How lethal is a crossbow array?

The battle of the boundary bridge, galloping through the northern frontier, the incomparable Gongsun Zhan and Baima Yicong fell off his horse like a falling leaf in the autumn wind under the blow of a thousand strong crossbows from Liyi, making Yuan Shao a fart and urine.

Even Mr. Cao has suffered this loss, and Lu Bu's battle of Yanzhou, Mr. Cao used cavalry as a pioneer to impact Lu Bu's main formation, but he encountered Gao Shun's trap camp with a strong crossbow array with archers to snipe, Cao's cavalry was shot to the ground, and the Liangzhou iron cavalry attacked the Qingzhou soldiers on the right side of Mr. Cao, as a result, the Qingzhou soldiers were washed to pieces, and Cao Zong almost lost all his money in that battle.

Now, Wang Hou's Qingzhou crossbow array has made another contribution!

The two bow bodies plus the pulley set provide super ejection power, and the specially forged armor-piercing arrow, although limited by the length of the arrow body is not as far as the bow shooting, but forty or fifty meters, it has entered the precision killing range.

Bang bang......

The Danyang soldiers holding shields to block their faces are running away! Suddenly, his shield trembled, and a hole suddenly appeared in the right corner of his eyes, and the fast-flying crossbow bolt hung on his face, leaving a hot blood mark and piercing the shield of his teammates behind him.

Looking at the trembling crossbow arrow butt, covering the wound on his face, he already knew how lucky he was by his side, and next to him, the eldest cousin who had peed and burned the house with mud since he was a child had an extra trembling crossbow arrow on his head, and he still maintained a charging posture and lay directly on the ground.

A thousand double-bow steel crossbows at least opened a dozen openings in the Danyang army formation, and in addition to them, the northern army also had 3,000 Qingzhou pulley bows to help! Even in the face of shields, these heavy bows can still be lethal enough, as Crassus's Roman legions against the Parthian general Suleiman's Kale battle has confirmed.

These Qingzhou troops armed with elite weapons seemed to grow out of the ground, holding the spreader fiercely shot out the heavy armor-piercing arrows in hand, and in the clanging sound, the leather shield was drilled out of a big hole, and the sharp arrows either pierced the cheeks behind the shield, or shot through the arm holding the shield, and when the Danyang soldiers charged to a distance of thirty meters, the momentum of the charge had been completely disrupted by the bow and crossbow array.

Then it was Wang Hou's turn to make trouble!

In Zhou Yu's shocked eyes, the Qingzhou heavy infantry with heavy axes and guns in hand and armor all over their bodies, as if they were iron men, appeared again, and in the whistling sound of the axes, the sharpened first row of axe guns slashed down fiercely, and the cool sound of chopping on the buffalo skin shield of the Danyang soldiers made Zhou Yu himself twitch the muscles on his face.

You can't have both fish and bear's paws, the eternal truth! In order to pursue lightness in combat and increase the protective area, it is necessary to sacrifice strength! Coated with Chu lacquer, the tough buffalo leather shield may protect most of the guns and halberds of this era and the bamboo bows that are everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, which is enough! But this time, the opponents it met were the powerful Qingzhou steel plate axe and Wang Houxin, the Qingzhou soldier who practiced muscle play when he had nothing to do!

Facing the heavy axe that was chopped over, a Danyang soldier subconsciously raised his shield to block, but in the clicking sound, the axe blade passed through the shield, and even the hand with his shield was actually split in half, and the heavy cowhide shield fell violently, and he no longer ignored the blood marks on his face, covering his severed hand, and the Danyang soldier screamed miserably.

But in the next second, the blades of the second row of horizontal stabs pierced into his throat with a precise pop, and the screaming and moaning stopped abruptly.

Double-row tactics!

Even if the shield soldiers in the first row used the edge of the shield and blocked the fierce axe blade in other positions, the heavy infantry in the front row dragged the tomahawk that cut in and pulled it back, and after pulling out the flaw, it still gave the comrades in the back row who stabbed with guns a chance to finish.

In fact, even if you remove the difference in equipment, fighting on the plains, the long weapon unit is still the best short weapon unit, to take the simplest example, I can stab you with one shot, but you can't cut me with a knife!

I have to admit that there are also bloody and brave people in the Danyang soldiers, seeing the wheels of the big plate axe and the windmill like the wheel, his eldest cousin, second uncle, grandfather and third uncle were slapped to the ground, the blood feud aroused by the local complex, taking advantage of the Qingzhou heavy infantry attack, a stunned boy roared and rushed out of the formation, holding a big shield and raising a knife to pierce the face of the Qingzhou soldier closest to him.

It's a pity, even so, he didn't get his wish, so he didn't run two steps, he suddenly felt that his calves were first cold, then hot, and he couldn't support his weight anymore, so he fell down on the charging road, and when he raised his head angrily and desperately, the big plate axe hanging next to the gun was a tiger and a tiger slashing at his head!

Three-row tactics!

Wang Hou's infantry training drill, when the formation is the thinnest, it is also necessary to ensure that the heavy infantry has three rows, and the axes and guns in the third row specialize in the next three roads, just seeing the two rows of spear blades in front of them chopping and killing, but the Danyang soldiers who are desperate to charge down did not see the third row of axe guns that lean down against the height of their calves, and the sharp axe blades easily cut off his calves, and strangled his life-threatening blow in the bud.

In fact, if the complete formation is maintained, the shield formation of the Danyang soldiers against the halberd soldiers will not fall into such a big disadvantage, in the final analysis, it is still the wave of sudden attack by the archers, which disrupts the Danyang soldiers, and once the momentum is seized, then only the only thing left is to be beaten!

"This is not a Black Mountain thief! It could never be a Black Mountain thief! ”

Located behind the formation, on the noisy battlefield, even if Zhou Yu was riding a horse, he could only see the rows of big axes suddenly raised high, with blood. Listening to the screams of his subordinates, the originally indifferent Mei Zhou Lang appearance disappeared completely, his handsome face was distorted to the point that it was hideous, Zhou Yu was as anxious as a duck on a hot pot, jumped off the horse violently, and shouted at the people around him.

"Ordered Ling Cao, Huang Gai's troops will speed up the march and attack this ...... from the flank, this Black Mountain elite army, and rescue the main formation! Ling Tai Shi Ci attacked the north of Biling City to attract the attention of the Black Mountain Army, and he had to ...... quickly"

But after he had finished shouting his heart-rending order, before the herald could carry it out, a fierce and rapid sound struck his ears like thunder.

Suddenly, the gate of Biling City opened, and in the dust, a team of heavy cavalrymen wearing black cuirass armor and even war horses wearing a layer of steel-inlaid armor carried cavalry spears more than three meters long under their crotches, roaring and galloping out, charging out along the gaps between the various formations of the Wu army.

The first moment he saw these cavalrymen, Mei Zhoulang almost didn't cry!

Regardless of whether these cavalry are only 200 or 500, for Wu Jun, there is only one word left!

Bloody battle and defeat!!

Seeing that Chen Wu was still trying his best to command in the military formation with the hissing of big guns, drooping his head in a dejected manner, and facing the heralds who were also stunned beside him, Zhou Yu snorted helplessly.

"The previous order is invalid, wear the order to Huang Gai, Tai Shici and them, retreat immediately, run as far as you can!"