Late Tang

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A dense rain of arrows fell, and some of the Black Crow Army who were charging were shot and fell off their horses.But the Shatuo people also showed their extremely powerful side at this time. Although some people in the charge team fell down constantly, they were not afraid at all, and the charge did not stop at all.

"Catapult, ballista ready!" Li Jing ordered loudly from the top of the city.

Since they came all the way from Hedong, there were not many heavy equipment, and most of them were medium-sized crossbows such as the Fuyuan crossbow carried by the Zhendong army. These are produced with standard parts and can be disassembled and assembled at any time.Now Feng'an city has [-] Fuyuan heavy crossbows with a range of [-] steps. In addition, there are [-] large three-bow crossbows, commonly known as eight-ox crossbows, and two extra-large gallows crossbows.

The Fuyuan crossbow has a range of 30 steps and requires two people to draw the bow.The three-bow bed crossbow is even more powerful, requiring [-] people to open the crossbow. The arrows use hard wood as the shaft and iron sheets as the feathers. It is known in the world as "one gun and three swords and arrows" with a range of up to [-] steps.The largest hanged crossbow is as strong as twelve stones, and requires more than a hundred people to twist the shaft to stretch the string. The shaft is turned to stretch the string and the bow is opened. "Chi five inches" and "five inches thick", with iron leaves as feathers, three slightly smaller arrows were placed on the left and right, and when all the arrows were fired together, "all the fortresses in the middle were destroyed, and the towers also fell down."

This kind of bed crossbow is more powerful than the gunpowder currently in possession of the Firearms Bureau.A clay pot filled with fifty catties of gunpowder was thrown onto the tower, and the damage caused by the explosion was not too great.But if it is hit by this huge arrow in the middle of the hangbed crossbow, the gate tower over there can be directly destroyed.If it hits the city wall, it can be directly nailed into the city wall.However, this kind of bed crossbow is difficult to make, difficult to move, and very precise. It is often used for city defense and rarely for field battles.There are only two of them in the town.

"One, two, three, one, two, three!"

A burst of chant sounded, and hundreds of people under the inner wall of the city began to transfer wheels, stretching their strings and opening their bows.The crossbows of the two lathes are too big and require too much manpower. They cannot be placed on the top of the city at all, but can only be placed inside the city. Fortunately, the crossbows have a range of [-] steps and a range of up to two miles. After shooting, the target has been determined.As soon as the city found that the enemy cavalry had entered the range target of the rook, he immediately ordered the launch.

Several Hercules loaders carried a huge crossbow arrow three feet five inches long and five inches thick, with iron leaves as feathers, and a prismatic iron spear head, and loaded it onto the bed crossbow. A slightly smaller arrow.

"put!"

The two bed crossbows were also specially commanded by a team leader officer. After seeing that they were loaded, they immediately ordered the bows to be opened and the strings to be released.There were loud thunderclaps, and fourteen crossbow arrows whizzed away, straight into the sky.

The Shatuo cavalry charging under the city under the rain of arrows suddenly heard a loud howling sound above their heads, and they couldn't help but all looked up.I saw a few huge crossbow arrows flying in the air, and they arrived in a blink of an eye.

A huge crossbow arrow flew down, and directly pierced a Shatuo cavalryman and horse that it hit into two pieces, and then continued to charge forward without losing momentum, just like combing through a comb, and took away more than a dozen cavalry in an instant. Life, plowed a blank area in the Shatuo people's formation, and finally nailed a Shatuo cavalry to the ground.

Fourteen arrows killed dozens of cavalry in a blink of an eye, especially the two super heavy crossbows, which directly swept out two blanks in the densely charged Shatuo formation.Immediately after this wave of sharp blows, the catapult also began to show its power.

In order to reduce the casualties in the town, Li Jing also used Shenhuo and Tianhuo, which had been useless since he arrived in Hedong.These things are also very rare in Li Jing's hands, but this time Li Jing took them all out regardless of the cost.

Dozens of fireballs fell from the sky like a rain of meteors, hitting the Shatuo people's assault formation one after another.The stone bullet with the size of a human head fell down, and as long as it hit, all the Shatuo people were killed immediately with their horses and men.

However, the attack of the suppressor did not make Li Keyong back down.On the contrary, it aroused their fierceness more and more, and they rushed more fiercely and faster.

"Kill!" Li Ke's heart was bleeding, but he knew that they had no way out, forward, there was still a glimmer of life, and backward, they would be completely dead without a place to die.

The sky suddenly darkened again. Three hundred Fuyuan crossbows and three thousand crossbowmen fired arrows at the same time. In addition, twenty eight-ox crossbows, two gallows crossbows and thirty catapults fired simultaneously.Large swaths of flying arrows covered the sky like dark clouds. The rain of arrows was also mixed with rain of stone bullets and fireballs, and metal waterfalls fell from the sky.The first round of arrow rain just now did not kill many people, but this time, one-third of the Shatuo people who rushed ahead were enveloped in it.Li Ke, who rushed to the front, seemed to be hit by a huge invisible hand. He flew upside down from his horse, his body twisted into a bow in mid-air, and fell directly to the ground seven or eight steps away. on the ground.

He was hit by the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow. The standard crossbow arrows directly hit his left shoulder blade, shattering the bronze lion shoulder guard on his armor with one blow, and after piercing his armor, directly His left shoulder blade was shattered and he was pinned to the ground.

But fortunately for Li Keyong's misfortune, that crossbow was only a relatively small one in the bed crossbow, not the main crossbow.The place where it hit was also lucky, it only hit the shoulder blade, if it was a little further to the right, it would go straight to the heart.Li Sizhao rushed back to his horse, pulled out the crossbow spear, and directly lifted Li Keyong from the ground and pulled him onto his horse, preventing Li Keyong from being trampled by his own horse.

For a time, the entire southern part of Feng'an City was like a volcano erupting suddenly, with countless arrows covering the sky and covering the sun.Under this terrifying and uninterrupted rain of arrows, even the mightiest Black Crow Army seemed extremely fragile.

Although the cavalry rushing in the front row were wearing iron armor, horses and leather armor, and held cavalry round shields in one hand, they couldn't stop them at all in such a storm of arrows. hedgehog.

This was definitely my worst nightmare.Screams, groans, blood, death, panicked people and horses trampled on each other, hoofbeats, screams, arrows rained like locusts, and the sharp wind of arrows piercing through the air filled the entire space, forcing the bravest Shatuo Soldiers are going crazy.Arrows are everywhere!arrow!arrow!

In the blink of an eye, as if suddenly struck by violent lightning, the cavalry in the front line turned their backs, and the Shatuo cavalry kept spraying blood and flying into the air, screaming and falling from their horses to the dust.The body was pierced in an instant, and the arrow shot the second person flying with a bloody flower; some people were even nailed to the ground by the whole person, and the bloody flower bloomed in mid-air.The soldiers screamed and wailed, bumping into each other and huddled together, trampling each other; some people lay down to avoid, but were trampled on the back of the head by the panicked horses, and their brains were splashed.The cavalry kept falling, the short and sharp screams of dying, the horses injured by arrows rolled on the ground, and the long screams were horrific.

At this time, even the extremely powerful Shatuo people began to feel fear.

Li Ke's left arm was drooping weakly, and cloth strips were randomly wrapped around it to temporarily stop the bleeding.He mounted the horse again, changed a horizontal knife in his right hand, and shouted like crazy: "Rush, rush, rush, even if you are the last person left, you must rush forward."

The cavalry array continued to charge, and the soldiers shouted in unison: "Long live Sha Tuo!" Although some people were shot and fell off their horses every now and then, the huge array advanced violently, with the sound of hoofs rumbling, as unstoppable as a mountain torrent and a tsunami.In an instant, screams rang out from the front row, and those cavalrymen who were injured and fell off their horses were all trampled into flesh by their own horseshoes.In order to vent their powerless anger, the cavalrymen tore off the collars of their leather robes in a fit of rage, howling with their bare chests.

Seeing that the Shatuo people were approaching and began to mount and shoot on their horses, Wang Zhong hurriedly waved the flag, and three thousand strange soldiers in the front of the phalanx blocked their shields and shouted loudly.

Li Jing ordered from the top of the city, "All the catapults obey the order, with the goal of a hundred steps ahead of the formation, and the direction is straight forward, all of them are released together!"

The sound of crackling machine springs sounded continuously, like countless birds flying across the sky, throwing stones fell from the sky with a mournful howl, and fell into the dense Shatuo cavalry formation again like thunder.Shields and armor can block arrows, but they can't block stones.No shield or armor could block the stones falling from the sky, and one by one Shatuo people were smashed off their horses, and even their heads were smashed directly.

To retreat is death, and to advance is also death.

The Shatuo people didn't collapse, they went crazy.

Thousands of cavalry braved the rain of arrows and stone bullets, shouting wildly, and the soldiers and horses charged forward.

The sky and the earth were filled with terrifying shocking waves, as dense as raindrops of boulders and arrows violently bombarded the sea of ​​people, what was splashed was terrifying bright red waves, waves of flesh and blood and screams.Relying on this desperate attack, not caring about casualties, and not fearing sacrifice, the Black Crow Army advanced step by step in this way, and finally reached the front of the Tang Army.

Seeing that they finally rushed to Tang Jun, the Shatuo people burst into exclamation, "Shatuo, Shatuo, Shatuo!"

With shouts, the Shatuo people who rushed in the front row ignored the forest of stabbing spears shining with countless cold lights in front of them, and they rode their horses directly and slammed into it one after another.

There was the sound of the spear piercing into the belly of the horse, the sound of the spear breaking under the impact of the horse and the knight, and the sharp sound of the Shatuo man's spear piercing the iron shield of the Tang army on the horse.The horse was shot and screamed, the knight's desperate roar before dying...

The Shatuo people were throwing their lives at the Tang army's shield formation, and Shatuo soldiers rushed in one after another, but gradually, the Shatuo people discovered that the Tang army's line was stronger than any other infantry shield formation they had ever encountered. Be strong.Under such a fierce collision, they did not collapse at all.

The Black Crow Army was blocked, their speed slowed down, and they couldn't rush in.Like a wave hitting a rock, no matter how fiercely they beat, the rock is still there after the wave passes. (To be continued.)