Chapter 213: The True Power of the Steam Crossbow
Brother Richard watched the heavy armored cavalry of the Jin Kingdom rush up like a horde of beasts, and there was not a trace of fluctuation in his heart.
Everything is within his calculations. If there is no heavy armored cavalry in the Jin Kingdom, why dare to stand in front of him.
He doesn't know physics, but he's very proficient in common sense.
The armor of the Iron Harrier has been built for many generations, and its sophistication and solidity are first-class in this time and space. To put it bluntly, this is a pile of stainless steel, put it here for the enemy to chop, if you can't cut me, then wait for death.
It has only been a few years since the founding of the Jin Kingdom, how can there be such an accumulation. Tiefutu's armor, in the eyes of Richard Brother, a general who is proficient in military affairs, is still much worse than that of Iron Harrier.
This is also the case. The predecessor of the Jin Kingdom was Wanyanbu, and Wanyanbu was a hunter, and they didn't need any armor to hunt. In terms of steel forging, the Jin State was far behind the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia of the Liao State.
But war is not a simple comparison of science and technology, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty would have dominated the world long ago.
War is a collision of iron and blood. Although the Iron Floating Slaughter of the Jin Soldiers lagged behind the Western Xia Iron Harrier in terms of equipment, it far surpassed the Western Xia people in terms of courage.
After all, they used to play with wild beasts. In front of the blind bear, you are not afraid of death to live.
Not only are they not afraid of death, but they also have enough hunting skills. If you don't have the skills, you will be shot to death by a blind bear.
There are only 800 people in the Iron Floating Slaughter of the Jin Kingdom, but these 800 people are not afraid of the 1,100 Iron Harriers at all. In just 100 meters, Jin Bing increased his speed to the fastest. This time, the situation turned around, and the Iron Float was like a wave, ferociously hitting the iron harrier like a reef.
The sound of killing on the battlefield shook the sky.
The heavy cavalry was like two huge monsters, quickly entangled together, and from time to time someone dropped his horse.
This body of heavy armor weighs dozens of catties, and ordinary swords can't cut it at all. However, it is precisely because of the heavy armor that they must sit on horses to be mobile and lethal, and once they fall from the horse, they are basically waiting to die.
In the fierce battle, from time to time heavy armored cavalry fell.
However, at such a moment, no one is distracted at all, and the life or death of the fallen horse is not important at all, the important thing is to kill the enemy on the opposite side.
The scorching battle situation is what Richard needs.
In the era of cold weapons, although the number of people is not the most important, it is certainly very important.
The coalition army has 8,000 men, and the gold soldiers are only 4,000, whether it is infantry or heavy cavalry, the coalition army has a huge advantage in numbers.
Brother Richard is not afraid of entanglement, he likes to be entangled. If they are not entangled, if the iron floating slaughter of the golden soldiers hits their own infantry array, then the lightly armored infantry will definitely be slaughtered.
Now entangled the enemy's heavy armor with its own superior heavy armor, and let the infantry with absolute superiority attack the enemy's infantry battle line, no matter how you look at it, it is the most cost-effective deal. Isn't it a big advantage for two to beat you up?
The allied infantry quickly followed, and soon the battle was about to be joined.
Yelu Yu sneered in his heart.
Sure enough, it was a frog at the bottom of the well. Although Richard is a famous general, he doesn't understand the development of this era!
Technology changes life, but it also changes war! Of course, he couldn't say this, it should be Qin Mu's words.
The lethality of the steam crossbow is far from what Yelu Yu has just demonstrated. He deliberately greatly reduced the frequency of the steam crossbow to lure the enemy into being fooled.
If the coalition forces do not move, their steam crossbows will be fired with all their might, and the enemy will be frightened into fleeing.
Fighting into a rout, this is what Yelu Yu wants to avoid. Since the only remaining forces in the west of the Liao State and the elite of the Western Xia are here, it is most beneficial for the Jin State to solve it at one time.
After solving these two forces, Jin Guo can smoothly take the three cities of Yongbyon, Binhai, and Dongshengju.
If you don't kill all these people, you will face a situation where you will be attacked in the future. Yelu Yu must try his best to avoid such a situation.
Now that the coalition forces as a whole have rushed up, the actions of the army are like rushing rivers, which cannot be stopped when they are stopped, but when they turn a corner.
Once you start, you can't change your status quickly.
Yelu Yu wanted this kind of situation - if Qin Mu was there, he would tell him that this was called inertia.
The property of an object to remain at rest or in a state of uniform linear motion is known as inertia. Inertia is an intrinsic property of an object! If the fourth prince Jin Wushu was here, he and Yelu Yu would be able to discuss it, after all, Qin Mu had given him a popular science.
However, Jin Wushu is not there, and Yelu Yujian is not a genius, so naturally he can't understand inertia, but he knows common sense very well.
Experience has taught him that now is the best time to strike!
"Use the steam crossbow at full strength!"
Jeremiah issued a massacre order! At the same time, the trumpet sounded, and the rear infantry of the Jin State also began to charge in formation.
As long as the steam engine is not broken, it will work tirelessly.
Under the full operation of the golden soldiers, the crossbow arrows were fired intensively at a frequency of three per minute.
I have to say that the design that is thousands of years ahead of the millennium is really extraordinary. Two steam crossbows can shoot six crossbow arrows in one minute, while the crossbow arrows designed by Qin Mu are thick and long, each with huge kinetic energy, and in this era, there is no armor at all to resist.
Moreover, the steam crossbow is an industrialized product, and the output of power is stable. This one is different from trebuchet.
The power of the trebuchet is essentially manpower, and each output of manpower cannot be exactly the same, so the stones thrown by the trebuchet can only be smashed in the approximate range, and there is no accuracy at all.
Why don't you dare to launch the Joy Army? It's because it's not at all, and I'm afraid of smashing my own people.
But the steam crossbow is different, with a fixed output and standardized arrows, which brings a considerable accuracy rate!
Although it is not as good as a modern rifle, it is really foolproof to hit such a large area of enemy infantry.
Each crossbow took the life of a serial soldier, and the crossbow bolts were like a continuous line without a moment's pause.
The distance of two or three hundred meters is the road to hell for the coalition forces. They never expected the enemy's weapons to be so powerful. The key is to be able to launch in such a large area.
Richard watched his soldiers fall in strings, and his heart felt like blood.
The current battlefield is no longer the battlefield that I am familiar with. Weapons that are ahead of their time will always lead to the transformation of warfare. It was as if he didn't expect the war in Qin Mu's hands at all, but he never thought of it at all.
Richard didn't expect this crossbow bolt to be so powerful. Quantitative change will cause qualitative change, even if he doesn't know this sentence, but seeing his soldiers fall quickly, now he understands.
But there was still some way to go from the enemy's front. What can I do?
He could barely believe his eyes! What a monster this is! Da Song Da Liao doesn't have this thing!
Now Richard was faced with a difficult choice, whether to rush over or withdraw immediately.
Rush over, you can entangle with the enemy, no matter how powerful this weapon is, you can't even kill your own people, even if it is useless.
But if you rush over, you will have to pay the price of attrition of at least 30%. This loss is something he cannot afford.
The main purpose of his coming here is to save the emperor of Liao, for the Jin State, of course, it is best to win, and if he can't win, he can't bury the Western Xia army here in vain.
Jin Guobing has already gone berserk. With the support of superior weapons, the fear of the enemy is all on the face. Even their pace slowed down and was no longer firm.
At this time, not only the cavalry and infantry of the Jin Kingdom were fighting like chicken blood, but more importantly, those technical troops, that is, those who operated the steam crossbow, worked harder and harder.
In this season when the cold drips into ice, they are sweating profusely in the heat. On the one hand, it is because of the steam engine, which has fire and is so hot, and on the other hand, it is also because of the desperate operation.
This made them all unarmoured, and even bare-chested - stabbing all enemies, my golden steam crossbow is invincible!
Brother Richard felt that Jin Bing's momentum had risen again, and he finally gritted his teeth and made a decision.
"Mingjin, collect the troops, withdraw!"
Man can't compete with steel. It's as if the same number of lightly armored infantry can't beat the heavy cavalry, and his own people can't carry such thick crossbow arrows—it's beyond the limits of Richard's cognition.
He had to flee for his life.
At this time, the Western Xia army was in its heyday, and the Liao army that could stay by Emperor Tianzuo's side was also elite. Although the battle situation was unfavorable, after the order to retreat was issued, the whole was still able to move backwards in an organized manner, trying to get out of the battlefield.
From the sky, this battlefield looks like a date pit. In the middle is an open field, slightly constricted at the ends.
The coalition forces fled to their rear quickly, and a small part of them were already out of the range of the steam crossbows, much to the regret of Yelu Yujian.
Brother Richard is worthy of the famous general! In such a situation, he did not rush to attack the heart, in vain to try to turn back the battle situation with numbers, but knew how to judge the situation and retain most of the military strength, and he was really a capable man!
But Jeru's remnants weren't going to let the enemy go like that. You'll have to kill as many enemies as you can in order to carry out your next mission more smoothly.
He was about to give the order to pursue the whole group! But at this time, I saw a sudden chaos in the rear of the enemy.
A fire rose into the sky without warning, like a miracle, completely blocking the enemy's retreat.
This fire was in front of the Liao State and the Western Xia coalition army, and the fire was so huge that it was far from being comparable to an ordinary grassland fire.
Iron is a good conductor of heat, and the heat is quickly transmitted through the armor to the soldiers in front of the fire, and they let out inhuman howls of pain, some roll on the spot, and some desperately jump into the river next to them.
It's useless to roll. The temperature is not a flame, and rolling cannot cool down. The men soon fell silent and were all roasted.
The one who jumped into the river was no better. The heavy armor made them quickly sink to the bottom of the river. If you don't get burned, you will be drowned!
Brother Richard's face really changed color now. Where did the fire come from, and it was so evil and terrifying, there was no way back. What can I do?
Fire and water are merciless. Compared to the steam crossbow, the fire was much more terrifying.
This is an indiscriminate attack, and no one can escape from the place where the heat hits.
What can I do?
The lesser of two evils! Brother Richard changed the order again in an instant: "Impact, impact, charge towards the enemy!" ”
There is an order from the commander and a scorching fire, and everyone in the coalition understands a truth, they can't rush through the front of the Jin people, they all have to die here.
The desperate force is terrifying, and the coalition soldiers, in order to survive, completely forget about the horror of the steam crossbow, or simply don't have time to think about it, they use all their strength, turn their heads and start charging towards the Golden National Front.
Only by killing all the people of the Jin Kingdom can you save your life!
Jerod was overjoyed. Isn't it just cheap for me to steam my crossbow when you're huddled together like this?
He immediately ordered the array to be put together in preparation for battle, and at the same time sent more technical troops to surround the two steam crossbows and replace the exhausted golden soldiers—this was also a lot of physical labor.
But at this moment, the steam crossbow suddenly exploded without warning! The core of the steam crossbow is the steam engine, which is full of boiling water, this explosion, no less than the fire over there, the boiling water is splashed on the Jin Bing, and suddenly a ghost cries wolf, making people feel like falling into hell!
Boiling water was poured on his body, directly revealing white bones, or scalded bones, this kind of miserable appearance even if Yelu Yu saw it, he didn't dare to look at it.
He had no idea what was going on, how the steam crossbow could explode.
Before he could figure it out, another steam crossbow exploded.
The steam crossbow position, hidden behind the battlefield, was completely destroyed.
Losing the steam crossbow, Yelu Yujian's heart suddenly became empty. His number is far smaller than that of the other side, and he relies on nothing more than this cross-era weapon. Now that this thing had exploded inexplicably, he suddenly felt that he had lost his battlefield advantage.
Even, he lost control of the battlefield!
The coalition rushed over like crazy, this was no longer a human, it was purely a group of frightened beasts.
Even though Jin Bing is also an animal-like body, they haven't gone crazy after all.
"Withdraw!" Jeruyuzhan gave the order decisively.
The golden soldiers were as well-trained, they took the initiative on the battlefield and retreated more quickly.
Without too much entanglement, the two groups gradually distanced themselves, and Jin Bing ran desperately towards his back road.
On the whole, the coalition suffered great losses in this war, especially in terms of morale, which suffered a greater blow. The Jin soldiers were the victorious side, and they took advantage of the steam crossbows, killing a large number of enemies and losing very little of their own.
Cutting iron with a knife is not something that can be cut through in a while!
They go and go, with ease.
But seeing that the distance was constantly widening, they could immediately disengage, but at this moment, a wall of fire suddenly appeared in front of Jin Bing.
This wall of fire came like a miracle, like a miracle, and suddenly blocked in front of the golden soldiers.
The scene was immediately repeated.
Jin Bing was also burned to death, burned to death, and drowned a lot.
The two walls of fire, like two gates of death, firmly locked the soldiers and horses of the Three Kingdoms to this land.
The fire is spreading in both directions!
However, there is no distinction between east and west, north and south. Sprawl, which means that this space is becoming more and more cramped!
Jin Bing was driven back by the scorching heat.
The coalition forces and the Jin soldiers couldn't help but say that they couldn't help but bump into each other.
This time, they don't know what they're fighting for, they're just fighting for the sake of fighting. Be sure to kill the enemy and run to the opposite side so that you can stay away from the fire behind you.
At this time, they were all carried away by the heat and fear, and they couldn't figure it out at all, even if they rushed to the opposite side, was it different or a fire?
The heroes of the world are bound to be a minority.
The only ones in the battlefield who didn't move, only two people remained.
Richard and Jerry. They sat on their horses, as calm as two rocks.
It's not that they don't fear death, but they know that fear is useless.
Even if it is a dead place, they have to desperately find a way to survive.
But where is the way to live?