The warriors of the Kushan Empire are only passively defending,

But hastily prepared defensive formations,

How could it be possible to resist the charge of the cavalry that had been gathering momentum for a long time,

The formation of the troops in the rear was quickly dispersed,

The army of the Kushan Empire instantly appeared in a riot,

The scope of this unrest gradually expanded,

More Kushan Empire soldiers,

Spotted the commotion that appeared in the rear,

There are already some troops in the front ready to turn back and support the rear,

However, the cavalry troops of the Han Dynasty,

Just as when they appeared,

disappeared inexplicably,

Throughout the process of appearance,

It's just a charge,

But this time the surprise attack,

But it also made these soldiers of the Kushan Empire,

I started to get nervous.

After discovering that the traces of the enemy have been lost,

Those who came back to help,

also gradually began to return,

In the process,

Suddenly, out of nowhere, there was a crisp banging sound,

Immediately after that, countless feathered arrows followed,

This time, the feather arrows were shot even more chaotically,

There is no way to distinguish the specific location of the enemy's troops,

There was immediately a commotion on the side of the Kushan Empire,

In the darkness,

Since it is impossible to distinguish the position of the enemy,

Even if they wanted to, they couldn't do it.

can only keep screaming terrible,

The officers constantly gave instructions,

Let all the soldiers calm down,

The scene immediately plunged into chaos,

The feathered arrows still flew like a torrential rain,

Finally, someone discovered the location of the enemy.

However, just like the first attack,

The mysterious army disappeared again without a trace,

This neighborhood is a mountainous area,

Although there are no particularly high mountains,

However, all kinds of boulders and dirt slopes are lined up,

If it's okay during the day,

can roughly see each other's traces,

But in the darkness of the night,

And the Han army is hidden in unknown corners,

The armies of their Kushan Empire are all brightly torched,

It's like pointing out the goal for the other party,

Completely caught in passivity.

Tucker was drinking with his friends,

Suddenly, the heralds from outside rushed in,

Report the situation to him,

Tucker hurriedly put on his armor,

Go out of the tent and observe the situation,

climbed the gatehouse of the camp as fast as he could,

I can't see clearly in the night,

You can only see the rear of the army,

It's a mess at the moment,

Tucker's brow furrowed,

hurriedly ordered his friends beside him to go to the rescue,

He himself sent an army to follow him,

Go and help your allies defend against attacks.

The camp nervously began to prepare,

Now that the enemy has begun to harass,

Then it is quite possible that there will also be an attack by enemy troops on the side of the battalion,

Tucker immediately ordered the army to go into combat readiness,

All the troops put on their armor,

The cavalry even led the horses out,

Always ready to fight,

Just after dinner,

The soldiers' physical and mental strength was restored to a peak state.

Tucker glanced at his subordinates in the camp with satisfaction,

Such a reaction speed of their own troops,

It's still quite satisfying to him,

There are such troops,

Even if the enemy army makes a surprise attack,

and will certainly be able to be defeated by them in one fell swoop,

Tucker has this confidence.

The army slowly marched out of the camp again,

It's just that this time it was dispatched,

Most of them are Tucker's troops,

The army that has just entered the big camp not long ago,

I'm still resting at the moment,

The Lord led his guard,

Swiftly moving towards the rear,

Tucker's reinforcements followed.

This force is drifting away,

The speed of movement is fast.

The rest of the troops continued to move into the camp.

Therefore, the number of soldiers in the Tucker camp today,

Only increase, not decrease, more and more,

Just near the camp gate,

It is a little cluttered due to crowding.

Tucker focused his main attention on the direction of the Han military camp.

Far away, you can see,

The camp of the Han army was brightly lit,

But there was no sign of the army moving,

This situation is somewhat abnormal,

But it's also reasonable,

Some of the troops went out to harass,

More troops were left in the camp,

It's the norm.

"General, do we need to take the initiative to attack, go to the big camps of those Han troops, teach them some lessons, maybe the main force of the other side goes out, we can just take their big camp in one fell swoop!"

The pro-soldier commander on the side walked over to Tucker's side and suggested,

Under the light of the torches,

The face of the commander of the pro-soldiers flashed with a bloodthirsty light,

When a pair of eyes looked at the Han army camp in the distance,

There was a fierce fire of war burning in the depths of his eyes.

Taka turned his head and glanced at the commander of his own army,

This guy was cultivated by him,

On weekdays, he is promoted and cultivated,

Even Tucker had the heart to marry his daughter to this young man,

After hearing the other party's suggestion at this moment,

Tucker didn't rush to deny,

He asked:

"Tell me why you're doing this!"

The young man was slightly stunned when he heard this,

Glancing at Tucker with some frustration,

found that the other party was not as angry as he expected,

He emboldened himself and spoke:

"General, the enemy is only about 40,000 men, and half of the light cavalry has been scattered by our army today, and now we have to divide our troops to carry out a sneak attack, so that there will definitely not be many troops left in the large battalion. That's why I thought it was a good opportunity! ”

The more the commander of the pro-army said, the more confident he became,

Speaking of which, he straightened his waist directly,

He looked at Tucker with confidence on his face.

After Tucker listened to his words,

Smiled and shook his head,

"Think about these questions......

The commander of the army looked at Tucker suspiciously,

The other party opened his mouth and was about to speak,

Suddenly a deafening sound came,

"Boom!"

Immediately afterward, the gatehouse of the big camp where they were shook violently,

Tucker was nearly thrown off by the shaking camp gate,

The commander of the pro-soldiers on the side quickly helped him,

Fortunately, it didn't hurt much.

Before the two of them came back to their senses,

Immediately after, a continuous roar continued to sound,

The two hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction where the voice came,

I saw the camp gate in the rear,

A raging fire burned,

The appearance of the fire is very amazing,

The gate of the camp has been hardened into pieces,

turned into a burning flame,

There are endless queues coming and going,

At the moment, it has become a mess of porridge,

Countless soldiers,

There was a fire burning in his body,

Wailing miserably,

And struggling painfully running everywhere, read

Let more people be contaminated with flames,

This kind of flame is very peculiar,

Once it is contaminated with the body,

Ordinary slapping can't knock it out at all,

And the speed of burning is also much faster.

There are still fires falling from the sky,

Tucker looked in the direction where the fireball was flying,

He remembers very well,

There's a hill over there,

During the day he had carefully probed,

It's impossible to hide people for miles around there,

And it's far from where we are now encamped,

It's nearly 300 paces away,

Ordinary long-range weapons such as bows and arrows or trebuchets,

I can't reach such a distance at all,

That's why Tucker looked for such a place,

Relatively flat and open,

And camp near a place where there is a water source,

It is to be able to avoid encountering a surprise attack from the other side.

But he didn't think of it anyway,

Not only did the other party appear near the hill inexplicably,

And you can have a ranged weapon that goes straight from there to here.

Look at it like this, it should be a trebuchet undoubtedly,

But when did trebuchets have so much power,

Able to shoot at such a distance?

And that flame was lit with something,

Though only seen from afar,

But the intensity of the burning,

And the soldiers,

Desperately trying to put out the fire,

But with little effect,

He saw it all clearly.

Tucker realizes that this is not the time to be cranky,

Hurriedly turned his head and asked:

"Aren't there some defenders near that hill? What about people? How did someone touch it and arrange heavy weapons, and we didn't even have any news here!? ”

Tucker had an unconcealable anger on his face,

Touched by the enemy,

For him, who is cautious,

It's a shame.

The commander of the pro-soldier was also dazed and incredulous,

He hurriedly argued:

"General, I have sent a force of five hundred men to be stationed on that hill, and I will deliver the news at a fixed time, and half an hour ago, I just received the news that it is safe over there......"

Tucker didn't continue to listen to the guy's arguments,

He also believed that the other party did not deceive him,

So now there is only one reason,

That's these Han people,

I don't know what method was used,

escaped their detection,

Moreover, now the garrison of 500 men,

I'm afraid it's also more than lucky.

The chaos at the back door continues,

Tucker ordered the people to go and put out the fire,

At the same time suppress the riots as much as possible,

On the other hand,

It was ordered to open the front gate of the camp,

The light cavalry units are ready to leave the camp,

Attacking the hill,

This time I took a detour,

Tucker's troops did not carry heavy equipment,

Those siege weapons,

All carried by this support army behind,

That's why they take so long.

to get here,

Therefore, wanting to be in the midst of the great camp,

Strike back against that hill,

It's simply impossible,

Not to mention, their heavy equipment,

There is also no equipment capable of reaching such a range.

The troops are ready to fight,

And the trained light cavalry moved more quickly,

After they received the order,

And he rushed out of the camp gate quickly,

Charging towards the hill in the distance,

The straight-line distance between the top of the hill and the camp was about 300 paces.

But if the light cavalry wants to rush over,

But you need to take a detour for a distance,

The torches held by the cavalry pointed Tucker in the way,

so that he can easily see the movements of the light cavalry,

This time it was nearly two thousand light cavalry who attacked,

They move very fast,

More than 2,000 horses soon completely rushed out of the camp,

However, wait until the last cavalryman,

Less than thirty paces from the camp,

The cavalry at the front suddenly turned on their backs,

Then came the screams of death,

In the darkness of the night, you can't see what's going on in the distance,

At least from Tucker's side,

I didn't find any enemies in the cavalry.

But that terrible scream,

But you can hear it all clearly here.

"Retreat! Hurry up and give the order to retreat! ”

Tucker hurriedly gave the order,

The piercing sound of trumpets resounded through the night sky,

The light cavalry withdrew like the wind again to the camp,

In this short period of less than a meal,

It was lost by nearly a third,

Tucker finally knew what had happened to them,

The enemy was already in ambush in the darkness,

The attack was extremely violent,

It was as if countless enemy soldiers had shot bows and arrows at them,

But they didn't see the presence of the enemy at all.

And that kind of bow and arrow is also different from the kind of projectile of the longbow,

It turned out to be a straight shot at your own troops.

In fact, the attacks they suffered,

It's not a bow and arrow,

It's a crossbow bolt, but

At this time, the Kushan Empire,

They didn't even know about this weapon with incredible lethality.

The appearance of the crossbow should be no later than the Shang and Zhou dynasties,

During the Spring and Autumn period, the crossbow became a common weapon in use.

The Art of War. Warfare" has listed crossbows and shields as important combat materials.

In the Warring States period, crossbows were widely used in the military.

Also from the early Warring States period of the crossbow (that is, a crossbow opened with arm strength,),

"Sun Bin Art of War" said that this kind of crossbow "is issued between the shoulders and kills people a hundred steps away";

The crossbow that developed to the late Warring States period:

Such as Han Wei's twelve-stone crossbow (shooting 600 steps) and so on.

During this period, the crossbow was more commonly used in warfare,

For example, the elite soldiers in South Korea are called "wearing strong armor and holding strong supervision" (a name for crossbows);

Wei Xuanwu, one of the requirements of the assessment is to be able to hold a twelve-stone crossbow.

When he arrived in the Western Han Dynasty, because of the long-term war with the northern Xiongnu,

As a sharp weapon for the Han infantry against the Hun cavalry,

The crossbow was further developed.

On the "lookout mountain" began to appear scales for ranging aiming,

Increased crossbow accuracy.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there began to be a waist crossbow (and later a waist crossbow),

This is the strongest crossbow that a single person can pull,

"Those who are weak use their feet, and those who are strong still use their waists" ("Wu Bei Zhi"),

And during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge made the famous "Yuan Rong crossbow",

The history records that this kind of repeating crossbow "takes iron as the arrow, the arrow is eight inches long, and one crossbow and ten arrows are fired" ("Wei's Spring and Autumn Period"),

It was heavily equipped with Shu troops.

Later, the great inventor Ma Jun improved it,

This makes it a more practical weapon with a single crossbow and five arrows.

But that's all history.

In this day and age,

Due to the appearance of Lu Bu,

changed a lot of things,

including this crossbow,

Also because of Lu Bu's improvement,

Whether it's power or something else,

has been further improved,

And Lu Bu consciously promoted this kind of mass killing weapon in the army,

Later, Ma Jun joined,

Decades of effort ahead,

will be the kind of "Zhuge Repeater" that has been widely rumored in later generations,

It was developed in advance,

It's just that now,

Changed the name to "Mars's Repeater".