Rebirth of the Three Kingdoms: Da Qiao doesn't want to be a widow anymore

Chapter 244 Actual Combat
The mountain people are already rubbing their hands and can't wait.

At Zhou Yi's command, dozens of arrows were shot out from the woods on both sides. Qiao Wei immediately drew out his peacock feather, and the guards around him immediately raised their shields and formed a square formation to surround Qiao Wei and the carriage in the center. Qiao Wei also drew out the peacock feather from his waist and shot down the arrows shot at him one by one.

She did not dare to be careless for the slightest bit. They fought and retreated to the back of the carriage, using the carriage as a cover. They pulled out more than a dozen ingenious crossbows from the box and threw them to the younger guards. While the archers were reloading their arrows, they immediately shot arrows at the archers in the woods.

If it came to close combat, facing these hundreds of people, Qiao Wei really had no confidence, but if it came to a contest of archery, Qiao Wei was not afraid at all.

Even Zhou Yi was shocked by this scene.

In just a few breaths, the favorable situation suddenly reversed. More than half of the hundred archers were killed or injured in an instant.

What a terrifying fighting power!

The last time he sent more than a hundred men to ambush Sun Kuang and his group of more than ten people on Dan Mountain, but these hundred men never returned. He later sent people to check the corpses, and only found that the wounds of the hundred men were caused by arrows.

He could only temporarily assume that Sun Kuang and his men were outwitting him and lured his men into an ambush point set up by Sun Kuang, where they were killed in the mountains.

But when he saw the scene in front of him, he already had the answer in his mind. Those more than a hundred people were probably killed by the strange crossbow in Qiao Wei's hand.

Sure enough, what his father said was right. Mo Zan must not be let go. He must recruit Mo Zan into his team and use him for his own purposes.

With such a magical weapon, it would be easy for him to kill Yu You, Wu Jing and others for revenge.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi looked at Qiao Wei with more eagerness.

The fact that Mo Zan could give such a magical weapon to this woman meant that she was definitely not as cold and ruthless to Mo Zan as he appeared to be now. Moreover, she could use this thing so skillfully, so she must be an extremely important and trusted person around Mo Zan.

"Go, bring that woman to me!"

When the mountain people around Zhou Yi saw Qiao Wei, they had already been itching to have sex with her, but they also knew in their hearts that even if such a beauty fell into their hands, they would have to leave it for their leader to enjoy.

But this does not prevent them from fighting on the battlefield for such a woman.

Hearing Zhou Yi's order, all the mountain people rushed forward. At this time, Qiao Wei had already replaced the second quiver for the crossbow, pulled the trigger, and started firing the second round of arrows.

The Ingenious Crossbow still has some shortcomings in its long-range shooting ability, but when it comes to close-range shooting, Qiao Wei can say that currently no weapon can compare to the Ingenious Crossbow.

Even within a range of thirty steps, the arrows from the crossbow could penetrate a person and kill the soldiers in the second row.

Sure enough, after a round of arrows, Zhou Yi found incredulously that almost no one could get close to Qiao Wei and his group.

Even if someone could dodge the arrows, the Danyangdan guards were not pushovers. They surrounded the person with swords and started to kill the mountain people.

As a result, the morale of the Sun family's guards was immediately boosted, and there was a little more respect and admiration in their eyes when they looked at Qiao Wei, and they were more convinced in their hearts.

After all, in troubled times, people admire the strong more, and they will obey whoever can lead them to survive.

Qiao Wei aimed the crosshairs of his crossbow at Zhou Yi and pulled the trigger. The arrow flew into the air. Zhou Yi reacted quickly and reached out to grab a mountain villager next to him as a shield. However, he did not expect that the arrow was so powerful that it went straight through the body of the person in front and hit his right arm. After a brief shock, severe pain came from his right arm, almost making Zhou Yi scream out.

"Retreat!" Zhou Yi no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the remaining mountain people to retreat.

To cut the grass, you must remove the roots. Qiao Wei is well aware of this truth.

In these two brief encounters with Zhou Yi, she had already used actual combat to test the huge effect of the latest version of the mechanical crossbow on the battlefield. However, this magical weapon that shocked the world was the trump card of their Jiangdong Army, and this trump card had not yet reached the point where it could be announced to the world.

The outcome on the battlefield is uncertain. What really determines victory on the battlefield is often not necessarily the combat power of both sides, but the economic and material level outside the battlefield.

Although the Jiangdong area has always been prosperous, this remote area is not strong enough to compete with the Central Plains in the north.

Sun Quan had also discussed this issue with Qiao Wei. It would take at least another ten years for Jiangdong to compete with the Central Plains, so Jiangdong’s biggest task at this time was to endure and instigate a fight between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and never let either side completely overwhelm the other.

So the Sun family has a marriage alliance with the Yuan family and the Cao family. This is what it means. The two sides should remain neutral and not offend anyone too much.

Only in this way will Jiangdong have the time and space to develop in the cracks. This requires Jiangdong to be patient, endure, and tolerate loneliness, and prepare for the opportunity.

Therefore, Sun Quan can endure it, and Qiao Wei must also endure it.

The powerful weapon, the ingenious repeating crossbow, has not yet been known to other warlords and forces so that they can take precautions and imitate it.

"Chase them. Except for Zhou Yi, the rest must be killed."

Anyone who has seen the Mechanical Crossbow must either surrender and keep silent, or be killed...there is no other option.

"Yes!"

The Danyang guards immediately went into the mountains and forests to chase after him.

Letting a tiger return to the mountains is not a good thing.

Once the mountain people enter the mountains, they are like fish in water. It is actually not that easy to catch them.

Dan Yang's guards quickly chased after the mountain people and disappeared from Qiao Wei's sight.

Only after all the Danyang guards had disappeared did Qiao Wei dare to return to the carriage with You Yu's help.

You Yu ordered the guards of the younger generation to rest for a quarter of an hour, then approached the carriage and whispered, "Madam... I'm afraid it will take a long time to clear the road ahead. Do you want me to take you back to Sun's Mansion in Danyang first?"

It was already completely dark, and the road ahead was impassable. To reach the post station, the road had to be cleared... but turning back to Sun's house would take several more hours...

It's really a dilemma.

"Is it okay if we stay here overnight?"

The group had already been walking for a day, and had also experienced a small battle. Both clearing the road and returning were huge tests of everyone's physical strength.

"Then let me arrange to clear the way!" You Yu thought about it and knew that Qiao Wei must be eager to go home at this time and didn't want to delay any longer on the road.

"Everyone is tired..."

"I will arrange for the division of teams to clear the road." You Yu roughly estimated that Zhou Yi had sent people to block the road with rolling stones, but they just wanted to block the road and trap people, and they did not block the road completely. At most, they can clear the road in one or two hours. "Madam, you can rest assured in the carriage. I will guard it myself."

"Okay. And all the arrows must be recovered." Qiao Wei didn't want to be pretentious. She wanted to bring the latest ingenious crossbow back to Wu County as soon as possible, then persuade Sun Quan to conquer Baishishan, and then recruit the entire Ou family as her own craftsmen.

The success of this version of the mechanical crossbow is really due to the unique locking and forging techniques of the Ou family. Only by absorbing the entire Ou family into his own school can Qiao Wei ensure that even if the enemy seizes the mechanical crossbow on the battlefield in the future, they will not be able to copy it.