Chapter 114: Rain of Arrows

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The drizzle continued, and Xu Zi, who was dressed in a robe, stood on the bow of the boat with a barrier knife, but his mind was not used at all in the battle in front of him.

Taniguchi should be a suspicious soldier here, but the order of the pacification envoy cannot be ignored, quickly sweep along the river, and then go to land.

A complete set of war plans has already been drawn up, and the rest of the matter depends on each other's performance.

Xu Zixian didn't think that the thousands of rabble would be his opponent with Nan'an's tuanlian, and he had absolute confidence in this.

There were obviously some small boats wandering in the reeds in front of him, and when he saw a sailor's ship coming, these small boats were also beginning to assemble.

"Isn't it here?" Xu Zi wiped the rain from his face first and asked Jin Jian beside him.

"This is it." Jin Jian said with certainty: "I have led people to sentry many times, there are five large sentry boats, more than a dozen small sentry boats, and about three or four hundred people. ”

Both the large and small sentinel ships are a general term for the ships of the sailors, both of which are used for shore patrol or when communicating information at sea and exchanging personnel or supplies.

The big sentinel ship has a single masted hard sail with eight pulp, and when the wind is downwind, it borrows the power of the pulpher and flies over the sea like the wind.

Powerful old fishermen can rely on this ten-meter-long sailboat to reach Penghu or Dongfan.

A small sentinel ship is a flat-bottomed wooden ship, with two masts, a short foremast and a long back mast, ten meters long, and four pulps. The big sentinel boat is generally on the coast to collect smuggling and inspect the fishermen, although the small sentinel boat has a mast and a sail, it is actually a pulp boat, and the large ship of the sailor will have a few of them, and the fishing boat on the Min River is the same.

Both kinds of ships are warships, if in the Fujian naval division, most of them have bed crossbows, and some large sentinel ships are equipped with copper cannons, which are less powerful, but they are quite effective in scaring smugglers and fishermen.

The large and small sentinel boats in the reeds also gathered more and more, and gradually gathered to the fortune boats of the Jiangfang battalion.

The Fu ship of the Jiangfang Battalion is 32 meters long, and it is a special Jiangfang warship, with an angle of attack in the bow, and it is also wrapped with iron, and there are bed crossbows in the front and rear. But in the hands of the untrained van soldiers, it is also in vain, there are often lucky boats that are chased straight by the sea or the group of thieves on the river, this kind of boat is more cumbersome than a small boat, if the wind direction is unfavorable, it is not uncommon to be besieged by large and small sentry boats, people on both sides of the Min River often see the Qishan pirates besieging the river defense camp in the past few years, arson is the best way, under the siege of the bandits, the van army has no power to fight back, and soon the lucky boats are set on fire, and the pirates laugh wildly and leave, leaving the torch-like lucky boats burning above the river, Surrounded by an army of vans swimming for their lives.

This scene gave the people on the large and small sentry ships a psychological hint that they did not feel that there was anything terrible about the lucky ships that greeted them, even though their task was to lure the enemy.

The two sides quickly approached, and the people of the sailor battalion did not change their formation when they were shouting, but still rushed forward with a long snake.

Xu Zixian didn't plan to entangle with these people in front of him for too long, he himself stood on the bow of the boat and didn't move, but Gao Shilai and a few people immediately blocked him behind him.

Soon there was the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the hundreds of people and dozens of ships on the opposite side were in disarray, and when they were forty or fifty paces away, the bandits began to shoot arrows in this direction.

With the sound of the bowstring crumbling, a large number of arrows flew by, many of which swept through the air and landed directly into the water, and some of which landed on the wooden hull with a tuk-tuk sound.

A slurry box army was about hit by an arrow, and after a few screams, Xu Zi looked back first and saw an arrow falling on the sole of the box army's foot.

A group of pulpers were flustered, and it seemed that they wanted to stop the boat, Xu Zixian said sharply: "Do you want two pieces of money?" They are all men with long eggs, and you will be instigated by a round of arrows? With me, you're afraid of a bird! ”

The shouts and scoldings came and went, Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan and others were all veterans with old qualifications, and they had also experienced tens of thousands of battles in Qizhou, and the battle in front of them was a small battle, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

Under their scolding, it was more effective than Han Byung-deok's encouragement, and the paddlers continued to move forward, while the bed crossbows on each ship began to pull and shoot.

At a distance of about fifty paces, the bed crossbow that needed to be pulled by two men in the prime of life was extremely powerful, and the first crossbow arrow hit the bow of a small sentinel ship directly, in addition to the sawdust flying sideways, the crossbow arrow with the thickness of the child's arm continued to move forward, and made a hole in front of the boat, which of course was abandoned, and the water rushed up, and the people on the boat had to jump into the water one by one.

In the Minjiang River in winter, the temperature is also very low, the people who enter the water wear robes and boots, hold weapons in their hands, and they are embarrassed after entering the water, and they can only try their best to flutter in the water.

No one cared about the lives of these people, Gao Shilai held a shield in his left hand and a barrier knife in his right, and shouted loudly to order the boat to continue to crash forward.

It was the first time that the Xiang army of the Jiangfang battalion followed these brave warriors to fight the enemy, and then looked at their own control, when the first round of arrows came over, Han Bingde had already shrunk in the low cockpit, and he no longer dared to raise his head.

The comparison between the two really makes people wonder what is good.

The bed crossbows were fired one after another, and more than a dozen heavy arrows were shot at the opposite side with a terrifying sound, because the distance was too close, it was already less than forty paces away, and the small boats on the opposite side swarmed again, and the row was too dense, it was simply a ready-made target.

Heavy arrows passed, and the boats that were shot were almost all damaged, and sank in a short time, and more bandits fell into the water in embarrassment, struggling and fluttering like dumplings in the water.

There are also bed crossbows shot at the human body, the scene is too tragic, the thick armless heavy arrow is ejected by gravity, straight through the human body, the upper body and lower body of the person who was hit head-on are almost split apart, a large piece of flesh and blood instantly flew into the air, the whole person was broken into two, the crossbow arrow still has a fairly strong residual force, continue to shoot through many people, are miserable deaths, when the last person was shot on the hull by the crossbow, the people around were almost silent, even the Hou Fuya who fired the crossbow shot was also a little stunned.

Xu Zixian's heart is also awe-inspiring, he once had a prejudice against bows and arrows, after all, in his time when bows and arrows were already a niche non-mainstream sport, there were many people who played bows, most of them followed the trend, many people bought bows and arrows directly at home to eat ashes, and there were not many young people who went to the bow and arrow club, compared with young people who played games, the number of participants in niche sports such as archery was negligible.

After all, in the face of firearms, bows and arrows have become outdated, except for a few depth lovers who hunt with recurve bows, the practical use of bows and arrows has been zero, and it can even be said to be a child's toy.

In fact, there are indeed a lot of toy bows and arrows, which give a strong hint to the psychological subconscious.

At least at the beginning of the crossing, Xu Zixian's attitude towards bows and arrows was also relatively contemptuous, although he later realized that bows and arrows were still the mainstream weapons in this world and began to catch up, but until today, he did not realize the power of bows and arrows.

The lethality of the bed crossbow is definitely not under the early firearms, and even the early firearms are not as good as bows and arrows, and firearms can be popularized, mainly because the training of archers takes several years, and a farmer from the first day of contact with the arquebus to the proficiency of use, one month is enough.

Xu Zixian sighed for a short time, and after a short time, he began to hold his breath and get rid of all distractions in his mind.

Slowly pulling the longbow, feeling the force exerted by the two arms on the bow arm and the bowstring, the ten-force standard strong bow was really like a toy bow in Xu Zixian's hands, and it felt quite relaxed when it was pulled away, and even felt that the strength was soft.

If his strength went further, Xu Zixian would ask someone to make a real long hard bow with fifteen or even twenty forces, but now was definitely not the time.

Jin Jian, Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan and others also opened their bows and arrows.

The archers of the Jiangfang battalion also followed suit and began to set up arrows and bow bows.

There are still arrows shooting from the opposite side one after another, but it is no longer out of order, the monotonous sound of the strong crossbow has destroyed their will to resist, and the same as judged in advance, these rogue rangers in front of them are a group of bastards, bullying the good, bullying the less, bullying the weak with the strong They are very good at these things, when they encounter a powerful opponent, it is difficult for them to persevere, and if something goes wrong, they will collapse completely.

Xu Zixian finally let go of his fingers, and a light arrow with three edged tips flew away quickly.

With Xu Zixian's current archery skills, with a distance of about forty steps, there is almost no possibility of shooting into the air.

If he can return to modern society, with a better modern bow and arrow, within a hundred paces. Shooting mineral water bottles, fifty steps to shoot Coke bottles, this kind of performance, there are almost no problems.

Of course, there is still a big gap between his archery skills and the top archers of modern times, and it may be that the strong archery of this era will be athlete-level strong in a few hundred years, or it may still be worse.

Xu Zixian's arrow flew to a small boat forty paces away in the blink of an eye, and shot a paddle hand through it, a distance of forty paces, a strong bow of ten strengths, and the opponent was not wearing armor, which was much easier than hunting.

Third, the sharp spike passed through the throat of the other party, with blood rain and minced meat, Xu Zixian looked at the thirties-year-old thief with a stunned face, covering his throat with both hands, as if he had not considered the matter of being hit by the arrow, he wanted to pull it out, and wanted to cover the wound, in a short period of hesitation, the person began to have difficulty breathing, his face became iron-blue, and his mouth seemed to make a loud sound, and soon he stood up, turned around in the stern of the boat, and then the whole person fell into the water, splashing a large splash.

Xu Zi first glanced at it expressionlessly, then pulled out his bow and arrow, and after a short period of aiming, he shot the second arrow as well.

All the generals of the Hou Mansion were shooting arrows, a large number of iron arrows were constantly splashed on the opposite side like a torrential rain, in less than five minutes, at least 100 people were killed and wounded on the opposite side, and those who survived were desperately rowing the boat slurry and escaped, and some felt that they couldn't run away, and they raised their hands in the shaking hull and chose to surrender.

No one paid attention to them, the tip of the lucky boat was clasped with iron, and it rushed directly into the middle of the boat, Xu Zixian and the others continued to shoot arrows with bows, shooting those who were alive to death one by one.

Face, chest, through the throat, shot in the abdomen.

No one was spared, many small boats were directly knocked over by the lucky boat, and the bandits who were not shot by bows and arrows also fell into the water, and the water surface of the entire Min River was boiling, and countless people were fluttering on the river.

Xu Zixian ignored it and continued to shoot arrows with a bow, which was also a rare opportunity for him to test his archery skills in actual combat.

Fortunately, when the fortune boat touched the shallows and could not move forward, Xu Zi first sent six arrows, hitting six people, none of which missed.

Looking at Gao Shilai on his side, this young man's face was calm and resolute, and the general's demeanor was quite obvious.

Jin Jian and the others also had similar expressions, they were on the battlefield for the second time, and their performance was already much better than in the Battle of the Estuary.

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