Daqin: You have a son to help Su

Chapter 40 Madam Chu's Guards, Advantages of Heavy Infantry

The movements of the three thousand warriors of the goat tribe were naturally very obvious when they approached here. Fusu and Jingwen could also see clearly on the wooden wall of the village. It seemed that there was an army no less than the Huns in front of them.

The combined number of the Xiongnu has far exceeded the Qin army in the Muzhai, not to mention the [-] cavalry who are still fighting below and will have to rest for a while when they come back.

Yue Fei seemed to feel exhausted after slashing for a long time, and this time the result was acceptable. They not only killed and injured many soldiers but also destroyed many equipment, so Yue Fei signaled Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

After an attack, the Huns' siege troops obviously slowed down a lot. Some Huns even had fear and did not dare to continue pushing the siege equipment.

After the Wooden Snake Larch rushed to the battlefield, he took his personal guards and began to flog these people to force them up, and also joined the ranks of protecting the siege troops.Although the Xiongnu's advance was very slow, it was indeed advancing a little bit, and Jing Wen also became anxious.

Then he said to Fusu: "Sir, before Yue Fei and the other cavalry recover their physical strength, I will lead the personal guards to take the lead in an attack. I hope you will take care of yourself, if..."

Jing Wen still said the second half of the sentence, fearing that after he died in the battle, he hoped that Fusu would put protecting himself first, but Jing Wen couldn't say it. He knew the young master in front of him.

As one of the people who raised Fusu since he was a child, Fusu has been so philanthropic and benevolent since he was a child. Jing Wen couldn't say anything about asking him to give up other soldiers and civilians, and he knew that Fusu would definitely not obey.

"Mr. Jing Wen, pay attention to safety. Fu Su respectfully thank you, Mr. Fu Su." Fu Su gave Jing Wen the teacher-student gift that he hadn't done for a long time, but Fu Su was very afraid that his teacher would really sacrifice, and said: "Please Take care of yourself too, sir."

Jing Wen did not reply after returning the gift. He himself was a proud nobleman of the Chu Kingdom. He had never been afraid of life and death.

He boarded his own chariot. This chariot was also his old companion. Although the horses in front and the equipment on the chariot had gone through many rounds, it accompanied him from Chu to Qin and accompanied him to Changping. You have made great achievements, and now it has to accompany you to protect Mr. Fusu.

At the beginning, he gathered his five hundred personal guards. These people had followed Mrs. Chu into Qin since they were in their teens, and Jing Wen himself had been with them day and night for more than ten years.Like myself, they have already taken root in Qin State, and have established families and businesses. Each of them can pronounce their names by themselves.

Now they have to rely on their own strength of 500 men to make time for [-] cavalry to face an opponent ten times their size.

But the members of the Guards have no fear. They can say that they have been professional soldiers since they were born. Apart from eating, drinking, and other things, their daily work is training. Now it is finally time to sharpen their swords again. .

Jing Wen looked at Yue Fei and Gao Chong, and Yue Fei immediately rode forward and said, "Captain, I'm sorry for your inconvenience."

Jing Wen smiled at him and replied: "You and Gao Chong are really two good seedlings, and you will be the son's right-hand man in the future, and I am slowly getting old."

"Captain, please be careful."

But Jing Wen drove his chariot without returning to Yue Fei, or even turning his head, and resolutely rushed to the gate of the village, like an old general full of flags.

The gate of the wooden village opened again, and the Goat King and the Zhutu King who had just met looked towards the wooden village.It turned out that according to the Goat King's estimation, it would take some time for the cavalry on the opposite side to rest, but new troops were still sent out from Dazhai.

But with a closer look, what appeared was not the cavalry who had frequently confronted them in the past three days, but a solid infantry wrapped in armor.

Fusu was also taken aback when he saw this kind of personal guard for the first time. Although he couldn't wear armor like the heavy infantry in later history, his whole body was perfectly covered by iron armor, bronze armor and leather armor.

This type of military unit can only be equipped by full-time soldiers like the Chu Lady's Guards. Like Wei Wuzu, they carry heavy weights and train every day, isn't it just for this day?
The Goat King, Zhutu King, and even Touman Shanyu had never seen such an army, and this kind of full-armored soldiers was too extravagant for the Huns.

In the Xiongnu, an ordinary bronze armor can be exchanged for a strong male slave or even more, and how much bronze and iron is needed for this kind of armor that is almost ready to the teeth!
As the captain, Jing Wen is the person with the lowest equipment defense, but that is also because he needs to command while riding on the carriage, and both sides raise shields to protect Jing Wen.

But this downhill slope is not a favorable terrain for heavy infantry. Wearing a heavy armor, this slope needs to be balanced, but this slope will also prevent the opposing cavalry from using the impact of the horse to charge.

Jing Wen's chariot did not charge too fast, but moved forward with the back of the bodyguards. Although the uniform footsteps of the five hundred bodyguards were not as shocking as the charge of thousands of cavalry, they were also extremely deterrent.

Naturally, it was impossible for the Huns cavalry to wait slowly and charge up with their horses. Even if there were no prerequisites for charging, the horses still had a certain impact when they galloped.

In this way, the horses and the guards wrapped in armor collided together, and the Huns cavalry on horseback found that their weapons had no effect on the armor on the opposite side, and the damage to the guards was not even as good as the collision of horses.

However, the collision of horses could not continue. The damage to the horses caused by the collision of such heavily armored infantry was not small at all, not to mention that if the weapons of the infantry on the opposite side could not hit the cavalry above, they would slaughter the horses under their feet.

Originally, the weapons of the Huns could not penetrate the opponent, and if they lost their horses, they would not be able to fight in hand-to-hand combat, so they did not dare to fight head-on, and even began to use mounted shooting methods.

Goat King and Zhutu King saw that there was no progress, and they also became anxious. After all, it was a task given by Shan Yu. They hoped to complete it as soon as possible, and if they failed, they would miss the spoils in the rear.

After discussion, the Goat King and the Pig Tu King still issued an order, asking the warriors not to care about casualties. Warriors who successfully broke through the opposing infantry would be rewarded double, and warriors who died in battle would also have the witch doctors in the tribe beg the gods to take them to the Kingdom of God. .

"Warriors, the supreme gods bless us, and offer the corpses of the people of Qin to the gods."

The Xiongnu cavalry who heard the order from the Goat King immediately raised their low morale, and they desperately charged their horses into the human wall built by the guards with flesh and armor.

(End of this chapter)