When you have happiness in your hands, it always seems insignificant, but when it is gone, you understand how important and precious it is.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

It could not have taken less than half an hour for 20,000 foot light to leave the city in formation, which was enough time for Uesugi Jinghu to deploy the equipment on the city wall that had been made overnight, and sixteen strangely shaped equipment were finally placed on the city wall less than 100 meters.

With 4,000 new bows and arrows under his command, Ando Daiki has no hope that the archers will be able to play, and Ando, who was born as a samurai, has always disliked the use of bows and arrows on the battlefield.

The reason why the bow and arrow ashigaru is not valued by various families is because the samurai system of the Yamato Empire makes the samurai who serve as generals at all levels advocate hand-to-hand combat and reject long-range strikes, and on the other hand, because the bow and arrow weapons of the Yamato Empire are very backward, with extremely limited range and lethality, coupled with the melee strength that the archers and ashigaru can't even defend themselves, make them chicken ribs.

In the same way, the reason why the longbowmen of Rome City can become a powerful class of troops that every legion must match is because of the long range and super lethality of the special cold locust longbow made by Rome City, and on the other hand, because the longbowmen specially trained by barbarian warriors have melee combat strength far superior to that of ordinary Terran army soldiers, which is the key to their ability to become an elite class.

The special cold locust longbow made in Rome City, the brave warriors in the barbarian land, and the elite special training of the systematic shooting range, these three indispensable external conditions are woven together to form the most elite far superior strike force in Rome City - the barbarian longbowmen!

Although the range of the iron cannon is not as good as that of the Leng Huai longbow, and the melee combat power of the iron cannon is not as good as that of the barbarian warriors, their advantage is that the durability and lethality of the iron cannon are far better than the Leng Huai longbow, and the iron cannon has a more deterrent effect than the longbow.

The barbarian longbowmen's arrows rain strikes can inflict heavy casualties on the enemy at a distance of 400 meters, but the number of times each barbarian longbowman pulls the bowstring per day is limited, and it is impossible for them to shoot indefinitely; in a battle, each barbarian longbowman can only pull the string 30 times normally, and occasionally the arm strength is extraordinary will not exceed 35 strings, which is the biggest drawback of the barbarian longbowman.

As long as the iron cannon can occupy favorable terrain, the iron cannon gunners can continue to shoot on the premise that there is sufficient ammunition; the iron cannon produced by the system must be a high-quality iron cannon, and there are no problems such as exploding, jamming, and scrapping the barrel.

When Bai Feng led the army to garrison the Sunset Fortress to block the attack of the orc army, the Cretan archers, who were among the top archers, could only inflict quite limited casualties on the orcs, but the iron artillery gunners who could easily be recruited on a large scale played a mainstay role.

This time, Bai Feng led the army back to the Yanhuang family, and the Sixth Roman Legion and the Tenglong Legion, which were equipped with a large number of barbarian longbowmen, had already gone south by boat, the Seventh Roman Legion remained in the family capital Sanhe Castle, and the Governor's Guard was temporarily stationed in Sado.

The improvised archers under Bu Weixin's command who cobbled together with captured bows and arrows had little real effect other than creating a false deterrent to the enemy, and even Bu Weixin didn't expect them to kill the enemy with bows and arrows!

Even Yubu Nobu, who was born as a shogunate general, despised archers so much, and how should the generals of the Yamato Empire, who was born and raised, think of bows and arrows? Because of his lord's military orders, Ando Daiki had no choice but to go into battle with the four thousand bows and arrows that he regarded as a burden.

The Yamato Empire's bow and arrow ashigaru were not the barbarian longbowmen of Roman City, and they only relied on a short bow to function, and they had to be protected by a special army before they could enter the battlefield; otherwise, once they were out of range of the archers on the city walls, the fierce Yan and Huang troops outside the city only needed to launch a charge, and it was unknown whether the bow and arrow ashigaru, which was not even equipped with melee weapons, could escape back alive.

Because of Uesugi Keitora's repeated instructions before leaving the city, when Ando Daiki put his ranks together and attacked again, he left 8,000 spears and ashigaru to protect the 4,000 archers walking in the rear of the army, so that he had only 8,000 troops available to him.

In order to ensure a breakthrough in today's tentative offensive, Uesugi Keitora did not use the demoralized Mogami soldiers, which means that the 16,000 spears and 4,000 bows and arrows that are being put into battle at this moment are all Uesugi soldiers!

It is clear that Uesugi Jinghu, who is not a brainless man, has extraordinary confidence in the secret weapon he has made overnight, so much so that he dares to take the initiative to attack his most precious descendants at the risk of being crippled.

Five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, when the 8,000 soldiers led by Ando Daiki himself were only two hundred meters away from the front line of the Yan and Huang Army, Uesugi Jinghu, who had already deployed special equipment on the city wall, ordered the ashigaru who operated the equipment to immediately start the first round of projection!

Yesterday morning's resounding victory made Valc, a fledgling general of the Lucy Kingdom who had not been in the country for a long time, inevitably have a feeling of fluttering; in his opinion, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Uesugi and Mogami coalition forces in the city were just a group of lambs to be slaughtered who gave him war exploits!

With a proud captain like Valk, the barbarian warriors of the three wings were naturally proud, and even though they had seen the presence of archers in the advancing army of the enemy, they still did not pay attention to the enemy in front of them.

With the order of Uesugi Jinghu, the sixteen special instruments threw the sixteen sealed clay pots into the air, and it turned out that these special instruments created overnight were actually simple versions of stone throwers, with a range of five or six hundred meters from the height of the city wall!

Since it was a simple version of the stone throwing machine, it was naturally impossible for this improvised projectile to be too accurate; only four of the sixteen sealed clay pots that fell from the sky smashed into the horse bar, and even two of them smashed into the heads of their own soldiers who were advancing.

The two allied soldiers who were unfortunately hit by the sealed clay pot only had time to let out two screams before their brains burst and died on the spot; such an oolong scene not only made the soldiers of the Valker Division who were sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai laugh, but also made the advancing Allied soldiers tremble in fright.