Chapter 626 [God of War from China]
When the strength of the two armies is balanced, the balance of victory will only turn to the side with better equipment, more effective command, stronger will and more physical strength.
The Qin army slowly arrived at the city of Rome as if traveling along the way, it was a complete new force. The excellent equipment even made the Roman professional legion feel ashamed. Pang Juan's command art was even more world-class. All of this made this battle without any suspense.
After Silde's five thousand fully armored elite cavalry broke through the first layer of the defense of the Gallics, he cleverly rushed to the side of the Gallics. This kind of attacking method that could be moved slightly was actually a very test of the commander's command art and the cavalry's horseman's horsemanship. Like the heavy spear knights in the European Middle Ages, they used horsepower and extended cavalry to stab a "transparent hole" in the Gallic army formation. The Gallic soldiers behind did not even have time to react, but saw these mysterious Eastern cavalry flying to their side as lightly as butterflies.
The way the Gauls' straggling line array was far inferior to that of the Roman legion. When their commander was still in a daze, the old Qin people's loud and loud battle songs had already come into his ears. Then he heard the bowstrings tremble, and the sky was filled with buzzing noises. Looking up, he saw a terrifying "dark cloud" in the air. It was the most powerful crossbow of the Qin people. It was the biggest nemesis of their army that attacked fiercely but lacked defense.
Arrows with millions of calculations drew beautiful parabolas in the way of free fall, and fell into the Gaul formation. The poor Gauls did not have the exquisite armor of the Roman army and the beautiful half-body round shield that looked like a work of art.
If it were Roman heavy infantry, they could calmly set up the tortoise shell formation they were proud of at this time. Although the Qin people's bows and crossbows were fierce, they could not cause too much damage to them. However, the Gauls had no experience in dealing with this intensive rain of arrows. They had also encountered long-range attacks from the Romans. However, in the Roman army that advocated thick armor and heavy guns, although they also used bows and arrows, they still used more powerful guns. How could they have seen such madness as the rain fall?
The Gaul barbarians, who were generally about ten feet tall, screamed. Many people were wearing only a pair of leather pants and hurriedly avoiding each other, but where could they hide? Their tall figure was simply the best target. The Qin army didn't even need to aim. Just close their eyes and shoot the arrows out, and then waited for the Gauls to turn into hedgehogs, and then fell to the ground screaming.
Such a scene is so scary that even Marcus and the Roman nobles who were standing on the top of the Roman city could not help but be frightened; bows and arrows were never valued in the Roman army. Because for the excellent armor of Roman soldiers, bows and arrows were far less powerful than throwing guns, but when facing hundreds of thousands of Gaul barbarians, a limited number of throwing guns became ridiculous things. Roman spearmen often held the last throwing gun and were reluctant to throw them out.
No one expected that bows and arrows could be exerted so much. Especially the giant arrows in the Qin army that had to be skewed by a few people and then wedged into the Gaul army directly in parallel shooting. Marcus saw with his own eyes that such a giant arrow had set a bloody path in the Gaul army. The first one was shot directly into pieces, and then the remaining momentum was still unswerving, shooting more than a dozen people in a row! There are actually such bows and arrows in the world? Can the armor that the Romans were proud of blocking such terrible bows and arrows?
After the three-wheeled arrow rain of the Qin army, the front army of tens of thousands of people in Gaul had fallen into a semi-collapse state, and the Qin army's neat infantry phalanx, which was as neat as textbooks, hit the Gauls at this time. The first thing the Gauls encountered was the terrifying push and collision of the infantry phalanx. When they were dizzy by the half-body square shield of the Qin people, they tried their best to barely lift their stone axes, but the shield soldiers in front of the Qin people made a neat roar. Thousands of shields were facing sideways with the sound of shouting, and countless spears stabbed out from behind the shield array, and quickly pricked their bodies and brought blood light.
In this era when long spears were still widely used in China, the spears designed by Bai Dong had been mass-produced and equipped with Pang Juan's Western Expedition Army; compared with the standard long spears, the spears and spears are easier to use with shield walls, and can be quickly retracted and launched multiple attacks after being quickly penetrated and stabbed the enemy, saving soldiers' physical strength. Faced with this combination of shield walls and guns and spears, the Gauls with an armor coverage rate of no more than 20% are simply a group of little white rabbits waiting to be massacred.
The panicked Gauls found that their 100-long men had turned into a sieve in a certain round of attack by the enemy and immediately collapsed. They began to retreat desperately to the rear, but when they just turned around, countless long spears three feet longer than gun spears were stretched out from the Qin army formation. The long spear with sharp branches easily hooked their chests and even their necks, and then gently pulled and reaped their lives like harvesting wheat!
At this time, Silde's cavalry had successfully made a big circle on the side of the Gauls. The horsepower increased to 100% again, and he broke from the flank into the front army formation of the Gauls!
Under such continuous blows, the strong and tall Gauls had no power to resist. When the Qin army's Breaking Formation Legion really cut into their military formation, just one round of hand-to-hand combat caused them to suffer a terrible defeat in the entire army!
In this cold weapon era, the result of the collapse of the military formation will inevitably be disastrous. Even an army of 100,000 people will be wiped out by thousands of enemies because of the collapse of the military formation. What's more, the Gauls have no concept of a military formation at all. However, Pang Juan has put the art of the military formation to the extreme!
Marcus and the Roman nobles, standing at the head of the Roman city, saw the clearest. When the Gauls' military formation collapsed, the Qin army's troops that were then covered up and killed began to undergo miraculous changes. Each Qin army phalanx was still so uniform. The shield, spearman, archer, and long spear hands in the square formation were not messy, but the thousand-man phalanx of hundreds of Qin troops gradually divided into three groups while chasing the enemy.
The first group is stable in the front, with two wings spreading out, just like a monster's mouth to devour the enemy; the second group is far away to the main formation of the Gaul King in the rear, forming a wall of iron, ready to harvest the defeated Gaul front army at any time; the third group is the main formation of the Qin people commanded the city, with a total of forty thousand-man formations spread far to the southern sky. While continuously causing terrifying pressure on the Gaul people, they can send reserve forces to deal with any changes in the battlefield at any time.
'The highest mystery of war is to leave enough reserves at any time. This is the only secret to becoming a great commander' Roman war proverb.
Looking at the well-equipped and well-trained Qin soldiers and a total of 40,000 black-armored warriors on the battlefield, Marcus's body couldn't help but shake, and looked at Jing Jian with a wry smile: "Is this your Qin army? Who is the commander?"
"The cavalry commander is a student of Baizi, our Qin State. His name is Silde, and he has some Greek bloodline. The commander of the entire army is Pang Juan. Even in our China, he is still a first-class war god."
Chapter completed!