At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 39, victory in the first battle, boosting confidence
  Meng Shao looked at a soldier, who immediately nodded and went out into battle and shouted: "Rebels above, listen, whoever kills Xu Fan, the leader of the rebel army, will be rewarded with a reward of 100,000 yuan. Anyone who surrenders will be spared death. Anyone who kills one rebel will be rewarded." Exoneration."

Then he shouted sternly: "Those who follow the rebels will be exterminated. I hope you will think about it and surrender as soon as possible!"

"Phew!" What answered him was a long arrow shot by Xu Fan. Unfortunately, Xu Fan was not good at shooting, and the arrow only stuck on the grass in front of the soldier.

But this had already startled the soldier.

Meng Shao snorted coldly: "You are stubborn!"

"Start attacking the city!" Meng Shao waved his hand.

The Qin army formation behind Meng Shao began to move forward. When approaching the 200-step position, the Qin army began to accelerate. A large group of Qin army carrying simple ladders rushed towards the Nanton County city wall.

Xu Fan aimed the crossbow in his hand at a Qin soldier carrying a ladder.

"Whoops!" The soldier was immediately hit by a crossbow arrow.

Xu Fan threw the crossbow in his hand to a soldier beside him. At the same time, another soldier handed the strung crossbow to Xu Fan. Xu Fan continued to shoot at the Qin army carrying the ladder.

In this short period of time, Xu Fan shot 5 crossbow arrows and hit 3 Qin soldiers. The Qin army team carrying the ladder was immediately defeated. The Qin soldiers who survived dropped the ladder and fled to the rear, but were hit by crossbow arrows. The Qin soldiers who were not dead also crawled towards the rear.

On the walls of Nandu County, there are 20 crossbow teams with clear division of labor like Xu Fan. There are ten people in each crossbow team. One of them can shoot the crossbow accurately and is the main attacker, responsible for shooting the enemy. Five people assist the main attacker with the crossbow. String, hand the strung crossbow to the main attacker to increase the main attacker's shooting speed. The two are shield bearers, responsible for protecting the main attacker, while the remaining two are responsible for chores, or they can make up for the casualties of auxiliary soldiers.

The reason why Xu Fanzhi made it so complicated was because he had too few archers, and even fewer were able to shoot accurately. He had only been using crossbows for less than 10 days, but he was actually the most accurate crossbow shooter in the entire rebel army. .

In order to improve the accuracy of the crossbows, he could only select the 20 crossbowmen who could shoot the most accurately, and then other soldiers assisted the crossbowmen to maximize their lethality.

Judging from the current actual combat effects, this is not bad. In this shooting, dozens of Qin soldiers were shot and injured. Not to mention the extremely high efficiency, it also greatly reduced the consumption of crossbow arrows.

However, the Qin army's bow and arrow counterattack came quickly. The two Qin army's bow and arrow stations fired a shower of arrows at the female wall where crossbow arrows were fired from the city wall. 2 long arrows hit the rebels like a rainstorm.

"Defense!" Xu Fan shouted loudly.

Two shield soldiers quickly took their half-human-high shields to block Xu Fan and others.

"Da da da!"

The shield was quickly filled with Qin army's bows and arrows.

Taking advantage of this gap, more than a dozen ladders of the Qin army were also erected on the Nanton city wall. Several Qin soldiers below the ladder held the ladder. Another Qin soldier climbed up quickly.

After dodging this round of bows and arrows, Xu Fan calmly took the crossbow from the soldier and continued to shoot at the Qin soldiers below the city wall from under the female wall. Xu Fan's priority was to shoot those Qin soldiers who were about to climb up the city wall. The targets of this shooting were generally within 20 steps, and on the ladder, there was no place to hide. Xu Fan's crossbow arrows were not only accurate, but also powerful. Five crossbow arrows took away five Qin soldiers, and the other bows Although the efficiency of the crossbow squad was not as high as that of Xu Fan, they generally took away 5-5 Qin soldiers.

The other rebel soldiers on the Nanton City Wall were not idle either. They kept throwing huge sleeper stones in the direction of the ladder. These huge sleeper stones either broke the ladder or smashed it, causing heavy casualties to the Qin soldiers under the ladder.

Next, the Qin army's archers covered and shot the Nanton rebels three times, causing dozens of casualties to the rebels. A large number of wounded soldiers were carried off the city wall by civilians.

However, the crossbowmen in the rebel army were tightly defended and did not suffer casualties. Instead, Xu Fan and the others took advantage of the Qin army's shooting gap to fire three rounds, causing hundreds of casualties to the Qin army.

Until now, not a single Qin soldier has climbed onto the city wall of Nanton County, but Qin soldiers are wailing under the city wall.

Meng Shao stared at Nanton County with furrowed eyebrows. He had not expected such heavy casualties. He originally thought that the rebels were just a group of common people who had just put down their hoes, and would not be able to defend the city at all, and would be quickly defeated by the Qin army's attack. But the current situation on the battlefield is that the Qin army has nearly a hundred casualties, but they have not even climbed onto the Nanton County city wall.

Nanton County's use of crossbows was something Meng Shao had never seen before. He could clearly see 300 steps away from Nanton County that the rebels on the city wall only had a dozen crossbowmen shooting, but behind him there were Many soldiers assist the crossbowman, and there are even two shield soldiers to protect the crossbowman, so that he only needs to focus on shooting crossbows.

Therefore, although the number of crossbows fired by the rebels is small, the accuracy is extremely high, and because the shots are close, the lethality is also very high. The rebels' way of using crossbows allows a dozen of them to shoot 200 times more efficiently than the Qin army. The bows and arrows are always high, posing a serious threat to the Qin army's attack.

"Where did this Xu Fan come from!" Meng Shao said angrily.

It is impossible for an ordinary scholar to think of using this method to improve the efficiency of crossbowmen. He must be a general, but he has never heard of generals from the Xu family in Chu State.

After getting annoyed, he also understood that Nanton County would not be conquered in one fell swoop as he imagined, and any further attack would only increase his own casualties.

"Ming Jin withdraws the troops!" Meng Shao ordered.

"Clang clang clang!"

When the Qin army attacking the city heard this sound, they fled the battlefield like a tide. The conscientious soldiers would take the wounded soldiers and flee, while the unconscionable soldiers would take the stewed heads to escape.

Soon the Qin army under the city wall quickly retreated.

"We have won!" The rebel soldiers who saw the Qin army disappear cheered. This victory greatly improved their morale. Winning the first battle was too important for the rebel army, most of which were recruits. This defensive battle broke They relieved their fear of the Qin army and gained the morale to defeat the Qin army.

Xu Fan also breathed a sigh of relief. The rebel soldiers were new recruits, and so was his general. Counting the last ambush in the woods, he had only fought two battles, and the scales were extremely small, and they could not even be considered battles. He was also not very confident about whether he could resist the Qin army. Fortunately, the advantages of city defense in the feudal era were too great. Judging from the results of today's battle, if the Qin army had no reinforcements, it would be impossible for the Qin army to conquer Nannan with only 1000 men. Dayton County.

At this time, Xu Fan looked in the direction of Xiang County. Zhou Zhang and Chen Lin didn't know whether they had captured Xiang County?

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