In fact, this kind of continuous firing battle formation is a unique method of warfare created by the first king of the Great Turks, King Bayu.

Over the years, the Hu people have relied on this method of continuous shooting to capture one city after another.

And this kind of tactics is difficult for others to learn even if they want to, because the casualties are too great.

When besieging a city, the defending side will definitely give priority to the enemy's archers.

This method of standing still and focusing on shooting arrows to attack the enemy will cause a large number of casualties among archers.

Cultivating skilled archers is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task, so archers are generally in the minority of the army, and they are generally not allowed to take risks easily.

How can any general be willing to use the bow and arrow that he has cultivated with great difficulty in the army as a consumable.

But the Hu people are different, and being proficient in riding and archery are the two magic weapons that the Hu people are invincible.

Compared with the difficulties of the Han people in cultivating archers, almost everyone in the Hu people, who practiced archery on horseback since childhood, was an excellent archer.

Because the Hu people did not lack archers at all, they were able to use this method of continuous fire regardless of casualties.

The power of this method of continuous shooting lies in the fact that the Hu people can suppress the opponent to the greatest extent through continuous archery attacks. This is very similar to the volley of muskets.

Sure enough, under the almost uninterrupted bow and arrow suppression of the Hu people, the northwest defenders standing at the head of the city almost did not even dare to raise their heads, so as not to be shot by the opponent's archers.

In order to resist the arrows of the Hu people, the soldiers could only hold a large shield more than one person high to form a shield wall to passively defend.

"Pop, snap, snap, snap......" Countless arrows hit the shield wall like hailstones, making a continuous muffled sound.

But even so, there were still many arrows that passed through the gaps in the shield wall and hit the soldiers in the back.

Such accurate archery skills are more than one level higher than the archers of the Wei army.

Although the Northwest Army also tried its best to let its own archers counterattack, compared to the large number of archers of the Hu people, the effect of such counterattacks was really different.

Moreover, the place where people can stand on the top of the city is limited, and it is impossible for all the archers to line up on the wide battlefield to shoot arrows like the Hu people below, which is also the reason why the archers that can be called by the defenders of the city are far inferior to the Hu people.

In fact, because the Hu people's continuous archery array was so powerful, it formed a strong suppressive force on the soldiers on the city.

Therefore, when the Northwest Army and the Hu people fought for so many years, the fiercest battlefields were often concentrated in hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city.

Mainly by spearmen and axes, the Hu people who climbed up were stabbed or cut down one by one.

The other is to use the method of pouring fire oil to burn the ladder to slow down the offensive of the Hu people.

It's just that this method is the most dangerous, the soldiers have to poke out their bodies and sprinkle fire oil, and if they are not careful, they will be shot by the Hu archers.

It is precisely because the Hu people have sharp archery skills and are not afraid of death, so even if the Northwest Army has the advantage of the city wall, when attacking the Hu people, they often have to pay very heavy casualties.

If the 200,000 enemies under the city were Wei soldiers, Tang Zhiping, with these 40,000 northwest veterans in the city, was fully confident that the other party would not advance an inch.

But the same force is not good against the Hu people, and if there is no reinforcement, it will only be annihilated.

The Hu people are so fierce that the two cannot be said to be the same at all.

As the Hu siege soldiers who climbed up from the ladder got closer and closer, Tang Zhiping, the commander of Fuyuan, saw that Ning Yabai, the eldest prince who was in charge of the full command and defense of the city, had not yet ordered someone to burn the ladder, and he couldn't help but become anxious, and hurriedly reminded: "Eldest prince, how about sending someone to burn the ladder now?" ”

Ning Yabai shook his head and said, "I don't have to do it for the time being, I have other plans."

Listen to my orders, and the grenadiers are ready. ”

With his command, he personally led more than 100 strong soldiers to the head of the city and immediately responded in unison: "Yes, general." ”

After answering, the strong soldiers, known as the Grenadiers, immediately opened a bag of hemp behind them, and each took out something very strange from it.

Tang Zhiping and his subordinates looked intently, and saw that those things were about the size of a bucket, oval-shaped, like a big watermelon, and the surface was somehow covered with a layer of thick mud that had dried up, and the mud was covered with many thistles with spikes protruding.

In addition to this, the ball had a wooden handle that the throwers were holding onto. There is also a long thread hanging from the handle, which looks strange.

For these strange things that he had never seen before, Tang Zhiping and others were a little confused for a while, not knowing what these things were.

At this time, Ning Yabai ordered loudly: "According to the usual training, after igniting it, it will be thrown in the direction pointed by my order flag, and there must be no mistake." ”

"Yes."

I saw the throwers grasping the handle of the ball in one hand and a stick of incense sticks that had been lit long ago in the other, and then carefully approached the lead next to the handle.

As soon as the incense head touched the lead, it was quickly lit, and the spark immediately burned up along the lead.

After the fuse was lit, the grenadiers did not dare to wait any longer, and immediately threw it upwards with all their strength in the direction pointed by Ning Yabai's command, so that the ball could fly straight down the city over the shield wall.

Soon, the more than 100 soldiers completed the first throw one after another, and the process was relatively smooth, and no balls fell to the top of the city because they did not cross the shield wall.

In fact, the throwers were nervous, afraid that the gadgets in their hands would not be able to be thrown smoothly.

Because they knew very well what terrible the consequences would be if that thing accidentally landed on the city.

Could it be that the eldest prince wants to use these strange things to stone those Hu people to death?

Seeing this, Tang Zhiping, who knew nothing, and his subordinate generals invariably had the same idea.

But soon they knew they had guessed wrong, and they couldn't have been more wrong.

When hundreds of oddly shaped balls were thrown, there was a sudden loud bang from under the city.

It was as if there was a chain reaction, followed by the second, third, and fourth ...... after the first loud bang The explosion sounded like fried beans.

At this moment, there was a terrible scream from the city, which was the scream of the Hu siege soldiers.

Tang Zhiping's eyelids jumped, and he immediately rushed to the city head and looked down regardless of the danger.

I saw that among the dense crowd under the city, there were violent explosions one after another.

As these continuous explosions sounded, countless Hu soldiers fell one by one.

Those who were far from the center of the explosion, even if they were lucky enough to avoid the powerful shock wave caused by the explosion, could not escape the attack of the thistle terrestris that stuck on the ball.

Once these sharp thistles exploded, they would fly out like a rain of pear blossoms, stabbing the surrounding Hu soldiers into a bloody and miserable one.

The Hu people have been fighting for so many years, where have they seen such a scene, almost all of them are scared silly. Many even stood there dumbfounded, watching their companions fall to the ground covered in blood, rolling and screaming.

But their nightmare was just the beginning, and as more and more balls flew down from the city, the explosions barely stopped.

Especially under the command of Ning Yabai's command banner, the grenadiers threw in crowded places.

Due to the dense number of people, a large number of people are often blown up at random speed, and hundreds of Hu soldiers are injured and killed almost instantly, and the lethality is very amazing.

After several rounds of merciless bombardment, the Hu soldiers who suffered heavy casualties finally couldn't stand it anymore and fled backwards screaming for their lives.

In just a few breaths, the originally high morale of the Hu siege soldiers quickly retreated like a tide, leaving only corpses all over the ground and wounded soldiers who could not move because they were seriously injured.

Is this a win? Looking at this scene, Tang Zhiping and his subordinate generals could hardly believe their eyes.

"Son, what kind of treasure are those? It's so powerful. Tang Zhiping asked Ning Yabai with excitement on his face.

Ning Yabai replied: "This thing is called a flowering bomb. Once exploded, the thistle wrapped in the outer layer will scatter like a flower, killing and injuring enemies, hence the name.

This is the first time this flowering bomb has been used in actual combat, and the effect is not bad, Uncle Tang. ”

"It's not just good, it's just a fetish.

Great, great, we don't have to be afraid of the Hu people invading the northwest in the future! The more Tang Zhiping spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

Not only Tang Zhiping, but his subordinate generals were also extremely excited.

No wonder they are so excited, in so many years of fighting with the Hu people, too many of their comrades have died under the Hu people's knife, and there are even their relatives and friends.

Now seeing that the eldest prince easily forced back the Hu people with these divine objects, how could this not make them excited.

Tang Zhiping's adjutant couldn't help but ask: "Eldest son, who made this flowering bomb?" It's so wonderful. ”

Ning Yabai said with a smile: "This is a new weapon designed and developed by my brother-in-law with a group of craftsmen last year, which is specially used to defend the city. ”

"The brother-in-law of the eldest prince? Are you talking about the prefect of Jiujiang Prefecture, Lord Su Zhensu? ”

For the famous Jiujiang Prefect Su, there are still many people in the army who know him.

"Yes, that's him.

This flowering bomb is a large-scale killing weapon specially designed by my brother-in-law to deal with the Hu people's siege.

In order to resist the Hu people's knocking, my father ordered me to bring the flowering bullets that had been secretly made in Jiujiang Mansion over the past year to help defend the city. ”

After listening to Ning Yabai's explanation, Tang Zhiping and others were extremely excited, and they couldn't wait to touch this sacred object guarding the city with their own hands.

Compared with Tang Zhiping's excitement, Ning Yabai looked at the bloodstained and messy battlefield under the city with some pity.

In fact, including his father Ning Zhiyuan and him, they didn't want to expose the big killer weapon of the flowering bomb so quickly.

The reason why his father Ning Zhiyuan wanted to fight the Wei army with the cruel war of attrition of exchanging cities for people at the beginning was to slowly introduce the main force of the Wei army into the northwest hinterland, and then use this flowering bomb to intercept it halfway and annihilate it in one fell swoop, so as to completely eradicate the Xie family and others.

But they didn't expect the Xie family to collude with the Hu people to besiege the northwest in a frenzy, which completely disrupted their original plan.

Ning Zhiyuan knew that once the Hu people entered the customs, there would be endless troubles, and in order to completely keep the Hu people out of the customs, he could only be forced to use this kind of big killing weapon in advance.

But he did not send a large army to reinforce Fuyuan City, but only sent his eldest son to rush to the border with a large number of flowering shells to support.

Ning Zhiyuan wanted to take a gamble to see if this secret weapon that he had high hopes for could really block the attack of the Hu people.

The same is true of Ning Yabai, who has the same confidence as him, believing that as long as there is this flowering bullet, Hu Ren will not want to step into the border.

Ning Yabai clenched his fists hard, and the battle intent in his eyes was awe-inspiring.