Chapter 96: Weak Wei Shuangbu
The soldiers of the Yuxiao Brigade could not catch up with 165 meters when they fired a second arrow after a long shot, so they could only shoot at an acute angle of 30 degrees.
Shoot at a 30-degree angle, because the throwing height is not enough, it will be more receiving, and it can shoot to about 120 meters.
The enemy cavalry quickly rushed to about 150 meters.
"Shoot!" Zhang Jingtao shouted.
This shot was extremely accurate, and when the enemy rider approached from 150 meters to 120 meters, it was just hit by an arrow, and it was a horse neighing, and more people fell this time, because the enemy rider also carried out a round of crossbow shooting.
As for the enemy cavalry to shoot at such a close distance, it is not to say that this is not a professional assault cavalry, without a strong crossbow, and the enemy cavalry is also a strong crossbow.
But the problem is that the Ghost Coin Knights are here to loot, of course, it is good to fight quickly, what needs to be launched is hand-to-hand combat, and it is impossible to rely on the farthest burst to slowly grind down thousands of people in the death camp.
Moreover, in the galloping horse, the crossbow angle is too large and the bumps are bumped, the arrow will not know where to float, so in order to make a round of crossbow fire produce enough suppressive force to help itself more smoothly impact, the crossbow shot of the enemy horse will take an acute angle to shoot, so it is necessary to consider suppressing the shot of the jade flute brigade at a distance of about 100 meters.
The cavalry broke through a hundred meters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it can make the opposing infantry fearful.
As a result, the enemy cavalry will start firing crossbows at about 120 meters.
Therefore, in such a projectile, their human body will still unconsciously lift up a lot.
Moreover, these cavalry charged like a cone formation, which was certainly conducive to impacting and killing the enemy, but the disadvantage was also obvious, that is, the target was concentrated and it was easy to be hit by arrows.
In this round, the enemy again lost twelve cavalrymen, three of whom looked like they were helpless.
For this reason, after the loss of eighteen cavalry men of the enemy's brigade, the whole team was stagnant.
You must know that Wei Shuang's department and Wang Ning's department also had archery counterattacks, but they didn't even shoot down a single cavalry of the enemy, especially Wang Ning's department, it stands to reason that there are no less than 150 people who have the vision to shoot arrows, but they still haven't shot a single arrow.
Even, they asked a soldier with a long-range crossbow to shoot a standard arrow 500 meters away according to the long-range shooting method.
In order to observe the approximate distance of the opposing cavalry after entering the arrow range according to the 500-meter arrow range.
However, after they had this arrow, they still couldn't judge it accurately.
Not surprisingly, at this glance, it is too difficult to figure out the difference between tens of meters.
And the second team of ghost coins, as if they were harvested by the Jade Xiao Brigade of the Death Battalion, fell down one piece of Qi Brush.
Because Wei Shuang and Wang Ning can't calculate the distance of archery like Zhang Jingtao, although these two also have self-appointed pacesetters to order, but since the Zhou State began to play feudalism, the people in the gate valve do not know the method of comparing the distance with their fingers under the lack of civilization, and they all give orders to shoot arrows by visually estimating the range.
Just like the enemy Ghost Coin Knights, they are shooting completely based on experience, and even in order to avoid the ineffectiveness of a round of shots, they do not give a unified order, because this shot is only used to assist the cavalry in charging, and they do not pay attention to whether this shot can form enough lethality.
For this reason, according to their habits, after they realized that they could attack the range, they did not dare to shoot at each other because of the arrows fired by the Jade Xiao Brigade.
This is also when encountering this kind of shooting on weekdays, although the enemy's arrows rush at each other, although it seems terrifying, but in fact, they basically don't know where to float, either in front or behind, they will charge so fearlessly.
It's a pity that Zhang Jingtao didn't give orders based on experience, he followed the range of this kind of bamboo tire bow, which is the most common in the army, with 180 meters, 165 meters, and 120 meters as a reference.
Add the speed of the cavalry, then you need to give the order when the enemy is 240 meters, 225 meters, 150 meters.
The jade flute team usually trains like this, and another person shouts the password, and the same is true, after having a simple field distance measurement method of measuring the distance with a finger, there will be no mistake, only a little error.
At this moment, Zhang Jingtao shouted as early as when his own projectile was completed and the enemy was also shooting a round of arrows.
"Defense! Get on the arrow! ”
In this way, you don't waste time while dodging.
The soldiers shrunk their shoulders with their steel helmets facing slightly forward, and at the same time, if there was no carriage to protect them, they leaned their helmets forward to give their bodies an angle of protection, and then they quickly reloaded their bows with arrows in their hands.
And after this defense, the arrows of the enemy cavalry have just arrived.
Zhang Jingtao himself is also evasive, but because of his vitality, he found that his eyesight and brain sharpness are amazingly good, and he can estimate that he will not be hit by an arrow, so under bold observation, he found that the arrows of the enemy cavalry seem to be violent, but in fact they are very scattered and floating, but an arrow hit a soldier on Wei Shuang's side, only two people's steel helmets were wiped here, and the rest of them did not even touch the edge of the arrow.
"Rush shot!" Zhang Jingtao shouted again, and he also understood how weak Wei Shuang's arrow was to the other party.
And rush shooting, in training, first rush to shoot a round of bow and arrows.
In this way, it is possible to shoot at the enemy at a distance of about 80 meters.
Then, he immediately changed to a short crossbow that had already been wound, and immediately another round of scramble shots, hitting the enemy from about 60 meters away.
It is the foot of the enemy horse.
As Zhang Jingtao expected, the enemy cavalry just charged, trying to shorten the distance between the two sides.
In this way, under the rapid second round of a hundred arrows, more than a dozen at a time, and the second time actually caused the enemy cavalry to fall nearly 20 people.
There were only five cavalry men left.
The five members of the second team of ghost coins really couldn't imagine that under the dense charging formation, shooting horses and feet would have such an effect, in the past, they were facing the body of the horse, because the target of the horse body was large, but the actual damage caused was very small, because the horse was usually not injured and could still continue to charge with arrows.
"Hold the shield, draw the sword, and take a 'tough' formation, ready to charge." Zhang Jingtao shouted, he himself hid behind the carriage, but pulled out the bow and arrows, because he had an arm shield, there was no need to take off the steel helmet.
Those members of the jade flute team were divided into ten squads, except for one person in each team who hung up a short crossbow, picked up a large shield and held a spear, among the rest, two still held a bow and crossbow to wind, and the other two tore open the slipknot on the lower edge of the steel helmet, held the handle in the helmet, and used the steel helmet as a shield, and then one person drew a knife to prevent the enemy from breaking into the shield defense range, and one person held a spear to assist the big shield hand to attack.
These movements are usually completed in three seconds, and the Jade Xiao team usually has training.
If you want to survive, you have to be fast.
During the overall training of the death camp, only the use of helmets, as well as the actions of putting on the bowstring, opening the crossbow arm, swinging the knife, and shooting posture were trained.
In this way, the Jade Xiao Brigade can still stabilize its position, but this is not gratifying, because the first brigade of the Wei Shuang Department of the Death Battalion is very bad.