Chapter 532: Qin Arrows Are Useless, So Let's Try Qin Swords
The Qin army, firing at full power, and the meteors and fire roaring in the sky completely covered up the movement of the hot air balloon.
At this moment, the Chu people could even see clearly the Qin dog in the sky drawing his bow and arrow. The sharp arrow tip shrank into a point in his pupils under the light of the fire.
He wanted to loudly warn the Wei army to take cover, but as he said at the beginning.
It's too late.
If all the Wei troops had obeyed orders and launched a rain of arrows into the sky, then this battle might have been won.
But the general of Wei State was able to overcome the shock rising in his heart and give the order to shoot arrows. But how many Wei soldiers could have the same psychological quality as Zhou Shi?
When they saw the Qin dogs that were supposed to be charging on the ground appear in the sky, the silent and determined spirit of the Wei army to defend the city to the death suddenly stopped with the thunder in their minds.
They held the bow in their hands, the arrow between their fingers, but they froze in place the moment they looked up to aim. This was not fear, but a shock beyond cognition.
It was like seeing fish flying in the sky, birds swimming in the water, and a small sika deer less than three feet long biting a three-meter-long white-browed tiger to death, speaking in human language while eating:
"What are you looking at, you over there? If you want to eat, come over here and eat with us."
The moment I saw it, apart from being shocked, my only instinctive reaction was to rub my eyes to see if I was dazzled.
Five breaths passed after the military order was issued. Normally, two rounds of arrows could be fired, but today, only a few long arrows pierced the air.
Zhou Shi was still shouting.
"Shoot! Shoot!"
The shock in his heart had not yet dissipated, but despair had already begun to devour his soul.
This delay will really be too late.
The time of the Wei army seemed to have stopped for five breaths, but the time of the Qin army was flowing normally.
Qin Jun, who was in the hot air balloon, had a cold look in his eyes, without a trace of emotion.
Looking down from the sky, the vaguely visible Wei army under the torches looked like dead targets, standing still and much easier to shoot than the moving targets they trained on.
Full bow!
Shoot!
Thousands of arrows fired at once!
The dense array of arrows fell like porcupine quills.
In just a moment, muffled groans sounded one after another. I don’t know how many small muffled groans added together to make a very loud muffled thunder!
The Wei army, whose casualties had remained in the single digits since the beginning of the war, suffered hundreds of casualties in a short period of time, the most serious casualties since the beginning of the war, exceeding one hundred in an instant!
"shoot!"
"shoot!"
"Shoot the arrows!"
The messenger shouted at the top of his lungs, ran to deliver the message, and slapped the inexperienced Wei soldiers in the face again and again.
The death arrows falling from the sky, the groans of colleagues, and the shouts of the messengers finally made time continue to flow for the Wei army.
Brush, brush, brush~
The second round of arrow rain from the Qin army had already begun. These dead targets had become living targets, running, moving, and crouching to avoid the arrows.
Then draw the bow and nock the arrow!
The Wei army's inferior arrows finally shot up into the sky and shot at those bulging unknown objects that could fly in the sky.
But when it comes to archery, being at a high place has an absolute advantage.
If the lower could defeat the upper, there would not be hundreds or thousands of Qin soldiers' corpses lying in the thatched piles under Linji City, and the Qin soldiers would not just run and sing without firing bows and arrows.
The Qin soldiers who moved to the higher ground squatted slightly to ensure that their bodies were completely inside the baskets. The gaps in these specially made baskets were extremely narrow, and a needle could easily be inserted, but an arrow could never be inserted.
If the Wei army had not cut corners, attached feathers to the tails of the arrows, and sharpened , the damage caused by thousands of arrows fired at the same time would have posed a great threat to the Qin army.
However, in order to achieve speed and quantity, the arrows of the Wei army were all inferior arrows. These inferior arrows, which were more than enough to defend the city, were now showing signs of exhaustion.
Without feathers, the arrows could not remain horizontal after being shot, and not only could they not be shot far, but their accuracy was also insufficient. Aiming at the hot air balloon, and the fact that the Wei army's formation had been disrupted by the Qin army's thousands of arrows, they shot arrows in a panic without enough power, and only one in thirty could reach the height of the hot air balloon and hit it accurately.
If the arrow tip is not sharp, the lethality will be greatly reduced. With amazing physical strength, the hundreds of inferior arrows that rushed up with great difficulty hit the basket, and with a snap, they fell down due to gravity. Only four or five arrows were able to hit the basket, and none of them broke through the defense.
The Qin army took advantage of the opportunity to change arrows, drew their bows upright, and shot arrows made of fine iron again, causing heavy damage to the Wei army!
Above Zhou Shi's head was a shield held up by his personal soldiers. The arrows from the sky made the shield tremble, and the arms of his personal soldiers trembled along with it.
He turned his head and looked around. In order to resist the sudden doubling of the Qin army's siege, the Wei soldiers who came to support quickly filled the entire city wall, with two soldiers every three steps.
Although the Wei soldiers had tried to dodge, the high density restricted their movements, and the arrows from the Qin dogs in the sky were mercilessly devouring their lives.
Qin soldiers appeared on the ladders again.
At this time, if the Wei troops were withdrawn, they would not be able to stop the Qin army under the city.
If the Wei troops were not withdrawn, the Qin army in the sky would shoot them all to death.
Faced with this dilemma, Zhou Shi made his choice.
"Two people in a team! One person holds up the shield! One person guards the city!"
The Chu man's gray eyes suddenly sparkled, and hope appeared on his face as he listened to the messenger's shouts.
There is still hope! It is worthy of being called Zhou City!
This military order was very fair, and anyone could have come up with it under normal circumstances. But in this emergency, only General Zhou Shi, who still had the ability to think, could have come up with it.
Even people who can't swim know that if you fall into water, you won't drown as long as you stay still and don't struggle. But very few people can stay calm and not struggle after falling into water.
Since the Qin dogs in the sky like to shoot arrows, let them shoot. There are about a thousand people in total, and they can shoot a thousand arrows at a time. Just block them. It won't cause much impact.
With these Qin dogs flying over Linji City, the chariots would not throw stones and there would be no need to worry about being flattened by flints. The Wei soldiers whose arrows were blocked by shields just needed to calm down and defend.
When these Qin dogs fly closer, Zhou Shi will let them know who said inferior arrows can't kill people!
Linji City raised wooden shields, door panels, and other objects that could block the attack. The weapons prepared by Zhou City were all for defending the city, and there were very few wooden shields that were basically not used for defending the city.
But it is enough to temporarily block a wave. Zhou Shi swore that this object that can carry Qin Gou into the sky will only work on him once.
[Bows and arrows are useless, and these Qin dogs that rely on strange objects to fly into the sky are useless. ]
[Unless these Qin dogs can really fly and jump from a high altitude without dying!]
Zhou Shi glanced coldly at the sky through the gap in his shield. The arrows that were still falling could no longer pose any threat to him.
This is the case with most things. As long as you are careful and don't panic, and see through the unknown, seemingly unsolvable problems are actually very simple.
In the sky, the Qin soldiers who were shooting arrows in the hot air balloon saw shields and objects that served as shields set up on the city walls, but their expressions did not change.
They stood up completely straight and continued to shoot, until all the twenty arrows on their backs were used up.
After throwing the quiver and bow into the basket, they picked up two wooden wings and fastened them into the gaps of the special armor on their backs.
After checking that everything was correct, he jumped off the hot air balloon, holding the three-foot Qin sword tightly, and dived towards the top of Linji City.
The wooden wings fluttered slightly, like a thousand big magpie kites, and the shining Qin sword was the sharp claws of the magpie kites.
If Qin's arrows are useless, then try Qin's sword.
It is recorded in "Mozi·Lu Wen": Gongshuzi carved bamboo and wood to make a magpie, rode it and flew for three days without landing. Gongshuzi thought he was very clever.
"Zhugong Jiushi" records: He once made a wooden kite and flew it to spy on the city of Song.
Wooden kite, also called wooden magpie.
It was more than 2,300 years earlier than the glider that was first developed by Sir George Cayley of Britain in 1809.
