and crossbows, the spears, beryllium swords and halberds held in the hands of the Qin army guarding the fortress are also all high-quality weapons. They are very precious in the grasslands lacking resources, and any bronze sword can be exchanged for a strong one. oxen and horses.

"If my troops are equipped with these Qin people's weapons, the entire grassland will be mine!"

Guishuang Xihou's eyes were red.

If it was said that he was only planning to kill the rear army of the Qin people and burn the enemy's food and grass, now he has an extreme desire for the weapons and equipment of the Qin army.

mine!

It's all mine!

As time passed, the fighting became more and more intense.

Qin Jun's car base was smashed into several holes, but when the excited Yuezhi people wanted to squeeze into the car formation, they were faced with more than a dozen spear points, which made them turn from excitement to fear.

The infantry of the Qin army relied on the Wugang chariot formation to firmly hold the line of defense, while the crossbowmen of the Qin army in the rear kept throwing arrows outward to kill and injure the enemy.

The millions of arrows carried by the Qin army this time were not for show, they were enough for crossbowmen to shoot at will without caring about the number of arrows.

Under such a fierce battle, a large number of corpses of men and horses appeared outside the Qin army's chariot base. With the accumulation of corpses, it became more and more difficult for the Yuezhi people to launch an attack, and they could no longer use their horses to charge.

"Get off the horse! Give me the opening of those cars!"

The frontline commander La Jiagu yelled, commanding the Yuezhi people to dismount and fight on foot, trying to get into the car formation through the openings that were knocked open.

But the Yuezhi people under him are not some iron army who are not afraid of death.

Seeing that the fortress was difficult to attack and the corpses of their own clansmen were all over the ground, a large number of Yuezhi people wanted to run for their lives, and some turned around and retreated.

"I will kill all those who escape and retreat! Cowardly people are not worthy of being the warriors of my Guishuang Department!"

Rajagu roared, drew the bow in his hand, and shot a fleeing Yuezhi to death with one arrow.

His cronies also received the order, raised their bows and arrows, and stared at the rear, so that the Yueshi fighters who were fighting in front did not dare to think of running away, so they could only turn their heads bitterly and continue to attack the Qin army's chariot formation.

The Yuezhi fighters continued to attack the Qin army's chariot formation.

"Father, we can't go on like this. We have thousands of casualties in this car formation alone! Why don't we retreat!"

Su Jiasha frowned and advised Guishuang Xihou.

Hearing this, Guishuang Xihou was like a fried rooster.

He said angrily: "Withdraw? What are you talking about? So many people died in my Guishuang department. If I can't even take down a chariot formation of the Qin army, then what face do I have to go back! How do you look at me, the warriors who died here died in vain!"

Faced with Guishuang Xihou's roar, Su Jiasha wisely shut up.

Guishuang's eyes bulged out, staring at the fierce battlefield ahead, with bulging veins on his face.

He ordered the men who besieged the other chariot formations to stop attacking, and only surrounded those Qin chariot formations. He wanted to mobilize all his forces to break through the Qin army chariot formation in front of him.

"It's enough to break through this one!"

"Break through this one, kill the Qin people inside, burn the food and grass of the Qin army, and snatch their weapons and go back. This time I will not be in vain, and my battle plan will not be considered a failure!"

Guishuang Xihou gritted his teeth and kept whispering in his heart, paralyzing himself.

There is a theory of "sunk cost effect" in psychology.

It refers to the fact that people often make wrong choices when making decisions because they are reluctant to part with the time, money, and effort paid in the early stage.

Guishuang Xihou is now caught in it. He formulated a battle plan and mobilized three Yue clans to hunt, and made great efforts.

The siege of the Qin army's chariot formation now has killed and injured thousands of people, which can be called a tragic word, but until now, except for the corpses in one place, nothing has been obtained.

If you withdraw, wouldn't everything be in vain, wouldn't everything be a loss.

And after returning, he lost all his prestige, and the consequences were unimaginable.

"It's all here, so many people have died, no matter how we have to break this car formation."

"It's almost time, it's almost time to break, as long as I can break through this one, I won't be considered a loser!"

With trembling hands, Guishuang Xihou sent someone to send a message to La Jiagu, who was in command in front, telling him to take down the Qin Army's chariot formation at all costs.

Under Xihou's order, and under the surveillance of the supervisory team at the rear, the Yuezhi people attacked the Qin army's chariot formation wave after wave. Facing the rain of arrows, they went forward one after another, not afraid of sacrifice, leaving corpses all over the ground.

Under the fierce offensive of the Yuezhi people, the defense line of the Qin army's chariot formation was really in a precarious situation.

Wang Li, who commanded on the high platform in the formation, was expressionless, ready to mobilize the army again and change the defensive formation.

Suddenly, he realized something, and looked towards a direction in the distance.

Not only him, but the Yuezhi people outside the car base also felt the vibration from the earth.

A sound like dry thunder came from afar, it was the trampling sound of a large number of cavalry running on the ground.

"Is it the Shuangmi Department? Or the Qin Army?"

Guishuang Xihou's heart skipped a beat, and he turned his head in the direction of the sound.

In the extreme distance, a large black shadow approached.

The scouts who rushed to the front and ran the fastest were the scouts he let out to patrol the surroundings.

"Xihou, it's the cavalry of the Qin army!"

"The Shuangmi Department was defeated, and the Qin army came to kill it!"

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