Dahan first prince

Chapter 246 Lonely!A firm believer in violent aesthetics!
Unlike Liu Ying, who still has time to mobilize before the battle in Yongcheng, and even mixes up the number of reinforcements in the three directions of Qi, Chu, and Guanzhong, and the time of arrival, Yingbo at this time dare not waste even a moment.

Bringing the entire battalion to the outside of Yongcheng, and simply ordering the generals under his command to fight more than ever. This decisive battle officially started at the last moment before dark!

"Wow!!!"

"Kill~~~~"

"what!!!"

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In the blink of an eye, a square team of [-] people rushed out from the rebel camp and rushed towards the south wall of Yongcheng.

Seeing that the enemy was approaching menacingly, the guards of the Han army in the city wall were not too flustered. Instead, they all stood in front of the wall piles. First round defense.

"Six hundred steps away from the enemy!"

A high-pitched roar came from the Yuantai not far away, causing the guards on the wall to grit their teeth and watch closely the Huainan rebels who were rushing towards the outside of the city.

Under such a tense atmosphere, no one noticed: at every hundred steps on the southern city wall, huge winches were turned by the wrestlers on the side, making harsh 'squeak' sounds... ··
"Five hundred steps away from the enemy!"

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"Four hundred steps away from the enemy!"

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"Three hundred steps away from the enemy!!!"

"put!!!!!!"

There were rough roars and the sound of "three hundred steps away from the enemy" at the same time, followed by loud noises that soared into the sky, causing the soldiers on the wall to turn their heads sideways.

Bang bang bang! ! !
Whoosh whoosh! ! ! ! !

In an instant, hundreds of waist-high, thick-armed arrows flew up from the wall of Yongcheng, which was only a few miles long, and plunged into the rushing rebels with almost no horns. array.

The distance of more than one mile made it impossible for the wailing of the rebels to reach the ears of the defenders on the city wall.

But just looking at the huge bed crossbow arrows with three or five rebels strung up one by one, but still plunging into the soil, the faces of the defenders on the wall suddenly burst into joy.

"color!!!"

"Must win!!!!!!"

Just remembering the cheers one after another, another shout came from the distant platform, causing all the soldiers to gather their minds in a hurry.

"Two hundred steps away from the enemy!"

In an instant, the atmosphere on the city wall was filled with a palpitating chill!

In today's era, three hundred steps, or one mile, is already considered the engagement distance for city offensive and defensive battles.

As for the reason, it was the bed crossbow that showed its skills a moment ago and caused the rebels to pay nearly a thousand casualties in the blink of an eye.

——The bed crossbows equipped in the Han Dynasty today basically installed several bows on the bed frame, then stretched the bows through the winch to set the strings, and shot them out flat.

Although this structure and launch method make the bed crossbow naturally irrelevant to the word "precision", it can still play a decisive role under certain circumstances.

For example, if the bed crossbows are densely arranged in a compact area like the artillery bases of later generations, and they are fired in salvo, even if the arrows fired are not very accurate, they can still achieve Undifferentiated coverage of an area.

To put it simply, as long as there are enough bed crossbows, a few rounds of volleys in one direction will surely create a 'dead zone' artificially.

At this moment, the situation facing Yongcheng is the second special scenario where the bed crossbow can show its talents.

——When there are enough enemies and they come in a compact formation, even if the accuracy of the bed crossbow is about zero, the number is not too high. As long as you shoot in the direction of the enemy, you will always be able to shoot people.

As for why "three hundred steps" is the contact point between the enemy and us in the city's offensive and defensive battles, or "the point of firefighting", it is precisely because the effective killing range of this original version of the bed crossbow is exactly three hundred steps.

That is to say: in the battle of attacking and defending a city, the official action of the defending side starts from "three hundred steps away from the enemy".

And two hundred steps is another key point.

——Two hundred steps, a total of only 120 feet, for the attacking party who is sprinting with all his strength, he can sprint over with just one breath and one breath!
For the soldiers on the defensive side, two hundred steps also means that the battle has officially entered the state of "all army attack".

"One hundred and fifty steps away from the enemy!"

"put!!!"

150 steps, this is the effective range of the ten stone crossbow - the rhubarb crossbow.

"A hundred steps away from the enemy!"

"put!!!"

After a hundred steps, they entered the effective range of various bows and crossbows armed by the Han army on a large scale.

And after a hundred steps...

"From the enemy, fifty steps!!!"

After exhausting all their strength, completing the last distance observation and roaring out, the pawns on the far platform slid down the wooden ladder.

On the city wall, the crossbow phalanx had also completed three rounds of salvo, and the moment the enemy's long ladder appeared in sight, it was pushed to the inner side of the city wall.

As for the defensive position left by the bow and crossbow troops, it was filled by infantry holding swords and shields in a short while.

Seeing that the soldiers were carrying out defensive tasks in an orderly manner according to their past combat experience, Li Shang only trotted past the infantry on the outside of the city wall and in front of the crossbow troops on the inside of the city wall.

"The soldiers with bows and crossbows temporarily retreat to the city, and replace them with infantry!"

"Before retreating into the city, alternately bow and crossbow and shoot fifty paces away from the wall; but the enemy has not retreated, every fifteen breaths, there must be a round of salvo!!!"

"His Royal Highness has an order: All bows, feathers and arrows must not be used sparingly! Before tomorrow's hour, all arrows in the city must be exhausted!!!"

"Here!!!!!!"

After emphasizing the military order that had been issued a long time ago, Li Shang finally nodded secretly and ran towards the turret where Liu Ying was when he saw the bow and crossbow troops retreating from the city wall and immediately organized the projectile.

But what Li Shang never expected was that at this moment, Liu Ying was not in the slightest frightened by the battle in front of him...
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"Tsk tsk..."

"As expected of a bed crossbow!"

Surrounded by the guards of the Southern Army, Liu Ying only raised her head, narrowed her eyes slightly, and sighed at the positions of more than two hundred troops outside the city.

It can't be blamed that Liu Ying has never seen the world, it is really this scene, it is too easy to make people...
excited!

As far as Liu Ying can see at this moment: there are more than a hundred bed crossbow arrows at more than two hundred places outside the city wall, and they are evenly pierced on the ground on almost the same straight line!

On the giant arrow, the rebel soldiers who were strung up by the giant arrow and stuck to the ground forcibly lowered their heads in fear, holding the giant arrow pierced into their bodies with both hands, struggling and wriggling... ····
"It's a pity that in Chudi, there are only a few hundred bed crossbows, and there are only more than 100 that can be adjusted."

"Besides, the bed crossbow has enough power and range, but it's the loading efficiency and firing frequency..."

"Tsk tsk..."

Looking back, looking at the rack that hadn't completed its second reloading, and looking at the long ladder that had already been built on the city wall, Liu Ying shook her head with regret.

This is the only second disadvantage of the bed crossbow besides accuracy.

——If it is an ordinary bow or crossbow, any qualified bow and crossbow pawn can fire at least ten arrows in a battle.

If it is in a crisis, regardless of muscle strain, strain, etc., it is not an exaggeration to release twenty to thirty arrow feathers.

Even the ten-stone heavy crossbow, the rhubarb crossbow, which can only be used by powerful men, such as the parachutist Li Guang, can still "shoot the enemy three times";
But in the city defense battle, the power, range, and even the ability to deter the enemy are unmatched, but the bed crossbow can only fire one round of salvo!
As for the reason, it is also very simple.

The bows that are common in the Han Dynasty today are basically beef tendon longbows, and most of them are used for arm stretching, that is, breaking stretching.

As for the crossbow, if it is a conventional crossbow with two to three stones, it is similar to a bow.

If it is a strong crossbow with more than four stones, or even a rhubarb crossbow with ten stones, it is basically a waist pull, or a kick, that is, a foot stretch.

Historically, the parachutist Li Guang was appreciated by Emperor Wen Liu Heng because Li Guang not only could open a rhubarb crossbow weighing ten stones, but also opened it with the strength of his arms and waist like a bow. !

But what is different from ordinary bows and crossbows is that the bed crossbow, which has huge kinetic energy, super long range, and super power, obviously does not rely on manpower to pull the crossbow string.

The key to the ultra-long range and super power of the bed crossbow lies in the winch under the bed frame.

In other words: Compared with the general bows and crossbows of breaking, kicking or waist pulling, the loading process of the bed crossbow has an additional procedure of "pulling the winch".

Being able to provide such a large amount of kinetic energy for the giant arrow naturally means that such a winch cannot be pulled back into place in a short period of time, even by one or two people.

Under normal circumstances, in order to return a bed crossbow that has just been fired and restore it to a state where it can be fired again at any time, it takes three to five tall and burly fighters to turn the capstan a little bit to open the crossbow string again.

And the time required for this process is obviously much longer than the time it takes for the enemy to rush to the foot of the city wall from [-] paces away.

As for the enemy rushing to the bottom of the city, it is not that the bed crossbow can no longer cause further damage to the enemy's follow-up troops far outside the city, but that the loading and aiming of the bed crossbow will no longer be safe when the enemy troops approach the city.

"Um······"

"The range and power are sufficient, and there is no good solution for the accuracy."

"However, this loading speed can be a fuss..."

"The pulley block..."

Looking at the winch under the bed not far away, Liu Ying only murmured meaningfully.

Behind Liu Ying, seeing Liu Ying whispering in the direction of the crossbow on the bed, a strange look suddenly appeared on Li Shang's face.

"Your Highness..."

"Doesn't everyone say: the crown prince is benevolent and lenient?"

"A while ago, Your Majesty thought that His Highness was 'too benevolent and weak', so he thought it would be easy to save?"

Thinking so, Li Shang couldn't help but look out of the city, at the Shura field made up of' strings of people'.

In the end, Li Shang's eyes turned from the spectacular scene to Liu Ying's back.

"This······"

"The benevolent heir, the uncrowned prince, unexpectedly..."

"Like the power of the giant crossbow?"

(End of this chapter)