Chapter 280: Crossbow Battle (Fourth Update)
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Wu Meng, Ding Fan, and Ge were in Juquanling, and in addition to exchanging more than 50 fierce spirit birds, this time they also brought ten machine chariots and 40 machine crossbows into Montenegro. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
More than 50 fierce spirit birds, although each head is extremely fierce, can easily grab more than 2,000 catties of heavy objects and fly into the sky, but in addition to Wu Meng's more than 100 guards, craftsmen and the necessary armor to wear, considering that to fly more than 30,000 miles without interruption, the total amount of goods that can be carried must be compressed to less than 30,000 catties.
In addition to tens of thousands of catties of low-level elixirs, Wu Meng, Zhou Jingyuan, and Ding Fan considered the most useful weapons in the depths of the vast desert, as well as the machine chariot and the machine crossbow.
In order for a medium-sized machine chariot to be able to charge into battle among thousands of troops, the defensive nature of the envelope must be strong enough, even if it is cast with quenched iron, a medium-sized machine chariot weighs nearly 10,000 catties, to say the least, and a medium-sized machine has a crossbow of more than 1,000 catties.
It is impossible to transport a complete machine chariot and a machine crossbow into Montenegro, Wu Meng, Ding Fan, and Ge Tong can only barely bring the most difficult core components such as twenty sets of wind array boxes, ten sets of shaft change gearboxes, and forty sets of arrow array boxes this time, and the other people's parts have to be cast on the spot in Montenegro.
Fortunately, Chen Hai led the elite army to capture Zhuzhai before, and he gained a lot.
Even though it consumed a lot of quenched iron to cast a counterweight catapult before, there were still nearly 200,000 catties of quenched iron left in Black Mountain City, which could just be used to cast the envelope, axle wheel and crossbow bed of the machine chariot and the machine repeater.
The thousands of skilled craftsmen in the craftsman battalion in Montenegro are all slaves with no cultivation foundation, and they are far from being comparable to the group of excellent craftsmen brought by Wu Meng, but they have been following Chen Hai for half a year, and they are already initially familiar with the way of assembly operations.
Chen Hai selected more than 100 excellent craftsmen, and together with more than a dozen excellent craftsmen from Juquanling, set up the first foundry workshop in Montenegro, and in less than three months, he cast and assembled ten machine chariots and 40 machine crossbows.
The mechanism repeater that Chen Hai personally tried to make at the beginning could shoot thirty quenched short arrows in one breath, but the mechanism repeater and the arrow array box were completely refined by Chen Hai with extremely precious Xuanti refined iron, and it was extremely difficult for others to imitate it.
And the mechanism crossbow, the quenched arrow used is short and narrow, and the penetration is the strongest within a hundred steps, even through an inch-thick quenched iron plate, but when it reaches more than three hundred steps, the penetration will drop sharply, and it is extremely powerful in close combat, but it is not suitable for the battlefield of large crowds.
At this time, the medium-sized mechanism repeater that could be cast in batches in Juquanling was specially developed for the battlefield, and within a range of 1,000 steps, the penetration was comparable to that of the quenched iron arm bow, but because of this, the medium-sized mechanism repeater was much heavier than the melee repeater that Chen Hai had originally tried to make, each weighing more than 1,200 catties, and the fastest rate of fire had also dropped to six shots per breath.
Even so, such a high rate of fire, range, and penetration are amazingly high.
Considering that the most elite archers, who could only shoot an arrow every two to three breaths, forty repeaters were gathered together, which was equivalent to gathering seven or eight hundred elite archers to cover the rain of arrows on a narrow contact surface of less than a hundred paces.
And at a distance of 1,000 steps, even if the enemy's elite cavalry rides on the Yuqing cunning horse, it will take twenty or thirty breaths to rush to the front of the formation, even if you take into account the replacement and cooling of the arrow magazine, such a long time is enough for forty crossbows to pour out a base of 6,000 crossbow arrows like a raging storm.
The medium-sized machine crossbow is still too cumbersome for ordinary generals, the body of the crossbow weighs more than 1,200 catties, and the quenching arrows with a base number weigh more than 2,000 catties. This kind of mechanical repeater can only be equipped on the mechanical chariot, so that it can advance and retreat freely on the battlefield with complex situations.
And assembling the repeater on top of the machine chariot and assembling it into a repeater chariot is the real god chariot that Chen Hai imagined.
Chen Hai in the storming of Jinxiangling, Black Falcon Cliff, Moyue Lake Zhuzhai and Shiyue Gorge battles, with the spear phalanx repeatedly performed miraculous feats, Fan Dachun, Han Wen when they were in the training of the elite army, special attention was paid to strengthening the formation and training of the spear phalanx, in the elite army of 6,000 people, half of them were heavily armored spear soldiers.
In addition, the Black Mountain Craftsman Battalion also used a large amount of quenched iron materials to cast 3,000 excellent extra-long iron spears, and the grassroots military attachés even practiced the stabbing mastery based on the secret shape of the thorn.
Ordinary soldiers holding spears, it is already quite strong to be able to stab once in one breath, but in order to strengthen the attack density of the spear phalanx, in the dense phalanx of people, the grass-roots military attachés who are specifically cultivated through the Xuan Realm are useless, no matter how exquisite the cultivation of other combat skills is, there is no use, only the stabbing mastery that directly points at the former enemy, after destroying the qi, blood and essence of the whole body, can stab three or more times in one breath, and the power is extremely prominent.
After half a year of training, as well as the strengthening of all aspects such as armor and grass-roots military attachés, at this time, the 3,000 spear phalanx of the Elite Protector Army was several times stronger than that of the Shiyue Gorge War, but after seeing the performance of dozens of crossbows lined up, Fan Dachun, Han Wendang, Deng Tong'er and others were all scared into a cold sweat.
Even if the spear is wearing scale armor, it is not covered by a large shield at close range, and it is difficult to stop the dense rain of quenched arrows.
The slow advance of the spear phalanx is also a weakness that is difficult to overcome, which means that three thousand spear heavy armor spear soldiers, even if the whole army is destroyed, may not be able to advance to the ten times before the crossbow equipped with the machine chariot.
And the crossbow chariot is covered with quenched gold armor plates all around, and the two layers of quenched gold armor are half an inch thick, although it is not yet able to directly withstand the close range of Xuan soldiers killed by the powerhouses in the middle and late stages of the Mingkong Realm, but it is also necessary for the powerhouses in the middle and late stages of the Mingqi Realm to be able to assault within ten steps of the crossbow chariot without hindrance.
Fan Dachun, Han Wendang, Deng Tong'er and others were still looking forward to the spears being re-arrayed and able to shine in the battle to capture the Pinglu Oasis, who would have thought that they would become useless in front of the machine chariots and repeaters cast and assembled by their Black Mountain Craftsman Battalion?
When casting and assembling these repeater crossbow chariots, Chen Hai had already transferred more than 200 elite new crossbow battalions from the Elite Capital Hufu Guard Battalion.
The crossbow battalion and the war bird battalion, the sharp cavalry battalion, the halberd shield soldiers, the longbow battalion, and the spear heavy armor soldiers, how to cooperate with the tactical issues of the battle, Chen Hai asked Wu Meng, Ge Tong, Qi Hanjiang, and the generals of the elite army to repeatedly deduce countless times on the sand table in the past two or three months.
It's just that Fan Dachun has not experienced systematic military training, and they believe in inherent experience, and they usually pay more attention to tactical deduction with the spear phalanx as the core, and it was not until this moment that many old tactical concepts collapsed.
Fan Dachun was born as a horse thief, although his cultivation is not weak, but he is simple and rude in fighting against the army, and there are many bad habits and drawbacks that are difficult to overcome. Chen Hai can only use this violent way to destroy their confidence again and again and rebuild it, so that they can quickly grow into truly qualified generals.
Now that the 10-multiply crossbow chariot has been assembled, the elite army will be able to get out of the sand table and conduct on-the-spot combat training exercises, and Chen Hai will now be able to quickly familiarize themselves with the new tactics with the repeater chariot as the core.
It is likely that Montenegro's quenched iron material is still too limited, and a large number of quenched arrows need to be replenished from Juquanling to support a large-scale war.
Dong Ning also had a deeper understanding at this time, why Chen Hai was so angry when he handed over Juquanling to all the families to hold it, and the Dong family did not take advantage of it.
Juquanling's daily output of 60,000 catties of quenched iron is the key to the large-scale manufacture of repeater chariots, the popularization of quenched arrows, and the large-scale preparation of gold-level excellent armor and weapons.
If the Dong clan can monopolize Juquanling, it may be difficult to break through Qintong Pass and occupy Yanjing, but it will no longer be delusional to destroy the Musashi Army and the Hexiang Army and dominate the Northwest Regions within three or five years.
Chen Hai, as a disciple of Hexi, handed over such an extremely important resource to all families, how could the Dong family not be angry?
However, no matter how angry the Dong clan was, there was nothing they could do, and at this time, they had to count on Juquanling to supply ten times a repeater chariot and thirty or fifty thousand gold-quenching arrows every year.
After all, under the leadership of more than a dozen master craftsmen in Juquanling, thousands of craftsmen and craftsmen make crossbow chariots every year on a scale of more than 100 times, and quenched arrows can be cast four or five hundred thousand, and the Dong family can now get about one-tenth of it, and can also get nearly one million catties of quenched iron supply.
If he really tore his face desperately, Chen Hai and the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion, although they could not take Juquanling back from the hands of the Zhu family, they could still do it by uniting the families to exclude the Dong family.
Wu Meng and the others were able to take out the core accessories of the ten times crossbow chariot at one time, which was also the accumulation of the past two years - this is also the share that the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion should get in Juquanling, which was originally used to strengthen the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion Hu Wei Battalion, but knowing that Chen Hai wanted to do great things in the desert, they naturally let Wu Meng and them bring them to Montenegro.
Of course, Dong Ning also understood better why Chen Hai couldn't hand over Juquanling to the Dong family at this time.
The handing over of Juquanling to the Dong clan will allow the strength of the Dong clan to skyrocket, but it will also make the Dong clan's ambitions swell for no reason, thus setting off a bloodier and larger-scale war in Yanzhou, and depleting Yanzhou's potential strength to resist the invasion of the Rakshasa Demon, and at the same time, it is not difficult for Dong Ning to imagine that after monopolizing Juquanling, the Dong clan will inevitably exercise strict control over Chen Hai and the people of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion to ensure that all secrets will not be revealed.
Now that Chen Hai has handed over Juquanling to the nine families, on the one hand, he can improve the strength of the nine families at the same time, and on the other hand, he can suppress the unnecessary and even dangerous ambitions of the Dong family.
Ge Xuanqiao didn't know the secrets of the Blood Cloud Wasteland, nor did he know what Chen Hai's true intentions were, and after seeing the strong strength of the crossbow chariot, he also sighed slightly in his heart.
The repeater chariot has been first used by the Black Yan Army in the battle, even if it is not yet large-scale at this time, and it cannot finally decide the direction of the battle, but it has already caused considerable casualties to the Tiger Ben Army in Lichuan and Heyang.
However, this situation has only lasted for a few years, more than ten years, and the repeater chariots in the hands of the various families have reached the scale of hundreds or even hundreds of times, or the more powerful repeater chariots and stronger martial guard-level puppet armours are created, how will the war form of Yanzhou develop, and how will the families view Juquanling and Chen Hai?